Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski has 957 career victories, 4 nationwide championships and two Olympic gold medals, so it will be easy to imagine that nothing may unnerve a man so accomplished.
That’s why it was so refreshing and humanizing to hear Krzyzewski admit on Saturday that he still will get tongue-tied within the presence of a reasonably woman.
While regaling Duke college students in line for season tickets with anecdotes from the evening he presented LeBron James with SI’s Sportsman of the 12 months award, Krzyzewski recalled recognizing two empty seats subsequent to him within the front row and wondering who was impolite sufficient to indicate up late. Moments later, he got his answer when Jay-Z and Beyonce strolled into the room.
Jay-Z took the seat subsequent to a starstruck Krzyzewski. Beyonce sat next to him. Krzyzewski, like any other man in his place, favored a barely totally different seating association.
“I like Jay-Z, however I’m madly in love with Beyonce,” Krzyzewski mentioned. “I wanted to tell him, ‘Hey man, have you ever ever heard of boy-girl-boy?’”
Krzyzewski averted that line of questioning, as an alternative introducing himself to Jay-Z earlier than he went on stage to ship a speech about James. Then afterward he snapped photographs with James and Jay-Z, all of which immediately hit Instagram and unfold rapidly across social media.
“I’m the good 65-12 months-outdated on the planet, nonetheless, however, what I need has not occurred but,” Krzyzewski continued. “I need to meet Beyonce.
“I go up to Beyonce, and you know the way guys think they’ve a number of good traces? I’m going up and I’m nervous as I can be. I am like a youngster. And I go to her with an ideal line. I say, ‘Hi, I’m Coach K.’ And she mentioned, ‘Coach, I know who you are. I just listened to you for 10 minutes.’ Like, patting me on the pinnacle, little boy. So now I really feel like I’m 11. So what’s my next line? I come up and I say, ‘You’re my favourite.’ My face is crimson as can be, you realize, I’m like 4 feet tall proper now. And she or he says, ‘Well, that’s nice.’ And I asked her — and I don’t normally do this — but I mentioned, ‘Would you take a picture with me?’”
Krzyzewski obtained his image, one wherein he seems to be a bit extra rosy-cheeked than normal as you might expect. Meanwhile the rest of us got something that could be even higher out of the encounter: A hilarious story that proves faculty basketball’s most successful living coach still has some of the identical issues as the rest of us.
Mike Krzyzewski and Beyonce on the SI Sportsman of the Year Awards (picture by Duke’s Mike Cragg)
(Thanks, Duke Chronicle)
Beyonce left a lovestruck Mike Krzyzewski tongue-tied when they met last December
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