Editor s note: This story was originally published on June 28, 2015, in the Indianapolis Star.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. It s behind this door. That s what I ve been told. It s a chair, red molded plastic on cheap metal legs, and it wouldn t fetch two bucks at a garage sale unless it was this chair, the chair, the one Bob Knight threw across the court in 1985 against Purdue.
The chair is stored deep inside Assembly Hall, down this hall, behind this door, and I m thinking this chair – the chair – deserves better. Better than this. An anonymous door, black metal, unmarked and unremarkable.
Treasure, buried in an unmarked grave.