Bobby THE BUTT SLAPPER!
Slapping Carter Bryant’s Butt May Help Win An NBA Championship
Coach Robert Montgomery Knight was famous for slapping a player’s gluteus maximus – yes, the butt – the ASS Cheeks.
Yes, it was a badge of courage to be butt slapped by Bobby Knight. It was an honor only bestowed on the deserving. It felt great!
The harder Coach Knight slapped your butt, the more you knew he appreciated your effort on the court.
Sometimes the fans joined in with pleasure in watching Coach Knight slap asses at the end of games. The most famously cheered butt slaps had to have been in 1976, when the Indiana Hoosier basketball players came off the court in an undefeated season with an NCAA Championship and a perfect record of 32-0!
If you were fortunate to get your ass slapped in the Indiana University Assembly Hall arena full of cheering fans during the end of a game as starters for reserve substitutions were being made, fans cheered louder the harder the slap. It was a marvelous victory process. The IU fans would explode in cheering and clapping on each slap.
One of Doctor Cricket Dunkenstein’s most sacred memories was getting a butt slap from Coach Knight after five grueling days of his instruction and coaching observation … that’s another story …
[ LINK HERE TO READ: ‘Ass Slapped By The Best Basketball Coaches in The Country’ – including such greats as Johnny Orr, Larry Piety, Rick Majerus ( a great ASS slapper), Dean Smith ( a light quick ass slapper) , Jerry Pimm, Lynn Archibold, Don Haskins (the big ‘BEAR’ ass slap), and the most famous ass slap of them all, the ‘Jimmy Valvano, road to the championship ass slap, don’t ever give up ass slap. Which included a pull up from the floor after diving for a loose ball. Yes, Doctor Dunkenstein has been slapped hundred of times by the best coaches in the game of basketball. Each slap was accepted with pleasure as a badge of acknowledgement of busting my butt on the court and playing hard! ]
Race horses like to be slapped, it tells them when to run faster. It doesn’t cause pain. It’s the signal from the jockey to kick it into gear. Watch The New York City (Long Island) at Bellmont Park – triple crown race – The Bellmont Stakes, June 6, 2026, Saturday. Coincidentally, the day the San Antonio Spurs will arrive in New York City to play against the New York Knicks in the 2026 NBA Finals on Sunday, June 7th.
One such ‘slapping’ end of the game incident between ‘Secret Friends’ Bobby Knight and Joe B. Hall is detailed below.
THIS IS AN EXCEPT FROM ARTICLE: ‘Bobby Knight The Butt Slapping Recruiter’ … Click To Read & View Full Presentation.
Learn about Coach Robert Montgomery Knight’s famous recruiting and teaching methods in PRESENTATION & ARTICLE:
‘Bobby Knight The Butt Slapping Recruiter’ … Click To Read & View Full Presentation.
On Website: “Michael & The Cricket’
BOOK I / Chapter 2: Not Enough Student In Student-Athlete / Preseentation Page: ‘Bobby Night The Butt Slapping Recruiter’
Date: May 31, 2026
By: Doctor Dunkenstein’
Doc’s 2026 NBA Finals Knicks Scouting Report.
Topic: beating the NY Knicks
Conclusion: Butt Slap Carter multiple times Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. if it works continue slapping … …
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I wasn’t celebrating the Spurs victory in the Western Conference Finals last night. I was working. Scouting the Knicks. I do not know much of anything about the NY Knicks. Nor do I know how to tell you what you should do in order to win a basketball game in the NBA.
Nevertheless, sometimes, I see things. simple things about basketball games.
Let me tell you something I saw and noticed and thought about last night while watching the Knicks play against the Spurs during the 2025-26 regular season. After watching the Spurs play basketball 15 times in the last 35 days. Wow, that’s a ton of NBA games for me..
[read: Doctor Cricket Dunkenstein’s article: ‘The Cricket’ ]
Anyway, I saw ’em Knick Kick the Spurs at the Garden’ during the rodeo road trip in February , right before the NBA All-star break, … … .
… beautiful place,the Garden , beautiful performance by both teams … … … .
Anyway, all I can say in my Scouting report is: Carter Bryant, Carter Bryant, Carter Bryant, yes Carter, Bryant. Need I say it again?
If everyone plays well, if the Spurs entire team plays well, … … if the team played just as they have, and perhaps, a little better than they have played recently in the 2026 playoffs … (less stupid mistakes), then, ummm,
IF CARTER BRYANT PLAYS WELL … … Carter is a key horse in this basketball series, a key horse in the race …
I like those odds on that horse in this race …
JUST PLAY NORMAL. Not a lot of minutes, just as you did in the regular season. Not like you have played in the WCF playoffs, …. … Nothing spectacular, nothing unusual, not 100 points, not 20 rebound, … … just ‘Carter Bryant’ good and solid … good productive minutes, yes a few good Carter minutes in every game … …
good defense and rebounds …
WHY? The match-ups with the Knicks. NY is big, strong, and QUICK, with and without the ball, They Knicks players all move very well, quickly … … just like the old NYC park players. Snappy quick ….
I THINK Mitch Johnson already know this, … but Coach needs aAll the players to start slapping Carter’s butt, today. Don’t hug, slap butt! Coach can’t do it, the media will go nuts, but the team mates can do the butt slapping, nobody will say a word.
Carter Bryant is ‘Just Like‘ the race horse “Zenyatta” was when she was a two year old fillie!
Watch Zenyatta in her last Race:
Zenyatta- Athletic Rarity
Undefeated
Zenyatta only needed her butt slapped a few time in 19 races. However, she got her butt slapped, and she loved it.
Zenyatta danced before every race … yes, watch it. She loved to run.
June 4, 2026
By: Doctor Dunkenstein
In recent weeks, when I watch Carter Byant play basketball for the San Antonio Spurs during the 2026 NBA playoffs, I think of Zenyatta, the great thorough bred race horse presented in this section. I have been watching Carter play since October 2025, I have some idea of how good he is at playing basketball. But now, he is struggling recently in the NBA playoffs. The story of Zenyatta’s career may indeed explain his predicament.
Carter is a very talented, physically blessed and an exceptionally skilled basketball player with unlimited potential.
But just like Zenyatta – she was not a horse that could conquer the best thorough bred horses until she was beyond the normal 3 year old blooming stage of race horses – Carter is struggling, at his very young and inexperienced age. He is 20 years old. This is a baby in terms of a professional NBA basketball player’s careers. They do not get younger than Carter Bryant. Cooper Flagg was the youngest NBA basketball player at the age of 19 in the 2025-26 season.
Basketball careers can take many unforeseen paths – you are never certain of the outcome – and just like a late blooming thorough bred horses, a good trainer is required. They must be coached and trained in the best possible manner. There is no standard training or coaching book applicable to all young players with Carter’s type of talent. They don’t respond in the same way.
Coaches such as Mitchell Johnson are specialist at dealing with young ‘under aged’ professional basketball players, Coach Mitch spent many years in the ‘G League’ developing young men. He knows lots of young horses that later ran for a glorious track victory.
I could be wrong, but something tells me Mitch is going to get this young thorough bred NBA 20 year old basketball player to run in the breeders cup, someday.
It takes time and patients to reach that feat. It doesn’t come quickly, not in a month. Unfortunately the NBA playoffs limit time and patience. It is not always an affordable practice during so many high competitive games.
Nevertheless, “I see how Coach Mitch is breaking those ponies”, to steal a line from the film character, Shooter as he talks to Coach Dale about the basketball team in the movie Hoosiers.
Bet on Carter Bryant to be a key horse in your trifecta bets not near off in the future. I don’t gamble, on any sports, but you should follow my advice, I know race horses. I think in regards to basketball, I may also know Carter Bryant.
Time will tell
Carter Bryant was inserted into game 1 of the NBA finals last night for limited minutes. He had the enivitable duty of guarding and playing defense against probably the best one-on-one offensive players in the NBA, Jalen Brunson. Jalen sensed blood in the watered and attacked Bryant on three consecutive offensive possessions. Jalen scored two out of the three. Despite that outcome, I saw potential in Bryant’s performance.
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Unreported and not mentioned, Spurs Coach Mitch Johnson slaps Carter Bryant’s ASS at the end of this 15 second intense bench instruction episode during the Western Conference Finals.
Why did Coach Mitch Johnson chew out Carter Bryant? Simply, … because he is darn good at playing basketball and he was playing badly.
This occurred because Carter Bryant, a 20 year-old basketball phenom, with unbelievable size and talent, was uncharacteristically making ‘STUPID’ mistakes in the pressure filled 2026 Western Conference Playoff finals.
Carter’s Spurs teammates could be seen hugging him on the bench afterwards. Big mistake, ALL TEAM members should start swatting Carter Bryant on his butt. Yes, everyday during the NBA 2026 Finals, swat this kid on his glu
Carter Bryant is a Thoroughbred racehorse! Just like the GREAT thoroughbred race horses preparing to run in the Bellomont Stakes on June 6th in New York City, NY, just like a 3 year old young horse, this 20 year-old basketball player needs to be butt slapped with encouragement by all his teammates multiple times in the next week as he is preparing to play in the NBA’s greatest games of the year, the 2026 NBA Finals.
BUTT SLAP HIM in practice, butt slap him on the bus, butt slap him in the hotel.
Don’t hug him, smile, tell him, let’s go, BABY BOY, let’s go get them, then SLAP HIS ASS, again.
He is goin’ to run a great race in the ‘Big Apple’. This thoroughbred, Carter Bryant, is the key horse in the trifecta and ‘exacta’ for the San Antonio schematic game plan and performance in the NBA finals. I think he is going to be a, Win Place or Show performer in the NBA finals. I got a feeling.
Mitch has the same idea, I think,…that’s why he was so excited shewing Carter out …
as he said, “I need, We need , Carter to be … …”.
It’s him who needs to run well. He will upset the match-up balance. He is so good, big, strong, … key horse in NYC!
Don’t hug him, SLAP HIS ASS
The Indiana University and the University of Kentucky Basketball Fans Rivalry
Indiana University and the University of Kentucky Basketball fans hated one another. The hate had decades of history. Far too much and too many stories to include in a book.
To summarize the situation, College Basketball was king of the Sports World in both States. There were only ABA basketball teams to compete for the royal throne which UK and IU basketball ruled on in their respective States.
Once a year IU and UK would play, on a neutral game site, always in large arenas
Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight famously slapped Kentucky coach Joe B. Hall on the back of the head during a game on December 7, 1974
The 1974 Incident
During a game in Bloomington, Indiana was comfortably leading Kentucky by about 24 points with just a minute left on the clock. While Kentucky had pulled its starters and put in the substitutes, Knight left his starters on the floor and kept aggressively pressing the referees over calls.
Joe B. Hall walked over to the scorer’s table to confront Knight, asking him how badly he wanted to win by leaving his starters in the game. Knight bluntly responded, “You coach your team, I’ll coach mine”. As Hall turned to walk away, Knight lightly tapped him hard on the back of the head. Kentucky fans later proclaimed Knight slapped Joe B. hard with malice and delivered a blow of death.
The Rematch:
The physical altercation heavily fueled the rivalry. Later that same season, in the 1975 NCAA Tournament Mideast Regional in Dayton, Ohio, Hall’s Wildcats got their revenge by upsetting Knight’s undefeated Hoosiers 92-90
Kentucky Newspapers quoted Joe. B Hall. “I wouldn’t piss up his ass if his bowels were on fire,” Hall said.
It was all theater! It was gamesmanship between the coaches. They were good friends. They created a press war of words. Bobby and Joe B. were running an inside prank creation of animosity between themselves. That’s what the rival fans wanted. It stirred the pot, got everybody fired up, and I mean everybody. Including the players. But Joe B. and Bobby were life long fishing buddies! Most certainly they spoke by phone during the uproar.
It was all newspaper quotes of insults and things you couldn’t and shouldn’t say on live TV. It lasted until the teams met up in the next season. There was no internet or Youtube, so Newspapers were the mode of communication.
Newspapers headlines sold more tickets, more tickets meant more revenue for the basketball programs.
Bobby Knight and Joe B. Hall were friends. The had a secret affair
CONCLUSION:
Bobby and Joe B. were friends, secret friends. The shared the love of hunting and fishing. They hunted and fished together dozens of times through their years as coaching rivals. The press never was privy to their secret RENDEZVOUS. It was often just the two of them meeting on some private lake or a woods near a plowed corn field full of pheasants waiting to be shot. Yes, there are no photos of Joe B. Hall and Bobby Knight with shot guns, but it happened dozens of times.
Decades after Bobby left Indiana and Joe B. retired from Kentucky, their secret friendship was uncovered … …
Both Hall and Knight spoke often at small ballroom dinners arranged to honor one another.
…. relationship, decades relationship Knight spoke at Joe B. Hall’s
The Indiana University and the University of Kentucky Basketball Fans Paid Unusually Large Sums of Money for A Game Ticket Between The Rival School.
It was a violation of NCAA rules for a college basketball player to be paid any money other than a small stupindium, the cost of books and tuition. University housing was naturally naturally provided, for school months only. .
Indiana was famous for running a ‘CLEAN’ program and not allowing basketball players to be given any extra money, not a penny more than allowed. Knight would allow it. Hoosier basketball players stayed in the standard student dorms and ate the ‘standard’ cafeteria meals
Kentucky, on the other hand, was famous for all of the inventive methods and manners by which they could fill the pockets of basketball players, and their family members, with hard cold untraceable CASH. The Kentucky Wildcats stayed in an exclusive athletic dormitory that was nicer than a luxury Hilton Grand Hotel, with private chefs.
The NCAA allowed, under it’s many (monopoly) rules, for each University in the country to provide every basketball player a limited few game tickets, 3 or four. If the players were clever and industrious enough, which often occurred by their respective Senior years, the could sell their game ticket to high paying alumni for cash. Under the table. usually
Kentucky players thought making extra cash by selling game tickets to wealthy fans on the side was a minute undertaking compared to the tens-of-thousands of dollars they were branding as NCAA illegal rule breaking income during their Kentucky playing days.
To the contrary, Indiana payers didn’t dare be found out to be breaking even a minor infraction of the rules.
But it was a secret held by Senior basketball players at Indiana that you could make good money selling Kentucky – Indiana neutral site basketball game tickets … usually to UK fans across the border. Butt slapping Bobby Knight knew all about this adventure of many of his Senior IU players. He would turn his head … …. it wasn’t a University issue … the tickets were not University distributed … da da da, they players were Seniors. …
Bobby Knight’s Players Loved Him
You Don’t Need To ALWAYS Hug Someone Who Knows You Love them
Sometimes you butt slap ’em, and tell them Let’s Go, you are great, now, giddy up, and run for the roses.
There is more to the story!
Part 2 coming soon
Game | Minutes played | Points scored | Field goals | 3 pointers | Free throws | Rebounds | Assists | Steals | Blocked shots | Turnovers | Personal fouls | Plus/minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3 | 2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | |
8 | 2 | 1-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | +2 | |
5 | 7 | 3-5 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | -4 | |
7 | 0 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -10 | |
10 | 3 | 1-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | -10 | |
10 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | -10 | |
14 | 3 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | +10 | |
13 | 3 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +16 | |
12 | 3 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +9 | |
12 | 2 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -2 | |
Regular Season | 11.5 | 4.2 | 40.8 | 33.5 | 71.4 | 2.5 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
