Raptor Coach Carter Rips Knight

Coach Butch Carter of the Toronto Raptors depicts Bob Knight as a “self-serving coward” who maintains control through threats and once used a racial slur at a black player.

Knight, who coached Carter more than 20 years ago at Indiana, already is under investigation by the school for allegedly choking a player during a 1997 practice.

Carter also said Knight hurt his coaching career by refusing to provide a recommendation.

The remarks are in a book co-written by brother Cris, a Minnesota Viking receiver. Excerpts from “Born to Believe,” which goes on sale May 1, were published in Friday’s National Post of Toronto.

A woman at Knight’s office Friday said the coach was out of town.

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