SI Vault What a STEAL! Phil Taylor December 22, 1997 Cleveland
drafted Brevin Knight with the 16th pick, and the rookie's brio
and ball hawking have given the Cavaliers a spark of life
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Issue 1 2  Knight certainly surprised everyone at Stanford,
partly just by matriculating there. The school he really wanted
to play for was Seton Hall. Born in Livingston, N.J., Knight
starred for Seton Hall Prep. But P.J. Carlesimo, the Seton Hall
coach at the time and now coach of the Golden State Warriors,
didn't recruit Knight because the Pirates supposedly were
already stocked at the point with, among others, Danny Hurley.
Stanford was the only school other than Manhattan College to
offer Knight a scholarship.  Knight arrived in Palo Alto as a
5'8", 145-pound freshman who was expected to back up a junior
college transfer named Frank Harris at the point. But Knight
wasted no time showing that he wou