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Original Title: TIL in 1993 Bob Knight talked about recruiting Ivan Renko, a fake player he’d created to expose disreputable basketball recruiting experts. Though Renko didn’t exist, several services listed him as a prospect with in-depth descriptions of his potential. Some “experts” even claimed to see film of him