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His wife, Mickie Krzyzewski, planted bushes in their backyard that attract them. Coach K believes that his mother still watches over him, sometimes taking the form of butterflies. His former player and assistant, Steve Wojciechowski, says that during incredibly tense moments, big games when the noise came down from the bleachers like tumbling boulders, his boss would softly say a prayer to his mother. He cried, realizing that, without him knowing, she had tracked every game he'd ever coached. Finally he flipped open a worn steno pad to find thousands of notations, page after page, each line listing a date, an opponent and either a W or an L. Mike started sifting through the things his mother had left behind. When their mother died, Mike's brother, Bill, sent him a box of possessions they'd found in her apartment. 'He can still repeat her number,' Debbie says. She never moved, not even when her son got rich. When he'd go recruit in Chicago, instead of staying at some fancy hotel, he'd always crash in his mom's small three-room flat. There's nobody in his life who meant more to him than his mother, Emily Krzyzewski. It started last month when he found himself talking to butterflies. Maybe it's more accurate to say that the past has been reaching out to him, demanding his attention. Krzyzewski remains deeply connected with the world he knew as a child and no matter what he tells himself, or tells visitors to his sixth-floor castle keep, he has been most definitely looking into the past in recent days.

Right now, as Coach K sits in his office and tries to dodge questions about nostalgia and imminent farewells, Moe arrives in Durham, North Carolina, to hang out for a few days. Produced by Frank Saraceno Edited by Lamarr English and Amanda Winkler

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In his final season, the 75-year-old coach is hoping one last run can bring his journey full circle. Coach saw Moe gearing up to demolish him for being soft and rich as he took his first steps inside.įew coaches in any sport have matched the enduring success of Mike Krzyzewski. The pilot parked a few yards from the door and still a golf cart came to pick up Krzyzewski. The big jet landed as Moe watched from inside the private terminal. Not long ago, he flew back to his hometown in a private jet, and his best friend from childhood, Dennis 'Moe' Mlynski, picked him up in his wife's minivan. He's lived a life that would have seemed impossible to his parents in their working-class Polish neighborhood in Chicago. For the past 42 seasons he's called the Duke campus home, bringing his wife and family into the operation - his daughter Debbie Savarino keeps an office down the hall from his - and that is all coming to an end. Coach only needs to take a right out of his office, then another right down a back stairwell, to get to his assistants. He is on the sixth floor, and all the other coaches are a level below. Krzyzewski's office is in the top of the tower Duke built in 1999 after he'd won two of his five national championships as its head basketball coach. 'I try not to look in the future,' he says, 'and I definitely don't look in the past.' He once wrote in an elementary school essay that he either wanted to become an accountant or a priest. He had moved into the inevitable wilderness of loss and goodbyes, approaching his 75th birthday and the end of his life's work, which is not the natural habitat for a guy like him. Coach K loved his dog and on this afternoon felt his absence acutely. The family has always had communal dogs, named Cameron and Defense, but Blue belonged to him, and would sit at his feet while he watched hours of game film. Approaching the start of his final season, he teared up as he told stories about Blue.

His yellow lab, Blue, had died in his arms the month before. Mike Krzyzewski walked into his office last summer in a melancholy mood.