Ken Sterling: Voice of Indiana Sports & Pacers Insight

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00:00Oh, Ken Sterling is our main man in the great Hoosier state.

00:04And I'm a Hoosier, believe it or not.

00:06Not only did I grow up in Indiana, I went to Indiana.

00:09So I have rights here.

00:11I have say in this.

00:14And I believe that Ken is the man.

00:16And anyone that wants to dispute that, we can get together and I'll hit you in the face,

00:21the palm of my hand, even with my broken thumb.

00:25So Ken is on mornings in Bloomington at 98.7 GCL.

00:30And he's the voice of everything in Indianapolis as well for us in terms of sports with the

00:35Colts and the Pacers, et cetera.

00:37I have to start, though, believe it or not, not with the Pacers, who I have been on for

00:45since the jump.

00:47I took them at 13 to one to win the Eastern Conference.

00:49I believed in the Pacers to beat the Knicks without provocation, easy money.

00:54And I beat them every night the whole way.

00:56It was Pacers, Pacers, Pacers.

00:58I bet on the Knicks in game five because you knew they'd play 48 minutes for the first

01:03time all year.

01:04But game six, I was all Indian.

01:06I won all the money every day.

01:08And the Pacers are in the finals.

01:09We'll get to that in a minute.

01:10I cannot believe the story coming out of Bloomington about this perv doctor and these accusations

01:20of at least 15 players that said this guy raped them.

01:28And this is Larry Nassar 2.0 with this Bamba guy, allegedly, who is dead.

01:38So they waited.

01:39They investigated him and found nothing.

01:41And the guy's dead now.

01:43But now all of it's coming out that he was allegedly involved in some really bad behavior

01:50with basketball players at Indiana University.

01:52I'm talking big name guys that are saying he raped them.

01:58He gave them prostate exams.

02:00And you can argue whether a prostate exam is a necessary medical procedure, a part of

02:07a medical exam is a 22-year-old kid.

02:11But let me ask you, because you're aware of Bob Knight and Brad Bamba, they were close.

02:18Is it more likely that this was for sexual gratification?

02:22Or is it more likely that Bob Knight and Brad Bamba got together and said, you know what?

02:27We got to show these kids who's boss.

02:29Give them a real examination.

02:31You know, I don't think this was a prank.

02:35I think it was a really bad prank and an ongoing prank.

02:38But I don't, I've heard nothing to suggest that Dr. Brad Bamba derived any kind of sexual

02:46gratification from anything that he did during his years and years and years and years being

02:52the team physician.

02:54Well, I mean, how many people have to complain while he was there that they were being treated

03:00inappropriately and sexually violated before they listened?

03:05Now, the funny thing is, because, you know, I'm the biggest Bob Knight guy on the face

03:08of the earth.

03:09There's no one I respected more in my entire career.

03:14And I did five years with him every day.

03:17And I took his abuse.

03:18And I, I mean, to tell you, I paid the price for being around Bob Knight, but I loved him

03:23and he was friends with me for 40 years.

03:25And he came on my show forever.

03:27But I got to tell you, I am creeped out.

03:30I just had to be honest about Garl.

03:33Tim Garl was the trainer.

03:35He was the head trainer there for 45 years.

03:38And there are stories that they were joking around like this was funny.

03:43Knight and Garl and all of them allegedly.

03:46And now they fired Garl this year.

03:48I guarantee you why they fired him because of this.

03:50Yeah, and Tim Garl has been a guy that you even people who know him really, really well

03:58can't get him to talk about things.

04:01He is a very buttoned up guy who is taking kind of, I don't know whether they're secrets,

04:07but whatever he knows, he's taken it to his grave.

04:10You know, he has not been in the media ever talking about anything to do with Bob Knight

04:16or Indiana basketball.

04:17But I don't know, like with Bob Knight being gone, with Dr. Brad Bamba being gone, with

04:24Garl no longer being tethered to the university, I don't know what we're going to learn about

04:28this.

04:29And so, I mean, if you had some kind of a smoking gun, I can't tell whether, and you're

04:39kind of a cynical guy.

04:40I'm a cynical guy.

04:42Is this a cash grab by former players who see an opportunity to go get the university

04:47to write them checks?

04:48Or is this a valid complaint about emotional and physical harm done to them while they

04:53were student athletes at Indiana?

04:54I don't know who to trust in this thing.

04:57Okay, well, let me tell you something.

04:59From my experience, guys don't come out of the woods to brag about being fondled in their

05:04back doors, about being raped or being sexually assaulted ever, anywhere, ever for a money grab.

05:11Guys won't even say it happened to them.

05:13You have hockey players all over the minor leagues that have said they've been sexually

05:18assaulted.

05:18They don't want to admit to it to anybody.

05:21Let's talk about the Pacers.

05:23Are you on the Pacers here against the Thunder?

05:26You have been a Pacer believer from day one.

05:28Do you seriously think they can beat this team?

05:30Because I don't.

05:32And I've been on the Pacers all year.

05:33I think it's going to be really tough.

05:36And I think the matchup that drives the winner of this series and the NBA champion is going

05:41to be Halliburton trying to attack Dort.

05:44If Halliburton can stay aggressive, if he can put up more than 16 shots a game, the Pacers

05:49have a really good chance of winning this series.

05:52This is his opportunity to submit his status as a statue guy.

05:56He could have a statue.

05:57This would be the first NBA championship in the history of that franchise, and he can be

06:02the guy front and center to do it.

06:06Are you not worried about their defense, which is so unbelievable?

06:11And lastly, in this minute, respectfully, your thoughts on the passing of Ursae, who had

06:16his demons.

06:18But it's amazing to me how many people loved him after the fact.

06:23And seriously loved him.

06:25The mood at the Colts headquarters has been really, really dour since that announcement

06:32was made.

06:32And he had been in the building a whole lot the last two years.

06:35But those people genuinely loved him.

06:37And this community did, too.

06:38He did a lot kind of on the down low for the community.

06:41And now all those stories are kind of coming up.

06:44Jim wanted those kept quiet.

06:46And I think it's, to his credit, an interesting guy and I think actually a brilliant businessman.

06:52Yeah, it's crazy.

06:56He had a lot of demons.

06:58But gone too soon, for sure.

07:01He led a wild life with his rock and roll.

07:03And he had plenty of issues drinking and drugging.

07:07But gone now.

07:08And at least he won a Super Bowl for the Colts.

07:11Ken, I always love having you on.

07:13Enjoy the start of the NBA Finals.

07:15I was going to see you, my friend.

07:16I was going to see you, my friend.

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