DURHAM — Jon Scheyer took the wheel of the Duke basketball program in April and didn’t take long to make an unexpected sharp turn. The head coach-in-waiting for 11 months while Hall of Fame coach […]
Duke is used to offseason departures and having spots to fill. It’s just usually one-and-done players that are the ones leaving rather than assistant coaches. The Blue Devils opened the 2022 offseason with a pair […]
BOSTON — Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski thinks his players might have been looking ahead to this weekend’s game against North Carolina. And it almost cost them. “They didn’t listen to me,” he said on Tuesday […]
Call it the Pelican brief. No, not that 1990s movie starring Julia Roberts. Rather, it’s a phrase that sums up Zion Williamson’s first experience as a professional basketball player. The first overall draft pick from […]
NBA free agency opened with a bang last week as teams combined to spend more than $3 billion in the first 24 hours. The spending frenzy helped fatten the wallets of several players with ties […]
The NBA’s Summer League tournaments represent different things to different players. For this year’s draft picks, they’re an opportunity get acquainted with the NBA style while playing for the first time in the uniforms of […]
Wendell Carter Jr.’s mother made headlines recently with some controversial comments criticizing college basketball, Duke and its Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski. But there was at least one thing about which she was spot […]
Codi Miller-McIntyre’s basketball career didn’t get exiled to Siberia after going undrafted in 2016. But it came close. The former Wake Forest point guard played last season for Parma Basket in Russia’s VTB United League, […]
Sunday was a day of rest for some of the biggest names in the NBA’s Las Vegas Summer League tournament, with recent first round draft picks Marvin Bagley III and Grayson Allen of Duke and […]
Trevon Duval was the only member of Duke’s starting five last year that wasn’t selected in the NBA draft. But if he keeps putting up performances like the one he had Friday on the opening […]
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