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November 17, 2025

Jake LaRavia

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Local talent tries to impress NBA teams in summer leagues

August 2, 2024 Asheebo Rojas

For North Carolina’s former college and high school basketball favorites seeking the glory and prestige of the NBA, the time is now. NBA Summer League play began this month, giving former local basketball stars an […]

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College Basketball Preview: Wake Forest looks to win ‘the right games’ this year

October 26, 2022 Shawn Krest

Steve Forbes still hasn’t gotten over it. “If you had told me last year three things: that Alondes Williams is going to be Player of the Year, I’d have been like, ‘Yeah, right.’ If I […]

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Duke, Wake Forest lead way on busy draft night

June 29, 2022 Shawn Krest

There was no barbeque or beach music in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, but the NBA Draft had a North Carolina feel last week. Six players with connections to the Old North State were taken in the […]

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No offseason: NC’s ACC teams have busy spring, summer

June 29, 2022 Shawn Krest

Summer is barely a week old and the season doesn’t tip off for another 4½ months. But whatever you do, don’t use the “o word.” “Lose the word offseason,” said NC State coach Kevin Keatts. […]

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Duke heads local contingent of NBA Draft hopefuls

June 22, 2022 Shawn Krest

Turns out there’s one more stop on the Coach K retirement tour. While Mike Krzyzewski has officially retired as Duke’s head coach and swears he won’t be attending any games next season, he will get […]

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Terquavion Smith, Trevor Keels among players who made NBA Draft decisions

June 8, 2022 Shawn Krest

Come on in! The water’s fine. That seems to be the message that underclassmen from college basketball teams across North Carolina received after considering early entry into the NBA Draft. The NBA allows players to […]

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Deacons face nervous wait for Selection Sunday

March 10, 2022 Brett Friedlander

NEW YORK – Steve Forbes is a basketball coach not a bracketologist, so he doesn’t plan on spending the next few days trying to handicap Wake Forest’s chances of getting into the NCAA Tournament. That […]

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Overtime loss puts Deacons’ NCAA chances in jeopardy

March 9, 2022 Brett Friedlander

NEW YORK – There are bad losses. There are worse losses. And then there’s the loss Wake Forest suffered in the second round of the ACC Tournament on Wednesday. The fifth-seeded Deacons put their NCAA […]

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Wake Forest’s Williams, Forbes lead ACC basketball awards

March 7, 2022 The Associated Press

GREENSBORO — Wake Forest’s Alondes Williams and coach Steve Forbes have earned the top individual honors from the Atlantic Coast Conference. The league announced Williams as its player of the year and Forbes as its […]

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Deacons ride hot start to rout of Louisville

February 26, 2022 Brett Friedlander

WINSTON-SALEM — The Wake Forest basketball team probably wasn’t playing for its NCAA Tournament life on Saturday. But you never would have known it the way the Deacons came out against Louisville. Coach Steve Forbes’ […]

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