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 […]
Twenty-seven players with North Carolina ties have seen action in at least one game at the Las Vegas NBA Summer League. Only two of them, Wake Forest’s Codi Miller-McIntyre and Duke’s Gary Trent Jr., is […]
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 […]
Draft night was a memorable occasion for freshman big men from Duke and their senior leader Grayson Allen. But there were few celebrations among the other underclassmen from state schools with professional basketball aspirations and […]
Plenty of area players will be watching the NBA Draft with interest on Thursday night, including several Duke Blue Devils who will be there in person at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Three months after […]
All five members of Duke’s starting five from last season are among the players invited to the NBA’s predraft scouting combine. Senior Grayson Allen will be joined by one-and-done former teammates Marvin Bagley III, Wendell […]
Gary Trent Jr. has become the third of Duke’s four star freshmen to declare for the NBA Draft. Trent joins teammates Marvin Bagley III and Trevon Duval in a one-and-done club that is expected to […]
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