Featuring a young Kareem, then known as Lew Alcindor. John Wooden won back-to-back titles with UCLA in 1964 and 1965 but UCLA wasn’t invited in 1966. Texas Western won that year in one of the most significant wins in college basketball history.
Another guard is added to the roster, and Jason has tea with Sion James. We got another one! We thought the Duke Blue Devils were done in the transfer portal, but Jon Scheyer’s always closing.
People may be sleeping on the former Duke star a bit. As Jared McCain gets ready for the NBA Draft, he faces questions about his game. All players but a tiny fraction over the years do.
He’s partly right here but what he doesn't talk about is going to really imposing. As you know, former Duke Blue Devil Kyle Filipowski is getting ready for the NBA Draft in a few weeks.
Possibly, but a lot of things would have to go just right. On Thursday, Duke got a commitment from 6-6 Cameron Sheffield. He’s very likely to be a reserve and very helpful as a practice player too, but he also adds to what was already most likely Duke’s biggest team ever.
An outstanding rebounder, Denton had a solid ABA career in the early to mid ‘70’s. It’s hard to overstate how glamorous the Vic Bubas era was at the time.
An interesting take on one of the NBA’s absolute legends from another Jerry West is 85 now and he has been a huge part of NBA history. He was one of the greatest players in the league’s history and his Lakers consistently finished second-best to Bill Russell’s Boston Celtics in the 1960’s, losing to the C’s eight times.
Duke could be getting something special in five-star forward Cooper Flagg.
An interesting twist for the Duke legend and long-time NBA player Mike Krzyzewski retired in 2022 but he still has significant influence in the basketball world.
Wendell Moore’s season may be down to the last game As we’ve seen so far in the Minnesota-Denver series, former Duke star Wendell Moore hasn’t gotten off the bench and he didn’t on Tuesday either as the Timberwolves fell 112-97.
It’s a bigger club than we realized When Lew Alcindor, now known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, was in college, the NCAA banned dunks to limit his dominance. Didn’t really work - he won three national titles at UCLA and lost two games in three years.
Even at 77-years-old and retired, Mike Krzyzewski is still providing some valuable input for one big-name NBA team.
On April 3, Christian Reeves became the first of seven Blue Devils in the Jon Scheyer era to enter the transfer portal, as the Duke basketball program didn't lose any talent to the portal last year following Scheyer's first season at the helm.
AJ Dybantsa capturing the attention of the Duke basketball staff, not to mention everyone else who has ever seen him play, is nothing new. The Blue Devils, no strangers to reeling in top-ranked recruiting prizes, have shown up to the Prolific Prep (Calif.) five-star forward's games and reached out to him several times.
After arriving in Durham as a five-star prospect, Chicago native DJ Steward delivered an encouraging freshman campaign, albeit for a 2020-21 Duke basketball squad that finished 13-11 overall, 9-9 in ACC play, and without an NCAA Tournament invite.
Kyle Filipowski returned to the Duke Blue Devils after a special freshman season. While his sophomore season was full of ups and downs, Flip now heads to the NBA Draft with a chance to be a lottery selection.
The Packers selected a player who could fill in at any offensive line spot.
Basketball fans are still several months away from seeing Cooper Flagg play for the Duke Blue Devils in the NCAA. But the hype for Flagg is definitely growing.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers drafted Duke OL Graham Barton with the No. 26 overall pick as they look to build on this past season's surprise run to the divisional round of the NFL playoffs.
The Baylor Bears are getting a big boost via the transfer portal, as a key member of Duke’s 2023-24 team is joining their squad.
With seven players looking for new homes — and two stars having declared for the NBA Draft — head coach Jon Scheyer's team will look vastly different next season.
No college basketball team illustrates the perils of the transfer portal era better than Duke right now.
They aren't the only two players who head coach Jon Scheyer will have to replace in the fall.
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