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Jon Scheyer hasn’t had a lot to say after Duke’s excruciating loss to UConn, but he spoke out a bit recently. Scheyer spoke to Josh Graham about Duke’s Elite Eight game against the Huskies and said this: “I’m not shying away from the fact that there’s incredible heartbreak and disappointment when we lose the way […]
The Charlotte Hornets are in the NBA Play-In Tournament and still alive, having beaten Miami in a thriller Tuesday night. Kon Knueppel didn’t play especially well, shooting just 2-12 and 0-6 on his three-point attempts, and finishing with just 6. Sion James didn’t have a big game offensively either, scoring just 2 points. It’s been […]
We haven’t heard a lot of news on the status of the Duke Men’s Basketball roster for next season…and we know everyone trying to figure out what it all means! We update everyone on what we’ve heard and speculate on the portal on DBR Bites #160. After Nik Khamenia and Darren Harris entered the transfer […]
This video is an attempt to put Cooper Flagg’s rookie season in context, and it makes some interesting points, particularly statistically. The narrator compliments Kon Knueppel, but argues that Flagg’s season has been on a completely different level. He compares his rookie season to what LeBron James did in his first year in the league, […]
Over the course of his long ESPN career, Dick Vitale has been best known as an enthusiastic advocate for college basketball. He’s always loved coming to Cameron, where he always just seemed like an overgrown Crazie. Enthusiasm, meet Enthusiasm. Which is which? Take your pick. He has also been a huge backer of, and fundraiser […]
Congratulations to Blue Devil Taina Mair, who was taken by the Seattle Storm with the #14 pick in the WNBA Draft on Monday night. Also with the Storm: former Blue Devil Lexie Brown. Now 31, Brown might become a mentor to Mair as she begins her pro career. Fellow Blue Devil Ashlon Jackson was also […]
Former Blue Devil Darren Harris is in the portal, as you probably know, and has made his decision: he’ll be an Indiana Hoosier. It might be a great choice for him personally. Coach Darian DeVries likes to use three-point shot in his offense, and Harris is a superb shooter. His shot will always there, but […]
The regular season ended for the NBA on Sunday night, and for Duke rookies, it marked the end of a remarkable season. Phoenix Sun Khaman Maluach finished on a high note, with 18 points, 14 rebounds, and two blocks. Cleveland Cavalier Tyrese Proctor was close to a triple-double, with 22 points, 11 rebounds, and 8 […]
The latest Duke Chronicle player profile is of Cayden Boozer. While brother Cameron got most of the attention between the two, Cayden proved, especially late in the season, that he is a gifted player, a guy who knows what to do and when, and, in a nutshell, a winner. The easiest mistake for fans to […]
People tend to look at coaches like Roy Williams and Mike Krzyzewski and just assume that they were always going to be great. They forget about the struggles. It took Coach K a few years to establish his Duke program, and plenty of people wanted him gone before he did. Roy Williams took the Kansas […]
Last night, we linked to a story that suggested Duke had pulled ahead of Louisville for Kansas transfer Flory Bidunga, but not so fast: Bidunga, along with Oregon transfer Jackson Shelstad, committed to Pat Kelsey’s Cardinals program Sunday afternoon. That’s a huge gain for Louisville and will virtually guarantee they’ll be rated in the top […]
We used to think of recruiting as soap operas for guys, but what would that make portal season? You can’t really take it too seriously until players commit. In the meantime, well, it’s soap opera city. Take Flory Bidunga. Louisville fans thought he was a lock to be a Cardinal, but according to Big Red […]
If every Duke player had a TV show named after him, we’d have one called this: Everybody Loves Maliq. Maliq Brown has been one of the best-loved players in Duke Basketball history. Why is that? Partly it’s because he’s just such a smart player. As the Duke Chronicle notes in its latest profile, Brown doesn’t […]
In 1988, Duke was ascending but not yet a dominant power. The Blue Devils had gone to the Final Four in 1986 and the Sweet 16 in 1987, but the idea that Duke was about to become the premier brand in college basketball was ridiculous. The best coach in the country? Everyone knew that was […]
Back in the day, Art Heyman really encapsulated something about Duke Basketball and became the face of the Blue Devils. That lasted a fairly long time, until the Foster era, really. You could argue about who took on that role in the late ‘70s. Was it Mike Gminski? Jim Spanarkel? Gene Banks? Kenny Dennard? We’d […]
This is pretty cool: Krysten Peek got a chance to sit down with future Blue Devils Cameron Williams and Deron Rippey at the Nike Hoop Summit to talk about their decision to play for Duke. Both of them talk positively about playing for Jon Scheyer and his talents on both ends of the court, and […]
As everyone knows by now, Cameron Boozer had an amazing year for Duke. He won the ACC Rookie of the Year, the ACC Player of the Year, the ACC Tournament MVP, First-Team All-American, the Karl Malone Award, the Oscar Robertson Trophy, The Sporting News Player of the Year, NABC Player of the Year, USBWA Player […]
With the season over, attention begins to turn to the NBA Draft and how the order will work out. This is frequently of interest to Duke fans since Blue Devils typically go high, and this year looks like no exception as Cameron Boozer will be off the board early. But how early? That depends on […]
The latest Duke Chronicle player profile is of Patrick Ngongba, and from his freshman to sophomore seasons, Ngongba has grown as much as any Duke player in recent memory. If you remember, Ngongba missed much of his senior season in high school with a foot injury, and with Duke’s depth up front last season, we […]
Normally, if we miss something and it’s not a timely story, we just let it go, but occasionally we make an exception, and this is one of those times. Back on February 7th when UNC upset Duke on Seth Trimble’s last-second three, Jon Scheyer said that his players were assaulted after the game. For that, […]
Since you’re here reading this site, you’re like us and hang out on the basketball side of the Internet a lot. And the most fun part of the basketball side of the Internet is Larry Bird. You can see the videos of his amazing skills, and that’s always fun, or you can go next-level and […]
Just a few days into the offseason, Duke has already seen two rotation pieces—Nik Khamenia and Darren Harris—enter the transfer portal. What the Blue Devils haven’t heard yet are any decisions regarding the NBA Draft. Cam Boozer is surely off to be a Top 3 pick. Dame Sarr and Pat Ngongba have challenging stay-or-go decisions […]
As we have seen in recent years, the portal giveth, and the portal taketh away. So far this year, we’ve seen Darren Harris and Nik Khamenia enter the portal, and we’ve started to see Duke being discussed with guys looking for new schools as well. The most intriguing of these is probably Flory Bidunga of […]
The latest Duke Chronicle profile is of Blue Devil sophomore Isaiah Evans. As a freshman, Evans was a one-dimensional player, a three-point specialist. Basically, if his shot was on, he played, if not, he sat. This year was quite different. Evans is a great shooter, but he is a streaky shooter. This year, he went […]
Duke great JJ Redick stirred things up a while back when he said guys like Boston Celtic Bob Cousy were “plumbers and firemen” in the off-season and couldn’t play in today’s NBA. He had a point to an extent: although Cousy had phenomenal court vision, he was small by today’s standards, and if you watch […]