Kon Knueppel was asked which players he studied and tried to model his game after. One of the first names he mentioned was legendary sharpshooter Klay Thompson.
Interesting news about both players It’s still too early to make assumptions about most recruits, especially in 2026 and beyond, particularly in the Age of NIL.
Sion James was a relatively unknown player in the transfer portal last year. However, he found his way to Durham and was a huge impact player for Jon Scheyer and company all year.
An impressive performance without star forward Jayson Tatum Former Duke star Jayson Tatum is out for the rest of the playoffs after rupturing an Achilles tendon against New York in Game 4 and was obviously not able to play against New York Thursday night.
A wonderful guard, Collins was an avatar of the future game. Most Duke fans and probably college basketball in general now know Doug Collins as former Blue Devil Chris Collins’ dad but his career was much more than that.
Jon Scheyer and the Duke Blue Devils are once again expected to be a top-tier national championship contender during the 2025-26 college basketball season.
After sending Luka Doncic to L.A., another big move could be highly risky for management. Pretty clearly, folks in Dallas are still traumatized by the trade of Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers.
Where it all started for Scheyer Jon Scheyer came to Duke as a player in 2006, left in 2010 with a national championship and returned as an assistant in 2014, winning another national championship in 2015.
This was fun Let’s start at the beginning: LeBron James is not better than Michael Jordan and it’s not particularly close. To be clear, James has immense gifts and has an insanely long career, but if they had played at the same time, Jordan would have killed him, much as Bill Russell regularly took it to Wilt Chamberlain.
Get your ears on and get ready for some news! And the winner of the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes is... the Dallas Mavericks. The Duke Basketball Roundup breaks down what it means for Flagg to be heading the Kyrie and Lively’s team.
Awful news for one of the good guys. Terrible news for Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics as the former Duke star suffered a ruptured right Achilles tendon in Monday night’s loss to the New York Knickerbockers.
Since the Mavericks‘ unlikely lottery win on Monday night, there has been speculation about the possibility of the front office including the No. 1 overall pick in a trade for a proven superstar such as Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Now officially official with Isaiah Evans withdrawing from the NBA Draft In the new, transfer portal and NIL driven age of college basketball, every offseason feels like a roll of the dice.
Hopefully it’s not was bad as it looks. Double bad news for Jayson Tatum and Boston as the Celtics lost to New York, 121-113 to go down 3-1. And worse, Tatum went down with an injury with 2:58 left.
That two-year run put Duke into a totally different orbit. It’s hard to realize from this distance, and a lot of you who read this never experienced this, but before 1991, Duke was seen as a nice team that couldn’t get over the hump.
The tanking is over, the ping-pong balls have been drawn, the protected picks have been assigned and Cooper Flagg is likely going to be a member of the Dallas Mavericks. Here are the winners and losers from Monday's NBA draft lottery.
Two weeks since announcing his commitment to fourth-year Duke basketball head coach Jon Scheyer and the Blue Devils, former Eastern Washington and Washington State standout Cedric Coward checks in at No.
AKA the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes Today is May 12th, and that means NBA Lottery Day is here. For Duke, jt’ll be big news no matter who wins or what happens.
One of Duke’s most treasured graduates comes home for graduation Grant Hill has always had a special relationship with Duke fans. We all admired Christian Laettner’s fire but he wasn't exactly a warm and fuzzy guy.
The Duke Blue Devils finished with the third-best basketball recruiting class in the 247 Sports 2025 men’s basketball final player rankings, and they may not be done.
The Duke Blue Devils had another successful college basketball season under head coach Jon Scheyer and company. Duke won four games in the NCAA Tournament, defeating Alabama, Arizona, Baylor and Mount St.
Duke basketball set an ACC record last go-round by tallying 19 wins in regular season conference action. Now, as things stand less than two months after