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You probably noticed that Houston’s sensational freshman guard from this past season, Kingston Flemings, is high in the mock NBA Drafts. He’s generally expected to go somewhere between #5 (L.A. Clippers) and #10 (Milwaukee). However, you may or may not know that his sister, Bella, is going to be a freshman at Duke this year, […]
If you’re Cameron Boozer, you can more or less relax in the run-up to the draft, because you almost certainly won’t go any lower than #4, and there’s a chance you could go #1. For anyone outside of the projected lottery picks though, you have no certainty whatsoever. Some guys are going to slip while […]
Jared McCain’s NBA career has had an odd start. The former Duke star was a leading candidate for Rookie of the Year last season when he had a knee injury in mid-December. He suffered a thumb injury this year, and Philadelphia had a deeper backcourt rotation as well, and he didn’t get that much time. […]
One of the most magical seasons for Duke fans ever was 2018-19, when Zion Williamson burst on the scene like a supernova. He became a virtual rock star. Who else remembers Stephen A. Smith’s stunned reaction after Duke just destroyed Kentucky in the first game of the season? Now imagine being on his team and […]
It’s been a fun June so far, with a crazy NBA Finals, the World Cup starting up, and Sunday night, the Carolina Hurricanes winning the Stanley Cup, 4-2 in Game 6. The ‘Canes were not fooling around Sunday. The defense was dominant throughout, and Las Vegas was pretty thoroughly stifled. It was a richly deserved […]
It’s kind of pointless to talk about bracketology in June, but that doesn’t mean it’s not fun, and CBS’s latest effort should make Duke fans feel pretty good. In the first 76-team field, Duke gets the #1 seed in the East. Also projected from the ACC: Virginia as the #3 seed in the West, Louisville […]
If we learned anything from the San Antonio Spurs in June, it’s that this is not the franchise we saw when Gregg Popovich coached there. The Spurs blew three games they should have won, and crumbled in the fourth quarter nearly every game, including in Game 5 Saturday night, which means that former Blue Devil […]
With the New York Knicks having won the 2026 NBA championship Saturday night, it’s a good time to look back at one of the great stars from the last Knicks teams to win a championship, Earl “the Pearl” Monroe. Monroe played college basketball for Clarence “Bighouse” Gaines at Winston-Salem State in the early 1960s, in […]
If you’ve been reading here for a while, you know that from time to time, we like to boost a worthwhile auction. In this case, we’re very happy to help Hope Connection International. They’re doing important work, and deserve your support. What are they auctioning? An absolutely gorgeous coffee table that’s crafted from the floor […]
Nothing has happened on the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade front yet, but there are strong rumors that Boston may win the sweepstakes. There are various reports of how the trade would be structured, with some saying it would be a three-way deal between Boston, Milwaukee, and Atlanta. Other reports say Brad Stevens is trying to swing a […]
You know what’s really rare? It’s when you’re one of the first to understand something. In basketball terms, you could say it’s when you first know that someone special has come along. This was kind of the idea of the movie Blue Chips: Shaquille O’Neal plays a hugely talented young big man whom Nick Nolte’s […]
The NBA Draft is less than two weeks away, so it won’t be long until we learn where Cameron Boozer will play ball for the foreseeable future. The smart people now think he may end up being taken by Utah with the second pick, but the smart people are frequently wrong. We’ll just have to […]
Isaiah Evans has had a nice few years. First, he was North Carolina’s Gatorade Player of the Year in 2023 and 2024, and then spent two years at Duke. In his first season, the Blue Devils got to the Final Four, and this spring, his sophomore year, Duke just missed getting back. And in less than […]
Duke has had some amazing point guards over the years: the elegant Tommy Amaker, the steady and stoic Chris Duhon, the stunning defender Tre Jones, and the cerebral Jon Scheyer among them. Of all of them, our favorite was Bobby Hurley, because he always seemed too small to do the things that he did. He […]
The excitement over Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje continues to build, even though most fans, and a lot of coaches and analysts, have never seen him in person. We trust Jon Scheyer’s eye for talent, but for any number of reasons, some guys never live up to the hype. You have to feel good about Boumtje Boumtje’s […]
San Antonio set a record nobody would want, giving up a 29-point lead, including a 20-point lead in the fourth quarter, and losing to New York, 107-106. Charles Barkley, who has had a few things to say about the city of San Antonio over the years, called the Spurs “the dumbest basketball team in the […]
Connie Hawkins was an immense talent who missed some of his best years professionally after being falsely implicated in the notorious 1961 point shaving scandal. He signed with Iowa, but was kicked out of school in his freshman year. The NBA warned teams not to draft him, so he played for a year with the […]
When Will Wade left NC State this spring, the university was angry and just fine with seeing the back of him as he walked out on the Pack for LSU. Fast forward a couple of months, and State has made it clear they’re not quite done with Wade yet. NC State is investigating Wade for […]
Bob Stack had a tough run at Wake Forest, lasting just four seasons as the coach of the Demon Deacons, and finishing his run there at just 45-69. Yet his teams were periodically fairly competitive, and for part of that time he had, without question, the most unusual player in ACC history: Tyrone “Muggsy” Bogues. […]
The ACC-SEC Challenge matchups have been announced, and Donald and Scott Rich combine to discuss it all on Episode 827! Before we discuss the challenge, we give our takes on the report that the Duke-Michigan game is going to be shifted to LoanDepot Park, the home of the Miami Marlins. A baseball field?! We go […]
Down 2-0, the San Antonio Spurs put on a tremendous defensive game to beat the New York Knicks 115-111 in Madison Square Garden Monday night. Former Blue Devil Mason Plumlee again got a DNP, but that’s not unexpected at this point. The Spurs showed a lot of heart and their defense was radically better, but […]
Former Oklahoma and Chicago Bulls star Stacey King died Sunday, apparently after what is being termed a “serious fall” at his home. Just 59, he seems far too young to die of a fall, but you never know what is going on in a person’s life, let alone his health problems. We mention King because […]
The NCAA got a bombshell legal ruling on Monday, and it’s not going over well with everyone. Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby, who by his own admission has a gambling problem, and who bet on his own team when he was at Indiana, won an injunction that theoretically will allow him to play in 2026. […]
In 1983, people weren’t really taking Mike Krzyzewski and Duke very seriously. They also weren’t geeked up over Bobby Cremins at Georgia Tech. Duke was coming off a 10-17 season, which only improved to an 11-17 season in 1982-83. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, Cremins was 10-16 in his first season, and would finish 13-15 in 1982-83. […]
As future teammate Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje is making a solid impression in the Adidas EuroCamp, Maxime Meyer has done well himself in the 2026 FIBA U18 Men’s AmeriCup, helping Canada to a 67-65 upset over Team USA on Sunday. Meyer played nearly 25 minutes, and while he didn’t shoot well (1/3 and 1/3), he had […]