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If You Want To Pick Duke’s Starters For Next Season, Better Start With This
There’s always this guessing game every spring and summer about who will start for Duke. One set seems to think it’ll be Patrick Ngongba, Dame Sarr, Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje, Cayden Boozer, and John Blackwell. Well, maybe. Some of them certainly will start. However, knowing, as we do, that Jon Scheyer starts with defense first, that […]
NBA Roster Shuffling Heats Up & Two Brotherhood Members Are On The Move
As the annual NBA free agent and trade market heats up, two former Blue Devil teammates are on the move: Brandon Ingram has been traded to the Los Angeles Clippers, while Luke Kennard has left the Los Angeles Lakers and signed with the Phoenix Suns as a free agent. L.A. also got Gradey Dick, unprotected […]
YouTube Gold: David Thompson, aka Skywalker
Every player has a hero, even Michael Jordan, and for Jordan, his first basketball idol was NC State’s David Thompson. Coming along shortly after segregation crumbled in the ACC, Thompson was an absolute freak. At just 6-4, if that, Thompson was very strong and also had phenomenal lift: his standing leap was 44″, and with […]
Latest Brotherhood Podcast Is Out!
The Brotherhood Podcast has emerged as one of our favorite podcasts, largely because it’s just Duke players interviewing Duke players, although coaches do show up periodically. For Tuesday, we get freshman Bryson Howard, Deron Rippey, and Cameron Williams. We haven’t had a chance to fully listen yet, but Rippey is the host today. Here’s a […]
U.S. Cruises By Italy In FIBA U17 Play By 51
Over in Turkey, the FIBA U17 World Cup rolls on, and the U.S. finished up group play by just gobsmacking Italy, 131-80, and now moves on to the knockout round. We don’t know beans about Italy’s team, but we can tell you this: it’s a much more convincing win than the last one over a […]
With Morant Gone, Memphis Is All-In On Rookie Cameron Boozer
It didn’t take Memphis long to shut down the Ja Morant era: on Monday, they essentially gave him away, trading him to Portland for Jerami Grant and Kris Murray. They didn’t even get a second-round pick out of this. What it underscores is how much faith they have in their star rookie, former Blue Devil […]
Duke Summer League Schedule
Here is the Summer League schedule for Duke’s NBA rookies for those who need a hoops fix and a break from World Cup play. We formatted it for our purposes, but credit to @BeardedBlueDevl for pulling it together over on X. Don’t read too much into these games, though. Look at what ESPN said about […]
YouTube Gold: USA & Boumtje Boumtje Dominate Japan In FIBA Play
The FIBA U17 World Cup is always a chance to see young players, and in this year’s edition, that’s more true than ever. Most Duke fans had no idea just how good Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje is because he has been playing in Spain, well off the AAU circuit and not even much YouTube. But after […]
DBR Bites #168 – True Brotherhood: Kager Knueppel Commits!
Another one!! Kager Knueppel commits to Duke suddenly, so Donald and Jason jump on quickly to discuss it on an emergency DBR Bites! We’re truly excited about Kager deciding to come to Duke, and we get a chance to talk quickly about his game and what he brings to the Blue Devils. It creates some […]
Duke Recruiting: Kager Commits!
Big news as fast-rising stretch four Kager Knueppel has committed to Duke. Obviously, he follows his brother Kon, but they are not the same player. Both shoot extremely well, but Kager is pushing 6-10 and will be more of a stretch forward in Duke’s tradition stretching back (no pun intended) to Danny Ferry in the […]
Boumtje Boumtje & Team USA Trounce Japan By 62 In FIBA World Cup Play
The U.S. blew out Japan, 128-66 in FIBA U17 World Cup Play, and Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje unleashed another weapon in his arsenal, blocking 7 shots. Keep in mind that while Japan has improved, it’s still Japan, and that may be part of the story here. And as it turns out, no one on their side […]
DBR Podcast #832: More Draft Analysis, Boumtje Boumtje Takes Over FIBA U-17s
We’re back with Episode 832 as Jason and Donald finally have the time to record together! We start by recapping Donald’s trip to date for the World Cup and the travel he has left on the docket. We then shift to the basketball, starting by giving some in depth analysis on Maliq Brown being drafted […]
Duke Recruiting: Three New Offers
Three offers went out to potential future Blue Devils this weekend: Colton Hiller, AJ Williams, and Adan Diggs. Hiller and Williams have been on the radar for a while, but we’re not as sure about Diggs. If that’s not right, that’s because we haven’t followed him as closely. Add in a potential commitment from Kager […]
Memphis Embraces Boozer, But Morant Problem Still Festers
(Update – Morant was traded to Portland on Monday) Cameron Boozer and his fellow rookie teammates, Karim Lopez and Richie Saunders, have been introduced to fans by the Memphis Grizzlies, and Boozer, at least, seems to have gone over well. The team clearly plans to build around him, and that could mean a tricky transition […]
YouTube Gold: Willis Reed Takes On Wilt Chamberlain
New York Knicks legend Willis Reed is most famous for courageously taking the court in Game 7 of the 1970 Finals despite a very serious leg injury, and scoring the first two baskets. However, there was much more to him than that. At 6-10 and 240, by the standards of his day, he was a […]
Grayson Allen Traded
Apparently, the Charlotte Hornets are not done wheeling and dealing yet: after sending LaMelo Ball to the Minnesota Timberwolves a few days ago, Charlotte now swaps Miles Bridges to the Phoenix Suns for Grayson Allen and Royce O’Neal. Charlotte gives up a 2029 first-round pick and a 2027 second-rounder, while Phoenix gives Charlotte a 2033 […]
Duke Recruiting: Kager Knueppel Update
There are no guarantees in recruiting, and like horseshoes and hand grenades, close doesn’t count. No one knows what will happen with Kager Knueppel, who is on a lightning rise in the high school rankings, shooting (appropriate for that family, right) from #122 to #28 in just one update. People are catching on, obviously. Duke […]
Former Duke Star Amile Jefferson To Coach Boston’s Summer League Team
Things have seemed somewhat quiet lately for former Duke star and assistant coach Amile Jefferson since moving from Durham to Boston to be an assistant with the Celtics, but that’s from the outside. He’s an assistant. By definition, he’s a background figure for the team, at least as far as the public is concerned. That […]
YouTube Gold: Boumtje Boumtje Debuts With Team USA
As the World Cup of football (or soccer) plays out in the U.S., the FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup is getting started in Istanbul, and Team USA’s first game is worth mentioning. It was a smashing 115-84 win over France. And if you haven’t caught on, French basketball has improved immensely in the last 10-15 […]
Maliq Brown Arrives In San Antonio & Finds Something Familiar
We’ve said for a long time that it’s probably better to be drafted later by a team with a great culture than it is to be taken earlier by a team with a lesser culture. So we were really excited for Maliq Brown when the former Blue Devil was taken by San Antonio in the […]
Duke Basketball: The Explosive 1990s.
This is a pretty great article from The Athletic about Duke Basketball in the ’90s. Those who were around for the early part of the Krzyzewski era will remember that for a while, it was a real uphill struggle. UNC was by far the most dominant ACC program, Maryland was reliably a Top 10 to […]
YouTube Gold: A Terrifying Flight In The Early NBA
The NBA hasn’t always been what it is today. In the earliest days, it was kind of cobbled together, and some guys turned down contracts because they had better offers from other employers. No one made $100,000 a year before Wilt Chamberlain did so in 1965 (Bill Russell immediately asked Boston to pay him $100,001). […]
Skip Bayless Misses Again, This Time On Cam Boozer
When Larry Bird entered the NBA, he had plenty of doubters. He didn’t pass the eye test: he was slow, couldn’t jump, and was ghostly white. Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan figured it out quickly. Writing in Basketball Weekly, early in Bird’s rookie season, he explained what people didn’t get about Bird. To be clear, […]
Former Blue Devil Mark Williams Re-Ups With Phoenix
You may remember that in 2025, Charlotte tried to trade Mark Williams to the Los Angeles Lakers, but they canceled the trade after a physical uncovered some problems they had not been aware of. Later that year, he was successfully traded to the Phoenix Suns, where he is now teammates with fellow Brotherhood members Grayson […]
Twitter World Cup Gold: Possibly The Greatest Goal Ever…Or An AI Fake?
The finer points of soccer, or football if you must, are lost on most Americans, present company included. Give us a Eurostep, please, or maybe a step-back three. That said, the World Cup has, as it always seems to, had moments of just brilliant athleticism. Lionel Messi scoring three goals in one match was spectacular, […]
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