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Date 10/26 || Time 7:00 || Venue Food City Center || Video ESPN2 Next up for Duke is the second and final exhibition game, this time a trip to Knoxville to play the Tennessee Volunteers, where Rick Barnes has done something pretty unusual. We’ve written before about how difficult it is for older coaches to […]
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When Charlotte took Kon Knueppel with the #4 pick in this past summer’s NBA Draft, there were a lot of doubters. It’s still early, but he’s made a case for the faith the Hornets have shown in him. Knueppel finished the opener against the Nets with 11 points, five rebounds an assist – and a […]
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For Duke fans, seeing Zion Williamson’s extraordinary game in Cameron was a once in a lifetime treat. Williamson is unlike anyone else. At 6-6 and maybe 265 now – he’s clearly lost weight but it’s not officially changed – Williamson has been compared to a flying refrigerator. His build and explosiveness is utterly unique. Injuries […]
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We return with DBR Bites 117 as we preview the second and final exhibition game for Duke when they take on Tennessee on the road this weekend. Duke has a big preseason test in the road trip to face the Volunteers, a team that is always tough to play. Donald and Jason break down what […]
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If you haven’t heard by now, this morning the FBI announced arrests on gambling charges. Among the accused: NBA coach Chauncey Billups and former players Terry Rozier and Damon Jones. There appear to be two different situations. In the first, four Mafia crime families – the Bonnano, Genovese, Gambino and Lucchese – ran allegedly fixed […]
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Something has changed. Maybe we just hadn’t noticed because Billy Packer isn’t around to point it out. With him went a good, overarching grasp of the college game and an incisive and opinionated perspective on how the game was evolving. For more than three decades Packer focused his TV commentary – much of it ACC […]
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Duke typically reels in a star-studded freshman class, but in recent years, a lot of them have left for the NBA after their first year. That wasn’t as true last season. While Cooper Flagg, Kon Knueppel and Khaman Maluach all left. However, Darren Harris, Patrick Ngongba and Isaiah Evans returned. And while Harris played minimal […]
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With the NBA getting started, we thought we’d have a good links run to see how everyone did in their first regular season NBA games. Box Scores Cooper Flagg Kon Knueppel Khaman Maluach Tyrese Proctor Sion James Go to the DBR Boards to find Blue Healer Auctions | Drop us a line
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By the time the ABA collapsed, the league had developed some real superstars who were a revelation when they got to the NBA. Obviously everyone knew about Julius Erving and David Thompson, but there were many others, including George McGinnis, Dan Issel and Artis “the A-Train” Gilmore. Gilmore, considered by many to be the second […]
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It was just an exhibition, just his first game ever against fellow collegians, but Cameron Boozer looked like a truly special player as Duke pulled away in the second half to beat Central Florida 96-71. Just like they do with every game, the Duke Basketball Roundup breaks down all the good things to takeaway from […]
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had an extraordinary NBA career, starting in 1969 and finishing in 1989. People tend to remember him now more for his role in the Showtime Lakers, but he had already been in the NBA for 10 years when Magic Johnson arrived and the perception of the iconic big man was very different pre-Magic. […]
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The middle part of the game was kind of sketchy, but ultimately Duke put the University of Central Florida away, 96-71. The Knights acquitted themselves well but Blue Devils freshman Cameron Boozer was the unquestionable star of the game. Things started off with a nice moment as former Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, current coach Jon […]
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We know you are probably focused on Duke’s first preseason game against Central Florida but the Duke Basketball Roundup could not let a huge recruiting win go by unmentioned. On Tuesday afternoon, Duke landed the first recruit of the class of 2026, 6-5 wing Bryson Howard. The son of former Wake Forest star Josh Howard […]
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Bryson Howard committed to Duke Tuesday, becoming the first member of Duke’s 2026 class. An athletic 6-6 wing with a wingspan of at least 6-11, Howard is from all reports also a solid defender and with Jon Scheyer, that’ll get you playing time. When asked by Adam Finkelstein why he chose Duke, Howard said it […]
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Texas five star recruit Bryson Howard, who is down to Duke, Kentucky and UNC, will announce Tuesday afternoon at 4:30. A gifted 6-6 two-way player, Howard would fit right in with Jon Scheyer’s system. He has also said that his priority is to find a program that treats people like family. Sounds like a good […]
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Prominently employing and appreciating freshmen is a relatively new phenomenon in the ACC By NCAA edict freshmen couldn’t participate in varsity sports during the first 20 years the ACC was in existence. Prior to the 1972-73 season freshmen played on separate, junior varsity basketball squads such as the Blue Imps for Duke and UNC’s Tar […]
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We’ve spoken before about how much we admire Duke Basketball’s social media team. Those guys consistently operate at a very high level and do innovative and cool things. Originally they started as a way for Duke to counter the Duke Hating we all got to know during the middle of the Coach K era. From […]
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The NBA regular season starts Tuesday, so it seems like a good time to do a Duke rookie links run. Enjoy! Go to the DBR Boards to find Blue Healer Auctions | Drop us a line
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Being the son of a legendary athlete is really difficult. Your odds of being better than your father are not great and you will forever be compared to him. Look how many guys come up short: Scottie Pippen, Jr. Both of Michael Jordan’s sons. Perhaps most notoriously, Bronny James, who many feel is on the […]
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When last season started, we thought that Pat Ngongba might redshirt. He was third on the depth chart behind Khaman Maluach and Maliq Brown, and he was coming off of a high school injury. And in high school, he had to work hard to lose a significant amount of weight. Redshirting seemed like a real […]
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College basketball has changed dramatically over the last several seasons to the point where losing your entire team has become rather routine and, at times, a good thing. It does make it tough to figure a team out early on though, and that’s the case for Johnny Dawkins and his Central Florida Knights. UCF is […]
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Our SBN colleague Ricky O’ Donnell has a breakdown of his Top Seven rookies in the preseason and three of them are former Blue Devils. Here’s O’ Donnell’s list: #7 – Jeremiah Fears #6 – VJ Edgecombe #5 – Khaman Maluach #4 – Jase Richardson #3 – Kon Knueppel #2 – Ace Bailey #1 – […]
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In many ways, Bob Knight is a tragic figure. No one doubts his coaching genius, but his inability to to control his emotions ultimately cost him his job at Indiana, where he put the Hoosiers into a different orbit, and kept him from being the GOAT of college basketball. When you look at his early […]
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We are back with Episode 760 as Donald and Jason recap some football and get us ready for some basketball! Duke Football suffered a loss over the weekend to Georgia Tech, and we begin the episode with our recap of that game. It was a game where mistakes were the difference and it was a […]
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