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AI Fun, Featuring Jared McCain
Oklahoma City guard Jared McCain had a great game against San Antonio Friday night, finishing with 24 points and 4 rebounds (he has always been an underrated rebounder). He also had a big individual moment, taking the ball in on 7-4 Victor Wembanyama, then muscling through him to score an unlikely layup. It’s gone viral […]
ACC Coaching: Is It Getting Better?
The other day, we linked to a story about the worst basketball coaching hires of the 21st century, and saw that about 1/3 of the list had been ACC coaches. While NIL is more important than ever, our argument has been that everything starts with the coach you hire. It’s the single most important factor […]
DBR Podcast #825 – Blackwell And JBB Updates Plus A Kansas Exhibition Game!
We had a slew of news about Duke as the weekend started so the DBR Podcast crew had to hop on and talk about it. There’s John Blackwell making it official — no to the NBA Draft, yes to the Blue Devils. There’s word of a really fun preseason exhibition against a blue blood program in […]
Duke Falls To Princeton In NCAA Lax Semifinals, 14-7
Duke had a tremendous first half against #1 Princeton, down just 6-4 at the break. But there were signs that the Tigers were about to take it to another level, which they did in the third quarter. For a time in the third, Princeton seemed to score at will. The Tigers hit some truly dazzling […]
Is Duke Off To Lawrence This Fall?
Although we should stress that we haven’t seen anything official about this, there have been a lot of posts over the last 24 hours or so suggesting that Duke and Kansas will have an exhibition game in Allen Fieldhouse this fall. And the following year, that favor will reportedly be returned with a trip to […]
Major Changes Coming For International Recruiting?
It’s hard to know exactly what to make of this because it’s still quite early, but the NCAA is working on new guidelines about international players and eligibility. These have apparently not been released yet, but if this is what it is, it’ll be significant. This is from a statement given to SI.com by the […]
Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje Cooking Everybody
When Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje announced for Duke recently, it developed very quickly, but obviously, it was great news for Duke. Still just 16, Boumtje Boumtje is a bit of an unknown quality, but performances like this are helping to bring his game into focus. It’s not just that he can take the ball to the […]
Friday’s Brotherhood Playoff News & Links
Duke fans knew that Philadelphia made a mistake letting Jared McCain go, but Oklahoma City was glad to snatch him up, and on Friday, that decision paid off big time for the Thunder. McCain scored 24 off the bench, outscoring San Antonio’s bench by himself, 24-18, pacing OKC to a 123-108 win. It was much […]
YouTube Gold: Duke’s First Visit To Kansas
As you probably have heard, Duke will be visiting Kansas this fall for an exhibition game. This program has been playing basketball for 120 years, and has been to Lawrence exactly once, in 1988. To give that some perspective, in 1988, Mike Krzyzewski had taken Duke to one Final Four. There was no obvious indication […]
YouTube Gold: The Magic Of Cameron
At a certain point during Duke’s rise to iconic status during the Mike Krzyzewski era, the university began to consider a new arena. They even had a location picked out: up the hill on what is now Coach K Highway, near the 15/501-147 ramp, if memory serves. They had to consider it, but in the […]
Quinn Cook And Nolan Smith Are Planning Something Fun For Duke Fans
If you haven’t been following Quinn Cook on X, he’s been teasing something for the last several days, and now we know what it is. Check this out: My big brother @NdotSmitty and I are doing “THE BROTHERS CHAT” in Durham, NC with all the Duke fans that are able to attend on Thursday May […]
John Blackwell Pulls Out Of The NBA Draft
It became increasingly clear over the last several days that staying in the NBA Draft would be a mistake for John Blackwell, and on Friday, he made the smart move and will follow through on his transfer to Duke. Although he isn’t ready for the NBA, Blackwell is a terrific college basketball player and will […]
Behind The Lines: DBR Discusses Illinois’ November Visit To Cameron
When Isaac Ambrose from the Champaign Room, a SB Nation sister site dedicated to Illinois, asked us to help preview next season’s visit from Illinois, we knew just who to ask to help them out. Scott Rich is well-versed in the Big Ten and we knew that he would be the guy to talk to […]
Even With A Major Omission, This List Explains So Much
This Substack article from Craig Meyer lists his 13 worst coaching hires from the last 26 years, or if you prefer, this century. Five of them were ACC hires: It’s a useful chart, and when you think about it, even with one major absence, if you take a small bit of license, about a third […]
YouTube Gold: 1987 NBA Eastern Conference Finals Classic Game 5
In 1987, Detroit was building what would soon become a championship team. With a backcourt of Isaiah Thomas and Joe Dumars, Rick Mahorn, second-year player Dennis Rodman, Bill Laimbeer, Vinnie Johnson, and John Salley, the core was set. And they had Boston in a nice spot in the 1987 Eastern Conference Finals. The Pistons had […]
Friday’s Brotherhood Playoff News & Links
Although Tyrese Proctor finally got off the bench for Cleveland, it’s not looking good for the Cavaliers, who lost 109-93 to New York Thursday night. Proctor played for just a minute but did not register in the box score. Still, he got to play in an Conference Finals, and not many people, including former Duke […]
Cooper Flagg, Kon Knueppel Unanimous Selections To NBA All-Rookie Team
More good news for former Duke stars Cooper Flagg and Kon Knueppel, as both were unanimously named to the All-Rookie Team. As far as we can find, the only time former college teammates were unanimously named to the All-Rookie team was in 2004-05 when former UConn Huskies Emeka Okafor and Ben Gordon pulled it off. […]
Thursday’s Brotherhood Playoff News & Links
The Oklahoma City Thunder evened the Western Conference Finals Wednesday evening with a 122-113 win. The series is now tied 1-1 Jared McCain came off the bench to score 12 points, hitting 4-14 overall and 3-9 from behind the three-point line. Mason Plumlee did not get off the bench for San Antonio. Victor Wembanya continues […]
Mick Cronin Wades Into The Duke-Amazon Deal
Duke’s deal with Amazon includes a game with Michigan, set to be played in Madison Square Garden on December 21st. As you probably know, the Big Ten and Fox have an issue with that game, arguing that Fox should have the broadcast/streaming rights since it is in a shared territory (Rutgers would theoretically qualify). Enter […]
YouTube Gold: “He Wanted To Go Guard Him On The Bench”
Former Bulls GM Jerry Krause has never fully gotten the credit he deserved for building the Chicago Bulls into the second-greatest dynasty in basketball, behind only the Boston Celtics of the Bill Russell era, and it’s partly his own fault. He was indeed a brilliant GM, but he was also an insecure man who wanted […]
Reports: Mavericks Looking Into Jon Scheyer
After the Dallas Mavericks fired coach Jason Kidd, a rumor sparked that new GM Masai Ujiri would make a run at Duke’s Jon Scheyer. From his point of view, it makes sense. Scheyer has shown a striking command of the game, an ability to rapidly adapt to changes in the game, and of course, he […]
The NBA Draft Decisions That Could Affect Duke
With the NBA Draft combine complete, Duke fans are anxiously awaiting official confirmation that John Blackwell will indeed arrive in Durham this summer. Despite their being no indications to the contrary, last year’s experience with Cedric Coward has seemingly left a scar for many Blue Devil fans. But where Coward wowed scouts with his measurables […]
Could These Two Former Blue Devils Reunite In The NBA?
The chances of this actually happening are probably minimal, but it’s still fun to think about: the Smoking Cuban asks if the Dallas Mavericks could end up with both Isaiah Evans and Maliq Brown alongside former Duke teammate Cooper Flagg. From a Duke point of view, with Kyrie Irving and Dereck Lively also under contract, […]
Will Wade Update: Not Going All That Well In Baton Rouge?
Since his NC State team was knocked out of the tournament by Sean Miller’s Texas, Will Wade’s life has been pretty active. After telling State fans, and apparently A.D. Boo Corrigan, that he wasn’t talking to LSU, he took the job anyway. However, he has had some trouble filling out his roster. For a time, […]
Twitter Gold: Ted Williams Spots A Rising Star
When he was a young prospect, future Hall of Famer Mike Piazza was a nobody. He was drafted in 1988,and only as a personal favor to his father from his godfather, L.A. Dodgers legend Tommy Lasorda. He was the 1,390th pick out of 1,395 prospects. That’s close to Mr. Irrelevant status. Clearly, not much was […]
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