More Duke Hoopla
Irving, Hairston & Thornton Welcomed to Duke
Chronicle Blog: K’s FIBA Ball Previews 2010-11 Devils
ACC’s 2011 NBA Draft Prospects
Sporting News’ Preseason All-America Team (Singler First Team, Irving Second Team)
Quin Snyder Takes Long Road to 76ers
SLAM Talks to Stackhouse
SLAM: Are there any guys here at the Pro-Am who have really caught your eye? Any guys who you were like, ‘Damn, I didn’t realize he was THAT good?’
JS: The Duke guys with Kyrie Irving and Seth.
Coach K and Laettner To Be Inducted Into Hall of Fame
We quoted a GoDuke.com article Wednesday that noted Coach Mike Krzyzewski being inducted into the Chicagoland Hall of Fame on September 15th of this year. He’ll be inducted in a different Hall of Fame today, this time along with one of his former players.
Christian Laettner and the rest of the 1992 Dream Team will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame this afternoon. As the only college player on an unbelievably talented squad made up of NBA greats Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Patrick Ewing, Clyde Drexler, and others he didn’t get a whole lot of burn (4.8 points per game) but was nonetheless on the team. No one can fault Laettner for not playing much on such a talented team, but it’s easy to forget just how accomplished he was as a college player. Read more
Alumni Update — Paulus and Melchionni
We have a couple of updates on former Duke Basketball Players.
First, Greg Paulus has been hired as an Assistant Men’s Basketball coach at the Naval Academy. This is Greg’s first foray into the coaching world, and he steps into a pretty good situation as Navy finished the year at 7-7 in the Patriot League, 13-17 Overall and return quite a few players. Good luck to Greg as we know it has long been a goal of Greg to become a basketball coach!
