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Jahlil Okafor 2013 EYBL – Session #1 L.A
LOS ANGELES — After winning the Swish N Dish last weekend in Milwaukee, Jahlil Okafor was sidelined this weekend with a sprained ankle. The 6’10 Chicago native had a great year for his high school, Whitney Young, but fell short of the Super-Sectionals when his team lost to national powerhouse Simeon Wolverines. Even though he [...]
Started From The Bottom: An Interview With Grayson Allen
At this time a year ago, 6’4″ Grayson Allen of Providence HS in Jacksonville, Florida had earned three scholarship offers. Last week, Duke University Coach Mike Krzyzewski opted to make the combo guard his eighth outstanding scholarship offer in the class of 2014. This weekend, Coach Mike Krzyzewski and Duke associate head coach Steve “Wojo” [...]
A Star At Night: An Interview With Matt Jones
The third of four children born to the affable Mark and Arrolyn Jones and raised in the diverse Dallas suburb of DeSoto, 6’5″ Matthew Jones, who, in late November of 2011, became the first pledge to Duke in the class of 2013, has carved his niche in this world by developing into one of the [...]
Unscathed: Through The Fire With Jabari Parker
“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” -Polonius, Hamlet by William Shakespeare With the upcoming Nike Hoops Summit in Portland, Oregon left as the only major event in the high school [...]
The Consigliere: Tom Konchalski on Duke Recruits
Tom Konchalski is a 6’6″ sexagenarian who can walk into a basketball gym from South Side of Chicago to Harlem and South Florida to Maine and be enthusiastically greeted by coaches at all levels, anxious players, and grateful parents. Modest, focused, loyal, industrious, pious, honest, and generous, Mr. Konchalski embodies all of the qualities that [...]
Duke hopes to bring another Monroe star to Durham in WR Jaylan Barbour
In each of the last three recruiting classes, the Blue Devils have added a speedy playmaker from Monroe, North Carolina to the program. Can Coach Cutcliffe make it four in a row? Duke has offered a scholarship to and remains in close contact with WR Jaylan Barbour, a 5’10″ 175 pound playmaker from Monroe High [...]