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Duke Basketball Team & Recruiting Update – A Crystal Clear Picture
BDN’s Duke Basketball Team and Recruiting Updates have set the standard among the sites and sure enough, this concept is now being copied. We’ll take that as a compliment but when push comes to shove, it is all about the content and we’ll stack ours against anybody. Here at BDN, our staff is in the [...]
LeBron James Skills Academy, Adidas Invitational Updates
BDN Recruiting analyst Andrew Slater is currently sending back live reports to members on the Blue Devil Nation Premium Message Board. He’s checking out the skills portion of opening night at the LeBron James Skills Academy and he’ll float to Akron for the Adidas Invitational this week. He will of course be checking in with [...]
Rodney Purvis Talks Recruiting
Here is a clip from the NBAPA Top 100 Camp where rising senior and Duke prospect Rodney Purvis talks recruiting – Join Blue Devil Nation Premium to gain full site access and get all the latest inside information on the Duke Athletics front as it happens.
Duke Prospects Recap from NBA Top 100 Camp
You can sit in the middle of a bunch of well seasoned analyst and hear several different takes on prospects at major events. Or, you can sit alone and form your opinion. I do a lot of both and in the process I see prospects play in upwards of 20 times in a single AAU season. [...]
![Our staff at BDN Premium has now seen Tony Parker [left and Alex Poythress [right] play in over 16 times, so we can tell you firsthand our opinions. But on this occasion, we bring you a chat with Van Coleman, one of the nations top recruiting analyst. To talk about this article on the BDN Premium Message Board, join today and gain full site access. Photo by BDN staff](http://bluedevilnation.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_3718-150x150.jpg)
Recruiting Guru Van Coleman Breaks Down Duke Prospects
BDN has established a lot of genuine relationships in that for years, we have been covering the Grassroots Basketball scene live and in person. The great thing about being an independent site is that we can use a myriad of the nation’s best recruiting gurus, whereas corporate sites are generally limited to those who work within [...]
Getting to know Duke prospect Rodney Purvis
“The only source of knowledge is experience.” -Albert Einstein Last year, Rodney Purvis was a carefree, rising sophomore, who had just finished his freshman year at Upper Room Christian Academy. Sporting braces, he was set to spend a summer as the youngest member of Chris Paul’s 17-and-under CP3 All-Stars and be the only member of [...]
EYBL Session 3 Recap – Duke prospects aplenty
For many, Memorial Day Weekend is a time of remembrance, family, friends, and grilling. But for recruiting junkies this is a time to catch the top prospects in the nation battle it out. For the second straight year Nike ran its new EYBL, Elite Youth Basketball League. The league hosts three sessions starting in Hampton, [...]
Huge recruiting coverage weekend in store
If you are not a member of Blue Devil Nation Premium, now is a great time to join for our Nike EYBL live coverage begins on Friday. As many of you know, the Tournament of Champions features no main Duke prospects at this time, but at the Nike EYBL in California? BDN Recruiting Analyst Andrew [...]
High School Hoops 2011 Edition No. 2
This week’s edition starts out with player analysis on Marshall Plumlee and Quinn Cook, and then moves on to provide a bouquet of links to box scores and articles discussing the other Duke commits and recruiting targets.
BDN checks in with Duke Prospect Rodney Purvis
If you ask anyone in the recruiting world who Rodney Purvis is, they will all know the name. Purvis, a 2013 stud prospect, has been turning heads for quite awhile now. Armed with the ability to get into the lane at will, Rodney has secured himself thus far as a top 5 prospect among the [...]
In depth interview with Duke prospect Rodney Purvis
Rising sophomore Rodney Purvis is a 6’3″ 185 lb guard, who is scheduled to play for Upper Room Christian Academy, a parochial school that runs through the tenth grade, in his native Raleigh. Due to proximity, their friendship, short memories, or relative talent, Purvis has been compared by a few to recent number one draft [...]
Quincy Miller highlights opening night of the NC Pro Am for Duke fans
DURHAM – Sporting his Team USA attire, Quincy Miller highlighted the opening night of the NC Pro Am for Duke fans. Miller had just come back to Durham from San Antonio where the U-18 team had their way with world competition. Miller, of course, is a key Duke recruiting target in the class of 2011 [...]