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Jabari Parker and the Eventful Summer
Since last we profiled Chicago’s Jabari Parker, he has led the United States to a Gold Medal at the FIBA Americas 16U Championship in Mexico, where the 6’8″ wing was named the MVP of the tournament. Over the past month, Parker stood out against the nation’s best at the LeBron James Skills Academy and helped [...]
Dakari Johnson: Jolly Giant
At 6’10″ and 260 pounds, Dakari Johnson can’t play in the shadow of many people, but behind St. Patrick’s star player Michael Gilchrist, he was able to have a relatively smooth and productive freshman season, incrementally improving month by month. The rising sophomore ultimately averaged nine rebounds and three blocks per game, while playing against [...]
Jahlil Okafor: Focused and Friendly Chicagoland Big Man
“For of those to whom much is given, much is required” -President John F. Kennedy Jahlil Okafor is a 6’10″ rising sophomore from the North Side of Chicago. In the Gold Medal game of the 16U FIBA Americas, the fifteen year-old was perfect from the floor and finished with eighteen points and fourteen rebounds against [...]
BDN Interview – Chris Collins talks Team USA, Coach K, Durant and more
DURHAM - BDN sat down with Duke Assistant Coach Chris Collins upon his return from Istanbul where the United States reclaimed the top spot in the FIBA world rankings. Collins talks a bit about his experiences, Kevin Durrant, Coach K and how the team came together as time progressed. Well, you guys did it again! A [...]
USA holds on to defeat Spain behind Durant
The 2010 USA Men’s World Championship Team fought through adversity, fended off a second half attack and edged host and defending world champion Spain 86-85 on Sunday night inside the Magic Box in Madrid, Spain. Playing in a raucous stadium filled to its 10,960 capacity, the USA’s charge was led by Player of the Game [...]
USA Basketball is Gold
USA Basketball has been Gold this summer. Gold as in winning the Gold Medal at the FIBA U17 World Championship in Hamburg, Germany, and at the FIBA Americas U18 tournament which was held in San Antonio, TX. The USA U17 team went a perfect 8-0 in Hamburg wrapping up the Gold Medal, on July 11th, [...]
US U17 rolls past Lithuania 102-66
Despite tipoff coming 30 minutes after 12 noon, it was early lights out for Lithuania (1-1) as the USA Men’s U17 Team (2-0) ran over, around and through Lithuania Saturday and in the process collected a very impressive 102-66 victory in preliminary round play at the inaugural FIBA U17 World Championship in Hamburg, Germany. It [...]
Irving helps lead USA to Gold
In a game that went down to the wire, the USA Basketball Men’s U18 National Team (5-0) fought back to defeat Brazil (4-1) 81-78 and claim the FIBA Americas U18 Championship gold medal on Wednesday night at Bill Greehey Arena in San Antonio, Texas. Earlier in the night Canada (3-2) defeated Argentina (2-3) 86-83 in [...]
Rivers leads USA past Canada
In a record-setting night, the USA U18 National Team (4-0) earned a berth in the gold medal game with a 122-89 semifinal victory over Canada (2-2) Tuesday night at the FIBA Americas U18 Championship for Men at Bill Greehey Arena in San Antonio, Texas. “That’s the goal and that’s what we came here for,” said [...]
Featherston on Coach K, Team USA and recruiting
When you talk of the Duke beat in journalism, the first name that comes to mind is Al Featherston. BDN is happy to announce that Al is the newest member of our growing list of contributors. In his first effort, “Feather,” as he is known to his friends, goes into great detail about Coach K [...]
Coach K Audio from Media Call-in, Part 2
Here is the audio or part two of the media call for Coach K being named the 2012 Olympic Basketball coach. Simply hit play -
Duke Basketball’s Coach K will lead Team USA through the 2012 Olympics (Audio)
The Blue Devil Nation would like to congratulate Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski for being selected to lead Team USA through the 2012 Olympics. The following is Part I of Krzyzewski’s interview with the media. Simply hit play and turn the volume up. If you have a lap top, ear buds are suggested.