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Two Dozen Blue Devils on NBA Opening Day Rosters
10/24/2023 1:53:00 PM | Men's Basketball
DURHAM – With Opening Night in the NBA set for Tuesday night, the Duke men's basketball program has 24 members of The Brotherhood on opening-day rosters.
The Blue Devils have players at a total of 18 different franchises, including a trio with the Dallas Mavericks (Kyrie Irving, Seth Curry and Dereck Lively II) and duos in Atlanta (AJ Griffin and Jalen Johnson), Orlando (Paolo Banchero and Wendell Carter Jr.), Brooklyn (Harry Giles and Dariq Whitehead) and New Orleans (Brandon Ingram and Zion Williamson).
Banchero, Duke's fifth all-time overall No. 1 pick, is a year removed from his NBA Rookie of the Year campaign that saw him average 20.0 points, 6.9 rebounds, 3.7 assists and shoot .427 from the field for the Magic. Brothers Tre and Tyus Jones, playing for San Antonio and Washington, respectively, are scheduled to play each other twice during the regular season.
Duke's two first-round picks from the 2022-23 squad, Lively and Whitehead, are set to make their NBA debuts this season. Lively averaged 20.4 minutes during the preseason while scoring 6.0 points, 5.0 rebounds and blocking 1.8 shots per game. Whitehead, the third-youngest player in the NBA this season, is recovered from his off-season foot surgery and has progressed to live-action rehab.
Duke's two dozen NBA players also join a long list of former players, coaches, managers and Duke graduates that serve on NBA coaching staffs or in front office roles for 26 of league's 30 teams, and for the league office. That includes former Hall of Fame head coach Mike Krzyzewski, who joined the NBA this summer as a special advisor, 1984 Duke graduate Adam Silver (NBA Commissioner), Grant Hill (part owner of the Atlanta Hawks), Elton Brand (General Manager of the Philadelphia 76ers), Trajan Landon (General Manager of the New Orleans Pelicans), Quin Snyder (Head Coach of the Atlanta Hawks) and Mike Dunleavy (General Manager of the Golden State Warriors).
Blue Devils in the NBA
Grayson Allen – Phoenix
Marvin Bagley III – Detroit
Paolo Banchero – Orlando
RJ Barrett – New York
Marques Bolden – Milwaukee
Wendell Carter Jr. – Orlando
Seth Curry – Dallas
Harry Giles III – Brooklyn
AJ Griffin – Atlanta
Brandon Ingram – New Orleans
Kyrie Irving – Dallas
Jalen Johnson – Atlanta
Tre Jones – San Antonio
Tyus Jones – Washington
Luke Kennard – Memphis
Dereck Lively II – Dallas
Wendell Moore Jr. – Minnesota
Mason Plumlee – LA Clippers
Cam Reddish – LA Lakers
Jayson Tatum – Boston
Gary Trent Jr. – Toronto
Dariq Whitehead – Brooklyn
Mark Williams – Charlotte
Zion Williamson – New Orleans
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The Blue Devils have players at a total of 18 different franchises, including a trio with the Dallas Mavericks (Kyrie Irving, Seth Curry and Dereck Lively II) and duos in Atlanta (AJ Griffin and Jalen Johnson), Orlando (Paolo Banchero and Wendell Carter Jr.), Brooklyn (Harry Giles and Dariq Whitehead) and New Orleans (Brandon Ingram and Zion Williamson).
Banchero, Duke's fifth all-time overall No. 1 pick, is a year removed from his NBA Rookie of the Year campaign that saw him average 20.0 points, 6.9 rebounds, 3.7 assists and shoot .427 from the field for the Magic. Brothers Tre and Tyus Jones, playing for San Antonio and Washington, respectively, are scheduled to play each other twice during the regular season.
Duke's two first-round picks from the 2022-23 squad, Lively and Whitehead, are set to make their NBA debuts this season. Lively averaged 20.4 minutes during the preseason while scoring 6.0 points, 5.0 rebounds and blocking 1.8 shots per game. Whitehead, the third-youngest player in the NBA this season, is recovered from his off-season foot surgery and has progressed to live-action rehab.
Duke's two dozen NBA players also join a long list of former players, coaches, managers and Duke graduates that serve on NBA coaching staffs or in front office roles for 26 of league's 30 teams, and for the league office. That includes former Hall of Fame head coach Mike Krzyzewski, who joined the NBA this summer as a special advisor, 1984 Duke graduate Adam Silver (NBA Commissioner), Grant Hill (part owner of the Atlanta Hawks), Elton Brand (General Manager of the Philadelphia 76ers), Trajan Landon (General Manager of the New Orleans Pelicans), Quin Snyder (Head Coach of the Atlanta Hawks) and Mike Dunleavy (General Manager of the Golden State Warriors).
Blue Devils in the NBA
Grayson Allen – Phoenix
Marvin Bagley III – Detroit
Paolo Banchero – Orlando
RJ Barrett – New York
Marques Bolden – Milwaukee
Wendell Carter Jr. – Orlando
Seth Curry – Dallas
Harry Giles III – Brooklyn
AJ Griffin – Atlanta
Brandon Ingram – New Orleans
Kyrie Irving – Dallas
Jalen Johnson – Atlanta
Tre Jones – San Antonio
Tyus Jones – Washington
Luke Kennard – Memphis
Dereck Lively II – Dallas
Wendell Moore Jr. – Minnesota
Mason Plumlee – LA Clippers
Cam Reddish – LA Lakers
Jayson Tatum – Boston
Gary Trent Jr. – Toronto
Dariq Whitehead – Brooklyn
Mark Williams – Charlotte
Zion Williamson – New Orleans
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