{"id":352664,"date":"2026-06-27T14:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T14:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352664\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T14:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T14:09:10","slug":"maliq-brown-arrives-in-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352664\/","title":{"rendered":"Maliq Brown Arrives In San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"

W<\/a>e\u2019ve said for a long time that it\u2019s probably better to be drafted later by a team with a great culture than it is to be taken earlier by a team with a lesser culture.<\/p>\n

So we were really excited for Maliq Brown when the former Blue Devil was taken by San Antonio in the second round of this week\u2019s NBA Draft, because he\u2019s with perhaps the best-managed franchise in the modern NBA.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s almost certainly Brown being polite, because that\u2019s very much how Duke works, too.<\/p>\n

This week, Cooper Flagg was in town to get some runs in. Jayson Tatum is Chief Basketball Officer. Quinn Cook, Nolan Smith, Jahlil Okafor and Carlos Boozer, former champions all, were in town during the Coach K Fantasy Camp. Former players are in the stands at every home game. Jay Bilas stops by to talk to the team every so often.<\/p>\n

For a lot of rookies, having guys like Duncan and Ginobili around would be mind-blowing, but for Brown? Pretty cool, but it also makes perfect sense. It\u2019s probably familiar.<\/p>\n

It reminds us of something Shane Battier said during his senior year. Duke had briefly fallen out of first place, and for virtually all of his time as a Blue Devil, Battier had been on teams that were at the top of the standings.<\/p>\n

So when a reporter asked him what it was like to be back in first, Battier just smiled and said one word.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not at most places, but for the Blue Devils and the Spurs, normal is different. Brown should feel right at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve said for a long time that it\u2019s probably better to be drafted later by a team with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11918,16111,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-352664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-alumni","tag-main","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}