{"id":122870,"date":"2025-08-31T12:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/122870\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T12:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:58:08","slug":"dukes-pro-devils-weekend-must-have-been-a-lot-of-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/122870\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke\u2019s Pro Devils Weekend Must Have Been A Lot Of Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 _16w9vov6 _16w9vov5 ls9zuh1\">The whole Brotherhood thing, which Blue Devils and former Blue Devils created themselves, is no joke. It\u2019s a long blue line, stretching back to the 1960\u2019s. Realistically though, while Duke had a great tradition before Mike Krzyzewski arrived, it took a sharp turn after he showed up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Most of the Brotherhood is of the K and Scheyer eras. No one would argue with Jeff Mullins, Jack Marin, Jim Spanarkel, Gene Banks, Mike Gminski or Kenny Dennard, or any earlier player, but of those, only Banks and Dennard played for Coach K.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Duke has been doing something really smart: they\u2019re havin<a href=\"https:\/\/therookiewire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/rookie\/2025\/08\/30\/duke-cooper-flagg-khaman-maluach-pro-devils-weekend\/85911613007\/?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=topic\/dukeuniversity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">g Pro Devils Weekend<\/a>. This year, they had many guys return, including Shane Battier, Paolo Banchero, Cooper Flagg and Khaman Malauch, among others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We saw a picture with Flagg, Banchero and Cameron Boozer, and how cool is that? We don\u2019t know if anyone was in for a recruiting visit, but what an insanely powerful recruiting tool this is. If you bring a kid in and introduce him to All-Stars and national champions\u2026.well, not everyone can pull that together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Anyway, it just underscores how much Duke\u2019s tradition has developed since 1980. It\u2019s really pretty amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The whole Brotherhood thing, which Blue Devils and former Blue Devils created themselves, is no joke. It\u2019s a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,6320,398,400,401,99],"class_list":["post-122870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-main","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}