During Countdown to Craziness Friday night, the Blue Devils combined the Blue-White game with a videos featuring players, an awards show and a dunk contest, but before all of that, the Duke players strutted out, one-by-one, to entrance music of their choice. Duke even lured Michael Buffer—are you ready to rumble?—into introducing the squad, a [...]
Junior guard Nolan Smith got the most attention—for someone nicknamed Showtime, was it really a surprise that he walked out to Jay-Z rocking blue stunner shades, and then ripped off his jersey to show his retro Johnny Dawkins threads underneath?—and Andre Dawkins was technically a co-winner of the dunk contest, but it was Olek Czyz [...]
Hard to believe it’s been six full years since Duke Basketball last had a nighttime practice to kick off a season.
(Harder for me to believe it’s been six years since I was a freshman here. Also, sadder.)
(And while we’re on the subject of things that are hard to believe, what’s the deal [...]