NBA Season Begins With 24 Blue Devils on Opening Day Rosters

DURHAM, N.C. – With opening evening in the NBA set for Tuesday, Oct. 22, the Duke males’s basketball program has 24 members of The Brotherhood on opening-day rosters. The record was compiled from the NBA’s official opening-day rosters (together with two-way and inactive lists) and consists of any Blue Satan that performed and completed their faculty basketball careers at Duke.

The Blue Devils have gamers at a complete of 18 completely different franchises, together with a trio in Phoenix (Grayson Allen, Tyus Jones and Mason Plumlee) and 4 duos in Charlotte (Seth Curry and Mark Williams), Dallas (Kyrie Irving and Dereck Vigorous II), New Orleans (Brandon Ingram and Zion Williamson) and Orlando (Paolo Banchero and Wendell Carter Jr.).

Jayson Tatum, a ahead/guard for the Boston Celtics, is coming off his first NBA championship in the course of the 2023-24 season. Tatum, a five-time All-Star and four-time All-NBA choice, helped lead the Celtics to a league-leading 64 regular-season wins and defeated the Dallas Mavericks in 5 video games within the NBA Finals. Brothers Tre and Tyus Jones, taking part in for San Antonio and Phoenix, respectively, are scheduled to play one another 3 times in the course of the common season, together with as soon as throughout group play of the NBA Cup.

Duke’s two draftees from the 2023-24 squad, Kyle Filipowski and Jared McCain, are set to make their NBA debuts this season. McCain, Duke’s 56th all-time first-round decide, averaged 22.8 minutes in the course of the preseason whereas scoring 12.8 factors and grabbing 4.6 rebounds per sport, whereas taking pictures 40 p.c from the sphere total and 37.9 p.c from past the arc. Filipowski averaged 13.2 minutes in the course of the preseason whereas accumulating 4.8 factors, 4.4 rebounds and 1.8 assists per sport.

Duke’s two dozen NBA gamers additionally be a part of a protracted record of former gamers, coaches, managers and Duke graduates that serve on NBA teaching staffs or in entrance workplace roles for 26 of league’s 30 groups, and for the league workplace. That features former Corridor of Fame head coach Mike Krzyzewski, who joined the NBA this summer season as a particular advisor, 1984 Duke graduate Adam Silver (NBA Commissioner), Grant Hill (half proprietor of the Atlanta Hawks), Elton Model (Normal Supervisor of the Philadelphia 76ers), Trajan Landon (President of Basketball Operations of the Detroit Pistons), Quin Snyder (Head Coach of the Atlanta Hawks), Mike Dunleavy (Normal Supervisor of the Golden State Warriors) and JJ Redick (Head Coach of the Los Angeles Lakers).

Blue Devils within the NBA
Grayson Allen – Phoenix
Marvin Bagley III – Washington
Paolo Banchero – Orlando
RJ Barrett – Toronto
Wendell Carter Jr. – Orlando
Seth Curry – Charlotte
Kyle Filipowski – Utah
Brandon Ingram – New Orleans
Kyrie Irving – Dallas
Jalen Johnson – Atlanta
Tre Jones – San Antonio
Tyus Jones – Phoenix
Luke Kennard – Memphis
Dereck Vigorous II – Dallas
Jared McCain – Philadelphia
Wendell Moore Jr. – Detroit
Mason Plumlee – Phoenix
Cam Reddish – LA Lakers
D.J. Steward – Chicago
Jayson Tatum – Boston
Gary Trent Jr. – Milwaukee
Dariq Whitehead – Brooklyn
Mark Williams – Charlotte
Zion Williamson – New Orleans

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