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Well at least this time, Kentucky fans have a year to brace themselves for the inevitable.
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SignUp Now!Sure enough, while Flagg entertained an avalanche of recruitment offers from big-deal programs (including UConn, Georgia, and Michigan), he announced Monday that he’d taken the red pill and will be playing for the Duke Blue Devils—the widely loathed upper-crust crucible of mid-South rich kids and Caucasian hardwood prospects.
Duke is one of the most legacy-rich schools in the sport—with five March Madness championships and a reputation for cultivating a fandom that is perhaps a little more elitist (and some would say racist) compared to the rest of the fleet. Many of those charges are associated with Duke’s former longtime head coach, Mike Krzyzewski, who often espoused the school’s focus on “scholar-athletes” that come from a different stock compared to the typical sort of college basketball player. Hmm, I wonder what he meant by that? Here’s Krzyzewski, in an interview from 1997, courtesy of Bomani Jones, who dedicated a whole segment on his HBO show to why Black Americans hate Duke.
Grayson Allen—whose penchant for seemingly dirty fouls renders him, to me, one of the most abominable players in basketball history
With the exception of the Grayson years, Duke hatred - especially this type - has been so forced since like 2010.