Goodbye Duke...Hello Duke

How about this one? Less than a week after Duke assistant Johnny Dawkins took the Stanford job, his best recruit - 6-10 Miles Plumlee of Arden, N.C. Christ School, who originally signed with Duke, but asked for and received a release, has turned around and signed with … Duke. Plumlee’s younger brothe,r 6-10 Mason, a junior at Christ School, has already verballed to the Devils and there is a good chance Duke could eventually wind up with a third brother, Marshall, a 6-7 freshman at the same school, a player Clark Francis of Hoop Scoop says could be the best of the three. That should help ease Mike Krzyzewski’s front court problems for the foreseeable future. • Just attended the Brooklyn Oldtimers’ Dinner at Bishop Ford, one of the real feel-good moments of the local basketball scene. Ray Nash, the highly respected president of Ford, did a great job, as usual, at the event, which is held annually in the school basement. Food is a 10. Honorees included former ... [link]