This Article On Legacy Players At Duke Missed A Few

One of the things Mike Krzyzewski figured out during his illustrious career was that you could get a leg up by recruiting players from athletic families. They already have at least one parent who excelled athletically and they know the drill, so to speak.

This article runs down a lot of them down but it’s hard to remember everyone. For instance we think they forgot Nolan Smith but we would probably have forgotten Billy McCaffrey.

Here’s a partial list for basketball. Obviously there are more and a lot were named in the article. We just thought we’d add a few extra.

• Nolan Smith, son of Derek Smith from Louisville.
• Zion Williamson, son of Sharonda Simpson (sprinter) and Lateef Williamson (football). Stepfather Lee Anderson played basketball for Clemson.
• RJ Barrett, son of Rowan Barrett from St. John’s
• Lee Melchionni, son of former Blue Devil Gary Melchionni
• Mike Buckmire, son of former Duke soccer player Michael A. Buckmire
• Kyle Singler. Just about everyone in his family participated in athletics.
• Gerald Henderson, son of Boston Celtic Gerald Henderson
• Greg Paulus. Like Singler, from a very athletic family
• Andre Buckner. Brother Greg excelled at Clemson
• Bobby Hurley. Father is Bob Hurley of St. Anthony’s fame.