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    • Duke

    Rick Pitino, who coached one of the greatest college basketball teams ever in the 1995-96 Kentucky Wildcats, says this year’s incarnation of the Duke Blue Devils could rival his historic club.

    That Kentucky club featured eight future NBA players and had Nazr Mohamed as its 13th man.

    “They’ve got a fifth-year guy (Amile Jefferson) who’s a terrific rebounder and basketball player and they’ve got great shooting, great coaching and a great system,” Pitino told Jon Rothstein on his Podcast. “They’ve got it all. They’re very deep and they’ve got two of the best in Jayson Tatum and Harry Giles — the one-and-two ranked high school players in the nation. They’re as good of a team as I’ve seen in the modern era.”

    Duke is the preseason No. 1 in most polls and is the Vegas pick to cut down the nets in April in Glendale, Arizona.

    Knicks

    WEST POINT, N.Y. –– The Knicks’ decision to hold training camp at West Point for a third straight year has inspired split opinions within the team on matters related to current events.

    Veteran Joakim Noah came out Friday and announced he had skipped a team dinner with Cadets on Thursday night because he’s opposed to war, while rookie Marshall Plumlee, a member of the Army reserves, told me he thinks it was a great idea to hold camp at West Point.

    “It’s hard for me a little bit,” Noah said Friday afternoon, according to Newsday. “I have a lot of respect for the kids who are out here fighting. But it’s hard for me to understand why we have to go to war, why kids have to kill kids around the world? So I have mixed feelings about being here.

    “I’m very proud of this country. I love America, but I just don’t understand kids killing kids around the world.”

    Duke, Knicks, Uncategorized

    WEST POINT, N.Y. — Lance Thomas knows all about the Plumlee family, having played alongside Miles and Mason Plumlee on the 2009-10 Duke team that won an NCAA championship.

    Now the youngest Plumlee, 7-foot Marshall, is Thomas’ teammate with the Knicks as both players look to fortify a revamped front line highlighted by the signing of free agent Joakim Noah.

    “Yeah, I knew Marshall, I remember when Marshall was in high school,” the 6-8 Thomas told me Thursday at Knicks’ training camp at West Point. “He was coming to visit his brothers, who I played with, Miles and Mason. It’s very good to have him here.”

    Thomas cares less that Plumlee is a fellow Dukie, and more about the fact that he’s a hard worker and a winner. Both players won national championships at Duke.

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