You can expect Duke players to be prominent among the selections in the NBA draft. Several per year, in fact. For going on a quarter of a century.
Every year but one since 2010, a season the Blue Devils won the NCAA title — surprising even Mike Krzyzewski — there’s been at least one Duke player picked in the opening round. Under Krzyzewski and now Jon Scheyer, the program produced 35 first-rounders in the 23 years of this century, including an ACC record four in 2022, and a dozen more in the second round.
Two of the last five top picks were Dukies, Zion Williamson in 2019 and Paolo Banchero in 2022.