Three months after Duke won the ACC championship at the Barclays Center in New York, the Blue Devils are headed for another big night in the same building.
Jayson Tatum, Luke Kennard and Harry Giles are all expected to be first-round picks in Thursday night’s NBA Draft, marking the seventh straight year Duke will have at least one player taken in the first round. If Frank Jackson also sneaks into the top 30, the quartet of Blue Devils taken in the first round would match a school record.
Tatum is also certain to be a top-five pick, Kennard will likely go in the lottery and Giles is expected to be taken in the middle of the first round.