Three Duke basketball players made powerful admissions Thursday.
Nick Pagliuca joked about not going to the NBA. Matt Jones said the mean-mugging from his high school days were a facade. And Amile Jefferson admitted, in the beginning, he never wanted to work out with Mason Plumlee.
“In locker room he’d be mad at me, really mad at me,” Jefferson said, noting he then realized the value of hard work on the Duke basketball team.
“You leave here a Duke player, but you also leave here a man,” he said.
That’s exactly what the trio illustrated in the final moments of their careers during Thursday’s basketball banquet at Cameron Indoor Stadium.