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Duke’s Five Most Important Basketball Recruits Of All Time

Here’s a great question: who are the Top Five recruits in Duke history? You really have to think about it but we think you can make great arguments for these five.

  • Art Heyman
  • Gene Banks
  • Johnny Dawkins
  • Christian Laettner
  • Zion Williamson

Art Heyman was the first great recruit of the Vic Bubas era. Famously, his stepfather didn’t like Frank McGuire and persuaded Heyman to choose Duke instead - though Heyman said that if Duke hadn’t shown up at RDU airport, he would have just gone to UNC.