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Gifted 15-year-old treasures Duke basketball offer, plans to visit

Only two weeks have passed since college coaches could begin blowing up 2021 recruits’ cell phones, and Duke basketball target A.J. Griffin has already had to switch numbers.

Of course, so long as the five-star shooting guard continues to excite crowds with his golden game, the bombardment of texts won’t stop.

Six days after scoring 18 points on June 9 to lead the USA team to a gold-medal victory at the FIBA U16 Americas Championship, offers from powerhouses like Michigan and Villanova began rolling in for the 6-foot-7, 200-pound deft playmaker from White Plains, N.