Duke Basketball Report · May 24, 2022
Louisville’s Kenny Payne Discovers A Recruiting Innovation
NEW YORK - JUNE 26: Dajuan Wagner poses for a portrait with his father Milt after being drafted sixth overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers during the 2002 NBA Draft at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on June 26, 2002 in New York, New York.If it wasn’t clear before Kenny Payne hired rising star Nolan Smith away from Duke, it should be now: the man is not messing around about rebuilding Louisville basketball.
In a clever and pretty funny move, really, he didn’t hire DJ Wagner’s dad as a coach, a la Larry Brown and Danny Manning.
He hired the grandad. And it makes perfect sense. Actually, it’s kind of hard to argue about it.