This is a bit jarring but perfectly understandable: in a podcast interview with teammate RJ Hampton, Paolo Banchero said this: “At Duke, it was, you were a celebrity. People treated you like you were royalty there if you were on the basketball team. ... Being the highly touted player and the one who everybody knows, it was just kind of elevated even more. ...
“I love Duke, by far, but it was like sometimes, it feel like you were a zoo animal or something. In class, you would see them whispering about you, staring at you. I then caught people trying to record me.