RJ Barrett Has Accomplished Something Only Eight Other Players Have Ever Done

Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 2: RJ Barrett #9 of the New York Knicks dribbles the ball against the Atlanta Hawks during Round 1, Game 5 of the 2021 NBA Playoffs on June 2, 2021 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York.One of the great understated accomplishments of Duke’s 2018-19 team was just how smoothly RJ Barrett and Zion Williamson co-existed. And actually that’s the wrong word: they thrived as teammates.

It might not have been that way.

Barrett has clearly shown an alpha personality on the court and did so at Duke despite Williamson’s vast physical superiority.

But partly because Williamson was willing to defer to Barrett, at one point…