The Late ‘90s Blue Devils Still Have A Major Impact On Basketball

Chris Burgess #34 as a Blue DevilLately we’ve seen members of the late ‘90s Blue Devils make some interesting career moves.

Chris Carrawell joined Nate James as a Duke assistant. Steve Wojciechowski is head coach at Marquette and Chris Collins is at Northwestern. We believe Shane Battier is still with the Miami Heat, as the director of basketball development and analytics. Elton Brand and Trajan Langdon, aka the Alaskan Assassin, are both now NBA GMs.

And of course there’s Chris Burgess.

Burgess transferred to Utah in 1999 we think and spent two years under the late Rick Majerus.

During his recruitment he was pushed, as a Mormon, to commit to BYU but he preferred Duke and, infamously as…