Over at The Duke Chronicle, Max Rego ranks his Top Five NBA players of the Krzyzewski era.
First, a gentle correction: Luol Deng was the second Blue Devil to leave after his freshman year, not the first. The first of course was Corey Maggette in 1999.
That said, here’s his list 1-5
- Kyrie Irving
- Grant Hill
- Elton Brand
- Shane Battier
- Luol Deng
We might flip Hill and Irving because before his injuries set in, who would you have rather had? Hill was just a step or two down from Michael Jordan and even after his injuries crippled his career, he reinvented himself as a defensive stopper.