Jason Evans

John in the postgame press conference said, you know, those guys could have gone anywhere in the world that they wanted over the all-star break.

I mean, these guys are so busy playing basketball all the time.

When they get a break, you would think they would be like, I'm getting away from hoops.

No, they they wanted to come back to Durham.

They wanted to come back to Duke.

And John said it proves how much the brotherhood is a real, real thing.

And I thought it was just great that those guys were there and the crowd.

I can tell you from personal experience, the crowd was very excited every time it was mentioned that those guys were in the house.

And at one point, the video monitor, the scoreboard at Duke during one of the timeouts, did one of those things where they show a famous person or a famous character or something like that, and then they show a person from the crowd who separated at birth who looks like that person.

And the very last one they did,

They showed the NBA Rookie of the Year trophy, and then they cut to Cooper Flag, and the crowd went wild, and I thought that was very cute and very clever.

Although I will note, Khan Knipple was not there because he was playing at the, you know, he was doing the All-Star three-point shooting contest.

Congrats to Khan.

He had a great first round.

Yeah.

The second round didn't go as well.

But he said the problem was he got cold.

Like he went first.

He went first.

And then for like 20 or 30 minutes.