KC Johnson

Chris, when you talk about kind of that evaluation period, can you outline what you're looking for in terms of maybe a few bullet points of types of players, just kind of profile that you're looking for as you approach that free agency and draft process?

This is obviously a painful process.

You're trading away some of these fan favorites like Kobe and Io, having to maybe take a little bit of a step backwards or sideways to make that progress that you want to.

What's kind of your pitch, I guess, of why that is worth it?

Because I think from the outside, this can be a very difficult thing to stomach of watching these players go away for what might not feel like a huge return, I think.

We saw a kind of mob mentality that took hold of the activist wing of the Duke faculty, which culminated in an April 2006 statement signed by 88 Duke faculty members called the Group of 88, in which before any charges even had been filed, these 88 faculty members took out an ad, a full-page ad, in the Duke campus newspaper.

We saw a kind of mob mentality that took hold of the activist wing of the Duke faculty, which culminated in an April 2006 statement signed by 88 Duke faculty members called the Group of 88, in which before any charges even had been filed, these 88 faculty members took out an ad, a full-page ad, in the Duke campus newspaper.

We saw a kind of mob mentality that took hold of the activist wing of the Duke faculty, which culminated in an April 2006 statement signed by 88 Duke faculty members called the Group of 88, in which before any charges even had been filed, these 88 faculty members took out an ad, a full-page ad, in the Duke campus newspaper.

They unequivocally asserted that something had happened to Crystal Mangum. She was claiming rape. The lacrosse players said nothing happened. They said that they would continue their activism regardless of what the court decided or what the police said. And they thanked public protesters for not waiting and making themselves heard.

They unequivocally asserted that something had happened to Crystal Mangum. She was claiming rape. The lacrosse players said nothing happened. They said that they would continue their activism regardless of what the court decided or what the police said. And they thanked public protesters for not waiting and making themselves heard.

They unequivocally asserted that something had happened to Crystal Mangum. She was claiming rape. The lacrosse players said nothing happened. They said that they would continue their activism regardless of what the court decided or what the police said. And they thanked public protesters for not waiting and making themselves heard.

And the highest profile public protest that had occurred at that point had been a march in front of the captain's house in which protesters had carried large signs urging the castration of the La Crosse captains.

And the highest profile public protest that had occurred at that point had been a march in front of the captain's house in which protesters had carried large signs urging the castration of the La Crosse captains.

And the highest profile public protest that had occurred at that point had been a march in front of the captain's house in which protesters had carried large signs urging the castration of the La Crosse captains.