Freshman Sean Stewart on Friday grew to become the seventh Duke Blue Devils basketball participant from final season’s workforce to enter the switch portal.
“I’m grateful to have fulfilled a dream to play for the Blue Devils!” the 6-foot-9 ahead posted on Instagram.
Stewart, who averaged 2.6 factors final season, joins former Duke teammates TJ Energy, Jaylen Blakes, Jeremy Roach, Mark Mitchell, Christian Reeves and Jaden Schutt within the switch portal.
With seven gamers searching for new properties — and stars Jared McCain and Kyle Filipowski having declared for the NBA Draft — head coach Jon Scheyer’s workforce will look vastly totally different subsequent season.
Duke might be dropping 84.6% of its minutes and 86.8% of its scoring from final season’s workforce that completed 27-9 and misplaced to North Carolina State in an Elite Eight of the NCAA Event. The one two notable returning members of the workforce might be guards Caleb Foster and Tyrese Proctor.
On the 2024-25 Duke workforce, Foster and Proctor might be joined by 247Sports’ prime total recruit Cooper Flagg and third total recruit Khaman Maluach. The depth items might be top-20 recruits Isaiah Harris, Kon Knueppel and Patrick Ngongba II.
Of the transfers, Roach, Mitchell, Energy and Stewart may have began at Duke subsequent season.
Their choices are indicative of a pattern in school sports activities. At this time’s gamers can receives a commission through NIL and go to a middling energy convention workforce and instantly be a star.
Prior to now, gifted gamers would select to be a rotational piece at Duke — a standard nationwide energy — and have a shot at competing for a nationwide championship.
On this new period, the thought of being a star at a lower-level workforce is interesting, particularly if the participant can receives a commission through NIL.
On Friday, Mitchell introduced on X, previously Twitter, his dedication to Missouri, the place he might be one of many Tigers’ prime gamers.
