The Harrison Barnes–Team USA–Sixers Theory That’s So Crazy It Makes Sense

Posted Jun 27, 2016
Mike Krzyzewski will finally get to coach Harrison Barnes. Back in 2009, Coach K lost one of the great Carolina college basketball recruiting wars when Barnes—then the no. 1 high school player in the country—chose Roy Williams and UNC over Coach K and Duke. It was a legendary recruiting scrap, and rumor has it Krzyzewski did not take Barnes’s decision well. (The Ringer)

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