Chansky’s Notebook: L&M Boys, Part 2

Posted Jan 26, 2018
Half of the famed L&M Boys along with Bob Lewis, who I featured yesterday, Larry Miller was the first five-star recruit signed by Dean Smith. He was from Pennsylvania, where Duke won the recruiting landscape with three Final Four teams in the early 1960s. But instead of following his state-mates to Durham, Miller wanted to build something of his own in Chapel Hill. (Chapelboro.com)

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