Mike Krzyzewski

Mike Krzyzewski was not at all surprised when Kyrie Irving requested a trade from the Cleveland Cavaliers over the summer, and he’s most definitely not surprised to see the point guard thriving with the Boston Celtics. Krzyzewski, who coached Irving while he was at Duke, told The Boston Globe he could always sense that there was more [...]

Grayson Allen isn’t the only member of Duke men’s basketball that will be missing some time. His coach will be sidelined, too. The ageless Mike Krzyzewski needs to undergo back surgery and as a result, he won’t be able to coach for about four weeks. Well, actually, he’s not ageless, even though his hair is [...]

How much does Team USA/Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski like Klay Thompson? A whole lot. Okay, that’s a lie. He likes him more than a whole lot–so much so that he believes the Golden State Warriors Splash Brother is one of the best players on Earth, per NBC Sports’ Kurt Helin: “Klay is one of [...]

LeBron James isn’t a coach killer. He’s just difficult to coach. In response to the coach-killing sentiments that have flooded the general basketball sphere since the Cleveland Cavaliers fired head coach David Blatt, who wasn’t a LeBron favorite, in favor of assistant Tyronn Lue, a purported LeBron favorite, Brian Windhorst of ESPN.com dropped an even-keeled [...]

It has not been a good week for Philadelphia 76ers rookie Jahlil Okafor. And, in the most affectionate way possible, Duke head honcho Mike Krzyzewski doesn’t care. The Sixers suspended Okafor on Wednesday for two games after TMZ posted yet another video of him fighting with alleged hecklers in Boston. Here’s the statement they released, [...]

Mike Krzyzewski is ready to walk away from the sidelines. Team USA’s sidelines, that is. The 68-year-old guided Team USA to gold medals in 2008 (Beijing) and 2012 (London), and Mike Krzyzewski still plans to man the helm through 2016 in Rio. But, as he told ESPN.com’s Andy Katz, he’s done after that: Duke coach [...]

Darkness, in the form of immense idleness, has set in over the NBA and basketball community at large. Any and all activity is basically suspended. For real. Summer league is long gone, training camps and preseason games remain a ways off and, now, following Team USA’s gold medal at the 2014 World Cup, there isn’t [...]

Everything and anything about Derrick Rose continues to incite strong responses. When he struggles, the walls are closing in, his knees crumbling like cake, his future dark and dreary, toeing the line of hopeless. When he thrives—even if only for one game, one play or a warmup dunk—clouds part, birds sing, the harrowing reality of [...]

There are (roughly) 7,045,999,999 in this world who can’t touch Derrick Rose in Coach Mike Krzyzewski’s eyes. The Team USA head coach has strong feelings for the Chicago Bulls point guard. Very strong feelings. So strong, players at Duke might want to start taking offense. Speaking on Rose’s progression and his personality, Coach K threw a [...]

Another NBA team may be trying to pry Mike Krzyzewski from Duke. No, this isn’t a rumor from 2004. Or 1994. According to BasketballInsiders.com’s Steve Kyler, the Los Angeles Lakers reached out to Coach K, among a few other collegiate head honchos, about coming to Hollywood: The Lakers plan to be extremely thorough in their [...]