JON SCHEYER HAS done enough recruiting to know how ridiculous this story sounds, but he swears every word of it is true.
It was 2013. Scheyer was 25 years old and just getting started as a special assistant at Duke. One weekend in July, with Mike Krzyzewski off coaching Team USA, Scheyer was dispatched to an AAU tournament outside Chicago to watch a player they'd offered a scholarship to the week before, a sharpshooter named Luke Kennard.
Scheyer's job, essentially, was to show up and make sure Kennard saw him in the stands.