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Duke Basketball: 2021 SF Patrick Baldwin Jr. on path to be best since Zion

As a college basketball fan, I’d like to see the NBA go ahead and change the rule that restricts teenagers from entering the draft until a year removed from high school. Though lucrative to the NCAA — see the impact of Duke basketball freshman Zion Williamson — the one-and-done era is about as healthy to the overall college game as smoking is to the overall health of a human being.

As a Duke basketball fan, though, who is in awe of the freshmen-powered and about-to-be-top-ranked-yet-again team in Durham, I’m 100-percent satisfied by the rule not changing before the arrival of Zion, R.