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The most overlooked Duke basketball gem in the NBA is still Mr. Consistent.

Among the 27 former Duke basketball players currently in the NBA, Detroit Pistons center Mason Plumlee ranks somewhere near the bottom in terms of garnering headlines.

One possible explanation for that is Plumlee’s stable yet mediocre production from one season to the next and from one game to the next.

Quietly, though, in his first year with the Pistons after spending the past four years with the Denver Nuggets, the 30-year-old from Indiana, who went No.