The five of them — four coaches and a teenager they hope to welcome with open arms into the Duke basketball family — stood together for the photo with all smiles and their shoes off while forming a chain with arms wrapped around one another’s shoulders.
If a picture truly tells a thousand words, then the one Jalen Johnson tweeted out on Monday night –shortly after his family hosted head coach Mike Krzyzewski and assistants Jon Scheyer, Nate James, and Chris Carrawell — says the Duke staff’s thousand-mile trip from Durham to the Johnsons’ Wisconsin home was not in vain.