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Duke basketball: Rising 9th-grader piques blue-blood interest

No rankings or ratings from major recruiting sites exist for the 2023 class; after all, we’re talking about rising freshmen in high school. A potential five-star, though, already appears to be attracting attention from the Duke basketball coaches and their blue-blood counterparts.

Per a tweet from Stock Risers’ Jake Weingarten on Monday, the host of programs already expressing interest in 6-foot-7 wing Kwame Evans Jr. — also known as K.J. Evans — include Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, Texas, Oregon, Southern Cal, and Washington.

Of course, with the one-and-done rule likely to draw its last breath by 2023, if Evans’ current trajectory continues, no college program will likely benefit from his spidery limbs spinning webs of problems for opponents — using his game as the silk.