Scheduling influenced trips on the first day of the recruiting/contact period. But priority-level was obviously another factor. So during a Monday scrimmage at his high school, Archbishop Stepinac (White Plains, N.Y.) small forward A.J. Griffin must’ve seen the significance of his main audience being Duke basketball’s longest-tenured coaches: chief of staff Mike Krzyzewski, right-hand man Jon Scheyer, and 11th-year assistant Nate James.
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Plus, as insider Adam Zagoria deduced in a tweet, the posse from Durham’s choice to kick things off by visiting the 6-foot-7, 200-pound five-star sent a message of confidence out into the recruiting universe:
“Duke already has [five-star small forward] Jalen Johnson and [five-star point guard] Jeremy Roach for 2020, so they’re making a statement by watching a junior the first day they can go on the road.