Duke’s new commit, AJ Griffin, is from the White Plains, New York area, and the hometown paper is pretty excited that he’s big time enough to sign with a program like Duke.
What people may not be thinking about as much is that he fits Duke’s profile in several ways. He’s from a stable family (Duke sees this as a plus but not a requirement, something that seriously irritated and apparently still irritates Fab Fiver Jalen Rose). His family also is a basketball family, and that’s something else that is fairly common at Duke: think Danny Ferry, Bobby Hurley, Mike Dunleavy, Kyrie Irving, Chris Collins, Seth Curry, Jeff Capel, Greg Paulus, Shavlik Randolph, Nolan Smith, Grant Hill, Kyle Singler, Zion Williamson, RJ Barrett, Alex O’ Connell and, uh, Michael Savarino.