It’s all academic now, if you’ll pardon the pun, but over the years Kobe Bryant has periodically speculated about where he would have gone to college.
He was heavily recruited by Duke and Kansas when Roy Williams was still at home in Lawrence.
At times he’s said it would have been UNC (despite Dean Smith telling him that he wouldn’t “waste his time” but more often than not, as he say here, he’s said it would have been Duke.
There are a lot of great what-ifs in Duke basketball history: what if Bill Bradley had kept his commitment?