After being asked numerous times to be the commencement speaker at graduations for various schools, Duke Men’s Basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski finally gave his first-ever commencement speech “saving himself” for the Duke graduating class of 2016.
Coach K is a highly sought after motivational speaker and best-selling author in addition to being one of the greatest coaches of all time between coaching men’s basketball at Duke and leading the USA Men’s Basketball team in international competition.
Krzyzewski’s speech was made to 5,000+ graduates, including senior Amile Jefferson, redshirt senior Marshall Plumlee completing a graduate degree, Duke Basketball transfer Rasheed Sulaimon, and Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Marcus Stroman who completed his Duke degree by taking classes in the MLB offseason.