In the middle of Duke’s 2014-15 championship basketball season, the team and its coaches were dealing with a player who wanted to leave the program.
Semi Ojeleye, then a 6-7 reserve sophomore forward, decided to transfer in December 2014, having played in just six games up to that point of the season.
Ojeleye eventually landed at SMU, where he had been recruited by coach Larry Brown, and was picked by the Boston Celtics in the second round of the 2017 NBA draft.
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