Getting to know any new Duke basketball target is appetizing. But the latest appetizer is not without bittersweet implications.
Four-star 2020 combo guard D.J. Steward announced his offer from Mike Krzyzewski and his staff via a Saturday morning tweet. The 6-foot-4, 165-pound Chicagoan (Whitney Young High School) has achieved his No. 27 ranking on the 247Sports Composite by sporting a sweet array of handles and scoring moves complementing his effective — even if not the silkiest — outside stroke.
The bitter aftertaste from the offer, however, is the assumption Krzyzewski and his cohorts no longer like their chance to snag five-star shooting guard Brandon Boston Jr.