Overshadowed Duke basketball signee might be hitting growth spurt

Duke basketball signee AJ Griffin (USA TODAY Sports)

Is a Duke basketball prize at small forward sprouting into a power forward?

The Duke basketball fan-hype about Archbishop Stepinac (N.Y.) small forward AJ Griffin, who ranks No. 6 overall on the 247Sports 2021 Composite, isn’t on the same level as the hysteria over the program’s other signee in the class, O’Dea (Wash.) power forward Paolo Banchero, who ranks No. 3.

Whatever the reason, be it the minuscule gap between the two five-stars’ rankings or perhaps the fact that Banchero’s pledge is much more recent than Griffin’s and was considerably more unexpected, googling their names proves the recent articles about Banchero dwarf those about…