When Mike Krzyzewski took the Duke job, he had a lot to learn and one of the things he really had to figure out was recruiting.
One of his great early misses was Chris Mullin. The Brooklyn native chose St. John’s instead and helped make the Johnnies nationally relevant again. He led St. John’s to the 1985 Final Four and finished his career with 2,440 points.
The Golden State Warriors took him with the #7 pick in the 1985 draft (Benjamin Benoit, Jon Koncac and Joe Kleine were all taken ahead of him which looks horrible in retrospect but the NBA was focused on big men then).