On Oct. 22, 2009, Mike Krzyzewski sat in his office at Duke watching an ESPNU feed emanating from New York, where a young prospect named Kyrie Irving was about to make his college decision.
Irving was, of course, a ridiculous talent. He was also a near certain one-and-done player, the kind of recruit Krzyzewski’s Blue Devil program had either avoided or failed to lure to campus.
Krzyzewski was 62 years old at the time. He had been to 10 Final Fours and won three national titles.