Duncan Robinson Is Making History
If this isn't worthy of a separate post, mods feel free to delete. I realize that there is a "Duncan Robinson and the Miami Heat on to the NBA Finals" post already, but thought this was interesting enough to be called out separately, rather than buried in that one.
On Wednesday, Duncan Robinson will become the first player in history to play in a Division-III national title game, Division-I national title game and an NBA Finals game.
Pretty incredible and unique trajectory for a player.
September 28th, 2020 at 3:04 PM ^
All Duncan praise is post-worthy ?
September 28th, 2020 at 3:05 PM ^
He was already the first for the DIII and DI title games.
September 28th, 2020 at 6:12 PM ^
No Div II title game? Slacker.
September 29th, 2020 at 9:56 AM ^
According to wikipedia, he also won a state championship in high school, so that means he will have played in the championship game/series in every level of basketball since high school.
September 28th, 2020 at 3:05 PM ^
Very cool. Go, Duncan. Go Blue.
September 28th, 2020 at 3:28 PM ^
As a Williams and Michigan alum, I'll chime in a Go Duncan, Go Blue, Go Ephs!
September 28th, 2020 at 5:01 PM ^
Eph that man.
Wow, pretty cool that you have those two diplomas on your wall. I graduated from both of Makhtar N'Diaye's colleges, but I like your combo better.
September 28th, 2020 at 5:19 PM ^
J’marick Woods schools for me
September 29th, 2020 at 11:31 AM ^
Only player I could find who went to both my schools is Deja Church.
September 28th, 2020 at 3:08 PM ^
Pretty wild he will have done all three
September 28th, 2020 at 3:11 PM ^
Impressive that he will do that. Go Duncan!
September 28th, 2020 at 3:11 PM ^
Just wait until he becomes NBA commissioner, president of the United States and the first emperor of the intergalactic space empire of space. The future is bright, I tell ya.
September 28th, 2020 at 4:23 PM ^
He can't be the space emperor, we already had one of those - Zoltan Mesko
September 28th, 2020 at 5:17 PM ^
I'm LinkedIn with Zoltan. He's no longer Space Emperor of Space. He's an Acct. Exec for a Data Warehousing company. In fact, he doesn't have Space Emperor of Space listed. I think it's fair to allow Duncan to interview, at least.
September 28th, 2020 at 3:13 PM ^
What are the odds of doing so? Incredibly low. So many good players from Michigan.
September 28th, 2020 at 3:15 PM ^
John Beilein did a lot of wonderful things here as coach, but bringing in Duncan Robinson has to be one of the most amazing moves. You don't know whether it was just brilliant insight, dumb luck, or both. Certainly though decisions like that and the Austin Hatch one made me proud of the program and school while he was here.
September 28th, 2020 at 6:23 PM ^
Of all the player development stories from his time here, I think this one is the coolest. Making All Americans out of Burke and Stauskas is awesome, Caris LeVert becoming the best pro of the lot is also an achievement, but the DBo story is truly the most unique.
September 28th, 2020 at 3:26 PM ^
Mark Titus (formerly of The Ringer) posted on social media that three years ago he received a message from Duncan asking if he could interview Titus for a class about getting into the media profession after college because he felt like his basketball career would be winding down. Now he's starting in the NBA Finals against Lebron and the Lakers.
September 28th, 2020 at 3:38 PM ^
That’s really amazing, hope he wins this one!
September 28th, 2020 at 3:48 PM ^
That is a cool stat! Thanks for posting.
September 28th, 2020 at 4:08 PM ^
Bringing hope to every parent of a potential DIII athelete.
September 28th, 2020 at 7:04 PM ^
This hope is akin to many lottery ticket purchases
September 28th, 2020 at 4:48 PM ^
having that middle aged humor moment where I am realizing that he is a basketball player. . . .named Duncan. . .
September 28th, 2020 at 5:55 PM ^
This is the right opportunity to talk to your young players about putting in work.
September 28th, 2020 at 6:49 PM ^
Proud of you Duncan!!!
September 28th, 2020 at 11:34 PM ^
You know that Duncan Robinson has to be making Juwan Howard smile. Michigan alum and making waves with Juwan's NBA team.