Cooper Flagg

[hermanotarjeta]

Originally Posted by Oriole Way

The current starting 5's and benches for Duke and Kentucky blow everyone else away.

One dude on the anti-Duke side of argument in this thread made the statement that Europe produces the most NBA talent. While that's true, he actually proved my point for me. It takes not just a European country, but an entire CONTINENT to rival the amount of current number NBA players and level of talent that Duke currently produces. Then hater trolls like hermano are resorting to ancient NBA/college history and Michael Jordan to make a case for UCLA and UNC.

UCLA is no longer the college talent pipeline that it once was even 10-20 years ago. Forget about the UCLA Wooden/Alcindor dynasty era that existed before the 3-point line and when conferences were only allowed to have one college team eligible per major conference for the NCAA tournament.

UNC is a joke of a college for producing NBA talent currently. Harrison Barnes and Coby White are their best active alumni.

Here is a list of the top college programs with the most alumni who have won NBA championships through the 2024 season. No Dookie won a ring in 2025:

1 UCLA 23
2 UNC 19
3 Kentucky 18
4 Kansas 16
5 Arizona 11
5 Ohio State 11
5 Oregon State 11
8 Florida 10
8 Louisville 10
8 Texas 10
8 Villanova 10
12 Indiana 9
12 Minnesota 9
14 Michigan 8
14 Michigan State 8
16 Cincinnati 7
16 Duke 7
16 Houston 7
16 Iowa 7
16 Marquette 7

We know Duke has great athletes with impeccable individual talent and toolboxes, they have arguably had the best recruiting classes since the 1980's, yet have only 7 rings to show for it in their school history.

What's wrong with these Dookies?

You figure it out.

I would have expected Duke players to have 20+ rings if they were so great. Fanz must have the Bron homer disease logic ..... so you can jump higher, run faster and shoot better than everyone else. Yet you can't win a ring. Hmmm, something is wrong there.....