Los Angeles now employs two hoop gurus who put their jersey numbers in the rafters of Duke basketball's Cameron Indoor Stadium.
One of 40-year-old Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick's assistants in his first year as a head coach at any level will be a fellow All-American Blue Devil whose time in Durham overlapped his Duke basketball glory days.the Lakers' hire of a former Duke women's basketball star guard and two-time ACC Defensive Player of the Year in the 40-year-old Lindsey Harding, the reigning G League Coach of the Year with the Stockton Kings.
Redick, who became Duke's all-time leading scorer, and Harding, the No. 1 overall pick at the 2007 WNBA Draft, both arrived in Durham in 2002. They shined for their respective programs to the degree of their jersey numbers — Redick's No. 4, Harding's No. 10 — forever hanging from Cameron Indoor Stadium's rafters.
Currently, one Duke basketball product is on tap to play for the 2024-25 Lakers in 2018-19 Blue Devil one-and-done wing Cam Reddish.Matt Giles is the editor and publisher of FanNation's Blue Devil Country and All Tar Heels, covering the Duke Blue Devils and UNC Tar Heels on SI.com.
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