Holy shit you have no fucking clue what you are taking about. K recruited kobe. Its where their relationship began. Kobe loves k. Its why he personally asked k to coach the Lakers. K loves kobe. He said that was the only job that ever made him consider leaving duke because he didn't get the opportunity to coach kobe at duke. K constantly gushes over Kobe in olympic basketball as well. Kobe is also one of the smartest dudes in the nba. Well above average even for duke basketball standards. But here's a little clue for you, Duke basketball players don't have to meet the admission standards of the average duke student. I seriously hope you didn't think otherwise.
And lolololol at your stupidity if you think k doesn't recruit top level stars. Duke is a top 10 recruiting class every single year. How the fuck do they stay so high in recruiting rankings if he isn't recruiting star level talent?
Olympic ball and College ball are two different things...
Plus, name 1 dude that came out of Duke other than Grant Hill that actually did well in the pros. Not L man, or Batty...pretty much nobody else. Duke recruits players that work well as a team, not Super stars.
I've followed Duke and the ACC since duke won over UNLV,
About the only dude who had the biggest hype other than Hill and Huley was Jason Williams.
Wojo, from Maryland, he is doing well NOT playing ball.
As I said, the Degree from Duke will carry most of the players farther than than many of them would get in playing ball, and that is the cache of Duke.
As far as Coach K recruiting Kobe, I wouldn't know, but Coach K being him, would have probably done so.
And as far as Kobe loving Coach K, well he is Effing Coach K, he Garners respect. Damn near every player respects Coach K! He is today's Dean Smith.
Please...