The Blue Devils will host the Charlotte Hornets, an NBA team featuring former Blue Devils Seth Curry and Mark Williams, for training camp next month.
The school announced on Thursday that the Hornets would take over the Michael W. Krzyzewski Center, where both the Duke men’s and women’s basketball teams train, from October 1-4 as they prepare for the 2024-25 NBA season.
Curry, now 34 years old, has been in the NBA since 2013. He’s played in 482 games for nine different teams, and the Dallas Mavericks traded him to the Hornets last February. He’s a career 43.1% 3-point shooter and averaged 9.0 points in 19.9 minutes during his eight games with the team last season.
Williams, on the other hand, has been with the Hornets since they drafted him in 2022. He averaged 12.7 points and 9.7 rebounds per game in 2023-24, and he’s averaged at least one block per game in both of his career seasons. However, his sophomore campaign lasted only 19 games before a back injury kept him out for the rest of the year.
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The last day of the Hornets training camp, October 4, is the same day as Duke’s season-opening Countdown to Craziness, so there’s a chance that Williams and Curry make an appearance at Cameron Indoor Stadium that night.