Former Duke basketball star Nolan Smith is back in the world of college basketball.
According to a Wednesday report from The Daily Memphian’s Parth Upadhyaya, Smith will serve as an assistant coach for Penny Hardaway and the Memphis Tigers.
Smith played for the Blue Devils from 2007-11, and his 1,911 career points are 18th in school history and the seventh-most of any player this century. He and current Duke coach [autotag]Jon Scheyer[/autotag] teamed to win a national championship in 2010, the fourth title in school history. Smith scored 13 points in the championship game, a 61-59 victory over Butler, while Scheyer added 15 points of his own.
As a senior in 2010-11, Smith averaged 20.6 points per game.
A first-round pick in the 2011 NBA draft, Smith briefly played for the Portland Trail Blazers before returning to Durham as an assistant coach in 2016. He left for Louisville in 2022, where he’d spent the previous two seasons before this Memphis job.
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