Duke basketball fans will need to get used to a strange sight during the upcoming NBA Summer League season: [autotag]Kyle Filipowski[/autotag] and Armando Bacot sharing the basketball court in the same jersey.
The Utah Jazz, who drafted Filipowski with the second pick in the second round of the 2024 NBA draft, released their roster for the Salt Lake City Summer League on Tuesday, and their rookie 7-footer made the 16-player team.
Bacot, one of the most hated North Carolina players in Duke history, also made the squad after he signed with the team as an undrafted free agent.
According to ESPN Analytics, the former Blue Devil had more than a 70% chance to get drafted during the first round but instead needed a night’s sleep before he came off the board. He made the Second Team All-American squad last season.
Bacot and Filipowski played each other four times over the last two seasons in the Duke-UNC rivalry, splitting the record with two wins apiece.
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Bacot also revealed on a Tuesday podcast episode that he grew up rooting for the Blue Devils, citing Jahlil Okafor and Jabari Parker as his favorite players growing up.