{"id":709129,"date":"2026-04-12T17:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709129\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T17:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:21:18","slug":"college-basketball-expert-links-duke-to-top-five-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709129\/","title":{"rendered":"College basketball expert links Duke to &#8216;top-five&#8217; transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/ncaab\/teams\/duke-blue-devils\/1388\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Duke Blue Devils;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Duke Blue Devils&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Duke Blue Devils<\/a> have yet to make any major moves this offseason after guard Nik Khamenia entered the transfer portal.<\/p>\n<p>However, they&#8217;ve recently been linked to a big name, Santa Clara forward Allen Graves.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Graves was named the WCC Sixth Man of the Year last season after posting 11.8 points, 6.5 rebounds, 1.8 assists, 1.9 steals and 0.9 blocks. He also excelled from three-point range, shooting 41.3% from deep.<\/p>\n<p>That said, Graves may not return to college basketball at all. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jeffborzello\/status\/2042690725867827266\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:According to;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;According to&quot;}\" class=\"link \">According to<\/a> ESPN insider Jeff Borzello, Graves has entered the transfer portal and the NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, if Graves does return to college next year, insider Aaron Torres <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Aaron_Torres\/status\/2042748668764393698\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:expects;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;expects&quot;}\" class=\"link \">expects<\/a> the Blue Devils to recruit him heavily as a possible Cameron Boozer replacement.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Duke Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/dukewire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/duke\/mens-basketball\/2026\/04\/12\/duke-transfer-portal-allen-graves\/89577862007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:College basketball expert links Duke to &#039;top-five&#039; transfer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;College basketball expert links Duke to &#039;&quot;}\" class=\"link \">College basketball expert links Duke to &#8216;top-five&#8217; transfer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Duke Blue Devils have yet to make any major moves this offseason after guard Nik Khamenia entered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[88605,83544,7,816,17047,217,691,231,772,1544,22251,2051],"class_list":{"0":"post-709129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-aaron-torres","9":"tag-allen-graves","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-blue-devils","12":"tag-cameron-boozer","13":"tag-college-basketball","14":"tag-duke-blue-devils","15":"tag-ncaa","16":"tag-ncaa-basketball","17":"tag-ncaab","18":"tag-nik-khamenia","19":"tag-transfer-portal"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116392891778632218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}