Nets’ David Duke Jr. hoping for good things to come around
LAS VEGAS — Brooklyn Nets wing David Duke Jr. is hoping for good things to happen for him after spending the past two seasons with the Nets. Duke Jr. has been splitting his time between Brooklyn and the Long Island Nets, Brooklyn’s G League affiliate, and after having his Two-Way contract converted into a standard towards the end of last season, he, like everyone else, thought things were looking up for him. Now, he’s playing in his third summer league.
“I mean, at the end of the day man, I’m a hooper,” Duke Jr. said after Sunday’s win over the New York Knicks when asked why he was playing in summer league when third-year players in Cam Thomas and Day’Ron Sharpe are not. Duke Jr. is still a free-agent so it seems that he is participating in summer league to give teams a look at what he can do if the Nets do not bring him back in any capacity.
“I’ve been working on, you know, show just a little bit of everything. I think, like I said, I’ll take any chance I could get to play basketball,” Duke Jr. continued. Through two games, Duke Jr. is averaging 16 points, 4.0 rebounds, 4.0 assists, and 2.5 steals per game while shooting 50% from the field and 40% from three-point land.
