Dismissed Duke guard Rasheed Sulaimon congratulates former teammates
While his old teammates were celebrating the national title they won in Indianapolis Monday night, former Duke guard Rasheed Sulaimon might have been wondering what his role would have been had he managed to stay with the program.
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Sulaimon scored 14 points off the bench in a win over Wisconsin earlier this season. On Monday it was freshman Grayson Allen playing the role of sparkplug in the second half when the Blue Devils needed a different energy.
Sulaimon tried to share in the celebration on some level afterward by tweeting a note of congratulations to his former teammates.
Sulaimon became the first player in coach Mike Krzyzewski’s long and storied tenure at Duke to be dismissed from the team in January. Krzyzewski never gave a specific reason other than Sulaimon “repeatedly struggled to meet the necessary obligations” expected of players in the program.
Five weeks later, Duke’s student newspaper revealed that Sulaimon had been accused of sexual assault a year earlier by two female Duke students in separate incidents. The alleged victims did not report the incidents to the school or the police, the Duke Chronicle reported. Sulaimon has not been charged with a crime and was allowed to finish the spring semester at Duke this year and Krzyzewski has never discussed the dismissal further citing student privacy laws.
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