Twitter Gold: The People’s Champion!

So someone made a request on X to post Duke highlights of Nolan Smith and that wish was granted.

When he was at Duke, Smith improved dramatically. Along with Jon Scheyer, he formed one of Duke’s more underrated backcourts. We still talk about the Johnny Dawkins/Tommy Amaker backcourt, the Bobby Hurley/Thomas Hill backcourt and the Tyus Jones/Quinn Cook backcourt, but the Smith/Scheyer backcourt was pretty amazing because both of those guys were very smart players.

People forget that that team had only three guards and Andre Dawkins had the emotional devastation of his sister dying during the season.

Smith was really brilliant throughout that season, helping lead Duke to the 2010 national title. He is one of only a handful of players who, along with their fathers, won national championships (the list includes Scott and Sean May, Henry and Mike Bibby and Marques and Kris Johnson) and in Smith’s case, he won his in Indianapolis, just like his later father.

Now the head coach at Tennessee State, Smith is off to a 9-5 start in his first season.

By the way, in case anyone missed this, the reason we say Twitter Gold and not X Gold, is because there’s a reasonable chance that X in the headline will algorithmically limit the post.