Health problems affecting Duke University’s men’s basketball coach, 70-year old Mike Krzyzewski, resulted in the calling off of exhibition games against the Dominican national basketball team in Santo Domingo and Santiago. Krzyzewski, a former US national basketball team coach, would undergo total replacement surgery on his right knee.
The university last week had confirmed that the Blue Devils basketball team would play exhibition games in Santiago on Sunday, 20 August 2017 and in Santo Domingo on Wednesday, 23 August.
The games were part of the Dominican Republic National Team’s preparation for the 2017 FIBA AmeriCup, which is set for 25 August – 3 September in Colombia. The DR currently stands at No. 18 on the FIBA World Rankings.
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15 August 2017
