{"id":550729,"date":"2021-06-03T11:20:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T15:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=550729"},"modified":"2021-06-03T11:20:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T15:20:46","slug":"duke-basketball-coach-mike-krzyzewski-to-retire-after-the-2021-2022-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/duke-basketball-coach-mike-krzyzewski-to-retire-after-the-2021-2022-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke Basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski To Retire After The 2021-2022 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fduke-basketball-coach-mike-krzyzewski-to-retire-after-the-2021-2022-season%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=550729&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-468769102.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Krzyzewskiville will never be the same.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As first reported by Jeff Goodman of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ballysports.com\/national\/news\/exclusive-coach-k-to-resign-after-this-season-picks-jon-scheyer-to-succeed-him\"><span>Stadium<\/span><\/a><span>, Hall of Fame head coach of Duke basketball Mike <\/span><span>Krzyzewski will retire after the 2021-2022 basketball season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.148936170213\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski has decided to retire after this coming season, multiple sources told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stadium?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@stadium<\/a>. Official announcement expected soon. <\/p>\n<p>The leading candidate to replace K is assistant and former Duke player Jon Scheyer.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoodmanHoops\/status\/1400135966619209729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Krzyzewski, who will turn 75 in February, won five national titles at Duke and led the U.S. men\u2019s basketball team to three olympic gold medals. His 1,170 victories make him the winningest Division I coach in men\u2019s college basketball history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Coach K has spent 41 of his 46 years coaching at Duke, building the program into the blue-blood it is today. Along with being the all-time winningest men\u2019s coach, he\u2019s been to the NCAA tournament 35 times, won 12 ACC regular-season titles, 15 ACC tournament championships, and has 12 trips to the Final Four \u2014 tying him with UCLA legend John Wooden for the most ever.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"13.385269121813\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski will retire at the end of next season<\/p>\n<p>Coach K&#8217;s streak of 24 straight 20-win seasons was snapped last season. It was the 2nd-longest in D-I history<\/p>\n<p>He has the most wins (1,170) &#038; 2nd-most national titles (5) by a coach in men&#8217;s D-I history <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pgOVkjaaom\">pic.twitter.com\/pgOVkjaaom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN Stats &#038; Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNStatsInfo\/status\/1400148960082227203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>He\u2019s coached over 100 players who have gone on to play in the NBA, including Grant Hill, Christian Laettner, and J.J. Redick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The announcement sent shockwaves through the college basketball community, as Krzyzewski\u2019s retirement comes not long after legendary North Carolina head coach Roy Williams also stepped away from the game.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMike\u2019s been fantastic for the game of basketball, he\u2019s been fantastic for college basketball, he\u2019s been fantastic for the ACC and the greatest rivalry in sports, Duke and North Carolina basketball,\u201d Williams <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chapelfowler\/status\/1400152880875724801?s=20\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> Wednesday. \u201cHe\u2019s been a good friend. He\u2019s been a guy I\u2019ve respected a great deal. He made everybody bring their A-game for years and years and years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn the old days it was a little easier. There weren\u2019t as many teams, there weren\u2019t as many teams in the Final Four,\u201d Williams continued. \u201cI can remember when the ACC was a seven-team league, now it\u2019s 15. He\u2019s just been phenomenal in everything he\u2019s done. The only thing wrong with Mike <\/span><span>Krzyzewski is he doesn\u2019t play golf.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Former players and media members also reacted to the news, honoring the Duke coach.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAll of us have looked at Coach K as the North Star at the Duke program. <\/span><span>He has been the most meaningful relationship that all of us have had in basketball and with Duke,\u201d ESPN\u2019s Jay Bilas <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsCenter\/status\/1400158968463474691?s=20\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> on SportsCenter. \u201cTo all of us, he is Duke.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt is a profound moment for all of us,\u201d Bilas continued. \u201cI am not sure when I played for him if I contemplated how long he would remain there; he\u2019s had opportunities to leave and go into the NBA. The Lakers at one point offered to make him the highest paid coach in sports history. He is inextricably linked with Duke and always will be. For me, I can\u2019t imagine my life without him. I\u2019ve been extraordinarily grateful to have had him in my life and been such a profound influence on me both in basketball and outside of it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hall of Fame announcer Dick Vitale \u2014 who has been calling Duke games for decades \u2014 also weighed in.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cJust learned on vacation in Maui where we are 6 hrs earlier vs EST that Coach K is stepping down as Coach at @DukeMBB I am not shocked as we saw Roy Williams leave &#038; now Coach K,\u201d Vitale wrote on Twitter. \u201cThe instability &#038; wackiness in college hoops doesn\u2019t make for a fun time.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.3220338983051\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just learned on vacation in Maui where we are 6 hrs earlier vs EST that Coach K is stepping down as Coach at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DukeMBB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DukeMBB<\/a>   I am not shocked as we saw Roy Williams leave &#038; now Coach K . The instability &#038; wackiness in college  hoops doesn\u2019t make for a fun time .<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dick Vitale (@DickieV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DickieV\/status\/1400155813671432193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>According to Goodman, Duke assistant Jon Scheyer will be the next head coach of the Duke Blue Devils.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.076923076923\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Duke assistant Jon Scheyer has been approved as the next head coach of the Blue Devils, succeeding Mike Krzyzewski, source told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stadium?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Stadium<\/a>. There was a mid-afternoon meeting just to rubber-stamp Coach K\u2019s selection.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoodmanHoops\/status\/1400183710931095560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Joe Morgan is the Sports Reporter for The Daily Wire. Most recently, Morgan covered the Clippers, Lakers and the NBA for Sporting News. Send your sports questions to <\/i><i>sports@dailywire.com<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Krzyzewskiville will never be the same.\u00a0As first reported by Jeff Goodman of Stadium, Hall of Fame head coach of Duke basketball Mike Krzyzewski will retire after the 2021-2022 basketball season.\u00a0BREAKING: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279051,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-468769102.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Duke Basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski To Retire After The 2021-2022 Season","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-468769102.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Duke Basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski To Retire After The 2021-2022 Season","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}