Latest Brotherhood Podcast: Khaman Maluach!
This is a fun and interesting interview
The latest episode of the Brotherhood Podcast is out and this week’s guest is Khaman Maluach.
By this point his story is well known: his family was forced to leave Sudan during the war and he grew up largely in Uganda. Someone spotted him and realized he was exceptionally tall and urged him to try basketball.
Fellow Sudanese and Brotherhood member Luol Deng has always worked with basketball in Africa and he said at one point that he assumed Maluach would more or less drift in and drift out, but Maluach got fascinated by the game and turned out to be a sponge.
He spent the summer playing basketball with South Sudan, where he was the youngest basketball player in the Olympics and helped the Bright Stars to a surprising run in Paris.
The teaser for this episode says that Maluach is the most interesting player for Duke and that’s hard to argue with. He’s had a remarkable life.
Small note: we’ve seen players mention seeing earlier Duke players like Christian Laettner and JJ Redick and the influence they had on their decisions (Redick saw the 1992 Duke-Kentucky game when he was a kid and told his dad “I’m going to Duke”).
Maluach is the first guy who cites Zion Williamson in this manner. He won’t be the last.