{"id":493811,"date":"2026-04-21T21:04:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=493811"},"modified":"2026-04-21T21:04:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:04:33","slug":"dame-sarr-heading-back-to-duke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dame-sarr-heading-back-to-duke\/","title":{"rendered":"Dame Sarr Heading Back to Duke?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/48541965\/duke-center-patrick-ngongba-returning-next-season\">tied to Patrick Ngongba<\/a>\u2019s return to Duke Blue Devils, Jeff Borzello of ESPN also provided an update on Dame Sarr.<\/p>\n<p>According to Borzello, there is optimism within Duke that the Italian wing will return for the 2026\/27 season. Sarr himself has fueled fan excitement with recent activity on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Scheyer and his staff are reportedly already counting on his return, alongside other key rotation pieces and a strong incoming group featuring talented freshmen \u2014 including NBA prospect Cameron Williams \u2014 and transfers.<\/p>\n<p>Sarr could take on a more prominent offensive role next season for the Blue Devils, after spending his freshman year primarily focused on defense, often guarding the opponent\u2019s top scorer.<\/p>\n<p>From an NBA perspective, improving his ball handling and shooting will be crucial, after posting 32% from three-point range and 53% from the free-throw line this past season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian wing has fueled fan excitement with his recent activity on social media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":487084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399,401],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-493811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-ncaa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/dame-sarr-unc.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493811"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=493811"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=493811"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=493811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}