Marshall Plumlee won’t be following his older brothers from Duke to the NBA and has bigger plans for his next job.
If you’ve followed Duke through the years, you’re undoubtedly aware of the Plumlee family who have had three brothers play for Mike Krzyzewski in recent years.
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Miles, Mason and now Marshall Plumlee, who is playing for the Blue Devils in the Final Four tonight against Michigan State, have played big roles in college before the elder two began careers in the NBA. That’s the goal for the overwhelming majority of college basketball players who hope to be a lottery pick in the NBA Draft or at the very least have a chance to come off the bench and play in the league.
That’s not the goal of baby brother, Marshall, who will not be following in the footsteps of his older brothers to the NBA and has already enrolled in the Army, according to the Duke Chronicle.
It won’t become official until he graduates and he has been enrolled in the Duke ROTC since 2012 and provided he meets all the requirements can be an Army officer as early as 2016.
Mason and Miles are both starters in the NBA which looks like a heckuva lot easier in comparison to training to be an Army officer, so Mason and Miles must be awful proud of their younger brother for doing something so noble and brave like serving his country and a bigger purpose than points in the paint or offensive rebounds.
Marshall has averaged 1.9 points and 1.5 rebounds throughout his three-year career with the Blue Devils over 86 career games. He is two wins shy of having a national championship on his resume, which could pale in comparison to the awards and accolades he could receive while serving the country with the U.S. Army.
He wasn’t going to have an NBA career like his older brothers, so it’s not like this is David Robinson serving time in the Navy before playing for the San Antonio Spurs, but this is so awesome to see an athlete at an elite program like Duke putting even the chance of a professional career on the back burner to pursue a higher calling.
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