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Meghan L. Hall

Duke’s Kara Lawson had the perfect response reminding a reporter she’s a former hooper

Duke women’s basketball head coach Kara Lawson has the Blue Devils playing in the Sweet 16 for the first time since the 2017-2018 season. That means the media will have plenty of questions about how the team got there. However, don’t tell Lawson, a former college standout and WNBA champion turned coach, that the questions are only for the hoopers in the room.

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Kara Lawson has deep basketball roots. She played under the legendary Pat Summitt in college at Tennessee and spent over 10 years in the WNBA, where she won a ring with the Connecticut Sun. She even worked as an assistant coach with the Boston Celtics in the NBA. In other words, Lawson’s a hooper now coaching other hoopers straight to the Sweet 16 after beating No. 10 Richmond and No. 2 Ohio  State.

That will draw questions for Lawson, standout players like Reigan Richardson and the rest of the team. However, one reporter made an innocent slip during Sunday’s media availability by saying the next question was for the hoopers in the room, drawing a hysterical reaction from Lawson.

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