Brotherhood at the NBA Combine
59 Duke combine performances, 2001–2026
Pick a metric below to stack-rank every Duke basketball player who has attended the NBA Draft Combine, from Shane Battier in 2001 through this week’s 2026 measurements. Bars are colored by combine year on a hue gradient (older years cooler, newer years warmer, this year in Duke navy). Tap a bar to view the player’s profile.
How high they got off the floor with a running approach.
Data assembled from the NBA Combine official measurements published each May. Some players are listed as “Did not measure” or “Did not participate” — those are dropped from any metric where the measurement is missing. See the full combine measurement table for every recorded value.
Duke Players at the NBA Draft Combine
59 Duke players have been measured and tested at the NBA Draft Combine across 24 draft cycles, from 2001 through 2026. This page stack-ranks every one of them on whichever metric you choose — wingspan, standing reach, hand length, vertical leap, lane agility, shuttle, three-quarter-court sprint, bench press — so you can see exactly where a given Blue Devil sat against every other one who went through the same gym.
The Measurements
Khaman Maluach owns the longest wingspan Duke has ever sent to Chicago, at 7-foot-6¾ in 2025 — a full quarter-inch clear of Mark Williams, whose 7-foot-6½ span in 2022 had been the program record. Williams keeps the standing-reach crown, though, and it is not close: 9-foot-9, three inches beyond Maluach and the kind of number that decides where a center gets drafted. Mason Plumlee and Maluach share the largest hands at 9¾ inches.
The Athletic Testing
Cassius Stanley's 44-inch maximum vertical in 2020 is the highest any Duke player has recorded, and it was among the best figures at that combine in any year — a reminder that Stanley's modest college production never reflected what he could do physically. Frank Jackson went 42 inches in 2017 and holds a share of the standing-vertical best at 34½. Stanley also owns the fastest shuttle at 2.43 seconds.
The agility numbers belong to guards you would expect and one you would not. Grayson Allen ran the lane-agility drill in 10.31 seconds in 2018, the fastest in Duke combine history, edging Jay Williams' 10.34 from 2002. The quickest three-quarter-court sprint is more recent: Sion James at 2.97 seconds in 2025, the only Duke player to break three seconds. And the bench press record has stood for two decades — Shelden Williams put up 25 repetitions of 185 pounds in 2006, six more than anyone else in the archive.
What the Combine Does and Does Not Predict
Read the rankings against where these players actually went and the limits become obvious. Stanley tested like a lottery pick and was drafted 54th. Shelden Williams out-lifted the field and lasted four NBA seasons. Meanwhile the two Duke players with the best professional careers of the combine era, Jayson Tatum and Kyrie Irving, are unremarkable on most of these bars. The combine measures the body, and the body is the part of a prospect that scouts were already confident about. Sort by any metric and follow a name through to his profile to see what the numbers were worth.