Duke Basketball Champ Quinn Cook Has Bright Idea for His Former Team

Don't dismiss the fact Duke basketball alum Quinn Cook helps raise banners.

Former four-year Duke basketball guard Quinn Cook is a two-time NBA champion (with the Golden State Warriors in 2018 and Los Angeles Lakers two years later) and should be in his athletic prime. Nevertheless, he has been out of the league for two seasons now.

So what's he been up to? Well, he played six games in Russia. He's appeared in several NBA preseason contests and about a dozen in the G League. Most recently, the former McDonald's All-American from Washington, D.C., spent two months occasionally cooking from three for the Chinese Basketball Association's Zhejiang Lions.

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All the while, Cook has routinely shown up at his alma mater in Durham, whether roaming the sidelines as a charismatic fixture at the annual K Academy in late spring or sometimes sitting behind the scorer's table at a Duke basketball game in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

But with the NBA's free agency currently at its peak, Cook appears to be experimenting with some good-humored yet seemingly sincere self-promotion.

On Saturday night, he randomly popped up in the comments of a tweet from The Athletic's Marcus Thompson II. The writer noted the Warriors need a third guard for next season's roster following the departure of free agent Ty Jerome to the Cleveland Cavaliers, to which the 2015 Duke national champ chimed in, "I know somebody lol."

Cook's most productive year as a pro was with the 2017-18 Warriors, even though he began that campaign for the eventual champs as a mere two-way player. By the regular season's end, he had posted career-high averages of 9.5 points and 2.7 points in 22.4 minutes per game.

Then he saw action in all but four of that squad's 21 playoff outings.

Fast forward five years. Few have mentioned the 30-year-old as franchises scour the market for final roster pieces. Even so, no one ought to rule out the possibility of Quinn Cook, who went undrafted in 2015 but has five seasons of NBA experience and has been on the court in 40 playoff games, returning to the league next season.

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The chances of reuniting with Steph Curry and the Warriors might be slim. Still, it doesn't hurt for him to put forth the idea.

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