Greg Newton was center for the Duke Blue Devils

Duke Blue Devils

Duke University's 26 varsity sports teams, known as the Blue Devils, compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The name comes from the French "les Diables Bleus" or "the Blue Devils," which was the nickname given during World War I to the Chasseurs Alpins, the French Alpine light infantry...

 basketball team from 1994-1997. Newton was Team Captain in his senior season. He was a member of the Canadian National Team

Canadian national men's basketball team

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, that finished seventh in the 2000 Summer Olympics

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 in Sydney, Australia.

Newton averaged 7.6 points per game for his career. When Tim Duncan

Tim Duncan

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 was told that Newton had called him soft, he cited Newton's dubious credentials and facetiously asked how anyone could argue with that. "Greg Newton's everybody's All-American."

Newton was suspended from Duke

Duke University

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 in 1995 for cheating on a computer science exam.

Newton played professionally with the USBL's Raleigh Cougars

Raleigh Cougars

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. The Cougars promoted him by citing his greatest accomplishment - at the time, he was one away from Duke's top 10 in blocks.

Newton played professionally in Brazil

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, Israel

Israel

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 (Hapoel Eilat

Hapoel Eilat B.C.

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 1999), and Bosnia.