The web site for Vanguard Elite Sports identifies Mark Edwards as the founder and head of development for the organization, which is “committed to reforming the face of youth and adolescent basketball into a higher skill level.”

Through his Twitter account, Mark Edwards identifies himself as the uncle of former Duke point guard Derryck Thornton, who announced his transfer from the program with a press release issued by the university on Sunday afternoon.

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Edwards was not content to allow the separation to proceed amicably.

He said in a tweet, all caps: “YES … SO GLAD ITS OVER, BEEN HOLDING IT IN TOO LONG …#NEPHEW IS FREE!!!!”

He was not done: “I was in the office at Duke when they BEGGED my #Nephew to Skip his Senior year .. give up a piece of his childhood for a great opportunity … Funny thing about Duke is when I would see the Assistant coaches on the Recruiting Trail, they were not even friendly or cool … I don't know Coach K personally and this isn't an all out attack on his personal Character, I'm just saying #TheyLied … Young boy worked on Ball Screens against Pro Players, shot jumpers off the dribble for hours but was only used in Pick & Roll 20+ times?!”

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Edwards’ central public issue with Thornton’s freshman year at Duke was that he arrived expecting to serve as a pick-and-roll point guard and instead found himself playing in a system more catered to the driving ability of wings Brandon Ingram and Grayson Allen.

Edwards also suggests he was more or less frozen out recently by Duke staffers, which would be an uncommon maneuver given that his position would presumably put him in proximity to recruitable talent.

At no point, though, did Edwards imply or declare that Thornton had been squeezed off the Duke roster so his scholarship would be available for the Blue Devils to spend on another player. This ordinarily would not be important except that misinformation and supposition now can insinuate itself so casually into the mainstream.

Duke is recruiting McDonald’s All-American center Marques Bolden of DeSoto, Texas, and if it is fortunate enough to beat Kentucky, Kansas and Oklahoma for him it will need to have a scholarship available. When Thornton was on the roster, that would have forced some sort of adjustment.

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However, the suggestion that Duke would remove a point guard who started 20 games and averaged 26 minutes from its roster as though he were some sort of two-star bust is comical. In fact, Thornton’s departure leaves Duke with only a single point guard on its roster, freshman Frank Jackson, and even Jackson — though an exceptional talent — is not the purest of playmakers.

Krzyzewski has won more than 1,000 games and five NCAA championships. He did not achieve either of these distinctions by wantonly dispatching experienced players at an essential position.

It’s not logical, and it’s not supported by any known facts.

There seems little doubt that Thornton — or Thornton’s family — and the Duke coaches were not in complete agreement with how he was deployed. He played a lot for a freshman, and he played in big games, and whatever issues developed in this circumstance he still was getting 23 minutes per game in the NCAA Tournament.

We don’t know exactly what might have developed between Derryck and Krzyzewski. Whatever it was, it was enough for Thornton to go searching for another college after one season and for Duke to issue a press release in which the coach declared the program wants “only what is best for him in the future.”

This is what we know.

We don't get to make up the rest.