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Count former Western Washington University men's basketball star Michael Duty among those most excited to see rival big man Blake Poole recently join a Bellingham Slam practice.

Duty, a versatile 6-foot, 6-inch forward, spent a good portion of his career with the Vikings banging up against the 6-5, 265-pound center from Saint Martin's University. Poole finished his senior season with the Saints as the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Player of the Year and a NCAA Division II All-American while Duty was named a GNAC first-teamer after leading Western in scoring at 16.4 points per game.