Alabama and Duke will open the 2019 season in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game in Atlanta, the schools announced Monday.The game is set for Aug. 31, 2019, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The schools have met four times previously and last played in 2010, when Alabama won 62-13.This presents Duke Football with a tremendous opportunity to play in a world-class venue against Alabama, which is clearly a gold standard program in college football, Duke athletic director Kevin White said in a statement. Dukes players, coaches, staff and fans love traveling to the great city of Atlanta, and all have enjoyed many magical moments there, including the memorable 2013 Chick-fil-A Bowl against Texas A&M. We look forward to showcasing Duke University on such a national platform, and under the brightest lights of the 2019 college football season.There is a history between the two programs, as Wallace Wade won three national championships at Alabama before moving on to Duke, where he coached in two Rose Bowls. There is a statue of Wade outside Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, and Dukes Wallace Wade Stadium bears his name.Current Duke coach David Cutcliffe graduated from Alabama in 1976.As for the Tide, this will be their sixth appearance in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game. Alabama is 4-0 in the event and will face Florida State in the 2017 season opener.We have had the opportunity to play in this game on multiple occasions and it is like a bowl game in terms of the competitive venue thats created, Alabama coach Nick Saban said in a statement. David Cutcliffe has done an excellent job at Duke, and they will be a really good challenge for our team.The ACC will have three different teams open against Alabama over the next three seasons. In addition to Florida State in 2017 in Atlanta, Louisville will open the 2018 season against the Crimson Tide in Orlando, Florida. Jerry West Jersey . 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He has a phone hearing with the department of player safety, which limits any potential suspension to five or fewer games. BOSTON -- With 2:31 left to play, Brooklyns Trevor Booker made a layup to cut the Celtics lead to 10 points and Boston coach Brad Stevens pointed at his resting starters and told them to get back on the floor.The Nets had erased most of a 23-point deficit against the Boston backups, and they would make it an eight-point game before Stevens got his first team back in.Its a reminder of how quickly things can turn in this league, Stevens said after his starters preserved a 122-117 victory in the season opener on Wednesday night. I probably will be less likely to leave them in that long if were in a similar scenario. Hopefully we learn from it, and were not.Isaiah Thomas had 25 points and nine assists, Jae Crowder added 21 points and Al Horford pitched in 11 in his Boston debut for the Celtics.Bojan Bogdanovic scored 21 for Brooklyn, including a 3-pointer to make it 120-117 with 47 seconds left. But he missed another 3 with a chance to tie it after Joe Harris intercepted Thomas cross-court pass, and the Celtics were able to hold on.Justin Hamilton came off the bench to score a career-high 19 points and grab 10 rebounds for the Nets.Very pleased that we didnt give up and we kept on fighting, coach Kenny Atkinson said after his debut.The Celtics led 112-89 with 8 minutes to play, and they led by 19 with 5:28 left when Avery Bradley went to the bench to join the rest of the first teamers, who started the quarter there. Brooklyn scored 11 straight points before Stevens decided hed seen enough.Thomas, Crowder, Horford, Bradley and Amir Johnson re-entered the game with an eight-point lead and 2:07 left and did just enough to protect it. Bradley had nine rebounds, the biggest after Hamiltons missed 3-point shot with 15 seconds left on another attempt to tie it.Hamilton gave the credit to the Nets bench for closing the gap.They came in with the energy that we nneeded to have the whole game, he said.ddddddddddddONEY WELL SPENTHorford added five rebounds and six assists for the Celtics, who signed him during the NBAs offseason spending spree to a four-year, $113 million deal.The Celtics are hoping he will help lead them to an Atlantic Division title this season, one year after they finished eight games behind Toronto with the No. 5 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs.Hes the same the same old Al, Atkinson said, doing the stuff and hitting the big shots.NEWCOMERSCeltics No. 3 overall draft pick Jaylen Brown was pleased to hear that he didnt seem to have any nerves in his NBA debut. Brown scored nine points on 3-for-4 shooting, and he added two blocked shots in 19-plus minutes.How nervous was he?On a scale of 1-10, I was a seven or eight, he said with a smile. You want to have a lot of energy, and its hard to suppress your energy.FIRING AWAYThe Nets shot 44 3-point attempts, making 15. Atkinson said he wanted them to shoot more this season, but that number may be a little more than he planned.Yeah, 44 is a lot, but well look at them, he said. We said we want to take them, but they have to be open 3s.TIP-INSNets: Earlier in the day, Jeremy Lin donated $1 million to Harvard, where he graduated in 2010. The money will be used for undergraduate financial aid and to help renovate the schools basketball arena.Celtics: Injured guard Marcus Smart gave the traditional season-opening thanks to the crowd for the Celtics.UP NEXTNets: Thursday host Indiana. The Nets open their fifth season in Brooklyn.Celtics: Thursday visit Chicago. The Bulls will try to hold onto the citys attention on an off-night for the World Series, where the Cubs are trying to win their first championship since 1908. ' ' '