Duke's Brandon Ingram declares for NBA Draft: 5 things we learned. Duke's Brandon Ingram declares for NBA Draft: 5 things we learned. Brandon Ingram talked about Mike Krzyzewski, Jerry Stackhouse and more in his letter to announce his decision to enter the 2016 NBA Draft. Brandon Ingram made it official on Monday, announcing his intentions to leave Duke after this year and enter the 2016 NBA Draft. Thought by many to be one of the top two picks in the draft (if not the first, supplanting LSU's Ben Simmons), this decision did not come as a huge surprise.