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Basketball players from Winston-Salem, North Carolina (29 P) Pages in category "Basketball players from North Carolina" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 250 total.
Michael Jordan was drafted third overall by the Chicago Bulls in the 1984 NBA Draft. The North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team, representing the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has had 113 players drafted into the National Basketball Association (NBA) since the league began holding the yearly event in 1947.
As a freshman at North Carolina in 2005–06, Hansbrough became the only player in ACC history to earn First Team All-America honors as a freshman. He was honored by The Sporting News and Rupp, [5] and was named third-team All-America by the Associated Press, NABC and Basketball Times.
For the team's first four seasons after their return to the league, select games also aired on a network of over-the-air stations across North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, fronted by WJZY from 2004 to 2006 and WMYT from 2006 to 2008. The team's radio flagship is all-sports station WFNZ-FM. Before 2010, games had aired on WOLS.
In 1921, North Carolina joined the Southern Conference (SoCon). A year later, Cartwright Carmichael and Monk McDonald became the first Tar Heels named to an All-Southern Conference team. North Carolina was a member of the league from 1921 to 1953, and twenty-two Tar Heels received All-Southern Conference honors a total of thirty-four times.
Pages in category "North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball players" The following 193 pages are in this category, out of 193 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
White is the first player from North Carolina to be drafted in the first round by the Bulls since Michael Jordan in 1984. [17] On July 1, 2019, White signed with the Bulls. [ 18 ] White participated in the 2019 NBA Summer League with fellow 2019 draftee Daniel Gafford , where he averaged 15.0 points, 5.6 rebounds, and 4.8 assists per game. [ 19 ]
Theophilus Alphonso Pinson Jr. [1] (born November 5, 1995) is an American former professional basketball player who last played for the Texas Legends of the NBA G League.He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels.