Jones was a menace on defense. Lets not forget that Green is a three-time NBA champion, each time lending important three and D support off the bench. Select a College. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. Unsurprisingly, the list of former Tar Heels who went on to have successful professional careers is long and storied. Lets jump and and assess who are the top former UNC players in NBA history. The problem, he and many others say: Tickets today are $6, double the price when Stackhouse played. Active Players. 28. He was tired of hearing about his peers getting in trouble and getting killed. 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Stats: 18.9 PPG, 3.0 RPG, 3.8 APG, 1.2 SPG, 51.1 FG%, 27.2 3PT%. Michael Jordan, in full Michael Jeffrey Jordan, byname Air Jordan, (born February 17, 1963, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American collegiate and professional basketball player widely considered to be one of the greatest all-around players in the history of the game. Learn more and register here. A couple of them have played for the Philadelphia 76ers as they have made a big impact on the league out of North Carolina. There are just too many insane numbers to pick the best, so I decided to list his highest averages for each category. Jones was selected to the NBA All-Defensive First Team eight times during his 10-year NBA career. Today he's 38, with a kind smile and a patient ear, born and raised here, an unspectacular point guard for the Vikings in the late 1990s, a coach at the nearby middle school, then a junior varsity coach, then varsity assistant, now the head coach. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. He made two Final Fours, and won the National Title in 2009 while going 124-22 in his career. Without Julius Erving, David Thompson, Walter Davis, and Elgin Baylor there would never have been a Michael Jordan. While that may not have to do with his NBA career, Scott and Dean Smith should never be forgotten for the progress they made in the south. "It was just so alive," says George Whitfield, who grew up in Kinston in the 1950s, went on to coach prep baseball for nearly six decades, was named National Coach of the Year twice and has been inducted into nearly a dozen halls of fame. He won the National Championship in 1982, was a two-time All-American in the two season after and was named the Player of the Year in 1984. He was simply a hustler, and if there was someone diving to the floor for a loose ball, it was likely Bobby Jones. Over two seasons in the league, Scott averaged 30.1 points, 5.1 rebounds and 5.2 assists per game. (f) includes freshman/JV team stats. He knows it sounds harsh. We would be remiss to leave Tyler Hansbrough off of this list. They pray. North Carolina Players Drafted in the NBA - RealGM North Carolina NBA Draft Selections Conference: Team: International Format Sort: Year Col umns: Swipe 118 players found. The latest in the sports world, emailed daily. There, he played with one of the all-time greats, Hakeem Olajuwon, and earned back-to-back NBA titles in 1994 and 1995. Find out more. "Everything was booming. He chose to return to North Carolina for his senior year and was later drafted by the Chicago Packers with the 13th pick in the 2nd round of the 1961 NBA Draft. And indeed, as he fears, the very next night the Neuse crests at 28.31 feet, surpassing the record of 27.71 feet set by Hurricane Floyd in 1999. Larese was a junior at North Carolina when he was selected with the 6th pick in the 6th round of the 1960 NBA Draft by the St. Louis Hawks. While his NBA career most likely wont get him to the Hall of Fame in Springfield his college era was unlike anything we have ever seen at North Carolina, in the ACC, and really in the history of college basketball. Still, Antonio supported her, helping raise his two younger brothers and two younger sisters. Carter was there to bridge the gap between Dean Smith and Bill Guthridge, and was part of the famous Six Starters mantra. With the 2021-22 college basketball season in the books with Kansas taking home their fourth national title, now is the time to take a look at some of the best NBA players to come out of North Carolina, who came up short to Kansas in the title game. Sam Perkins' best statistical season came in 1991-92 with the Lakers, when he averaged 16.5 points, 8.8 rebounds, 2.2 assists, one steal and one block per game. Bobby Jones' best statistical season was in 1976-77 with Denver, when he averaged 15.1 points, 8.3 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 2.3 steals, 2.0 blocks and a field-goal percentage of 57.0. Bob McAdoo. Ronnie Ingram recalls the turning point. Jordan would go on to win six titles, six Finals MVP awards, five league MVPs and became the arguably the greatest player ever. #23 of 165. pic.twitter.com/fKNGOeojO2. Do you have a blog? Rasheed Wallace took a page out of Big Smooth's book, extending his play beyond the arc. Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury undercard: Complete list of all the fights before the main event. The North Carolina Tar Heels boast one of the proudest traditions in college basketball. BRANDON INGRAM STANDS at his locker after the Lakers' 2017-18 season-opening blowout loss to the Clippers at Staples Center, measuring Kinston's progress in small steps. McAdoo, however, had a very circuitous path to NBA greatness. IT'S LESS THAN a week before the Lakers introduce Ingram, and police in his hometown respond to a shots-fired call. Viewing: All Positions Guard Point Guard Shooting Guard Forward Small Forward Power Forward Center Worthy won three NBA Titles with Magic and Kareem in LA, and was named the Finals MVP in 1988. Before Vince Carter was lighting up the pros with his insane dunking prowess, he was helping UNC establish a new era of greatness. James Worthy is a seven-time NBA All-Star, a three-time NBA champion and was one of the three Tar Heels named to the "50 Greatest Players in NBA History. The banks of the Neuse are rising, and computer models forecast them to reach historic highs the next night. Brad Daugherty was the first overall selection by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1986 and would earn NBA All-Rookie First Team honors. Six-time NBA Finals MVP: 1991-93, 1996-98, Five-time NBA Most Valuable Player: 1988, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1998, 10-time scoring champion: 1987-93, 199698, Three-time steals leader: 1988, 1990, 1993, 14-time NBA All-Star: 1985-93, 199698, 2002-03, Three-time NBA All-Star Game MVP: 1988, 1996, 1998, One-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year: 1987-88, 11-time All-NBA selection: 1985, 1987-93, 1996-98, Nine-time All-Defensive selection: 1988-93, 1996-98, Two-time NBA Slam Dunk Contest champion: 1987, 1988. She regrets ever moving here. "We were tired of it. For all you youngsters out there who know Kenny Smith as the guy who comes on the halftime and post game show on TNT with Charles Barkley and Shaq, let me just tell you Kenny could hoop. It's a frequent occurrence in a town where, according to the FBI, the violent crime rate in 2016 was 213 percent higher than the national average. [5] Sixteen players have been selected to either an ABA or NBA All-Star Game, sixteen have been a member of an NBA or ABA championship winning team, and nine have achieved both. The BAA became the National Basketball Association after absorbing teams from the National Basketball League in the fall of 1949. The Charlotte Hornets extended their winning streak to a season-best five games on Monday night with a 117-106 victory over the Detroit Pistons, but it came at a bitter cost with star point guard LaMelo Ball suffering a right ankle fracture. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. In 2000-01, Jamison played his first full season. [3], The drafts held between 1947 and 1949 were held by the Basketball Association of America (BAA). But since the 1972-73 season, 1 out of every 52.7 players to suit up for Kinston High School's varsity squad has reached the league, meaning the odds to do so in Kinston are, since the early 1970s, about 63 times greater than the national average. Davis spent most of his career with the Suns and still owns the franchise record for career points. 10 for all 50 states is pretty good. He was then traded to the Toronto Raptors for his college teammate and good friend, Antawn Jamison. After the first three picks are decided, the rest of the teams pick in reverse order of their winloss record. In his second and third season, he averaged over seven assists and 14 points. But some things haven't changed in the two years since he's been gone. In 1977 he was drafted by the Phoenix Suns, continued his streak of excellence. The NBA had a rule which stated a player was not eligible for the NBA Draft until four years after he graduated high school. His parents, Donald and Joann, sit a few feet away in the front row, beaming. She settled in East Kinston in 2010, keeping her children active in gymnastics, football and basketball, which her oldest son, Antonio Hines, played in the many local recreation centers and playgrounds. Before putting together a pretty damn good NBA career, Green played all four seasons in Chapel Hill and he averaged 9.4 points and 4.1 rebounds while shooting 37.5% from deep with the Tar Heels. Along with Tyler Hansbrough and Bobby Frasor, Green won an NCAA Title and was named to the ACC All-Defensive Team in 2009. Bob McAdoo was an eventual teammate of James Worthy on the Showtime Lakers. Smith is something of an icon, famously saying lets go home, ladies and gentlemen in response to former Tar Heel Vince Carter and his explosive performance at the 2000 Slam Dunk Contest. And as Davis sits in that metal chair, pondering the question of which player might be the best he's seen, suddenly, from a back room, emerges Maxwell, the longtime Celtics forward and 1981 NBA Finals MVP. His best statistical season came in 2000-01 with the Toronto Raptors, averaging 27.6 points per game, 5.5 rebounds, 3.9 assists, 1.5 steals, 1.1 blocks and nailing down 40.8 percent of his three-pointers. Ball will be listed as out for the Hornets next game vs. Phoenix on March 1 and updates regarding his status will be provided as appropriate. This decadeslong cycle of the old guard training the new created a reputation that continues today. York Larese was eligible for the NBA Draft as a junior since he missed the 195758 season due to an injury. In the past five decades, seven players from KHS -- Ingram, Reggie Bullock, Stackhouse, Maxwell, forwards Charles Shackleford and Tony Dawson, and 2007 second-round pick Herbert Hill -- have been drafted or reached an NBA roster. And so, in the days after the flood, Ronnie Ingram patrols the streets in a Humvee, surveying the damage. Bobby Jones may not have been as blessed with the talent of some of the other Tar Heels on this list, but few played the game harder. A ranking of the 2025 Best NFL Basketball Players in North Carolina. "The city just got crazier and crazier year by year.". And indeed, in Kinston, it often is. (It does not end here.). Here are the best North Carolina basketball players of all time. Third in minutes played. By August 1940, Kinston billed itself the "world's foremost tobacco center" and boasted four sets of buyers, nine factories and nine warehouses. The Sacramento Kings selected Smith with the No. While I gave you the other players' best statistical seasons, that was pretty hard to do for Michael Jordan. Cunningham was the fourth overall selection by the Philadelphia 76ers, where he would become yet another Tar Heel to earn NBA All-Rookie First Team honors. Whitfield looks around, the area so quiet you can hear the cicadas sing. Stacy Kranitz for ESPN. In all, five townspeople will die. As I mentioned in the last slide, Vince Carter was traded to the Toronto Raptors for Antawn Jamison during the 1998 NBA draft. ! Stats: 14.5 PPG, 6.7 RPG, 1.8 APG, 1.0 SPG, 1.3 BPG, 46.7 FG%, 33.6 3PT%. That season, he proved the Raptors made the right choice, earning NBA Rookie of the Year with 95.8 percent of the votes. 2Y; . Antonio Hines rests in an unmarked grave. Brad Daugherty was a special player and would probably rank much higher on this list if his career had lasted a little longerand he'd probably still own Cleveland's record for points and rebounds. Attitude, longevity and skill all played a part in my rankings. List of Current NBA Players from North Carolina on NBA 2K23 # Player OVR 3PT DNK; 1. BRANDON INGRAM RAISES a crisp Lakers jersey with his name emblazoned across the back. Later that same night, a world away, Brandon Ingram plays a preseason game in Las Vegas against the Kings, but his mind is back home in Kinston. "That kept me out of trouble a lot, because if it wasn't basketball," Brandon says, "I don't know what else I would do." During the 1998 draft, Carter was selected fifth overall by the Golden State Warriors. From 1967 until the ABANBA merger in 1976, the American Basketball Association (ABA) held its own draft.[4]. But with 102 other players battling for position, there is a lot of wiggle room for the other 14. Today, Stephanie grieves with her children at night, telling them that they'll get through the loss of their brother, her son, somehow, but then she lies down and sleep comes harder and later than it ever has. Everyone plays in different eras. KHS operated in Class 4A, reserved for the state's biggest high schools. The Best Boston Celtics of All Time. Listing all active NBA players from North Carolina and their current contract breakdown. Michael Jordan is not only the greatest Tar Heel to play in the NBA, but he is the greatest basketball player in the history of the game. #9 Sonny Jurgensen WILMINGTON Set then NFL records for attempts (508), completions (288) and About $125 million in damage will be inflicted. And so Tyndall asks his players, "What's your plan?" McAdoo continued to dominate once he joined the NBA. He only played eight seasons before calling it quits due to back problems. The town's officials will estimate that it will take years to recover. Yet, still, we shine above 'em. The white coach of a historically black team, Tyndall is the school's athletic director and teaches from about 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., but the court is his refuge. She was a single mother, unable to work since 2007 because of multiple sclerosis, with her spine leaking fluid, blurring her vision, causing headaches, leaving her unable to balance. It wouldn't be long before the long-armed menace of the interior would extend his play beyond the arc. His best statistical season came in 1973-74 with the Phoenix Suns. My son was able to get there and grab him before he was able to jump. Tyndall had hair once. There were as many as 17 Industrial League teams at one time, many loaded with local ex-college or high school players who couldn't wait to ball after a day on the assembly line. "Back when I was growing up, we had all these factories," says Ronnie Ingram, the sheriff. Felton was sent to Portland the following season. And just as Donald roughed up Stackhouse, Stackhouse later did the same with Donald's son, a kid named Brandon. James was a 3-time NBA champion and a Finals MVP. Along with Tyler Hansbrough and Bobby Frasor, Green won an NCAA Title and was named to the ACC All-Defensive Team in 2009. It could have destroyed every building within 4 miles. #2 . Some sit empty, like barrier islands, perched just feet above the pooling water. He also tallied four NBA All-Star appearances and won a title with Philadelphia in 1983. What does make Kinston unique is that this town of some 21,000 residents is most surely, per capita, the greatest producer of NBA players in America. Still, McAdoo bounced around the NBA before finding a home with the Lakers in Dec. 1981. Follow the action on NBA scores, schedules, stats, news, Team and Player news. Tobacco Road has long been a bastion for basketball. Join our linker program. Yep, we shine above 'em, yep! IT'S LATE AUGUST, and Brandon Ingram's uncle Ronnie is lingering in a conference room at the Woodmen Community Center, another one of Kinston's recreation centers. It's July 2016. The UNC mens basketball team played its first season way back in 1910-11. @wssu1892 ALUMNI!! The photos prove it. You did the right thing, but you can't blame yourself if that person would've jumped.' All rights reserved. Alabama (93) Alaska (2) Arizona (19) Arkansas (57) California (432) Colorado (20) Connecticut (37) Delaware (11) District of Columbia (76) Florida (126) My god, he wonders. "At the end of the day, like I tell our kids, 'I want you to grow old because you deserve to live a productive life of not being wrapped up in substance abuse and not being incarcerated and not losing your life at a [young] age. Locals call this place Basketball Heaven, and many believe that Kinston's basketball tradition will survive anything the good Lord throws at them just as much as they have come to believe that the good Lord will send calamity their way time and again. "This is the only store that's left from when I was a boy," he says, walking into H. Stadiem, a 20,000-square-foot men's clothing store along Queen Street that's been open since 1903. "For some, it's something else." Cameras flash. Perkins nailed over 100 three-pointers in three consecutive seasons with the Seattle SuperSonics. College player of year at North Carolina in 1984; six NBA titles with Chicago Bulls; member of '84 and '92 U.S. Olympic gold-medal-winning teams. Yes, Michael Jordan famously was too short to play high school varsity basketball his sophomore season. NBA 2K23 Teams; All Current Teams; . He's 57 and has been sheriff for a year and a half after 30 years with the Kinston police, working in just about every division there is. Carefully, ReVelle recovers the volleyball-sized pit of plutonium and uranium, known as the Demon Core. Ronnie never thought he'd see the day when they'd need to place police officers at not only the high school but even the middle school. Ronnie is well-built, a few inches above 6 feet, with more salt than pepper in his close-cropped hair and goatee. "We haven't had any fire marshal issues in a while, not the way it was," says Perry Tyndall, the KHS boys basketball coach. Because of that, he played for seven different teams during his 14 years in the NBA. I can only hope Raymond Felton has already used up all of his bad luck. ", "I love coaching basketball, and to be honest -- and this is not what my county office would want to hear -- if I couldn't coach basketball, I don't know if I would stay," KHS boys basketball coach Perry Tyndall says. Third in points scored. However, blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience of the site and the services we are able to offer. He played in the finals with the Lakers in 1991 and with the SuperSonics in 1996both times losing to Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls. Ingram, like so many in Kinston, grew to view basketball as a ticket to college and perhaps a better life. Jerry Stackhouse is currently in his 18th NBA season and is still getting 18 minutes per game with the Brooklyn Nets. McAdoo continued to dominate once he joined the NBA. Former North Carolina Players Who Played In The NBA * Including anyone currently in the NBA; NBA career stats since the 1946-1947 season. He's 65 and has diabetes and a defibrillator in his chest and a back that has never healed from an old football injury, but for seven days a week since 1974, Davis has been here, coaching basketball and keeping tabs. So hundreds have gathered here, where disaster will unfold again. While Michael Jordan might have been the ringer of the that 1982 Tar Heels championship team, James Worthy was the elder statesman. They find a parachute suspending one of them in a trio of gum trees, its arm/safe switch in the safe position. Yes, arguably the greatest basketball player of all time and first former NBA player to achieve billionaire status clocks in at No. The University of North Carolina has produced a whopping total of 103 NBA players during the storied history of its program. I believe our first Tar Heel needs no formal introduction. The O'Neil, a seven-room luxury boutique hotel, and formerly an old bank, reopened in 2015 along Queen Street. Kenny Smith's best statistical season was in his first season with the Rockets, where he averaged 17.7 points, 7.1 assists and 1.4 steals per game. Or as Maxwell, the town's first favored son, says about that bomb: "If it had exploded, you wouldn't be talking to me about Brandon Ingram right now.". James Worthy won three titles in the NBA and the 1988 Finals MVP. He was also a 4-time All-Star. Walter Davis is another North Carolina native who went on to have a smashing basketball career. Out of the thirty teams that currently make up the NBA, seven have not picked a player from North Carolina. What could have happened ? "Incredibly talented, musically," Tyndall says. Whitfield, 12 then, watched from the stands and remembers a new dream forged for young boys here: to play for the Red Devils. Despite recurring back problems, Davis still put in 15 seasons at the NBA level, managing impressive numbers through most of them. He also averaged 8.7 rebounds, two assists and 1.4 steals per contest. Few programs have been more successful or produced more NBA players than the University of Carolina mens basketball team. He ended up turning down Syracuse, Duke, and Virginia. The official site of the National Basketball Association. About 3 out of every 10,000 high school basketball players go on to play in the NBA. "This town," Rochelle told the room with a hard stare, "is worth saving.". 100 NBA/ABA Players and 20 WNBA Players. In 1966-67, Cunningham helped lead the Philadelphia 76ers to a 68-13 regular season and his only NBA title. The spark to ignite all-out nuclear hellfire pierces through a moonlit sky in the early minutes of Jan. 24, 1961. During his 15-year career, Carter was named to eight NBA All-Star teams and was the leading vote-getter in three of those. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. Forgot password? In 1995, Sheed was named All-ACC First-team and went to the Final Four with coach Dean Smith. Bouncing from losing team to losing team throughout his career, he finally landed on the Lakers in 1981. 2 in the draft, and now they're introducing him at their El Segundo, California . Due to his high flying and high scoring, people often forget how good a defender and teammate he was. In 1996, three of them were voted into the "50 Greatest Players in NBA History." The North Carolina landed with UNC. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. Cameron Johnson PF / SF | 6'8" | BKN. He finshed his career as a seven time All-Star and averaged 17.6 points and 5.1 rebounds in his 12 year career. He made an immediate impact with the Raptors, being named the Rookie of the Year in 1999. He had an efficient career in the NBA, averaging 6.7 points and 4.2 rebounds a game in his seven years in the league, but had a hard time replicating the success he had in college. Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. Walter Davis is the uncle of UNC's current assistant coach, former Tar Heel and NBA shooting legend Hubert Davis. He went through a lot of that.". He averaged 13.8 points, 7.1 assists and 1.5 steals per game in his first season. UNC freshman big man Sharpe to enter NBA draft. Listing all active NBA players from North Carolina and their current contract breakdown. It could have killed every human in the open within a diameter of 17 miles. Green worked hard, and in his senior season he was rewarded. Immediately after the flood, hundreds of kids stream through their doors, maybe 200, 250 even, playing basketball every day for hours, their squeaking sneakers echoing off walls that separate them from the horror outside. The NBA holds hundreds of players from all walks of life and from different areas. This makes sense during his freshman year at UNC he was the preeminent sixth man. During Carters sophomore and junior seasons, the Tar Heels won the ACC Tournament and reached consecutive Final Fours. LEGEND HOLDS THAT in the early 1990s, back when Stackhouse starred for Kinston High, more than 2,000 people packed a gym with a capacity of about 1,750 -- and a bit above that mark constitutes a fire-code violation, so the fire marshal attended most of Stackhouse's games too. Before both World Wars and a generation before the NBA came to be. Because, unfortunately, you can't save everybody.". In his first season, McAdoo won Rookie of the Year honors. Wallace was the fourth overall selection by the Washington Bullets in 1995, where he was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team. [1][2] To be eligible for the NBA Draft, a player in the United States must be at least 19years old during the calendar year of the draft and must be at least one year removed from the graduation of his high school class. A look at the current & past NBA players rank in terms of their college or university. Wallace is the only player in NBA history to record multiple seasons with 100 blocks and 100 three-pointerssomething he did four times during his career. These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. It's a sweltering day in the summer of 2016, and, as usual this time of year, Maxwell is back home to visit his mother, Bessie, who is sitting beside him. He repeats the message, almost in disbelief that it has reached the point that anyone would ever think to tell anyone such a thing. Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury purse money: How much will they make and how will they split? 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