Bobby Jones Set To Enter Basketball Hall Of Fame Friday

Posted Sep 5, 2019
Bobby Jones, a standout on Dean Smith's Tar Heel teams in the early 1970s and one of the NBA's greatest defensive players, will be enshrined as a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2019 on Friday in Springfield, Mass. Jones is the seventh former UNC player and 11th Tar Heel to be elected to the Naismith Hall of Fame. (GoHeels.com)

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