Tyler Zeller Coaching at Northwood High, Mentoring Tar Heel Signee Drake Powell

Posted Dec 20, 2023
The Northwood Chargers couldn’t believe it. Their assistant coach was name-dropping NBA players as if he’d played alongside them. Steph Curry this, Draymond Green that. Northwood head coach Matthew Brown could only smile. The 7-footer teaching schemes to his players is a legend both in Brown’s native Indiana and in North Carolina: Tyler Zeller. (Chapelboro.com)

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