Armando Bacot reveals how much NIL money he made at UNC

Posted Aug 15, 2026
Now a member of Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Israeli Premier League, Armando Bacot recently spoke about how much NIL money he earned from playing five seasons as a Tar Heel. “I had no clue," Bacot told former UNC pkayer Theo Pinson in a recent interview. "I didn’t know what I was doing. Because you go from that to like being a millionaire, that fast." (USA Today)

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