Tyler Hansbrough offers advice to potential NBA early entrants

Posted Apr 8, 2011
Tyler Zeller, the 2008 Indiana Mr. Basketball, recently decided to return to North Carolina for his senior year. Pacers forward Tyler Hansbrough has been there. His advice: Be happy. “Everyone’s going to have their opinion on what they want you to do, but for me, it was always what made me happy and where I wanted to be,” the former national player of the year who spent four years at UNC said after this morning’s workout. (Indianapolis Star)

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