Summer work, NBA lessons fuel Justin Jackson's rise at No. 5 UNC

Posted Mar 3, 2017
There's nothing complicated about how UNC's Justin Jackson dramatically improved his 3-point range and scoring output to make himself a candidate for ACC player of the year. No, the 6-foot-8 junior said it's simply a revamped mentality after lessons learned from workouts for NBA teams last summer. "I realized how hard you really have to work to be at that level," Jackson said. (Associated Press)

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