Roy Williams? ‘He Doesn’t Have an Accent. You Have an Accent.’

Posted Mar 31, 2017
If Michael Jordan is the most famous North Carolina Tar Heel and second place goes to the legendary coach Dean Smith, then somewhere in the top five lies Roy Williams’s mouth. Williams was an assistant under Smith and coached Kansas for 15 seasons before returning to North Carolina in 2003 and coaching the Tar Heels to two national titles and five Final Fours. (New York Times)

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