North Carolina and the NBA Draft: Assessing the early entries

Posted Apr 25, 2017
The deadline to enter the NBA Draft has come and gone, and each of North Carolina’s ACC basketball programs have players, such as N.C. State’s Dennis Smith Jr., destined to become instant millionaires on June 22. Others, such as North Carolina’s Theo Pinson, seem likely to return to school after receiving feedback that will shape their offseason training programs. (Greensboro News & Record)

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