dailyloe.com – North Carolina has hired longtime NBA coach Michael Malone as its new head coach. The Tar Heels announced the hire on Tuesday. Malone is a former NBA champion with the Denver Nuggets. He won 510 games in 12 seasons as an NBA head coach.
Malone is one of the most respected tacticians in the NBA. He has spent the past ten-plus months as an ESPN analyst. He last coached in college as an assistant at Manhattan in 2001. He was also an assistant at Providence and Oakland.
Malone will inherit a Tar Heels team seeking a replacement. The school fired Hubert Davis nearly two weeks ago. His reputation is high in NBA circles. The respect of UNC legends Michael Jordan and Roy Williams played a role.
College basketball is becoming more like professional basketball every year. UNC gets a respected X’s-and-O’s coach. He worked in the NBA for nearly a quarter century. He served as both a head coach and an assistant.[]
Source: ESPN
