Nets Ed Davis and Theo Pinson were part of a group of more than a dozen University of North Carolina pro athletes that successfully scuttled a plan to keep a statue of a Confederate soldier on the Chapel Hill campus.
The statue, nicknamed “Silent Sam,” was toppled during a student protest last August and the university board of governors wanted to remove the statue, long condemned as a tribute to white supremacy. But a state law thwarted the plan and so as a compromise, the board of was ready to house the statue in a new $5.