If Kennedy Meeks, the former North Carolina star and Charlotte native, quit basketball altogether next week, he’d still have had a heck of a career.
First, there’s the impressive high school legacy, winning a state championing at West Charlotte and being named a McDonald’s All-American.
Then there’s his four years at UNC, where he became a starter as a freshman and developed into the team’s primary post option on two national championship runs.
After the Tar Heels came up short in 2016, Meeks at times almost single-handedly carried UNC through the 2017 postseason, and there were arguments that he should have been the Most Outstanding Player in the Final Four.