The Duke-Carolina rivalry obliges you to take a side and part of that, almost inevitably, is disdain. You’re not supposed to like guys on the other side.
But it happens. UNC fans, if you press them, will likely express some respect for, say, Grant Hill, maybe Shane Battier.
If you ask us, we’d say Dante Calabria, Derrick Phelps and Eric Montross.
At UNC, Montross was a very powerful center, you might even say unusually so. Yet near the end of his Tar Heel career, Montross developed a friendship with a young cancer patient at UNC Hospital named Jason Clark.