Today we conclude out three-part series about the best UNC teams that never existed. The first part reached back to the the 1970s and 80s. Last Sunday’s spanned the 1990s and 2000s. While the more recent one-and-done era has provided programs an up-close-and-personal experience with early departures, the Heels have experienced early NBA draftees for over 40 years.
And yet, the past decade has been rather unusual compared to the rest of UNC’s history. From Bob McAdoo in 1972 to Brandon Wright in 2007, this series only highlighted 10 UNC teams that were impaired by the loss of a key player due to leaving schools early (or in Vasco Evitmov’s case in 1998, taking a redshirt season).