In a college basketball stunner, the North Carolina men’s basketball team intends to hire NBA championship-winning coach Michael Malone as its next head coach, sources told Pete Thamel of ESPN.
Malone has won 510 games as an NBA coach, though his most successful run came with the Nuggets, whom he coached from 2015-25 and led to the NBA title during the 2022-23 season.
Malone last coached in the collegiate ranks in 2001, where he served as an assistant coach for the Manhattan University men’s basketball team.
More to come on this developing story.