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Michael Jordan on Roy Williams: ‘He meant so much to basketball’

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SportsCarolinaMonthly
April 2, 2021

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Calendars and fried shrimp. And, of course, golf. Those are the things beyond basketball that Michael Jordan thinks of first about Roy Williams, who retired as North Carolina’s basketball coach Thursday. Williams was an assistant coach at North Carolina when Jordan was blossoming as a high school basketball player in Wilmington in the early 1980s. Williams supplemented his income back then by driving around the state, selling calendars in the summer. One summer, he drove 9,000 miles, to sell about 10,000 calendars to make $2,400. Along those routes, Williams became close with…

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