{"id":704459,"date":"2026-04-08T03:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/704459\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T03:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:10:19","slug":"michael-malone-takes-over-at-north-carolina-as-the-tar-heels-turn-to-an-outsider-from-the-nba-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/704459\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Malone takes over at North Carolina as the Tar Heels turn to an outsider from the NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"6SHGCY7K2ZH4XKKL2D7C6UMPJU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">CHAPEL HILL, N.C. \u2014 Michael Malone acknowledged that he\u2019s an outsider as North Carolina\u2019s basketball coach.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"XWMHR5O3M5GLDI7YVVOFUBADWU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cI did not play here. I\u2019m not from Carolina,\u201d he said Tuesday evening during his introductory news conference at the Dean Smith Center. \u201cBut I think they\u2019re ready to embrace somebody new. A new vision to try to get this program back to where we all want it to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHAPEL HILL, N.C. \u2014 Michael Malone acknowledged that he\u2019s an outsider as North Carolina\u2019s basketball coach. \u201cI did&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[75174,7,88257,217,325,301,187,3943,354,6,82226,446,43263,14942,3101,82227,22097,302,66,3353,3261],"class_list":{"0":"post-704459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-2026-nba-schedule","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-bkc-north-carolina-malone","11":"tag-college-basketball","12":"tag-college-sports","13":"tag-denver","14":"tag-denver-nuggets","15":"tag-denvernuggets","16":"tag-mens-college-basketball","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-nba-2026-news","19":"tag-nba-basketball","20":"tag-nba-highlights","21":"tag-nba-latest-news","22":"tag-nba-news","23":"tag-nba-schedule-2026","24":"tag-nba-scores","25":"tag-nuggets","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-sports-retirements","28":"tag-sports-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116366896257117043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}