UNC Basketball: How Tar Heel Draftees Fit with Their NBA Teams

Posted by Rollin Yeatts on July-6-2012 Add Comments

Usually when your favorite college basketball players get drafted in the top 20, they're stuck on cellar dwellers and seemingly fall off the face of the earth.

That isn't so much the case for Tar Heel fans in 2012.

North Carolina's Harrison Barnes, Kendall Marshall, John Henson and Tyler Zeller were all taken before the 18th pick of the NBA draft. And their respective teams are now the Warriors, Suns, Bucks and the Cavaliers. Those four teams averaged a 27-39 record in 2011-12.

Looking at their records, one would think their situations are much like early draftees of the past. But as we dig deeper, you will see that these teams aren't so bad off—and neither are t...

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