{"id":1928403,"date":"2026-08-18T12:20:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928403"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:54:11","slug":"malone-says-roy-williams-has-had-a-lot-to-do-with-him-taking-unc-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928403","title":{"rendered":"Malone says Roy Williams has \u2018had a lot to do\u2019 with him taking UNC job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Malone said he turned down the North Carolina job three times before taking it and that Hall of Fame former UNC coach Roy Williams had a lot to do with him taking on the challenge. Malone made the comments during a 15\u00bd-minute appearance with Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports on Tuesday\u2019s episode of the \u201cInside College Basketball Now\u201d podcast. Across the conversation, Malone touched on his path back to college basketball, his relationship with Williams, how he built his staff and what he wants from his first Tar Heels team.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/08\/18\/malone-says-roy-williams-has-had-a-lot-to-do-with-him-taking-unc-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malone says Roy Williams has \u2018had a lot to do\u2019 with him taking UNC job<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/08\/18\/malone-says-roy-williams-has-had-a-lot-to-do-with-him-taking-unc-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Malone said he turned down the North Carolina job three times before taking it and that Hall of Fame former UNC coach Roy Williams had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1928403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928404,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928403\/revisions\/1928404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}