{"id":1929659,"date":"2026-08-26T08:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1929659"},"modified":"2026-08-26T09:44:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:44:37","slug":"which-tar-heels-appear-in-early-2027-mock-nba-drafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1929659","title":{"rendered":"Which Tar Heels appear in early 2027 mock NBA drafts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Malone hasn\u2019t coached a game at North Carolina, but the NBA is already circling several names on his first roster. Four Tar Heels appeared in the June mock drafts from ESPN and The Athletic and one released Tuesday by Bleacher Report, a sign that Malone\u2019s roster has more pro potential than the 24\u20139 team that lost to VCU in March and produced two draft picks.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/08\/26\/which-tar-heels-appear-in-early-2027-mock-nba-drafts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Which Tar Heels appear in early 2027 mock NBA drafts?<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/08\/26\/which-tar-heels-appear-in-early-2027-mock-nba-drafts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Malone hasn\u2019t coached a game at North Carolina, but the NBA is already circling several names on his first roster. Four Tar Heels appeared in&#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":[1,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-1-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929659","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=1929659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929660,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929659\/revisions\/1929660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1929659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1929659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1929659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}