{"id":1931389,"date":"2026-09-05T11:08:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T15:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931389"},"modified":"2026-09-05T11:13:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T15:13:56","slug":"big-expectations-inside-malones-retooling-of-uncs-frontcourt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931389","title":{"rendered":"Big expectations: Inside Malone\u2019s retooling of UNC\u2019s frontcourt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 One of Michael Malone\u2019s biggest early tasks was rebuilding a frontcourt gutted by the departures of Caleb Wilson and Henri Veesaar to the NBA. Months later, the first-year coach made clear he believes the group he assembled gives Carolina exactly the kind of size, length and versatility he wants to build around.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/09\/05\/big-expectations-inside-malones-retooling-of-uncs-frontcourt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big expectations: Inside Malone\u2019s retooling of UNC\u2019s frontcourt<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/09\/05\/big-expectations-inside-malones-retooling-of-uncs-frontcourt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 One of Michael Malone\u2019s biggest early tasks was rebuilding a frontcourt gutted by the departures of Caleb Wilson and Henri Veesaar to the&#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-1931389","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\/1931389","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=1931389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931390,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931389\/revisions\/1931390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}