{"id":1931440,"date":"2026-09-05T18:34:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T22:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931440"},"modified":"2026-09-05T18:53:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T22:53:58","slug":"scorers-shooters-and-facilitators-malones-backcourt-takes-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931440","title":{"rendered":"Scorers, shooters and facilitators: Malone\u2019s backcourt takes shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 Of the 16 players on Michael Malone\u2019s first UNC roster, only two scholarship guards remain from last season\u2019s group: Isaiah Dennis and Jaden Young. The rest of the backcourt had to be built from scratch after the departures of Seth Trimble, Derek Dixon, Kyan Evans and Jonathan Powell. Malone didn\u2019t waste time.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/09\/05\/scorers-shooters-and-facilitators-malones-backcourt-takes-shape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scorers, shooters and facilitators: Malone\u2019s backcourt takes shape<\/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\/scorers-shooters-and-facilitators-malones-backcourt-takes-shape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 Of the 16 players on Michael Malone\u2019s first UNC roster, only two scholarship guards remain from last season\u2019s group: Isaiah Dennis and Jaden&#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-1931440","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\/1931440","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=1931440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931441,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931440\/revisions\/1931441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}