{"id":1934977,"date":"2026-09-25T12:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T16:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934977"},"modified":"2026-09-25T13:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:22:21","slug":"returnees-say-malones-practices-are-intense-full-of-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934977","title":{"rendered":"Returnees say Malone\u2019s practices are intense, full of energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 The word that kept coming up in describing Michael Malone\u2019s first practices at Carolina was energy. In the first week of official practice, returnees Jarin Stevenson, Isaiah Denis and Jaydon Young described an atmosphere on the practice floor built on pace, structure and an intensity carried over from Malone\u2019s years as an NBA head coach in Denver.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/09\/25\/returnees-say-malones-practices-are-intense-full-of-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 The word that kept coming up in describing Michael Malone\u2019s first practices at Carolina was energy. In the first week of official practice,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1934978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tarheeltribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/unc-roster-header-e1759169996823.png?resize=1140%2C228&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1934977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934977","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=1934977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934979,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934977\/revisions\/1934979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1934978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}