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On Saturday at the Final Four in Phoenix, the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame announced that UNC legends Vince Carter and Walter Davis were elected to the 2024 class.

Their induction on August 17th will bring North Carolina’s tally of players and coaches up to 14, second only to Kansas with 20 inductees. Carolina has the most players in the Hall of Fame.

While Carter and Davis are eras apart in the Carolina Family, their accomplishments mirror each other closely. Both played for Hall of Fame coach Dean Smith. Both were Olympic gold medalists for USA basketball. Davis (alongside fellow Tar Heels Phil Ford and Mitch Kupchak and future UNC dad Scott May) beat the former Yugoslavia in 1976 while Carter beat France in the 2000 Olympic games in Sydney, Australia.

Both players were NBA Rookies of the Year (1978 and 1999, respectively), were each All-NBA selections twice, and combined for 14 NBA All-Star games (Carter with eight selections, Davis six).

Walter Davis of course passed away this season on November 2, 2023. He was Hubert Davis’s uncle, and Coach Davis spoke fondly of his uncle, crediting him with fueling his desire to play at Carolina

In addition to leaving a lasting impression in Chapel Hill, Walter Davis is revered in Phoenix, where he still remains the Suns’ all-time leading scorer with 15,666 points. The Suns have retired Davis’s #6 jersey.

Vince Carter, for those too young to remember, made Tar Heel fans believe a man could fly. He was part of some of the most enormously talented Carolina teams that made two Final Fours (1997 under Dean Smith and 1998 under Bill Guthridge), but didn’t win the national championship. Vince Carter concluded his UNC career as an All-ACC selection and First Team All-American, before being drafted fifth overall in the 1998 NBA Draft, one spot behind fellow Tar Heel Antawn Jamison.