Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player and surely the most famous person to ever come from Wilmington but the second best player?
You could make an argument for Meadowlark Lemon, but he was an entertainer who had serious basketball skills.
So we’ll go with Jones who, by the way, won four more titles than Jordan.
Boston found him when Bones McKinney, who played for Red Auerbach in Boston in 1951-52, called Auerbach and told him “Red, there’s a kid down here that’s got the damndest bank shot.”
Jones was in college at what is now NCCU and was then called North Carolina College.