CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Joel Berry Sr. wanted the distinction made clear. He absolutely was not naming his son junior. Uh-uh. No way.
He knew several Juniors in his neighborhood -- his own brother was a Junior -- and those who had the nickname "Junebug" because they were Juniors too. And to a person, Berry said, "each one was a hell-raiser."
"When I named my son Joel, I told my wife, do not call him Junior," Berry said. "He will be, 'The Second.'"
Joel Berry II isn't on that hell-raiser level, but there's some smoldering going on every time he takes the court for North Carolina.