On Saturday night, George Karl will join the elite of the elite in the basketball world.
The former University of North Carolina guard (UNC '73) and longtime NBA coach will be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., becoming the 12th Tar Heel to be enshrined.
He will join his former head coach, Dean Smith, as well as Larry Brown (coach), Ben Carnevale (coach) Billy Cunningham (player/coach), Bobby Jones, Michael Jordan, Bob McAdoo, Frank McGuire (coach), Charlie Scott, Roy Williams (coach) and James Worthy as Tar Heels in the Hall.
Karl was a longtime professional coach who has the sixth-most wins of any head coach in NBA history with 1,175 (and a winning percentage of .