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GoHeels Exclusive: Great Memories

By Pat James, GoHeels.com

Thirty-three years removed from playing in his last NBA game, Bobby Jones was driving from Charlotte to Charleston, South Carolina, when he received the call he never expected last spring.

A standout at North Carolina in the early 1970s and a four-time NBA All-Star, Jones has always viewed the NBA as an offensive league. Most people tend to agree. And for the longest time, that seemed to include the voters who kept Jones, one of the NBA's greatest defensive players, from gaining entry into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame due to his modest offensive stats.