Right before football season started, Joel Berry announced that he was no longer going to play basketball professionally. The beloved 2017 national champion and MOP couldn’t get a career going in the NBA, and only played in Turkey for one season before he realized that he wanted to be back stateside. In announcing, he alluded to the fact that he would have other opportunities to pursue, but at the time that’s all we knew.
Meanwhile, another former UNC point guard in KJ Smith had already known his basketball career was done, as he announced over the summer he was going to join the site On3 as a national recruiting analyst.