The easiest way to gauge the coolness of a particular event is to watch how excited the people involved are to be around their fellow participants.
So all you need to know about Saturday's pickup basketball event at the Smith Center is that multiple Tar Heel hoops alumni were walking around with autograph materials to secure signatures of their fellow participants.
Here was Jeff McInnis getting multiple signatures on a Carolina blue pair of Jordans. There was Jackie Manuel passing around a Sharpie. King Rice was racking up the autographs, as were Michael Brooker and Melvin Scott.