CHAPEL HILL
North Carolina coach Roy Williams is unhappy with ESPN, to put it mildly. In fact, his displeasure with the network that calls itself “the worldwide leader” inspired a quite the rant on Friday.
Here's the background: For a while now ESPN has hyped the best of the best college basketball players and promoted their NBA potential. The network did it when Andrew Wiggins was at Kansas and Jahlil Okafor at Duke, and certainly it's happening now with LSU's Ben Simmons.
More recently, though, during college games ESPN has broadcast the network has began describing various' players' “green room” potential – as in the NBA draft green room.