Former Tar Heel Deon Thompson Comes Home to UNC - IC Daily | Inside Carolina | College Basketball
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to IC Daily for Wednesday, May 13th. I'm Tommy Ashley. That, of course, is Greg Barnes. |
| 0:05.4 | We are, of course, sparks about Johnny T-shirt and Johnny T-shirt.com. This is on loop. It is important, though, because Johnny T-shirts, one of those local businesses folks need to support. Always. |
| 0:17.7 | Got to keep some semblance of Franklin Street from back in the day, and Johnny T-shirts one of those that have been there forever so inside |
| 0:24.7 | Carolina subscribers support them they give you 10% off all the good stuff Greg some |
| 0:29.8 | news came down this week and I think it's relevant and I think it's important and |
| 0:33.8 | I think it's pretty cool Dion Thompson coming back to be a part of Michael Malone's staff as a graduate assistant. |
| 0:41.4 | One thing Dion's done is he's seen the world and he's seen all types of basketball and |
| 0:48.1 | he was part of North Carolina's, some of North Carolina's best teams, Greg. |
| 0:52.5 | When you heard this news and it came out, what were your initial thoughts? |
| 0:57.5 | Mine were like, wow, it's pretty cool. |
| 1:01.5 | I agree with you. |
| 1:02.6 | I think for all the reasons that you mentioned, I mean, Dion, of course, was part of some of the best North Carolina teams that have ever taken the court. |
| 1:13.0 | And then when you look at his professional career, he played for a long time. |
| 1:18.7 | And as you mentioned, all over the world, I mean, started in Berlin and Munich and played in Israel and then Indonesia. |
| 1:26.4 | So he has seen a lot of spots of the world. |
| 1:30.8 | It's married now. |
| 1:32.6 | So there's a lot of life that's taking places. |
| 1:36.3 | I assume you probably feel the same way I do, but when you start talking about he's |
| 1:41.3 | retiring from playing and he's been, |
| 1:46.1 | you know, playing professionally for 15, 16 years, he's kind of like, |
| 1:49.1 | wait a minute, like he's not that old, but life moves fast. |
| 1:55.3 | And you just going back to when, |
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