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Carolina Insider

RIP Walter Davis, Jalen Washington joins, Campbell FB preview

Carolina Insider

The Varsity Podcast Network

Unc Tar Heels, Jones Angell, Ncaa Football, Unc Sports, Ncaa Basketball, Sports, Unc

4.9908 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Carolina Basketball lost an all-time great as Walter Davis passed away at the age of 69 (0:00)

Both Tar Heel football and basketball will be in action in the coming days...we preview the football game versus Campbell (14:29) and Carolina Basketball's season opener against Radford (31:31)

Jalen Washington joins to preview the upcoming basketball season, talk about his offseason workout routine and eat some cookies (37:58)

ACC Champion Parker Wolfe from Carolina men's cross country joins to talk winning the ACC individual and team title, what goes through his mind while running and distance running smack talk (57:07)

Plus: #5SecondChallenge (1:11:44), RIP Bob Knight (1:29:45) and a controversial football finish from the 1980s in #Storytime (1:44:21)

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0:00.0

Hey guys what's up Jones and Adam here with you we're going to be sending you to the full episode of the

0:06.8

Carolina Insider in just a moment but after Adam and I were done recording the show for today. We learned the news, the passing of Tarheo

0:16.9

great Walter Davis, also of course the uncle of the head coach of Carolina

0:22.1

basketball,

0:22.6

Hubert Davis, Walter Davis, very accomplished player

0:26.8

at Carolina, a very accomplished player in the NBA.

0:30.0

He was an NBA rookie of the year.

0:31.6

He was a multiple time all-Star, and of course hit one of the more famous shots, if not the most famous shot after, well Michael Jordan's game winner, but after that, the near half court shot to finish the 8 point in 17 second

0:47.2

comeback against Duke in 1974.

0:50.5

So Adam, we wanted to begin by talking a little bit about Walter Davis before we send it to the show and again this news coming out after we had recorded and

1:03.7

it's more than it's sad and it's mournful but I think it's

1:09.9

especially hits home due to the connection with with Coach Davis. So you have the

1:15.3

historical aspect of this that a really great person and a great player in

1:19.6

Carolina's history has passed away, but also you have the current connection

1:24.1

with Coach Davis and someone who obviously was incredibly important to him.

1:27.7

Yeah, I'm Packful on so many levels and this season being the 50th anniversary

1:32.0

of that 8 points and 17 seconds game.

1:35.0

That's going to be a team that gets talked about a lot this year and a shot that gets talked about a lot

1:40.1

this year. As you said, one of the just the quintessential shots in

1:44.2

Carolina basketball history but for folks who only knew Walter Davis for that

1:48.4

shot a really accomplished player both in college and in the pros.

1:53.5

And because he was just a little bit before our time,

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