North Carolina is hiring longtime NBA agent Jim Tanner as its general manager for men’s basketball, less than one month after coach Hubert Davis said that the “old model for Carolina basketball just doesn’t work.”
Tanner is the president and founder of Tandem Sports & Entertainment, an agency with a long list of clients in the NBA, WNBA and in the broadcasting space. He is a North Carolina native who graduated from UNC in 1990 before attending law school at the University of Chicago. Tanner founded Tandem Sports & Entertainment in 2013, going on to represent more than 70 NBA players — including 17 former UNC players.
“Both of my kids and I went to Carolina and we owe so much as a family to this university,” Tanner said in a statement Tuesday. “This is such an exciting opportunity and I couldn’t be more thrilled. The landscape of college basketball has changed dramatically in a short period of time with NIL, collectives and the transfer portal. It’s a highly-competitive and constantly-evolving environment. I look forward to using my 28 years of experience recruiting and representing players to help position UNC as strategic, adaptive and…
