When UNC basketball player Evan Smith runs out onto the floor of the Dean Smith Center, he wears the number 32 across his back. But as the last-ever varsity walk-on from the now-defunct JV basketball team, Smith’s journey to Roy Williams Court wasn’t quite like theirs.
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“The Wild West:” Five years in, a look at NIL
By Annika Duneja When the U.S. Supreme Court legalized Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) in 2021, people knew…