1997–98 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team players, Antawn Jamison, Vince Carter, Ed Cota, Shammond Williams, Ademola Okulaja and Makhtar N'Diaye rotated positions in the starting five. !colspan=6 style="background:#56A0D3; color:#FFFFFF;"| Non-Conference Regular Season !colspan=12 style="background:#56A0D3; color:#FFFFFF;"| ACC Regular Season !colspan=6 style="background:#56A0D3; color:#FFFFFF;"| ACC Tournament !colspan=6 style="background:#56A0D3; color:#FFFFFF;"| NCAA Tournament 1997–98 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team The 1997–98 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1997–98 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Their head coach was Bill Guthridge. The team played its home games in the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina as
National Basketball Players Association National Basketball Players Association The National Basketball Players Association (the NBPA) is a labor union that represents basketball players in the National Basketball Association (NBA). It was founded in 1954, making it the oldest trade union of the four major North American professional sports leagues. However, the NBPA did not get recognition by the NBA team owners until ten years later. Its offices are located in the historic Park and Tilford Building in New York City. It was briefly a trade association after dissolving as a union during the 2011 NBA lockout. Bob Cousy of the Boston Celtics began to