Nothing about Brice Johnson screamed NBA through his first three years at North Carolina.
There was potential, but you never got the impression it would amount to anything, given the limited progress he made from his freshman to junior season. An enormous senior year would ultimately change that perception.
A monster in the middle for a winning Tar Heels squad that reached the national title game, Johnson improved in every major statistical category and now looks much clearer under the NBA lens.
He'll have a real shot at going in the first round of the NBA draft following a breakout final year.
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Both productive and efficient, Johnson averaged a double-double while shooting 61.4 percent from the floor. Among first-round candidates, his 20.4 percent rebounding mark ranks only behind Gonzaga's Domantas Sabonis' 20.7 percent, per Sports-Reference.com.
Johnson even raised his free-throw mark to 78.3 percent after finishing below 68 percent in each of his previous three seasons.
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Article written by Jonathan Wasserman