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By Mark West
Larry Little is an avid basketball fan in general, and a huge UNC Tarheel fan in particular. He has videos of UNC games dating from 1979. In October Of last year, Larry got a rare opportunity to visit the hallowed halls of UNCs home court, the Dean Smith center. I was with Larry on that occasion, and I witnessed the excitement of his thrill of a lifetime. Larry was as giddy as kid on Christmas morning. The pictures on the walls in the hallway of the Dean Smith center came to life for him. I, not being as big of a fan, was Larry’s classroom and he was the instructor.

He tells me about this guy and that guy. “This is Michael Jordan” he says, he played on the 1982 championship team. This one played in 1987, here’s Julius Peppers who now plays football for the Carolina Panthers, “He played both basketball and football for UNC in 2000” Larry says, and “UNC went to the final 4 that year, what a great athlete Julius Peppers is” he says. In the trophy room of the Dean Smith center is where Larry took over one hundred pictures of the history of UNC basketball, including pictures of the bust of the great Dean Smith himself.