Day'Ron Sharpe Was Selected In The 2021 NBA Draft By Phoenix As The Twenty Ninth Pick, Was Traded To Brooklyn During The 2021 NBA Draft
As a freshman at North Carolina during the 2020-2021 season Day’Ron Sharpe was an ACC All-Freshman team • Was second in the voting for ACC Freshman of the Year and Sixth Man of the Year (Florida State’s Scottie Barnes won both) • Led the country in offensive rebound percentage (.183) and the ACC in offensive rebounds (3.4 per game) • Tied for the team lead in blocks (26), was second in rebounding (7.6), third in steals (23) and fourth in scoring (9.5) • His 7.0 offensive rebounds per 40 minutes were the most in a season on record by any Tar Heel (Kennedy Meeks had 6.25 offensive rebounds per 40 minutes in 2016-17) • His 15.8 rebounds per 40 minutes were the second-highest on record in a season by a Tar Heel behind only Sean May’s 16.01 in 2004-05 • Led UNC with six defensive player of the game awards (Stanford, at NC State, at Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, Louisville and Florida State in the ACC semifinals) • Led UNC in scoring four times, including at home vs. Notre Dame (25), at Clemson (16), vs. Northeastern (15) and Louisville (21) • Averaged 10.0 points in ACC games • Eighth in the ACC in rebounding • Grabbed 44.5 percent of his rebounds on the offensive boards • Had five or more offensive rebounds seven times • Scored in double figures 12 times (two of last eight games) and had 10 or more boards eight times • Six double-doubles.
Started in place of injured Garrison Brooks and had a season-high six assists to go with 14 points and 10 rebounds vs. Notre Dame in the ACC second round • Seven offensive boards vs. Notre Dame equaled the sixth most ever by a Tar Heel in an ACC Tourney game • Had 11 rebounds vs. Marquette, his second consecutive game with 11 • Game highs in scoring (21) and rebounds (11) and made a season-high 10 field goals (most by a Tar Heel all season) vs. Louisville • Tied his season high with eight offensive rebounds • Team-high 15 points and eight boards vs. Northeastern • Made all five FG attempts, scored 11 points with a game-high nine rebounds in the win at Duke • Grabbed four offensive rebounds that led to six points vs. the Blue Devils • The only Tar Heel to score in double figures at Clemson (16) • Seven rebounds, four assists, played solid defense against ACC leading scorer Justin Champagnie (helping limit to nine FGA) and was a team-high plus 11 in the win at Pittsburgh • Scored 12 first-half points and finished with a double-double (16/10) in the win over NC State • Made both ends of a 1-and-1 to give Carolina a 69-68 lead it would not relinquish in its win over Syracuse • Season-high 16 rebounds (seven offensive) at Miami – tying the second most ever in a game by a UNC freshman • Named the ACC Freshman of the Week for Dec. 28-Jan. 3 after recording his first ACC double-double with 25 points and 10 rebounds in the 66-65 win over Notre Dame • Scored 19 of his game-high 25 points in the second half (19 of UNC’s 37 second-half points) • The 25 points were the most by a UNC freshman post player since Tyler Hansbrough scored 27 at Duke on 3/4/2006 • With UNC trailing 57-53 he scored six straights points (steal and dunk, offensive rebound slam and two free throws), then gave UNC a 64-63 lead with 1:35 to play on a dunk.
Game-high 11 rebounds (six offensive) in the win over Kentucky • Had 13 points, six rebounds and two steals in just 14 minutes due to foul trouble at Iowa • Led UNC with four assists and added seven rebounds, four blocks and two steals in the win over Stanford • Won his first defensive player of the game award in the win over Stanford • Became the first Tar Heel to ever have seven rebounds, four assists, four blocks and two steals in a game (Danny Green is only other Tar Heel to have four assists, four blocks and two steals in a game; he did that and had four rebounds vs. Valparaiso on 12/20/07) • Became the 11th Tar Heel to record a double-double in his first game when he had 13 points and 10 rebounds vs. Charleston • Joined sophomores Lennie Rosenbluth, Larry Miller, Rusty Clark and Bobby Jones, and freshmen James Worthy, Sam Perkins, Pete Chilcutt, Sean May, Ed Davis and Cole Anthony with double-doubles in their UNC debuts.
“according to his biography on goheels.com”
Turns out Da’ron Sharpe’s freshman season would be his only season before declaring for the 2021 NBA Draft.
Last night Da’ron Sharpe was selected by Phoenix as the 29th pick and then was traded to Brooklyn!
Why?
Phoenix traded his rights to Brooklyn.
“according to an article on goheels.com”