UNC Basketball: Sean May tours Tar Heels' renovated facilties

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Sean May leads fans through UNC’s new state-of-the-art basketball facility

Sean May, former Tar Heels center and current Director of Player Personnel for the North Carolina basketball team, led a guided tour through the newly renovated UNC locker room.

The 2005 Final Four Most Outstanding Player first led cameras through the new dining facility that is used by players and coaches before and after games and practices. The team also opens up the facility to visiting recruits and donors.

The dining area is filled with a number of amenities including a pool table, ping-pong table, video game consoles, televisions and refreshments. The room also contains large murals that represent each decade of the UNC basketball program since 1980.

May then introduced the team’s theater where players and coaches prepare for games and scout their opponents. The theater is also available for players to spend their leisure time watching movies or games.

Around the corner from the theater sits the team locker room. It’s a spacious area that’s covered in Carolina blue and features a massive interlocking “NC” that hangs on the ceiling in the middle of the room. Each player has a large individual space and a pictured name plate on the wall above their locker.

Further into the locker room stands a long row of 12-foot showers and various other amenities to which May said, “I’ve been to a lot of places, played for a lot of teams in the NBA and I’d argue this is probably on par with every NBA locker room that you’ll see.”

Beyond the locker room is the hydro room, where players spend time training and rehabbing in a swimming pool and hot tub.

Perhaps the visual highlight of the entire locker room is the spectacle built around the Michael Jordan shoe collection. The wall contains all 31 of the Hall-of-Fame UNC alum’s Nike shoe line. The display is one-of-a-kind and can only be found in the North Carolina basketball facility.

The tour ends with a hallway dedicated to UNC players who have earned individual honors such as All-American selections, ACC and National Player of the Year awards as well as Olympians and Naismith Hall-of-Famers.

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