{"id":281712,"date":"2026-06-29T22:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T22:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/281712\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T22:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T22:47:08","slug":"unc-basketball-dayron-sharpe-to-sign-new-deal-with-brooklyn-nets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/281712\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC basketball: Day&#8217;Ron Sharpe to sign new deal with Brooklyn Nets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 29, 2026, 6:03 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">If you&#8217;re paying attention to the NBA offseason, you likely witnessed some wild and crazy transactions. One former Tar Heel, <a href=\"http:\/\/tarheelswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/tarheels\/mens-basketball\/2026\/04\/15\/unc-basketball-coby-white-nba-play-in-tournament-charlotte-hornets-miami-heat\/89627236007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coby White<\/a>, will now be the Charlotte Hornets&#8217; starting point guard after signing a 3-year deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">NBA free agency officially begins on Tuesday, June 30, with another UNC standout expected to ink a return to his current team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tarheelswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/tarheels\/mens-basketball\/2025\/06\/30\/unc-basketball-dayron-sharpe-brooklyn-nets-nba-contract\/84423842007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Day&#8217;Ron Sharpe<\/a>, a crucial part of North Carolina&#8217;s 2020-21 squad, intends to sign a 2-year, $20 million deal for a <a data-autotag=\"02f2623f-cb52-4847-8284-ff461d726c25\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/brooklyn-nets\/17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> reunion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In order to make this deal happen, Brooklyn declined Sharpe&#8217;s team option so it could sign the <a href=\"http:\/\/tarheelswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/tarheels\/mens-basketball\/2024\/01\/03\/dayron-sharpe-has-impressive-block-on-former-duke-star\/78742270007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">former Tar Heel big man<\/a> to a new contract. This shows the Nets, a young team with plenty of budding star power on their roster, view Sharpe a crucial part of their future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Sharpe enjoyed his best NBA season during Brooklyn&#8217;s 2025-26 campaign, averaging career-highs of 8.7 points, 6.7 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.1 steals across 62 games (seven starts). Sharpe&#8217;s continued emergence was a rare bright spot for the Nets, who suffered through their third-consecutive losing campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">With his expected new deal, <a href=\"http:\/\/tarheelswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/tarheels\/mens-basketball\/2025\/06\/27\/unc-basketball-drake-powell-2025-nba-draft-cameron-johnson-dayron-sharpe\/84376510007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sharpe will team up again with former UNC standout Drake Powell<\/a>, whom Brooklyn acquired via a Draft Day trade with the Atlanta Hawks in 2025. Powell played in 63 contests (24 starts) last season and now, he&#8217;ll get another full campaign with Sharpe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">During Sharpe&#8217;s lone season in Chapel Hill, which coincided with <a href=\"http:\/\/tarheelswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/tarheels\/mens-basketball\/2026\/04\/01\/unc-basketball-roy-williams-tops-list-of-best-coaches-of-21st-century\/89411137007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Williams<\/a>&#8216; final year as head coach, North Carolina played to an 18-11 record and NCAA Tournament appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Now entering his sixth NBA season, Sharpe hopes he can led the Nets back to their first NBA Playoffs appearance in three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Follow us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tarheelswire\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">@TarHeelsWire<\/a>\u00a0on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TarHeelsWire\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of North Carolina Tar Heels news, notes and opinions.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 29, 2026, 6:03 p.m. ET If you&#8217;re paying attention to the NBA offseason, you likely witnessed some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[679,98,100,99,9,24,63,101199,108064,20399,7204,16803,4500,101201,77877,682],"class_list":["post-281712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-accessfree","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sourcetar-heels-wire","tag-sstssportscollegetarheelsmens-basketball","tag-sstsnmens-basketball","tag-tagbrooklyn-nets","tag-tagdayron-sharpe","tag-tagnba","tag-tagnorth-carolina-tar-heels","tag-tagnorth-carolina-tar-heels-mens-basketball","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}