Hubert Davis was part of one of the premier college basketball teams in the country. He played in a Final Four. He was a 12-year NBA veteran, who holds the second-best NBA 3-point shooting percentage (44.09) of all time. Yet he rarely received much attention.
Even in the biggest moment of his career — delivering the game-winning free throws in the final seconds of Game 5 of the 1994 Eastern Conference semifinals — Davis was the third lead character, the beneficiary of referee Hue Hollins’ controversial foul call on Scottie Pippen.
It has been 28 years since so much focus was directed on Davis — the first-year head coach at North Carolina — and he wanted none of it after knocking off Saint Peter’s to advance to the Final Four.
“It’s them, it’s them,” said Davis, crying and pointing to his players after the Elite Eight win. “I just desperately wanted this for them. I love these guys so much. They trusted me in my first year.
