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Sean May's talking a good game and might actually get back on a basketball court.

The former UNC star is recovering from microfracture surgery (coincidentally, former teammate Rashad McCants also underwent the same procedure post-UNC) and is preparing to join the Charlotte Bobcats for their summer league in Las Vegas (there's another coincidence, MJ's team will toil in Vegas).

We're going to spend a lot of time next ACC season comparing Tyler Hansbrough to the all-time greats of the game. Here's a guess that May, the MOP of the 2005 NCAA Final Four, will be overlooked in that conversation because his pro career, thus far, has been an injury-filled bust.

May's NBA shortcomings shouldn't change the fact that we has a more dominant — not productive, but dominant — college player than Hansbrough, but undoubtedly they will.

Actually, May played an integral part in the legend of Psycho T. If May had returned to Chapel Hill for his senior season, as he had planned, Hansbrough would have spent the 2005-06 season as May's Paduan learner.

Instead, Ray Felton convinced May to leave and the rest is history.