As the 81st NBA campaign tipped-off this week, the ACC released its annual list of former conference players whose name's appeared on opening day rosters across the league's 30 teams, and it totals 80 players.

Seventeen of the 18 (Notre Dame) ACC teams have at least one player on an NBA roster, and that incudes the Orange program with Jerami Grant ( 2012-14) now entering his first season with the Memphis Grizzlies.

Grant, an Olympic gold medalist in 2020 with Team USA, was traded this past June to Memphis from Portland, in a deal involving former All-Star Ja Morant, and is now playing for his sixth NBA franchise over what has suddenly turned into a 13-year pro career.…