Tweets and Photos from the Dean Smith Celebration

Here's the view from inside the Smith Center at the Dean Smith celebration. pic.twitter.com/xgRhKhyQ0w

— UNC-Chapel Hill (@UNC) February 22, 2015

Approximately 200 former Tar Heel lettermen are in attendance today.

— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 22, 2015

The crowd is filing in for the Dean Smith celebration. pic.twitter.com/iEjSmWv7ph

— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 22, 2015

Cunningham: “I know one person who wouldn’t enjoy today, and that’s Dean Smith. He never liked the focus being on him."

— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 22, 2015

Cunningham: Smith showed over and over again that one person can make a difference and I should follow in his footsteps. "Thanks, Coach."

— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 22, 2015

Mickey Bell delivering his comments on Coach Smith. @TarHeelPhoto pic.twitter.com/aBy7VY0dsG

— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 22, 2015

A tearful Bell is pleased with the tributes to Smith since his death, wonders how to explain that Smith was better as a person than a coach.

— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 22, 2015

Phil Ford pic.twitter.com/Kuq5tutKJ0

— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 22, 2015

Ford: “If there’s a model of how we should live our lives, we need look no further” than Smith.

— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 22, 2015

Brad Daugherty delivers his memories of Coach Smith pic.twitter.com/Sws44f78BA

— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 22, 2015

Daugherty: “Coach Smith believed more in me than I did in myself."

— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 22, 2015

Daugherty: We all have a tremendous challenge ahead - to emulate Smith in our own lives.

— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 22, 2015

Montross points to his fellow former Tar Heel players in the crowd. pic.twitter.com/ae4cEp3rtn

— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 22, 2015

Here's Eric Montross. "This is very powerful," he says, being able to represent former players. "It's a privilege" to be here.

— Andrew Carter (@_andrewcarter) February 22, 2015

Roy Williams laughs on stage with Eric Montross. pic.twitter.com/FmqUmWl1hN

— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 22, 2015

Antawn Jamison pic.twitter.com/9LMkhADKEO

— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 22, 2015

Jamison is proud to be on Coach Smith’s final teams.

— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 22, 2015

Jamison: Some people say Smith should have won more games "but if you know coach Smith he wasn't about wins and losses."

— Andrew Carter (@_andrewcarter) February 22, 2015

Jamison: We always regretted not delivering another national title to Smith in his final season.

— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 22, 2015

Roy Williams pays tribute to Dean Smith by raising four fingers for Four Corners. @TarHeelPhoto pic.twitter.com/8X7hzS89sI

— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 22, 2015

"Everybody has negatives," Roy says. "Everybody has plusses. Coach Smith has more plusses than anybody I've ever known."

— Andrew Carter (@_andrewcarter) February 22, 2015

"We should all spend time telling people what they truly mean to us," Roy says. Some words to live by there. Life is short, folks.

— Andrew Carter (@_andrewcarter) February 22, 2015

RoyW: "I would like to encourage all of you to tell people what they mean to you” because I never told Coach Smith I loved him.

— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 22, 2015

Roy Williams points to the sky in tribute to Dean Smith. pic.twitter.com/H0ln7djNSw

— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 22, 2015

The program ends with the crowd standing as the UNC Harmonics sing “Hark the Sound"

— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 22, 2015

Crowd today for the Dean Smith memorial was estimated at about 12,000.

— Andrew Carter (@_andrewcarter) February 22, 2015

And that's it. Really beautiful ceremony here today. Touching and powerful. Will have a story up later.

— Andrew Carter (@_andrewcarter) February 22, 2015