Carolina basketball camps offer something for everyone.

When Roy Williams returned as the head basketball coach in 2003, one of his major goals was to reunite a fractured program that had seen the normal migration of former players each summer slow down dramatically.

It had begun after the summer of 2000, when Larry Brown stopped bringing whatever NBA team he was coaching to Chapel Hill for training camp after he wanted to succeed the retiring Bill Guthridge but was not offered the job.

That came full circle this week when the Charlotte Hornets, owned by Michael Jordan, announced they would train at the Smith Center and host the playoff-favored Boston Celtics in an exhibition on September 28. By then, the town will be teeming with Tar Heels back for the summer.

It has been a habit for players to spend the summers in Chapel Hill or settle here instead of returning to their own hometowns. After all, this is where they played for one of the blue blood programs and became part of the famous Carolina basketball family. Why not?

Some of the players have gone a step further and started their own basketball camps. While it may not have been a hard-and-fast rule in the Dean Smith era that the Carolina Basketball School was the only camp at UNC during the summer, Williams has gone the opposite route and allowed former players to hold their own camps.

Once again, why not? Those camps attract more former players as counselors and guest speakers and they rent UNC facilities and gyms, which generates revenue — however small — for the university.

Eric Montross, who has become a UNC icon since he led the 1993 team to the national championship, works for the Rams Club and calls games with Jones Angell on the Tar Heel Sports Network. Big “00” also holds a Fathers’ Day weekend camp for kids and their dads that boasts a waiting list for years.

Hubert Davis had a camp before joining the Carolina staff, Kenny Smith has one, Marcus Ginyard holds a two-day camp where kids who cannot afford it don’t pay, and Danny Green has now what he calls a goal-setting camp.

All really good stuff, all good for the Tar Heels, all good for the town.