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College basketball fans recognized a familiar face while gazing the third season of the hit Netflix series Outer Banks. Armando Bacot — the 6-foot, 11-inch ahead from the North Carolina Tar Heels — made his performing debut in the display.

The sequence is set on Kildare Island in North Carolina’s Outer Banks — a cluster of islands off the coast of North Carolina — where a bunch of Pogues (deficient families) have turn out to be newbie treasure hunters. Their quest for misplaced treasure frequently puts them at odds with the Kooks (rich households), resulting in a large number of conflict all over the collection.

The 3rd season has just about everybody in the collection searching for the lost city of El Dorado, recognized international as the City of Gold. After John B. (Chase Stokes) gets in bother with the legislation (once more), JJ (Rudy Pankow) — ever the planner and fixer — seeks passage to South America from drug smuggler Barracuda Mike. Mando, Barracuda Mike’s employed muscle, is portrayed via the outsized Bacot, who towers over Pankow and Stokes. The scene takes position in episode 8’s “Tapping the Rudder.”

Series writer Josh Pate, a 1992 graduate of the University of North Carolina, pulled some strings to attain a cameo by Bacot, the Tar Heel’s golden boy has the crew report for most double-doubles in program history, in addition to essentially the most profession rebounds. Inside Carolina editor Ross Martin posted screenshots from Bacot’s Instagram video with the 2 stars of the sequence — taken at the Outer Banks set — which is shot in Charleston, South Carolina.

Fans of the sequence took notice of the basketball megastar’s cameo and took to social media to precise their excitement about seeing their favourite basketball player on the Netflix collection.

Here’s to hoping it’s greater than just a cameo.

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