Unless you spend time in the state, you don't know how deeply basketball took root here. If you get a jones in the summer, you can see some phenomenal basketball. There's the the Greater NC Pro Am at Central, and the Chavis League in Raleigh, where you never know who might stop in. And up in Winston-Salem, they have Hang the Net, which can also draw in a lot of great players.
That's leaving out the hit-or-miss high school events.