Those 400 or so basketball players … the hundreds of spectators, whose vehicles packed the Carolina Courts parking lot and side streets far beyond … they were just filling a niche, Muggsy Bogues said Saturday.
“It always concerned me that middle school teams in the Charlotte area didn’t have a tournament,” said Bogues, who played 14 seasons in the NBA, including 10 with the Charlotte Hornets.
“I had a vision for how it would all work out,” Bogues said.
And did Saturday’s first Muggsy Bogues Middle School Basketball Tournament fit that vision?
“I think so,” Bogues said with a smile, as he watched the scene at the Indian Trail athletic facility.