OKLAHOMA CITY – His roots may be in football, but Barry Switzer also has some skin in the NBA game.
An absolute legend in Oklahoma, Switzer attended this past Wednesday’s game between the Dallas Mavericks and Oklahoma City Thunder at the Paycom Center. After he left his suite to go down a hallway to conduct an interview with Mavs.com, one-by-one fans kept rushing up to him to get a photo, or just to say hello or reminisce about the good old days.
For Switzer, the adulation comes with the territory of being the football coach at Oklahoma University from 1973-’88, and of leading the Sooners to national titles in 1974, ’75 and ’85.