Global basketball royalty came to Dallas on Tuesday to pay respects to a good ol’ boy from East Texas.
Yao Ming came from China. Hakeem Olajuwon, Clyde Drexler and Calvin Murphy were among the large contingent from Houston.
There were more basketball hall of famers per square foot at Wilshire Baptist Church than anywhere else on the planet outside of Springfield, Mass.
They came to honor the life of Carroll Dawson, who not only was as Texan as they come but also a basketball legend in the state where he made his lifelong home and touched and influenced just about everybody who played or coached here.