2004 staff photo
Royal Haven Baptist Church gym, where the Dallas Mavericks held training camp and practiced throughout their first season, 1980-81.
As the Mavericks finished their first practice at their new, spacious practice facility, the look on assistant coach and year-one Maverick Brad Davis' face was of ecstatic disbelief.
"A little better than Royal Haven Baptist Church," he said.
The church, believe it or not, was not only was where the Mavericks held the franchise's first training camp in Sept. 1980; it's also where they practiced during the entire 1980-81 season.