When Notre Dame women’s coach Muffet McGraw got the phone call last week that she would be named to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, she was instantly overcome and wanted to weep.
When seven-time NBA All-Star Tracy McGrady got the news, his eyes so gushed over with tears that he fumbled through about every app on his phone before he opened the right one to make a call to his wife.
“I never had the opportunity to play for a championship, but this is my championship,” he said.
Among others similarly moved, including former Connecticut star Rebecca Lobo and current Harlem Globetrotters owner Mannie Jackson, sat Kansas coach Bill Self.