Former Philadelphia's 76ers Darryl Dawkins, center, receives a tribute before the match against Bilbao Basket, during the NBA Global basketball game, in Bilbao northern Spain on Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
But former coach Frank Layden says Darryl Dawkins was more than that, even though he played just four games in Utah. He was a "tough guy."
SALT LAKE CITY — For Darryl Dawkins, basketball never stopped being fun, even when the next stop was Pocatello. In Salt Lake with the Harlem Globetrotters for a Valentine’s Day game in 1995, six years after his NBA career expired, I approached him in the locker room.