Name one Dallas basketball tradition, Budman. You want better? BRING IT!
SMU? Nope.
TCU? Nope.
ABA? Nope. Lost their team to San Antonio of all places. (I was at the first Spurs preseason game in San Antonio. Their star was Bob Netolicky!)
NBA? Now that they're winning. Only had a franchise since 1980. And though they've had some talent, that talent has fallen into the same cesspool of felons that the Boycows have so richly rewarded Texas with.
Texas has really NEVER been a basketball state, though Houston has had a rather rich hoops history, dating back to the early 60s. Rice, UH, duh! Chit, even Houston Baptist had a couple of NBA players graduate their program. (One of them wound up dead in a Houston jail cell when the cops couldn't tell the difference between intoxication and epilepsy.) Houston Rockets needed a few years to gain acceptance, but yeah, them too. (2 Rings, biyatch!) Next to Houston, though, I guess you'd have to pick Austin (UT, back in the day when they had Slater Martin.) or even Waco. Baylor actually played for a national NCAA title once upon a time.
Dallas is a bandwagon town for hoops. If they win, the folks will support them. Kids in Dallas don't want to grow up to be Jason Terry. They want to be Josh Hamilton, or another felon. Good thing there's fighting in hockey, because the Stars could have done a lot better than Evangelist-land when they went broke in Minnesota.
That's what I base it on.
Why would you think otherwise? Because of Mark Aguirre? Roy Tarpley? Popeye Jones?
OK. You're right. They're HOF dudes, each and every one!
