With Earl "The Pearl" Monroe, also known as "Black Magic"

Walt "Clyde" Frazier, 7-time All-Star, NBA Champion 1970/1973

Mark Cuban, owner of Dallas Mavericks

Dirk Nowitski, Dallas Mavericks

Steve Nash – 2-time NBA MVP

Amare Stoudemire – Phoenix Suns, All-star center

7' 2" Dikembe Mutombo – NBA Defensive Player of the Year – 4 times

David Robinson (retired) NBA MVP 1995, 10-time All Star, NBA Champion (1999 & 2003)

Grant Hill

Tony Parker – San Antonio Spurs

Phil Jackson – Head Coach, Los Angeles Lakers, and author (good reading)

Head Coach, Los Angeles Clippers, Mike Dunleavy

Rip Hamilton – Detroit Pistons

with former NBA great and Senator, Bill Bradley

with Ahmad Rashad at NY Knicks game

Jimmy Buffet, in Miami (my favorite entertainer)

Best of Best Camp 2006, Guest Speaker Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner

with Christine Brennan – columnist, USA Today, and author

The Mixer at the 2006 NFL Hall of Fame Game

February 17, 2007, Number retired by University of Toledo – first player to do so

From left to right – my daughter Stephanie and her husband, Mike Root – in front of me, my wife Maryalice. To my left, my oldest son, Darrick, Courtney and Andrew – behind Courtney, her fiance, Ray Davis