The Final Four Legacy Court is part of the NCAA’s Legacy Project initiative — funding granted to the tournament’s host cities each year.
The new court is already being used by many aspiring basketball players, said Omar Narvaez, Dallas’ deputy mayor pro tem. On opening day, 50 to 70 people showed up to the court to hang out, play basketball and run through drills, he said.
The concept of bringing a new outdoor court into the community — near L.G. Pinkston High School and C.F. Carr Elementary School — has been in the works for a while, he added. “We had grown men here that were 40, 50 years old that had tears in their eyes because they always dreamed of a basketball court but never thought it would happen,” he said.
“I’ve never seen that kind of a court before with that kind of a surface on it,” Baker said. “It’s actually, I think, perfect for an area like this.”
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