You left a big legacy when you left the Spurs," stated Jesús Díaz-Wever, Principal of CC Winn High School, "Everyone in the state, in the nation and the whole world remembers all your accomplishments. Thank you for being here, and today you become a CC Winn Maverick." Even though he said that he remembers almost making a basket for his freshman basketball team and tearing his ACL that year, he came back and became Captain of his City All-Star Team and a McDonald's All-American by never giving up and working hard. In college, he faced the challenge of having to live up to the hype of his high school years, but his sophomore year, the Wildcats made the NCAA Tournament and made the Final Four his junior year behind the tutelage of Lute Olsen, one of the greatest NCAA coaches of all time. The great Billy Packer said that Arizona had the best November and December in the history of college basketball beating Syracuse, Duke, Iowa and Michigan. When he entered the pros, someone handed him a folder with clippings of sports articles where writers highlighted his every flaw, but we all know the rest of the story. So when Sean Elliott tells you to never give up, keep trying your best and good things will happen, he speaks from experience that you can accomplish anything. "My jersey's been retired at my high school, my university and at the AT&T Center and now I think I have the best job in the world. I get to follow around one of the best organizations in basketball and have a court side seat to every game." What he's referring to is his broadcasting job with Fox Sports Southwest beside his partner, play-by-play man Bill Land on local Channel 26. "I like to try to take our fans inside the game a little bit," concluded Elliott, "And give them more insight into the game and I kind of treat it like a film session without the coaches yelling at you (He laughs)!" When asked what he would recommend to a student wanting to go into communications he said he had recently spoken to a media class and told them, "Know what you're talking about and always be prepared. If you can do that you can communicate it, be a fair critic and you can be a fan. This is what I try to do, I try to do both." Overall, much can be said about this man behind the mic and his friend and companion David Singh said it best in his introduction, "He has a lot of success behind him as an athlete, but he is more of a successful person. You can be successful on the court, but we expect you to be even more successful off the court. He's the reason behind why the Spurs won their first title, the "Memorial Day Miracle." He's an NBA Champion, an NBA All-Star a wonderful humanitarian as well as my friend, Sean Elliott." About the Spurs' chances to go back to the NBA Finals, he feels that if they stay healthy, they actually have a better team than last year, "Jeff Ayers who's a power forward who's fast and can run, rebound, he can defend. When you look at Marco Balinelli, where he fits in, he fits our system perfectly. He plays a lot like Manu Ginobili. He's very tricky with the basketball. He's a terrific play-maker and passer, he has a high basketball IQ and he can shoot it. Corey Joseph has gotten better and the Big Three are well rested, except for Tony who's been busy winning the Euro Cup. We need all the support we can get. We love all our fans, especially those in South Texas and Eagle Pass, we have a lot of folks who drive up from here." I asked him to give us a positive message to all of our renal patients as we have many and this is what he said, "Just hang in there, listen to your doctors, take your meds, hopefully if you're on a list for a transplant, good luck, hopefully that’ll happen for you soon. For the people that are early on, the biggest thing is you've got to take care of yourself. Watch what you eat, try to exercise. That's the reason I came back, to let people know that this isn't the end of your life. It's a situation that I was able to overcome it and with perseverance a lot of people can as well." After his highly motivational speech which includes his amazing life's story, he looked at the team and challenged them to work hard, set high expectations and "Don't be afraid to dream big."