I had to look him up. I didn't recollect him.
Former player wants arena in Vegas
Updated: December 25, 2013, 1:55 PM ET
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS -- A former NBA player says he wants to build a $1.3 billion arena and hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.
Las Vegas basketball player and businessman Jackie Robinson announced the project this week.
It's tentatively called the All Net Arena and Resort, and would be built on the site of a former water park near the renovated SLS Las Vegas hotel-casino and the Fontainebleau tower.
Robinson says the project is privately funded. He says construction could begin next spring and be completed in 2016.
The 22,000-seat stadium would be the second new arena on the tourist corridor.
MGM Resorts International is partnering with sports and entertainment promoter AEG on another arena on the other side of the Strip.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson_(basketball)
Jackie Robinson (born May 20, 1955) is an American former professional
basketball player.
A 6'6"
forward from
UNLV, Robinson played in the
NBA from 1978 to 1982 as a member of the
Seattle SuperSonics,
Detroit Pistons, and
Chicago Bulls. He averaged 3.8
points per game in his NBA career and won an
NBA Championship with Seattle in 1979.
Jackie Robinson
1979-80
Jackie was born in 1955, the same year another Jackie Robinson won his only World Series ring. Twenty-four years later, the former UNLV forward got a ring, too, playing 12 games for NBA champion Seattle Supersonics. But he played just 10 more games in the NBA. Jackie broke neither color barriers nor opposing defenses, with a career scoring average of 3.8 points.