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Former NBA forward Caron Butler, who played high school basketball with Tony Romo, said the newly retired Dallas Cowboys quarterback could have made it as a professional basketball player if that would have been his focus.
"Believe it or not, man, when we were in the prime of our careers, I used to always talk about it: [Romo] could have easily been a professional basketball player," Butler told ESPN.com's Todd Archer and Marc Stein. "And a lot of people were like, 'Man, you're crazy for saying that,' but Tony could shoot.