DALLAS – The first item Tim Ervin wanted to check off his bucket list after he received a double lung transplant was to play the national anthem on his trumpet at a professional sporting event.
And thanks in large part to Neil Herskowitz, assistant equipment manager of the Dallas Mavericks, Irvin can now check that off his bucket list.
Ervin and Herskowitz struck up a friendship when they met this past April at a transplant reunion dinner at UT Southwestern in Dallas. Herskowitz found out about Ervin’s budding career playing the trumpet and wanted to help.
“I spoke (at the transplant reunion dinner) and played my trumpet,” Ervin said.