Kalib Boone needed some time to shake his nerves.
Since summer, he had practiced on the maple court with his Oklahoma State men’s basketball teammates, but the rows of orange seats towering around him had been empty. As Boone sat on the bench and prepared to play in front of Cowboy fans for his first exhibition game, he held a towel and anxiously wiped the sweat dripping from his hands.
About a couple hours later, he caught an alley-oop pass from Avery Anderson and smashed the ball through the hoop for his third dunk of the night.