Horacio Llamas enters the history books as the first Mexican-born player in the NBA
By Ed Odeven, Fastbreak Magazine
Originally published: September/October, 1997
Horacio Llamas has always beena big fella (un hombre grande). One with equally large aspirations. As a youngster growing up in Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico, he kept telling his parents that he would make them very proud.
"Horacio always said he was going to be somebody," his father, Horacio Llamas Tirado said recently through a translator.
Just how big Horacio would become remained a question mark to his family.