Dick Vitale has been battling most cancers since October and going through his personal mortality during the last couple months. However this week when Baylor came upon he can be within the constructing calling their sport in opposition to Villanova, they took the chance to place collectively an important tribute video about Vitale and his profession. When Vitale came upon he’d be within the constructing for the sport he was so excited he launched this assertion:

“I’m leaping for pleasure understanding I’ll be sitting subsequent to Jon Sciambi and speaking hoops as a substitute of chemotherapy and blood counts,” Vitale mentioned.

Then the video performed…

Thanks, @DickieV. A real legend to the sport of school basketball ??#SicEm | #CultureofJOY ? pic.twitter.com/vcpWVRxyTq

— Baylor Males’s Basketball (@BaylorMBB) December 13, 2021

And he couldn’t include his feelings, trying again at his profession and so grateful for the gesture from Baylor…

.@DickieV was dropped at tears listening to the Baylor-Villanova crowd cheer him on ?? pic.twitter.com/HsZb4pQvx0

— ESPN (@espn) December 13, 2021

Everybody right here at THD is pulling for Dick and hoping he provides the massive C a giant slamma jamma dunkaroo!