Heather Lloyd

“I love Indiana,” said McAfee. “It’s my home. I stay here year round and will always stay here.”

“I’m almost like a fourth assistant out there, just giving my insight on what I see,” he says of sitting on the sideline.

“We’re always looking to improve the team and obviously there’s a lot of improving that needs to be done,” Bird said.

“It’s amazing,” said Hunter-Reay. “I’ll be able to bring my kids and my family back here for as long as I’m alive and show them what was achieved here.”

“When you lose something like basketball, which is everything to me—I feel like I took a lot of things for granted in this game,” he says.

For Bird, the commitment to giving goes back to his upbringing in French Lick, “growing up in a small town” where he and his family “didn’t have a lot,” he says. “But we were greatly benefited by gifts.”

Where else are you going to wear all that gold? You know it’s not really your color.

“Players will run through a brick wall for this guy.”