Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Dayjaun Anderson was in middle school when he learned about his grandfather’s legacy as the greatest basketball player to come out of Dayton.
Anderson heard stories of how Dwight Anderson—aka “The Blur”—led Roth High School to a state championship as a sophomore in 1976. Of how he averaged 38 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists as a senior. Of how he starred at Kentucky, USC and in the Continental Basketball Association. And of how he dominated every playground court in Dayton.
“Everybody tells me he was the best out there at anytime, anywhere he was,” Anderson said. “They told me how fast he was and how his jumping ability was and how sometimes they see that in me.”
Then Anderson got to know “The Blur” as more than a basketball legend. “From that first day I saw him, we clicked and I meshed with him,” he said.
Now Dayjaun Anderson is working to carry on the legacy of his late grandfather. Anderson, a senior at Ponitz, announced Tuesday his commitment to play college basketball at Wright State, the first school to offer him a scholarship.
