How Ramon Sessions’ name was recently set in stone many miles from Myrtle Beach

Plans are in place for Ramon Sessions’ name to adorn a structure in Myrtle Beach.

Already, though, the NBA veteran is the namesake for another building many miles away from his hometown.

Sessions recently attended a ceremony at his alma mater, University of Nevada, Reno, in which his name was formally attached to a practice facility for the Wolf Pack men’s basketball team.

The building formerly housing the Lombardi Recreation Center now is the “Ramon Sessions Basketball Performance Center” thanks to his $1 million donation that helped fund the project, which cost $3 million, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal.

“Dreams do come true,” the former Wolf Pack star said at the ceremony last Friday, the same day he wanted inducted into the school’s athletics hall of fame, according to the Gazette-Journal, “and this is a dream for me.”

If plans hold true, Sessions’ name will also adorn a facility here.

Just over a year ago, Sessions announced that he is donating $250,000 toward the building of a new home for the Boys & Girls Club of the Grand Strand, a project that was submitted to the Myrtle Beach Community Appearance Board last month.

Inside the facility, a new gymnasium will be named “The Ramon Sessions Basketball Center.”

“It’s crazy. You would think this is how it was going to be planned out,” Sessions, now 31, told The Sun News last September. “But we all know in the NBA you never know what to expect. But it’s just perfect timing for this. It’s just coming together real well. To be honest, I was 22, 23 and I said by 30 I wanted to have all this stuff going and it just all happened all at the same time.”

Sessions, who signed with the New York Knicks this summer and is entering his 11th season in the NBA, annually holds a basketball camp in Myrtle Beach and does a turkey drive ahead of Thanksgiving in his home neighborhood of Racepath.

He also holds an annual basketball camp at University of Nevada, Reno.

“It says Sessions on the back of my jersey, but I do it for Myrtle Beach,” Sessions said last year.

And now Reno, too.

This story was originally published September 22, 2017 at 5:13 PM with the headline "How Ramon Sessions’ name was recently set in stone many miles from Myrtle Beach."