Not only bigger in Texas. The biggest.
The NBA All-Star Game - won by the East 141-139 - at Cowboys Stadium set a record for the most-attended basketball game ever with a crowd of 108,713 people filling the stadium Sunday night.
"It's meant to be a party," Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said. "We say we're going to throw the biggest party like you've never seen before and that's exactly what it turned out to be."
Cuban was joined at midcourt by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones at the end of the third quarter to announce the record figure. The record was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records, and there were already T-shirts celebrating the mark.
Jones spearheaded the building of the $1.2 billion stadium that opened last year in Arlington, a city of more than 370,000 people located between Dallas and Fort Worth.
The crowd for the second NBA All-Star Game in the Dallas area was larger than any of the NFL games played in the stadium. The Cowboys drew 105,121 for their first regular-season game against the Giants in September.
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