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View all search resultsJoyner to sing at as Pacers-Mavericks
Florence Griffith-Joyner, the late US athletics star who won 1988 Olympic gold and set world records at 100 and 200 meters, will be honored Sunday by the NBAâs Indiana Pacers
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lorence Griffith-Joyner, the late US athletics star who won 1988 Olympic gold and set world records at 100 and 200 meters, will be honored Sunday by the NBA's Indiana Pacers.
Mary Joyner, the daughter of 'Flo-Jo', will sing the US anthem before the Pacers play host to the Dallas Mavericks.
And the Pacers will wear the uniforms Griffith-Joyner designed for them in 1989 for the fifth and final time at home this season. The team wore the outfits from 1990 through 1997.
Joyner was only seven years old when Griffith-Joyner died in 1998 in her sleep at age 38 in what was ruled suffocation during an epileptic seizure.
'The national anthem meant so much to my mother,' Joyner said. 'And, not only are the Pacers honoring her, but they are honoring her work outside the track world. She loved designing and it means a lot that they're honoring my mother's jersey.
