Basketball’s Hall of Fame Not For NBA Only
Sure, the NFL has started and many of your coworkers will be talking about football this morning, but Michael Jordan was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame over the weekend and his speech was definitely worthy of conversation. As a player, Jordan often took the high road in the interviews, acting as humbly as the greatest basketball player of his era can act. His Hall of Fame speech, however, was directed at everyone who stood in his way of greatness and fueled his fire. I thought it came off as a little bitter, but you can be the judge (video below).
This Dinner Topic is about understanding the Basketball Hall of Fame. Unlike baseball’s Hall of Fame which is focused solely around Major League Baseball, basketball’s shrine includes the NBA, women’s basketball, college basketball, and people who contributed to the game in a way that helped develop the sport as a whole. That’s why you’ll see names like Jim Calhoun, Gail Goodrich, and even the Harlem Globetrotters enshrined alongside Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain. Located in Springfield, Massachusetts, the Basketball Hall of Fame has been relocated several times over the years to larger sites due to its popularity, and it still holds plenty of history about a sport that started with ladders and peach baskets.
Read on:
hoophall.com – Hall of Fame list (beginning in 1959)
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