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Five players have also been inducted as coaches: John Wooden in 1973, Lenny Wilkens in 1998, Bill Sharman in 2004, Tom Heinsohn in 2015, and Bill Russell in 2021. Of the inducted players, 30 were also members of teams that have been inducted into the Hall as units . Zack Clayton, Tarzan Cooper, William "Pop" Gates, and John Isaacs were members ...
NBA champion as a player with the 76ers in 1967. NBA champion as a coach with the Bucks in 1971. Six-time NBA All-Star. 2022: Delmer "Del" Harris: Coach or assistant coach at the collegiate, professional and international levels from 1965 to 2012, including six NBA teams. Named 1995 Coach of the Year with the Los Angeles Lakers. John Bunn Award ...
Jerry Ray Lucas (born March 30, 1940) is an American former basketball player. He was a nationally awarded high school player, national college star at Ohio State, and 1960 gold medal Olympian and international player before later starring as a professional player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a collegian, Lucas led the Ohio ...
10. Hakeem Olajuwon. The Nigerian-American Hakeem gave almost 18 years to the NBA, having played for the Houston Rockets and Toronto Raptors. He led the Rockets to back-to-back championship titles ...
David Bing (born November 24, 1943) is an American former professional basketball player, businessman, and politician who served as the 74th mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 2009 to 2014. He is a member of the Democratic Party . After starring at Syracuse University, Bing played 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a point ...
John Joseph Havlicek (often nicknamed Hondo) ( / ˈhævlɪtʃɛk / HAV-lih-chek; April 8, 1940 – April 25, 2019) [1] was an American professional basketball player who spent his entire career with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A swingman, Havlicek played collegiate basketball for the Ohio State Buckeyes from ...
The Cleveland Cavaliers, often referred to as the Cavs, are an American professional basketball team based in Cleveland. The Cavaliers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference. The team began play as an expansion team in 1970, along with the Portland Trail Blazers and ...
Art Tatum, at the Vogue Room, New York (between 1946 and 1948) The city of Toledo, Ohio, the largest city and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, is the birthplace and home of several notable individuals. This is a list of people from Toledo, Ohio and includes people that were born or lived in Toledo, Ohio and the surrounding area. Individuals included in this listing are people presumed to ...