So, whom do you lobby? Do you send an email to your local NBA beat writer? Well, that would be the case if anybody knew who did the electing. To gain enshrinement, you need to be named on 18 of the 24 ballots by the "Honors Committee".
Ben Kerner owned the St. Louis Hawks and is probably most famous for trading the rights to sign Bill Russell to the Boston Celtics in exchange for local hero Ed Macauley.
You left Dave Gavitt off the list, a man who is world famous in Rhode Island. He coached Providence College back in the Ernie D./Marvin Barnes days, founded the Big East, and was coach of the 1980 Olympic basketball team that didn't go to Moscow.
The Big East totally changed basketball from Philly to Boston. The last NCAA champion from the northeast prior to the Big East was LaSalle in 1954. Since the Big East was founded in 1979 they've had five champions. Gavitt gets in for that alone.
Barkley is one of the three best players at his position ever and has two Olympic Gold Medals. And he gets style points for playing power forward at 6'5". And he's a better announcer than Vitale.
Dear Honors Committee,
I am ordinarily not a violent man however if Dick Vitale is voted into the Basketball Hall of Fame I will proceed to murder one person a day chosen completely at random until I am stopped by the authorities.
Sincerely,
Grandcosmo
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The Big East totally changed basketball from Philly to Boston. The last NCAA champion from the northeast prior to the Big East was LaSalle in 1954. Since the Big East was founded in 1979 they've had five champions. Gavitt gets in for that alone.
Barkley is one of the three best players at his position ever and has two Olympic Gold Medals. And he gets style points for playing power forward at 6'5". And he's a better announcer than Vitale.
They made Bob Knight wait a couple of years.
I am ordinarily not a violent man however if Dick Vitale is voted into the Basketball Hall of Fame I will proceed to murder one person a day chosen completely at random until I am stopped by the authorities.
Sincerely,
Grandcosmo
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