Daily News | Philadelphia Black Basketball Hall of Fame to induct a huge class
So, you ask Philadelphia Black Basketball Hall of Fame honcho Mo Howard, can he reveal who decides the inductees? Some other names on the selection committee?
Due to a couple of years of being held back by the pandemic, this Hall of Fame, started in 2017, is inducting a monster class of 2022 at a sold-out banquet late Saturday afternoon that is sure to last into the evening.A quick scan of the list shows the vast majority of inductees are recognizable to even casual local hoop fans. And Hall of Fame honchos clearly got it right getting in several longtime influential community contributors.
What he meant was that John Chaney was offered no Big 5 scholarships the year he was Public League player of the year, before going to college at Bethune-Cookman and going on to star professionally in the Eastern League at a time the NBA had quotas for the number of Black players on a team. “We call them ‘Friends of the Hall of Fame’ because they befriended us – they held the door open so that we could come through,” Howard said of the white inductees. “That was vitally important to the elevation of Black basketball in the city.”“There is the Black community, and there is our basketball community,” Howard said, noting that the overall basketball community “is entrenched in this town. We know each other, respect each other. I dare say we love each other.
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