Basketball Hall of Fame

those fans might not be aware of some of these facts! To find out everything that there is to know about this legendary team, all you have to do is read along with our nine things that you didn’t know! Number Nine: The Original Lakers The Lakers basketball team emerged in 1946, although they went by a different name back then. The franchise was started by a Mr. C. King Boring under the name of the Detroit Gems. They played only a single season in the NBL before they were purchased by Ben…

Hall of Fame basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is NBA’s all-time leading scorer. He has won 6 NBA titles and 6 League MVP’s. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has done many remarkable things. He played in the NBA, had many different accomplishments, did many things after retirement, and much more. Some of the things that made Kareem Abdul-Jabbar who he is today is from his childhood. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was born on April 16, 1947. His birth name was Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. When he was young he…

From the 1970s 56 players were inducted into the Hall of Fame for baseball but there are hundreds inductees from all sports that came from the 1970s. The 1970s was a great time for many athletes in their playing days. The 1970s, made it hard for athletes to play due to the press, sports have accommodated many great athletes, and many things that influenced the decade like basketball, football and boxing. In the 1970s, it was harder for people of great athletic ability to play sports due to the…

A hero is someone who is both courageous and brave. Like basketball and baseball hall of fames there should be a hero hall of fame. Three people who should be in the Hero Hall of Fame are Rosa Parks, Russell Wilson and Rob O’Neill. The first person who should be in the Hero Hall of Fame is Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks accomplished many things during her lifetime. She was a civil rights activist and changed the lives of many people. Rosa Parks played a big role in fighting racism in America. Rosa…

The first artwork featuring Virna Lisi represented the women’s movement that caught attention from the public. That particular movement wanted to get rid of women’s traditional roles and make them become more like their gender counterparts, men. I feel like this shouldn’t be a thing in today’s society. I believe men and women should be unique in their own genders as that’s how we were created to be. The second artwork to the right of that is a showing of Roy Cohn wearing a halo pinned on his…

in the basketball and shoes business. Even though he never played basketball, he is in the basketball hall of fame. Chuck Taylor is in the basketball hall of fame because he created the first high-top basketball shoes. Chuck Taylor is mainly well known mainly because of his shoes, “Converse All Star Sneakers”. Many wonder why Chuck Taylor is so famous? Chuck Taylor was hired by Converse in 1922 to be apart of there ‘All Star” sales team. He would have to travel around the world for basketball…

long distance medal for swimming 1.5 miles in Port Credit River, Ontario. Winnie is mostly known for her skills in swimming but was nominated for Canada’s all-around Athlete of the Year due to her swimming, diving, softball, track and field, and basketball, tennis, along with volleyball and hockey participation. Winnie is considered to be a Great Canadian sports hero because she completed so many firsts as not only a woman but a person in general. The first National Amateur Athlete Association…

divorcing twice, William Ward and Robert Eldridge. Wilma’s parents were Ed and Blanche Rudolph. Some of Rudolph’s hobbies included running track, and basketball. Rudolph died on November 12, 1994, at the age of 54, after losing a battle with cancer. Wilma is remembered in the United States Olympic Hall of Fame and the Track and Field Hall of Fame. She was also remembered as the fastest women in track, and she was a huge inspiration to many other…

kid called duck on the rock. This involved throwing balls into empty baskets. He realized he could put the baskets at each end of the floor thus allowing his new game to take form. This was the beginining of the game of basketball. In December of 1981 the very first game of basketball was played. Naishmith never wanted to draw attention to himself. His students thought they should name the game Naismith-ball. Naismith felt the name basket-ball would be much better…

Football and basketball are probably the most popular sports in America, alongside a few others. During the playoffs and the Super Bowl in football, and the time of march madness and the championship in basketball, families and friends meet together and watch the games as a group. The sports go head to head as the best sports of America, but a fair amount believes basketball to be the better of the two. Basketball is definitely better than football. Admittedly, NFL games have set schedules.…