Basketball Hall of Fame

The Power Of Yao

With the likes of guard Allen Iverson and center Shaquille O'Neal in the mix, the 2016 Basketball Hall of Fame class was arguably the best to ever be enshrined into Springfield, Massachusetts, but there was one controversial inductee among the group. For nine years center Yao Ming pounded in the low post for the Houston [...]

By | 2016-09-12T22:42:34+00:00 September 13th, 2016|Categories: National Basketball Association|Tags: , , |2 Comments

Springfield Welcomes The Diesel

No matter what the sport is, when a player is the first overall pick a draft, there is an immense amount of pressure that is thrust onto him. In 1992, the Orlando Magic made center Shaquille O'Neal the first overall pick of the NBA Draft, and he immediately gave professional basketball in the State of [...]

By | 2016-09-10T22:21:45+00:00 September 11th, 2016|Categories: National Basketball Association|Tags: , |0 Comments