Cabot girls basketball Coach Jay Cook and boys Coach Logan Bailey are both coming off successful 2022-23 seasons, but what-if scenarios seemingly followed them well into the offseason.
UA signee given first Hall honor
The names of NBA All-Stars litter the temporary banners hanging on the far side of the court at Little Rock Southwest’s Gryphon Arena.
Karl-Anthony Towns, Damian Lillard, Joel Embiid, Anthony Davis, Jaylen Brown, Bam Adebayo they’re just a handful of the 100 or so eventual NBA Draft picks who once played in the Real Deal in the Rock.
None of them, however, are Real Deal Hall of Famers. In fact, nobody held that honor until Friday night, when tournament founder Bill Ingram presented Magnolia’s Derrian Ford with a plaque, making Ford the inaugural inductee.
It had been nearly three months since Maumelle manhandled Vilonia twice in five days in early December, and Vilonia Coach Troy Campbell said it was obvious something had to change.