Shaler Halimon, one of the original Portland Trail Blazers and longtime TriMet bus driver, dead at 76
Updated Apr 20, 2021;
Posted Apr 20, 2021
Shaler Halimon was one of the original Portland Trail Blazers and had a long career with TriMet.
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Shaler Halimon, one of the original Portland Trail Blazers and a longtime fixture in the team’s alumni program, died this week. He was 76.
Halimon played five years in the NBA and ABA, earning the nickname “Houdini” during a stint with the Chicago Bulls, but was best known in Portland for playing on the Blazers’ inaugural team in 1970-71 and for a long and distinguished career as a bus driver with TriMet.