Trent Morgan s return to southwestern Lonoke County has gone as smoothly as he envisioned it would when he agreed to become England s boys basketball coach last spring.
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.