Raptors great Chris Bosh headlines 2021 Hall of Fame class
Former Raptors great Chris Bosh has been elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. (Chris Young/CP) | May 16, 2021, 11:48 AM
May 16, 2021, 11:48 AM
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Jay Wright used to sell tickets to games in the long-defunct United States Football League. Ben Wallace was passed over by every NBA team, some of them twice. Yolanda Griffith got a job repossessing cars so she could take care of herself and her infant daughter while playing community college basketball.
For all of them, those days are long gone. Basketball s highest honor has come their way.
By Tim Reynolds - Associated Press - Sunday, May 16, 2021
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Jay Wright was in trouble three years into his tenure at Villanova, with speculation swirling that he would be fired. Ben Wallace was once undrafted and unknown. Chris Bosh’s playing career ended years before he planned. Chris Webber had been a snubbed finalist time and time again.
Turns out, basketball’s highest honor awaited them all.
Wallace, Wright, Bosh and Webber were among the 16 names announced Sunday as this year’s Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement class, a group that also includes Paul Pierce, coaches Rick Adelman and Cotton Fitzsimmons, and WNBA stars Yolanda Griffith and Lauren Jackson.