Thurl Bailey is a retired NBA player. Over his 12-year career Baily played power forward and center for the Utah Jazz and Minnesota Timberwolves. Throughout his career Baily has made community outreach a huge part of his life. He coached several basketball camps for young kids. These activates have earned him several community and leadership awards including the NBA’s prestigious... read full bio
Brent Barry is a retired NBA player. Barry played as a shooting guard for six different NBA teams, the Los Angeles Clippers, the Miami Heat, the Chicago Bulls, the Seattle SuperSonics, the San Antonio Spurs, and the Houston Rockets. He won two NBA championships with the San Antonio Spurs. Barry is an NBA All-Rookie Second Team and NBA Slam Dunk... read full bio
Dave Bing is a retired NBA player and former mayor of Detroit, Michigan. After being drafter 2nd overall in the draft, Bing played twelve seasons as a guard for the Detroit Pistons, Washington Bullets, and Boston Celtics. Bing is a seven-time NBA all-star player and winner of the Most Valuable Player Award. After his retirement he found Bing Steel that... read full bio
Rolando Blackmon is a retired NBA player. He was drafter number nine overall by the Dallas Mavericks. He was the first Panamanian-born player in the NBA. In his eleven season with the Mavericks, Blackmon went to the playoffs six times and was named a four-time all-star player. Blackmon spent the last two years of his NBA career with the New... read full bio
Sam Cassell is a retired NBA player and current assistant coach for the Los Angeles Clippers. He was a first round draft pick for the Houston Rockets. Cassell started his career with a bang, helping Houston take back-to-back NBA championships. After bouncing around to half a dozen teams, he landed with the Boston Celtics for his last season, leading the... read full bio
Joe Barry Carroll is a retired basketball player. After leaving the NBA Carroll became a wealth advisor, philanthropist, artist, and author of the memoir Growing Up... In Words and Images. He was the number one draft pick for the Golden State Warriors. Carroll is an NBA all-star player. Carroll received the Hank Aaron Champion for Justice award from the Atlanta... read full bio
Maurice Cheeks is a retired NBA playing who currently serves as assistant coach for the Oklahoma City Thunder. Cheeks was drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers and played for them for eleven seasons. After leaving Philadelphia he played for the San Antonio Spurs, the New York Knicks, the Atlanta Hawks, and the New Jersey Nets. Cheeks is a NBA champion and... read full bio
Derrick Coleman is a retired NBA player. He was drafted first overall by the New Jersey Nets, had a solid rookie season and was awarded the NBA Rookie of the Year Award. Coleman helped build the new team taking them to the playoffs three years in a row and winning was chosen as an NBA All-Star player twice. In his... read full bio
Billy Cunningham is a retired NBA player. He was drafted fifth overall by the Philadelphia 76ers. He played with the team for eight seasons winning the NBA championship in his second year. Cunningham played his next two seasons with the Carolina Cougars before returning to the 76ers. Cunningham was a four-time NBA All-Star. After retiring he became the head coach... read full bio
Terry Cummings is a retired National Basketball Association player. He played for 18 seasons with seven different teams. He is a two time NBA All-Star player. Born and raised in Chicago, Terry went to DePaul University where he averaged 16.4 points per game. After leaving DePaul Cummings entered the NBA Draft where he was taken 2nd overall by the San... read full bio
Otis Birdsong played for twelve seasons with the NBA, appearing in four NBA All-Stars Games. While attending the University of Houston, he became the first sophomore in the school’s history to achieve 1,000 career points. Duringhis first year as an SWC player, Birdsong led the league in scoring, finishing eighth nationally with a 26.1 average. He was named a Consensus... read full bio
Tony Delk enjoyed a ten-year NBA career, with teams like the Charlotte Hornets, Golden State Warriors, Sacramento Kings, Phoenix Suns, Boston Celtics, Dallas Mavericks, Atlanta Hawks, and Detroit Pistons. While he was playing at the University of Kentucky, the team reached the Final Four and Elite Eight, in addition to the SEC Championship and SEC Tournament Championship. Delk also led... read full bio
In his four years as an NCAA college basketball player, Southwest Conference Hall of Famer Sidney Moncrief led the University of Arkansas Razorbacks to the Final Four, and a win in the NCAA Consolation Game versus #6 Notre Dame. He became the school’s all-time leading scorer. Moncrief was a part of “The Triplets,” along with head coach Eddie Sutton and... read full bio
Walter Bond is an American former NBA player. Walter Bond, like many other young men in Chicago, aspired to play basketball for the NBA. He rose from being a reserve player coming off the bench to become the first rookie free agent to start for the Dallas Mavericks by overcoming injuries and other difficulties with uncommon tenacity. The strong values... read full bio
Sabrina Ionescu, a professional basketball player for the New York Liberty of the WNBA, has been dubbed the future of basketball in New York. Sabrina played for the University of Oregon before joining the New York Liberty, where she amassed a long list of achievements, including being chosen as the AP Women's Basketball Player of the Year by a unanimous... read full bio
Renee Montgomery, a two-time WNBA champion, sports pundit and trailblazing businesswoman, made history as a player and is still doing so today. Montgomery led her team to two WNBA Championship victories throughout the course of her eleven-year professional basketball career. She was also selected as an All-Star and the sixth Woman of the Year. Montgomery left the league and shifted to team... read full bio
Grant Williams, a professional basketball player, is a leader both on and off the court. He has won the SEC Player of the Year award twice in a row and serves as Vice President of the National Basketball Players Association. He is regarded as one of the best players in the history of his college team by its supporters and the... read full bio
College basketballer Rori Harmon has established herself as a rising star in her field and an honorable influence in her neighborhood. Rori amassed 2,572 points, 745 assists, and 700 steals in 146 games while playing high school basketball for Cypress Creek in Houston, Texas. Rori led the Texas Longhorns to a 29-7 record in her debut season of competition, becoming one... read full bio
A renowned former college basketball coach, Sherri Kay Coale. For an astounding 25 years, from 1996 to 2021, she had a huge influence as the head coach of the University of Oklahoma Sooners women's basketball team. Women's basketball Hall of Fame inductee Coale was recognized for her outstanding contributions to the game in 2016. Coale was raised in Healdton, Oklahoma, where... read full bio
Oscar Robertson is a former American NBA player who spent his career with the Cincinnati Royals and the Milwaukee Bucks. Robertson played the shooting guard/point guard position, and he went down as on of the greatest payers in NBA history. Robertson is a twelve-time All-Star, eleven-time member of the All-NBA Team, and one-time winner of the MVP award in fourteen... read full bio
