SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — While talking with an executive from The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, he heard I am from Chicago and joked, “Yeah, we have a few Chicagoans represented here.”
Yeah, some guy named Michael Jordan, for sure. Not to mention Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman and others with ties to the Windy City who call this home, enshrined among the greats of the game.
The Basketball Hall of Fame is the sport’s most complete library, a long-standing tribute to everything and everyone hoops related. Dedicated to physician Dr. James Naismith, who invented the sport in Springfield, the Hall of Fame inducted its first class in 1959, though the
