Former Laker Gary Payton, who made the basketball Hall of Fame this week, attended the game.
His storied amateur career, in the 1970s, earned him a place in Indiana's Basketball Hall of Fame.
This is exactly what Mayor Dave Bing, a former basketball Hall of Famer and businessman, is proposing.
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"I suppose they could, " added Rick Leddy of the body that governs the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.
The Wiliamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, for example, has been converted into luxury condos by a group in partnership with basketball Hall-of-Famer Magic Johnson.
Mayor Bing, whose 100th day in office is Wednesday, is a legendary pro basketball Hall of Famer who played nine seasons with the Detroit Pistons.
And Nancy Lieberman, a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee who played parts of two seasons in a men's professional league, likewise cheered the move.
The 1995 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee also has coached Indiana, Charlotte and New York in the WNBA, compiling a 167-150 record in 10 seasons.
John Lucaswas the No. 1 pick of the 1976 NBA draft, had a 14-year pro career and coached in the NBA. North Carolina State's Mr. Thompson is in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
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Drawing upon his experience playing for Coach K at Duke, and with a Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame coach for a father, Hurley decided he was ready to make a name for himself at the coaching level.
He said Galfy loved to travel and was a fan of the New York Giants and the Seton Hall University basketball team.
But Rodman is also a Hall of Fame basketball player and one of the best defenders and rebounders to ever play the game.
"We have a new Big East, a wide open Big East, " said Bozzella, a 1988 graduate of Seton Hall who rebuilt women's basketball programs at Southampton, LIU and Iona, where he spent the past 11 seasons, posting a 20-13 this year.
It marks the third time in three years that Seton Hall has turned to Iona to hire a basketball coach or athletic director.
Though a childhood accident all but robbed him of his sight in one eye, Bing played All-American basketball at Syracuse University and went on to become an NBA Hall of Famer as a point guard, mainly for the Detroit Pistons.
From 1970-1976, the Kentucky Colonels (an American Basketball Association club) and the Louisville Cardinals both played in Freedom Hall.
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John's, Villanova, DePaul, Marquette, Seton Hall and Providence want to be in a league that once again showcases basketball, evoking the original intent when the Big East was founded more than three decades ago.
John's, Seton Hall, Georgetown, Providence and Villanova joined forces in 1979 to form the core of a new basketball-centric league.
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