The American Basketball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Held in The Bridge Center

The two classes are full of basketball legends from all levels, from college basketball coaches Coach Greg Kampe at Oakland University, Tom Izzo of Michigan State University to Harlem, New York’s flashy point guard and playground icon Pee Wee Kirkland, ESPN Basketball Analyst

Dick Vitale, and Detroit Pistons legends

Earl Lioyd, Isiah Thomas, Earl Cureton, Terry Mills, John Long, and former Harlem Globetrotter dribbling wiz Tyrone “Hollywood” Brown, just to name a few.

Some of the greatest men and women basketball icons are came to the city of Detroit Sunday, June 25th at DABO’s Bridge Center, to be enshrined in the American Basketball Hall of Fame (ABHOF). This year will be the combination of the 2022 and 2023 classes. The ABHOF has already inducted over 50 players since 2019, like former Boston Celtic Sam Jones, Harlem Globetrotter Legend Meadowlark Lemon, as well as the late great Los Angeles Laker, Kobe Bryant.

Detroit Labor & Civic Leader Rick Blocker, Leon Cohen, Ken Hollowell. Freman Hendrix, and Ethel Schwartz meet with DABO’s Founder Horace L. Sheffield, Jr.

Wayne County Executive Ed McNamara, Hon. Alms Stallworth, Dr. Kenneth Clark, researcher on Brown v. Board of Education, and Horace L. Sheffield, Jr. at the State of the Race Dinner.

Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield, Actor Danny Glover, & Dr. Cornel West engaging in community canvassing.