Jordan, Hall of Fame Highlights
The annual event of Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony and this is always elicits a pilgrimage of the basketball community to this small city in southwest Massachusetts. But the event has never had and probably never will have the buzz that this year’s ceremony did. The enshrinement of Michael Jordan brought more people, more attention and more buzz than Springfield or the Hall of Fame has ever seen. A night which usually doesn’t see much fanfare beyond the world of basketball turned into something more like the Academy Awards.
Well, that should be no surprise because Jordan’s presence has had that effect since his days in Chapel Hill. Whether or not you agree that Jordan was the greatest player in history, you can’t deny that there has never been a player who has influenced more aspiring players around the world than he has. On the court, he was the ultimate combination of talent and competitiveness, the ultimate showman and the ultimate winner. Off the court, he was the ultimate spokesman and marketer of the game. To this day, Jordan’s highlights elicit an emotional response and they drew oohs and ahs from the Symphony Hall crowd before he was introduced.
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Posted by Denz
on Sep 14 2009. Filed under Headlines, sports headlines.
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