tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280465602023-11-16T01:44:36.840-05:00Artis GilmoreA-TrainUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28046560.post-44495910269892161342023-01-29T17:13:00.004-05:002023-01-29T17:13:31.598-05:00<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"> <strong style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">ARTIS GILMORE AND SPUD WEB TO TEAM UP FOR CHARITY IN THE ACE SHOOTOUT GOLF TOURNAMENT, APRIL 17, 2023</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><strong style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></strong></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhABBkNEzkMnjKFEllzOP-CBGpFOgiSKSUZFDib-OlbJUWo_69TQp62JmIGgrEeUD2Yi-L1-oy9F8CFIM3uDV0hbLZsBbQ7cVVvmHyOwBU2S07CczJKO36uWGZbfgaAyxP9OkjjLoeZtFr1wLihcj-2To3H4kJfC01dTOwRqxNuTc1jKUSBXw/s225/Unknown.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhABBkNEzkMnjKFEllzOP-CBGpFOgiSKSUZFDib-OlbJUWo_69TQp62JmIGgrEeUD2Yi-L1-oy9F8CFIM3uDV0hbLZsBbQ7cVVvmHyOwBU2S07CczJKO36uWGZbfgaAyxP9OkjjLoeZtFr1wLihcj-2To3H4kJfC01dTOwRqxNuTc1jKUSBXw/s1600/Unknown.jpeg" width="225" /></a></span></div><span style="color: red;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMuQj2DEABqbyrfu0nud_Awoajqujg8NtwI5W5G4KBXJe8PP0dsyC5e2bxOOuW1p_K2FUQgZNllY6X9pFn1M1Li1BKiaW9lrwfhRsLWNZMvHVxz-echM6dFDQc77a6ZTawgn0xa0qfAL_dm4wIdcU12bEtlat3-eOGe1gSLvNkl_n0VEb5wg/s884/Artis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="884" data-original-width="683" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMuQj2DEABqbyrfu0nud_Awoajqujg8NtwI5W5G4KBXJe8PP0dsyC5e2bxOOuW1p_K2FUQgZNllY6X9pFn1M1Li1BKiaW9lrwfhRsLWNZMvHVxz-echM6dFDQc77a6ZTawgn0xa0qfAL_dm4wIdcU12bEtlat3-eOGe1gSLvNkl_n0VEb5wg/s320/Artis.jpg" width="247" /></a></div></span><span style="text-align: left;"><p style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Artis Gilmore, together with golfing partner Spud Webb, will be raising critical funds for kids' health at the 25</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><sup style="text-align: left;">th</sup><span style="text-align: left;"> Ace Shootout </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">on </span></span>April 17, 2023. </div><div style="text-align: center;">The event can be viewed on the Golf Channel at 8 pm ET. </div></span></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28046560.post-9531091275374563502014-04-05T18:10:00.004-04:002014-04-05T18:12:01.802-04:00<br />
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Thanks to Luigi (Gino) Recchia, teammate of Artis Gilmore during the 1988-89 season with Arimo Bolgna of the Italian league, we have these rare photos of A-Train's final season as a pro. During that time Artis averaged 12.3 points and 11 rebounds. He also made the European All-Star Team. Artis is wearing the number 5 in these photos. Gino can be seen in the third photo below, far left, with his hands on his hips. Thanks Gino --- these photos could never have been shared without your help!</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artis Gilmore has been inducted into the San Antonio Hall of Fame honoring men and women who have made an impact in the world of sports, either through outstanding athletic achievements or outstanding contributions to athletic programs. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In five seasons with the San Antonio Spurs, from 1982-87, the 7-foot-2 big man shot 62 percent from the field, which remains a franchise record. “The A Train” made <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=sports%2Fpro-sports&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22NBA+All-Star%22" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeueLTPro-Bd, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NBA All-Star</a> </span>teams in 1983 and 1986.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After arriving in San Antonio in July 1982 via a trade with the <a href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=sports%2Fpro-sports&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Chicago+Bulls%22" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeueLTPro-Bd, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chicago Bulls</a>, Gilmore enjoyed his best year with the silver and black in 1982-83, when he averaged 18 points, 12 rebounds and 2.3 blocks. He also led the NBA with a 62.6 field-goal percentage.</span></div>
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Mayor Alvin Brown proclaimed Tuesday, October 8, as Artis Gilmore Day in the City of Jacksonville. Mayor Brown also retired Gilmore's jersey on behalf of the city. What this means is that Gilmore's name and number will be permanently displayed on a banner in the rafters for all events held at the arena. Previously, his name and number were only visible when the JU basketball team played their home games at the arena. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Mayor Alvin Brown has announced three appointments that will increase Jacksonville's ability to attract major sporting events and host activities that will boost the economy and make the city a more vibrant destination. Among them --- NBA Hall of Famer Artis Gilmore will serve as Brown's ambassador for sports, entertainment and physical fitness. In the role, Gilmore will help to cultivate relationships to attract major sporting events, trade shows and special events while serving as an advocate for people of all ages to adapt to healthier lifestyles. </span></span></div></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28046560.post-80795838513122063852012-02-16T19:20:00.004-05:002012-02-16T19:22:54.302-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_610339864"><img border="0" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwM4my5gVGW9Ru56pgHT5L4-3je7ovo6qKGYuXNGqT0qDU0VCG_G3ruI3VD3GL8s1y1VBFhaL2TSrVAZNWGXnu7hwO-vqf4oqHULmqQFoeDpM4aBMJz39cHlzK-0Ves2poHf4v/s400/artiscollege.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_610339864"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Greatness isn’t measured by how high you reach, but by how far you’ve come.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">On Friday night, former Bulls center Artis Gilmore will be introduced by Julius Erving and inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. That rare distinction will mark the end of his long, often tough, climb from sandlot basketball to the sport’s pinnacle.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Make sure you tell everybody that this is the full-circle stamp; this is not my final destination,” Gilmore, 61, said with a laugh. “I don’t want the Man upstairs to call me just yet because I still have a lot to do, and I’m working hard every day as a special assistant to the president of Jacksonville University, and I work for a mechanical-engineering company in project development.”</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The 7-2 Gilmore started his long journey as a poor boy growing up in his native Chipley, Fla., and Dothan, Ala., where his first job was as a cotton picker in the racially segregated South.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“My family and I experienced a lot of racial discrimination and segregation when I was growing up,” Gilmore said. “School, water fountains, bathrooms, restaurants and other places of business were segregated. We were not allowed to knock on the front door of a white man’s house. We could not look a white man in the eye when we talked with him. This is another story for another day, but it shows how my life has come full circle.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“My father was Otis Gilmore, no middle name. He had no formal education or skill whatsoever, but he was an outstanding common laborer who worked his hardest to support nine children. My mother’s name was Mattie Lou Gilmore.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Of course, I’d pitch in by picking cotton for $2 per hundred pounds, stacking peanuts or whatever. We’d have to get up at about 4 o’clock every morning to catch that flat-bed truck that took us to the cotton field. The earlier you started picking, the better your chances of picking at least 100 pounds before noon because that cotton would be heavier when it was still wet with the midnight dew.”</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Imagine the sight of Gilmore starting out as a 6-6 boy picking cotton.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“I was too tall to pick it from a standing position because I kept having to bend over and reach down,” Gilmore said. “So I did most of my picking on my knees.”</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">That experience humbled him and gave him an incredible work ethic that fueled his success in the classroom and on the basketball courts at Gardner-Webb Junior College and Jacksonville.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Gilmore, the NBA’s all-time field-goal percentage leader and the Bulls’ career leader in blocked shots, said he never played basketball with the aim of making the Hall of Fame.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“I played for the joy and, of course, for the salary to support my wife of 39 years, Enola Gay, and our five kids and twin grandkids,” he said. “I never thought of any additional accolades. Until now, my happiest achievement was winning the 1975 ABA championship with the old Kentucky Colonels.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“I took as much pride and joy in that championship as I would’ve taken winning an NBA championship. Otherwise, I found great pleasure in playing for the Colonels [five seasons], the Bulls [61/2 seasons], the Spurs [five seasons] and the Celtics [half a season].”</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28046560.post-72431156744330481412011-07-11T19:18:00.002-04:002011-07-11T19:20:28.875-04:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 30px;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Zapf Dingbats';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 30px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Julius Erving Will Introduce Artis Gilmore at Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony</span></b></span><br />
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<div style="font: 30.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: 'Zapf Dingbats'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">"I could've selected a number of people to introduce me," said Gilmore. "My relationship with Julius goes back as far as anyone else that I could <span style="color: #336600;">think</span> of. That's the reason I asked him to introduce me."</div><div style="color: #333333; font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Artis spoke with First Coast News on Monday following the first day of a basketball camp that he is hosting this week with his former JU teammate, Rex Morgan.</div><div style="color: #333333; font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">After a long wait, Gilmore will finally be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on August 12th. Dozens of his <span style="color: #336600;">family</span> members and friends are expected to make the trip to Springfield, MA for the enshrinement ceremony and other related festivities.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28046560.post-36703355807953612292011-07-10T09:25:00.000-04:002011-08-10T09:26:51.838-04:00<br />
<div style="font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">NBA Hall of Famer </span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Artis Gilmore Talks Frankly </span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">With Richard Miller</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj85OnA_0a2d8T_h2Szj8QpVK0H1HdzDEYmQgaQ7agizIM7aRefw-uI19DcYz69ELr68v4MLYnSeJNSs9NCwYUfi6mYEVDUzi0_XP3TW3bGjNJPNW-CoQXH6DlPT49tzDSEI5EK/s1600/artis-gilmore-608.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj85OnA_0a2d8T_h2Szj8QpVK0H1HdzDEYmQgaQ7agizIM7aRefw-uI19DcYz69ELr68v4MLYnSeJNSs9NCwYUfi6mYEVDUzi0_XP3TW3bGjNJPNW-CoQXH6DlPT49tzDSEI5EK/s400/artis-gilmore-608.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28046560.post-52750381471476095232011-07-09T15:45:00.002-04:002011-07-09T15:47:54.285-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: x-large; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); ">GameTime: Hall of Fame - Artis Gilmore - NBA Videos and Highlights. Steve Smith discusses Artis Gilmore's career before entering the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><br /></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLsj_Ry4I7B6_mBnHuhxx5hhiYfngpImUC1Zhb6XAiejvXOvuHurMqmGmHZM4J9yGQ2v25zJiBp5cXCCByru7fJE8JtrI5TRlscl8SJLxrAI983sVwoqAsGlm17fCQRyvyczv3/s1600/nbahd.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 247px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLsj_Ry4I7B6_mBnHuhxx5hhiYfngpImUC1Zhb6XAiejvXOvuHurMqmGmHZM4J9yGQ2v25zJiBp5cXCCByru7fJE8JtrI5TRlscl8SJLxrAI983sVwoqAsGlm17fCQRyvyczv3/s400/nbahd.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627441379051906834" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Big Red Machine/NY Mets Gold Glove Second Baseman - Doug Flynn</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">University of Kentucky Womens Basketball Coach - Matthew Mitchell</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Hall of Famer Artis Gilmore</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Hall of Famer Johnny Bench</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Jacksonville University Alum - Frank Pace (television writer and producer)</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">JU Basketball Alum - "Stylin" Bob Nylin (retired after 25 years as a HS principal in Kentucky )</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "> </p></div><div><br /></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBt13TOlQVPrgJzY5iqwYX_wV49NOn6VxKNMql1X3kccvk1oFwf9tUr5R6I_EaMvnI2KcXwNZZAsgXOd4Z6A37XqOT_vTyGM3XwWddpAB6HMrLoe8nhxKA5PJfi3gywr83HcZZ/s1600/IMAG0093-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBt13TOlQVPrgJzY5iqwYX_wV49NOn6VxKNMql1X3kccvk1oFwf9tUr5R6I_EaMvnI2KcXwNZZAsgXOd4Z6A37XqOT_vTyGM3XwWddpAB6HMrLoe8nhxKA5PJfi3gywr83HcZZ/s1600/IMAG0093-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 400px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBt13TOlQVPrgJzY5iqwYX_wV49NOn6VxKNMql1X3kccvk1oFwf9tUr5R6I_EaMvnI2KcXwNZZAsgXOd4Z6A37XqOT_vTyGM3XwWddpAB6HMrLoe8nhxKA5PJfi3gywr83HcZZ/s400/IMAG0093-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627439930042672722" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Artis with Hall of Fame Jockey Chris McCarron - Winner of more than 7,000 races including two Kentucky Derby's Two Preakness Stakes and two Belmont Stakes.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28046560.post-51120685342044205192011-07-09T08:51:00.000-04:002011-08-09T08:52:15.833-04:00<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28046560.post-20305718985391911042011-06-10T18:20:00.006-04:002011-06-10T22:20:05.962-04:00<div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">ARTIS GILMORE INDUCTED INTO</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">KENTUCKY ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmXKVl_HiRi-p9dxDninYKYVnFgaoWLpY_2Kd7tEIN0NM850xecUTJIHEOHEV31nBmAA6KUOlqtQENtpTrje2JCYhosE3FK_CNbb9IOXaBBk085SBbSHbQvMzXmWE52KOBbVF5/s1600/_JR21829-Gilmore-JR.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmXKVl_HiRi-p9dxDninYKYVnFgaoWLpY_2Kd7tEIN0NM850xecUTJIHEOHEV31nBmAA6KUOlqtQENtpTrje2JCYhosE3FK_CNbb9IOXaBBk085SBbSHbQvMzXmWE52KOBbVF5/s400/_JR21829-Gilmore-JR.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616780088739680754" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS6Ssaq-quLVFTLszIZXqQB_bTehPNnAhoGFJearVvhyphenhyphenyPzF8F4qSR1sLWBetWLRkhyphenhyphenpOT1-L-raWI3lx6wTaxWwZrnkTGnQVy75t8CjJV5EewgDBEALrSu7G9KlmQC4kGhEkY/s1600/_JR10211-Gilmore-JR.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS6Ssaq-quLVFTLszIZXqQB_bTehPNnAhoGFJearVvhyphenhyphenyPzF8F4qSR1sLWBetWLRkhyphenhyphenpOT1-L-raWI3lx6wTaxWwZrnkTGnQVy75t8CjJV5EewgDBEALrSu7G9KlmQC4kGhEkY/s400/_JR10211-Gilmore-JR.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616780080680903170" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkt8fqtsaRAQUCpnJuVlP6GJnlmFQu-ZGp7tVeGXtOjm1sFAz5tef3-p3fcevQlSDLmN34F6CMK46VGlea4tUeir4fHqW8B_-JU8ySbKYXKqjo279gn8XmSlCYzo8w-tyQSJMP/s1600/_JR10074-KAHF-ClassOf2011-JR-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkt8fqtsaRAQUCpnJuVlP6GJnlmFQu-ZGp7tVeGXtOjm1sFAz5tef3-p3fcevQlSDLmN34F6CMK46VGlea4tUeir4fHqW8B_-JU8ySbKYXKqjo279gn8XmSlCYzo8w-tyQSJMP/s400/_JR10074-KAHF-ClassOf2011-JR-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616720167701040642" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame’s Class of 2011, inducted on June 8 at Louisville’s Crowne Plaza Hotel. (Seated, l-r) Judy Holiday, representing her sister Bunny Daugherty, Artis Gilmore, George Tinsley, Kaelin Rybak, representing her father, Ed Kallay. (Standing, l-r) KAHF President Jim Ellis, Jerry May, Rex Chapman, Phil Roof, high school athletes of the year, Sara Hammond and DeVante Parker, and event emcee Dick Gabriel.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">THE FOLLOWING WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON LOUISVILLEKY.COM</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span color="initial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><strong color="initial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">by Billy Reed</span></strong></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">LOUISVILLE – At a Kentucky Colonels reunion before Artis Gilmore’s induction into the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame, the biggest man in the room sat quietly in a corner, listening and laughing as old friends and former teammates told stories, some of which may have even been truthful, about the late, great American Basketball Association.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It has never been Gilmore’s way to dominate anywhere except on a basketball floor. He was never as, ah, socially active as Wilt Chamberlain…never as politically active as Bill Walton…never a self-promoter like Shaquille O’Neal. If anything, his quiet, almost regal demeanor, was more like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, against whom he had many epic battles after he joined the NBA in 1977.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Impossible as it might seem to overlook a man officially listed as 7-feet-2 –and who seemed even taller because of the huge Afro he wore during his heyday – Gilmore has never gotten the recognition he earned during a remarkable career with Jacksonville University, the Colonels, and several NBA teams, most notably the Chicago Bulls.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Only this year was he elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. His fans believe it should have happened 10 or 15 years ago, given his records and stats. The honor from the </span><a href="http://www.kyathletichalloffame.org/home.htm" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(32, 91, 135); "><strong color="initial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame</span></strong></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> came years after his most celebrated Colonels’ teammates, Dan Issel and Louie Dampier, were inducted.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Asked about it the night of the Colonels’ reunion, Gilmore took the high road, of course, and said that the honors have come when they were supposed to. He was gracious and grateful instead of angry and bitter.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Yeah, Artis,” piped up Dampier, the shooting guard for the University of Kentucky’s famed “Rupp’s Runts” team of 1966 before becoming the Colonels’ foundation signee, “maybe it would have happened sooner if you had gone to college in Kentucky.”</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Louie,” said Gilmore, smiling and pointing a longer finger at Dampier, “I like you too much to respond to that so we’re going to leave it right there.”</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">At 61, Artis has lost the Afro and gained some pounds. When you say he fills up a room, it is more than a cliché. But he has aged gracefully and happily. After his pro career ended in 1988, Gilmore went into business for a few years. He now works as a special assistant to the president at his alma mater.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When O’Neal announced his retirement in June, it immediately touched off a debate about where he ranked on the list of all-time-great centers. He was compared frequently with Chamberlain, Jabbar, Bill Russell, and Walton. Typically, however, Gilmore was on the fringe of the conversation despite the fact that his roots in the Deep South were closer to O’Neal’s than any of the others.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Born in the rural town of Chipley, Fla., Gilmore was raised there and in Dothan, Ala., a larger town to the north. For many of his formative years, Gilmore and his eight siblings lived in a three-room house. He has vivid memories of picking cotton and doing other hard farm labor as a youngster.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After graduating from Dothan’s Carver High in 1967, he played college ball for two years at Gardner-Webb, then a junior college, before transferring to Jacksonville, where he joined another 7-footer, Pembroke Burroughs, on a team coached by Joe Williams, whose trademark was the white suits he wore on the sidelines.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In 1970, at the end of Gilmore’s junior season, he and Issel crossed paths in the finals of the NCAA Mideast Regional in Columbus, Ohio. It was the first season after Jabbar (then known as Lew Alcindor) had ended his run of three consecutive national titles at UCLA, and it was widely assumed that the Jacksonville-Kentucky winner would be the next NCAA champion.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The game was a classic until Issel fouled out on a controversial backcourt collision with Jacksonville’s Vaughn Wedeking. That opened the way for a 106-100 Jacksonville victory that put Gilmore’s team in the NCAA Final Four against Villanova and its star, Howard Porter.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After dispatching the team from Philadelphia, the Jaguars went for the championship against a UCLA team that had Steve Patterson at center instead of Jabbar. Nevertheless, thanks in large measure to bookend forwards Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe, the Bruins upset Jacksonville, 80-69, in the Houston Astrodome to give Coach John Wooden his fourth consecutive title and sixth in seven years.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A year later, Gilmore’s senior team was eliminated by Western Kentucky in the NCAA’s opening round. Nevertheless, Gilmore was the No. 1 draft pick in both the NBA and ABA. Many were surprised when he rejected the Bulls to accept the Kentucky Colonels’ offer of $1.5 million spread over 10 years. More than anyone except maybe Rick Barry, he gave the upstart league the credibility it needed to land future superstars such as Julius Erving, and Moses Malone.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">His first season (1971-’72), he teamed with Issel and Dampier to take the Colonels to the ABA finals, where they were defeated by Utah. Nevertheless, Artis was named both Rookie of the Year and MVP. During his ABA career, Gilmore set league records for career field-goal percentage (.557), blocked shots (750), blocked shots in a season (287 in 1973-’74), and rebounds in a game (40).</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The only championship of his college or pro career came in 1975, when the Colonels defeated the Indiana Pacers in the ABA finals. After the final game, Colonels’ owner John Y. Brown Jr. offered to put up $1 million (big money in those days) if the NBA champion Golden State Warriors would agree to play the Colonels in a best-of-three series to decide the overall champion.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But the Warriors declined, quite possibly because they had nobody who could match up against Gilmore. Brown’s response was to put “World Champions” on the Colonels’ rings. Alas for Brown, he made the mistake of trading Issel to Denver and the Colonels were unable to repeat in 1976, the last year of the ABA, even though Gilmore had another dominating season.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When Brown decided to fold his franchise instead of joining the merger that brought Indiana, the New York Nets, San Antonio and Denver into the NBA, his players were put into the ABA dispersal draft. To the surprise of nobody, the Bulls made Gilmore the No. 1 pick and paid Brown $1.1 million to finally get the star they had drafted five years earlier.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">From 1977 through 1982, Gilmore was the Bulls’ main attraction. He led the NBA in field-goal percentage for four consecutive years, including a career-best .670 in 1980-’81, the third best in league history. Unfortunately for Gilmore and Bulls fans, he was traded to San Antonio in 1983, a year before Michael Jordan arrived from North Carolina to take the franchise to unprecedented heights.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After playing with the Spurs for four seasons, Gilmore rejoined the Bulls for part of the 1988 season before finishing his NBA career with the Boston Celtics. He’s still the NBA career leading in field-goal percentage (minimum of 2,000 shots made) at 59.9 per cent.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Maybe the fact that Gilmore never played on an NCAA or NBA championship team is one of the reasons he’s overlooked. Or maybe it’s because he played with an economy of motion that sometimes made it seem that he wasn’t playing as hard as, say, a Dave Cowens or a Walton. But that’s baloney. A man doesn’t play in 670 consecutive pro games, as Gilmore once did, unless he has a work ethic that’s off the charts.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Where does Gilmore rank on the all-time list?</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Well, although he didn’t win an NCAA title at Jacksonville, he took his team to a championship game and became one of only five players to average 20 points and 20 rebounds for his career. And although he didn’t win a championship in the NBA, he played on an ABA championship team that arguably was the best pro team in the nation that season.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">He was a force who always gave contemporaries Jabbar and Walton all they could handle. Other than his championship season with the Colonels, he never was surrounded by the kind of talent that surrounded Russell during his never-to-be-repeated run with the Celtics. His numbers argue that he deserves to be ranked with Shaq, if not above him.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But Gilmore lets others worry about that sort of stuff. He’s at peace with himself and his place in basketball history. He didn’t need that to be certified by the Kentucky and Naismith Halls of Fame, but he’s appreciative that his accomplishments finally are getting recognized. As Gilmore said upon his first Hall-of-Fame induction in Louisville, “This is a special summer for me.</span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p color="initial" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; line-height: normal; font-size: large; ">THE FOLLOWING WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE HERALD-LEADER</span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family:Calibri;"></span>By Mark Story — Herald-Leader Sports Columnist</b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0pxcolor:#336699;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; ">When Artis Gilmore shocked the basketball establishment by shunning the NBA to sign with the Kentucky Colonels of the renegade ABA in 1971, he had one concern.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"I was afraid the fans in Kentucky didn't like me," Gilmore recalls.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As a star player at Jacksonville University, Gilmore had been part of two epic NCAA Tournament games against schools from the commonwealth.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In the 1970 NCAA tourney, Gilmore led Jacksonville (25-1) into an Elite Eight matchup with Dan Issel and Kentucky (26-1). The 7-foot-2 Gilmore had 24 points and 20 rebounds against Adolph Rupp's Wildcats. Issel had 28 points and 10 rebounds but fouled out midway through the second half on a controversial charging call.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Jacksonville 106, Kentucky 100.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The loss meant Issel — arguably the most revered player ever to wear UK blue — never made a Final Four appearance. Jacksonville went on to lose to John Wooden's UCLA dynasty 80-69 in the NCAA finals.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In the 1971 NCAA Tournament first round, Gilmore faced another big man showdown against Western Kentucky University star Jim McDaniels.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Jacksonville led 40-22 in the first half. After a stunning rally, WKU won 72-70 on a Clarence Glover layup with four seconds left. The 6-10 McDaniels had 23 points; Gilmore had 12. Western went on to reach the Final Four.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">His college career over, Gilmore's next official game would be played on the same side as Kentucky basketball fans, not against them.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The 61-year-old Gilmore was back in the news in a big way last week. It was announced in Houston during the Final Four that Gilmore is at long last being inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Gilmore — who led the Kentucky Colonels to the 1975 American Basketball Association title — was chosen by the Hall of Fame's "ABA committee."</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As a star-caliber player in college basketball, the ABA and then the NBA, he should have been elected long ago via the traditional selection process.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This year is turning out to be a very good one for the Chipley, Fla., native in terms of Hall of Fame recognition.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">On June 8 at a banquet in Louisville, the guy who wore No. 53 in the red, white and blue of the Colonels will be enshrined into the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"It turned out, I loved playing in Louisville," Gilmore said.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">'Barely had a roofover our heads'</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Gilmore was 22 when he came to the Colonels for the 1971-72 season. Kentucky secured the big center because it offered a 10-year, $1.5 million contract before the NBA held its 1971 draft.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"My agent said (the Kentucky offer) was the one to take," Gilmore said. "I did what he told me to do."</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In a LeBron world, $150,000 a year seems like a pittance for a big-time pro athlete, but to Gilmore in 1971 it seemed like unimaginable riches.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">He had grown up without much in the small Florida town of Chipley.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">His dad, Otis, was a fisherman who "was basically disabled," Gilmore says. "My mother (Mattie) was a stay-at-home mom. My father had no education; my mother had very little. There were eight kids, six boys, two girls. We barely had a roof over our heads."</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Gilmore's father stood 5-foot-7. His mom was 6-2. Artis, the second-oldest child in the family, took after his mom.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In Chipley in the 1950s and early '60s, public accommodations were segregated by race. Black people, Artis recalls, were required to sit in the balcony at the town's movie theater.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Still, the one time he was excluded from the movies had nothing to do with skin color. Children got in to see the pictures for 15 cents, while adults paid a quarter. A 12-year-old Artis showed up with his 15 cents — but he was so tall, he couldn't convince the theater ticket taker that he was a kid.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"And I didn't have 25 cents," Gilmore says.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; ">In the 1960s and '70s, the NBA was known as "the big-man's league." Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain and, later, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar dominated play.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The ABA had no such giants, so sweet-shooting guards and dynamic small forwards tended to be the stars in a league whose style of play was wide open and fast-paced.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Signing Gilmore represented a direct challenge by the ABA to the NBA's defining strength. To boast, the Colonels took Gilmore to New York City for a news conference.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Decked out in platform shoes and boasting a robust Afro, Gilmore was measured at 7-8 from sole of shoe to top of hair in New York.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Gilmore was an immediate hit with the Colonels, averaging 23.8 points, 17.8 rebounds and five blocks in 1971-72. He helped Kentucky to a staggering 68-14 regular-season record and was named ABA Rookie of the Year.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yet in what became a disturbing pattern, the Colonels were stunned in a six-game playoff loss to Rick Barry and the New York Nets. The next season, Kentucky made it to the ABA finals only to lose in seven games to the hated Indiana Pacers. In 1974, Kentucky went out in the second round of the playoffs.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The resulting frustration was immense. Most observers considered a roster that included Gilmore, his former NCAA Tournament rival Issel and long-range bomber Louie Dampier the most talented in the ABA and one of the best in all of pro basketball.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"I really can't pinpoint that," Gilmore says of what kept the Colonels from winning more titles. "Naturally, the first thing you do is blame the coach. Then you put it at the feet of the players. We had truly great talent. For whatever reason, we were unable to make that count in the playoffs."</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Finally, champions</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Before the 1974-75 season, Colonels ownership hired an up-and-coming NBA assistant, Hubie Brown, to coach Kentucky.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The new boss decided to run more of the team's offense through Gilmore, meaning less offensive emphasis for Issel. Given that Big Dan was arguably the most popular person in the commonwealth, it was a controversial, if gutsy, coaching move.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Gilmore's scoring rose from 18.7 in 1973-74 to 23.6; Issel's fell from 25.5 to 17.7.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">With 10 contests left in the season, the Colonels were five games behind Julius Erving and the Nets. Then Kentucky caught fire.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Colonels won the last 10 games of the season, beat the Nets in a one-game showdown for the division crown, and then rampaged through the playoffs. Kentucky lost only three games total while beating Memphis, St. Louis and, finally, the rival Pacers for the elusive ABA championship.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The night the Colonels clinched the crown, May 22, 1975, a Freedom Hall throng of 16,622 witnessed both history and something bizarre. As the Kentucky players began to cut down the nets, a thunderstorm knocked out electricity and plunged the arena into darkness.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Before the game, Gilmore and his wife, Enola Gay, had left their daughter, Shawna, with a young baby sitter.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"That was such a thrilling moment," Gilmore says of the Colonels' championship. "My wife and I, we were talking the other day about the big storm that night. Our baby sitter, she lit candles after the lights went out. Our daughter lit her hair on fire. We had to leave the arena and get that tended to."</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">End game</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">For the Colonels, the championship feeling was fleeting.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The ensuing summer, team owner John Y. Brown Jr. sold Issel's contract to the Baltimore Claws. He said it was necessary to keep afloat a franchise that was not making money in spite of its winning ways.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">An infuriated fan base never forgave the team.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">One year later, four ABA franchises, the Nuggets, Spurs, Pacers and Nets, were absorbed into the NBA, The Colonels and the rest of the league fell defunct.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"I was upset," Gilmore says. "They told me I would be going to Chicago (in the dispersal draft). At the time, I much rather would have been here in Louisville."</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The reason Gilmore should have been a Basketball Hall of Famer long before now is that he went into the NBA, first with the Bulls, then the Spurs and briefly the Celtics, and was an elite player.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">He averaged a double-double (points and rebounds) in eight of his first nine years in the league. His career averages in NBA action are 17.1 points, 10.1 rebounds, 2 blocks and 2 assists.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Today, Gilmore and Enola Gay have five children and two grandchildren. Artis has returned to Jacksonville University where he works as a special assistant to the school's president.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yet the Florida native still feels a connection to the state where he won his only professional championship — the state he worried did not like him at the time he signed with the Colonels way back in 1971.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"They never forget you," Gilmore said of Kentucky sports fans. "They respect athletes there. 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color: rgb(102, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">NEW VIDEO AND AUDIO INTERVIEWS WITH ARTIS</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSBvDQcBbnFOYLlZzgHpyCDfQEfss5HQVMM9ExXs66lSBOMQPa4oBoqY3XfxPqnk4oBsO9-u9ShyPXvwGH9ApPmJM4l5RYWU4Llch29WAWeJlH5pSKoDXCazA01uLnlLMnJdwZ/s1600/Artis_Dunking_over_Kareem_Fixed-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 249px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSBvDQcBbnFOYLlZzgHpyCDfQEfss5HQVMM9ExXs66lSBOMQPa4oBoqY3XfxPqnk4oBsO9-u9ShyPXvwGH9ApPmJM4l5RYWU4Llch29WAWeJlH5pSKoDXCazA01uLnlLMnJdwZ/s400/Artis_Dunking_over_Kareem_Fixed-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609981917120646434" /></a><br /><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Below: some new interviews with the A-Train.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 26px/normal Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 30.0px Helvetica"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Kerasotis: Gilmore embarking on summer of excitement</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 30.0px Helvetica; min-height: 36.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 30.0px Helvetica; min-height: 36.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20110522/COLUMNISTS0306/105220321/Kerasotis-Gilmore-embarking-summer-excitement"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20110522/COLUMNISTS0306/105220321/Kerasotis-Gilmore-embarking-summer-excitement</span></a></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 30.0px Helvetica; min-height: 36.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 30.0px Helvetica; min-height: 36.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">[Also available at:]</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 30.0px Helvetica; min-height: 36.0px"><a href="http://projectspurs.com/2011-articles/may/video-former-spur-artis-gilmore-talks-hall-of-fame-basketball-career.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">http://projectspurs.com/2011-articles/may/video-former-spur-artis-gilmore-talks-hall-of-fame-basketball-career.html</span></a></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 30.0px Helvetica; min-height: 36.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">TalkZone</span></b></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sports & Torts: Artis Gilmore and Dan Issel</span></b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="http://www.talkzone.com/episodes/155/Torts0519.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">http://www.talkzone.com/episodes/155/Torts0519.html</span></a></p><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28046560.post-1919217965570389022011-05-10T15:27:00.004-04:002011-05-10T19:23:38.222-04:00<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL </span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">HALL OF FAME </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">ENSHRINEMENT TICKETS</span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgROKJBVMYEBIMhJ-nei7wUSTWnCBeRhYuynSLekuAqxzmmnb6_JUaCvMMuZNGE07lOZ6wFQfP2n465X2q9HCSluIsIjussDTI8_aCz6qtjDQk0tbbLasfU6jtd-ud5oL0vtiKK/s1600/artis.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 291px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgROKJBVMYEBIMhJ-nei7wUSTWnCBeRhYuynSLekuAqxzmmnb6_JUaCvMMuZNGE07lOZ6wFQfP2n465X2q9HCSluIsIjussDTI8_aCz6qtjDQk0tbbLasfU6jtd-ud5oL0vtiKK/s400/artis.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605173433393437650" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Friends ---</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Some of you have been asking about the availability of tickets for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremonies. The following link will take you to all the details of the events on August 11-12-13, 2011.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://www.hoophall.com/enshrinement-tickets"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.hoophall.com/enshrinement-tickets</span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Thank you so much for your interest and please know that your support will always be truly appreciated by me.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A-Train</span></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28046560.post-56274243104304231772011-04-10T14:30:00.005-04:002011-04-10T14:50:03.965-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">SELECTED MEDIA LINKS </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">REPORTING THE A-TRAIN'S ELECTION</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">TO THE NAISMITH MEMORIAL </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">AND HIGHLIGHTING HIS CAREER</span></span></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifqA3clOmLUzK1ApxuWkiPaqtqYoWfj4z_QRx_QXdIRne_C6hQKmByWtvJxzRj-zqzFd_Pt7BQv-j3F7A9qSONXMOYB4_upLu5u6wIH54XDGsaEHum_9gkz6ZsviL9a7-VklIY/s1600/Artisbw+copy.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 323px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifqA3clOmLUzK1ApxuWkiPaqtqYoWfj4z_QRx_QXdIRne_C6hQKmByWtvJxzRj-zqzFd_Pt7BQv-j3F7A9qSONXMOYB4_upLu5u6wIH54XDGsaEHum_9gkz6ZsviL9a7-VklIY/s400/Artisbw+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594025426383924130" /></a><br /><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">VIDEO:</span></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ABA AND NBA HIGHLIGHT CLIPS:</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; color:#880000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=227FWcC9ETI&feature=related"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=227FWcC9ETI&feature=related</span></a></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ABA HIGHLIGHT CLIPS:</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0pxcolor:#880000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"></span><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; color:#880000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXsEhz-V3Lo&feature=related"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXsEhz-V3Lo&feature=related</span></a></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0pxcolor:#880000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"></span><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1972 ABA/NBA ALL STAR GAME:</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; color:#880000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fQDipb-uSI"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fQDipb-uSI</span></a></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ARTIS POSTERIZES KAREEM:</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; color:#880000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS1GJ5wxyTc&feature=related"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS1GJ5wxyTc&feature=related</span></a></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ABA 1976 DUNK CONTEST:</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; color:#880000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhIdTip5cjo&feature=related"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhIdTip5cjo&feature=related</span></a></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ARTIS ON THE BREAKDOWN WITH DAVE AND AUDLEY:</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; color:#880000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr7n8bJ5j1M"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr7n8bJ5j1M</span></a></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">SHORT HIGHLIGHTS VIDEO CLIP:</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; color:#880000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ3uaGbdWf4&feature=related"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ3uaGbdWf4&feature=related</span></a></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ARTIS VERSUS BILL WALTON, 1977 PLAYOFFS:</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaVxEyEzs-w"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaVxEyEzs-w</span></a></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1975 ABA FINALS --- KENTUCKY VERSUS PACERS:</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hROUCfLtLk"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hROUCfLtLk</span></a></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana; color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ARTIS GILMORE RECOGNIZED:</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana; min-height: 17.0pxcolor:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b></b><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color:#880000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/8178/2351220cpt=3&title=homepage_channel&wpid=9614"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/8178/</span></a></span></span><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/8178/2351220cpt=3&title=homepage_channel&wpid=9614"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2351220cpt=3&title=homepage_channel&wpid=9614</span></a></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">PHOTOS:</span></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.wgntv.com/news/local/breaking/chi-110404-artis-gilmore-chicago-bulls-photos,0,7479441.photogallery"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.wgntv.com/news/local/breaking/chi-110404-artis-gilmore-chicago-bulls-photos,0,7479441.photogallery</span></a></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">COLUMNS/BLOGS:</span></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 24.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Artis Gilmore elected to basketball Hall of Fame</span></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 24.0px Arial; min-height: 28.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b></b><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Helvetica; color:#880000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.actionnewsjax.com/content/topstories/story/Artis-Gilmore-elected-to-basketball-Hall-of-Fame/TE5Ojtq6PUyIEwdN11fBBQ.cspx?rss=1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.actionnewsjax.com/content/topstories/story/Artis-Gilmore-elected-to-basketball-Hall-of-Fame/TE5Ojtq6PUyIEwdN11fBBQ.cspx?rss=1</span></a></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Verdana;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Verdana;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Artis Gilmore's Hall of Fame selection long overdue (Mike Herndon)</span></span></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 23.0px Verdana; min-height: 28.0pxcolor:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b></b><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/04/artis_gilmores_hall_of_fame_se.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/04/artis_gilmores_hall_of_fame_se.html</span></a></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Artis Gilmore getting national love after HOF election</span></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Helvetica; min-height: 11.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Helvetica; color:#880000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursnation/2011/04/08/%09%09artis-gilmore-getting-national-love-after-hof-election/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursnation/2011/04/08/%09%09artis-gilmore-getting-national-love-after-hof-election/</span></a></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Helvetica; min-height: 11.0pxcolor:#880000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"></span><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Helvetica; min-height: 11.0pxcolor:#880000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"></span><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 22px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Artis Gilmore earned call from Hall</span></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Helvetica; min-height: 11.0pxcolor:#880000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"></span><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Helvetica; color:#880000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.kentucky.com/2011/04/10/1702587/gilmore-earned-call-from-hall.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.kentucky.com/2011/04/10/1702587/gilmore-earned-call-from-hall.html</span></a></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Helvetica; min-height: 11.0pxcolor:#880000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"></span><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Helvetica; min-height: 11.0pxcolor:#880000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"></span><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 30px/normal Helvetica; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Gene Frenette: Hall of Fame corrects injustice with election of Artis Gilmore</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 30.0px Helvetica; min-height: 36.0pxcolor:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b></b><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Helvetica; color:#880000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/400617/gene-frenette/2011-04-04/gene-frenette-hall-fame-corrects-injustice-election"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/400617/gene-frenette/2011-04-04/gene-frenette-hall-fame-corrects-injustice-election</span></a></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Helvetica; min-height: 11.0pxcolor:#880000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/400617/gene-frenette/2011-04-04/gene-frenette-hall-fame-corrects-injustice-election"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"></span><br /></span></a></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Helvetica; min-height: 11.0pxcolor:#880000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Artis 'The A-train' Gilmore scores spot in Hall of Fame</span></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Helvetica; color:#880000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2011-04-05/story/artis-train-gilmore-scores-spot-hall-fame"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2011-04-05/story/artis-train-gilmore-scores-spot-hall-fame</span></a></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28046560.post-73860916003304401042011-04-04T12:53:00.014-04:002011-04-10T14:47:59.570-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 55px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">THE A-TRAIN HEADS FOR SPRINGFIELD!</span></b></span></span></div><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOo6iZ1iZPPQ2eAZb_gEEdpjrtZnADixWfv3KA3isoefXKht-h0UUG4nOpgiRlwof0fWP948LGZMZVfwnlJ90qJYkcprStYFccqiGzykm3nUTX62LrhW1IAwFcisUYgP2P0vOr/s1600/artisresting.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 285px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOo6iZ1iZPPQ2eAZb_gEEdpjrtZnADixWfv3KA3isoefXKht-h0UUG4nOpgiRlwof0fWP948LGZMZVfwnlJ90qJYkcprStYFccqiGzykm3nUTX62LrhW1IAwFcisUYgP2P0vOr/s400/artisresting.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591772835205296258" /></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 55px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Artis Gilmore elected to </span></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(102, 0, 0); line-height: 18px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Video of official announcement:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;"><a href="http://www.nba.com/video/channels/nba_tv/2011/04/04/20110404_hof_gilmore.nba/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.nba.com/video/channels/nba_tv/2011/04/04/20110404_hof_gilmore.nba/</span></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">NBA highlight video clips:</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></span></span><a href="http://www.nba.com/video/channels/originals/2011/04/05/20110405_hof_gilmore_broll.nba/index.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.nba.com/video/channels/originals/2011/04/05/20110405_hof_gilmore_broll.nba/index.html</span></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">N</span></span><span style="line-height:115%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ews Release from Jacksonville University</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;"><a href="http://www.judolphins.com/news/default/206/15356/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://</span></a></span><a href="http://www.judolphins.com/news/default/206/15356/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); line-height: 18px; "><a href="http://www.judolphins.com/news/default/206/15356/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">www.judolphins.com/news/default/206/15356/</span></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – With a record-setting college career and a stellar professional career that included being named an all-star in three different leagues, Artis Gilmore will be enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Gilmore’s career has been legendary from the beginning – starting with taking Jacksonville University on a Cinderella run to the national title game in 1970. From there, he was drafted by the Kentucky Colonels of the ABA – leading them to the title in 1975, earning Most Valuable Player honors in the playoffs. After the merger, Gilmore was the first pick in the ABA dispersal draft by the Chicago Bulls, playing 12 seasons in the NBA with Chicago, San Antonio and Boston.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">He will be inducted into the Hall during the annual enshrinement ceremony set for Aug. 11-13 in Springfield, Mass. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"As a youngster growing up in Chipley, Florida l admired with awe, baseball legends like Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West and Oscar Robertson. I never imagined that one day I might share a stage with them as a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame,” Gilmore said. “On behalf of the entire Gilmore family I want to thank everyone who made this honor possible. I hope to represent you all proudly."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">His basketball career was blossoming when he signed with Jacksonville University in the spring of 1969. Less than a year later, Gilmore had put not just the school, but the entire city on the map.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“This is a tremendous and well deserved honor for Artis and on behalf of the entire JU community, we congratulate him on receiving this recognition,” said JU president Dr. Kerry Romesburg. “Artis has meant so much to the University, from his days as a student-athlete to his current position with the school that it thrills everyone to see him receive this prestigious honor and to take his place among the best in the history that have ever played basketball.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Standing at 7-foot-2, Gilmore teamed up with 7-foot tall Pembrook Burrows to form the tallest front line in America for the 1969-70 season. Joined by JU legends Rex Morgan, Vaughn Wedeking, Rod McIntyre and a cast of others, the Dolphins went on an unprecedented run to the national title game.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">His legend grew with each game – whether it was scoring, rebounding or blocking shots. In just two years at JU, Gilmore scored more than 1,200 points, set the school record with more than 1,100 rebounds and blocked more than 300 shots – recording at least 12 triple-doubles in his career.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Today, Gilmore remains the all-time leader in NCAA history for rebounds per game average for a career at 22.7 – a record that has stood for 40 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">While he was a star on the court at JU, he didn’t slack off in the classroom – getting his degree from JU in 1971. He was a member of the inaugural class in the JU Athletics Hall of Fame and is one of six Dolphins to have their jersey number retired.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“When it comes to Jacksonville University basketball, Artis Gilmore is the gold standard for the young men in our program,” said current JU head coach Cliff Warren. “He and his teammates set the bar very high for our program – and it is something our young men work at each day to reach, not only on the court, but in the classroom and in the community.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“He has done so much for our program that I can’t begin to thank him enough. With his wisdom and his example of what to do and what not to do, he is great mentor for impressionable young men in college. On behalf of our young men and coaches, we congratulate him on receiving this honor.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">With his college career behind him, Gilmore signed a 10-year, $2.5 million contract with Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association. What ensued was an 18-year professional career for the ages.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In his five seasons in the ABA, Gilmore led the league in rebounding each season and block three times, earning league MVP honors in 1972 and named MVP of the playoffs after leading the Colonels to the title in 1975.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">With the ABA-NBA merger in 1975, Gilmore was once again a hot commodity – becoming the first pick in the ABA Dispersal Draft, going to the Chicago Bulls. That started a stellar 12-year run in the NBA that resulted in six All-Star game appearances and six trips to the NBA Playoffs with Chicago, San Antonio and Boston – advancing to the conference finals twice in his career.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The numbers he piled up in his professional career are mind boggling.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"Artis epitomizes everything that the Hall of Fame represents both on and off the court," said John L. Doleva, President & CEO of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. "He is one of the greatest players to ever put on a college, ABA and NBA uniform and we are proud to include him as a member of the Class of 2011."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In 17 years as a professional, Gilmore played in 1,329 games and remains the NBA’s all-time leader in field goal percentage – having hit 59.9 percent of his shots during his career. He shot .600 or better in six different seasons, and he led the NBA in field-goal percentage four times. His 1,747 NBA blocked shots rank him near the top in that category as well. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">He scored 24,941 points during his professional career ranks 20</span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">th</span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> on the all-time list, just behind legends such as Rick Barry, John Havlicek and George Gervin. He racked up 16,330 rebounds, which is fifth on the all-time list trailing only Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Moses Malone and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. His 3,178 blocked shots is fourth on the all-time list, trailing only Hakeem Olajuwon, Dikembe Mutombo and Abdul-Jabbar.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Gilmore grew up in Chipley, Fla., and was a third-team All-America as a senior in high school in Dothan, Ala. Following graduation, he went on to star for two years at Gardner-Webb Junior College in Boiling Springs, N.C. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In 2007, Gilmore was hired by his alma mater as the Special Assistant to the President – helping raise money, develop relationships in the community and reconnect fellow alumni with the University. He has also taken on a role as the color analyst during JU basketball radio broadcasts.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Links:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.nba.com/2011/news/features/steve_aschburner/04/05/gilmore-hall-of-fame/?ls=iref:nbahpt1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.nba.com/2011/news/features/steve_aschburner/04/05/gilmore-hall-of-fame/?ls=iref:nbahpt1</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://20secondtimeout.blogspot.com/2011/04/basketball-hall-of-fame-finally.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://20secondtimeout.blogspot.com/2011/04/basketball-hall-of-fame-finally.html</span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.nba.com/history/players/gilmore_bio.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.nba.com/history/players/gilmore_bio.html</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/gilmoar01.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/gilmoar01.html</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Lucida Grande; color: #333333"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JPt107X-zo"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JPt107X-zo</span></a></p> <p color="#333333" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Lucida Grande; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Lucida Grande; color: #333333"><a href="http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/400617/gene-frenette/2011-04-04/gene-frenette-hall-fame-corrects-injustice-election"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/400617/gene-frenette/2011-04-04/gene-frenette-hall-fame-corrects-injustice-election</span></a></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com