Posted on 10/13/2024 3:40:05 PM PDT by DallasBiff
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Honored for his devotion to a basketball team that doesn’t have a Hall of Fame history, Billy Crystal couldn’t help but note the irony.
“How strange to be getting a ring before any of the Clippers,” he said.
The actor is being added to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s James F. Goldstein SuperFan Gallery and took part in a ceremony Sunday along with fellow entertainer and filmmaker Spike Lee and Philadelphia businessman Alan Horwitz. Longtime Lakers fan Jack Nicholson is also being added but the three-time Academy Award winner was not able to attend.
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This is just an interim step to inducting companies such as DraftKings and FanDuel into the NBA Hall of “Fame”.
So rich courtside celebrities are going into the Hall? Where’s the equity?!<
Maybe David Spade will get in.
Jack Nicholson is close to the end of his life I heard.
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