Kokomo put its affection for one of its greatest basketball legends in writing Thursday when the street running in front of the high school gymnasium was officially renamed Jimmy Rayl Boulevard.
Rayl, who died on Jan. 20 of last year at age 77, was a member of the first Pacers team in the 1967-68 American Basketball Association season, was Indiana's Mr. Basketball in 1959 when he led Kokomo to the championship game of the state tournament and earned all-America recognition at Indiana University, where he still holds the single-game scoring record of 56 points — which he achieved twice.