NEW ORLEANS – In honor of his lifetime involvement, Appalachian State University men's basketball alumnus and current New Orleans Pelicans head coach Alvin Gentry was inducted into the Boys & Girls Club Hall of Fame on Wednesday night.
Originally from Shelby, N.C., Gentry is the first alumnus of the Boys & Girls Club of Cleveland County to receive the honor.
At Wednesday's induction ceremony, Gentry said, "Most of us have been affiliated with the Boys & Girls Club in some way and the word we kind of keep using here is 'safehouse'. To me that's what it's always been.