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Former Rockets coach Bill Fitch to be inducted into 2019 Basketball Hall of Fame

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Houston Rockets coach Bill Fitch, NBA stars Vlade Divac, Sidney Moncrief, Jack Sikma and WNBA great Teresa Weatherspoon are the headliners of the 2019 class for the Basketball Hall of Fame.

The honorees were announced Saturday in Minneapolis before the Final Four.

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Also selected this year were NBA players Al Attles, Carl Braun, Chuck Cooper, Bobby Jones and Paul Westphal, the Tennessee A&I men's teams from 1957-59 (the first collegiate team to win back-to-back-to-back championships) and the Wayland Baptist University women's team (which won 131 consecutive games from 1953-58 and 10 Amateur Athletic Union national championships overall).