NEW ORLEANS – Rudy Tomjanovich never wanted to ask for more. Basketball had been too good to him to wish for a place in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, too, even if so many peers and friends insisted that he belongs.
But Saturday, as Tomjanovich was named a finalist for the Hall of Fame's Class of 2017, he thought of last summer, when he joined so many of Yao Ming's friends and family in Springfield and allowed himself to think of sharing that with all those that could be part of putting him in the Hall, too.