The entire starting frontcourt from Indiana’s 1972 and 1973 ABA championship teams has been enshrined in the Naismith Hall of Fame, now that former ABA MVP George McGinnis finally joined his legendary teammates Roger Brown and Mel Daniels on Friday evening.
“How many teams can say that?” Slick Leonard boasted to the Indy Star’s Zak Keefer in April, shortly after the election announcement was made.
Answer: Very few.
For instance, Julius Irving and rookie-sophomore Charles Barkley flanked Moses Malone for the 1985 and 1986 Sixers and were each later selected to the Hall of Fame, but they never made it out of the Boston-ruled Eastern Conference as an interior unit.