It was five years ago when a New York Post article prompted two-time Emmy award-winning director Eric Drath to contact Knicks legend Dick Barnett about his quest to have his historic college team at Tennessee A&I inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
Barnett was 74 then. Today he is 79, and a documentary that has been in the works since 2011 faces an uncertain ending.
“The Hollywood ending would be the Hall of Fame says it’s time to enshrine and Dick is there,” Drath told The Post this week. “And the other ending, is the sad ending where Dick Barnett dies while he still in pursuit and the story is forgotten.