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From Wilt Chamberlain to John Chaney, get to know Philly's Black Basketball Hall of Fame

You might not have heard of the Black Basketball Hall of Fame. Perhaps that's because it inducted its first class in late December, or perhaps because it doesn't have an actual hall to call home yet.

But you barely have to know anything to know about the vast contributions that the city's African-American community has made to basketball here and across the country - indeed, around the world.

The inaugural Hall of Fame class includes such luminaries as Wilt Chamberlain, Guy Rodgers, Hal Lear and John Chaney. Another inductee of note was Philadelphia Tribune sportswriter Donald Hunt, whose longtime campaign to get a Wilt Chamberlain postage stamp succeeded in 2014.