Rick Adelman, Portland Trail Blazers (Photo by: Ken Levine/Getty Images)
Rick Adelman, one of, if not the most popular coaches of the Portland Trail Blazers, was announced as a 2021 finalist for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach.
Adelman was drafted as a player in the 7th round of the 1968 draft out of Loyola Marymount by the San Diego Rockets. The Blazers would select him in the 1970 expansion draft, where he played four seasons (1970-1973) in addition to Chicago, the New Orleans Jazz, and Kansas City-Omaha Kings.