What do Clyde Drexler Arvydas Sabonis, Lenny Wilkens, Jack Ramsay, Neil Johnston, Drau017een Petroviu0107, Harry Glickman, Scottie Pippen, Bill Schonley, and now Rick Adelman all have in common? They are members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame with connections to the Portland Trail Blazers.
Saturday afternoon, the Basketball Hall of Fame enshrined and inducted its 2021 class, which included the former Portland coach and player Adelman, who entered the “Hall” as a coach.
Adelman started his coaching career at Salem’s Chemeketa Community College in 1977 and left in 1983.