HOUSTON — On the same day it was announced that a team called the Stars will return to this state, one of the Utah Stars' greats players, Zelmo Beaty, was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Beaty joins Allen Iverson, Shaquille O'Neal, Tom Izzo, Sheryl Swoopes, Yao Ming and Jerry Reinsdorf, among others, in this year's class.
The announcement was made in Houston in advance of Monday night's NCAA Tournament championship game between Villanova and North Carolina.
A undersized center, Beaty was the MVP of the ABA playoffs the year the Utah Stars won the ABA Championship in 1971.