CHAMPIONS FOREVER… LEGENDS ACHIEVE GREATNESS!

It simply doesn’t get any better than this and I truly mean that! & (Left to right) Kirk Bruce, Pitt University star, ABA Utah Stars draft selection, Pittsburgh City League and Connie Hawkins League Hall of Fame; Bobby Byrd, Pittsburgh City League Basketball Legend and Connie Hawkins League Hall of Fame; Ricky “Black Magic” Coleman, Schenley H.S. Legend, Pittsburgh City League Hall of Fame, Connie Hawkins League Hall of Fame, and Boston Celtics draft selection; and Baron “BB” Flenory, Valley H.S./New Kensington Basketball phenom, Duquesne University superstar, draft selection by the Boston Celtics, European Pro League Champion, voted top 100 in PA Basketball History. Trust me when I tell you that never has a lead title ever been more on point.& But I don’t have to tell you, if you were among the 300-plus in attendance, you already know. For those of you who somehow managed to miss the event of the year, please allow me to get you caught up. To do that we have to start at the beginning, that hot summer day in June 1974 when Connie Hawkins, Kenny Durrett and Will Graham walked out of the newly reconstructed Homewood YMCA where I was the recently hired...