Jordan Shoes - Gilmore on All-Stars, the ABA and the Hall of Fame

The last time the NBA and Jordan Shoes joined hands with each other and staged its All-Star Game in Dallas, Artis Gilmore was front and center -- a backup center for the West squad, in fact, playing behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, alongside Hakeem Olajuwon and Ralph Sampson and against Moses Malone, Robert Parish and Patrick Ewing. Gilmore will not be in Dallas for All-Star with Cheap Jordan Shoes Weekend this year, though -- partly because he was not asked and partly because he will be back at his alma mater and current employer, Jacksonville University, helping to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the school-s inception. In March, he and other former Dophins will be honored in a 40-year celebration of Jacksonville-s trip to the Final Four and brush with the NCAA men-s championship, when they lost to the mighty UCLA Bruins in the title game.

More conspicuously, Gilmore will not be in Springfield, Mass., today, tomorrow, the day after that or possibly anytime soon. For some inexplicable reason, he has yet to be enshrined in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
Frankly, the 7-foot-2 gentle giant from Chipley, Fla., might be the Hall-s most glaring omission, given his statistical achievements and a diverse career in which he starred at the college level, in the old American Basketball Association, in the ABA and even for a season of Jordan Shoes Wholesale in Italy at the end, before the international game became a viable option for U.S. players.