Hall of Famer AD in Buffalo

The doors to the basketball Hall of Fame will swing open for seven new members this year, including one player who began his NBA career in Buffalo. After a standout college career at Notre Dame, and a gold medal winning performance at the 1976 Olympics, the Buffalo Braves made Adrian Dantley the 6th overall player chosen in the 1976 NBA draft. He didn't disappoint. Dantley led a bad Braves team through the season, and was the 1977 NBA Rookie of the Year. He was the third Braves player to win Rookie of the Year honors in a 5-year span (McAdoo and DiGregorio were the others). But Dantley had the misfortune of joining a Braves team that was in the process of being dismantled by owner John Y. Brown. He was traded to the Indiana Pacers in 1978 for Billy Knight, and then he bounced around a couple of other NBA outposts for a while. He had his most success with the Utah Jazz, when he was the league's scoring champion in 1981 and again in 1984.