Players

Career Highlights

• Jim graduated from Columbus North High School in 1959 where he played as a center/forward and earned All-City honors all 3 years of varsity basketball.
  
• His sophomore and junior years saw North amass a lofty 50-3 record.
  
• As a senior, Jim was co-captain of the Polar Bears and was named to the 2nd team Associated Press (AP) Ohio All-AA team.
  
• Doughty played for Ohio State where he returned to graduate in 1970.
  
• He played semi-pro basketball with the Columbus Comets and played professionally with the Harlem Globetrotters in 1963 and 1964.

Career Highlights

• Jim graduated from Linden McKinley High School in 1967 where as team captain, he led the Panthers to their first OHSAA State Championship.
  
• He played collegiately at The Ohio State University garnering All-Big10 honors and was a team captain.
  
• Drafted in the NBA’s 1st round (13th pick) by Los Angeles, Cleamons’ pro career as a player spanned 9 years with the Lakers, Cleveland Cavaliers, New York Knicks and Washington Bullets.
  
• Jim was selected to the NBA All-Defensive Team (2nd team) in 1976.
  
• Assistant coach at Furman University, head coach at Youngstown State University
  
• Head coach for the Dallas Mavericks and assistant coach with Chicago Bulls, LA Lakers and New Orleans Hornets.
  
• Jim has had much success in the NBA earning a championship ring as a player with the Lakers and multiple rings as assistant coach with the Bulls.

Career Highlights

• Brad is a 1971 graduate of Walnut Ridge High School. He first gained reputation as a sharp-shooter at Roosevelt Junior High School where he was coached by fellow inductee Miller Barnes Jr.
  
• Brad’s reputation as “The Blonde Bomber” blossomed as a junior on a star-studded Columbus South varsity basketball team coached by Dick Ricketts.
  
• Brad transferred to a already loaded Walnut Ridge team coached by Jackie Moore, which immediately put a lock on the state championship for the Scots, undefeated season and the big school state title in 1971.
  
• Brad also earned a spot on the all-tournament team and averaged better than 20 points per game.
  
• Hoffman, a 5’10 guard, played collegiately for the University of North Carolina Tar Heels from 1972-75, coached by Dean Smith. He played sparingly for his first two years, then became a regular rotation player for his senior season.
  
• After graduating from UNC, Hoffman played basketball for Athletes in Action (AIA), a faith-based sports organization.
  
• In 1978, Hoffman represented the United States in the 1978 FIBA World Championships in Manila due to the timing of the tournament ruling out the participation of active college players. The U.S. finished fifth in the games with a 6-4 record. Hoffman finished fourth on the team in scoring, averaging 11.7 points per game in the ten tournament contests.

Career Highlights

• The 6’10” Herb Williams was a dominant high school basketball player at Marion-Franklin (Columbus, Ohio) where in his senior year, lead the state ranked Red Devils to the tournament regional final before bowing out to the eventual state champion in 1977.
  
• He was the crown jewel of the Ohio State recruits in 1977. Williams was a four-year starter for the Ohio State Buckeyes, scoring 2,011 points (then a team record) and pulling down 1,111 rebounds (still second in team history only to Jerry Lucas).
  
• Williams is the school leader in career field goals made, with 834 in 114 games. He is second all-time in career blocked shots with 328.
  
• Williams was named to the All-Big Ten team as a junior, while at Ohio State he finished the year with a 21-8 record and advanced to the NCAA regionals. He led the Buckeyes in scoring that year with an average of 17.6 points per game.
  
• Williams was a team co-captain in both his junior and senior years at Ohio State.
  
• Williams was a first-round draft choice of the Indiana Pacers in 1981, where he played from 1982 to 1989 and had his most productive years.
  
• He was traded to the Dallas Mavericks after the 1988-1989 season.
  
• In 1992, he was signed by the New York Knicks, where he spent seven years backing up perennial All-Star Patrick Ewing. Williams played one game (31 minutes) for the Toronto Raptors in 1996 before being waived and quickly returned to the Knicks.
  
• The team made the 1994 and 1999 NBA Finals, with Williams serving as a team leader. After the 1999 Finals, Williams retired at the age of 41 after six regular season games and eight playoff games in 1999.
  
• Four years later, he returned to the Knicks as an assistant coach. He worked under head coaches Don Chaney and Lenny Wilkens.  When Wilkens resigned in 2005, Williams took over as head coach.
• In July 2005, Larry Brown was hired as the head coach of the Knicks, thus ending Williams’ head coaching tenure. Williams was the acting head coach of the Knicks for the final two games of the 2005-2006 season, when illness struck Larry Brown.
  
• After that season Isiah Thomas replaced Brown as head coach. Williams worked as an assistant coach under Thomas, and continued to be in the coaching staff under Mike Woodson until Phil Jackson fired the entire staff in 2014. He has coached for the Knicks’ NBA Summer League team.
  
• On March 26, 2015, Williams was hired as the assistant coach of the WNBA’s New York Liberty.

Career Highlights

• Brookhaven High School where she was an All-City and All-State basketball player and named a High School All-American by the WBCA.
  
• WBCA High School All-America Game in 1995.
  
• College career at Penn State, Darling averaged 10.3 points, 5.3 rebounds, 6.3 assists and 2.49 steals in 126 games and is the only player in PSU history to amass 1,000 points, 500 rebounds and 600 assists for her career.
  
• Darling is also the only player in Penn State history to earn Big Ten Player of the Year honors.
  
• A four-year starting point guard, she helped lead the Lady Lions to their first and only Final Four appearance in 2000.
  
• Darling earned her degree in education from Penn State in December 2001.
  
• She received the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award from the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association as the best senior player under 5’8” in 2000.
  
• Darling played on the team presenting the USA at the 1999 World University Games held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The team earned the silver medal.
  
• On April 25, 2000, Darling was drafted by the Cleveland Rockers in the second round (No.17 overall) of the 2000 WNBA Draft. In her rookie season, Darling played in all 32 regular season games and in six Rockers playoff games.
  
• Helen played for: Cleveland Rockers (2000-2003), Minnesota Lynx (2004), Charlotte Sting (2005-2006), and San Antonio Silver Stars (2007-2010).
  
• WNBA career, Darling has more than 1,000 career points, 650 assists and 250 career steals and has appeared in 19 career WNBA playoff games.