David Thompson enter’s Hal of fame

David Thompson basketball player is picked for Hal of fame. David Thompson has been picked up as the latest Hall of fame basketball player. He was picked up by the basketball great Michael Jordon and this selection has many people amazed.David Thompson is a former American professional basketball star with the Denver Nuggets of both the National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA), as well as the Seattle SuperSonics. He was previously a star in college for North Carolina State, leading the Wolfpack to its first NCAA championship in 1974.

Thompson is considered one of the greatest players in the history of the Atlantic Coast Conference, among such talents as Michael Jordan, Ralph Sampson, Tim Duncan, Christian Laettner, and Len Bias.Thompson played basketball in a time in which the slam dunk was outlawed via the “Lew Alcindor” rule. In 1975, against University of North Carolina at Charlotte playing his final nonconference game at N.C. State, early in the second half Thompson drove the length of the court for his first and only dunk of his collegiate career, a goal that was promptly disallowed by technical foul.

Head coach Norm Sloan removed Thompson, to thunderous applause. The ACC’s most exciting player, who had performed for three years without ever performing the game’s most exciting act, thus passed into history.Michael Jordan who grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina said that Thompson was his basketball role model, as a young man. At some of the basketball camps that Jordan later ran, Jordan would often tell the campers, “He was the guy I looked up to when I was your age.”Thompson earned the nickname “Skywalker” due to his 48-inch vertical leap, and also holds the NBA’s third highest single game scoring title with 73 points.