Vaccaro Out of Basketball Hall

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Glaring omission: Sonny Vaccaro deserves induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame

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The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame will announce its Class of 2025 at the Final Four in April .

Mike Downey : Sonny Vaccaro is most famously known for signing Michael Jordan to an endorsement deal at Nike .

He founded the first national high school all-star game — the Dapper Dan Roundball Classic — in his native Western Pennsylvania .

The problem with Vaccaro 's candidacy appears to be the enemies he made along the way; he was an outsider and agitator in a sport that normally celebrates them.

The powers that be spent years and years trying to hold Vaccaro back, but he always seemed to prevail in the end.

Vaccaro says he would like it because, if nothing else, his accomplishments would be memorialized.

He jokes that maybe it’ll happen the year after he eventually dies, sort of a sympathy honor.

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