Carl Braun, who starred for the Knickerbockers starting in the late 1940s and was an All-Star selection five straight times in the 1950s, was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame over the weekend, almost a decade after his death.
Braun’s posthumous induction came by way of the Veterans Committee, which is made up of former players who have been retired for at least 35 years. Braun, who died in 2010 at 82 years old, is part of a group of inductees that is headlined by Vlade Divac, Sidney Moncrief and Jack Sikma and includes WNBA and New York Liberty legend Teresa Weatherspoon, along with the likes of Al Attles, Chuck Cooper, Bobby Jones and Paul Westphal, according to a statement from the NBA.