ORLANDO – Someday, Penny Hardaway’s body of work as a transformational point guard might earn him induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. And someday Hardaway – now a head basketball coach at East High School in his hometown of Memphis – might get the championship that eluded him in college and in the NBA.
None of it, Hardaway said on Friday, will top his induction into the Orlando Magic Hall of Fame. After all, the Magic were the ones that believed in him first and the ones that provided him the stage to become an international superstar.