Rick Adelman, Portland Trail Blazers (Photo by: Ken Levine/Getty Images)
It was reported here last month that former Portland Trail Blazers Head Coach Rick Adelman was a finalist for the 2021 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee class. On Sunday, it was announced Adelman would be inducted.
Adelman joined Dr. Jack Ramsay’s coaching staff as an assistant coach in 1983. Before being on Portland’s bench, he was the Men’s Basketball coach of the Storm, Chemeketa Community College in Salem. In 1988, he was named interim coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, after the team fired then Head Coach Mike Schuler.