Former New York Knick and Truman High School star is heads the list of 8 new inductees to the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame on September 17th.  Other inductees are Kenny Anderson, Sam Perkins, Lou Bender, Eddie Younger, Coach Pete Gillen, Bob McCullough, and Joe Goldstein.  Strickland led Truman to its only City Title in 1984 and then beat Sweet Home High School in double over-time with a reverse lay-up to capture the State Championship.

Kenny Anderson is was a point guard extraordinaire out of Archbishop Malloy before he started the path down to Bobby Cremin's Georgia Tech teams (Stephon Marbury would follow shortly after).  Sam Perkins is best remembered for his winning a national title for Dean Smith at North Carolina.  The one thing adding 8 names to the roster of the Hall is that here will always be plenty more to follow from the furtile playgrounds and high schools of New York City.  Game Over