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Wayne R. Embry. While Wayne Embry enjoyed a solid playing career, his overall impact on basketball stems from both his on-court and off-court activities. He was a rugged forward-center for eleven professional seasons with the Cincinnati Royals, Boston Celtics, and Milwaukee Bucks who never minded mixing it up under the basket.
Embry was inducted into the Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006 as a member of the charter class. He was the 2013 recipient of the Ohio Heritage Award, recognizing an Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame inductee for his or her contributions to the state of Ohio off the court.
25 de abr. de 2024 · In 1999 he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He was coauthor with Mary Schmitt Boyer of The Inside Game: Race, Power, and Politics in the NBA (2004). He also served as member of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
Wayne Richard Embry (Springfield, Ohio, 26 de marzo de 1937) es un exjugador de baloncesto estadounidense que disputó 11 temporadas en la NBA. Con 2,03 metros de altura, jugaba en la posición de ala-pívot.
17 de ene. de 2007 · He was enshrined in the Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame in 1998, in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999, and has had his high school and collegiate uniform numbers retired.
10 de mar. de 2021 · Embry has been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (1999), the Ohio College Basketball Hall of Fame (2006) and the Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame (2013).
10 de mar. de 2021 · Wayne Embry, who became the NBA’s first African American team president and CEO with the Cavaliers in 1994, is among three winners of the 2020 Mannie Jackson-Basketball’s Human Spirit Award, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced Wednesday.
