At the Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony: Top row, from left: Terry Dischinger, Bob Boozer, Burdette Haldorson, Darrall Imhoff, Jerry Lucas, Walt Bellamy. Front row: Warren Womble, Allen Kelley, Adrian Smith, Jay Arnette, Oscar Robertson. At podium: Jerry West. At right: presenters Billy Cunningham and Wayne Embry. (Photo courtesy of NBA Entertainment / Getty Images.)

Left photo: Jerry West and Oscar Robertson, co-captains of the 1960 U.S. Olympic gold medal team, with the captains of the Russian and Brazilian teams (bronze and silver winners respectively) at the 1960 Olympics in Rome.

Right photo, top row, from left: Darrall Imhoff (University of California), Jerry Lucas (Ohio State University), Walt Bellamy (Indiana University), Burdette Haldorson (University of Colorado, AAU Phillips 76ers), Bob Boozer (Kansas State, AAU Peoria Caterpillars), Terry Dischinger (Purdue University), Oscar Robertson (University of Cincinnati). First row, from left: Les Lane (Oklahoma University, AAU Wichita Vickers), Allen Kelley (Kansas University, AAU Peoria Caterpillars), Adrian Smith (University of Kentucky, Armed Forces All-Stars), Jay Arnette (University of Texas), Jerry West (West Virgina University), trainer Dean Nesmith (Kansas University). Kneeling, from left, assistant coach Warren Womble (Southeastern Oklahoma University, Peoria Caterpillars), manager Dutch Lonborg (Kansas University), head coach Pete Newell (University of California). Lane, Lonborg, Nesmith and Newell are now deceased.

Arnette, Bellamy, Boozer, Dischinger, Imhoff, Lucas, Robertson, Smith and West went on to play in the NBA (Arnette, Boozer, Lucas, Robertson and Smith all with the Cincinnati Royals in 1964), and Coach Pete Newell went on to become an NBA general manager. Robertson, Bellamy, Dischinger and Lucas were NBA Rookies of the Year consecutively in 1961-64. Four players -Bellamy, Lucas, West and Robertson -- are in the Hall of Fame as individuals, as is Coach Pete Newell and manager Dutch Lonborg.