On Saturday, long-time NBA and ABA center Zelmo Beaty died of cancer at the age of 73. For the last several years, Slate’s sports podcast “Hang Up and Listen” has ended each week with the words, ...

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The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame held a press conference to formally present the class of 2016 with their official jackets. This is Ann Beaty, wife of inductee Zelmo Beaty, with Hall of ...

Shaquille O’Neal, Yao Ming and Allen Iverson will headline the 2016 crop of Basketball Hall of Fame inductees, but those superstars aren’t alone in the list of new members. If you were left wondering ...

When it was announced former NBA and ABA star Zelmo Beaty was headed to the Hall of Fame, plenty of people responded with, “who?” He was a two-time NBA All-Star with the Hawks, who move to the ABA and ...

Zelmo Beaty was not a big man for a guy who made his living inside (he was officially 6'9", smaller than Bill Russell, Bob Lanier, Willis Reed, Wilt Chamberlain and other centers of the same era) but ...

Zelmo Beaty is the proverbial classic case of a small town player who made it big. Beaty grew up in Hillister, Texas, which is a quaint sawmill town located eight miles south of Woodville in south ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you were left wondering “who the heck is Zelmo Beaty?” last spring when the Hall of Fame inductees were announced, you probably ...