Michael Cooper's defensive prowess helped the Lakers win five NBA championships. Now he's part of the 2024 Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame class.
Magic Johnson answered his cell on the first ring and in a nanosecond his excitement was at a fever pitch. “My boy made it! My boy made it! My boy Coop made the Hall of Fame!” Johnson exclaimed. “Damn! I was hollering, man, when I heard it. I couldn’t believe it. I was so excited for him, man.” His “boy” is Michael Cooper, the defensive virtuoso on those dominant Lakers championship teams in the 1980s who indeed has been elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Former Lakers star Byron Scott said he, James Worthy, former Lakers trainer Gary Vitti and their wives were having lunch a few months ago with Cooper when he lamented about having not made it when he was a finalist for the class of 2021. Then Cooper, 67, became a finalist again for the 2024 class during NBA All-Star weekend in Indianapolis. “Coop was like, ‘Man, if it happens, it happens,’” Scott recalled.
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