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Here is each Hall of Fame Inductees' best line from Friday night's ceremony in Springfield, Mass.:

Jerry Sloan: "Tom Boerwinkle ... 6-foot-11, built my backyard. When he bought the house behind me, I said: 'Tom, we were roommates one day and next day you're in my backyard looking out the window. He said 'I've got that figured out; I'll build a fence 6-feet-10, I can see over it and you can't.'

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- When it's your party, you can cry if you want to, and you also can embarrass yourself if you want to. Just ask Michael Jordan, who spent his induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Friday night doing his version of dancing naked on a coffee table with a lamp shade on his head.

What was that?

Whatever it was, it wasn't good. It rivaled anything you can name through the decades as the most brutal Hall of Fame acceptance speech ever. Soon after receiving a standing ovation of 73 seconds from a packed and adoring house at Springfield Symphony Hall, he went from sobbing to reflective to vicious.

It would figure David Thompson and George Gervin are together again.

They had an epic final-day duel for the 1977-78 NBA scoring title, won by Gervin. They were both inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1996. And now they both will be presenters at Friday's Basketball Hall of Fame induction in Springfield, Mass.

Thompson will present Michael Jordan and Gervin will be one of two presenters for David Robinson.

Rutgers women's basketball coach Vivian Stringer had a long and impressive coaching career long before Don Imus referred to her team as "nappy-headed hoes." But since that infamous incident, she's become not just a basketball coach but also the go-to source for many in the media who want an opinion on the intersection of race, sex and sports.

ESPN's Doris Burke asked Stringer what she thought of Knicks coach Isiah Thomas saying that he isn't bothered as much by a black man calling a black woman a "bitch" as he is by a white man calling a black woman a "bitch," and Stringer expressed her views:

"It's disgusting. You know, I turned the dog-gone set off. I thought 'has he lost his mind,' honestly," Stringer told ESPN

Thomas responded by telling Stringer to "get the facts'' about what he said, but I'm not sure what leads him to believe that she doesn't have the facts. Thomas says it's always wrong for a man to call a woman a "bitch," but that if a man is going to call a black woman a "bitch," Thomas would prefer that it be a black man. Stringer disagrees -- she doesn't want to be called a "bitch" by anyone and wouldn't feel any better about being called a "bitch" by a black man than she would about being called a "bitch" by a white man.

That's an opinion she's entitled to, it's consistent with the things she said after the Imus incident, and it's absurd for Thomas to suggest that just because she disagrees with him, she needs to "get the facts."

UPDATE: Stringer has now apologized to Thomas.