Buckley: One retired from coaching. The other keeps coming back. But these two hall of famers share a lot.
Fred Horton, right, and Bubba Luckett, left, were inducted Tuesday night into the Memphis Sports Hall of Fame. (Tim Buckley/The Daily Memphian and Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Tim Buckley
Tim is a veteran sportswriter who graduated from CBHS in Memphis and the University of Missouri. He previously covered LSU sports in Baton Rouge, and the University of Louisiana football and basketball for The Daily Advertiser/USA TODAY Network in Lafayette, the NBA’s Utah Jazz for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, and West Texas State basketball for the Amarillo Globe News in Texas.
One came to Memphis from Durham, North Carolina, and has coached boys basketball teams at multiple city schools for decades. The other spent 42 seasons as an assistant and head coach at the same Memphis private school team for which he played.
One keeps on retiring and unretiring.
The other?
“I will not do that,” he said. “Nah. I am done.”
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