This Friday a wait of over 30 years finally, mercifully, comes to an end as Chet Walker gets inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Chet was one of the premier swingmen of the NBA during his 13-year playing career and his play never deteriorated, but amazingly it ever-improved as he got older. Through the first seven years of his career (with the Syracuse Nationals, who then became the Philadelphia 76ers) , Walker was good for 16 points and eight rebounds in 31 minutes a game all while connecting on 46 percent of his field goals and 74 percent of his free throws. But during the last six years of his career (with the Chicago Bulls), Chet upped the ante to 20 points and 6.5 rebounds in 33.5 minutes a game and shot 48 percent from the field and 85 percent from the line. Retiring in 1975 at 35 years old, Chet was still on top of his game. His field goal and free throw percentage were both the second best of his career while scoring 19 points a game. But to truly appreciate Chet's greatness, we have to move beyond (or behind) the box score and the seven All-Star game appearances, and see how he played key role on the 1967-68 Sixers (a contender for the never-known-but-always-argued...