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Posted: 2024-10-13T22:15:39Z | Updated: 2024-10-13T22:15:39Z

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) Honored for his devotion to a basketball team that doesnt have a Hall of Fame history, Billy Crystal couldnt help but note the irony.

How strange to be getting a ring before any of the Clippers, he said.

The actor is being added to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fames James F. Goldstein SuperFan Gallery and took part in a ceremony Sunday along with fellow entertainer and filmmaker Spike Lee and Philadelphia businessman Alan Horwitz. Longtime Lakers fan Jack Nicholson is also being added but the three-time Academy Award winner was not able to attend.

Crystal wore a sports jacket and slacks, while Lee and Horwitz dressed as if they were sitting courtside. Lee, with an orange vest over a New York sweatshirt and topped by a black Knicks bucket hat, sparred with the opposition as if he was in his seat at Madison Square Garden.

I saw some Boston Celtic green. Uh-uh, he said, before showing the fans that he had brought coach Red Holzmans 1973 NBA championship ring, the last one won by the Knicks.

Its been a long time, but I think this year its going to be orange-and-blue skies, Lee said.