
They called him “Chet the Jet.”
Chet Walker was a seven-time NBA All-Star, during a 13 year playing career for the Philadelphia 76ers and the Chicago Bulls.
And that was after a two-time All-American college career at Bradley University in the early 1960s.
But his success was not limited to the court. After his retirement from the NBA in 1975 Walker became an Emmy-winning TV producer,
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But for many years there was a smoldering anger in Chet Walker, anger at the way he had been treated – or mistreated -as a talented athlete.
Finally in 1995 Walker wrote a memoir, called Long Time Coming, subtitled A Black Athletes Coming of Age in America. He and I talked about the book that summer.
So here now, from 1995, Chet Walker.
Chet Walker Was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012. He died in 2024 at age 84.