Ex-NBA star Schrempf has a ball at Mid-Pac gala

By Ben Wood

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Feb 17, 2012

~~BARING THE STORY: Former National Basketball Association all-star and occasional guest on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” Detlef Schrempf, all 6 feet, 10 inches of him, lightened up the crowd at Mid-Pacific Institute’s M Club Athletic Hall of Fame Gala at the Ko‘olau Ballrooms Feb. 4 by talking about walking into Makena Beach’s nude section on a trek. “I was hiking on Makena Beach on Maui and all of a sudden everybody is naked,” he said. “It’s unfortunate but it’s always the people who should not be naked. But live and let live.” Detlef also made reference to out-of-shape men playing volleyball. Moving on, he said he had long blond hair when he was growing up and he was a rather wayward youth. “I looked more like a surfer,” he said. Detlef added that his parents knew nothing about basketball, as their culture was soccer. He was not introduced to basketball until he was 13, and then it changed his life, straightened him out and made him self-disciplined. Detlef made three NBA all-star game appearances. He won two NBA Sixth Man Awards, and helped the Seattle Supersonics make the NBA championship finals in the 1995-96 season, losing to Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. …
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BARING THE STORY: Former National Basketball Association all-star and occasional guest on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” Detlef Schrempf, all 6 feet, 10 inches of him, lightened up the crowd at Mid-Pacific Institute’s M Club Athletic Hall of Fame Gala at the Ko‘olau Ballrooms Feb. 4 by talking about walking into Makena Beach’s nude section on a trek. “I was hiking on Makena Beach on Maui and all of a sudden everybody is naked,” he said. “It’s unfortunate but it’s always the people who should not be naked. But live and let live.” Detlef also made reference to out-of-shape men playing volleyball. Moving on, he said he had long blond hair when he was growing up and he was a rather wayward youth. “I looked more like a surfer,” he said. Detlef added that his parents knew nothing about basketball, as their culture was soccer. He was not introduced to basketball until he was 13, and then it changed his life, straightened him out and made him self-disciplined. Detlef made three NBA all-star game appearances. He won two NBA Sixth Man Awards, and helped the Seattle Supersonics make the NBA championship finals in the 1995-96 season, losing to Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. …