WASHINGTON, April 5 (Xinhuanet) -- Former Portland Trail Blazers and Houston Rockets player Clyde Drexler led a group of six being elected for the NBA Hall of Fame on Monday.

    Four players, one coach and one contributor were elected for Enshrinement September 10, 2004 in Springfield, Mass., the birthplace of basketball, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall ofFame announced Monday in San Antonio, Texas.

    Phoenix Suns owner Jerry Colangelo, championship coach Bill Sharman, legendary women's basketball superstar Lynette Woodard, the late Maurice Stokes, and dominant international guard Drazen Dalipagic, join Drexler for the Class of 2004.

    Sharman also joins John Wooden and Lenny Wilkens as only the third person in Basketball Hall of Fame history to be enshrined asboth a coach and a player.

    The Class of 2004 was selected from a group of 16 finalists.

    The Honors Committee elected Drexler and Woodard on their firstyear of eligibility. Colangelo and Sharman had been finalists the previous two years; Dalipagic was finalist last year and Stokes was a first-time finalist after being reactivated by the Veteran Committee in 2003. Enditem