🏀 Framed Autographed/Signed Artis Gilmore HOF 11 35x39 San Antonio Spurs Black Basketball Jersey — JSA COA — Chipley, Florida — Jacksonville University — Kentucky Colonels (ABA) — San Antonio Spurs — 1975 ABA Champion — "The A-Train" — Basketball Hall of Fame 2011 — James Spence Authentication Certificate of Authenticity — Framed 35x39

🏀 Artis Gilmore signed this San Antonio Spurs black basketball jersey himself — the autograph of the 7-foot-2-inch center from Chipley, Florida, who dominated professional basketball in two leagues across two decades, who won an ABA championship with the Kentucky Colonels before the merger and continued to be one of the most imposing low-post presences in the NBA afterward, and who was known to everyone who covered both eras of professional basketball simply as The A-Train — the freight that moves through the paint without being stopped by the architecture of the defense. Basketball Hall of Fame 2011. Authenticated and certified by James Spence Authentication (JSA) and presented in a frame measuring 35 by 39 inches, this signed Spurs black jersey is the collectible of the A-Train. Condition: NOS.

🌟 Chipley, Florida — Gardner-Webb — Jacksonville University — The ABA Years

🌟 Artis Gilmore was born on September 21, 1949, in Chipley, Florida — the small Washington County town in the panhandle of Florida where he grew up before his height and skill took him through Gardner-Webb College and eventually to Jacksonville University, where he became one of the most dominant college players in the country. The ABA's Kentucky Colonels drafted him in 1971 — and for the next five seasons in Louisville, Gilmore was the most productive big man in professional basketball's alternative league, winning the ABA MVP in 1972, being named to five ABA All-Star teams, and winning the 1975 ABA Championship before the league folded and the Colonels' players were dispersed through the NBA. Condition: NOS.

🏆 1975 ABA Champion — The A-Train Arrives in the NBA

🏆 Artis Gilmore won the 1975 ABA Championship with the Kentucky Colonels — the title that came the year before the ABA-NBA merger dissolved the league and sent its players into the established circuit. When the Chicago Bulls claimed him in the ABA dispersal draft in 1976, he arrived in the NBA at full professional maturity: a 7-foot-2 center who had already proven himself at the highest competitive level available. Six seasons in Chicago followed, then five seasons with the San Antonio Spurs — the black jersey that now carries his signature — before brief stints in Boston and a second Chicago tour. The Spurs years are part of the story the black jersey tells. JSA COA. Framed 35x39. Condition: NOS.

⭐ Basketball Hall of Fame 2011 — The A-Train's Permanent Station

⭐ Artis Gilmore was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011 — recognition for a career that spanned both the ABA and NBA and that accumulated statistics across both leagues putting him among the most productive big men in the history of professional basketball. His career field goal percentage remains one of the highest in NBA history — a product of operating in the restricted area where his size and footwork made him nearly unblockable on the roll. The Spurs black jersey. Signed. "HOF 11" inscription. Framed 35x39. JSA authenticated. Condition: NOS.

🏀🌟 Artis Gilmore. Chipley, Florida. Jacksonville University. Kentucky Colonels ABA (1971-1976), 1975 ABA Champion, ABA MVP. Chicago Bulls (1976-1982, 1987-88). San Antonio Spurs (1982-1987). Basketball Hall of Fame 2011. Signed Spurs black basketball jersey, HOF 11 inscription, framed 35x39, JSA COA. Condition: NOS.