DOVER — Emanual Davis, who went from Delaware State to the NBA, is one of 12 former athletes being inducted into the Delaware Afro-American Sports Hall of Fame tonight.

The group is holding its 25th annual induction banquet at Dover’s Modern Maturity Center this evening.

A first-team All-MEAC player for DelState in 1991, Davis paid his dues before finally making it to the NBA.

The 6-foot-4 guard played in the Continental Basketball Association, Italian Basketball League and United States Basketball League before finally being signed by the NBA’s Houston Rockets at the age of 27.

Davis also played for the SuperSonics and Hawks. He appeared in 227 games over six seasons, netting a total of 1,100 points.

As a rookie in 1996, Davis scored 19 points in a game against the Lakers. The previous season, he was named the CBA’s Defensive Player of the Year.

At DSU, Davis scored 1,269 points in his career with 378 assists and 183 steals.

The other Hall of Fame inductees, in alphabetical order:

Another former Delaware State standout, running back Reggie Barnes ran for 3,282 yards and 28 touchdowns in his Hornet football career. He is second at DSU and 12th on the MEAC’s all-time rushing lists.

A two-time first-team All-MEAC pick, Barnes ran for 1,336 yards in 10 games as a senior in 1988.

Barnes went on to a successful career in the Canadian Football League where he was named the league’s Most Outstanding Rookie after running for 1,260 yards and five TDs in his first season. He finished with 4,771 rushing yards and 27 TD while adding 1,386 yards and six TDs on 155 catches.

Raymond Bias was an All-State quarterback at Newark High in 1970 who went on to start at Delaware State in the early 1970s.

Bias spent 24 seasons as an assistant coach at both Newark and Kennett Square, Pa. and was also a standout men’s softball player.

Marcus Gillespie played baseball and football at Georgetown’s Jason High. A shortstop, he had a tryout with the Phillies before being drafted into the U.S. Marines in 1967.

Gillespie played for the Laurel Indians as an adult and coached Little League in Laurel.

Darryl Hicks, a 1981 Milford High grad, captained both the football and wrestling teams for the Buccaneers.

He went on to wrestle for Morgan State in college, finishing fourth in the Division II Wrestling Eastern Regionals in 1984.

George Stanley Hicks was a three-sport standout high school athlete who played football and wrestled at Delaware State from 1974 to ‘77. He also played football at Ramstein Air Force Base from 1978 to 1981.

Carlton Moss, Sr. was a state-champion sprinter at Wilmington’s P.S. DuPont High from 1969 to 1971 before going on to run for Delaware State.

Millsboro native Kenneth Nocks, Sr. was a three-sport athlete at Sussex Central High who played in the Mason Dixon Negro Baseball League and had a football scholarship to Delaware State. He coached several youth leagues as an adult.

Laurel native and 1954 Jason High grad Eugene Puckham went on to plat baseball at Delaware State. After serving in the U.S. Army, he played for baseball for local teams like the Laurel Tigers and the Bridgeville Comets.

Alfred Lee Reed was a standout in football and track & field at Sussex Central High who later competed for DSU..

Samuel Lee Shepherd was a three-time first-team All-MEAC basketball player for Delaware State who went on to play professionally in Venezuela. He also played for the Venezuelan national team in the 1992 Summer Olympics,

William Penn High grad John Wallace was a top-notch powerlifter between 1995 and 2004, winning a title at the World Bench Press Championships in 1996.