Former Oakland County varsity boys basketball head coaches Howard Golding and Barry Bershad were both inducted into the Michigan Jewish Hall of Fame this week.

Golding was the longtime head coach at Oak Park prior to finishing out his career with the clipboard at Bloomfield Hills Andover, while Bershad was a longtime area assistant that also held stints as a head coach on the bench at West Bloomfield and Birmingham Roeper.

What makes the pair's induction in the same class even more special is that Bershad spent many years as Golding's top assistant, both on the varsity level and in several Maccabi Games. (the national Jewish youth Olympics)

Golding coached a number of future D1 players in his years leading the Oak Park Knights in the 1980s and 1990s, including Herb Taylor (Dayton), Ryan Perryman (Dayton) and Jamie Arnold (Wichita State), among others. Some other notable inductees into the Hall's Class of 2012 with OC ties include; Danny Cohen - a former all-state football and track star at North Farmington, who went on to start at linebacker in college at Eastern Michigan in the early 1980s and Storm Kirschenbaum - one of Birmingham Groves' all-time best baseball players, who went on to play in the SEC at Florida and then at Long Island University in the late 1990s

Bonus Burney Knowledge Drop;

The most famous former player of Golding's didn't have a career in hoops after playing for him. Instead, it was the hip hop industry that was calling his name.

You know him as Royce Da' 5-9, but back in the 90s at Oak Park he was a spunky little guard named Ryan Montgomery.