Plans in the works for Houston sports Hall of Fame

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Houston's 34s Nolan Ryan, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Earl Campbell together during a press conference after the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Houston.

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Houston's 34s Nolan Ryan, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Earl Campbell together during a press conference after the Houston Sports Awards at the Hilton Americas, ... more Photo: Karen Warren, Houston Chronicle Photo: Karen Warren, Houston Chronicle Image 1 of / 72 Caption Close Plans in the works for Houston sports Hall of Fame 1 / 72 Back to Gallery

The plans for a Houston Sports Hall of Fame are in the works.

At the end of Thursday night's Houston Sports Awards, the Houston Sports Authority announced its intentions to put together the Hall of Fame and gave rings to the night's honorees - Hakeem Olajuwon, Nolan Ryan and Earl Campbell.

As the first three members of the Hall of Fame, the three will be honored at first as a Walk of Fame somewhere along the GreenStreet area in downtown Houston. Houston Sports Authority CEO Janis Burke says she hopes the Walk of Fame will be completed by the summer.

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Eventually, that Walk of Fame will turn into a Hall of Fame building that will honor all the sports greats in Houston.

"When you think about it now, you wonder how did we go all these years without (a Houston Hall of Fame)," Olajuwon said. "It's a brilliant idea. Houston has a tremendous wealth of talent."

Future hall of famers, Burke said, will be announced at succeeding Houston Sports Award banquets each February.

"This night, honoring the 34s has been about 10 years in the making," Burke said. "And, then we were able to get them all in the same room together, and we thought, 'We have to capitalize on this and put together a Hall of Fame.'"

Fred Cuellar, the CEO of Diamond Cutters International, provided the rings for Olajuwon, Ryan and Campbell on Thursday night and said he will provide rings for every member that goes into the Hall of Fame. Cuellar will make a ring, which he estimates to cost between $60,000 and $100,000 each, for each Hall of Fame member and a replica that eventually will be displayed in the Hall of Fame as well.