Perth Wildcats' fans saw a Hall of Fame career unfold from the day Ricky Grace arrived in 1990 and now the 'Amazing' one is proud to be ranked among Australian basketball's greats.

Grace has never had trouble pulling a crowd wherever he goes and that was present again on Thursday as he fronted a packed room full of media to discuss becoming the latest Wildcats champion to become a Basketball Australia Hall of Fame inductee.

Grace continues to do some terrific work with the youth throughout Western Australia and the Northern Territory through his organisation Role Models and Leaders Australia, but he has those chances because of the amazing record-breaking career he had with the Wildcats.

Former Wildcats coach and captain Cal Bruton was the first person Grace saw when he arrived in Perth and he will be again alongside him at the Hall of Fame induction in Melbourne on August 18. Grace is tremendously proud of the honour and to have Bruton there with him.

"It feels great. I guess this is the culmination of all the great years that I've had in Perth and a time to reminisce and think about the glory days of basketball, and the Wildcats," Grace said.

"It's definitely an honour to be in the same sentence as guys like Andrew Gaze, Luc Longley, Leroy Loggins and all those guys in the Hall of Fame. From a little black boy in Dallas who hadn’t even heard of Perth sometimes I have to pinch myself with some of the things I've been able to do here.

"Cal is a good friend of mine and I'm flying him over to Melbourne for the dinner so he can sit next to me. Those were great days playing with those great players and I think I was just the last piece of the puzzle. You had all those pieces already here and then I was the last one."

Grace's three children Jerami, Jaida and Jazmyn are all back in Dallas but his oldest - son Jerami - is showing some basketball skills and it's not out of the realms of possibility that he could one day be back to follow in his dad's Hall of Fame footsteps and what a sight that would be.

"When my son moved back to America he was real quiet and the last thing he said to me before he got on the plane was, 'Dad, will I still be able to play for the Wildcats?' I said he can if he's good enough," Grace said.

"He's back in America working on his skills and hopefully in a few years you can see some blood from Ricky Grace."

Grace could rattle off any number of amazing memories from his outstanding career, but what stands out is that once he arrived in Perth he played with the Wildcats for the next 15-plus years, racked up 482 matches and starred in the club's first four NBL championships.

To also do it in front of the fans in the Perth Entertainment Centre and then later Challenge Stadium was something he'll equally treasure.

"One of the other proudest moments I have is that I played for the one club for almost 17 years and to be in any organisation for that long is great," Grace said.

"I won four championships under three different coaches (Alan Black - twice, Murray Arnold and Adrian Hurley) and I always reminded Nick (Marvin) that I was the common denominator in the championships, but they won one this year which was great.

"We have Hall of Fame fans as well. We just have the best fans and if there's ever a fan base that will go into the Hall of Fame I'm sure the Wildcats fans will get that hands down."

When Grace came to the Wildcats ahead of the 1990 season he had no idea what to expect, but the city has grown on him so much that an initial stay that he didn’t see lasting longer than two years is still going strong 20 years later and he still calls Perth home.

He almost didn’t make it with some close calls upon arriving in Australia though.

"Back in 1990 you didn’t have the internet and the world was a lot bigger place. I didn’t know where I was going, I could have been coming to Kalgoorlie, Albany or anywhere in the world, but when I arrived the first day I got to the airport and Cal put me straight into the car," Grace said.

"It's just a miracle that I'm here because I probably got more middle fingers pointed at me than I've ever had the first week that I was here because I was driving on the wrong side, pulling out in front of people and walking in front of people.

"I survived that, though, and the people were so nice. People have always been unbelievably nice to me and I thought it was a set up, but Australia has just been fantastic to me and Perth is great."

Grace now joins fellow Wildcats Cal Bruton, Scott Fisher, Adrian Hurley, Luc Longley and Andrew Vlahov in the Hall of Fame, but he is at a loss as to why his great championship teammate and friend James Crawford is yet to be accepted for his incredible 504-game NBL career.

"I don’t know what the deal was there and I know that the 'Alabama Slammer' is one of the greatest of all-time. I don’t try to figure out how it all works, but maybe they just wanted the one headliner this year."