
It stands by itself as in its uniqueness.” I think maybe it’s the most unique class, I’d say, of all time, and that covers a lot of territory.

It shows how far the game has come and where it is today. There’s the countries that are represented, Germany and Spain and France. “This class not only represents all levels of basketball - it represents truly, in every regard, what the game is all about and where it is,” Colangelo told The Associated Press. Most of them joined Colangelo and other Hall of Famers on Friday for a welcome dinner of sorts, then on Saturday took their first public bows as basketball royalty. Hall of Fame chairman Jerry Colangelo told the new members or their families about the happy news earlier this week. Olympic women’s basketball team former Purdue coach Gene Keady, a seven-time Big Ten coach of the year former Texas A&M women’s coach Gary Blair, who took two teams to the Final Four longtime coach at Division III Amherst and two-time national champion David Hixon and Gene Bess - who won 1,300 games as a junior college coach at Three Rivers Community College in Poplar Bluff, Missouri.ĪP source: Grizzlies have no plans to bring back Brooks “This is basketball heaven,” Wade said on the ESPN telecast of the announcement in Houston.Īlso getting the Hall’s call: the 1976 U.S. 11 and 12 at ceremonies in Connecticut and Massachusetts. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame made it official Saturday, with three of the NBA’s all-time international greats - Nowitzki, Parker and Gasol - joining Wade, Hammon and Popovich as the headliners of the 2023 class that will be enshrined on Aug. Dirk Nowitzki and Dwyane Wade waged battles against him.

Tony Parker and Pau Gasol played for him.
