'There's no substitution for work. “Kobe will be honored the way he should be.”The rest of the Hall-of-Fame class will be announced in April. Tim Duncan his NBA career with five titles and two MVP awards, and now serves as an assistant in San Antonio under his former coach, Gregg Popovich'This is the culmination,' Garnett said. "But it's definitely the peak of his NBA career and every accomplishment he had as an athlete was a stepping stone to being here. Nothing has changed the status quo in place for more than a month.Mitchell dizzied Denver’s defense with early passing and late scoring, leading the Jazz to a 124-105 Game 2 win Wednesday. “There are no words that can describe how everybody feels about it,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich The first-round series is now tied 1-1 with Game 3 on Friday.Mitchell scored just six points in the first half, but his teammates made 9-of-11 3-pointers – four assisted by Mitchell.“In my first two years, all I saw was the rim,” said Mitchell, who finished with eight assists. Kobe Bryant will be posthumously inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. "Lakers owner Jeanie Buss said in a statement, "No amount of words can fully describe what Kobe Bryant meant to the Los Angeles Lakers.
In what must have been a mere formality, at least 18 of the 24 anonymous voters chose Bryant, a five-time They all got into the Hall in their first year as finalists, as did WNBA great Tamika Catchings.
Also headed to the Hall this year: former FIBA Secretary General Patrick Baumann, selected as a direct-elect by the international committee.Kobe Bryant will be posthumously inducted into the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame following the helicopter crash that killed him, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven other people along the Southern California coast on January 26Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett (right) pictured during Game 1 of the 2008 Finals Hall of Fame Chairman Jerry Colangelo said the institution will take measures to ensure that all enshrinees get their deserved moment, and that the news of the year so far - such as Bryant's passing and the virus pandemic - do not overshadow anyone's accomplishments.
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'We are going to do this the right way and in a very sensitive way,' Colangelo said. 'It was an incredible career that I enjoyed so much.