Kobe, Duncan, Garnett among 9 enshrined in Hall of Fame
Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett take their places among the legends.
Tim Reynolds | Associated Press
May 16, 2021 12:22 AM
UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) Vanessa Bryant took Michael Jordan’s hand and walked down from the stage, a familiar chant breaking out throughout the arena as she made her way back to her seat.
“Kobe! Kobe! Kobe!” the crowd shouted.
With that, he was officially, finally a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Kobe Bryant is in the Hall now, along with contemporaries Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett, headliners of a group of nine who got their delayed and long-awaited enshrinement on Saturday night, more than a year after being announced as the Hall’s Class of 2020.
(Photo by Dan Steinberg/Invision/AP, File)
Vanessa Bryant gave a moving tribute to her late husband Kobe Bryant earlier this afternoon, as he joined the ranks of elite basketball greats with enshrinement into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (the more formal name for the NBA Hall of Fame) Saturday at a ceremony held near Hartford, Connecticut.
Earlier today, I covered some of the highlights of his career in the man’s own words in my piece, and our Ship’s piece covered a great moment from the beginnings of Kobe’s rise to legendary status in the NBA.
Suns take care of business in rout of short-handed Spurs
Field Level Media
16 May 2021, 11:40 GMT+10
Devin Booker scored 23 of his 27 points in the first half and the visiting Phoenix Suns took care of business with a lopsided 140-103 win against the short-handed San Antonio Spurs on Saturday afternoon in the penultimate game of the regular season for both teams.
The win allowed the Suns (50-21) to keep pace with idle Utah (51-20) in the race for the top seed in the Western Conference. If Phoenix defeats the Spurs on Sunday afternoon in the second game of their back-to-back and Utah loses at Sacramento, the Suns will win the conference as they own the tiebreaker with the Jazz.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Jay Wright used to sell tickets to games in the long-defunct United States Football League. Ben Wallace was passed over by every NBA team, some of
Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant was inducted posthumously to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday, as the class of 2020 was ensh