NEW ORLEANS — NBA stars Manu Ginobili and Tim Hardaway are among the many 2022 class of Basketball Corridor of Fame inductees.
The honorees had been introduced Saturday in New Orleans on the web site of the NCAA Ultimate 4.
Additionally chosen this 12 months had been former WNBA champion and two-time school nationwide champion Swin Money; former NBA coach George Karl; long-time school coach Bob Huggins, WNBA champion and two-time Olympic Gold Medalist Lindsay Whalen; NCAA nationwide championship coach and former WNBA Coach of the Yr Marianne Stanley, and former NBA official Hugh Evans.
The category will probably be enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Corridor of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Sept. 10.
Ginobili spent his enitre 16-year NBA profession with San Antonio, profitable 4 NBA championships and twice receiving All-Star nods.
Hardaway performed 15 NBA seasons and was a five-time All-Star within the Nineteen Nineties. Huggins is at present teaching at West Virginia.
Money, who already has been elected to the Girls’s Basketball Corridor of Fame, is at present an government with the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans. She gained two NCAA nationwide titles with Connecticut and a WNBA title with Detroit. She additionally labored as an government with the WNBA’s New York Liberty.
Karl performed within the NBA for 5 seasons in San Antonio earlier than teaching for 27 years, throughout which he gained 1,175 video games — putting him sixth all-time. He was named NBA Coach of the Yr in 2013.
Huggins has greater than 900 NCAA wins in a university teaching profession that started in 1977 and is at present at West Virginia.
Whalen is a five-time WNBA All-Star and four-time champion. She is now the pinnacle coach at Minnesota, the place she additionally performed in school.
Stanley, who’s at present a WNBA head coach with Indiana, has spent 45 years in teaching, together with 22 years on the school degree with Outdated Dominion, Pennsylvania, Southern California, Stanford and California. She was WNBA coach of the 12 months in 2022, when she additionally was elected to the Girls’s Basketball Corridor of Fame.
Evans officiated greater than 1,900 common season video games, together with 170 playoff video games, 35 NBA Finals video games and 4 NBA All-Star video games from 1973 to 2001. He additionally was the NBA’s Assistant Supervisor of Officers for 3 years after stepping away from on-court officiating.
