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Kobe Bryant heads 2020 Hall of Fame honorees
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFive-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant will head a star-studded list of honorees named to basketball’s 2020 Hall of Fame on Saturday.
The Los Angeles Lakers icon, who died in a helicopter crash in January, was named alongside nine honorees who will be enshrined at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on August 29.
Joining Bryant in the sport’s pantheon are three-time NBA Finals MVP Tim Duncan, 15-time NBA All-Star Kevin Garnett, two-time NBA champion coach Rudy Tomjanovich and four-time Olympic medalist Tamika Catchings.
Other inductees include three-time NCAA National Championship coach Kim Mulkey, college basketball coach Barbara Stevens and longtime FIBA executive Patrick Baumann, who died of a heart attack in 2018 at the age of 41.
— AFP
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