New Orleans (AP) – When Manu Ginobili from Argentina reflects on the odds of growing up to win four NBA titles and Olympic gold, he is surprised that this is actually the story of his athletic life.
“It’s one in a million,” Ginobili said Saturday after an official announcement on Saturday that he had now been inducted into the Hall of Fame. “The complaint is very, very thin and it happened to me. I don’t know what happened, but I was.
“I’ve been an important part of both the FIBA and the NBA, two of the most iconic teams of those decades. It’s incredibly fortunate and fortunate to be a part of both.”
Ginobilli, five-time All-Star Tim Hardway and fitted former coach George Carl are the family’s NBA names in the 2022 Class of the Basketball Hall of Fame Index announced in New Orleans on the NCAA Final Four site.
Also elected this year were former WNBA Champion and two-time College National Champion Swine Cash; Longtime college coach Bob Haggins, WNBA champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist Lindsay Wellen; NCAA National Championship Coach and former WNBA Coach of the Year Marian Stanley and former NBA Officer Hugh Evans.
The class will be inducted into the Nicemith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on September 10 in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Ginobili, a two-time All-Star who spent his 16-year NBA career with San Antonio, is now going off the Hall of Fame as a big reason. He similarly credits his long tenure with the Argentine national team which is regularly among the best in the world.
“I was part of two incredible teams; I wouldn’t be here if I hadn’t been part of these two groups,” Ginobili said. “It’s not just about personal achievement. I’ve never won a scoring championship, an MVP or even (All-NBA) first team. I’m here because of my surroundings, the players I’ve played with, the coaches I’ve coached (by) and the companies I know I’m lucky. ”
But Ginobili made his mark in the game with the way he used lateral movement after picking up his dribble to take shots in the paint. It became known as “Eurostep” because Ginobili played for a Eurolig Championship-winning team in Bologna, Italy, before joining the NBA.
“I’ve never seen anything like this made or come up with something new. I just played the way I thought possible,” Ginobili explained the challenge of trying to score against 7-footer Shakil O’Neill early in his career.
Ginobili said, “I wasn’t going to go over vegetables and dung, I had to go around people.” “That’s how I got to get my skill set and physical ability rim. I can remember.”
Ginobili recalled Steve Kerr drawing more attention to the move when talking about “how weird it looked.”
“I felt like a squirrel crossing the road to the rim,” said Ginobili, recalling Kerr’s description. “That’s when I started to realize that I was doing something a little different and people started mentioning Eurostep. For me, it was completely normal.”
Hardway played 15 NBA seasons from 1989 to 2003 with Golden State, Miami, Dallas, Denver and Indiana.
Carl played five seasons at the NBA before coaching in San Antonio for 27 years, during which time he won 1,175 games – which placed him sixth in all-time. He was named NBA Coach of the Year in 2013.
Haggins has more than 900 NCAA wins in his college coaching career, beginning in 1977, and is currently in West Virginia.
Cash, who has already been inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, is currently an executive at the NBA New Orleans Pelicans. He has won two NCAA national titles with Connecticut and one WNBA title with Detroit. He also worked as an executive with WNBA’s New York Liberty.
Whalen is a five-time WNBA All-Star and four-time champion. He is now head coach in Minnesota, where he also played in college.
Stanley, who is currently a WNBA head coach in Indiana, has spent 45 years coaching, including 22 years at the college level with Old Dominion, Pennsylvania, Southern California, Stanford and California. She was named WNBA Coach of the Year in 2022, when she was also inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.
Evans hosted more than 1,900 regular season games from 1973 to 2001, including 170 playoff games, 35 NBA Finals games, and four NBA All-Star games. He was an assistant supervisor to NBA officials for three years after leaving court. Responsibility