Kobe Bryant leads trifecta of NBA superstars into Hall
WHAT: Enshrinement Weekend
WHEN: May 13-15
WHERE: Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, Conn.
WHO: The Class of 2020
INDUCTEES: Patrick Baumann, Kobe Bryant, Tamika Catchings, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Kim Mulkey, Barbara Stevens, Eddie Sutton, Rudy Tomjanovich
NOTABLE AWARD: Dr. Timothy Nugent, John Bunn Lifetime Achievement, Posthumously; Dr. Nugent was known as the “Father of Accessibility” who founded the National Wheelchair Basketball Association
NOTE: The Class of 2021 Enshrinement Weekend will be Sept. 9-11 at Mogehan Sun and Springfield, Mass. The inductees will be announced on May 16.
Jerry West was well acquainted with basketball prodigies. In fact, he had been one himself before embarking on one of the finest NBA careers of all time. But, in all his years in the game as a player, coach, scout and administrator, he had never laid eyes on anyone this good, this young. As the Los Angeles Lakers general manager watched 17-year-old Kobe Bryant toy with the nation’s best high school players during the early months of 1996, he envisioned the Philadelphia phenom becoming the first guard to make the quantum leap from high school to NBA stardom.
A few weeks before pulling the trigger on a
