The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame will announce its class of enshrinees for 2023 on Saturday. Among the finalists: Dirk Nowitzki, Pau Gasol, Dwyane Wade, Tony Parker and Gregg Popovich.
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It was never a question that the biggest names — the Nowitzki, Gasol, Wade, Parker group — would get into the Hall.The NBA’s all-time winningest coach, a five-time champion and the coach of the team that won Olympic gold at the Tokyo Games quietly rejected overtures from the Hall in the past. He wanted to see his best San Antonio players — Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili among them — go into the Hall first.
“I know this much,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “I’ll be on a plane from wherever we are, and I’ll be there." Case in point: Utah coach Will Hardy. He left the Spurs to be an assistant in Boston under another former Spurs player and coach, Ime Udoka. But when Popovich was coaching the Olympic team, he picked some of the best and brightest to be alongside him, Kerr, Spoelstra, Mike Krzyzewski and others for the process of getting ready. Hardy made that list.
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