Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, and Kobe Bryant were among official finalists for the 2020 class of the\u00a0Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.\u00a0Tamika Catchings,\u00a0Kim Mulkey,\u00a0Barbara Stevens, NCAA coach Eddie Sutton and former Houston Rockets coach Rudy Tomjanovich were also named as finalists.<\/p>\n
The committee also suspended the\u00a0Direct Election Categories for one year due to the enormity of the top names in this year’s class. “We’ve never had a class that strong at the top. And of course with Kobe’s death, it added more focus. We thought the way of dealing with it was eliminating some direct-elects on a one-year basis. We have that flexibility, fortunately, to do it because some people could get lost in the shuffle, really, in terms of getting their due,” Jerry Colangelo, chairman of the Hall nominating committee, has said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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