The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced today, at NBA All-Star Weekend, six extraordinary players, four exceptional coaches and one world-class referee as finalists from the North American and Women\u2019s committees to be considered for election in 2022.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s list includes two first-time finalists: two-time NBA All-Star and four-time NBA champion\u00a0Manu Ginobili<\/strong>\u00a0and five-time WNBA All-Star, three-time WNBA Champion, and two-time Olympic Gold Medalist\u00a0Lindsay Whalen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Previous finalists included again this year for consideration are longtime NBA referee\u00a0Hugh Evans,\u00a0<\/strong>five-time NBA champion and five-time NBA All-Defensive First Team selection\u00a0Michael Cooper<\/strong>, five-time NBA All-Star\u00a0Tim Hardaway,<\/strong>\u00a0consensus National Collegiate Player of the Year\u00a0Marques Johnson,\u00a0<\/strong>two-time NCAA National Coach of the Year\u00a0Bob Huggins<\/strong>, the NBA\u2019s sixth-winningest coach of all-time\u00a0George Karl,\u00a0<\/strong>the all-time winningest high school coach,\u00a0Leta Andrews,\u00a0<\/strong>four-time WNBA All-Star and two-time Olympic gold medalist\u00a0Swin Cash<\/strong>, and NCAA national champion and WNBA Coach of the Year\u00a0Marianne Stanley<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is a tremendous honor to be named a Finalist for the Basketball Hall of Fame and we\u2019re elated to recognize the achievements by these outstanding men and women who have left a lasting impact on the game of basketball,\u201d said Jerry Colangelo, Chairman of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. \u201cA heart-felt congratulations goes out to the finalists and their families and we very much look forward to revealing the Class of 2022 at the NCAA Final Four in New Orleans this April.\u201d<\/p>\n The entire Class of 2022 will be announced in New Orleans, Louisiana, on April 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0at the NCAA Men\u2019s Final Four at 12:00 PM ET as part of the Hall of Fame Class Announcement. Enshrinees from the Direct Elect Committees are also recognized at the NCAA Men\u2019s Final Four and include Early African-American Pioneers, International, Contributors, Veterans and the new Women Veterans. A finalist needs 18 of 24 votes from the Honors Committee for election into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The Class of 2022 will be enshrined during festivities in Springfield, Massachusetts, the Birthplace of Basketball, September 9-10, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Manu Ginobili and Lindsay Whalen first time finalists<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":262754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[393],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-262755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/02\/Argentina-Argentina-Francia-France0798.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262755"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=262755"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=262755"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=262755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}