{"id":324450,"date":"2023-04-01T19:56:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T17:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=324450"},"modified":"2023-04-01T19:56:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T17:56:28","slug":"naismith-basketball-hall-of-fame-pau-gasol-gregg-popovich-among-12-inductees-in-class-of-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/naismith-basketball-hall-of-fame-pau-gasol-gregg-popovich-among-12-inductees-in-class-of-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame: Pau Gasol, Gregg Popovich among 12 inductees in Class of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HOUSTON, TX\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame announced the 12 inductees in the Class of 2023 to be celebrated during this year\u2019s Enshrinement festivities on August 11-12. The Class Announcement was made in Houston, the site of the 2023 NCAA Men\u2019s Final Four, and was televised live on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This year\u2019s North American Committee inductees (in alphabetical order):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gene Bess\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; All-time winningest college coach (1,300), 2-time NJCAA Coach of the Year<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pau Gasol<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; 6-time All-Star, 2-time NBA champion,\u00a02002 Rookie of the Year<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Back-to-back Champion and Lakers Legend, Pau Gasol, has been elected into the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hoophall?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Hoophall<\/a> Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paugasol?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@paugasol<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rD94QuU6aY\">pic.twitter.com\/rD94QuU6aY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lakers\/status\/1642190010014396417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>David Hixon\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; 826 wins, 2-time D3 national champion, 2-time D3 Coach of the Year<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gene Keady\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 6-time NCAA Coach of the Year, 17 NCAA Tournament appearances<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dirk Nowitzki<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; 14-time All-Star, 2006-07 MVP,\u00a02011 NBA Champion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tony Parker<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; 6-time All-Star, 4-time NBA champion, 2007 Finals MVP<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gregg Popovich<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Winningest coach in NBA history,\u00a03-time NBA Coach of the Year,\u00a05-time NBA champion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dwyane Wade<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; 13-time All-Star, 3-time NBA champion, 2006 Finals MVP<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This year\u2019s Women\u2019s Committee inductees (in alphabetical order):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gary Blair<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; 852 wins, 2011 National Champion, 2-time Final Four participant<\/p>\n<p><strong>Becky Hammon<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; 6-time WNBA All-Star, 2-time First-Team All-WNBA recipient<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This year\u2019s Direct Elect Committee inductees (in alphabetical order):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1976 Women\u2019s Olympic Basketball Team (Women\u2019s Veterans)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Silver medalists in inaugural appearance for Women\u2019s Olympic Basketball<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jim Valvano (Contributor)\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 1983 NCAA Champion,\u00a0created The V Foundation for Cancer Research<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Naismith Hall of Fame Class of 2023 is remarkable and truly embodies the breadth and impact of the global game today,\u201d\u00a0said John L. Doleva, President and CEO of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.\u00a0\u201cThis Class represents the game at every level and showcases the incredible efforts of individuals who are not only household names in the game, but also those who teach, coach and counsel to men and women at the most organic levels of basketball. The ultimate achievement of a storied career is Enshrinement in the Naismith Hall, and this Class punctuates and defines what it means to be a Hall of Famer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Class of 2023 will be enshrined during festivities in Springfield, the Birthplace of Basketball, as well as the Mohegan Sun on August 11-12.\u00a0VIP packages and single-event tickets to the 2023 Hall of Fame Enshrinement Weekend are now available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoophall.com\/events\/enshrinement-2023\">hoophall.com\/events\/enshrinement-2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news and updates, follow @hoophall on Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FBBHOF%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02EtmYPkMU2rytJuiqLq6cCdaFf679agjaudVGz5LojdTNv5A75SknihWT8f1LrywBl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"645\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congrats Coach Pop! \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>The winningest NBA coach of all-time is headed to Springfield! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/23HoopClass?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#23HoopClass<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L41XapCklK\">pic.twitter.com\/L41XapCklK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spurs\/status\/1642190169120862211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Introducing the Class of 2023. \ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/23HoopClass?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#23HoopClass<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/at27SyXUsI\">pic.twitter.com\/at27SyXUsI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Basketball HOF (@Hoophall) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hoophall\/status\/1642192986598522880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hoophall?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Hoophall<\/a> class being introduced at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MFinalFour?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MFinalFour<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QsExLDxSBp\">pic.twitter.com\/QsExLDxSBp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andy Katz (@TheAndyKatz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAndyKatz\/status\/1642209044222951430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Class Announcement was made in Houston, the site of the 2023 NCAA Men\u2019s Final Four<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":324451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-324450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/04\/Fso7HBjaUAEyktS.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324450","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324450"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=324450"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=324450"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=324450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}