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NSIAP: The Naismith Memorial Basketball HOF (Nowitzki, Wade, Gasol, Parker...)

Brandon Bohannon

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Dec 13, 2007
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Today is the day that the 2023 class gets their jackets and rings and tomorrow they give their speeches.

Pretty cool for Texas Tech graduate, Gary Blair.

A cool thread for the NBA that Germany, Spain and France are all represented and proof that the game truly is global and growing in the wake of the original Dream Team.

Dirk and Pau are getting their well-deserved respect.

Wade may be the 3rd or 4th best SG all-time behind Jordan, Kobe, and maybe, Drexler.

And my San Antonio Spurs have connections to Pop, Hammon, Parker, and Gasol.

Jim Valvano and Gene Keady are NCAA greats.

The 2023 HoF class really is a great sample of what basketball is all about and where it is now and is going to.

I even love the inclusion of the 1976 (my birth year) U.S. Olympic women's basketball team that won the Silver Medal and women's basketball joined the Olympics for the very first time.
 
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