NBA star Ginobili inducted into Hall of Fame

NBA stars Manu Ginobili and Tim Hardaway are among five inductees into the Basketball Hall of Fame, it was announced Saturday at the venue for the college basketball finals.

Also joining are former WNBA champion and two-time college national champion Swin Cash; former NBA coach George Karl; college coach Bob Huggins; WNBA champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist Lindsay Whalen; former college champion coach and coach of the year Marianne Stanley; and former NBA referee Hugh Evans.

The ceremony will take place on September 10 at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Argentine Ginobili, whose 16-year NBA career was spent in San Antonio, was a four-time champion and a two-time All-Star.

Hardaway played 15 seasons in the NBA and was selected to the All-Star Game five times in the 1990s.

Cash, already inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, is currently a director of the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans. She won two college national titles with Connecticut and a WNBA title with Detroit. She was also a manager for the WNBA’s New York Liberty.

Karl played five seasons in San Antonio and then coached for 27 years, winning 1,175 games to rank sixth all-time. He was named NBA Coach of the Year in 2013.

Huggins has more than 900 wins in a college coaching career that began in 1977 and continues now in West Virginia.

Whalen has played five NBA All-Star Games and has been a four-time champion. She currently coaches the Minnesota varsity team for which she also played.

Stanley, currently the WNBA head coach for Indiana, has a 45-year career, 22 of them in college basketball with Old Dominion, Pennsylvania, Southern California, Stanford and California. She is the 2022 WNBA Coach of the Year and inducted this year into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.

Evans umpired more than 1,900 regular season games, 170 playoff games, 35 NBA Finals and four All-Star games from 1973 to 2001. He was an assistant supervisor of NBA officials for three years.