Count the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2020’s induction weekend as the latest sports-related event in need of a scheduling update.
The festivities, originally slated for the weekend of Aug. 28 - 30 (with the enshrinement ceremony on Aug. 29), are being delayed until 2021 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, ESPN’s Jackie MacMullan reports.
“We’re definitely canceling,” Jerry Colangelo, chairman of the board of governors of the Hall of Fame, told ESPN. “It’s going to have to be the first quarter of next year. We’ll meet in a couple weeks and look at the options of how and when and where.”
Colangelo was unequivocal that the Class of 2020 will still receive a separate ceremony from the Class of 2021, according to MacMullan.
Headlined by Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan and Kobe Bryant, this class is set to be one of the most stacked in recent memory. Also set for enshrinement: Tamika Catchings, Kim Mulkey, Barbara Stevens, Eddie Sutton, Rudy Tomjanovich and Patrick Baumann.
Garnett spent a year of his illustrious high school career at Farragut Career Academy on the West Side of Chicago, and received both McDonald's All-American and national player of the year honors in 1995. Catchings won an IHSA Division AA state title as a freshman and Ms. Illinois Basketball as a sophomore in a stint at Stevenson.
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