Staff report
Bulls great Scottie Pippen and two-time NBA MVP Karl Malone are finalists for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Pippen's Bulls beat and Malone's Utah Jazz in the 1997 and '98 NBA finals, but the two also were teammates on the 1992 Olympic Dream Team, which is a finalist in the team category along with the 1960 gold medalists led by Jerry West and Oscar Robertson.
Bulls great Scottie Pippen and two-time NBA MVP Karl Malone are finalists for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Pippen's Bulls beat and Malone's Utah Jazz in the 1997 and '98 NBA finals, but the two also were teammates on the 1992 Olympic Dream Team, which is a finalist in the team category along with the 1960 gold medalists led by Jerry West and Oscar Robertson.
The 19 finalists were announced Friday at the start of the NBA's
All-Star weekend. The class of 2010 will be announced on April 5 in
Indianapolis before the NCAA championship game.
The complete list of finalists includes: From the North American Screening Committee: players Dennis Johnson, Bernard King, Malone, Chris Mullin, Pippen and Jamaal Wilkes; coaches Bob Hurley, Don Nelson and former Bulls assistant Tex Winter; contributor Jerry Buss and the two USA Olympic teams. From the Women's Screening Committee: Cynthia Cooper, Harley Redin and the All-American Red Heads team. From the International Screening Committee: coach Vladimir Kondrashin and Brazilian legend Maciel "Ubiratan" Pereira. Richard Guerin and Gus Johnson represent the nominees from the Veteran's Screening Committee.
The complete list of finalists includes: From the North American Screening Committee: players Dennis Johnson, Bernard King, Malone, Chris Mullin, Pippen and Jamaal Wilkes; coaches Bob Hurley, Don Nelson and former Bulls assistant Tex Winter; contributor Jerry Buss and the two USA Olympic teams. From the Women's Screening Committee: Cynthia Cooper, Harley Redin and the All-American Red Heads team. From the International Screening Committee: coach Vladimir Kondrashin and Brazilian legend Maciel "Ubiratan" Pereira. Richard Guerin and Gus Johnson represent the nominees from the Veteran's Screening Committee.
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