Additional dedication. Tony Parker, four-time NBA champion with San Antonio, 2007 Finals MVP, six-time All-Star, became the first Frenchman in history to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, officially launched this Saturday by the prestigious institution. “It’s a little crazy”he agreed with AFP, smiling like a child. “I often tell the kids at my academy to always dream big. And “when you tell someone your dream and they don’t laugh at you, you don’t dream big enough.” I told my dream, everyone laughed at me. They told me: “You are too small, you are too thin. You will never be able to play in the NBA.” And now I’m laughing because I’m about to enter the Hall of Fame”He said.
The former leader will officially become a member along with two other Europeans, German Dirk Nowitzki and Spaniard Pau Gasol. These three basketball players are among the best in the history of the Old Continent, and they are the first in their country to enter the elite along with the legends of this sport, from Michael Jordan to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, ahead of Bill Russell and Kobe Bryant. . Their induction will take place on August 12 in Springfield, Massachusetts.
The Terrible “Big Three”
Tony Parker, winner of Euro 2013 with France, boasts of having more championship rings than his two assistants (2003, 2005, 2007 and 2014), all of whom have won with the Spurs, along with Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili, already members of the Hall of Fame, with which he formed one of the most formidable “Big Three” in history. He was also the first European to be selected as Finals MVP in 2007.
Born in Bruges (Belgium) to an American basketball player and a Dutch mother, he arrived in Denen (North) as an infant, spent his childhood near Rouen (NW) and chose French citizenship at the age of fifteen. His influence on the Blues was enormous. Between his first selection in 2000 and his final sixteen years later in the quarter-finals of the Rio Games, the brilliant playmaker ran a dozen campaigns tying the Olympics and the Euro without complaining about the grueling American seasons (over a hundred matches). ).
He has 181 games for the national team (2741 points, or more than 15 on average per match), during which he was the leader, inspirer, organizer and finisher of the team. If he was not the very first Frenchman in the NBA, having arrived in Texas in 2001 at the age of 19, then it was he who served as a model for many of his compatriots who ventured after him: Nicolas Batum, Evan Fournier and especially Rudy Gobert. So it’s fair to see Parker, who ended his playing career in 2019 after an anecdotal final season with the Charlotte Hornets, join Duncan and Ginobili in the Hall of Fame.
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The 2023 crop is unique in many ways because it is the first time Europe has been inducted into this Basketball Hall of Fame, and Dwyane Wade is the only American to complete the quartet of former players. He also made his mark in the NBA as he won three league titles with Miami (2006, 2012, 2013).
Since the first class of 1959, there are now 201 former players from the North American League and other countries, members of the Hall of Fame, which also includes players, coaches, teams, umpires, managers and other members. Only 23 non-Americans, including 14 Europeans from nine different countries, with Croatians the most represented, four of them since Toni Kukocha took over in 2021, three-time champion with the Bulls Michael Jordan in the 1990s.
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