{"id":432481,"date":"2023-04-01T17:45:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T21:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432481"},"modified":"2023-04-01T17:29:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T21:29:40","slug":"gregg-popovich-heading-to-the-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/gregg-popovich-heading-to-the-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregg Popovich heading to the Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two more players that played for him &#8211; Tony Parker and Pau Gasol will become Hall of Famers. Becky Hammon, that was his assistant coach will also be. Dwyane Wade and Dirk Nowitzki will also be in the same class as Popovich.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Official Hall of Fame Class of 2023:<\/p>\n<p>Dwyane Wade<br \/>\nDirk Nowitzki<br \/>\nPau Gasol<br \/>\nBecky Hammon<br \/>\nTony Parker<br \/>\nGregg Popovich<\/p>\n<p>Legends \ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bOLFUQFqci\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bOLFUQFqci<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1642184825191776257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It became official on Saturday that all these players and coaches will be part of the 2023 Half of Fame class as the headliner, which will undoubtedly be Gregg Popovich.<\/p>\n<p>The introductions will be in Connecticut and Massachusetts on August 11 and 12.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is basketball heaven,\u201d Wade said on the ESPN telecast of the announcement in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Popovich, to be introduced along with his favorite point guard Tony Parker will make it even better.<\/p>\n<p>Gregg won 5 NBA titles, more matches than any other coach in the history of the NBA, and an Olympic gold medal in Tokyo 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two more players that played for him &#8211; Tony Parker and Pau Gasol will become Hall of Famers. Becky Hammon, that was his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":432482,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18548,17837,17104],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18550,18549,18132,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The legendary San Antonio Spurs coach will be introduced to the Hall of Fame.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432481"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432481"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}