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NBA stars Steve Nash, Ray Allen among 13 to join Basketball Hall of Fame

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<p>Former NBA stars Steve Nash, Ray Allen, Jason Kidd, Grant Hill and Maurice Cheeks will be among 13 people inducted Friday into the Basketball Hall of Fame.</p><p>The honorees will be enshrined in ceremonies at the sporting shrine in Springfield, Massachusetts, near the game&#x27;s birthplace, with a gala gathering of legends serving as presenters as well.</p><p>Other inductees will include Croatian player Dino Radja, college coach Charles &quot;Lefty&quot; Driesell, Women&#x27;s NBA stars Tina Thompson and Katie Smith, contributors Rod Thorn and Rick Welts, pioneer Ora Mae Washington and 1970s star Charlie Scott.</p><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BnZjRnkjDru/?utm_source=ig_embed_loading" data-instgrm-version="12" style="background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15);margin:1px;max-width:540px;min-width:326px;padding:0;width:calc(100% - 2px)"><div 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Team.&quot;</p><p>Canada&#x27;s Nash, an eight-time NBA All-Star, ranks third in all-time NBA assists and has the highest career free-throw accuracy percentage, 90.4 percent, in league history over 19 NBA seasons.</p><p>Kidd, a 10-time NBA All-Star in his 18 campaigns, won an NBA crown with Dallas in 2011. He ranks second on the NBA all-time steals list with 2,684 and second on the career assists list with 12,091.</p><p>Allen won NBA titles with Boston in 2008 and Miami in 2013, with 10 All-Star nods in his 18 NBA seasons. He is the NBA career leader in 3-point baskets with 2,973 and won Olympic gold in 2000.</p><p>&quot;I don&#x27;t think as much about my career but the people that have gotten me to this point,&quot; Allen said. </p><p>Hill was a seven-time NBA All-Star in 19 league seasons and won Olympic gold in 1996.</p><p>&quot;I&#x27;m still in disbelief,&quot; Hill said. &quot;I&#x27;m truly humbled to be here.&quot;</p><p>Cheeks, who helped Philadelphia to the 1978 NBA title, was a four-time All-Star in 15 league seasons and is now an assistant coach for the Oklahoma City Thunder.</p><p>&quot;I&#x27;m truly honored,&quot; Cheeks said. &quot;As I look at all the pictures in the Hall, I realize how blessed I am to wear this (Hall of Fame) jacket.&quot;</p><p>Driesell is the only coach to win 100 games with four different US colleges and won 786 games.</p><p>Radja played on three consecutive European League championship teams and won Olympic silver with Yugoslavia in 1988 and Croatia in 1992 before playing four NBA seasons with the Boston Celtics.</p><p>Scott won an NBA title with Boston in 1972 and was the first African-American scholarship athlete at the University of North Carolina.</p><p>Thompson won four WNBA titles with Houston while Smith took two crowns with Detroit. Washington was a women&#x27;s pioneer in the early 20th century segregation era, her teams losing only six times in 18 years, all to men&#x27;s squads.</p><p>Thorn was a former NBA player, general manager with the Chicago Bulls when they selected Michael Jordan and served as the NBA executive vice president of basketball operations from 1986-2000 while Welts, now president of the Golden State Warriors, helped launch the WNBA, expand the NBA worldwide and raise the profile of the All-Star Game.</p><div><strong>For more sports coverage, visit the <a href="http://sports.abs-cbn.com">ABS-CBN Sports website</a>.</strong></div>

<p>Nash and Allen join Jason Kidd, Grant Hill and 10 others for induction Friday into the Basketball Hall of Fame</p>

Nash and Allen join Jason Kidd, Grant Hill and 10 others for induction Friday into the Basketball Hall of Fame