• NBA and Los Angeles Lakers legend, Kobe Bryant, has been posthumously inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in the Class of 2020.
• The five-time NBA champion died in 2020 at the age of 41 in a helicopter crash along with his 13-year-old daughter and seven others.
• The Class of 2020 includes total 9 inductees. They are:

1. Kobe Bryant (Posthumously)
2. Tim Duncan
3. Kevin Garnett
4. Tamika Catchings
5. Rudy Tomjanovich
6. Eddie Sutton
7. Kim Mulkey
8. Barbara Stevens
9. Patrick Baumann

About the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

• The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is a non-profit organization that serves as a basketball hall of fame to promote, preserve, and celebrate the game of basketball and players – men and women, amateur and professional, coaches and contributors, national and international.
• The Hall of Fame, in memory of the inventor of Basketball James Naismith, houses more than 400 inductees. It is situated in Springfield, Massachusetts, the city where Basketball originated.
• The Hall of Fame was established in 1959 and it inducted its first class in the same year.