One of the greatest Hall of Fame classes in basketball history will have to wait.
Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame chairman Jerry Colangelo told ESPN on Wednesday that the Hall’s enshrinement ceremony — featuring the likes of Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett and Tamika Catchings — will be delayed to the spring of 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The enshrinement ceremony had been previously scheduled to take place over the weekend of Aug. 28-30. The Hall of Fame had reportedly been considering a delay to Oct. 10-12, but Colangelo characterized even that delay as “just not feasible” in the face of a virus that has killed 100,000 people in the United States.