NBA stars Manu Ginobili and Tim Hardaway are among the 2022 class of Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees. The honorees were announced Saturday in New Orleans at the site of the NCAA Final Four. Also selected this year were former WNBA champion and two-time college national champion with Connecticut Swin Cash; former NBA coach George Karl; long-time men’s college coach Bob Huggins, WNBA champion and two-time Olympic Gold Medalist Lindsay Whalen; NCAA national championship coach and former WNBA Coach of the Year Marianne Stanley, and former NBA official Hugh Evans. The class will be enshrined into the Hall in Springfield on Sept. 10. Ginobili spent his enitre 16-year NBA career with San Antonio, winning four NBA championships and twice receiving All-Star nods. Hardaway played 15 NBA seasons and was a five-time All-Star in the 1990s. Huggins is currently coaching at West Virginia. Cash won two NCAA national titles with Connecticut and a WNBA title with Detroit. She also worked as an executive with the WNBA’s New York Liberty. Karl played in the NBA for five seasons in San Antonio before coaching for 27 years, during which he won 1,175 games — placing him sixth all-time. He was named NBA Coach of the Year in 2013. Huggins has more than 900 wins in a college coaching career that began in 1977 and is currently at West Virginia. Whalen is a five-time WNBA All-Star and four-time champion. Stanley, who is currently a WNBA head coach with Indiana, has spent 45 years in coaching, including 22 years at the college level with Old Dominion, Pennsylvania, Southern California, Stanford and California. She was WNBA coach of the year in 2022, when she also was elected to the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame. Evans officiated more than 1,900 regular season games, along with 170 playoff games, 35 NBA Finals games and four NBA All-Star games from 1973 to 2001 … Trae Young scored 36 points, including 9 in the final minute, and the streaking Atlanta Hawks overcame Kevin Durant’s career-high 55 points to hold off the visiting Brooklyn Nets, 122-115, for their fifth consecutive win. Atlanta (41-37) moved into eighth place in the Eastern Conference, a game ahead of Brooklyn (40-38) and Charlotte. Nets guard Goran Dragic did not play after he was placed in the NBA’s health and safety protocols with COVID-19 symptoms.
Tennis
Swiatek beats Osaka for Miami Open title
Iga Swiatek ended her journey to the women’s No. 1 ranking in fitting fashion. Swiatek continued her searing start to 2022, beating Naomi Osaka, 6-4, 6-0, to win the women’s title at the Miami Open in Miami Gardens, Fla., and extend her winning streak to 17 matches. Swiatek will replace the now-retired Ashleigh Barty at No. 1 in the women’s rankings officially when the points are updated Monday … US Open champion and No. 2-ranked men’s player in the world Daniil Medvedev expects to be sidelined for one to two months after having hernia surgery and will likely miss the French Open.
Auto racing
Blaney wins pole at Richmond
Team Penske driver Ryan Blaney turned a lap of 119.782 miles per hour at Richmond (Va.) Raceway to earn his third consecutive top starting spot in the NASCAR Cup series. It’s the ninth pole for Blaney in 241 career starts, and his third this season. William Byron will start on the outside of the front row, with Kyle Busch and Chase Briscoe in the second row, and Erik Jones and Martin Truex Jr. next in Sunday’s race. Blaney is second in the driver standings behind Chase Elliott, and Blaney’s Team Penske teammate Joey Logano is third … Ty Gibbs bumped John Hunter Nemechek from the lead in a furious last-lap battle at Richmond Raceway and won for the third time this season in NASCAR’s Xfinity Series. Gibbs and Nemechek, teammates with Joe Gibbs Racing, got physical over the final several laps, trading the lead and making contact several times until Gibbs nudged Nemechek’s Toyota in turn three of the last lap. He won by just 0.116 seconds.
Miscellany
NHL’s Iron Man streak ends
The Philadelphia Flyers scratched defenseman Keith Yandle for Saturday’s game against Toronto, ending the NHL’s Iron Man record for consecutive games played at 989. The 35-year-old Yandle started his streak March 26, 2009, with Phoenix. He passed retired center Doug Jarvis for the mark of 965 games on Jan. 25 against the Islanders. Yandle was a healthy scratch. The Flyers are one of the worst teams in the NHL and looking at a youth movement … White Abarrio made a big move to prevail in the Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park, getting to the lead in the stretch and holding off a late challenge from Charge It to win the Grade 1, $1 million race … White Abarrio took the lead in the stretch and held off Charge It to win the Grade 1, $1 million Florida Derby horse race at Gulfstream Park . . . Cyberknife won the $1.25 million Arkansas Derby by 2¾ lengths in the richest prep race for the Kentucky Derby … Bob Baffert’s horse Shaaz won a $72,000 race at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif., two days before the Hall of Fame trainer is to begin a 90-day suspension … Kallie Theisen scored a career-high 16 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, Myah Selland added 12 points, 11 rebounds and five assists and South Dakota State used a huge first-quarter run to beat Seton Hall, 82-50, in the championship game of the WNIT basketball tournament.