San Antonio Spurs legend and four-time NBA champion Manu Ginobili headlined the 11 finalists for the Naismith Hall of Fame Class of 2022 that will be announced at the men's Final Four on April 2 in New Orleans. The enshrinement is scheduled for Sept. 10 in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Interperformances is glad to have been involved since 1998, when Manu joined our agency at the age of 21, when he was playing for his home team Estudiantes de Bahà­a Blanca. After signing him overseas with Reggio Calabria, in 1999 he entered the NBA draft and the San Antonio Spurs selected him late in the second round with the 57th overall pick. He continued to play in Italy, with Virtus Bologna, where in two years he won the 2001 Italian League Championship, the 2001 and 2002 Italian Cups, and the 2001 EuroLeague, also being named Euroleague 2000-01 MVP and Italian League MVP in 2000-01 and 2001-02.
He joined the Spurs for the 2002-03 season where he began his NBA career - The 41-year-old Argentine, widely seen as the most successful foreign player in NBA history, is the only non-US player to have won four championships crowns between 2003 and 2014 and an Olympic gold medal in Athens in 2004.
He played 1,057 regular season and 218 play-off games for the Spurs, and is ranked in the franchise's top five of all time for games, points (14,043), assists (4,001) and steals (1,392).