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Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2009 elected

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Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2009 elected

July 8, 2010 Updated Jul 8, 2010 at 3:44 PM EDT

DETROIT (AP) - Michael Jordan is now a member of the basketball
Hall of Fame. The inevitable election of Jordan took place this
morning when the class of 2009 for the Springfield, Mass., shrine
was announced in Detroit, site of tonight's men's basketball
championship game.
Joining Jordan are former NBA players David Robinson and John
Stockton and two coaches, NBA great Jerry Sloan and Rutgers women's
coach C. Vivian Stringer.
Jordan finished his 15-year career with the Chicago Bulls and
Washington Wizards with 32,292 points, the third-highest total in
league history, behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Karl Malone. His
final career average of 30.12 goes down as the best, just ahead of
Wilt Chamberlain's 30.07.
The five-time NBA MVP won six championships with the Bulls and
another in college with North Carolina
Robinson had a stellar 14-year career with the San Antonio Spurs
that included two NBA championships, an MVP season, a rookie of the
year award, 10 All-Star selections, a scoring title and two Olympic
gold medals.
Stockton was a first-round pick of the Utah Jazz in the 1984
draft, using the No. 16 pick on a relatively unknown player from
Gonzaga who became one of the league's top point guards.
Sloan is the longest tenured head coach in major league sports
with a single franchise. A two-time All-Star during his playing
days with the Bulls, Sloan is the only NBA coach to win more than
1,000 games with a single team.
Stringer has led three separate teams to the Final Four in her
38-year career and has an 825-280 mark spanning four decades. She
trails only Pat Summitt and Jody Conradt on the victories list.
Induction is Sept. 10-12 in Springfield, Mass., home of the
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

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