Former Nets forward Kevin Garnett named 2020 Hall of Fame inductee

Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant and Tim Duncan headline the impressive Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2020.

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced the 2020 class of inductees, and a former Brooklyn Nets player is among them.

Kevin Garnett, who was traded to the Nets by the Boston Celtics in June of 2013, was that player. He spent the entire 2013-14 season in Brooklyn and part of 2014-15 before going back to Minnesota, where his remarkable NBA career started.

Garnett is joined by the late Los Angeles Lakers legend, Kobe Bryant, who visited Barclays Center shortly before his death in late January. San Antonio Spurs forward turned assistant coach Tim Duncan rounds out the list of NBA players in the Class of 2020.

Tamika Catchings was the lone WNBA player to be inducted in 2020. Former college head coaches Kim Mulkey, Barbara Stevens, Eddie Sutton and former Rockets head coach Rudy Tomjanovich were each inducted, along with longtime FIBA executive Patrick Baumann.

Garnett appeared on ESPN after the announcement, saying:

All those hours of everything you’ve ever put up for it all, this is what you do it for right here. To be able to be called a Hall of Famer is everything.