[外電] HAWKS AND NBA VETERAN DOMINIQUE WILK …
HAWKS AND NBA VETERAN DOMINIQUE WILKINS NAMED TODAY TO THE NAISMITH
MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME
“The Human Highlight Film” joins five other honorees as members
of the 2006 Class
INDIANAPOLIS, IN (Apr. 3, 2006)-- Atlanta Hawks legend Dominique
Wilkins got the call he has waited so patiently for last Thursday,
and this afternoon it was made official, as the Naismith Memorial
Basketball Hall of Fame named the 6-8 All-Star forward to its 2006
class of inductees into the BHOF, joining fellow NBAers Charles
Barkley and Joe Dumars, Connecticut women’s head coach Geno
Auriemma, former Big East Commissioner and former Chairman of
the Basketball Hall of Fame Dave Gavitt, and Italian coach Sandro
Gamba.
Wilkins, 45, who was elected in his second year of eligibility,
is the NBA’s ninth all-time scorer with 26,668 points and his
24.8 career scoring average is 11th on the all-time charts. The
15-year veteran spent the majority of his playing days with the
Hawks (12 seasons) and his 23,292 are the franchise’s best. He
also holds top ten positions in 13 team categories, among them:
games (1st, 882), minutes played (1st, 32,542), total rebounds
(4th, 6,119), steals (2nd, 1,245), assists (6th, 2,322), blocked
shots (5th, 592), field goals made (1st, 8,752) and attempted
(1st, 18,743), free throws made (2nd, 5,288) and attempted (2nd,
6,506), and three-pointers made (4th, 500) and attempted (4th,
1,587).
“I am truly grateful to the voting members of the Hall of Fame
for recognizing my talents for election to the 2006 Class of Hall
of Famers,” said Wilkins, currently the Hawks’ Vice
President-Basketball, “and I am proud to be a member of this
outstanding group of individuals, many of whom I played against
and had some classic battles. Since my retirement from basketball,
I have waited for this call and am honored to be recognized as
one of the greatest to have ever played the game. I’m truly
humbled by this experience, and I am appreciative of the many
coaches and teammates who have been instrumental throughout my
career.”
One of the most electrifying players in NBA history, Wilkins came
to the Hawks in a September 1982 trade with the Utah Jazz, giving
the city of Atlanta its first superstar since “Pistol” Pete
Maravich. Wilkins, already familiar to area sports fans from his
collegiate days at the University of Georgia, entered the 1982
NBA Draft after his junior season with the Bulldogs. He ended his
Georgia years as the school’s all-time leading scorer with
averages of 21.6 points to go along with the 7.5 rebounds per
game. A three-time All-SEC performer who also took home the Most
Valuable Player award from the 1981 Southeastern Conference
tournament, he was selected as the third overall pick in the
first round by the Utah Jazz.
The catalyst behind the Hawks success in the mid-to-late ’80s
and early ‘90s, Wilkins delighted Atlanta sports fans as his
29.1-point scoring average over a four-year period led Atlanta
to four consecutive seasons of 50 wins or more (1985-86 to 1988-89).
In the 1988 All-Star Game, he tallied 29 points in 30 minutes of
play.
As a Hawk, Wilkins was selected to nine consecutive NBA All-Star
teams, took home the league’s slam dunk championship twice and
led the league in scoring in 1986 with an average of 30.3 points
per game.
A playoff participant in eight of his 12 seasons in Atlanta, his
finest hour came in during the 1988 postseason when the Hawks
narrowly missed reaching the Eastern Conference Finals, as the
Boston Celtics eked out a two-point victory in Game 7 of the
conference semifinals. Wilkins averaged 31.2 points in 12 playoff
contests that year, and having participated in ten years of
playoff competition, scored 25.4 points per game.
After missing only 18 of a possible 738 regular season games his
first nine years, Wilkins' durability took a serious blow when
he suffered a season-ending tear of Achilles tendon midway through
the 1991-92 season. While it was unsure if he would ever return
to his old high-flying exploits, Wilkins responded the next
season by scoring 29.9 points per game to finish second only to
Chicago’s Michael Jordan for the league scoring title.
Wilkins’ outstanding contributions on the court were recognized
by the organization in January 2001 when he became the third
player in club history to have his uniform number (#21) retired,
joining Hawks legends Bob Pettit and Lou Hudson.
He was a member of the NBA All-Rookie Team in 1983 and was named
to seven All-NBA teams, nine consecutive All-Star squads and was
a two-time winner of the NBA Slam Dunk Championship.
On November 6, 1992 against the New York Knicks, a patented
baseline jumper led to Wilkins becoming the 17th person in league
history to join the 20,000-point club, and later that season
(February 2, 1993 against Seattle) he supplanted Pettit as the
franchise’s all-time leading scorer.
His stellar career in Atlanta came to an end on February 2, 1994
when the Hawks traded him to the Los Angeles Clippers for Danny
Manning. At the conclusion of the year, Wilkins decided to test
the free agent market and signed with the Boston Celtics.
Discouraged with his performance in 1994-95, Wilkins joined
Panathinaikos Athens of the Greek League the following season
(1995-96). He was named MVP of the European Final Four after
averaging 20.9 points and 7.0 rebounds and leading the team to
the European Men’s Championship.
Seeking a return to the States, Wilkins signed a free agent
contract with San Antonio and provided more than the Spurs possibly imagined, leading the David Robinson-less Spurs in scoring with an 18.2 average and grabbing 6.4 rebounds.
He returned overseas for the 1997-98 campaign, signing with Italy’s Teamsystem before rejoining the NBA for his final professional season (1998-99),
as Wilkins saw action in 27 games for the Orlando Magic.
Extremely active with local and national charity endeavors,
Wilkins has done work with the Juvenile Diabetes Research
Foundation, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Special Olympics,
Muscular Dystrophy Association and the American Lung Foundation.
He was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame on April 3,
2004, and into the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame’s inaugural class
on June 10, 2005. Wilkins is the fifth former Atlanta Hawks player
elected to the Hall of Fame – joining Connie Hawkins, Pete
Maravich, Moses Malone and Walt Bellamy – but he is the first
to have played the majority of his NBA career in Atlanta.
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2006
Enshrinement Weekend ceremonies will be held September 7-9,
2006 in Springfield, Massachusetts, home of the Basketball Hall
of Fame.
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