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Olympic champion in 1988 in basketball in the USSR national team, winner of the World and European championships Lithuanian Arvydas Sabonis will be inducted into Hall of Fame NBA. This is the official site of the NBA. The solemn ceremony, during which the Lithuanian formally incorporate into the Hall of Fame, will be held in August 2011. Except Sabonis, the Hall of Fame will include a five-time NBA champion Dennis Rodman, the double Olympic champion Chris Mullin, the coaches Tex Winter and Herb Magee, the players Satch Sanders, Gus Tatum, Artis Gilmore, Teresa Edwards and Tara Vanderveer. 46-year-old Sabonis in 1980 and 1990 was one of the top pivot of the world. In the USSR national team, he won the European championship in 1985, the World Cup 1982 and the 1988 Games in Seoul. As part of the Lithuanian team basketball twice won bronze Olympic medals – in 1992 in Barcelona and in 1996 in Atlanta. In the NBA Sabonis played for the Portland Trail Blazers. " For the club Lithuanian played from 1995 to 2003. Just a regular NBA championship Sabonis spent 470 games in which he gained 12 points and made by selecting an average 7.3 per game.
