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John Doleva stands in the new Kobe Bryant exhibit at the Basketball Hall of Fame, which is drawing considerable attention and is now one of many reasons for optimism at the shrine.
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ohn Doleva says it was probably within minutes after
Vanessa Bryant, widow of the NBA star and entrepre-
cated to Kobe — a photo that has garnered 17 million
‘likes’ — when the phone started ringing.
On the other end were people — from this region, but also
across the country — who wanted to know more about the
exhibit and how long it would be running.
“The phones been ringing off the hook,” said Doleva, the long-time president and CEO of the Hall. “We’ve had calls from all across the country, but especially from California, with people saying, ‘I want to come see it; don’t take it down.’”
“The phones been ringing off the hook. We’ve had calls from all across the country, but especially from California, with people saying, ‘I want to come see it; don’t take it down.’”
Vanessa Bryant’s Instagram post, followed soon thereafter by an article on her visit to the Hall in Us Weekly magazine and the response to both, is one of many things going right for the Hall of Fame a year and change after everything — as in everything — started going wrong.
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Indeed, at the start of 2020, the year was shaping up as poten- tially the best in the Hall’s history. A star-studded class, headlined by Bryant, Tim Duncan,
and Kevin Garnett, was
going to be inducted
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