Los Angeles Lakers great Kobe Bryant will be posthumously inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Bryant was a five-time champion, also won an MVP and was an 18-time All-Star and a 15-time All-NBA selection during his 20 seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers.

He was in the United States team that won Olympic gold in 2008 and 2012 and retired in 2016. He died tragically aged 41, in a helicopter crash on January 26 alongside his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others.

All eight finalists — led by the late Bryant, Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnet — were selected for enshrinement and will be inducted on August 29 in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Duncan was a five-time champion, a two-time MVP and both a 15-time All-Star and All-NBA selection who played his entire 19 seasons with the San Antonio Spurs.

Garnett won a title and an MVP award, was named to 15 All-Star teams and earned nine All-NBA honors during his 21 seasons with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Boston Celtics and Brooklyn Nets.

The star-studded trio will be joined by the likes of former Houston Rockets Coach and two-time title winner Rudy Tomjanovich and 10-time WNBA All-Star Tamika Catchings of the Indiana Fever. Catchings ranks first in WNBA history in steals and is third in points and rebounds. She also won a national title at Tennessee in 1998.

The list is completed by coach Kim Mulkey of three-time women’s NCAA champion Baylor University, five-time Division II coach of the year Barbara Stevens of Bentley university and four-time NCAA coach of the year Eddie Sutton.