Tony Parker, four-time NBA champion with San Antonio, named best player in the final in 2007, six-time All-Star, is the first Frenchman in history to enter the Hall of Fame, the prestigious institution announced on Saturday. The former leader will be officially a member of this “basketball pantheon”, along with two other Europeans, the German Dirk Nowitzki and the Spaniard Pau Gasol, as well as the American Dwyane Wade, also admitted, during a induction ceremony scheduled for August 12 in Springfield, Massachusetts.