Candace Parker, Elena Delle Donne, Chamique Holdsclaw and the 1996 U.S. Olympic girls’s basketball workforce will likely be enshrined within the Naismith Memorial Basketball Corridor of Fame later this 12 months.
Parker, Holdsclaw and members of the 1996 Olympic workforce had been all in attendance Friday at halftime of the UConn-South Carolina recreation throughout the girls’s Last 4, the place the picks had been introduced, as was Amar’e Stoudemire and Mike D’Antoni.
They are going to be joined by longtime NBA official Joey Crawford, NBA coach Doc Rivers and Gonzaga coach Mark Few within the Corridor of Fame.
Parker received three titles within the WNBA with three completely different groups: Los Angeles, Chicago and Las Vegas. She is the one participant in league historical past to win each the MVP and Rookie of the 12 months in the identical season.
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She additionally received two titles whereas enjoying in school for Tennessee beneath Corridor of Fame coach Pat Summitt, plus two Olympic gold medals and two WNBA MVP awards.
Delle Donne received two league MVP awards in 2015 and 2019, the second of which got here when she led the Washington Mystics to their lone WNBA championship. Delle Donne grew to become the primary participant in league historical past to shoot greater than 50% from the sector, 40% from behind the 3-point line and 90% from the free-throw line.
Holdsclaw received three straight titles at Tennessee from 1996-98, the primary workforce to perform that. The 1998 championship was Tennessee’s first undefeated season at 39–0 and the Vols additionally set an NCAA report for essentially the most wins in a season. Holdsclaw went on to have an 11-year WNBA profession.
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Stoudemire, who was the one NBA participant on this 12 months’s class, was the NBA Rookie of the 12 months in 2003 and six-time All-Star. He spent the primary eight years of his profession with the Phoenix Suns, the place he teamed with D’Antoni.
Rivers has 1,192 victories on his resume, which places him sixth on the all-time wins listing. He led the Boston Celtics to the NBA championship in 2008 and likewise was in control of the Los Angeles Clippers throughout their Lob Metropolis period.
Few has received greater than 770 video games at Gonzaga in his profession on the college. He set the NCAA Division I males’s teaching report by successful 81 video games in his first three years on the college.
Crawford officiated 2,561 regular-season NBA video games and 50 Finals video games over his 39-year profession. He retired in 2016.
The enshrinement ceremony will happen in August on the Corridor of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts.
