FIBA Hall of Fame
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For other uses, see Basketball Hall of Fame (disambiguation).
FIBA Hall of Fame honors basketball players, coaches and administrators who have contributed to international competitive basketball. It was established by FIBA in 1991. It includes the "Samaranch Library", the biggest basketball library in the world that, as of 2007, has over 10,000 basketball books and 950 magazines from over 65 countries. The Hall of Fame building is a basketball museum built in Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain by the Pedro Ferrándiz Foundation. Induction ceremonies happen every two years, with the first happening in 2007.
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[edit] Male Players
[edit] Inductees
Russia: Sergei Belov, Alexander Belov
Spain: Emiliano Rodriguez, Fernando Martín
Serbia: Radivoj Korać,
Croatia: Krešimir Ćosić,Dražen Petrović
Bosnia: Mirza Delibašić,Dražen Dalipagić
Slovenia: Ivo Daneu
Italy: Pierluigi Marzorati
Greece: Nikos Galis
Brazil: Amaury Pasos
Argentina: Oscar Furlong
Puerto Rico: Teófilo Cruz
USA: Bill Russell
[edit] Candidates
Brazil: Oscar Schmidt, Ubiratan Pereira Maciel, Wlamir Marques, Waldemar Blatskauskas, Ruy de Freitas, Marcel de Souza, Edson Bispo dos Santos, Antonio Salvador Sucar, Affonso Évora, Alfredo da Motta, Jatyr Eduardo Schall, Carmo de Souza "Rosa Branca", Carlos Domingos Massoni "Mosquito", Zenny de Azevedo "Algodão"
Serbia: Dragan Kićanović, Zoran "Moka" Slavnić, Vlade Divac, Predrag Danilović, Dejan Bodiroga, Aleksandar Đorđević
USA: Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Jerry West, Oscar Robertson, David Robinson, Bob Kurland
Latvia: Rūdolfs Jurciņš, Jānis Krūmiņš, Valdis Muižnieks, Maigonis Valdmanis, Valdis Valters
Greece: Georgios Kolokithas, Panagiotis Giannakis, Fanis Christodoulou, Panagiotis Fasoulas
Lithuania: Modestas Paulauskas, Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Arvydas Sabonis
Spain: Juan Antonio San Epifanio, Francesc "Nino" Buscató
Czech Republic: Ivan Mrázek, Jiří Zídek Sr.
Puerto Rico: Raymond Dalmau, Juan "Pachin" Vicens
Australia: Eddie Palubinskas, Andrew Gaze
Cuba: Ruperto Herrera, Pedro Chappe
Syria: Jacques Bachayani, Koutrach Tarif
Italy: Dino Meneghin
Montenegro: Žarko Paspalj
Russia: Gennadi Volnov
Ukraine: Vladimir Tkachenko
Germany: Detlef Schrempf
Netherlands: Rik Smits
Israel: Miki Berkovich
Poland: Mieczysław Łopatka
Hungary: János Greminger
Canada: Leo Rautins
Mexico: Manuel Raga
Uruguay: Oscar Moglia
Ecuador: Nicolás Lapentti
Jordan: Awwad Mfadi Haddad
Dominican Republic: Miguel "Tío" G.
Ecuador: Ramiro "el Rambo" DLG.
[edit] Female Players
[edit] Inductees
Italy: Liliana Ronchetti
Bulgaria: Vanya Voynova
Latvia: Uļjana Semjonova
USA: Ann Meyers
Brazil: Hortência Marcari
[edit] Candidates
Brazil: Marlene Jose Bento, Delcy Ellender Marques, Laís Elena Aranha da Silva, Maria Helena Cardoso, Nilza Monte Garcia, Maria Paula Gonçalves da Silva, Maria Helena Campos "Heleninha", Norma Pinto de Oliveira "Norminha"
Latvia: Dzintra Grundmane, Helēna Bitnere-Hehta, Silvija Radone-Krodere, Maija Saleniece-Siliņa, Skaidrīte Smildziņa-Budovska, Dzidra Uztupe-Karamiševa
Russia: Nina Poznanskaya, Tatiana Ovechkina, Olga Soukharnova
Italy: Catarina Pollini, Mara Fullin, Mabel Bocchi
USA: Anne Donovan, Teresa Edwards, Cheryl Miller
Hungary: Agnes Nemeth, Lenke Kiss
Spain: Elisabeth Cebrián
Serbia: Marija Veger-Demsar
Bulgaria: Penka Stojanova
France: Jacky Chazalon
Australia: Robyn Maher
China: Liu Yumin
South Korea: Shin-Ja Park
[edit] Coaches
[edit] Inductees
Russia: Alexander Gomelsky, Vladimir Kondrashin, Lidia Alexeyeva
Serbia: Aleksandar "Aca" Nikolić, Ranko Žeravica
USA: Dean Smith, Henry "Hank" Iba
Spain: Antonio Díaz-Miguel
Italy: Giancarlo Primo
Brazil: Togo Renan Soares "Kanela"
[edit] Candidates
Serbia: Dušan Ivković, Božidar "Boža" Maljković, Želimir "Željko" Obradović, Svetislav Pešić, Milan Vasojević
Italy: Cesare Rubini, Alessandro "Sandro" Gamba, Valerio Bianchini
Latvia: Oļģerts Altbergs, Valdemārs Baumanis, Raimonds Karnītis
Algeria: Tayeb Abdelhadi, Kaddour Bilekdar, Tayeb Zenati
Poland: Witold Zagórski, Ludwik Miętta
Bulgaria: Dimitar Mitev, Ivan Galabov
Croatia: Mirko Novosel
Spain: Pedro Ferrándiz
Greece: Nikos Nisiotis
USA: Pete Newell
Puerto Rico: Julio Toro
Canada: Jack Donohue
Australia: Lindsay Gaze
Syria: Najeeb Rateb Al Sheikh
Iraq: Ghazi Talib
[edit] Technical Officials
[edit] Inductees
Serbia: Obrad Belošević
Italy: Pietro Reverberi
Russia: Vladimir Kostin
Hungary: Ervin Kassai
Brazil: Renato Righetto
Uruguay: Mario Hopenhaym
Canada: Allen Rae
[edit] Candidates
Latvia: Tālivaldis Pētersons, Imants Pļaviņš, Miervaldis Ramans, Jāzeps Šadeiko
Greece: Costas Rigas, Kostas Dimou, Spyridon Kamizoulis, Antonios Skylogiannis
Spain: Miguel Ángel Betancor, Pedro Hernández-Cabrera
Bulgaria: Artenik Arabadjian, Valentin Lazarov
USA: Zigmund "Red" Mihalik, Jim Bain
Iraq: Ali Al-Safar, Yousif Taher Al-Wahab
France: Yvan Mainini
Italy: Gualtiero Follati
Netherlands: Piet Leegwater
Switzerland: Marcel Pfeuti
Luxembourg: Léon Brosius
Australia: John Holden
Puerto Rico: Calvin Pacheco
Bahamas: Vincent Ferguson
[edit] Contributors
[edit] Inductees
- 8 Founding Federations of FIBA (Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland)
Spain: Anselmo López, Raimundo Saporta
Serbia: Nebojša Popović, Radomir Shaper
USA: Willard N. Greim, Edward S. Steitz
Brazil: Antonio dos Reis Carneiro, José Claudio Dos Reis
Egypt: Abdel Azim Ashry, Abdel Moneim Wahby
Russia: Nikolai Semashko
Serbia: Borislav Stanković
France: Robert Busnel
Italy: Decio Scuri
UK: Renato William Jones
Turkey: Turgut Atakol
Poland: Marian Kozlowski
Hungary: Ferenc Hepp
Austria: August Pitzl
Switzerland: Léon Bouffard
Canada: James Naismith
Peru: Eduardo Airaldi Rivarola
Philippines: Dionisio "Chito" Calvo
Japan: Yoshimi Ueda
South Korea: Yoon Duk-Joo
[edit] Candidates
Germany: Ursula Frank, Manfred Ströher, Hans-Joachim Otto
Spain: Ernesto Segura De Luna
Italy: Aldo Vitale
Poland: Kajetan Hadzelek
Bulgaria: Bozhidar Takev
Austria: Friedrich Walz
Luxembourg: Henri Heyart
USA: George E. Killian
Brazil: Ivan Raposo
Venezuela: Israel Sarmiento Ramirez
Australia: Alistair Ramsay
Philippines: Gonzalo "Lito" Puyat
People's Republic of China: Carl Men-Ky Ching
Senegal: Abdoulaye Sèye Moreau