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 has been 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, Spain by Pedro Ferrándiz Foundation. Induction ceremonies will happen every two years, with the first happening in 2007.
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[edit] Inductees (Male Players)
Russia: Sergei Belov, Alexander Belov
Spain: Emiliano Rodriguez, Fernando Martín Espina
Serbia: Radivoj Korać, Dražen Dalipagić
Croatia: Krešimir Ćosić, Dražen Petrović
Bosnia: Mirza Delibašić
Slovenia: Ivo Daneu
Italy: Pierluigi Marzorati
Greece: Nikos Galis
Brazil: Amaury Pasos
Argentina: Oscar Furlong
Puerto Rico: Teófilo Cruz
USA: Bill Russell
[edit] Candidates (Male Players)
- 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 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- 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 Tabio, Pedro Chappe Garcia- 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: Nicolas Lapentti
[edit] Inductees (Female Players)
- Italy: Liliana Ronchetti
Bulgaria: Vanya Voynova- Latvia: Uljana Semjonova
- USA: Ann Meyers
- Brazil: Hortência Marcari
[edit] Candidates (Female Players)
- Brazil: Marlene Jose Bento, Delcy Ellender Marques, Lais 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, Helena Bitnere-Hehta, Silvija Radone-Krodere, Maija Saleniece-Silina, Skaidrite Smildzina-Budovska, Dzidra Uztupe-Karamiseva
- 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 Cebrian
- Serbia: Marija Veger-Demsar
- Bulgaria: Penka Stojanova
France: Jacky Chazalon- Australia: Robyn Maher
China: Liu Yumin
South Korea: Shin-Ja Park
