FIBA Hall of Fame

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.

Male Players

Inductees

* Russia: Sergei Belov, Alexander Belov
* Spain: Emiliano Rodriguez, Fernando Martín
* 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

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
* 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

Female Players

Inductees

* Italy: Liliana Ronchetti
* Bulgaria: Vanya Voynova
* Latvia: Uļjana Semjonova
* USA: Ann Meyers
* Brazil: Hortência Marcari

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

Coaches

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"

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

Technical Officials

Inductees

* Serbia: Obrad Belošević
* Italy: Pietro Reverberi
* Russia: Vladimir Kostin
* Hungary: Ervin Kassai
* Brazil: Renato Righetto
* Uruguay: Mario Hopenhaym
* Canada: Allen Rae

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

Contributors

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

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

See also

* List of members of the FIBA Hall of Fame
* Basketball Hall of Fame
* Women's Basketball Hall of Fame

External links

* [http://www.halloffame.fiba.com/ Official Page for the FIBA Hall of Fame]