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Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Inductees

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is dedicated to Canadian-American physician James Naismith, who invented the sport of basketball. The Hall of Fame inducted its first class in 1959. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame finally opened a physical location at Springfield College, on Feb. 17, 1968 after struggling for years trying to raise funds for construction. The popularity of the Basketball Hall of Fame necessitated that a new facility be constructed, and in 1985, an $11 million facility was built beside the scenic Connecticut River in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 2002, the Basketball Hall of Fame moved merely 100 yards south along Springfield's riverfront into a $47 million facility designed by renowned architects Gwathmey Siegel & Associates.

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Inductees

Player Category

Connection Made Basketball

Year	Player	Player	Player	Player
2025	Carmelo Anthony	Sue Bird - WNBA	Sylvia Fowles - WNBA	Dwight Howard
2025	Maya Moore - WNBA
2024	Seimone Augustus-WNBA	Dick Barnett	Chauncey Billups	Vince Carter
2024	Michael Cooper- WNBA	Walter Davis	Michele Timms-WNBA
2023	Pau Gasol	Becky Hammon-WNBA	Dirk Nowitzki	Tony Parker
2023	Dwyane Wade
2022	Sonny Boswell	Swin Cash-WNBA	Manu Ginobili	Tim Hardaway
2022	Lou Hudson	Inman Jackson	Radivoj Korac	Albert Pullins
2022	Theresa Shank-Grentz	Lindsay Whalen-WNBA
2021	Chris Bosh	Bob Dandridge	Yolanda Griffith-WNBA	Lauren Jackson-WNBA
2021	Clarence Jenkins	Toni Kukoc	Pearl Moore	Paul Pierce
2021	Ben Wallace	Chris Webber
2020	Kobe Bryant	Tamika Catchings-WNBA	Tim Duncan	Kevin Garnett
2019	Carl Braun	Charles (Chuck) Cooper	Vlade Divac	Bobby Jones
2019	Sidney Moncrief	Jack Sikma	Teresa Weatherspoon-WNBA	Paul Westphal
2018	Ray Allen	Maurice Cheeks	Grant Hill	Jason Kidd
2018	Steve Nash	Dino Radja	Charlie Scott	Katie Smith-WNBA
2018	Tina Thompson-WNBA	Ora Mae Washington
2017	Zack Clayton	Nick Galis	George McGinnis	Tracy McGrady
2016	Zelmo Beaty	Allen Iverson	Yao Ming	Shaquille O'Neal
2016	Cumberland Posey	Sheryl Swoopes-WNBA
2015	Louie Dampier	Spencer Haywood	John Isaacs	Lisa Leslie-WNBA
2015	Dikembe Mutombo	Jo Jo White
2014	Sarunas Marciulionis	Alonzo Mourning	Mitch Richmond	Guy Rodgers
2013	Roger Brown	Richie Guerin	Bernard King	Gary Payton
2013	Oscar Schmidt	Dawn Staley-WNBA
2012	Mel Daniels	Katrina McClain	Reggie Miller	Ralph Sampson
2012	Chet Walker	Jamaal Wilkes
2011	Teresa Edwards-WNBA	Artis Gilmore	Chris Mullin	Dennis Rodman
2011	Arvydas Sabonis	Goose Tatum
2010	Cynthia Cooper-Dyke-WNBA	Dennis Johnson	Gus Johnson	Karl Malone
2010	Maciel Pereira	Scottie Pippen
2009	Michael Jordan	David Robinson	John Stockton
2008	Adrian Dantley	Patrick Ewing	Hakeem Olajuwon
2006	Charles Barkley	Joe Dumars	Dominique Wilkins
2005	Hortencia Marcari
2004	Drazen Dalipagic	Clyde Drexler	Maurice Stokes	Lynette Woodard-WNBA
2003	Dino Meneghin	Robert Parish	James Worthy
2002	Magic Johnson	Drazen Petrovic
2001	Moses Malone
2000	Bob McAdoo	Isiah Thomas
1999	Kevin McHale
1998	Larry Bird	Marques Haynes	Arnie Risen
1997	Joan Crawford	Denise Curry	Alex English	Bailey Howell
1996	Kresimir Cosic	George Gervin	Gail Goodrich	Nancy Lieberman-WNBA
1996	David Thompson	George Yardley
1995	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	Anne Donovan-WNBA	Vern Mikkelsen	Cheryl Miller-WNBA
1994	Carol Blazejowski	Buddy Jeannette
1993	Walt Bellamy	Julius Erving	Dan Issel	Dick McGuire
1993	Ann Meyers	Calvin Murphy	Uljana Semjonova	Bill Walton
1992	Sergei Belov	Lusia Harris-Stewart	Connie Hawkins	Bob Lanier
1992	Nera White
1991	Tiny Archibald	Dave Cowens	Harry Gallatin
1990	Dave Bing	Elvin Hayes	Neil Johnston	Earl Monroe
1989	Pop Gates	K.C. Jones	Lenny Wilkens
1988	Clyde Lovellette	Bob McDermott-NBL	Wes Unseld
1987	Rick Barry	Walt Frazier	Bob Houbregs	Pete Maravich
1987	Bobby Wanzer
1986	Billy Cunningham	Tom Heinsohn
1985	Al Cervi	Nate Thurmond
1984	John Havlicek	Sam Jones
1983	Bill Bradley	Dave DeBusschere	Jack Twyman
1982	Hal Greer	Slater Martin	Frank Ramsey	Willis Reed
1981	Thomas Barlow
1980	Jerry Lucas	Oscar Robertson	Jerry West
1979	Wilt Chamberlain
1978	Paul Arizin	Joe Fulks	Cliff Hagan	Jim Pollard
1977	Elgin Baylor	Lauren Gale-NBL	William Johnson
1976	Tom Gola	Ed Krause	Bill Sharman
1975	Joseph Brennan	Bill Russell	Robert Vandivier
1974	Ernest Schmidt
1973	John Beckman	Dolph Schayes
1972	Paul Endacott	Max Friedman
1971	Bob Cousy	Bob Pettit
1970	Bob Davies
1969	Dutch Dehnert
1966	Joe Lapchick
1964	Harold Foster	Nat Holman	John Russell
1963	Robert Gruenig
1962	Jack McCracken	Harlan Page	Barney Sedran	John (Cat) Thompson
1961	Bernard Borgmann	Forrest DeBernardi	Bob Kurland	Andy Phillip
1961	John Roosma	Christian Steinmetz	Edward Wachter
1960	Victor Hanson	Ed Macauley	Branch McCracken	Charles Murphy
1960	John Wooden-NBL
1959	Charles Hyatt	Hank Luisetti	George Mikan	John Schommer

Coach Category

Connection Made Basketball

Year	Coach	Coach	Coach	Coach
2025	Billy Donovan
2024	Harley Redin	Bo Ryan	Charles Smith
2023	Gene Bess	Gary Blair	David Hixon	Gene Keady
2023	Gregg Popovich
2022	Bob Huggins	George Karl	Marianne Stanley-WNBA
2021	Rick Adelman	Bill Russell	Jay Wright
2020	Kim Mulkey	Barbara Stevens	Eddie Sutton	Rudy Tomjanovich
2019	Bill Fitch
2018	Charles "Lefty" Driesell
2017	Robert Hughes	Muffet McGraw	Bill Self
2016	Tom Izzo	John McLendon
2015	John Calipari	Lindsay Gaze	Tom Heinsohn
2014	Slick Leonard	Nolan Richardson	Gary Williams
2013	Sylvia Hatchell	Guy Lewis	Rick Pitino	Jerry Tarkanian
2012	Lidia Alexeeva	Don Nelson
2011	Herb Magee	Tara VanDerveer
2010	Bob Hurley
2009	Jerry Sloan	C. Vivian Stringer
2008	Pat Riley	Cathy Rush
2007	Van Chancellor-WNBA	Pedro Ferrandiz	Phil Jackson	Mirko Novosel
2007	Roy Williams
2006	Geno Auriemma	Sandro Gamba
2005	Jim Boeheim	Jim Calhoun	Sue Gunter
2004	Bill Sharman
2003	Leon Barmore
2002	Larry Brown	Lute Olson	Kay Yow
2001	John Chaney	Mike Krzyzewski
2000	Pat Summitt	Morgan Wootten
1999	Billie Moore	John Thompson
1998	Jody Conradt	Alex Hannum	Aleksandar Nikolic	Lenny Wilkens
1997	Pete Carril	Antonio Diaz-Miguel	Don Haskins
1995	Aleksandr Gomelsky	John Kundla
1994	Denny Crum	Chuck Daly	Cesare Rubini
1992	Lou Carnesecca	Alfred McGuire	Jack Ramsay	Phillip Woolpert
1991	Bob Knight
1988	Ralph Miller
1986	Red Holzman	Fred Taylor	Stanley Watts
1985	Harold Anderson	Marv Harshman	Margaret Wade
1984	Jack Gardner
1983	Dean Smith
1982	Everett Case	Clarence Gaines
1981	Arad McCutchan
1980	Everett Shelton
1979	Sam Barry	Edgar Hickey	Ray Meyer	Pete Newell
1977	Frank McGuire
1976	Harry Litwack
1973	Bruce Drake	Arthur Lonborg	John Wooden-NBL
1972	Edgar Diddle
1970	Bernard Carnevale
1969	Red Auerbach	Henry Iba	Adolph Rupp
1968	Howard Cann	Amory Gill	Alvin Julian
1966	Everett Dean
1965	Howard Hobson
1964	Ken Loeffler
1961	George Keogan	Leonard Sachs
1960	Ernest Blood	Frank Keaney	Ward Lambert
1959	Phog Allen	Henry Clifford Carlson	Walter Meanwell

Contributor Category

Connection Made Basketball

Year	Contributor	Contributor	Contributor	Contributor
2025	Micky Arison
2024	Doug Collins	Jerry West	Herb Simon
2023	Jim Valvano
2022	Del Harris	Larry Costello
2021	Val Ackerman	Cotton Fitzsimmons	Howard Garfinkel
2020	Patrick Baumann
2019	Al Attles
2018	Rod Thorn	Rick Welts
2017	Mannie Jackson	Rebecca Lobo-WNBA	Jerry Krause	Tom Jernstedt
2016	Jerry Reinsdorf
2015	George Raveling
2014	Nathaniel Clifton	David Stern
2013	E.B. Henderson	Russ Granik
2012	Don Barksdale	Phil Knight
2011	Tom Sanders	Tex Winter
2010	Jerry Buss
2008	Bill Davidson	Dick Vitale
2006	Dave Gavitt
2005	Hubie Brown
2004	Jerry Colangelo
2003	Chick Hearn	Meadowlark Lemon	Earl Lloyd
2000	Danny Biasone	Charles Newton
1999	Wayne Embry	Fred Zollner
1991	Borislav Stankovic	Lawrence O'Brien	Larry Fleisher
1985	Senda Berenson Abbott	Bertha Teague
1984	Clifford Fagan	Edward Steitz
1983	Louis Wilke
1982	Alva Duer
1981	Ferenc Hepp	Walter Kennedy
1980	Les Harrison
1979	John McLendon
1977	Charles "Tarzan" Cooper
1975	Emil Liston
1974	Harry Fisher	Maurice Podoloff
1973	Elmer Ripley
1972	Robert Douglas	Edward Gottlieb	Clifford Wells
1971	Abe Saperstein
1969	Charles Taylor
1968	Clair Bee
1965	Paul Hinkle	William Mokray	Walter Brown
1964	John Bunn	Ned Irish	William Jones
1963	William Reid
1962	Frank Morgenweck	Lynn St. John
1961	Arthur Schabinger	Arthur Trester	John O'Brien
1960	Henry Porter
1959	Luther Gulick	Edward Hickox	Ralph Morgan	James Naismith
1959	Harold Olsen	Amos Alonzo Stagg	Oswald Tower

Team Category

Connection Made Basketball

Year	Team	Team
2025	2008 USA Men's Olympic Team
2023	1976 Women's Olympic Team
2019	Tennessee A&I Teams Of 1957-59	Wayland Baptist University Teams Of 1948-82
2014	Immaculata University Women 1972-1974
2012	All American Red Heads
2010	1960 USA Men's Olympic Team	1992 USA Men's Olympic Team
2007	1966 Texas Western
2002	Harlem Globetrotters
1963	New York Rens
1961	Buffalo Germans
1959	Original Celtics	The First Team

Referee Category

Connection Made Basketball

Year	Referee	Referee
2025	Danny Crawford
2022	Hugh Evans
2016	Darell Garretson
2015	Dick Bavetta
2012	Hank Nichols
2007	Mendy Rudolph
1995	Earl Strom
1986	Red Mihalik
1983	Lloyd Leith
1980	Dallas Shirley
1979	James Enright
1978	John Nucatola
1961	George Hoyt	Ernest Quigley
1961	David Tobey	David Walsh
1960	George Hepbron
1959	Matthew Kennedy