Hall of Fame 2026 | Blake Griffin, Jamal Crawford and Candace Parker on the shortlist
this year, Carmelo AnthonyDwight Howard, Sue Bird and the Redeem Team from Beijing 2008. Hall of Fame. Next year, the crop certainly won’t be as prestigious, but there is still quality among the personalities eligible to join Springfield.
therefore, we learned this friday it Blake Griffin, Jamal Crawford, Brandon Roy etc Joe Johnson in men, but also Elena Delle Donne etc Candace Parker among women, for the first time they all had the right to enter the Basketball Pantheon from 2026. Not forgetting Mike D’Antoni or Bruce Pearl among coaches, and the US women’s team at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Amar’e Stoudemire, Marc Gasol, Doc Rivers, Penny Hardaway, Bill Laimbeer, Robert Horry, Kevin Johnson, but also Shawn Marion still dream of entering the prestigious Hall of Fame, after failing in other years. There were almost 200 applications in total.
This first list of names will then be refined in February, with the announcement of the finalists. To know the final choice (and if a secret) committee, and therefore new participants from August 2026, you will have to wait until April 4, during the NCAA Final Four.
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