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Five players have also been inducted as coaches: John Wooden in 1973, Lenny Wilkens in 1998, Bill Sharman in 2004, Tom Heinsohn in 2015, and Bill Russell in 2021. Of the inducted players, 30 were also members of teams that have been inducted into the Hall as units . Zack Clayton, Tarzan Cooper, William "Pop" Gates, and John Isaacs were members ...
First African American player to sign an NBA contract who caught on with a team; one-time NBA All-Star (1957); also played with two Hall of Fame teams in the New York Renaissance and Harlem Globetrotters; 1978 inductee in the Black Athletes Hall of Fame: 2014: David Stern
The Women's Basketball Hall of Fame honors those who have contributed to the sport of women's basketball. The Hall of Fame opened in 1999 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. [1] It is the only facility of its kind dedicated to all levels of women's basketball. Knoxville is known for having a large women's basketball following as well as being the ...
The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) All-Star Game is an annual exhibition basketball game played between the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference All-Stars. Eleven players, five starters and six reserves, from each conference are chosen. The starters are chosen through electronic ballots cast daily by fans on WNBA.com.
NBA player Born in Chicago Doc Rivers: Oct 13, 1961: NBA player and coach Born in Chicago Derrick Rose: Oct 4, 1988: NBA player, 2011 NBA MVP Born in Chicago Isiah Thomas: Apr 30, 1961: NBA player, NBA Hall of Famer Born in Chicago Dwyane Wade: Jan 17, 1982: NBA player Born in Chicago Antoine Walker: Aug 12, 1976: NBA player Born in Chicago
Ten of the inducted coaches are women: L. Margaret Wade, Jody Conradt, Pat Head Summitt, Sandra Kay Yow, Sue Gunter, Rush, C. Vivian Stringer, Tara VanDerveer, Alexeeva, and Sylvia Hatchell. Five coaches have also been inducted as players: John Wooden, Bill Sharman, Wilkens, Tom Heinsohn, and Bill Russell. One of the more recent inductees in ...
No. 6 retired by Boston Celtics. NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player ( 1955) UPI College Player of the Year (1956) 2× Helms Player of the Year (1955, 1956) 2× Consensus first-team All-American ( 1955, 1956) WCC Player of the Year (1956) No. 6 retired by San Francisco Dons. 2007. Radivoj Korać.
1960s – 1970s. Kaoru "Danpu" Matsumoto, one of Japan's leading pro wrestlers in the 1980s. All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (est. 1968) was the dominant joshi puro organization from the 1970s to the 1990s. AJW's first major star was Mach Fumiake in 1974, followed in 1975 by Jackie Sato and Maki Ueda (the "Beauty Pair").