Former NBA All-Star level guard and present Milwaukee Bucs head coach Doc Rivers speaks throughout his enshrinement on the 2026 Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame induction ceremony Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026, in Springfield, Mass. (AP Photograph/Rusty Jones)
NBA star Amar’e Stoudemire and longtime coach Glenn “Doc” Rivers had been amongst 9 inductees into the Basketball Corridor of Fame on Saturday.
Joey Crawford, an NBA referee for 39 seasons, and veteran coaches Mike D’Antoni and Mark Few had been additionally amongst these enshrined in ceremonies on the Corridor in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Ladies inductees included Candace Parker, Elena Delle Donne and Chamique Holdsclaw, together with the unbeaten 1996 US Olympic gold medal workforce.
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Rivers, who resigned as coach of the Milwaukee Bucks in April, has an NBA teaching file of 1,194-866 over 27 seasons with Orlando, Boston, the Los Angeles Clippers, Philadelphia and Milwaukee.
“It’s so humorous. By no means in my life did I dream that I’d be a coach or be good at it,” Rivers stated. “To be going within the Corridor now, my mother had this saying, ‘For the great or unhealthy of it, you’re proper the place you’re imagined to be.’”
He gained his solely NBA title in 2008 with Boston and was named NBA Coach of the 12 months in 2000 with Orlando. Rivers additionally guided the Bucks to the NBA Cup in 2024.
“This can be a celebration that I met a set of people that helped me get to the Corridor of Fame,” Rivers stated.
Six-time NBA All-Star and 2003 NBA Rookie of the 12 months, Amar’e Stoudemire speaks throughout his enshrinement on the 2026 Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame induction ceremony Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026, in Springfield, Mass. (AP Photograph/Rusty Jones)
Six-time NBA All-Star ahead Stoudemire, the 2003 Rookie of the 12 months, averaged 18.9 factors and seven.8 rebounds a sport over 14 seasons with Phoenix, New York, Dallas and Miami.
He was a key participant in Phoenix’s “Seven Seconds or Much less” quick-tempo period that was masterminded by D’Antoni, who was enshrined as a contributor and in addition coached Stoudemire in New York.
“I beloved the problem. That brings out the perfect in me,” stated Stoudemire of his New York days. “Coach D’Antoni was there, so I had a well-known face as coach.”
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Innovator D’Antoni pioneered the fast-tempo offensive technique by passing. He coached eight seasons in Italy and 16 within the NBA, profitable 672 video games in stints with Denver, Phoenix, New York, Houston and the Los Angeles Lakers. He gained the NBA Coach of the 12 months award in 2005 and 2017.
Parker was a three-time Ladies’s NBA champion and two-time WNBA Most Precious Participant, whereas Delle Donne was a two-time MVP who led Washington to the 2019 crown.
Holdsclaw was a six-time WNBA All-Star who gained three US school titles with Tennessee, performed 11 WNBA seasons and gained 2000 Olympic gold.
Crawford served as an NBA referee for 39 seasons from 1977-2016. He officiated 2,561 regular-season NBA video games, second-most in league historical past, and 50 NBA Finals video games, working each ultimate from 1986-2015.
Gonzaga head coach Few is the winningest lively US school basketball coach and has guided the Bulldogs into two nationwide championship video games.
