Carmelo Anthony, Dwight Howard, his bird, Maya Moore Headline 2025 Hall of Fame Class

Carmelo Anthony, Dwight Howard, his Bird, Maya Moore and Sylvia Fowles have closed their illustrious careers being nominated in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the 2025 class announced at the last four men in San Antonio Saturday.

The 2025 class also includes coach Billy Donovan, the referee of the longtime NBA Danny Crawford and the owner of Miami Heat Micky Arison, together with the 2008 “Redcence team” who took gold at the Beijing Olympics.

Bird enters the room after retiring from a 21 -year career with the Storm of Seattle, who helped win four WNBA titles. Bird also led the American Olympic Women’s team to earn five gold medals. Moore won four WNBA championships with Minnesota Lynx and was the most precious player of the 2014 League; Fowles has also been a champion twice with Lynx for 15 seasons and twice MVP Finals Wnba.

From the coach, Donovan won two national championships in Florida and is the current longtime coach of the Chicago Bulls. Crawford officiated more than 2,000 NBA games in 32 seasons, including 30 final games.

Jeff Twiss, the manager of Boston Celtics’s longtime public relations, received the John Bunn Award, the highest prize in the congenital short room in the room itself. He has been with the franchise for more than 40 years and is considered one of the great professionals from his part of the player gap.

Melo does not need an NBA title to enter the room

There have been recent Scuttlebutt online regarding the credentials of Anthony’s Hall of Fame because he had never won an NBA title. (He never appeared in an NBA final, let alone won a ring.)

But we are real here: Anthony who enters the Hall of Fame during his first attempt should not surprise anyone who would pay attention. In 2003, the most exceptional player of the Final Four was appointed before led Syracuse to his only men’s NCAA title. Selected third in the legendary NBA draft of 2003, Anthony used one of the most seventh shots to accumulate 28,289 points, tenth in the list of NBA career scores. It is also an Olympic medal of four times in male basketball, three of which gold in 2008, 2012 and 2016.

The list of players who scored over 28,000 points and won a NCAA title, a NBA score title (28.7 points per game in 2013) and three Olympic gold medals are a party of One: Anthony.

In a “Ringz” culture, it would be easy to mention the lack of an NBA championship (“I’m on Peace”, said Anthony a Sports Illustrated in 2023) on the Curriculum of Anthony’s 19 -year career or an important individual prize (one of the first three MVPs in 2013) as a reason to minimize his Hall credentials. However, the 10 times all-star and Six-Time All-Nba Player have built a few historical career, if present, they can equal. – Rob Peterson, deputy director of the NBA

Howard built his curriculum hof at the beginning of his career

Like Anthony, there were questions about the dignity of Howard’s Hall of Fame while people indicate his end -of -career trip. He played for six teams in seven seasons (including the Los Angeles Lakers twice, winning a title with them in the 2020 bubble) and put on pedestrian numbers (11.1 points per game, 10.0 rebounds and 1.2 blocks in 433 games). He was even renounced twice, once by Brooklyn in 2018 and once from Memphis in 2019, without playing both franchises.

But Howard built his curriculum for Springfield, Massachusetts, at the beginning of his career. Orlando’s magic linked Howard with choice n. 1 in 2004 and had an immediate impact for franchise. He played in 567 of 574 games in his first seven seasons, led the magic to the 2009 NBA finals and won the defensive player of the year in three consecutive seasons from 2009 to 2011. Starting from the 2007-08 season, he led the NBA in the rebound five of the six seasons, was appointed First Team All-Nba for five direct seasons and was the maximum votes of MVP for four seasons with four seasons with four seasons with four seasons with four seasons consecutive.

Howard also led the NBA in blocks in 2009 and 2010. His three Dpo prizes place him second behind Dikembe Mutombo, Ben Wallace and Rudy Gobert, who each have four. Wallace and Mutombo are in the Hall of Fame; Gobert is still in the NBA. Howard’s 14,627 rebounds put 10 ° on the NBA career list and his 2,228 blocks place it 13th in all the time.

Add eight All-Star selections, eight All-Nba teams and an Olympic gold medal of 2008 during his 18-year career, it is easy to understand why Howard is headed for the room. – Peterson

Enshrining “The Redeem Team”

Among the debut of the dream team at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics through the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, the Usa Basketball Men’s Team was a dominant force in international basketball, winning three Olympic gold medals and the 1994 FIBA ​​World Championship. That domain ended in 2002 with a sixth place at the Fiba World Championships, the first time that the NBA professionals have lost in one. international competition. (The NBA players were locked up in 1998 and was not allowed to participate in the Fiba World Championships that year.)

At the 2004 Athens games, the men’s team was full of talent – Tim Duncan, Allen Iatson, Lebron James, Anthony and Dwyane Wade – and closed with a bronze medal.

With that third place, US basketball was determined to return to the status of gold medal and began to request multi -year commitments from the players to build a better organizational culture. With James, Anthony and Wade they commit themselves through the 2006 FIBA ​​World Championships and the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which Trio saw the third of the United States in 2006.

In 2008, with those three cornerstones, the US team added Chris Bosh and, above all, Kobe Bryant in their research to regain Olympic gold. Nicknamed “The Redeem Team”, Bryant provided a sharp competitive advantage to a group of young players who needed it. The team, with the future Hall of Famers Jason Kidd and Dwight Howard, also won its five games in the pool with an average of 32.2 points. In the medal rounds, they crushed Australia of 30 and Argentina of 20 in the semifinal before defeating Spain 118-107 in what is considered by some as one of the largest basketball games ever played.

The Redeem team is the third US male Olympic team Sancita in Springfield, with the 1960 gold medal team with Oscar Robertson and Jerry West and the dream team. – Peterson

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