FIBA Hall of Fame 2025: Full List Of Inductees

The FIBA Hall of Fame Class of 2025 were announced on Thursday featuring some of the greats of basketball.

The class included nine names and is set to be inducted on May 17 in Bahrain during an enshrinement ceremony.

Spanish basketball legend Pau Gasol, American Olympic gold medal-winning player and coach Dawn Staley, and Mike ‘Coach K’ Krzyzewski are among the “Class of 2025” named to join the FIBA Hall of Fame.

Women’s basketball stalwarts Dawn Staley, Ticha Penicheiro and Leonor Borrell also found a place in the class.

FIBA Hall of Fame 2025: Full List Of Inductees

Gasol won three Olympic medals, a FIBA World Cup, and three EuroBasket titles with Spain. He collected two NBA championships with the LA Lakers, who retired his number 16 jersey, and was named an All-Star on six occasions.

The Spaniard retired from competition in 2021, the same year he became a member of the International Olympic Committee. He was also inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2023.

Staley won three Olympic gold medals as a player for the USA women’s national team (1996, 2000, 2004), before coaching the US to the top of the podium at Tokyo 2020 in 2021.

Krzyzewski, nicknamed ‘Coach K’, led the United States men’s team to three Olympic golds as Head Coach (2008, 2012, and 2016), and was an assistant coach for the Dream Team, in addition to a hugely successful collegiate coaching career in the US.

The FIBA Hall of Fame celebrates players, coaches, teams, referees and administrators who have made great contributions to international competitive basketball. It was established by FIBA in 1991 in Alcobendas, Community of Madrid, Spain, by the Pedro Ferrándiz Foundation, which included the “Samaranch Library”- the largest basketball library in the world.

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