As the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) celebrates its 89th anniversary today, in commemoration of this important date, the FIBA Hall of Fame Hall of Fame has released the online ceremony of the 2020 class.
The ceremony was filmed at the Patrick Baumann Basketball House in Switzerland, where FIBA headquarters is located. FIBA also added the members of the 2021 class to the FIBA Hall of Fame in a ceremony held online. Both ceremonies were videotaped on June 2 and shared on the day of FIBA’s 89th anniversary.
Members of the FIBA Hall of Fame class of 2020; Isabelle Fijalkowski (France), Mieczyslaw Lopatka (Poland), Steve Nash (Canada), Agnes Nemeth (Hungary), Park Shin-ja (Korea), Modestas Paulauskas (Lithuania), Kenichi Sako (Japan), Alexander Volkov (Ukraine), and It consisted of Jure Zdovc (Slovenia) and legendary coaches Ruben Magnano (Argentina), Svetislav Pesic (Serbia) and Tara Van Derveer (USA).
In the 2021 class; legendary actors Mathieu Faye (Senegal), Hana Horakova (Czech), Stanislav Kropilak (Slovakia), Oscar Moglia (Uruguay – posthumously), Detlef Schrempf (Germany), Penka Stoyanova (Bulgaria – posthumous), Sergey Tarakanov (Russia), Panagiotis Giannakis (Greece) and Haixia Zheng (China) featured coaches Chuck Daly (USA – posthumous), Tom Maher (Australia) and Ettore Messina (Italy).
Each participant gave an acceptance speech at the online ceremony, filmed on June 2, 2021. The ceremony could not be held in 2020 due to the worldwide epidemic.
Click to watch the FIBA Hall of Fame Class of 2020 ceremony
As the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) celebrates its 89th anniversary today, in commemoration of this important date, the FIBA Hall of Fame Hall of Fame has released the online ceremony of the 2020 class.
Click to watch the FIBA Hall of Fame Class of 2021 ceremony
