Carmelo Anthony, who won three Olympic gold medals with the U.S. men’s national basketball team and an NCAA championship with Syracuse, and Sue Bird, a five-time Olympic gold medalist, headline a 2025 class elected into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
Anthony was a 10-time NBA All-Star, a six-time All-NBA performer, named one of the 75 greatest players in NBA history, and is 10th on the league’s all-time scoring list with 28,289 points.
Bird is one of the all-time great women’s basketball players – a 13-time All-Star, eight-time All-WNBA selection, four-time WNBA champion, two-time NCAA champion, and one of the 25 greatest players in WNBA history. She is the league’s all-time leader in assists (3,234) and No. 8 on the all-time scoring list (6,803).
They were easy choices for inclusion into this year’s Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame class, which was announced Saturday in San Antonio.
Also headed to the Basketball Hall of Fame: Dwight Howard, Maya Moore, Sylvia Fowles, Danny Crawford, the 2008 U.S. Olympic men's team, Billy Donovan and Micky Arison.
Enshrinement weekend is Sept. 5-6, with the enshrinement ceremony taking place at Symphony Hall in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Here’s a look at the 2025 Basketball Hall of Fame class:
Carmelo Anthony
Over his 19 seasons in the NBA, most notably with the Nuggets and Knicks, Anthony was a prolific shooter and scorer whose 28,289 career points rank 10th all-time. He averaged 22.5 points and led the league in scoring at 28.7 points per game in 2012-13. Anthony’s 37 points against Nigeria at the 2012 London Olympics remain a single-game record for the U.S. men’s national team.
2008 U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team
Known as the "Redeem Team," the 2008 U.S. Olympic men's basketball team swept through its schedule with an 8-0 record at the Beijing Summer Games with an average margin of victory of 27.9 points per game. After a disappointing bronze-medal effort at the 2004 Athens Olympics, Jerry Colangelo and Mike Krzyzewski helped re-energize the U.S. men’s national team, which has now won five consecutive Olympic gold medals.
Dwight Howard
Known as a dominant presence in the paint, Howard was a three-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year, winning the award in consecutive seasons (2009-11). Howard ranks 10th in NBA history in rebounds (14,627) and 13th in blocks (2,228). He made the All-Star and All-NBA teams eight times and won an NBA championship with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020. He averaged 15.7 points, 11.8 rebounds, and 1.8 blocks.
Sue Bird
Known as a pioneer and one of the greatest point guards of all time, Bird is a four-time WNBA champion and a league record 13-time All-Star who played all 21 seasons with the Seattle Storm. She is the all-time leader in wins (333), games played (580), assists (3,234), and minutes (18,079).
Maya Moore
She played just eight seasons in ...
