He Hall of Fame or Basketball Hall of Fame had a historic page in 2023 with the entry of Pau Gasol and now can be added to three more legends of Spanish basketball who also left their mark on NBA and WNBA: Jorge Garbajosa, Juan Carlos Navarro and Amaya Valdemoro.
Garbajosa, Navarro and Valdemoro is nominated by the International Committee – different from the one that selected Gasol and challenges the great legends of the North American league – in 2024.
Garbajosa, current president of FIBA Europe, after presiding over the Spanish Basketball Federation for several years, moved from the NBA between 2006 and 2008 with the Toronto Raptors, choosing in the ideal rookie quintet of the 2006-2007 season. With the national team, the power forward won the 2006 World Cup and the 2009 EuroBasket and was third in the 2001 EuroBasket and second in Beijing 2008 and EuroBasket 2003 and 2007.
At club level in FIBA n Multipurpose He won the ACB League with Unicaja Málaga in 2006, the Copa del Rey with Unicaja Málaga and Baskonia, the Italian league and cup with Benetton Treviso and the European Cup Winners’ Cup with Baskonia. He was in the ideal quintet of the 2006 World Cup and was MVP of an ACB final, a Copa del Rey and a Coppa Italia.
Navarre, one of the best shooters FIBA has seen in its history, played the 2007-2008 NBA season with the Memphis Grizzlies. His successes were with Spain, with whom he won two EuroBaskets, a World Cup and two silver medals and a bronze medal at the Olympics among other podiums, and with Barça Basket, with whom he won eight ACB championships, seven Copas del Rey, two Euroleagues, one Coraç Cup and five Spanish Super Cups.
The bomb He was EuroLeague MVP in 2009, EuroLeague Final Four MVP in 2010, EuroLeague All-Quintet from 2000 to 2010 and 2011 to 2020, EuroLeague Top Scorer in 2007, League MVP. 2006 and EuroBasket MVP in 2011 among other individual awards.
ValdemoroThe best Spanish basketball player in history, he played in the WNBA between 1998 and 2000 with the Houston Comets and won three championships in the league. With the Spanish National Team, she was Eurobasket 2013 champion, third in the 2010 World Cup (top scorer of the tournament) and also bronze in Eurobasket 2003, 2005 and 2009, as well as runner-up in Eurobasket 2007 where she was the MVP of the tournament.
She won the Euroleague in 1993 with Dorna Godella, was the champion of the Spanish league eight times, won the Queen’s Cup nine times and was also the champion of Russian basketball. He retired in 2013, after the Eurobasket final.
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How does the process work to get into the Basketball Hall of Fame?
He international candidate process for the Hall of Fame It is different from that of the North American committee with which Manu Ginobili or Pau Gasol recently entered.
He international committee he has his responsibility nominate different players each year and choose one to enter annuallywith direct selection process in which no other committees intervene and no different rounds of voting take place.
For this reason, Garbajosa, Navarro and Valdemoro share the nomination other FIBA legends several decades agolike Mirza Delibasic, Andrew Gaze or José Piculin Ortiz.
