{"id":857245,"date":"2026-08-16T11:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/857245\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T11:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:40:08","slug":"edd-and-holdsclaw-inducted-to-the-naismith-basketball-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/857245\/","title":{"rendered":"EDD and Holdsclaw inducted to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Former Washington Mystics franchise players Elena Delle Donne and Chamique Holdsclaw were inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame yesterday. It was also a big day considering the fact that the Mystics\u2019 two biggest superstars were inducted on the same day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Delle Donne was presented by former Mystics assistant coach (during Delle Donne\u2019s time) Marianne Stanley and longtime Chicago Sky star Sylvia Fowles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Delle Donne won two WNBA Most Valuable Player Awards: first in 2015 for the Chicago Sky and 2019 for the Mystics. She was also an instrumental part for the Mystics\u2019 championship in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">You can watch Delle Donne\u2019s speech below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Holdsclaw was presented by Tina Thompson, Tamika Catchings and Teresa Weatherspoon. Holdsclaw was the Mystics\u2019 first franchise player since she was drafted No. 1 overall in 1999. She played for Washington from 1999-2004 and was part of the Mystics\u2019 first team that made the Eastern Conference Finals in 2002. You can watch her speech below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Congratulations to Delle Donne and Holdsclaw!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Washington Mystics franchise players Elena Delle Donne and Chamique Holdsclaw were inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,1347,85,10730],"class_list":["post-857245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-latest-news","tag-sports","tag-washington-mystics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}