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Geno Auriemma discusses legacy of Sue Bird as jersey retired by UConn<\/p>\n

Geno Auriemma reflects on the career and legacy of Sue Bird as UConn honors her by sending her jersey to the rafters.<\/p>\n

Sports Pulse<\/p>\n

Basketball legend Sue Bird<\/a> will be part of the FIBA Hall of Fame Class of 2026<\/a>, it was announced Sunday.<\/p>\n

Bird, whose basketball career spanned more than two decades, helped Team USA earn four FIBA Women’s World Cup titles and five consecutive Olympic gold medals. In the WNBA, she and the Seattle Storm won four championships in 2004, 2010, 2018 and 2020. In 2025, she was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame<\/a>, Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame and had her number 10 retired at UConn<\/a>. She had also been named the first managing director of the Team USA Basketball Women\u2019s National Team.<\/p>\n

Six players and one coach will join the class of 2026, who will be enshrined on April 21, 2026, in Berlin, Germany. The list of honorees includes NBA legend Dirk Nowitzki, C\u00e9line Dumerc, Hedo T\u00fcrko\u011flu, Clarisse Machanguana, Wang Zhizhi, Ismenia Pauchard and coach Ludwik Mi\u0119tta-Miko\u0142ajewicz.<\/p>\n

Previous FIBA Hall of Fame classes2025: Dawn Staley, Mike Krzyzewski, Alphonse Bil\u00e9, Andrew Bogut, Leonor Borrell, Pau Gasol, Fadi El Khatib, Ticha Penicheiro, Ratko Radovanovic2024: Miao Lijie, Reggie Miller, Danira Nakic-Bilic, Kirk Samula Penney, Romain Sato, Skaidrite Smildzina-Budovska, Pedja Stojakovic, Dan Peterson2023: Alessandro “Sandro” Gamba, Val\u00e9rie Garnier, Sony Hendrawan, Carlos “Caloy” Loyzaga, Wlamir Marques, Katrina McClain, Yao Ming, Yuko Oga, Zurab Sakandelidze, Penny Taylor, Amaya Valdemoro, Angelo Victoriano2022: Geno Auriemma, Antonio Carlos Barbosa, Lisa Leslie, Robyn Maher, Mame Maty Mbengue, Maria Planas, Catarina Pollini, Jurgita Streimikyte-Virbickiene, Milan Ciga Vasojevic2021: Chuck Daly, Mathiei Faye, Panagiotis Giannakis, Zheng Haixia, Hana Hor\u00e1kov\u00e1, Stanislav Kropil\u00e1k, Tom Maher, Ettore Messina, Oscar Moglia, Detlef Schrempf, Penka Stoyanova, Sergey Tarakanov2020: Isabelle Fijalkowski, Mieczys\u0142aw \u0141opatka, Ruben Magnano, Steve Nash, \u00c1gnes N\u00e9meth, Shin-Ja Park, Modestas Paulauskas, Svetislav Pesic, Kenichi Sako, Tara Vanderveer, Alexander Volkov, Jure Zdovc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geno Auriemma discusses legacy of Sue Bird as jersey retired by UConn Geno Auriemma reflects on the career…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[461,8176,49,48,3286,4785,10881,13293,13292,10878,77,3294,47,2349,459,2034,44,2177,1333,2042,1345,1334,7675,1611,82,865,1440,134601,38379,630,4134,155318,4143],"class_list":["post-360866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-bird","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-competitions","tag-connecticut","tag-connecticut-huskies-womens-basketball","tag-fame","tag-hall","tag-huskies","tag-international","tag-international-sports-competitions","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-nba","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-of","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-overall-positive","tag-positive","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-storm","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-storm","tag-sue","tag-sue-bird","tag-wnba","tag-womens","tag-womens-basketball-hall-of-fame","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}