{"id":582511,"date":"2026-04-04T21:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582511\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:37:07","slug":"us-1996-olympic-squad-wnba-stars-head-hall-of-fame-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582511\/","title":{"rendered":"US 1996 Olympic squad, WNBA stars head Hall of Fame picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hall of Fame President John Doleva said the class of 2026, who will be formally enshrined in August, represent &#8220;the very best this sport has to offer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers, who guided the Boston Celtics to the 2008 NBA title, was also named on the list along with six-time All-Star Amar&#8217;e Stoudemire.<\/p>\n<p>Other inductees included college coach Mark Few, six-time WNBA All-Star Chamique Holdsclaw, former Houston Rockets coach Mike D&#8217;Antoni and referee Joey Crawford.<\/p>\n<p>Doleva said the group encompassed &#8220;coaches who built dynasties at every level&#8221; and &#8220;players who redefined their positions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 1996 Olympics gold-medal winning women&#8217;s team &#8220;helped launch an entire league,&#8221; he added, referring to the launch of the WNBA later that year.<\/p>\n<p>The US women finished the Atlanta Games with a perfect 8-0 record with an average margin of victory of more than 30 points.<\/p>\n<p>Parker gains entry to the Hall after a glittering career that includes three WNBA championships and back-to-back Olympic gold medals in 2008 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Parker is the only player in WNBA history to win win Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Players honors in the same season (2008).<\/p>\n<p class=\"t-copyright\">\u00a9 2026 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hall of Fame President John Doleva said the class of 2026, who will be formally enshrined in August,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-582511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582511","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=582511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}