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FIBA took the lead by revealing the 2020 winners for the COVID-19 pandemic, but ultimately announced twelve selected basketball celebrities on Tuesday.
All twelve will be honored during a remote FIBA Hall of Fame ceremony on June 18, when the 2021 winners will also be congratulated.
Among the legends of 2020 is Modestas Paulauskas.
The forward who played for Kaunas “Žalgiris” in 1962-1976 is considered one of the best Lithuanian basketball players of all time.
Eriko Ovcharenko / 15min nuotr./Modestas Paulauskas
M.Paulauskas won Olympic gold (1972), two world champion titles (1967 and 1974) and four gold medals in European championships (1965, 1967, 1969, 1971) with the USSR team of that time. In 1965, he was chosen as the most useful European basketball player.
Now 76-year-old M.Paulauskas has joined the squad with stars from other times.
Steve Nash is one of Canada’s most prominent athletes, having played for the NBA for nearly two decades and becoming the league’s most profitable player twice in 2005 and 2006.
AFP / „Scanpix“ nuotr./Steve’as Nashas
Svetislav Pesičius was recognized as a coach who was successful not only with the clubs, but also with the national teams: with Germany he won the gold of the European Championship in 1993 and with the team of the then Yugoslavia in 2001. European and 2002 gold of the world Championship.
Getty Images / Euroleague.net nuotr./Svetislavas Pešičius
Alexander Volkov is a Ukrainian legend who played for the USSR and helped win in 1985. European Priorities and the 1988 Olympic gold. The forward was one of the first Europeans to enter the NBA, playing for the Atlanta Hawks from 1989 to 1992.
Erik Ovcharenko / 15min photo / Arvydas Sabonis and Aleksandras Volkovas
Olympic vice-champion Jure Zdovc of Slovenia, Mieczyslaw Lopatka of Poland, the most productive European champion of 1967, Kenichi Sako, nine times champion of the Japanese league, European champion of women’s basketball, has played 204 games in the European women’s league in the national team French. the Hungarian Agnes Nemeth, winner of bronze, and the vice-world champion, the Korean Park Shin-ja.
Tara VanDerveer, coach of the 1996 Olympic gold medal, and Ruben Magnano, coach of the 2004 Olympic champions, Argentine basketball players, are also inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame among the 2020 winners.
FIBA promises to announce the 2021 winners on April 1.
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