On Saturday, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame selected three of the greatest players in women’s basketball history as part of a star-studded 2025 class.
Having both retired after the 2022 season, Sue Bird and Sylvia Fowles assumed they were headed into the Hall together as soon as they were eligible. (In December, the Hall announced a reduction in the waiting period from three full seasons after retirement to two.)
They were joined by Moore, who last played in the WNBA in 2018 before stepping away from the league to work on social justice issues and help overturn the wrongful conviction of her future husband, Jonathan Irons. After initially keeping the door open to a return, Moore officially announced her retirement in January 2023.
The timing means that three of the top 10 players in ESPN’s ranking of the WNBA’s greatest contributors during its 25th anniversary in 2021 will enter the Hall of Fame together (the class will be officially enshrined on Sept. 6). Let’s take a look at what made Bird and Fowles — who had their numbers retired by the Seattle Storm and Minnesota Lynx, respectively, on…
