Dennis Schröder has never won an end-of-season award in the NBA. He has never made an All-Star team. But he is somehow on a path to the Hall of Fame.

When most basketball fans picture the resumé of a future Hall of Fame player currently in the league, Schröder is almost certainly not one of the first names to come to mind. In fact, per Basketball-Reference, he is not even one of the most likely 100 active candidates based on what he has accomplished in the NBA.

However, the Hall of Fame for basketball does not work exactly like it does in other major American sports. To earn a permanent spot enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, body of work from international play is considered as well.

Schröder led Germany to win a gold medal at EuroBasket 2025 on Sunday.

He was named MVP and made the FIBA EuroBasket All-Tournament Team.

This comes after Schröder won a gold medal and MVP at the FIBA World Cup in 2023.

The guard was also named to the FIBA Summer Olympics All-Star Five in 2024 and made the FIBA EuroBasket All-Tournament Team in 2022.

As noted by ESPN’s Tim Bontemps, there are only six players who have won MVP during the FIBA World Cup and EuroBasket.

All six (Sergei Belov, Dražen Dalipagić, Dražen Petrović, Toni Kukoč, Dirk Nowitzki, and Pau Gasol) are enshrined in Springfield.

Nowitzki and Gasol were effectively locks based on their NBA careers, too, but the others were all bolstered by their international performances. Schröder knows he is hardly Giannis Antetokounmpo in the NBA, but for FIBA, they are far more comparable when they represent their flags.

Dennis Schroder: “Me and Giannis we do exactly the same thing for Greece and Germany. On the NBA he is on another level, one of the best players in the world. Nothing but respect for him”. pic.twitter.com/Uw0B5dSrWN

— Vasiliki Karamouza (@karamouza_vas) September 14, 2025

Three years after Schröder retires, whenever that may be as he is still just 32 years old, the German guard will become eligible for enshrinement.

If he receives five votes from the seven members of the International Screening Committee, he will advance to the Honors Committee. Should he receive at least 75 percent of all votes cast, he will get inducted to the Hall of Fame.

Even though 13.9 points and 4.9 assists per game in the NBA hardly seems like a Hall of Fame candidate at first blush, the strength of what he has done during international play should secure his eventual candidacy.