{"id":696885,"date":"2026-04-04T00:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/696885\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T00:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:35:18","slug":"report-former-suns-coach-mike-dantoni-to-be-inducted-into-basketball-hof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/696885\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Former Suns coach Mike D&#8217;Antoni to be inducted into Basketball HOF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Phoenix Suns head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Gambo987\/status\/2040209158562275701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mike D\u2019Antoni<\/a> will be heading into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/naismith-basketball-hall-of-fame-announces-2026-finalists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the star-studded class of 2026<\/a>, according to Arizona Sports\u2019\u00a0John Gambadoro.<\/p>\n<p>He led the Suns from 2002 to 2008, taking home NBA Coach of the Year honors for his work in the 2004-05 season with Phoenix posting a 62-20 regular-season record and losing in the Western Conference Finals to the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>D\u2019Antoni finished his five seasons with the Suns with a 253-156 record (65% winning percentage). Phoenix qualified for the postseason in all four of his seasons that he was the lone head coach, as he split duties with Frank Johnson in 2002-03.<\/p>\n<p>Known for his \u201c7 Seconds or Less\u201d offense, D\u2019Antoni played a pivotal role in setting the standard of up-tempo basketball.<\/p>\n<p>He will join a class that includes <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nba\/phoenix-suns\/amare-stoudemire-hof\/3616342\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">former Suns center Amar\u2019e Stoudemire<\/a>, Candance Parker, Elena Delle Donne and Doc Rivers.<\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old from Mullens, West Virginia was also the head coach for the Denver Nuggets (1997-99), New York Knicks (2008-2012), Los Angeles Lakers (2012-14) and Houston Rockets (2016-2020).<\/p>\n<p>The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame class of 2026 will be officially announced Saturday ahead of the men\u2019s Final Four in Indianapolis, where the No. 1 Arizona Wildcats will take on No. 1 Michigan and No. 2 UConn will face No. 3 Illinois.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pwmoses11\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @pwmoses11<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Phoenix Suns head coach Mike D\u2019Antoni will be heading into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame alongside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,6,2065,472,4045,604],"class_list":{"0":"post-696885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-phoenix","11":"tag-phoenix-suns","12":"tag-phoenixsuns","13":"tag-suns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116343638094608414","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}