{"id":699898,"date":"2026-04-05T17:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/699898\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:07:18","slug":"former-lakers-knicks-rockets-suns-head-coach-elected-to-basketball-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/699898\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Lakers, Knicks, Rockets, Suns head coach elected to Basketball Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A familiar face for many NBA franchises has been elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mike D&#8217;Antoni has been officially elected to the Hall as a member of the class of 2026. He&#8217;ll be\u00a0inducted as a contributor.<\/p>\n<p>Mike D&#8217;Antoni elected to Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>D&#8217;Antoni began his NBA coaching career in the 1990s as an assistant with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/denver-nuggets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> before becoming the team&#8217;s head coach. He would also go on to serve as a head coach for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/phoenix-suns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/new-york-knicks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/houston-rockets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Rockets<\/a>. He also served as an assistant coach with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/portland-trail-blazers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/philadelphia-76ers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/brooklyn-nets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was a two-time NBA Coach of the Year award winner and he&#8217;s in the top 25 for most regular season and playoff wins as a coach in league history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/naismith-basketball-hall-of-fame-announces-2026-inductees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">official release<\/a> from the NBA:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An important figure in the evolution of modern basketball, D\u2019Antoni influenced the game through innovation via his up-tempo, space-and-pace philosophy that helped redefine offensive strategy, emphasizing ball movement, shooting and efficiency, and shaping the analytics-driven era of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>D\u2019Antoni\u2019s impact spans continents, having coached professionally in Italy for eight seasons before bringing his ideas to the NBA, where he amassed nearly 1,200 career wins. He was named NBA Coach of the Year twice (2005, \u201817), served as an assistant coach for the gold medal-winning 2012 U.S. Olympic Team, and was recognized as one of the 50 Greatest Contributors in EuroLeague history in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Other 2026 inductees include\u00a0Joey Crawford (referee), Mark Few, Doc Rivers, Amar\u2019e Stoudemire, Elena Delle Donne, Chamique Holdsclaw and Candace Parker, among others.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The official enshrinement will occur in Springfield, Mass over the weekend of Aug. 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A familiar face for many NBA franchises has been elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.\u00a0 Mike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,6,2065,472,4045,604],"class_list":{"0":"post-699898","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699898","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=699898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}