Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was among nine men and two women nominated for the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Former Boston player Tom "Satch" Sanders was also nominated along with Arnie Risen, who played on championship teams with Rochester and Boston; Vern Mikkelsen, one of NBA's first power forwards with Minneapolis in the 1950s; and Kresimir Cosic, a former Yugoslavian star who played collegiately at Brigham Young University. Cosic was nominated by the International Committee.Gene Shue was nominated as coach along with John Kundla, who coached Minneapolis to six titles, and Alexsandr Gomelsky, who led the Soviet Union to the 1988 Olympic title. Anne Donovan and Cheryl Miller were proposed by the Women's Committee and the late Earl Strom was nominated as a referee.