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Two of the biggest players have ever worked on the field with the Minnesota Lynx and in the WNBA are officially the temple of renown.
On Saturday, the temple of renowned Basketball Naismith announced the nine inducted that will enter the temple of fame as a class of 2025, with Lynx Legends Maya Moore and Sylvia Fowles included on this list.
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Moore and Fowles join the colleague Wnba Great Sue Bird as three enthroned women, joining six other inducted enthusiasts who will officially enter the room during the entrance festivities from September 5 to 6 in San Antonio, Texas. The duo also joins the other great lynx seimone Augustus (2024), Lindsay Whalen (2022), Katie Smith (2018) and Teresa Edwards (2011) in the renowned temple to already get the temple of female basketball renowned.
As a duo, Moore and Fowles played together for four seasons, winning two WNBA championships while making three trips to the WNBA final on one of the biggest teams in the history of the WNBA to play together.
Los Angeles Sparks against Minnesota Lynx
Moore broke into the WNBA in 2011 as a first choice in total after a university career decorated in Uconn, taking the Assault League from the start with the Lynx. Moore helped make Minnesota to four WNBA titles on seven seasons before moving away from the match after the 2018 season to focus on the reform of criminal justice.
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Moore was appointed recruit of the year, MVP WNBA and MVP from the WNBA final once each, winning six stars selections and being appointed first all-WNBA team five times, All-WNBA twice the second defensive team of the WNBA twice. She also won two Olympic gold medals and two gold medals from the FIBA World Cup with the United States team.
In 2024, Moore retired her jersey at the Target Center, putting her in the rafters as the final addition to the dynasty starting five which will be one of the best in the history of the WNBA.
“It is more than my mind cannot grasp,” said Moore on ESPN about his enthronement to the renowned temple. “Using our career, we just tried to be the best teammates we can, enjoy the game and enjoy each other. And then you raised and you are going “Oh, it’s time to enter the room”. It’s just such a humiliating thing because it makes you feel the thickness of the family in basketball. “”
WNBA G5 finals – Los Angeles Sparks V Minnesota Lynx
Fowles began his professional career in 2008 with the Chicago Sky, playing seven seasons there before joining the Minnesota Lynx in 2015 via a profession, withdrawn later as a lynx after the 2022 season.
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During his career at the renowned temple, Sweet Syl was eight times more Olympic gold medalist, a quadruple defensive player of the year, double WNBA champion, double MVP finals and a WNBA MVP, while ending her career as the first rebounder of the League.
In 2023, Fowles retired her jersey to join the grown -ups with whom she shared the court during the dominant races of Minnesota with four titles: Whalen, Rebekkah Brunson, Augustus and Moore.
“I do not think that one of us has entered this thought that we would be at the temple of fame,” said Fowles on ESPN. “You just do your job, you go there and have fun and enjoy the business. When everything is said and done, the work is over. And we are there. “
For these two legendary talents on the ground, they had an even stronger impact in the community and being involved in many things out of the field – perhaps an even more impressive achievement which is ignored with distinctions on the ground.
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Something we have all known for a long time is officially realized in 2025. Moore and Fowles are now Naismith Basketball Hall of Famers, putting two incredible players and human beings among the biggest list to have ever worked on the field or on the game.
