Legends.
Former Sixers great Allen Iverson and New Jersey native and former dominant big man Shaquille O'Neal got the call to the Hall on Monday. The pair will be joined by Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo, former Rockets center Yao Ming, women's basketball star Sheryl Swoopes and Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf in the Naismith Hall of Fame in July.
That group will be joined by four posthumous inductees.
2016 Basketball Hall of Fame posthumous inductees: Zelmo Beaty, Darell Garretson, John McClendon, Cumberland Posey.
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Iverson, after a brief career with Georgetown in the Big East, made his mark as an undersized guard for an overachieving Philadelphia 76ers franchise.