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Sixers legend Dwight Howard part of 2025 Basketball Hall of Fame class

If there’s one thing this blog knows how to do, it’s relitigate the 2021 Eastern Conference semi-finals.

The 2025 Basketball Hall of Fame class has been finalized — and with it one tenuous connection to the Sixers.

Dwight Howard, who spent one season in Philadelphia as Joel Embiid’s backup at the tail end of his career, will be named to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Carmelo Anthony, Sue Bird, Maya Moore, Sylvia Fowles, Billy Donovan, Danny Crawford, Micky Arison and the 2008 U.S. Olympics men’s team will be inducted with him this year.

Howard was obviously in a much different place in his career by the time he was a Sixer.