Mark Few’s Hall of Fame weekend will come with a few familiar faces.
The Gonzaga coach is set to be enshrined next month with the 2026 class of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, and on Wednesday the Hall revealed the former inductees who will present each member of the class. Few will be introduced by John Stockton, John Calipari and Grant Hill.
Few reached the Hall in his second year on the ballot, joining a class that also includes Doc Rivers, Amar'e Stoudemire, Candace Parker, Elene Della Donne and Joey Crawford, among others. He now stands among the active head coaches already in the Hall, alongside St. John's Rick Pitino, Michigan State's Tom Izzo and Kansas' Bill Self.
Stockton is the lone other Gonzaga inductee, and while he and Few never overlapped in Spokane, they’re tied to the same basketball community. Stockton played at Gonzaga from 1980-1984 and put up 20.9 points, 7.2 assists and 3.9 steals as a senior before the Utah Jazz took him No. 16 overall in the NBA draft.
His NBA résumé speaks for itself: 19 seasons in Salt Lake City, 10 All-Star selections, 11 All-NBA honors and the league’s all-time records for assists and steals. Stockton was named one of the 50 greatest NBA players in 1997 while still active, then landed on the 75th anniversary team in 2022. His son, David Stockton, later played for Few from 2010-2014, averaging 4.8 points and 3.1 assists in 138 games before beginning a lengthy pro career.
Calipari was the other obvious fit. He and Few have met six times, with Calipari winning the first four while at Memphis and Few taking the last two against him at Kentucky.
Their connection goes back to the days when Memphis was one of the few strong programs willing to schedule Gonzaga. The six-year series between Gonzaga and Kentucky included those two Gonzaga wins, one at the Spokane Arena and one at Rupp Arena, and the schools are scheduled to meet again this October in an exhibition game at Bud Walton Arena, with Gonzaga reportedly headed to Arkansas.
Hill’s link to Few is more recent, but no less significant. The two never crossed paths at Duke or during Hill’s NBA career, which ended in 2013, but Hill later became the managing director for the USA men's basketball national team from 2021-2024. In that role, he helped hire Few as an assistant coach with Erik Spoelstra and Tyronn Lue under Steve Kerr for the 2024 Winter Olympics.
Few helped guide Team USA, with LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry and Anthony Davis, to a gold medal. Hill also came to Spokane in February of 2025 to present Few with his Olympic ring.
The Hall’s two-day enshrinement ceremony begins August 14 at Mohegan Sun arena in Connecticut.
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