Southern California Basketball Hall of Fame

The Southern California Basketball Hall of Fame (SCBBHOF) honors legendary local basketball players & coaches while supporting youth playing through charity donations. The non-profit covers SoCal areas from Los Angeles to Orange County to San Diego, Inland Empire and to Santa Barbara.

2027 SoCal Basketball HOF Class Selected; Induction Banquet Set for August 22, 2027, at Odyssey Restaurantwith 2026 HOF Class Also Being Honored

Standout high school and college players and top prep and college coaches headline the 2027 class of the Southern California Basketball Hall of Fame (SCBBHOF). They will be honored on Sunday, August 22, 2027, at the Mission Hills Odyssey Restaurant overlooking Los Angeles along with the 2026 all-star induction class that was selected earlier.

Headlining 2027 honorees are former Los Angeles Lakers player and head coach Luke Walton, who starred in college at Arizona coming from San Diego. He becomes the second HOF son honored by the SCBBHOF with his father, the late Bill Walton, joining Marques and Kris Johnson. Other top players joining Luke Walton are former USC and Los Angeles ABA standout Mack Calvin, along with Stanford All-American and first round NBA draft pick Josh Childress. Another Stanford All-American and WNBA leader Olympia Scott (Richardson) is also part of the 2027 induction class. She is joined by two great women’s coaches Darlene May, the deceased HOF coach at Cal Poly Pomona and Harvard-Westlake California State Prep Champion Melissa Hearlihy.

Other HOF 2027 player inductees include California Mr. Basketball Darren Daye from Kennedy HS in Granada Hills, UCLA and the NBA, Bill Duffy, who starred at Damien HS and Santa Clara before becoming one of the top basketball sports agents, and Larry Hollyfield, who had the greatest six-year winning stretch in local basketball history winning California titles at Compton HS and Compton College, plus three NCAA’s at UCLA for John Wooden, while losing just two games.

Selected for Lifetime Service to Southern California basketball are Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame award winner and Los Angeles Lakers photographer Andrew Bernstein and 29-year professional, college and high school official Bill Spooner, who was a NBA referee for over 1500 games. He was one of the officials for the Kobe Bryant 81-point game.

The 2027 honorees join the 2026 SCBBHOF class of Doretha Conwell (Waitman), who was the two-time California Ms. Basketball for Locke HS, Willnett Crockett, who won titles at Narbonne HS and University of Connecticut and is currently the USC women’s basketball assistant coach, legendary Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame coach Denny Crum, who led Louisville to two NCAA titles and played/coached for John Wooden, Ocean View High School CIF championship coach Jim Harris, and former Cleveland HS All-City and Long Beach State standout Lucious Harris.

Also in the 2026 class are three-time UCLA Final Four coach Ben Howland, who was a solid local guard at Cerritos, Fairfax two-time LA City Player of the Year, and Arizona All-American Chris Mills, Cal-Berkeley NCAA championship player and coach of NCAA playoff teams at USC, UOP, and San Jose State, Stan Morrison, four-time Bishop Mongomery HS champion, UCLA All-American and WNBA Champion Noelle Quinn, and Crenshaw two-time LA City Player of the Year and Syracuse All-American Stephen Thompson. Completing the 2026 honorees are the winningest girls’ basketball coach in California history from Buena HS, Joe Vaughan, and Narbonne LA City Champion, UCLA Pac-10 Conference Post-Season MVP and WNBA first round draft pick Lisa Willis.

Grassroots legend and Pangos Basketball President Dinos Trigonis is the 2026 SCBBHOF Lifetime Service selection.

“We have a tremendous group of former Southern California basketball players and coaches to honor for 2026 and 2027, plus three people that are well deserved for their lifetime service to the sport,” said Jeff Davis, President of the SCBBHOF. “We are also very excited to be moving the August 22, 2027, banquet to the San Fernando Valley at the famous Odyssey Restaurant, which we think will be an excellent venue for such a special event.”

LISTING OF THE EIGHT SCBBHOF CLASSES:

2027 SCBBHOF HONOREES: Mack Calvin, Josh Childress, Darren Daye, Bill Duffy, Melissa Hearlihy, Larry Hollyfield, Darlene May, Olympia Scott, Luke Walton, Lifetime: Andrew Bernstein, Bill Spooner

2026 SCBBHOF HONOREES: Doreatha Conwell, Willnett Crockett, Denny Crum, Jim Harris, Lucious Harris, Ben Howland, Chris Mills, Stan Morrison, Noelle Quinn, Stephen Thompson, Joe Vaughan, Lisa Willis, Lifetime: Dinos Trigonis

2025 SCBBHOF HONOREES: John Block, Elden Campbell, Austin Croshere, Jasmine Dixon, Michelle Greco, Darrall Imhoff, Jason Kapono, Harvey Kitani, Mike LeDuc, Kim Maddox, Cherie Nelson, Jacque Vaughn, Lifetime: Violet Palmer

2024 SCBBHOF HONOREES: Jody Anton Wynn, Ed Azzam, Toby Bailey, Cedric Ceballos, Tyson Chandler, Toya DeCree Holiday, Tyus Edney, Jelani Gardner, Roy Hamilton, Alex Hannum, Brandon Jennings, Adam Keefe, Kevin Kiernan, Maylana Martin Douglas, Lifetime: Dana & David Pump

2023 SCBBHOF HONOREES: Terri Bamford, Bob Boyd, Rich Branning, Lou Cvijanovich, Sa’de Wiley-Gatewood, Kris Johnson, Bill Laimbeer, Greg Lee, Giuliana Mendiola, Willie Naulls, Dwayne Polee Sr., Jeanette Pohlen, Jerry Tarkanian, Freeman Williams, Lifetime: Rainer Wulf

2022 SCBBHOF HONOREES: Bill Armstrong, Stacey Augmon, Jay Bilas, Mitchell Butler, Michael Cooper, Keith Erickson, Nicole Erickson, David Greenwood, Ebony Hoffman, Andre Miller, Eugenia Miller Rycraw, Paul Pierce, Tayshaun Prince, Lorenzo Romar, Willie West, Jr., Candice Wiggins, Lifetime: Steve Fryer

2021 SCBBHOF HONOREES: Rick Adelman, Gilbert Arenas, Joe Caldwell, Baron Davis, Nancy Dunkle, Gail Goodrich, Dennis Johnson, Steve Kerr, Raymond Lewis, David Meyers, Reggie Miller, Harold Miner, Anita Ortega, Byron Scott, Linda K. Sharp, Reggie Theus, Tina Thompson, Sidney Wicks, John Williams, George Yardley. Lifetime: Eric Sondheimer

2020 SCBBHOF HONOREES: Jarron Collins, Jason Collins, Cynthia Cooper-Dyke, Jim Harrick, Casey Jacobsen, Marques Johnson, Lisa Leslie, Don MacLean, Gary McKnight, Ann Meyers Drysdale, Cheryl Miller, Tracy Murray, Pete Newell, Ed O’Bannon, Miles Simon, Kiki VanDeWeghe, Bill Walton, Paul Westphal, Jamaal Wilkes, Leon Wood. Lifetime: Frank Burlison

Great Coaches, Championship Women’s Players, LA City Standouts Headline 2026 SoCal Basketball HOF Class, Trigonis Selected for Lifetime Service Award

Great coaches Denny Crum, Jim Harris, Ben Howland, Stan Morrison, and Joe Vaughan headline the 2026 inductees for the Southern California Basketball Hall of Fame (SCBBHOF). Championship women’s players Doreatha Conwell-Waitman, Willnett Crockett, Noelle Quinn, and Lisa Willis are also going into the HOF. Los Angeles City standout players Lucious Harris, Chris Mills, and Stephen Thompson were also elected. Pangos/Full Court Press owner Dinos Trigonis, who has been involved in youth basketball for the past 25 years, was selected as the 2026 Lifetime Service Award recipient.

Crum, a graduate of San Fernando HS, won NCAA titles at Louisville in 1980 and 1986 after being John Wooden’s assistant coach from 1967-1971 and Pierce College Head Coach. Harris had a legendary high school career at Ocean View for 33 years with 19 league and two CIF titles. Howland coached UCLA to three straight Final Fours (2006-08) after twice taking Pittsburgh to the ‘Sweet 16’ and was an All-CIF player at Cerritos. After starting at Bellflower HS, Morrison won an NCAA title as a key player at Cal-Berkeley and had a long coaching career with NCAA playoff appearances at UOP, USC and San Jose State. Vaughan had an amazing girls’ basketball coaching career at Buena HS in Ventura, winning 761 games, two California state championships, six CIF-Southern Section titles and 27 Channel League crowns.

Conwell-Waitman was the two-time LA City Player of the Year at Locke HS and the #1 recruit in the country in her class. Crockett led Narbonne to back-to-back National Championships and won two NCAA titles at Connecticut. Quinn won four straight CIF titles at Bishop Montgomery, led UCLA to its only Pac-10 title, and won WNBA titles. Willis was selected as LA City Player of the Year at Narbonne HS winning City, State and National titles and was a first round WNBA draft selection.

Harris was a two-time All-City at Cleveland HS and Long Beach State’s all-time leading scorer, plus a 12-year career as an NBA player. Mills was City Champion at Fairfax, Pac-10 Player of the Year at Arizona, and had an NBA career. Thompson was two-time City Player of the Year, two-time State Champion and helped Syracuse to the 1987 NCAA finals.

Trigonis is involved in every aspect of grassroots basketball as the long-time President of Pangos Basketball and in charge of Full Court Press.

“We are very excited about the historic basketball accomplishments of our 2026 inductees and what they have meant to local Southern California basketball,” said Jeff Davis, President of the SCBBHOF. “We look forward to honoring them with our 2027 class in spring of 2027.”

2026 SOCAL BB HOF SELECTIONS (12/25)

Doreatha Conwell  Willnett Crockett  Denny Crum
Jim Harris  Lucious Harris  Ben Howland
Chris Mills  Stan Morrison  Noelle Quinn
Stephen Thompson  Joe Vaughan  Lisa Willis
Lifetime: Dinos Trigonis

2024, 25 Induction Class Group Picture

Complete List of Southern California Basketball Hall of Fame Members 2020-2025

2025 SCBBHOF HONOREES: John Block, Elden Campbell, Austin Croshere, Jasmine Dixon, Michelle Greco, Darrall Imhoff, Jason Kapono, Harvey Kitani, Mike LeDuc, Kim Maddox, Cherie Nelson, Jacque Vaughn. Lifetime: Violet Palmer

2024 SCBBHOF HONOREES: Jody Anton Wynn, Ed Azzam, Toby Bailey, Cedric Ceballos, Tyson Chandler, Toya DeCree Holiday, Tyus Edney, Jelani Gardner, Roy Hamilton, Alex Hannum, Brandon Jennings, Adam Keefe, Kevin Kiernan, Maylana Martin Douglas, Lifetime: Dana & David Pump

2023 SCBBHOF HONOREES: Terri Bamford, Bob Boyd, Rich Branning, Lou Cvijanovich, Sa’de Wiley-Gatewood, Kris Johnson, Bill Laimbeer, Greg Lee, Giuliana Mendiola, Willie Naulls, Dwayne Polee Sr., Jeanette Pohlen, Jerry Tarkanian, Freeman Williams, Lifetime: Rainer Wulf

2022 SCBBHOF HONOREES: Bill Armstrong, Stacey Augmon, Jay Bilas, Mitchell Butler, Michael Cooper, Keith Erickson, Nicole Erickson, David Greenwood, Ebony Hoffman, Andre Miller, Eugenia Miller Rycraw, Paul Pierce, Tayshaun Prince, Lorenzo Romar, Willie West, Jr., Candice Wiggins, Lifetime: Steve Fryer

2021 SCBBHOF HONOREES: Rick Adelman, Gilbert Arenas, Joe Caldwell, Baron Davis, Nancy Dunkle, Gail Goodrich, Dennis Johnson, Steve Kerr, Raymond Lewis, David Meyers, Reggie Miller, Harold Miner, Anita Ortega, Byron Scott, Linda K. Sharp, Reggie Theus, Tina Thompson, Sidney Wicks, John Williams, George Yardley. Lifetime: Eric Sondheimer

2020 SCBBHOF HONOREES: Jarron Collins, Jason Collins, Cynthia Cooper-Dyke, Jim Harrick, Casey Jacobsen, Marques Johnson, Lisa Leslie, Don MacLean, Gary McKnight, Ann Meyers Drysdale, Cheryl Miller, Tracy Murray, Pete Newell, Ed O’Bannon, Miles Simon, Kiki VanDeWeghe, Bill Walton, Paul Westphal, Jamaal Wilkes, Leon Wood. Lifetime: Frank Burlison

SoCal Basketball HOF Members in Naismith, WBHOF, and College BB HOF

Naismith Hall of Fame (est. 1959):
Cynthia Cooper (2010), Lisa Leslie (2015), Ann Meyers Drysdale (1993), Cheryl Miller (1995), Pete Newell (1979), Bill Walton (1993), Paul Westphal (2019), Jamaal Wilkes (2012), Rick Adelman (2021), Gail Goodrich (1996), Dennis Johnson (2010), Reggie Miller (2012), Tina Thompson (2018), George Yardley (1996), Paul Pierce (2021), Jerry Tarkanian (2013), Alex Hannum (1998), Darrall Imhoff (2011)

Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame (est. 1999):
Ann Meyers Drysdale (1999), Cheryl Miller (1999), Nancy Dunkle (2000), Linda K. Sharp (2001), Cynthia Cooper-Dyke (2009), Lisa Leslie (2015), Anita Ortega (2018), Tina Thompson (2018), Violet Palmer (2024)

College Basketball Hall of Fame (est. 2006):
Bill Walton (2006), George Yardley (2006), Gail Goodrich (2006), Sidney Wicks (2010), Marques Johnson (2013), Jamaal Wilkes (2016), Paul Westphal (2018), David Greenwood (2021), Paul Pierce (2021)