The trio of Maya Moore, Sylvia Fowles and Sue Bird will be the most dominant class of women’s basketball players to ever enter the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame when they are enshrined this weekend.

Count them up: 11 Olympic gold medals and 10 WNBA championships.

“I think that would be fair to say that they would have the title of best class ever,” Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve said. “They are each Hall of Famers and are terrific in their own right to the extent they impacted their sport.”

Their 11 Olympic gold medals are more than any other group ever to enter the Hall of Fame. They teamed up to help the U.S. win the 2012 and 2016 Games, with Bird also winning golds in 2004, 2008 and 2020. Fowles played with Bird on the 2008 and 2020 teams.

“Put us on a 3x3 team, you’d have

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