CANADIAN BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

TAMMY SUTTON-BROWN (ATHLETE)

From a hall-of-fame career at Rutgers to a 12-year career in the WNBA, Tammy Sutton-Brown left an impact on the game at all levels. As a member of Canada’s national team program, she led the country at several FIBA international tournaments, including the 2000 Olympics. Selected with the 18th overall pick (2nd round, 2nd pick) by the Charlotte Sting in 2001, Sutton-Brown would go on to play 388 games throughout her 12-year WNBA career (most seasons ever by a Canadian) and was a two-time WNBA All-Star, becoming the first Canadian woman to achieve the honour and one of only three Canadians ever to be selected. In 2012 as a member of the Indiana Fever, she became the only Canadian ever to win a WNBA title in her final season with the team. Sutton-Brown also enjoyed a lengthy professional career overseas in South Korea, Russia, and Turkey, where she was a fivetime Turkish National League champion (2007–2011), three-time Turkish Cup winner (2007–2009), and two-time Turkish President Cup winner (2007, 2010). Currently, she is Associate, Basketball & Franchise Operations with Raptors 905, NBA G League affiliate of the Toronto Raptors.

GREG WILTJER (ATHLETE)

A standout with Canada’s Senior Men’s National Team, Greg Wiltjer represented Canada at several international tournaments, including three FIBA World Championships in 1982, 1986 and 1994. He also was a member of the Canadian National Team that competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics, where he finished second in rebounding. After a season at Oregon State University, Wiltjer transferred to the University of Victoria, where he’d help lead the Vikes to a Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union men’s basketball title in 1984. Wiltjer was selected in the second round (19th pick, 43rd overall) of the 1984 NBA Draft by the Chicago Bulls. He played eight seasons in Europe, where he captured the FIBA European Cup Winners’ Cup during the 1985-86 season as part of the Spanish Club FC Barcelona. With Greek Club Aris Thessaloniki, he won two Greek League championships in 1988 and 1989 and a pair of Greek Cups in the same years.