LINDSAY GAZE

Lindsay Gaze is a true icon of basketball as a player, coach, and administrator. He represented Australia as an athlete at the 1960 Rome Olympics, 1964 Tokyo Olympics and 1968 Mexico City Olympics.  He went to a further four Olympic Games as a coach of the men’s basketball team in Munich 1972, Montreal 1976, Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984. In 2015 Lindsay Gaze became the first Australian to be inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame.

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is named after James Naismith who invented the sport of basketball back in December 1891 and the Hall of Fame is located in the very town the sport was first played in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Gaze, who was also admitted into the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2010, is the first Australian recognised by the Naismith Hall of Fame and just the 10^th coach inducted who was born outside of the United States.