After weeks of international clashes at EuroBasket 2025, the German national team came out on top, winning the whole shebang just two years after winning the World Cup.

In what was a truly exciting tournament, with a plethora of surprises along the way, Franz Wagner, Dennis Schröder and a group of players embracing their roles ultimately stood victorious, leaving us with one major question.

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Is Dennis Schröder a Hall of Famer?

Okay, settle down. This isn’t as crazy an idea as it sounds, at least for a few reasons. The primary one being that the Hall isn’t NBA exclusive. It’s a worldwide Basketball Hall of Fame, and with Schröder having now won MVP and gold medals at both the World Cup and EuroBasket, it’s getting difficult to argue against him.

The 32-year-old also does have NBA success to help his case, as he’s approaching 12,000 career points and 900 games. Those two parameters would never get him in the door alone, but combined with the international success, he’s working on making a serious argument for himself.

The very idea that Schröder could be in line for a Hall of Fame spot further underlines how the international game has its own set of legs to stand on, and that’s frankly fair all things considered. It’s a solid reminder that the NBA isn’t the be-all, end-all of global basketball, and that success comes in many different shapes and sizes.

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Will Schröder make the Hall? It’s tough to say. The 32-year-old guard is presumably going to play another 3-4 years, and if Germany doesn’t win another championship during his tenure, perhaps the memory of him will simply wither away within the context of the Hall of Fame.

Let’s hope not, because what he’s managed to achieve these past two years has been extremely noteworthy.

Early lookahead to the 2028 Olympics

Both Nikola Jokić (Serbia) and Luka Dončić (Slovenia) failed to medal at EuroBasket. Nikola Vučević (Montenegro) didn’t even make it to the final phase.

This is a reminder for the 2028 Olympics. For all the international star talent out there, players are spread out on far too many national teams. That, in many ways, could be the saving grace for the United States, as it can present a level of depth no other nation can. At least not yet.

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If Dončić and Jokić were both playing for the same country, that would make for a genuinely interesting case study. As it currently stands, France might be the closest thing to a real threat, as it seems to produce numerous NBA players every single year, the best of which (Victor Wembanyama) might be an MVP candidate this season.

If France can somehow keep producing elite talents, things could get spicy in three years. That said, for now, the Americans still have a leg up.

Of course, there is a small matter of the 2027 FIBA World Cup, an event NBA stars seem more than fine ignoring. Will we see the same pattern as always, where the U.S. sends its D-squad to the Cup and gets beaten only for Team USA to call up the best of the best for the Olympics?

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It’s getting slightly tiring and a little ridiculous, but if that’s the FIBA script, what are you doing to do?

The 2027 World Cup does represent a good chance for several nations to see where they stand for 2028, and the back-to-back summer events will only make international hoops all the more interesting.