SLAM takes on the Hall of Fame

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• Ken Posted: Oct.31 at 12:49 pm
  1st

• Ken Posted: Oct.31 at 12:51 pm
  Seriously, the NBA needs its own NBA hall of fame. Some of the omissions are ridiculous, considering how many women’s basketball coaches from croatia get in. Oh, and Bernard King needs some love.

• Myles Brown Posted: Oct.31 at 12:54 pm
  Bill Benner does not look like a SLAM reader. Just goes to show you…

• white hot eboy Posted: Oct.31 at 12:55 pm
  The Takeover continues.

• Jared Posted: Oct.31 at 12:57 pm
  that’s another fat shout

• RedRum Posted: Oct.31 at 1:32 pm
  Ok.. I know that there are NBA players that are not in it, but Nick Galis (google him) should have been there ages ago

• Tarzan Cooper Posted: Oct.31 at 2:06 pm
  bernard king

• Russ Bengtson Posted: Oct.31 at 2:06 pm
  They should just move the Hall of Fame to Romania already.

• Drolfe Posted: Oct.31 at 2:16 pm
  Andrew Gaze for the hall! WOOOOOO! Australia!

• Drolfe Posted: Oct.31 at 2:16 pm
  *tumble weed rolls by*

• Russ Bengtson Posted: Oct.31 at 2:29 pm
  I hear there’s a women’s high school coach from Mozambique who retired with a 786-784 record that isn’t in yet. TRAVESTY!

• Drolfe Posted: Oct.31 at 2:31 pm
  Politics, man.

• Myung Posted: Oct.31 at 3:41 pm
  I thought the article in the magazine was great. I wonder, though, if a lot of SLAM readers have actualy been to the HOF or at least seen the list of current inductees. My good friend and I made the voyage to Springfield earlier this year (it was our “Mecca”), and I was shocked at some of the people in the Hall. If you look at the inductees prior to 1970, we’re talking about some seriously questionable picks, BUT that’s by today’s standards. There are guys in the Hall who played 4 years of college basketball and put up numbers that pale in comparison to someone like, say, Josh Howard (a 4 year college player). They did NOTHING else, numbers wise…yet they’re in the Hall. Why? Who knows. Maybe standards were lower, back in the 50′s and 60′s? Maybe they made significant contributions to the game? It’s hard to measure something intangible like “contributions to the game” (because it’s so subjective, just like the voting process)…

• Myung Posted: Oct.31 at 3:46 pm
  I guess what I’m saying is, having your photo hanging on that wall in Springfield is pretty much the ultimate goal of any basketball player… but as Ken wrote in the 2nd comment of this post, the NBA should perhaps have its own HOF. That might mitigate some of the issues of overlooking deserving NBA players. In addition, like Drolfe said above me, it IS politics. All of this stuff is. MVP voting. The 50 Greatest List (back in 1997, when Nique got left off). HOF voting. It’s all politics. Besides, as long as these cats are in the SLAM HOF, then that’s all that matters anyway, right? =) (Except they’d have to be situated next to Qyntel Woods, Dajuan Wagner, and Darius Miles.

• Captain America Posted: Oct.31 at 4:37 pm
  All former T’wolve centers.

• Escott Ingles Posted: Oct.31 at 6:04 pm
  Isaiah Rider and Richard Dumas. I like to bring those names about in HoF talk. They’re good guys.