So, Kobe will be a posthumous inductee into the Basketball HOF later this year. https://bleacherreport.com/articles...om&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_medium=referral I had forgotten that this was going to be his year, along with Duncan and KG.
Not that it's important in the grand scheme, but this sucks for Duncan and KG. They were all time greats as well and their HOF induction is basically gonna be reduced to a side note in all of the coverage outside of San Antonio and Minnesota.
He might get more coverage in Boston, but with his limited time there and the Laker/Celtic dynamic in play I don't see him outshining Kobe's death.
Nobody wants to outshine the tragedy of a decade in the NBA. The Boston/LA rivalry is what makes this interesting. Get your sentiment, KG and Duncan and Kobe would have been more joyous if he was alive.
That's draft class. Barkey was 2006 HOF, Olajuwon in 2007, Jordan in 2009. HOF by class: https://www.nba.com/history/hall-of-fame-inductees (Just wow... NBA has kinda low standards). 2015 Dick Bavetta, Referee John Calipari, Coach Louie Dampier, Player Lindsay Gaze, Coach Tom Heinsohn, Coach John Isaacs, Player Lisa Leslie, Player Dikembe Mutombo, Player George Raveling, Contributor Jo Jo White, Player
Is it the NBA hall of fame, or just basketball hall of fame? I thought the later... which in part contributes to the lower standards relative to looking at it on an "NBA-level" I think it would be neat to have a super-elite NBA player only sub-section that was baseball-esque in its difficulty to get in, but won't happen.
