Is Robert Horry HOF worthy?

[DeepUnderMeds]

Originally Posted by GhostofVDC

The Basketball hall of fame does tend to award guys on championship teams more than other leagues and it is the easiest one to get into respectively. Compare that to Football where I could create probably an entire teams worth of players I feel are more than hall of fame worthy. A lot of that probably has to do with the much smaller teams than the other sports. If you're electing about the same number of players from a league that each team has five starters and maybe eight or nine players contributing regularly as a league where you have 24 starters and a 53 man roster, the first group is going to be a little more watered down. Charles Haley would be in the NBA hall of fame while he's not even a consideration for the NFL hall of fame if that makes any sense.

That might also has something to do with the numbers of players in the league.
NBA is by far has the smallest rosters compare to the other sports.
When you have a huge field of players to pick that it will end up just to base on numbers. In contrast, it is harder to make to NBA than other sports since players have the longest longevity (avg. 8.5 years or so?) and NFL have the shortest (3.5 years or so). Each year that there's about 1,700 players to play in NFL and in period of a decade that number will likely be around 5,500 players. In NBA, it is about 450 players and it will still be less than 1,000 players in period of a decade.
Let's put in this way, who else from NBA should be in HOF but did not get in?

[GhostofVDC]

Yeah, I believe I said all of that pretty much.

[DeepUnderMeds]

Originally Posted by GhostofVDC

Yeah, I believe I said all of that pretty much.

Ok, just to be sure.....

[Valiant]

AVERAGE guy fortunate to be on the right teams at the right times. Yes, he's hit some big shots, but so have a lot of other role players. You think Steve Kerr or John Paxton deserve to be in there? Only way those 2 make it are if they eventually become kick ass front office people.

You could argue that if he was better than he was, his teams would have been comfortable beating down the other team and not needing a ROLE PLAYER to hit some lucky last second shot in the first place.

Hell, I say scratch 2 rings off of there because if MJ didn't retire when he FIRST did, he'd have 8 rings and Hakeem would have been Patrick Ewing + with no rings.

I say a big fat NO! If he gets in then that will open the door for EVERY dude who played with Russel etc...

[GhostofVDC]

Pretty much every dude who played with Russell is in the hall of fame.

[DeepUnderMeds]

Originally Posted by GhostofVDC

Pretty much every dude who played with Russell is in the hall of fame.

Correction, pretty much about all whoever wear the green uniform is in the hall of fame.