Horry Quietly Winning Another Championship

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Originally Posted by exstatic

BTW, Drazen was inducted for his COMPLETE body of work. If you look VERY carefully, you will notice that it is NOT the NBA Hall of Fame, it's the Basketball HOF. There are even girls in it.

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I brought up Petrovic because he is the first NBA player inducted that didn't have any NBA stats or NBA accomplishments that were hall worthy imo. He was eligible for the Hall in 1998, yet wasn't elected until 2002. There were obviously reservations about him being elected because he wasn't elected right away, so somebody had to make a strong argument in his favor. The point I'm making is that his election was unprecedented at the time, much like Horry's would be if he were to get enshrined.

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Originally Posted by ImpartialObserver

I brought up Petrovic because he is the first NBA player inducted that didn't have any NBA stats or NBA accomplishments that were hall worthy imo. He was eligible for the Hall in 1998, yet wasn't elected until 2002. There were obviously reservations about him being elected because he wasn't elected right away, so somebody had to make a strong argument in his favor. The point I'm making is that his election was unprecedented at the time, much like Horry's would be if he were to get enshrined.

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But it wasn't unprecedented. He followed players like Sergei Belov and Krešimir Ćosić as internationals who were enshrined based mostly on their accomplishments in international play. Unlike those two, Petrovic had the opportunity to play in the NBA, but his enshrinement has nothing to do (or very little to do) with his accomplishments as a professional in America.

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