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That's what I'm talkin' about......right there!!
YEAH!!!
Congratulations David Robinson.
Congrats.
even if expected, still a great news
Congrats to the Admiral. Well deserved.
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It's a shame he's going to be overshadowed by MJ, but still great news.
congrats Drob
The build-up articles and conversation on this wonderful event.
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David Robinson confirmed as Hall of Famer
San Antonio Business Journal
by W. Scott Bailey
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame confirmed on Monday that it has named former San Antonio Spurs center David Robinson and four others into its 2009 enshrinement class.
Robinson is joined by former Chicago Bulls star Michael Jordan, current Utah Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan, former Jazz guard John Stockton and Rutgers University head basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer.
Robinson, Jordan, Sloan and Stockton have all been elected in their first year of eligibility. Stringer had been named a finalist in prior years.
“We are extremely pleased and honored to introduce this historic class,” says John L. Doleva, president and CEO of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
To be elected, finalists needed 18 of 24 votes from the Hall of Fame’s Honors Committee. The Class of 2009 will be enshrined during festivities in Springfield, Mass., in September.
Robinson spent his entire NBA career with the Spurs. He helped guide San Antonio to a pair of NBA championships and was named to 10 NBA All-Star teams and earned four NBA First Team selections. He also won an NBA league MVP award and was selected to the NBA’s 50th Anniversary Team.
As an amateur athlete, Robinson also won two Olympic gold medals and was a member of the legendary 1992 “Dream Team” and the 1996 gold medal squad.
The 2009 induction ceremony will mark the 50th anniversary for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Robinson, Jordan, Stockton named to Basketball Hall of Fame
Jerry Briggs and Tom Orsborn
Express-News
Former Spurs center David Robinson, who helped lead the franchise to its first two NBA les, was named Monday morning to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
The announcement came at a news conference in Detroit, the site of tonight’s NCAA le game between Michigan State and North Carolina.
Induction ceremonies are scheduled Sept. 10-12 in Springfield, Mass.
Others announced for the class of 2009 were Robinson’s former U.S. Olympic teammates, Michael Jordan and John Stockton, along with coaches Jerry Sloan and C. Vivian Stringer.
Robinson, a 7-foot-1 center from Navy, won the NBA scoring le in 1994, added the NBA’s Most Valuable Player Award in 1995 and then evolved into a defensive stopper during Spurs’ runs to championships in 1999 and 2003.
“People can talk about (former Boston center) Bill Russell and all he did,’’ former Spurs guard Avery Johnson said last week, “but in my era there was no better defensive player than Dave.’’
Jordan, who won six NBA les with the Chicago Bulls, is considered among the greatest basketball players of all time. A five-time MVP, Jordan led the NBA in scoring a record 10 times.
Stockton became the league’s all-time assists and steals leader with the Utah Jazz.
Together, Jordan, Stockton and Robinson played on the historic “Dream Team,” and paced the United States to the gold medal in the 1992 Olympics at Barcelona. Officials elected to utilize NBA players for the first time that year after the 1988 U.S. team finished third in the Olympics with a bronze medal.
Robinson was one of the greatest players in U.S. history in international compe ion. After competing in the Olympics in 1988 and 1992, he played for the United States in the 1996 Summer Games at Atlanta while suffering from a hernia.
Despite the nagging injury, Robinson scored a game-high 28 points as Team USA won the gold medal with a 95-69 victory over Yugoslavia at the Georgia Dome.
A few weeks later, he underwent hernia surgery.
Other injuries followed, limiting him to only six games with the Spurs in 1996-97. First, he suffered a back injury in the team’s first preseason game in October. In December, he broke his foot, which ultimately ended his season.
A 25.6 points-per-game-scorer during his first seven years in the NBA, Robinson’s role with the team took a turn in his last seven when Tim Duncan arrived as the No. 1 pick in the draft in 1997.
With Duncan taking the scoring load, Robinson focused on defense, making it nearly impossible for opponents to score on the Spurs in the paint.
Consequently, the Spurs won their first le in 1998-99. The Spurs added another championship in 2002-03, Robinson’s 14th and final season.
Before his arrival as a rookie, the Spurs were struggling at the box office. The city immediately rallied around the Spurs, with Robinson, Terry mings and others leading the team back to the playoffs in 1989-90.
Johnson said that Robinson “absolutely’’ would be a Hall of Fame player even without the two championships.
“This guy singlehandedly rescued the Spurs franchise,’’ Johnson said. “He was an MVP and he had a scoring le. But had this guy not come to San Antonio, I don’t know if the Spurs would still be in San Antonio. He’s a Hall of Famer for just saving a franchise.’’
Kick ass. Couldn't happen to a better guy.
Faaaave-OH.
great !! more than deserved
The 2nd spur to be elected into the HOF (Moses Malone only scored 49 points as a spur)...
duncan and ginobili are next...
unfortunately, TP will never make it
Good news travels fast, this news is great
You know it's big when someone posts it faster than 228
I cannot wait for the ceremony, Class of 2009
I am going first class all the way thanks to Priceline
I have played for unfriendly crowds from New York to LA
but I think I may have the worst audience yet for my big day.
MJ will probably invite his old coach and good friend,
Phil the Master of Evil, er, I meant Zen
And Stockton will invite Karl, you know? The Mailman?
I guess it is no suprise I'm not his biggest fan
And if this thing is attended by Charlie Rosen
I'll feel exactly my boy Daniel did in the lion's den
I'll start my speech by giving the Lord his props,
followed by a shout out to Timmy and Pops
Sean and AJ, you guys better be there
to tell the world that I carried you my whole career
I'll even forgive the Lil General for working for Cuban,
we all make mistakes, AJ's only human.
But I'll need to ask God for some strength once again
to forgive that dude for working at ESPN
I might even cry depending on how emotional it gets
What are the odds of it? Seriously, MJ's taking bets
I fear that I'll have to look in the front row, call out, and scold him
when I see he and Oakley playing high stakes Hold 'em
Those six rings must feel nice when times are tough,
I've got two plus a wedding band, which means I still have all my stuff
And I know Spurs fans would want me to tell the Jazz a few things,
like how they can call me Pope David and kiss my rings
Or note how Stockton lead the league in assists,
most of them dished to a statutory rapist.
But I'm a good Christian, that is not what I do
I'll leave that to my boy, Hype Man Manu!
I am making a formal request to the Hall of Fame committee
for one special thing I hope they can give me
I know the usual monument shows the player's head
and underneath there is some writing saying what they did
I would like a likeness of my rear end posted under my face
so anyone who called me "soft" can lick it and
TELL ME HOW MY PLAQUE TASTE!
Great stuff Rapping Mr. Robinson.
It's about Time....
Thank you 5-0 for what you have done for this franchise
That great. Bravo Dave.
congrats 50!
I'll again point out that I don't see Drob going in with Jordan as a negative. More people are going to know about David Robinson's induction becasue he's going in with Jordan than any other draft class in history. More people will being paying attention to it as well.
This is by far the the greatest HOF class in basketball history IMHO and the Drob fans don't need him to go in without Jordan for this to be special and something they will pay a lot of attention to.
That's awesome
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I wonder who will give Drob's induction speech....
My guess is AJ..
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