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Originally Posted by 49ersSF
Here's a list of players I would not have in the Hall of Fame who were admitted over the last 20 years.
2002 Drazen Petrovic
2004 Maurice Stokes
2010 Gus Johnson
2010 Dennis Johnson
2012 Mel Daniels
2012 Ralph Sampson
2012 Chet Walker
2013 Richie Green
2013 Roger Brown
2014 Sarunis Marcelonis
2014 Alonzo Mouring
2014 Guy Rodgers
2015 Louie Dampier
2015 Jojo White
2016 Zelmo Beaty
2016 Yao Ming
2018 Mo Cheeks
2018 Dino Radja
2018 Charlie Scott
2019 Paul Westphal
2019 Sidney Moncrief
2019 Bobby Jones
2019 Vlade Divac
2019 Carl Braun
2019 Charles Cooper
Now...I decided to take a look at how many hall of fame players from 1980-1999 I would remove.
1982 Frank Ramsey
1983 Bill Bradley
1989 KC Jones
It seems like in 2010 someone decided that they would open the doors to players that formerly could not make it. I feel bad about guys like Kareem, Bill Russell, Jordan, Bird, Magic etc who were enshrined into something special only to see it watered down.
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I've got to at least come to the defence of Zo.
NBA champion (2006)
7× NBA All-Star (1994–1997, 2000–2002)
All-NBA First Team (1999)
All-NBA Second Team (2000)
2× NBA Defensive Player of the Year (1999, 2000)
2× NBA All-Defensive First Team (1999, 2000)
2× NBA blocks leader (1999, 2000)
NBA All-Rookie First Team (1993)
J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award (2002)
No. 33 retired by Miami Heat
Consensus first-team All-American (1992)
Consensus second-team All-American (1990)
Third-team All-American – NABC (1991)
Big East Player of the Year (1992)
2× First-team All-Big East (1990, 1992)
3× Big East Defensive Player of the Year (1989, 1990, 1992)
2× USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year (1990, 2000)
NCAA blocks leader (1989)
National high school player of the year (1988)
McDonald's All-American Game MVP (1988)
2× First-team Parade All-American (1987, 1988)
Second-team Parade All-American (1986)
Virginia Mr. Basketball (1988)
That's HOF all day.
Drazen as well...
All-NBA Third Team (1993)
2× EuroLeague champion (1985, 1986)
EuroLeague Finals Top Scorer (1985)
FIBA European Selection (1987)
4× Euroscar (1986, 1989, 1992, 1993)
2× Mr. Europa Award (1986, 1993)
2× FIBA Saporta Cup champion (1987, 1989)
2× FIBA Saporta Cup Finals Top Scorer (1987, 1989)
FIBA Korac Cup Finals Top Scorer (1988)
Spanish League Top Scorer (1989)
Spanish Cup winner (1989)
Spanish Cup Final Top Scorer (1989)
Yugoslav League champion (1985)
3× Yugoslav Cup winner (1985, 1986, 1988)
FIBA World Championship MVP (1986)
FIBA EuroBasket MVP (1989)
Best Athlete of Yugoslavia (1985)
Yugoslav Sportsman of the Year (1985)
Croatian Sportsman of the Year (1985, 1986)
FIBA's 50 Greatest Players (1991)
Olympic Order (1993)
50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors (2008)
No. 3 retired by Brooklyn Nets
No. 10 retired by Cibona