fgcamel
Well-Known Member
I was thinking earlier about who the next Jazz player would be to enter the hall of fame. I'm a relatively new Jazz fan (2010), so my first thoughts were guys from around then like Deron Williams and Andrei Kirilenko who we can probably agree had good careers, but are very unlikely to enter the hall. Then I was thinking who of the young guys (Gordon, Rudy) would have the best shot when I realised that we currently have a guy in Joe Johnson who has an argument to make it even if he retired today.
Basketball reference currently has him at just about exactly 50% odds to make it (https://www.basketball-reference.com/leaders/hof_prob.html), sitting in a weird grey area on his own, well behind James Harden and well ahead of Rajon Rondo, and he's a classic case of a guy who has put up really good stats over a long career (will likely break 20,000 points), as well as lots of all star appearances, but never went to the finals and only made one all-nba third team.
So the question is, do you think Joe will be a hall of famer? and if not, who do you think will be the next player (or coach) we get in? (maybe I'm missing someone obvious who isn't far away?)
Bonus rep to the first person to name the last Jazz player to be inducted (no looking it up!)
Basketball reference currently has him at just about exactly 50% odds to make it (https://www.basketball-reference.com/leaders/hof_prob.html), sitting in a weird grey area on his own, well behind James Harden and well ahead of Rajon Rondo, and he's a classic case of a guy who has put up really good stats over a long career (will likely break 20,000 points), as well as lots of all star appearances, but never went to the finals and only made one all-nba third team.
So the question is, do you think Joe will be a hall of famer? and if not, who do you think will be the next player (or coach) we get in? (maybe I'm missing someone obvious who isn't far away?)
Bonus rep to the first person to name the last Jazz player to be inducted (no looking it up!)