The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame has announced its list of 50 nominees for 2022, including four-time NBA champion Manu Ginobili, who is eligible for the first time this year.
Chauncey Billups, Shawn Marion, Michael Finley, and Mark Jackson are among the other nominees eligible to be inducted into the Hall of Fame as players, while George Karl and Paul Westhead are two of many coaching nominees. Veteran referee Joey Crawford is also eligible for the first time this year.
The Hall of Fame will announce its 2022 finalists in February and will reveal this year’s class on April 2. The enshrinement ceremony will take place on the weekend of September 9-10.
Here are a few more odds and ends from around the basketball world:
- Before Danuel House signed a 10-day deal with the Knicks, he received interest from a number of other teams, including the Sixers, Lakers, and Kings, sources tell Kelly Iko of The Athletic (Twitter link).
- Veteran forward Earl Clark, the 14th overall pick in the 2009 draft, has signed an NBA G League contract, agent Daniel Hazan tells Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (Twitter link). Clark appeared in 261 career NBA games, but hasn’t played in the league since 2015.
- Former No. 2 overall pick Michael Beasley has been sent a G League contract and invited to join the NBAGL player pool, tweets Marc Stein. Beasley joined a Puerto Rican team in October after playing for Portland in Summer League this year.
- Jonathan Wasserman of Bleacher Report takes a look at some early-season surprises and disappointments among 2022 NBA draft prospects, while ESPN’s Jonathan Givony and Mike Schmitz (Insider link) published an updated version of their 2022 mock draft this week. Purdue guard Jaden Ivey has moved up to No. 4 in ESPN’s latest mock, while Jaden Hardy of the G League Ignite has slipped out of the top five.
That HOF list is pitiful sadly… I couldn’t justify any of the names realistically.. and even Manu was a bench player most of his career (career average of under 20 minutes a game)…. that being said if Tim Hardaway doesn’t get voted in against that crop of names… he’s clearly being black balled at this point.
First it is the basketball HoF so Manu is first ballot on the basis of being one of the greatest international players of all time. Second he wasn’t a “bench player”; he was a 6th man, by design, and one of the best of all time, along with names like Havlicek. I won’t spend time on the 4 championships or being part of the winningest trio in history. Manu is a no doubt first ballot inductee.
Jaden (young DWade) Ivey & Ben (young JButler) Mathurin are gonna join Ant Edwards & Jalen Green as future elite young 2guards in this league. I got them both in my top4
Of this list Manu, the Matrix & Finley should be sure picks… Billups never did anything for me as a player, but I guess you could throw him there for whatever reason anyone might thing… now Mark Jackson can’t see it, he had so much potential but I always was frustrated by his underachieving, just an average starter at best!
Tim Hardaway – 5x All Star; 5x All NBA
Billups -5x AS; 3x All NBA; 2x All Def
Marques Johnson – 5x AS; 3x All NBA
Marion – 4x AS; 2x All NBA
Finley – 2x AS
Manu – 2x AS; 2x All NBA
Hardaway, Billups, and Johnson get my vote.
Crawford is a HOF horses behind
Havlicek had 13 All Star, 11 NBA, and 8 All Def…Manu not even close to that so using a similarity with Hondo won’t work. His closest similarity is Terry Porter and 3 of his top 10 similars are in the HOF with Vince Carter (maybe?) on the way. He is a borderline case but I would say not good enough.
Some of those names have boosted themselves with post-career NBA jobs… but I like Buckman’s list with Tim Hardaway and his crossover dribble and the Run-TMC at the top. Also, Mark Jackson as the classic QB PG.