2016 Flashback: Which Current NBA Players Will Make the Hall of Fame with Kevin Pelton

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Nate Duncan

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🗓️ 18 February 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Flashback (Nov. 8, 2016): Kevin Pelton of ESPN joins to discuss which current NBA players will and should make the Hall of Fame. We run through our criteria for the Hall of Fame and examine the credentials of over 40 current players and coaches. The analysis runs from locks like Dirk Nowitzki and LeBron James, to borderline cases like Joe Johnson, Derrick Rose, and Kevin Love, and finally which young players have the best shot of making it.

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0:00.0	With Nate and Danny on their All-Star breaks, we're doing something a little different today.
0:03.5	We're doing a flashback episode going all the way back to November 2016.
0:08.8	Kevin Pelton joined the show to talk with Nate about future Hall of Famers.
0:12.6	The discussion's pretty interesting even to start as they talk about established players because
0:17.3	these are the players we're seeing coming up for the Hall of Fame now.
0:20.6	A lot of these same arguments are getting rehashed and it's interesting to hear the context of
0:24.8	where they so now even get a refresher on their cases. Some of these older players didn't change
0:29.4	their resumes too much in these last six or seven years. But it gets really interesting
0:36.1	as later in the podcast when they talk about younger players. The players who have a chance
0:40.2	to become Hall of Famers. Who gets brought up? Who doesn't? How they're discussed? It's a lot
0:45.4	of fun to get the glimpse of this moment in time. We hope you enjoy this different episode.
0:51.4	A little bit less micro here. We're going to go with something that's more macro.
0:56.0	Talking about the NBA Hall of Fame and Kevin Pelton is one of the best at researching the NBA's past.
1:02.8	It knows it really well. Also has the statistical tools that a lot of us don't have
1:07.3	to help measure these things. So we're going to talk today about what present players who are still
1:12.1	active in the league we think should make the Hall of Fame and what their chances are. How you doing, man?
1:17.2	I'm doing well. I'm excited to talk about the future. Yeah, I am too. We've never really discussed
1:23.6	the Hall of Fame or who we think present Hall of Famers are. It's not ever something that's been
1:28.4	as celebrated in basketball as it is in baseball, partially because the basketball Hall of Fame is
1:33.4	the basketball Hall of Fame. Not just the NBA Hall of Fame. Many of them have meant that there is
1:37.1	no NBA Hall of Fame John Hollinger once called it sarcastically the Hall of College Coaches fame.
1:45.4	Because it's just like any college coach can get in there if they stick around long enough. But
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