Fort Huachuca/Sierra Vista Any debates about whether Tracy McGrady deserved to be in the Hall of Fame ended when he was enshrined in 2017. Marion spent nine of his 16 NBA seasons with the organization, and he was a four-time All-Star during the 2000s.
6:48 pm Lute Olson, a Hall of Fame coach who turned Arizona into a college basketball powerhouse and in 1997 led the Wildcats to their only national championship, died Aug. 27. Yes, we're aware, as Jenna Ciccotelli of Boston.com wrote, that Danny Ainge said Allen’s move from Boston to the Miami Heat in 2012 left a bad taste in the mouths of ownership as recently as February 2020. This is the least the Lakers could do for a club icon. This is a touchy subject for obvious reasons, and it also illustrates how the sports world can often be silly. Jerome Kersey represented the Portland Trail Blazers in multiple ways. Safford In December, Anthony told reporters he prefers to have his jersey retired in Denver. Every NBA club entered 2020 with at least one person in its history worthy of seeing his name and number hang in the rafters of the home arena. Starks wasn’t on Ewing’s level. One of the best players to feature for the old Philadelphia Warriors, Arizin was a 10-time All-Star from 1951 through 1962, and he won a pair of scoring titles in the 1950s. The 10-time All-Star will, however, retire in the top-20 all time in league career points. His 23.6 PPG with the Nets will go down as his best career average. Maybe Payton would never accept this show of respect from a team he never played for, or maybe this would serve as an olive branch between two cities, particularly if/when Seattle receives a new NBA team to call its own. He’s also fourth all time in career points scored for Phoenix. James is next on the Cavs jersey retirement list, and he’s getting a statue outside of Cleveland’s arena. We’ll hear you out if you have Dennis Rodman first on your list, but let’s all put some respect on Horace Grant’s name.
Can Giannis Antetokounmpo, Trae Young, Zion Williamson and others from this generation match the achievements accomplished by the likes of Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant? 79° Per Basketball-Reference, former Seattle SuperSonics star Gary Payton remains the Oklahoma City Thunder franchise leader in no fewer than 11 significant categories. Allen's deserves to be next.
His dunk over Horace Grant and Michael Jordan in 1993 would’ve been memorialized via a statue had the Knicks won a title. Moments matter. For example, the “new” Cleveland Browns that officially began on-field operations in 1999 still claim franchise marks from the original franchise, even though we all know that organization is the Baltimore Ravens. Unlike James, who twice ditched his “hometown” Northeast Ohio team, Love hung around longer than anybody could have expected even though he knew lean times were coming.
Starks, the all-time franchise leader in three-point field goals, was the grit and heart and soul of the 1990s Knicks that took the Chicago Bulls to the breaking point.
Your first thought could be that the Boston Celtics need to chill on jersey retirements for the foreseeable future, and, well, you wouldn’t be wrong. He’s a Hall of Famer. Only a man named Wilt Chamberlain sits above Arizin in career total win shares for the Warriors.
KG is a Hall of Fame lock for later this year. Bogues never made an All-Star team during his career, but he currently remains first in franchise history in assists, steals and assists per game. In an ideal situation, "Pop" would inform the team ahead of time when he is coaching his last game so that his final home contest could be a celebration of everything he has done for both the Spurs and the Association. Two championships. … That’s worth plenty.