With the knowledge that Miami Heat player, Shane Battier will be calling it a career and joining ESPN after the NBA Finals, we thought it might be worth a look at his career to see what chance he might have for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
You might be thinking that his professional career doesn’t measure up, and though he did make a Second Team All NBA Defensive selection and two NBA Titles (and perhaps a third), he has a Points per Game Career Average under 10, and a Career PER under 15. Battier may be a respected teammate and a major locker room asset, but those are not numbers that can earn you a trip to Springfield.
Still, this Hall of Fame is not just about professional accomplishments and what a player does in College counts here. Shane Battier was a major star at Duke, where he led the Blue Devils to the NCAA Championship in 2001, and took them to the Final Four two years earlier. He won every major NCAA Player of the Year Award in 2001, including the Final Four MVP and was a three time Defensive Player of the Year in College.
That type of performance still may not earn him a trip to the Basketball Hall of Fame (though it should make him a lock for the College Hall), but is it enough to make our top one hundred? We will await your input on that one.
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