Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL, and MLB. Once that is done, we will examine how each team honors its past players, coaches, and executives. As such, it is important to us that Appalachian State will be inducting five new members to its Athletic Hall of Fame.

They will be officially inducted on October 25.

The Class of 2024 is:

Marcus Cox, Football, 2013-16.  Cox is the only player in school history to have four 1,000-yard rushing seasons, and his 5,103 Rushing Yards is a school record.  He is a four-time All-Conference Selection, had 52 Rushing Touchdowns, and helped the Mountaineers win their first Sun Belt Conference Championship in 2016.

Lynett Shakeel, Women’s Track & Field, 1986-90.  Shakeel was a four-time So-Con Champion in four outdoor 4x100 relays and is arguably one of the most successful relay runners in school history.

Nate McKinney, Football, 1999-2002.  A First Team All-American as a Punter, he was also named the Southern Conference All-Decade Punter for the first decade of the 2000s.

Chip Miller, Football, 1991-95.  Miller was a two-time First Team All-American Defensive End and was a senior on a Mountaineers team that went 12-1. 

Austin Trotman, Wrestling, 2007-12.  Trotman was Appalachian State’s first four-time NCAA Championship qualifier, and he had an overall 129-34 record.  He was named the SoCon Male Athlete of the Year in 2012.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate the impending members of the University of Appalachian State Athletic Hall of Fame.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists and consistently look to update them when necessary and based on necessity. As such, we are delighted to present our post-2023 revision of our top 50 Brooklyn Nets.

As for all of our top 50 players in basketball, we look at the following:

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Basketball Association.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles that are not reflected in a stat sheet.

Last year, Brooklyn, which is now entirely devoid of its big three, Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and James Harden (which led to zero titles), is back to rebuilding. The Nets failed to make the playoffs, and there were no new entries, though two elevations.

As always, we present our top five, which saw no changes:

1. Jason Kidd
2. Julius Erving
3. Buck Williams
4. Brook Lopez
5. Vince Carter

You can find the entire list here.

Nic Claxton moved to #24 from #40. 

Spencer Dinwiddie, who was traded to the Lakers late in the year, still rose significantly from #35 to 28.

The jumps of Claxton and Dinwiddie reflect the few stars the Nets have had and the relative brevity of players' time there.

We thank you for your continued support of our lists on Notinhalloffame.com.

1965 PRELIMINARY RESULTS:

Thank you to all who participated in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project. If you are still determining what that is, we acted like the PFHOF had its first class in January 1946.

We have completed the first 17 years thus far.

For “1965,” a Preliminary Vote with close to 100 players whose playing career ended by 1959. We are also following the structure in that players have 20 years of eligibility, and if they do not make it into the Hall, they are relegated to the Senior Pool.

Each voter was asked to select 25 names from the preliminary list, and the top 25 vote-getters were named Semi-Finalists.

A week later, the voters will be asked to pick 15 names from the 25 Semi-Finalists, and next after, they will pick five from the remaining 15. We will continue this process weekly until we catch up to the current year.

Please note that a significant change occurred “years ago,” allowing voters to submit less than the allotted spots. 

31 Votes took place

This is for the “Modern Era”

Bold indicates they advanced to the Semi-Finals:

*Indicates they have been removed from future ballots

This is for the “Senior Era”

Bold indicates they advanced to the Semi-Finals:

*Indicates that they will be removed from the ballot permanently.

Next week, we will announce the Semi-Finalists for the 1965 Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project.

Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL, and MLB. Once that is done, we will examine how each team honors its past players, coaches, and executives. As such, it is important to us that the University of Kentucky will be inducting six new members to their Athletic Hall of Fame.

They will be officially inducted during the weekend of September 20-21.

The Class of 2024 is:

Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, Women’s Track and Field, 2016-18.  Camacho-Quinn was one of the most accomplished hurdlers in Wildcat history, a twelve-time First Team All-American, three-time NCAA Champion, and six-time SEC Champion.  She would later represent Puerto Rico and won two Olympic Medals in the 100-meter hurdles: Gold in Tokyo 2020 and Bronze in Paris 2024. 

John Cropp, Administrator, 1992-2013, Assistant Football Coach 1991.  Cropp worked for the University for 22 years, serving in multiple capacities.

Henrk Larsen, Rifle, 2018.  Larsen attended Kentucky only for one season, but as a freshman, he won the NCAA Air Rifle Individual National Championship and led the Wildcats to a National Championship.  Winning all but one competition he was in, Larsen was named the NCAA Shooter of the Year and Freshman of the Year.  He would turn pro after and represent Norway at the Tokyo Olympics.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Women’s Track and Field 2018.  McLaughlin-Levrone competed one season for Kentucky where she won the 400-meter hurdles at the NCAA Championship and set a new college record in doing it.  She was a three-time SEC Champion and later won Gold in the 400-meter hurdles and 4x400 relay at the Tokyo and Paris Olympics.

Jodie Meeks, Men’s Basketball, 2007-09.  Meeks was a consensus Second Team All-American in 2009 and a First Team All-SEC Selection that season.  He still holds the single-game record in Points with 54.  He later played for ten years in the NBA for Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Los Angeles Lakers, Detroit, Orlando, Washington, and Toronto, the last of which saw him win an NBA Championship.

Corey Peters, Football, 2006-09.  A Defensive Tackle, Peters was a First Team All-SEC Selection as a senior and was part of two Music City Bowl wins and a Liberty Bowl win.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate the impending members of the University of Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame.