After 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association, Nick Collison of the Oklahoma City Thunder has announced his retirement from Professional Basketball.

Collison was a star player at Kansas where in 2003 the big man was named a Consensus First Team All-American and the Big 12 Player of the Year and would be drafted 12th overall by the Seattle SuperSonics. He would play his entire career with the organization, joining them as they relocated to Oklahoma City.

While he was a superstar at Kansas, Collison was mostly used off of the bench, starting only 177 of the 910 games he played. He retires with Per Game Averages of 5.9 Points and 5.2 Rebounds and is franchise history he is third in Games Played, fourth in Rebounds and sixth in Blocks.

With his retirement there is no player left who came following the move from Seattle to Oklahoma City.

While we are unlikely to rank him once he is Hall of Fame eligible, he should eventually find a spot in the College Basketball Hall of Fame. Once we get to ranking those who should be consider for the College Hall, expect to see Collison’s name right up there!

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate Nick Collison for his career in basketball and we wish him the best in his post-playing career.

The St. Louis Cardinals have announced the three new members who have been chosen to be their Hall of Fame Class of 2018. Two former Cardinals were chosen via an online vote (Vince Coleman and Ray Lankford) and one former player (Harry Breechen) via the team’s “Red Ribbon Committee”, which is comprised of baseball writers, historians, officials and Hall of Famers.

Vince Coleman patrolled Leftfield for St. Louis in the first six seasons of his MLB career (1985-90). Coleman was the best base stealer in the National League during that time frame leading the league thefts every single season as a Redbird. Named the Rookie of the Year in 1985, Coleman was a two time All Star (1988 & 1989).

Ray Lankford played 13 of his 15 seasons for St. Louis. An All Star in 1997, Lankford had 238 Home Runs with 258 Stolen Bases with a 37.7 bWAR over his Cardinals tenure.

Coleman and Lankford beat out Scott Rolen, Lee Smith, John Tudor, Keith Hernandez and Jason Isringhausen.

Harry Beechen pitched for the Cardinals in 1940 and from 1943 to 1952. Fro, ’44 to ’49 Beechen would record 14 Wins and he was an All Star in both 1947 and 1948. His ’48 campaign saw him win 20 Games and the ERA, FIP, WHIP and SO/BB title with a fifth place finish in MVP voting. Beechen also helped St. Louis win two World Series (1944 & 1946) and his overall record with the Cardinals was 128 and 79 with a 39.9 bWAR.

The class will be officially inducted on August 18.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate the new St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Class.

The Strong Museum in Rochester, New York has announced the Video Game Hall of Fame Class of 2018. Spacewar!, John Madden Football, Tomb Raider and Final Fastasy VII were chosen. These four games beat out eight other finalists: Asteroids, Call of Duty, Dance Dance Revolution, Half-Life, King’s Quest, Metroid, Minecraft and Mrs. Pacman.

The Strong Museum also houses the Toy Hall of Fame.

This just isn’t Bill Cosby’s week.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Television Academy Hall of Fame has removed the disgraced comedian from their institution following Cosby’s guilty verdict in his sexual assault case. His name no longer appears on the honoree list on the Hall’s website and a statue that was commemorated in his honor will not be returning to the Hall of Fame plaza. It had previously been removed due to renovations. Cosby was inducted in 1992 during the final season of his hit NBC sitcom, The Cosby Show.

Cosby has also seen his honorary degrees from Yale, SUNY and his alma mater Temple rescinded and it was recently announced that both him and Roman Polanski have been kicked out of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Today, Cosby was also expelled from the Advertising Hall of Fame.

It will be interesting to see if athletic Halls of Fame in the future will act as quickly should one of the members pull a “Cosby”.