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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 intend to look at how each team honor their past players, coaches and executives.  As such, we are pleased to comment on the Los Angeles Lakers’ retirement of Pau Gasol’s number #16 last night. Debuting in the NBA for the Memphis Grizzlies in 2001, the 7’ 1” Center, becoming the first European to win the Rookie of the Year.  An All-Star for Memphis in 2006, Gasol never had a year where his PPG…

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 intend to look at how each team honor their past players, coaches and executives.  As such, that the Toronto Blue Jays will be inducting Jose Bautista into their Level of Excellence. Jose Bautista's success in emerging as one of the game's top power hitters might be one of the biggest “Where the hell did this come from?” stories in Baseball. Bautista was barely even a journeyman, playing briefly for Baltimore, Tampa Bay.…

The World Curling Hall of Fame will be inducting five new members into their institution; three curlers and two from the builders category. The new entrants are: Kate Caithness, Scotland (Builder):  Caithness was the World Curling President from 2010 to 2022, and helped propel Wheelchair Curling into the Paralympics. Jack Lynch, Canada (Builder):  Lynch was well-respected journalist, who covered curling mostly in Quebec.  He was pivotal in increasing membership associations that helped qualify Curling as an Olympic sport. Ewan MacDonald, Scotland (Curler):  MacDonald is a three-time World Champion (1999, 2006 & 2010), a two-time European Champion (1999 & 2008) and he represented Scotland in…

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 intend to look at how each team honor their past players, coaches and executives.  This will eventually extend towards other leagues.  As such, it is important to us that the Sarnia Sting of the Ontario Hockey League have announced that the formation of their franchise Hall of Fame. The Sting were originally the Cornwall Royals of the QMJHL in 1969, and would transfer to Newmarket in 1992.  After three years, in 1994, the organization…

If you are a regular visitor at Notinhalloffame.com, you know that we created the Notinhalloffame NBA Cup, where in every regular season game, we award points (5-4-3-2-1) to the top five performers.  This is the third year that we have done this, and Denver’s Nikola Jokic won the first two. To keep everyone regularly in the loop this time, we have decided to give regular updates, starting at when the first player cracked 100 Points, and tell all of you the top ten.  We will this going forward with every update as the first player breaches the elevated ten-point threshold afterward. Here…