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Two Teams are Primed to Retire their First Ever Jersey Numbers
Being inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is the highest honor for a basketball player anywhere in the world. As the hall celebrates basketball players, coaches, and contributors from all over the world, at all levels, and across all genders, it is a very special achievement for anyone involved with basketball to become an honouree.
Our Top 50 All-Time Brooklyn Nets are now up
Yes, we know that this is taking a while!
As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team. We have a new one to unveil today, that of the Brooklyn Nets.
The Nets were formed in 1967, as the New Jersey Americans an inaugural ABA franchise. They would relocate after one year to New York City, and became the Nets, and with the arrival Julius Erving in 1974, they would win the ABA Title in 1974 and 1976. The Nets were one of the four teams to join the NBA, but they did so without Erving. They would return to New Jersey in 1977, where they would stay until 2012. The Nets have yet to win the NBA Championship, but did win the Eastern Conference in 2002 and 2003. They moved to Brooklyn in 2012, where they have remained since.
As for all of our top 50 players in basketball, we look at the following:
- Advanced Statistics.
- Traditional statistics and how they finished in the NBA.
- Playoff accomplishments.
- Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.
Remember, this is ONLY based on what a player does on that particular team and not what he accomplished elsewhere and also note that we have placed increased importance on the first two categories.
This list is updated up until the end of the 2018-19 Season.
The complete list can be found here, but as always we announce our top five in this article. They are:
We will continue our adjustments on our existing lists and will continue developing our new lists.
As always we thank you for your support.
Bill Russell finally accepts his Hall of Fame ring
In a tweet, he said that “in ’75 I refused to be the 1stblack player to go into” the hall as he “felt others before me should have that honor.” He referenced Chuck Cooper in that tweet, who was chosen earlier this year. Cooper was the first African-American to play in the NBA in 1950.
Russell mentioned that he received the ring in a private ceremony, which was attended by his wife and close friends, which included Alonzo Mourning and Bill Walton.
Walton was an 11-time NBA Champion with the Boston Celtics, a two-time NCAA Champion with the University of San Francisco and an Olympic Gold Medalist with the United States. He was a five-time MVP, eleven-time All-NBA selection and twelve-time All-Star.
Suddenly, the Basketball Hall of Fame seems so much more relevant.
The Finalists are set for our Fictitious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
It is another big day for us at Notinhalloffame.com!
Following the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s announcement of their Finalists, our Fictitious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is announcing its Finalists for the 2019 Class. This will be the fifth full class.
Like in previous years, the opening round began with over 500 Fictional Musicians which was reduced to 40 Fictional Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Semi-Finalists. The top 15 vote getters advanced to the Final Round.
The 15 Fictitious Rock and Roll Hall Finalists are:
Archies, The (Archie). In the real world, the Archies went number one with “Sugar Sugar”. The Archie universe continues with comics and the show, Riverdale. This is their third straight year as a Finalist.
Banana Splits, The(The Banana Splits). From the minds of Sid and Marty Kroft, the Banana Splits lasted just over 30 episodes but the baby boom generation clearly remembers them well. This is the second time that they have been Finalists.
Bleeding Gums Murphy(The Simpsons). This is the only Finalist for The Simpsons, who have produced one every year since we began this process.
Eddie and the Cruisers(Eddie and the Cruisers). The bar band from New Jersey is a Finalist for a second time.
Figrin D’An and the Modal Nodes(Star Wars: Episode IV, A New Hope). The band from the Mos Eisley Cantina makes their first appearance as a Finalist. From what we know, they only know two songs.
Jackie Rogers Jr.(SCTV). This is a surprise Finalist, as Rogers Jr. has never been a Semi-Finalist before this year. Could be have our first albino singer in the Hall?
Jem and the Holograms(Jem and the Holograms). This truly, truly, truly outrageous band from the 80s who were beacons of good. This is their second time as Finalists.
Jesse and the Rippers(Full House). This is another major surprise as this San Francisco bar band had never made it to the Semi-Finals before this year.
Jimmy “B-Rabbit” Smith(8 Mile). For the first time, B-Rabbit makes the Finals and we could have our first rapper in the Fictitious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Otis Day & The Knights(Animal House). This is the third time that Otis Day has made the Finals, and we think if they get in, they will party at the Dexter Lake Club.
Randy Watson(Coming to America). We last saw Watson at the Queens, New York, Black Awareness event. Perhaps we will see more of him in the impending sequel. This is the first time that he has become a Finalist.
Rutles, The(The Rutles). The Rutles have been Finalists before, and this remains one of the best musical spoofs in history.
School of Rock, The(The School of Rock). Jack Black is already in for Tenacious D, and he could easily be a two-time inductee this year. This is second straight year for the School of Rock as a Finalist.
Soggy Bottom Boys, The(O Brother, Where Art Thou?). The Soggy Bottom Boys are Finalists for the second time and in terms of “fictional age” this is the only group that pre-dates the rock and roll era.
Stillwater (Almost Famous). This rock band from the 1970s is a Finalists for the third time.
The Finalists will be announced on December 30, 2019.
Voting can be found here: http://www.notinhalloffame.com/ficitious-rock-and-roll-voting/2019-round-3
We thank you for your support of this project and look for more like this from us at Notinhalloffame.com!