Goran Dragic, hailing from Slovenia, caught the attention of NBA scouts when he led his club team, Union Olimpija, to the 2008 league championship and earned the Finals MVP recognition. The Phoenix Suns picked him in the Second Round of that year's draft, and he made his way to the United States.

However, Dragic didn't get much playing time during his two-and-a-half seasons with the Suns, averaging less than 20 minutes per game. He only got his chance to start when he was traded to the Rockets.

In 2012, Dragic became a free agent, and the Suns re-signed him to be their starting point guard. He had his most successful season in the NBA in 2013-14, where he won the Most Improved Player award, was named to the Third Team All-Star, and averaged 20.3 points per game with a career-high PER of 21.3.

The Suns later traded Dragic to the Miami Heat, where he continued to perform well as a point guard. He was named to his only All-Star game in 2018, but a few years later, his age became a factor, and he was relegated back to the bench. He ended his career with stints in Toronto, Brooklyn, Chicago, and Milwaukee.

If Dragic were to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, his best chance would be through the International Committee, thanks to his outstanding performances representing Slovenia in the 2017 EuroBasket and the Slovenian League.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here 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 out, and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our post-2023 revision of our top 50 Seattle Mariners.

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

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in Major League Baseball.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

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

Last year, Seattle was unable to make the playoffs despite having built a lot of momentum from the previous year.  Nevertheless, there was one major new entrant and a couple of rank alterations.

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

1. Ken Griffey Jr.

2. Edgar Martinez

3. Ichiro Suzuki

4. Felix Hernandez

5. Randy Johnson

You can find the entire list here.

J.P. Crawford had a nice gain, going to #31 from #45.

2022 American League Rookie of the Year, Julio Rodriguez, explodes on the list at #35.

Pitcher Marco Gonzalez, who is now with Pittsburgh, fell a spot to #36 based on a poor 2023.

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

1957 SEMI-FINAL RESULTS:

Thank you for all of your participation in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project. If you are unaware of what that is, simply, we acted as if the PFHOF had its first class in January 1946.

We have completed the years up to 1956.

For “1957,” a Preliminary Vote with over 130 players whose playing career ended by 1951. 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 were asked to pick 15 names from the 25 Semi-Finalists, and next week, they will pick five from the remaining 15. We will continue this process weekly until we catch up to the current year.

30 Votes took place, with the top five advancing.

This is for the “Modern Era”

Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

Notably, there was a tie, meaning that 16 men advanced to the Finals, as opposed to 15.

This is for the “Senior Era”

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

We also had a run-off vote to break a tie on Senior Candidate Parameters, in which you voted 18-12 to keep it as is. This means that for the next three years until another vote, the top vote-getter MUST gain 50% of the vote.

Next Saturday, we will be posting the Class of the 1957 Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project.

Thank you to all who contributed, and if you want to be a part of this project, please let us know!

Many NBA players have careers that are split into two halves—the first half as starters and All-Star calibre players, while the second half is spent as role players on the bench. However, when it comes to Andre Iguodala, it's hard to say which half was better.

Iguodala was an All-Pac 10 Selection at Arizona and was picked by the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round (9th overall) of the 2005 NBA draft. He was an All-Rookie who was known for his strong defence, but he soon developed a scoring touch and had four consecutive seasons (2006-07 to 2009-10) where he averaged more than 17 points per game while still maintaining his focus on defence. Iguodala received Defensive Player of the Year votes eight times and even finished fifth in his first year with the Golden State Warriors, which was coincidentally his last year as a starter.

Iguodala's defence and added depth on the roster helped the Warriors become a special team, and in 2015, they won the NBA Championship. Iguodala made history as the first bench player to win the Finals MVP, and although his role reduced year by year, he was still a part of three more Championships (2016, 2018, and 2020). Over his career, he also played for Denver and Miami.

In addition to his NBA accomplishments, Iguodala also won a Gold Medal in the 2010 Olympics and 2010 FIBA Worlds. When asked once if he thought he was a Hall of Famer, he emphatically said no. He's probably right, but he's not as far away as he thinks.