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Is there any chance Antawn Jamison gets in the hall of fame?
20k pts seems to be a historical statistical marker that points to the hall. He surpassed it. Are there any other stats in his favor? Will the growing appreciation for stats lend itself to helping his career?

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DoItALL9 wrote:Is there any chance Antawn Jamison gets in the hall of fame?
20k pts seems to be a historical statistical marker that points to the hall. He surpassed it. Are there any other stats in his favor? Will the growing appreciation for stats lend itself to helping his career?

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No. If anything, statistical appreciation today is about impact, not compiling an arbitrary cutoff like 20,000 pts. If anything, this hurts him. His case is similar to Tom Chambers. Same or totals, few all star games (4 vs 2 for Jamison), few awards outside if those all star games. Neither were high impact guys. Chambers had more years as an important piece on better teams. And he hasn't come close to the hall and his case is worse today than it was 15 years ago. If Jamison was a low impact compiler with 25,000 pts, it might be a different story. Key word being might. As it is, I'd give him <1% chance of getting into the hall.

Jamison doesn't get in IMO. That would lower the floor even further than Mitch Richmond getting in.

Never have I seen a guy go out of his way to give such little effort on defense. The way he'd lower his head and throw one arm out at a shooter as he trotted back to the offensive end all in one motion. Or times when he'd stand up straight and stiff as a tree while "challenging" a shot around the rim, remarkably throwing both arms up a second late with amazing consistency.

I'll never forget the olé he did in the playoffs on the baseline against LeBron in game 6 with our season on the line. He literally stepped out of LeBron's way in fear of being touched.

Antwan mastered the art of faking effort and preserving his body with minimal contact on the defensive end of the court throughout his career.

I'd lose hope in mankind if he somehow is voted into the basketball Hall of Fame.