Does the NBA need its own HOF?

[Cevap]

just better the one we have, is that so hard?? one good, unified HOF, with halls for the different forms of ball

i agree

[Rox_Nix_Nox]

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Are you serious? Not putting Pat Summit? How about Bob Knight? John Wooden?

You just lost all cred. I'm serious.

I agreed with him, therefore what I said was based on the fact that college coaches should be in an College Basketball Hall of Fame and not in the NBA HOF. That's what I meant.

[Muzzleshot]

So that brings the question: How can you objectively compare the accomplishments of someone like Webber with some female player who played in college and then maybe one set of Olympic games?

I don't get it. Why would anyone want to compare the accomplishments of a female player to that of CW anyways?

NBA players are elected to the HoF based on their NBA careers, not on what they did pre and post NBA. As an example Joe Dumars post NBA career with the Pistons as president has nothing to do with him getting into the HoF, the two are judged separately. So what you have in effect is an NBA HoF within the Basketball HoF.

[dc]

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I don't get it. Why would anyone want to compare the accomplishments of a female player to that of CW anyways?

NBA players are elected to the HoF based on their NBA careers, not on what they did pre and post NBA. As an example Joe Dumars post NBA career with the Pistons as president has nothing to do with him getting into the HoF, the two are judged separately. So what you have in effect is an NBA HoF within the Basketball HoF.

The reason you have to compare Webber (or any other men's player) to a female player is because those are spots in the HOF that people are fighting over. You allow a certain number of people in every year, regardless of where they played or coached. So you have to weig his accomplishments against someone he would have never had a chance to play against.

And how about this? How about great men's college players who never did squat in the NBA? Do they count for anything? Do they belong in the Bball HOF?

How can you elect a female into the HOF who had a great college career and then played in a pro league nobody ever heard of, but not a great male college player who flopped in the NBA and had to go play in some obscure overseas league?

[Jakespeare]

Dude no one outside of the world gives two craps about the NFL or Baseball. Basketball however is a worldwide sport.

As for the original question i think the NBA should have it's own recognition as well.

Baseball isn't a worldwide sport? How do you explain the influx of non-American talent?