Harry Palmer wrote:Godymas wrote:Denver Nuggets - Jokic will be in the HoF
OKC Thunder - SGA/Chet/JDub all have potential, but SGA is more on the path
Minnesota Timberwolves - Gobert will be in the HoF, KAT and Ant have potential
LAC - Kawhi/Harden/PG/WB will be in the HoF
New Orleans Pelicans - Zion has potential to be in the HoF
Dallas Mavericks - Luka and Kyrie are HoFers
Sacramento Kings - Sabonis is on a HoF path
Phoenix Suns - KD is a HoFer, Book
Los Angeles Lakers - LeBron and AD are HoFers
Golden State - Steph Curry and Draymond Green are HoFers
I think when it's all said and done this current Western conference will have 21 HoFers in the top 10 seeds really how often has that happened?
Well, not going to look up examples because obviously any list that includes young players ‘on a HOF pace/potential’ will be much larger than ones that already know how many of those did/did not pan out.
So let's compare to a recent strong West and use all 10 seeds. The 2013-2014 western conference
Spurs - Duncan, Ginobili, Parker
OKC - WB, Durant
Clippers - CP3, maybe Blake Griffin
Portland - Dame
Houston - Harden, Dwight
Golden State - Curry, Dray, Klay - back then none of them would be viewed as any HoF chance except maybe Curry
Memphis - Marc Gasol
Mavs - Dirk, Vince Carter (way past his prime though), Maybe Shawn Marion
Suns - no one
Minnesota - Kevin Love
If we remove Dray and Klay who no one thought would be HoFers in 2013-2014 that makes for 15 total HoFers in a Western conference with a 50 win minimum for the playoffs.