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For the second time this year, the Basketball Hall of Fame will welcome a new cla s.Chris Bosh, Paul Pierce, Ben Wallace and Chris Webber headline the Basketball Hall of Fame's Cla s of 2021, which includes 16 worthy inductees, each of whom will be presented by a current member of the Hall of Fame at Saturday's enshrinement ceremony. Earlier this year, the Cla s of 2020 which included Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett and Tim https://www.cubsjerseyfans.com/chicago-cubs-jersey/david- ross-jersey Duncan was officially enshrined after the original ceremony was delayed due to COVID.Who could soon follow in their footsteps? Let's take an early look at the former NBA players who will be eligible next year and evaluate their chances.MORE: Basketball Hall of Fame 2022: First-time eligible NBA playersIn order to be eligible for enshrinement, players must be fully retired . That means players who ended their careers after the 2017- https://www.cubsjerseyfans.com/chicago-cubs- jersey/kyle-ryan-jersey 18 NBA season will be eligible to join the Cla s of 2022.a list ofcandidates highlighting players with at least 50 career win shares. (No single statistic is perfect, but win shares, which estimates the number of wins contributed by an individual player, is a good way to cut down the field.) If you take that list and sort the players by their final seasons, you find eight first-time candidates:Manu Ginobili (106.4)Jason Terry (102.0)David West (85.9)Richard Jefferson (83.0)Joe Johnson (82.8)Zach Randolph (81.1)Al Jefferson (71.0)Josh Smith (51.0)Ginobili is a lock for the Hall of Fame. He has https://www.cubsjerseyfans.com/chicago-cubs- jersey/ernie-banks-jersey an impre sive resume that features multiple NBA championships and All-Star appearances, and his accomplishments as a member of the Argentinian National Team, which won an Olympic gold medal in 2004, solidifies his case.Beyond Ginobili, there doesn't appear to be a slam-dunk first-timer. Joe Johnson is the most interesting player in that group, as he was named an All-Star seven times and scored more than 20,000 points in his career. put Johnson's chances at almost exactly 50 percent.Basketball Hall of Fame 2022: Other top candidatesSortingthat Basketball Reference list purely by win shares regardle s of the finalNBA seasonproduces this top 10:Shawn Marion (124.9)Chauncey Billups (120.8)Buck https://www.cubsjerseyfans.com Williams (120.1)Horace Grant (118.2)Terry Porter (110.4)Elton Brand (109.6)Larry Nance (109.6)Detlef Schrempf (109.5)Jeff Hornacek (108.9)Manu Ginobili (106.4)Marion has one of the in recent memory. He was never the No. 1 offensiveoption, and his stats weren't mind-blowing (15.2 points, 8.7 rebounds, 1.9 a sists, 1.5 steals, 1.1 blocks for his career). Yet he was a valuable contributor on winning teams, including the 2010-11 Mavericks squad that won the NBA championship. He was also way ahead of his time in terms of his ability to play positionle s basketball.KEY UPCOMING DATES FOR THE 2021-22 NBA SEASONNot far behind Marion is Billups, who shouldeventually https://www.cubsjerseyfans.com/chicago- cubs-jersey/anthony-rizzo-jersey get in. He was a five- time All-Star, three-time All-NBA selection and NBA Finals MVP with the Pistons. Basketball Reference has his Hall of Fame probablility at 84.4 percent for a reason. Perhaps Wallace being inducted will open the door for Billups.There will be other candidates considered outside ofthat top 10, of course, such as Tim Hardaway andMarques Johnson. It's po sible that a few former players who had been on the fringes could sneak in given that it will not be a loaded cla s. Hall of Fame debates are always highly subjective, though, so there will undoubtedly be some snubs next year.
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