2021-2022 Hall of Fame Nominations

[JNR]

Welcome to the call for nominees to the People’s Basketball Sim League Hall of Fame. The rules are simple. Nominate a player you think deserves to be mentioned among the greatest players to play in this league. Championships, all-star appearances, funny picture blogs: all of these things could mean enough to warrant a nomination. There’s only one requirement: the player has to be retired from the PBSL. There is no time restriction on retirement – as soon as a player retires, they are eligible for the HOF.

-Nominees on the ballot with over 75% yes votes get into the HOF
-Nominees on the ballot with over 50% yes votes (but under 75%) are automatically considered for next year's ballot ("free" nomination that doesn't cost any owner a yearly nomination).

NOMINATIONS WILL BE OPEN UNTIL THE END OF THE PLAYOFFS. I WILL RELEASE THE POLLS IN THE OFFSEASON, WHERE YOU WILL HAVE TWO WEEKS TO VOTE.

Here are the retirees from last year:

6/21/2021 Knicks PG Goran Dragic retires
6/21/2021 Celtics PG Deron Williams retires
6/21/2021 Warriors C Tyson Chandler retires

And from the year before:

6/15/2020 Jazz PG Nate Robinson retires

Here are notable free agents who retired last year:

Zach Randolph
Carmelo Anthony

Here are notable free agents who retired the year before:

Ron Artest
Chris Kaman
Kevin Martin
Amare Stoudemire
Delonte West

And here are the other HOF nominees from the past few years who did not get in. Perhaps you want to nominate them again this year?

Antonio McDyess
Ray Allen
Keith Van Horn
Mike Miller
Dirk Nowitzki

Chauncey Billups is automatically nominated due to receiving 50% of the vote last year. It will be the fourth and final nomination.

YOU WILL RECEIVE 1 POINT FOR NOMINATING SOMEONE FOR THE HALL OF FAME. IF THE PLAYER YOU NOMINATE GETS VOTED INTO THE HALL OF FAME, YOU GET ANOTHER POINT.

[IamQuailman]

RON ARTEST!!!!

[IamQuailman]

RON ARTEST!!!!

If the NBA had an award for career longevity, Ron Artest would be quite possibly 1st on that list. Having played 21 seasons in SLOE (1488 games), Ron Artest played at a high level for arguably 2/3 of those seasons (3years in the beginning were growth years, 3-4 years at the twilight of his career). His nickname was "Limitless", and he lived up to it. Let's look at a total list of achievements:

Total Player of the Game: 285
Total Player of the Week: 13
Total Player of the Month: 1
Total All-Star Appearances: 8
Total All-League First Team: 1
Total All-League Second Team: 1
Total All-League Third Team: 1
Total All-Defensive First Team: 2
Total All-Defensive Second Team: 4
Total Playoff MVP: 1
Total Championships: 2

8-time all-star. 2-time NBA Champion. Playoff MVP. 3-time All-Leage. 6-time All-Defense. 14 seasons of averaging 18ppg or more (9 20+ ppg seasons). He scored, he rebounded well for his position, he shared the ball. He created turnovers. Ron Artest checks every box you would need checked for an NBA HOF Candidate. His career started in New Orleans. 2 years in, he was traded to the Bucks for an assortment of picks and future multi-time all-star Zach Randolph. In Milwaukee, he experienced some of the most successful years of his career, with 2007-08 perhaps being one of his most highlight-worthy seasons. That year, he helped lead the Milwaukee Bucks to their 1st (and only) NBA Championship Title. After the subsequent season's title run was cut short, the Bucks and Artest parted ways. 7 years later, he went back to the team that drafted him (the New Orleans Pelicans) and helped THEM win the their 1st and only championship (against the team he started for in the previous season, the Indianapolis Pacers). Artest could have gone out on top, but he still felt he career hadn't reached it's limit (I mean he didn't have limits so...). He played 4 more seasons before calling it a career.

Looking back, Artest had a career most sim league players can only dream about. But it doesn't stop there. Hall of Fame is his next stop, his final stop. Turns out he does have a limit... and that limit is being forever remembered as one of SLOE's all-time greats.

[JNR]

Thanks for your nomination, Doug. You may claim 1 point.

[PaulyP]

I feel like a proud parent right now because I have the honor and pleasure to nominate the best PG in Sim League history---

DERON WILLIAMS




Chosen 2nd overall in the 2005 draft (then Cavaliers GM 42 selected Chris Paul with the 1st choice which highlighted a short and unsuccessful tenure in the league for the GM)...D-Will would go on to win Rookie of the Year and lead the league in assists over veteran ball handlers such as Andre Miller, Baron Davis, and Chauncey Billups...and that was only the beginning for the young floor general.

In a career that spanned 15 seasons (12 with Indiana) he was a constant force every time he stepped out onto the floor - which was quite often logging 1249 career games (only 12 of those from the bench and Player of the Game 462 times!) - he could score (23.6 career PPG) and efficiently (48% FG + 42% 3P) AND he could dish (10/12 seasons with Indy over 10 APG). The man literally had no holes in his game.

Though a title would always elude him, it wouldnt be to any fault of his own; his playoff averages are as follows -- 72 Games Played/ 30ppg / 5rbg / 11 apg/ 3.2 ATR / 48%/84%/40% -- and lets not forget about the magical playoff run in 2015 where he led the Pacers to within minutes of the championship

Now for a quick rundown of achievements in case you still need convincing (you dont tho)
*12-time All-Star
*7-time 1st Teamer
*1-time a piece for 2nd/3rd team
*3-time assist leader
*11th all time in points
*2nd in all time assists (should be first but Magic has stats from before the league started)
*28th in all time turnovers which is amazing considering how much he had the ball
*1ST in 3-pointers made as of this moment with 3160 (169 more than Love rn)
*584 double-doubles which of right now is the most by a guard

Once again it is my pleasure to nominate him, they say the best players are the ones you dont have to think about fitting in, for seasons my mind would be at ease because I always knew I had him at PG so I could focus my efforts on other spots. He is the best point guard this league will ever see and is synonymous with Indiana basketball and the PBSL in general during the height of his powers and in my opinion this should be a UNANIMOUS SELECTION for our Hall of Fame.

On behalf of the Indiana Pacers organziation, we nominate Deron Williams for the 2021-22 PBSL Hall of Fame. Thank you!

[JNR]

Great job, Pauly. You may claim 1 point.

[WigNosy]

TYSON CHANDLER

Final Player Page: http://pbsl.ijbl.net/2020/players/player220.htm

Before Deandre Jordan was surprising GMs with his ability to make a team become an instant contender thanks to his presence as a defensive anchor, there was Tyson Chandler. Tyson's career spanned a shopping 20 seasons and he was a starter for 18 of them.

Unlike Ben Wallace, who might have been the original template for "defensive anchor" Chandler had some offensive skills. He was never an unstoppable offensive force, but in his prime was capable of punishing defenses (peaking offensively while averaging 19.6 points per game in 2009) and currenty ranks #83 all-time in the PBSL's scoring annals.

But we wouldn't be telling the right story focusing on his offense. No, the proper focus for Tyson is on his defense. Tyson currently ranks #4 all-time in rebounding, behind only Shaq, Kemp, and Steven Hunter (he's 2nd in playoff rebounds behind only Kemp). He ranks 6th all-time in blocked shots (3rd in playoff blocks behind Kemp and Alonzo Mourning). He was a consistent double-double machine, posting 503 of them in the course of his career (good for #16 all-time).

Not until his 19th and 20th seasons in the league did he finally get moved to the bench, and you always hear coaches talk about "the best ability being availability..." only once did he ever play less than 74 games, and usually played all 82 (and even managed 85 in 2016). He is, in fact, the all-time PBSL leader in games played (with 1540);l the current active leaders (LeBron James and Josh Smith) are both at 1438 so need to play another season and a half to catch him (and they've been in the league FOREVER). He's also 3rd all-time in playoff games played (Penny Hardaway and Shawn Kemp are the only guys ahead of him).

Most importantly, where Chandler went, he WON. He won 992 regular season games - that's right, 64% of the time he suited up, his teams came out on top. That percentage dropped only slightly to 61% in the post-season (123 wins in 202 games). Chandler finished with four all-star appearances, led the league in blocks 4 times, and was a two-time champion, including a Playoff MVP in 2010 with the 76ers. He even managed to pick up a most-improved player award 8 years into his career when he was traded from the Kings to the Sixers and had a career year.

Tyson was a rock and every time you faced him, you felt like you had to find a way to account for his defense... and while you were doing that he was usually killing you on the offensive end with efficiency; his career True Shooting percenatge is .571 and he put in 1.31 points per shot on his career.

Simply put, Tyson is hall-worthy and should get your vote.

[JNR]

Thanks Wig, you can claim a point

[digiskunk]

I can't believe nobody has nominated Ray Allen yet!

First and foremost, here is his player index, from the 2010 season, when his career was pretty much at its end: http://pbsl.ijbl.net/2010/players/player475.htm

I understand that I wasn't around to see Ray Allen "play", but it doesn't take a genius to take a look at his stats and wonder, "huh, I wonder why he isn't being considered for the Hall of Fame." It goes without saying that this game is all about getting buckets, and for several years that's exactly what Ray Allen did for his team, averaging 23 points per game between 2001‒2006. Furthermore, despite being a shooting guard, Ray Allen facilitated the ball quite fairly, averaging 4 assists per game during that same timeframe. He may not have been an overpowering player by any stretch of the imagination, but let's not forget that his primary role was to score — and he did that quite efficiently, averaging 40% from 3pt range for his entire career (not to mention he shot 47% from the field overall).

So there you have it!

[JNR]

Thank you, Gary. You may claim one point.