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2009 Basketball HOF Class

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Jordan leads a pretty damn good class into the Hall:

Michael Jordan, David Robinson among Naismith Hall of Fame Class of 2009 - ESPN

Jordan, Robinson lead Hall's 2009 class

DETROIT -- It was only a matter of time, and now Michael Jordan is in the Hall of Fame.

Jordan was elected to the class of 2009 Monday with David Robinson, John Stockton, Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan and Rutgers women's coach C. Vivian Stringer.

The announcement was made in Detroit, site of the men's Final Four. Induction is Sept. 10-12 in Springfield, Mass., home of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Jordan's Hall of Fame selection was a slam dunk after he retired as perhaps the greatest player in history.

His soaring dunks, Nike commercials and "Air Jordan" nickname helped stamp him as one the most recognizable athletes around the world. He finished a 15-year career with the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards with 32,292 points -- the third-highest total in league history, behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Karl Malone. His final career average of 30.12 goes down as the best, just ahead of Wilt Chamberlain's 30.07.

The five-time NBA MVP won six championships with the Bulls and another in college with North Carolina. The Tar Heels play Michigan State in the national championship game Monday night...
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Hard to find classier acts in the NBA than Stockton, Robinson and Sloan.
 
BuckeyeNation27;1444630; said:
wasn't Stockton considered dirty as hell? I might be thinking of somebody else...
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As a player, he was known for consistent, subtle trash-talk and alot of little elbows and such. Sloan was a tough guy as a player too. I meant more big-picture as league reps, career achievements, etc. Hard to knock guys for being competitors on the court - even Robinson got a tech now and then. :wink:
 
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BuckeyeNation27;1444630; said:
wasn't Stockton considered dirty as hell? I might be thinking of somebody else...
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No, you're right. He was just more subtle about it than others. Almost never out in the open, always down in the paint where it's harder to tell what's going on.

An elbow on a cutter. A knee to the thigh of a guy posting up. Man I loved watching him play. (Not the short shorts, though :tic:)
 
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I wonder if Sloan is getting in as a player as a coach. I guess I would as soon as a player but he was not that prolific of a score but he could play defense like nobody else could his size. Talk about a competitor. From a pure competitor's point, he could play on my team any day of the week.
 
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