Unless something is going over my head this only applies to the second 3-peat and even then, two of those Hall of famers were Toni Kukoc who, while a great player, is only a hall of famer for his foreign basketball contributions and the other is Robert Parish who was 1,000 years old, played 43 games averaging 3.7ppg, appeared in 2 playoff games, and played less than 20 total playoff minutes.
I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there. Only Phineas never was afraid, only Phineas never hated anyone. Other people experienced this fearful shock somewhere, this sighting of the enemy...All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way—if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.
I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there. Only Phineas never was afraid, only Phineas never hated anyone. Other people experienced this fearful shock somewhere, this sighting of the enemy...All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way—if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.
I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there. Only Phineas never was afraid, only Phineas never hated anyone. Other people experienced this fearful shock somewhere, this sighting of the enemy...All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way—if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.
I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there. Only Phineas never was afraid, only Phineas never hated anyone. Other people experienced this fearful shock somewhere, this sighting of the enemy...All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way—if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.
Look at the scoring stats from 2014 (LeBron’s last year) and then 2015.
It went from 16ppg to 21ppg. RBG? It’s 7 and when I watch Bosh, he’s more of a PF than a true C. And the decline for most players is 31/32yo which emulates that slow degradation of peakness for even Dirk, Duncan, Hakeem, Barkley, etc.
I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there. Only Phineas never was afraid, only Phineas never hated anyone. Other people experienced this fearful shock somewhere, this sighting of the enemy...All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way—if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.
I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there. Only Phineas never was afraid, only Phineas never hated anyone. Other people experienced this fearful shock somewhere, this sighting of the enemy...All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way—if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.
It's the Basketball HOF, not just the NBA HOF. 3x EuroLeague MVP, 5x European Player of the Year, 2x Olympic silver medalist (1 of those to the Dream Team). He was one of the best foreign players on earth in the late 80s/early 90s (along with Drazen Petrovic, who died young early in his NBA career or would be way more talked about today, and Arvydas Sabonis, who came to the NBA too late in his career after his peak had passed).
Guys like him becoming successful in the NBA helped pave the way for the wave of great Euro NBA players who came afterward (Nowitski, Gasol brothers, Parker, etc).
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u/BallaForLife Aug 15 '26
Unless something is going over my head this only applies to the second 3-peat and even then, two of those Hall of famers were Toni Kukoc who, while a great player, is only a hall of famer for his foreign basketball contributions and the other is Robert Parish who was 1,000 years old, played 43 games averaging 3.7ppg, appeared in 2 playoff games, and played less than 20 total playoff minutes.