2007 Basketball HOF Inductees

[miami_fan]

Phil Jackson (Coach)
Nine NBA titles; fastest coach in NBA history to reach 900 wins.

Roy Williams (Coach)
Six-time NCAA coach of the year. Five Final Fours; three title games; one title.

Van Chancellor (Coach)
Led Houston Comets to four WNBA titles and won gold medal with U.S. at 2004 Olympics.

Texas Western (Team)
Won 1966 NCAA title over Kentucky; first team to win title with five black starting players.

Mendy Rudolph (Referee)
Officiated 2,112 NBA games; worked Finals games for 22 straight seasons.

Pedro Ferrandiz (Int'l coach)
437-90 record with Real Madrid. 12 Spanish League titles, 11 Spanish Cup titles, and four European Cup titles.

Mirko Novosel (Int'l coach)
Led Yugoslavia to 1980 Olympic gold medal, 1976 silver medal and a bronze in 1984.

Congrats to all. A couple of things for me. First, I wonder Roy Williams would have been voted in if he had not won a title with the Tar Heels. Second, Tex Winters deserves to be in the HOF.

[lcjjdnh]

Disappointed to see Bob Hurley, Sr., coach of St. Anthony's HS in Jersey City didn't make the final cut. Great coach, even better person.

[Schmidty]

I really think Pistons owner Bill Davidson should have been voted in.

[JeeberD]

Congrats to the Miners, the first NCAA team to be inducted into the HOF!

[molson]

Not a single player - that must be a first.

[Leonidas]

Thank God Dickie V didn't get in.

[Swaggs]

Can you really put Tex Winter in ahead of Phil Jackson, though?

[miami_fan]

Originally Posted by Swaggs

Can you really put Tex Winter in ahead of Phil Jackson, though?

I could. I mean Phil has not won a championship without Tex by his side.

I just think that Tex deserves to be in the Basketball HOF for his contributions to the game over the last 50+ years.

[Swaggs]

Originally Posted by miami_fan

I could. I mean Phil has not won a championship without Tex by his side.

I just think that Tex deserves to be in the Basketball HOF for his contributions to the game over the last 50+ years.

I agree that he deserves to be in. He has certainly been far more influential than a lot of the folks on this year's list.

I think that with Jackson in, it could be easier for Winter to get in, since the voters won't have to measure him in relation as to whether or not Phil is in the Hall.

[MrBug708]

They need a better format for the basketball HOF. I mean, Phil Jackson is getting in at the same time as a WNBA coach? C'mon...

[JeeberD]

Oh I know you ain't talking smack about my boy Van Chancellor, Bug...

[MrBug708]

Originally Posted by JeeberD

Oh I know you ain't talking smack about my boy Van Chancellor, Bug...

I'm going to just file this post under the sarcasm...

C'mon Jeebs, it's a freaking WNBA coach. They should be in the WNBA HOF, not the basketball HOF. It would be like putting the HS coach of De Le Salle in the "football" HOF in the same class as Vince Lombardi. Sure it would be football, but it's not the same

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by MrBug708

C'mon Jeebs, it's a freaking WNBA coach. They should be in the WNBA HOF, not the basketball HOF.

Seems to me you're kind of looking at this backwards.

This is the "Basketball" HOF, not the "NBA" HOF. It covers multiple levels of the game, with four screening committees: North American, Women, Veterans, and International. There's no distinction between Pro & College under North American, nor NBA or ABA, nor exhibition teams such as the Globetrotters.

It would be like putting the HS coach of De Le Salle in the "football" HOF in the same class as Vince Lombardi. Sure it would be football, but it's not the same

But only because Lombardi is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, not the "catch-all Football HOF" ... otherwise, right beside some HS coaches is exactly where he'd be.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

This is the "Basketball" HOF, not the "NBA" HOF.

Yep.

[Hammer755]

The fact that Van Chancellor got in before Guy V. Lewis is a traveshamockery.