HOFER TB wearing a Lakers jersey - class of 2008

[mantypas/CavsCzar]

The second Admission into the HOF this class is none other than TB! The most proficient scoring talent to retire from the league to date, this man can be described, simply put, “as deadly as his name sake”. During his 6 year peak he averaged 30.9 PPG across three different franchises, making a playoff run with each one of them. He scored a career high of 64 points, and He became a consistenly low TO main PG. A tremendous player. TB had 3 main stents during his time in the SLN: Minnesota, Toronto, and the Lakers. Please vote in this chat which team you believe he should represent and if you feel compelled to, explain why! My reasoning for each Team is below:


Minnesota - Drafted the man himself with the 40th pick in our inaugural draft! Insane value, going past cats like Eddie jones, Kerry kittles, Anotonio Mcydeznuts, mitch richmond, Damon stoudamire! Also Minnesota started his career trainings with ⅔ of the allocation, setting the table for the man to become Him.


Toronto - shout out to woo for his clean “raptors” labeling in the trade completed headlines, it made searching back through hundreds of trades a sinch. Ill keep that in mind, lol. But you lose all points cuz you didnt publicly answer my Wakanda question. Jesse said it! Great value. Those 2 firsts became 22 pick and 27 pick in the following drafts and neither cat was about that life. It was early, chalk it up to young love. Regardless, Jwoo Wakanda-pounced on the opportunity and got a blossoming future HOFer. TBs PPG jumped up to nearly 30 during his time there, which TB would then routinely hit for the next 5 seasons thereafter. Toronto also gave him his final camp, cementing what Minnesota had started. Idk what happened during 1998 playoffs, but TB led Torono reached the conf finals (loss 2 el Shaq) and the semis (down in 7 to Bucks, again the eventual champ). Im sure woo probably went deep in 98 too! Woo, from a value point, saw the peak grow cycle in TB's career, rising from 22ppg pre Toronto, to leaving the 30+ maniac he'd peak out at for a half decade to come.

Lakers - Maester J acquired TB from the Hawks for what would be a four year stint LA, smack dab in the heart of his peak. Until TBs 'decline in 2005, this man was a bonafide menace. A scoring machine in the pacific as he had three consecutive years at 31ppg. TBs arrival in LA brought the Lakers to the playoffs and brought back-to-back 7 game Historian-icide battles. TB again would be knocked out by the eventual champion in 2003 via the Sonicks, the 3rd time in his career. Stat wise, LA is where the lion share of his HOF points were acquired, statistically speaking. He earned both 2 all star game nods and 2 all team nods each during his time in Toronto and LA


With all that, and the more than likely way more analytical and or reasonable lines of evaluations you fellas might have in voting TBs HOF colors, but ultimately the choice is yours! Regardless of TB's insane scoring (27.8ppg on 47/40/88) and Stock - TO neutral lifestyle, this man was a continual playoff presence and cemented himself as the ultimate scoring PG and ideal standard. Peak season was .48/.43/.91 at 31ppg with 2.5-2.0 Stonks. Lets go bro! Shoutout to the Heat, Scoops had two First ballot HOFers retire on him in consecutive seasons.

[jwoo]

TB should have gone in as a Raptor, he said so himself. Sad that the Hall of Fame would blatantly ignore his wishes. He became a star in Toronto