It's the 4th Annual I Love Hoops NBA Role Player Hollafame - VOTING & CAMPAIGNING THREAD (voting closes FRIDAY, JULY 23, 2021, 11:59 PM CST)

despite all of ilh sitting at home with massive soft tissue injuries (this is a masturbation joke, i dont do many please clap) it is JULY which means we are voting for ROLE PLAYERS in our illustrious hollafame

below are 75 nominees from last year's vote who never made all-star or all-nba teams but were still major contributors to the game. only players who have not played NBA basketball in the last 5 years are eligible, so ITT we need to list some role players who retired after the 2015-2016 season.

Mychal Thompson
Derek Harper
Manute Bol
Hedo Turkoglu
Jalen Rose
Byron Scott
Mario Elie
Kurt Thomas
Craig Hodges
Damon Stoudamire
Ben Gordon
Mike Bibby
Johnny Moore
Bruce Bowen
Brent Barry
James Posey
Michael Cage
Derek Fisher
Scott Skiles
Chuck Person
Shawn Bradley
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf
Rafer Alston
Darrell Armstrong
Isaac Austin
M.L. Carr
Rex Chapman
Michael Cooper
Dell Curry
Ernie DiGregorio
Mike Dunleavy, Sr.
Pervis Ellison
Kendall Gill
Darrell Griffith
Alan Henderson
Fred Hoiberg
Larry Hughes
Bobby Jackson
Avery Johnson
Eddie Johnson
George Johnson
Jason Kapono
Ron Lee
Tim Legler
Jim Les
Don MacLean
Sarunas Marciulionis
Vernon Maxwell
Aaron McKie
Don Meineke
Gheorghe Muresan
Tracy Murray
Bo Outlaw
Anthony Peeler
Kevin Porter
Rodney Rogers
Tree Rollins
Rony Seikaly
Bobby Simmons
Elmore Smith
Larry Steele
Jon Sundvold
Roy Tarpley
Brian Taylor
Sedale Threatt
Trent Tucker
Loy Vaught
Sasha Vujacic
Donald “Slick” Watts 
John “Hot Rod” Williams
Walt Williams
Corliss Williamson
Kevin Martin
Matt Bonner
Tayshaun Prince

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Your ballot should contain a list of 5 players. If you submit them ranked 1-5, 1st place will get 5 points, 2nd will get 4, etc. If you submit them unranked, each player will be awarded 3 pts.

hoisting for your love,
m bison

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previous inductees:
It's the 1st Annual I Love Hoops NBA Role Player Hollafame - Class of 2018 Inductees
It's the 2nd Annual I Love Hoops NBA Role Player Hollafame - Class of 2019 Inductees
It's the 3rd Annual I Love Hoops NBA Role Player Hollafame - Class of 2020 Inductees

c/o 2018:
Lamar Odom
Marcus Camby
Steve Kerr
Tyrone “Muggsy” Bogues
Toni Kukoc

c/o 2019:
Shane Battier
Ron Harper
Cedric “Cornbread” Maxwell
Vinnie “Microwave” Johnson
Stephen Jackson

c/o 2020:
Arvydas Sabonis
Jason Ricahrdson
Sam Perkins
Robert Horry
Nate McMillan

Is this the new pool of candidates?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2016%E2%80%9317_NBA_season_transactions

kevin martin is a good new one.

I nominate Andre Miller

il def give him a vote. one of my fav players

andre miller is added and a great selection!

Five more I'd add to the list:

PJ Brown, Rod Strickland, David Wesley, Jim Jackson, Grant Long.

some excellent choices but hot rod made all-nba in 1998 (what the fuck)

also im trying to recall who it was, but one of david wesley's close relatives was one of my mom's patients years ago and i was just reminded of this!

PJ Brown in particular is a great add, as is Andre Miller, he feels like a first ballot Role Player HoFer. Would've expected both of those guys to have picked up a stray all-star nod at some point (same with Strickland; I imagine he was blocked on a number of occasions by the PGs he happened to be contemporary to).

Debating whether to nominate DeShawn Stevenson - I won't be voting for him personally but he played a notable role on both the Gilbert Wizards and the 2011 Mavs

I ctrl+f'ed for Jason Terry, and was reminded that he was playing as recently as 2018! Still a couple years away for him.

I will also nominate PJ Brown's slightly beefier doppelganger, Rick Mahorn

Josh Smith would be eligible this year but for 12 minutes played for the Pelicans in 2017. Not sure he's a hollafame role player as I don't think any team ever quite figured out what his role was. but he's a notable player who otherwise meets the criteria

i think jason richardson is newly eligible for this list

au contraire, was eligible last year and was immediately inducted!

ah. well deserved!

HOMIES

i have 2 ballots and 1 of those is mine. hoopocracy dies in darkness. make ur voice heard pendejxs.

time for craig hodges to enter this hall at least:

https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/05/12/craig-hodges-nba-activism

w ur ballot there is now a 4-way tie for 5th place, we need more votes

Oh I didn't realize the turnaround would be so quick. I'll give it some thought

was there a list up of newly eligible players that I missed?

These are the new available guys (afaik) I think are worth mentioning...

Luke Ridinour
Willie Green
Ryan Gomes
Chuck Hayes
Landry Fields
Melvin Ely
Ronny Turiaf
Kevin Martin
Andre Miller
Matt Bonner

gracias

ayyyyyy send me ur votes

bc theres literally an 8-way tie for 5th now lol

wow i cant believe its the most important day on the hoops calendar????? if u dont vote this will become a hollafame autocracy and i will decide on the hall entrants every year myself by picking al the spurs players, even the bad ones (jack haley is a shoe-in now)

I am out of town I can send Tuesday morning if you want to wait

i will wait i aint got shit to do til next week anyhow

(school is back yayyyy)

oh yeah send me your ballots asap i need to get this thing done before the draft on thursday

Sent!

hell yeah brother

It's the 4th Annual I Love Hoops NBA Role Player Hollafame - Class of 2021 Inductees

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