It's the 2nd Annual I Love Hoops NBA Role Player Hollafame - Class of 2019 Inductees

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Role Player Hollafame Class of 2019 Inductee: Shane Battier (15 points, 6 votes)
Roles: 3 and D specialist
Notable stats: 1st Team All-Rookie, 2-time All-NBA Defense (2nd team), 2-time NBA champ, 95th all-time career 3-point percentage
Why they never reached stardom: limited offensively (PPG peaked his rookie year in MEM at 14.4)

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Role Player Hollafame Class of 2019 Inductee: Ron Harper (12 points, 3 votes, 1 1st place vote)
Roles: second or third scoring option on mostly bad or mediocre teams, defensive stopper in title teams
Notable stats: 5-time NBA champ, 1st Team All-Rookie, 47th all-time NBA steals per game, 70th all-time NBA defensive win shares
Why they never reached stardom: played shooting guard in the Eastern Conference at the same time as Jordan and Reggie Miller

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Role Player Hollafame Class of 2019 Inductee: Cedric “Cornbread” Maxwell (10 points, 3 votes, 1 1st place vote)
Roles: clutch playoff dude, low post beast
Notable stats: 1981 NBA Finals MVP, 2-time NBA champ, back-to-back most accurate shooter in 1979 and 1980 (led league in FG% and Offensive Rating)
Why they never reached stardom: playing in the shadows of future Hall-of-Famers, relatively short career (11 years)

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Role Player Hollafame Class of 2019 Inductee: Vinnie “Microwave” Johnson (9 points, 3 votes)
Roles: clutch playoff dude, super sub
Notable stats: 2-time NBA champ, played in all 82 games in seven different seasons
Why they never reached stardom: played behind future Hall-of-Famers, shooing stroke looked weird as hell

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Role Player Hollafame Class of 2019 Inductee: Stephen Jackson (7 points, 2 votes)
Roles: clutch playoff dude, super sub, heart-and-soul dude
Notable stats: 1-time NBA champ, 14th in PPG in 2010 (Charlotte Bobcats)
Why they never reached stardom: intense hoops passion made him kind of a hothead, inefficient as hell

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thats it yall

Nice, I voted for Battier and Microwave

wow what a list! to me battier is the quintessential role player.

love the dad pics + comic sans lol. ron harper airpod shot is my fav.

lol seriously? literally my entire ballot.

cad is the ilhhof hivemind thought leader

great work

there was a lot of variation in who voted for whomst other than sugar shane, so ppl who got multiple votes were in better shape even without 1st place votes

lol zero of my votes placed I am the hoops outsider

maxwell and johnson deserve this based on nicknames alone

I love scoring the ball and was good but in order too win I accept my role and won 5 in 6 years the ultimate goal... Phil jackson saw me as a point and a defense of player that could do it all... you better look at my cavs and clippers days!!!!! RESPECT

— Ron Harper (@HARPER04_5) January 31, 2023

ron harper and ilh otm

"I love scoring the ball and was good" for new borad description