It's the 5th Annual I Love Hoops NBA Role Player Hollafame - Class of 2022 Inductees

person would have been sick in the modern nba, he had a nice career but he was born to soon

definitely

excellent class. diaw on the upper tier of role players imo.

"Boris walks into the gym one day wearing flip-flops and holding his customary cappuccino, which was a staple for him every morning," Griffin recalled. "It was during pre-draft workouts, so he sees the Vertec machine and asks what it is.

"We tell him it measures your vertical leap by determining how many of the bars you can touch. He asks what's the highest anyone has ever gone, and we tell him Amare' Stoudemire cleared the entire rack.

"Boris puts down the cappuccino, takes off his flip-flops and clears the entire rack on the first try. Then he calmly puts his flip-flops back on, picks up his cappuccino and walks away, saying, 'That was not difficult."

The three playoff teams that Chuck Person and Reggie Miller had in Indianapolis (89/90-91/92) were a pretty big deal in town, even though they were a .500 club.

Keep in mind, the Central was a really tough division at the time as you had the Bad Boy Pistons and the Jordan Bulls rising. Atlanta, Cleveland and Milwaukee were both pretty decent too.

Pacers got pretty screwed by the merger and were just freaking terrible for over a decade and this was the first time they had made the playoffs.

It also corresponds in city lore as downtown Indy really started to change and nightlife started to blossom down there.

They came really close in 90/91 to knocking off and upsetting the Celtics losing a 5 game series 3-2.

That's not correct actually, it was Person's rookie year in 86/87 that they first made the playoffs with Dr. Jack Ramsey as coach (and later color commentator for the Pacers).

These results really do not resemble my ballot at all but congrats to the inductees. :)