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Wally_West wrote:Ronnie Price is probably on his way to Phoenix right now in his 2001 Honda Civic.

He's probably still in game shape. And he plays defense ... they could do a lot worse.

Wally_West wrote:Ronnie Price is probably on his way to Phoenix right now in his 2001 Honda Civic.

LOL 9/10

I think it's interesting that Ish Smith is doing pretty well in his post-Suns days. Should we have kept him?

Marty [Mori Chu] wrote:I think it's interesting that Ish Smith is doing pretty well in his post-Suns days. Should we have kept him?

He's a much better PG than anything we've got.

A 52-year old Kevin Johnson might be better than what we got.

Or a 44-year old Steve Nash.

Charlie Smithy! wrote:A 52-year old Kevin Johnson might be better than what we got.

Or a 44-year old Steve Nash.

Marbury wants to come back, remember?

Cap wrote:

Charlie Smithy! wrote:A 52-year old Kevin Johnson might be better than what we got.

Or a 44-year old Steve Nash.

Marbury wants to come back, remember?

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/2228 ... ion-season

The Bobster wrote:

Cap wrote:

Charlie Smithy! wrote:A 52-year old Kevin Johnson might be better than what we got.

Or a 44-year old Steve Nash.

Marbury wants to come back, remember?

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/2228 ... ion-season

Thanks, Bobster. 13yr old me was shocked by Starbury's openness about his sexuality.

I'm straight ... I like being able to have control ... One hundred percent."

Me, too, Bro. <fistbump>

Completely immature humor aside, Marbury does say some pretty mature stuff in that article. And, also, he thinks he deserves consideration for the HOF, which I think brings up the interesting question of how much international accomplishments count in Naismith.

The NBA, for me, was preparation for me to do something someplace else. So all of the knowledge, all that I gained, all the things I was able to learn from playing in the NBA allowed me to come someplace else to inject that and give that type of energy to a culture of basketball that needed that.

It's a good article.

Dominating the CBA is not an impressive accomplishment by any stretch of the imagination.

Marbury was a pretty good NBA player. He made it to two All-Star Games, All-NBA 3rd Team twice, but he made it out of the first round of the playoffs once (when he was a reserve for Boston). That doesn't sound like a Hall of Fame player to me.

The Bobster wrote:Dominating the CBA is not an impressive accomplishment by any stretch of the imagination.

Marbury was a pretty good NBA player. He made it to two All-Star Games, All-NBA 3rd Team twice, but he made it out of the first round of the playoffs once (when he was a reserve for Boston). That doesn't sound like a Hall of Fame player to me.

Like the article says, it's not the NBA Hall of Fame. It's the basketball Hall of Fame. What he's done for basketball in China should not be denigrated. If you take his whole 22 year career into account, I agree with McGrady and Marbury that he should be considered.

If an exec - not a player - ran a playoff team in the NBA, then went to China and had the kind of impact Marbury had in terms of expanding the popularity of the game and running a championship dynasty, I think that exec would be in consideration for a spot.

I don't think Marbury will get into the HoF. Dominating the Chinese basketball league isn't very impressive, and the people voting are not Chinese and won't consider it worthy of inclusion. When you look at the kinds of other people being nominated for the Hall, Marbs' career won't stack up at all.