If Kyrie Irving never plays another game, is he a Hall of Famer?

[Piff Huxtable]

Kyrie has a better case than Yao Ming and Bill Bradley who are in the HoF

What really helps Kyrie in any discussion, subconsciously, is that he hit probably the biggest shot in modern basketball history.

Game 6 Ray Allen >>>

 

[Bigblackted4]

Have y’all seen some of the people in the Hall of course

 

[inndaskKy]

How? They were actually bringing the trophy out for the Spurs when Ray hit that shot. Also the degree of difficulty on Ray shot was insane.

73-9 Warriors were deemed unbeatable. Kyrie's shot sealed the deal for Bron and him pulling off the impossible. Ray Allen's was more a Derek Fisher type of big shot.

 

[Wacky D]

@Greenhornet I agree with everything you just said, except Kyrie carrying the cavs before LeBron got there.

The cavs had enough to be better than what they were. There's a reason why dion waiters broke kyrie's face.

Exactly but he won some gold medals and a case can be made that along with his ring and all star appearances he should get in.

I agree but when you factor in potential grudges, he gotta do more.

 

[Dwight Howard]

this.... I’m a Kyrie fan, but most won’t admit that his first years in the league were a wash until lebron showed up.

Well he was a rookie/young player

 

[Remote]

I voted no but after seeing the list, I forgot he won the 3 point contest
he used to cook when Lebron was in Miami, people shyt on that but he was alone on that team and carried pretty well
alot of his shyt is well deserved and alot is padding but its accolades none the less. I would say 100% he deserves it based on resume, but I would also say his resume is padded compared to other people.
I cant really call dude a leader when he came in wanting to be one, but as soon as he got away from Lebron he wasnt a leader anymore. That completely makes me dislike him as a point guard, even though he's great.
Meanwhile you got dudes like Billups and Rose, working mad hard and living for the game... coaching and coming back from multiple career ending injuries just to thrive.

I just looked up Rasheed Wallace accolades and they dont tell the full story of his career. Dude was never on an All NBA team... but carried every team he was on basically. Almost won with Portland, finally got 1 with Detroit, then almost won it for Boston as just an extra piece. Id rather ride with someone like that over someone who's completely destroying entire teams chemistry, from Cleveland to Boston to Brooklyn. Dude makes Iverson look like Grant Hill as far as chemistry goes. They bring Nash in who's a master of chemistry which is genius... then instead of building it dude doesnt even show up dude took a mental health week off last year and then posted videos harlem shaking in the club. Dude sat out for the playoffs in Boston then took a whole year off this year. Klay Thompson blew his knee out and then tore his achilles and Kyrie has nearly missed the same amount of time. Klay missed 2 years with career threatening injuries and worked his way back. Kyrie sat in Boston, fukked around last year on and off and then sat this entire year thats not even mentioning him not even wanting to play bubble basketball at all . Dude stopped caring in 2018




last year someone posted:

"He has missed 111 of the 492 games he was on the Cleveland Cavaliers

37 of the 164 games he was on the Boston Celtics.

And 52 of the 72 games that he had been on the Brooklyn Nets.

Only played 11 games in college and missed 26"

Wow

 

[Luke Cage]

low key i think he has a better chance if he never played again then he would if he sticks around fukking up and not winning shyt for the next 8 years before falling off. Covid aint going anywhere so he not playing another game on a superteam, because they're all in LA and New York. So say he eventually gets traded to some trash team and does like he on the cavs before lebron came. combine that with him being injury prone and he gonna be kevin love status for the remainder of his career. That would throw his HOF chances down substantially. His time with the celtics already proved that even with a good team he can't win as the number one option.

 

[Easy-E]

He'd get in but I don't think he should.

this

 

[etrofllenrod504]

73-9 Warriors were deemed unbeatable. Kyrie's shot sealed the deal for Bron and him pulling off the impossible. Ray Allen's was more a Derek Fisher type of big shot.

We'll have to agree to the disagree. I don't think anyone thought they were unbeatable especially after being down 3-1 themselves to OKC the series before. Also the shot by Kyrie didn't officially "seal" the deal. There was 51secs left after he made that shot. It was tied game 89-89 so the pressure wasn't as high. Kevin Love defense on Steph the next possession was HUGE! Also Bron making the free throw with 10secs left was big also because it put the best 3pt shooting backcourt down by 4. Ray hit that shot when they were down by 3 to tie that game with less than 10secs left. Ray miss that shot they go home, it's over. Kyrie miss they still had 51sec left and another chance to stop the warriors on defense. Also if the warriors scored Cavs had more time to tie or cut the lead to 1.

 

[inndaskKy]

We'll have to agree to the disagree. I don't think anyone thought they were unbeatable especially after being down 3-1 themselves to OKC the series before. Also the shot by Kyrie didn't officially "seal" the deal. There was 51secs left after he made that shot. It was tied game 89-89 so the pressure wasn't as high. Kevin Love defense on Steph the next possession was HUGE! Also Bron making the free throw with 10secs left was big also because it put the best 3pt shooting backcourt down by 4. Ray hit that shot when they were down by 3 to tie that game with less than 10secs left. Ray miss that shot they go home, it's over. Kyrie miss they still had 51sec left and another chance to stop the warriors on defense. Also if the warriors scored Cavs had more time to tie or cut the lead to 1.

You're faulting Kyrie's shot for leaving 51 secs but Ray Allen's shot was followed by OT plus a whole game... It didn't decide anything. LeBron scored a free throw but you know how many points he had to score after Ray Allen's shot to get the win?

If Warriors win that game, they take over the Bulls with arguably the best season of all time. Now it don't mean a thing...

 

[Bryan Danielson]

https://youtube.com/shorts/IvfjvgQII24?feature=share

 

[duncanthetall]

Did he not say he should be in the hall for one shot? Then I countered with Hardaway being perennial all star but you ignoring that aspect too huh

Are you referring to my post where I said he hit the shot of the decade, was a perennial all star, and has obvious HOF talent? You just omitting 2/3 of the post breh?

 

[feelosofer]

He has enough of a resume to get in, regardless of how people feel about him.

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

People were saying he should have made the list for Top 75 players of ALL TIME and you have folks in here debating if he's a hall of famer????

 

[Deus]

No. Hall of Fame not hall of very good.

Kyrie has a better case than Yao Ming and Bill Bradley who are in the HoF



Game 6 Ray Allen >>>

Better case than Yao Ming?

You cray cray? Big Men get a pass for less games as they get injured more and Yao was way more famous in his day then Kyrie. Hell I forgot he wasn't even playing till I saw this thread.

No one cares about Kyrie.