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What players were clearly on track for a HOF career, but injuries specifically took away that chance? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by HumbleBrothers@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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Inspired by r/baseball's same thread.

My pick is Amar'e Stoudemire. He was a beast in his years with the Suns.

Career Accolades:

• 6× NBA All-Star (2005, 2007–2011)

• All-NBA First Team (2007)

• 4× All-NBA Second Team (2005, 2008, 2010, 2011)

• NBA Rookie of the Year (2003)

• NBA All-Rookie First Team (2003)

• 2× Israeli Basketball Premier League champion (2017, 2020)

• Israeli Basketball Premier League Finals MVP (2020)

• Israeli Cup winner (2019)

• 2× Israeli Basketball Premier League All-Star (2017, 2019)

• All-EuroCup Second Team (2017)

• McDonald's All-American (2002)

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[–] BigDaddyJuno@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Demarcus Cousins had the talent to be a top 10 center ever but the injuries just kept piling up. If he stayed healthy him and AD coulda brought NOLA a ring

[–] gigglios@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Drose. Is penny in the hof.

[–] thomass___@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Grant Hill

[–] BetweenTheBuzzAndMe@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Rose, Rondo, Deron, Amare', Cousins

[–] Smekledorf1996@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

John Wall

5x all star by the time he turned 27 and wasn’t able to replicate his 2017 season again

Definitely had a few more years to rack up more accolades if the injuries didn’t pile up

[–] fuckreddit42069666@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Remember when Wall was best PG in East and felt like 2nd best in East? Then Giannis broke out more next year.

[–] tomdawg0022@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Mark Price and Brad Daugherty. Both really had great careers going on but injuries either slowed (Price) or knocked out (Daugherty) two really good Cavs from the 90s

[–] BlaqShogunCowboy@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Brandon Roy

[–] sunrises-sunsets@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Penny Hardaway

[–] ComfortableSell6046@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Dwight Howard was on track but unfortunately being gay was so unwelcome he had to get extreme. I always wondered what was holding him back

[–] houstonrockets3311@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

He’s a clown now but Agent 0. His 3 year prime is just as good as anyone’s and he went toe to toe with Kobe at Kobe’s peak.

[–] Vegetable-Tooth8463@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

u/humblebrothers Amare is most definitely making the HoF lol