Basketball Hall of Fame: 5 Players who could get inducted to Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019

#4 Chauncey Billups

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He deserves to be in the HOF for multiple reasons, but none so relevant as this: he made the Bad Boy Pistons Part 2 come alive. In Rasheed and Ben Wallace, the Pistons had a terrifying defense, and in Prince and Rip Hamilton they had a wonderful offense, but Billups made everything click.

He was the underlying reason why Detroit beat the Shaq - Kobe Lakers in 2004 to clinch the title, and he was also part of the reason Detroit took San Antonio to seven games in 2005.

The man just... clicked. He brought Denver to relevance again and had 5 All-Star appearances. He just failed to make it this year and that bespeaks more about how good Nash, Kidd and Allen were than it speaks about his marginal deficiencies.

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#5 Chris Webber

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He belongs to that class of players caught between a schism of before vs after. A wonderful power forward with traditional HOF stats in a HOF career, Webber brought Sacramento to relevance. His name is never exactly mentioned in that PF list, but that's because he had Oakley and Barkley before him and Dirk, Tim, and Garnett after him.

Excluding him from any HOF is just not possible.