It's the 8th Annual I Love Hoops NBA Role Player Hollafame - Class of 2025 Inductees

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Role Player Hollafame Class of 2025 Inductee: Jamal Crawford (16 points, 4 votes, 2 first place votes)
Roles: the ultimate scoring spark off the bench, unreal handles
Notable stats: NBA record 3-time 6th Man of the Year
Why they never reached stardom: spent best-scoring years years on shitty Bulls, Knicks and Warriors teams; his heyday as perennial 6MOY candidate on winning Clippers team meat he was overshadowed by All-Stars Blake and CP3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcL0sFIm2_U

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Role Player Hollafame Class of 2025 Inductee: Tony Allen (16 points, 5 votes)
Roles: grindfather, defensive menace
Notable stats: 1-time NBA Champ, 6-time NBA All-Defense
Why they never reached stardom: only averaged double-digit in scoring once, kinda all that you need to know

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Role Player Hollafame Class of 2025 Inductee: Bruce Bowen (7 points, 2 votes)
Roles: dirty trickster, defensive menace
Notable stats: 3-time NBA Champ, 8-time NBA All-Defense which is the most of any non-HOFer (or future HOFers ie CP3, Draymond)
Why they never reached stardom: Despite leading the league in 3P% in 2003 and posting a career 39% average from distance, Bruce was one of the worst offensive players in the league as far as starters are concerned. About 75% of his 3s came from the corner, and that was all he could do.

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Role Player Hollafame Class of 2025 Inductee: PJ Brown (6 points, 2 votes)
Roles: classic bruising power forward, post defender
Notable stats: 1-time NBA Champ, 3-time NBA All-Defense, 1-time NBA Sportsmanship Award
Why they never reached stardom: Despite starting for most of his career, he was never a featured scorer. Never averaged a double-double, though he came close when he averaged 10 and 9 for many years in New Orleans.

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Role Player Hollafame Class of 2025 Inductee: Brent Barry (6 points, 2 votes)
Roles: three-point specialist, dunker, immediate relative to other NBA players
Notable stats: 2-time NBA Champ, 1996 Dunk Contest winner, All-Rookie 2nd Team, led league in 3P% in 2000-01 and led in EFG% twice
Why they never reached stardom: not a volume scorer, spent half his career coming off the bench, didn't shoot his free throws underhanded like I taught him

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of course i catch a typo NOW smh

Excellent class.

Jamal a really awesome highlight reel I always watch when one comes across my timeline.

brent barry is a worthy tiebreaker winner, and m bison has been Rick Barry all along I knew it

Nice bunch of lads

completely forgot about those old man pj brown clutch buckets in that game 7