Top Accolades: 1x champion, 4x All-Star, 2x All-NBA\u00a0<\/p>\n
Key Stats: 15.0 PPG, 8.7 RPG, 1.9 APG, 1.5 SPG, 1.1 BLK<\/p>\n
Shawn Marion’s Hall of Fame case is often presented through a “Well, he doesn’t have a traditional argument, but\u2026” lens, as if a four-time All-Star was some role player. His scoring arc doesn’t square away with conventional stardom, but he averaged over 19 points per game from 2000-01 through 2006-07 as a member of those elite Phoenix Suns squads.\u00a0<\/p>\n
More credit should be given to Marion’s across-the-board impact. He thrived within a host of different ecosystems and was among the most versatile defenders of his era. The absence of an All-Defense selection, in hindsight, verges on egregious when you consider he finished in the top 10 of DPOY voting three times.<\/p>\n
Marion hasn’t suited up since 2015 and still comfortably ranks inside the top 65 all-time of total rebounds (41st<\/a>), steals (21st<\/a>) and blocks (62nd<\/a>). That’s absurd stuff for someone listed at 6’7″, and his longevity buys him a spot on the top-100 scoring list<\/a>, if you’re into that sort of thing.<\/p>\n Dan Favale is a National NBA Writer for Bleacher Report. Follow him on Bluesky (@danfavale<\/a>), and subscribe to the\u00a0Hardwood Knocks<\/a>\u00a0podcast, co-hosted by Bleacher Report’s\u00a0Grant Hughes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top Accolades: 1x champion, 4x All-Star, 2x All-NBA\u00a0 Key Stats: 15.0 PPG, 8.7 RPG, 1.9 APG, 1.5 SPG,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-120628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}