{"id":41365,"date":"2025-08-03T22:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41365\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T22:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:30:08","slug":"bucks-legend-belongs-in-basketball-hall-of-fame-says-nba-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41365\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks Legend Belongs in Basketball Hall of Fame, Says NBA Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_vjtaxolmh\">One of the most beloved Milwaukee Bucks All-Stars of yesteryear remains on the outside of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame looking in, despite boasting probably enough of the requisite accolades to deserve a seat at the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_rfg8bzasa\">NBA insider Marc Stein of The Stein Line made the case for five-time All-Star swingman-turned-Bucks broadcaster Marques Johnson&#8217;s eventual enshrinement, during a new conversation on the latter&#8217;s &#8220;Hear District&#8221; podcast.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Anyone who watched you play knows you belong there.&#8221; \ud83c\udfc6<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSteinLine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TheSteinLine<\/a> makes the case as to why Bucks legend, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/olskool888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@olskool888<\/a> deserves to be enshrined in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hoophall?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Hoophall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 WATCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EshmX4pmhP\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/EshmX4pmhP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r77UEQ3qfJ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/r77UEQ3qfJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bucks+ (@BucksPlusAudio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BucksPlusAudio\/status\/1950982597447667889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_6bqe0tot5\">Johnson has been a finalist for the honor in the past, but he has yet to be voted into Springfield as of this writing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_n1z3rewad\">This story will be updated&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the most beloved Milwaukee Bucks All-Stars of yesteryear remains on the outside of the Naismith Basketball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-41365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41365","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=41365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}