{"id":859081,"date":"2026-08-15T13:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/859081\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T13:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:52:13","slug":"active-nba-players-most-likely-to-be-in-the-basketball-hall-of-fame-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/859081\/","title":{"rendered":"Active NBA Players Most Likely to Be in the Basketball Hall of Fame One Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Hall of Fame Probability:\u00a0100.0%<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Numbers:\u00a043,440 points, 12,095 rebounds, 12,016 assists, 276.8 win shares<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Accolades:\u00a022x All-Star, 21x All-NBA, 4x MVP<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">It should come as little surprise that among the 33 players sampled for this exercise, LeBron James was the leader in all seven categories (points, rebounds, assists, win shares, All-Star selections, All-NBA nods and MVPs).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The league&#8217;s all-time leading scorer isn&#8217;t just a lock to make the Hall of Fame. He&#8217;s one of the only players with a reasonable case to be above Michael Jordan <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25223594-brs-top-100-nba-players-all-time-ranked\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">on the all-time ladder<\/a> (along with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Whenever LeBron retires, he&#8217;s going to finish with a number of NBA records that will be nearly impossible to topple. He&#8217;s guaranteed to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer as soon as he becomes eligible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hall of Fame Probability:\u00a0100.0% Numbers:\u00a043,440 points, 12,095 rebounds, 12,016 assists, 276.8 win shares Accolades:\u00a022x All-Star, 21x All-NBA, 4x&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-859081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}