Dantley Was All That Jazz

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Hall of Fame Bullets
Published 9/5/2008 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... Steve Luhm of the Salt Lake Tribune: "Between 1980 and 1986, Dantley played 461 regular-season games with the Jazz. He averaged a Jordan-esque 29.6 points, shot 56.2 percent from the field and established himself as one of the game's greatest low-post players, despite being only 6-foot-5. 'I was always fascinated by how he could get his shot off in traffic against bigger guys,' said broadcaster Ron Boone, who was also Dantley's teammate with the Lakers. "The things he could do ... just amazing.' Said Layden: 'Wilt Chamberlain once said Adrian ...

Adrian Dantley, HOF at last.
Published 9/5/2008 by basketballjohn at SLC Dunk
... Why it's taken this long to be finally enshrined is anyone's guess.  He stated that he turned off his cell phone because he couldn't bear to be disappointed again.  He has the stats to be in there.  Perhaps if the voting committee were given player's stats minus their names he would have been selected by now. ...

Adrian Dantley -- better late than never
Published 9/7/2008 by allthatjazzbasketball@hotmail.com (Amar) at All That Jazz
... mysteries of the cosmos, he has been overlooked for this honor for quite a long time. In respect for that abnormality I am posting this article about it a few days late (in solidarity of him being in the Hall a few years late). Either that, or I've been busy lately. Anyway, it's pretty ridiculous that AD "was a finalist six times before finally getting at least 18 votes from the 24-member Honors Committee," (Steven Luhm, via the Salt Lake Tribune, 2008). It's ridiculous, but ...