Jersey Retirement "Formula"

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Wednesday Bullets
Published 5/14/2008 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... for a 121-120 win. Ron Hitley of Hornets247: "One low blow: that dude with the life-size Eva Longoria cutout behind the basket when Parker was shooting free throws in the fourth quarter. I laughed at the time, as did everyone in the Arena (damn you, mob mentality) but in hindsight that was just way too personal. We're better than that, New Orleans." For the record, Parker missed two free throws late in the fourth. An attempt to concoct a formula to decide who should get their jersey retired, and who should not. ...

Destined For The Rafters?
Published 5/14/2008 by RockKing at WaitingForNextYear
... today and found a link to a GREAT post on Blazer’s Edge . Basically, Ben from Blazer’s Edge created a basic “formula”, if you will, to determine whether or not a player deserves to have his jersey retired. So I thought, hey, lets have some fun as we wait for tonight’s game to tipoff and look at whether or not Big Z deserves to have his jersey hang from the Q when he’s done. Criterion #1) Connection With The Franchise This one is probably the most straight forward criterion. Ben writes,“To determine how closely a player is connected with a franchise, one generally assesses 4 ...