He’s this generation’s Mitch Richmond.

Never close to the conversation of the best player at any point in his career but at the end of the day you look up and go wait a minute he’s a Hall of famer I guess

Consistency and availability matter, especially over a long career

Unofficial rule for HOF is 5x all star or All NBA, I think he will make it. That and his all time scoring should be enough to put him over the top.

Do I truly think he should be a HOFer? Probably not. But I like the Basketball HOF, less opportunity for snubs.

Longevity is doing a lot of the work here.

DeRozan’s been a consistent 20+ ppg scorer for over a decade, rarely hurt, which is how you climb the all-time list without ever being a top-5 guy.

He doesn’t have the MVP-level peak or deep playoff runs, so yeah, he feels like classic Hall of Very Good. Still, top 15 in scoring (if he gets there) is a crazy accomplishment.

You gotta go all the way down past the 50s to start finding people like LeMarcus Aldridge, Joe Johnson, Tom Chambers, Antawn Jamison, who had nice careers, never seeing the HoF though.

I wouldn’t be so confident that Aldridge won’t make the HOF

I dont think most people think HoFer.

This has kind of been the consensus with DeRozan, but I can’t see him missing the HOF. If he plays at all beyond this season, he’s likely to finish as a top-15 all-time scorer in the NBA. There’s just no way he doesn’t get in with his career accolades. DeRozan has also always seemed to have a better reputation with players and coaches than the general public.

I also think that players usually get a PR bump after they retire. As in, they are held in higher regard once their career is done than during it.

He’s a HoF lock. Basketball’s a Big Hall

Someone at his level would be out of luck in football or baseball, but 6 all-star games and top 20 in points will get him in

Demar DeRozan is the Frank Gore of the NBA.

Yet you could tell the story of the NBA and not mention his name

I’m not saying it changes DeRozan’s HOF case, but we’d be remiss to forget that nba players are reaching levels of longevity never before seen in basketball. He’s in his 17th season and still a near 20 ppg guy. Although, this could just be the norm moving forward in today’s high scoring play style. He might get top 15, but not be top 30 in the next decade.

It just illustrates that career counting stats are nice, but don’t tell the whole story.

Actually, being 15th is handy because it sorta translates to the all-NBA teams (which name 15 guys each season). He’s been on two second teams and one third team. So, he’s been Top 15 in a given year, three times in his career.

Demar is fun case. He really wasn’t great player. Looking in more advanced stats he was generally negative asset on any good team he was in. The one conference finals Raptors got with him? It was despite him, not due to him. He was rather bad, especially against Pacers.

Overall: put any decent volume scorer in his place on this Raptors, and the team would perform similarly or better, especially in postseason.

But damn is he consistent. And considering NBA and basketball discurse overrate scoring, he will be lock in. He shouldn’t. I think that HoF should celebrate more players that actually contributed to winning, e.g. your Robert Horry’s than pure scorers like Demar. But it doesn’t.

And if you have your Mitch Richmonds, your Alex English, your Adrian Dantley and other players like that in HoF… compared to them Demar actually fared quite well. So should he be HoFer? No. Should he be HoFer when players like English, Dantley or Richmonds are? Definietly.

Unless he gets hurt, top 15 is basically a guarantee next year. He’s less than a thousand away. The real question is can he hold it together long enough to get to 30k. He’s on pace to be around 3300 short after this season, but he’ll be 37 next year. He gets one more year to be a big fish in a little pond in Sac next year, so he might be able to eat away a good chunk of that total, but then he needs 2 more years more minimum after that, and I don’t think he’s going to get the minutes to do that in his age 38 and 39 seasons. Impressive longevity regardless. NBA Frank Gore.

Bill Bradley, Calvin Murphy, Maurice Cheeks, etc. Derozan will unquestionably be in.

currently he’s 20

King of the 4th. Was so clutch with the Bulls.

DeMar is in the wrong NBA era… while watching him with the Spurs he was a beast bucket getter and I always thought his game would have been suited for the 80s & 90s rather than the Curry era… would change his legacy too

He’ll make the hall of fame but it’s crazy that his biggest cultural moment is probably getting benched that last lebronto year and then getting traded for kawhi. He hasn’t made the second round since and barely makes the playoffs (twice since)

Demar is like that consistent 4 to 5 WAR player in the MLB and then wait a minute, he has 70 career WAR?

there’s 2 players with 7 rings not in the hof

there’s a player with 8 allstar selections not in the hof

we call these exceptions

All time really good player

Advanced stats generally don’t like him, rating him a above-average to good offensive player, and a mediocre defender. He’s never been efficient.

Career VORP of 30.4. Career TS Add -1326 (he’s scored 1326 pts less than an average shooter during his career). Never won a title.

Career playoff splits are significantly worse than his regular season numbers: .418/.214/.852

I like the guy, he has a great story, and he’s a baller. But he just has way too many holes in his game.

Being a top 20 scorer in NBA history basically guarantees you make the hall of fame. There are only like two players who have scored 20,000 and not made the hall of fame. It’s pretty easy to make the basketball hof relatively.

A lot of people are gonna dunk on him for different things, but being a top 20 scorer in nba history is no small feat

He has plenty of hardware. He belongs

His biggest problem is that he’s not a flashy persona or playing style

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Ideally DeMar’s ideal role rn is a 6th man. Like say you have a team with Luka, whenever Luka sits you bring in DeMar and he n pretty much is allowed to take whatever shot he wants. If he’s hot leave him in and bring Luka back in, if he’s cold he doesnt play as much that night.

The midrange shot just isnt that effective anymore and should he used as more of a threat.to open up other things, but he doesnt have a 3 and age is slowly taking away what he can do around the basket.

If he wants to contribute to winning, thats his path.

DeRozan has had an NBA career many players would envy. Demar has longevity and he is in a number of statistical categories. He’s played with much hustle and grit.

He and Curry were very close to each other in overall points last I checked in the offseason a few months aggo. The glaring difference is he shot a lot less threes, but a lot more FTs.

Came in a run and jump wing, turned himself into one of the most skilled offensive players of our era. Just a super impressive story of player development.

Derozan had one of the coolest assists I’ve ever seen though. I think that assist alone is worth the hof.

Can we really see a guy retire as a top-15 scorer of all time and just not put him in the HOF? I think if he climbs that high, that alone will get him in

He’s 100% making the hall of fame 

DeRozan is a great guy and player.

Should not be an HOFer in my opinion. Good scorer on bad/average teams. That’s about it

ultimate hall of very good player is a good descriptor, yeah

he’s getting in

Points is his best shot at the hall of fame. If he ends up in the top 15 he’ll likely make it. If he end up in the top 10 he will be a first ballot HoFer

Really hope something works out to get him on a real contender next year. I like Deebo, even though he ended up being a terrible fit for where the Kings were. He really got a raw deal coming here just as things were falling apart. I think he could be a really solid contributor in the right situation, but he is running out of seasons and hasn’t exactly proven the haters wrong but really consistent and mostly reliable in the “get us a bucket” situation (which doesn’t matter at all on a 13 win team).

The 2 people above him on the points list are Steph and Tim Duncan.

2 beneath him are Paul Pierce and John Havlicek.

Points matter the most to me as that is the goal of playing basketball and to be that high on the list should be enough to secure him the hof.

Regular season merchants shouldn’t be allowed in the Hall of Fame.

No shame in never winning, but guys like DeRozan, who disappear everytime the lights get bright shouldn’t be decorated.