- Ilan Simchon
- Kfir Zilbernagel
NBA The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. It is the premier men's professional basketball league in the world.
Hall Of Fame The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is located in the home of basketball in Springfield, Massachusetts. It is named after the man who invented basketball – James Naismith. The Hall of Fame was created in 1959, and opened to the public only in 1968. This includes coaches, players, and figures who have contributed to the development of basketball. The Basketball Hall of Fame is designed to immortalize the brightest basketball stars and the best moments of the game. It remains the world’s best sports museum.
Selection process The Hall of Fame is eligible to select individuals from around the world whose contribution to basketball has been significant, the criteria for selecting basketball players must be 4 years after full retirement from professional basketball, coaches or referees must be 4 years after retirement or have at least 25 years seniority in high school, college or professional basketball. In addition, other personalities such as reporters, sports commentators, and prominent broadcasters are eligible to be elected, for whom there is no defined quantitative criterion.
*** At the project, We only deal with male players**
The selection is made by subcommittees:
consisting of nine experts can recommend up to 10 candidates each year if they have at least seven supports
Following the recommendations of the subcommittees, the candidates are examined in 4 "honorary committees", each honorary committee is composed of 24 professionals, including members of the Hall of Fame, media people, basketball practitioners, and other donors. All honorary committees have 12 common permanent members and the rest are rotated according to the committee's expertise. In order to be elected to the Hall of Fame, the support of at least 18 members of the Honor Committee is required.
(source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame)
We take advice and recommends by experts of NBA
- Sharon Davidovitch Owner of "עושים NBA" podcast.
- Eran Soroka NBA reporter at the Israeli sport channel "Sport 5" and owner of "עושים NBA" podcast.
- Roi Weinberg NBA reporter at the Israeli sport channel "Sport 5". We will mention them in the relevant parts.
The data was collected by web-scraping from the website: https://en.hispanosnba.com/
Our task is to classify the players for those who have been chosen for the Hall of Fame and those who have not by parameters of career stats and awards that each player achieved in his career.