Warriors Insider Defends Klay Thompson After Social Media Post Compares Hall Of Fame Chances With Kyle Lowry

Warriors Insider Brett Siegel defends Klay Thompson after a Clutchpoints social media post compares his chances to reach the Hall of Fame against former NBA champion Kyle Lowry.

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Making the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame after retiring is the highest honor a basketball player can get, which symbolizes how successful their individual career was. In the prime of the offseason, NBA fans on various social media platforms are indulging in deep discussions about the past and keen debates on the future. 

One such evergreen debate is analyzing whether a player deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. According to Basketball Reference’s Hall of Fame probabilities, Kyle Lowry (85.7%) has a higher chance of being inducted than Klay Thompson (73%). 

A social media post illustrated this into a post and left the room open for debate. Upon seeing this post, Warriors insider Brett Siegel chose to jump to Klay Thompson’s defense and made a bold claim about his future. 

“Klay Thompson is 100% no doubt getting in the HOF.”

Klay Thompson has four NBA championships, five NBA All-Star selections, and three selections in team honors given at the end of the season (twice in All-NBA third team, once All-Defensive second team). He was an elite three-and-D guard in his prime, but was never the best player on the Warriors. 

Moreover, he was widely recognized as the second-best shooter in the league in his prime behind Stephen Curry, shattering multiple shooting records, as well as clinching the three-point scoring competition during the All-Star weekend. 

Meanwhile, Kyle Lowry has only one NBA championship, but six All-Star selections and just one selection in team honors (All-NBA Third Team in 2016). Yet, he has a higher chance of being inducted into the Hall of Fame than Klay Thompson. 

In their only clash in the NBA Finals (in 2019), Lowry came out on top over Klay Thompson, who eventually fell to injury, as the Raptors won their first-ever NBA championship after defeating the Warriors

One thing that stands out in Kyle Lowry’s favor here is that Lowry is widely considered the greatest Raptors player of all time. While Chris Bosh may have given a significant portion of his career to the Raptors, he never won a championship with them. 

Meanwhile, Kawhi Leonard only stayed for the championship season and immediately left the Raptors. Therefore, Lowry is the only one who has a championship with the Raptors and has devoted a long enough time to them as their leader to be considered a standout on that list. 

However, championships are not the only metric to ensure Hall of Fame status. Robert Horry has seven NBA championships, and yet he has not been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. Therefore, Thompson’s championships don’t guarantee his status in the Hall of Fame either. 

In my opinion, both these players will eventually be inducted into the Hall of Fame, but it’s more of a question of who gets inducted first, and in my opinion, it will be Lowry since he is older and closer to retirement than Thompson. Let us know what you think about this debate in the comments section. 

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Chaitanya Dadhwal is an NBA Analyst and Columnist at Fadeaway World from New Delhi, India. He fell in love with basketball in 2018 after seeing James Harden in his prime. He joined the sports journalism world in 2021, one year before finishing his law school in 2022. He attended Jindal Global Law School in Sonipat, India, where his favorite subject was also Sports Law.He transitioned from law to journalism after realizing his true passion for sports and basketball in particular. Even though his journalism is driven by his desire to understand both sides of an argument and give a neutral perspective, he openly admits he is biased towards the Houston Rockets and Arsenal. But that intersection of in-depth analysis and passion helps him simplify the fine print and complex language for his readers.His goal in life is to open his own sports management agency one day and represent athletes. He wants to ensure he can help bridge the gap in equal opportunity for athletes across various sports and different genders playing the same sport.
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