{"id":81120,"date":"2024-06-11T14:05:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T18:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=81120"},"modified":"2024-06-11T14:05:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T18:05:48","slug":"houston-rockets-legend-believes-multi-time-champion-deserves-hof-spot-rudy-tomjanovich-robert-horry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/06\/11\/houston-rockets-legend-believes-multi-time-champion-deserves-hof-spot-rudy-tomjanovich-robert-horry\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets Legend Thinks Multi-Time Champion Deserves HOF Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basketball Hall of Famer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/tomjaru01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-11_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rudy Tomjanovich<\/a> recently campaigned for one of his former players to join him in the Hall of Fame. Tomjanovich, who won two championships as the coach of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2019\/08\/08\/houston-rockets-all-time-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Houston Rockets<\/a> in 1994 and 1994, believes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/horryro01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-11_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Horry<\/a> deserves a spot in Springfield, MA.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I really believe [Horry] belongs in the Naismith Hall of Fame,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoopshype.com\/2024\/06\/10\/rudy-tomjanovich-robert-horry-belongs-in-the-hof\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tomjanovich said during his accepting speech for the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award on Sunday.<\/a> &#8220;He\u2019s proven it time and time again. He\u2019s made so many teams champions playing a role, and that\u2019s so important. It isn\u2019t about just the stats. It\u2019s about getting results. I pray that one day he\u2019s going to be able to stand up there and accept that honor.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tomjanovich coached Horry with the Rockets from 1992-1996, Horry&#8217;s entire stint with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Horry does not have the stats to back up a potential Hall of Fame campaign, averaging 7 points, 4.8 rebounds, and 2.1 assists per game over his 16-year NBA career. However, he is one of the greatest winners in NBA history. Horry won seven championships as an NBA player, averaging nearly one championship for every two years he played. In addition to winning two with Tomjanovich&#8217;s Rockets, Horry won five additional championships. This includes three with the Los Angeles Lakers and two with the San Antonio Spurs. To this day, Horry has the most NBA championships for a player who never played for the Boston Celtics. This includes legends like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jordami01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-11_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Jordan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/pippesc01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-11_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scottie Pippen<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/abdulka01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-11_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kareem Abdul-Jabbar<\/a>, who all have six championships a piece.<\/p>\n<h2>Houston Rockets Legend Believes Multi-Time Champion Deserves HOF Spot<\/h2>\n<h3>Rudy Tomjanovich is Not Alone in His Robert Horry Take<\/h3>\n<p>In 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/o\/onealsh01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-11_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shaquille O&#8217;Neal<\/a>, who was teammates with Horry with the Lakers, took to social media to say the seven-time champion should be in the Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The answer is HMF YES, and yes I\u2019m yelling <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ValhsJiYV1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ValhsJiYV1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SHAQ (@SHAQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SHAQ\/status\/1716258136552775740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, legendary big man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/waltobi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-11_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Walton<\/a> said Horry deserved to be in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuscaloosanews.com\/story\/sports\/college\/basketball\/2022\/11\/28\/robert-horry-alabama-basketball-hall-of-fame-bill-walton\/69678420007\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hall of Fame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You hear all the time about the coaches wanting sacrifice to make the team work; that&#8217;s what Robert Horry did,&#8221; Walton said on the ESPN broadcast Friday. &#8220;If you&#8217;re going to ask for sacrifice, you&#8217;ve got to reward sacrifice. Robert Horry sacrificed so the team could win. They did win. Robert Horry is a most deserving member of the basketball hall of fame.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Robert Horry Would Rather Have His Rings Than a Hall of Fame Induction<\/h3>\n<p>Horry spoke about O&#8217;Neal&#8217;s comments on the October 24, 2023 episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketballnetwork.net\/latest-news\/robert-horry-reacts-to-shaq-reiterating-he-should-be-in-the-hall-of-fame\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Dan Patrick Show<\/em><\/a>. Additionally, in the interview, Horry said he appreciated his former teammate&#8217;s praise. However, he also specified he would rather keep his championship rings in a hypothetical trade.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Man, I have seven titles because, at the end of the day, the Hall of Fame doesn\u2019t give you anything for it,\u201d said Big Shot Bob. \u201cThere are even people in the Hall of Fame that do not know who they are and I don\u2019t care about the Hall of Fame even if I feel like that I should be in it. But I don\u2019t care about it. At the end of the day, it\u2019s a team sport. I\u2019ve done something that a lot of players would never do, I\u2019ve done things that only a few players have done. \u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basketball Hall of Famer Rudy Tomjanovich recently campaigned for one of his former players to join him in the Hall of Fame. Tomjanovich, who won two championships as the coach of the Houston Rockets in 1994 and 1994, believes Robert Horry deserves a spot in Springfield, MA. &#8220;I really believe [Horry] belongs in the Naismith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4631,"featured_media":68208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1608,2,31,26,62,3,34],"tags":[2226,2148],"class_list":["post-81120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-featured","category-rockets","category-lakers","category-nba","category-news","category-spurs","tag-robert-horry","tag-rudy-tomjanovich"],"modified_by":"Elie Deglaoui","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}