Best Hall of Fame class (NBA careers only.)

[L.Kizzle]

List of some Basketball Hall of Fame classes by year.

1980 Robertson; West; Lucas
1987 Barry; Frazier; Pete Maravich; Bobby Wanzer
1993 Erving; Walton; Bellamy; Murphy; Issel D McGuire
2006 Barkley; Wilkins; Dumars
2008 Olajuwon: Ewing; Dantley
2009 Jordan; Robinson; Stockton
2010 Malone; Pippen; Dennis Johnson; Gus Johnson
2016 O'Neal; Iverson; Yao; Beaty
2020 Kobe; Duncan; Garnett
2023 Nowitzki; Wade; Parker; Gasol
2018 *asterisk* First year it went from five seasons after retirement to four seasons. Steve Nash and Ray Allen (both retired in 2014) benefited from this. Jason Kidd and Grant Hill retired in 2013.
Maurice Cheeks; Charlie Scott

[SouBeachTalents]

It's clearly either '09 or 2020, I'd probably give the slight nod to 2020 despite Jordan being in the other one.

[Phoenix]

2020 is the only year where all the entries are consensus recognized as top 20 players, with two of them considered top 10 ( Kobe is fringe depending on who you ask).

[John8204]

1978's is pretty underrated with Arizin, Pollard, Fulks, and Hagan

[rmt]

It's clearly either '09 or 2020, I'd probably give the slight nod to 2020 despite Jordan being in the other one.

By careers, definitely 2020.

By SPEECHES, 2009 was very good - particularly DRob's, Stockton's and Jerrry Sloan's - so inspiring. MJ's speech was typical MJ.