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Quintet of former Suns will enter the NBA Hall of Fame

By Khaleel Abdullah

NEWARK, NJ - FEBRUARY 28: Steve Nash #13 and Grant Hill #33 of the Phoenix Suns stay focused during the game against the New Jersey Nets on October 31, 2010 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2011 NBAE (Photo by David Dow/NBAE via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - FEBRUARY 28: Steve Nash #13 and Grant Hill #33 of the Phoenix Suns stay focused during the game against the New Jersey Nets on October 31, 2010 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2011 NBAE (Photo by David Dow/NBAE via Getty Images) /
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With the Hall of Fame announcing it’s 2018 entrants, the class had a decidedly Phoenix Suns flavor to it, one of historical proportions.

NEWARK, NJ – FEBRUARY 28: Steve Nash #13 and Grant Hill #33 of the Phoenix Suns stay focused during the game against the New Jersey Nets on October 31, 2010 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2011 NBAE (Photo by David Dow/NBAE via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ – FEBRUARY 28: Steve Nash #13 and Grant Hill #33 of the Phoenix Suns stay focused during the game against the New Jersey Nets on October 31, 2010 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2011 NBAE (Photo by David Dow/NBAE via Getty Images) /

Several weeks ago, I wrote about Steve Nash, Jason Kidd and Grant Hill being among the 13 finalists for the Basketball Hall of Fame. *UPDATE* All three have been chosen as inductees and will enter in this coming class. There are also two others entering the HoF with Suns ties.

In a nightmare season for these young Suns, dreams come true for four former players and one executive. In fact, it couldn’t get much sweeter than this for five guys that suited up for the franchise in Phoenix one way or the other and etched their names into the most glorious of shrines for any baller.

Nash, Kidd and Hill are on a list full of nostalgia from the 1990s that will soon be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. Also entering are Charlie Scott and Rick Welts.

Of the players, only Steve Nash will enter as a no-doubter Phoenix Sun, the rest having had several successful individual seasons in Phoenix although their best years elsewhere. They all, however, did leave endellible marks on the franchise that will love with fans forever.

From Charlie Scott’s franchise leading career scoring-average, to Jason Kidd’s triple-double record; from Steve Nash’s revolution of the game to Grant Hill’s career resurgence, this group of former Suns stars earned their places in the Hall and in the heart of Valley Suns fans.

This class is a particularly special one as well. Phoenix’s four player entrants is a first in NBA history, as no class has ever had four players from one team enter in the same summer.

Take THAT, Lakers!

Let’s take a brief look back at the history of the four former Suns players and one Executive who are entireing the Hall of Fame this year.

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