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Sam Smith: Horace Grant deserves to be in the Hall of Fame

Grant was never the best player on his own team, but he was an instrumental piece of each of the four championship teams he was a part of.

If the game is ultimately about winning, perhaps it's time for history to take a closer look at players like Horace Grant, whose career was defined by winning.

He was an essential third of a Big Three which won three championships. He started for another dynasty team and won another NBA title. He also was a Big Three member of yet a third team that should have been a dynasty but only reached one NBA Finals (in which he averaged a double-double, by the way.