For the second year in a row, legendary Lakers shooting guard Michael Cooper has been nominated for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. This is Cooper’s second time being nominated, with the first coming in 2021.
The Hall of Fame announced Cooper’s eligibility along with the rest of nominees for the 2022 class on Friday.
This nomination does not guarantee that Cooper will be admitted, however. Only five nominees from the North American Committee are taken each year, and it’s always a crowded field. Basketball-Reference puts Cooper’s Hall of Fame probability — which it calculates by looking at the statistics and accolades of past nominees and comparing them to players not currently in the Hall — at 1.