Eight-time All-Star Vince Carter and two-time NBA champion Bill Laimbeer highlight the first-time candidates for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
Other first-time nominees include Tennessee head coach Rick Barnes and the entire 2008 U.S. Olympic men's basketball team, known as the "Redeem Team."
Notable players who have been included on the ballot before and remain eligible include two-time All-NBA wing Shawn Marion and 2004 NBA Finals MVP Chauncey Billups.
The entire class of 2024 will be revealed during the NCAA Final Four on April 6. View all nominees here.
Carter's lengthy career spanned from 1998 to 2020, finally retiring at age 43. He entered the league as one of the game's best dunkers and electrifying athletes and made his living as a spot-up shooter and veteran presence near the tail end of his career.
Though Carter played in 88 playoff games, he never won an NBA championship. He posted career averages of 16.7 points, 4.3 rebounds, and 3.1 assists, scoring over 20 points per contest in 10 consecutive seasons from 1999 to 2009.
Laimbeer was never known as an elite scorer but carved out an illustrious NBA career after being selected in the third round in 1979. Heralded as an ultraphysical rebounder and defender, he was the centerpiece of the Detroit Pistons' "Bad Boys" era in the 1980s.
Alongside Hall of Fame point guard Isiah Thomas, Laimbeer helped bring home back-to-back titles in 1989 and 1990. For his career, Laimbeer accrued 12.9 points and 9.7 rebounds per game, averaging a double-double in six straight seasons from 1982 to 1988.
