He Has More Rings Than Michael Jordan but Still Not in the Hall of Fame, Shaquille O’Neal and Skip Bayless Are Now Campaigning for 7X NBA Champ

There’s a lot that makes a Hall-of-Famer and anyone can see that in one NBA legend’s career. The former Los Angeles Lakers star has one more championship ring than 6x winner, Michael Jordan. He has an accomplished NBA career and should’ve been a shoo-in for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Yet he remains one of the biggest snubs in the honor’s history, much to the disappointment of fans. But his ex-biggest teammate, Shaquille O’Neal, is not letting this pass.

O’Neal wants to share this honor with one of his best teammates. Now he’s giving the ‘Robert Horry for Hall of Fame’ campaign a big boost.

Shaquille O’Neal Strongly Endorses Robert Horry’s HOF Induction

4x NBA champion and 3x NBA Finals MVP, Shaquille O’Neal, was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame in 2016, five years after he retired. His resume was HoF-worthy without a doubt, as are many inductees. However, some shockingly missed the cut. Among them is Shaq’s championship-winning Lakers teammate, Robert Horry.

O’Neal is determined to rectify that situation. He was on his official X page, sharing an image that read, “Should Robert Horry be in the Hall of Fame?” Shaq complemented it with his response, “The answer HMF YES, and yes I’m yelling.” Moreover, the image came with the subtext that, “Shaq, Kobe, Hakeem, Rudy T said he does.” Undisputed host Skip Bayless also supported Shaq’s stance.

Robert Horry won his first two championship rings alongside Hakeem Olajuwon with the Houston Rockets. Together with the Shaq-Kobe dynamic leading the Lakers dynasty, he won his next three rings from 2000 to 2002. He retired with two more rings with the San Antonio Spurs. He earned his nickname from iconic game-clinching shots like the one in the 2002 Conference Finals buzzer-beater.

Fans repeatedly count him among the greatest players in Lakers franchise history and a versatile sixth man. His statistics across 17 seasons aren’t as outstanding as most Hof-ers but he has proved to be the game-changer in Finals that won his team a ring. Fans still haven’t comprehended how he hasn’t been inducted into the Hall of Fame already.

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Big Shot Rob is now involved in the sports media community, just like O’Neal. He keeps his seven championship rings safely locked and only accessible to him. He’s not greedy for a HoF spot either.

Unlike Shaq and Hakeem, Horry is fine with not sharing the same honor as them. He previously declared that he’d never trade his seven rings for the orange jacket.

Robert Horry is content with legacy

Gilbert Arenas downplayed Robert Horry’s accomplishments once and was met with backlash. Even Horry’s wife wanted him to respond but he didn’t feel the need to. “I told my wife I don’t want to hear it because you know I don’t argue with idiots,” he said. Fans however decided to remind Arenas that Big Shot Rob’s resume speaks for itself.

Horry would say that Agent Zero deserves a HoF spot but he doesn’t need it. “The Hall of Fame is something my friends and family think I deserve but I would still take the seven championships any day over one ring, a Hall of Fame ring,” Horry said on The Dan Patrick Show.

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Regardless, Robert Horry’s body of work speaks for itself. But Shaq and his fans still want him to make a HoF speech.