The class also included high-scoring Phoenix star Walter Davis and former Knicks champion Dick Barnett, with Seimone Augustus and Michele Timms making it from the WNBA. Doug Collins and Pacers owner Herb Simon were inducted as contributors, along with amateur-level coaches Bo Ryan, Harley Redin and Charles Smith.

Vince Carter thanked his family, a bunch of NBA legends and even some Daytona Beach folks in his Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame speech Sunday.

Carter's level of explosive greatness was so unapproachable it made otherwise sane men question if what they'd just seen was impossible.