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Speaker 1: time for another Top twenty Last twenty, our look at

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Speaker 1: the top twenty NBA players over the last twenty years.

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Speaker 1: Here's our criteria, winning awards, star Power and influence. Top

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Speaker 1: twenty Last twenty. Here we go. It's not easy to

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Speaker 1: Over the last twenty years. Only eight players on this

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Speaker 1: a music career. Anybody who's just known by one name

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Speaker 1: the great passers in league history, a ten time All Star,

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Speaker 1: although only six fit into our twenty year criteria, three

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Speaker 1: number nineteen. At number eighteen, James Harden. He doesn't give

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Speaker 1: In fact, he has the second most threes made in

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Speaker 1: To illustrate how prolific James Harden is, the NBA recently

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Speaker 1: James Harden at eighteen, Number seventeen Steve Nash. Nash won

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Speaker 1: Than Steve Nash. Those Phoenix run and Gun teams set

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Speaker 1: at number seventeen, coming in at sixteen. Draymond Green three titles,

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Speaker 1: a catalyst for years with the Warriors in before, during,

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Speaker 1: Draymond at sixteen. Coming in at fifteen, Dirt Navitsky, who

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Speaker 1: He also led perhaps the greatest upset in the last

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Speaker 1: iverson a reminder, though his MVP was out of our

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Speaker 1: consider the most underrated NBA player of the last two decades.

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Speaker 1: Using the wheelchair was the Willis Reed moment of his era.

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Speaker 1: He was a one time champ and a one time

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Speaker 1: At number nine, janis simply put, He's so great. He

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Speaker 1: Duane Wade. Has there ever been a player that's more

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Speaker 1: The Kobe Shack dynasty was an all timer. He does

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Speaker 1: He changed the game at every level. Steph Curry, AAU

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Speaker 1: You take now because of Steph Curry, three rings, multiple

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Speaker 1: seen to Michael Jordan. Kobe Bryant three rings with two

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Speaker 1: It's Lebron James. Lebron has four MVPs, four NBA titles

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Speaker 1: held the decision, it was controversial, but it empowered players

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Speaker 1: looked back. More than ever. Players have a say in

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Speaker 1: Arguably the greatest player and most versatile player in the

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