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Speaker 3: Welcome in to another special edition of What's Right with

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Speaker 3: Nick Right, the podcast and YouTube show. This is our

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Speaker 3: ultimate episode of the countdown of the fifty greatest players

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Speaker 3: of the last fifty years. So let me just take

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Speaker 3: and we'll talk about it more maybe when we wrap

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Speaker 3: it up next week. But I literally have been working

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Speaker 3: the list, but this was also an informational exercise. Informational

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Speaker 3: I learned if I didn't already know how die Hard

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Speaker 3: so many of the Michael Jordan folks were. Because I

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Speaker 3: reveal by definition who number one is. So I spent

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Speaker 3: And he's right. He's the NBA's all time leading scorer

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Speaker 3: He had three hundred and fifty five career thirty and

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Speaker 3: Will averaged eleven points per game. Kareem, trying to defend

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Speaker 3: So that was nineteen seventy two. Again we are We're

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Speaker 3: Game six, facing elimination, has thirty four points, eight rebound,

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Speaker 3: In the finals, they lose. Game seven obviously, averages thirty

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Speaker 3: Will be played three hundred and forty five minutes in

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Speaker 3: For the Finals, they gave Finals MVP to John Havlichek,

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Speaker 3: who averaged twenty six and eight on forty two percent

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Speaker 3: Kareem averaged thirty two to sixteen to five and two

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Speaker 3: the playoffs two straight years. That's a ding on him.

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Speaker 3: It's a small ding, but it's a ding. Now. One

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Speaker 3: Facing the one time Bill Walton's fully healthy with Portland,

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Speaker 3: So in nineteen seventy eight, the Lakers lose to the

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Speaker 3: we're gonna would have been like right when he got

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Speaker 3: in fairness, we don't have for will for Russell either,

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Speaker 3: Nineteen eighty one, they're the defending champs and they're playing

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Speaker 3: Western Conference playoffs and Kareem only averages twenty two to nine,

428
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Speaker 3: four and three. Again, only twenty two points, nine and rebounds,

429
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 3: forces three steals, and in the finals, for the first

430
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 3: time in his career, he's outplayed by somebody, but it's

431
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Speaker 3: his teammate. Magic Lakers win the title. Magic gets his

432
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,400
Speaker 3: second Finals MVP should be his first Finals MVP because

433
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 3: Kareem should have won in eighty and this marks Kareem

434
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Speaker 3: moving into a slightly different phase of his career. And

435
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,479
Speaker 3: this phase I would call I don't even know why

436
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 3: I would call it this phase. He was still better

437
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 3: than Peake David Robinson, but he was no longer playing

438
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 3: like world beating Juggernaut every single night. Instead, he saved

439
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 3: those for the biggest nights. So nineteen eighty three, he

440
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 3: led all players in playoff points per game and blocks

441
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 3: per game. Again, this is his what is this? This

442
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:53,440
Speaker 3: is his fourteenth year in the league, and he led

443
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Speaker 3: all players in playoff points per game, in blocks per

444
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 3: game twenty seven points per game by the way, four

445
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Speaker 3: blocks per game. He opened the playoff with four straight

446
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Speaker 3: thirty plus point games and averaged thirty one points, eight rebounds,

447
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,360
Speaker 3: and five blocks per game in round one against Portland.

448
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 3: In the Western Armends Finals against George Gervin and the Spurs,

449
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 3: he averages twenty six points, eight rebounds, four blocks to

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Speaker 3: get back to the finals. In the finals, Moses and

451
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Speaker 3: the Sixers were too much for him. I would argue

452
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 3: that Sixers seems one of the two greatest teams ever.

453
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Speaker 3: They sweep the Lakers. Despite the fact that Kareem averaged

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Speaker 3: again against Moses twenty four points, eight rebounds on fifty

455
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Speaker 3: five percent nineteen eighty fours year fifteen, and in these playoffs,

456
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 3: Kaream seemed to pick his spots until the inevitable finals trip.

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Speaker 3: Game four of round two, up to one, has a

458
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Speaker 3: chance for the kill shot, has thirty three points, eleven rebounds,

459
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Speaker 3: four blocks on seventy four percent shooting to essentially lock

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Speaker 3: up the series. Games three to four of the Western

461
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Speaker 3: Conference Finals against Phoenix, Kaream has thirty one in each game,

462
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Speaker 3: and in those two games was seventy three percent from

463
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 3: the field for seventy two. He was twenty four of

464
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Speaker 3: thirty three from the field combined in those two games,

465
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Speaker 3: scoring thirty one in each. Then in the finals against

466
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Speaker 3: the hated Celtics, Kareem once again was out of his mind.

467
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Speaker 3: Also keep in mind this is the regular season this

468
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,679
Speaker 3: year he breaks the all time scoring record, so he

469
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Speaker 3: already had played long enough to break the all time

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Speaker 3: scoring record. It's year fifteen for him, okay, And in

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Speaker 3: the finals Game one, he has thirty two points, eight rebounds,

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Speaker 3: five assists. Game four, with a chance to go up

473
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Speaker 3: three to one and really take a stranglehold of the series,

474
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Speaker 3: he has thirty two points, eight rebounds, six assists, four steels,

475
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Speaker 3: two blocks, but they lost in overtime, so the series

476
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 3: is tied. Game six, facing eliminations, they also lost Game five,

477
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Speaker 3: he has thirty points, ten rebounds, five assists. Again, this

478
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 3: is year fifteen for Kaream. So they win that game,

479
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 3: they force the game seven, and in that game seven,

480
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,719
Speaker 3: Magic really struggled. We've talked to the tragic Johnson stuff,

481
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 3: really struggling. That game seven, Kaream had twenty nine. It's

482
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Speaker 3: not enough. Kaream averaged for the finals twenty six points,

483
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Speaker 3: eight rebounds, four assists. Now we're to nineteen eighty five.

484
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Speaker 3: Kaream is thirty eight years old, fourteen years removed from

485
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Speaker 3: his first Finals MVP. Should have two more, but he doesn't,

486
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Speaker 3: and he gets his second Finals MVP. He's good in

487
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 3: the playoffs leading up to the finals. The Lakers are

488
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Speaker 3: nobody's touching him. In the West. They're eleven to two

489
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 3: in those three rounds. They never trail him. Series, they

490
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 3: face no real adversity, and in the Western Conference playoffs,

491
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Speaker 3: heading into the Finals, he averages just twenty points per

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Speaker 3: game in just thirty minutes per game. He's not playing

493
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Speaker 3: a lot that it's a lot of blowouts. Then in

494
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 3: the Finals he gets his revenge on Boston. Game one,

495
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 3: the Lakers are beat by a thousand points. He guys

496
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 3: can google it the Memorial Day masker. Boston thought they

497
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,479
Speaker 3: were gonna go back to back. So what does Kareem

498
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 3: do after that? Game two? Thirty points, seventeen rebounds, eight assists. Again,

499
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,960
Speaker 3: he's thirty eight years old. He had broken the all

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Speaker 3: time scoring record a year and a half earlier. He

501
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 3: has a year earlier, he has thirty, seventeen and eight.

502
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Speaker 3: In game two, Game three, he has twenty six, fourteen

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Speaker 3: and seven. Game five, with the series tied, he has

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Speaker 3: thirty six points, seven rebounds, seven assists. And then to

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Speaker 3: win the title in Game six, he has twenty six

506
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Speaker 3: points and seven rebounds in just thirty five minutes because

507
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 3: he fouled out. For the series, he averages twenty six points,

508
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Speaker 3: nine rebounds, five assists on sixty percent shooting. Going against

509
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Speaker 3: Kevin McHale and Robert Parrish. He was thirty eight years old.

510
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Speaker 3: As defending champions and finals MVP and Kareem, at thirty

511
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Speaker 3: nine years old, is just still kicking people's asses. In

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Speaker 3: nineteen eighty six Round two, he averages against Dallas twenty

513
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 3: nine points, six rebounds, four assists on sixty percent shooting,

514
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 3: and scored at least twenty six in every game of

515
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 3: the series. He's thirty nine. In the Western Reference Finals

516
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Speaker 3: against a couple of big men known as a chem

517
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Speaker 3: Olajuan and Ralph Sampson, he went for thirty twice, averaged

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Speaker 3: twenty seven and seven for the series for the Lakers,

519
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Speaker 3: losing six. So this is the only other time other

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Speaker 3: than the best of three that we talked about against

521
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 3: Houston kind of flukey thing when they won fifty four games,

522
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 3: so ill hat to play best of three. This was

523
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Speaker 3: the only other year of the entire nineteen eighties where

524
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Speaker 3: Kareem is not in the finals those playoffs. In year nineteen,

525
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry at thirty nine years old, not year nineteen,

526
00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 3: Kareem averaged twenty six points, four rebounds. Twenty six points,

527
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Speaker 3: six rebounds, four assists, two blocks on fifty six percent

528
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Speaker 3: shooting while playing thirty five minutes per game. Nineteen eighty seven,

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Speaker 3: Kaream is now forty years old and the Lakers are

530
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Speaker 3: a legitimate juggernaut. Some people argue this is the best

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Speaker 3: team ever. I don't think it is. Some people argue

532
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 3: this they won sixty five games. They were eleven to

533
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 3: one route to their championship. Not surprisingly Kaream's best games

534
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Speaker 3: or eleven and yeah, eleven and one in route to

535
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 3: the finals, I should say, and not surprisingly Kaream's best

536
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 3: games pre finals with the two close ones. The Lakers

537
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 3: had their one loss and they're one close win which

538
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 3: was by only a point. Where Kareem's two best games.

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Speaker 3: He had twenty seven and twenty eight points respectively in

540
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Speaker 3: those two games. Then in the finals again you're facing

541
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Speaker 3: the Celtics. In Game three, he has twenty seven and

542
00:32:55,800 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 3: seven and then up three to two with a chants

543
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 3: to win the title, he has thirty two and six

544
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 3: with four blocks on seventy two percent shooting in just

545
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Speaker 3: twenty two minutes. Again, I want to reiterate this, guys

546
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 3: chance to win the title. Game six against the Celtics,

547
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 3: he has thirty two points, six rebounds, four blocks on

548
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 3: seventy two percent shooting in twenty nine minutes. He's forty

549
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 3: years old. For those playoffs. Let me let me give

550
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 3: you a little context here. For those playoffs, he averaged

551
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 3: nineteen points and seven rebounds on fifty three percent shooting

552
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 3: at forty years old. Nineteen points, seven rebounds, fifty three

553
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Speaker 3: percent shooting. He did it at forty Who has done that?

554
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 3: Who averages for their playoff career at least nineteen points,

555
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 3: at least seven rebounds on at least fifty three percent shooting. Well,

556
00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 3: Kareem did at forty years old. You want to know

557
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 3: the full list of people, Well, obviously Kareem's on it.

558
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 3: The rest of the list Shaquille O'Neal and Anthony Davis.

559
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Speaker 3: That's it.

560
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 4: So what.

561
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 3: Kareem did at forty years old in route to a

562
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:18,800
Speaker 3: title nineteen points, some rebounds, fifty three percent shooting. Only

563
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 3: two other guys in NBA history have done it for

564
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 3: their careers Shack and Anthony Davis nineteen eighty eight another championship.

565
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 3: And now at this point Kareem at forty one is

566
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Speaker 3: a different player. But that again, you can't be the

567
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 3: second best player of the last fifty years, which by

568
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 3: the way, also means second best player ever because he's

569
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 3: had a wilt Ann Russell without finding a way to

570
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 3: make an impact even at age forty one. He averaged

571
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Speaker 3: seventeen and five in round one at age forty one

572
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 3: and in the biggest spots, showed up down two one

573
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 3: in round two to Carl Malone and John Stockton had

574
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Speaker 3: a twenty and eleven. Western Armerends Finals tied to two.

575
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 3: Had twenty one and five in the finals Game five,

576
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,800
Speaker 3: tied too two had twenty six and six on fifty

577
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 3: seven percent at forty one, god dang years old. But

578
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 3: they lose. And then in Game six, with the championship

579
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,800
Speaker 3: on the line, with Isaiah shooting, flames out his ass

580
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 3: with the with the spray and angle in the twenty

581
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Speaker 3: five point quarter. Down a point, what do the Lakers do?

582
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 3: They give the ball to Kareem with the game on

583
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Speaker 3: the line. He gets fouled, maybe he doesn't get fouled,

584
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 3: but he gets the call and he goes the line

585
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 3: and sinks both free throws. They force the game seven.

586
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 3: They win Game seven, they win another title. So at

587
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 3: forty one years old, they don't win that title with Alan,

588
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 3: hands down the biggest play of their season. They ran

589
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 3: it for Kareem. For the finals, he averaged thirteen and four, which,

590
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 3: by the way, doesn't sound that impressive, but then you

591
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 3: realize that is exactly what Joe Dumar's average for those

592
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 3: Joe Dumars was in the prime of his career. They

593
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Speaker 3: win another title, Ring number six, nineteen eighty nine. Cream's

594
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,240
Speaker 3: forty two years old. The Lakers do make another finals

595
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,320
Speaker 3: with the Pistons are the best team in basketball. But again,

596
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,760
Speaker 3: Kaream has one last big game in him. He's forty

597
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 3: two years old. Down oh two in the finals, not

598
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 3: wanting to get swept, throws up a twenty four to

599
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 3: thirteen in the finals against the eighty eight Pistons or

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Speaker 3: eighty nine Pistons. Pardon me, but they lose and they

601
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Speaker 3: get swept, and then it's over. Then it's over. He

602
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 3: only gave you twenty years. So the final playoff resume

603
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 3: in short, is led the playoffs in points per game

604
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 3: five times and blocks per game five times. Third most

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Speaker 3: playoff points ever, behind only Lebron and Jordan. Fifth most

606
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Speaker 3: playoff rebounds ever, second most playoff blocks ever, fifth most

607
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 3: playoff games over, third, most playoff minutes ever, third most

608
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Speaker 3: finals points ever, behind only Jerry West and Lebron. Fifth

609
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Speaker 3: most finals rebounds ever, behind only Lebron in the last

610
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Speaker 3: fifty years, most finals blocks ever third, most finals games ever,

611
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Speaker 3: behind only Russell and Sam Jones. Fourth, most finals minutes

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Speaker 3: ever played, behind only Russell, Jerry West, and Lebron. Fifty

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Speaker 3: two career thirty and ten playoff games third most ever,

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Speaker 3: behind only Lebron and Elgin, seventy five career thirty point

615
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 3: playoff games fourth most all time behind only MJ, Lebron

616
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Speaker 3: and Kobe, and a career playoff average of twenty four

617
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Speaker 3: and ten on fifty three percent. That, my friends, is

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Speaker 3: how you become the second greatest player of the last

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Speaker 3: fifty years. One Kareem abdul Jabbar. I don't know that

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Speaker 3: I did him justice there I hope I did. We

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Speaker 3: will take some calls on it and do a quick

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Speaker 3: preview of number one, which was maybe the only predictable

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Speaker 3: result of this entire list. Will do that next to

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Speaker 3: What's Wright? All Right? Welcome back in What's Right with

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Speaker 3: Nick Wright special Edition and our second to last special edition.

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Speaker 3: As we are counting down the fifty guards players the

627
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Speaker 3: last fifty years, we just revealed number two, Kareem abdul Jabbar,

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Speaker 3: which means you know who Number one is Lebron, but

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Speaker 3: we'll have plenty of time talking about Lebron. We might

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Speaker 3: even do a few minutes on Lebron before the end

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Speaker 3: of today's show. But first, as we have listen, I

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Speaker 3: just did I think it was thirty five minutes on

633
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Speaker 3: Kareem's career. Could have done thirty five hours on it.

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Speaker 3: I so for all these guys, I put these notes

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Speaker 3: in a document, and by the way, the full document,

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Speaker 3: and it's just the notes of it. The full document

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Speaker 3: is at last check, seventy two typed pages, twelve point font,

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Speaker 3: single space. That's for the fifty players, which makes sense

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Speaker 3: because the early guys, each of them, it took about

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Speaker 3: a you know, so I'm looking at Bernard King, Bernard

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Speaker 3: King and Carmelo, those two guys took one page combined,

642
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 3: and then you get down to those were fifty and

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Speaker 3: forty nine on the list. Then you get down to,

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Speaker 3: for example, Steve Nash. Steve Nash took about three quarters

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Speaker 3: of a page, and then you scroll down to guy

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Speaker 3: number thirty five, Russell Westbrook, and Russell Westbrook took a

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Speaker 3: full page himself. It's like, oh okay, because again they

648
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,320
Speaker 3: have more of a playoff resume more of more of everything,

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Speaker 3: sort of speak. Let's jump down a lot. You go

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Speaker 3: down to, for example, find a good one here. Number

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Speaker 3: well twenty is Luca Lucas a little short one. Gosh, Luca.

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Speaker 3: People still mad with the Luca thing again, people watch

653
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Speaker 3: Luca video. I explain there's precedent for it. I'm gonna

654
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Speaker 3: keep leaving on that. President d Wade, number nineteen on

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Speaker 3: the list. D Wade takes about a page and a half.

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Speaker 3: And then we get down even further to where it's like, okay,

657
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Speaker 3: so Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant is almost two full pages

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Speaker 3: for the notes I have, not every it's obviously not scripted,

659
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Speaker 3: but the notes I have because there's a ton of

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Speaker 3: numbers to remember. And then you get down to a

661
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:09,280
Speaker 3: guy like a chem long career, a ton of stuff

662
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Speaker 3: to go through. A chem is more than two full pages.

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Speaker 3: And then when I didn't Magic Kobe was three pages,

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Speaker 3: super long career. Duncan was three pages. Magic was nearly

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Speaker 3: three pages, even though the career was shortened. Michael was

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Speaker 3: I want to get it right. Michael was five full pages.

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Speaker 3: Cream is six and a half pages in my notes,

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Speaker 3: and I and I had to cut a lot of stuff,

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Speaker 3: felt like someone editing that. Wait, no, I'm sorry. Cream

670
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Speaker 3: was seven and a half full pages of my notes,

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Speaker 3: and so that's why that took so long. So now

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Speaker 3: I want to turn it over to some callers here,

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Speaker 3: God if that's by the way, So this thing is

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Speaker 3: seventy two pages, and I haven't even added the Lebron

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Speaker 3: stuff to it. So, in other words, if it's seventy

676
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Speaker 3: two pages about Lebron stuff, this thing'sa end up being

677
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Speaker 3: one one hundred and seventy two pages long. Okay, here's

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Speaker 3: our first caller on Kareem. Let's do it.

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Speaker 4: Hey, they control Buddy Al from White Plans.

680
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Speaker 5: You can talk about your number two selection on the

681
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 5: NBA Top fifty list. None other than the King of

682
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 5: the Sky hooked the brilliant Kareem Abdul Jabbar, whose career

683
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 5: spanned twenty years and was the ultimate combination of individual

684
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:24,360
Speaker 5: brilliance and team success.

685
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 4: Individually, nineteen trips to the.

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Speaker 5: All Star Game in those twenty seasons, six regular season MVPs,

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Speaker 5: two finals MVPs. Team success trips to the finals count

688
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 5: them ten, eight with.

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Speaker 4: The Lakers, two with his original team, the Milwaukee.

690
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 5: Bucks, one championship there five with the Showtime Lakers.

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Speaker 4: To me his ultimate achievement.

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Speaker 5: Nineteen eighty five, thirty eight years of age, he leads

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Speaker 5: the Lakers into the garden and on the parquet floor

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Speaker 5: for the first time in team history.

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Speaker 4: They knock off the Celtics in six games.

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Speaker 5: In the last four games in which the Lakers one,

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Speaker 5: he averaged over thirty points and eleven rebounds per game

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Speaker 5: against a Hall of Fame front line.

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Speaker 4: My simple question, you, Nick, is how can you top this?

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Speaker 3: Well, obviously I only have one person topping, and that

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00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 3: person's Lebron. And we'll explain the Lebron stuff a little

702
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,320
Speaker 3: bit in the next segment and then obviously in full

703
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:25,320
Speaker 3: in the next episode. But that listen, Al, who's the

704
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 3: best sports radio caller ever. You can hear him on

705
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:30,800
Speaker 3: Mad Dog Sports Radio and Serrius XM a lot I

706
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 3: used to to show in that channel. That's how I

707
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 3: got to know him. He's not wrong that what Kareem

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00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 3: did in that eighty five season is just utterly remarkable.

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Speaker 3: He turns thirty eight that year and wins finals MVP

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00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 3: again that playoffs. He's older than Lebron is right now.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, the next year in the playoffs,

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00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 3: when he was thirty nine, he averaged twenty six points

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00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 3: per game. Again, I don't have to reiterate it. Al

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Speaker 3: did it. I did it for thirty five minutes. But

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Speaker 3: he for Kareem at fifteen years old, fifteen years old

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Speaker 3: to start a seventy one game winning streak and win

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Speaker 3: three state championships, and then to go to college and

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Speaker 3: go eighty eight to two and win three national championships,

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Speaker 3: and then from his rookie season until age thirty eight,

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Speaker 3: be arguably the best player in the league, if not

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Speaker 3: the whole time for top three player, the entirety of

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Speaker 3: that time. Like you're talking about almost a quarter century

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Speaker 3: of just kicking ass and taking names at every level

724
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:54,279
Speaker 3: of basketball you're allowed to play. No one will ever

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00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 3: have a basketball life the way Kareem did that much,

726
00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:01,440
Speaker 3: I know is true, the best basketball life ever. Because

727
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 3: Lebron was great in high school, didn't dominate the way

728
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Speaker 3: Kareem did, and didn't play in college. Jordan famously, you know,

729
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Speaker 3: was didn't make varsity as a freshman in high school.

730
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Speaker 3: Was good, but wasn't even the best player on his

731
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:17,839
Speaker 3: freshman his freshman year playing college basketball at North Carolina

732
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 3: hit the biggest shot in team history, but well, yeah,

733
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Speaker 3: the biggest shot in team history, but wasn't the best

734
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 3: player until his sophomore in his junior year, and then

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Speaker 3: sophomore in his junior a disappointingu Tar Hills did NCAA tournament.

736
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Speaker 3: And guys these days aren't gonna play college basketball, you know,

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Speaker 3: for three plus years like Kareem did. It's no one

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Speaker 3: will ever have the basketball life Kareem did. I know that.

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Speaker 3: All right, Now, let's go to one of our I

740
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 3: have a little preview on who this is one of

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Speaker 3: our most special callers. Yet let's go to it.

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Speaker 6: Hey, Michael Cooper here, former Los Angeles Laker players, and

743
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 6: I'm here to tell you about who my gope of

744
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 6: all times, that's the greatest of all times out there. Okay,

745
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 6: everybody's talk about Jordan Lebron, James, Kobe Bryant, and that's

746
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 6: the name a few, But my goat is Kareem Abdul Jabbar.

747
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:10,880
Speaker 6: And there's three reasons why won. Because he had a

748
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Speaker 6: shot that was unstoppable. When when you're talking about gohding

749
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:17,359
Speaker 6: your goat making pass the ball, you double triple team him.

750
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,400
Speaker 6: Couldn't double the triple team the cat because he was

751
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,879
Speaker 6: gonna sky hook you. Second thing is when you did

752
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:24,279
Speaker 6: double a triple team him, he was dropping that ball

753
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 6: off the magic or the coop for some scores. And last,

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00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 6: but not least, which makes Kareem my goat is because

755
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 6: you couldn't file the big guy, Kaream was gonna knock

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00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 6: down his free throws. Three things that make goats, Kareem

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00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 6: has them all goat of all time.

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00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 3: It's a great job by Michael Cooper again, and this

759
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 3: is the point that I was trying to make when

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00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 3: I was arguing with people all last week about Jordan.

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00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 3: Jordan obviously is a case to be the goat. Kareem

762
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,480
Speaker 3: obviously is a case to be the goat. Cooper explained

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00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 3: it there. I think I explained this, and next week

764
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 3: I'll explain the case is why I believe Lebron is

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00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:01,479
Speaker 3: the goat, the case why he is the greatest player ever.

766
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 3: But if we can all arrive to the same place

767
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 3: that all three of these guys have an argument, then

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00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 3: we must acknowledge that by definition to tutology, that if

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00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 3: three people have an argument to be the best ever,

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00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 3: someone who has an argument to be the best ever

771
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:25,320
Speaker 3: must come in third, and in the contemporary Jordan Lebron debate,

772
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:30,279
Speaker 3: Kareem has always been sleffed off as third, and I

773
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:33,360
Speaker 3: just don't think it's accurate. And certain some folks do

774
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 3: a Jordan Kobe thing and they don't or they throw magic.

775
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,320
Speaker 3: I don't think it's tenable, and I don't think after

776
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 3: listening to what we just did with Kareem, it is

777
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 3: tenable to make an argument for anyone other than Lebron

778
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,280
Speaker 3: and Michael ahead of it. Now, I don't think Michael

779
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 3: did enough. If Michael would have played longer, I made

780
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 3: this joke on First Things First, and I stamp by it.

781
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 3: I think Antoine Walker made the point, Well, Michael left

782
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,799
Speaker 3: to go play baseball. Yeah, which is why if I

783
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:12,720
Speaker 3: were doing a list of the greatest baseball players ever,

784
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 3: Michael Jordan would be ahead of Kareem. But Kaream never left.

785
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 3: Kaream just kept playing basketball. And at some point these

786
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:25,239
Speaker 3: type of these rankings, these tiers, these hierarchies have to

787
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:28,799
Speaker 3: be about what you accomplished. And I know when it

788
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 3: comes to the Michael and Lebron thing, everyone gets hung

789
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 3: up on six rings versus four rings. But you can't

790
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 3: play that game with Kareem. Kaream has six rings versus

791
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 3: six rings, and then the whole finals appearances thing with

792
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:46,959
Speaker 3: Lebron people use as a slight. But when when Kaream

793
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:49,919
Speaker 3: and Michael have the same number of rings, that's when

794
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:54,399
Speaker 3: the finals appearances take on a different light. And I'll

795
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:56,799
Speaker 3: use the analogy I always use and I used on

796
00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 3: the podcast earlier this week. If the NBA Championship is

797
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:04,839
Speaker 3: a gold medal, and making the finals but not winning

798
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 3: the championship is a silver medal. Michael has six golds

799
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 3: and zero silvers. Now, if you want to argue that's

800
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 3: more impressive than Lebron's four golds and six silvers, so

801
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 3: be it. That's at least an argument. But six golds

802
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 3: and zero silvers in no universe is more impressive than

803
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 3: Kareem's six golds and four silvers. The idea that one

804
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:32,839
Speaker 3: should be penalized, or let me put a different way,

805
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:37,800
Speaker 3: rewarded for losing earlier in the postseason and therefore avoiding

806
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:43,400
Speaker 3: a finals loss is illogical and would It's only proffered

807
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 3: because it helped protect the legacy of Jordan and anyone

808
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 3: that has watched these videos and if you're this deep

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00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 3: into this one that I assume you have knows I

810
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 3: paid tribute to Jordan. It's just that Kareem and Lebron

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00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 3: we'll get to next week. They're going to end up

812
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:08,479
Speaker 3: playing No, no, no, no, that's that's not even close

813
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 3: to right. They're seventy percent more games than Michael Jordan.

814
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 3: They're going to Lebron's going to if you do total games,

815
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:22,760
Speaker 3: I'm doing the math top my head and I've probably

816
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 3: screwed it up, but I'll just the Jordan played what

817
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 3: is considered twelve full seasons, Cream played twenty. Lebron is

818
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 3: entering year twenty. So you're talking about a demonstrative amount

819
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:48,239
Speaker 3: of more games and more time to accomplish things, and

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00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 3: that's got to count on these things. So why is

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00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:54,600
Speaker 3: Lebron number one? Give you a sneak peek of that?

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Speaker 3: Next wrap up today? All right, welcome back in final segment.

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Speaker 3: What's right? Nick Wright special Edition Premiumbbar Edition, As he's

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Speaker 3: number two on our fifty earers players last fifty years,

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Speaker 3: And I said I was going to give you a

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Speaker 3: sneak peek of why Lebron is number one. Instead, I

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00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:19,399
Speaker 3: will just refer you to just see literally anything I've

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Speaker 3: done on television or on this podcast over the last

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Speaker 3: five years. Hey, you can get a little sneak peak there.

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Speaker 3: This podcast went way longer than I'm supposed to. It

831
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 3: screws us up on our commercial inventory all that. So,

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Speaker 3: if you want to hear the full Lebron James oral history,

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Speaker 3: if you will tune in this time next week, I'll

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Speaker 3: try to keep that podcast under an hour and a half.

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Speaker 3: I can't promise I'll succeed. That's next week. What's ranging? Hey,

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