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Speaker 3: Welcome in to another special edition of What's Right with
Speaker 3: Nick Right, the podcast and YouTube show. This is our
Speaker 3: ultimate episode of the countdown of the fifty greatest players
Speaker 3: of the last fifty years. So let me just take
Speaker 3: a step back where we get to who is number
Speaker 3: two and talk about this project for just a moment,
Speaker 3: and we'll talk about it more maybe when we wrap
Speaker 3: it up next week. But I literally have been working
Speaker 3: on this for a number of years. There was a
Speaker 3: period of time as I talked about where I thought
Speaker 3: this was going to be a book. We then decided
Speaker 3: we were going to turn it into a video and
Speaker 3: audio series. And the reaction to it, while polarizing at times,
Speaker 3: has been really what I hoped it would be, which
Speaker 3: is people can get angry about the rankings and about
Speaker 3: the list, but this was also an informational exercise. Informational
Speaker 3: for me where I, you know, learned more about a
Speaker 3: guy such as as a for instance, Sidney Moncrief, who
Speaker 3: now MI pal Chris Brussard tells me that I have
Speaker 3: ranked I learned too much about him, or I think
Speaker 3: I hold him in two eye of a regard, and
Speaker 3: informational for me when an older guy like pistol Pete
Speaker 3: Marivitz that to me, once you actually dug into it,
Speaker 3: the legend outstripped the actual performance and also informational, because
Speaker 3: I learned if I didn't already know how die Hard
Speaker 3: so many of the Michael Jordan folks were. Because I
Speaker 3: knew people would be upset with Michael Jordan being number three,
Speaker 3: I didn't necessarily know that it was going to cause
Speaker 3: the firestorm it did, because I did think, while I
Speaker 3: know that Jordan is by most considered the greatest player ever,
Speaker 3: that there was an understanding that that is a three
Speaker 3: player race between Jordan, Lebron, and Kareem, and therefore one
Speaker 3: of them has to come in third, and that then
Speaker 3: brings us, of course to number two, which will you know,
Speaker 3: reveal by definition who number one is. So I spent
Speaker 3: the better part of this past week defending and explaining
Speaker 3: the case toab Kareem above Jordan. And the reason I
Speaker 3: spent the time doing that this week was because we've
Speaker 3: spent a lot of time on Lebron versus Jordan, and
Speaker 3: it has led a lot of people to speculate, wait,
Speaker 3: is Nick going to have Kareem number one? And Kareem
Speaker 3: has an excellent case to be number one. And when
Speaker 3: you dig into it and you look at what Lebron's accomplished,
Speaker 3: what Jordan's accomplished, came into three, and what Kareem's accomplished,
Speaker 3: you say, oh, man, even a guy like me who's
Speaker 3: called Lebron the goat for a few years now take
Speaker 3: a step back and you say, is it actually Kareem
Speaker 3: is the guy who when we'd said the fifty greatest
Speaker 3: players of the last fifty years, and really this list
Speaker 3: was the fifty greatest players of the last fifty two
Speaker 3: years because we were doing Kareem's rookie year to now,
Speaker 3: because we that was kind of modern NBA was Kareem's
Speaker 3: rookie year. But we started this in twenty twenty and
Speaker 3: we're debuting it in twenty twenty two. Is the guy
Speaker 3: who's one of the oldest guys on the list going
Speaker 3: to be the one standing at the very end? And
Speaker 3: the answer to that question is.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: The second greatest player of the last fifty years is
Speaker 3: none other than the captain formerly lou alsender number two,
Speaker 3: Kareem Abdul Jabbar. So Kareem's career resume is almost impossible
Speaker 3: to go over everything you're seeing some of the things
Speaker 3: on the screen. Six time MVP, six time champion all
Speaker 3: let's but that is on a sleeve, just the absolute
Speaker 3: bare minimum. So let's go through it the way we
Speaker 3: have with every player. Ten times he was first Team
Speaker 3: All NBA. That is tied for the fourth most ever.
Speaker 3: Five times he was second Team All NBA. They didn't
Speaker 3: have third team All nbas during his career. He has
Speaker 3: fifteen total All NBA teams. That is the second most ever,
Speaker 3: only behind Lebron. He is a six time MVP, as
Speaker 3: I mentioned, which is the most ever. Fifteen times. Kareem
Speaker 3: Abdul Jabbar finished in the top five in MVP voting
Speaker 3: fifteen times. That is the most all time the first
Speaker 3: twelve years of his career. If he stopped playing after
Speaker 3: the first twelve years of his career, he would be
Speaker 3: a top ten player ever. In those first twelve years,
Speaker 3: he won six MVPs and he was a top five
Speaker 3: MVP finisher every single year his first twelve twelve years
Speaker 3: in the league. He's eleven time All Defense. He's a
Speaker 3: two time scoring champion. He is a four time blocks champion.
Speaker 3: Despite the fact that his athletic prime, his first five
Speaker 3: years in the league. Blocks weren't a stat He's a
Speaker 3: one time rebounding champ. First dozen years of his career,
Speaker 3: he averaged twenty eight fourteen, four and three blocks on
Speaker 3: fifty seven percent. His third year in the league, he
Speaker 3: averaged thirty five points per game. He famously has scored
Speaker 3: the most points in NBA history. Not as famous as this.
Speaker 3: He broke the previous record, which was Wilt record in
Speaker 3: April of nineteen eighty four. He still holds it. That
Speaker 3: means Kareem Abdul Jabbar has been the NBA's all time
Speaker 3: leading scorer every day that I have been alive. It's
Speaker 3: been thirty eight years running. He has held that record. Lebron,
Speaker 3: of course, is gonna break it at some point this season.
Speaker 3: Third most rebounds ever, the most of anyone on this list.
Speaker 3: He's behind only Wilton Russell. The third most blocks ever,
Speaker 3: behind only akiemen to Kimbay. But again keep in mind,
Speaker 3: blocks weren't even counted the first few years of his career.
Speaker 3: The second most games ever, the most minutes ever, the
Speaker 3: most field goals made ever, and that won't be broken.
Speaker 3: Lebron's gonna come for everybody's records on almost everything field
Speaker 3: goals made. He won't because Kareem made the point not
Speaker 3: that long ago. I think it was to Dan Patrick.
Speaker 3: And he's right. He's the NBA's all time leading scorer
Speaker 3: and he never made a three pointer is so his
Speaker 3: raw baskets made. That's his record forever. I believe, a
Speaker 3: career average of twenty four and eleven, the only guy
Speaker 3: in the last fifty years to put up those numbers.
Speaker 3: He had three hundred and fifty five career thirty and
Speaker 3: ten games in the regular season. That is almost five
Speaker 3: full seasons of thirty point ten rebound games. Only will
Speaker 3: tas more. He of course, has the most unstoppable, unblockable
Speaker 3: shot in NBA history. And listen, we don't count high
Speaker 3: school for this list or college, but if you're the
Speaker 3: greatest ever, hands down its words at least mentioning before
Speaker 3: you get to the playoff stuff. In high school, he
Speaker 3: was seventy nine and two with three state titles, and
Speaker 3: at one point in high school had a seventy one
Speaker 3: game winning streak. In college, he was eighty eight and two.
Speaker 3: His freshman year is not allowed to play. His freshman
Speaker 3: team goes twenty to zero against other freshman teams and
Speaker 3: beats the UCLA varsity team in practice and in an
Speaker 3: organized scrimmage. That UCLA varsity team won the title. In
Speaker 3: his next three years in college, when he was allowed
Speaker 3: to play, despite them changing rules to try to minimize
Speaker 3: his impact, he went eighty eight and two. The two
Speaker 3: losses one game against Houston he was banged up. They
Speaker 3: lost by two points. The other game I think was Indiana.
Speaker 3: They did the four corners offense to try to prevent
Speaker 3: UCLA from top to the ball. Eighty eight to two.
Speaker 3: Three years of college, all three years, Player of the
Speaker 3: Year all three years, First Team All American all three years,
Speaker 3: Final foremost outstanding Player all three years, National champion, and
Speaker 3: then his rookie season. At his rookie season, Milwaukee had
Speaker 3: won twenty seven games. The previous year they had cream.
Speaker 3: They don't add oscar, yet they add cream. They were
Speaker 3: from twenty seven wins to fifty six wins. And as
Speaker 3: a rookie he averages twenty nine to fifteen to four
Speaker 3: who knows how many blocks and finish his third in
Speaker 3: MVP voting. So that's the regular season stuff, and we
Speaker 3: could go on longer in the regular season stuff, but
Speaker 3: the playoffs stuff with Kareem is going to take so long.
Speaker 3: We have to get to it. So we already mentioned it.
Speaker 3: Six time NBA champion, two time finals MVP, and you're
Speaker 3: gonna understand shortly why him only having two finals MVPs
Speaker 3: is criminal. Also ten total finals appearances, ten finals appearances,
Speaker 3: six time champion. By the way, those two finals MVPs
Speaker 3: I mentioned, he won one of them at age twenty
Speaker 3: four and the other at age thirty eight. Let that
Speaker 3: wash over you for a minute. At age twenty four
Speaker 3: playing for the championship, he was the best player on
Speaker 3: the court, and at age thirty eight, fifteen seasons later,
Speaker 3: he was the best player on the court playing for
Speaker 3: a championship winning finals MVP. So let's start in nineteen
Speaker 3: seventy rookie season. It's twenty three years old. First playoff
Speaker 3: game ever thirty six and twenty thirty six and twenty
Speaker 3: is a rookie first game ever in the playoffs. Pretty
Speaker 3: good first playoff round ever. His rookie season, scores thirty
Speaker 3: three points in every single game, including forty six and
Speaker 3: twenty five to win the series in twenty five point
Speaker 3: playoff game. As a rookie average for that series thirty
Speaker 3: six and sixteen on fifty eight percent first four games
Speaker 3: against Willis Reid, who would win the title that year
Speaker 3: in the Knicks. Here's what he did is his rookie year.
Speaker 3: First four games in Round two thirty five, fifteen and five,
Speaker 3: then thirty eight, twenty three, eleven that's Game two, then
Speaker 3: thirty three, thirty one and five a thirty thirty and
Speaker 3: five as a rookie in the playoffs against Willis Reed,
Speaker 3: and then in Game four thirty eight to nine. In
Speaker 3: those first four games of the series, he averaged thirty
Speaker 3: six points, twenty rebounds, six assists in forty seven and
Speaker 3: a half minutes per game. That's a real story. Forty
Speaker 3: seven and a half minutes per game is what he
Speaker 3: averaged for those first four games in the series against
Speaker 3: Willis Reed as a rookie. His team wasn't very good.
Speaker 3: They lost three of those four games. For the playoff run,
Speaker 3: as a rookie, he averaged thirty five five point seventeen
Speaker 3: rebounds forces on fifty six percent shooting. Okay, that's how
Speaker 3: he starts. So what's he do for a year? Two?
Speaker 3: I put together what is up to that point, the
Speaker 3: single greatest season NBA history start to finish. Okay, pretty
Speaker 3: good Round one and so in the play they won
Speaker 3: sixty six games. In the regular season they had added Oscar,
Speaker 3: and Oscar was still very good, but it was not
Speaker 3: the prime Oscar. Round one he averages twenty eight and sixteen,
Speaker 3: including a thirty and twenty game. By the way, for Kareem,
Speaker 3: for brevity's sake, we're gonna have to do a lot
Speaker 3: of averages instead of game by game because there's too
Speaker 3: many games. The guy played so many games, was so good.
Speaker 3: For the Western Conferends Finals averages twenty five, seventeen, and four,
Speaker 3: including two separate thirty point twenty rebounds games to Gentlemen
Speaker 3: sweep the Lakers to make the first finals. In the finals,
Speaker 3: he sweeped the Bullets in his first finals game. Ever
Speaker 3: he is thirty one and seventeen. In his second finals game,
Speaker 3: ever is twenty seven and twenty four. In his third
Speaker 3: finals game, ever is twenty three and twenty one, and
Speaker 3: then it is in the fourth finals game ever. To
Speaker 3: complete the sweep, he has twenty seven points, twelve rebounds,
Speaker 3: seven assists to win the title. Averages twenty seven and
Speaker 3: nineteen on sixty percent for the finals finishes the season
Speaker 3: with MVP Finals MVP an up to that point in
Speaker 3: time record twenty game winning streak, twenty game winning streak,
Speaker 3: twelve and two in the playoffs, overall record of seventy
Speaker 3: eight to eighteen. I think it was the best start
Speaker 3: to finish season in NBA history up to that point.
Speaker 3: Nineteen seventy two title defense opens it up against the
Speaker 3: Warriors with the twenty eight to fifteen to five, but
Speaker 3: they lose. They then win four straight to advance the
Speaker 3: Western Effends Finals. I believe this Western Conferends Finals. By
Speaker 3: the way, is this two best teams that have ever
Speaker 3: played outside of an NBA finals, the seventy two Bucks
Speaker 3: and the seventy two Lakers, or two of the greatest
Speaker 3: teams ever to face? Are the two greatest teams ever
Speaker 3: to face each other outside of an NBA finals, I believe.
Speaker 3: So how does he do against the Lakers, who, by
Speaker 3: the way, had Wilt Chamberlain. Yes, he was an older
Speaker 3: Wilt Chamberlain, he was still Wilt Chamberlain. Well. Game one,
Speaker 3: he had thirty three and eighteen. Game two, he had
Speaker 3: forty points, seven rebounds, seven assists. They lost by one.
Speaker 3: Game three, he had thirty three points, twenty one rebound,
Speaker 3: six assists, they lost by three. Game four, critical game
Speaker 3: he has thirty one and eighteen to even the series.
Speaker 3: Then in Game six, down three to two, he throws
Speaker 3: up thirty seven points, twenty five rebounds, eight assists, but
Speaker 3: they lose. Oscar got hurt and Oscar averages nine points
Speaker 3: per game for that series. Wasn't great for that series.
Speaker 3: Will averaged eleven points per game. Kareem, trying to defend
Speaker 3: his title, averaged thirty four points, eighteen rebounds, five assists.
Speaker 3: So that was nineteen seventy two. Again we are We're
Speaker 3: three years into his career. I'm out of breath, almost
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy three and actually not great. Lost to the
Speaker 3: Warriors in six. He was good, he wasn't great. Average
Speaker 3: twenty three and sixteen for the series. Again, twenty three points,
Speaker 3: six rebounds per game. One of his worst playoff series
Speaker 3: of the first decade of his career nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 3: Didn't like that hole. Not going deep into the playoffs thing.
Speaker 3: It's Oscar's final year and it's Kaream's final year with
Speaker 3: the Bucks. As it would happen. It's also the first
Speaker 3: time we get the statistical record of Kareem's steals and
Speaker 3: blocks in the playoffs. We don't have that record, at
Speaker 3: least Basketball Reference doesn't happen. I wasn't able to find
Speaker 3: it elsewhere. Any official record for his steals and blocks
Speaker 3: prior to nineteen seventy four. Okay, first game of the
Speaker 3: playoffs thirty five points, twenty one rebounds, two assists for
Speaker 3: Steel six blocks, played all forty eight minutes. Seems good.
Speaker 3: Thirty five twenty one two four six, playing all forty
Speaker 3: eight against Lakers. Game two, had thirty two points, twenty
Speaker 3: five rebounds. Game four, he had thirty one points, sixteen rebounds,
Speaker 3: eight assists, six blocks. Jesus christ Man thirty one, sixteen,
Speaker 3: eight and six against the Lakers in Game four. Average
Speaker 3: for that series against the Lakers thirty points, eighteen rebounds,
Speaker 3: five assists, two steals, three blocks forty five minutes per game.
Speaker 3: Chicago in Round two just kicked the shit out of them. Sorry, Chicago,
Speaker 3: it was an annihilation. Had a forty four and twenty
Speaker 3: one game in Game two at thirty eight and twenty
Speaker 3: four game in Game four. Average for the series thirty
Speaker 3: five points, twenty rebounds, four assists, and in the four
Speaker 3: game sweep, played every single minute but three set for
Speaker 3: three minutes. Averaged thirty five to twenty and four. In
Speaker 3: the finals against John Havelchick and Dave Cowens. I believe
Speaker 3: this is the first finals MVP that he was robbed of,
Speaker 3: even though they lost in the finals. I'll try to
Speaker 3: make the case for it. By the way, they had
Speaker 3: just given a finals MVP to will losing player a
Speaker 3: few years prior in Jerry West, so it wouldn't have
Speaker 3: been at all unprecedent. So what did you do in
Speaker 3: those finals? Game one they lost? He had thirty five points,
Speaker 3: fourteen rebounds, five assists. In Game two, he had thirty
Speaker 3: six points, fifteen rebounds, six assists in an overtime win,
Speaker 3: playing all fifty three minutes. Game four thirty four points,
Speaker 3: fourteen rebounds, six assists to tie the series. Game five
Speaker 3: had thirty seven points, eleven rebound, six assists, but they lost.
Speaker 3: Game six, facing elimination, has thirty four points, eight rebound,
Speaker 3: six assists, playing fifty eight minutes in a double overtime win.
Speaker 3: In the finals, they lose. Game seven obviously, averages thirty
Speaker 3: three points, twelve rebounds, five assists, two blocks, and an
Speaker 3: unbreakable record. This is as unbreakable as any record there are.
Speaker 3: Will be played three hundred and forty five minutes in
Speaker 3: a single finals. That is, break out your calculators. Forty
Speaker 3: nine minutes per game in a seven game series, average
Speaker 3: forty nine minutes per game in a seven game series.
Speaker 3: For the Finals, they gave Finals MVP to John Havlichek,
Speaker 3: who averaged twenty six and eight on forty two percent
Speaker 3: shooting over Kareem's thirty three to twelve five and two
Speaker 3: on fifty six percent shooting. For the playoffs that year,
Speaker 3: Kareem averaged thirty two to sixteen to five and two
Speaker 3: and averaged more than forty seven minutes per game. Then
Speaker 3: he gets traded to the Lakers and they actually missed
Speaker 3: the playoffs two straight years. That's a ding on him.
Speaker 3: It's a small ding, but it's a ding. Now. One
Speaker 3: of those years they missed the playoffs in Parks, they
Speaker 3: started so terribly. He's broke his hand, but still a ding.
Speaker 3: They need to punch Kurt Benson. If I remember correctly,
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy seven, we're back in the playoffs and against
Speaker 3: a kick ass Warriors team. Rick Berry Jamal Wilkes, Young,
Speaker 3: Robert Parrish, Gus Williams. They had just won the title
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, they being the Warriors. He
Speaker 3: has one of his most dominant series ever. Game two,
Speaker 3: already up one to zero in the series, has a
Speaker 3: forty point nineteen rebound, three assist, three steel, nine block
Speaker 3: game the old forty nineteen three to three and nine
Speaker 3: box score in Game four has forty one and eighteen,
Speaker 3: but they lost that and the series was tied. Game
Speaker 3: five has forty five and eighteen to go up three
Speaker 3: to two. Game six to try to close them out,
Speaker 3: this great Warriors team try and close them out has
Speaker 3: forty three and twenty, but they lose Game seven. Game
Speaker 3: seven against the Warriors team that's just won the title
Speaker 3: a couple of years prior. Lakers team has done nothing
Speaker 3: in MISSIS playoffs two straight years. Game seven thirty six points,
Speaker 3: twenty six rebounds, four assists, five blucksh for the series
Speaker 3: averaged thirty seven points, nineteen rebounds, four assists, two steals,
Speaker 3: four blocks on sixty percent shooting. Pretty good. Round two,
Speaker 3: Facing the one time Bill Walton's fully healthy with Portland,
Speaker 3: I thought he vastly outplayed Walton again, I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: act I was able to watch all those games. You
Speaker 3: see clips of them. There's one full game you can
Speaker 3: find on YouTube, but a lot of it is reading
Speaker 3: the box score. I will admit that.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: But even though he averaged thirty and sixteen for the series,
Speaker 3: they got swept by Portland, Portland team going win the title.
Speaker 3: For the playoffs that year, Kaream averaged thirty five points,
Speaker 3: eighteen rebounds, four assists, two steals, four blocks, and shot
Speaker 3: sixty one percent from the field. Then we get to
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy eight, and I gotta add a little NBA
Speaker 3: history here. As the NBA started adding more teams to
Speaker 3: the playoffs, they started doing this thing where if you
Speaker 3: weren't a top seed, the top seed or a top
Speaker 3: three seeded dependentives, they added teams. In the first round
Speaker 3: of the playoffs, you played a best of three. I
Speaker 3: wish they hadn't done this because I think it robbed
Speaker 3: us of some better potential conference finals and finals. But
Speaker 3: because of that best of three, it's not quite a
Speaker 3: single elimination, but it's close as you can get to it.
Speaker 3: So in nineteen seventy eight, the Lakers lose to the
Speaker 3: Sonics two to one, despite Kareem averaging twenty seven points,
Speaker 3: fourteen rebounds, four assists, four blocks for the series. Nineteen
Speaker 3: seventy nine Round one, facing another Douardi Game three again
Speaker 3: Douardi Game three sounds, Weird has twenty nine points, sixteen rebounds,
Speaker 3: eight assists, six blocks, playing all forty eight points in
Speaker 3: a one point win to advance. So that's the game
Speaker 3: seven version of round one. Back then he has twenty nine, sixteen,
Speaker 3: eight and six and they win by one. He played
Speaker 3: all forty eight minutes again. Now you're facing Seattle, the
Speaker 3: Lakers losing five to the eventual NBA Champs team that
Speaker 3: had beaten him the previous year in round one despite
Speaker 3: Kareem averaging twenty nine points, twelve rebounds, five assists. Then
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty they get Magic Johnson. The rest of Kareem's career,
Speaker 3: which was another decade, he would make the finals eight
Speaker 3: of his final ten years. The two times he didn't
Speaker 3: make the finals, one of them was again because of
Speaker 3: a fluky best of three round one thing just unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Once he got paired up with Magic, but he was
Speaker 3: still the lead dog for the beginning and one could
Speaker 3: argue the first five years of the eighties, let's go
Speaker 3: through it. Wow, we're only nineteen eighty, spent a lot
Speaker 3: of time here and we're about to have eight five
Speaker 3: more finals trips to get to. I'll try to speed up,
Speaker 3: but it's it's hard. So the Lakers get magic in
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty and they're a true juggernaut for the first
Speaker 3: time with Kareem. He opened the playoffs with a thirty point,
Speaker 3: twelve rebound, five block performance. In that third thirty point performance,
Speaker 3: he played only thirty five minutes and he only took
Speaker 3: fourteen shots. The rest of that series, he has a
Speaker 3: couple more thirty five plus point games, and he averages
Speaker 3: for the series thirty two points, eleven rebounds on fifty
Speaker 3: nine percent gets Seattle. Against Seattle remembers knocked him out
Speaker 3: of the playoffs the previous two years against Seattle, gets
Speaker 3: revenge on him, including to close Seattle out, throws up
Speaker 3: thirty eight points, eleven rebounds, six assists, two steal, seven blocks.
Speaker 3: See that really makes me wonder what Kareem's block tolls
Speaker 3: we're gonna would have been like right when he got
Speaker 3: to the league, But we don't have that data and
Speaker 3: in fairness, we don't have for will for Russell either,
Speaker 3: obviously for the entirety of their careers. So he closes
Speaker 3: out Seattle with a thirty eight, eleven, six, two and
Speaker 3: seven averages for the series thirty one twelve, four to
Speaker 3: two and four. In the finals, this is the second
Speaker 3: time I think he is robbed of a Finals MVP.
Speaker 3: In game one, he has thirty three points, fourteen rebounds,
Speaker 3: five assists, six blocks. In game two he has thirty
Speaker 3: eight points, fourteen rebounds, three assists, two steals, five blocks.
Speaker 3: In game three he has thirty three points, fourteen rebounds,
Speaker 3: three steals, four blocks. And then in game five, with
Speaker 3: the series tied, gets hurt, comes back and has forty points,
Speaker 3: fifteen rebounds and four blocks to win the game, but
Speaker 3: because of the injury in game five, he has to
Speaker 3: miss game six. That's when Magic put up his magical
Speaker 3: forty two, fifteen and seven and they gave Magic the
Speaker 3: Finals MVP, despite the fact again Kareem did not win
Speaker 3: Finals MVP. For Finals he won where he averaged thirty
Speaker 3: three points, fourteen rebounds, three assists, five blocks. Just unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Nineteen eighty one, they're the defending champs and they're playing
Speaker 3: another one of these best of threes. And this is
Speaker 3: when they played the best of three against Seattle in
Speaker 3: what it's seventy eight. They had a mediocre regular season.
Speaker 3: In eighty one, they had the second best record in
Speaker 3: their conference. They won fifty four games. Yet they end
Speaker 3: up having to play a best of three because the
Speaker 3: weird seeding rules in the NBA had added teams, and
Speaker 3: they lose Game three. Despite in Game three against Moses Malone,
Speaker 3: Kareem had thirty two points, eighteen rebounds, four assists, four blocks.
Speaker 3: So that ends the first twelve years of Kareem's career.
Speaker 3: In those first twelve years in the playoffs, he averaged
Speaker 3: thirty points, sixteen rebounds, four assists, three blocks on around
Speaker 3: fifty five percent shooting. All right, nineteen eighty two, another
Speaker 3: championship best record in the West, they sweep through the
Speaker 3: Western Conference playoffs and Kareem only averages twenty two to nine,
Speaker 3: four and three. Again, only twenty two points, nine and rebounds,
Speaker 3: forces three steals, and in the finals, for the first
Speaker 3: time in his career, he's outplayed by somebody, but it's
Speaker 3: his teammate. Magic Lakers win the title. Magic gets his
Speaker 3: second Finals MVP should be his first Finals MVP because
Speaker 3: Kareem should have won in eighty and this marks Kareem
Speaker 3: moving into a slightly different phase of his career. And
Speaker 3: this phase I would call I don't even know why
Speaker 3: I would call it this phase. He was still better
Speaker 3: than Peake David Robinson, but he was no longer playing
Speaker 3: like world beating Juggernaut every single night. Instead, he saved
Speaker 3: those for the biggest nights. So nineteen eighty three, he
Speaker 3: led all players in playoff points per game and blocks
Speaker 3: per game. Again, this is his what is this? This
Speaker 3: is his fourteenth year in the league, and he led
Speaker 3: all players in playoff points per game, in blocks per
Speaker 3: game twenty seven points per game by the way, four
Speaker 3: blocks per game. He opened the playoff with four straight
Speaker 3: thirty plus point games and averaged thirty one points, eight rebounds,
Speaker 3: and five blocks per game in round one against Portland.
Speaker 3: In the Western Armends Finals against George Gervin and the Spurs,
Speaker 3: he averages twenty six points, eight rebounds, four blocks to
Speaker 3: get back to the finals. In the finals, Moses and
Speaker 3: the Sixers were too much for him. I would argue
Speaker 3: that Sixers seems one of the two greatest teams ever.
Speaker 3: They sweep the Lakers. Despite the fact that Kareem averaged
Speaker 3: again against Moses twenty four points, eight rebounds on fifty
Speaker 3: five percent nineteen eighty fours year fifteen, and in these playoffs,
Speaker 3: Kaream seemed to pick his spots until the inevitable finals trip.
Speaker 3: Game four of round two, up to one, has a
Speaker 3: chance for the kill shot, has thirty three points, eleven rebounds,
Speaker 3: four blocks on seventy four percent shooting to essentially lock
Speaker 3: up the series. Games three to four of the Western
Speaker 3: Conference Finals against Phoenix, Kaream has thirty one in each game,
Speaker 3: and in those two games was seventy three percent from
Speaker 3: the field for seventy two. He was twenty four of
Speaker 3: thirty three from the field combined in those two games,
Speaker 3: scoring thirty one in each. Then in the finals against
Speaker 3: the hated Celtics, Kareem once again was out of his mind.
Speaker 3: Also keep in mind this is the regular season this
Speaker 3: year he breaks the all time scoring record, so he
Speaker 3: already had played long enough to break the all time
Speaker 3: scoring record. It's year fifteen for him, okay, And in
Speaker 3: the finals Game one, he has thirty two points, eight rebounds,
Speaker 3: five assists. Game four, with a chance to go up
Speaker 3: three to one and really take a stranglehold of the series,
Speaker 3: he has thirty two points, eight rebounds, six assists, four steels,
Speaker 3: two blocks, but they lost in overtime, so the series
Speaker 3: is tied. Game six, facing eliminations, they also lost Game five,
Speaker 3: he has thirty points, ten rebounds, five assists. Again, this
Speaker 3: is year fifteen for Kaream. So they win that game,
Speaker 3: they force the game seven, and in that game seven,
Speaker 3: Magic really struggled. We've talked to the tragic Johnson stuff,
Speaker 3: really struggling. That game seven, Kaream had twenty nine. It's
Speaker 3: not enough. Kaream averaged for the finals twenty six points,
Speaker 3: eight rebounds, four assists. Now we're to nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 3: Kaream is thirty eight years old, fourteen years removed from
Speaker 3: his first Finals MVP. Should have two more, but he doesn't,
Speaker 3: and he gets his second Finals MVP. He's good in
Speaker 3: the playoffs leading up to the finals. The Lakers are
Speaker 3: nobody's touching him. In the West. They're eleven to two
Speaker 3: in those three rounds. They never trail him. Series, they
Speaker 3: face no real adversity, and in the Western Conference playoffs,
Speaker 3: heading into the Finals, he averages just twenty points per
Speaker 3: game in just thirty minutes per game. He's not playing
Speaker 3: a lot that it's a lot of blowouts. Then in
Speaker 3: the Finals he gets his revenge on Boston. Game one,
Speaker 3: the Lakers are beat by a thousand points. He guys
Speaker 3: can google it the Memorial Day masker. Boston thought they
Speaker 3: were gonna go back to back. So what does Kareem
Speaker 3: do after that? Game two? Thirty points, seventeen rebounds, eight assists. Again,
Speaker 3: he's thirty eight years old. He had broken the all
Speaker 3: time scoring record a year and a half earlier. He
Speaker 3: has a year earlier, he has thirty, seventeen and eight.
Speaker 3: In game two, Game three, he has twenty six, fourteen
Speaker 3: and seven. Game five, with the series tied, he has
Speaker 3: thirty six points, seven rebounds, seven assists. And then to
Speaker 3: win the title in Game six, he has twenty six
Speaker 3: points and seven rebounds in just thirty five minutes because
Speaker 3: he fouled out. For the series, he averages twenty six points,
Speaker 3: nine rebounds, five assists on sixty percent shooting. Going against
Speaker 3: Kevin McHale and Robert Parrish. He was thirty eight years old.
Speaker 3: As defending champions and finals MVP and Kareem, at thirty
Speaker 3: nine years old, is just still kicking people's asses. In
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty six Round two, he averages against Dallas twenty
Speaker 3: nine points, six rebounds, four assists on sixty percent shooting,
Speaker 3: and scored at least twenty six in every game of
Speaker 3: the series. He's thirty nine. In the Western Reference Finals
Speaker 3: against a couple of big men known as a chem
Speaker 3: Olajuan and Ralph Sampson, he went for thirty twice, averaged
Speaker 3: twenty seven and seven for the series for the Lakers,
Speaker 3: losing six. So this is the only other time other
Speaker 3: than the best of three that we talked about against
Speaker 3: Houston kind of flukey thing when they won fifty four games,
Speaker 3: so ill hat to play best of three. This was
Speaker 3: the only other year of the entire nineteen eighties where
Speaker 3: Kareem is not in the finals those playoffs. In year nineteen,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry at thirty nine years old, not year nineteen,
Speaker 3: Kareem averaged twenty six points, four rebounds. Twenty six points,
Speaker 3: six rebounds, four assists, two blocks on fifty six percent
Speaker 3: shooting while playing thirty five minutes per game. Nineteen eighty seven,
Speaker 3: Kaream is now forty years old and the Lakers are
Speaker 3: a legitimate juggernaut. Some people argue this is the best
Speaker 3: team ever. I don't think it is. Some people argue
Speaker 3: this they won sixty five games. They were eleven to
Speaker 3: one route to their championship. Not surprisingly Kaream's best games
Speaker 3: or eleven and yeah, eleven and one in route to
Speaker 3: the finals, I should say, and not surprisingly Kaream's best
Speaker 3: games pre finals with the two close ones. The Lakers
Speaker 3: had their one loss and they're one close win which
Speaker 3: was by only a point. Where Kareem's two best games.
Speaker 3: He had twenty seven and twenty eight points respectively in
Speaker 3: those two games. Then in the finals again you're facing
Speaker 3: the Celtics. In Game three, he has twenty seven and
Speaker 3: seven and then up three to two with a chants
Speaker 3: to win the title, he has thirty two and six
Speaker 3: with four blocks on seventy two percent shooting in just
Speaker 3: twenty two minutes. Again, I want to reiterate this, guys
Speaker 3: chance to win the title. Game six against the Celtics,
Speaker 3: he has thirty two points, six rebounds, four blocks on
Speaker 3: seventy two percent shooting in twenty nine minutes. He's forty
Speaker 3: years old. For those playoffs. Let me let me give
Speaker 3: you a little context here. For those playoffs, he averaged
Speaker 3: nineteen points and seven rebounds on fifty three percent shooting
Speaker 3: at forty years old. Nineteen points, seven rebounds, fifty three
Speaker 3: percent shooting. He did it at forty Who has done that?
Speaker 3: Who averages for their playoff career at least nineteen points,
Speaker 3: at least seven rebounds on at least fifty three percent shooting. Well,
Speaker 3: Kareem did at forty years old. You want to know
Speaker 3: the full list of people, Well, obviously Kareem's on it.
Speaker 3: The rest of the list Shaquille O'Neal and Anthony Davis.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 4: So what.
Speaker 3: Kareem did at forty years old in route to a
Speaker 3: title nineteen points, some rebounds, fifty three percent shooting. Only
Speaker 3: two other guys in NBA history have done it for
Speaker 3: their careers Shack and Anthony Davis nineteen eighty eight another championship.
Speaker 3: And now at this point Kareem at forty one is
Speaker 3: a different player. But that again, you can't be the
Speaker 3: second best player of the last fifty years, which by
Speaker 3: the way, also means second best player ever because he's
Speaker 3: had a wilt Ann Russell without finding a way to
Speaker 3: make an impact even at age forty one. He averaged
Speaker 3: seventeen and five in round one at age forty one
Speaker 3: and in the biggest spots, showed up down two one
Speaker 3: in round two to Carl Malone and John Stockton had
Speaker 3: a twenty and eleven. Western Armerends Finals tied to two.
Speaker 3: Had twenty one and five in the finals Game five,
Speaker 3: tied too two had twenty six and six on fifty
Speaker 3: seven percent at forty one, god dang years old. But
Speaker 3: they lose. And then in Game six, with the championship
Speaker 3: on the line, with Isaiah shooting, flames out his ass
Speaker 3: with the with the spray and angle in the twenty
Speaker 3: five point quarter. Down a point, what do the Lakers do?
Speaker 3: They give the ball to Kareem with the game on
Speaker 3: the line. He gets fouled, maybe he doesn't get fouled,
Speaker 3: but he gets the call and he goes the line
Speaker 3: and sinks both free throws. They force the game seven.
Speaker 3: They win Game seven, they win another title. So at
Speaker 3: forty one years old, they don't win that title with Alan,
Speaker 3: hands down the biggest play of their season. They ran
Speaker 3: it for Kareem. For the finals, he averaged thirteen and four, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, doesn't sound that impressive, but then you
Speaker 3: realize that is exactly what Joe Dumar's average for those
Speaker 3: Joe Dumars was in the prime of his career. They
Speaker 3: win another title, Ring number six, nineteen eighty nine. Cream's
Speaker 3: forty two years old. The Lakers do make another finals
Speaker 3: with the Pistons are the best team in basketball. But again,
Speaker 3: Kaream has one last big game in him. He's forty
Speaker 3: two years old. Down oh two in the finals, not
Speaker 3: wanting to get swept, throws up a twenty four to
Speaker 3: thirteen in the finals against the eighty eight Pistons or
Speaker 3: eighty nine Pistons. Pardon me, but they lose and they
Speaker 3: get swept, and then it's over. Then it's over. He
Speaker 3: only gave you twenty years. So the final playoff resume
Speaker 3: in short, is led the playoffs in points per game
Speaker 3: five times and blocks per game five times. Third most
Speaker 3: playoff points ever, behind only Lebron and Jordan. Fifth most
Speaker 3: playoff rebounds ever, second most playoff blocks ever, fifth most
Speaker 3: playoff games over, third, most playoff minutes ever, third most
Speaker 3: finals points ever, behind only Jerry West and Lebron. Fifth
Speaker 3: most finals rebounds ever, behind only Lebron in the last
Speaker 3: fifty years, most finals blocks ever third, most finals games ever,
Speaker 3: behind only Russell and Sam Jones. Fourth, most finals minutes
Speaker 3: ever played, behind only Russell, Jerry West, and Lebron. Fifty
Speaker 3: two career thirty and ten playoff games third most ever,
Speaker 3: behind only Lebron and Elgin, seventy five career thirty point
Speaker 3: playoff games fourth most all time behind only MJ, Lebron
Speaker 3: and Kobe, and a career playoff average of twenty four
Speaker 3: and ten on fifty three percent. That, my friends, is
Speaker 3: how you become the second greatest player of the last
Speaker 3: fifty years. One Kareem abdul Jabbar. I don't know that
Speaker 3: I did him justice there I hope I did. We
Speaker 3: will take some calls on it and do a quick
Speaker 3: preview of number one, which was maybe the only predictable
Speaker 3: result of this entire list. Will do that next to
Speaker 3: What's Wright? All Right? Welcome back in What's Right with
Speaker 3: Nick Wright special Edition and our second to last special edition.
Speaker 3: As we are counting down the fifty guards players the
Speaker 3: last fifty years, we just revealed number two, Kareem abdul Jabbar,
Speaker 3: which means you know who Number one is Lebron, but
Speaker 3: we'll have plenty of time talking about Lebron. We might
Speaker 3: even do a few minutes on Lebron before the end
Speaker 3: of today's show. But first, as we have listen, I
Speaker 3: just did I think it was thirty five minutes on
Speaker 3: Kareem's career. Could have done thirty five hours on it.
Speaker 3: I so for all these guys, I put these notes
Speaker 3: in a document, and by the way, the full document,
Speaker 3: and it's just the notes of it. The full document
Speaker 3: is at last check, seventy two typed pages, twelve point font,
Speaker 3: single space. That's for the fifty players, which makes sense
Speaker 3: because the early guys, each of them, it took about
Speaker 3: a you know, so I'm looking at Bernard King, Bernard
Speaker 3: King and Carmelo, those two guys took one page combined,
Speaker 3: and then you get down to those were fifty and
Speaker 3: forty nine on the list. Then you get down to,
Speaker 3: for example, Steve Nash. Steve Nash took about three quarters
Speaker 3: of a page, and then you scroll down to guy
Speaker 3: number thirty five, Russell Westbrook, and Russell Westbrook took a
Speaker 3: full page himself. It's like, oh okay, because again they
Speaker 3: have more of a playoff resume more of more of everything,
Speaker 3: sort of speak. Let's jump down a lot. You go
Speaker 3: down to, for example, find a good one here. Number
Speaker 3: well twenty is Luca Lucas a little short one. Gosh, Luca.
Speaker 3: People still mad with the Luca thing again, people watch
Speaker 3: Luca video. I explain there's precedent for it. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: keep leaving on that. President d Wade, number nineteen on
Speaker 3: the list. D Wade takes about a page and a half.
Speaker 3: And then we get down even further to where it's like, okay,
Speaker 3: so Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant is almost two full pages
Speaker 3: for the notes I have, not every it's obviously not scripted,
Speaker 3: but the notes I have because there's a ton of
Speaker 3: numbers to remember. And then you get down to a
Speaker 3: guy like a chem long career, a ton of stuff
Speaker 3: to go through. A chem is more than two full pages.
Speaker 3: And then when I didn't Magic Kobe was three pages,
Speaker 3: super long career. Duncan was three pages. Magic was nearly
Speaker 3: three pages, even though the career was shortened. Michael was
Speaker 3: I want to get it right. Michael was five full pages.
Speaker 3: Cream is six and a half pages in my notes,
Speaker 3: and I and I had to cut a lot of stuff,
Speaker 3: felt like someone editing that. Wait, no, I'm sorry. Cream
Speaker 3: was seven and a half full pages of my notes,
Speaker 3: and so that's why that took so long. So now
Speaker 3: I want to turn it over to some callers here,
Speaker 3: God if that's by the way, So this thing is
Speaker 3: seventy two pages, and I haven't even added the Lebron
Speaker 3: stuff to it. So, in other words, if it's seventy
Speaker 3: two pages about Lebron stuff, this thing'sa end up being
Speaker 3: one one hundred and seventy two pages long. Okay, here's
Speaker 3: our first caller on Kareem. Let's do it.
Speaker 4: Hey, they control Buddy Al from White Plans.
Speaker 5: You can talk about your number two selection on the
Speaker 5: NBA Top fifty list. None other than the King of
Speaker 5: the Sky hooked the brilliant Kareem Abdul Jabbar, whose career
Speaker 5: spanned twenty years and was the ultimate combination of individual
Speaker 5: brilliance and team success.
Speaker 4: Individually, nineteen trips to the.
Speaker 5: All Star Game in those twenty seasons, six regular season MVPs,
Speaker 5: two finals MVPs. Team success trips to the finals count
Speaker 5: them ten, eight with.
Speaker 4: The Lakers, two with his original team, the Milwaukee.
Speaker 5: Bucks, one championship there five with the Showtime Lakers.
Speaker 4: To me his ultimate achievement.
Speaker 5: Nineteen eighty five, thirty eight years of age, he leads
Speaker 5: the Lakers into the garden and on the parquet floor
Speaker 5: for the first time in team history.
Speaker 4: They knock off the Celtics in six games.
Speaker 5: In the last four games in which the Lakers one,
Speaker 5: he averaged over thirty points and eleven rebounds per game
Speaker 5: against a Hall of Fame front line.
Speaker 4: My simple question, you, Nick, is how can you top this?
Speaker 3: Well, obviously I only have one person topping, and that
Speaker 3: person's Lebron. And we'll explain the Lebron stuff a little
Speaker 3: bit in the next segment and then obviously in full
Speaker 3: in the next episode. But that listen, Al, who's the
Speaker 3: best sports radio caller ever. You can hear him on
Speaker 3: Mad Dog Sports Radio and Serrius XM a lot I
Speaker 3: used to to show in that channel. That's how I
Speaker 3: got to know him. He's not wrong that what Kareem
Speaker 3: did in that eighty five season is just utterly remarkable.
Speaker 3: He turns thirty eight that year and wins finals MVP
Speaker 3: again that playoffs. He's older than Lebron is right now.
Speaker 3: And by the way, the next year in the playoffs,
Speaker 3: when he was thirty nine, he averaged twenty six points
Speaker 3: per game. Again, I don't have to reiterate it. Al
Speaker 3: did it. I did it for thirty five minutes. But
Speaker 3: he for Kareem at fifteen years old, fifteen years old
Speaker 3: to start a seventy one game winning streak and win
Speaker 3: three state championships, and then to go to college and
Speaker 3: go eighty eight to two and win three national championships,
Speaker 3: and then from his rookie season until age thirty eight,
Speaker 3: be arguably the best player in the league, if not
Speaker 3: the whole time for top three player, the entirety of
Speaker 3: that time. Like you're talking about almost a quarter century
Speaker 3: of just kicking ass and taking names at every level
Speaker 3: of basketball you're allowed to play. No one will ever
Speaker 3: have a basketball life the way Kareem did that much,
Speaker 3: I know is true, the best basketball life ever. Because
Speaker 3: Lebron was great in high school, didn't dominate the way
Speaker 3: Kareem did, and didn't play in college. Jordan famously, you know,
Speaker 3: was didn't make varsity as a freshman in high school.
Speaker 3: Was good, but wasn't even the best player on his
Speaker 3: freshman his freshman year playing college basketball at North Carolina
Speaker 3: hit the biggest shot in team history, but well, yeah,
Speaker 3: the biggest shot in team history, but wasn't the best
Speaker 3: player until his sophomore in his junior year, and then
Speaker 3: sophomore in his junior a disappointingu Tar Hills did NCAA tournament.
Speaker 3: And guys these days aren't gonna play college basketball, you know,
Speaker 3: for three plus years like Kareem did. It's no one
Speaker 3: will ever have the basketball life Kareem did. I know that.
Speaker 3: All right, Now, let's go to one of our I
Speaker 3: have a little preview on who this is one of
Speaker 3: our most special callers. Yet let's go to it.
Speaker 6: Hey, Michael Cooper here, former Los Angeles Laker players, and
Speaker 6: I'm here to tell you about who my gope of
Speaker 6: all times, that's the greatest of all times out there. Okay,
Speaker 6: everybody's talk about Jordan Lebron, James, Kobe Bryant, and that's
Speaker 6: the name a few, But my goat is Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
Speaker 6: And there's three reasons why won. Because he had a
Speaker 6: shot that was unstoppable. When when you're talking about gohding
Speaker 6: your goat making pass the ball, you double triple team him.
Speaker 6: Couldn't double the triple team the cat because he was
Speaker 6: gonna sky hook you. Second thing is when you did
Speaker 6: double a triple team him, he was dropping that ball
Speaker 6: off the magic or the coop for some scores. And last,
Speaker 6: but not least, which makes Kareem my goat is because
Speaker 6: you couldn't file the big guy, Kaream was gonna knock
Speaker 6: down his free throws. Three things that make goats, Kareem
Speaker 6: has them all goat of all time.
Speaker 3: It's a great job by Michael Cooper again, and this
Speaker 3: is the point that I was trying to make when
Speaker 3: I was arguing with people all last week about Jordan.
Speaker 3: Jordan obviously is a case to be the goat. Kareem
Speaker 3: obviously is a case to be the goat. Cooper explained
Speaker 3: it there. I think I explained this, and next week
Speaker 3: I'll explain the case is why I believe Lebron is
Speaker 3: the goat, the case why he is the greatest player ever.
Speaker 3: But if we can all arrive to the same place
Speaker 3: that all three of these guys have an argument, then
Speaker 3: we must acknowledge that by definition to tutology, that if
Speaker 3: three people have an argument to be the best ever,
Speaker 3: someone who has an argument to be the best ever
Speaker 3: must come in third, and in the contemporary Jordan Lebron debate,
Speaker 3: Kareem has always been sleffed off as third, and I
Speaker 3: just don't think it's accurate. And certain some folks do
Speaker 3: a Jordan Kobe thing and they don't or they throw magic.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's tenable, and I don't think after
Speaker 3: listening to what we just did with Kareem, it is
Speaker 3: tenable to make an argument for anyone other than Lebron
Speaker 3: and Michael ahead of it. Now, I don't think Michael
Speaker 3: did enough. If Michael would have played longer, I made
Speaker 3: this joke on First Things First, and I stamp by it.
Speaker 3: I think Antoine Walker made the point, Well, Michael left
Speaker 3: to go play baseball. Yeah, which is why if I
Speaker 3: were doing a list of the greatest baseball players ever,
Speaker 3: Michael Jordan would be ahead of Kareem. But Kaream never left.
Speaker 3: Kaream just kept playing basketball. And at some point these
Speaker 3: type of these rankings, these tiers, these hierarchies have to
Speaker 3: be about what you accomplished. And I know when it
Speaker 3: comes to the Michael and Lebron thing, everyone gets hung
Speaker 3: up on six rings versus four rings. But you can't
Speaker 3: play that game with Kareem. Kaream has six rings versus
Speaker 3: six rings, and then the whole finals appearances thing with
Speaker 3: Lebron people use as a slight. But when when Kaream
Speaker 3: and Michael have the same number of rings, that's when
Speaker 3: the finals appearances take on a different light. And I'll
Speaker 3: use the analogy I always use and I used on
Speaker 3: the podcast earlier this week. If the NBA Championship is
Speaker 3: a gold medal, and making the finals but not winning
Speaker 3: the championship is a silver medal. Michael has six golds
Speaker 3: and zero silvers. Now, if you want to argue that's
Speaker 3: more impressive than Lebron's four golds and six silvers, so
Speaker 3: be it. That's at least an argument. But six golds
Speaker 3: and zero silvers in no universe is more impressive than
Speaker 3: Kareem's six golds and four silvers. The idea that one
Speaker 3: should be penalized, or let me put a different way,
Speaker 3: rewarded for losing earlier in the postseason and therefore avoiding
Speaker 3: a finals loss is illogical and would It's only proffered
Speaker 3: because it helped protect the legacy of Jordan and anyone
Speaker 3: that has watched these videos and if you're this deep
Speaker 3: into this one that I assume you have knows I
Speaker 3: paid tribute to Jordan. It's just that Kareem and Lebron
Speaker 3: we'll get to next week. They're going to end up
Speaker 3: playing No, no, no, no, that's that's not even close
Speaker 3: to right. They're seventy percent more games than Michael Jordan.
Speaker 3: They're going to Lebron's going to if you do total games,
Speaker 3: I'm doing the math top my head and I've probably
Speaker 3: screwed it up, but I'll just the Jordan played what
Speaker 3: is considered twelve full seasons, Cream played twenty. Lebron is
Speaker 3: entering year twenty. So you're talking about a demonstrative amount
Speaker 3: of more games and more time to accomplish things, and
Speaker 3: that's got to count on these things. So why is
Speaker 3: Lebron number one? Give you a sneak peek of that?
Speaker 3: Next wrap up today? All right, welcome back in final segment.
Speaker 3: What's right? Nick Wright special Edition Premiumbbar Edition, As he's
Speaker 3: number two on our fifty earers players last fifty years,
Speaker 3: And I said I was going to give you a
Speaker 3: sneak peek of why Lebron is number one. Instead, I
Speaker 3: will just refer you to just see literally anything I've
Speaker 3: done on television or on this podcast over the last
Speaker 3: five years. Hey, you can get a little sneak peak there.
Speaker 3: This podcast went way longer than I'm supposed to. It
Speaker 3: screws us up on our commercial inventory all that. So,
Speaker 3: if you want to hear the full Lebron James oral history,
Speaker 3: if you will tune in this time next week, I'll
Speaker 3: try to keep that podcast under an hour and a half.
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