Speaker 1: And the pole question we had up and you can
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Speaker 1: get to it. The question is this, do you think
Speaker 1: the amount of rest current NBA players get during the
Speaker 1: season make them less great historically? And your absence a
Speaker 1: yes or no? Then maybe because it's part of the business. Now.
Speaker 1: I bring this up because we've been talking about the
Speaker 1: rest and the schedule and the back to backs all
Speaker 1: season long here on the show. But yo, let me
Speaker 1: tell you something. Dennis Rodman short things. So he chimed
Speaker 1: in in an interview that he gave this week as well,
Speaker 1: and let me tell you something. This is Dennis Rodman,
Speaker 1: and I quote, you know what Lebron's doing the one
Speaker 1: thing that I always said Michael Jordan never did. He
Speaker 1: never rested, He played every game. He played every game.
Speaker 1: Lebron hat is in the position to do this now
Speaker 1: because they need him, The league needs him, and that's
Speaker 1: why he's doing all this crazy expletive now like being
Speaker 1: m about all this expletive. He continues on, it's very
Speaker 1: easy to do what they defined now as greatness. Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan did it when it was tough, really tough. What
Speaker 1: he do. He led the league in scoring ten years
Speaker 1: in a row, ten years in a row. Back then,
Speaker 1: that was hard. He averaged like thirty two points a game.
Speaker 1: Now it's easy. All these expletive triple doubles. Back then
Speaker 1: when he was getting his ass whoop, I mean beat
Speaker 1: down every game. Then when he played against us, he said,
Speaker 1: guess what, I gotta go back in the gym, get tough,
Speaker 1: and he got great. So that is it. You know,
Speaker 1: Rodman certainly out there scorched earth for the players of today.
Speaker 1: And check this out. I've been telling you, I gotta
Speaker 1: give this stat again. Will Chamberlain once in the sixty
Speaker 1: two season, average forty eight and a half minutes a game.
Speaker 1: NBA games are only forty eight minutes long. This guy
Speaker 1: average more minutes in a full season because of overtime
Speaker 1: games than there was. He only missed eight minutes the
Speaker 1: entire season in the sixty two season, only missed eight
Speaker 1: minutes the entire season because he got ejected once with
Speaker 1: eight minutes left to play. Played all the games, all
Speaker 1: the minutes. This year, there's only four players in the
Speaker 1: NBA that even average thirty seven minutes a game, Jimmy Butler, Wiggins,
Speaker 1: Lebron and Kyle Lowry. You know, so basically, by definition,
Speaker 1: every player in the NBA this year misses more minutes
Speaker 1: per game then Will Chamberlain missed in that historic sixty
Speaker 1: one sixty two season and check it out. Kenyan Martin
Speaker 1: was also signed, kind of saying the same thing, saying,
Speaker 1: people don't really care that much about, like, you know,
Speaker 1: winning and trying hard. It's kind of like all just
Speaker 1: a little boys club. You know. He sided guys and
Speaker 1: a nice piece on the Player Tribune that I saw today, Um,
Speaker 1: guys like Reggie Evans, this is a dude that you know,
Speaker 1: grabbed Chris Kaman down under one time. Guys like Kobe
Speaker 1: who would just like just straight up killers. Talked about
Speaker 1: Ron Artest, Kevin Garnett and even head coach back then,
Speaker 1: Jerry Sloan of the Utah Jazz that we're all kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, tougher than what we would see out there.
Speaker 1: So that's why I ask you, you know, with all
Speaker 1: this rest and all this talk, do you think it
Speaker 1: actually lessens you know, they're kind of legacy. Remember also,
Speaker 1: James Harden thought that thought that this idea of playing
Speaker 1: all eighty two games and minutes played should be one
Speaker 1: of the criteria for the m v P Awards. So
Speaker 1: I ask you, do you think it makes them kind
Speaker 1: of less great when compared against their historical peers. All
Speaker 1: the rest that they're getting, My man, Chris Bovona making
Speaker 1: it so hot that we sweats team. What do you
Speaker 1: think about this? Chris david Is drop a bomb on it.
Speaker 1: Do you think that this kind of diminishes their legacy?
Speaker 1: All the rest they're getting the players of today's NBA
Speaker 1: growing up in the nineties, we obviously grew We had
Speaker 1: some of the hardest working basketball players in the n B.
Speaker 1: A UM, I'm not against resting players after you've won
Speaker 1: certain things, like when you've gotten the division, when you're
Speaker 1: gotten into the play. Just managing their minutes earlier the season,
Speaker 1: like in December, I think it's a little crazy. It's
Speaker 1: a little much. I think the only guys that should
Speaker 1: be allowed to be have man minute managed our rookies. Okay, alright,
Speaker 1: fair enough, So check it out. We got that whole
Speaker 1: question up on the f N T S Y radio
Speaker 1: Twitter handle. Right now, let us know what you think.