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Speaker 1: So one little rule here. This is the last twenty

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Speaker 1: I'm also going to be heavily emphasizing playoff basketball. Lots

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Speaker 1: in that, Offense in that three year, span he wrote

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Speaker 1: won a regular SEASON, mvp he won two finals. MVPs

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Speaker 1: he was the greatest scorer in the, game but he

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Speaker 1: was also playing far and away the best team basketball

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Speaker 1: of his career in that, span operating as a high

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Speaker 1: level passer in the triangle offense while simultaneously being one

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Speaker 1: of the best defenders in the. League he Made All

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Speaker 1: Defense First Team All defense all of those three, years

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Speaker 1: as part of a stretch where he made it six

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Speaker 1: times in a, row and he won back to back,

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Speaker 1: titles which again is an increasingly rare feat in the MODERN.

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Speaker 1: Nba the only time it's been done over the course

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Speaker 1: of the last decade Was Lebron james with you, Know Dwayne,

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Speaker 1: wade who wasn't the same guy that he was when

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Speaker 1: when they first teamed, up but still was, very very.

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Speaker 1: Good and Then Kevin durant And Steph, curry two of

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Speaker 1: the top three players in the league at the. Time

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Speaker 1: it's an unbelievable. FEAT i am not going to let

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Speaker 1: the nerds and the kids convinced me That kobe was

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Speaker 1: bad or. OVERRATED i think he's the third best player

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Speaker 1: of all. TIME i think he's a guy that for whatever.

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Speaker 1: Reason people just struggle to reconcile some simple statistical. Realities

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Speaker 1: but even when you really dig into, it he was

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Speaker 1: so much better than people give him credit For number,

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Speaker 1: two the second greatest peak of the last twenty five

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Speaker 1: years twenty twenty, Three Nikola. JOKIC i think he's quite

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Speaker 1: simply the greatest offensive player to ever play the game of.

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Speaker 1: Basketball he was A shaquille O'Neil esque dominant interior. SCORER

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Speaker 1: i shouldn't say. Was he still is A shaquille O'Neil

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Speaker 1: esque dominant interior score that literally cannot be defended one on.

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Speaker 1: One he's variants, proof and that he relies on short

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Speaker 1: range shot making shots inside of ten feet that he

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Speaker 1: can hit well over sixty. Percent here's how good he

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Speaker 1: was at short range shot making in twenty twenty. Three

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Speaker 1: he was Over he was sixty seven percent on, floaters

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Speaker 1: sixty seven percent on hooks, in seventy four, percent seventy

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Speaker 1: four percent on jump shots inside is seventeen. Feet that's

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Speaker 1: the most reliable short range shot making we have ever

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Speaker 1: seen by a. Mile and he combined all of that

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Speaker 1: with being the best pas in. Basketball he went absolutely

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Speaker 1: nuclear in that playoff run from. Three he hit forty

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Speaker 1: six percent of his threes on four tempts per, game

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Speaker 1: including a handful of some of the wildest leaning you,

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Speaker 1: know somber shuffle shots With Anthony davis smothering him that

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Speaker 1: you'll ever. See he made fifty two. Percent he made

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Speaker 1: fourteen of, them fifty two percent of his off the

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Speaker 1: dribble jump shots in that playoff, run an unbelievable stretch

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Speaker 1: of shot. Making, again all of this while being the

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Speaker 1: best passer in the. Sport AND i, actually you, know

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Speaker 1: this is similar to The kobe, thing where another dynamic

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Speaker 1: That i've seen that has been really difficult for people

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Speaker 1: to reconcile as wind. Totals one of the most common

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Speaker 1: things you'll see people who say that Are jokics detractors

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Speaker 1: say is they'll be, like he's never beat a fifty win.

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Speaker 1: Team AND i think win totals are primarily a factor

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Speaker 1: of depth of talent in the. League there are several

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Speaker 1: teams in The World Western conference last year that if

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Speaker 1: you pick them up and put him up in different,

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Speaker 1: years would have won sixty. Games but the league is

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Speaker 1: so deep with talent now it's harder to hit higher win.

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Speaker 1: Totals there are years where you go into The west

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Speaker 1: and there are multiple teams that have won in the

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Speaker 1: high forties that are every bit as good as fifty

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Speaker 1: five to fifty eight win teams from years. Past in that,

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Speaker 1: year he went Through Anthony edwards And Karl Anthony, Towns

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Speaker 1: Kevin durant And Devin, Booker Lebron james And Anthony, davis

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Speaker 1: And Jimmy, butler and Bam adebayo without getting threatened a single,

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Speaker 1: time without being alongside An All, star without being alongside

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Speaker 1: An all defense. Player it was him and a bunch

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Speaker 1: of role, players and he literally ran through a gauntlet

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Speaker 1: of star. DUOS i think he's the best offensive Player

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Speaker 1: i've ever. Seen he hasn't let go of the crown

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Speaker 1: of the best player in the league. SINCE i think

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Speaker 1: he's had the second best peak That i've seen in

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Speaker 1: the last twenty five. Years number, One no shot here twenty.

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Speaker 1: Eighteen Lebron lebron had a title run in twenty sixteen

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Speaker 1: that many people would point to as his, peak and

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Speaker 1: it's hard to argue with. It he the only player

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Speaker 1: IN nba history to pull off a feet like defeating

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Speaker 1: the seventy three Win warriors like he did in that,

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Speaker 1: season back to back forty point games in the, finals

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Speaker 1: one of the most iconic highlights IN Nba finals. History

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Speaker 1: that's all. GREAT i Thought lebron was a better basketball

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Speaker 1: player in twenty. EIGHTEEN i think twenty Eighteen lebron is

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Speaker 1: the best basketball player that has ever played the. Sport

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Speaker 1: it was the last year Where lebron was a real apex,

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Speaker 1: athlete but it was also his peak as a shot,

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Speaker 1: maker as a playmaker, overall as a floor, general as

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Speaker 1: like an improvisational. Score, unfortunately it coincided with the worst

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Speaker 1: roster that he's ever played with in his. Career but

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Speaker 1: it allowed us to see a unique thing that happens in,

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Speaker 1: basketball SOMETHING i talk about all the, time having to

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Speaker 1: do with adversity bringing the absolute best out of. People

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Speaker 1: it allowed us to see what happens when the best

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Speaker 1: basketball player ever has to be at his very best

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Speaker 1: every single night in order for the team to. Win

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Speaker 1: in two playoff runs spanning twenty, seventeen in twenty eighteen

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Speaker 1: a forty game, sample so forty playoff games his last

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Speaker 1: two playoff runs In, Cleveland lebron averaged thirty four points

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Speaker 1: per game to go with nine rebounds and nine assists

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Speaker 1: to go with two point eight stocks per game on

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Speaker 1: sixty three percent true. Shooting i'm gonna read that again

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Speaker 1: because it's batshit thirty four to nine to nine with

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Speaker 1: two point eight stocks on sixty three percent true shooting

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Speaker 1: over forty playoff, games made it to the finals twice

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Speaker 1: and just ended up losing to the greatest basketball team ever,

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Speaker 1: assembled That Kevin Durant Steph Curry Golden State warriors. Team

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Speaker 1: he hung ten forty point playoff games in that. Span

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Speaker 1: one out of four, nights you were getting. Forty he

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Speaker 1: hung nineteen thirty five point games in that. Span it

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Speaker 1: was a coin, flip you were gonna get thirty five

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Speaker 1: plus out Of. LEBRON i Think lebron is the third

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Speaker 1: best offensive player That i've ever seen in the, sport

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Speaker 1: all while still being one of the most impactful two

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Speaker 1: way athletes in the, game even in twenty, eighteen something

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Speaker 1: that obviously guys Like Steph CURRY. Nicolea jokic couldn't do

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Speaker 1: given their athletic. LIMITATIONS i think twenty Eighteen lebron is

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Speaker 1: the peak of basketball that has ever been played on this,

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Speaker 1: earth and that twenty eighteen stretch is one That i'll

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Speaker 1: always look back on very. Fondly All, right, guys that's

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Speaker 1: all we have for today's top ten peaks of the

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Speaker 1: last twenty five. Years we'll be back tomorrow with another

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Speaker 1: top ten and we'll have him throughout the rest of this.

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Speaker 1: Week as, always we appreciate you guys for supporting us

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Speaker 1: in supporting the, show and we'll see you