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We are into 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:23.480 the top five of the fifty greatest players of the 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.840 last fifty years. And this is the part of the 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:31.200 list where I'll be honest, I'm really glad that it 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:36.560 is the last fifty years because Wilt and Russell and 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:41.840 how they slot up against the next two guys incredibly 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:45.160 difficult for me. And I know we're not doing Wilton 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.600 Russell on this pod, but the top three are not 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.320 only the top three of the last fifty years in 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.120 my opinion, they are the top three of all time. 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:59.160 But five and four how they would compare and contrast 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:03.360 to Wilton Russell incredibly difficult to evaluate, and so I'm 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:07.400 glad we don't have to evaluate. Also, number five is 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:12.519 a player who I watched in real time the entirety 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:17.000 of his career. Number four is a player who I 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:22.520 have very very few memories of, very few of his 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:28.000 real apex and of honestly the majority of his playing career. 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.160 And I had to go back and watch and research. 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.160 And thanks to the Internet, you can really go back 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.120 and watch almost any playoff game if you're willing to 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.520 pay for it in any playoff game, certainly of the 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.680 last forty years, in most of the last fifty years. 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.520 But they're two very different players. They are very similar 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.000 in this Number five and four are both guys who 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.280 have a handful of jewelry, as everyone does on the 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.600 rest of this list. They are both unique in that 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:58.120 we had never quite had a player dominate from day 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:02.760 one the way both of these guys did from day 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:08.360 one from rookies being MVP caliber guys not even well, 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:10.280 I don't want to give away the rest of the list, 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:14.480 but guys who are in the goat conversation did not 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:18.440 dominate as rookies as much as Number five and number 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.640 four did. But let's get right to it. Number five 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.079 on our list the fifth greatest player of the last 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.320 fifty years, the big fundamental. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.320 Number five, Tim Dunky. 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.720 So let's go over the career resume before we get 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:37.840 to the playoffs stuff. The career resume is quite simple. 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.640 Ten times First Team All NBA. That's tied for the 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:45.400 fourth most ever, three time second team, two time third 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:49.200 Team All NBA that is fifteen total all NBA teams 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.200 That is tied for the second most ever. He's a 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:56.920 two time League MVP and years one through eight of 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:01.040 his career. First eight seasons of his career he was 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:06.000 top five MVP finisher nine total MVP top five finishes. 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:10.400 He's a fifteen time all defensive player that is the 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:14.080 most in NBA history by a wide margin. He was 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:19.200 twenty one twelve and three as a rookie, and in fact, 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:23.440 he was twenty one twelve and three for averages over 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:27.680 his first twelve seasons, which speaks to the consistency. His 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.760 rookie year he was twenty one twelve and three and 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.440 the first twelve years of his career combined, he was 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:37.320 twenty one points, twelve rebounds, three assists, with all world 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.400 caliber defense every step of the way. He is fifth 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.480 all time in blocks. He is sixth all time in rebounds. 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:47.520 He is fifteenth all time in points. That's all in 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:51.640 the regular season. Now to the playoffs. The top line 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.200 of the playoffs are this. He is a five time 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:58.440 champion and a three time finals MVP, with one additional 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.800 finals appearance that won one of the most famous finals ever, 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:05.160 the twenty thirteen finals against Lebron in the Miami Heat. 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:10.160 His career playoff average twenty points, ten rebounds from ninety 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:15.280 nine to seven, his nine year playoff prime. In those 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:18.840 nine years, he won four rings, he won three finals MVPs, 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:24.280 and he averaged twenty four points fourteen thirteen rebounds, four assists, 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.080 three blocks per game in forty minutes per game on 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:33.120 fifty percent shooting. So that's the general Tim Duncan stuff. 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.839 But as we do with everyone on this list, we 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:39.400 then go year by year to their playoff career. Oh 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:43.359 and by the way, I should mention this playoffs every 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:50.920 single season fifty or more wins every single year of 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:55.119 his career, except for the year that there was only 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:58.880 fifty games, the sixty six game season he won fifty games. 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.479 The only year did win fifty games was the year 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.400 there was only fifty games, And that, by the way, 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:09.560 is one of the main reasons I have Duncan five 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:14.279 in Kobe six. Is Kobe had that little golf in 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.560 the middle of his career, post shack, pre pal Duncan 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.480 never had that fifty wins in the playoffs every year 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:21.880 of his career. All right, So let's go to his 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:26.080 rookie year nineteen ninety eight, his first career playoff game 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:31.599 thirty two and ten opens Round two against Carl Malone 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.520 with thirty three and ten, but they lose in round two. 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.960 But as a rookie is dropping thirty and tens in 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:42.360 the postseason. Nineteen ninety nine, facing Shack in round two, 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:48.280 averages for the series twenty nine and eleven and sweeps 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:52.160 Shaquille O'Neal out of the playoffs. Kobe's on that team too, 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.320 but Kobe's too young to take any flak for that. 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.560 He had thirty seven and fourteen to go up three 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.640 to zero and Shack on Shack and thirty three and 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.960 fourteen to finish off the suite. By the way, Shack, 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.360 who over the next three years after that in the 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.920 finals would average thirty six points per game. He held 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:13.080 Shack to twenty four points per game in his first 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.960 career finals game ever against the Knicks in ninety nine, 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:20.120 thirty three and sixteen for this series average twenty seven 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:24.600 and fourteen Finals MVP, and that season the Spurs went 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.800 fifteen and two in the playoffs. He gets forgotten because 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:31.960 his lockout year first year without Jordan, that team kicked 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:36.480 everybody's ass fifteen and two for the playoffs. The next year, 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.040 he was injured, so the Spurs made the playoffs, but 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.480 he got injured at the end of the season maniscus thing. 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:43.760 They held him out so he didn't get to defend 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:47.640 his title. Two thousand and one against Dirk in round two, 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:53.240 averages twenty seven and seventeen. In the one Western Romfens 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.680 Finals against the defending champion Lakers in Game two, he 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.760 had forty and fifteen, but that Lakers team was on 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:01.960 the show short list of maybe best Lakers team ever. 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.200 They then sweep San Antonio. San Antonio swept him in 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.400 ninety nine, the Lakers sweeping back in two thousand and one. 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.800 Two thousand and two against the Lakers in round two, 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:17.000 he's absolutely unbelievable, but the Lakers are too good. But 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:21.280 what does duncan do? He is in Game one twenty 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:25.520 six points, twenty one rebounds, five assists, four blocks, but 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:29.720 they lose. In Game five, down three to one, he 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:33.240 has thirty four points and twenty five rebounds, but they lose. 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:38.600 For the series, he averages twenty nine, seventeen, and five, 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.920 but they lose in five, which speaks to what a 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.400 juggernaut the Lakers still work now. Two thousand and three, 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:49.080 his perfect season. Okay, two thousand and two, he had won, 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.839 he'd won an MVP, he wins another one and o 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.200 three and it is truly his perfect season. So what 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:59.640 does he do? Nineteen sixteen and five. Round one average 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:04.240 against Phoenix gets the Lakers. In Round two has thirty 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:09.000 seven and sixteen to end the series, averages twenty eight 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.839 to twelve and five for the series. Round three, Western 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:16.440 armends Finals against Dirk starts the Western armends Finals with 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:21.520 forty fifteen and seven tied one game apiece. Game three 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:25.280 has thirty four points, twenty four rebounds, six assists, six 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.280 blocks thirty four to twenty four, six and six to 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:31.280 go up to one. Averages for the series twenty eight 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.800 seventeen to six and three, and in the finals a 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:39.000 total annihilation of the nets. Game one of the Finals 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.880 is some of these box scores is so bananas. Game 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:47.199 one of the Finals thirty two points, twenty rebounds, six assists, 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:51.520 three steals, seven blocks, thirty two to twenty six, three 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:55.640 and seven, a near quadruple double to end the finals 0:09:55.880 --> 0:10:00.720 twenty one points, twenty rebounds, ten assists, eight blocks, and 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:07.280 for the finals averaged twenty four points, seventeen rebounds, five assists, 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:12.320 five blocks. Just absolutely Banana's production to win his second 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:15.480 Finals MVP in his second ring. Two thousand and four, 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.520 another round they kept playing the Lakers in round two 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.160 instead of the conference finals. Another round two battle with 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:25.080 the Lakers, they lose after being up two zero. Duncan 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:28.760 average twenty one to twelve and that's you know the 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:33.760 famous uh Derek Fisher games that year where Derek Fisher 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:38.080 hits the point four second shot after Duncan hits the 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.679 crazy shot, but Duncan average twenty one to twelve gave 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:44.040 Shack fits for the series. Two thousand and five, another 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.880 angry playoff run for Duncan thirty nine and fourteen in 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.240 round one against Mellow and Denver to go up three 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.240 to one, twenty five and ten average in round two 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.400 against Ray Allen against National Mary in the Western Conference 0:10:56.440 --> 0:11:00.000 finals twenty seven and fourteen for the series to close 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.120 them out, goes thirty one, fifteen, four and three in 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.360 Game five. Now he's back in the finals against the 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:11.120 defending champion Pistons. Ben Wallace and Rashid Wallace are their 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:14.120 front line. He opens the finals with the twenty four 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:17.600 and seventeen and then it goes seven. In Game seven, 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:21.720 has twenty five and eleven wins another finals MVP, averaging 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:26.520 twenty and fourteen against a great defensive team and a 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:28.360 team that was this close to winning back to back 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:32.440 titles in the Five Pistons two thousand and six. See 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:34.840 this is where you remember like man, if not for 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:38.040 the Derek Fisher shot, does Duncan win the ring that year? 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.480 In four? And then in six what happens? He has 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.640 an all time duel with Dirk and round two average 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:48.040 thirty two to twelve. For the series down three to one, 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.800 has thirty six and twelve, and then in Game seven 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:57.400 has forty one, fifteen and six in an overtime loss. 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.960 The what if there is? That's the game where the 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.600 MAVs are down three, Dirk's driving to the basket man 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.319 who slaps him on the elbow. Dirk gets the end 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.640 one they end up winning in overtime. They then go 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:11.959 on to lose to the Miami Heat in the finals. 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.040 But that's another gosh with the spersable in that title. 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.800 But seven the angry Duncan years, the years he didn't 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:22.280 coming off when he didn't win the title. Lookout another ring. 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:25.880 This time he sweeps twenty two year old Lebron the 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:28.719 biggest challenge was again in round two rather than the 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:31.920 Western Conference Finals, was against Phoenix. He goes for twenty 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.640 seven points, fourteen rebounds, four blocks per game, including a 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:39.240 thirty three to nineteen game. In the finals, he averaged 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.480 eighteen to twelve. They gave Tony Parker to the finals MVP. 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:44.959 I didn't really agree with it, Dan, I don't agree 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.679 with it now, but fine, it's whatever. And then it 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:51.439 looks like maybe we're getting to the end. Oh eight. 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.360 He opens his title offense with a forty to fifteen 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.720 to five against Phoenix, averages twenty five to fifteen for 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.240 the series. They lose, though, to the Lakers in the 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.520 Western Roarmends Finals, despite the fact that in game one 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.360 he has a thirty point eighteen rebound, two assists, two 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.520 steeal four block game, and for the in the final 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.400 game of the Western Umens Finals has triple double nineteen points, 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:15.360 fifteen rebounds, ten assists, but they lose. And then two 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:19.360 thousand and nine, twenty ten, twenty eleven, he only wins 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:23.679 one series. His averages dropped to seventeen to ten, and 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.920 it's like, oh, okay, all right, So the Spurs, you know, 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:29.280 they won their four titles in eight years. It's unbelievable, 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.360 but they're done. Twenty twelve, though, it's like, wait, are 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:35.240 the Spurs gonna win the title? They open the playoffs 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:38.439 with ten straight victories, but then if you remember they're 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.040 up too to azer on ok see, then it all 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:44.560 clicks for OKC. OKC wins four straight. Twenty thirteen, the 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:48.960 Spurs are back in the finals. We are now fifteen 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:53.480 years removed from their first championship. In the ray Allen game, 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:57.040 he has thirty points in seventeen rebounds. In the game. 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.880 To win the title, he has thirty points in s 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:03.680 seventeen rebounds, including twenty five in the first half. But 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:08.520 they lose the most heartbreaking championship game ever. In Game seven, 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.400 they lose. Duncan misses that little bunny that could have 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:13.760 tied the game, but he did put up twenty four 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.920 and twelve. So how do they respond? They win the 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:20.840 damn title The next year twenty fourteen, he averages eighteen 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:25.840 and eleven against Durant and OKC to win the Western 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:30.880 Amorge Finals. At age thirty seven, to win the finals. 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.720 To win the Western Arms Finals in six games, he 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:37.840 averages eighteen and eleven twenty one and ten to open 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:41.520 the finals, average fifteen and ten, and that year he 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.600 could have won finals MVP. Again they give it to 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:47.720 Kawhi and then twenty fifteen, he's thirty eight years old. 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.760 They're playing a game seven against the Clippers. That's the 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:54.600 Chris Paul falling down banking game. He has twenty seven 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:58.040 and eleven at thirty eight years old. At thirty seven 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.960 years old, he a he averaged. He's eighteen eleven to 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.320 beat Durant. At thirty six years old, he has a 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.760 thirty and seventeen to win the title and Ray Allen 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.040 beats him. He's sixth all time in playoff minutes or 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.760 second old time in playoff minutes, pardon me, sixth all 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.720 time in playoff points, first all time in playoff blocks, 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:18.040 third all time in playoff rebounds, behind only Wilton Russell. 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.280 He has won one hundred and three career twenty and 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.960 ten playoff games, which is the fourth most all time. 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.560 He's the fifth best player of the last fifty years. 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.640 He is Tim Duncan. We have a Tim Duncan caller. 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.640 Let's squeeze her in Tim Duncan at five. 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:37.400 Finally, finally, I have nothing negative to say he's getting 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:40.720 the respect that he deserves. He has five rings in 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:44.520 three different decades, which PS makes him sound like he's 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:45.320 a hundred, but he's not. 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.280 It just timed out perfectly where that's how it worked out. 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:50.280 Anyways, that's a two time MVP, and PS also let 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.360 other members of the team shine. So yes, Tim Duncan 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.600 top five. I mean probably could be higher, but five 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:56.040 is fine. 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:00.720 So listen, five is fine and appreciate miss Beatle help there. 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:04.600 He couldn't be higher. I have you guys know the 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:08.040 four names ahead of him. There is no real argument 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.840 to put him ahead of any of those four. But 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.160 I also don't think there's any argument to put him 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:18.080 behind Kobe or Shack or Dream or Bird. I think 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:22.520 Duncan is solidly where he is the fifth best player 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.880 of the last fifty years. Guy won fifty games every year, 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.720 was one of the in my opinion, the second best 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.360 defensive player on this entire list, behind only a team 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:36.040 the consonant pro, the consonant teammate, the consonant winner. Tim Duncan. 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.040 We will now get to a player who truly did 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:42.520 have goat potential but saw his career cut a little 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.360 bit short. You know who he is. We'll discuss him next. 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:54.120 What's right. Welcome back in as we continue our countdown 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.880 to the fifty greatest players of the last fifty years. 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.680 And now a player that I truly regret that I 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:04.920 was not able to enjoy his prime by watching it live. 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.520 I was alive for a lot of his prime, but 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.399 I was too young to remember it. But when you 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.840 go back and watch these games, playoffs or regular season, 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:18.600 he is just playing the sport differently than anyone ever 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.840 had up to that point, and honestly than anyone ever 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.679 has since. Another thing to remember about this man is 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.560 while we go through this, keep in mind he essentially 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:33.479 played twelve years. He had twelve healthy seasons, and then 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.840 the career cut short. He is the fourth greatest player 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:40.960 of the last fifty years. He is, of course number four. 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:47.520 Magic Johnson so again twelve years, playing nine time first 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:51.119 team All NBA, one time second team All NBA. He 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:57.480 is a three time MVP with nine top three MVP finishes. 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:01.639 Seventy five percent of his SEA seasons, he finished in 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.119 the top three in MVP voting. He retired as the 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:08.320 NBA's all time assist leader. He's now six he's a 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:13.160 four time assist champion. He averaged for his career eleven 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:16.280 assists per game, and he has won one hundred and 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:20.840 thirty eight career triple doubles. So that's the top line, 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:27.160 regular season resume stuff, the playoff stuff. It is. Honestly, 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:31.320 I am just believe me when I tell you I 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.280 left a lot out because there is so much here. 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:38.720 So he's a five time champion, a three time finals MVP, 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:43.000 and a nine time finalist. So again, nine of his 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.359 twelve years he was top three in the MVP voting. 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:50.119 Nine of his twelve years he got his team to 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:55.480 the NBA finals. It's just unbelievable that he had twelve 0:18:55.480 --> 0:19:00.800 seasons before the before the HIV diagnosis, and he had 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:07.040 nine top three MVPs, nine finals, five rings three MVPs. 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:11.959 Still the all time playoff leader and assists, retired as 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:14.480 the all time playoff leader in steals, He's now fourth. 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:18.000 He's the all time playoff leader in triple doubles with thirty. 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.760 Lebron might catch him. Lebron's at twenty eight, but when 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.720 he retired, the second most playoff triple doubles ever was 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:30.320 Bird with ten. He had thirty He is the all 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:36.080 time finals leader and assists and steals. His career average 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:40.320 is twenty and eleven. His career playoff average is twenty 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:44.240 and twelve. Only Kareem and Lebron in the last fifty 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.639 years have played more finals games. Only Jordan, Kareem and 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.679 Lebron in the last fifty years have scored more points 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:53.119 in the finals. So how to do it well? He 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:58.560 did it by instantly kicking ass So again, trust me 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:01.199 when I say I had to gloss over some of 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:03.600 this or else this would have been forty five minutes 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:07.080 on Magic alone. But we'll start with nineteen eighty his 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:12.640 first two playoff games. He's a rookie. He's a kid too, 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:15.359 because he was young when he came into the league 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:20.800 on like bird first two playoff games thirteen twelve and sixteen, 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:27.440 followed by twenty five, thirteen eleven, and six his first 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:32.640 series ever. He averaged a triple double fifteen eleven and eleven. 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:36.800 And keep in mind with Magic that the we're gonna 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:39.960 say is points and sometimes points, rebounds, assists, sometimes just 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:43.040 points and assists. You hear a lot a guy at 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:46.359 twenty four and seventeen that typically means twenty four points, 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.639 seventeen rebounds with magic. If we only give you two numbers, 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:53.480 remember the second number is assists, because these assists totals 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:57.159 are so bananas. He closed out Seattle in the Western 0:20:57.200 --> 0:21:00.880 Governerence Finals as a rookie with twenty ten to ten, 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:05.000 and then, of course, the game that still might be 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:07.960 the finest game of his career came as a rookie 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:12.600 in the finals. No Kareem in game six because Kareem 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:17.480 is hurt. He plays center and goes forty two points, 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:22.600 fifteen rebounds, seven assists, playing out of position to win 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:27.280 the championship as the rookie. As a rookie for the finals, 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:31.880 playing against Doctor J and Philly, averaged twenty one points, 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:36.720 eleven rebounds, nine assists for the playoffs that year, eighteen 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:40.280 points per game, eleven rebounds per game, nine assists per game, 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:45.480 three steals per game. He's twenty years old, nineteen eighty one, 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:49.560 so that was nineteen eighty nineteen eighty one. Loses in 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:52.040 round one to Moses the guy, also very high on 0:21:52.080 --> 0:21:57.520 our list, despite averaging seventeen points, fourteen rebounds, seven assists. 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:01.439 Now we're to nineteen eighty two. Round one. They sweep 0:22:01.480 --> 0:22:05.040 the opposition. He has three round one triple doubles and 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:09.440 averages twenty twelve and eleven. Western Armends Finals sweeps. The 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:15.240 Great George Gervin against Doctor J in the finals averages sixteen, 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:20.160 eleven and eight for another Finals MVP and for the playoffs. 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:22.600 He's now twenty two years old and a two time 0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:26.080 champion and a two time finals MVP. He averages for 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:29.679 the playoffs seventeen points, eleven rebounds, nine assists, three steals 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:35.880 nineteen eighty three. Opens his title defense with nineteen points, 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:45.159 nine rebounds, eighteen assists and seven steals nineteen nine eighteen 0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:50.080 seven to open the playoffs. Closes out Round one with 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:54.520 a twenty five point seven rebound fifteen assist for steal. 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:58.360 Game playing George Gervin again Game four of the Western 0:22:58.359 --> 0:23:04.160 Conference Finals thirty one points, eight rebounds, seventeen assists. Again 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:07.399 do you know how bad insane that is? Just throws 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:11.480 up a humble thirty one point eight and seventeen for 0:23:11.560 --> 0:23:17.040 the series, averaged eighteen eleven and fourteen. In the reason 0:23:17.080 --> 0:23:19.560 the points were low was Game six of the Western 0:23:19.560 --> 0:23:22.480 Almends Finals. He had one of the most bizarre games ever. 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:27.320 He scored two points, but had fifteen rebounds and sixteen assists. 0:23:27.960 --> 0:23:31.080 Now in the finals they're playing Philly, who again they 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:35.600 beat nineteen eighty a Philly team that beat them in 0:23:35.720 --> 0:23:38.159 nineteen No, Moses beat them in eighty one, but who 0:23:38.240 --> 0:23:41.159 they beat nineteen eighty and who they also beat nineteen 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:45.120 eighty two in the finals, and this time Philly has 0:23:45.200 --> 0:23:50.360 Moses and Philly sweeps them. But Magic does average nineteen points, 0:23:50.400 --> 0:23:53.880 eight rebounds, thirteen assists put up we're being fair six 0:23:53.920 --> 0:23:57.000 turnovers per game still nineteen eight and thirteen for the 0:23:57.040 --> 0:24:02.680 series nineteen eighty four one sweep of the Kings, averages 0:24:02.720 --> 0:24:06.760 twenty two, seven and twelve in round two against Dallas, 0:24:06.880 --> 0:24:12.560 averages seventeen, six and thirteen averaged in the Western Commens 0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:18.280 Finals eighteen six, fifteen and three. Again for Magic is 0:24:18.400 --> 0:24:22.479 flu series averages because there's there's too many games like, oh, 0:24:22.520 --> 0:24:24.720 he had nineteen, Sissy had twenty one, a Sissy at eleven. 0:24:25.000 --> 0:24:28.200 It's too much. Gets back to the finals, this time 0:24:29.119 --> 0:24:32.280 playing Bird in the Celtics for the first time, averages 0:24:32.400 --> 0:24:36.440 eighteen points, eight rebounds, fourteen assists. But Bird was better 0:24:36.480 --> 0:24:40.280 than him in the series, and it's unbelievable. Magic in 0:24:40.359 --> 0:24:45.919 game four, had twenty points, eleven rebounds, seventeen assists, but 0:24:46.080 --> 0:24:47.880 missed a couple of free throws and had a bad 0:24:47.920 --> 0:24:50.639 turnover late. And that's the game where people came up 0:24:50.640 --> 0:24:53.920 with tragic Johnson again. You think the media has only 0:24:53.920 --> 0:24:57.680 been hard now The guy had twenty eleven and seventeen 0:24:58.200 --> 0:25:00.320 was already a two time champion in two times finals 0:25:00.400 --> 0:25:03.680 MVP and people are like, oh joker nineteen eighty five, 0:25:04.280 --> 0:25:06.840 right after the tragic Johnson label gets thrown on him. 0:25:07.119 --> 0:25:11.080 Opens the playoffs with an eighteen point nineteen assist game, 0:25:11.520 --> 0:25:15.119