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Speaker 2: Welcome in to a very special edition of the What's

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Speaker 2: Right with Nick Wright Podcast YouTube show, Subscribe, rate, review,

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Speaker 3: Special Edition.

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Speaker 2: About three years ago I started on a project. The

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Speaker 2: idea was to do the fifty best players of the

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Speaker 2: last fifty years in the NBA, to basically take from

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Speaker 2: Kareem's rookie year to right now and not only give

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Speaker 2: you a list of fifty, but put them in order

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Speaker 2: one through fifty. It has taken me years. I thought

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Speaker 2: it was going to be a book. It's now via

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Speaker 2: this platform that we're going to do it. So it's

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Speaker 2: really the fifty best players of kind of the last

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Speaker 2: fifty two years. But we're going to call it fifty

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Speaker 2: of the last fifty from Kareem to now.

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Speaker 3: We'll get into who just missed.

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Speaker 2: We'll get into who was too old later, but before

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Speaker 2: we get to number fifty, just to set the parameters,

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Speaker 2: I'm not what matters, what does matter, what doesn't matter.

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Speaker 2: I'm not worried about off the court stuff. I'm not

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Speaker 2: worried about the Olympics. I'm not worried about international ball.

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Speaker 2: I'm worried about how many all NBA teams did you make?

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Speaker 2: Did you ever win an MVP? What did you do

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Speaker 2: in the playoffs? What did you do in the biggest moment?

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Speaker 2: What were your biggest accolades and awards? Those are the things.

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Speaker 3: That matter to me.

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Speaker 2: And now, without further ado, let's get right to number fifty.

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Speaker 2: One of the great what ifs an NBA history, the

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Speaker 2: Great Bernard King.

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Speaker 3: Number fifty, Bernard Key.

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Speaker 2: He pairs quite nicely like a wine with a stake.

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Speaker 2: With number forty nine. We'll explain that in a moment.

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Speaker 2: The accolades are the follow two times First Team All NBA,

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Speaker 2: one time Second Team, one time, thirteen he won a

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Speaker 2: scoring title, averaging thirty three points per game. He almost

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Speaker 2: won an MVP that year in nineteen eighty four, And

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Speaker 2: so here's the deal. He averages thirty three and then

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Speaker 2: get back, and then six years later he's back up

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Speaker 2: to twenty eight per game. But then he got hurt again.

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Speaker 2: And this is back when you can't recover from injuries

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Speaker 3: And so he just didn't have it.

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Speaker 2: He didn't have the longevity of some other guys, but

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Speaker 2: his peak was incredibly high. So as you're gonna see

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Speaker 2: to value everything, right, So a guy who was really

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Speaker 2: did it for eight years. Bernard King is obviously far

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Speaker 2: So let me talk about what he did well nineteen

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Speaker 2: He's the fiftieth greatest player of the last fifty years,

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Speaker 2: the great Bernard King, who the way he explained how

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Speaker 4: Not to be a millennial or anything, but who the

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Speaker 4: hell is Bernard King? And why do you have him

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Speaker 4: over Tracy McGrady. His shoes wasn't the best, but man,

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Speaker 4: that boy could score. He could.

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Speaker 4: Me, I'm just trying to figure out how Bernard is

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Speaker 2: So that's about Tracy McGrady and Tracy McGrady is a

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Speaker 2: great question because Tracy McGrady, as spoiler alert, does not

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Speaker 2: you could argue, was as good as gifted of a

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Speaker 2: and Tracy doesn't. Tracy's one of the hardest omissions because

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Speaker 2: Tracy's lack of a playoff resume is even more glaring

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Speaker 2: and it's not great performances. So most famously, he's up

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Speaker 2: my opinion, just kills him. He just misses out. And

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Speaker 2: so that's why he's not on the list. And that's

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Speaker 2: why forget being number fifty, he's certainly not number forty nine,

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Speaker 2: number forty nine. Another guy who people hold the playoff

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Speaker 2: resume against him one Carmelo Anthony.

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Speaker 3: Number forty nine.

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Speaker 2: So Carmelo, Anthony and Bernard King, it's a very interesting

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Speaker 2: dichotomy here because and I'll go through Carmelo's accolades in

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Speaker 2: a moment, I think Bernard King's peak was higher, but

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Speaker 2: Carmelo was close to him peak wise, and did it

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Speaker 2: so much longer. He is ninth on the NBA's all

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Speaker 3: Now. He doesn't have.

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Speaker 2: Any first all NBA first teams, but he has two

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Speaker 2: second teams and four third teams.

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Speaker 3: He also won a scoring.

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Speaker 2: third in the MVP voting one year. Now, as far

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Speaker 2: he was the best player on a conference finalist. That again,

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Speaker 2: So you have the fact that he is top ten

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Speaker 2: They got as far as they should have gotten. They

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Speaker 2: And if you remember, I don't know if you do,

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Speaker 2: that Game five against the Lakers is tied going into

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Speaker 2: actually outplayed Kobe in that Game five, but they ended

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Speaker 2: And so they end up losing that game and they

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Speaker 3: That's a great what if?

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Speaker 2: What if Carmelo had carried that Nuggets team to the finals?

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Speaker 2: The Knicks then have to trade all those pieces to

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Speaker 2: But when he did get to New York, the best

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Speaker 2: as far as they should have gotten in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: They get to Round two and who they lose to

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Speaker 2: a bunch of years Carmelo was on the better team

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Speaker 2: guy like Trayson Grady we just mentioned. I also think

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Speaker 2: this final act of Carmelo's career is a valuable one.

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Speaker 2: After he was essentially kicked out of the league. Nobody

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Speaker 2: wanted that he wouldn't come off the bench. He didn't

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Speaker 2: work in Houston. What he was able to do for Portland,

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Speaker 2: what he's been able to do for the Lakers, is

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Speaker 2: an important minor legacy and answer probably just enough not

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Speaker 2: only did get him into the top ten all time

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Speaker 2: in scoring, but to push him ahead of a guy

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Speaker 2: like Bernard King. So the two greatest Nick scorers ever,

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Speaker 2: Bernard King and Carmelo Anthony, come in fifty to forty nine.

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Speaker 2: I think we have a caller that wants to ask

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Speaker 2: about Carmelo.

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Speaker 5: Hey, Pop, Sistebonse live in the house. I've got a

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Speaker 5: question for you. You say the playoffs matter in this

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Speaker 5: whole ranker thing. Melos only made it past the first

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Speaker 5: round two times in his entire career. Please tell me

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Speaker 2: It's just if you have no championships, no finals appearances,

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Speaker 2: and only four outstanding seasons, how can I put you

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Speaker 3: How can I put you on the list over a

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Speaker 3: guy like Dave Cowens. I can't.

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Speaker 2: Those guys didn't even make the list. Welcome back into

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Speaker 2: the What's the Right Podcast? Fifty greatest Players the last

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Speaker 2: fifty years Special editions. As you might be able to tell,

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Speaker 2: I had a quick wardrobe change. That's because I'm talking

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Speaker 2: to you from the future, well actually the past, but

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Speaker 2: whatever it is, I'm talking to you weeks after I

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Speaker 2: talked to you about Carmelo Anthony and Bernard King because

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Speaker 2: I forgot to do the final segment of the show.

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Speaker 2: I was so excited I just left. So now I'm

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Speaker 2: telling you what's coming up next week, Players forty eight

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Speaker 2: through forty four. There's going to be a serious historical,

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Speaker 2: you know, kind of tinge to those to that part

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Speaker 2: of the rankings, including one guy who I feel was

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Speaker 2: the second biggest omission, the second most egregious omission from

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Speaker 2: the NBA's top seventy five list, and some of the

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Speaker 2: greatest defenders ever will be featured in Players forty eight

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Speaker 2: through forty four. Once again, these series will be coming

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Speaker 2: out once every week. We are counting down the fifty

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Speaker 2: greatest players the last fifty years. I'm so excited to

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Speaker 2: finally be putting out to the public sphere a project

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Speaker 2: I've been working on literally for the last few years

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Speaker 2: in my spare time. So join us next week for

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Speaker 2: Players forty eight through forty four of the fifty greatest

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Speaker 2: players the last fifty years in the NBA on What's

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Speaker 2: right with Nick greg

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