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Speaker 2: Welcome in to a very special edition of the What's
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Speaker 3: Special Edition.
Speaker 2: About three years ago I started on a project. The
Speaker 2: idea was to do the fifty best players of the
Speaker 2: last fifty years in the NBA, to basically take from
Speaker 2: Kareem's rookie year to right now and not only give
Speaker 2: you a list of fifty, but put them in order
Speaker 2: one through fifty. It has taken me years. I thought
Speaker 2: it was going to be a book. It's now via
Speaker 2: this platform that we're going to do it. So it's
Speaker 2: really the fifty best players of kind of the last
Speaker 2: fifty two years. But we're going to call it fifty
Speaker 2: of the last fifty from Kareem to now.
Speaker 3: We'll get into who just missed.
Speaker 2: We'll get into who was too old later, but before
Speaker 2: we get to number fifty, just to set the parameters,
Speaker 2: I'm not what matters, what does matter, what doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: I'm not worried about off the court stuff. I'm not
Speaker 2: worried about the Olympics. I'm not worried about international ball.
Speaker 2: I'm worried about how many all NBA teams did you make?
Speaker 2: Did you ever win an MVP? What did you do
Speaker 2: in the playoffs? What did you do in the biggest moment?
Speaker 2: What were your biggest accolades and awards? Those are the things.
Speaker 3: That matter to me.
Speaker 2: And now, without further ado, let's get right to number fifty.
Speaker 2: One of the great what ifs an NBA history, the
Speaker 2: Great Bernard King.
Speaker 3: Number fifty, Bernard Key.
Speaker 2: He pairs quite nicely like a wine with a stake.
Speaker 2: With number forty nine. We'll explain that in a moment.
Speaker 2: The accolades are the follow two times First Team All NBA,
Speaker 2: one time Second Team, one time, thirteen he won a
Speaker 2: scoring title, averaging thirty three points per game. He almost
Speaker 2: won an MVP that year in nineteen eighty four, And
Speaker 2: so here's the deal. He averages thirty three and then
Speaker 2: he suffers a brutal injury, takes him a bit to
Speaker 2: get back, and then six years later he's back up
Speaker 2: to twenty eight per game. But then he got hurt again.
Speaker 2: And this is back when you can't recover from injuries
Speaker 2: the way guys can now.
Speaker 3: And so he just didn't have it.
Speaker 2: He didn't have the longevity of some other guys, but
Speaker 2: his peak was incredibly high. So as you're gonna see
Speaker 2: as we go throughout this list, we're talking about Bernard's
Speaker 2: playoffs in a moment we are we're going to try
Speaker 2: to value everything, right, So a guy who was really
Speaker 2: good but did it for fifteen years, how do you
Speaker 2: weigh that against a guy who was great but only
Speaker 2: did it for eight years. Bernard King is obviously far
Speaker 2: closer to the latter than the former. But the other
Speaker 2: thing you're going to see is guys with light playoff
Speaker 2: resumes are penalized greatly, and Bernard King, he doesn't have
Speaker 2: a non existent playoff resume, but it's a light one.
Speaker 2: So let me talk about what he did well nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty four. He did beat Isaiah in the Pistons. That
Speaker 2: Knicks team had no business beating Isaiah and the Pistons.
Speaker 2: He beat him, how they beat him. He averages forty
Speaker 2: three and eight for the series, forty three and eight.
Speaker 2: He had four forty point games in that series, that
Speaker 2: same Pistons team that would years a few years later
Speaker 2: him up Michael Jordan three years in a row. Bernard
Speaker 2: King beat him, so that matters. Then in round two,
Speaker 2: this again is pre injury, it's his best year, almost.
Speaker 3: Wins, MVP, does all these things.
Speaker 2: He plays Bird Celtics in round two, so you have
Speaker 2: Isaiah's Pistons in round one, you have Bird Celtics in
Speaker 2: Round two. Gets to a Game seven against Bird Celtics,
Speaker 2: averages twenty nine to five in that series, scores forty
Speaker 2: four in Game six, down three to two, but they
Speaker 2: lose Game seven, suffers the injury again. So the playoff
Speaker 2: resume is really just that one year. But that's also
Speaker 2: the one year in the playoffs where he hadn't been
Speaker 2: hurt yet, So it does feel like he had amazing
Speaker 2: things to come. Never quite reached it because of the injuries.
Speaker 2: He's the fiftieth greatest player of the last fifty years,
Speaker 2: the great Bernard King, who the way he explained how
Speaker 2: he scored, there were like twelve spots on the court
Speaker 2: he cared about. He just knew how to score from
Speaker 2: those twelve spots. He had three dribble moves. He worked
Speaker 2: on a dribble, right, dribble, left, dribble center. He would
Speaker 2: look at out guarding him and then pick the spot
Speaker 2: on the quarteryhos closest to pick the dribble movie needed
Speaker 2: to do and that's how he would do it. Brilliant player,
Speaker 2: a big what if the fiftieth greatest player ever? We
Speaker 2: have a question mark about one Bernard King or a
Speaker 2: question from a caller, I should say, let me hear it.
Speaker 4: Not to be a millennial or anything, but who the
Speaker 4: hell is Bernard King? And why do you have him
Speaker 4: over Tracy McGrady. His shoes wasn't the best, but man,
Speaker 4: that boy could score. He could.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Me, I'm just trying to figure out how Bernard is
Speaker 4: over t missynt Let me know because I'm confused. Bro.
Speaker 2: So that's about Tracy McGrady and Tracy McGrady is a
Speaker 2: great question because Tracy McGrady, as spoiler alert, does not
Speaker 2: make this list, so his peak was incredibly high. He also,
Speaker 2: you could argue, was as good as gifted of a
Speaker 2: scorer as Bernard King, So why does King make it
Speaker 2: and Tracy doesn't. Tracy's one of the hardest omissions because
Speaker 2: Tracy's lack of a playoff resume is even more glaring
Speaker 2: than Bernard Kings. Tracy made the playoffs a bunch and
Speaker 2: never gets out of round one, and if you go
Speaker 2: through it, it's not great instances on him not getting
Speaker 2: out of round one, there's a lot of Game sevens
Speaker 2: and it's not great performances. So most famously, he's up
Speaker 2: three to one on Detroit, up three to one on
Speaker 2: Detroit in round one. They not only lose the next three,
Speaker 2: but he's eight of twenty in game five. He's seven
Speaker 2: of twenty four in game seven. Now he's really good
Speaker 2: in game six, but they lose by fifteen despite it,
Speaker 2: that's not great. The next time he's in the playoffs,
Speaker 2: another game seven, a series against Dallas. This time he's
Speaker 2: with Houston. He's ten of twenty six in that Game seven.
Speaker 2: They lose the next year, two years later, is in
Speaker 2: the playoffs again, another game seven, this against Utah. He's
Speaker 2: not bad, don't get me wrong, He's not bad. In
Speaker 2: the game seven he is twenty nine and thirteen. That
Speaker 2: it was by four, but the problem was they were
Speaker 2: up three to two, and in game six he's eight
Speaker 2: of twenty three. So that McGrady, the playoff stuff, in
Speaker 2: my opinion, just kills him. He just misses out. And
Speaker 2: so that's why he's not on the list. And that's
Speaker 2: why forget being number fifty, he's certainly not number forty nine,
Speaker 2: number forty nine. Another guy who people hold the playoff
Speaker 2: resume against him one Carmelo Anthony.
Speaker 3: Number forty nine.
Speaker 5: Carmelo Anthony.
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Speaker 2: So Carmelo, Anthony and Bernard King, it's a very interesting
Speaker 2: dichotomy here because and I'll go through Carmelo's accolades in
Speaker 2: a moment, I think Bernard King's peak was higher, but
Speaker 2: Carmelo was close to him peak wise, and did it
Speaker 2: so much longer. He is ninth on the NBA's all
Speaker 2: time scoring list. That's got to matter.
Speaker 3: Now. He doesn't have.
Speaker 2: Any first all NBA first teams, but he has two
Speaker 2: second teams and four third teams.
Speaker 3: He also won a scoring.
Speaker 2: Title, was a one time scoring champ, and he finished
Speaker 2: third in the MVP voting one year. Now, as far
Speaker 2: as the postseason goes, famously never made a finals. However,
Speaker 2: he was the best player on a conference finalist. That again,
Speaker 2: that doesn't get that doesn't do much for you, but
Speaker 2: it's something. And in that conference finals against Kobe Is
Speaker 2: back when he was with Denver, he's twenty eight five
Speaker 2: and four. It's twenty eight five and four in those
Speaker 2: conference finals and in the playoffs from that year from
Speaker 2: nine to twenty thirteen, he was twenty eight a game.
Speaker 2: So you have the fact that he is top ten
Speaker 2: all time scoring in NBA history. He is a guy who,
Speaker 2: though I would say in the best team he was on,
Speaker 2: they did exactly what they should have done. In the postseason.
Speaker 2: They got as far as they should have gotten. They
Speaker 2: didn't underachieve. They were two to two with the Lakers.
Speaker 2: And if you remember, I don't know if you do,
Speaker 2: that Game five against the Lakers is tied going into
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter. Carmelo was excellent in that game five,
Speaker 2: actually outplayed Kobe in that Game five, but they ended
Speaker 2: up losing the fourth quarter by nine points I think,
Speaker 2: And so they end up losing that game and they
Speaker 2: lose Game six.
Speaker 3: That's a great what if?
Speaker 2: What if Carmelo had carried that Nuggets team to the finals?
Speaker 2: Not only what if for his legacy, but also does
Speaker 2: he then stay with Denver because the other part that
Speaker 2: killed Mellow And I know this has been brought up
Speaker 2: a lot, but it warn't mentioning. He wanted to get
Speaker 2: to New York very badly. That's fine, but he also
Speaker 2: wanted all his money. So instead of waiting a year
Speaker 2: and signing with the Knicks outright he forced it there early.
Speaker 2: The Knicks then have to trade all those pieces to
Speaker 2: get him, which then undercuts his ability to win with them.
Speaker 2: But when he did get to New York, the best
Speaker 2: team he was on With New York, they again got
Speaker 2: as far as they should have gotten in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: They get to Round two and who they lose to
Speaker 2: Lebron in the heat. So it's not like there were
Speaker 2: a bunch of years Carmelo was on the better team
Speaker 2: and fell short. I do think that happened with the
Speaker 2: guy like Trayson Grady we just mentioned. I also think
Speaker 2: this final act of Carmelo's career is a valuable one.
Speaker 2: After he was essentially kicked out of the league. Nobody
Speaker 2: wanted that he wouldn't come off the bench. He didn't
Speaker 2: work in Houston. What he was able to do for Portland,
Speaker 2: what he's been able to do for the Lakers, is
Speaker 2: an important minor legacy and answer probably just enough not
Speaker 2: only did get him into the top ten all time
Speaker 2: in scoring, but to push him ahead of a guy
Speaker 2: like Bernard King. So the two greatest Nick scorers ever,
Speaker 2: Bernard King and Carmelo Anthony, come in fifty to forty nine.
Speaker 2: I think we have a caller that wants to ask
Speaker 2: about Carmelo.
Speaker 5: Hey, Pop, Sistebonse live in the house. I've got a
Speaker 5: question for you. You say the playoffs matter in this
Speaker 5: whole ranker thing. Melos only made it past the first
Speaker 5: round two times in his entire career. Please tell me
Speaker 5: how it is that he got here. I'd really appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Bye.
Speaker 2: So I think that again, I don't look at Carmelo
Speaker 2: as a playoff failure. I understand he didn't have much
Speaker 2: playoff success.
Speaker 3: But if you go through the actual and I'm gonna
Speaker 3: pull it up for you guys right now.
Speaker 2: If you go through the career playoff series, like what
Speaker 2: is the series Carmelo lost that, you're like, oh man, no,
Speaker 2: oh business losing that? If we're not going to talk
Speaker 2: about very early in his career. So in eight with Denver,
Speaker 2: or you go to seven with Denver, they lose to
Speaker 2: the Spurs. The Spurs won the title that year. Eight
Speaker 2: with Denver, they lose to the Lakers. All right, Well,
Speaker 2: the Lakers went to the finals that year. The next
Speaker 2: year with Denver's the year that you lose to the
Speaker 2: Lakers and the conference finals. And I'm gonna go a
Speaker 2: little overtime here defending my guy mellow who yes, listen,
Speaker 2: he is a Syracuse guy, and he did deliver us
Speaker 2: a championship.
Speaker 3: It's still ninth all time. We can score.
Speaker 2: The next year in Denver, they lose to Utah on six. Okay,
Speaker 2: I guess you can argue that year. You know, maybe
Speaker 2: they should have won that series. But then when he
Speaker 2: goes to the Knicks, who do they lose to. They
Speaker 2: lose to the Celtics Big Three. That's the better team.
Speaker 2: They lose to the Heat, that's the better team. They
Speaker 2: then lose to the Celtics. Again, that's the better team.
Speaker 2: Twenty thirteen, they lose in round two to the Pacers. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe you win that series. But that Paul George roy
Speaker 2: everteen was good. That team took Lebron and the Heat
Speaker 2: to seven. And then after that it's with OKC, OKC.
Speaker 2: We're going to hold that one against him. No, he's
Speaker 2: a different player, so I don't look at the it. Yes,
Speaker 2: you would like to have a better playoff resume, but
Speaker 2: if you have a better playoff resume and your top ten
Speaker 2: all time in scoring, you're higher than forty ninth. Carmelo Anthony,
Speaker 2: the forty ninth greatest player of all time, will be
Speaker 2: right back. Welcome back in What's Right with Nick Wright
Speaker 2: podcast YouTube show, where we are counting down the fifty
Speaker 2: greatest players of the last fifty years in the NBA.
Speaker 2: And even though it's basically Kareem's rookie year to now,
Speaker 2: I would feel personally remiss if I didn't at least
Speaker 2: acknowledge guys who belong on any NBA list, if.
Speaker 3: They weren't just too old for it.
Speaker 2: So the guys this isn't the entire list of guys
Speaker 2: who were too old to make to make this list,
Speaker 2: but it's.
Speaker 3: A partial list.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go through them in a somewhat of
Speaker 2: chronological order. So, you know, Bill Russell, Elgin Baylor, Bob
Speaker 2: Pettitt and George Mikeen were the two greatest players of
Speaker 2: the pre Wilt Russell era of NBA history. Bob Pettitt's
Speaker 2: you know, career accolades still hold up. George Michen was
Speaker 2: a dominant, dominant force in the league. So those guys
Speaker 2: have to be on any list. Obviously Russell, So I
Speaker 2: think Russell somehow is underrated. He won eleven titles in
Speaker 2: thirteen years. He won the league MVP five times, and
Speaker 2: that was back when the players were voting on it.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows will Well had a fifty point per game season.
Speaker 2: Same season he averaged more than forty eight minutes per game.
Speaker 2: He won an assist title. He just didn't win enough.
Speaker 2: If Wilt won two more titles, he's probably Babe Ruth
Speaker 2: of basketball. Even one hundred years later, people would be like, ah,
Speaker 2: that's the greatest player ever. In that same era, you
Speaker 2: have Elgin Baylor and jaredry West competing with those guys.
Speaker 2: It's one of the reasons Jerry's one in eight in
Speaker 2: the finals. You also have Oscar robertson the original triple double.
Speaker 2: Those guys have to be on any all time list.
Speaker 2: They're just too old for mine. Another great guy that
Speaker 2: is not the caliber of those players. But what is
Speaker 2: on the NBA seventy five list, and justifiably is Willis Reid.
Speaker 2: The reason I'm mentioning him is Willis Reid is the
Speaker 2: youngest guy who's too old for this list. So if
Speaker 2: that helps your mind's eye. If you're an NBA historian,
Speaker 2: as we're going through this top fifty, you're like, wait,
Speaker 2: why didn't such and such make it? Why didn't John
Speaker 2: Halichik make it?
Speaker 3: Too old?
Speaker 2: Anybody who's willis Reid's era generation or older does not
Speaker 2: make this list, So that's kind of the cutoff there.
Speaker 2: Now Here are guys who were eligible but did not
Speaker 2: make it. Now this will not spoil the list entirely
Speaker 2: because they are because there are certain guys that made
Speaker 2: the top seventy five that didn't. Not only did they
Speaker 2: not make my top fifty, but they weren't even my
Speaker 2: honorable mentions.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna name any names.
Speaker 2: Reggie Miller, but Reggie Miller hes guy's seventeen three and
Speaker 2: three for his career was never even sniffed in MVP.
Speaker 2: Why is he this consensus top seventy five guy? I
Speaker 2: don't know, but let's go through some of these guys.
Speaker 2: So wes Unselled has the top end to make this list,
Speaker 2: but not the body of work. He has an MVP,
Speaker 2: and he has a finals MVP, but he only has
Speaker 2: one truly great season. Also, and I'm not trying to
Speaker 2: bore you with old wes Unselled facts, but wes Unseld's
Speaker 2: finals MVP is one of the most unfair thefts in
Speaker 2: NBA history. We don't have to get into it, but
Speaker 2: we are gonna name a guy who's on this list,
Speaker 2: who made it, who obviously, clearly and by any fair definition,
Speaker 2: should have been MVP of that finals. He somehow doesn't
Speaker 2: get it. His name's Elvin Hayes and so Wes Unseld.
Speaker 2: Great player and you know, would be on the top sixty,
Speaker 2: but not good enough for the top fifty in my opinion.
Speaker 2: Dave Cowens, he won a couple are a couple of rings,
Speaker 2: He won an MVP, he just missed the cut. Adrian
Speaker 2: Dantley two scoring titles, and he's a you know, he's
Speaker 2: a what if would the Pistons have won if they
Speaker 2: kept him? In eighty eight? The Pistons should win the
Speaker 2: title probably. I mean they're up three to two on
Speaker 2: the Lakers. There's a you know, the famous Isaiah Thomas
Speaker 2: Sprain ankle game. There is some people feel a phantom
Speaker 2: foul call that sends Cream to the line. The Lakers
Speaker 2: escape game six. They then win in seven because Isaiah
Speaker 2: is crippled and is a shell of himself. The Pistons
Speaker 2: then trade Dantly, so Dantley misses out on the championships.
Speaker 3: Would they have won with him? Maybe? I don't know.
Speaker 2: He just misses out. Another guy from that ero who
Speaker 2: just missed out Alex English.
Speaker 3: I think. I'm not certain.
Speaker 2: I think he's the highest on the all time scoring
Speaker 2: list of guys that didn't make my list. The problem
Speaker 2: is it's all he did. He makes one conference finals,
Speaker 2: that's it.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: My guy Colin Cowherd loves him some Alex English. To me,
Speaker 2: he's out. He just barely misses the cut, but he
Speaker 2: is out. We also got to go Paul Pierce. Paul
Speaker 2: Pierce's finals MVP? Now, is it a legit finals MVP?
Speaker 3: Maybe? Was he the best.
Speaker 2: Player on that team? Absolutely not? But was he the
Speaker 2: best player in those finals?
Speaker 3: Maybe?
Speaker 2: He also is a top twenty all time scorer. However,
Speaker 2: only one time was he first or second team All NBA.
Speaker 2: I feel he was the third best of the big three.
Speaker 2: All of those things, in my estimation, have to matter.
Speaker 2: So Paul Pierce, he just misses the cut. Listen, the
Speaker 2: shot alone almost gets him on the list. You can
Speaker 2: almost make the argument Ray Allen, because he had maybe
Speaker 2: the most iconic shot in NBA history, that alone should
Speaker 2: be enough to get him on this list. However, I
Speaker 2: can't put him on it because he was never an
Speaker 2: MVP candidate. Really, he was never a first team All
Speaker 2: NBA consensus guy I and in my he was. He
Speaker 2: was a great part of some great teams, but never
Speaker 2: the leading part. And so I love Ray. Ray was
Speaker 2: a tough omission, but he doesn't make the list. Tracy McGrady,
Speaker 2: we talked about him in the first segment. If you
Speaker 2: were listening, Tracy McGrady is probably the best of all
Speaker 2: the players that as far as what their career upside was.
Speaker 2: He is probably the best of all of them that
Speaker 2: did not make this list. He is probably the guy
Speaker 2: that his a You know, he was an MVP CA,
Speaker 2: he was a scoring champion. However, his lack of playoff
Speaker 2: success and we went over it so I don't have
Speaker 2: to belabor it here is so glaring when compared to
Speaker 2: the guys who made this list that I think he
Speaker 2: was a pharaoh mission from my list and a pharaoh
Speaker 2: mission from the top seventy five list. I want to
Speaker 2: go back in history just a moment before we get
Speaker 2: to Jokic. Also not on the list is Pistol Pete Merriviage.
Speaker 2: Pistol Pete he's another there was no winning, no winning whatsoever.
Speaker 2: He didn't have much longevity. He was on when I
Speaker 2: did this thing. Initially, Pistol Pete was there, and then
Speaker 2: I removed him in favor of someone else after really
Speaker 2: deep diving into it. Iconic player, amazing scorer, forty a
Speaker 2: game in college with no three point line, but we
Speaker 2: told you college stuff doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: Pistol Pete not there.
Speaker 2: And then the two current guys who probably will be
Speaker 2: on the NBA's one hundred at one one hundred, but
Speaker 2: I don't feel have done enough to make this list,
Speaker 2: Damian Lillard and Nikola Jokicic. Also, by the way, Klay Thompson.
Speaker 2: But Clay to me was not a heard ow mission,
Speaker 2: nor was Kyrie to me. If we're talking about guys
Speaker 2: that should make it that didn't, Dame and Jokic are
Speaker 2: the ones that you got to discuss. Okay, So Dame
Speaker 2: does have an obviously elite resime. The problem is he
Speaker 2: just hasn't done it long enough. If you're so he's
Speaker 2: four time first or second team, that's that's valid. Twenty
Speaker 2: five points per game, that's valid. But you've been to
Speaker 2: one conference finals. You got washed out. In those conference finals.
Speaker 2: You have never been, in my opinion, forget considered the
Speaker 2: best player in the league. I don't think there's ever
Speaker 2: been a moment you've been considered the best guard in
Speaker 2: the league. And because you're still active, you haven't played
Speaker 2: long enough, so you're never in the best of your position.
Speaker 2: You've never been on a real contender. You only have
Speaker 2: one playoff run pass round two. It's just not enough.
Speaker 2: I think you'll make the next list. It's just not enough.
Speaker 2: And then there's Jokic. And when I talked on social
Speaker 2: media about that I'm doing this project, people were like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, can't wait to see where you have
Speaker 2: Joki ranked.
Speaker 3: I was like, well, I don't.
Speaker 2: I'm ranked Nick. That's so it's not unfair. And I'm
Speaker 2: not saying Jokic is not going to end up being
Speaker 2: on all of these lists eventually, but if the world
Speaker 2: stopped today, he flatley does not have the resume of
Speaker 2: other guys who didn't make the list. I know he
Speaker 2: has a league MVP, but so does Dave Cowens, and
Speaker 2: I didn't put Dave Cowens on this list. So does
Speaker 2: Dereck Rose and Derek Rose. By the way, spoiler alert,
Speaker 2: not on this list. He has been two time All
Speaker 2: NBA First Team and he'll either be first or second
Speaker 2: team this year, one time All NBA Second Team, so
Speaker 2: the last three years he's been spectacular. He also has
Speaker 2: only been out around two once, and nobody's expecting them
Speaker 2: to get around two this year. And he has the
Speaker 2: one year where he was an MVP candidate, last year
Speaker 2: where he won it.
Speaker 3: This year's another MVP candidate. So it is not a
Speaker 3: knock on Jokic.
Speaker 2: It's just if you have no championships, no finals appearances,
Speaker 2: and only four outstanding seasons, how can I put you
Speaker 2: on the list over a guy like Adrian Dantley.
Speaker 3: How can I put you on the list over a
Speaker 3: guy like Dave Cowens. I can't.
Speaker 2: Those guys didn't even make the list. Welcome back into
Speaker 2: the What's the Right Podcast? Fifty greatest Players the last
Speaker 2: fifty years Special editions. As you might be able to tell,
Speaker 2: I had a quick wardrobe change. That's because I'm talking
Speaker 2: to you from the future, well actually the past, but
Speaker 2: whatever it is, I'm talking to you weeks after I
Speaker 2: talked to you about Carmelo Anthony and Bernard King because
Speaker 2: I forgot to do the final segment of the show.
Speaker 2: I was so excited I just left. So now I'm
Speaker 2: telling you what's coming up next week, Players forty eight
Speaker 2: through forty four. There's going to be a serious historical,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of tinge to those to that part
Speaker 2: of the rankings, including one guy who I feel was
Speaker 2: the second biggest omission, the second most egregious omission from
Speaker 2: the NBA's top seventy five list, and some of the
Speaker 2: greatest defenders ever will be featured in Players forty eight
Speaker 2: through forty four. Once again, these series will be coming
Speaker 2: out once every week. We are counting down the fifty
Speaker 2: greatest players the last fifty years. I'm so excited to
Speaker 2: finally be putting out to the public sphere a project
Speaker 2: I've been working on literally for the last few years
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