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Speaker 2: Welcome in to another special edition of the website with

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Speaker 2: Nick Right podcast and YouTube shows. We continue our accountdown

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Speaker 2: in the special series the fifty Greatest Players of the

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Speaker 2: last fifty years of the NBA. If you have not

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Speaker 2: checked out this series previously, we have gone over the rules,

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Speaker 2: the honorable mentions, and we've gone players fifty through thirty.

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Speaker 2: So we are now finally inside the top thirty. Next

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Speaker 2: week we'll get inside the top twenty five. Today we

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Speaker 2: are doing players twenty nine through twenty six, and there

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Speaker 2: is one guy who might be the most underrated, truly

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Speaker 2: great player of a generation is on this list. There

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Speaker 2: are two New York Knicks on this list, and one

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Speaker 2: guy who, and I say this in a loving way,

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Speaker 2: is probably the second greatest compiler in NBA history is

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Speaker 2: part of this little four sum but he was far

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Speaker 2: more than that. We will start, however, with number twenty nine,

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Speaker 2: the first of two Knicks to make the list today.

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Speaker 4: Number twenty nine Walt Frasier.

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Speaker 2: He is, of course, also the best dressed man in

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Speaker 2: sports broadcasting yours truly, notwithstanding his four time first Team

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Speaker 2: All NBA, two times Second Team All NBA, seven time

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Speaker 2: All Defense, and one Top five MBP finished however, so

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Speaker 2: that right there is a very good resume that is

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Speaker 2: not enough to get you inside the top thirty without

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Speaker 2: some bananas postseason results. Luckily for Walt Fraser, he has

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Speaker 2: exactly that, some amazing postseason results, including one could argue

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Speaker 2: the greatest Game seven in NBA playoff history. So he's

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Speaker 2: a two time champion and a three time finalist five

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Speaker 2: straight years he took the New York Knicks to the

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Speaker 2: twenty one, six and seven. And keep in mind, he's

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Speaker 2: doing that while being one of the best defensive guards

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Speaker 2: any of his offensive numbers you have to combine to

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Speaker 2: the fact that he was an all time great perimeter defender.

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Speaker 2: But where he really made his name, if you will,

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Speaker 2: was not just delivering the Knicks their first championship, but

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Speaker 2: the way in which he delivered it. The nineteen seventy

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Speaker 2: You might probably not familiar with the Willis Reed story.

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Speaker 2: Willis Reid was arguably be the best player on these Knicks,

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Speaker 2: and Willis Reid had suffered an injury in the series

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Speaker 2: and they didn't think he was gonna play Game seven,

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Speaker 2: And then he comes out for Game seven, makes the

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Speaker 2: first two baskets of the game and it set the

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Speaker 2: the championship? Why did they end up beating in that series?

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Speaker 2: Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, and Wilt Chamberlain a great Lakers

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Speaker 2: team because in that Game seven, Walt Frazier had thirty

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Speaker 2: six points, seven rebounds, and nineteen assists thirty six, seven

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Speaker 2: three guys who, if this list weren't was in the

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Speaker 2: last fifty years, but was all time NBA history. West, Baylor, Baylor,

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Speaker 2: Walt Frazer. And then in the very next year wins

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Speaker 2: another title. But the real toughest test was the Conference

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Speaker 2: Game four of that series in fifty seven minutes fifty

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Speaker 2: seven minutes double overtime, game sat one minute, three to

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Speaker 2: thirty seven nine to four, then twenty five, ten and

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Speaker 2: of me. The NBA Finals for the series average twenty six,

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Speaker 2: in the conference finals. They ended up winning the championship

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Speaker 2: in the finals. He's good but not great. I thought

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Speaker 2: he got absolutely screwed out of finals MVP in nineteen seventy.

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Speaker 2: I thought the Game seven alone should have gotten it

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Speaker 2: for him. They gave it to Willis Reid. But the

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Speaker 2: thirty six, seven and nineteen it's the greatest Game seven

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Speaker 2: per one for respect to James worthing respect to Lebron James,

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Speaker 2: it's the greatest Game seven performance NBA Finals history. He

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Speaker 2: is the twenty ninth greatest player of the last fifty years. Demonse,

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Speaker 2: what's your question?

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Speaker 5: This is a perfect example of the guy that you

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Speaker 5: respect way too much, all because he won a title.

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Speaker 2: Okay, don't get me wrong, he was great or was

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Speaker 5: Like you know, Peyton did everything he did, but just longer,

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Speaker 5: and like you know, he never got to the championship

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Speaker 5: and like I think he might be so high on

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so listen. Maybe some people overrate titles with

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Speaker 2: the Knicks. I'm not one of those people. Gary Payton

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Speaker 2: is a good comp because Gary Payton was an amazing

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Speaker 2: he has the titles and Gary doesn't. If Gary Payton

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Speaker 2: three times, won two titles. I'm very comfortable with him

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Speaker 2: being ahead of Gary Payton. Some would argue he should

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Speaker 2: be ahead of Number twenty eight, who's another New York Nick.

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Speaker 2: This New York Knick also got denied by Michael Jordan

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Speaker 2: never won a title.

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Speaker 2: Patrick Ewing's Patrick Ewing's resident, one time first Team All NBA,

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Speaker 2: six times second Team All NBA and quick sidebar on this.

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Speaker 2: I got very upset a few weeks ago about the

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Speaker 2: NBA changing the rules and allowing you to put two

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Speaker 2: centers Jokic and indeed on first Team All NBA. This

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Speaker 2: is a perfect example why because if they by changing

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Speaker 2: the rules, it now makes Ewing look worse because Ewing

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Speaker 2: it's like, oh, that was only first Team All NBA once,

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Speaker 2: Well that was because you could there was only he

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Speaker 2: was playing against the team David Robinson, Shaquille O'Neill. At

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Speaker 2: some point later in his career, there's only one center.

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Speaker 2: But now if it's going to be multiple centers making,

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Speaker 2: then his six times second Team All NBA doesn't look

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Speaker 2: as good. Three time All Defensive Team, I think that's

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Speaker 2: finals appearances, six times he was top five MVP finishes

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Speaker 2: career twenty one to ten. Only twelve guys in the

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Speaker 2: last fifty years have been twenty in ten guys seventh

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Speaker 2: on the all time blocks list. Now the knock on

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Speaker 2: Youwing historically has been not great in the postseason, and

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Speaker 2: while he did come up short in some postseasons, it's

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Speaker 2: got we gloss over what he did great in the postseason.

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Speaker 2: So I already told you you went to two finals.

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Speaker 2: The best player on one finalist the second finals, he

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Speaker 2: got injured right before sweating in to play it. Career

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Speaker 2: in the playoffs twenty and ten in the playoffs, so

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Speaker 2: everyone says I came to to the playoffs twenty and

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Speaker 2: ten career playoff average. Only ten guys in the last

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Speaker 2: fifty years have done that. His first career playoff victory,

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Speaker 2: he gave you thirty one and ten against Boston in

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Speaker 2: eighty eight. In eighty nine against Chicago and Michael Jordan

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Speaker 2: dropped thirty two and eleven facing elimination, and then in

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Speaker 2: game six of that series gave you twenty two thirteen,

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Speaker 2: six assists, three blocks, two steals. Buddies up against Michael Jordan.

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Speaker 2: after falling down two to Burden mcale, including thirty one, eight,

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Speaker 2: in the game five that they lost. That ninety two

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Speaker 2: not the ninety six Bulls. Ninety four to get to

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Speaker 2: never came up big. He had big Game seven to

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Speaker 2: then come the finals, the team dominated. There's no way

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Speaker 2: very high on this list. And then in ninety seven

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Speaker 2: got totally screwed. That was the year PJ. Brown body

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Speaker 2: off the bench. So Ewing misses Game six. Then he's

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Speaker 2: suspending for Game seven. In that game seven is thirty

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Speaker 2: seven and seventeen, but they lost, and then he blows

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Speaker 2: his achilles in ninety nine. Only has one other great

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Speaker 2: playoff game twenty and seven, in a Game seven against

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Speaker 2: reason I gave you those individual games, and I think

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Speaker 2: it's important to is because we can't act like Ewing

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Speaker 2: never came up big in the posts. Jordan beat him

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Speaker 2: a bunch, He got out played by a team. Those

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Speaker 2: West obviously is too old to be eligible for this list.

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Speaker 2: But Jerry West is a different tier than Rick Berry.

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Speaker 2: Jerry West, poor guy lost eight straight finals career, one

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Speaker 2: to eight in the finals, just kept losing to the Celtics,

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Speaker 2: kept going to the finals, and kept losing to the Celtics.

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Speaker 2: Then finally won finally one in seventy two, the team

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Speaker 2: we were talking about before. But Jerry West also had

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Speaker 2: I again a little respect for Jerry West here. I

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Speaker 2: just want to I'm mentioning he lost all those finals.

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Speaker 2: Jerry West in the sixty two finals losing seven, average

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Speaker 2: thirty one again Jerry West. The next year finals, losing six.

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Speaker 2: They just kept losing to Bill Russell. Averaged thirty a game,

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Speaker 2: Jerry West. He then missed the finals one year. The

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Speaker 2: next year in the sixty five finals, losing five, average

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Speaker 2: thirty four a game. The very next year he's back

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Speaker 2: in the finals, losing seven again average thirty four a game.

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Speaker 2: Two years later he's back in the finals, losing six

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Speaker 2: to Boston average thirty one again one of these finals,

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Speaker 2: he averaged forty some points and loss. I can't find it,

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Speaker 2: but listen, he as Jerry West is as great as

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Speaker 2: Rick Barry was. Jerry West was better. That's the end

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Speaker 2: of the Jerry West segment. That probably means we've spent

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Speaker 2: too much time on the Rick Berry segment. Nothing says

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Speaker 2: ratings bonanza like talking about players older than the oldest

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Speaker 2: guy on our list. Will be right now? All right, Well,

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Speaker 2: that just about does it for today's edition of the

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Speaker 2: fifty Best Players last fifty years. We've now given you

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Speaker 2: players fifty through twenty six. So next week we get

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Speaker 2: into the top twenty five players of the last fifty years.

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Speaker 2: And if you're still listening, that means you did make

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Speaker 2: it through eight minutes of Rick Berry with a little

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Speaker 2: bit of Jerry West talk mixed in. I appreciate that.

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Speaker 2: My promise to you is not only will next week

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Speaker 2: be more contemporary players. Next week we'll have at least

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Speaker 2: one current active player I think the only active player. No,

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Speaker 2: we've had two active players so far that have been

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Speaker 2: on this list three Carmelo Anthony Anthony Davis and Kawhi Leonard.

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Speaker 2: We will have another active player, Russell Wilsborth. We've had four.

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Speaker 2: I forgot about Russell, thank you to mose So. But

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Speaker 2: we will have another active player, at least one Dwight Howard.

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Speaker 2: We've had five. Okay, I'm doing a terrible job remembering

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Speaker 2: my own list. Doesn't matter. The point is we will

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Speaker 2: have another, at least one more active player on next

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Speaker 2: week's week's list, plus one man who has some records

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Speaker 2: that will simply never be broken, no longer how long

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Speaker 2: the game is played. All that's next week on the

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Speaker 2: What's Right with the Great podcast is to continue to

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Speaker 2: countdown of the fifty best players for the last fifty

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Speaker 2: years in the NBA