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Speaker 2: Welcome in to another special edition of the website with
Speaker 2: Nick Right podcast and YouTube shows. We continue our accountdown
Speaker 2: in the special series the fifty Greatest Players of the
Speaker 2: last fifty years of the NBA. If you have not
Speaker 2: checked out this series previously, we have gone over the rules,
Speaker 2: the honorable mentions, and we've gone players fifty through thirty.
Speaker 2: So we are now finally inside the top thirty. Next
Speaker 2: week we'll get inside the top twenty five. Today we
Speaker 2: are doing players twenty nine through twenty six, and there
Speaker 2: is one guy who might be the most underrated, truly
Speaker 2: great player of a generation is on this list. There
Speaker 2: are two New York Knicks on this list, and one
Speaker 2: guy who, and I say this in a loving way,
Speaker 2: is probably the second greatest compiler in NBA history is
Speaker 2: part of this little four sum but he was far
Speaker 2: more than that. We will start, however, with number twenty nine,
Speaker 2: the first of two Knicks to make the list today.
Speaker 4: Number twenty nine Walt Frasier.
Speaker 2: He is, of course, also the best dressed man in
Speaker 2: sports broadcasting yours truly, notwithstanding his four time first Team
Speaker 2: All NBA, two times Second Team All NBA, seven time
Speaker 2: All Defense, and one Top five MBP finished however, so
Speaker 2: that right there is a very good resume that is
Speaker 2: not enough to get you inside the top thirty without
Speaker 2: some bananas postseason results. Luckily for Walt Fraser, he has
Speaker 2: exactly that, some amazing postseason results, including one could argue
Speaker 2: the greatest Game seven in NBA playoff history. So he's
Speaker 2: a two time champion and a three time finalist five
Speaker 2: straight years he took the New York Knicks to the
Speaker 2: conference finals. Or further, his career in the playoffs is
Speaker 2: twenty one, six and seven. And keep in mind, he's
Speaker 2: doing that while being one of the best defensive guards
Speaker 2: of his era. That's the seven time All defense So
Speaker 2: any of his offensive numbers you have to combine to
Speaker 2: the fact that he was an all time great perimeter defender.
Speaker 2: But where he really made his name, if you will,
Speaker 2: was not just delivering the Knicks their first championship, but
Speaker 2: the way in which he delivered it. The nineteen seventy
Speaker 2: finals Game five, critical, Games two two, he has twenty one,
Speaker 2: seven and twelve, and then everyone remembers the Willis Reid game.
Speaker 2: Willis Reid for those folks that don't remember, and Demonsey's
Speaker 2: gonna ask me what Fraser question here in a moment
Speaker 2: You might probably not familiar with the Willis Reed story.
Speaker 2: Willis Reid was arguably be the best player on these Knicks,
Speaker 2: and Willis Reid had suffered an injury in the series
Speaker 2: and they didn't think he was gonna play Game seven,
Speaker 2: And then he comes out for Game seven, makes the
Speaker 2: first two baskets of the game and it set the
Speaker 2: tenor for the entire game. What people don't remember about
Speaker 2: that game is those were the only two baskets Willis
Speaker 2: Reed made. So why did the Knicks end up winning
Speaker 2: the championship? Why did they end up beating in that series?
Speaker 2: Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, and Wilt Chamberlain a great Lakers
Speaker 2: team because in that Game seven, Walt Frazier had thirty
Speaker 2: six points, seven rebounds, and nineteen assists thirty six, seven
Speaker 2: and nineteen in a Game seven of the finals against
Speaker 2: three guys who, if this list weren't was in the
Speaker 2: last fifty years, but was all time NBA history. West, Baylor, Baylor,
Speaker 2: and Chamberlain. Those are three of the thirty greatest players
Speaker 2: ever and in West and Wilt two of the ten
Speaker 2: or twelve greatest players ever. He did that with no
Speaker 2: Willis Reed, then makes the finals in nineteen seventy two,
Speaker 2: goes thirty one to seven and two in a Game
Speaker 2: five loss. For the series averages twenty three, eight, and
Speaker 2: eight are nearly sixty percent shooting. Making the finals without
Speaker 2: Willis Reid, but lost to the Lakers. That Lakers team,
Speaker 2: by the way, someone argues the greatest team ever the
Speaker 2: seventy two Lakers. They had a thirty three game winning
Speaker 2: streak during that season, and they beat Kareem at a
Speaker 2: young Kareem, but that was almost apex scream to get
Speaker 2: to the finals, and the fact that Knicks team didn't
Speaker 2: get swept by that Lakers team as a testament to
Speaker 2: Walt Frazer. And then in the very next year wins
Speaker 2: another title. But the real toughest test was the Conference
Speaker 2: finals against Boston. He's thirty seven, nine to four in
Speaker 2: Game four of that series in fifty seven minutes fifty
Speaker 2: seven minutes double overtime, game sat one minute, three to
Speaker 2: one in the series play fifty seven minutes gave you
Speaker 2: thirty seven nine to four, then twenty five, ten and
Speaker 2: seven in Game seven. Over the final four games of
Speaker 2: that series, he averaged forty nine minutes per game. Final
Speaker 2: four games of the NBA or final five games part
Speaker 2: of me. The NBA Finals for the series average twenty six,
Speaker 2: seven and six. So listen, Willis Reid. I that was
Speaker 2: in the conference finals. They ended up winning the championship
Speaker 2: in the finals. He's good but not great. I thought
Speaker 2: he got absolutely screwed out of finals MVP in nineteen seventy.
Speaker 2: I thought the Game seven alone should have gotten it
Speaker 2: for him. They gave it to Willis Reid. But the
Speaker 2: thirty six, seven and nineteen it's the greatest Game seven
Speaker 2: per one for respect to James worthing respect to Lebron James,
Speaker 2: it's the greatest Game seven performance NBA Finals history. He
Speaker 2: is the twenty ninth greatest player of the last fifty years. Demonse,
Speaker 2: what's your question?
Speaker 5: This is a perfect example of the guy that you
Speaker 5: respect way too much, all because he won a title.
Speaker 2: Okay, don't get me wrong, he was great or was
Speaker 2: he better than the glove?
Speaker 5: Like you know, Peyton did everything he did, but just longer,
Speaker 5: and like you know, he never got to the championship
Speaker 5: because there was this guy named Michael Jordan over there,
Speaker 5: and like I think he might be so high on
Speaker 5: the list just because he simply won titles with the Knicks.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so listen. Maybe some people overrate titles with
Speaker 2: the Knicks. I'm not one of those people. Gary Payton
Speaker 2: is a good comp because Gary Payton was an amazing
Speaker 2: two way guard as well. But yes, it is because
Speaker 2: he has the titles and Gary doesn't. If Gary Payton
Speaker 2: repeatedly got to the NBA Finals and got denied by Jordan,
Speaker 2: so be it. But Gary Payton was getting denied by
Speaker 2: Karl Malone. Who's getting denied by a team. He only
Speaker 2: got to the finals one time. Walt Fraser got there
Speaker 2: three times, won two titles. I'm very comfortable with him
Speaker 2: being ahead of Gary Payton. Some would argue he should
Speaker 2: be ahead of Number twenty eight, who's another New York Nick.
Speaker 2: This New York Knick also got denied by Michael Jordan
Speaker 2: never won a title.
Speaker 4: Number twenty eight.
Speaker 2: Patrick Ewing's Patrick Ewing's resident, one time first Team All NBA,
Speaker 2: six times second Team All NBA and quick sidebar on this.
Speaker 2: I got very upset a few weeks ago about the
Speaker 2: NBA changing the rules and allowing you to put two
Speaker 2: centers Jokic and indeed on first Team All NBA. This
Speaker 2: is a perfect example why because if they by changing
Speaker 2: the rules, it now makes Ewing look worse because Ewing
Speaker 2: it's like, oh, that was only first Team All NBA once,
Speaker 2: Well that was because you could there was only he
Speaker 2: was playing against the team David Robinson, Shaquille O'Neill. At
Speaker 2: some point later in his career, there's only one center.
Speaker 2: But now if it's going to be multiple centers making,
Speaker 2: then his six times second Team All NBA doesn't look
Speaker 2: as good. Three time All Defensive Team, I think that's
Speaker 2: a little low. Best player on a final has two
Speaker 2: finals appearances, six times he was top five MVP finishes
Speaker 2: career twenty one to ten. Only twelve guys in the
Speaker 2: last fifty years have been twenty in ten guys seventh
Speaker 2: on the all time blocks list. Now the knock on
Speaker 2: Youwing historically has been not great in the postseason, and
Speaker 2: while he did come up short in some postseasons, it's
Speaker 2: got we gloss over what he did great in the postseason.
Speaker 2: So I already told you you went to two finals.
Speaker 2: The best player on one finalist the second finals, he
Speaker 2: got injured right before sweating in to play it. Career
Speaker 2: in the playoffs twenty and ten in the playoffs, so
Speaker 2: everyone says I came to to the playoffs twenty and
Speaker 2: ten career playoff average. Only ten guys in the last
Speaker 2: fifty years have done that. His first career playoff victory,
Speaker 2: he gave you thirty one and ten against Boston in
Speaker 2: eighty eight. In eighty nine against Chicago and Michael Jordan
Speaker 2: dropped thirty two and eleven facing elimination, and then in
Speaker 2: game six of that series gave you twenty two thirteen,
Speaker 2: six assists, three blocks, two steals. Buddies up against Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2: Jordan drops forty nineteen ninety Game four in the first
Speaker 2: round against Larry Bird in Boston forty four thirty and
Speaker 2: five with seven blocks and two steals to even the
Speaker 2: series at two apiece. Averaged thirty six, thirteen and five
Speaker 2: after falling down two to Burden mcale, including thirty one, eight,
Speaker 2: ten and four to beat them and win the series. Now,
Speaker 2: that was a lesser burden mcale, but still carried that
Speaker 2: next team the next round. In the only game they
Speaker 2: won against Detroit, the soon to be champion Pistons, he
Speaker 2: had forty five thirteen and six. Then in ninety two
Speaker 2: to beat Detroit gives you thirty one to nineteen to
Speaker 2: knock them out of the postseason, and then Game one
Speaker 2: against the Bulls and Michael Jordan thirty four sixteen, five assists,
Speaker 2: one block, six steals, and then thirty three and nine
Speaker 2: in the game five that they lost. That ninety two
Speaker 2: team was a great team, but not good enough obviously
Speaker 2: to beat the ninety two Bulls, one of the greatest
Speaker 2: teams ever. Some would argue that was the best Bulls team,
Speaker 2: not the ninety six Bulls. Ninety four to get to
Speaker 2: the finals, to beat Chicago in Game seven eighteen seventeen
Speaker 2: and six in twenty four, twenty two and seven with
Speaker 2: five steals in Game seven to beat Indy and make
Speaker 2: his first finals. So the reason I'm giving you these
Speaker 2: individual games with viewing is there is this myth he
Speaker 2: never came up big. He had big Game seven to
Speaker 2: beat Chicago, a big Game seven to beat Indy, and
Speaker 2: then come the finals, the team dominated. There's no way
Speaker 2: around it. But a team is going to show up very,
Speaker 2: very high on this list. And then in ninety seven
Speaker 2: got totally screwed. That was the year PJ. Brown body
Speaker 2: slam Charlie Ward all the Knicks gets suspended for coming
Speaker 2: off the bench. So Ewing misses Game six. Then he's
Speaker 2: back for Game seven, for some of his teammates are
Speaker 2: suspending for Game seven. In that game seven is thirty
Speaker 2: seven and seventeen, but they lost, and then he blows
Speaker 2: his achilles in ninety nine. Only has one other great
Speaker 2: playoff game twenty and seven, in a Game seven against
Speaker 2: Miami in two thousand, the Eastern Gonment semifinals. So the
Speaker 2: reason I gave you those individual games, and I think
Speaker 2: it's important to is because we can't act like Ewing
Speaker 2: never came up big in the posts. Jordan beat him
Speaker 2: a bunch, He got out played by a team. Those
Speaker 2: are two of the greatest players in the history of
Speaker 2: the game. But the idea that a guy who's just
Speaker 2: one of ten guys in the last fifty years to
Speaker 2: be twenty and ten in the playoffs whose careers are over,
Speaker 2: there's other guys, more than ten guys on that list
Speaker 2: that are active. We'll see if they stay on the
Speaker 2: list when their career is over. The idea that Ewing
Speaker 2: was a total playoff no show, I totally disagree with
Speaker 2: diehard Knicks fan and buddy of mine, Rob Perez has
Speaker 2: a comment about the Patrick Ewing ranking. I gave Rob
Speaker 2: a look at the list, and not the full list,
Speaker 2: but a good section of it. He's gonna mention a
Speaker 2: few names that have not yet been revealed, but they're
Speaker 2: obviously going to be somewhere on this list. We bleep
Speaker 2: out where they actually are because Rob spoils it, which
Speaker 2: is not supposed to. But here's Rob's issue with my
Speaker 2: Patrick Ewing rank.
Speaker 6: Nick, you're continuing to be a prisoner of the moment.
Speaker 6: Is going to make me jump out the window. You
Speaker 6: have Patrick Ewing twenty eighth, while Carmelone and Charles Barkley
Speaker 6: down John Stockton. Those are the four best players of
Speaker 6: an entire generation that did not win a championship. It
Speaker 6: should absolutely be grouped together the next win the ninety
Speaker 6: two championship if Michael Jordan does not exist. Did you
Speaker 6: watch those games? What was required from Patrick Ewing?
Speaker 4: You nuts?
Speaker 2: So here's the problem for Rob. I agree with him though,
Speaker 2: and those guys, by the way, you're gonna hear Barkley
Speaker 2: Malone in Stockton's names rolled off shortly. But of those
Speaker 2: four guys. Ewing was the least impact. Ewing versus Stockton
Speaker 2: is a close call. Ewing versus Barkley, and Ewing versus Malone.
Speaker 2: As much as I love Pat, not that close of
Speaker 2: a call. Those guys were simply better. He's still, though,
Speaker 2: was good enough with the twenty eighth Greatest Player of
Speaker 2: the Last fifty years, Number twenty seven, a guy who's
Speaker 2: all time records will shock you. He's next. All right,
Speaker 2: Welcome back in What's Right with Nick Grey podcast and
Speaker 2: YouTube show special edition fifty Greatest Players the Last fifty
Speaker 2: years in the NBA. Let's just keep it moving. We
Speaker 2: are going to get to one player here that all
Speaker 2: of you remember, and one player that many of you
Speaker 2: I'm sure don't remember, but is one of the most
Speaker 2: decorated playoff performers ever.
Speaker 4: Number twenty seven Jason Kidd.
Speaker 2: So Jason Kidd, five time first Team All NBA, one
Speaker 2: time second Team All NBA, two Top five MVPs, including
Speaker 2: one second place that a lot of people look back
Speaker 2: on that one of Duncans and say kid maybe should
Speaker 2: have won it. However, Duncan's team then eventually did play
Speaker 2: kids team in the finals, and Duncan was utterly and
Speaker 2: thoroughly dominant, So I think they probably got that right.
Speaker 2: Five time assist champ. And then some of these Jason
Speaker 2: Kidd records are just jaw drop. He has the second
Speaker 2: most assists in NBA history. He has the second most
Speaker 2: steals in NBA history. So to be right to where
Speaker 2: he is and listen, he's behind Stockton on both those lists.
Speaker 2: He's not gonna know one. Some of Stockton's records are
Speaker 2: so unbelievable. We'll get to Stockton later. Spoiler alert. You
Speaker 2: know he hasn't been revealed. He's somewhere on this list,
Speaker 2: but second is almost like first place because those records
Speaker 2: are so unattainable. Jason Kidd second all time assists, second
Speaker 2: all time steals, and as far as but you guys know,
Speaker 2: the playoffs matter a lot here. So what did Jason
Speaker 2: Kidd do in the postseason?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: When he was he did win a championship. More on
Speaker 2: that later, because he was a role player at that
Speaker 2: point in his career. Bon he is the best player
Speaker 2: on a team two time finalists, won the conference back
Speaker 2: to back years as the best player on a team.
Speaker 2: Three finals appearances total in the two thousand playoffs before
Speaker 2: he gets to what is now Brooklyn, but then the
Speaker 2: New Jersey nets with Phoenix. He gives you twenty in
Speaker 2: the playoff run in two thousand for the only game
Speaker 2: they win in the second round against the Lakers, the
Speaker 2: Shank Kobe Lakers going to win the title. He's twenty
Speaker 2: two to ten with sixteen assists. Now what you're gonna
Speaker 2: see with kid when we go over it. He didn't
Speaker 2: have a lot of singularly eye popping games. It was
Speaker 2: just incredibly consistent throughout these playoff runs. So the two
Speaker 2: run to the finals average for that playoff run twenty points,
Speaker 2: eight rebounds, nine assists in order to make the first
Speaker 2: to make his finals in the Eastern Conference finals, he
Speaker 2: averaged eighteen, eleven and ten average a triple level to
Speaker 2: make the first finals of his career and then in
Speaker 2: the finals twenty one, seven and ten for those finals
Speaker 2: against Shaq in Kobe and they of course lost. The
Speaker 2: very next year, gets back to the finals averages for
Speaker 2: the playoff run nineteen nine and nine, and then in
Speaker 2: the finals twenty six and eight for they of course
Speaker 2: lose to dunk in the Spurs. Now fast forward eight years,
Speaker 2: the twenty eleven maps folks like ah Jason Kidd, how
Speaker 2: much did he matter? His numbers are not high popping
Speaker 2: at all. However, he in those finals against Lebron, Wade
Speaker 2: and Bosh, Jason Kidd played thirty seven minutes per game,
Speaker 2: so he was I mean, not just a starter, but
Speaker 2: he was playing minutes wise. Only Dirk was far and
Speaker 2: away more than him on that map. Scene. Now, was
Speaker 2: he the second best player on that map? Seemed clearly not. However,
Speaker 2: the fact that he was that late in his career
Speaker 2: still that relevant to be getting those many minutes for
Speaker 2: a team that won the titles speaks volumes. And when
Speaker 2: I said one of the greatest compilers ever, here's what
Speaker 2: I meant. He had fifty career ten plus assist playoffers.
Speaker 2: That's the fifth most ever fifty ten or more assists playoffers.
Speaker 2: He is the fourth most playoffsis ever and the seventh
Speaker 2: most playoff steals ever. He's the twenty seventh greatest player
Speaker 2: for the last fifty years. I think my guy Chris
Speaker 2: Brussard has a comment on Jason Kidd. Let's hear it.
Speaker 7: I gotta be honest, I'd rather play with Jason Kidd,
Speaker 7: but I don't think I can put him ahead of Ai.
Speaker 2: I mean again, Yeah, I'd rather play with him, but
Speaker 2: Ai was Ai.
Speaker 4: AI is iconic.
Speaker 7: AI was a four time scoring champion at my size.
Speaker 4: I gotta go with Ai. Hip hop and hoop legend.
Speaker 2: Come on, Nick, listen, brew Ai is more legendary than
Speaker 2: Jason Kidd. AI is more culturally relevant, and one would argue,
Speaker 2: and I would agree. AI's apex was high, but Jason
Speaker 2: Kidd did it so much longer both of them. As
Speaker 2: far as best career accomplishment was taking a team to
Speaker 2: the finals. Kid did it twice. Ai did win the MVP.
Speaker 2: Kid came in second. I understand it, and Ai. I
Speaker 2: think it was thirty Jason Kids twenty seven, so it's
Speaker 2: not a huge delta, but I think Jason Kidd was
Speaker 2: better and certainly more impactful on winning and now a
Speaker 2: history lesson for the kids out there. The oldest player
Speaker 2: on this.
Speaker 4: List, number twenty six, Rick Barry.
Speaker 2: He did shoot his free throws underhanded, which makes him
Speaker 2: seem older than he actually is. As Demanse looks at
Speaker 2: me and rolls his eyes. Okay, listen, I'm going to
Speaker 2: sway you on this with these numbers, right, So he's
Speaker 2: five time first Team All NBA, one time second Team
Speaker 2: All NBA, and four time First Team All ABA. Because
Speaker 2: his career started in the NBA, he then sued to
Speaker 2: be able to go play somewhere else. The whole thing
Speaker 2: was a mess. Went to the ABA, then went back
Speaker 2: all right. Three top five MVP finishes in the NBA,
Speaker 2: three top five MVP finishes in the ABA. In the NBA,
Speaker 2: won a scoring title that year. He averaged thirty six
Speaker 2: points per game. He is the all time leader in
Speaker 2: the ABA in points per game in the playoffs and
Speaker 2: in the regular season. Won Rookie of the Year in
Speaker 2: the NBA, and a career average of twenty five to
Speaker 2: seven and five. Okay, but the playoffs are where I'm
Speaker 2: going to Sweden. I'm looking at Demonse right now. He
Speaker 2: is wincing camp. But this picture again showing him shooting
Speaker 2: the underhand free throws not the greatest thing ever. Okay,
Speaker 2: career in the playoffs twenty seven points per game. He
Speaker 2: is the all time leader for points per game in
Speaker 2: the NBA finals, more than Michael, more than Lebron, more
Speaker 2: than Will the all time leader. He was the best
Speaker 2: player on three finalists. He won one title, one finals, MVP,
Speaker 2: ABA and NBA included. He has seventeen forty point playoff
Speaker 2: games and three fifty point playoff games. So nineteen sixixty
Speaker 2: seven first real playoff run average for the playoff run
Speaker 2: thirty four, eight and four in the finals, which they lost.
Speaker 2: Averaged forty one nine and three down two in the
Speaker 2: finals in nineteen sixty seven before he left for the ABA,
Speaker 2: fifty five twelve and five game six to try to
Speaker 2: stay alive. They end up losing by three throws up
Speaker 2: forty four points. He then leaves and goes to the ABA.
Speaker 2: In the ABA nineteen seventy averaged forty and ten in
Speaker 2: round one and lost in seven and in that game
Speaker 2: seven scored fifty two points. Nineteen seventy one. The very
Speaker 2: next year they losing round one again, what does he do?
Speaker 2: Averages thirty four to twelve and four including game six,
Speaker 2: So the previous year they losing game seventy scores fifty two.
Speaker 2: This year they losing game six, he scores forty five.
Speaker 2: So the very next year, how does the playoffs start
Speaker 2: for him? A fifty point game averages for the playoff
Speaker 2: run thirty one, seven and four gets the finals in
Speaker 2: the ABA and loses. Now he's back in the NBA.
Speaker 2: Nineteen seventy five. Let's go through it because it's pretty legend.
Speaker 2: Nineteen seventy five. First game of the playoffs thirty nine points,
Speaker 2: five rebounds, eleven assists, and eight blocks. Thirty nine, five,
Speaker 2: eleven and eight to start the playoffs. Western Conference Finals,
Speaker 2: first game thirty eight points, five rebounds, for assists, five blocks.
Speaker 2: When he's down three to two in the Western Conference Finals,
Speaker 2: not only come back and win in Game six thirty
Speaker 2: six points, eight rebounds, three assists, seven blocks. And then
Speaker 2: in the finals against Elvin Hayes. You've heard on this list,
Speaker 2: Wes unseldom missed it. He sweeps the Bullets, sweeps them.
Speaker 2: And in those finals Game two, thirty six points, nine rebounds,
Speaker 2: four assists, three two blocks, Game Game three thirty eight points,
Speaker 2: four rebound, six assists, five steals, one block. Games two
Speaker 2: and three in the finals. Yeah, underhand free throw shooter.
Speaker 2: He shot ninety percent shooting on your hand. I've heard
Speaker 2: it's more accurate. It is more accurate, But no, everybody's
Speaker 2: too prideful to do it. So listen. He was nobody
Speaker 2: liked Rick Berry. He was like, he's got two sons
Speaker 2: that are in the league or were in the league,
Speaker 2: and uh John and Brent uh and now they're broadcasters.
Speaker 2: He's people. He seemed to really rub people the wrong way.
Speaker 2: His If you go to his Wikipedia page, it has
Speaker 2: so clearly been edited by someone close to him or
Speaker 2: him himself that it has a disclaimer on here that
Speaker 2: this page cannot be verified by Wikipedia, because if you
Speaker 2: go to the wiki page, everything in there, any disputy
Speaker 2: has it's like, actually, the true story is Rick was
Speaker 2: doing this and doing that. There was a moment in
Speaker 2: a playoff game where he got fight and none of
Speaker 2: his teammates came to his age, and people really didn't
Speaker 2: seem to like him. But the guy, the guy again,
Speaker 2: I just went over that. His playoff resume is really
Speaker 2: really spectacular. He's the twenty sixth best player of the
Speaker 2: last fIF years. He's the oldest guy on our list.
Speaker 2: One Rick Berry. Here's a different Rick with a Rick
Speaker 2: Berry comic personality.
Speaker 7: Wise, Rick Barry wouldn't make your top one thousand, But
Speaker 7: as a player, he's right there with Jerry West. And
Speaker 7: I don't say that make that comp just because they're
Speaker 7: both white, but because they had very similar games, very
Speaker 7: complete games at both ends of the floor. So I
Speaker 7: would have him right up there with Jerry.
Speaker 2: Okay, so listen, I respect Rick Nuker there and Jerry
Speaker 2: West obviously is too old to be eligible for this list.
Speaker 2: But Jerry West is a different tier than Rick Berry.
Speaker 2: Jerry West, poor guy lost eight straight finals career, one
Speaker 2: to eight in the finals, just kept losing to the Celtics,
Speaker 2: kept going to the finals, and kept losing to the Celtics.
Speaker 2: Then finally won finally one in seventy two, the team
Speaker 2: we were talking about before. But Jerry West also had
Speaker 2: I again a little respect for Jerry West here. I
Speaker 2: just want to I'm mentioning he lost all those finals.
Speaker 2: Jerry West in the sixty two finals losing seven, average
Speaker 2: thirty one again Jerry West. The next year finals, losing six.
Speaker 2: They just kept losing to Bill Russell. Averaged thirty a game,
Speaker 2: Jerry West. He then missed the finals one year. The
Speaker 2: next year in the sixty five finals, losing five, average
Speaker 2: thirty four a game. The very next year he's back
Speaker 2: in the finals, losing seven again average thirty four a game.
Speaker 2: Two years later he's back in the finals, losing six
Speaker 2: to Boston average thirty one again one of these finals,
Speaker 2: he averaged forty some points and loss. I can't find it,
Speaker 2: but listen, he as Jerry West is as great as
Speaker 2: Rick Barry was. Jerry West was better. That's the end
Speaker 2: of the Jerry West segment. That probably means we've spent
Speaker 2: too much time on the Rick Berry segment. Nothing says
Speaker 2: ratings bonanza like talking about players older than the oldest
Speaker 2: guy on our list. Will be right now? All right, Well,
Speaker 2: that just about does it for today's edition of the
Speaker 2: fifty Best Players last fifty years. We've now given you
Speaker 2: players fifty through twenty six. So next week we get
Speaker 2: into the top twenty five players of the last fifty years.
Speaker 2: And if you're still listening, that means you did make
Speaker 2: it through eight minutes of Rick Berry with a little
Speaker 2: bit of Jerry West talk mixed in. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: My promise to you is not only will next week
Speaker 2: be more contemporary players. Next week we'll have at least
Speaker 2: one current active player I think the only active player. No,
Speaker 2: we've had two active players so far that have been
Speaker 2: on this list three Carmelo Anthony Anthony Davis and Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 2: We will have another active player, Russell Wilsborth. We've had four.
Speaker 2: I forgot about Russell, thank you to mose So. But
Speaker 2: we will have another active player, at least one Dwight Howard.
Speaker 2: We've had five. Okay, I'm doing a terrible job remembering
Speaker 2: my own list. Doesn't matter. The point is we will
Speaker 2: have another, at least one more active player on next
Speaker 2: week's week's list, plus one man who has some records
Speaker 2: that will simply never be broken, no longer how long
Speaker 2: the game is played. All that's next week on the
Speaker 2: What's Right with the Great podcast is to continue to
Speaker 2: countdown of the fifty best players for the last fifty
Speaker 2: years in the NBA