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Speaker 2: Welcome in another and our final special edition of What's

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Speaker 2: Right with Nick Wright, the countdown of the fifty greatest

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Speaker 2: players of the last fifty years. And yes, I know

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Speaker 2: if there was anything predictable about this list, it was that, somehow,

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Speaker 2: some way and we were going to get to this

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Speaker 2: exact point, the point where I explain why of the

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Speaker 2: last fifty years, or of all of NBA history, the

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Speaker 2: single greatest player is, of course Lebron James. But before

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Speaker 2: we get into the full resume, let me explain a

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Speaker 2: bit about how we are going to do today's show.

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Speaker 2: Lebron's career is so long and so incomparable that we're

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Speaker 2: gonna have to break it up into a couple different segments. Also,

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Speaker 2: the callers we have for today's show, no one has

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Speaker 2: revealed to me. They won't tell me who they are.

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Speaker 2: I imagine I'm going to get sucker punched by a

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Speaker 2: few of them. We will try the Kareem video. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 2: the Jordan video is forty five minutes. The Kareem video

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Speaker 2: was fifty minutes. We will try our best to keep

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Speaker 2: the Lebron video to under an hour. I am not

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Speaker 2: sure if we will succeed both. No further ado. Number

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Speaker 2: one of the fifty greatest players of the last fifty years,

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Speaker 2: Number one, Lebron James. So the short version of the

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Speaker 2: resume is of course, thirteen time first team All NBA.

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Speaker 2: That's the most all times. Second most is Kobe with eleven,

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Speaker 2: three times second team, two time third team. That is

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Speaker 2: an eighteen time All NBA performer. That is the most

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Speaker 2: all time by a mile. Second most is Kareem with fifteen.

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Speaker 2: He is four time MVP fourteen top five MVP finishes.

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Speaker 2: Only Kareem has more, and eleven times he has been first,

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Speaker 2: second or third team or MVP that is, of course

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Speaker 2: the most all time. He is six time All Defense

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Speaker 2: and should be a one time Defensive Player of the Year.

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Speaker 2: More on that shortly, a one time scoring champ, one

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Speaker 2: time assists champ. Twenty five seasons he is I'm sorry,

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Speaker 2: eighteen seasons he has averaged at least twenty five points

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Speaker 2: per game the most all time. Second is Kevin Durant,

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Speaker 2: who did it thirteen times. He has averaged twenty five,

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Speaker 2: five and five eighteen times. That is the most all time.

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Speaker 2: Second is Oscar with nine time nine seasons. Doing that,

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Speaker 2: He's the only player ever to average twenty seven, seven

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Speaker 2: and seven for his career. Oddly enough and crazily enough,

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Speaker 2: has never had a single twenty seven seven and seven game.

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Speaker 2: Though that's a weird but true fact. He has six

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Speaker 2: seasons averaging at least twenty seven, seven and seven the

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Speaker 2: last fifty years combined. Other than Lebron, there have been

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Speaker 2: ten such seasons. He has tied for fourth in points

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Speaker 2: per game of all time, second most of the last

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Speaker 2: fifty years, behind Jordan. He has the second most points

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Speaker 2: ever scored, the seventh most assists ever context there other

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Speaker 2: than Oscar Robertson, no one else is in the top

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Speaker 2: twenty five of both of those categories. Lebron is second,

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Speaker 2: soon to be first, and seventh. He has the tenth

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Speaker 2: most steals ever. As far as longevity, he averaged twenty seven,

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Speaker 2: seven and seven as a twenty year old in year two.

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Speaker 2: As I mentioned, he averages twenty seven, seven and seven

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Speaker 2: his career he was twenty one. The most assists he

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Speaker 2: ever averaged in his career he was thirty five. The

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Speaker 2: thirty three, and the best field goal percentage he ever had,

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Speaker 2: his career he has been his best at something different.

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Speaker 2: He had a year where he shot twenty seven, where

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Speaker 2: He has too many youngest ever and oldest ever records

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Speaker 2: he was the youngest person to one thousand points, two

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Speaker 2: every single one thousand point milestone that has ever been

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Speaker 2: ever do it. He of course, is the only member

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Speaker 2: thirty seven thousand chains, ten thousand, ten thousand. No one

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Speaker 2: else has ten thousand, ten thousand, ten thousand. In fact,

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Speaker 2: Lebron is a thirty ten to ten thousand member. Only

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Speaker 2: twenty guys in NBA history are fifteen thousand, five thousand,

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Speaker 2: consecutive ten point games, a streak that is still active

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Speaker 2: least double digits. Jordan's at eight sixty six, Kareams at

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Speaker 2: two hundred. So that's the regular season stuff. Now to

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Speaker 2: So in two thousand and six, at twenty one years old,

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Speaker 2: and then in Game six in overtime plays all fifty

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Speaker 2: his first series ever, Lebron James, who would have to

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Speaker 2: his first series ever thirty six points, eight rebound, six

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Speaker 2: he lost to the two time defending Eastern Conference champion

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Speaker 2: would announce himself at twenty two years old as already

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Speaker 2: the single best player in basketball, a title he held

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Speaker 2: consecutively uninterrupted for thirteen consecutive years. Twenty two years old,

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Speaker 2: they sweep Washington round one. He averages a humble twenty eight,

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Speaker 2: he has thirty two points, nine rebounds, nine assists in

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Speaker 2: forty six minutes to keep the series alive. Then Game five,

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Speaker 2: the forty eight special, has forty eight points, nine rebounds,

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Speaker 2: of the final thirty points for his team, including twenty

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Speaker 2: five straight to win the game in double overtime to

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Speaker 2: in the finals, he struggled Tim Duncan, that Spurs team

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Speaker 2: team that made the finals. In the finals, the starters

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Speaker 2: on a finals team were Booby Gibson at point guard,

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Speaker 2: Two thousand and eight, next year, in the playoffs Round

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Speaker 2: one against Washington. Those poor Gilbert Arena Arenas Wizards teams

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Speaker 2: ten and eight in Round one against Washington, including to

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Speaker 2: This series is two to two. He has thirty five,

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Speaker 2: but they lose, so they're now facing elimination against the

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Speaker 2: Celtics team that would go on to win the title,

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Speaker 2: What does he do in Game six facing elimination thirty

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Speaker 2: an all time Game seven duel. Some would argue it's

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Speaker 2: the best game of Paul Pierce's career. Lebron has forty

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Speaker 2: five points, five rebound, six assists, but unfortunately for him,

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden. There's a little speculation rumblings could

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Speaker 2: Lebron leave Cleveland, but those rumblings seem to quiet. During

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Speaker 2: the regular season, oh nine, Lebron wins his first career MVP.

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Speaker 2: It's the best Cavs team up to that point. Ever.

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Speaker 2: They win sixty six games and they are crushing in

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Speaker 2: in time, the Calves are seventy four and sixteen on

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Speaker 2: the season. They seem destined to be on a collision

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Speaker 2: course for Lebron Kobe NBA Finals. Lebron is the best

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Speaker 2: player in the league. Kobe had just made the finals

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Speaker 2: but lost to the Celtics. Looked like he was going

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Speaker 3: He did.

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Speaker 2: By the way, the Calves looked like a juggernaut and

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Speaker 2: Lebron was having an all time playoff run, and that

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Speaker 2: then leads to the Orlando series, which to this day

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Speaker 2: I don't argue this, but some will argue is the

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Speaker 2: single best series Lebron James ever played in the playoffs,

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Speaker 2: and amazingly, it ended not only in a loss, but

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Speaker 2: a loss in six to Dwight Howard and Orlando. So

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Speaker 2: how could one argue it's the best series Lebron's ever played.

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Speaker 2: Let's go game by game. Game one, he has forty

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Speaker 2: nine points, six rebounds, eight assists on six xt seven

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Speaker 2: percent shooting in a one point loss. Again, let me

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Speaker 2: say that again, they lose by one. In a game

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Speaker 2: that Lebron goes sixty seven percent from the field, has

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Speaker 2: forty nine points, six rebounds, and eight assists, and they lose.

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Speaker 2: That up, by the way, at that moment was his

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Speaker 2: playoff career high. The rest of the team shot twenty

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Speaker 2: We gave you the regular season, we gave you the

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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in as we finalize our countdown

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Speaker 2: of the fifty greatest players of the last fifty years

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Speaker 2: the regular season accolades which are unmatched by anyone in

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Speaker 2: assisted on sixteen of seventeen of them. Just a Birdman

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Speaker 2: free throw was the one that he didn't have anything

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Speaker 2: to do with, but he actually did because he threw

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Speaker 2: the lob to Birdman where he got fouled. You just

432
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 2: don't get assists on a free throw. And then down

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Speaker 2: five with twenty five seconds left the possession before the

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Speaker 2: ray Allen shot, he hits the three to cut it

435
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 2: to two. Before Kawhi missus his free throw. They come

436
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 2: back down, Lebron misses a three boss rebound rayund three overtime,

437
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 2: finishes the game with thirty two points, ten rebounds, eleven assists,

438
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 2: and three steals, facing elimination in the finals. Then in

439
00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 2: Game seven, Game seven of the finals, remember they were

440
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 2: daring him to shoot the whole series, he makes five threes.

441
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:08,160
Speaker 2: He has thirty seven points, twelve rebounds, four assists, including

442
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,679
Speaker 2: after the heater up two Duncan misses that little bunny

443
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 2: Kawhi is on Lebron. Lebron cans a twenty footer to

444
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 2: go up four with twenty seconds left in the finals.

445
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 2: He then steals the ball from Manu to steal the

446
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 2: win and hits the free throws to ice the finals.

447
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 2: Wins another Finals MVP. Now we're to twenty fourteen. He's

448
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 2: going for the three peat. Has a severely compromised d

449
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 2: Wade Round one sweep of Charlotte, Hey look at Charlotte

450
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 2: making the playoffs. Thirty points, eight rebound, six assists on

451
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Speaker 2: fifty seven percent shooting. That's his average for the series.

452
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Speaker 2: Round two against Brooklyn with Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce

453
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 2: has one of my favorite Lebron games ever, Game four,

454
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Speaker 2: Heat up to one. Paul Pierce demands publicly and privately,

455
00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 2: I got Lebron. Lebron knows that Lebron ties his playoff

456
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 2: career high with forty nine points, does it on sixty

457
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 2: seven percent shooting as they cruise to the Eastern Conference Finals.

458
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Speaker 2: They cruise in the Eastern Conference Finals, pardon me the

459
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 2: next round to a rematch with the Spurs to make

460
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 2: his fourth straight finals, which, by the way, that Heat

461
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 2: team becomes the first team since the eighties to make

462
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Speaker 2: four consecutive finals. And those finals start with a great

463
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Speaker 2: what if game Game one, and this showed you that

464
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 2: at this point in twenty fourteen, the Heat were no

465
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 2: longer a super team. Bosh was fine. Wade was a

466
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 2: shell of himself. God love him, but he was how

467
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Speaker 2: do I know it? Game one of the Finals. With

468
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 2: seven minutes left in Game one of the Finals, Lebron

469
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 2: has twenty five points, six rebounds, three assists, three steals.

470
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Speaker 2: But if you remember, the air conditioning had gone out

471
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 2: in the arena and Lebron cramps up. There's seven minutes

472
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 2: left in the game, the Heater up four. They lose

473
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 2: the game by fifteen points. They got outscored by nineteen

474
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 2: points in the final seven minutes of the fourth quarter

475
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 2: to lose Game one. Game two, Lebron has thirty five points,

476
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Speaker 2: ten rebounds, three assists, two steals, and the Heat win

477
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 2: by two to even the series, and then the next

478
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 2: three games the Spurs play essentially perfect basketball. They win

479
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 2: in five despite Lebron for the series averaging twenty eight,

480
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 2: eight and four, which is good but not amazing. What

481
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 2: is amazing is this, he did it on fifty seven

482
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Speaker 2: percent from the field and fifty one percent from three,

483
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 2: so we averaged twenty eight and eight on fifty seven

484
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 2: to fifty one splits. And they gave Finals MVP to

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Speaker 2: the guy guarding him, who averaged eighteen points a game

486
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 2: in the series and had two separate single digit point

487
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 2: games in Kawhi. More on that in the moment. Twenty fifteen,

488
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 2: back in Cleveland, if one of the most in over

489
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 2: his head coaches in NBA history, David Black and a

490
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 2: Cavs team full of guys who had never played in

491
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 2: the playoffs, Kevin Love, Kyrie Irving and the other guys

492
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 2: that were left over on the team. Round one sweeps Boston,

493
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 2: averaging twenty seven to nine and seven in his first

494
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 2: series back with Cleveland. Round two against Chicago, has thirty three,

495
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 2: eight and five in Game two to even the series.

496
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 2: In Game three, has a twenty seven point eight rebound,

497
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 2: fourteen assist game, but they lose on the d Rose

498
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 2: banked in buzzer beater. If you guys remember that. Then

499
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 2: in Game four, that's when David Black tried to call

500
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 2: a time out. They didn't have the refs let him

501
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 2: get away with it. David Blatin then tried to call

502
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 2: an inbounds play where Lebron is inbounding it with less

503
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 2: than two seconds left in a tie game. Instead, Lebron

504
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 2: scraps it, hits the shot from the corner, his third

505
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 2: career true playoff buzzer beater, and ties the series. Finishes

506
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 2: the game with twenty five to fourteen and eight. They

507
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 2: would not lose again after that until Game one of

508
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 2: the finals. In Game five, he had thirty eight to

509
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 2: twelve and six to go up three to two. In

510
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 2: the Eastern Converwens Finals, They're playing a sixty win Hawks

511
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 2: team that everyone now just says sucks because it fits

512
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 2: the narrative. But they did win sixty games. He swept them,

513
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 2: including a game Game three of that series. Kevin Love

514
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 2: has been out, remember, since the Boston series with a

515
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 2: shoulder injury. Kyrie missed that game with dealing with a

516
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 2: knee injury that would obviously rear up in the flare

517
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 2: up in the finals make him miss the finals. So

518
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 2: up to OH on the Hawks, he has thirty seven points,

519
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 2: eighteen rebounds, thirteen assists. Up to oh against a sixty

520
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 2: win team without your second and third best players, he

521
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 2: has thirty seven points, eighteen rebounds, thirteen assists in an

522
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 2: overtime win. He averaged with the conference finals thirty eleven

523
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 2: and nine to make his fifth straight finals and become

524
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 2: the only star player ever not on Russell Celtics were

525
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 2: playing in the sixties to do that. So what happens

526
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 2: in the finals? Okay, Lebron has an all time performance,

527
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 2: but Kevin Love is injured in the Boston series as

528
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Speaker 2: out for the playoffs. We mentioned Kyrie is injured in

529
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Speaker 2: game one, but let's go through these finals. Lebron Game

530
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 2: one of the Finals, the only game he got to

531
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 2: play with Kyrie forty four points, eight rebounds, six assists,

532
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 2: but they lose in overtime Game two of the Finals

533
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 2: thirty nine points, sixteen rebounds, eleven assists, and they win

534
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 2: in overtime Game three of the Finals forty points, twelve rebounds,

535
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 2: eight assists, four steals, two blocks. They're up to one

536
00:33:54,640 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 2: on the Warriors with Steph Clay, Draymond Barnes, Iguada the

537
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 2: whole cruise there except for Durant. Lebron's starting lineup that

538
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 2: game was him, Matthew Delavadova, Emon Schumper, Tristan Thompson, and

539
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 2: Timothy Mosgov. Color me shocked. The team of the starting

540
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 2: Tristan and Mosgov couldn't deal with the Warriors small ball

541
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 2: lineup as the series evolved. Game four, Game five, pardon me.

542
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 2: Lebron has forty points, fourteen rebounds, eleven assists, a forty

543
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:34,240
Speaker 2: point triple double, but they lose. Game six thirty two points,

544
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:39,240
Speaker 2: eighteen rebounds, nine assists, but they lose. So for the playoff,

545
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 2: I'm sorry for the playoffs. Lebron averaged thirty eleven and

546
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:49,280
Speaker 2: nine for that series. He averaged thirty six, thirteen and nine.

547
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 2: But again, the guy who held him to that gets

548
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 2: Finals MVP for averaging sixteen to five and four So

549
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:02,319
Speaker 2: for a little context for the count, the rings count

550
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 2: the finals MVPs guys in twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen.

551
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 2: In those two NBA finals, Lebron James averaged thirty two

552
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 2: eleven and seven, and he was considered by the people

553
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 2: watching the series such a physically overwhelmingly dominant player that

554
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 2: despite him averaging thirty two eleven and seven across those

555
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:34,280
Speaker 2: two series, they gave both finals MVPs to the guys

556
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 2: guarding him, who averaged between them seventeen six and three.

557
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 2: So they didn't get finals MVP Iguadala and Kawhi for

558
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 2: their offense, it's because they slowed down Lebron allegedly, and

559
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 2: they slowed him down to the tune of thirty two

560
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 2: eleven and seven. And now we get to twenty sixteen,

561
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 2: which is a very odd year. The Cavs fired David

562
00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:02,280
Speaker 2: Blatt halfway through Tylu takes. Lebron seemingly was in cruise

563
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 2: control all year and into the playoffs. The Cavs win

564
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 2: their first ten playoff games and go twelve and two

565
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 2: and root to the finals. That's one of the famous

566
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 2: Lebron quotes when they were in that In the they win

567
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:22,359
Speaker 2: their first ten playoff games. They're playing Toronto in the

568
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 2: conference finals and they lose the next two and Lebron's

569
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 2: asked about adversity. He's like, yeah, I faced adversity in

570
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 2: my career. This ain't it. And they obviously end up

571
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 2: beating Toronto in game six. Game six was his first

572
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:40,399
Speaker 2: thirty point playoff game that season. He hadn't scored thirty once.

573
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 2: Like I said, they were kind of coasting. Just clearly

574
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 2: better that year with a healthy Kevin Love and a

575
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 2: healthy Kyrie than everyone in the East. And then in

576
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 2: the he gets to his sixth straight finals again, the

577
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 2: only guy to do that that wasn't involved in Russell Celtics,

578
00:36:55,200 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 2: and now the finals is interest okay, so, and by

579
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 2: the way, for the Eastern Arvermens playoffs, he averaged twenty five,

580
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 2: nine and seven on fifty five percent down oh two

581
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 2: in the finals Game three, season on the line, thirty two,

582
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 2: eleven and six, Game four, chance to even up the

583
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:19,479
Speaker 2: series at home twenty five thirteen, nine, two and three,

584
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 2: but they lose, and now the series is over. Yeah,

585
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 2: we hear Draymond gets suspended, but Clay is saying it's

586
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 2: a man's league. Steph's being that Lebron needs to get

587
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 2: out of his feelings. Steph is being called the best

588
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,320
Speaker 2: player in the league, and the Warriors are being compared

589
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,839
Speaker 2: to the showtime Lakers, as is this the greatest team

590
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 2: evert And Lebron responds to that with the greatest and

591
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 2: most important three game stretch in the history of the sport.

592
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 2: Game five in San Francisco forty one points, sixteen rebounds,

593
00:37:55,400 --> 00:38:00,760
Speaker 2: seven assists, three steals, three blocks. That is the game

594
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 2: that while Draymond's not there, Okay, what would draymond have done?

595
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 2: Calves won by double digits. Lebron had forty one. Very

596
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 2: next game, Calves win by double digits, Lebron has forty one,

597
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 2: and Draymond is back. Game six, forty one, eight, eleven,

598
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 2: four and three. That was the game where the league

599
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 2: MVP unanimous MVP Steph Curry got so frustrated he fired

600
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 2: his mouthpiece and his wife said the league was rigged

601
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 2: for ratings or money because Lebron had so mentally defeated them,

602
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 2: including the a couple blocks of Steph where he kind

603
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 2: of mean mugged them. Then Game seven, back in Oakland,

604
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 2: Lebron plays forty seven of the forty eight minutes, has

605
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 2: twenty seven points, eleven rebounds, eleven assists, two steals, three blocks.

606
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 2: One of those blocks is, of course, the greatest defensive

607
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 2: play in NBA history. In the fourth quarter of that game,

608
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 2: Golden State was so worn out they had thirteen points.

609
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 2: In the fourth quarter of that game, Lebron was so

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00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:06,400
Speaker 2: worn out he had eleven. Also in the final nine

611
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 2: minutes of that game. The only points Cleveland scored that

612
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 2: weren't scored by Lebron was the iconic Kyrie three, and

613
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 2: of course he did have the free throw that actually

614
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 2: iced the game. So that means after being down three

615
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 2: to one and executing there the greatest comeback in NBA history,

616
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 2: the only three to one comeback in finals history against

617
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 2: a seventy three win team. With the unanimous MVP down

618
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 2: three to one, Lebron James over the rest of the

619
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 2: Finals averaged thirty six points, twelve rebounds, ten assists, three steals,

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Speaker 2: three blocks, and became the first person ever and only

621
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Speaker 2: person ever to lead an NBA Finals in all five

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Speaker 2: categories for both teams, averaging thirty eleven, nine, three and two.

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Speaker 2: So now he's the defending champion. It's twenty seventeen, and

624
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 2: it is in some circles the best Calves team ever.

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00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 2: I'm a believer of that. Unfortunately for the Calves, the

626
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:11,320
Speaker 2: Warriors had responded to losing to Lebron by adding Kevin Durant.

627
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 2: But before we get there, let's talk about how they

628
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 2: got back to the finals, which would of course be

629
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Speaker 2: lebron seventh straight again, another record, another non Russell Celtics record,

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00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 2: i should say, defending his title. He sweeps Indiana in

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Speaker 2: Round one, averaging thirty three averaging thirty three, ten, nine,

632
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 2: three and two. That was his averages thirty three, ten

633
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 2: to nine, three to two, including in Game one a

634
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:41,359
Speaker 2: thirty six six, thirteen and three and in Game three

635
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:44,320
Speaker 2: to go a three to zero, another forty point triple double,

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Speaker 2: a forty one thirteen to twelve, a forty point that.

637
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,359
Speaker 2: By the way, there have only been twelve of those

638
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 2: in NBA history. Lebron's got three of them. Round two

639
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 2: another sweep, this one against Toronto in Toronto. Against Toronto,

640
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 2: when they sweep them, Lebron scored thirty five plus in

641
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 2: every single game then opens these are conference finals with

642
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 2: a thirty eight, nine and seven scores thirty four in

643
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 2: Game four, thirty five in Game five, and they get

644
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 2: to the finals. They went twelve and one to get back.

645
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 2: How good was Lebron that year in twenty seventeen, Well,

646
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 2: they went twelve and one in the playoffs. Lebron scored

647
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 2: thirty or more eleven times and averaged en route to

648
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 2: the finals thirty three points, eight rebounds, seven assists on

649
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 2: fifty six percent shooting. Then in the finals, will give

650
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 2: you all five games? Okay? Game one twenty eight points,

651
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:44,800
Speaker 2: fifteen rebounds, eight assists. They lose Game two twenty nine points,

652
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:49,799
Speaker 2: fourteen rebounds, eleven assists. They lose Game three, season on

653
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 2: the line at home thirty nine points, eleven rebounds, nine assists,

654
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 2: but Kadi hits the shot. They lose Game four, season

655
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 2: truly on the line on one points, ten rebounds, eleven assists.

656
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 2: They finally win, and then Game five season line again

657
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 2: forty one points, thirteen rebounds, eight assists. So, after becoming

658
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 2: the first and only player ever to lead the finals

659
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 2: in all five categories for both teams, becomes the first

660
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 2: and only player ever to average a triple double in

661
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 2: the finals. In those finals against what many argue is

662
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 2: the single greatest team Ever, Lebron James averaged thirty four points,

663
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 2: twelve rebounds, cent assists and shot fifty six percent from

664
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 2: the field. For those playoffs, he averaged thirty three nine

665
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:41,439
Speaker 2: to eight on fifty seven percent, and the very next

666
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 2: year he would be better. So this is how you

667
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 2: overcome twenty eleven with this type of run. Twenty eighteen

668
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 2: an awful Caps team. The Kyrie trade derailed them. Kevin

669
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,279
Speaker 2: Love was in and out of the lineup. They were

670
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 2: a mess. They they thought little Isaiah Thomas could help him.

671
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 2: They thought Dwayne Wade could help him. Eventually, they were

672
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:09,400
Speaker 2: just thrilled to get George Hill and Larry Nance and

673
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 2: Jordan Clarkson before Clerkson had really become the player he

674
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:17,240
Speaker 2: is now. And almost every single game of this playoff

675
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:20,320
Speaker 2: run deserves discussion. For time's sake, we won't do every

676
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 2: single game of this playoff run, but we're gonna do

677
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,800
Speaker 2: a lot of them. Game one of the playoffs twenty

678
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 2: four to ten and twelve, but they lose Game two,

679
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 2: don't want to fall down oh two forty six, twelve

680
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 2: and five to tie the series, Game four down to

681
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 2: one thirty two, thirteen and seven, Game five. It is

682
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 2: a tie game. With three seconds left on one end,

683
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 2: he pins an ola depou shout against the backboard. On

684
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 2: the other end, he hits the game winning three to win.

685
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 2: The game finishes with forty four, ten and eight. That

686
00:43:56,600 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 2: is his fourth career playoff buzzer beater. Then, in Game seven,

687
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 2: sets the all time record for most points per game

688
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 2: in Game seven history with a forty five point eight rebound,

689
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:12,840
Speaker 2: seven assists for steal game. For this series, he averaged

690
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 2: thirty four to ten and eight. That's to get out

691
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 2: of round one. Round two. They are heavy underdogs to Toronto.

692
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:24,880
Speaker 2: Toronto won fifty nine games that year. Toronto is the

693
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 2: favorites to make the finals. Game one twenty six, eleven

694
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 2: and thirteen in a win, Game two forty three, eight

695
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 2: and fourteen in a win to steal both games in Toronto,

696
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 2: Game three thirty eight, six and seven, including a running

697
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 2: intentional bank shot to win the game at the buzzer

698
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 2: his fifth career buzzer beater. Average for that series sweeping

699
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 2: a fifty nine win Raptors team thirty four eight and

700
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 2: eleven on fifty five percent shooting. Round three against Boston

701
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 2: down oh one forty two, ten and twelve, another one

702
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:15,839
Speaker 2: of those forty point triple doubles. How many mean, that's

703
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 2: three we've talked about. But they lose and they're down

704
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:23,360
Speaker 2: oh two. Game four, can't fall down oh three. He

705
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 2: has forty four, five and three to even the series.

706
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 2: Game six, down three to two, plays facing elimination, plays

707
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:35,759
Speaker 2: forty six minutes, has forty six points, eleven rebounds, nine

708
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,439
Speaker 2: er sys, three steals, and they win. And then Game

709
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:42,720
Speaker 2: seven plays all forty eight minutes. The team scores eighty

710
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 2: seven points. He has thirty five of them. He has

711
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:50,839
Speaker 2: thirty five fifteen to nine, playing all forty eight and

712
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:54,279
Speaker 2: then in the finals, he starts the finals with the

713
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 2: single greatest game anyone has ever played in basketball, the

714
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:05,240
Speaker 2: fifty one eight eight with just an awful team against

715
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:09,320
Speaker 2: the Warriors with Durant and Steph and Clay and Draymond

716
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 2: and Iggy. But George Hill miss is the free throw

717
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 2: and my guy Jr. Forgets the score and they lose

718
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 2: in overtime. For that series. For those finals, in Game three,

719
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 2: by the way, the last little gasp they had, he

720
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 2: had thirty three to ten and eleven. For the Finals,

721
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:29,839
Speaker 2: he averaged thirty four to nine to ten. But it

722
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 2: was lost after Game one. For the playoffs that year,

723
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 2: Lebron James, without another top fifty player on his roster

724
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 2: at that point in time, and the only one who

725
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 2: might come close at certain times is Kevin Love was

726
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,880
Speaker 2: in and out of lineup, Lebron James averaged thirty four points,

727
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 2: nine rebounds, nine assists. So that means in the twenty

728
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 2: seventeen and twenty eighteen playoffs when Lebron was I would

729
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 2: argue at his absolute apex that playoffs. He also set

730
00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 2: the all time record with eight forty point playoff games.

731
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 2: Lebron James for those two postseasons, it's just incomprehensible. I'm

732
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:10,880
Speaker 2: gonna tell you the exact numbers quickly here he averaged

733
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 2: over those two years, which again get used against him

734
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 2: finals losses, Durrance rings, I get it. Those two playoffs

735
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 2: he averaged combined thirty four points, nine rebounds, nine assists

736
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 2: on fifty five percent shooting in against any team other

737
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 2: than Durance Warriors. That's a three peat, and the third

738
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:40,439
Speaker 2: title comes without another All Star on the team. That's

739
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 2: not how it went. Then in twenty nineteen, he goes

740
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 2: to the Lakers, he gets hurt, suffers his first real

741
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 2: injury and misses the playoffs for the first time in

742
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 2: fifteen years. It's like, oh, is it over? Not quite

743
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 2: twenty twenty? Earns. This is the underrated part of that season.

744
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 2: First healthy year in the Western Conference. Earns. The one

745
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 2: seed in the Western Conference get zero home playoff games

746
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 2: out of it because they're in the bubble. So how

747
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:12,479
Speaker 2: does he do that? Postseason? Game one against Portland puts

748
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:15,360
Speaker 2: up a playoff game unlike any in NBA history. He

749
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 2: has twenty three, seventeen, and sixteen, the only twenty fifteen

750
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 2: and fifteen NBA playoff history. Game three to go up

751
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:25,799
Speaker 2: to one on Portland has thirty eight to twelve and eight.

752
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:28,839
Speaker 2: Game five to win the series, has thirty six, ten

753
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 2: and ten he averages for the series, a twenty seven

754
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 2: point triple double. Round two against Harden and Russ twenty

755
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 2: six averages, twenty six, ten and seven with one thirty

756
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 2: five point game. Western Normens Finals against Jokich. Game three,

757
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 2: a thirty point triple double deciding Game five, thirty eight points,

758
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:54,839
Speaker 2: sixteen rebounds, ten assists, which by the way, was his

759
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:58,799
Speaker 2: third career playoff thirty five point, fifteen rebound tennisis game

760
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 2: the rest of NBA history has eight combined. So when

761
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 2: his first time in the Watting Conference playoffs, he goes

762
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:09,720
Speaker 2: twelve and three en route to the finals, playing Dame

763
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:14,839
Speaker 2: Hard and Russ and Joki and then a finals that,

764
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:19,640
Speaker 2: by any measure, is one of the ten greatest individual

765
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,840
Speaker 2: finals performances ever. And it just gets as soon as

766
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,760
Speaker 2: I said that, I'm sure you guys are like, what okay,

767
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 2: But let me explain it to you. In those finals,

768
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 2: he had at least twenty five plus every game, had

769
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 2: at least nine rebounds every game, had at least seven

770
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 2: assists every game, and shot at least fifty percent every game.

771
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 2: The box scores are as follows twenty five, thirteen and nine,

772
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 2: Game one thirty three to nine and nine, Game two,

773
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 2: twenty five, ten and eight, Game three twenty eight to

774
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 2: twelve and eight, Game four, and then in Game five,

775
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 2: with a chance to win the title, forty points, thirteen rebound,

776
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 2: seven assists, three steals on seventy one percent shooting. But

777
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 2: that's the game. Markith Morris threw the ball out of

778
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 2: bounds instead of throwing it to Lebron where he could

779
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:11,319
Speaker 2: hit a buzzer beat or win the championship. So they

780
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 2: got to play a game six. How do you do

781
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:14,880
Speaker 2: in the game six? Twenty eight points, fourteen rebounds, ten

782
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:19,840
Speaker 2: assists on sixty five percent. For the finals, Lebron averaged

783
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 2: thirty points, twelve rebounds, nine assists, on sixty percent from

784
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 2: the field and forty one percent from three. That's in

785
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 2: the NBA Finals against allegedly the league's best defense. For

786
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 2: the playoffs, he averaged twenty eight points, eleven rebounds, nine assists,

787
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 2: and shot an impossible fifty six percent. So that means

788
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 2: in the nine years after the Dallas series, he made

789
00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:51,360
Speaker 2: eight finals, won four titles. In those finals, played KD

790
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 2: and Duncan and Kawhi and Steph and KD and all right,

791
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 2: I said Kat twice, I'm sorry, and Clay pardon me.

792
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:04,719
Speaker 2: An average in those eight finals across all of them,

793
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 2: this whole segment, what were his finals averages? Thirty points,

794
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:12,400
Speaker 2: eleven rebounds, eight assists, on fifty per shooting and thirty

795
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 2: seven percent from three. So what does that mean is

796
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 2: career playoff resume as a whole looks like again, I'll

797
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 2: try to go through this quickly because I'm running out

798
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:25,120
Speaker 2: of bread. But he has the most playoff points ever.

799
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 2: He has more than seventy six hundred. No one else

800
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 2: has six thousand. He has the most playoff wins ever.

801
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 2: He's never once missed a single playoff game. He's sixth

802
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,800
Speaker 2: all time in playoff points per game, second most playoff

803
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 2: assists ever, the most playoff steals ever, the sixth most

804
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 2: playoff rebounds ever, the tenth most playoff blocks ever. He

805
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:48,759
Speaker 2: has the most playoff games ever. He is the most

806
00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:51,960
Speaker 2: playoff minutes ever, with more than eleven thousand. No one

807
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:56,200
Speaker 2: else has even ten thousand. Only Duncan has nine thousand.

808
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 2: He has, of course, the most combined PO points ever

809
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 2: regular season and playoffs will have the most of each

810
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:08,800
Speaker 2: individually midway through this year. In the in the finals,

811
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:12,320
Speaker 2: he is the second most points ever, not to Kareem

812
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:15,160
Speaker 2: or to Magic, but to Jerry West. He is the

813
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 2: second most Finals assists ever, only to Magic, the second

814
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 2: most Finals steals ever, only to Magic. He is the

815
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:25,280
Speaker 2: fourth most rebounds in the Finals, the sixth most blocks

816
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 2: in the Finals, the fourth most Finals games behind only

817
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:32,480
Speaker 2: Bill Russell, Sam Jones, and Kareem, the third most Finals minutes,

818
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 2: behind only Russell and Jerry West. He is the second

819
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:40,360
Speaker 2: most career Final Finals. The second most career Finals games

820
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 2: with forty points with seven. Who has the most, not

821
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:47,520
Speaker 2: who you're thinking. Jerry West has the most with nine.

822
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 2: He has eleven career Finals triple doubles. Second is Magic

823
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 2: with eight. No one else has more than three. He

824
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:58,319
Speaker 2: has twenty eight career playoff triple doubles. That's the second

825
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 2: most all time to Magic. He has nine seasons scoring

826
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 2: at least five hundred points in the playoffs. That is

827
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:09,480
Speaker 2: the most all time. Second is Jordan thirteen times. He

828
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 2: averaged at least twenty five points per game in the playoffs.

829
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:14,800
Speaker 2: That is tied for the most all time with Jordan.

830
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 2: Twelve times. He averaged at least twenty five to five

831
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 2: and five in the playoffs. That is the most all times.

832
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:25,319
Speaker 2: Second is Jordan with eight. He led the playoffs in

833
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:27,879
Speaker 2: total points six times, sort of assists six times, sold

834
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 2: to rebound twice, Totle steals four times. He has one

835
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty two career playoff games of twenty five,

836
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:36,799
Speaker 2: to five and five. The second most is Jordan with

837
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:39,919
Speaker 2: seventy one. The third most is Kobe with fifty two.

838
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 2: That means Jordan and Kobe combined did it one hundred

839
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:46,240
Speaker 2: and twenty three times. Lebron has done it one hundred

840
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:50,319
Speaker 2: and twenty two times. He has ninety two times in

841
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:53,600
Speaker 2: his career had thirty points, five rebounds five assists in

842
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 2: a playoff game. Second most is Jordan with fifty one.

843
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 2: Here's a fun one. He has a career playoff average.

844
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 2: His average career playoff game is twenty nine, nine and seven.

845
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 2: He's put up at least twenty nine to nine and

846
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:12,399
Speaker 2: seven thirty three times. Why is that a fun one?

847
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 2: The second, third, and fourth guys on that list, Bird,

848
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:22,759
Speaker 2: Giannis and mj have done it exactly thirty three times combined.

849
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 2: So Bird, Giannis and Jordan have done it the same

850
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:28,840
Speaker 2: combined times as Lebron has done it one hundred and

851
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 2: eighteen times. His playoff career scored thirty points. That's the

852
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:34,279
Speaker 2: most all time. Twenty eight times in his playoff career

853
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 2: scored forty points. That is the second most all time.

854
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:41,920
Speaker 2: He has sixty six career thirty point playoff double doubles.

855
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:45,360
Speaker 2: That is the most all times. Second most is Elgin Baylor.

856
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 2: He has fifty nine career playoff games with thirty points

857
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:51,799
Speaker 2: and ten rebounds. That's the most all time. Twenty two

858
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:55,120
Speaker 2: career playoff games with thirty points in ten assists. That's

859
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 2: the most all times. Second is MJ with fifteen. He

860
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:02,279
Speaker 2: has sixteen career playoff well forty point double doubles, that

861
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 2: is the most all time. Secondest Will He has five

862
00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 2: career playoff games with forty points and ten assists. No

863
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:12,240
Speaker 2: one else has more than three. He has fifteen career

864
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:15,319
Speaker 2: playoff thirty point triple doubles. Second is Oscar with eight,

865
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:19,640
Speaker 2: and as I mentioned, he has three career playoff forty

866
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 2: point triple doubles. Only Oscar has more than one. There

867
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:29,280
Speaker 2: have only been twelve in NBA history. There's the resume

868
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,080
Speaker 2: of the greatest player of the last fifty years and

869
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:36,319
Speaker 2: the greatest player of all time, Lebron James. Will take

870
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 2: a break, and then we'll have some callers tell me

871
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 2: why I'm wrong, and I will laugh at them. We'll

872
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 2: be right back, all right, Welcome back in What's Right?

873
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:53,960
Speaker 2: Nick Wright, our final special edition of the fifty Greatest

874
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Speaker 2: Players of the last fifty years, a project I've been

875
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 2: working on for a couple of years, and for those

876
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:01,359
Speaker 2: of you that have watched or listened these episodes, I

877
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:05,279
Speaker 2: greatly appreciate it. I hope it shows the work I

878
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:08,520
Speaker 2: put into this. I'm looking at the Google doc that

879
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 2: is just the general notes, not all the research, but

880
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:15,919
Speaker 2: the general notes for this, and it comes in at

881
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:21,440
Speaker 2: single spaced fourteen point type, comes in at seventy pages.

882
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:27,200
Speaker 2: And I hope that for those of you that have

883
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:29,320
Speaker 2: been that are listening to this, you just made it through.

884
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 2: I mean, god, I don't know how long the lebron

885
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:33,680
Speaker 2: segment's been already an hour, and my guess is you

886
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:36,280
Speaker 2: appreciate it. But also if you just picked and chose

887
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 2: the guys who want to listen to totally get it.

888
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:40,960
Speaker 2: But it could be a fun thing to download and

889
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:44,359
Speaker 2: just have on your phone for long plane rides where

890
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:46,680
Speaker 2: it's like, you know what, I've always wanted to hear

891
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:49,440
Speaker 2: good nine minutes on Bob McAdoo. I don't know if

892
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 2: you've ever felt that way, but it's there for you

893
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:54,440
Speaker 2: if you'd like it. I hope this thing lives and

894
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:58,440
Speaker 2: breathes digitally for a long time and will adjust it

895
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 2: as need be. Guys like Giannis or Staph or Durant,

896
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 2: you know, move up the ranking. It's gonna take Luca

897
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:07,279
Speaker 2: a while to move up the rankings. As we ranked

898
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Speaker 2: them pretty high. Also, I know I've been saying that

899
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:13,440
Speaker 2: this is our last special edition. We're still gonna be

900
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 2: doing usually not always, but usually three pods a week.

901
00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:20,800
Speaker 2: We're's gonna have something replacing the fifty aras Player's Last

902
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:24,600
Speaker 2: fifty Years list. But before we finally wrap up, we

903
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 2: have done callers for all of these episodes, and our

904
00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:30,840
Speaker 2: wonderful production staff that is an international production staff now

905
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles and across the pond in London. Sometimes

906
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:36,680
Speaker 2: they have done a great job getting us great guest

907
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 2: for this They usually or sometimes let me preview these.

908
00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 2: They have not with this one. So let's go to

909
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:44,880
Speaker 2: our first caller right now.

910
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:48,920
Speaker 3: What an honor it is to be invited onto the

911
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:52,800
Speaker 3: hugely popular What's Right? Show featuring Demanse Bird with his

912
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:54,240
Speaker 3: sidekick Nick Right.

913
00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:56,400
Speaker 5: Although I am a little.

914
00:57:56,120 --> 00:57:59,960
Speaker 3: Offended that I was invited for the first time for reruns.

915
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 3: I know technically this is your first time listening to

916
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:04,480
Speaker 3: this podcast and watching this video, but I mean, come on,

917
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:08,800
Speaker 3: you've heard this one before. Nick Wright has lebron as

918
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:10,720
Speaker 3: the greatest basketball player of all time?

919
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 5: Can you believe it? He's number one on the list.

920
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 3: Nick. People are shocked to hurt the presses. I'm gobsmacked.

921
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 3: This video is gonna do numbers. Think of the engagement.

922
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 3: But seriously, it wasn't a stud career move by my

923
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:30,320
Speaker 3: man Nick to memorize Lebron's basketball reference page. He's wrote

924
00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:33,160
Speaker 3: it to riches and fame and fortune. Look at that

925
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:37,600
Speaker 3: change he's wearing. But anyway, I think it's dumb to

926
00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:38,480
Speaker 3: compare Eras.

927
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:39,200
Speaker 5: Personally.

928
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 3: Lebron is the greatest of his era, but he is

929
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:44,640
Speaker 3: a product of his era. He got to come into

930
00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:48,440
Speaker 3: the sport out of high school, and sports science and

931
00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:50,680
Speaker 3: sports medicine show that you should be taking care of

932
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:52,720
Speaker 3: your bonnie. Guy spends a million bucks a year on

933
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:57,360
Speaker 3: his bonnie. Tremendous, finely tuned athlete. Sorry, I'm gonna make

934
00:58:57,360 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 3: the point about Eras in a second. I'm just gonna

935
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:03,920
Speaker 3: have some cereal here from an icon. But where was I?

936
00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, million dollars a year on his body for Lebron. Unbelievable,

937
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 3: great job. Timing is everything, though, wild night for Lebron

938
00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:12,400
Speaker 3: is maybe a little Taco Tuesday and a six hundred

939
00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:17,240
Speaker 3: dollars glassomer Low. Meanwhile, Jordan, we have ten Miller lights

940
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:19,440
Speaker 3: on the golf course shoot thirty six holes in the morning,

941
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:21,600
Speaker 3: then drop forty because it was a Tuesday, and then

942
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 3: go to the blackjack tables and be the best scorer

943
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:27,560
Speaker 3: and defender and champion of his generation and the best

944
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:28,680
Speaker 3: champion of anyone.

945
00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:31,760
Speaker 6: On your list, by the way, but listen, Unlike Nick,

946
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:37,520
Speaker 6: who has rode Lebron's career to fame and fortune, I'm

947
00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:40,240
Speaker 6: not biased when I talk about this, and it is

948
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 6: an honor to come on this show.

949
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:45,680
Speaker 3: But all I will say, as Nick's best friend of

950
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:49,080
Speaker 3: the last fifteen years or so, is that the guy

951
00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:51,640
Speaker 3: doesn't own a single pair of Lebron's. He owns probably

952
00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:54,560
Speaker 3: ten pairs of Jays, and he knows who the true

953
00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:57,200
Speaker 3: goat is deep down inside. But congrats on the show man,

954
00:59:57,520 --> 00:59:58,080
Speaker 3: great list.

955
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Speaker 2: That's my pal Danny Parkins, who you can listen to

956
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:05,720
Speaker 2: on the Score in Chicago. Uh So, a couple things there,

957
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:09,280
Speaker 2: just quickly, if I may, You know how I know

958
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:14,400
Speaker 2: Jordan fans are realizing the arguments slipping away from him

959
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:18,640
Speaker 2: when for years they've said he's the goat, goat, goat,

960
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:20,919
Speaker 2: goat goat. And now you know what I hear more

961
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 2: than I used to ads silly to compare eras ah sports,

962
01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:29,680
Speaker 2: science and evolution. And you know, Lebron got to come

963
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 2: out of high school while Michael Jordan had to learn

964
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:35,040
Speaker 2: from Dean Smith. By the way, most of my own

965
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:37,280
Speaker 2: older than Jordan came out of high school. But the

966
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:39,880
Speaker 2: other part that Danny said that is just laughable on

967
01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:44,360
Speaker 2: its face, is, oh, in today's era, we know how

968
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:46,520
Speaker 2: to take care of our body. Yes, that's true, but

969
01:00:46,640 --> 01:00:50,080
Speaker 2: in no era did anyone think that it was a

970
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 2: good idea to gamble and drink and smoke cigars all night.

971
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:57,520
Speaker 2: Jordan just chose to do it, so that, you know

972
01:00:57,560 --> 01:01:00,320
Speaker 2: what that argument falls on. Deaf ears my friend. Plus

973
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:03,280
Speaker 2: Danny's from Chicago. Likely he's like all these guys, there's

974
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 2: lifelong Jordan fans. They can't get over it. All right,

975
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Speaker 2: who else do we have? That's my best friend? Who

976
01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:08,280
Speaker 2: else do we have?

977
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Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, what a surprise. Nick Wright makes Lebron

978
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Speaker 5: James number one on his list once again. You know,

979
01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:19,280
Speaker 5: it's okay that you missed a bunch of family events,

980
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:22,160
Speaker 5: you know, to work, to work on this major list

981
01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:24,680
Speaker 5: that you've gotta get done, you know, just to do

982
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:27,240
Speaker 5: with literally everyone on the planet knew that you were

983
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:29,120
Speaker 5: going to do and expected you to do. But no,

984
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:32,240
Speaker 5: that's totally fine. Good heart work, Nicholas, good job.

985
01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:32,640
Speaker 3: Good job.

986
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Speaker 2: That is my older daughter, Diora, the only member of

987
01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:42,440
Speaker 2: the family who has not been on this podcast live.

988
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:45,640
Speaker 2: My wife is hosted. My son hosts all the time.

989
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:48,600
Speaker 2: It's his he's the co host. My youngest daughter has

990
01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:52,120
Speaker 2: done it. Deora refuses to do it, and instead she

991
01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:54,280
Speaker 2: comes on the show just to Roastmick. So you know what,

992
01:01:54,560 --> 01:01:58,320
Speaker 2: that's a perfect encapsulation, a perfect end of the list.

993
01:01:58,880 --> 01:02:03,280
Speaker 2: I appreciate it everyone who has watched these videos. We

994
01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:08,800
Speaker 2: might have a special addition sometime before football season of

995
01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:11,920
Speaker 2: someone who was on the list, someone who was in

996
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 2: the top twenty of the list, joining us for what

997
01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:17,920
Speaker 2: would just be our second guest ever on the show.

998
01:02:18,120 --> 01:02:20,920
Speaker 2: Lil Wayne Plus, this person will be our second to

999
01:02:21,640 --> 01:02:24,280
Speaker 2: you know, go back and forth with me about the list.

1000
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:26,960
Speaker 2: But aside from that, it is time to put this

1001
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:30,840
Speaker 2: project to bed. Dior is right. I have spent a

1002
01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:34,280
Speaker 2: lot of time. I don't know if I've missed family events,

1003
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Speaker 2: but I have been otherwise occupied. So now we set

1004
01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:41,080
Speaker 2: it aside, which is a perfect time to transition into

1005
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:44,320
Speaker 2: football season. We will talk to you guys on Tuesday.

1006
01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 2: Appreciate you watching for one last time. It is the

1007
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:50,600
Speaker 2: fifty greatest players of the last fifty years on What's

1008
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:56,200
Speaker 2: Right with Nick Right