Thinking basketball podcast, my name is Ben. Welcome back. I feel like it's been forever since the last episode but I think only a few

weeks and just a few things have happened in the NBA. Since then we had a wild

and crazy trade deadline, All-Star teams announced, all sorts of

Sky is Falling Scalling scenarios for certain teams. So yeah, today, speaking of All-Star, today I

want to do something a little different. I'm not aware of anyone who has done this over the years and it's

something that's been in my mind for a while certainly since I did my all-time player

series and that is to create a sub all-all-star team.

Meaning guys who aren't quite good enough to be all-stars,

they're not playing at that all-star level but they are really

really high-quality players. They typically have skills that add if you put them on

certain teams move the championship needle a little bit.

A little bit more than just a role player.

So I'm sure you guys actually can come up with a better name than Sub All-Star.

That's the category I've been using.

If you look at the little player graphs on my All-time series, you'll see Sub-All-Star

in there, I think, and I have referenced it in a couple YouTube videos I've made

So again, I'm making up the name for the category, but the concept is it's a guy who isn't quite at that all-star level.

You know, it's interesting.

There are only a few players that impact the game a lot.

And so the difference between how much you impact the game as a superstar and how much you

impact the game as say a low-level all-star. Like I mean top of the heap MVP level player that difference is usually

about the size of the difference between an all-star player and like the

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