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Thinking basketball podcast, my name is Ben.

Welcome back to a special episode. is

episode two of our top 40 careers and of course this is the update this series

and of course this is the update this series that we're going to run through. We have no idea

how many episodes it's going to take but this is the second one. In episode one

we kind of broke down the criteria, the perspective, the idea behind this list that I created in

2017 around the 40 quote unquote 40 best or 40 most valuable careers that have played out in NBA history based on on court play.

We take into account health and what error you played in and things like that.

In episode one, we talked about the new players that potentially could have made

this list and the few that have entered this list in this update that we're doing five years later.

We talked about the honorable mention guys, which

means, you know, they could have been in this top 40. If you wake up and you do this exact same

exercise and you end up with Kevin McHale at 36 or something like that. That is essentially the same valuation,

essentially the same conclusion or estimation that we've reached about Kevin McHale

because the difference Cody and Spots at this point in the list between

like 44 and 38 is just which way the wind is blowing sometime.

And one thing we will start to discuss more now that we've cleared the honorable mentions off the table

Is this idea of ranges of course when I do the top ten list at the end of every year. I try to emphasize the sort of reasonable range in my

head that I'm evaluating a player at. Is this someone who, based on a high-end estimation,

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