thinking basketball podcast my name is then welcome back to the third episode in our top 40 career series where we are

updating after five years the entire concept of the 40 best careers in NBA history based on their on-court play

if you're unfamiliar with the criteria we talk about that in the first episode

of this series a few episodes back on this

podcast stream and then of course if you want to dive into that old work you can

check out the entire backpicks top 40 article series it's it's a short,000 words. I think Cody it's a it's a quick read. You can

check that out over on backpicks as well. But today we are going to continue to make our way through the best careers in

NBA history according to my just completely arbitrary and

random estimations of player seasons and then adding up all those player

seasons and seeing who gives you the most mileage.

Last time we discussed Isaiah Thomas, a new member on the list Clyde Drexler Elgin Baylor

Walt Frazier where did we end last time did we end with Paul Pierce yeah did we end

with Patrick doing actually maybe we ended with Patrick Iwing actually? Maybe we ended with Patrick.

I think it was Patrick.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So we'll get to some more names today, but let's start with the other new member of this list.

We had 38 players coming from the list last time

that remained and two new members that kicked out two old players.

We talked about that in episode one.

And this is the only modern current player to crack the top 40 in career value. He's been in the NBA since 2010 and he is

none other than James Harden. Oh I can't wait to hear about reactions for this, because we talked about

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