Speaking basketball podcast, my name is Ben. Welcome back to episode four of our top 40 careers reboot. We are going back through NBA, well not just through NBA history but through the greatest players in

NBA history and discussing their careers if you're not familiar with that go back a

couple episodes to episode one where we lay out the concept and the criteria and the history of this project

that I published about five years ago now. I mean boy Cody does time fly.

Anyway today we are continuing. Last time we had a riveting discussion about James

Harden and Reggie Miller. I still haven't recovered from that one, but today we are plowing full steam ahead.

And Cody, I want to talk about today two players that are often compared to each other.

They are often linked in NBA history

despite their heart of their prime not lining up.

They played in consecutive generations,

one in the 80s and 90s and the next

really coming to prominence in the 2000s.

That is none other than John Stockton of the Utah Jazz, the pick and roll Maestro, the king of the pick and roll,

and then Steve Nash, who may have been better at playing pick and roll. And then

and Steve Nash, who may have been better at playing pick and roll. I was going to say the guy that then picked up the mantle as the king of the pick and roll.

I wonder, I went into this and I'm like, I think people are going to have some feelings about about some of these takes but then I looked at the past episodes

and I'm like wow never mind I think they're just going to have feelings

and in every one of these in general yeah yeah they're gonna well you know

people are this so this is like a warning that we should probably provide,

we're probably going to upset someone, and with some of the things we say at some point.

But what's fascinating to me about these guys, and we'll dive into it here in a second, is

Stockton, I mean, they're both small little white dudes who are great passers and shooters

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