#148: Top 40 careers | Magic Johnson, Larry Bird (and Kobe & Dirk)

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🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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In Episode 8 of our top-40 careers series, we compare the offensive and defensive styles of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and discuss the unique symmetries of their careers. But first, we start with Dirk Nowitzki and Karl Malone -- how impressive is Karl's longevity? And what are the tradeoffs of building around Dirk's defense as a 7-footer? Finally, who in this group moved up or down? And who will crack the top-10? With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0	thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben welcome
0:10.8	back to the 8th episode of our top 40 career
0:17.2	update countdown list that we've been making our way through
0:20.8	without really any structure or regard for structure.
0:24.8	And I mentioned that today, Cody,
0:26.0	because I think last time coming off the heels
0:29.4	of the epic Jerry West Oscar Robertson conversation that as you predicted 12 people have listened to so far.
0:36.0	We are not, I don't think, I don't anticipate spending 45 minutes deep diving a player today I think we have some housekeeping to catch up on we have to kind of
0:48.4	Gries the rails to make our way into the top 10 we We're going to finish with probably two more episodes in the top 10.
0:55.7	We might have a third episode to finish up this series, but in general today the goal is to make our way into the top 10. So last time we talked
1:05.1	about West and Oscar Robertson. I can't figure out West went backwards. He was
1:09.8	17th last time we had an update in 2019 now he's 18th he's going backwards despite
1:14.8	me getting higher on him I don't I don't know what's going on there it confuses me
1:19.3	probably more than any of you out there. He was 18th.
1:22.7	Just to recap, we did Kevin direct.
1:24.8	Well, we did Charles Berkeley at 22.
1:26.6	We had a rousing Patreon extra 30 minute discussion
1:31.1	about Charles Barclay.
1:32.8	It's a Patreon post show,
1:33.9	Patreon.com slash thinking basketball,
1:36.1	if you want to check that out.
1:37.4	Kevin Durant 21, Julius Irving 20,
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