#149: Top 40 careers | The complexity of Wilt Chamberlain (and Kevin Garnett & Tim Duncan)

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🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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In Episode 9 of our top-40 careers series we discuss the unique and complex career of Wilt Chamberlain, from his scoring exploits to his late-career success as a passer and defender. How confident can we be evaluating Wilt? And what should we make of the “dips” and statistical oddities in the middle of Duncan's career and Garnett's career? With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0	thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben
0:10.0	welcome back to episode nine of the top 40 career series.
0:17.0	Cody, I don't remember doing nine episodes on this.
0:19.6	That is incredible.
0:20.3	Nine times. Top 40 careers, we have made our way to the top 10.
0:26.0	Last time we talked about
0:28.0	number 15, Dirk Navinsky, Oscar Robertson at 14 was two episodes ago, 13 Carl Malone, 12 Kobe Bryant, and then in the
0:37.4	Magic Bird, I just, I changed my mind every day on Magic and Bird, Magic 11, Bird at the back end of the top 10, this time, and today we get
0:47.8	into the top 10.
0:50.8	And no one is going to have strong feelings about this at all right this is just smooth sailing everyone agrees that these are the nine best careers in NBA history
0:59.0	Yeah 100% there's from some of my research I've realized that these players have no strong
1:04.4	supporters or strong naysayers at all so this should be a smooth sailing episode.
1:09.4	Yeah, so there's a lot of big men to discuss there's a lot of big men left on this list and in fact the next oh I don't know five or six guys in order on this list are big men going back all the way to
1:29.7	1960 with Wilts Chamberlain when he came into the league he played from
1:35.4	1960 to 1973 and then guys that retired a couple years ago like Kevin Garnett who played about 112 seasons or something.
1:47.1	Kevin Garnett drafted out of high school in 1995 and ended his career in like 2016.
1:55.0	Just unbelievable longevity from these guys because as I realized when I did the
1:59.7	original series that if you're looking at career value and you're thinking about
2:04.4	extending your strengths on the court based on your skills, Cody height ages
2:11.4	really, really well.
2:14.0	In terms of just like, what do you think has to do with that?
2:16.2	Because when you say height ages well,
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