Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you basketball podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome back to an episode that is sure to just not rile anyone up not

elicit any strong emotions or reactions and certainly last but not least not lead to any

nasty grams or angry Twitter messages or things like that sent across the

digital ecosystem that is the interwebs and social media because

Cody today we're not really going to talk about anything hierarchical or a list or a ranking. In fact we were looking at rankings of 25 players under 25 this week

There's always a fun one and and you can look ahead to the future and think about like how are these guys going to be down the road

what's their career going to look like this player is only 19 this players 24 anyway we start talking about these

players and we decided to just sort out today.

Forget the future.

It's like hard enough to sort out today

how good these players are right now and we said let's try to figure this out

That turns into a podcast topic, but I just I can't I can't do any rankings we spent all summer

Ranking things I get rankings anxiety. There's like a there's like a clinical term that needs to end up in the DSM for for what's going on with me ranking things. So today we're going to switch it up and we're going to do a draft. We're going to draft the 25 best players under 25 will tell you our our criteria in a second. We're going to go back and forth and we're going to populate the 25 best players that way sounds easy enough right it's very casual

non-heated episode you said it's going to elicit some strong feelings.

Ben, it's already elicited a lot of strong feelings I think from both of us.

From both of us, we might have the strongest feelings of anyone that listens.

I have the strongest feelings about my feelings.

That is probably true.

Okay, so we're going to get right to it.

We probably have a lot to cover.

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