thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben welcome back to another show and Cody first of all happy birthday how you

doing no thank you yeah the precipice of 30, Ben, where T-minus, what is it now, 24 hours before that happens.

It feels weird. I don't know. I don't want to get caught up in the whole like, oh, I'm 30, what does that mean?

But like, it's there, it's lingering. I'm thinking about it but I feel pretty good about it I'm good

Are you big into the new morality? The like the fact that it's a new it's just it's one it's you know every year is a new year

but the 30 is really yeah it's really in your head I have NBA brain about it

it's like the triple double it's like hitting 25 points at

30 points it's special yeah but 30 in the NBA is like the new 26 so you know

there's there's a curve so maybe that's a good if you think about it from an NBA

perspective you're basically turning 26.

You know, not to get too off topic, but I do think that's the case with age.

Like I ran into, I overheard a conversation in a target yesterday.

And there is this woman, I heard her say,

oh, I'm 85, and I had to do a triple take,

and I'm like, I thought you were like,

where are we right now, where are we?

We should probably talk about basketball right now

instead of numerology and age.

Okay. Well, age is relevant to the topic we're going to get into today.

I think what we're going to talk about might affect old players a little bit there are some cases but it is definitely inspired by what happens with young players

It's something that we've talked about in previous episodes talked around we've talked

about it internally and goodness knows over the years I've pointed out players who

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