#252: 2024 Sub All-Stars!

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🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 102 minutes

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We select the 6th annual Sub All-Stars or “Almost Stars,” the players who are in the next tier after All-Stars. First, we sort out All-Star level players, then discuss players on the fringe and possible Sub All-Stars. Who makes the cut? With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0	Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben and today it is time for the sixth annual. is from the clutches of fatherhood. He's a new man. Fred Van Fleet heaters coming in the next hour
0:27.0	from Mr. Hodak straight out of a basement in Wisconsin that's not really a basement but we won't tell anybody the man the myth the legend how you doing
0:35.3	nor is it Wisconsin right now so the time and the place it's all I it's great Ben being
0:40.4	dad is it's surreal it's amazing I find myself just staring at my daughter for for long stretches of time like I'm usually like a very focused like I need to get all these things done but time just stops and I'm like I just need to look at you and I can't stop looking at you.
0:53.3	I like this side of you.
0:54.4	Yeah.
0:55.4	I'm a much more mushy person, I think.
0:58.4	Deeply connected to humanity at this moment.
1:02.0	Which is going to help with the sub all-all-star team.
1:04.0	There's no doubt about that.
1:05.0	Yeah, I did see there was a discussion on like a previous YouTube video
1:09.0	where people are like, do we like sassy Cody or do we like mean Cody and like mean Cody is better so maybe maybe I can wrangle him out a couple times here but you know I'm mushy you know I'm gonna give everyone the love and respect that they deserve as a professional basketball player.
1:25.1	Mm, okay.
1:26.9	You made a face because I can't believe it either.
1:29.6	This is the sixth sub-All-Star team that we've ever done. If you don't know the drill, the history behind
1:36.3	this is basically, we, for, you know, as far as we can remember in an NBA history,
1:41.1	we've had an all-star team team but that all-star team only
1:43.2	covers the first kind of tier of top players the first wave of top players and as I
1:49.0	started to get into historical basketball and in the deep analysis and things like that.
1:54.0	Years ago I noticed there's all these guys who probably never even make a single all-star team.
1:59.0	Someone like Lamar Odom was a great inspiration for this podcast and every year those players are super
2:05.5	super relevant they're super relevant on good teams they're super relevant on
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