Thinking basketball podcast.

My name is Ben.

Welcome back to another episode.

And it is time for the 2025 sub-all-stars.

It's an annual tradition around here.

It is our seventh. I can't believe it. I cannot

believe this is the seventh annual sub-all-star team. And, you know, we finally found someone this week.

The big news of the week, Cody, we finally found someone who was higher on Anthony Davis than I am.

What do you mean?

What happened?

You know what happens.

Don't be coy.

Don't be coy.

Today's show, if you haven't heard in the past, the ideas that we are picking the next

set of players after All-Stars.

So we have this business where we have to run through the all-stars really quickly.

Some of them will be on the line and we'll say, I don't know, I'll throw my hands up in the air and

I'll say, which way is the wind blowing? How do I feel this player could be an all-star?

Because, of course, we think about player value in ranges around here. Your circumstance

matters, your teammates matter. Your coaches

matter. And that means that it's tough to really pinpoint exactly where you are, no matter how much film and how much data we get on you.

So we'll talk about those borderline guys. Then we'll fill out the rest of the sub all-star team.

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