Thinking basketball podcast.

My name is Ben.

Welcome back.

It's the off season.

We're here.

And as we often do to start every off season,

we want to talk about the top 10 players in the NBA in 2025.

Cody, this is the first year I think we've done this podcast where I just looked at the field and I was like, oh, I don't know who's a top 10 player in basketball anymore.

We haven't talked about this at all. Like you and I have shared

not a name, not a note, not a question. We just gave ourselves a time and a location. It was

sleepless in Seattle. We're going to meet at this building and we're going to talk about the top

10 players in the NBA in 2025. How are you feeling about this? Are you with me that this is like the

weirdest year we've done yet? Man, I don't know about the, when you say the weirdest year,

I guess, I see a lot of blending. Like I see very wide ranges for a lot of players. And like, man,

if somebody said that this person was like 12 and I happen to have him 23, I don't even know if I'd be

angry. I'd be like, yep, that sounds about right. I want, you say the, the location thing.

I wonder how the, the tenor of this pod would change if we were live, Ben, like if we were in the

same room, or even if there was like an actual audience, if we did this, like people have the live podcast, which is a very, very strange to me.

I wonder how that would change the vibe.

It would be unbelievable.

What do you mean?

I think so.

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