Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.

Welcome back to another episode today.

Very excited. It is the second annual

Thinking Basketball sub all-all-stars. That's right, the sub-all-star team. That's the concept where After the all-stars there's a group of players who

still provide some nice impact they still move the championship needle a little bit and

so it's after the first 25 or so players in the league we look at the

Kind of roughly the next 25 that's the topic that's the concept

Last year I went a little over 50 players deep in other words the sub all-all-star team had around 26-27 guys on it.

This year we'll do the same thing. There's some injuries that pop up and things like that but I

think the the final number that I came up with was 55 trying to keep it around out

to 50 and I threw a couple guys in there that just I'm in a giving mood. I'm in the mood to really

draw the line I mean I got to arbitrarily draw the line somewhere that's the challenge with this. So I think it comes out to about 55

players this year when you include all the all-stars on top of them. So we're going to

do sub-all-all-stars. Before we begin, speaking of drawing the line, no disrespect

is intended to any players. That seems to be a theme lately going around the league.

A lot of players feeling disrespected

that they didn't make the team.

And I actually think this is something

that I see more in discourse not just the talking heads but

Twitter or whatever it may be just the the conversation around basketball.

And that's this idea that if you had to pick an all-star team

with 12 players and you had guy number 13,

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