Thank you.

Thank you basketball podcast, my name is Ben.

Welcome back to another episode. Today, since we are in the middle of

basketball limbo for really the first time we've had lockouts and things like

that but it's not the off season it's not the mid

see we don't know what it is I'm just gonna keep going with these historical

sort of retrospectives on different topics.

And today, the topic is, as you can tell by the title,

greatest six men in NBA history.

Specifically, the peak, the best seasons, the seasons where you actually

qualify as a sixth man. So this isn't about career, it's not about the number of

seasons you rack up as a sixth man.

This is really just the greatest six man seasons we've seen.

Of course this won't be based on rewards or sixth man voting rewards awards or

sixth man voting or anything like that it's going to be about the totality of the

player his impact on offense and defense the totality of the player, his impact on offense and defense, the kind of standard stuff as we size up, you know, how much impact a player is having on the court.

And of course, those awards historically have been given to

scores. These kind of microwave Vinny Johnson scoring guys that come off the

bench for an instant hit of offense. and I think the reason for that is part and parcel to the idea of redundancy to the idea of

scaling up your skills together on offense and basketball.

You know, we talk about this all the time, but in this case, if you've got two sort of lead drivers of your starting unit and you want to balance them with three point shooters or big

man who play defense or things of this nature. Three and D guys now of course for the last decade or two, then if you have a score who doesn't have other abilities,

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