Thank you.

Thank you, basketball podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome back. It's been a little while because there's not really any basketball taking place but that doesn't

mean we can't check in and talk about fun old historical things and I wanted to continue talking about historical stuff this summer and

I've been lucky enough to corral in first-time guests on the show Mike Prada, formerly of SB Nation.

He now has Prada's pictures, which I highly recommend to anyone who likes history, basketball learning about the game.

And the man once described Clyde Drexler as having a quirky strange little basketball game.

So, Mike, welcome.

Well, now I know you've been listening to the podcast.

So thank you.

Thank you for having me.

This is exciting.

It's, you know, one of the great things about

basketball is that when there's no basketball on, you can always go back and reanalyze stuff that happened

20 years ago, 30 years ago, 40 years ago. It's like what's beautiful about this sport.

And it all connects.

That's, my love of history is constantly kind of refeating new perspectives of the present for me. I don't know if you feel the same way.

Yeah, no 100%.

That's totally how I feel.

But what's interesting I think about basketball

and I think the reason we were on this pod together to talk about a certain team that I think represents a real demarcation point is that the game itself really has changed a lot since say the 90s and 80s but if you're smart enough and

you're nowhere to look you can see the common patterns just re-evolved and

differently nowadays versus what it is today but I do think that the

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