Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.

My name is Ben.

Welcome back to another episode. Boy, it has been a while because frankly I have no

concept of the passage of time anymore. That's become abundantly clear. I went to record this week and noticed that it had been like

two and a half weeks or something

since the last podcast and I thought to myself, wait a second,

it was like five days ago, not two and a half weeks but maybe that's just me let me know online at this point in 2020 at LG 35 on Twitter if you two have completely lost the normal concept of the

passage of time. Things that are exciting speaking of the passage of time and history, is a little

historical thing I've been working on for most of 2020 in the background at some point I've had to pause it and come back to it but it's been a project for most of the year and it is finally kicking off that is the thinking basketball greatest peak, where we are going to start around the ABA merger,

1977 when the ABA and NBA merged, and mostly chronologically work our way through the highest peaking players in

NBA history. That series officially kicks off Monday a few days from when this

podcast will be released, that's Monday, November 23rd.

If you are a Patreon subscriber, Patreon.com slash thinking basketball, you can head on over there and find all sorts of additional stuff.

But one of the things you get,

if you are in the highest tier we have, the deluxe tier,

we will be releasing the episodes a week early.

So this week's episode was already released on Monday,

and then if you're in the tier below,

you will also get early access a few days later, so it'll be a little bit before the official public release on YouTube.

The series will run for a while.

It will run for a couple months.

The original plan was to run it in either a normal off season

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