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Happy July 4th, ladies and gentlemen.

It's me, Jason McIntyre, here on the herd in for Colin on a July 4th. We are ready for action. Second hour should be, oh boy, it's going to be fire, folks. Alex Curry is ready. She was cracking up during a commercial break. Listen, I'm fired up. This is fun. I like sports. What do you do? I love it so much when you go, it's me, Jason McIntyre. Think of it's me, Mario.

Yeah, every time this makes me. Here I am. You're right. You're right. Happy birthday America.

Yeah, happy birthday, America. Eddie House, former NBA player. I'll say this, Eddie House is my guy, and I've told this story a bunch. Like, you know, when I started here Fox, I'll walk into some of the meetings or the dressing rooms, and I'm just like a regular brown guy who, this guy didn't play in the NFL or who's this guy, you know? And some of these athletes have been a little disdainful of your boy. Eddie House, not so much. From day one, we were like, got along. He's a cool dude, you know, a little intimidating with the neck tattoo. And I told him. I was like, Eddie, geez, sounds tough and cool. He's just a great guy in no sports, watches the show religiously. So shout out to Eddie House. He'll be on in five minutes. All right, before we get to Eddie, deep breaths, ladies and gentlemen. So yesterday I got into it with Bussard about Brunson versus Embed. And all these Philadelphia people clipped it off and put on, oh, Jason McIntyre's an

idiot. First Things First loved it. Shout out to those guys. So I got into thinking, like,

all right, let me just do a top 10 players in the NBA list right now, right now. Not four years

ago, not 10, not two, right now right now not four years ago not 10 not two right now now

when you say best it's subjective so i came to up with a list of a couple things that matter

when i'm coming up my best 10 players in the NBA obviously skill set matters shooting passing

dribbling like the, the fundamentals of basketball.

Who's the best at that? Then you've got stuff like, what's their impact on the game?

You know, that's a big one for me. Do you make others better? That's huge. That's massive.

What's your basketball IQ? Like, that's very easy to figure out watching basketball.

And then leadership, you know, mental toughness. And the big

last one that I had to shout out in the meeting when I got laughed at with my list,

availability. That matters. So let's get started. Number 10. Number 10. Yes, Joelle and B. 10th best

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