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You Better You Bet

Biggest What If in NBA History?

You Better You Bet

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4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Carrington Harrison and the crew share their biggest what ifs in NBA History.

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0:03.0

Welcome back to You Better You Bet on Westwood One Sports.

0:28.7

My name is Karen to Harrison.

0:30.2

Happy to be filling in for Nick Costos on You Better You Bet.

0:33.5

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0:44.3

So I recently was watching a magic moment of 30 for 30.

0:49.7

And if you haven't seen it, it is about the rise and fall of the early 90s Orlando Magic.

0:56.5

Now, I'm 37 years old, so I remember it pretty vividly.

1:01.0

You remember when Shaq and Penny were everywhere.

1:04.6

Shaq was this superstar center that we haven't seen since Bill Russell, since Wilts Chamberlain.

1:11.6

He had all this charisma, all this athleticism.

1:15.1

But it wasn't just Shaq.

1:16.9

It was this 6-8.

1:19.1

He looked like Magic Johnson point guard in Penny Hardaway.

1:23.0

He had the shoes.

1:24.2

He had the marketing little Penny.

1:26.5

Everybody loved Penny Hardaway in the 90s.

1:29.7

Well, you know what happened to Penny Hardaway? His knees stopped working and we never really got to

1:35.9

see a five, six year stretch. Then we got another opportunity, I think, to see a version of Penny Hardaway,

1:43.8

a little smaller,

1:45.1

but a lot more explosive, and he had almost the exact same knee problems in Derek Rose.

1:51.0

Every basketball cycle, every basketball generation is defined by what if players.

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