Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dongs podcast on the Athletic Network, presented by the NBA.

That's game, baby.

I'm Jay Skeets.

Rolling with my top shot hot boy, Trey Kirby. Hey, yo. Hey, yo. We got the international man of mystery taking it to the Max Lielis. Friends. Mm-hmm. And finally, the man making the magic happen. It's JD. Hello. There he is.

Here we are.

No Tass, of course.

He said, if you're not talking about cars on this one, I want nothing to do with it. So we don't have TAS. See, that's okay. Yeah, we're talking a little hoops here. We're getting close to the start of the NBA season. we'll put the fast friends and all that car talk to the side

because you guys know, and most of our listeners and watchers know,

NBA We'll put the fast friends and all that car talk to the side because you guys know, and most of our listeners and watchers know,

NBA is going to be celebrating its 75th anniversary this upcoming season

by commemorating it as NBA 75 and naming a list of the league's 75 greatest players.

The NBA says a panel of media, current and former players, coaches, general managers, team executives,

they're going to select the club, and it will be announced soon in October.

Okay?

And it will likely be celebrated during the 2022 All-Star Game in Cleveland, seeing as the Forest

City also hosted the NBA All-Star weekend in 1997 when the league celebrated its 50th anniversary

season.

So when we first learned of this news, one thing, if you guys remember, we debated was how the NBA was

going to approach this. Would they just add 25 new names to the existing top 50 list, or

would they just start from scratch, so to speak, and come up with an entirely new list of 75?

I remember us debating it a little bit,

and I was like, there's no way they're just going to take the top 50 list, rip it up,

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