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Any other thoughts here?

Amari Stademeyer is a Hall of Famer.

I wouldn't have immediately gone there.

I wouldn't have immediately assumed Hall of Famer.

I would have immediately got there.

Right at high school dominated the lead for a couple years?

Yeah, especially when you consider how gracious this Hall of Fame is compared to the other sports. But yeah,

an incredible career in Phoenix was talked about, rightfully so, for much of a season,

his first season in New York, as an MVP candidate. And I dealt with a lot of adversity in his

career. In his life.

Yeah.

And like to be able to battle back from the injuries that he had previous to New York and reach those levels again, really impressive.

So Amari, first of all, you talk about his peak, a strong six to eight years,

right up there with Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan, Dirk Novitsky as one of the best power forwards

in the game.

Beneath all of them, I would say no, I don't even mean that as an indictment because he was top

five in MVP voting, but those were all better players than he was, right? And I also don't

mean to diminish him when I say everything that he did

with Steve Nash, but when they revolutionized how basketball was being played, it was at least in

part because he had a number two in Nash that those other guys you just mentioned did not. Well, I think

the thing that a lot of people would point to is that technically Amari was the number two. Steve Nash was the one who got a lot of the credit. Two MVP's. Yeah. But it was a symbiotic relationship. But all those guys are number ones you just mentioned, all the others. And again, I don't mean to indict him. I'm just saying, when you guys have such a different opinion than me on me being like, well, Amari Stademeyer had a really, really great career and he wouldn't have gone in automatically by my metric unless you're making the basketball Hall of Fame a lot less hard to get into what you do than the other halls of fame. You guys are doing this thing where it's like you can never give anyone credit for having a Hall of Fame career. You have to undercut it immediately by saying, oh, but the basketball hall, no, no, let's not do that. I don't think this is one of those cases. Yeah, like this guy's a Hall of Fame. Is he a gold medal winner? Gold medal winner, yep. And he, like, when you talk about going to New York, that was a crater that no one wanted to go to, nobody wanted to go there. And he went there. Reinvented them for a season. And it's not because he fell off a cliff basketball-wise. His knee gave out under him. And he punched a fire extinguisher, leaving the court in a playoff game. That's not why his career... Sounds like you hate Amari Saan. What's your do with that? That anti-Semitism continues to

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