Is Kyrie Irving best number 2 ever? - Episode 1 Basketball 100
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🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
The Basketball 100 Podcast is a 6 part podcast that counts down the 100 best players in the history of the NBA. Episode 1 includes players 100-80 hosted by Jared Weiss, Mike Vorkunov and Tony Jones of the Athletic. They discuss which players have brought the most joy, recount the players that people may not know well, and discuss which players are too high and too low on the list.
80. Kyrie Irving
81. Pete Maravich
82. Manu Ginobili
83. Spencer Haywood
84. Grant Hill
85. Vince Carter
86. Chris Bosh
87. Tony Parker
88. Dennis Johnson
89. Paul Arizin
90. Nate Thurmond
91. Jayson Tatum
92. Bernard King
93. Bill Sharman
94. Artis Gilmore
95. Sidney Moncrief
96. Lenny Wilkens
97. Dave DeBusschere
98. Dave Bing
99. Jimmy Butler
100. Draymond Green
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Host: Jared Weiss
With: Tony Jones and Mike Vorkunov
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
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| 0:00.0 | Two Titans of Silicon Valley, one prize, dominance in the world of artificial intelligence. |
| 0:07.0 | Supremacy is the real story behind the struggle to own our digital future and potentially the very nature of human experience. |
| 0:16.0 | Supremacy by Parmy Olson, described as a riveting tale by the new scientist, winner of the Financial |
| 0:22.6 | Times Business Book of the Year and now the Waterstone's non-fiction book of the month. |
| 0:27.5 | Listen to the audiobook of Supremacy Now. |
| 0:32.6 | Music Welcome to the Basketball 100 podcast. |
| 0:45.5 | I am Jared Weiss. |
| 0:46.5 | This is a podcast that is based on the book written by many of us here at The Athletic. |
| 0:51.4 | I've got a few of them with me here today. |
| 0:53.6 | I'm joined by Mike Vorkenov or NBA writer. How you doing, Mike? |
| 0:57.5 | Hey, Jared. And then Tony Jones, who probably can beat all the people we're about to talk about one-on-one. |
| 1:04.6 | Not with my current hamstring situation. Okay, we're going to get loose. We'll stretch out our hammies. |
| 1:09.6 | We're here to count down the top 100 players in MBA history. That's what the book did. |
| 1:15.2 | I've got it just out of frame, but it's just out of reach. |
| 1:08.9 | So I'll have to grab it later and show you guys. |
| 1:10.4 | Hopefully you have one in your hands and you're stroking it like a little kitty as you're listening to this podcast. |
| 1:15.7 | You're like, the only thing this book was missing was a complimentary pod. |
| 1:19.0 | But we're going to deliver it to you right now. And we're going to discuss kind of where everybody's |
| 1:21.7 | place in history is. You know, we all had a little bit of disagreement over where every single |
| 1:32.8 | person should be placed. That's how it works when you have a big panel. So we're going to get |
| 1:37.4 | into the numbers 100 through 80 in today's episode. |
| 1:40.9 | So I'll list them off here. |
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