Jalen Brunson, Nikola Jokic and The Evolution of the Playmaker

Mind the Game with LeBron James and JJ Redick

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Basketball, Sports

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The modern NBA playmaker looks like a little of things in 2025. They can be a smaller guard like Jalen Brunson or a bigger center like Nikola Jokic. But it wasn't always like that. In the past, the scorer and the passer were two different positions assigned by specific NBA archetypes. In this episode of Mind the Game, we explore this evolution and the role LeBron James and other superstars played in the evolution of the modern NBA playermaker.

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0:00.0	All right.
0:01.0	Yeah, I think that's a good.
0:02.0	Wow.
0:03.0	Mm.
0:04.0	Mm.
0:05.0	Mm.
0:06.0	Mm.
0:07.0	Which is the one?
0:10.0	This guy?
0:11.0	Oh, I am.
0:12.0	Oh, right here.
0:13.0	Mousin'i or the champerton?
0:15.0	Yeah.
0:16.0	That's what I was going to say.
0:17.0	That's a little sip.
0:19.0	I ain't even a-chat today. today. We neither. We're rolling.
0:23.6	Welcome back to Mind the Game, brought to you by Uninterrupted and Wondry.
0:44.9	In this episode, we discuss the playmaker, the initiator, the heliocentric player that runs the team, breaks the first line of defense, plays cat and mouse. In this era,
0:56.7	they have to be able to make plays for their teammates, not just score, and vice versa. In the old
1:02.6	days, it was the point guard that ran the team, but wasn't necessarily taxed was scoring the
1:07.2	ball. Nowadays, we've all become a similar position player that's able to control
1:13.1	the game and make plays, whether it's for others or for themselves. I hope you enjoy
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