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Michael Porter, Jr. gave voice to something that I'm so glad that he said it out loud.

Because I say this, but it's really just a lot more credible when an NBA player says it,

which is this what he said on the Nuggets

pod, Harrison Wind. He said, what it takes to be great, dropped this from the clouds.

You know, there's a lot of guys who never become as good as they can become because once

they get to the NBA, they take their foot off the gas. I see that. I continue to work harder.

Ooh.

Basically, when you get a lot of money, you stop working.

Yeah.

That's pretty obvious, but people seem to think that, like, these guys are robots.

I'm going to say this until I'm blue in the face until the end of time.

The difference between a great player and an excellent elite, all-time great,

one that has more than just physical gifts is that mental drive, maniacal drive to be even better,

even when you're at the tippy, tippy top, even when you're an all-star like Ben Simmons, you add to your craft.

Even when you're the top 1% in the world and you're rich as fuck, when your body is tired,

when you're injured, when it's July, and you've got max money, that's the difference

between really good and really, really great.

And, like, truthfully, that's only like 10 to 15 guys.

Sure.

At a 450, right?

At a given time.

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