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What's Wright? with Nick Wright

Nick’s Top 50 NBA Players of the Last 50 Years: #34-30

What's Wright? with Nick Wright

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🗓️ 8 May 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Nick Wright’s list of the top 50 players in the NBA over the last 50 years continues with some of the best 2nd men in NBA history, an all-time great that has had career shortening injuries, and perhaps the best pound for pound player of all time. Follow What's Wright? on all platforms: https://twitter.com/whatswrightshow https://www.facebook.com/WhatsWrightShow/ https://www.instagram.com/whatswrightshow/ https://www.tiktok.com/@whatswrightshow https://www.youtube.com/c/whatswrightshow/ Follow more FOX Sports podcasts: http://sprtspod.fox/b7si4wkv Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:15.9

Welcome into another special edition of the What's Right with Nick Wright podcast and YouTube show the 50 greatest players of the last 50 years in the

0:20.9

NBA. If you haven't caught up yet we've already done players 50 through 35

0:25.8

today we will finish out the 30s and above we'll give you players 34 through 30 and

0:31.9

I didn't intentionally do this but this all of these

0:36.4

players kind of pair well together you have two of the best second options on

0:41.8

dynasties.

0:42.8

You have two of the best perimeter defensive players ever,

0:46.6

and you have one of the most underrated

0:49.6

and forgotten players of NBA history,

0:52.6

paired with, someone, some would argue,

0:55.2

is one of the most overrated and far too relevant

0:59.0

in the contemporary pop culture in NBA history.

1:02.0

So those are five guys. We will start with

1:04.9

number 34. Number 34 Kevin McHale. So Kevin McHales all in

1:12.0

Bia and MVP finishes.

1:13.5

That part of his resume is not great.

1:15.2

He is only first team all NBA one time.

1:17.8

He only has one top five MVP finish.

1:21.2

He is two times sixth man of the year, but sixth men of the year typically aren't top 50 all-time guys.

1:27.0

And he has six-time all-defense, and whenever you mention Kevin McHale, you have to mention his legendary footwork, a guy that Charles

1:35.1

Berkeley said was the hardest player he ever had to defend. So, when your resume is that light on

1:41.6

individual accomplishments, how do you get not only make this

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