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What's Wright? with Nick Wright

Nick's Top 50 NBA Players of the Last 50 Years #9-8: Hakeem Olajuwon & Shaquille O'Neal

What's Wright? with Nick Wright

iHeartPodcasts and The Volume

Sports, News, Sports News, Basketball, Football

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, Nick reveals #9 & 8 on his list, two of the greatest centers in NBA history. Shaquille O'Neal & Hakeem Olajuwon both dominated the game in a way rarely ever seen before they entered the league or since they left it. 2:15 - Shaquille O'Neal 19:20 - Hakeem Olajuwon 35:25 - A Brief Rant on History 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right,

0:18.0

welcome in to another. All right, All right, welcome in to another special edition of What's Right with Nick Wright, the podcast and YouTube show, our countdown of the 50 greatest players of the

0:23.3

last 50 greatest players of the last 50 years.

0:25.6

Now, players 15 through 10,

0:28.8

where we're really talking about the true top tier pantheon greats where we talk Isaiah Thomas

0:35.8

Kevin Durant Yannis the two best guys on arguably the greatest team ever Moses and Dr. Jay who teamed up on the 836ers and of course

0:45.0

Steph Curry. Those rankings were a little difficult because three of those six guys still active players.

0:52.1

Hell, when we recorded the Steph Curry segment, his season was still going on.

0:58.0

Yannis, could he, what would have happened had he won the title this year?

1:02.6

Durant, how much was his ranking affected by them losing in round one this year?

1:07.2

spoiler alert, his ranking wasn't actually negatively affected, but it could have obviously

1:11.2

been possibly affected had they gone on to make the finals or win the title.

1:16.7

These two guys we get to today as we are now into the top nine have been long retired.

1:23.9

However, one of them, I'm sure all of you

1:27.5

have a litany of fond memories of.

1:31.4

And the other, I think you're going to hear his name, be like, I always hear about what a great

1:37.6

player he is, and I'm sure you watched him win his titles.

1:41.8

But I don't think anybody, I shouldn't say anybody, I think most of you will

1:46.5

be shocked by the jaw-dropping numbers. These two guys, nine and eight, spoiler alert alert they're both centers and if you know it's the

1:55.8

fifth-year-old players the last 50 years you probably know who they are now

1:58.9

their playoff dominance has almost been undersold even if you know they were

2:05.9

dominant. So let's get right into the list. So we are down to only two people

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