Nick Wright's Top 50 NBA Players of the Last 50 Years # 12-10: Moses, Dr. J, & Steph Curry

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🗓️ 19 June 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In today’s episode, Nick gives a history lesson on two of the greatest 76ers of all time, one of them possibly the best rebounder the NBA has ever seen, and the other one of the leagues all-time great athletes. Then, Nick breaks down the illustrious career of one Steph Curry, and how his latest achievements, including winning Finals MVP in the 2022 NBA Finals, have influenced his ranking in the top 50. 1:20 - Moses Malone 11:25 - Julius “Dr. J” Erving 21:14 - Steph Curry 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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0:12.8	Welcome in another special episode of What's Right with Nick Wright,
0:15.7	the podcast and YouTube shows.
0:17.4	We continue our countdown of the 50 greatest players
0:20.7	of the last 50 years in the NBA.
0:23.2	And today's episode, I can't believe we're already here,
0:26.4	we get to the top 10.
0:29.5	Also on today's episodes, we do players 12, 11, and 10. We include the inspiration for this
0:36.7	project, which I started years and years ago. He's actually the first one up. We'll get
0:41.3	to him in just a moment and all three of these guys have a claim
0:46.1	that they were on the single greatest team in MBA history in fact I think the two greatest teams in
0:54.0	in MBA history were comprised of these three players
0:58.0	plus, you know, obviously some others,
1:00.0	one notable player who we just had in the rankings, but we will, that will make sense when we are done.
1:05.7	You're gonna be like, really the two greatest teams ever, we can discuss that maybe at the very end.
1:10.0	But number 12, the inspiration for this project, you could argue the most underrated player in the history of professional basketball.
1:21.0	Number 12 Moses Malone.
1:24.4	So why is Moses Malone the inspiration for the project?
1:27.6	It's because upon researching him, I was like, why is he not discussed as one of the greatest players ever he's
1:34.6	won three league MVPs full list of guys with more cream Michael
1:40.8	LeBron wilt Russell that's it it's the Michael, LeBron, Wilt, Russell.
1:43.7	That's it.
1:44.6	It's the same number of MVPs as Magic and Bird.
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