Nick Wright's Top 50 NBA Players of the Last 50 Years #15-13: Giannis, Isiah, & Kevin Durant

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🗓️ 12 June 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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As we near the top 10, Nick discusses two of today's all-time great players, as well as an iconic star from the 80's. Starting with one of Michael Jordan's iconic rivals and all-time great point guard, then moving onto possibly the most dominant player in the NBA today, and then to the greatest scorer of the last decade. 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, welcome in it is another special episode of What's Right with Nick
0:16.1	Right, the podcast and the YouTube shows we continue the countdown of the
0:20.3	50 greatest players of the last 50 years.
0:24.0	Today's show we will do players 15, 14, and 13.
0:29.0	And this really to me is the true NBA royalty of the last 50 years with respect to Dirk and the
0:37.9	mailman and Berkeley and K.G and David Robinson and Chris Paul and the guys who we've already done.
0:46.7	15 to 10 are iconic Alzheimer's and nine through one are really in arguably the greatest players that most any of us have seen with our own eyes as again we're not including wilt and Russell and the like on the list. So let's get right to it. We will go to number 15. A guy who I think by the analytics era and by the younger generation is chronically
1:14.8	underrated but maybe not after you listen to these next few minutes.
1:18.8	Number 15 Isaiah Thomas so Isaiah Thomas's regular season resume is not great.
1:25.0	Three time first team all NBA, two time second team all NBA.
1:29.0	One time assist champ and one time was a top five MVP finisher.
1:34.0	That's it.
1:35.2	So how does Isaiah Thomas with that regular season resume
1:40.0	come in 15 of the 50 best players the last 50 years.
1:44.8	Well, quite simply, Isaiah Thomas understood
1:48.4	how to win basketball games, as well as any player in
1:53.2	NBA history and he showed it we don't include what you did in
1:56.7	college on this list but it is worth noting
1:59.4	Isaiah Thomas was a champion in college,
2:02.6	the number two pick of the draft,
2:04.4	and I talked to Isaiah once and asked him
2:07.7	because I once upon a time had underrated
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