Welcome in another very special edition of the 50 greatest players of the last 50 years

as we continue our countdown and we are now to the truly hollowed ground.

The top three.

And all along everyone is known who the top three are.

The top three are going to be in some order, Cream Abdul-Jabbar,

LeBron James, and Michael Jordan.

The question has always been, what is the order?

And let me say this.

I know some people, when we do the goat debate a ton on sports television.

And one thing I have been incredibly consistent on, and some people agree with me, I think

Dan Patrick agrees with me I think the man I'm about to

mention himself agrees with me that the goat debate is almost always constricted to LeBron and Michael.

But there is a third person that by any measure should be included in.

And that is Kreme Abdul Jabbar.

And so if the goat debate is truly a three-person debate, that means there should, there is someone who might be the greatest player ever who actually must come in as the third greatest player ever.

And that is how we land here today in one of the most famous, most celebrated, most accomplished athletes in the history of any sport coming in at number three on our list,

the third greatest player of the last 50 years.

Number three, Michael Jordan.

Now before I even get into it, let me say this.

This is a celebration of these players okay all of these lists all

of these videos have been about how amazing these people were and everything they

accomplished now by virtue of having Jordan third, folks are going to say I am hating on him, I am trying to tear him down. None of that is true. And the way I would like to do this is over the next 20 to 25 minutes,

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