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What's Wright? with Nick Wright

Nick Wright's Top 50 NBA Players of the Last 50 Years #5-4: Tim Duncan & Magic Johnson

What's Wright? with Nick Wright

iHeartPodcasts and The Volume

Sports, News, Sports News, Basketball, Football

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, Nick reveals numbers 5 and 4 on his list, two players whose style of play could not have been more different, yet who both displayed a level of early, consistent excellence that transformed their teams into dynasties. 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome in to another special edition of What's Right with Nick Wright, the podcast and YouTube

0:17.6

shows.

0:18.6

We are into the top five of the 50 greatest players of the last 50 years.

0:25.1

And this is the part of the list where I'll be honest.

0:29.1

I'm really glad that it is the last 50 years because Wilt and Russell and how they slot up against the

0:39.0

next two guys incredibly difficult for me.

0:43.0

And I know we're not doing Wilton Russell on this pod,

0:46.0

but the top three are not only the top three of the last 50 years,

0:51.0

in my opinion, they are the top three of all time.

0:54.8

But five and four, how they would compare and contrast to Wilton Russell, incredibly difficult

1:01.9

to evaluate, and so I'm glad we don't have to evaluate.

1:05.0

Also, number five is a player who I've watched in real time,

1:11.0

the entirety of his career. four is a player who I have very very few

1:19.5

memories of very few of his real apex and of honestly the majority of his playing career and I had to go back and

1:29.5

watch and research and thanks to the internet you can really go back and watch almost any

1:35.0

playoff game if you're willing to pay pay for it and any playoff game certainly

1:39.2

of the last 40 years and most of the last 50 years. But they're two very different players.

1:44.5

They are very similar in this.

1:46.2

Number five and four are both guys who have a handful of jewelry

1:49.1

as everyone does on the rest of this list.

1:51.4

They are both unique in that we had never quite had a player

1:56.4

dominate from day one, the way both of these guys did,

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