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never before. Pepsi Max, thirsty for more. Thinking Basketball Podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome back to another episode. Today's show is going to be basically a companion episode to the latest thinking basketball video on YouTube which is about how stars

influence each other especially statistically and if it's your first time on the

podcast welcome we're gonna we're gonna dive deeper into this topic today it's it's a

topic that's been near and dear to my heart for years and it's about how players interact with each other and how that says about what that says about our perception of them and things like that.

So we will talk about Michael Jordan, we'll talk about

LeBron James, we'll get into Shaq and Kobe. We'll circle back to the

Durant warriors with Steph Curry. Now remember Curry played with Durant, Durant played with

Westbrook as I discussed in the video. We'll talk a little bit more about what

happens with Westbrook. Both Westbrook and Durant played with Harden, Chris Paul played with Harden.

Chris Paul played with Harden.

So there's all sorts of rabbit holes

that this will take us down that we'll explore

in today's episode.

And then I want to finish with what I think is the ultimate example

of this kind of heavy load high usage player combining in a certain way or

multiple players combining in a certain way or multiple players combining in a certain way to redistribute

value when a player goes in and out of the lineup. We'll talk about that team. It's a core concept that I lead with in

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