A lot of discussion about the last 25 years in basketball.

So where did you all in beat rank among the big men since the year 2000?

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Welcome again, Derek Kyle.

I'm Devon and we have in sitting in the producer chair today as Bree is off.

Tyler Zuli hanging out with us. All these off days for Brie. She's yeah. Living the dream. Getting those in before the basketball season starts. So Brie is off. So again, thanks everybody for hanging out with. It's good to see you all in the chat. So we do want to talk about as we discussed that list yesterday from CBS about the top 25 the Mount

Rushmore the day before and Joelle and Bede certainly in that among the Sixers but not the top

25 players over the last 25 years. We wanted to kind of whittle it down to the big men and discuss

Kyle where he does in fact rank among the big men. There are some names

that we'll talk about along the way that you say, ah, it's not even close. There's one particular

argument as we discussed Joel and B that it's going to be fun. And then there's certainly

who's the best big man over the last 25 years, Derek. So we'll have some fun with that

today. We'll get into a few other things a little bit later, some news and notes. But first,

let's talk about the top big men in the NBA system. First, let's eliminate the guys that we're

not going to talk about today. It's probably the most important disclaimer because there will be people

who come in the guys you call the time later on who yeah so there are players who are either worth

consideration or would flat out be on this list if we were going and just saying it's front court guys right and how you define that depends person to person

but the most prominent example would be tim duncan right tim duncan is one of the best

NBA players of all time period but he did spend a decent chunk of his career and in this century as a power forward right so

Tim Duncan is an example Anthony Davis is an example Kevin Garnett is an example Amari

Stadamire palgasol those are the five names that most come to mind of like these are guys that in Duncan's case would be, you know, near the top of the list.

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