All right, this is the last winner in our listener topic bracket. This one is kind of a sad topic,

but it's one that people were really interested in. This was actually two kind of sad topics.

One that got defeated was the best teams to never win a championship. And then this one was the best players who never

were. Players who just for whatever reason seemed like they're on a great path. And then whether it's

injuries or tragedy, just were not able to become the players that it looked like and that we

hoped that they could be before we get started. I just want to remind everyone please give us a

share on social media if you really enjoy this. If you have anyone that you think should have been

in here that we should have talked about feel free to tweet us at Nate Duncan NBA at Danny LaRue. So our

format here. I think we're just gonna I don't know if we'll end up picking a top three. Let's just see

how long it takes us to go through talking about everyone. But each of us are just gonna mention

some players that we thought fall into this category. So I'll give you the first selection, Danny. I think

we could kind of talk about two players in sequence because there are only amazingly enough from my

going through the list and you are more of a basketball story than I am because I didn't get into it

until late night. You know, I've done some digging, but not as much as some others. And there are only two

players that won league MVP regular season MVP that really had a true side tracking of their

career due to injuries. And those are Bill Walton and Derek Rose, one of the current vintage, one

one significantly older. And so let's start with Walton. Walton was one of the greatest college players

of all time comes into the pros and then has as a strong has it when he's healthy has a prize

of strong first few years. And then in 76 77. So that's Walton's third year, though he's 24 because he

played so long UCLA. Walton is the MVP of the finals. The Blazers win the championship that year. And

then the 77 78 season happens. Yeah. And his struggles with injury were chronicled in certainly a top

five basketball book ever. The breaks of the game. And he ends up even suing Portland's medical

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