It is time for an annual write of passage, our top 10 players in the National Basketball Association.

When we were in the last time I actually said National Basketball Association was.

Anyway, we're sponsored today by Goat, quite apropos for this particular podcast.

Tell you more about them momentarily. I know that's what you're staying tuned for.

But let's start off with just talking about what our criteria are because, of course,

they're much like for MVP. There are many ways you can look at this particular inquiry.

There really are. I mean, you can look at it in terms of, you know, if you were starting a one-game,

you know, single elimination for determining, you know, like, if you were going to live or not.

I know some people have used that as a requirement. You know, like, if you could pick one person to

start a team with, that's a question. And generally, what I've gone with, and I think this is in line

with for you, it's kind of based, it's a version of what we do for the position rankings. It's kind of,

if you were to have a player for a season and playoff, for a full season and playoffs,

I've never been particularly certain on whether it's like it starts today or it's just like

involves today. And if you want to clarify that, but really, that's what it is for me. So,

being a good playoff player does really, really, really matter. But also, being a viable regular

season player does too, you know, like if it's one of those guys, some of them will come up on the list

who are significantly better or worse in one of those phases, that makes a meaningful difference.

Yeah, I think I want to look at it too is, how is this guy going to look with average talent

around him? Not necessarily the exact team that he's on. That's of course the only

actual evidence that we have, but we can try to project what he might look like if he were in

a different situation. And so then you run into some issues too of how plug and play as this guy,

versus how much could he actually boost a bad team? You want to kind of think of how he might be

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