Welcome on to my favorite podcast of the year outside of the mock trade deadline and the mock off season.

And that is top 10 prospects in the NBA and really exciting.

Danny and I who have often been accused of groupthink, which we talk to each other for an hour a day about basketball.

So that's not a surprise.

I'm going to bring in the person that I only talk to an hour a week about basketball to really avoid the group think here.

And that's John Hollinger doing this exercise for the first time.

John, how are you?

Doing great. Thanks for having me on.

Yeah, and Danny, of course, is here as well.

And so just to tell people what we're doing here, this is the top

10 prospects, and we'll probably go a bit further than 10 as well, in the NBA, age 23 or

younger. So that's basketball reference age 23. So they'll have to be 23 or under as of February 1st this season.

And the idea behind age 23 is just that's the year when you can still look at this guy's future and predict out.

It's only 23 years old.

24, obviously completely fully formed, no development possible.

But by that point.

But, I mean, obviously we have to cut it off at some point.

And certainly there are players who have developed really well in the past year

who just turned 24 this year, which we'll probably hit on at least a little bit.

But, John, just as you went through this exercise, any just opening thoughts that you have?

The awesomeness of the 2018 draft is still very apparent.

This is the last year this group will be in the mix here.

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