Happy New Year everyone the first dunked on of a new decade and

Fitting that is one of our signature episodes top 10 prospects in the NBA

This is now gonna be the seventh consecutive year that I've done this I did it first in

2014 and

They let's just talk about what the criteria are for this episode before we get into it

The most important place to start is just the eligibility criteria and that is the players have to be age

23 or younger on basketball references age so that ties in with February 1st of that league year

So that that is the line we're using it's the it's an easy way to sort it's a fair way to do it

And that's what we've used the entire time the at least that we've been doing

I think that's what you used back in your writing days too

So that's that's the way it's been every year and then the other part is what well

So let me explain why why it is that we do age 23. It's basically just like that's the last year

We can be like boys only 23

Like the implication being that man this guy's gonna get so much better right that we just the sky is the limit for this guy

He's only 23 once you get to 24 you kind of ah, you know

I think this guy's pretty much established in something not that there aren't players who improve a lot after 24

But you don't see necessarily that meteoric rise

You don't have that multiple clay fun aspect of just trying to project what a guy can be I that's just my opinion of

You know that's the last number we had to do it somewhere

So I think that's a fair place to put it and you know generally you won't have anyone who's been in the league for more than

And we have a few guys who've been in for this is their fifth year

But you won't have anyone who's been in the league for more than five years even if they come in early and another way of putting it is when you think about the players who graduated out

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