For as long as I've known the NBA, it's been a Star's League.

But even among the stars, there's an exclusive club.

Russell and Dr. J. Jordan, Kobe.

They're all part of a select group that paved the way for the NBA superstar up today.

And some even shared secrets with each other along the way.

From Spotify and the Ringer Podcast Network, I'm Jackie McMone.

And this is the Icons Club.

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Kyle has it going.

Welcome to the answer.

That's what I would say.

If you've never joined us before, seer it in J. Kyle man.

That's the name of this podcast.

Yeah, we just we riff on deep things and we sit on bean bags and postulate and hmm,

hi, well, you know, and smoke pipes and things like that and talk about the deep love of basketball

that we both share. Yeah, like scratching our chins and contemplatings what we do here. Sure,

speaking of chins, I was noticing Tyler Hero has a really wispy like go-t action going on.

I was wanting, he's irrelevant to something we're going to talk about. I don't know why that popped

into my head. So I mean, curious what you're up to, Sir, I'm always curious about how your

day goes because I feel like you do your best thinking like late at night, I was telling our

producer Chris Hornet, like, Sutton that I'll get these like very profound basketball thoughts

from Sir at later in the day. Is that is that kind of the way you work? Do you kind of,

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