It has been almost exactly two years since we made our first top 30 NBA players of all time ranking video in the summer of 2023. That view has a million views. That's our most viewed video. A million views on a three hour podcast is ridiculous. That was our first in-person podcast, too? Yes, it was our first in-person episode of all time, episode 50. Damn. And then last year, you guys know, we did the comeback to that part two by ranking the top 30 guards of all time in summer of 2024. Today we close out ranking season 2025 by doing part three to our all-time ranking series by ranking the top 30 big men in NBA history. I am so excited for this one. It's good because I was thinking about this before. Like, next year it's like, are we going to have to do top 30 wings and are there 30 small

forwards?

And we feel very confident about attaching the label all time to. Yeah. I don't know. I probably won't. Yeah. I'm not sure. No, we'll change it up. Before the big man one, this list, this list was the hardest one just because like even on guards like like when we're talking about like step versus Kobe or something those are conversations that

we've had before i've never had some of the conversations yeah in terms of like this ranking

of like comparing kg to i don't know some some random you know big center

like yeah though it's it's a weird crossover even though that they play very like close

exactly we're combining power forwards and centers to make it a little more interesting than just

top 30 centers that way we're not ranking like marcus hall and like you know boogie cousins

or whatever towards the end we want to make it so

it's all like legends some of the defying players of all time so combining path forwards and centers

like he said conversations we've never had before I feel a lot better about this I did the guards

looking back like immediately after I did our guards the last time I was like I don't like what I did

here I didn't do a good job ranking this. I was lazy at some of this.

So I'm very excited to show all the thought I poured into this one compared to last year.

Yeah, no.

How you felt about the guards last year is how I feel this year.

I fucking hated this so much because I had to go back and do research on some players

who I never were before.

I'm like, why am I looking at this crusty footage and like trying to decipher these parts about the guy? I don't, I shouldn't be doing this right now, but I'm doing it for them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it'll be fun. We're going to rank them. Before we get into it, though, before we started, I guess we should talk about our criteria because every time we do any type of ranking there's always so many comments about inconsistency and contradictions in our ranking. You make a list. And like, not even that, like, I guess I understand how people say that because they'll see things like a conversation in the 30s. We pick somebody that we think is just better, you know, they have less accolades and then we get towards the top and we give somebody a nod over a different debate because they have more

accolades and they're like but that other debate you gave it to him because he's better at basketball

but this time you care about rings everything every single ranking on here is a sliding scale

we factor their peak how talented they are their team accolades or individual accolades

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