Where Have All the Big Men Gone?

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🗓️ 9 January 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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For years, the NBA style of play was dominated by "big men," players who stand 6-foot-10 or more and who go to the post to score. Now, the biggest players shoot more from the outside. And it's all by design. ESPN's NBA insider Jackie MacMullan joins Mina Kimes to discuss why simply posting up is going the way of the dodo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's all right to pop-wow and shoot the three sometimes,
0:04.1	but especially when they have someone on you that you know you can dominate.
0:08.5	Get your butts in the block and dominate.
0:12.4	That was Nick's legend Patrick Ewing,
0:15.1	who dominated the NBA with his tough physical postplay back in the 1990s.
0:20.8	But as the game has evolved, his bruising style might be on the verge of going extinct.
0:27.6	How did it happen?
0:29.5	And what's a big man to do in the modern NBA?
0:33.3	I'm Minikimes.
0:34.5	It's Thursday, January 9th.
0:36.7	This is ESPN Daily, presented by Indeed.
0:50.3	Jackie, hello. Hello. How are you? I'm good. Good.
0:55.0	Jackie McMullen is a senior NBA writer and commentator for ESPN.
0:59.0	So Jackie, you and our good friend, Kirk Goldsbury, have a story out about the wave of change happening
1:07.0	with NBA Big Men.
1:09.0	How did this piece come about in the first place?
1:13.0	Well, Kirk is just so smart.
1:16.6	I spent a lot of time talking to Kirk during our NBA summit back in September,
1:19.3	and we said, you know, we should really work together.
1:23.9	And we started talking about various story ideas.
1:30.0	And one of the things we both had noticed, teams were really getting away from playing in the post and so I was saying to Kirk you know I talked to these big men all the time these
1:35.0	hall famers Patrick Ewing Alonzo morning shack Charles Barkley these guys that made a living posting
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