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Bleacher Report released their ranking of the top 100 NBA players of all time. The most controversial ranking - Kobe Bryant at #11 outside of the top 10. Crowder is stunned that BR thinks there’s 10 players better than Kobe but Solana thinks BR got it right.
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00:00bleacher report came out with their top 100 nba players of all time i don't know if you saw this
00:05earlier solana there's obviously whenever you make a list of the greatest of all time anything
00:11you're going to have some and we'll have discussion about this tomorrow because we don't have time
00:15here in the five o'clock funky buddha happy hour but bleacher report would you like to guess who
00:20their number one nba player of all time is the absolute goat of goats michael jordan can't michael
00:26jordan michael jordan number two braun lebron okay i think everybody agrees on one and two some
00:33people might have them uh transposed but uh and i'm not certain transposed is the right word there
00:39solana if you want to jump on that and check out the uh sounded good definition why don't you just
00:44say opposite i don't know i was because i'm cutesy that way y'all like to use these big words man i
00:51don't get it i was trying to be inconspicuous with it but i don't think it was because i pointed it
00:55out number three is transpose what does transpose mean ask me big word man what does transpose mean
01:03transpose of course it's when you move one object to another place oh so i so i'm right so i'm using
01:09it correctly there he doesn't know is that transport no that would be no i mean i understand what you're
01:18saying that you you yes transporting something is moving from one place a thing from one place to
01:24another but you hit it on the head to change the position or order of something you hit it on the head
01:29i was right transposed was correct some people would have mj and lebron transposed that was a good one
01:34yes oh now i'm feeling good now and kobe has to be kobe has to be three no so that is one of the
01:44biggest sticking points of this in fact the first response on bleacher report is from shack
01:50who writes and this is a little clue as to where kobe is kobe at 11 is criminal kobe bryan
02:01the black mambas the 11th best basketball player of all time please report please report kiss my butt
02:09that's crazy i i don't understand the outcry here because i understand 11 this is a sensitive
02:16topic because kobe bryant passed away i realize that but i don't give a damn if he's dead 11 being
02:22the 11th best player in nba history is like an insane honor and who are you replacing him with well
02:28it's an insane honor if you're not in the top five but he's not he might be okay so who's talk who's
02:35three to ten to your point solana who's three to ten when someone comes up that's better than kobe
02:41i got you number three is kareem abdul jabbar kobe's better than him but like i'm not it's just
02:49it's just a ridiculous thing number four magic johnson kobe got magic okay number five bill russell
02:59kobe kobe number six shaquille o'neal kobe shaq went to play with kobe because he knew it he didn't
03:08go to play with kobe the los angeles lakers traded for shaquille o'neal before kobe bryant was even
03:15the face of of anybody's idea was even thought of to be a number one option on a team shaq and penny
03:22were getting their ass wore out every year in the playoffs he went to play with kobe and start
03:26winning championships am i correct number seven is tim duncan jesus christ mr fundamental number eight
03:36is larry bird better than kobe number nine is wilt chamberlain play with midgets or short people
03:47number 10 number 10 steph curry steph curry is better than kobe bryant yes
03:55solana are you number 11 is kobe
04:01there there are there what's that three there are seven people better than kobe bryant on that list
04:09solana kobe bryant isn't even a top three laker or top two laker and there's nothing wrong with that
04:20solana there's nothing wrong with that the lakers have wilt i'm sorry the lakers have kareem
04:26have magic johnson and have shack as the three best lakers of all time and those three guys were more
04:32dominant for a longer period of time in the nba in the nba than kobe bryant was and there's nothing
04:40wrong with that but people get all up in arms because they want to say that kobe bryant is better
04:45than lebron and he's on jordan's level and by the way will will did play for the lakers for a little
04:49spell too no no no no no i think mj and lebron are a step above kobe but kobe is three there are people
04:59who will argue that and i i i get it there because if you take into account fierce competitor who won
05:07multiple championships dominance of the game for a decade but but that's the thing like he he didn't
05:18dominate the game for a decade he genuinely didn't and this is not an indictment on kobe bryant i loved
05:24kobe bryant like genuinely i loved it like it but but kobe bryant when shaquille o'neal leaves on this
05:31day literally in 2004 to miami from 2004 to 2007 that's four seasons the lakers weren't a good
05:42basketball team they were led by kobe bryant who put up insane individual statistics and they were insane
05:50but it didn't translate to winning and then the lakers start making some moves when kobe threatens
05:56to leave and they go they put a great team around them paramount papaga soul and they start winning
06:01but there's no decade where kobe single-handedly was what was dominating the one of one of his one of
06:09his biggest mistakes in history will be having the lakers choose between him and shaquille o'neal
06:16because had they stayed together they could have won more multiple championships they could have
06:24just the following way the following two seasons oh four oh five um shaq was mvp candidate first year
06:32in miami remember they go to the eastern conference finals they lose in seven of the pistons way to get
06:36hurt got hurt but after that hawk oh six heat win the finals but shaq was especially towards the end of
06:43that that playoff run wasn't really that dominating imposing shaquille o'neal anymore and then in 07
06:51and on he just wasn't shaq ever again so i don't know like maybe they have two more seasons where
06:56they can win two more titles but after that like that was the best thing that ever happened for maybe
07:01shaq doesn't belong ahead of him on that list he doesn't i don't know a decade of dominance from shaq i
07:08mean he changed the game and he was like jaw-droppingly good but there was never a decade of
07:13dominance from him shaq could dominate a game he's he's the most impressive big man like bill russell
07:19and kareem and all shaq was way better big man than all those guys i watched those guys but kobe
07:26bryant was better than shaq shaq shaq with penny who the hell were they getting beat by in the east
07:36they were nothing they beat the pool they beat shaq and penny are the only team to beat michael jordan
07:43in the playoffs after the bad boys pistons literally okay and then who who wore their ass out in the in
07:50the finals they lost to hakeem olajuwon one year in the nba finals like there's no shame in
07:55shaq he couldn't come over the hump with penny and penny was a monster kobe and shaq were amazing
08:03solana i don't know talk about this tomorrow because i want to get that i want to get the
08:08headlines there is no definitive answer here it's why this list is so great because solana
08:13but crowder believes it's a done deal yeah and shaq believes it's criminal that kobe is
08:1911. we'll talk about it tomorrow remind me tomorrow we'll bring someone on who knows more
08:24about this stuff than we do bill russell was playing cvs workers we'll have a ronda gadsden
08:31on to discuss this tomorrow and figure out the what the answer is real quick look at the headlines
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08:51involving heat players that needs to be discussed tomorrow hawk like all right i i won't go another
09:0124 hours without discussing it because okay let's get in this tomorrow because you done already started
09:06you done got on my bad foot already alonzo morning disrespected all right that's all i'm saying whoever
09:13put this list together bleacher report doesn't know what zoe meant to the game but whatever i digress
09:17but if you're doing decades of dominance where's zoe's no but i don't think zoe's a top 10 player
09:24but i don't think 87 on this list 87 87 that's kind of impressive be the 87th best person to ever
09:32play a sport that's been around since the i'm not saying it's not impressive but you look at some of
09:36the names in front of alonzo morning and you kind of shake your head who's 86 86 i don't know but jimmy
09:43butler and i'm not doing the thing where jimmy left so now i'm taking shots at jimmy butler but
09:48jimmy how how does jimmy butler have a more impressive resume in the nba than alonzo morning
09:53he doesn't flat out like it by by zero by no metric does he have a more impressive resume top to bottom
09:59than alonzo bleeping morning zoe zoe and patrick ewing were the two best big men in this league
10:07for several years and hakeem olajuwon for several years zoe was a cornerstone of a franchise
10:14in two different places charlotte and then miami did zoe ever win the championship yes 2006 off the bench
10:23what are you laughing at you should have just ended your answer with yes
10:37you shouldn't have added off the bench now i gotta fight you know how i like these stats
10:442006 we'll do this tomorrow i gotta get the headlines i'm gonna talk to kyle don't do that
10:51don't do that to zoe don't do that to zoe uh crowder the uh
10:56the uh the miami heat play tonight 8 p.m alonzo morning is the 93rd best basketball player in the
11:06history of basketball yeah
11:08don't do that crowder don't 8 5 and 0
11:19boy i needed him in 06
11:27bro are you kidding me zoe is gonna kick your ass 8 5 and 0
11:36no zoe has some no because i'm looking at his whole i'm looking at his game logs like he had
11:41some season now he was balling bro the guy the guy was one of the best players in the nba for a
11:46looking at it 21 8 and 8 like he had some great seasons you said you brought up you brought up 06
11:538 5 you no no i didn't know did zoe won a ring i said yeah he did in 2006 with the miami heat
12:01oh coming off the bench like he was the sixth man in the year
12:04this is a guy crowder this is a guy that literally had his kidney removed and then won a title i'm not
12:12worried about no medical report okay i'm worried about 8 5 and 0 because you brought up chris bosh
12:18chris bosh is the 71st best basketball player in the history of the game
12:22too low i'm sorry too high like he should be lower he should be lower on that list
12:28the history of basketball chris bosh hawk reinvented the way a big man plays with the big three miami
12:37heat rather than playing back to the basket moved him out to the perimeter i mean come on what are we
12:43doing here it's tough to stand in the corner
12:46man how you how you disrespect heat legends that just gave us straight up joy for years
12:56caitlin clark 65 that i agree with all right anything in the headlines we'll get into this
13:01tomorrow anything in the headlines i'm calling out i'm calling out sick tomorrow
13:04we should have laren agon tomorrow yes finally we're doing the show i want to do i mean
13:11it's a lot of pants are off
13:15you
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