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Dec 2019
25m 53s

How the NFL and NBA today make it painfu...

Ric Bucher, NBA insider and Fox Sports NBA analyst
About this episode

Bucher examines why it's time to stop thinking of Brady, Rodgers and Brees as great quarterbacks, why picking all-time teams is not much more than a marketing ruse and how the No. 1 prerequisite for playing in the NBA has nothing to do with height, speed or leaping ability. 

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