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Sep 2024
32m 6s

A Forgotten NBA Superstar and a Formula ...

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

Ric offers a new way to compare all-time great NBA players from different eras and discovers a player rarely mentioned as an all-time great who deserves to be.

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