Episode 1: Honarable Mentions

So I've got my very first is George Mikan.

So George Mikan, when I went into making this list, I researched a lot about him.

I was thinking, man, I think it'd be kind of different if I had him in there.

I've always thought he was amazing.

NBA's first superstar.

but the more I looked into it, I just couldn't get him on the list.

Um, he just played such a short amount of time, although he changed the game, you know, like expanding the, um, the painted area, because he was just so dominant, there was different, you know, if you play basketball now, you've still got things like the Maiken drill, um, people practicing with that, he changed the game forever, but, you know, it's just so, it's so old school, he played in Chuck Taylors, it was, his career only lasted like eight or nine years, although he won, um, and was the best player in the league.

It was just such a short amount of time.

Just not quite long enough, so I didn't have him in there.

My next is Bob Cousy.

Bob Cousy, the Houdini of the hardwood.

He...

I mean, he also was one of the OG superstars.

A lot of people don't like him now, say that he wasn't playing in the plumber era.

But at the end of the day, you can only play against the people that you played against.

So he dominated his era like new people are dominating their era.

He went from, you know, the classic one-handed dribble.

He switched between hands.

That was crazy at the time.

You know, he won an MVP, he won heaps of championships.

I think he won eight championships, which is just like insane.

But obviously he was playing with big Bill Russell.

Yeah, but he shot such a low field goal percentage from the field.

So it was like, although he dominated...

I kind of just couldn't put him in there because of that.