And the pole question we had up and you can check it out on the f N T S Y Radio, Twitter, handled or follow me at Spitting Speeds and you can get to it. The question is this, do you think the amount of rest current NBA players get during the season make them less great historically? And your absence a yes or no? Then maybe because it's part of the business. Now. I bring this up because we've been talking about the rest and the schedule and the back to backs all
season long here on the show. But yo, let me tell you something. Dennis Rodman short things. So he chimed in in an interview that he gave this week as well, and let me tell you something. This is Dennis Rodman, and I quote, you know what Lebron's doing the one thing that I always said Michael Jordan never did. He never rested, He played every game. He played every game.
Lebron hat is in the position to do this now because they need him, The league needs him, and that's why he's doing all this crazy expletive now like being m about all this expletive. He continues on, it's very easy to do what they defined now as greatness. Michael Jordan did it when it was tough, really tough. What he do. He led the league in scoring ten years in a row, ten years in a row. Back then, that was hard. He averaged like thirty two points a game.
Now it's easy. All these expletive triple doubles. Back then when he was getting his ass whoop, I mean beat down every game. Then when he played against us, he said, guess what, I gotta go back in the gym, get tough, and he got great. So that is it. You know, Rodman certainly out there scorched earth for the players of today. And check this out. I've been telling you, I gotta give this stat again. Will Chamberlain once in the sixty two season, average forty eight and a half minutes a game.
NBA games are only forty eight minutes long. This guy average more minutes in a full season because of overtime games than there was. He only missed eight minutes the entire season in the sixty two season, only missed eight minutes the entire season because he got ejected once with eight minutes left to play. Played all the games, all the minutes. This year, there's only four players in the NBA that even average thirty seven minutes a game, Jimmy Butler, Wiggins,
Lebron and Kyle Lowry. You know, so basically, by definition, every player in the NBA this year misses more minutes per game then Will Chamberlain missed in that historic sixty one sixty two season and check it out. Kenyan Martin was also signed, kind of saying the same thing, saying, people don't really care that much about, like, you know, winning and trying hard. It's kind of like all just
a little boys club. You know. He sided guys and a nice piece on the Player Tribune that I saw today, Um, guys like Reggie Evans, this is a dude that you know, grabbed Chris Kaman down under one time. Guys like Kobe who would just like just straight up killers. Talked about Ron Artest, Kevin Garnett and even head coach back then, Jerry Sloan of the Utah Jazz that we're all kind of, you know, tougher than what we would see out there.
So that's why I ask you, you know, with all this rest and all this talk, do you think it actually lessens you know, they're kind of legacy. Remember also, James Harden thought that thought that this idea of playing all eighty two games and minutes played should be one of the criteria for the m v P Awards. So I ask you, do you think it makes them kind of less great when compared against their historical peers. All the rest that they're getting, My man, Chris Bovona making
it so hot that we sweats team. What do you think about this? Chris david Is drop a bomb on it. Do you think that this kind of diminishes their legacy? All the rest they're getting the players of today's NBA growing up in the nineties, we obviously grew We had some of the hardest working basketball players in the n B. A UM, I'm not against resting players after you've won certain things, like when you've gotten the division, when you're
gotten into the play. Just managing their minutes earlier the season, like in December, I think it's a little crazy. It's a little much. I think the only guys that should be allowed to be have man minute managed our rookies. Okay, alright, fair enough, So check it out. We got that whole question up on the f N T S Y radio Twitter handle. Right now, let us know what you think.