Ben Taylor

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4,322 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 5 Jul

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Thinking Basketball · #382: Draft evolution with J. Kyle Mann · 26 Jun 2026 podcast

It had reached maturation on that curve.

And then to 70 years into the NBA's history, just have this revolution, the pace and space revolution that coincided with analytics is absolutely incredible.

I think it's an amazing story.

But

As all this has happening and as all this has changed, when I look at like the twenty twenty six draft

the part you left out in the offseason for me is when the draft starts, Kyle, it's just a bunch of Madden generated names.

I'm like I'm like, those aren't real people.

What are you talking about?

That's not a that's not a real name.

That's not a real person.

Um and then of course by the time we are done with Summer League, I have now now they're part of me.

Yeah, we're gonna say

I th well I think that probably has it seeped into and explains a lot of the culture all these years later.

But uh twenty twenty six draft, when I hear these fake names.

I mean come on, you can't Kingston Flemings, you can't come on.

This is Braden Burry's Jaden Qu how do you even say his last name?

I mean these aren't these aren't real people.

I n I see that you have pictures of them and um you know Jaden Quaintance, you know, is like Kavon Looney's long lost cousin or something in certain photos and uh, you know, I I get it, but um

These aren't real people.

Yeah, you don't of course they are.

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