Jeremy Taché

But I really do.

And Mike Fundas and I were just sort of talking about this behind the scenes.

What's crazy is the way that the Lakers centers stand out in basketball.

Because it's so far and away the best positional group in basketball history.

There's not a lot of other traditions when you look at a singular position group for a singular franchise.

Like, I was trying to go through and look at some of the greatest players ever.

And ironically, you could also look at now the Lakers small forward if you include LeBron James.

Because you could look at him and Worthy and a couple of other guys.

Right, Luka...

Well, it's funny because you could also like if we wanted to do like it's a funny argument to make.

But if you wanted to argue down near the bottom of what would be this top 100, if you just wanted to do it in basketball and you wanted to say Miami Heat centers and go Shaquille O'Neal, Alonzo Mourning, Chris Bosh.

Right.

Because Chris Bosch moved forward.

Now, if you just go guard position as opposed to point guard versus shooting guard, that's also where you can have a different conversation because some of these teams, I mean, gosh, if you look at the Lakers guards in general and just start with Kobe Bryant and Magic Johnson, you're in a pretty good place.

So it's it's when you go to the sort of the positionless basketball model.

that changes this entire thing.

Because the whole premise is you're going with specific positions.

We were delineating between center fielder and right fielder.

If not, Yankees outfielder in general blows everyone else away.

And so when you have to go to the specifics, it is mind-boggling how far and away Lakers center and the tradition of that position over the span of years just dominates anybody else in basketball.