Kirk Goldsberry

He's 12 years old.

And he says, I'm sending this on my dad's email with his permission.

My father is a longtime listener of yours.

Put me on the podcast, which I love.

I always get excited when new one comes out.

How come whenever you talk about Kevin Durant and the Warriors, you don't mention that he played with the greatest shooter ever and a top five shooter ever that made life so much easier for him.

Um, went on and on about Durant.

So it's interesting.

And, uh, Ethan, Ethan Strauss actually wrote about this last week on his sub stack about longevity rot.

which there's different versions of this when just when either somebody stays around too long.

And I've talked about this a bunch.

And I haven't talked about in my book about how the memories of somebody near the end can somehow taint the actual memories of their peak.

And then you could, you see it with TV too, with like,

Barkley being on TV all the time versus Carl Malone not being on TV and the other stuff that's happened with Carl Malone.

And now it feels like Barkley's career was more significant than Malone when that wasn't the case, when it's happening.

I think KD the last 10 years really overshadowed how good those last seven OKC years were.

When from 2010 to 16, he won the MVP, runner up three times, five straight first teams, made the 12 finals, won 10 playoff series.

He's either the second or third best guy of the 2010s.

I'd have him third behind Curry.

I think it's LeBron Curry and KD.