Ryan Rosillo

And I think a lot of the defensive rules were really simplistic and all that kind of stuff.

But, you know, what I what I kind of despise about what has happened to the way we talk about this stuff is how simple everyone wants to make it.

And I don't understand why the audience wants things to be so simple, whereas Charles somehow is a loser because he doesn't have a ring.

When I look at Charles, look, I'm incredibly biased.

Charles is my favorite athlete of all time.

No one will ever surpass him.

I worshiped him as a kid.

It means the world to me that I became friendly with him through this profession that we have.

But it's been so long that there are some games you go back and look at his run

where you're like, okay, I know he wasn't Jordan, I know he wasn't Magic, I know he wasn't Bird, but it's forgotten how close he was, that those were his contemporaries.

And I guess as a historian, I try to just battle that battle every day.

That Suns series, to me, is, you know, again, I was getting a little bit older there.

I mean, my most disappointing sports memory as a kid is the 86 World Series, but I remember...

I was listening to that game on the radio because I was coming back home and I was on a boat.

So I was like, how am I making, you know, how would I allow this to happen?

And when that shot went in, I was just absolutely devastated, even though I was probably a little too old to be that devastated.

But, you know, you said something earlier before I jumped on about, like, Otani and Wimbinyama.

And the reason I've always loved basketball the most is that if you truly are that great, you can decide, all right, enough of this.

Like, this is my possession.

And in baseball, you can hit it right at somebody.