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Chapter 1: What are Gio's criteria for choosing his favorite NBA players?
Trust me, I know how cheesy this sounds, but this is something that happened over the weekend where I sat down and I was talking sports with a friend, and I said, well, he asked me first, give me your all-time favorite Five. Your guys. Not meaning the best five. Your favorite five basketball players by position if you're throwing them out there in a starting lineup. Not anywhere.
Not just Knicks. Not just Knicks. Anywhere. Now, I'm telling you this. I will say this again because there's going to be people whose heads are going to explode. I'm not saying these are the best players at the position. I'm telling you these are my guys. Right. The guys that I loved watching. Or still love watching. Yeah. So there are two Knicks as a part of it.
But if I'm going position by position, all right, I'm going Steph Curry at the point. I'm going Allen Houston 2. I'm going Kobe 3. Karl Malone, four, and Patrick Ewing, five. Those are my guys.
My guys.
I'm not saying they can beat everybody. Those are my favorite players at those positions.
Okay, so I had no warning on this. No, I know.
I just felt like bringing that up all of a sudden.
So I'll give you, without hesitation, I put Jason Kidd down as the point guard. Yep. To me, there's, for me, no disputing that. What's interesting is I clearly put Michael Jordan down immediately. But he's not one of your guys, is he? No, he's not one of my guys, but in terms of... But that's the thing. But see, here's the... All right. I hated him because he always beat my team. Yes.
I didn't have that issue. Oh, you weren't a Knicks guy? No. I mean, now, did the Bulls beat the Nets in that one playoff series? Sure. But I don't look at Jordan as a net killer by any stretch. He was just a great player that I did enjoy watching. And the Bulls were on NBC every Sunday at 5 p.m. I believe it was 5 o'clock. And we used to watch the game. So I would put Jordan on the list.
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Chapter 2: Who does Gio select as his favorite point guard and why?
I love the way Shaq played the game. Yeah, that's fine. But if I was going to stick to a net thing... Clearly it would be Kevin Garnett. No, I'm just kidding. That's a really interesting question.
Chapter 3: What makes Allen Houston one of Gio's favorite shooting guards?
I don't know where else I would go with that.
Chapter 4: Why does Gio consider Kobe Bryant as one of his favorite small forwards?
If I have to stick to my guys for two more, Richard Jefferson perhaps might make that list because he was fun to watch. I know Evan might put that. I think love Vince Carter.
Chapter 5: What qualities does Gio admire in Karl Malone as a power forward?
I did too, but not to that degree when it was with New Jersey. That's interesting. That's pretty good.
Chapter 6: Why is Patrick Ewing Gio's favorite center in the NBA?
I mean, of all the stars, like Steph Curry and Kobe were my favorites. Like Jordan and LeBron, everybody talks about those two guys. I was off-brand Geo with the Curry and Kobe thing.
The Jordan thing for me was just, he was just always must-see. Whenever the games were on NBC, you had to watch them. Watching him put up the 50-plus at Madison Square Garden, watching him as a wizard come back and have big games was remarkable to see. I never got into Kobe. I don't know why. I was a Shaq guy. Maybe that's actually it. Never was a Kobe guy. Who else did you pick?
Who else did you say? So I had Ewing. I like Steph for sure. Ewing's hard for me because he's a net fan. Yeah, no, I get it. But he was, Ewing, I would say, one of the most underappreciated athletes in New York history.
And also, I had a fascination and love affair with Alan Houston. That's why I had to make... Oh, you had the Miami moment? Yeah, I just loved Alan Houston.
And that team was fun, too, with Latrell Sprewell. Yeah. That 50-game season, they went to the finals. They were fun to watch. Yeah, the LJ four-point play, the whole thing. That was my wedding day, yes. Interesting list, though.
Yeah. It's stupid, but it's fun. I know. I was going to bring up something like that. I also did the Mets one.
Well, you were really a few drinks into this, weren't you?
Yeah.
What did you do? All nine? Well, I didn't do... Actually, I don't think I did pitchers. I just did position players. Did Darryl make the list? Yeah, of course. Darryl's a right fielder. Some people were very upset when he left. No, no, no. He definitely made the list. I went Piazza, Keith. I put Edgardo at second because I had to put David Wright over at third. I put Lindor at short.
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Chapter 7: How does Gio's list differ from conventional all-time greats?
Yep. Jonathan in Somerset. What's going on, Jonathan? Hey, good morning, gentlemen. How we doing? Good. What's up, man? Hey, Jerry, great job as always filling in. I really appreciate you mentioning that fundraiser for the girl down at Old Bridge with the wrestler. I think they've raised a ton of money already so far. I hope so.
The wrestling community down at Old Bridge is massive and very supportive, so that's great. I just wanted to give you props for doing that. Yeah. Gio, I think you should give CBS Sports Network a little thank you for not putting your head on Karl Malone's body. Take a look at the personalized section of his Wikipedia, man. I have not. You don't watch your head on Karl Malone's body.
Chapter 8: What are the memorable moments Gio shares about his favorite players?
I thought he was okay. No, the reason I was making a joke. No. I was making a joke. No, no, no. I was making like a white-black joke there is what I was doing there, Jonathan, about why didn't he put me on Karl Malone. But, yeah, I have not looked that up now. I... I don't know what's going on with Karl Malone.
Because I only remember when he was in studio. I remember him, I don't know how long ago.
He dunked on me on a little kiddie basket thing in the CBS Sports Network studios. So you were still over there, so Kurt was still here. So that's a long time ago now. Yeah, it was one of the great moments ever. I've got pictures. I was like, can I try to stop you and dunk? And he just, boom, pulled me over. And I was willing to take any pain at that point. It's Karl Malone. It's Karl Malone.
That's right. Love Karl Malone. His face is his ticket. As he told us. That's right. Personal life. Do we believe these things, though? You know what I'm saying? Personal life. I don't know. He said the second page of the Wikipedia was pretty terrible. I don't know. Family. Paternity stuff we got going on. Father of three children. Yeah, I mean, it basically looks like paternity stuff.
And he's got issues with kids and women and everything else. Okay. But, I mean, it's not like he's... Not unique to him. I mean, of all the crap you hear people, like, famous people doing these days, like... Right. A couple of paternity lawsuits at this point. It's, uh... Throw your hands up in the air.
That's not where I thought he was going with that. Desensitized.
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