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Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Sharp Tech. I'm Andrew Sharp, and on the other line, Ben Thompson. Ben, how you doing?
You know, Andrew, there is oh, boy. Take like an NBA take like an NBA basketball player. There is sort of two curves in their career. The first is sort of athleticism. When you come into the league, you're probably you might still have a little bit more of a peak, particularly if you need to put on weight. Giannis would be sort of a good example of this comes in very spindly, very thin, puts on a bunch of muscle. But over time you're going to peak relatively early in athleticism. Then it's going to kind of go downhill. And yet we don't say a player's prime is when they're 23 or 24. We consider
29. Nine.
Because the other curve is the increase in experience and understanding and and how to actually play basketball.
The slows game down.
That's right. And it's good that the game slows down because your body slows down as well. And so there's, there's this, this inner, this, this period where the athleticism has declined, but not enough. And the experience has increased to more than make up for it. Eventually, however, you can be as experienced as you want, and you just you don't have it athletically anymore.
The lines on the graph diverge a little bit too much. Yeah. Blake Griffin, actually on Amazon, their new NBA coverage. Blake Griffin was talking about the moment he knew he had to retire. He was running up and down the court with Evan Mobley, and he was playing like three or four minutes. This is Blake Griffin on the Boston Celtics, like, three or four years ago. And there was a foul, and he was standing at the free throw line next to Evan Mobley. And he looked up at Evan Mobley, and Evan Mobley had been running up and down the court like nothing happened. And Blake Griffin has his hands on hi
of So moment right the experience is you just learn how to do things, right? You learn how to write, turn something out every day to be a professional podcaster, even when you're not feeling it, you're feeling tired. You sort of get amped up. You're ready to do it. You learn how to do things like tease. Like there's segments in this podcast that I'm gonna give a little hint towards. They involve getting old.
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