WEBVTT - Naked With Cari Champion - ICE CUBE - The Big3 is Here to Stay 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:04.640 The word was you did not perform in the super 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:07.400 Bowl show because the halftime show was because you are 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:08.959 not vaccinated? Is that true? 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:10.680 Ah? 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:13.760 That was a rumor. Why okay, so tell me I'm 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:14.320 such a rumor. 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:14.520 I was. 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:21.720 Tell me why ice Cube, legendary West Coast rapper was 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.799 not invited to perform at the super Bowl. How is 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:29.880 that possible? We get into it on this edition of Naked. 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:42.960 It's the greatest suspension entertainment can naked Wind carry Champion 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.680 and carry Champion is going to be a champion, a champion, 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:49.600 then carry Chappie and a champion and carry Champion then 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:50.320 carried Sheppy. 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.360 Hey, everybody, welcome to you a new edition of Naked. 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:58.280 So glad that you guys are all here. You're gonna 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:02.400 enjoy today's episode. We have ice Cube on the show. 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.800 This is his second appearance on Naked. When I initially 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.520 started the podcast some three years ago, he was one 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.440 of my first guests and he's always willing to come 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.760 on and talk, especially if he has something he wants 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:18.640 to talk about. And at issue for him now is 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.560 the Big Three. He is talking about the league in 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:25.840 which he created and how happy he is it's doing well. However, 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.280 ice Cube is running upgainst some problems, and it's fair. 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.280 It's fair that he's running up against problems. I understand 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.800 when you're new and you're a small business and you're 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.319 trying to do things in a major way, you're going 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.480 to find a few roadblocks. So, just by way of background, 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:44.920 i'll set the scene. In twenty seventeen, ice Cube, along 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:49.040 with an entertainment executive, founded Big Three and the hope 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:52.640 was that this league, which consists of twelve teams featuring 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:58.000 former NBA and international players, would give people some form 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:02.560 of athletic inertainment when there is none. The Big Three 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.880 doesn't play when the NBA season is in. It is 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:10.000 right after the season, and it goes honestly with the 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:14.080 idea that there are very few summer sports. Makes perfect sense. 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:17.160 He's been able to amass some of the greats in 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.399 terms of people who play for the league, who coach 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:22.600 for the league. Some true legends are there. And I 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:27.040 think it's interesting because he does a tour around different cities. 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.320 In fact, they'll be playing at Barclays by the time 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.079 you hear this podcast. They have done this for the 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:37.120 last six seasons or so, and I'm very impressed. But 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.200 what I didn't know is that Ice Cube has been 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.800 trying to get the NBA commissioner and Adam Silver on board. 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.760 He's been trying to get Adam Silver to help him 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.880 get more sponsorships to perhaps have the NBA partner with 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:55.600 the Big Three, but that hasn't been the case, and 0:02:56.240 --> 0:03:00.840 he believes that they can work together. In fact, he 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:03.160 said his own words, which you'll hear in the podcast, 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.560 he and Adam Silver used to be friends and now 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.640 it's been a bit contentious. If you follow ice cubout 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.880 any of the socials, you know that he's been talking 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.359 about this daily and for lack of a better term, 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.400 I think he feels as if the Big Three is 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:20.160 being blackballed. And he is very honest about a meeting 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.880 that he had with Adam Silver he talks about on 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:24.680 the podcast today where he wants to see the Big 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.960 Three go. The reason why I think this is important, 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.000 especially in my world of sports, we're watching in real 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:35.840 time sports washing. That's what the term is. Sports washing. 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:40.640 Saudi Arabia has already bought the PGA, they're moving to tennis, 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:45.920 they're already in wrestling and racing. It's only a matter 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.760 of time before they get to the NBA. You heard 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:50.680 it here. I'm being honest. That's just what it is. 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:54.600 Money conquers everything, Cash rules everything around me, y'all know 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:58.800 that's all. So with that being said, I asked Cube 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:03.840 if in fact he would be interested in working with 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.480 the Saudi Arabian the Investment Public Fund is what it's called, 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.280 and he said he would rather keep everything here on 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.119 American soil. But if it goes that way, it goes 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:17.200 that way. It's an interesting conversation about what I thought 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:21.119 was a family friendly league, the Big Three trying to grow, 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.680 and those around him and his opinion, in Cube's opinion, 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.880 not allowing it to grow. We also get into, which 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.480 I think is really super interesting, why the heck he 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:34.600 was not at the super Bowl during the West Coast 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:35.560 honoring do y'all. 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:35.760 Did, y'all? 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:37.400 Would you ask y'rself? Sad, why the heck was he 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:40.679 not there? I thought it was because I heard a rumor. 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:42.800 Clearly he clears it up. I thought it was because 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.640 he wasn't vaccinated, y'all, he keeps it a buck. I 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.720 was shocked by it all. And then finally I get 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:52.840 into what's the biggest misconception about Cube. You guys will 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:56.160 enjoy this edition of Naked, Sit back and relax as 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.440 he gives. He gives us a little education, a small 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:00.600 education on what's going on with the Big Three. 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:03.760 Champion and carry Chapion and carry Chepy. 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.480 What is your ultimate goal for the Big Three? Are 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.720 you is it? Is it happening now or do you 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.600 have a different vision or you want to grow it 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:16.440 in a different way. 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.520 Well, we're going to the league. You know, the league 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:23.080 continues to grow. We want to be a viable option 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:28.800 for ballers who find itself for some reason. You know, 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.600 with the NBA it's not always skill level. Sometimes it's 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:36.120 a numbers game. It's only twelve spots per team or 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:40.400 fifteen spots per team, so a lot of you know, 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:46.120 quality great ballers get left out or washed out. So, 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:49.920 you know, we want to have that place where you 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.680 could still play. You don't have to go overseas. You 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.600 can play in front of your family and friends and 0:05:55.760 --> 0:06:00.560 fans here in America. Professional at the highest level. And 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:07.040 how we're growing this sport is we're now selling teams 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.440 and we're in the process of selling teams to owners 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:16.080 and they'll put teams in different cities and we'll be 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:20.200 able to grow, you know, from there and expand to 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:24.000 sixteen teams and twenty twenty four and so on. 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:26.560 What owners are you selling them to? Are you selling 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:28.600 to NBA owners? Are you're selling to people who have 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:31.040 the money to buy the team. And what's the typical 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:32.760 buy in if you don't mind sharing. 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:38.480 Well, I mean NBA owners want to buy in. Several 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:42.760 big name owners have you know, show to show interest. 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:48.480 But because of the bylaw that is in place that 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.840 you know that Adam Silver and Martin Tatum, they can 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:56.880 really wave it. They're they're saying the law says they 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:01.240 can't invest in a competing league. Now out in no way, 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:05.840 shape or form, anybody can see that this Big Three 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.840 is no way competing and compete with the NBA. So 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:12.600 we're not competing. So we think that claws need to 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.720 be dropped when it comes to the Big Three. Now, 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:20.560 NBA owners can invest in pickleball, they can invest in 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.960 the TBT League, which is the basketball league. They can 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.920 invest in slam ball, which is coming back. But you 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.400 know what makes the Big three so special at the 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:36.000 end of the day, so we believe that you know, 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:41.320 we're being basically looked at unfairly by those two or 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:46.640 the top rast at the NBA as a competitive league 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:47.120 and we're not. 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.080 Who do you so you're okay, So if you can 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:55.680 test this, this law, this rule that they have created, 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:58.800 how do you go about doing that? Because you guys 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.440 aren't competing? Why why is it that you all are 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:03.520 the issue? So how do you contest it? 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:07.200 It's what I'm asking, Well, I think you appealed to 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:11.880 the UH players, you appeal to the to the owners 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:16.120 to UH to try to talk to Adam you know, 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:22.960 he's he's really the only force that's stopping this great collaboration. 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:29.600 The thing is is we have a place for players 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:34.400 in the NBA when the NBA doesn't. So you know, 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.920 why would he stop. You know, he's not going to 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:41.360 give Ice Man a head coaching job, or Rick Barry, 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:45.199 you know, or or Michael Cooper or you know. And 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.480 these are guys who went through the NBA, you know, 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.640 made the NBA what it is, and now they're coaching 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:55.600 in the Big Three. It's head coaches and and they're 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.240 trying to stop the league every way, shape or form. 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.160 So it's just it really don't make crazy man sense, 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:08.280 and so we just want we want somebody talked some 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.440 sense in Adam Silver, because I think this is going 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.640 to end up hurting his legacy more than he know. 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.719 At the end of the day, he's going to be 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:21.640 known as the guy who tried to stomp out the 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:25.920 only black All League in America with his former players 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.360 and coaches. Don't make sense. 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.880 June twenty fifth, you released a video on Twitter and 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:35.120 you called them a club of gate keepers. I want 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:38.319 to make sure I have that accurate. Specifically. Later on, 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.320 in an interview with Sports Illustrated, you said NBA Commissioner 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:46.880 Adam Silver is an opposition to Big Three, and you 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:51.160 said they're blocking sponsorships from companies like Nike and calls 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:56.199 them to question anti trust laws. He says, you say 0:09:56.240 --> 0:10:00.480 that you've had contentious meetings with them, and you don't understand. 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.599 Why do you know for a fact in terms of 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:07.679 proof they they're blocking sponsorships, they're telling people not to 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:09.600 sponsor the Big Three. 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:16.480 Yeah, I mean we've had you know, people we call, uh, 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:21.800 you know from the c suite, the CEO, cmos, c 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:29.080 os basically tell us that they can't do nothing because 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:35.760 we haven't worked out a deal or whatever with the NBA, 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:43.319 and so you know it's definitely them telling these not 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:48.280 only sponsors, but also networks. We had a great deal 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:52.679 going that got you know, somehow stumped out because of 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:58.040 our relationship with the NBA. So you know, we we've 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.040 had people actually tell us now I don't want to 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:05.800 name names because obviously they're scared of the NBA or 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:10.880 nervous about their relationship with the NBA, so you know, 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.400 they don't want to step on any toes when it 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.959 comes to that. And so I just think it's so 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:24.079 hell it's not right, pretty sad, and it has to 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.600 be dealt with the best way we know how, which 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:34.080 is you know, making it no publicly and then exercising 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:35.360 all the rights that we have. 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.240 It reminds me of and it happens all the time. 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.360 It's big brother, little brother. And when they have the 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.200 power of most people, everyone wants to deal with the NBA. 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.800 But it sounds like you're saying, for lack of a 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:52.920 better term, they're blackballing you. Like they're saying to you, 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:55.760 don't deal with them. If you deal with them, you 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:57.760 can't deal with us. Is that what you're feeling? 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.719 That's what I'm f and that's happening too. You know, 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:07.840 some of the major sponsors out there that that deal 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:12.280 with basketball, you know, it's not a large pool, it's 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:17.920 it's it's very small pool of major fortune five hundred 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:24.880 companies that advertise and push their products through basketball. So 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:33.439 having them talk to one let alone multiple, having them 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:37.120 talking to one network, let alone multiple. If you think 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:41.920 about all the networks that that run basketball, you know, 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:46.199 you can count them, you know, mainly on on one hand, 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:50.560 and you don't need your thumb. So there's a very 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:56.439 small amount of people we can go to to get 0:12:56.520 --> 0:13:02.480 this product more exposure. And to have them going to 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:08.480 those people and discarding them from doing it is it's 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.400 heartbreaking in and got a stop because at the end 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.560 of the day, you know, they think they hurt nice 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:19.760 cue on one guy. You know, I pay these guys, 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.439 so they're not hurting me. What they're hurting is the 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:26.680 guys who depend on this check, depending on this exposure 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:31.400 to continue their career, depend on this game the Big 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:36.840 Three for a lot of mental health that we provide 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:41.840 just by giving guys who are professional athletes place to play. 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:47.360 So we're doing so much for people, so many people 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:50.880 make a living off the Big Three and earn money 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.599 when the Big Three come to town. It's just a 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:58.400 shame to have such a giant like the NBA using 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:04.280 their might to stump us out. And what's crazy is 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:06.800 it's not working, so they really need to stop. 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.360 Is it personal? Does Adam Silver have a personal issue 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.360 with you? What does he believe about you that would 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:14.880 make him think he doesn't want to be in business 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:15.400 about with you? 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.320 I don't know, you know, like I said, the meeting 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:25.080 we had, it was we was explaining to him what 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.080 we were trying to do. We was actually offering the 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:32.600 NBA a piece of the league free, and he basically 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:36.720 said thank you, but no thank you. And then you know, 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:39.280 we was telling them what we were gonna do with 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:45.000 the league and that we thought that him not letting 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:49.640 a few players play because they were under these like 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:55.720 emotional contracts with teams, that we thought that wasn't right, 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:59.880 that we would fight that. And so he probably didn't 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:04.720 like how to me and it And why didn't he 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:09.640 like it? Maybe because we told him that he wasn't 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.200 going to kill our league in the womb. You know, 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:13.280 he probably didn't like that. 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:17.880 So now you have been very vocal about what is happening, 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:21.480 which normally does not happen. That's the opposite of how 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.040 I'm sure people handle the NBA when they're not happy 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:28.640 with the NBA. And you have made it very clear 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.920 that since its inception, your your league has been doing 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:38.600 very well. Now you are hoping that somehow someone talks 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.200 some sense in Adam Silver. Do you think that relationship 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.520 that you have with him as a foregone conclusion in 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.480 terms of any type of mediation and working it out, 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:48.080 Not at all. 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:53.840 You know, we're businessman, you know, you know we're not 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:59.720 to me that far apart, but you know it's really 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.440 a to him. You know. I don't, I don't, I don't. 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.800 I'm not holding the grudge at all on that, you know. 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.480 I think at the end of the day, we tried 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:13.760 for six years to handle things behind the scenes, and 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.840 when they continue to happen and they hurt the league, 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.440 it's our job to do whatever we can to protect 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:24.160 the league, and this is part of it, you know. 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.280 So I would hope the other owners see that this 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:31.560 is no good for the NBA to take this position 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:35.640 against the only black owned basketball league in America that 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:40.400 has their former players I'm pretty sure their players don't 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.720 like it because one day they may look up and 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:46.120 find the Big Three as an option for them. So, 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:51.240 you know, it really comes down to Adam Sewer and 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:55.280 the Todd Brass to not consider us competition. They don't 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.400 have to get rid of the bylaw. I think what 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.680 they should be worried about is, you know, I'm hearing 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.640 that the ABA is coming back. You know, a bunch 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:09.439 of foreign money is about to be you know, putting 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:13.359 into five on five five excuse me, five or five 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.720 pro basketball. So what they really need to do is 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.680 to be connecting with another American clan to make sure 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:24.040 that we protect American basketball because at the end of 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:27.840 the day, the money is gonna dictate where players go 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:32.720 usually and if foreign money comes in with the a BA, 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:35.399 they're gonna have a lot more problems to deal with 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:36.960 than the Big Three. 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:39.840 Would you, and we've been talking about this a lot 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.520 lately in sports about the Saudi Investment Fund? Would you 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.080 take money from the saudiast to to build up Big 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:46.919 Three and make it more competitives. 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:49.520 I would do what I need to do to protect 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:54.080 the league and protect it and investors. But why should 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:59.239 I want this enough American bread money people out here 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.840 to to make it happen, you know, so we would 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.840 hope we wouldn't have to go that route, but we 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.840 are not taking any of our options off the table 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.720 when it comes to the survival or the Big Three. 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.159 And then one one other question I want to make 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.399 sure I'm clear on if you want to grow the 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.760 league and you're asking owners, NBA owners more specifically to 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:22.760 buy teams and put big and put the teams in 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:24.720 their cities, is that what you were saying, not. 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:30.000 Just owners and jumps. We've been talking to a few 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:35.760 Major League Baseball owners, a couple of NFL owners, so 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.840 we're talking to, you know, people who won't who want 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:43.919 to own a Big Three team. You know, the appreciation 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:49.800 value team ownership is through the roof, so it's definitely 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:53.480 a great investment. So we're just looking for the right people. 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:53.760 To do it. 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:57.760 And there are a lot of NBA owners that want 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:01.200 to do it, but because of this by law, they can't. 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:05.959 And that's a shame because these are basketball people who 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:11.200 understand the game inside out and could help row the 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:14.639 league and they and you know, they they love what 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:18.680 we're doing. They love what we're doing for players. They're 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:20.560 keeping them here in America so they don't have to 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:25.560 go overseas. Heah play. So it's it's a great thing 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:29.400 that we're doing and it's gonna work. 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:33.040 Hey, everybody, don't go anywhere. Cube has already broken down 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.080 what happened with the Big Three When we come back. 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:38.520 I also ask what's going on with the Super Bowl? 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:42.040 He didn't perform? Why is that? He tells us in 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:44.680 just a few moments, thank you for listening to Naked. 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:48.239 Every Champion and Kerry Champions to be a champion out 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.040 of Champion and Kry Chappion and Kerry chap out a 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:55.440 Champion and Carry Chapion and Kerry Chaps and entertainment and 0:19:55.560 --> 0:20:05.280 Naked Weird Kerry Champion and Cary Champion is to be 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:07.680 a champion, a Champion and Carrie Champion. 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:10.200 They go play got a Champion, the Cary. 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:12.800 Chapion and carried Shep And then. 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:16.600 Hey, everybody, welcome back to Naked. Thank you for being 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:19.200 patient and fast forwarding through the commercials. But we have 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:21.600 to pay the bills. As we say, without further ado, 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:25.840 here is a legendary West Coast rapper Ice Cube. I'm 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:28.040 making it plain so I know that I understand it. 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.320 You are very honest in the fact that you believe 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:33.840 Adam Silver is blocking an opportunity for players and for 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.920 the Big Three and for the basketball community as a whole. 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:39.440 There should be another option if you're if you don't 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:41.119 play in the NBA, or if you're not in the 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:43.000 G League and you're a young kid, there should be 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:45.680 another option. And that option, in your opinion, is the 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:48.879 Big Three. And you're finding Adam Silver saying no, I 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:50.359 don't want to be a part of it because he 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:54.240 fears the competition of the of what he believes people 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:57.480 will enjoy more than his than his league. But it 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:01.080 makes no sense because you don't you're not playing during 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:04.040 the NBA season, So I don't I don't get why 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:06.720 there is such a back and forth or why he 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:08.200 wouldn't want to support it. 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:13.639 Like I said, you know, it doesn't make sense, and 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:15.920 we don't want to just think about those same old 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:21.119 things and we always think about when things don't make sense. Okay, 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:24.639 So at the end of the day, him the end 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:28.720 of the day, At the end of the day, I 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:31.400 don't understand why he will want to hurt former. 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:37.119 It's fair to say that if you as a black man, 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:39.639 there may be an issue. There may be an issue there. 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:41.480 It's fair to say that, not that we want to 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:44.120 go there, but it's fair to say that that race 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:47.280 always is a factor. It's never not a factor. It 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:51.400 would not be not be true, especially in the time 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:53.280 that we live in today, what's going on in the 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:56.359 world as of late today, that just would not be true. 0:21:57.720 --> 0:21:59.720 Can you tell everybody when the next game is so 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:01.960 I can make sure that I publicize this or where 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:03.640 can they go? Get the schedule? Big three dot com 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:06.320 and get every all your TV schedule and who's playing? 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:10.040 Yep, Big three dot com. My next game is at 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:14.240 Barclays and Brooklyn and this Sunday, and you know, we 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:17.440 got games all day. We're celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:21.120 hip hop. Got submit on New York groups coming through 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:25.639 like a mop and I'm gonna keep it moving. And 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:28.160 Tony Allen just joined the league, which is great. 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:30.480 Congratulations, you're still doing it. 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:32.720 Hit barked in and we hit Mett. Yeah, you know 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:35.520 he's still doing it. Coming together, yeah, coming together. 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:38.240 I'm very I'm very very happy for you. I'm happy 0:22:38.280 --> 0:22:41.160 to see your your dreams materialize. That's a beautiful thing. 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:45.440 Speaking of dreams materializing, I had my full dream. I'm 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:47.480 going to do a hard, hard, hard right turn here. 0:22:48.280 --> 0:22:52.159 So so you've answered this question, but I'm curious. I 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:55.320 missed you at the super Bowl and we were like, 0:22:55.400 --> 0:22:59.879 where's Q Now. The word was you did not perform 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:03.399 and the super Bowl show because the halftime show was 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:05.879 because you are not vaccinated? Is that true? 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:06.560 No? 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:10.440 No, that was a rumor. Why. Okay, so tell me 0:23:10.520 --> 0:23:11.240 I was such a rumor. 0:23:11.240 --> 0:23:11.440 I was. 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:15.840 Tell me why I wasn't You weren't invited to perform. 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:21.400 I wasn't invited to perform. I actually had to show 0:23:21.440 --> 0:23:25.840 that day too. I think it was Utah. They saw 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:31.760 Lake City. Yeah, okay, I want to go back. Uh huh. 0:23:34.200 --> 0:23:39.080 They do attribute to West Coast hip hop and ice 0:23:39.160 --> 0:23:43.160 Cube was not invited to perform. Is that what you're 0:23:43.160 --> 0:23:43.600 saying to me? 0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:52.119 That's exactly what I'm saying. Okay, okay, So Trip, you 0:23:52.240 --> 0:23:54.600 know why, because I feel like, when I do the 0:23:54.680 --> 0:23:59.680 super Bowl, do it do ice Cube show? I get it. 0:23:59.800 --> 0:24:00.400 I know you didn't. 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:00.600 Trip. 0:24:00.600 --> 0:24:02.639 I'm talking about the people who want to tell you. 0:24:02.880 --> 0:24:07.480 I'm speaking for fans. I get You're fine. I'm talking 0:24:07.480 --> 0:24:09.639 about the fans who were like it just the the 0:24:09.760 --> 0:24:12.720 sentiment was very clear, it was special, but it just 0:24:12.800 --> 0:24:14.960 would have been on a whole nother level if Cube 0:24:15.040 --> 0:24:18.600 was there. Are you saying that they were like, we're gonna, 0:24:18.600 --> 0:24:22.240 We're gonna not include him. Is that is it because 0:24:23.040 --> 0:24:25.159