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Speaker 1: What's up. This is Michael Rappaport, This is Moody, and

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Speaker 1: today's I Am Rappaport Stereo podcast is a motherfucking barn burner.

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Speaker 1: We have the artists formerly known as Ron Artest. Meta

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Speaker 1: World Peace is in the building. Plus me and Gene

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Speaker 1: Moody are gonna do the damn thing. G Moody Air

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Speaker 1: Moody has been training for his upcoming dunk contests. Lebron James,

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Speaker 1: Just when I was going to acknowledge you as the

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Speaker 1: m v P of the regular season, you start acting

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Speaker 1: like Lebron James. All that and more. Queen's is in

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Speaker 1: the house with Meta World Peace, Miles Jordan's let me

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Speaker 1: get something funky? All right, Brand new smash Mouth prime

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Speaker 1: time podcasting, Metal World Peace is in the building. I'm

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Speaker 1: hyped up. G Monetti is hyped up. Everybody listening in

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Speaker 1: prime time is hyped up. What can I say? I

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Speaker 1: mean the people have asked for Metal World Peace. We came,

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Speaker 1: we saw, we conquered. Have no fear of the Iron.

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Speaker 1: Rapports Stereo podcast is here. But let's just jump into

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Speaker 1: this before we get into Metal World Peace. Monetti all right, uh,

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Speaker 1: you you posted the videos Okay, you've you've made proclamations

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Speaker 1: and explanations saying that you can still dunk, although I

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Speaker 1: never actually saw you actually dunk in your prime. But

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Speaker 1: at forty ninety nine, at already nine, you're gonna somehow

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Speaker 1: dunk um. And you you have your trainer, and you

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Speaker 1: started your training the other day, and I noticed your training.

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Speaker 1: You've you've made comments to me, Oh, you're at your yoga. Oh,

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Speaker 1: you're in the mountains. You had all sorts of props

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Speaker 1: and accouterments with your training. You you had rubber balls,

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Speaker 1: you had rubber bands, all kinds of fancy, high falutin

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Speaker 1: bullshit for day yeah, yeah, for day one of your training.

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Speaker 1: You wasn't at the park lifting uh, you know, logs

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Speaker 1: on some rocky bout bowl of Rocky too. You're in

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Speaker 1: there doing all kinds of crazy shit. You never fun

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Speaker 1: with no rubber we're doing what oh yeah, but you're

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Speaker 1: you're mocking everybody else because we're in the gym running,

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Speaker 1: we're up doing yoga, but you're doing on rubber balls

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Speaker 1: all kinds of like like two thousand twenty six fancy

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Speaker 1: dick antics hunh for you for your first day of training,

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Speaker 1: your first week of training. Huh building resistance. Uh, it's

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Speaker 1: it's science. Oh, it's science said you to do all

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Speaker 1: that like a couple of weeks ago. You're ridicule. I

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Speaker 1: don't need to do all that's getting limber, locating the

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Speaker 1: muscles to respond because they've been dormant. You see the

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Speaker 1: first day, what you saw was a warming up of

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Speaker 1: the body. Well if you could see, as you could

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Speaker 1: see in the videos, you were doing some little jumping.

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Speaker 1: You don't look like you duncan jack ship in the

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Speaker 1: videos the first the first day, this is uh, this

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Speaker 1: is an illustration to show you the progress that will

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Speaker 1: be made, uh, culminating in me dunking the basketball. And

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Speaker 1: then what and then what are you gonna say? Nothing?

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Speaker 1: You're not day, you're not dunking. You're not dunking donuts,

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Speaker 1: my man? And but I just why didn't you just

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Speaker 1: go to the park and like, you know, start playing ball.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you go up there? And since you're since

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Speaker 1: you're teasing, I think you tease my man. Mind you

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Speaker 1: teased me. You you make fun of everybody over there

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Speaker 1: at the gym doing all this, and you're in there

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Speaker 1: with like you had like a science experiment. And you

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Speaker 1: had all train. Why all the props shop some wood

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Speaker 1: and and run up the steps like on some rocky ship.

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Speaker 1: Why all the extra nests? Well number one, it was

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Speaker 1: reigning in New York City. The plan was to go

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Speaker 1: to the park and do a weight training. But not wait.

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Speaker 1: See this is a science, but you don't understand it.

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Speaker 1: Now are you're up on the mountain. You're on the

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Speaker 1: mountain getting dusty and dirty and doing dumb shit. I

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Speaker 1: look what you were doing, muscles. Everybody go to I

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Speaker 1: am Wrappaport on Instagram. Matter of fact, I'm gonna post

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Speaker 1: the video on it and you know what, Gerald, you

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Speaker 1: know what, I'm gonna fucking I yell o your videos.

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Speaker 1: That's what it's come to. I'm a yellowing, the co

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Speaker 1: host of the two thousand fifteen, two thousand and two

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Speaker 1: thousand seventeen podcast. Cos I'm i yellowing my coast. That's

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Speaker 1: what's gonna happen the next time you post a video

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Speaker 1: doing all that foolishness. I'm barking on you. Duke. We're

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Speaker 1: in the park. As the way the clears, we go

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Speaker 1: to the park. This is our plan. I want to

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Speaker 1: shout out. My man Jesse ancient Chinese secret. Money's dope.

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Speaker 1: Got my muscles on fire right now? How how you

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Speaker 1: feeling today? Your first training? Oh, the first day? How

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Speaker 1: are you feel? Just just answer the question. Man, you

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Speaker 1: you've been coming a real, a real slipperies fucking slope.

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Speaker 1: The muscles, the muscles. I'm just a simple question. The

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Speaker 1: muscles sore? Oh my god, muscles? How sore you can? So?

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Speaker 1: What's this degree? You want? The degrees of sore if

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Speaker 1: you want? How are you feeling? I just want to

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Speaker 1: know how you feel? Feel good? You feel good? I

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Speaker 1: feel like after you feel when you come off fucking mountain?

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Speaker 1: I feel like that. Okay, okay, just asking the question.

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Speaker 1: So are you able to walk? At you? Fuck? Because

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Speaker 1: I know you? Are you able to walk? It? You

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Speaker 1: fun walking? You're walking. I've been playing pull my whole life.

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Speaker 1: This isn't new to my body. Okay, okay, okay, So

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Speaker 1: as planned the first week of May, you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: dunking a basketball. I'll probably do it before then and

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Speaker 1: just show it to you, just to show you what

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Speaker 1: tom it is. And we're doing it outside in the

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Speaker 1: park right now. But I may go to City College

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Speaker 1: and do it, so it could be on some tin

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Speaker 1: foot ship. My man told me I could come up there.

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Speaker 1: Who who your man? Who? My man who works at

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Speaker 1: City College up in Harlem. He hit me on d M.

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Speaker 1: He said, Yo, you could come up here so you

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Speaker 1: may see the indoors. So you can't. Honestly, I would

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Speaker 1: like to see the John J. Park. That's where I

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Speaker 1: would like to see because I would like I would

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Speaker 1: like to see you. Oh you now your Mr. City

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Speaker 1: College George. I'm going to the regular fucking gym. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you can't do it. You can't do it in the park.

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Speaker 1: You do it in I'm not doing it in the concrete.

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Speaker 1: No more bay Okay, all right, but if you could dunk,

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Speaker 1: you could dunk. I'm just I'm just saying, I'm okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm going. I'm going inside. Well, I'm gonna be there.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be fucking heckling you, just like I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be heckling those fucking videos. Hey, you make it a

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Speaker 1: video before, may so be able to lookout for it.

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Speaker 1: Just I may just rock the okay, Okay, okay, um.

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Speaker 1: They probably like, well, what the fund did I just

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Speaker 1: tune into? Um if you never listen to the Iron

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Speaker 1: Wrap Hoors Stereo podcast, and I suspect there are a

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Speaker 1: few of you out there. Um, my name is Michael

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Speaker 1: Rapp Report a k a. The j Clamato of podcasting,

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Speaker 1: Last name rhymes with duty, the three time podcast co

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Speaker 1: the best. Is the Iron Rap Coors Stereo Podcast, the

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Speaker 1: are like assholes, everybody has one, but you are now

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Speaker 1: rocking with the best. Um, so let's just jump into this. Man.

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Speaker 1: We got metal World, Peace, Queen's Bridge. UM, fantastic interview,

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Speaker 1: heavy ship talking so honest, so real, so genuine. We're

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Speaker 1: talking about his career, We're talking about his suspension, We're

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Speaker 1: talking about playing against Kobe, We're talking about playing with Kobe,

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Speaker 1: all the people he's played against. It's just he's just

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Speaker 1: so honest, so genuine. UM. I can't wait for people

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Speaker 1: to listen to this interview. Also, I talked about this movie.

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Speaker 1: I really suggest you watched this. Um, I've been hyping

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Speaker 1: up this documentary that I saw. I watched it two times,

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Speaker 1: six part docuseries on Netflix, Wild Wild Country. It's so

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Speaker 1: bugged out and so dope. You gotta peep it. Well Friday,

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Speaker 1: the next episode of the Iron Rapports stereo podcast All

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Speaker 1: Wild Wild Country. I had the two directors are coming

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Speaker 1: to sit down with me to dissect this crazy movie

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Speaker 1: that's bugging out everybody. It's like, uh, Guru Dock and Chill.

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Speaker 1: It's a new hashtag. It was used to be murder

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Speaker 1: dock and Chill. Of course the young Shooter came up

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Speaker 1: course we came out with the T shirt Murder Dock

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Speaker 1: and Chill. We might come up with the T shirt

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Speaker 1: Guru Dock and Chill. Um, you gotta watch Wild Wild Country.

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Speaker 1: I love this documentary. So I get to sit down

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Speaker 1: with the two directors. But right now, let's get the business.

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Speaker 1: Um monetti Yo Villanova, n c A A Champions. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's great man. I'm glad they wont I love I

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Speaker 1: love that point Guard. Last name is Brunson. Yo. He

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Speaker 1: he knows how to handle and and set the table

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Speaker 1: for the other players. Slow ship down. That's the perfect

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Speaker 1: illustration of a true point guard. And you know his

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Speaker 1: father played in the NBA, right, yeah, yeah, yeah he

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Speaker 1: He used to be on the Knicks. He used to

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Speaker 1: have the blowout. He played on a few teams. Um,

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Speaker 1: I really like that point guard too. And of course

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Speaker 1: the star of of of the game was this kid,

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Speaker 1: Dante de Vincenzo, Dante de Vincenzo, who a lot of

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Speaker 1: people are suggesting that it's my illegitimate son. Uh not,

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Speaker 1: that ain't my son, Duke, that ain't my seed, although

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Speaker 1: That's the most outstanding player in the game. Um. He

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Speaker 1: he was busting dudes ass in that game. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: he's nice man. He came off the bench on some

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Speaker 1: NBA ship. He was out there busting dudes ass. Um

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Speaker 1: he's a redheaded Italian named Dante de Vincenzo. He got

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Speaker 1: a nice name, and I mean a redheaded Italian. Who

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Speaker 1: out to Brian Scalabrini. I don't know if he's gonna

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Speaker 1: with this immediate stardom. Homeboy had to delete his Instagram account,

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Speaker 1: his Twitter account. He deleted his Twitter account. He's made

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Speaker 1: some posts in the past where he's talking nothing crazy,

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Speaker 1: just you know, college ship. And I wanted to say

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Speaker 1: to this kid, Dante de Vincenzo, who may or may

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Speaker 1: not might be my illegitimate son, YO, fuck these people. Man.

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Speaker 1: He didn't say anything that that he needs to regret.

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Speaker 1: He said, I like it when girls lick my butt hole.

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Speaker 1: It's a life changing feeling. Who doesn't like that? I mean,

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Speaker 1: is that something to be ashamed of? That? He said,

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Speaker 1: I like it when girls lick my butt hole. It's

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Speaker 1: a life changing feeling. He also said something about somebody

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Speaker 1: else saying dick eating at its finest when somebody was

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Speaker 1: dick writing, he said to he said an old tweet.

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Speaker 1: This is from two thousand eleven, when the ninth grade

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Speaker 1: he said something about to my dad, am I a

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Speaker 1: pussy now? Because I don't want to play fucking soccer?

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Speaker 1: He got a funny sense of humor. Now they're like,

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Speaker 1: he deleted his Twitter account. I think he could have

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Speaker 1: kept the first thing to himself. What I like it

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Speaker 1: when girls lick at my butt hole? It's a life

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Speaker 1: changing he put it in. That's five years ago. This

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Speaker 1: kid's probably twenty years old, nineteen, twenty years old, and

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Speaker 1: he put that up when he was fifteen. God bless

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Speaker 1: him if he got his asshole eaten at fifteen. Of

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Speaker 1: course you're gonna go to Twitter and speak on it,

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Speaker 1: don't I mean, wouldn't you. I don't know, man, I

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Speaker 1: Penalizing he's a murderer? Right? Why why go after him?

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Speaker 1: gonna be honest. You don't sound right. You sound salt duke.

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Speaker 1: we're gonna jump into this. Let's just recovery day, man. Okay. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask Metal World Peace about fucking recovery day. Okay.

418
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Speaker 1: Queens is in the House. The artists formerly known as

419
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Speaker 1: Ron Artest, currently known as Metal World Peace, iconic outspoken

420
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 1: shit talker, honest as can be. Metal World Peace Coming

421
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,720
Speaker 1: up next on the I M Rappaport Stereo podcast, Let's

422
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,199
Speaker 1: do It, Miles Jordan's take me in the Metal with

423
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,359
Speaker 1: something funny, Take Me in the Metal with a smack.

424
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,600
Speaker 1: All right, this is it. I'm fucking hyped up about this.

425
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:52,560
Speaker 1: Metal World Peace is in the building. Queen's Finest. Yes, yes,

426
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,640
Speaker 1: one of them, but one of the last from Queens

427
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 1: playing in the NBA. Yeah, we gotta, we gotta kind

428
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 1: of fix us a situation, you know, but you know

429
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 1: it's happened. We got my sons, you know. But but

430
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 1: they're listen my kids too, like they think they're from

431
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,360
Speaker 1: New York they're they're California kids. Yeah, it's true, it's

432
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,360
Speaker 1: and it's true. They do think they're from where you're from.

433
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 1: They want that's good metalworld peace. I appreciate you rockinging

434
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 1: me man. I've been a fan for a long time,

435
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 1: funk with you since high school. Heard about you St. John's,

436
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls, Indiana Pacers. And I'll remind you this. The

437
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:32,199
Speaker 1: first time I met you two thousand four, you were

438
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 1: All starred with Indiana. I met you with my kids,

439
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 1: they were two and four at the All Star Game.

440
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 1: I was there doing something with NBA TV or something

441
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:45,439
Speaker 1: like this before the Saturday workout, which is really a

442
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 1: joke for most of the players. You were in there

443
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 1: with Rick Carlisle was your coach, full sweat, full leather,

444
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 1: full workout on the Saturday before the quote unquote practice.

445
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna name names, but players came in

446
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: there smelling like things that NBA played, But you were

447
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 1: in there busting as you were nice to my kids.

448
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 1: But I remember how impressed I was because that weekend,

449
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:11,479
Speaker 1: All Star weekend in Los Angeles, it was you know,

450
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 1: it's a free froll, it's a party. You have a

451
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,439
Speaker 1: full workout though, full workout with your coach, like on

452
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: a Saturday during All Star break. You know, at that point,

453
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 1: I was playing so well and my goal was just

454
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: to be the best man. And I still had a

455
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:27,880
Speaker 1: lot of issues off the cut, but my goal that

456
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: year was like, Okay, I'm gonna be the best player

457
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:32,920
Speaker 1: in the league. I knew we had Shock, I knew

458
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: we had Kobe, and I knew it was gonna take work.

459
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 1: I came into the league only average and eleven points.

460
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 1: It wasn't a lot, but they went up to twelve

461
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: when the fifteen with the eighteen and then he got

462
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 1: spend it was that and you know that was like

463
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: you got suspended. Yeah I did. I don't know how to,

464
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 1: don't know what the fun where it happened, but go ahead,

465
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know I got I was averaging twenty

466
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 1: four that year points and I knew like the next

467
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,160
Speaker 1: year would have been twenty six. And then on top

468
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:05,880
Speaker 1: of that, you're not only getting scrolling, but you're getting

469
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 1: that lockdown defense. So my goal was to just be

470
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: a clear, clearly the best player in the league. On

471
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 1: the other side, on the west side, you saw Kobe

472
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 1: not only a great offensive player, but his defense started

473
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: to get better, you see, and his offense was still improving.

474
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: So I felt like I was on my way to

475
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:30,159
Speaker 1: being um and and talks before that offends six and

476
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,200
Speaker 1: m VP voting. Nobody remembers that because they only remember

477
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 1: the m v P. But I was number six and

478
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 1: I only could go up from there. Did you feel like,

479
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: you know, I remember you were talking about that and

480
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: and and you know, like being the best player in

481
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: the league, and you know that's sort of like a

482
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 1: cliche that everybody says, but like you were actually doing it,

483
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 1: you know. But you know at the time, you know,

484
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 1: you have Alan, you have Kobe, you have these guys

485
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: that are jumping there, they're doing all and your game.

486
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: One thing that I always loved about your game, and

487
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: I remember clearly, clear as day. I remember was at

488
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 1: the other end of the court watching you work out

489
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 1: with Rick Carlisle during the All Star break, is like

490
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: your game was never flashy, like your game was, you know,

491
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: even if even if yours your physical problems, like you

492
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:17,959
Speaker 1: were never a high flyer, great footwork, great fundamentals, you know,

493
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: and but here you are saying I'm gonna be the

494
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: number one player. But you're not dunking on anybody. You

495
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: not crossing anybody over. It was like a throwback. It

496
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 1: wasn't a throwback, it was just a basic well, yeah,

497
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 1: it was very basic. You know. I definitely never was

498
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: a high flyer. When I got older, a lot of

499
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: people said round our tests or metal World pieces, losing

500
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 1: his athleticism. I'm like, I was never athletic. You never

501
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: had a step. Never when I was at rookie. You'll

502
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 1: see fast break dunks. When I was on the fast

503
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 1: break and struggling to dunk with two hens at times.

504
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 1: I never had spring. But for me, it was all

505
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: about when I get a post position, making sure I

506
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: hit your shoulder and keeping that keeping the angle to

507
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 1: my favorite so I can get it easily. Sometimes I

508
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,080
Speaker 1: wouldn't even jump, So it was like a lot of

509
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 1: things like that that helped me scroll, Like lots of points,

510
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: little stuff like that, like you said, hitting his shoulder.

511
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 1: Because I've talked to other people on this podcast, Stephen Jackson, Kenyan, Martin,

512
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: when I asked them who were the toughest people to guard, Obviously,

513
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: they mentioned Shaq Kenyan went against him in the fucking

514
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: finals at his when he was Yeah, that was amazing.

515
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 1: Kenyon did great, But but he talked about you being

516
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: the strongest motherfucker when so when you're talking about like

517
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:26,479
Speaker 1: hitting people's shoulder, you know, and how conscious were you

518
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: of these sort of tricks of the trade, and and

519
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 1: did you learn them? How did you learn them? Well?

520
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: The way I learned how to kind of, you know,

521
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 1: get buckets was really just try and try and try it.

522
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 1: And I wasn't a good player. I got tired of

523
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 1: running into people. And that didn't work in the NBA

524
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 1: because everybody's strong, everybody big. You're not just gonna go

525
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: in in and get two points. So I had to

526
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: find other ways to make it work. So I started

527
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: working on my little fade away jumper because I wasn't

528
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 1: able to jump over people. So I added that to

529
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 1: my game. Had a little draft step, has some has

530
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 1: some hit work in the post, added the three ball,

531
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: added the met range jumper. You know, so everything I

532
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: started to add that, you know, sometimes I would. I

533
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 1: never got forty in the NBA, you never. I never

534
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 1: had forty. I had thirty nine twice. I had a

535
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 1: couple of twenties and maybe a couple of thirties. But

536
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: because I was always locking up on defense, you know,

537
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 1: so all my energy was on deefense, but I didn't

538
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: have the opportunities to score. But never liket. But the

539
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 1: only when I have twenty four. The only reason I

540
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 1: had twenty four was because Steve Jackson. So Steve Jackson

541
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 1: and me, we will argue who's guarding the best player?

542
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: You guys would both want it. We would ague. I'm like, Steve,

543
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: I got this tonight. He's like, no, I got this.

544
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 1: So we're on the court like, motherfucker, I got this. Motherfucker.

545
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 1: I'm like, fuck you, I got this. Mother So I'm

546
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: like ship, It's like there's no there's no real arguing

547
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 1: with Steve Jackson. So I'm like, okay, Steve, you got him.

548
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: So every game Steve was guarding the best place, so

549
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 1: I was freed up, you know, to go to work.

550
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 1: That's dope though, that you guys, like two guys on

551
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: the same team that we're like into playing defense. We

552
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 1: literally will argue about who who Who's god in the

553
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 1: best players. I mean that that team, like you know,

554
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: the malice and all that, it's been covered and discussed

555
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 1: so much, but like that team and you guys had

556
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: ballers you were tough, azing. I mean when you look

557
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: like obviously won the championship with the Lakers, Like, do

558
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: you think if things hadn't gotten fucking all crazy that

559
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,959
Speaker 1: that team could have really, like, you guys could have

560
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 1: won a CHAMPIONSI everything that you know about basketball now,

561
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: Like realistically, I'm not gonna say we could have won

562
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 1: because I don't want to discredit the people that won.

563
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that, and I don't want to.

564
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 1: I'm very confident, but I don't know. But we was

565
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: definitely in a position. We won sixty one games the

566
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: year before that. You know, we started out that year

567
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 1: we won sixty one games. We started out sixteen and one.

568
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: Those that Pacer team was sixteen and one. We started

569
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: out sixteen and one. And then and that's when Reggie

570
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: Miller was out. I mean, so our Harrington was playing

571
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: three and I was playing the two. That's crazy. That

572
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: was so we could not be beat. But then when

573
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: Reggie came back, Reggie got the start in spot back

574
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: because Reggie Billy Hall of Fame of and I always

575
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: thought like if me and I'll stayed at that too, three.

576
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: And then Reggie, you know, came off the bench, we

577
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: probably would have won seventy games, but it was sixteen

578
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: and one. Does it just not work that way? Or

579
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 1: like he would have to say, I'm cool with coming

580
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: off the bench, Reggie, Right, Well, I mean I don't

581
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: really know, and I mean I'm just saying, like, you know,

582
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: the team that we had was really that good. And

583
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: then we got Steve Jackson. The next year, still had

584
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller, and I think all Harrington was gone, so

585
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: you know, so and we started out about we started

586
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 1: I think he was I got suspend the nine games in,

587
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 1: so we was seven and two. I think when I

588
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: got suspended was it nine games in? That happened? He

589
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: was nine games in two? Reggie Miller. I mean as

590
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 1: a Knicks fan, and I told him to his face.

591
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: And when I say it always from I couldn't fucking

592
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: stand that more like I mean, I fucking hated him,

593
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: and he thrived on that hate. He did. He loved it.

594
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: How good was Reggie Miller when he was cooking? How

595
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: good was he to watch him shoot around? Like what

596
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 1: is the legacy of Reggie Miller? Like to play with him,

597
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: to see it up close, especially when you were a

598
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 1: young player, Reggie Stephen cary Um, Jerry West, you know

599
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 1: so many great shooters. He's kind of similar to me.

600
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 1: Whereas I was big but not athleg he was slim

601
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 1: and not athletic. Had to figure it out, so he's

602
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: not gonna go in in being with two thirty pounds

603
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 1: small forwards six really small forward height. He figured it

604
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: out and got a wet ball from the outside. I

605
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: remember him being at practice, shoot him before practice, shooting

606
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: after practice, then in game days, Uh, shooting before shooting arounds.

607
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:55,320
Speaker 1: Uh get into the gym at three thirty for a

608
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 1: seven thirty game something like that, And I remember me

609
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 1: just saying, I don't have the mental patience to be

610
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 1: there after. I need the game to start. Reggie was

611
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: very disciplined. It was real. It wasn't just a fluke.

612
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 1: It wasn't a fluke. It wasn't a fluke. He was.

613
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 1: He put in the work. All people see is the shots,

614
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: you know, Reggie coming off corner baseline screens, but they

615
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 1: don't see their practice. I wish they were have filmed

616
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,720
Speaker 1: that because it was very impressive. What uh Larry Bird

617
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 1: was the GM at the time. Did he ever come

618
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: down and shoot around with you guys? Larry was all

619
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 1: the time. He liked you, like he talked about like you,

620
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: he liked your game, he was like a fan of yours. Well,

621
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: you know, I was on the cover of Sports Illustrated

622
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: with Larry, with Larry behind me, and I kind of

623
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: wish that would have ever happened, because Larry had my back,

624
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 1: and I feel like I didn't have his back when

625
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: the bro happened. When the brol happened, it was a

626
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: couple of reasons why I didn't have Larry's back. One

627
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,720
Speaker 1: was because I was very stuck in my own ways.

628
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 1: So even though he had my back, I wasn't mentally

629
00:35:56,560 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 1: strong enough to say, Okay, you need to relax, you

630
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 1: need to chill out. People actually like you. Because I

631
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: didn't trust anybody at the time, nobody. I never trust anybody,

632
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 1: So for somebody to come and show love, I'm like,

633
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: fuck that, you know. Some motherfucker don't like me, you know.

634
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: And that's the approach I always took. So anytime somebody

635
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: was to help me, I'm like fuck that, you know.

636
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 1: And um, then when I got suspended, they all had

637
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: my back. The whole pace of the organization was behind

638
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,760
Speaker 1: every single one of them. Okay, I was like wow,

639
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: you know, but I got there. The next year, I

640
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 1: asked for trade. And that is the reason. It was

641
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: a couple of reasons I asked for trade. One was

642
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: because I started to get this sense of entitlement after

643
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: even after the BRO. That's the type of selfish person

644
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: I was. Even after the BRO, I still was like, Okay,

645
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: brawl's over. Now it is back to regular old iron,

646
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 1: fuck you right and um and funk everybody right, you see.

647
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 1: And and that approach that I had was not one

648
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: of a team player. So it's not one of a

649
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,879
Speaker 1: great player, you know, it's not one. When I tell

650
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: when I talk to kids to this day, I'm like, listening,

651
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:16,800
Speaker 1: put all that energy into the game, you know what

652
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I was talking to my son ever day.

653
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 1: So one of my sons are super passionate, and I

654
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: got it. I had to tell him at eight years old, like, yo,

655
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,720
Speaker 1: put all that into the game. Stop doing a little bullshit,

656
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 1: tangle up fouls. Put all that into ther game. Now.

657
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 1: My news. My older son, he's a little bit more reserved,

658
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: but I know he got it in him because he

659
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:37,359
Speaker 1: got the artists blood. I know he got it in him.

660
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: So then the other days eight teens. So the other

661
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: day I'm like, motherfucker, you gotta practice harder than that.

662
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 1: Getting tired of the ship. So he goes out those

663
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 1: food courts, don't go somebody head and he never calls fouls. Right,

664
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: So I'm like, son, you have to call fouls and

665
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,439
Speaker 1: pick up games because if you don't call a foul,

666
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: your team is always gonna lose. So the only day

667
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: he said foul, took the ball, give me the fun

668
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 1: the ball. I've never seen this from my eighteen year

669
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,399
Speaker 1: old son. Okay, you see it, but I'm like, son,

670
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: that's what I want. But put it into the game.

671
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,799
Speaker 1: Did Who was anyone telling you to put it into

672
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,760
Speaker 1: the game? I mean before they correct me from wrong,

673
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: before the fucking mal It's like I was like, this dude,

674
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: just a ballplayer, Like I mean, it was a tough,

675
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: hard news player. But like there was no that's because

676
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: nobody saw the practices. Okay, somebody saw the off the

677
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: course ship. I was crazy, Okay, okay, a lot of crazy.

678
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: I'll tell you some stories. So one story, I was

679
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: at St. John's. I was in my jobs office. Nobody

680
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 1: was there. A former coach, former coach, I love my jobs.

681
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: He lives in Florida. I actually go see him one

682
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: of these days and um, you know, he was like, no,

683
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:45,720
Speaker 1: nobody was there. I need to get home. I practiced

684
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: hard after practice, stayed for like two or three hours

685
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 1: just going to work, and I couldn't get home, and

686
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 1: I was hungry, and I felt like shouldn't. I can't

687
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: get home, so fuck this and tore up the whole office,

688
00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 1: so everybody family pictures, broke, the family pitches through chess

689
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:06,720
Speaker 1: through the window. Are you serious? Um, trash the whole

690
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: ship like a hurricane. Then after it was trashed, I

691
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,320
Speaker 1: leave the office and then I walked back into the

692
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 1: office like, oh fuck. So then I started cleaning up

693
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: um the office that I call our basketball coordinator, Alex Evans.

694
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: I said, Alex, I fucked the office up, um, you know,

695
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: And I was at Saint John's right. There's a bunch

696
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 1: of other stories I can tell you in the league.

697
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 1: You were the first basketball player that I heard acknowledge

698
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 1: mental health when the Lakers won the championship, correct me

699
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: from wrong. I think you gave a shout out to

700
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 1: your therapist, like right off, psychologists psychologist. You know this

701
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 1: year since the All Star Break. You know, Kevin Love,

702
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: Demarsa rosen Um, A handful of other people have spoken

703
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: out about mental health in the NBA ty Lou situation.

704
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 1: You know, obviously it's physical, but stress is Yeah, yeah,

705
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: what does it mean to you mental health? Like you

706
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 1: donated money to mental health awareness, to mental health charities,

707
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 1: and why did you start doing it? How has this

708
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: sort of helped you? And like where do you think

709
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 1: it's going in the NBA, because the stereotype of black dude,

710
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 1: queen's bridge hood. It's not like therapists, psychotherapy, mental health.

711
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 1: It's like, Yo, I'm about about it. I'm hard body.

712
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:28,799
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay hard body. And you sort of broke

713
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 1: the fucking stereotype. Like, you broke the stereotype and you

714
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 1: sort of created this stereotype with the malice. So what

715
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 1: does all mental health stuff mean to you? Yeah, it's

716
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,840
Speaker 1: very important to me because you gotta think about it.

717
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 1: You have players that's coming into sports getting paid millions

718
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: of dollars and nobody you know the backstories, and people

719
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: always say money doesn't make you better, and it magnifies

720
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 1: who you are. You know, money, the money magnified who

721
00:40:57,719 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 1: I was, who I wanted to be when I was

722
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 1: a kid. And then I sow the opportunity to make money,

723
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:04,439
Speaker 1: and you can get girls, and you could just buy

724
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 1: ship and go to the clubs, and that's and that's

725
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: what I wanted to do. And and now I can

726
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,240
Speaker 1: bring all my boys with me and and we're super

727
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,439
Speaker 1: hard and and now you know, whoever wanted they could

728
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,880
Speaker 1: get it. Like everything that I was about was magnified

729
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 1: and all all all the whether it was bad or

730
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: whether it was problems, it was magnified. And and the

731
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,839
Speaker 1: money called did that to me, you see what I'm saying.

732
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 1: So when I got to the championship, and I think

733
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: my side my psychologist, it was just all the trials

734
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: and triplations I've been through, and it took other people

735
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 1: talk to talk to to really help me figure my

736
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: life out, not somebody else's life or somebody I want

737
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: to be, you know. And then something I always wanted,

738
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: which was a ring, and it took ten years and suspensions,

739
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 1: and I finally got one, you know. So it was

740
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 1: a great It was a great time to let people know,

741
00:41:56,920 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 1: Like without my psychologists, I don't think this would than possible. Right. Absolutely,

742
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: you were obviously in therapy and and like just like

743
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 1: hearing like a look at you your fucking good, your

744
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 1: run hard test, your metal world peace, Like you're like

745
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: that dude. And then you're like, you know, going into therapy,

746
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: it's like almost like fucking sopranos, Like you know, you're

747
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 1: like Tony Soprano and therapy, Like you wouldn't expect Tony

748
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: Soprano went therapy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got to. It's

749
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 1: too there's so many things that could affect you. You

750
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: can go you could be watching TV. You can see

751
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,840
Speaker 1: a war in the Middle East. It's show a graphic

752
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: picture kid leg blown off, Like that affects you, right,

753
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:34,320
Speaker 1: You're like, oh man, that's so messed up. That energy

754
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 1: that you just consumed. You're walking out your house with

755
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:38,919
Speaker 1: that and not like, oh man, that's just gonna stuff.

756
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: And you walk at your house and you don't fail

757
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:43,440
Speaker 1: that anymore, you know, or if a family member died,

758
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:45,799
Speaker 1: or if you're separated from a loved one, or if

759
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 1: somebody disrespected you, you know, anything, maybe Auntie struggling. Like

760
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 1: there's so many things that people don't address that you

761
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: just put It's like putting money in the piggy bank.

762
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: Will you just put any emotion and your emotional bank,

763
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:03,360
Speaker 1: you know, and sometimes people don't let things out, you know,

764
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 1: and you just carry this for years and years and

765
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 1: years and adding to it and adding to it, you know, um,

766
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:12,320
Speaker 1: and never addressed it, right, you see what I'm saying.

767
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 1: And and for me, it was like I need to

768
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:18,399
Speaker 1: start addressing everything right because I wanna at this point,

769
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: I'm almost forty, and I like, at this point, I

770
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: want to feel how I feel today. I want to

771
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: be going downhill, you know, when I'm eighty seven. I

772
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:28,360
Speaker 1: want to be feeling good. And I said, you know,

773
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 1: I didn't want to be stressing and being on some

774
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 1: though ship or whatever you wanna call it at the

775
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 1: age of forty five, right, I got you know, what

776
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 1: do you think of the tyler uh leaving? You know,

777
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 1: like based on what you know what they're they're saying.

778
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 1: It's like they're like, well, he'll be back in a week.

779
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, nah, you shouldn't. I mean, I don't know

780
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: what the funk he's going through. But if you're if

781
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 1: you're having heard stuff like you shouldn't take a week

782
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 1: off like it should be like, yo, we don't know

783
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 1: when the funk you're coming back. Well, what is your

784
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 1: your take on on his situation with with the Cavaliers. Well,

785
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what he's gonna go through.

786
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 1: I just know he's out. Um, I thought it was.

787
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 1: I've seen Tyler when he played, and I've seen him

788
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 1: as a coach. He got a little bit chunky. To me,

789
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:11,840
Speaker 1: he got some nice checks. I think he got more

790
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: money as a coaching as a player, you know, So

791
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 1: maybe he's eating good and maybe even more in and

792
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 1: out vigas or something. I don't know if I'm like

793
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: with health, I'm thinking, um, body health. Is it the

794
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 1: food that he's consuming? Because I did see him and

795
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 1: I saw his guts got the Tyrone lou here in

796
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 1: three is one of the championships. So you know, I

797
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: think as a player, when you retire, you gotta take

798
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 1: care of your body physically, mentally, emotionally. I don't know

799
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 1: which one is affecting him, but I think, like, I

800
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 1: don't think he's working out as much as he did

801
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,439
Speaker 1: when he was a player. Can a basketball coach even

802
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 1: find time? Hard? It's really hard to find time because

803
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 1: when I coach, you know, luckily I can still playing

804
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 1: and coach Kobe of the South Bay Lakes when I

805
00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: coached that team. I play with him sometimes, But it's

806
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 1: hard to play. It's hard to stay in shape as

807
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: a coach because you're on your feet the whole time.

808
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: Are you staying it? Could? Big Three's coming up? Ron,

809
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: I'm the fucking sideline reporter. I call it like it is,

810
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: all right, And I'm telling you right now that fourteen

811
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 1: second clock is reality? Is that fourteen second clock is reality?

812
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 1: Are you are? Where? Where are you at? Like? How

813
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 1: much ball are you playing? You mean you look good?

814
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 1: Can we run up and down the court even in

815
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:24,880
Speaker 1: half court? Like? What do we got? What do we

816
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:27,359
Speaker 1: got to offer? From three? I mean I'm in I'm

817
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: in decent shape. I'm in good enough shape to play. Um,

818
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 1: but we're gonna see. But I'm definitely getting the shape

819
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:38,760
Speaker 1: and I've definitely been playing a lot of ball. And um,

820
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:40,359
Speaker 1: who do you play? And it's only once a week?

821
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 1: So that's even better? Right? Who who do you play

822
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 1: ball with? Now? Like it's not like you can go

823
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 1: to the park and play like with me. That is

824
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 1: not a lot of people right now. But you know,

825
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: it's all it's all about how hard you go? So

826
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 1: if I play with some people at a park, it's

827
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: not about dumb, It's about me. How hard am I playing? Right?

828
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying? And I did that the

829
00:45:57,760 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: other day. I was just show up at a park,

830
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,319
Speaker 1: play everywhere, and motherfucker's are just like, are they like?

831
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: I got this guy? I got on my team? I'm like,

832
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 1: what team I am I on? When I walk into

833
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 1: the park, or if I walked to like a gym,

834
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:14,360
Speaker 1: that's dope. But I actually my last one I played

835
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 1: with some Chinese kids. But I so I have an

836
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:20,200
Speaker 1: app called Gridelo. The reason I developed this app? What

837
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:23,319
Speaker 1: is it called Gridelo? The reason was because when I

838
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 1: was semi retired, I still want to play ball. I

839
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: don't want the NBA saying your career is over and

840
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 1: then what do you do next? Because the NBA is

841
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 1: not gonna help you find another place to play. Basketball's

842
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:38,359
Speaker 1: on you and sometimes overseas is not gonna let you play.

843
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 1: I want to play ball, So I developed an app

844
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:41,879
Speaker 1: where I can play ball. So now I can play

845
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: ball against really good competition. Because it's hard to say, Okay,

846
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to Equalnox today or I'm gonna go

847
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:50,320
Speaker 1: to veteran park and find ballers. Maybe I'm in Italy

848
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 1: today because I'm traveling doing business and I still want

849
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 1: to find really good ballers. So I said, you know what,

850
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 1: I'm going to develop it. It's dope for myself and

851
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 1: I'll be finding good competition. What's what's cool. It's like

852
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:05,840
Speaker 1: grade l O so g R A d E l

853
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:09,799
Speaker 1: o um dot com is the actual company, but then

854
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 1: the app that's where you can actually like going. Do

855
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 1: you think you're involved with a lot of business stuff,

856
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 1: like you're you're you're taking advantage of your resources in

857
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: l A. You're taking advantage of being a champion in

858
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 1: l A. Uh. Your former teammate Kobe Yeah, somehow, some way,

859
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 1: I mean only fucking Kobe Bryant would say I'm gonna

860
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:31,760
Speaker 1: make movies. Make one movie and then when a goddamn

861
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 1: oscar right out the box. What are you passionate about

862
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:37,800
Speaker 1: outside of your family, outside of your kids, outside of

863
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 1: showing out at the Big Three? You know, you've got

864
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,959
Speaker 1: the clothing line, the pan, his best friend, pant, his friends,

865
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 1: you got apps? What like in five, six, seven years

866
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 1: when you're definitely you know, not playing in any high

867
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: level of basketball what are you passionate about? Yes, right now,

868
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 1: I'm passionate about digital marketing. Uh, it's the foundation of

869
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: sports to me, a sports business. And there's a lot

870
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 1: of athletes out there that don't get the attention um

871
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 1: that high level athlete would get. Whether they get Stay

872
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:17,319
Speaker 1: Farm commercials, Gatorade, Nike, Um Insurance, and mex And then

873
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:20,320
Speaker 1: what happens with that and NBA. Not only do you

874
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 1: get those brands, you get all their marketing teams. So

875
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 1: then Stay Farm is marketing you so much, is actually

876
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:29,479
Speaker 1: helping Gatorade, And then they're both marketing. That's helping Nike,

877
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:33,880
Speaker 1: that's helping your sales, like from all angles. Well, the

878
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 1: problem is if you're just as good as another player,

879
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:41,400
Speaker 1: but he has more endorsements than you, then you're never

880
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:44,840
Speaker 1: gonna reap the benefits of or even reach up potential

881
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:47,799
Speaker 1: of like endorsements and the amount of money you can

882
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 1: make the amount of money you can make hy optimize

883
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: your brand. So when I went back to u c

884
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 1: l A the summer for digital analytics on Mondays and

885
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 1: I went to school, Yeah I was in school, that's

886
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: fucking dope. Yeah, I was. I was a math major

887
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,160
Speaker 1: in college college and architect majors. So I mean a

888
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 1: lot of people don't notice because I was just so

889
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 1: passionate and I just I seem crazy, but you know

890
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,399
Speaker 1: I was crazy. Actually, were you a good student when

891
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:11,279
Speaker 1: you wanted to be? I wasn't a good student. I

892
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 1: was a hungry student. Okay, so people when you were

893
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:16,360
Speaker 1: a kid, Yeah, I just didn't like to fail and

894
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 1: I did feel a lot. But I was very aggressive,

895
00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 1: like in terms of like studying and ship. I was

896
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 1: super aggressive. Um So then like and then I went

897
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 1: to on saturdays. I was going to Concordia, Irvine and

898
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 1: o C this past summer this summer for business analytics,

899
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 1: and then I was going to Vancouver for Google analytics.

900
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:40,000
Speaker 1: So you're not working around no, no, absolutely not super

901
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:43,799
Speaker 1: aggressive with this digital market and digital aalytics. Okay, So

902
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:47,320
Speaker 1: you got Kobe Ye, give me your your best Kobe.

903
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:50,320
Speaker 1: I mean you were you were like arrival with Kobe

904
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:53,319
Speaker 1: and then he's like he came got you like you know,

905
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 1: you went at it when you were with Houston, Like

906
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: you guys went at it. He's doing it. He's the best.

907
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:00,759
Speaker 1: Why why was he the best? I mean he was

908
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 1: the best, and I want to be the best. We

909
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:06,000
Speaker 1: have a problem ever since every time I played against him,

910
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:08,800
Speaker 1: I have a major issue because he's clearly the best.

911
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:11,719
Speaker 1: I want to be the best, and at this point

912
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:15,759
Speaker 1: i'm not. So I'm not your fucking friend, like I

913
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 1: want your spot. Um. And it was hard to get

914
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 1: a spot because I was I wasn't stable enough for

915
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 1: when I was beating myself, so I didn't even have

916
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:27,279
Speaker 1: a chance, you know. But um, he was the best

917
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:31,719
Speaker 1: because his work, ethic, his fundamentals. I'm sure he's been

918
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:34,280
Speaker 1: around pros for his whole life. He's been around Mike D'Antonio,

919
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:38,359
Speaker 1: who's in Italy. He's been around his dad in Italy. Um,

920
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:40,760
Speaker 1: he has something. He has some of the best coaching

921
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:43,800
Speaker 1: you can possibly get, you know. And and then he

922
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 1: had that drive, um and he and he's been through

923
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 1: he saw it all. His dad played in the league.

924
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 1: So I think all that made him who he was

925
00:50:56,200 --> 00:51:01,799
Speaker 1: so many things um, and he's always thinking UM. So

926
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: when I met him, I'm like, wow, this is this

927
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:07,560
Speaker 1: is the guy. This is the guy. It was It

928
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: was clear, it was clear why he was the guy.

929
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:11,799
Speaker 1: And I watched him practice, I'm like, oh wow, I

930
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 1: thought I was the most intense, so our intensity levels

931
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:20,319
Speaker 1: was pretty similar. I think his was a notch up

932
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:24,839
Speaker 1: because how he approached the game. It was all about

933
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 1: the game. It was all about the game. Me, it

934
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:30,399
Speaker 1: wasn't all about the game. It was all about who.

935
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 1: I don't fucking like when I step on the court.

936
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Sometimes it wasn't about basketball. Um,

937
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. That's that New York ship.

938
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:45,880
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah. And he you know, Kobe, I I

939
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 1: appreciate how you how you approached the game. Then it

940
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:52,440
Speaker 1: helped me become a basketball player. When I met Kobe,

941
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:54,319
Speaker 1: when you start, when you played with him, when I

942
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:56,800
Speaker 1: played with him, I was like, Okay, it's all about

943
00:51:56,800 --> 00:52:00,400
Speaker 1: the game. It's all about the game. It is true.

944
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:04,799
Speaker 1: You lamar odom Elton brand. We're on an a AU

945
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:09,359
Speaker 1: team in New York. Yeah, you Lamar Elton. Who else

946
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:11,239
Speaker 1: is on this team? I mean, do you even need

947
00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 1: anybody else? Yeah? Eric Barkerley was the first round pick

948
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 1: the next year after me and Lamar. We was all

949
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 1: on the same team. We had We had a monster

950
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:21,360
Speaker 1: We had a monster team. Did you ever lose? We

951
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:24,560
Speaker 1: lost one game? Beat you? We lost one game. The

952
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 1: Baron Davis team, they beat us by twenty, and then

953
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:31,480
Speaker 1: we came back in the championship and beat them by

954
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:33,920
Speaker 1: like forty. So the only team that beat us with

955
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:37,800
Speaker 1: the team we beat back in the finals. But like

956
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:39,759
Speaker 1: we played against Shane Batty a team one time and

957
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:41,880
Speaker 1: beat them by like thirty or forty. This is all

958
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 1: when you're in high school school we beat teams. We

959
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:47,359
Speaker 1: just winning championships by fifty. We got to a point

960
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 1: where we would get to the championship game and we

961
00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 1: would say, okay, how much we're gonna try to win by?

962
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 1: You know, it was that it was that bad. Who

963
00:52:55,640 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 1: is the best at that time? Elton was always the best,

964
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:03,720
Speaker 1: Lamar was always second, Me and Eric Barkley was always

965
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:08,440
Speaker 1: like third of fourth, even, but we all did things differently. Defensively,

966
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: I was the best. How when you started playing together?

967
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:15,840
Speaker 1: We started at third teen fourteen are you fucking serious?

968
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 1: Started and Lamar's from Queens. We all pushed each other.

969
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 1: That's sometimes we have fights in practice, you know, you know,

970
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:27,720
Speaker 1: me and Lamar, Me and Lama multiple time to have fights.

971
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 1: And me and Elton we started throwing punches on a

972
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 1: layup line in front of a bunch of college scouts

973
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 1: and you're on the same team. You're in front of

974
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 1: Duke and everybody. I'm like, fuck this ship, fuck you.

975
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 1: And we just saw each other so much. So when

976
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 1: he was on Lain, I passed on the ball, he

977
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: passed me to boy. I thought he threw it at

978
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:48,759
Speaker 1: me hard, so I got the ball. I threw it

979
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 1: at him. Know what, then did you start doing punches?

980
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 1: That's funny? For no reason? He was crazy. When you

981
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: look at Lamar, I mean Lamar, you know him, you

982
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:00,840
Speaker 1: grew up with him and and all the ship that

983
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 1: he's been through, and I've known the more a little

984
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:05,920
Speaker 1: bit and always like this is a nice guy, you know,

985
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 1: like he's a sweet guy, and like this craziness that

986
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 1: he's got involved with. Are you still in touch with him?

987
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 1: Sometimes I speak to Lamar. I mean I have his number.

988
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: Um Our lives are totally different. I don't have like

989
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:24,319
Speaker 1: a lot of friends that I'm that I play with

990
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 1: poss because I was always struggling mentally, so I would

991
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,200
Speaker 1: go home because I have my family at home. So

992
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 1: not only was I struggling, I had to get home

993
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 1: because I'm trying to keep my household in order, which

994
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:42,759
Speaker 1: was very tough because not only was I struggling, but

995
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:46,840
Speaker 1: then I still wanted that other life of fame and

996
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:50,919
Speaker 1: what money can get you, all that hip hop ship.

997
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 1: So I didn't throughout the time, I didn't develop like

998
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 1: a lot of close close friendships and in NBA, like

999
00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:01,360
Speaker 1: I've never had like lunch with Lottmar or Elton some

1000
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 1: of my best friends, or even Steve Jackson or even

1001
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:07,880
Speaker 1: Inharenton still now still still to this day, and not

1002
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 1: only am I in a different mind state, but didn't

1003
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:11,719
Speaker 1: Even now it's like I'm catching up on time that

1004
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 1: I missed with my family. You know what I'm saying,

1005
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 1: Like the eighteen years that my daughter was living beyond,

1006
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:21,160
Speaker 1: I wasn't there mentally I got you. So now I'm

1007
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:23,359
Speaker 1: like I'm catching up on time. So I still don't

1008
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: really have a lot of time to really mingle A lot.

1009
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:28,239
Speaker 1: I got you. I picked my take my daughter to

1010
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:30,880
Speaker 1: school every morning. I bring a lunch at twelve. You

1011
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 1: know when I can. When I'm not practicing with South

1012
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:35,359
Speaker 1: Bay Lakes, I practiced with both of my sons. You know,

1013
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 1: every day, I'm uh, my daughter wants to be a chef.

1014
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 1: I have to be president. You know all the time.

1015
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:46,360
Speaker 1: So um, and my kids live with me, you know. UM,

1016
00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 1: and I got divorced, you know, when I was thirty

1017
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:50,319
Speaker 1: two years on thirty eight, So my kids live with me.

1018
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:52,359
Speaker 1: So I don't have a lot of time to do

1019
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 1: a lot. I mean, whatever are you coaching? So I

1020
00:55:56,520 --> 00:56:00,960
Speaker 1: coached high school Palisades assistant coach the Bad Champions, you're

1021
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:03,880
Speaker 1: the assistant coach was two years ago. Then I coached

1022
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:06,320
Speaker 1: Beverly Hills. I was assistant coach a little bit for

1023
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:08,400
Speaker 1: Beverly Hills a couple of years ago. And You're not

1024
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: doing this for the money, No, no, no, I'm doing

1025
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 1: it for the experience, and I'm doing it to see

1026
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 1: how how I'm gonna coach. I'm trying to found out

1027
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:18,399
Speaker 1: my rhythm. And then I coach Hellcrest Academy this year

1028
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 1: with Whild coaching, UM South Bay Lake Development Coach, assistant

1029
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:25,279
Speaker 1: development coach, and then I coach in the summertime. So

1030
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 1: I got I got like three or four teams in

1031
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:29,680
Speaker 1: a summertime that I coach. How do you knowing your

1032
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 1: work ethic and knowing that the fundamentals that you developed

1033
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:36,239
Speaker 1: throughout your career and we're in a day and age

1034
00:56:36,239 --> 00:56:39,920
Speaker 1: where I call it the instagrammification of defense. Motherfucker's are

1035
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:43,080
Speaker 1: playing sash a defense even in the NBA. Like, people

1036
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:45,399
Speaker 1: don't want to get caught on the Graham getting crossed over.

1037
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:47,480
Speaker 1: People don't want to get caught on the Graham getting

1038
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 1: dunked on. You. You know this better than anyone. You're

1039
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:53,680
Speaker 1: gonna get fucking banged on it. If you're playing good defense,

1040
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:56,879
Speaker 1: you're gonna get crossed over playing defense. And you know

1041
00:56:57,200 --> 00:57:00,319
Speaker 1: that no one likes to play defense. Right there, The

1042
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:02,440
Speaker 1: first and foremost is if you have the effort to

1043
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 1: play defense, you're gonna be better than the next person,

1044
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 1: most likely when you're coaching people that are aren't even

1045
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 1: as good as you on your worst day. And and

1046
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 1: there's so much just like, I don't want to get

1047
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 1: crossed over? How do you deal with that? Knowing that

1048
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 1: you fucking like you didn't give a funk about. So

1049
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:19,720
Speaker 1: that was the that's the main thing I tell my players.

1050
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:23,600
Speaker 1: Get in his ass. Oh, I'll tell my girls getting

1051
00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:26,720
Speaker 1: her ass. Right. So we just took about guys now.

1052
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:29,520
Speaker 1: And I don't care if he beat you, I want

1053
00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 1: you in his ass the whole time. And and if

1054
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:34,840
Speaker 1: he beat you, he's gonna give you sixty points tonight.

1055
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:38,160
Speaker 1: I don't care. I want you in his ass whole time. Now,

1056
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:41,439
Speaker 1: my players kind of understand that. And um, I got

1057
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:43,000
Speaker 1: a young team that I coached and the other day

1058
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:46,919
Speaker 1: we lost about six, but they was playing so aggressive. Um,

1059
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:48,600
Speaker 1: one time they didn't dive on the floor for a

1060
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:52,120
Speaker 1: loose ball. So I walked on the court and the

1061
00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:54,920
Speaker 1: red call at TECH and I wasn't going to the

1062
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:58,000
Speaker 1: going to my player, like you motherfucker dive when a

1063
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 1: motherfucking floor for the gut and ball. I gotta check.

1064
00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 1: But as I but what do you think of the

1065
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: of the state of defense in the NBA? Like this

1066
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 1: this Wesley Johnson gets crossed over by James Harden the

1067
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:16,040
Speaker 1: world like it literally became mainstream news. Like in my opinion,

1068
00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 1: it's like it's affecting kids. It's fine with me. Put

1069
00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 1: me on the names all the time of getting dunked.

1070
00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 1: You don't give a funk because you know you're the dunks.

1071
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 1: I don't like, I've never really been posterized because I

1072
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 1: always tried to get out the way when those are

1073
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 1: the ones I never wanted to be on the Smody's wall,

1074
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:34,600
Speaker 1: Like you when you knew it, When you knew it

1075
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 1: is inevitable, you get out of the way. But I

1076
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:38,760
Speaker 1: knew it was no. Yeah, some things I can do, Okay,

1077
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:40,440
Speaker 1: So who are the ones that you didn't get out

1078
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 1: of way? When you look at your career, like, Damn,

1079
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 1: I wish I wish I had gotten the way, or

1080
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:45,480
Speaker 1: I wish I had fouldom I wish I had grabbed

1081
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:49,280
Speaker 1: like three times when when Meta was Ron artest that

1082
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:51,720
Speaker 1: you got banged on in the NBA, I never I

1083
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:55,440
Speaker 1: never really come on. Wow, Corey mcghetti one time came

1084
00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:58,920
Speaker 1: over my bed as I was going for a rebound,

1085
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:02,960
Speaker 1: dunked on me and sat on my shoulders like that

1086
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:06,000
Speaker 1: was That was the really embarrassing and actually hurt my back.

1087
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:08,640
Speaker 1: I feel like I cracked some bones in my back.

1088
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 1: He did the rude like ship it was. It was.

1089
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: It was nasty. It was nasty besides Kobe Bryant, because

1090
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:17,120
Speaker 1: you know, like the Tales of Kobe. You know, it's

1091
00:59:17,160 --> 00:59:20,880
Speaker 1: like we're just who were the other people? Defensively where

1092
00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:23,960
Speaker 1: you were? Like, I gotta fucking get some sleep. I

1093
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:26,440
Speaker 1: gotta drink some some milk and some orange juice to

1094
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 1: lock up you know like that we were probably give

1095
00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:31,919
Speaker 1: me give me a specif every single one of them,

1096
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:34,200
Speaker 1: I don't care if you were like let's say, Bruce

1097
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 1: Bone or not as to call me offensively like I

1098
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:39,200
Speaker 1: did not want him to score. If you if you

1099
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:41,920
Speaker 1: average six, I'm keeping you the fucking zero. But who

1100
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 1: were the ones that like were the hardest to stop?

1101
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 1: Um Richard Hamilton was pretty hard from keeping him to

1102
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:49,959
Speaker 1: get his average. What made Rip so good? Well, Rip

1103
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:53,760
Speaker 1: was running around the whole time. You couldn't lose them.

1104
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:55,480
Speaker 1: So it was times where I'm not gonna say I

1105
00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:57,120
Speaker 1: didn't have great nights to get them. I had some,

1106
00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:01,320
Speaker 1: but Rip ran and ran and ran and ran, and

1107
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:05,840
Speaker 1: I was amazing to watch and play against. Uh, Kobe, See,

1108
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:12,120
Speaker 1: but Kobe, he's gonna take what thirty shots? Thirty five shots?

1109
01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:15,840
Speaker 1: For me? I when I went into those games, it's like, Okay,

1110
01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 1: if I can keep Kobe under you know, forty shooting, right,

1111
01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:24,560
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. You're thinking percentages because he's gonna

1112
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 1: the amount of shots. Yeah, you're not gonna stop him

1113
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:29,720
Speaker 1: from shooting. Some guys I can stop from shooting, which

1114
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 1: was really cool. Um Graham Hill when he was in

1115
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: his prime. He got hurt early, right, but I was

1116
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:40,440
Speaker 1: able to time his shot. You just like that was

1117
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:42,480
Speaker 1: just something you you were able to do. I used

1118
01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 1: to block his jump shot. I knew he was taking

1119
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:46,440
Speaker 1: two tribles, and I knew what the ball is gonna be,

1120
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:48,280
Speaker 1: so I would just have my hand waiting and I

1121
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 1: would my hand would be just block the shot. I

1122
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:52,880
Speaker 1: told you. Kenyan and a couple of other people mentioned

1123
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:55,560
Speaker 1: you as the strongest person tough to in the post.

1124
01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:58,400
Speaker 1: If I ask you who were the heart like who

1125
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:01,600
Speaker 1: would you say strongest office like down in the block,

1126
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:04,200
Speaker 1: Like who were some of the people like you, like throughout?

1127
01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:08,000
Speaker 1: Because you played with some old motherfucker's first league man

1128
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:13,480
Speaker 1: Harpin was pretty strong. Um, he was pretty strong. Uh

1129
01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:18,640
Speaker 1: you know he and aggressive and really great shape. Um, obviously,

1130
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:23,400
Speaker 1: shock Malone, Alonzo, Carl, what was he? I mean you

1131
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:28,480
Speaker 1: played again. He's like from another era. He's like from

1132
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:31,200
Speaker 1: like from some some other fucking era. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

1133
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:34,400
Speaker 1: he's well, yeah, he's definitely from another era. Um. I

1134
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:36,080
Speaker 1: think he would have been really good in today's game

1135
01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 1: because he could shoot, and he's super fast and he

1136
01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 1: could hedge on screens. He would have been amazing in

1137
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:44,760
Speaker 1: today's game. How different is is the NBA today from

1138
01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:48,160
Speaker 1: when we forget when you played, when you first watched it,

1139
01:01:48,560 --> 01:01:50,800
Speaker 1: Like if you came in the league, now, how tall

1140
01:01:50,840 --> 01:01:56,200
Speaker 1: are you? Are you? Six? Six? When you know dudes

1141
01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:59,840
Speaker 1: now like seven? You see Joel Embi three pointers? Like,

1142
01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:02,400
Speaker 1: how different is the NBA? And what do you think

1143
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:05,280
Speaker 1: of it? Because you were like you like the physicality

1144
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:08,440
Speaker 1: today it's like anti physical, Like it's literally like the

1145
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:11,680
Speaker 1: defenders are at the mercy there at the mercy for me,

1146
01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:14,880
Speaker 1: I don't really I don't like that the game is

1147
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:19,760
Speaker 1: biased towards a weaker player like I played as not

1148
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:24,640
Speaker 1: as strong as someone. The game is biased physically physically,

1149
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:27,480
Speaker 1: the game is, uh, the rules are made for that

1150
01:02:27,520 --> 01:02:31,120
Speaker 1: player to play. That's not aggressive. The player is that's

1151
01:02:31,160 --> 01:02:34,120
Speaker 1: aggressive is not really made for that player. You see

1152
01:02:34,200 --> 01:02:36,600
Speaker 1: so and and that's where you get the iffy calls

1153
01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:39,680
Speaker 1: because you can't really take out every aggressive player you need,

1154
01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:42,120
Speaker 1: like you need Draymond Green. So that's when sometimes you

1155
01:02:42,120 --> 01:02:45,120
Speaker 1: see the miscalls and you see things like that. But um,

1156
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:48,960
Speaker 1: if you're like Stephen Cary and you get bumped foul,

1157
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:51,440
Speaker 1: but he's a little dude I'm talking about for the

1158
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:53,960
Speaker 1: fucking guys in the paint, the goons you're in the

1159
01:02:54,360 --> 01:02:57,760
Speaker 1: like there is no paint now, it's like, is there

1160
01:02:57,760 --> 01:03:00,200
Speaker 1: back to the basket ship. The rules change and they

1161
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:03,400
Speaker 1: made it more like overseas because what happened was when

1162
01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:05,680
Speaker 1: he was trying, when it was getting overseas players, they

1163
01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:08,840
Speaker 1: were never able to really compete over here, you know,

1164
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:13,560
Speaker 1: because America's players just aggressive, you know, So they had

1165
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:15,000
Speaker 1: to change the rules up to make it a more

1166
01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:17,360
Speaker 1: global game. Do you like it, like, are you a

1167
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 1: fan of it? I'm a fan because it seems like

1168
01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 1: there's a lot of fun, but it's a lot of uh,

1169
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:28,920
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of I feel I feel like

1170
01:03:28,920 --> 01:03:31,840
Speaker 1: without Golden States exceptional, it is a little bit more

1171
01:03:31,880 --> 01:03:34,120
Speaker 1: one on one on one. But then back in the

1172
01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:36,080
Speaker 1: days there was even more one on one, right, but

1173
01:03:36,200 --> 01:03:39,800
Speaker 1: Charles Bogley backing down for five seconds, so the game

1174
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:42,680
Speaker 1: is definitely the rules could have changed. I think I

1175
01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:44,919
Speaker 1: think it changed for the better. You have a son

1176
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:48,520
Speaker 1: who playing high school. You know, there's there's like a

1177
01:03:48,520 --> 01:03:49,920
Speaker 1: handful of you guys just said I know of in

1178
01:03:49,960 --> 01:03:54,760
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Kenyan Shaquill, Uh you you're coaching, you said,

1179
01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:56,600
Speaker 1: you know you spent a lot of time with your kids.

1180
01:03:56,840 --> 01:04:00,240
Speaker 1: What do you make of Alonzo ball rookie season and

1181
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:03,160
Speaker 1: the Big Bowler brand in terms of you know, his

1182
01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:06,440
Speaker 1: father and just as a Laker like the outspoken is

1183
01:04:06,840 --> 01:04:10,240
Speaker 1: you know the disrespect of your guy Luke Walton that well,

1184
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:12,840
Speaker 1: what I mean this, I mean it's sort of calmed down. Now,

1185
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:15,440
Speaker 1: what do you make I mean to me? It's like,

1186
01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:19,000
Speaker 1: what is your take on the whole thing? Everything is great,

1187
01:04:19,680 --> 01:04:22,640
Speaker 1: but the exception of like, you know Lucas, Lucas cool people,

1188
01:04:22,680 --> 01:04:27,000
Speaker 1: he's he's he's a great coach, and sometimes things don't

1189
01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:31,120
Speaker 1: go your way. Luke coach Stephen Curry and Clay Thompson.

1190
01:04:32,320 --> 01:04:37,160
Speaker 1: And if Alonzo is that good, then you got a

1191
01:04:37,200 --> 01:04:41,240
Speaker 1: great coach, coach and your son, Um maybe made a mistake,

1192
01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:45,880
Speaker 1: Um whatever. Everybody makes mistakes. I I hear you. Everybody

1193
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:48,200
Speaker 1: makes you mean what like in terms of Luke, if

1194
01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:52,400
Speaker 1: Luke happened to make a mistake Anzo, everybody makes mistakes.

1195
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:55,840
Speaker 1: Lucas the most funnest coach to the coach where he's young,

1196
01:04:56,760 --> 01:04:59,520
Speaker 1: he's smart, and you know, you gotta be happy with that.

1197
01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:04,080
Speaker 1: And sometimes we got to accept things that we you know,

1198
01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:07,200
Speaker 1: I can't control, like, maybe we're not playing well, so

1199
01:05:07,760 --> 01:05:11,520
Speaker 1: you can't blame somebody else because maybe you're not playing well.

1200
01:05:11,680 --> 01:05:14,880
Speaker 1: Um with the brand, I loved it. I bought a

1201
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:17,400
Speaker 1: pair of shoes. Did you get him? Yeah? I watched

1202
01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:20,320
Speaker 1: the game the other day. When I saw the Lakers played,

1203
01:05:20,880 --> 01:05:23,160
Speaker 1: I had the zoes on, which is cool. I think

1204
01:05:23,200 --> 01:05:28,160
Speaker 1: that's really cool. Um, first time big businessman. I don't

1205
01:05:28,160 --> 01:05:30,040
Speaker 1: know what he's doing done before that, but the first

1206
01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:33,560
Speaker 1: time family business is going pretty well. It's not perfect,

1207
01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:36,280
Speaker 1: like nobody is perfect, but I think the business is

1208
01:05:36,320 --> 01:05:37,760
Speaker 1: going well, and I think they're gonna be around for

1209
01:05:37,760 --> 01:05:39,680
Speaker 1: a long time. What do you think of him? Forget

1210
01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:42,160
Speaker 1: all the shenanigans, forget all the fucking hype, forget all

1211
01:05:42,200 --> 01:05:45,200
Speaker 1: the the var factor. What do you think of Alonso

1212
01:05:45,360 --> 01:05:48,240
Speaker 1: as a basketball player? And then follow up, what do

1213
01:05:48,240 --> 01:05:50,160
Speaker 1: you think of the Lakers? Of where there it's been like,

1214
01:05:50,720 --> 01:05:55,200
Speaker 1: I mean, and Kuzma has been like nobody was so

1215
01:05:54,920 --> 01:05:56,800
Speaker 1: good so first LIONSO. What do you think of him

1216
01:05:56,800 --> 01:06:00,040
Speaker 1: as just a basketball player? Alonso is one of the

1217
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:03,760
Speaker 1: best basketball players in the n b A. I'm talking

1218
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:07,919
Speaker 1: about total basketball player. Let's talk about i Q. Let's

1219
01:06:07,920 --> 01:06:11,560
Speaker 1: talk about physicality. They say he don't got defense. I

1220
01:06:11,600 --> 01:06:15,120
Speaker 1: don't see that he has defense. And he's young, He's

1221
01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:17,439
Speaker 1: gonna get better. He's not a lockdown metal world peace.

1222
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:20,600
Speaker 1: He's only nineteam or twenty or something like that. I

1223
01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:25,080
Speaker 1: don't even know he's He's a really good basketball player, um,

1224
01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:26,680
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that because of the I'm saying

1225
01:06:26,680 --> 01:06:28,920
Speaker 1: that because how he moves the ball and how he

1226
01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:33,360
Speaker 1: controls the game and how he sacrifices his own rhythm

1227
01:06:33,760 --> 01:06:36,560
Speaker 1: for other players. He don't take like lots of shots

1228
01:06:36,600 --> 01:06:39,800
Speaker 1: because he's trying to get everybody involved, so he's he's

1229
01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:43,040
Speaker 1: actually making himself look bad and taking all the heat

1230
01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:46,000
Speaker 1: with it. Great player all around. What do you think

1231
01:06:46,040 --> 01:06:48,880
Speaker 1: of where they're at? Julius Randall? I like him. He's

1232
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:52,200
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's metal world peace. There's something about him.

1233
01:06:52,240 --> 01:06:53,880
Speaker 1: You know, he's a little bit more finessed, but you

1234
01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:56,360
Speaker 1: know he What do you think of him? What do

1235
01:06:56,400 --> 01:06:57,800
Speaker 1: you think of the rest of this team and in

1236
01:06:57,840 --> 01:06:59,560
Speaker 1: the state of the Lakers, And give it to me

1237
01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:01,800
Speaker 1: right now, because you fucking know this is your guy.

1238
01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:03,960
Speaker 1: Is Lebron James coming to the Lakers. So it's a

1239
01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:05,800
Speaker 1: two fold question, what do you think of the rest

1240
01:07:05,840 --> 01:07:08,320
Speaker 1: of the Lakers, and it's Lebron come coming to the Lakers?

1241
01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:10,760
Speaker 1: Give it to me. It's hard to say because I'm

1242
01:07:10,760 --> 01:07:12,560
Speaker 1: not I'm not in the front office, you know, what's

1243
01:07:12,600 --> 01:07:15,640
Speaker 1: going on something? Because if I was, if I was

1244
01:07:15,680 --> 01:07:18,040
Speaker 1: in the front office, because I couldn't say that probably,

1245
01:07:19,480 --> 01:07:22,240
Speaker 1: But like, I don't speak to like, you know, the

1246
01:07:22,280 --> 01:07:26,120
Speaker 1: decision makers with the organization. You know, I only help

1247
01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:30,160
Speaker 1: um players who need help. I got you. Who want

1248
01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:32,960
Speaker 1: to have a little fun and practice, I got you.

1249
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:35,960
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not even drawing up plays. I'm a

1250
01:07:36,040 --> 01:07:39,000
Speaker 1: development coach, you know, which I love. But I love

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01:07:39,040 --> 01:07:40,880
Speaker 1: doing this. It's a lot of fun. What would it

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01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:44,520
Speaker 1: be if he came to Los Angeles? Well, it's hard

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01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:47,840
Speaker 1: to say. I mean, right now he's losing um Compared

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01:07:47,920 --> 01:07:50,800
Speaker 1: for his status. He's losing for other people. Would have

1255
01:07:50,800 --> 01:07:55,720
Speaker 1: been great for Lebron is bad. Um. So it's like, okay,

1256
01:07:55,840 --> 01:07:59,600
Speaker 1: do you bring him here to win, to mentor to

1257
01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:03,520
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, um, can you put a

1258
01:08:03,520 --> 01:08:05,959
Speaker 1: team around him? Or does he take a step back?

1259
01:08:06,200 --> 01:08:08,360
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, is you know, um, I don't

1260
01:08:08,360 --> 01:08:10,520
Speaker 1: know what type of player he's gonna be next year,

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01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:14,000
Speaker 1: He's gonna still be pretty good. But is he Is

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01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:17,599
Speaker 1: he the number one player? Uh? It's so many questions

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01:08:17,680 --> 01:08:21,160
Speaker 1: that I have, you know, um as a fan, you

1264
01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:24,400
Speaker 1: know of the Lakers, so many questions. I have you

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01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:29,240
Speaker 1: played against Kobe? Played with Kobe? This is an obligatory question,

1266
01:08:29,280 --> 01:08:31,320
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna get into again. It's like the top

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01:08:31,360 --> 01:08:34,479
Speaker 1: five hip hop artist, which is even more subjective because

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01:08:34,479 --> 01:08:36,920
Speaker 1: it's like your five could be totally different my five.

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01:08:36,960 --> 01:08:41,479
Speaker 1: It's just what you like. Kobe, Lebron, Michael, Jordan's if

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01:08:41,520 --> 01:08:44,559
Speaker 1: you had to pick one and their prime you obviously

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01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:48,160
Speaker 1: watched Michael. This is so hard. Is it is a

1272
01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:51,960
Speaker 1: stupid question? Is it dumb? Because it's it's a team sport.

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01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:54,200
Speaker 1: I get asked that all the time. Is it stupid?

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01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:58,720
Speaker 1: It's not stupid, It's amazing. It's an amazing question. I mean,

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01:08:59,160 --> 01:09:01,240
Speaker 1: these are three of the best, and now Lebron is

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01:09:01,280 --> 01:09:06,599
Speaker 1: finally cemented his name with those guys, you know, because

1277
01:09:06,600 --> 01:09:13,200
Speaker 1: of what he's done, and I mean, you know, it's amazing.

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01:09:13,479 --> 01:09:17,240
Speaker 1: You know what's amazing. Nobody ever mentions Kevin Durant. They

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01:09:17,280 --> 01:09:20,880
Speaker 1: always say Lebron, Kobe or Jordan. Nobody ever says Kevin Durant.

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01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:25,040
Speaker 1: Why no, I don't know. What do you think? Um?

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01:09:26,479 --> 01:09:27,840
Speaker 1: I think he's really good. But I think in the

1282
01:09:27,920 --> 01:09:31,599
Speaker 1: last couple of years he's been having my heart. He's

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01:09:31,640 --> 01:09:34,800
Speaker 1: playing defense now, and I think with all of those

1284
01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:40,599
Speaker 1: three guys they play defense. Kevin Durant just started playing defense. Um.

1285
01:09:40,640 --> 01:09:43,960
Speaker 1: On the wings, he was always capable, but never really

1286
01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:48,840
Speaker 1: bit damn. Now he's biting down. Um. First pick, we're

1287
01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:53,320
Speaker 1: in the park, queens Bridge. I'm picking Kobe Man over

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01:09:53,400 --> 01:09:56,519
Speaker 1: Michael and Lebron in their prime. I don't think I

1289
01:09:56,560 --> 01:10:01,080
Speaker 1: have a choice. I've think get Kobe Man. I go

1290
01:10:01,160 --> 01:10:04,080
Speaker 1: with Kobe. I play with Kobe. You know I'm going.

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01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:06,120
Speaker 1: You know what, I'm definitely going with Kobe if I

1292
01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:08,400
Speaker 1: was in the park, honestly, or just let's just say

1293
01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:12,080
Speaker 1: space jam two. They got a basketball court and we

1294
01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:14,559
Speaker 1: want to play some ball. Lebrons did Kobe. We just

1295
01:10:14,560 --> 01:10:16,680
Speaker 1: want to get in shape somehow. I'm there, don't know

1296
01:10:16,680 --> 01:10:21,439
Speaker 1: how to funk got in the building. I'm picking Kobe. Okay, Um,

1297
01:10:21,520 --> 01:10:26,559
Speaker 1: all right, hip hop you put out two records, Uh,

1298
01:10:26,800 --> 01:10:29,640
Speaker 1: your guy Linzo I was very outspoken when about the

1299
01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:33,400
Speaker 1: disrespect over nasty Now that was great, Thank you for that,

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01:10:33,439 --> 01:10:35,080
Speaker 1: Thank you for that. Yeah, well what it goes on

1301
01:10:35,120 --> 01:10:38,880
Speaker 1: in Queensbrid You got ball players Roxane Shante, the movie

1302
01:10:39,160 --> 01:10:46,240
Speaker 1: coming out, Roxann Juice Crew. I don't think Linzo understand

1303
01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:50,400
Speaker 1: His dad understands, but his dad probably Linzo, you might

1304
01:10:50,439 --> 01:10:51,760
Speaker 1: not know what you're talking about, but that's you know,

1305
01:10:51,840 --> 01:10:54,920
Speaker 1: they right or die with each other. But I think

1306
01:10:54,920 --> 01:10:57,320
Speaker 1: he might have. He might have messed up. But what

1307
01:10:57,479 --> 01:11:01,719
Speaker 1: is it about Queens Bridge? Now? It's it's New York

1308
01:11:01,840 --> 01:11:03,840
Speaker 1: is just as a whole, there's there's been a lot

1309
01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:07,840
Speaker 1: of improvements. What is it about Queen's Bridge Projects that

1310
01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:10,559
Speaker 1: that you know through the seventies and eighties, through all

1311
01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:13,639
Speaker 1: the dress and if you if you're not from there,

1312
01:11:14,479 --> 01:11:17,000
Speaker 1: you don't know. But like through all the dress created

1313
01:11:17,120 --> 01:11:19,960
Speaker 1: obviously there was so much pain, so much chaos, so

1314
01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:23,920
Speaker 1: much devastation, but they had, you know, diamonds in the

1315
01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:27,479
Speaker 1: rough like Chante, like nas, like yourself. What is it

1316
01:11:27,479 --> 01:11:31,240
Speaker 1: about Queen's Break projects? Uh, that you know create some

1317
01:11:31,280 --> 01:11:36,679
Speaker 1: special people. Queen's Bridge is a different mindset man. Obviously

1318
01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:39,200
Speaker 1: you have great people everywhere. It's not just Queens was,

1319
01:11:39,240 --> 01:11:44,840
Speaker 1: but as a whole, we were the drug hub from

1320
01:11:44,880 --> 01:11:49,439
Speaker 1: New York City. Explain it, you understand saying, so we

1321
01:11:49,479 --> 01:11:53,360
Speaker 1: are in prime real estate area, is the perfect place

1322
01:11:53,960 --> 01:11:58,080
Speaker 1: to transport. You know, you've got every subway system, you

1323
01:11:58,200 --> 01:12:02,160
Speaker 1: got bridges right there, bridges right there. So I mean,

1324
01:12:02,200 --> 01:12:05,800
Speaker 1: you're in the middle of this drug war. You know.

1325
01:12:06,520 --> 01:12:09,439
Speaker 1: It was times where there was so much money being

1326
01:12:09,520 --> 01:12:13,519
Speaker 1: passed around in my neighborhood. You know, other people was

1327
01:12:13,560 --> 01:12:16,960
Speaker 1: coming into my neighbor not even from the neighborhood, and

1328
01:12:16,960 --> 01:12:20,080
Speaker 1: then they're coming in the neighborhood and then they're they're

1329
01:12:20,120 --> 01:12:25,320
Speaker 1: causing havoc in our neighborhood. So then in our neighborhood,

1330
01:12:25,360 --> 01:12:27,160
Speaker 1: we had a couple of people who stood up to

1331
01:12:27,160 --> 01:12:30,800
Speaker 1: whoever came into the neighborhood. You know. Um, So that's

1332
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:33,439
Speaker 1: the type of neighborhood we grew up. It was. It

1333
01:12:33,479 --> 01:12:38,160
Speaker 1: was it was wild, you know, and violent. It was violent.

1334
01:12:38,200 --> 01:12:42,559
Speaker 1: It was fun, but it was definitely like, you know,

1335
01:12:42,680 --> 01:12:45,960
Speaker 1: somebody could definitely die today. Like that was just part

1336
01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:48,960
Speaker 1: of what was going on at the time in New York.

1337
01:12:49,040 --> 01:12:52,400
Speaker 1: A lot of times parts of Queens. I've seen some

1338
01:12:52,439 --> 01:12:54,360
Speaker 1: of one of my friends who was a very good

1339
01:12:54,360 --> 01:12:57,040
Speaker 1: students to get AIDS on every test. His name was

1340
01:12:57,160 --> 01:13:02,920
Speaker 1: Bantu get aids on every test from kindergarten until eighth grade.

1341
01:13:03,720 --> 01:13:06,160
Speaker 1: And it's so easy. He could have been a math

1342
01:13:06,240 --> 01:13:09,720
Speaker 1: whatever he wanted to be. And when I went to

1343
01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:11,479
Speaker 1: high school and I was saying him on the street,

1344
01:13:11,479 --> 01:13:12,920
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, what you're doing. You're going to school,

1345
01:13:13,640 --> 01:13:15,280
Speaker 1: You're like smarter than me. I mean, I'm in the

1346
01:13:15,320 --> 01:13:19,200
Speaker 1: Catholic school. And he's like, nah, I'm just chilling. So

1347
01:13:19,240 --> 01:13:21,360
Speaker 1: I get back, I'm in college. I'm like, band, like

1348
01:13:21,400 --> 01:13:23,840
Speaker 1: what you're doing? Like he was, who while you're not

1349
01:13:23,880 --> 01:13:27,320
Speaker 1: in school, while you're not working for Morgan Stanley, you

1350
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:30,080
Speaker 1: understand that he was in the streets. He looked street life,

1351
01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:33,720
Speaker 1: you know. And we play basketball together to the live

1352
01:13:33,760 --> 01:13:36,599
Speaker 1: great things together, you know, um and and that's just

1353
01:13:36,640 --> 01:13:39,559
Speaker 1: what that's what it is, you know. And I think

1354
01:13:39,680 --> 01:13:43,240
Speaker 1: that's what makes Queensbridge Queensbridge. Unfortunately, like those type of things.

1355
01:13:43,640 --> 01:13:45,040
Speaker 1: Do you still go out there? Do you saw any

1356
01:13:45,080 --> 01:13:47,639
Speaker 1: any any ties to Queensbridge? I mean I got ties

1357
01:13:47,800 --> 01:13:52,760
Speaker 1: because you know, when I made it to the NBA. Sometimes, yeah,

1358
01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:55,240
Speaker 1: I had a lot of friends in Queensbridge, and you know,

1359
01:13:57,560 --> 01:14:00,599
Speaker 1: I stuck around, right. I don't need to go back ever,

1360
01:14:01,200 --> 01:14:03,479
Speaker 1: I don't go back much, but I felt like I

1361
01:14:03,560 --> 01:14:05,680
Speaker 1: put my work in already. I got you, you know,

1362
01:14:05,720 --> 01:14:09,880
Speaker 1: I don't don't have nothing else to prove but being positive.

1363
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:12,320
Speaker 1: And I talked to people alive from Queens. How about

1364
01:14:12,360 --> 01:14:15,840
Speaker 1: some of these kids out there? Um hip hop obligatory.

1365
01:14:15,960 --> 01:14:17,639
Speaker 1: I asked you this once before you and I I'm

1366
01:14:17,640 --> 01:14:19,479
Speaker 1: gonna see if you answered the same because it could

1367
01:14:19,600 --> 01:14:24,960
Speaker 1: change top five rappers, your favorites. Yeah, I love this question.

1368
01:14:25,040 --> 01:14:29,280
Speaker 1: Cannabis number one, that same question, and I was like, cannabis,

1369
01:14:29,280 --> 01:14:32,920
Speaker 1: Like I get cannabis is why cannabis? That's an obscure

1370
01:14:33,520 --> 01:14:36,679
Speaker 1: cannabis had Cannabis is like, let's say one hit wonder,

1371
01:14:36,720 --> 01:14:38,400
Speaker 1: he would he be mad at this? I'm sorry, Cannabis.

1372
01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:40,599
Speaker 1: Let's just say he's the one hit wonder. Let's just

1373
01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:44,719
Speaker 1: say he had does Steve curse seventy three wins season?

1374
01:14:45,479 --> 01:14:49,320
Speaker 1: You can't discount that Cannabis is one of the best

1375
01:14:49,479 --> 01:14:51,599
Speaker 1: rappers to ever live. When he was at his peak,

1376
01:14:53,280 --> 01:14:55,759
Speaker 1: it was things that he was saying that nobody ever said.

1377
01:14:56,160 --> 01:14:58,800
Speaker 1: And it wasn't he had a little gaze things, but

1378
01:14:58,840 --> 01:15:02,719
Speaker 1: it wasn't like y'are a'most shoot And it was smart. Okay,

1379
01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:06,880
Speaker 1: Eminem smart, he was dope number give me, give me

1380
01:15:06,920 --> 01:15:09,960
Speaker 1: your other ones, obligatory top five, so that cannabis number one.

1381
01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:15,680
Speaker 1: Cannabis can change change eminem yep I go eminem Um,

1382
01:15:15,720 --> 01:15:18,200
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna go with um. This guy named Juice

1383
01:15:18,200 --> 01:15:20,360
Speaker 1: from Chicago who would only rapper to beat eminem in

1384
01:15:20,400 --> 01:15:23,720
Speaker 1: the battle. Okay, so it's not it's not that I'm

1385
01:15:23,760 --> 01:15:25,640
Speaker 1: on that, but he's he's a great rapper with a

1386
01:15:25,640 --> 01:15:29,040
Speaker 1: great album. Nobody really listens to him. Okay, you know,

1387
01:15:29,160 --> 01:15:32,080
Speaker 1: but he's a great rapper. Um, you got him? Um

1388
01:15:32,640 --> 01:15:36,120
Speaker 1: rack him? Yes, come in l a Eric being Rock

1389
01:15:36,200 --> 01:15:38,519
Speaker 1: Kim May we should go to the show. We might

1390
01:15:38,560 --> 01:15:40,719
Speaker 1: have to go to that show, Eric Being Rock Kim show.

1391
01:15:40,840 --> 01:15:42,559
Speaker 1: We actually need to go to that. I'm gonna get

1392
01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:45,760
Speaker 1: it hooked up. That's I'm going. I'm going, We're going,

1393
01:15:45,800 --> 01:15:48,519
Speaker 1: We're going to that ship and then I'm gonna go

1394
01:15:48,600 --> 01:15:50,920
Speaker 1: with I'm gonna go with um. It's hard not to

1395
01:15:50,960 --> 01:15:54,080
Speaker 1: go with nas He's nasa Is Like. I was very

1396
01:15:54,120 --> 01:15:56,960
Speaker 1: inspired by Nasa as as a kid. Did you see

1397
01:15:57,040 --> 01:15:58,880
Speaker 1: him growing up? I saw him one time when I

1398
01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:00,960
Speaker 1: was thirteen for the first time him. But I always

1399
01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:03,800
Speaker 1: knew that he's from the neighborhood. And then because he

1400
01:16:03,880 --> 01:16:05,560
Speaker 1: was older and he was on the other side of

1401
01:16:05,640 --> 01:16:08,880
Speaker 1: the project, he's on the forty buster side. I was on,

1402
01:16:09,120 --> 01:16:11,519
Speaker 1: you know, the other side. I got you and people.

1403
01:16:12,120 --> 01:16:16,080
Speaker 1: Queen's Bridge is fucking huge, big. You don't just if

1404
01:16:16,080 --> 01:16:17,599
Speaker 1: you're on your block, you probably go in one other

1405
01:16:17,640 --> 01:16:19,479
Speaker 1: block to the store. You know, that's about it. And

1406
01:16:19,479 --> 01:16:21,439
Speaker 1: then you don't really want to go somewhere else, but

1407
01:16:21,560 --> 01:16:23,760
Speaker 1: you not want it. You might get your ass beat

1408
01:16:23,960 --> 01:16:27,760
Speaker 1: right for some apparent reason, depending you know, and your

1409
01:16:27,760 --> 01:16:33,559
Speaker 1: two records My World, my other five is tragedy. Sorry,

1410
01:16:34,120 --> 01:16:37,960
Speaker 1: that's the fifth. Your Queen's all right, Your queen's tragedy

1411
01:16:37,960 --> 01:16:40,880
Speaker 1: ain't no joke. Your queen's bias. I'm sorry. The nine,

1412
01:16:41,439 --> 01:16:43,880
Speaker 1: but all right, you were in there, you had some

1413
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:46,720
Speaker 1: people on your records. Was the most impressive. When you

1414
01:16:46,760 --> 01:16:49,040
Speaker 1: were in the studio, you were like this motherfucker's talented,

1415
01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:51,400
Speaker 1: Like this is like this guy is good. Yeah. When

1416
01:16:51,439 --> 01:16:53,000
Speaker 1: I was in the studio doing My World, we had

1417
01:16:53,240 --> 01:16:56,920
Speaker 1: um capone was very very good. Rapp up my cousin, Actually,

1418
01:16:57,160 --> 01:17:00,880
Speaker 1: is that your cousin? Yeah, I didn't know that third cousin,

1419
01:17:01,160 --> 01:17:08,560
Speaker 1: Um um so copon was very impressive nature it was

1420
01:17:08,600 --> 01:17:12,000
Speaker 1: on it got on the record, you know, and you

1421
01:17:12,120 --> 01:17:14,080
Speaker 1: can see like the skills and like just how like

1422
01:17:14,120 --> 01:17:16,680
Speaker 1: because just like basketball, like you could just this is

1423
01:17:16,720 --> 01:17:18,280
Speaker 1: what they do. This is what they do. You know.

1424
01:17:18,320 --> 01:17:22,120
Speaker 1: They were real rappers, you know, lyricists and talking about

1425
01:17:22,120 --> 01:17:24,439
Speaker 1: their life. I wish, I wish we could have done

1426
01:17:24,479 --> 01:17:27,880
Speaker 1: more projects. Um the music business at that time wasn't

1427
01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:30,000
Speaker 1: for me. I didn't really understand how to scale it.

1428
01:17:30,280 --> 01:17:32,840
Speaker 1: I got you, but we had a really good team.

1429
01:17:33,120 --> 01:17:35,439
Speaker 1: We always had a good team. Cui the music, you know,

1430
01:17:35,520 --> 01:17:40,040
Speaker 1: but nobody really understood scaling, not having major overhead. If

1431
01:17:40,080 --> 01:17:42,360
Speaker 1: you bring ten guys on a on a rap show,

1432
01:17:43,080 --> 01:17:45,040
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to market your next record.

1433
01:17:46,439 --> 01:17:49,120
Speaker 1: The business something. It's like making money and saving money

1434
01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:52,360
Speaker 1: and not spending money. Okay, now now keep it funky.

1435
01:17:52,439 --> 01:17:55,200
Speaker 1: You love hip hop. You're younger, I mean, you're older

1436
01:17:55,240 --> 01:17:58,200
Speaker 1: than these dudes. We got your guy Alonzo, we got

1437
01:17:58,280 --> 01:18:02,519
Speaker 1: a man Chumpert, we got Dre, Dre Drummond. We got

1438
01:18:02,800 --> 01:18:06,920
Speaker 1: I heard Kyrie Irving, That's what I heard. I heard

1439
01:18:06,960 --> 01:18:10,160
Speaker 1: he spits. We got my man up who out of

1440
01:18:10,200 --> 01:18:12,880
Speaker 1: all these dudes in the NBA now currently keep it funky.

1441
01:18:12,880 --> 01:18:17,120
Speaker 1: Your o G. You should stop fucking around with music altogether. Well,

1442
01:18:17,800 --> 01:18:21,320
Speaker 1: keep it funky. This is in basketball, it's not personally yo,

1443
01:18:21,479 --> 01:18:25,360
Speaker 1: keep it funky everybody. Everybody that's wrapping now, I like

1444
01:18:26,040 --> 01:18:30,120
Speaker 1: Brandon bassa, um, your man, I still have a problem

1445
01:18:30,160 --> 01:18:33,840
Speaker 1: with anybody. So he got the new era type of music.

1446
01:18:34,479 --> 01:18:37,920
Speaker 1: I literally don't have a problem with anybody. I haven't heard.

1447
01:18:38,080 --> 01:18:40,040
Speaker 1: Would you like, I haven't heard anything. I'm not about

1448
01:18:40,080 --> 01:18:42,880
Speaker 1: a wrapper. I can't battle. Every time somebody asked me

1449
01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:45,360
Speaker 1: to freestyle, I'm like listening. Right, that's a different skill set.

1450
01:18:45,400 --> 01:18:47,120
Speaker 1: It's just not what I do. I got you. I

1451
01:18:47,160 --> 01:18:50,160
Speaker 1: will never be caught freestyle and on breakfast club anywhere.

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Speaker 1: I can't free spitting a quick thirty two. My best

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Speaker 1: thing I have is I had one good record and

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Speaker 1: then my hooks is pretty tight. My bars is you know,

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Speaker 1: they're kind of reil, but consistently. I don't do a

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Speaker 1: lot a lot of good verses. I got you hooks.

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Speaker 1: I love I got you. I think my hooks is

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Speaker 1: pretty tight. All right, So you're you're you're keeping it bias.

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Speaker 1: That's fair. My final question, final question, all right, based

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Speaker 1: on injury. Okay, well, hopefully everybody stays healthy, hopefully Tyler

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01:19:17,880 --> 01:19:20,000
Speaker 1: comes back. I don't want anybody, you know, we want

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Speaker 1: everybody's health to be good. Who's winning the NBA Championship

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01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:25,759
Speaker 1: based on everything we know right now, on everybody who's

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01:19:25,800 --> 01:19:28,080
Speaker 1: healthy or not healthy right now, Who's win the championship?

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Speaker 1: Who are the two teams at the end of the road? Um,

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Speaker 1: the final team would be Golden State. They're gonna win,

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Speaker 1: win the whole thing verse, it's Cleveland gonna make it

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Speaker 1: to the finals. I can't see Cleveland going to the

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Speaker 1: finals because consistently they've been losing. Now I am out

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Speaker 1: the loop with basketball mentally, emotionally, because I know for

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Speaker 1: a fact if you stick with it, you get better

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs, you can get there nixt when they

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01:19:58,040 --> 01:20:01,120
Speaker 1: got there as a c. So yeah, I'm counting out Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: But that's because I'm like not focused on the game.

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01:20:05,240 --> 01:20:07,040
Speaker 1: Like I'm not in the game. You're not. I'm not

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Speaker 1: in the game. In terms of paying attention as a fan,

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Speaker 1: I'm not payingting as a fan intil the process. I

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01:20:11,600 --> 01:20:13,760
Speaker 1: got you. I'm more like developing guys. I got you.

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01:20:13,840 --> 01:20:16,840
Speaker 1: I'm sticking. That's where I'm at. So right now, I

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Speaker 1: just I'm going. I'm just cold, like I see I

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01:20:18,920 --> 01:20:24,439
Speaker 1: see Cleveland going. If they beat Toronto or Boston, that's

1482
01:20:24,479 --> 01:20:27,920
Speaker 1: really embarrassing to Toronto or Boston because Cleveland is not

1483
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:33,360
Speaker 1: playing well. They should not beat you. If you're you're coaching,

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01:20:33,400 --> 01:20:37,280
Speaker 1: you're giving Cleveland or Boston or any fucking body how

1485
01:20:37,360 --> 01:20:39,679
Speaker 1: the fund Is there a way to stop Lebron James.

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01:20:40,400 --> 01:20:43,679
Speaker 1: Um at this point where these skill set his confidence,

1487
01:20:43,680 --> 01:20:47,160
Speaker 1: he's so relaxed. You cannot stop Lebron James. If you can,

1488
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Speaker 1: don't try it. I can't see it happening. I can't

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01:20:52,160 --> 01:20:54,479
Speaker 1: see that. He just has all the answers at this point, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's like, Okay, as much as you want

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01:20:58,360 --> 01:21:01,800
Speaker 1: to stop Lebron James, that's as much as he wants

1492
01:21:01,840 --> 01:21:06,240
Speaker 1: to kill you on the other side. So okay, go

1493
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Speaker 1: try it. Good luck of good luck? All right? Listen,

1494
01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:14,960
Speaker 1: met up, Listen, I appreciate you. Come rock with me

1495
01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:18,360
Speaker 1: on the Iron Wrap Stereo Eric being rock Cam. I'm

1496
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Speaker 1: getting the ticket. We're going to take a picture posting

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01:21:21,040 --> 01:21:24,639
Speaker 1: on Instagram so everybody know we're going to that because

1498
01:21:24,680 --> 01:21:26,479
Speaker 1: because you never know when that's not gonna when that's

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01:21:26,479 --> 01:21:29,600
Speaker 1: gonna happen. The god m see Eric beat doing the

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Speaker 1: thing in l A Metal World Peace, Yo, The Panda's

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Speaker 1: Friend clothing. The ship looks comfortable, it's fun. And you

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Speaker 1: know what we just we made some money and now

1503
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Speaker 1: we're throwing a basketball game at Uni High School with

1504
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Speaker 1: the Board of Education but l a City Work Economic

1505
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Speaker 1: Development Department, UM, and we're giving back. That's what the

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01:21:52,400 --> 01:21:54,360
Speaker 1: green is about. All right, keep doing your thing. I

1507
01:21:54,400 --> 01:22:03,760
Speaker 1: appreciate you. Rock with me absolutely, man, all right, what

1508
01:22:03,880 --> 01:22:05,720
Speaker 1: can I Did I tell you? Did I tell you?

1509
01:22:06,200 --> 01:22:09,519
Speaker 1: We came, we saw, we conquered. Meta, thank you for

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01:22:09,680 --> 01:22:14,000
Speaker 1: rocking on the Iron Rapports Stereo podcast. The Panda's Friend

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01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:18,040
Speaker 1: Queen's Bridge QB. I would love to have him back

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01:22:18,080 --> 01:22:19,920
Speaker 1: on the show. I love this dude, Metal World Peace.

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01:22:19,960 --> 01:22:22,759
Speaker 1: Thank you for rocking on the Iron Rapports Stereo podcast.

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01:22:23,040 --> 01:22:26,000
Speaker 1: G Moody last names with duty. I wish you a healthy,

1515
01:22:26,439 --> 01:22:30,360
Speaker 1: speedy recovery after your first few days of training. Hold

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01:22:30,439 --> 01:22:34,519
Speaker 1: your head, stay in that ice path, Duke uh Meta,

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01:22:34,600 --> 01:22:36,800
Speaker 1: thank you for rocking on the show. What can I say?

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01:22:36,920 --> 01:22:40,479
Speaker 1: Miles Jordan's take us out of here with something funky,

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01:22:40,840 --> 01:22:42,720
Speaker 1: Take us out of here with a smacker. As I

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Speaker 1: told you, yo, I highly recommend, I have no agenda.

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01:22:45,640 --> 01:22:49,879
Speaker 1: I highly recommend the Netflix documentary series Wild Wild Country.

1522
01:22:51,320 --> 01:22:54,759
Speaker 1: Got to sit down talk to these directors. Dope ass interview,

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01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:57,680
Speaker 1: very informative, not just about that movie, about the process,

1524
01:22:58,760 --> 01:23:01,800
Speaker 1: the ground and pound, the grind of what it takes

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Speaker 1: to make a documentary. That's gonna be on the next podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Michael Rapport a k A the Greno Man,

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Speaker 1: Dingo a K A Bird, a k A White, Mike

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Speaker 1: a K. Mr White, Folk G. Moody. Last name rhymes

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Speaker 1: with duty. The Iron Rapports stereo podcast Miles Jordan take

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Speaker 1: us out of here with something special. Let's go together

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Speaker 1: together Together,