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Speaker 1: First of all, Bro, we appreciate you coming on the

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Speaker 1: show out Jordan brand Brother, Yes, you know, just thank

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Speaker 1: you for giving us the time with you.

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Speaker 2: Bro, thanks for having me. Yeah, I appreciate you having

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Speaker 2: me here. Man, I'm honored to be here. Honored.

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Speaker 1: When you first got to the league, who was the

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Speaker 1: first person to bust your ass?

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Speaker 3: It was a few people.

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Speaker 2: I would say, Karl Malone was my first real introduction.

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Speaker 2: But the thing about Carl was like it was a

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Speaker 2: screen action. So he got forty and you never really

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Speaker 2: you felt like what just happened? It was forty and

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Speaker 2: fifteen And I'm looking at the statue like you just

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Speaker 1: Utah, they run down the court and crossed every single time,

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Speaker 1: right then John Stock and sitting them strong.

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Speaker 2: Look yeah yeah yeah yeah, and his arms is like

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Speaker 2: yeah and any holding the screen too. It's not like

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Speaker 2: the screens said today, he really hit me. It was

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Speaker 2: called And I'll say my first introduction before Carl was

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Speaker 2: Sean Kemp. Kemp Kemp got me in the preseason. It

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Speaker 2: was it was terrified. It was everything that I imagine

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Speaker 2: rain was he can he brought itself. Yeah, man, yo

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Speaker 2: yo yo. We live on location. We here in Orlando City, beautiful.

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Speaker 4: I got the blackest one and we coming to you

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Speaker 4: live on location with a special special guest man. We

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Speaker 4: got some of that nineties real real o g basketball

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Speaker 4: in the building. We got the original team member from

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Speaker 4: the Jordan brand when it all started off man, multiple time,

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Speaker 4: all start, big time, big time Olympian all that. We

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Speaker 4: got mister Van Baker, our big brother in the bill, Sir,

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Speaker 4: presented by.

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Speaker 1: Sleeproo Old save Brook tell us about Old Saybrook coming up.

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Speaker 1: You said it was really a basketball community, like that.

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Speaker 2: Small town in Connecticut. My parents, you know, migrated from

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Speaker 2: grew up in Old Taber, Connecticut, beautiful little town. And

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Speaker 2: like I said, it wasn't a hot bed for basketball.

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Speaker 2: My parents were super strict. My dad was a pastor,

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Speaker 2: is a pastor, and so it was school in church

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Speaker 2: for me and so but I had to passion for basketball.

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Speaker 2: I love, you know, basketball like anybody else did, and

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Speaker 2: and just worked my way through, you know, the crevices

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Speaker 2: and I was a late bloomer. Yeah, but I was

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Speaker 1: Who put the ball in your hand? Like how you

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Speaker 1: start because you say your props is a pastor? And

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Speaker 1: I know with the church, you got to run a

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: But so, who put the ball in your hand and

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Speaker 1: make you start loving it? Or what you what did

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Speaker 2: So I watched it a lot, like I'm in seventies.

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Speaker 2: I was born in the seventies, but I was like

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Speaker 2: an eighties baby, like watching Doctor J Magic Bird. You know,

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Speaker 2: there wasn't a lot of basketball teams, so you got

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Speaker 2: and it wasn't about being in the NBA. I just

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Speaker 2: I wanted to, you know, handle the ball like magic,

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Speaker 2: shoot like bird, fly, like Doctor J. So and then

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Speaker 2: of course MJ. When MJ came in the nineties, I

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Speaker 1: How was it when you start going to Florida for

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Speaker 1: the summers? Right when you start going to Florida for

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Speaker 1: the summers, and you know, being in Connecticut where the

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Speaker 2: I was trying to do everything they was doing. But

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Speaker 1: Us about going to Yukon camp every summer where every

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Speaker 2: So it was like again I said, I was a

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Speaker 2: late bloomer, and so I started going to I went

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Speaker 2: to Yukon twice my junior year, right before my junior

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Speaker 2: You know, my sophomore year, I played jav and then

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Speaker 2: I came back after the Yukon camp. Averaged like sixteen

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Speaker 2: Slid all that. Stuff my body was hurting for no.

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Speaker 2: just got better man and started. DOMINANT i started feeling

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Speaker 2: between junior and senior, YEAR i. DIDN'T i grew like,

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Speaker 2: WENT i was a senior in high. SCHOOL i grew

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Speaker 2: i was six seven and then six to. Eleven that

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Speaker 1: Late, bloomer what was the college that you really wanted

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Speaker 2: Yukon, yeah and at the time, too The university Of

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Speaker 2: i got one, offer and that was from The university Of.

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Speaker 3: Harford like your.

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Speaker 1: Game WHEN i started really playing attention to your, game

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Speaker 1: when did that story getting in your game when you

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Speaker 2: College WHEN i got to college, there it was crazy

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Speaker 2: Everything take the ball off the, rim dribble it up the,

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Speaker 4: Better, yeah how was it for you going from averaging you,

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Speaker 2: BUT i also knew That Chris weber was out, There

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Speaker 1: Viral, yeah to hear that you're about to be On Sports,

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Speaker 2: because the actual photo shoot it was all the athletes

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Speaker 2: Like so it was it was cool man like to

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Speaker 2: FETCHED i could HAVE i could have left to go

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Speaker 1: When you first heard THAT nba scouts or the league

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Speaker 1: something that you've been watching your whole, childhood what was

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Speaker 2: That super, Excited LIKE i mean to hear your name

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Speaker 2: SO i didn't come with a bunch of accolades and

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Speaker 2: The yukon players to play at such and such gym In,

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Speaker 2: SO i was really establishing myself underground BEFORE i became you,

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Speaker 3: Pick that's where my street cred was better than my media.

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Speaker 4: Signed how many workouts did you go on when you

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Speaker 2: Q i, Went it's crazy BECAUSE i went to like

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Speaker 2: i didn't go To. Portsmouth, WELL i didn't do any

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Speaker 2: other senior tournaments, postseason SO i worked out for The.

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Speaker 2: PISTONS i worked out for The Golden State, WARRIORS i

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Speaker 2: Teams interesting, ENOUGH i went, eighth but The pistons were

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Speaker 2: like we weren't going to take it was, Awful like

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Speaker 2: Allan houston And Lindsay hunter in that. Draft BUT i

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Speaker 2: it was LIKE i got a you, KNOW i got

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Speaker 2: that small school stigma was still, there like we saw

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Speaker 1: Experience it was? Great, drafting shaking the commissioner, hand it was.

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Speaker 2: Great AND i think the most amazing part of that

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Speaker 2: GOING i had no, Idea Like milwaukee was my, Worst

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Speaker 2: Like detroit And milwaukee were my worst. Workouts milwaukee was

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Speaker 3: Done i'm not DOING.

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Speaker 5: I hated teams that did that, Shit, like well come, on,

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Speaker 3: To burn me out, right all my gas? Out, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Right so WHEN i got to the, drive sitting at the,

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Speaker 2: Room LIKE i KNEW i would possibly be. LOTTERY i

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Speaker 2: was pretty much guaranteed That denver would take me at,

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Speaker 1: Amazing how was it For, like your pops to see

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Speaker 2: Commissioner, yeah so what my dad, did it was crazy

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Speaker 2: BECAUSE i watched him watch me like my dad's faith

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Speaker 3: Fruition my kid has made.

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Speaker 2: It and so that was that was a joy to

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Speaker 2: happy as. Well my mom worked for two years AFTER

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Speaker 3: Adapting to it believed. It yet they both worked for

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Speaker 2: get them in a space where they could, finally you,

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Speaker 2: know retire your rookie.

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Speaker 1: Year you get To Milwaukee midwest the first year for,

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Speaker 1: you how did you feel about the first year being

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Speaker 1: in the, league the highest level you can.

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Speaker 2: AN nba, Fan SO i was in all y'all know this.

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Speaker 3: Team you're in all, game, right you're in all.

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Speaker 2: That i'm, HERE i mean like just being on my, Team,

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Speaker 2: like no disrespect to my, teammates but my teammates were

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Speaker 2: like stars to, me, yeah because of the talent. Level

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Speaker 2: so part of me was, LIKE i made.

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Speaker 3: It i'm.

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Speaker 2: HERE i can't believe that's That's Frank, berkowski That's Tired,

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Speaker 2: like later for that, Man it's time to get to, it.

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Speaker 2: Right SO i had to be a, fan and THEN

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Speaker 2: i had to be the eighth pick in the.

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Speaker 1: Draft, expectations the expectations had to kick in when you

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Speaker 1: morning it's you, Know, Lajahway David, robinson and LIKE i,

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Speaker 1: said your game was was like, smoother more, footwear you can,

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Speaker 3: Defense you know you.

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Speaker 1: Gotta guard bigger, guys but they gotta guard. You what

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Speaker 1: did you start seeing that you can get?

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Speaker 2: Successful, yeah the physicality was, Crazy LIKE i found myself

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Speaker 3: Night power and, strong both of.

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Speaker 2: Us i'm, saying like cats who didn't even get the superstar.

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Speaker 2: Recognition there was monsters in the, league not just from.

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Speaker 2: Scoring and you have to go To New york and See,

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Speaker 2: Oakley mason And, Ewing, yeah all on one. Vena, like

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Speaker 2: the physicality was the first THING i was, Like, wow

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Speaker 2: and we talked about this, earlier like my footwork was

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Speaker 3: THROUGH i couldn't get PANNED.

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Speaker 2: O i was, LIKE i got to use my wickness

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Speaker 2: and things That i've been gifted with to. Survive it

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Speaker 2: wasn't even about being An All. Star it was JUST

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Speaker 2: i need to not get, pinned you. Know and that

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Speaker 2: it wasn't all this moving around so the physicality and

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Speaker 2: the speed of the, game you're gonna see right away

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Speaker 2: if somebody can do it or.

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Speaker 1: Not, yeah one of the THINGS i loved about. CENTERS

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Speaker 1: i felt Like Kaul malone did it, man probably the

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Speaker 1: best out of anybody to. Seal like you're, saying pin

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Speaker 1: like a sealer person under the net where they ain't.

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Speaker 1: Moving they put that anchor down and they ain't. Moving

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Speaker 1: back in the, days they ain't. Move it's not in

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Speaker 1: the game. Today and then it was used to be some

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Speaker 1: of the most easiest buckets to either get filed on

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Speaker 3: On Right what you think about? That, like how is

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Speaker 1: More where guys it's really selling guys under the goal

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Speaker 1: like how they used.

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00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:13,080
Speaker 2: moved it to the stretch five And i'm, like they

436
00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:16,879
Speaker 2: moved it to the stretch, five moved to the stretch.

437
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,359
Speaker 2: File so when the stretch four And stretch five became

438
00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:25,399
Speaker 2: like Like kgizky and all them that became sexy and

439
00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:28,480
Speaker 2: all that physicality kind of went out the game based

440
00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:31,320
Speaker 2: on the style of. Play but being a, COACH i

441
00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:33,440
Speaker 2: think the great part of being a coach right now

442
00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,080
Speaker 2: is THAT i get an opportunity working With Bobby brooke

443
00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:39,720
Speaker 2: And giannis those nuances of the. GAME i literally can

444
00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:42,320
Speaker 2: whisper in their, ear like if is getting a cross

445
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:44,560
Speaker 2: green Or bobby's getting a cross, GREEN i tell.

446
00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,359
Speaker 3: Him, hey stopping the, paint stopping the.

447
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,960
Speaker 2: You, know just stop exactly because the advantage is we're

448
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,040
Speaker 2: giving you the advantage if he sets that cross. Screen

449
00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:58,880
Speaker 2: if you, stop they can only push, you, Right so

450
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,359
Speaker 2: those type of NUANCES i get to teach from the,

451
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,760
Speaker 2: nineties the physicality and stuff because as much as he

452
00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:06,880
Speaker 2: doesn't feel, like in the nineties it was a thinking

453
00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,639
Speaker 2: man's game because of the physicality and. Speed it was

454
00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:11,840
Speaker 2: a thinking man's. Game you've had to.

455
00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,760
Speaker 1: Because it was some, big strong, motherfucker so, right you

456
00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,679
Speaker 1: had to know once you beat your, man it's a

457
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:21,440
Speaker 1: seven foot strong right right there right waiting every.

458
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,720
Speaker 3: TIME i, mean think how Great Reggie miller was in the.

459
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,679
Speaker 2: Nineties, man and they got a chance to handcheck and

460
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,080
Speaker 2: hold it and hold you, like imagine the freedom he

461
00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:32,600
Speaker 2: w have to run, now, man and how fasty it would?

462
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,679
Speaker 3: Be. Crazy let me ask you. This this is my.

463
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,680
Speaker 1: Guy he's one of my, favorite all time favorite, Players Big.

464
00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:37,960
Speaker 3: Dog.

465
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 1: Yeah when he got drafted and you heard that he

466
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,320
Speaker 1: asked for the huntred, Meal, like what was your thought

467
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,520
Speaker 1: process to that because guys.

468
00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,399
Speaker 5: Had never which it was well deserved because he was a.

469
00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:54,480
Speaker 1: Dog coming out of of, college but just to see

470
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,320
Speaker 1: how the money went from net to where they changed

471
00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:58,240
Speaker 1: and put a cap on.

472
00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:01,919
Speaker 2: It, yeah so easy thing about that d in, Hindsight

473
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:07,320
Speaker 2: like the year prior was my, Draft Chris webber got seventy. Two, yeah,

474
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,760
Speaker 2: right dog just asked for sixty. Eight so it really

475
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:12,800
Speaker 2: was like in the wheel it was in the he

476
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 2: was the number one the. Wheelhouse it was a wheelhouse

477
00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 2: OF i think because of the market and where we,

478
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 2: were it was made more of a bigger thing like

479
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,439
Speaker 2: the sixty eight million over ten. Years but let me be,

480
00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:28,320
Speaker 2: Clear glenn Big Dog robinson was worth every.

481
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:30,760
Speaker 3: Pen every pen, Everything, like.

482
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,360
Speaker 2: Let me be, Clear Glenn robinson was a monster coming

483
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:38,639
Speaker 2: out of college and he was on EVERY tv, show every.

484
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:42,080
Speaker 2: Magazine Everything Jason kidd And Grey hill were in that,

485
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:46,119
Speaker 2: draft nobody said they should go before, him because you

486
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:46,359
Speaker 2: know WHAT i.

487
00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:47,880
Speaker 3: Mean he was just the beast.

488
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,120
Speaker 1: To clarify this, too because MEN qb trying to tell

489
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,320
Speaker 1: people this all the. Time no disrespect To Grant hill

490
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,199
Speaker 1: And Jay, kidd But Big dog posed the one rookie of.

491
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:58,920
Speaker 2: Year absolutely the only reason he didn't win it was

492
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 2: because he held out for the. Money in my humble,

493
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 2: opinion you do your homework on. It you do your.

494
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 2: Homework he twenty two points a, Game, yeah it's hold

495
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,240
Speaker 2: out right in twenty two points a game in nineteen ninety,

496
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,159
Speaker 2: five it's like thirty, yeah yeah as a rookie as a.

497
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 2: Rookie so the only reason he did not make or

498
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,119
Speaker 2: Win Cole rookie or maybe split it three ways is

499
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 2: because of the. Holdout and Also Dog. Dog y'all Had

500
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,640
Speaker 2: dog on the, show a real. One, yeah So dog

501
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,879
Speaker 2: in his, Interviews he's not gonna be politically correct on

502
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 2: the name what you want him to, say but be,

503
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:38,199
Speaker 2: clear Like Glenn robinson was a, bucket like saying his

504
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 2: first year he may have been one of the most

505
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:44,360
Speaker 2: prolific scores in the. League at that, TIME i watched

506
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:48,240
Speaker 2: my big, bro BUT i watched great defenders Like Stacey.

507
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:49,480
Speaker 3: Augman And pippin Plastic.

508
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 2: Man great defenders just struggle that that slide, back you know.

509
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 3: What you know What i'm talking about with the high

510
00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,159
Speaker 3: art that all the.

511
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,959
Speaker 2: Time it used to be like he getting to it LIKE,

512
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,680
Speaker 2: i you, KNOW i got a chance to watch it close,

513
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,359
Speaker 2: up like he getting to. It like when the wings

514
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 2: were a thing defensively and? Offensively what year.

515
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 1: Did you feel like you started to set your feet

516
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 1: in and you start to have big time, success.

517
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:20,440
Speaker 2: So you know the crazy thing they Like my rookie

518
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 2: season nineteen ninety three was the Inaugural Rookie game at

519
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 2: The All Star weekend AND i was the eighth pick

520
00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 2: and they took the top sixteen people AND i didn't

521
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,879
Speaker 2: make that. Game my first half of my rookie season

522
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 2: didn't really go that.

523
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,159
Speaker 3: WELL a lot of people don't know that because of

524
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 3: the success THAT i had.

525
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:43,920
Speaker 2: Thereafter but my my rookie season heading Into All star

526
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 2: break was it Doud and then WHEN i came back

527
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,800
Speaker 2: from The All Star, BREAK i literally watched The All Star.

528
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,920
Speaker 2: Game i'm, like, DANG i don't know if it's disrespect

529
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,199
Speaker 2: Or i'm just not doing What i'm supposed to do

530
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 2: as the eighth. Pick so fast, FACT i didn't make that,

531
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:05,879
Speaker 2: game The Rookie All Star game In. February By april Or,

532
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 2: june when the awards came, OUT i was unanimous All, rookie,

533
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 2: Myself penny and See weber unanimous all rookie. Choices so

534
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:19,240
Speaker 2: From february to the end of the season went. Crazy

535
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 2: so that's WHEN i really. Started and then by the second,

536
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 2: YEAR i. Missed my first, YEAR i missed The Rookie,

537
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 2: Game Rookie All Star. Game my second, YEAR i was

538
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:30,880
Speaker 2: in the Actual All Star.

539
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 4: Game so how was that walking into that room where you,

540
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 4: know you got the you walking in there with mj

541
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 4: and them boys in? There, like what was that like

542
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 4: to be at The All Star game and being a

543
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 4: member of the. Team, MAN i should have taken a

544
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,239
Speaker 4: camera And mike with me because it was.

545
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 3: SURREAL i felt, like.

546
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,239
Speaker 2: You know this, again like what we talked about WHEN

547
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 2: i was at the, University i'd understood WHERE i was

548
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 2: on the total. POINT i made The All Star, game

549
00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 2: But i'm not him him him and he GOT. Mjd

550
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 2: you're watching top fifty walk through the hallway and so

551
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 2: it was. Amazing it was. Amazing cut just the year

552
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 2: the top. Fifty so so my rookie. SEASON i, mean

553
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 2: my first year Was. Phoenix the second YEAR i made

554
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 2: The All Star, game it Was. Cleveland that was top. Fifty,

555
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 2: yeah that was top. Fifty WHEN i Saw wilt in

556
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 2: the hallway and Raise, jack, yeah, crazy Said will And

557
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 2: patrick get all these great it really put into perspective

558
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 2: like the irony of it, Is it's LIKE i made

559
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:32,360
Speaker 2: The All star, team BUT i.

560
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:33,160
Speaker 3: Ain't really made.

561
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:40,360
Speaker 2: Nothing it was like right there to see Well chamberlain man,

562
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 2: Again i'm a basketball storian. Man so it was a

563
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 2: blessing to be at The All Star, game but even

564
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 2: cooler to be in that in the presence of those.

565
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 1: Greats when you first heard because you, know we all Loved,

566
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: Mike when you first heard That mike want you to

567
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 1: be a part Of Team, jordan what was your reaction to?

568
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 2: It to be honest with, you it was bigger than being. Drafted,

569
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,360
Speaker 2: yeah and in some ways like bigger than being An All.

570
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,400
Speaker 2: Star like at that, point you, know there's Like All,

571
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 2: Star ALL. Nba you know there's levels to the elite.

572
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:18,919
Speaker 2: Neists so to get the opportunity to Have michael Stamp

573
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 2: you is, different like day, one BECAUSE i was on

574
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 2: the first.

575
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 3: Batch, first you, KNOW i remember The.

576
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:34,920
Speaker 2: Jump, yeah so the first batch was like, Myself Ray,

577
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 2: derrek And Eddie, jones and so me And eddie got

578
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 2: an opportunity to have our own, shoes like we had

579
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 2: The Power forward and we had like the two GUARD

580
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 2: i had to pro. Strong so to Have michael Stamp

581
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 2: you was. DIFFERENT i, mean it's one thing to be

582
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 2: An All star and walk through the arenas and but

583
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 2: now people are, like, YO i need to get some of.

584
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 2: Those so it was, cool man. LIKE i, mean like

585
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 2: anybody else growing, up everybody's My Michael jordan, fan and

586
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 2: to have it was surreal for me to Have michael,

587
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 2: stampy Man, LIKE i remember being In. Seattle the cool

588
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 2: part about it IS i got a relationship with him

589
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 2: and a friendship with. Him AND i remember WHEN i

590
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 2: got traded To, seattle we played The, bulls and, WELL

591
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 2: i wanted to be in this. Commercial so The sonics

592
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 2: were really, good Man. Like we were number one in

593
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,719
Speaker 2: The west at the, time AND i begged my organization.

594
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 3: To fly To, chicago which is like a four hour

595
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 3: trip From.

596
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 2: Seattle they said, yes AND i got to the photo

597
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 2: shoot AND i Had fulk as an agent as. Well

598
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 2: SO i got to the photo shoot all giddy That

599
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 2: i'm gonna be make this little slight cameo in the

600
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 2: brain join. Commercial first THING mj says to me when

601
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 2: he because we were playing The Utah jazz the following

602
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 2: night and he knew, that and he said to, me

603
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 2: what the hell are you doing?

604
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 3: Here true?

605
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 2: Story AND i was, Like i'm coming for the. Commercial

606
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 2: that was like one of my first Less, like, nah,

607
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 2: bro you want To you're in a place now where you're.

608
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 3: Winning this is.

609
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 2: Secondary so you, KNOW i learned so many lessons from

610
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 2: him being in that brand and not just being stamped

611
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 2: for the, brand but just learning about him and his competitive.

612
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 1: Nature you being there from the get go on the

613
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: start to see Where jordan brand is now With Jason,

614
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: Tatum zion And Chris paul And Russell, westbrook how it.

615
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 3: Grown we came in in two.

616
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 1: Thousand it took another step up to see the brand

617
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 1: going that far and still it's like.

618
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 3: The number one brand in the. World how is? That to?

619
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 1: See like you was kind of. Started it was a

620
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: part of that the first, Part, yeah it's.

621
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 2: GREAT i saw a magazine man like something THAT i

622
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 2: googled search AND i saw, Myself Zion luca and someone.

623
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 2: Else it's like two years ago where they were talking

624
00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 2: about about the, brand and it was just amazing to

625
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 2: see myself on a picture With Zion luca and then

626
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 2: the current guys and then of Course jason And Russell

627
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 2: man And. BLAKE i, mean it's just awesome that THAT

628
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 2: i was a part of the beginning of.

629
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 3: It, yeah AND i feel like it's it's.

630
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 2: FAMILY i, even you, KNOW i text with With polo

631
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 2: now because he's Family. Jordan now we have to Play,

632
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,239
Speaker 2: orlando but he's still My jordan. Family so it's just

633
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,479
Speaker 2: it's a blessing man, like And i'm trying To it's

634
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 2: funny BECAUSE i have to mentor those guys, too BUT

635
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 2: i have to play against him, too so my mentoring

636
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 2: can only go so far when we play Against. Orlando

637
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 2: but it's it's a. BLESSING i Think that's HOW i

638
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 2: feel with me AND.

639
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: Q as soon as we hear a guy is signed To,

640
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 1: jordan it's like you instantly part of our. Family, yes

641
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: because we have been part of The jordan family for so.

642
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: Long it's like you instantly part of the fact once

643
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: we heard you sign With jordan's and.

644
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 4: To, me, yeah it's just, like you, know it was

645
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 4: dead as summer when, we you, know go to the

646
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 4: brand call it the family.

647
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 3: Reunion you know they call it The board Of. GOVERNORS

648
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 3: i just called it The Jordan Brand Family. Reunion you,

649
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 3: Know i'm.

650
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 4: Saying everybody show, up and it's, LIKE i think it's super,

651
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 4: dope you know What i'm, saying to have The ogs like,

652
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 4: y'all you, Know ray always on, deck how You bill

653
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 4: and some of the dudes that really was like you, say,

654
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 4: y'all y'all kicked it, off y'all put the foundation down

655
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 4: for this to be doing what it's doing. Now so

656
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 4: it's dope to see the brand really honor everybody and

657
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 4: still hold everybody down because they don't have, to you

658
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 4: know What i'm. Saying they definitely don't have to do

659
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 4: what they do and extend themselves the way they do

660
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 4: for for The ogs and the guys that, were you,

661
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 4: know the past guys that. Came because like it's, crazy

662
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 4: bro to still be able to receive the things we

663
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 4: received the way we do and from the brand and

664
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 4: it ain't.

665
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 3: Cheap you see, them you see them them price.

666
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 4: Tag But i'll be, Like, lord have, mercy thank You,

667
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 4: god like you know What i'm, saying really, appreciative.

668
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 3: But like you know What i'm.

669
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 4: SAYING i think it's just you know What i'm, Saying

670
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 4: like you say WITH, mj it's just top scholf with

671
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 4: everything in the.

672
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 3: Way you know What i'm.

673
00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 4: Saying they take care of us and look out for

674
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 4: us because we know that they don't have. To SO

675
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 4: i just love it to see all of the og

676
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 4: you know What i'm, Saying like WHEN i saw you,

677
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 4: down LIKE i was.

678
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 3: Loving that because that's the way it should. Be you

679
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 3: know What i'm.

680
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 4: Saying everybody don't do. That but you know What i'm,

681
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 4: saying the brand do it the right. Way AND i

682
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 4: love that and hit me when we. Wanted two years,

683
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 4: AGO i was In greece With.

684
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 2: JANNIS i just got Into greece With jannison AND i

685
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 2: got an email AND i was reading the email and

686
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 2: that it could have only been for one, person BUT

687
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 2: i was, like it was, like, congratulations so, part so

688
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 2: happy you're part of the. BRAND i, mean that was

689
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 2: super dope man for him to email me about the

690
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 2: success that we had just had with the. Team so

691
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 2: to your, POINT, q it just feels like family all the.

692
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 2: Time it's not just you, know on the surface with,

693
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 2: commercials it's behind the, scenes it's.

694
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 1: Love and all the people that work With jordan brand

695
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,239
Speaker 1: if they work With Jordan bran for five years and

696
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: went somewhere, else, yeah they feel like family coming up looking.

697
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: Out when you got, traded did you know you was

698
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: gonna get traded or did it blindside?

699
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 2: You it did BECAUSE i WAS i had flown, back

700
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 2: flew back To. Milwaukee we're getting ready for the. Season

701
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:11,280
Speaker 2: so this is In, September So september you you ramping

702
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 2: up the. Go and, again this is nineteen ninety. Seven

703
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 2: there's no social, media there's no. Nothing you wo was

704
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,479
Speaker 2: around it during that time probably would have had their heads,

705
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 2: up BUT i didn't, know. DUDE i was actually in

706
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 2: the gym working out and one of my, coaches his

707
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:29,439
Speaker 2: name Was Jim.

708
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 3: Tied he came down to the.

709
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 2: COURT i literally shooting in the, gym just kind of

710
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 2: trying to get ready for the, season and SO i

711
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,799
Speaker 2: was watching people move up top And i'm, like you,

712
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 2: Know i'm at the time of me like now one

713
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 2: coach had come down and like helped me rebound or.

714
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 2: Anything so Finally Jim tide came down AND i, SAID i,

715
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,400
Speaker 2: JOKINGLY i, said just tell me what it's gonna. Be you,

716
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 2: KNOW i was in that, space like tell me what

717
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 2: it's gonna, be y'all you're trying to move me like

718
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 2: he's like he dropped his. HEAD i was, like, like

719
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 2: y'all really the true, Story like y'all really trade. Me he's, like,

720
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 2: yeah It's. Seattle so it was a Shocked that's just

721
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,799
Speaker 2: how it. Happened so it was a. SURPRISE i was

722
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 2: a little bit like it hurt me, initially you know

723
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 2: how first it's like you're the, Failure you're the reason

724
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 2: that the team isn't. Succeeding so but, obviously you, know

725
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:24,760
Speaker 2: my first gear And seattle had great success.

726
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: There tell us about Just seattle is one of the

727
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: teams that they're trying to bring back to life and

728
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: give them A i, Mean seattle was one of the

729
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: cities that they're trying to bring back to life and

730
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:37,959
Speaker 1: give them a team.

731
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 3: Again them In.

732
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: Vegas just tell us about the culture Of seattle and

733
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 1: the basketball culture now and how rich it, is how

734
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: the fans always come out and support what was, It

735
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: Key arena used to be hype and.

736
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:55,240
Speaker 3: Loud, yes got but you going.

737
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: There and getting the opportunity to play on a team

738
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 1: that can be at the top of the and compete

739
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: for a.

740
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 2: Championship, yeah WELL i hope AND i, feel And i've

741
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 2: heard that they're going to bring a team back To

742
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 2: seattle in the next few. Years it's an amazing sports.

743
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 2: CITY i enjoyed my. Time the fans are great, there blue,

744
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 2: collar AND i was put into a situation where they

745
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 2: were two years removed from going to the, finals so,

746
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 2: that you, KNOW i was traded For sean and so

747
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 2: to get to the city in that, space, man where

748
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 2: they had pretty much exactly had established themselves as a

749
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:36,760
Speaker 2: perennial title contender and two years removed from the, finals

750
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 2: it was, crazy Man, LIKE i had a lot to, prove,

751
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 2: obviously but the buzz was, there, so you, know my

752
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 2: first year In seattle was. CRAZY i think we won

753
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 2: like sixty one. Games got to play with my big BRO,

754
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 2: gp which was, amazing the best basketball PLAYER i ever played.

755
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 2: With you, know as far as the team is, Concerned

756
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 2: i'm being on a. Roster it's a great, city, Man,

757
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,399
Speaker 2: Like i'm hoping that they get a team back there very.

758
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 2: Soon they're yearning for, it, man and they deserve.

759
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 4: IT i, LOVED i love playing In, seattle, man like going,

760
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 4: there like like you're saying it was a dope, city

761
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 4: like when you're going to the road cities that you,

762
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:11,359
Speaker 4: like LIKE i.

763
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 3: LIKED i always had a good time In. Seattle.

764
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 2: Yeah it's, great great, city, man and great. Fans and

765
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:18,840
Speaker 2: LIKE i, said my first year, there, MAN i was

766
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 2: getting the midst of the, sneeze so that fans support

767
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 2: was bananas and all eyes were on, us and we

768
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 2: we my first year, there we.

769
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 3: Delivered did you go to the market and throw the?

770
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 3: FISH i?

771
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 2: DID i saw him do? That did you do that shot?

772
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 2: FIRST i ain't gonna hold you LIKE i ain't do

773
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 2: it on my. Own it was like something they set it,

774
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,400
Speaker 2: up so the catching it throw wasn't natural.

775
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 3: Fish. Yeah.

776
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 1: Yeah talking about Gp, man back, THEN gp was was

777
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: loud as. Ever when we got to the, league we heard,

778
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: him no matter how packed it, was no matter we heard.

779
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 1: Him and some people took his trash talking a certain.

780
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 1: Way but just just speak on just how good of a,

781
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 1: person how good of a LEADER. Gp, WELL i know

782
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 1: we weren't ON gp, team but we used to go

783
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: to The seattle every summer and playing his, game and

784
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 1: it's always had that bond with him and he always

785
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 1: been a, solid thorough.

786
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 3: One.

787
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 2: Yeah BUT i shout out to my big brother who

788
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 2: was coaching now in college and helping young. MEN i

789
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,839
Speaker 2: was just with him at his golf tournament about two

790
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 2: and a half months. Ago but for all the greatest

791
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 2: trash talk in the history, Basketball i've heard About, burden

792
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 2: BUT i played with, Him so there was no level

793
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 2: of person or competitor or talent that you were that

794
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:41,879
Speaker 2: he wasn't gonna get at. You, YEAH i know y'all

795
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 2: saw that The Chicago. Finals she's getting a m. Man

796
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 2: so listening to him every night because we talked about my,

797
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 2: background hearing some of the stuff he was.

798
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 3: Saying i'm from on Say, brook g From.

799
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 2: Oakland now we both, competitors so but he brought me

800
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 2: into some conversations sometimes THAT i had to pray my

801
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 2: way out. OF i need to pray my way out

802
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 2: of it BECAUSE i.

803
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 3: Just heard SOMETHING i know ain't.

804
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 2: Right that's gonna have to be dealt with with b

805
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 2: because the thing about my big, bro man Is. Like

806
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 2: it fueled. Him it wasn't fake at, all Man, like

807
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 2: it fueled. Him like very rarely could he play a

808
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 2: basketball game and not be in that. Space matter of,

809
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 2: fact people talk about him not practicing right, like and

810
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 2: The iverson thing about he WAS i think he might

811
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 2: have said on that he was the one that talked

812
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 2: about To alan about not. Practicing but the one thing

813
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 2: about g not, practicing he couldn't a because of the

814
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 2: amount of.

815
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 3: Games but he don't have a chill.

816
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 2: Gear he don't if he out, there he get into

817
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:49,359
Speaker 2: it right as.

818
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 3: Well practice, practice Right.

819
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,360
Speaker 2: Yeah the fight Between vernon g like that that was in,

820
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 2: practice Like Vernon, Maxwell Mad max AND gp in a.

821
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 3: Practice it didn't it.

822
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 2: Didn't last because escalated quickly because they're both tremendous. Competitors

823
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,800
Speaker 2: and that's HOW gv. Is man he doesn't have a

824
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 2: gear where he can go out and walk through or.

825
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 2: Practice he's the most, competitive probably with the exception of

826
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 2: m the most competitive Person i've been. Around Man. Like

827
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 2: he just brought it every. Night but you could appreciate

828
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 2: it if you with and to your, point D, like

829
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 2: he's a good, dude like he just that, year that competitive.

830
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 3: Gear once that's turned, on all best of, off he's gonna.

831
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 2: Talk right if you brought family, friends, girlfriend, wife you

832
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 2: don't want to get started with him.

833
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 3: Because you go disregard the fact that they're.

834
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 4: There you playing for The, Knicks how was?

835
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 3: It how was it playing AT?

836
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 4: Msg, like how did you what was your experience like

837
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 4: playing for The knicks.

838
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 2: The, mecca man is, Amazing Like i'll say THIS q

839
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 2: AND D LIKE i had just WHEN i played For New.

840
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,240
Speaker 2: YORK i had just went through my struggles with addiction

841
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 2: and bought AND i was sitting home AND i got

842
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 2: the opportunity to go back To New york that same

843
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 2: season WHERE i had my, struggles and you, Know isaiah was,

844
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 2: There steph Was marlberry was, There Allen houston was. There

845
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 2: but the story about The mecca and playing in the, garden,

846
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 2: LIKE i had a ton of good nights there playing

847
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 2: With Seattle. Milwaukee But i'll tell you a garden story

848
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 2: that was super, dope, Man, LIKE i had struggled all

849
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,280
Speaker 2: year and it was well documented THAT i was struggling

850
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 2: with alcoholism and THEN i got the opportunity to come

851
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 2: and play with The knicks at the end of. Season

852
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:36,839
Speaker 2: we're playing against The New Jersey nets in the playoffs

853
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 2: AND i hadn't played like the whole, series and it

854
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 2: was game four And Coach wilkins put me, in like you,

855
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 2: know and it was a game we had to. Have

856
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 2: he finally put me. In the game scored like maybe ten.

857
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 2: Points it was a good, game scored like maybe ten,

858
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 2: points five. Rebounds BUT i filed. Out on my way

859
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 2: off the. Court the entire garden stood up and applauded,

860
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,919
Speaker 2: me man like it was crazy BECAUSE i was still

861
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 2: in a fog WHAT i was going. Through, man it

862
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 2: was like the most, surreal one of the most surreal

863
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:10,280
Speaker 2: moments THAT i ever had as a basketball, player because

864
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,320
Speaker 2: it was like they knew WHAT i was going.

865
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 3: Through like talking about.

866
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 4: Knowledgeable that's one thing about The knicks fans like you

867
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 4: can't say what you want about, them but they.

868
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 3: Know what is going. On and they real.

869
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 4: Fans they, like that's what you got to rock like

870
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 4: because they can say whatever about Their, knicks but let

871
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 4: somebody else say. It it's about to go, Down like you,

872
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 4: KNOW i can say, anything but you, right, exactly this is.

873
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,319
Speaker 2: Exactly you get the love for them walking down the.

874
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,279
Speaker 2: Street you, know you get the love from. Them And

875
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 2: i'm talking about to this. Day, man you can go

876
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:46,759
Speaker 2: To New york and still get love as if you

877
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 2: on the. Roster now that's How New York nicks fans

878
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 2: BRO i said all the.

879
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,320
Speaker 4: Time my four years In New, york it was struggles

880
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 4: AND i didn't feel like you, KNOW i did ship there,

881
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 4: really but like to get the love and respect you

882
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 4: get when like you, say we go there to, work do.

883
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 3: Anything and then Just New york.

884
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 4: Is Every, yeah live here In, orlando like everywhere EVERYWHERE

885
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 4: i bumped in people From New, york just a random

886
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 4: places in the airports were, like, yeah, man loved you

887
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 4: when you were when you were with The. Knicks member

888
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:17,239
Speaker 4: From New, York New york being you might. Be you

889
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 4: could be hereil someone like yo From New york and

890
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 4: they gonna seut you. OUT i don't care who you.

891
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:24,799
Speaker 4: Are if you played for The, KNICKS i don't care

892
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 4: if you even got in the, game they gonna know

893
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 4: you played for the exact and they gonna run up

894
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 4: on you like, yo get a, picture. Y'all you probably

895
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 4: loved you with The. Knicks they're gonna then they gonna

896
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 4: say something to let you know they remember, You they're

897
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 4: gonna give you a little memory. Too that's what like

898
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 4: out of, Everything like The knicks fans are bar none

899
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:42,240
Speaker 4: with that bro.

900
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,359
Speaker 3: Like they flawless, fans great.

901
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: Fans man win a new era and back in our,

902
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:51,319
Speaker 1: day we couldn't say anything about our, problems so we

903
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 1: couldn't speak about mental. Health to see how THE nba

904
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 1: and this players that stepped up to another level of

905
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:03,399
Speaker 1: the mental side of, it or what somebody's going, through

906
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 1: or it could be somebody in their, family you, know

907
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 1: sometimes they don't always have to be that specific. Person

908
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 1: how proud do you see the guys are expressing theirselfs

909
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: in that way and showing the growth teams making sure

910
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 1: they have a mental health doctor or somebody.

911
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 3: For them to talk.

912
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:23,879
Speaker 1: To not only for them to talk, to but they're

913
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: not relaying a message to a, team so it'll be

914
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:30,359
Speaker 1: penalized for. Them just somebody that just released what they

915
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: need to release mentally Of how proud are you of

916
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 1: the league and the teams of stepping up to a

917
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 1: level of.

918
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 2: That, Yeah i'm super proud the like that the league

919
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 2: has in really our country and our society has acknowledged

920
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:48,800
Speaker 2: that mental health is a real, issue in particular for professional.

921
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:52,279
Speaker 2: Athletes And i'm proud of Jis gianni's foundation deals with

922
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 2: mental health and they're doing him and THE nasis are

923
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 2: doing wonderful work with their foundation dealing with mental. Health

924
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 2: but it's mandatory and, necessary, man And i'm happy that

925
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,760
Speaker 2: the league has taken on this responsibility and taken action

926
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:09,759
Speaker 2: to see those players, through not just players who have the,

927
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 2: issues but players who just are going through their day

928
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 2: to day. Lives may give an, eighteen nineteen year old

929
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 2: twenty year old forty million dollars and just assume that

930
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 2: he's going to know how to deal with it is

931
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 2: in some ways, Absurd and so you, know if you

932
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 2: didn't have the issues, before there's a good chance that

933
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 2: you could get. Issues and so to see that THE

934
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 2: nba and see that people Like jan and myself who

935
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 2: are dealing with those issues because we face like you Alluded,

936
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:44,239
Speaker 2: tod we face these issues just like anybody. Else on

937
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 2: top of the, fact and add to the fact that

938
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 2: we got to perform at the highest. Level you could

939
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:52,400
Speaker 2: be going through something and nobody. Cares they just want the.

940
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 2: Numbers you. Dig like WHEN i was going through my

941
00:45:55,480 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 2: situation In, SEATTLE i just signed a max. Dealer at the,

942
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 2: TIME i signed for eighty million bucks and. NOBODY i

943
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 2: can't tell. ANYBODY i Just i'm an. Alcoholic they want the,

944
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 2: numbers they want the. PERFORMANCE i won't say the team

945
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 2: or the. Situation BUT i remember talking to a doctor

946
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 2: one time AND i was going through my situation true,

947
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 2: story and he was, like you, know we taking a

948
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 2: look at your, body and your body is telling us

949
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 2: different than what you're, saying like you have an issue

950
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:36,560
Speaker 2: according to your. BODY i was, like, man because you,

951
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 2: Know i'm Thinking i'm living the live trying to.

952
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:39,799
Speaker 3: At the, time And i'm like.

953
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 2: Really he was, like, yeah we're looking at your liver

954
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:46,240
Speaker 2: function and all that. STUFF i was, like, Nah, doc true.

955
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 2: Story he says to, Me he's, like, look you start playing.

956
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:53,879
Speaker 2: Better all this is not a. Thing WHAT i kid?

957
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 2: You not You I'm i'm, like, huh like, real that's

958
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 2: a real. Story and so back to the original, point

959
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:07,839
Speaker 2: like to have, people THE nba and athletes come out

960
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 2: and Say i'm Dealing i'm struggling with. This So i'm

961
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:12,879
Speaker 2: struggling with this and have not only the help, there

962
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 2: but the hope that you can overcome it is mandatory

963
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 2: and it gives athletes the opportunity BECAUSE i was afraid

964
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,280
Speaker 2: to come out and SAY i got a, problem something's

965
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 2: going on with. Me it just wasn't a thing to.

966
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 2: Do but now it's a thing to, Say i'm, struggling you,

967
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 2: know so that you can get the appropriate and necessary.

968
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:30,439
Speaker 3: Help.

969
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 1: Yeah one THING i just remember as a league and,

970
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 1: hole once Jose canseko came out with the steroid thing for,

971
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:41,400
Speaker 1: baseball they checked all the. Leagues you, know a lot

972
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:45,359
Speaker 1: of guys was really Treat they really weren't drinking as

973
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 1: much as they was because you took the one test

974
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year and then you was

975
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:53,719
Speaker 1: kind of free to do. Whatever but then when they

976
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:56,800
Speaker 1: started making, guys no matter if you're a veteran or,

977
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 1: not take them for, tests a lot of guys was

978
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:03,320
Speaker 1: really a using that. Alcohol like a whole. Lot myself

979
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 1: isn't included BECAUSE i was on a horrible, team so

980
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 1: it was, like, SHIT i might as well go and

981
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 1: get me a. Drink and we didn't Get we got

982
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 1: our ass kicked. Anyway but just Like i'm just so

983
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 1: proud of the, League i'm so proud of the players

984
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 1: because that's a lot because you always want to look

985
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:22,239
Speaker 1: like the most powerful and the most sane person in

986
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,399
Speaker 1: the room every, time especially when you got all these

987
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 1: fans looking up to. You you sign the autographs and all.

988
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: That but to come out and be, vulnerable you, know

989
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: not and not scared to be vulnerable or not scared

990
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 1: to be vulnerable in front of my man because he

991
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: might Think i'm weak right Because i'm doing this While

992
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 1: i'm being vulnerable.

993
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 5: Him it's a, blessing.

994
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:44,959
Speaker 2: It, is, Man you, know it is like to show

995
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:48,799
Speaker 2: strength and vulnerability like there's strength in it because we,

996
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 2: all like matter of, FACT i think like in some

997
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 2: ways when you show the vulnerability or that you can

998
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 2: be vulnerable because of what you mentioned d that like

999
00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:59,839
Speaker 2: the super strength and these superpowers and it's super money

1000
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 2: that we. Have people think we can't go through certain,

1001
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 2: things to me is exacerbated when you get all those

1002
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:09,319
Speaker 2: things that come along with your super. Talent so to your,

1003
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 2: point the like the vulnerability to, me, man like WHEN

1004
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:15,320
Speaker 2: i was able to say, THAT i WHEN i finally

1005
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 2: got to a point where WHERE i was, like, Man

1006
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 2: i'm an, alcoholic that's when the strength and the power.

1007
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 2: Happened LIKE i was able to like not have somebody

1008
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 2: else tell, it media tell, it because that make you

1009
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:31,359
Speaker 2: like it makes you it. Worse when you can say

1010
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:35,239
Speaker 2: it yourself That i'm, VULNERABLE i got an, issue then

1011
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 2: you can start dealing with, it and then you can

1012
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:37,400
Speaker 2: start helping other.

1013
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:40,959
Speaker 4: People how did you come up with The Stand Tall?

1014
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 4: Foundation and then you got The Van Baker Recovery center In.

1015
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:47,359
Speaker 3: Milwaukee SO i moved The Stand tall to The Bouncing Back.

1016
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 2: Foundation it Was Stand tall WHEN i was in the, league,

1017
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 2: okay and THEN i went through WHAT i went, Through

1018
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 2: so it turned The Bounce.

1019
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:58,399
Speaker 3: Back it's A Bouncing Back. Foundation and THEN i got

1020
00:49:58,400 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 3: this great.

1021
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 2: Opportunity, MAN i meant to wonderful Folks Charles, Roger, charlray

1022
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:06,760
Speaker 2: And Michael. Erico and they have a company Called Addiction Medical.

1023
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 2: Solutions so Next april, Seventeenth i'll celebrate fourteen years of.

1024
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 2: Sobriety and so WHEN i got back To, milwaukee thanks.

1025
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 2: You WHEN i got back To, milwaukee AND i had

1026
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 2: this great, platform, man Like i'm with The, bucks number

1027
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:23,879
Speaker 2: one team in, basketball won a. Championship NOW i could

1028
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 2: have taken this coaching gig and this opportunity with The

1029
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 2: bucks and just rolled off into the. Sunset BUT i

1030
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 2: knew THAT i had been given this platform and this

1031
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,360
Speaker 2: opportunity to go back and help people who have gone

1032
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:40,799
Speaker 2: through What i've gone. Through and, so by the grace Of,

1033
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 2: GOD i met people who BECAUSE i had told the

1034
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 2: story a ton my book gotten In, starbucks a lot

1035
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 2: of articles. Written BUT i wanted to not only take

1036
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 2: over the narrative of my story to help people with the,

1037
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 2: testimony but THEN i wanted to have the opportunity to

1038
00:50:56,200 --> 00:51:00,319
Speaker 2: provide the hope and. Help so next month we're going

1039
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,880
Speaker 2: to open up the First Van Beaker Recovery center In,

1040
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:05,799
Speaker 2: milwaukee and we're going to be able to serve a

1041
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 2: thousand help a thousand people a month in this intense outpatient.

1042
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 2: Center and, man out of all the stuff we talked,

1043
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:15,759
Speaker 2: ABOUT Q d, like this is the most epic Thing

1044
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:18,359
Speaker 2: i've ever been a part. Of because when you talk

1045
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 2: about legacy and leaving a, legacy the sport thing is,

1046
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:27,399
Speaker 2: cool but when you can change lives and, families, man

1047
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 2: that's what it's all. About So i'm, blessed AND i

1048
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 2: appreciate you talking about. THAT Q So i'm blessed and

1049
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 2: not only turn my trial and tribulation into an opportunity

1050
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 2: to be back in the league and mentor basketball. Players

1051
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 2: But i'm blessed now with an opportunity to get into our,

1052
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 2: society our community and get people sober and living life

1053
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 2: on life, terms which is it changes, families it changes.

1054
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 2: Generations so that's What i'm excited.

1055
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:54,320
Speaker 3: About.

1056
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 1: Man, yeah it's always a, blessing you. KNOW i feel

1057
00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:00,160
Speaker 1: like when you get a certain, age it's your responsibility

1058
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: to give, back especially if you experienced so much to

1059
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 1: before when you was going through what you was going

1060
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 1: through and you got the call to be with The

1061
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 1: bucks and they want to bring you back and bring

1062
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:13,800
Speaker 1: Around you, know sometimes when a guy go through, something

1063
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: he's looked at it Like i'm not goin to bring

1064
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 1: him around all these good people because of the influence

1065
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 1: and so. Forth, one but to have an organization to be, like,

1066
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:27,879
Speaker 1: nah he won our own and we want to bring

1067
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:29,759
Speaker 1: him in the, fold and we want to bring him

1068
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:31,680
Speaker 1: to these. Guys we want the guys to see him

1069
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 1: him give the. Knowledge how was that and what you

1070
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 1: felt about The bucks organization since?

1071
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 2: Then, Man i'm so blessed from ownership And Peter fagan

1072
00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 2: And John horseman and the, Players Yannis Chris, Brooke bobby

1073
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 2: on down the. Lineman like to your, POINT, q it was, hard, Man,

1074
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 2: like once you go through that that, stigma once you're

1075
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 2: labeled as the guy who was an, alcoholic who lost his,

1076
00:52:56,719 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 2: career who lost, everything it's hard as hell to build

1077
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 2: trust again because you GET i was, sober but it's

1078
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 2: like who wants that story? Around like what can he

1079
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 2: outside of the? Story what can he do For gianni's

1080
00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:13,160
Speaker 2: And brooke And bobby outside of? That you don't really

1081
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:16,719
Speaker 2: see that from the dollars and cents in the platform

1082
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:19,799
Speaker 2: that THE nba. Is so it wasn't. Overnight you. KNOW

1083
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 2: i had to come in and build trust, again and

1084
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 2: they gave me an. Opportunity like my first job was

1085
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 2: pre and post game with The, bucks But Jay kidd

1086
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 2: was the head coach at the time WHEN i came

1087
00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:32,840
Speaker 2: back to The, bucks SO i was doing pre and post,

1088
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 2: game But jay had me around the gym all the.

1089
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 2: Time you, Know jay saw the value in having me

1090
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:41,479
Speaker 2: in the. Gym and THEN i got to like any,

1091
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 2: basketball like y'allis. ADVANCE i learned the. Game so my

1092
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,720
Speaker 2: first couple of, years true, story, MAN i rarely spoke

1093
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:51,200
Speaker 2: To Gianni's like my first, year you know WHAT i,

1094
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:55,799
Speaker 2: mean BECAUSE i wanted to establish trust AND i JUST

1095
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:56,960
Speaker 2: i Didn't, YEAH i didn't.

1096
00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:57,400
Speaker 3: Just want to dive.

1097
00:53:57,440 --> 00:53:59,839
Speaker 2: In and plus this game wasn't back to the bas

1098
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:02,480
Speaker 2: get at the Point, TIMEWAY i couldn't say nothing to his,

1099
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:05,439
Speaker 2: game and he was doing stuff cute That i've never seen.

1100
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:08,200
Speaker 3: Before so me teaching the fate away wasn't even an

1101
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:09,319
Speaker 3: option WHEN i first got.

1102
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 2: There but getting the opportunity to build trust with these dudes,

1103
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 2: Man and believe it or, not when you go through

1104
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 2: something man and you and you overcome, it you have

1105
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 2: more strength and powered that saying what doesn't kill you

1106
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:24,880
Speaker 2: makes you. Strongly WHEN i came back to the Bucks,

1107
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:28,960
Speaker 2: man they gave me the. OPPORTUNITY i felt empowered THAT

1108
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:31,880
Speaker 2: i had overcome this obstacle, man and so you, know

1109
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 2: it gave me a chance to start mentoring BEFORE i

1110
00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 2: became a.

1111
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 3: COACH i. WAS i was mentoring because you, know they

1112
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 3: knew the, story.

1113
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 4: Talk about the relationship with y honest like just the

1114
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:43,279
Speaker 4: type of person he. Is you, know we've all seen

1115
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 4: this story and heard how he's come, up and just

1116
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:48,359
Speaker 4: to be able to see him and all that he,

1117
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 4: does and my thing THAT i like about him is

1118
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 4: that he got one.

1119
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:52,360
Speaker 3: Gear he go.

1120
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:54,880
Speaker 4: Hard he don't like that's what out of, everything you,

1121
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 4: Know he's got all of those different. Times but the

1122
00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:59,799
Speaker 4: thing THAT i appreciate the most is that he's a

1123
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 4: do it is gonna bring it every single. Night he's

1124
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:03,919
Speaker 4: gonna be playing every game and he's gonna go. Hard

1125
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,399
Speaker 4: like how refreshing is it for you to see that

1126
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 4: type of mentality in the Superstar you know What i'm,

1127
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:10,359
Speaker 4: Saying that you get to see close up personal like.

1128
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 2: That it's amazing. You because he's a great. Person he's

1129
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:19,040
Speaker 2: a better person than he is a basketball. Player and

1130
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:23,239
Speaker 2: that's almost impossible to say given the talent and the

1131
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 2: accolades that he's accumulated over his short. Career he's only

1132
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 2: twenty eight years. Old but he's a great person. Man

1133
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 2: so to be around him and to be with, HIM

1134
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 2: i shouldn't say be around, him but to be with

1135
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 2: him on a day to day. Basis we have a

1136
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:41,360
Speaker 2: lot of. Similarities, Man we care about. People he's a

1137
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 2: whole culture. Man he's a culture. LIKE i haven't been

1138
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 2: around superstars in the league as a. Coach i've just

1139
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,719
Speaker 2: been around. Him but he's a culture. Man like he's

1140
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 2: the first in the gym and the last out of the.

1141
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:59,040
Speaker 2: Gym he's, focused he's a family. Man so just to

1142
00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 2: be with him and be around him and talk, basketball

1143
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:08,759
Speaker 2: talk life with. Him it's crazy BECAUSE i think my

1144
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 2: career was probably, over like because of the addiction in

1145
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:14,680
Speaker 2: like five six year in the, league ALTHOUGH i got

1146
00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:17,799
Speaker 2: thirteen out of. It so to get this opportunity to

1147
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:21,360
Speaker 2: come back and coach him in a weird kind of,

1148
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:25,040
Speaker 2: Way i'm living vicariously through, him and he allows me

1149
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 2: to live vicariously through. Him so a lot of people

1150
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:30,799
Speaker 2: think Because i'm there and been a part of the

1151
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:35,560
Speaker 2: organization for the last seven, years, Yeah i'm. Biased of,

1152
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 2: course he's like my kid, man but he's one of one.

1153
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:43,400
Speaker 2: Man LIKE i was, saying he's a culture and the

1154
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 2: way he goes about his business on the, court in

1155
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:49,800
Speaker 2: the weight, room off the. Court he cares about people,

1156
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:51,960
Speaker 2: too which is very. Rare i've never been around a

1157
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:55,319
Speaker 2: superstar that cares about people as much as he.

1158
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 3: Does we were In, indiana just one.

1159
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:00,200
Speaker 2: Story, like we were In indiana a couple of years years,

1160
00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:03,640
Speaker 2: ago AND i asked him prior to the game IF

1161
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:06,000
Speaker 2: i could get these sneakers for a kid that was

1162
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:10,400
Speaker 2: terminally ill with. Cancer AND i hate to ask, him

1163
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:12,719
Speaker 2: but this, kid it was a request that came in

1164
00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:15,879
Speaker 2: that this kid was not in a good space with his.

1165
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:18,920
Speaker 2: Cancer and so we were Playing. Indiana, man he was

1166
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 2: going crazy and the game got close AND i was, like,

1167
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:24,440
Speaker 2: Man i'm not gonna ask him after the.

1168
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 3: Game we lose this as a, rap, right so he goes.

1169
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:30,480
Speaker 2: Crazy we ended up winning the game by like two or,

1170
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 2: three and like immediately immediately he'd lean like this is

1171
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:38,680
Speaker 2: like eight hours, Later i'm thinking he's going to go

1172
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 2: to the locker. Room immediately he looks at me ands

1173
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:44,720
Speaker 2: like pointing like where's the? Kid at takes. Us that's

1174
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 2: just the type of duty. Is Man like cares about his,

1175
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:51,160
Speaker 2: family cares about his. Organization as y'all can see with

1176
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:54,600
Speaker 2: him resigning With milwaukee in the last month or, so

1177
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 2: he cares about the city Of, milwaukee cares about his

1178
00:57:57,920 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 2: teammates and his.

1179
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:01,240
Speaker 3: Legacy at this, Point, man he wants to win.

1180
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:05,040
Speaker 2: Championships, man he wants To he wants to be up

1181
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:07,880
Speaker 2: there With he doesn't have a place where he wants to,

1182
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 2: be but he wants to throw two or three championships

1183
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 2: out there and let everybody debate it after. That so

1184
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:16,680
Speaker 2: the dude is the dude is locked. In, man the

1185
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 2: city is, fortunate And i'm fortunate to be a part

1186
00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:23,440
Speaker 2: of something and that somebody's actually locked into their legacy

1187
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:25,320
Speaker 2: and we're all fortunate to be a part of.

1188
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:27,200
Speaker 5: IT i know he's one to. One you've seen a

1189
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:31,040
Speaker 5: lot of. Basketball who would you, Compare you're honest.

1190
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 2: To SO i would have, TO i would have to combine.

1191
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 2: Players so he's Got pippins like when, pipping you, know

1192
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:41,600
Speaker 2: When pippin get it off the rim And pip is into,

1193
00:58:41,640 --> 00:58:44,959
Speaker 2: that just getting going coast to, coast there was really

1194
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:47,120
Speaker 2: nobody who could really stop. Him but then he has

1195
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:51,640
Speaker 2: the athleticism and force Of. Sean so if you you

1196
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 2: Do sean And pip with length and athleticism and force With,

1197
00:58:56,320 --> 00:58:57,320
Speaker 2: sean that's what you.

1198
00:58:57,400 --> 00:59:00,960
Speaker 3: Got. Man he's, relentless like he's a.

1199
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:04,800
Speaker 2: Type he's his mindset is, Nineties like it doesn't matter

1200
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:07,120
Speaker 2: if you're there and Then.

1201
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:09,640
Speaker 3: I'm run over you Or i'm a eure on.

1202
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:12,880
Speaker 2: You, yeah it's funny because SOMETIMES i watch in, practice you,

1203
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:16,640
Speaker 2: KNOW i watching. PRACTICE i used WHEN i first got,

1204
00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:18,720
Speaker 2: THERE i used to be like how WOULD i deal

1205
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:18,960
Speaker 2: with this?

1206
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:20,320
Speaker 3: Right you know WHAT i?

1207
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:22,920
Speaker 2: Mean like we, Competitors like how WOULD i deal with?

1208
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:24,600
Speaker 2: It in the back of my, mind, like, Yeah i'm

1209
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 2: gonna need the, wall that that wall that they talk, About,

1210
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:28,040
Speaker 2: yeah we're gonna need the.

1211
00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 3: Wall. Yeah but he's a phenomenal. Talent he gain that momentum.

1212
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:37,320
Speaker 3: Coming it's like, Out, yeah it's likes.

1213
00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:40,000
Speaker 4: Out how was it for, you, know being a part

1214
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:42,000
Speaker 4: of the. Organization you're a, coach AND i know you

1215
00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:44,360
Speaker 4: don't really you, know we people may think we, know

1216
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:46,640
Speaker 4: but like when did you find? Out like did y'all

1217
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:48,520
Speaker 4: was about to make the deal and the deal was

1218
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 4: done For dame to come to the, team and like

1219
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:51,920
Speaker 4: what was your thinking on it when it?

1220
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:55,920
Speaker 2: Happened it was crazy Because aaron And eric good when my,

1221
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:59,440
Speaker 2: AGENTS i was In oakland WITH gp at his golf.

1222
00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:03,560
Speaker 2: Event Aw Aaron goodwin and me and a g talk

1223
01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:09,080
Speaker 2: never mentioned. It literally a week, Later dame was a.

1224
01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 2: Buck it hurt me from the standpoint THAT i loved you.

1225
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:15,920
Speaker 2: HOLIDAYS i spent the whole you, know a week In

1226
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:19,920
Speaker 2: california with him this summer salt of the, earth but interesting,

1227
01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 2: Enough Dame lillard salt of the.

1228
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:25,280
Speaker 3: Earth great, dude like an, awesome awesome.

1229
01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:28,280
Speaker 2: Person i've been around him now for a few, months

1230
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:31,760
Speaker 2: And i've Known dame Through eric And, aaron BUT i,

1231
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:35,720
Speaker 2: mean like anybody, else we just added thirty two, Ball,

1232
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:41,240
Speaker 2: like we just added added a thirty two ball logo shooting,

1233
01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:48,400
Speaker 2: right and Then globe. Played we Played philadelphia in our first. Game,

1234
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:52,640
Speaker 2: yeah went for. Forty. Yeah so it's, different like from

1235
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:54,960
Speaker 2: the coaching side of, it, man to see this, dude

1236
01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 2: like at some points of the, game he's just unguardable

1237
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:00,720
Speaker 2: and he's it's a special.

1238
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 3: Spec he's one of those. Ones.

1239
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:05,880
Speaker 2: Man. COOL i joked with some people the other, DAY i,

1240
01:01:05,920 --> 01:01:08,400
Speaker 2: Said i've been around a lot of cool, brothers, man

1241
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:11,800
Speaker 2: like in my. Lifetime i've been Around dame before. MONTHS i,

1242
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:15,000
Speaker 2: SAID i THINK i want to Be. DAVE i THINK

1243
01:01:15,040 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 2: i would have. BEEN i THINK i want. TO i

1244
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:21,280
Speaker 2: want he walked, through he boxed, everything AND i THINK

1245
01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 2: i want to be Dam.

1246
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 3: I'm coaching, it BUT i want. TO i want to

1247
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:27,240
Speaker 3: be in for a.

1248
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 1: Day let me ask you. This In, milwaukee we used

1249
01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:33,440
Speaker 1: to play at The. Center they used to have, nothing

1250
01:01:33,680 --> 01:01:37,120
Speaker 1: but now they didn't build like, restaurants they didn't built

1251
01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:41,000
Speaker 1: this whole new. Arena it kind of gives Downtown milwaukee

1252
01:01:41,040 --> 01:01:43,360
Speaker 1: this whole different vibe than what it used to be.

1253
01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:46,520
Speaker 1: Before tell us how it was when you was playing

1254
01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:47,800
Speaker 1: and you playing in the, center, man we.

1255
01:01:47,760 --> 01:01:52,160
Speaker 3: Had to take that long walk like your district or.

1256
01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:55,480
Speaker 3: Whatever now like they can be.

1257
01:01:55,520 --> 01:01:58,080
Speaker 1: Outside they got the big, screen they got the. Restaurants

1258
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:02,520
Speaker 1: they didn't revamp the whole old. Downtown for, real it's

1259
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:06,040
Speaker 1: beautiful when it's amazing to, See like how is that

1260
01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:08,720
Speaker 1: to just see how the city then flipped and chain

1261
01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:10,400
Speaker 1: and putting into the.

1262
01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:11,720
Speaker 3: City, yeah it's. Crazy do you?

1263
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:14,960
Speaker 2: Like shout out To Peter fagan and the ownership and

1264
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:19,520
Speaker 2: of Course joannis for pulling. This But milwaukee's a vibe,

1265
01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:22,680
Speaker 2: Man like to your, point d like The Deer district

1266
01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:26,200
Speaker 2: is a real. Thing it's like YOU i go around

1267
01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:28,080
Speaker 2: cities And i'm, like if you if you just come

1268
01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:31,640
Speaker 2: to The Deer, district like which most teams. Do they

1269
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:34,600
Speaker 2: just come to the, hotel The New Trade, hotel and

1270
01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:38,080
Speaker 2: they're they're Like milwaukee hits like any other, City like

1271
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:42,400
Speaker 2: it's got a beautiful new, arena beautiful places to, eat

1272
01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:44,640
Speaker 2: down to. Downtown but the COOL i think the cool

1273
01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 2: part about is very rare for me BECAUSE i played.

1274
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:49,360
Speaker 2: There NOW i coach. There nobody knows. Me it's Been

1275
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:52,280
Speaker 2: baker around the. City it don't mean it's Coach. Baker like,

1276
01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 2: coach it would be. COACHED i think like ninety percent

1277
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:57,400
Speaker 2: of people don't even KNOW i play it, right because

1278
01:02:57,440 --> 01:03:00,200
Speaker 2: it's like a it's like a you, know, obviously the

1279
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:03,560
Speaker 2: success of the team And giannis And chris And brooke

1280
01:03:03,640 --> 01:03:06,560
Speaker 2: And bobby And. Pat it's a vibe down there, now,

1281
01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:09,120
Speaker 2: Man so it's much. DIFFERENT i could walk the streets

1282
01:03:09,120 --> 01:03:12,240
Speaker 2: Of milwaukee in ninety three to ninety seven and nobody

1283
01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:15,120
Speaker 2: bothered me and say anything to me about anything because

1284
01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:15,800
Speaker 2: we weren't very.

1285
01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 3: Good but now it's a vibe, there. Man milwaukee's a

1286
01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:19,280
Speaker 3: VIBE i.

1287
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:20,880
Speaker 1: Feel, like you, know back in the day when we

1288
01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:23,280
Speaker 1: used to, play it Was milwaukee's.

1289
01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 5: Just seems so. Old, yeah you know What i'm saying with.

1290
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:29,200
Speaker 1: It but me previously doing a charity event down, there

1291
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:31,560
Speaker 1: AND i went down there AND i actually seen it,

1292
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:34,640
Speaker 1: personally seen the whole. DISH i was, like, crazy this

1293
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:38,400
Speaker 1: is so, Nice like all the restaurants and people.

1294
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:41,920
Speaker 5: Vibe it's an everyday thing from.

1295
01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:43,960
Speaker 2: It, yeah it's a. Vibe it's a. Vibe now we're

1296
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:47,080
Speaker 2: not like second to The. Packers, yeah you know The

1297
01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:50,200
Speaker 2: bucks are about and not second To. Chicago how was that.

1298
01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:52,600
Speaker 4: For you to be able to experience that championship, Though

1299
01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:55,600
Speaker 4: like that had to be out of this world, surreal,

1300
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 4: Man like to win a champ like every box basketball

1301
01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:02,480
Speaker 4: wise had as a, player Like, olympian made it To

1302
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:05,040
Speaker 4: All Star, games made it to the, playoffs number did,

1303
01:04:05,080 --> 01:04:09,520
Speaker 4: anything but to win a championship was the pinnacle of my.

1304
01:04:09,560 --> 01:04:11,520
Speaker 4: Career NOW i didn't do it with my sneakers, squeaking

1305
01:04:12,160 --> 01:04:15,040
Speaker 4: BUT i was, there like on the sideline and it's

1306
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:17,920
Speaker 4: the top of the food chain when it comes to

1307
01:04:18,080 --> 01:04:22,320
Speaker 4: winning the. City the journey like when winning a world,

1308
01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:26,520
Speaker 4: championship getting to the. Finals kudos to THE mj and

1309
01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 4: The bonnie dudes have done it multiple. Times, man it

1310
01:04:29,160 --> 01:04:32,400
Speaker 4: is A it is a journey, man and so being

1311
01:04:32,440 --> 01:04:34,800
Speaker 4: able to enjoy it in the city that drafted, me

1312
01:04:34,960 --> 01:04:38,600
Speaker 4: with fans and friends in the, organization man was, surreal, Man, like.

1313
01:04:40,120 --> 01:04:41,720
Speaker 3: Got To, milwaukee my mom has my.

1314
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:49,200
Speaker 2: Ring yeah yeah, yeah for you to have one, Amazing,

1315
01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:49,680
Speaker 2: yeah it's.

1316
01:04:49,720 --> 01:04:50,160
Speaker 3: Amazing.

1317
01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:53,520
Speaker 1: Man start bench. Trade you got to start one bench

1318
01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:54,440
Speaker 1: one trade, One.

1319
01:04:54,600 --> 01:05:01,040
Speaker 5: Start, One, Kemp malone And.

1320
01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:05,120
Speaker 3: Barkley who do you? Start a lot of? Events who you? Trade? Love?

1321
01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:06,040
Speaker 3: Love love love that?

1322
01:05:06,120 --> 01:05:11,320
Speaker 2: Question so my favorite power forward of all, time the

1323
01:05:11,320 --> 01:05:18,280
Speaker 2: ONE i feared the. Most sean camp start, one bench

1324
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:21,280
Speaker 2: call and, Trade Charles Trade.

1325
01:05:21,720 --> 01:05:28,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay All hall of, famers all due respect to

1326
01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:31,160
Speaker 3: just answer the. Question. Trade.

1327
01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:36,080
Speaker 1: Yeah out of all the teams that you don't play,

1328
01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:37,880
Speaker 1: for all the teammates you had in THE, nba if

1329
01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:41,120
Speaker 1: you had to pick four other players to make you a,

1330
01:05:41,240 --> 01:05:43,600
Speaker 1: five you at the, center and you have to pick

1331
01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:46,240
Speaker 1: you four of the, players what would be your your your?

1332
01:05:46,280 --> 01:05:51,600
Speaker 3: Five? Man i'm GOING gp at the, One Ray allen

1333
01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:51,960
Speaker 3: at the.

1334
01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:57,840
Speaker 2: Two Paul pierce at the, three and myself at the,

1335
01:05:57,920 --> 01:06:01,920
Speaker 2: four AND I i gotta go with you trying to

1336
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:05,280
Speaker 2: think WHO i make SURE i played with, BEASTS i

1337
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:08,160
Speaker 2: play With, Patrick BUT i play With patrick In.

1338
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:12,439
Speaker 3: Seattle no matter you, say, Crime, pat DID i take? Prime?

1339
01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:17,960
Speaker 3: Pat that's a. Five that's a. Five that's a fucking, five, YEAH, Gp,

1340
01:06:18,280 --> 01:06:21,920
Speaker 3: paul in, reality that's. Nice that's a nice. Five that's

1341
01:06:21,920 --> 01:06:22,600
Speaker 3: a nice. Five all.

1342
01:06:22,680 --> 01:06:24,840
Speaker 4: Right so you know we know you from from from

1343
01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:28,439
Speaker 4: small town In connecticut and all that And we don't

1344
01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:30,360
Speaker 4: want to hear what you did For pops and mom

1345
01:06:30,360 --> 01:06:31,760
Speaker 4: talking about when you got because you done got an

1346
01:06:31,800 --> 01:06:33,480
Speaker 4: eighty piece big.

1347
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:34,480
Speaker 3: BAG i want to.

1348
01:06:34,520 --> 01:06:36,840
Speaker 4: KNOW i want to hear something that you look back

1349
01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:38,680
Speaker 4: like what the hell WAS i? Doing, like, well you

1350
01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:41,280
Speaker 4: got that bag of money because we all did.

1351
01:06:41,440 --> 01:06:43,480
Speaker 3: Something, Wow LIKE i don't know whether it was.

1352
01:06:43,440 --> 01:06:46,320
Speaker 4: A crazy chain a, call but like what what it

1353
01:06:46,480 --> 01:06:47,840
Speaker 4: then do when you got the?

1354
01:06:48,080 --> 01:06:50,000
Speaker 3: Bag? Yeah you know what's? Crazy?

1355
01:06:50,040 --> 01:06:52,400
Speaker 2: You the one THING i would, say the one crazy

1356
01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:55,000
Speaker 2: THING i got was Before hummers Became.

1357
01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:57,640
Speaker 3: Hummers oh you got the real. ONE i got the

1358
01:06:57,680 --> 01:06:59,240
Speaker 3: REAL oneac.

1359
01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:06,920
Speaker 2: Did with with the with the TVs and the, yeah

1360
01:07:06,960 --> 01:07:08,800
Speaker 2: with the PlayStation When i'm RIDING.

1361
01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 3: Tv who plays had it?

1362
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:15,000
Speaker 2: All? Yeah, yeah, yeah you know What i'm talking about,

1363
01:07:15,040 --> 01:07:17,960
Speaker 2: this so that The hummer with the real, one the Army,

1364
01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:20,640
Speaker 2: hummer was WHAT i, was WHAT i got real?

1365
01:07:20,720 --> 01:07:22,280
Speaker 3: Tank yeah, yeah, okay.

1366
01:07:22,400 --> 01:07:25,040
Speaker 4: Yeah tell me how proud are you to, have you,

1367
01:07:25,080 --> 01:07:28,840
Speaker 4: know your daughter being a part of The Virginia tech

1368
01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:32,880
Speaker 4: women's basketball, program and you know the women's basketball is

1369
01:07:32,920 --> 01:07:37,240
Speaker 4: booming right, now blowing up and real time part of

1370
01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:40,360
Speaker 4: you to have your, daughter you, know following your, footsteps

1371
01:07:40,400 --> 01:07:42,880
Speaker 4: hooping and you know obviously doing it to a turn

1372
01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:45,360
Speaker 4: level level where you get a scholarship to RE V.

1373
01:07:45,520 --> 01:07:47,200
Speaker 3: Tech, YEAH i mean super dope.

1374
01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:50,240
Speaker 2: Man to Have carrit, speed you, know on The Virginia

1375
01:07:50,320 --> 01:07:53,160
Speaker 2: tech they played last, night she was one for one

1376
01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:56,160
Speaker 2: and played thirteen. Minutes to be playing on the ranked,

1377
01:07:56,160 --> 01:07:58,520
Speaker 2: TEAM i, mean, she's as we alluded, to she light

1378
01:07:58,600 --> 01:08:00,920
Speaker 2: years ahead of WHERE i. WAS i, was you, know

1379
01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:03,600
Speaker 2: nineteen years. Old but it's Super i'm proud of all my.

1380
01:08:03,680 --> 01:08:06,440
Speaker 2: Kids remember my oldest, Son Vin junior is, playing and

1381
01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:09,520
Speaker 2: Then mark and. So but to Have karrason be on

1382
01:08:09,560 --> 01:08:12,560
Speaker 2: the national, STAGE i think she's going to be. Tremendous

1383
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:15,720
Speaker 2: she's already claiming the titles being the best basketball player

1384
01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:15,920
Speaker 2: in the.

1385
01:08:15,960 --> 01:08:18,080
Speaker 3: Family so she's got. It she's got to jump over.

1386
01:08:18,120 --> 01:08:24,280
Speaker 1: There being selected to THE usa, team in the opportunity

1387
01:08:24,360 --> 01:08:26,840
Speaker 1: to play with THE usa, team all of, us it's,

1388
01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:29,040
Speaker 1: like you want to win a, championship you want to

1389
01:08:29,040 --> 01:08:30,720
Speaker 1: play with THE usa, team you want to make The

1390
01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:34,000
Speaker 1: All Star. Game how was it when you heard, That, like,

1391
01:08:34,520 --> 01:08:36,160
Speaker 1: HEY i can be a part of THE usa.

1392
01:08:36,240 --> 01:08:40,240
Speaker 2: TEAM i mean just kind of the same is a

1393
01:08:40,280 --> 01:08:44,720
Speaker 2: little bit. Different being able to represent your country is. Different, man, like,

1394
01:08:44,920 --> 01:08:47,280
Speaker 2: again you can make An All Star, game you can

1395
01:08:47,320 --> 01:08:50,080
Speaker 2: even Make ALL. Nba but to have the opportunity to

1396
01:08:50,120 --> 01:08:53,320
Speaker 2: be a part of a team that only twelve to

1397
01:08:53,400 --> 01:08:56,880
Speaker 2: fourteen of us are, selected you Know Tim duncan alone

1398
01:08:56,920 --> 01:09:00,640
Speaker 2: some more Than Vince Carter Ray ALLEN Gp Jason. Kid,

1399
01:09:00,880 --> 01:09:03,040
Speaker 2: like you're talking about the elite of the leade at

1400
01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:06,639
Speaker 2: the time in the. League so to be on that

1401
01:09:06,720 --> 01:09:11,040
Speaker 2: team and be select kg be selected on that team

1402
01:09:11,200 --> 01:09:14,000
Speaker 2: was over the. Top like one of my greatest moments

1403
01:09:14,600 --> 01:09:17,920
Speaker 2: of being a basketball player had nothing to do with me.

1404
01:09:17,960 --> 01:09:19,720
Speaker 2: SCORING i get to tell PEOPLE i was there for

1405
01:09:19,760 --> 01:09:25,479
Speaker 2: the DUNK i. WAS i was, like that was C

1406
01:09:25,680 --> 01:09:27,599
Speaker 2: i'm gonna be, honestly because you're my little.

1407
01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:27,760
Speaker 3: Bro.

1408
01:09:27,880 --> 01:09:31,479
Speaker 2: Right my initial reaction everybody in the, World i'm probably

1409
01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:33,599
Speaker 2: the one person in the, world was, like that's a

1410
01:09:33,600 --> 01:09:38,240
Speaker 2: bull crap because you got to look at the, footage

1411
01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:41,080
Speaker 2: Like olympic points are hard to come, By SO i

1412
01:09:41,160 --> 01:09:42,519
Speaker 2: got to steal yea.

1413
01:09:43,280 --> 01:09:47,360
Speaker 3: Tipped to whoever and did, this events pointed.

1414
01:09:49,800 --> 01:09:53,400
Speaker 2: Went and then and then get way too secure and

1415
01:09:53,479 --> 01:09:56,320
Speaker 2: did this and did the gavity and then and THEN

1416
01:09:57,280 --> 01:09:59,680
Speaker 2: i thought he was gonna throw it up and and

1417
01:09:59,720 --> 01:10:02,120
Speaker 2: that not. HAPPEN i Give Vince carter hell about that

1418
01:10:02,160 --> 01:10:04,639
Speaker 2: to this, Day like that was some selfish.

1419
01:10:05,640 --> 01:10:11,679
Speaker 3: You could have we Need AND i played it off

1420
01:10:11,720 --> 01:10:16,160
Speaker 3: AFTER i screamed, too BUT i was, like that's a bull. Crap,

1421
01:10:17,320 --> 01:10:19,120
Speaker 3: seriously that's one of the most selfish. THINGS i.

1422
01:10:21,120 --> 01:10:24,000
Speaker 1: Was the locker room after the game and, like how

1423
01:10:24,160 --> 01:10:26,840
Speaker 1: was just like the team like after that, dump like

1424
01:10:27,120 --> 01:10:30,519
Speaker 1: BECAUSE i know they showed, it like like it.

1425
01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:32,960
Speaker 5: Was just that's one of the best dumps ever in

1426
01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:33,680
Speaker 5: the history of the.

1427
01:10:33,760 --> 01:10:34,560
Speaker 3: Game, yeah, no it.

1428
01:10:34,680 --> 01:10:37,799
Speaker 2: Was it was. Crazy you SEEN. Kg you know you KNOW. Kg,

1429
01:10:38,280 --> 01:10:41,600
Speaker 2: yeah you KNOW kg energy, Man kg's. Energy it was

1430
01:10:41,640 --> 01:10:45,519
Speaker 2: it was, crazy man. Like it was. Just but the thing,

1431
01:10:45,560 --> 01:10:48,200
Speaker 2: is we didn't realize it was gonna be so historical

1432
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:51,360
Speaker 2: at the. Moment you, know you you had some of

1433
01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:53,240
Speaker 2: the greats in the locker. Room but it was it was,

1434
01:10:53,280 --> 01:10:56,200
Speaker 2: crazy man. Like at that, moment we hadn't really known

1435
01:10:56,240 --> 01:10:57,840
Speaker 2: what he did until we saw it on the.

1436
01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:00,559
Speaker 4: VIDEO i gotta go back and watch THE i gotta

1437
01:11:00,560 --> 01:11:01,400
Speaker 4: fact it's the true.

1438
01:11:01,439 --> 01:11:03,800
Speaker 3: Story you're gonna die. Live AND i asked for. IT

1439
01:11:03,880 --> 01:11:06,240
Speaker 3: i gathered myself and asked for the. Love my initial,

1440
01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:09,880
Speaker 3: reactionally that's crazy that's. Crazy you ain't throw.

1441
01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:10,120
Speaker 2: That b.

1442
01:11:11,640 --> 01:11:16,880
Speaker 1: Like like Y'ALL usa team is one of my FAVORITE

1443
01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:22,080
Speaker 1: usa teams. Too how was the, practices, Man because like

1444
01:11:22,200 --> 01:11:24,400
Speaker 1: y'all had hit us and they were talking About Vince

1445
01:11:24,439 --> 01:11:26,439
Speaker 1: carter was the last one to get, picked And i'm, like,

1446
01:11:26,640 --> 01:11:28,120
Speaker 1: whoa it was.

1447
01:11:28,160 --> 01:11:30,559
Speaker 3: CRAZY i tell, YOU i tell you quick funny. Story

1448
01:11:31,320 --> 01:11:31,720
Speaker 3: we were In.

1449
01:11:32,560 --> 01:11:34,400
Speaker 2: Hawaii that was the where our training camp WATCH q

1450
01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:37,400
Speaker 2: and being SO i loved a lot of wanting, man

1451
01:11:37,600 --> 01:11:40,040
Speaker 2: and we had we had some battles in our, career

1452
01:11:40,160 --> 01:11:42,639
Speaker 2: and so now we're on the same. Team but our

1453
01:11:42,680 --> 01:11:45,439
Speaker 2: training camp was In, hawaii and you've heard About olympic.

1454
01:11:45,479 --> 01:11:47,320
Speaker 2: Practice the first two or three they just rolled the

1455
01:11:47,320 --> 01:11:49,840
Speaker 2: ball up and you get to. It and, uh this

1456
01:11:49,880 --> 01:11:52,360
Speaker 2: one particular practice In, HAWAII i got to it like

1457
01:11:52,439 --> 01:11:55,240
Speaker 2: it was LIKE i was going and, Uh Tim hardaway

1458
01:11:55,320 --> 01:11:57,960
Speaker 2: was on that that team, Too and so the next, morning,

1459
01:11:58,040 --> 01:12:01,880
Speaker 2: YES i get The chicago you Know, Timmy So tim

1460
01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:02,320
Speaker 2: get on the.

1461
01:12:02,360 --> 01:12:04,080
Speaker 3: Bus the next. Morning i'm not thinking.

1462
01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:06,240
Speaker 2: ANYTHING i KNOW i got to it, right and it

1463
01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:09,599
Speaker 2: was really, yeah it was kind of being so locked

1464
01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:12,520
Speaker 2: up a little, bit But i'm not thinking we. Teammates

1465
01:12:12,520 --> 01:12:14,519
Speaker 2: SO i get on the bus the next morning AND

1466
01:12:14,680 --> 01:12:21,000
Speaker 2: i can Hear timmy say yeah you know yeah ass, today.

1467
01:12:23,600 --> 01:12:30,400
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yesterday i'm, like yeah you really? Sure you, know

1468
01:12:30,640 --> 01:12:31,600
Speaker 3: so got to it that.

1469
01:12:31,720 --> 01:12:34,200
Speaker 2: Day so it was cool, Man like the practices were,

1470
01:12:34,240 --> 01:12:37,479
Speaker 2: intense but you, KNOW i HAD i HAD gp with be, too.

1471
01:12:37,680 --> 01:12:39,920
Speaker 3: So it was super, intense but it was super dope,

1472
01:12:39,960 --> 01:12:41,720
Speaker 3: man all being on one cause though it was.

1473
01:12:41,800 --> 01:12:44,240
Speaker 1: Cool let me ask you, this your team is THE,

1474
01:12:44,320 --> 01:12:47,839
Speaker 1: us YOUR usa? Team where do you rank YOUR usa

1475
01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:51,519
Speaker 1: team out of all THE usa? Teams, like you know

1476
01:12:51,560 --> 01:12:53,640
Speaker 1: you have you have a dream team With jordan's you

1477
01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:56,240
Speaker 1: Got dream team, too you got The redeemed, team you.

1478
01:12:56,320 --> 01:13:01,000
Speaker 3: Got where do you rank that? Team? Yeah amongst them?

1479
01:13:01,600 --> 01:13:05,759
Speaker 2: Historically Did it's got to be in the top seven

1480
01:13:06,680 --> 01:13:14,280
Speaker 2: because you you're talking About, DUNCAN, Kg, Peyton kid Ray,

1481
01:13:14,320 --> 01:13:16,719
Speaker 2: Allen like if you really go to if you're doing

1482
01:13:16,840 --> 01:13:21,800
Speaker 2: like just lineup and not, results you're talking About hall

1483
01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:23,719
Speaker 2: of famers on. It i'm not not talking about the first,

1484
01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:27,600
Speaker 2: team but you can probably go pound for pound or

1485
01:13:27,720 --> 01:13:30,920
Speaker 2: guy for guy up there with the best of. Them

1486
01:13:31,280 --> 01:13:34,759
Speaker 2: and if you're talking about who's going to compete against,

1487
01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:39,440
Speaker 2: who LIKE, Kg duncan And zoe on the front, Line,

1488
01:13:39,320 --> 01:13:43,679
Speaker 2: yeah we can get with pretty much. Anybody steve Smith,

1489
01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:48,280
Speaker 2: man Spend Allen, houston and we had some guys that

1490
01:13:48,400 --> 01:13:49,439
Speaker 2: we have some go getters on the.

1491
01:13:49,479 --> 01:13:52,680
Speaker 3: Squad that's what's, up. Man we appreciate. It, Man this

1492
01:13:52,840 --> 01:13:53,840
Speaker 3: is a super dope MAN.

1493
01:13:54,040 --> 01:14:00,200
Speaker 4: O G Van baker pulling up phonus, family.

1494
01:14:03,920 --> 01:14:04,000
Speaker 2: All.

1495
01:14:04,080 --> 01:14:05,960
Speaker 4: Right want to thank y'all for you're continued support of

1496
01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:06,720
Speaker 4: The knuckleheads.

1497
01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:08,759
Speaker 3: Podcast be sure to give us two.

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