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Speaker 1: to the I Am Rappaport Stereo podcast. I'm on a

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Speaker 1: new diet, a new fast so I'm in a bad mood.

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Speaker 1: The Eastern and Western Conference NBA playoffs are all set.

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Speaker 1: Plus we have special guest Candice Parker. She's an m

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Speaker 1: going to be in the Basketball Hall of Fame. She's

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Speaker 1: a great ship talker, a cool last person. We're talking

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Speaker 1: NBA playoffs, We're talking playing in Russia. We're talking real

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Speaker 1: Chinese food while living in China, and the lack of

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Speaker 1: deodorant used by some foreign opponents. With the Great Candice Parker,

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Speaker 1: the first Me and g Moody, whose last name rhymes

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Speaker 1: with duty, are gonna set the table. Miles Jordan's let

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Speaker 1: me get something funky, all right, Myles Jordan's I asked

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Speaker 1: for something funky. That was really funky, that was really uh,

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Speaker 1: that's really nice. You were now rocking with the best

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Speaker 1: fifteen rounds of Championship podcasting. My name is Michael Rappaport,

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Speaker 1: a K the Gringo man Dingo OK j Colmato of podcasting.

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Speaker 1: It's a patent and sniff. I'm here with G Moody,

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Speaker 1: who's our last name rhymes with duty. That will never change. Nope,

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Speaker 1: that will never change. How are you, Mr Moody. I'm good.

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Speaker 1: Everything is good. That's great. Body is back. No from

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Speaker 1: what uh jumping and uh dunking? Hmm. The the the

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Speaker 1: people voted, they said no. I believe it's like over

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Speaker 1: six people said that was a dunk and one of

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Speaker 1: them was a compassion to kill our guy. Um. I

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Speaker 1: don't know his real name, but he draws dope. Uh,

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Speaker 1: how do you say? Is? Is? Is instagram handling his

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Speaker 1: uh pa? But that's my man. Phil Hamilton's out of St. Louis. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's I love his art. He said that you he

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Speaker 1: thinks you you did dunk. Um. Your body said that

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Speaker 1: you didn't dunk, and the fans said that you didn't dunk.

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Speaker 1: It's been a lot of disarray, a lot of blowback. Uh,

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Speaker 1: but you you are healing up. Yeah, I'm good. Everything.

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Speaker 1: He's good. Man and a lot of cats acknowledge a

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Speaker 1: cat jumping and grabbing the rim and doing all that.

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Speaker 1: So I'm good. Was their footage of you hanging on

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Speaker 1: the rim? Oh? Yeah, man, I don't know how you

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Speaker 1: didn't see that. No, I mean like actually like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm hanging on the rim like you know, monkey barring

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Speaker 1: it NA just getting up there and doing it at

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Speaker 1: this age, so people are pulling it. So people were

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Speaker 1: impressed at that, and then they compared their dads and

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Speaker 1: he was like, Yo, this fucking guy broke his ankle

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Speaker 1: going to the store. You're inspiring. So I like that

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Speaker 1: they the I didn't see any of those people that

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Speaker 1: they're finding inspiration. But I just wanted to clarify, just

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Speaker 1: to back up. Sorry, Okay, because you didn't see it,

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Speaker 1: that don't mean it didn't happen. No, But is there

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Speaker 1: footage of you actually hanging on the rim? I'm just

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Speaker 1: sorry because if I didn't, I would love to post that.

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Speaker 1: Is there actual grabbing the rim with with ease? That's there,

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Speaker 1: that's in the video. Oh no, I saw you pull

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Speaker 1: the rim down with your your like your fingernails, Like

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Speaker 1: middle finger pull the No, the first jump is me

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Speaker 1: just jumping up there letting you know what it is. Oh, okay,

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Speaker 1: cool man, No, no problem, man, I didn't want to

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Speaker 1: do you know what the term fomo means? Fomo? No? Okay? Um?

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Speaker 1: only steer you strong. Do not live in fomo, Um Moody.

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Speaker 1: The playoffs are set. The playoffs are set. The Golden

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Speaker 1: State Warriors are playing the Houston Rockets starting on Monday.

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Speaker 1: We have a few days off to just chill. Uh Monday,

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Speaker 1: they play on the FOURT on Mother's Day May, the

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Speaker 1: Cleveland Cavaliers. We'll be playing the Boston Celtics, who beat

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Speaker 1: them with a bunch of rookies, which is weird because

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Speaker 1: It's Golden State versus the Houston Rockets. Uh. First, let's

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Speaker 1: talk about Houston versus Golden State. Mr Moody, Who do

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Speaker 1: you want to win? Who do you think will win? Uh?

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Speaker 1: I want Golden State to beat Houston because I don't

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Speaker 1: like how my man plays. I think it's terrible to

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Speaker 1: watch James Harden dribbling, dribbling, one guy doing all this

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Speaker 1: Golden State, and I like Golden State to whip their

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Speaker 1: of here with that ship man. The matchups, of course,

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Speaker 1: are Chris Paul versus Steph Curry. I know you have

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Speaker 1: Steph Curry. Yes, Steph Curry already dribbled him into the ground,

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Speaker 1: And I like Steph Curry all day with busting Chris Paul,

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Speaker 1: asked and and and sending him home. James Harden and

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Speaker 1: Golden State's Big four. I think he's going to be

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Speaker 1: uh the most valuable player um in terms of Golden

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Speaker 1: I not only want Golden State. I not only want

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Speaker 1: Golden State, but I am predicting Golden State UH to

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a tough pill to swallow for Chris Paul,

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Speaker 1: who has been playing very well. He's revitalized, um and

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Speaker 1: and he's a Hall of Famer. But they're going to lose. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And I think that Kevin Durant is gonna is gonna

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Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. That's ridiculous. I'm telling you. It should be

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Speaker 1: Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and that team, Brian Scalabrini, friend

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Speaker 1: as much as I love Jayson Tatum who posted or

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Speaker 1: somebody posted the craziest Instagram. You know, he's Larry Hughes,

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Speaker 1: that's that's Lebron's son, Doola. That's Sun Dola right there. Well,

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Speaker 1: of that. And he's and he's begging his motherfucker to

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Speaker 1: follow him on Twitter. That's Sun Doola. I wouldn't put

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Speaker 1: that ship up for the playoffs, nah man, I'm looking

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Speaker 1: like a little boy, and I gotta guard this dude.

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Speaker 1: This is the greatest guy in the world, greatest player,

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Speaker 1: Sun Doola. Yes, I agree with you, Sun doola um.

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Speaker 1: But Jayson Tatum has shown Listen there. The talk of

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Speaker 1: the Rookie of the Year has been obviously Ben Simmons, Donovan, Mitchell,

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Speaker 1: Jayson Tatum is as he lit up Philly. He's played great. Ah,

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Speaker 1: he's twin years old. He's the player who. I mentioned

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Speaker 1: over to me to introduce me to your mom because

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Speaker 1: say my mom is a fan of his. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: go meet and eat, Let's go get a coffee. You know.

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Speaker 1: I showed all that down for five days and I'm

420
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 1: doing it for my body. Um. And it's it's a

421
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 1: an anti aging, uh fasting mimicking diet. This is the

422
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,400
Speaker 1: diet that of course when the doctor, my doctor explained

423
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 1: it to me, he said, on day three or four,

424
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 1: your body prepares itself to die. And I said, what

425
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 1: the funk you're not. That's not a good sales pitch.

426
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 1: You need to rephrase the way you sell that to people.

427
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,360
Speaker 1: That's not a sales no one wants. I'm gonna I'm

428
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 1: gonna go out of my way. That's a diet, and

429
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: I'm paying for it. So I told him that, I said,

430
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:57,240
Speaker 1: you need to your sales pitch needs to be improved. Anyway,

431
00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 1: I just wanted to share that with you guys. Uh.

432
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 1: Probably by the time of the next official Iron Rapports

433
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: Stereo podcast, I'll have more updates. Um, I wouldn't bet

434
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:11,119
Speaker 1: against an emergency. Iron Rapports stereo podcast this weekend with

435
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 1: all the NBA playoffs and me going through this diet. Um,

436
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,200
Speaker 1: how are you feeling? I want to I want to

437
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: ask you how are you feeling from with the diet?

438
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 1: I feel good? I feel good, you know, like you know,

439
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 1: I'm only like day two right now as of the

440
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: recording of this Iron Wrap Reports stereo podcast. Um, so

441
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 1: like the third day is the toughest day, and and

442
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: I'd say the fifth day is the toughest day. But again,

443
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 1: it's not because you're like starving. It's more just the

444
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,160
Speaker 1: mental aspect. It's more because you're just sort of it's

445
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 1: a lonely it's a lonely process going through a diet.

446
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: This kind of this kind of fasting diet when the

447
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:53,719
Speaker 1: body is quote unquote preparing itself to die, sounds good. Um.

448
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 1: I wanted to give a shout out to the Donald

449
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,040
Speaker 1: Glover video This is America, which I think is a

450
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:05,959
Speaker 1: very uh hardcore or interesting artistic statement. I don't think

451
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 1: it's a very good song, but I don't think it

452
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: was meant to be a good song. It's it's definitely

453
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: like an artistic statement, but ship so all a bunch

454
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 1: of things. There's so many different things in it, and

455
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 1: it's you know, like there's all these now there's like

456
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: you know, websites dedicated to deciphering the video and all

457
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: that stuff. The problem that I have is is not

458
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: with anything to do with the video. The video was

459
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: put out last Sunday. By Sunday afternoon, I literally saw

460
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 1: tweets saying this is what you may or may not

461
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: have missed, and that this is America video, And I'm like,

462
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 1: the fucking thing just came out an hour ago. Like people,

463
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: people play things out so quickly, you know, as good

464
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: as this is America video was, or as good as

465
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: you know a certain song by a certain artist might be.

466
00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 1: It's like Motherfucker's want to gas things up, and you know,

467
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 1: like you know, eat it like fast food. And in

468
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: a week you're not talking about Donald Glover's This is

469
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: America anymore because you've you you spent so much time

470
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 1: like posting it on Instagram, you watch it a hundred times.

471
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: There's no marination process and the next thing you know,

472
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 1: you're onto the next one. Yeah, it's just a video. Yeah,

473
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: but people just they get so amped on everything so

474
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: quick and they don't let it marinate, like this is

475
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: an instant classic, and then the next week you're not

476
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: even discussing it. But he's definitely a talented dude. And

477
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 1: uh you know, like I mean that guy's that guy's talented.

478
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: I just I just don't I don't know, like I

479
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: haven't heard what what What was the point of the video?

480
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 1: Like what what? What message was it trying to convey?

481
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: Like it said this is America? What message was it

482
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: trying to convey? Well, you could go online and you

483
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 1: could look at and it's not like Donald Glover, uh

484
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: explain it. These are all fans and they're like, well,

485
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: it's conveying this. It's conveying you don't know what the

486
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: funk he's doing. It's like everybody go going. You're like,

487
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: it's saying this, it's saying that, and then and this,

488
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: this person this part of the video is saying this

489
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 1: and saying that. Whatever the case is. I definitely I'm

490
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: a fan of Homeboy. I love that show, Atlanta. I

491
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 1: think it's totally bugged out. Um. I just want everybody

492
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 1: to slow down when they're consuming art, like, let let

493
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: it marry it. Whether it's a show, whether it's a record,

494
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 1: the movie, don't just you know, annoying something an instant classic,

495
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: watch and watch, you watch you watch and watch you watch,

496
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 1: you watch it and then never watch it again. And

497
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 1: I hope it's not just all you know. I haven't

498
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 1: seen it, but I hope it's not a gloom and

499
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 1: doom thing where it's like this is America and it's

500
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: all bad and this this is that because every day

501
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 1: I'm out here and I see a lot of good

502
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: and and and and I like America too, So I

503
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,719
Speaker 1: hope it's not all gloom and doom. That's all. Now

504
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: you got you should check it out. It's definitely smart,

505
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 1: it's subversive and and there's like little you know, little

506
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 1: as they call them, Easter eggs in there, plopped in there. Um,

507
00:30:57,880 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 1: what else is going on? As I mentioned earlier, we

508
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,479
Speaker 1: have the Hall of Famer. She ain't in the Hall

509
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: of Fame yet, but she's gonna be in there. She's

510
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: won every single award that you could possibly win as

511
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: a female basketball players. She's considered the best or one

512
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:15,719
Speaker 1: of the best basketball players ever female basketball players ever. Um,

513
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: I don't like to uh you know what what is

514
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 1: it when you when you when you put uh um

515
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: titles on it. But she's a woman, uh Candice Parker.

516
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: She's a finals MVP, a regular season m v P.

517
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: Two time Olympian, played in Russia for five years, five

518
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: time champion over there, played in China. Great story, great

519
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 1: ship talker, loves basketball, loves the NBA, loves the playoffs.

520
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 1: She's coming up next on the Iron Rapports stereo pod

521
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: has a fantastic ship talking extravaganza with Candice Parker. What

522
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 1: else we got Mr Moody, Oh, everybody was killing Kanye West.

523
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: I didn't weigh in. I didn't get a chance to

524
00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: weigh in. Everybody killing Kanye West about what he said,

525
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: and like, you know, slavery was a choice, of course,

526
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: that's a that's a ridiculous statement. I don't think he

527
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: meant to say that. I think he didn't say correctly.

528
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: He didn't articulate what what what he was saying, And

529
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: I I think I know what he was saying because

530
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: I was like, he's thinking, like if you have the

531
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 1: mentality that you're oppressed, and you have that gloom and

532
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: doom mentality, then that's on you and you can't do

533
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: anything because the system is against you. It's this type

534
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 1: of oppression and it's this that's a choice that's on you.

535
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: I think that's what he meant. And everybody ran with

536
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,720
Speaker 1: those words because he didn't articulate it correctly. But I

537
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: think that's what he meant, and I think it's true,

538
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 1: and it's in line with how he's thinking. It's kind

539
00:32:55,680 --> 00:33:00,040
Speaker 1: of evolving, So of course people are gonna harp of

540
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: those words, but I think that's what he really meant.

541
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: If you have that mentality that you're oppressed and you

542
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: can't do ship and the system is against you, that

543
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: is a choice in thinking. Yeah, well, the only thing,

544
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: the only thing that Kanye West that I'm interested in

545
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: Kanye West specifically about is where the smackers that duke

546
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 1: because I'm not I don't funk with your clothing line,

547
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 1: I don't funk with your sneakers. I just need them smackers.

548
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: Other than that, you're talking, are you're talking all kinds

549
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 1: of ship? Listen, let's get to it all right. Future

550
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: NBA Hall of Famer Candice Parker coming up next on

551
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: the Iron Wrap Ports Stereo Pockets. We're talking playoffs, We're

552
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: talking Steph we're talking Lebron, We're talking, we're talking James

553
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,239
Speaker 1: hard and she said some some things that were very

554
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: controversial about James Harden traveling all the time and so

555
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 1: much We're we're talking about the use of deodoring by

556
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: some opponents while playing overseas and so much more with

557
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: the great Cool Candice Parker coming up next on the

558
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 1: Iron Wrap Pors Stereo podcast. All right, Candice Parker, I

559
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: had to put you know, I don't like the fact check,

560
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: but I had to put you. Like your resume, n

561
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 1: B w NBA champion, w NBA Finals, m v P,

562
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 1: two time w NBA Most Valuable Player, five time All

563
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:21,320
Speaker 1: NBA First Team, two time n c a A champion,

564
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: five time champion in Russia, champion, champion, Olympic gold trophies,

565
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 1: soon to be in the NBA Hall of Fame than

566
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: the Basketball Hall of Fame. That's a fact. That's a fact.

567
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: I mean, I hope so, but we'll see. I still

568
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 1: got a little career last Yes, you got a little bit.

569
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: I seem to be when when when you want to um,

570
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on the podcast, Thank you for

571
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 1: having me. I'm a fan. I'm a huge fan, all right, well,

572
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 1: that's good. That's good. Um, all right, overseas, I'm fascinated buying,

573
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,800
Speaker 1: uh you know things that are so popular in the

574
00:34:55,920 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 1: United States and then overseas or vice versa. Where's the

575
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: craziest place you played? Like I remember I was second,

576
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 1: you were like, you just got back from China. A

577
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: couple of questions in China. How's the Chinese food? What

578
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:11,439
Speaker 1: is it like being a professional basketball player in China?

579
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: Give me everything? Like, what is your take? Aware if

580
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,240
Speaker 1: I said, Cannis, what was it like playing in China?

581
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: Just what the hell is that? Like? All right, so China.

582
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 1: I'll start with China. First of all, I played in Russia, Turkey,

583
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 1: and China. Those have been my three countries that I've

584
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,320
Speaker 1: played for extent where you did a residency. It's not

585
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 1: like no I played there regularly. I played in Russia

586
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 1: for six years, I played in Turkey for one. I

587
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:37,439
Speaker 1: played in China for two two seasons. China the last

588
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: city that I was in a rum Chi China. Looking

589
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 1: up on the map, it's the northernmost city in China,

590
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 1: so it's almost near Russia. Russia border almost Man and

591
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: it is holds the Guinness Book of Record for the

592
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:54,399
Speaker 1: furthest city from a sea, so the furthest city from water.

593
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: There's no water anywhere near. It's a six hour flight

594
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:01,959
Speaker 1: to get pretty much anywhere. It was like four hours

595
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 1: to Beijing, six hours of Shanghai. I mean, we're like,

596
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 1: China's a huge country. I didn't even realize it. What

597
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 1: is it? Okay? So I get there, I take my

598
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: daughter everywhere. She will be nine, yeah, she'll be nine, um,

599
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: and I take her everywhere. So we rolled together. That's

600
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: the way it is. I signed with the team. I'm like, listen,

601
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:28,800
Speaker 1: you don't want me without her. So Christmas was approaching,

602
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: so we had to spend Christmas over there. So we

603
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: get there. We live in a hotel, because in China

604
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,360
Speaker 1: you want to live in a hotel, so you know,

605
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 1: there the food is pretty good. I don't eat red

606
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: meat and I don't eat pork. Over there, it was

607
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: really difficult because a lot of the stuff is pork,

608
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,760
Speaker 1: red meat, all that stuff. So I stuck to chicken,

609
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,280
Speaker 1: stuck to seafood, stuff like that. I don't eat anything

610
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:55,399
Speaker 1: that I cannot see through. That's my rule. But it's

611
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: like it's clear, It's like, you know, the juice is clear.

612
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 1: So that's kind of my rule. I don't know, it's

613
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: just I got sick the first time I went to

614
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 1: China and just it was with a steak and I

615
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: just had a bad experience. So yeah, I can't. Yeah,

616
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 1: so it's nothing against China or anything, but I just

617
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 1: don't anything overseas that I can't over here. When you

618
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: eat beef and yeah, but it's stopped, and like that's

619
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 1: that's the idea, that's it stops. So I mean if

620
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: I want a cheeseburger every once in a while, like

621
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: I'll maybe eat a cheeseburger, but you will not see

622
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 1: me eating red meat that much. Okay, China the culture

623
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 1: is extremely different from America. They work, they work, they work,

624
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 1: they work, they work. They sometimes have three practices a day.

625
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 1: They are constantly like they live in the dorms and um,

626
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: they work. I mean, it's it's unbelievable to me because

627
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 1: they're great, they're great teammates, they're fun. But they had

628
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 1: that mentality there's super yes, super disciplined, super respectful to

629
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 1: their head coach. Um. When you get there as an

630
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 1: as a a guest, as a visitor, you don't carry

631
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: bags and stuff like that. They're like helping you. They

632
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: make sure like Layla was the She's the princess of China.

633
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 1: Everywhere we went, my daughter, everywhere we went. They give

634
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 1: her gifts, they have something they get, they bring her fruit,

635
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 1: they like they carrying her to the baggage claim like

636
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 1: the the kid. I'm like, Layla, this isn't how it's

637
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 1: going to be when we go back to America. You

638
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 1: know that right, like she's she was out of control.

639
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: So it's just very welcoming. And I enjoyed the experience

640
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: with my teammates. Okay, And when you say three practices

641
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 1: a day, are you like, yo, I don't. I mean

642
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: as an American. I'm the only American on the team.

643
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 1: So in your contract you write, you know, I'm only

644
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: doing one practice today because see the way my body

645
00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: is set up, the way my body is up, is

646
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: I can I played ye around and I can only

647
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: do one a day. How do they treat female professional

648
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 1: basketball players in China? Like is there more recognition? Is

649
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 1: it less? Is it the same? Is it more visibility?

650
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 1: You know, it's crazy because China is such a basketball

651
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,800
Speaker 1: like they're basketball fans because the time change when you

652
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: wake up the NBA's on, So it's ten eleven o'clock,

653
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: you're eating breakfast. The NBA is on, so you're watching

654
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: it and you know everything. So they're fans, they know

655
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 1: what's going on. You know, they had my jersey, they

656
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: had my first signature shoe. There were a couple of

657
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: fans that had that. So they're in the basketball, I mean,

658
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: are All Star game that we had with the Chinese.

659
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 1: You know, the foreigners play and the Chinese team plays,

660
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: and I mean it drew. There were fifteen sixteen thousand

661
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 1: people there. It's on television, so it's I mean, basketball

662
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 1: is huge over there. And then what about Russia, Yeah,

663
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 1: Russia is h is unique. It was my first experience

664
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:11,399
Speaker 1: going overseas. How I was twenty three and I had

665
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 1: a five month old baby. And the first time I

666
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 1: went over there, I took ten bags. I packed diapers,

667
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: I packed green beans, I backed baby food. I packed

668
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 1: everything because I didn't know what they were going to have.

669
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: My mom was like, you know, they have babies two

670
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 1: over there. I'm like, I just want to be prepared

671
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: and I get over there. My daughter's first experience going

672
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 1: to school was in Russia. Um. Probably her first word

673
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 1: was previout. But you know, she she really embraced the culture.

674
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: And so with that, how could I not you know,

675
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: I mean it's the kids over there. I think it's

676
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 1: more so as being a black American. When you're over there,

677
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 1: you think of it when people are looking at you

678
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: like it's just like, oh my god, they hate me.

679
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: It's because they never have seen that. There's no black

680
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: people over there, not very many. I mean in Moscow

681
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 1: you might see a little bit, but where I was

682
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: in Catternburg, like you didn't see black. Now what's it called?

683
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: You can Katerinburg? What is it Katerinburg? Now? What is

684
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:07,759
Speaker 1: what is that? Like? Is it like are we like

685
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: in Iowa? Is that like Chicago? Like what is the

686
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 1: aesthetic of you know, it's kind of like a little

687
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: big city like it's it's the fourth largest city in Russia.

688
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:19,839
Speaker 1: Is there Starbucks? There was the Starbucks when I left,

689
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 1: so two years that I played there, the last two

690
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 1: years there was Starbucks. They opened a Friday's. All the

691
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 1: Americans stood in line for like two hours, you know

692
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:29,800
Speaker 1: this Friday's t g I F Fridays. They had a

693
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: Friday's there. They had like Kentucky Fried chicken. The McDonald's

694
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 1: over there is actually better than the McDonald's at home.

695
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 1: It's fresh. Um. What players like when you know what

696
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:43,320
Speaker 1: countries you've competed in the Olympics, World Games, this that

697
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 1: every freaking kind of thing that you could compete in.

698
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:50,720
Speaker 1: What countries are like the roughest players internationally, What countries

699
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 1: talk the biggest ship, what countries are the dirtiest and

700
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,320
Speaker 1: and you know some countries they don't believe in deodorant

701
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 1: like so so give me the whole layout, like in

702
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: terms and I'm gonna give you. I'll give you to

703
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 1: Turkey is the toughest, like in terms of like league

704
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: games and like fights and stuff. I've never seen anything

705
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: like it. You talk about rivalries here, like you think

706
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 1: that you know you have a rivalry. It was a

707
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: time where New York was Miami's riber. You know, I

708
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: don't think that exists anymore, but anyway, you get it,

709
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 1: like even Chicago, Cleveland or whatever. Thinner and Gala Tessa.

710
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 1: I I watched a game. I wasn't playing for Fennery yet,

711
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: but I was watching The game was EuroLeague Championship. They

712
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 1: were playing each other so much so that when they

713
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,439
Speaker 1: play regular season games. If you're the home team, only

714
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:37,399
Speaker 1: your fans are allowed. The other teams fans aren't allowed

715
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,880
Speaker 1: to come to the game. There's too many fights whatever.

716
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 1: So during the women's games they could play ping pong

717
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: and it didn't matter. They hate each other that much.

718
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: It stems back that far. So I'm watching the ear

719
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 1: League game right Angel Maccachi is playing on the team.

720
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 1: There's some other you know, American players that are playing.

721
00:42:56,200 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 1: They're flighting coins on fire and throwing them on the

722
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: court and they're burning the court. This is when the

723
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: game is continuing. Rap is bending down and picking up

724
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:12,720
Speaker 1: the quarters and throwing them. There's arm guards sitting between

725
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:15,760
Speaker 1: like a whole section is rented out and arm guards

726
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,360
Speaker 1: are lined up on each section to separate the fans.

727
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 1: Like a fight broke out and a guy is bringing

728
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:24,840
Speaker 1: brought out he's bleeding, like this is with the fans.

729
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: This is with the fans, Like don't play for finner

730
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: and then go to gallant testerized McDonald's. Don't do that,

731
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: Like it's unbelievable, the like, oh no, there's rules on

732
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 1: what side you can go through Their spit shields over

733
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 1: your bench. Yeah, because they'll spit and all that stuff.

734
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. Like there's been so many Americans that

735
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 1: have gone over there and gotten into fights and because

736
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: they let like the rest let stuff go, and like,

737
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: you know, it's just how physical are the games. The

738
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:56,160
Speaker 1: games are extremely physical, and the problem is over there,

739
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:58,799
Speaker 1: some of the refs can be like you know, kind

740
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: of pay ate off a little bit. So you can

741
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 1: always tell sometimes when you know, okay, I see how

742
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: that's going. Okay, breath and body older, Like, we have

743
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 1: different things over here. I'm a very big proponent and

744
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:17,359
Speaker 1: very sensitive to smells. What country, what Olympics were you? Like, Yo,

745
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 1: they're just not into it. They're not down with it.

746
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 1: That's not part of their the regime. What's really funny

747
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: is that, you know, Americans, you have an equipment manager

748
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 1: and they take your jersey after practice and they wash

749
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 1: it and whatever. Overseas, a lot of these you know,

750
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: a lot of these teams, you're responsible for washing your jersey.

751
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 1: So there be a lot of times where I'd leave

752
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 1: the locker room and I'd see jerseys hanging up before

753
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: we left, and I'm like, but they didn't wash, Like

754
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 1: you just sweat and then you just hung your jersey

755
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:50,840
Speaker 1: the window to dry. Huh, Like that's very interesting. So

756
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: I think there are different uh rules. I guess over there,

757
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:59,320
Speaker 1: you know, and I I don't try to understand it.

758
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:01,359
Speaker 1: I just know, you know. I'm I'm one of those

759
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,799
Speaker 1: open and honest people. So I'm the one that will

760
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 1: have the difficult conversation. Like listen, it's not that we

761
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: don't like you, it's just that you smell. And is

762
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 1: just the reason why I back up every time you

763
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:19,320
Speaker 1: say peas or h is because your breath smells. I

764
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: will tell them, Um, Olympics, these opening ceremonies, like you

765
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:28,399
Speaker 1: participated in two Olympics. What is that like? Walking into

766
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 1: a Sarah in Beijing London Olympics? Like is it everything

767
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 1: like that you could imagine in terms of the just

768
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 1: the magnitude. It's unbelievable. When you walk in and you're

769
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: behind your flag, you're behind your flag and you represent

770
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 1: your your country. I mean, for me, at that moment,

771
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 1: that's when you realize the magnitude of this is something

772
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: that you've dreamed of since you were a little girl,

773
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 1: Like this is I flipped on the television and I

774
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 1: can tell you in the nineties Olympics, that's when I

775
00:45:57,520 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: said I wanted to be Olympian. Is I remember why

776
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 1: watching that and to where the American flag across your

777
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 1: chest and all these experiences of me going overseas. I mean,

778
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 1: everybody talks about America so messed up and da da da.

779
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:15,319
Speaker 1: It just solidifies how I love being an American. I mean,

780
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: it's the way it is. And so to be able

781
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: to experience that and to be able to be one

782
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,919
Speaker 1: of twelve to represent your country, I mean, it's nothing

783
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 1: like it. What is the comradeship between the female Olympic

784
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:30,919
Speaker 1: basketball players and the American Olympic Like are you guys chilling?

785
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 1: Are you hanging out of their meals? Like are you

786
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 1: seeing like who's saying bolt? You know, like like you're

787
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: around all these people. Yeah. So for USA basketball, we

788
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:41,359
Speaker 1: didn't stay in the village and the men and the women.

789
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: So the men, you know, we were with women's and

790
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:45,879
Speaker 1: they can't stay in the village is too it would

791
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 1: be too crazy for them. They're biggest stars. So we

792
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 1: would visit the village, but we stay with them in

793
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: the hotel. So we would go visit at the village

794
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:56,919
Speaker 1: and I had pictures of the same bowl at the time,

795
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 1: when I was in London, I was obsessed with Serge Baca,

796
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:03,760
Speaker 1: took a picture with him, you know, just different different stars.

797
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:05,840
Speaker 1: I'm really good friends with Alison Felix, so it was

798
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: really cool to see her at the village in that setting.

799
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 1: So it's just you see other athletes and you're just like, man,

800
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:14,840
Speaker 1: respect like good luck. Michael felt the same thing, Like

801
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:19,919
Speaker 1: you see him walking around, just like Dann that's Michael felt. Yeah,

802
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 1: like it's crazy. Where do you keep all like you

803
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 1: got trophies, medals, awards, pins, Where do you keep all

804
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,439
Speaker 1: this stuff that you've accumulated over the years, Like there's

805
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 1: so many awards that you've wanted. It was so funny.

806
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: I keep my gold medals, uh in my sock drawer.

807
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:40,320
Speaker 1: I just I haven't put him up because I just

808
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: feel like those are kind of the precious you know,

809
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 1: you keep your precious treasure is closest to you. And

810
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 1: I f like that was ever taken or mistaken. I mean,

811
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 1: I have a story. My daughter was three years old,

812
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:54,760
Speaker 1: um when we went to the last Olympics in London,

813
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 1: and I went to take her to school one day

814
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:58,839
Speaker 1: and I lifted up her backpack. I'm like, man, that's heavy.

815
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 1: I looked the backpack and she has my gold medal

816
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 1: and then and she's like a show intel today and

817
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: I'm like, baby, you can't take my medal to school.

818
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:09,320
Speaker 1: And she's like, but we won because I was told her, like,

819
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 1: we want to gold medal like me and you we

820
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 1: want it, and she was like, but we won the medal,

821
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,399
Speaker 1: like it's mine too. I could take. Yeah, like that's

822
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,880
Speaker 1: my kid, that's my personality twins. So yeah, so I

823
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 1: started keeping it not in like, you know, a normal place. Um,

824
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: let's jump into the playoffs right now. I'll just start

825
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 1: with the Lebron Oh my goodness. I you know, it's

826
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 1: crazy because when things come out. As basketball players, you

827
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 1: relate to what you kind of know, you know, and

828
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:45,320
Speaker 1: I've had so many disappointments last second shots in my

829
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 1: career where you know, it just I'm on the other

830
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 1: end of things. So when everything happened with Cleveland and Toronto,

831
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: I felt bad for Toronto. You do everything all year,

832
00:48:57,480 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 1: you're the number one team in the East. You take

833
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: care of this night in and night out, and you

834
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:06,960
Speaker 1: just meet Lebron. I mean I can't, you can't even

835
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:09,360
Speaker 1: say anything. You just have to shake your head. And

836
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:13,439
Speaker 1: I've always had things to say about Lebron. I can't

837
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:15,399
Speaker 1: say anything. I'll have something to say when he plays

838
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: gold Fake, But I mean, I'm not I have to

839
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:21,839
Speaker 1: take off the Eastern Conference finals. I've never seen. I mean,

840
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,399
Speaker 1: you're a fan of basketball, you play basketball, you're around

841
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: like this is unprecedented. I think I think this whole

842
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 1: Jordan's Kobe Lebron. Forget who's better. I've never seen anybody

843
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: do this for as long as he's been doing. In

844
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:38,759
Speaker 1: the fact, eighty two games he played, or talk about

845
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:43,319
Speaker 1: Olympics World Games. This game's every finals, every game. There's

846
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 1: no nothing. This year he played all the games. This

847
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 1: is crazy, and it's crazy because a thing here and

848
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 1: a thing there it changes the narrative. What do you

849
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 1: mean so by thing here, thing there? I mean Kevin Durant.

850
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 1: What if he doesn't hit that shot? Is it a series?

851
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:04,839
Speaker 1: They win, they win game, they win Game three, going,

852
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: you know, so it's to one, possibly to to going

853
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:11,560
Speaker 1: back to Golden State. What if Draymond doesn't get suspended,

854
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:14,880
Speaker 1: does he bring a championship to Cleveland? So I just

855
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 1: think there's so many things that everybody has fans of

856
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 1: basketball focus on when as athletes we realized, like the

857
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 1: measuring stick, it's it's little, it's small, it's inches, And

858
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:30,040
Speaker 1: I think that's what we get lost in. This is

859
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:32,840
Speaker 1: greatness that we're witnessing. I grew up in Chicago. I

860
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 1: witnessed Michael Jordan's I thought championships was just something you

861
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 1: did because I witnessed six by the time I was

862
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: ten years old. So at that point in time, you know,

863
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 1: Jordan is everything. Jordan retired and broke all our hearts

864
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 1: and I think he probably would have won more championships

865
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 1: if he hadn't had that early retirement and then come

866
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 1: back and whatever. But what Lebron is doing, we have

867
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 1: to appreciate it. I mean, we're witnessing history. I'm gonna

868
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 1: be able to tell my utter, my daughter's daughter, I

869
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 1: witnessed Lebron James. This is gonna be something that's played

870
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:08,360
Speaker 1: kind of similar to the sky hook or you know,

871
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson shots that he hit for the lake. This

872
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:13,240
Speaker 1: is what we're this is, this is what we're winnessing.

873
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 1: And for this, I don't like the stats. I don't

874
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 1: know the stats. It's too confusing. There's too many stats.

875
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 1: I mean, his stats. But but for him to be

876
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: doing whatever the hell it turns out to be, it's

877
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 1: almost like he's proven so much just in these in

878
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 1: these seven in these eleven games, he's played eleven playoff games.

879
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:34,399
Speaker 1: If he, let's say, for some reason he couldn't play

880
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 1: in these CIR Conference finals and they go into the

881
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 1: finals and they and he doesn't do anything, this is

882
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 1: like it's almost like he won the championship. Like personally said,

883
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 1: you can't say anything about him, and we're talking about

884
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:48,919
Speaker 1: the bar has been raised higher and higher and higher

885
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:51,840
Speaker 1: and higher. I mean, we've seen the city of Cleveland

886
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: has been starved for any type of winning, and for

887
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 1: this man to do that for Cleveland, he brought them

888
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,879
Speaker 1: a champion hip. And then now they're in the fun.

889
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: They're gonna go to the fun. I mean, are we

890
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: in agreeing him? They're going to They're going to the final.

891
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 1: I mean, unless Boston, I don't know, I don't they're

892
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:11,680
Speaker 1: going to. You can't bet against him, you can't. You

893
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 1: cannot bet against him. I thought it was over in

894
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:17,320
Speaker 1: Indiana when they lost the first game. I was, I was,

895
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:19,880
Speaker 1: I was so hyped up. I thought the party was

896
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 1: I said, you're getting bumped out of the first round.

897
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 1: You're gonna leave Cleveland and they're gonna all be and

898
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:29,399
Speaker 1: this is like to just annihilate Toronto. So so when

899
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 1: you say you feel bad for Toronto, you know the game,

900
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:35,840
Speaker 1: you know pro sports, you know pro basketball? What happens

901
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:38,920
Speaker 1: now to Toronto? Are they like, well, if this guy

902
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 1: leaves the East, we're good next year, like like that's real.

903
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 1: Like if he goes to the Lakers, like Toronto is like,

904
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:49,880
Speaker 1: all right, well now we have a shot, yeah, or

905
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:51,879
Speaker 1: do you have to like be like yo, we gotta

906
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:54,560
Speaker 1: just throw this away? You know. I think it's a

907
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 1: tough situation. I think as a player, that's the way

908
00:52:57,160 --> 00:52:58,880
Speaker 1: I look at it. I can look at it, you know,

909
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:01,920
Speaker 1: as a fan in but as a player. You know,

910
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:04,719
Speaker 1: Demarta Rose and I feel for him just in the

911
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:08,759
Speaker 1: sense of, you know, he had a great season this year.

912
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 1: Toronto has paid him a lot of money and had

913
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: has promised him the future. You know, he wanted they

914
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:18,320
Speaker 1: wanted him to be a part of Toronto for the future.

915
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:21,919
Speaker 1: It's just tough the outing. I mean, you don't play

916
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: basically in the last two games of the series, one

917
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:28,960
Speaker 1: because of coaching decision too as a result of, you know,

918
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 1: getting a flagrant. So I just think you gotta mix

919
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:37,919
Speaker 1: it up somehow. I would like to see them get

920
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:44,359
Speaker 1: somebody in there that is a dog. I want, I want,

921
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:47,880
Speaker 1: I want Toronto get a I'm not saying Hergany. I

922
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: don't believe in just I just don't understand because to me,

923
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:55,640
Speaker 1: if you're if the team's gonna beat you, at least

924
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 1: make them beat you in a different way. So I

925
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 1: the way that I think should Tegic Lee they should

926
00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:04,520
Speaker 1: have played differently was when they inbounded the ball and

927
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:08,799
Speaker 1: he went game three eight seconds left. No, Lebron, you're

928
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:10,840
Speaker 1: not getting the shot. I don't care if it's a runner.

929
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,759
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's out of bounds. Jared Smith

930
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 1: just checked in the game. He hasn't shot a shot.

931
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 1: Somebody shooting it, somebody el, somebody else is shooting the ball.

932
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 1: I don't care. Somebody else's redoubling off. You're gonna have

933
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:28,359
Speaker 1: Lebron is Carl Malone's size, Carl Malone, that's play during

934
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 1: the ARA Michael Jordan dribbling the ball and passing and shooting.

935
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 1: So you're gonna let him with a head of steam

936
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:36,839
Speaker 1: come down the court in transition, which was very smart,

937
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:40,720
Speaker 1: by the way, by I don't know if that or Lebron,

938
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: but that way, that was very smart not to advance it, right,

939
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 1: they chose not to advance it. I agree. You know,

940
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 1: every every person that knows basketball a lot better than me,

941
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:52,600
Speaker 1: you being another one of them, uh that I've ever interviewed,

942
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 1: and I've asked that about Lebron. They there is no

943
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:57,280
Speaker 1: way to stop him, but you have to at least

944
00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:00,440
Speaker 1: let someone else, because even if it's a fifty a

945
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 1: sixty chance, a chance, at least it's a ninete with

946
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:08,960
Speaker 1: this guy. Now, like he's got voodoo going, Like yo,

947
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 1: that's voodoo, like that Game three shot pulled that no,

948
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:14,680
Speaker 1: but like now it's like, yo, we can't like like

949
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 1: you know, he's so relaxed, he's not gonna miss it.

950
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:20,320
Speaker 1: He's not nervous. It could be zero point six, it

951
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:22,840
Speaker 1: could be eight seconds. Like look good in regulation. In

952
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:26,080
Speaker 1: game one, it was dead online. I mean, it looks good.

953
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:28,279
Speaker 1: He he's out there, I mean and in there. I

954
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 1: think it was Game three or his Game two in

955
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:33,680
Speaker 1: that third quarter where he was like, I'm just going

956
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:36,719
Speaker 1: to work on turnaround jump shots and I'm not I'm

957
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:38,120
Speaker 1: not gonna go on the post like I'm gonna do

958
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:40,560
Speaker 1: turn around, left, turn around, right, turn around, step back.

959
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:42,879
Speaker 1: Like it literally looked like you know, you see those

960
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:44,840
Speaker 1: workout videos, like it was like, oh, we're working on

961
00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:49,239
Speaker 1: turnaround today. This is the NBA playoffs. I mean, I

962
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 1: can't I can't even add to that, because you're right,

963
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:54,239
Speaker 1: I mean, Lebron is out there playing with him. But

964
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 1: I think what people don't understand is father time always wins, right,

965
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,920
Speaker 1: But he's thirty three doing this seasons. This is his

966
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:06,400
Speaker 1: fifteen season. He might as well basketball years he's like

967
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:09,040
Speaker 1: forty five exactly because he's played since he was eighteen

968
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:11,719
Speaker 1: years old, getting to the finals whatever. But at the

969
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:13,319
Speaker 1: same time, I mean the amount of work that he's

970
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:17,640
Speaker 1: put in an off season and how he's mastered his body,

971
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:23,080
Speaker 1: his rest, his recovery, his nutrition. I mean, remember years

972
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:25,760
Speaker 1: ago when it was like a thing where him, Mellow

973
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 1: all of them dropped like twenty pounds and we're all like,

974
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:30,839
Speaker 1: what does he need to drop weight for? He's fine,

975
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 1: did he have the foresight for at thirty three, I

976
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 1: can't carry that weight around. I need to do something

977
00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:39,600
Speaker 1: about it. It's that mentality that I'm most impressed with

978
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:43,120
Speaker 1: is that the fact that he has we laugh like

979
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:47,279
Speaker 1: like fine wine, but that's what he's done. It really

980
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 1: is getting to the point where he's mastered the mentality,

981
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:52,560
Speaker 1: the mental aspect of the game, but he's also physically

982
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: stronger than everybody on the court. What do you do?

983
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:59,560
Speaker 1: Do you know you've probably had this and obviously it's

984
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:03,160
Speaker 1: a different and level. Do you think you know the

985
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:06,200
Speaker 1: younger players are fanning out against Lebron. I mean not

986
00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:10,080
Speaker 1: during the playoffs, but like, you know, you see guys like,

987
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:12,960
Speaker 1: you know, I've been watching this guy in my whole career,

988
00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:14,800
Speaker 1: like and you're like they're out there with him, and

989
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:17,080
Speaker 1: it's not like you know, Michael Jordan with the Wizards,

990
00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 1: where it's kind of like you news like he would

991
00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:21,240
Speaker 1: there was flashes of it. It's like you get these

992
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 1: twenty one year old kids, twenty year old kids, nineteen

993
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 1: year old kids, and they're out there competing and I'm

994
00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:28,520
Speaker 1: sure you know you get it where like you're playing

995
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:32,920
Speaker 1: overseas or like there's girls that are nineteen and they're like,

996
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 1: you know, you were their idol and you could kind

997
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:37,400
Speaker 1: of feel them like you know, like they're they're giving

998
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:40,080
Speaker 1: you that recognition. Do you think that that affects how

999
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:43,120
Speaker 1: these guys are going at Lebron? Do you like confusing?

1000
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 1: It does affect them because Lebron is so he's been

1001
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:51,920
Speaker 1: so dominant at such a young age for a long time.

1002
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: You know, we were calling him the King at eighteen,

1003
00:57:56,360 --> 00:57:59,640
Speaker 1: and he's lived up to everything of what we all

1004
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:02,480
Speaker 1: what he said. But I will tell you this. I

1005
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:04,720
Speaker 1: will tell you this and and and this is the

1006
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:07,360
Speaker 1: thing Alan Iverson. I remember watching that game where he

1007
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 1: went at Michael Jordan's. He wasn't scared, And I saw

1008
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 1: that same thing that Donovan Mitchell did, and I like

1009
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 1: that kid. I like Donovan Mitchell. He's not scared of

1010
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 1: the moment because a lot of people think, like, oh,

1011
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: like to be good, you have to shoot ten for

1012
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:24,560
Speaker 1: seventeen and you have to have twenty eight points. No,

1013
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 1: show me a superstar when they're shooting six for five

1014
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:30,840
Speaker 1: and they still win the game, Like they find a

1015
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 1: way to win the game. That's what's impressive to me

1016
00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:34,720
Speaker 1: is like a lot of people, can you know, they

1017
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:36,840
Speaker 1: roll when they're hitting shots and all this stuff, But

1018
00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:39,080
Speaker 1: can you roll when things aren't going your way? Can

1019
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:42,360
Speaker 1: you can you will your team to victory? And Donovan Man,

1020
00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:43,960
Speaker 1: he didn't have a good shooting out in it. I know,

1021
00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 1: like you know, they're they're struggling the playoffs, they're missing

1022
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:50,440
Speaker 1: two key guards. But he's played extremely well for them

1023
00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 1: all year and even in the playoffs. He shows fight

1024
00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:55,800
Speaker 1: and I like that. I agree. So based on everything

1025
00:58:55,880 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 1: we know as of today, injuries not injuries, who does

1026
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:03,680
Speaker 1: it come down to in the last two who are

1027
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:05,840
Speaker 1: the last two teams like Golden State, Let's say Golden

1028
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:08,560
Speaker 1: State Houston. Who wins that? I mean, here's the thing

1029
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:12,880
Speaker 1: I said, all along, as great as Lebron is, he's fantastic,

1030
00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 1: He's coming out of the East, but I said, they're

1031
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 1: all in the East playing for a second, it's Houston

1032
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:20,120
Speaker 1: or Golden State. I'm not ruling it as the King

1033
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:23,880
Speaker 1: because I know that he has special voodoo powers and whatever.

1034
00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:25,959
Speaker 1: But I don't know if enough voodoo is gonna happen

1035
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 1: to be Golden State or Houston. Yeah, I don't know

1036
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 1: Houston as much, but I like Houston. But I think

1037
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:35,560
Speaker 1: he could get in their head like I think he

1038
00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:39,600
Speaker 1: could he could. I'm not saying they'd win, but he

1039
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:42,920
Speaker 1: beat in Golden state. I'll tell you the reason why

1040
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:47,200
Speaker 1: Indiana was successful in that series, because why is because

1041
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:50,800
Speaker 1: they had dogs. They had people that were not afraid

1042
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:54,640
Speaker 1: of Lebron. They had Oladipo, who has that knocked down

1043
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:58,000
Speaker 1: he's been knocked down, he's been traded, whatever, that mentality

1044
00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 1: of Like, let me reintroduce myself to the versus. You know,

1045
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:06,800
Speaker 1: you have Toronto that like I mean, they knew they

1046
01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:09,439
Speaker 1: didn't have anybody the guard Lebron, but then they had

1047
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:12,040
Speaker 1: like a different mentality, like I don't think it was

1048
01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 1: that killer instinct that they needed. Now, some players on

1049
01:00:15,600 --> 01:00:19,280
Speaker 1: their team, yes, but as a team collectively, no, I

1050
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:23,560
Speaker 1: think Houston has dogs. Chris Paul, yes, he's not very quick,

1051
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 1: he's not afraid and Houston can hit threes. So with

1052
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:31,800
Speaker 1: that being said, Lebron, okay, we're gonna give you the drive,

1053
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:35,720
Speaker 1: which Toronto couldn't really hit threes with them, so they were,

1054
01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:39,400
Speaker 1: you know, exchanging three stopping Lebron giving up threes whatever.

1055
01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:42,800
Speaker 1: Houston can hit hit threes. So Lebron, okay, get your

1056
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:45,120
Speaker 1: fifty and we're gonna just stand out here beyond the

1057
01:00:45,240 --> 01:00:47,440
Speaker 1: arc and hit sixteen seventeen threes and we'll see how

1058
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:50,040
Speaker 1: we trade three for threes for two. The crazy thing

1059
01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:53,720
Speaker 1: about these playoffs is like Durant has been ridiculous. He's

1060
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:56,640
Speaker 1: been ridiculous. He's in the nasty especially in this series.

1061
01:00:56,840 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 1: And you know, like I think one of the things

1062
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 1: that frustrates Kevin Durant it is because there's no dunks.

1063
01:01:03,040 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 1: There's not like crossovers, you know, there's there's really no

1064
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:09,160
Speaker 1: like it's incredible to watch, but there's not a lot

1065
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:11,120
Speaker 1: of highlights with Kevin dury Like you could only show

1066
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:13,760
Speaker 1: so many jump shots on Sports Center Top ten, like

1067
01:01:14,120 --> 01:01:17,000
Speaker 1: you know, mid range and you know, like he he does.

1068
01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 1: It's so nasty though when you watch it in like

1069
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:21,960
Speaker 1: seven ft and like he's sort of like floating below

1070
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:24,680
Speaker 1: the radar right now, and he's been ridiculous, and then

1071
01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:26,600
Speaker 1: as soon as Steph comes out, it's the step Show.

1072
01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:31,040
Speaker 1: It's like Kevin Durant, I think he's never gonna get that.

1073
01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 1: He knew that, But I don't think he knew it

1074
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:35,520
Speaker 1: in the beginning of his career. Like I think, like

1075
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 1: what I just not in terms of Golden State, but

1076
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:41,160
Speaker 1: like just his whole career, like with the trading and

1077
01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 1: the cupcake and now a Golden States, Like he's obviously

1078
01:01:44,360 --> 01:01:46,520
Speaker 1: a better player than Draymond. But then they'll go, well,

1079
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:48,760
Speaker 1: Draymond is the glue to that team, and like Steph

1080
01:01:48,880 --> 01:01:51,040
Speaker 1: step is, you know, is the m v P. And

1081
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:53,480
Speaker 1: you know he's he's the glory boy. And I love

1082
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:55,920
Speaker 1: these are all my guys. But then like Kevin Durant's

1083
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:58,160
Speaker 1: like doing this thing, it's so below the radar, But

1084
01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:00,200
Speaker 1: that's the world we live in. It's what have you

1085
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:02,440
Speaker 1: done for me lately? And if you don't up what

1086
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:05,440
Speaker 1: you've done, then people are not impressed. Like do you

1087
01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:08,400
Speaker 1: remember when they were comparing Steph like it's one, I

1088
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:11,080
Speaker 1: don't know who's number one in basketball stuff for Lebron,

1089
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:15,160
Speaker 1: Like do we remember having this debate or years ago? No,

1090
01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:18,600
Speaker 1: Like I love step step is a fantastic player, transcended

1091
01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:22,520
Speaker 1: the game. Now my nephews out here shooting thirty footers, Like,

1092
01:02:22,640 --> 01:02:25,000
Speaker 1: thank you, Steph. I appreciate, but you you did that,

1093
01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:28,880
Speaker 1: Like the world has never seen anything like Steph Curry.

1094
01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:31,360
Speaker 1: But what's so relatable about him, why the world loves

1095
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:34,040
Speaker 1: him so much, is he's a normal dude. Like he

1096
01:02:34,120 --> 01:02:37,560
Speaker 1: doesn't normal size, normal size, he looks like he has

1097
01:02:37,560 --> 01:02:39,480
Speaker 1: a baby face like he won't kill you, but then

1098
01:02:39,520 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 1: he'll drop forty four on you and a heartbeat and

1099
01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:45,480
Speaker 1: golden state. I'm telling you, Without him, there were big

1100
01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:50,200
Speaker 1: gaps of whole like holes offensively. Offensively, the tempo absolutely

1101
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:55,000
Speaker 1: changes the stuff that Kevin gets, not saying that he

1102
01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:57,480
Speaker 1: wouldn't get it. It would just be tougher as a

1103
01:02:57,560 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 1: result of Steph. Because Steph is guarded a certain way,

1104
01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:06,800
Speaker 1: the tempo changes. They have to respect certain things. He

1105
01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:09,720
Speaker 1: stuff makes the team go. Kevin is top two in

1106
01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:13,200
Speaker 1: the world, top two player in the world exactly. But

1107
01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:16,720
Speaker 1: in terms of on that team, the heartbeat of that

1108
01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:20,280
Speaker 1: team is staff. And the person who gets the least

1109
01:03:20,280 --> 01:03:22,120
Speaker 1: amount of credit out of all of them is Clay,

1110
01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:27,560
Speaker 1: who's disgusting too. My gosh, like the boy, it's just

1111
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:30,680
Speaker 1: and if and as an athlete, as a basketball player,

1112
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:33,960
Speaker 1: when you watch his release, for him not to have

1113
01:03:34,160 --> 01:03:36,640
Speaker 1: to bring the ball down, do you know how hard

1114
01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:39,560
Speaker 1: that is? Everybody dips the ball. It's the rhythm. You

1115
01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:41,720
Speaker 1: dip it, You dip it to go into your shot.

1116
01:03:42,480 --> 01:03:44,720
Speaker 1: For him to not have to bring it down, that

1117
01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:48,000
Speaker 1: just makes it unguardable. You just hope that he misses.

1118
01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:51,200
Speaker 1: And and even more so than Steph because Steph, like,

1119
01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:55,000
Speaker 1: you know, he's not as big. I've never seen anybody,

1120
01:03:55,680 --> 01:03:57,520
Speaker 1: you know, and and there's other players, but for me,

1121
01:03:57,680 --> 01:03:59,360
Speaker 1: and like the way we're able to watch the game

1122
01:03:59,440 --> 01:04:01,680
Speaker 1: now and the instagram of the game, and you know,

1123
01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:07,520
Speaker 1: the repetitive, repetitive, repetitive highlights. He squares up to the basket.

1124
01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:10,920
Speaker 1: I've never seen anybody who's always square. And he'll do

1125
01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:13,280
Speaker 1: it with his you know, with his lead foot because

1126
01:04:13,280 --> 01:04:15,400
Speaker 1: I think he's right here or his left foot, like,

1127
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:18,800
Speaker 1: but it's always square. Like that's like my father was

1128
01:04:18,840 --> 01:04:21,200
Speaker 1: a pro, Like he drilled that into him before anything.

1129
01:04:21,240 --> 01:04:24,240
Speaker 1: Because his footwork to the basket, you know, when he's

1130
01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:27,120
Speaker 1: about to shoot, he's never off balance. It's always two

1131
01:04:27,200 --> 01:04:30,480
Speaker 1: ft planted, perfect set up, no matter what, running off

1132
01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:34,360
Speaker 1: a pick, no matter what his footwork. And I think

1133
01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:39,600
Speaker 1: that's what's so special that people, kids, whatever, don't realize.

1134
01:04:39,600 --> 01:04:42,000
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to shoe light stuff, wants the shoe light clay,

1135
01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:45,920
Speaker 1: but they don't understand the footwork that has gone into that.

1136
01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:48,200
Speaker 1: The amount of time. I mean, both of them had

1137
01:04:49,040 --> 01:04:53,960
Speaker 1: NBA player Dad's who could shoot the basketball. So to

1138
01:04:54,120 --> 01:04:59,360
Speaker 1: have that plus just pure talent, in a drive to play.

1139
01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:01,840
Speaker 1: I mean, those are three dangerous combinations and they're all

1140
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:04,720
Speaker 1: on the same team. It fits the style of play,

1141
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:08,720
Speaker 1: I mean Golden States style fits Steph. If step was

1142
01:05:09,160 --> 01:05:12,680
Speaker 1: was drafted to New York, I think you'd be amazing. No,

1143
01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:15,560
Speaker 1: I don't mean to be like that stuff was drafted

1144
01:05:15,600 --> 01:05:18,560
Speaker 1: to New York. I don't know. I don't know. Everything

1145
01:05:18,600 --> 01:05:21,480
Speaker 1: worked out. It worked out perfect. You couldn't have asked

1146
01:05:21,480 --> 01:05:25,000
Speaker 1: for a better situation for him, um, but for but

1147
01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:27,920
Speaker 1: the biggest the thing that I'm most impressed with with

1148
01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:31,800
Speaker 1: that team is that culture. Step does not care. The

1149
01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:35,360
Speaker 1: dude came off the bench the first game that he

1150
01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:38,640
Speaker 1: came back. Name another superstar. Would James Harden come off

1151
01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:41,960
Speaker 1: Nobody would. Carmelo said, He's not coming off the bench

1152
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:44,000
Speaker 1: going in the next season. I'm just like, I just

1153
01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:46,280
Speaker 1: don't think that that gets enough credit of the fact

1154
01:05:46,360 --> 01:05:48,680
Speaker 1: that they don't care who gets the credit, because you're

1155
01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:51,440
Speaker 1: gonna eventually get the credit, you know, if there's enough

1156
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:54,680
Speaker 1: to go around at this point in their careers. Normally

1157
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:59,200
Speaker 1: you don't figure it out until Chris Chris Paul just

1158
01:05:59,360 --> 01:06:02,320
Speaker 1: just going to stinting, like, Okay, now they're playing they're

1159
01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:04,200
Speaker 1: in the prime of their careers and they figured it. Yeah,

1160
01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:07,520
Speaker 1: I agree, and they never needed to learn it. If

1161
01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:12,320
Speaker 1: Candice Parker is the GM for the Oklahoma City Thunder, okay,

1162
01:06:12,480 --> 01:06:18,560
Speaker 1: you're out here in Los Angeles. Russell Westbrook is sick, sick,

1163
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:21,360
Speaker 1: But as much as I love him and I when

1164
01:06:21,400 --> 01:06:24,960
Speaker 1: I like, I mean, he's a freak. Can anyone play

1165
01:06:25,520 --> 01:06:28,760
Speaker 1: in peace with Russell Westbrook at this point? Talk about like,

1166
01:06:28,920 --> 01:06:32,440
Speaker 1: I mean the ferocity, the intensity, the motor all the

1167
01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:35,080
Speaker 1: I love him. I mean, like you're taller than him.

1168
01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:37,560
Speaker 1: Like when I first saw Russell Westbrook, I was like,

1169
01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:40,120
Speaker 1: I can't. It was like four years into his career

1170
01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:42,479
Speaker 1: and I was like, Yo, this guy is ridiculous. He's

1171
01:06:42,520 --> 01:06:44,959
Speaker 1: not He's six three maybe six three and a half.

1172
01:06:46,200 --> 01:06:48,800
Speaker 1: And then you see, like this guy's a savage. But

1173
01:06:49,240 --> 01:06:52,520
Speaker 1: they're not winning in Oklahoma. Paul George is not coming back.

1174
01:06:53,360 --> 01:06:55,560
Speaker 1: He's not coming back. Here's the thing, here's the thing.

1175
01:06:55,760 --> 01:06:57,760
Speaker 1: Here's the thing with Okay, see and this is the

1176
01:06:57,840 --> 01:07:01,720
Speaker 1: same thing that and I'm saying this as a Russell

1177
01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:04,440
Speaker 1: Westbrook fan. How could you not be a fan? The

1178
01:07:04,520 --> 01:07:07,080
Speaker 1: biggest fan? And I think people didn't pay attention enough

1179
01:07:07,240 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 1: this year, he averaged a triple double again, and nobody's talking.

1180
01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:15,400
Speaker 1: I mean, people were like, oh, well, he's searching for rebounds.

1181
01:07:15,440 --> 01:07:18,840
Speaker 1: Well you know what, tell all the bigs tell Rudy

1182
01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:23,160
Speaker 1: Gobert to to steal rebounds, Like yeah, you're talking about

1183
01:07:23,160 --> 01:07:26,680
Speaker 1: stealing rebounds like con But I honestly think, okay, see,

1184
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:30,720
Speaker 1: is one of those organizations like the Lakers that maybe

1185
01:07:31,080 --> 01:07:35,720
Speaker 1: might not do what's necessarily the greatest for winning, but

1186
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:39,640
Speaker 1: in turn there I mean, they're succeeding with Russell Westbrook

1187
01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:43,480
Speaker 1: in attendance, in support and all that. Are you really

1188
01:07:43,520 --> 01:07:48,560
Speaker 1: gonna get better? But what are they gonna do? Like?

1189
01:07:48,680 --> 01:07:51,240
Speaker 1: How long can he keep doing this? But that's my thing,

1190
01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:53,200
Speaker 1: and that's what I was saying, is that the way

1191
01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:57,040
Speaker 1: in which he plays, longevity wise, it's really tough for

1192
01:07:57,120 --> 01:07:58,760
Speaker 1: him to continue to do that. And you saw him

1193
01:07:59,360 --> 01:08:01,080
Speaker 1: try to give the ball to Paul George and try

1194
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:03,240
Speaker 1: to give the ball to Mellow and then everybody, oh,

1195
01:08:03,480 --> 01:08:05,560
Speaker 1: why is he taking the shot? He's not being aggressive.

1196
01:08:06,200 --> 01:08:08,160
Speaker 1: Then when he goes and tries to do everything, then

1197
01:08:08,160 --> 01:08:10,640
Speaker 1: it's all he needs to use his teammates. So it's

1198
01:08:10,680 --> 01:08:13,480
Speaker 1: just like, I don't know what he's gonna do. I don't.

1199
01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:15,680
Speaker 1: I mean, as a player, I know it has to

1200
01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:19,240
Speaker 1: be frustrating. I know it has to be because I mean,

1201
01:08:19,320 --> 01:08:21,120
Speaker 1: I don't know what to even tell you with what

1202
01:08:21,240 --> 01:08:23,599
Speaker 1: you're saying. Do I think you should stay with okay See? Yes?

1203
01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:26,320
Speaker 1: Do I think okay See should keep him? Yes? Like

1204
01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:28,160
Speaker 1: I'd like to see that. And he's one of those

1205
01:08:28,240 --> 01:08:31,640
Speaker 1: dudes that is loyal. Is he's loyal? Right? He's right?

1206
01:08:31,760 --> 01:08:35,320
Speaker 1: Or die? Um, you said something when we first started

1207
01:08:35,320 --> 01:08:39,599
Speaker 1: about uh, shots being missed play you know, balls being

1208
01:08:40,240 --> 01:08:43,240
Speaker 1: turned over, you know, and you you know, little little

1209
01:08:43,320 --> 01:08:46,599
Speaker 1: things that leave you tossing and turning after the game.

1210
01:08:47,240 --> 01:08:50,280
Speaker 1: Are there certain shots going back to college that that

1211
01:08:50,479 --> 01:08:53,320
Speaker 1: just like you'll never get over? Or moments like how

1212
01:08:53,760 --> 01:08:56,360
Speaker 1: hard is it for you to turn that off? Um?

1213
01:08:56,960 --> 01:09:00,960
Speaker 1: That damn it? You know? Uh that misshot like like

1214
01:09:01,080 --> 01:09:03,360
Speaker 1: when you lay down or when you're on the plane

1215
01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:05,800
Speaker 1: after a game, like is it just like running through

1216
01:09:05,840 --> 01:09:08,519
Speaker 1: your head? Do you? And also follow up question, do

1217
01:09:08,560 --> 01:09:11,559
Speaker 1: you dream in basketball? So do the first the first question?

1218
01:09:11,960 --> 01:09:14,439
Speaker 1: That's a good question. You know, it's hard to turn

1219
01:09:14,560 --> 01:09:17,720
Speaker 1: my mind off anytime. Um, A constant student of the game.

1220
01:09:17,760 --> 01:09:23,600
Speaker 1: I love basketball, so I can tell you um a

1221
01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:27,360
Speaker 1: misplay in Utah that might have changed the way that

1222
01:09:27,479 --> 01:09:31,559
Speaker 1: we look at even Michael Jordan's I mean some mistakes

1223
01:09:31,640 --> 01:09:35,400
Speaker 1: that you know, Malone, he didn't turn the ball over

1224
01:09:35,560 --> 01:09:37,479
Speaker 1: Jordan and steal it from him and he doesn't come down.

1225
01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:39,439
Speaker 1: Is he epic? Does he end his career on making

1226
01:09:39,479 --> 01:09:42,479
Speaker 1: that shot with Chicago? So there's things like that, but

1227
01:09:42,600 --> 01:09:45,400
Speaker 1: that's basketball, Gods, that's the way it is. So for me,

1228
01:09:46,800 --> 01:09:51,240
Speaker 1: when I was losing those moments, you know, you think

1229
01:09:51,280 --> 01:09:54,320
Speaker 1: about that moment, but there's so many other moments leading

1230
01:09:54,400 --> 01:09:56,599
Speaker 1: up to that that changed the course of the game.

1231
01:09:56,840 --> 01:09:59,200
Speaker 1: That's what That's what I try to focus on the

1232
01:09:59,280 --> 01:10:02,200
Speaker 1: things that I can con roll. So you know, it

1233
01:10:02,479 --> 01:10:05,800
Speaker 1: wasn't that moment that lost the game. It was all

1234
01:10:05,880 --> 01:10:08,439
Speaker 1: the other things that got it should have been that

1235
01:10:08,600 --> 01:10:10,640
Speaker 1: to that point. So, I mean, we lost this year

1236
01:10:10,680 --> 01:10:13,320
Speaker 1: in the finals. Everybody's talking about Game five. We were

1237
01:10:13,439 --> 01:10:16,480
Speaker 1: up two to one at home to win the championship.

1238
01:10:16,760 --> 01:10:18,519
Speaker 1: We lost on our home floor, and then we went

1239
01:10:18,560 --> 01:10:21,360
Speaker 1: to Minnesota in Game five and lost again. So I

1240
01:10:22,040 --> 01:10:24,280
Speaker 1: game five, no, Game four was when we could have

1241
01:10:24,360 --> 01:10:27,240
Speaker 1: won the championship. Was just stuff like the stomach that

1242
01:10:27,720 --> 01:10:30,080
Speaker 1: I mean, you, you're you're almost spoiled. When I read

1243
01:10:30,120 --> 01:10:32,000
Speaker 1: you're you've won this, You've won that, You've won this,

1244
01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:34,200
Speaker 1: you won that is it's still like none of that

1245
01:10:34,320 --> 01:10:37,360
Speaker 1: matters when you're taking a loss in real time, when

1246
01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:40,880
Speaker 1: you're I'm telling you, it's like when you're a competitor

1247
01:10:41,240 --> 01:10:44,160
Speaker 1: and you taste what it tastes like to win a championship,

1248
01:10:44,479 --> 01:10:47,160
Speaker 1: all you do is want more. You talk about dreaming

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Speaker 1: of things, like you dream of it? Do you dream

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01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:53,120
Speaker 1: in basketball? Yeah? Like what you dream because I because

1251
01:10:54,200 --> 01:10:57,639
Speaker 1: I dream of playing professional basketball to this day. It's

1252
01:10:57,680 --> 01:11:02,840
Speaker 1: a damn shame now it's never I could only recollect

1253
01:11:03,080 --> 01:11:07,639
Speaker 1: one actual dream in my actual life that I actually

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01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:11,800
Speaker 1: got on the court and actually played and I went

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01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:14,040
Speaker 1: down the baseline. It's like it's not like real, but

1256
01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:16,080
Speaker 1: it's like I was there. I was playing against the

1257
01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:20,920
Speaker 1: Celtics for the Knicks, and I and I and I

1258
01:11:21,040 --> 01:11:23,200
Speaker 1: can't dunk, but like I I came down the middle

1259
01:11:23,439 --> 01:11:26,439
Speaker 1: and like lightly dunked through my left hand. That's the

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01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:28,519
Speaker 1: only time that I could tell me. But all my

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01:11:28,640 --> 01:11:32,160
Speaker 1: other dreams involved um like getting to the arena and

1262
01:11:32,240 --> 01:11:34,160
Speaker 1: being locked out of the arena. Getting to the arena

1263
01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:37,880
Speaker 1: not not not finding my uniform getting to the arena,

1264
01:11:37,960 --> 01:11:40,960
Speaker 1: can't find my sneakers. It always involved security being like

1265
01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:44,519
Speaker 1: you don't play like that class, that's real. I just

1266
01:11:44,680 --> 01:11:47,559
Speaker 1: had a dream, uh something in regards to the Knicks

1267
01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:50,280
Speaker 1: when they announced that David Fizzlial was a coach, because

1268
01:11:50,280 --> 01:11:52,720
Speaker 1: I love him and I can't remember he's good for them.

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01:11:52,960 --> 01:11:55,680
Speaker 1: I agree so, but but like when you because you're

1270
01:11:55,720 --> 01:11:58,000
Speaker 1: an actual player and you've had actual experience in so

1271
01:11:58,160 --> 01:12:00,720
Speaker 1: many different experience of college and w M B A

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01:12:00,800 --> 01:12:03,200
Speaker 1: and uh, you know an overseas and Olympics, Like do

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01:12:03,280 --> 01:12:06,280
Speaker 1: you when you have a basketball dream? Is it is

1274
01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:09,200
Speaker 1: it literal like I'm talking about or literal like you

1275
01:12:09,320 --> 01:12:12,519
Speaker 1: play or is it more like fantastic and dream it's crazy?

1276
01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:16,559
Speaker 1: Is um? You know? I dream? Well, I'm the one

1277
01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:19,400
Speaker 1: that's on the plane and I'm sleep and I wake

1278
01:12:19,479 --> 01:12:21,200
Speaker 1: up because the ball is being thrown at me, and

1279
01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:23,200
Speaker 1: I like, you know, the person next to me is

1280
01:12:23,240 --> 01:12:25,479
Speaker 1: looking at me crazy because I like, do the whole

1281
01:12:25,640 --> 01:12:28,680
Speaker 1: like fake like I have to catch it and I

1282
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:29,920
Speaker 1: think the ball is gonna having in my face. So

1283
01:12:30,160 --> 01:12:32,479
Speaker 1: that's me dreaming of you know, basketball, Like they throw

1284
01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:34,559
Speaker 1: me a pass and I'm like, ah, I wake up

1285
01:12:34,600 --> 01:12:37,400
Speaker 1: for my dream. But in terms of dreams, I dream

1286
01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:41,559
Speaker 1: games all the time. And it's crazy because sometimes when

1287
01:12:41,600 --> 01:12:44,240
Speaker 1: I'm playing in a game, I'll be like, yo, I

1288
01:12:44,439 --> 01:12:46,800
Speaker 1: dream this, like I know I did, like I've been

1289
01:12:46,840 --> 01:12:49,720
Speaker 1: in this situation. It's almost like deja vu, almost like

1290
01:12:49,840 --> 01:12:52,800
Speaker 1: it's crazy. So that type of stuff. Now, do I

1291
01:12:52,840 --> 01:12:56,920
Speaker 1: wake up and remember every single moment? No, But before

1292
01:12:56,960 --> 01:12:59,920
Speaker 1: we won the championship, I dream we lost and I

1293
01:13:00,120 --> 01:13:06,080
Speaker 1: woke up like heartbroken, Like I was heartbroken. You remember it.

1294
01:13:06,280 --> 01:13:09,200
Speaker 1: I remember like I woke up from it. Do you

1295
01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:11,840
Speaker 1: tell your teammates and your coaches? Hell, alright, I don't.

1296
01:13:12,040 --> 01:13:15,000
Speaker 1: You can't share that I dreamy lost. Yeah, I don't.

1297
01:13:15,120 --> 01:13:17,760
Speaker 1: I don't share that with him. But I was like, yo,

1298
01:13:18,040 --> 01:13:20,280
Speaker 1: and I and I felt like we won because I

1299
01:13:20,400 --> 01:13:22,479
Speaker 1: felt that feeling, you know how you can't do anything

1300
01:13:22,520 --> 01:13:24,519
Speaker 1: after you lose, after the season, you know it's over.

1301
01:13:24,840 --> 01:13:27,080
Speaker 1: You gotta wait to whole another off season and then

1302
01:13:27,120 --> 01:13:29,920
Speaker 1: the season starts and then to know I felt the

1303
01:13:30,040 --> 01:13:31,960
Speaker 1: way that it felt like I woke up and my

1304
01:13:32,080 --> 01:13:36,320
Speaker 1: pillow was so like I was upset. So, yeah, I

1305
01:13:36,920 --> 01:13:40,960
Speaker 1: have dreams about basketball. Um Becky Hammond is in the

1306
01:13:41,080 --> 01:13:45,240
Speaker 1: mix for the Milwaukee Bucks job. Now there's other jobs,

1307
01:13:45,280 --> 01:13:48,720
Speaker 1: but man, stand van Gundy left eacher, who knows, what

1308
01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:51,920
Speaker 1: do you think the chances of of her getting an

1309
01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:54,439
Speaker 1: NBA job? And what do you think the chances of

1310
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:57,160
Speaker 1: you know, I believe it in my lifetime. I mean,

1311
01:13:57,400 --> 01:13:59,840
Speaker 1: I'm not that old and in your lifetime, you know,

1312
01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:02,720
Speaker 1: I think that you know, with Becky coming on to

1313
01:14:02,800 --> 01:14:06,320
Speaker 1: Popovich that I, I don't know when it may not

1314
01:14:06,439 --> 01:14:08,880
Speaker 1: be this year, a female head coach in the NBA.

1315
01:14:09,120 --> 01:14:11,400
Speaker 1: What do you think the chances of that are? So

1316
01:14:11,520 --> 01:14:14,360
Speaker 1: here's the thing, um, I have to talk about this

1317
01:14:14,439 --> 01:14:17,599
Speaker 1: a lot, just because this has brought up all the time.

1318
01:14:18,080 --> 01:14:21,519
Speaker 1: One as a result of Becky doing her thing in

1319
01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:25,880
Speaker 1: the NBA too, as a result of I did you know,

1320
01:14:25,960 --> 01:14:28,800
Speaker 1: I was a TV analyst for TNT and cover the

1321
01:14:28,880 --> 01:14:31,799
Speaker 1: men's n C LVE tournament. So it was being guys

1322
01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:34,880
Speaker 1: sitting on set, and so I get I get a

1323
01:14:34,960 --> 01:14:37,559
Speaker 1: lot of these questions in terms of you know, what's

1324
01:14:37,560 --> 01:14:40,000
Speaker 1: it gonna take? And first of all, Becky's in the

1325
01:14:40,040 --> 01:14:47,040
Speaker 1: correct system. The world needed somebody like Popovich, who is

1326
01:14:48,720 --> 01:14:52,600
Speaker 1: the coach, I mean, he's up there to embrace this

1327
01:14:53,160 --> 01:14:56,720
Speaker 1: and there's no better a coach to do it. And

1328
01:14:56,840 --> 01:14:58,880
Speaker 1: when you talk to him or ask him about it,

1329
01:14:59,240 --> 01:15:02,600
Speaker 1: he's like, do what right? So that's the thing is,

1330
01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:04,880
Speaker 1: I think we're at a We're at a point now

1331
01:15:04,920 --> 01:15:07,240
Speaker 1: where when I talked to my nephew, he wears my

1332
01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:12,200
Speaker 1: jersey to school for Athlete Day, doesn't think a thing

1333
01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:14,840
Speaker 1: of it that he's wearing a female's jersey to school.

1334
01:15:15,320 --> 01:15:18,040
Speaker 1: So you have that generation. You have the generation at

1335
01:15:19,680 --> 01:15:23,400
Speaker 1: three that knows that they're not supposed to think differently

1336
01:15:23,439 --> 01:15:27,400
Speaker 1: about female athletes, so they don't say it, but they

1337
01:15:27,439 --> 01:15:29,840
Speaker 1: think differently a female athlete. Right. Then you have the

1338
01:15:30,040 --> 01:15:33,559
Speaker 1: over fifty group that knows they're not supposed to think

1339
01:15:33,600 --> 01:15:40,599
Speaker 1: different That's why it said over fifty, I didn't look

1340
01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:43,439
Speaker 1: in your direction. I'm just saying I didn't look. I

1341
01:15:43,479 --> 01:15:48,240
Speaker 1: didn't look at your direction. I'm a fan. But you

1342
01:15:48,280 --> 01:15:50,559
Speaker 1: have the over fifty group that knows they're not supposed

1343
01:15:50,560 --> 01:15:52,439
Speaker 1: to say it, knows they're not supposed to think it,

1344
01:15:52,680 --> 01:15:56,640
Speaker 1: but does right, because now you're not Now everybody, I

1345
01:15:56,640 --> 01:15:58,320
Speaker 1: think it's clear to look like what you're supposed to say,

1346
01:15:58,400 --> 01:16:00,200
Speaker 1: what you don't say? The only one who doesn't give

1347
01:16:00,200 --> 01:16:03,000
Speaker 1: a shit is a president, He's like, fuck it. Everyone

1348
01:16:03,080 --> 01:16:05,479
Speaker 1: else could just like but I put that in over

1349
01:16:05,520 --> 01:16:07,160
Speaker 1: fifth groups, so I didn't. I got you. I got you.

1350
01:16:08,439 --> 01:16:10,519
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is now we're at a turning point

1351
01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:13,160
Speaker 1: where I think that things like this are gonna start happening.

1352
01:16:13,400 --> 01:16:15,840
Speaker 1: You're gonna start seeing more assistance, You're gonna start seeing

1353
01:16:15,880 --> 01:16:19,360
Speaker 1: because because my question is this, Becky Hammonds played the

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01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:22,200
Speaker 1: game of women's basketball, and she's been around the Spurs

1355
01:16:22,240 --> 01:16:23,960
Speaker 1: for a very long time before she was hired as

1356
01:16:23,960 --> 01:16:27,840
Speaker 1: an assistant. Right. Eric Spoelschow is the same thing. He

1357
01:16:27,880 --> 01:16:31,080
Speaker 1: didn't play a lick in the NBA. He was around it.

1358
01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:33,880
Speaker 1: He was a video coordinator, worked his way up the tree,

1359
01:16:34,000 --> 01:16:37,519
Speaker 1: became a head coach. How does that any different? What's

1360
01:16:37,560 --> 01:16:40,840
Speaker 1: different about that? What about the dynamics of you, you know,

1361
01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:46,280
Speaker 1: the dynamics of girls guys ball? Um, what people think?

1362
01:16:46,400 --> 01:16:48,280
Speaker 1: You've had to bust people's ass play like you know,

1363
01:16:48,320 --> 01:16:51,720
Speaker 1: it's different now because you're people, everyone knows you. Um,

1364
01:16:52,200 --> 01:16:54,800
Speaker 1: But do you think the dynamics of a guy being

1365
01:16:55,320 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 1: a coach a pro player? Some of these guys you

1366
01:16:58,040 --> 01:17:00,559
Speaker 1: see Rodney Hood, he don't care if it's a guy,

1367
01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:04,080
Speaker 1: girl Tyler whatever, let me ask you, but but let

1368
01:17:04,120 --> 01:17:06,960
Speaker 1: me ask you this. So this is this is where

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01:17:07,000 --> 01:17:10,000
Speaker 1: I get into debate. Women do not play above the rim.

1370
01:17:10,160 --> 01:17:13,599
Speaker 1: We have a few girls, women, ladies that can dunk,

1371
01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:16,439
Speaker 1: but our game is not played above the rent. That's

1372
01:17:16,479 --> 01:17:19,320
Speaker 1: not what we do. Right. Rudy Gobert in the first

1373
01:17:19,400 --> 01:17:22,320
Speaker 1: round of the playoffs miss like seven layups, right, so

1374
01:17:22,479 --> 01:17:25,920
Speaker 1: he can't dunk it technically from a skills point of view,

1375
01:17:26,680 --> 01:17:30,280
Speaker 1: skill wise is okay. So my thing is from a

1376
01:17:30,439 --> 01:17:33,000
Speaker 1: skill point of view that I totally agree. I feel

1377
01:17:33,040 --> 01:17:36,479
Speaker 1: like game recognized this game, and we understand that. We

1378
01:17:36,600 --> 01:17:39,839
Speaker 1: understand basketball, we understand technique, we understand footwork, we understand

1379
01:17:39,840 --> 01:17:42,559
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Right, that's the technicality. Head coaches don't

1380
01:17:42,560 --> 01:17:45,000
Speaker 1: really teach people how to dunk. So if you want

1381
01:17:45,040 --> 01:17:47,240
Speaker 1: to bring in a dunking head coach or a coach

1382
01:17:47,360 --> 01:17:49,280
Speaker 1: that can teach you how to don' don't call me,

1383
01:17:49,479 --> 01:17:52,040
Speaker 1: don't call Becky or anything like that. But everything else

1384
01:17:52,479 --> 01:17:54,519
Speaker 1: I I we can diagram a play to get you

1385
01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:57,040
Speaker 1: a bucket, get you a dunk. So all I'm saying

1386
01:17:57,160 --> 01:17:59,800
Speaker 1: is is that I think the questions that women have

1387
01:18:00,439 --> 01:18:02,479
Speaker 1: to deal with in terms of the one of the

1388
01:18:02,520 --> 01:18:04,200
Speaker 1: first questions I asked Becky, I'm cool with her. I

1389
01:18:04,280 --> 01:18:06,519
Speaker 1: was like, Yo, so what's you know, what's the deal?

1390
01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:08,200
Speaker 1: Because I know all of us will see a lot

1391
01:18:08,240 --> 01:18:10,559
Speaker 1: of different questions that are just like what you roll

1392
01:18:10,600 --> 01:18:12,960
Speaker 1: your eyes at. She was like, everybody wanted to know,

1393
01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:15,680
Speaker 1: like how is it in the locker room? But I

1394
01:18:15,800 --> 01:18:18,519
Speaker 1: have a man head coach that that coaches for the

1395
01:18:18,640 --> 01:18:22,519
Speaker 1: l A Sparks. Nobody asked him that question. So it's

1396
01:18:22,560 --> 01:18:25,040
Speaker 1: just that type of stuff. I think we're almost over

1397
01:18:25,120 --> 01:18:28,080
Speaker 1: that hump where we're like, can we stop asking you

1398
01:18:28,360 --> 01:18:32,080
Speaker 1: stupid questions about like how is it after the locker room?

1399
01:18:32,160 --> 01:18:33,800
Speaker 1: Like how is it with us in the l A?

1400
01:18:34,080 --> 01:18:36,720
Speaker 1: Like come on, turn your head, walk out the room.

1401
01:18:36,880 --> 01:18:42,080
Speaker 1: Like I don't know if she's going to get hired

1402
01:18:42,160 --> 01:18:43,840
Speaker 1: this year, but like, and I don't know if she'll

1403
01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:46,439
Speaker 1: opened the door for it. That's the biggest thing. You

1404
01:18:46,520 --> 01:18:48,160
Speaker 1: got to open the door at some point. My New

1405
01:18:48,240 --> 01:18:52,600
Speaker 1: York Knicks, my guy Fizzdale, give me some hope. I

1406
01:18:52,800 --> 01:18:59,559
Speaker 1: love is my guy got the terrible treatment with I mean,

1407
01:18:59,600 --> 01:19:02,640
Speaker 1: I agree. I'm happy for him because I think he

1408
01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:06,160
Speaker 1: ended up in a better situation. New York Knicks Okay,

1409
01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:08,800
Speaker 1: better situation. I said, I'm I'm hopeful for you guys. No,

1410
01:19:08,960 --> 01:19:11,000
Speaker 1: I know I'm a Bulls fan, so we're in the

1411
01:19:11,080 --> 01:19:16,360
Speaker 1: same boat here. You get no sympathy for me. You

1412
01:19:16,439 --> 01:19:19,960
Speaker 1: can care less. You guys have more. I don't care.

1413
01:19:20,320 --> 01:19:24,559
Speaker 1: Do you understand three the banners in the garden. I've

1414
01:19:24,640 --> 01:19:27,599
Speaker 1: been up close to them. They're literally falling apart. They

1415
01:19:27,640 --> 01:19:31,639
Speaker 1: have holes in them from moths. That's reality. We haven't

1416
01:19:31,680 --> 01:19:35,840
Speaker 1: had a championship sincere. I can care less. You don't

1417
01:19:35,880 --> 01:19:39,360
Speaker 1: get any sympathy. You have Michael Jordan's you get nothing

1418
01:19:39,479 --> 01:19:41,479
Speaker 1: from and you had Derrick Rose. I mean, yeah, we

1419
01:19:41,560 --> 01:19:43,840
Speaker 1: did have Derek, so I don't care in but we

1420
01:19:43,920 --> 01:19:46,960
Speaker 1: see my goodness. I wanted it for Derek too. It's

1421
01:19:47,000 --> 01:19:50,439
Speaker 1: hard playing at home though. But Fizz I think he's

1422
01:19:50,479 --> 01:19:53,240
Speaker 1: a great candidate. I think he's a great head coaching

1423
01:19:53,360 --> 01:19:56,439
Speaker 1: choice for them. I just want them to have some

1424
01:19:56,560 --> 01:19:59,479
Speaker 1: sort of plan and direction that they're going in and

1425
01:19:59,600 --> 01:20:02,720
Speaker 1: stick with it. So if Fizz is your guy in

1426
01:20:02,840 --> 01:20:05,560
Speaker 1: two years, I don't want to hear that he's not

1427
01:20:05,680 --> 01:20:08,560
Speaker 1: your guy anymore. Like that's your guy. You stick with it,

1428
01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:12,479
Speaker 1: you know, and keep it moving. I mean you can't

1429
01:20:13,520 --> 01:20:15,200
Speaker 1: What would Golden State had done if they would have

1430
01:20:15,240 --> 01:20:17,479
Speaker 1: guy rid of stuff because of injuries? Right? Yeah. I

1431
01:20:17,520 --> 01:20:20,240
Speaker 1: mean at some point you gotta stick with your person

1432
01:20:20,360 --> 01:20:23,040
Speaker 1: and that's who you are, and then you do It's loyalty,

1433
01:20:23,160 --> 01:20:25,800
Speaker 1: it's respect. You play for them. That's a culture. It's

1434
01:20:25,840 --> 01:20:28,320
Speaker 1: a culture, and I think Fizz will create that culture

1435
01:20:28,320 --> 01:20:33,040
Speaker 1: in New York. I agree um T and T analysts.

1436
01:20:33,360 --> 01:20:35,640
Speaker 1: You did the thing with KG, and I know a

1437
01:20:35,720 --> 01:20:37,640
Speaker 1: lot of people are I thought it was dope. You

1438
01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:43,439
Speaker 1: sort of mocked potentially James Harden's shuffling of defeat which

1439
01:20:43,560 --> 01:20:46,760
Speaker 1: was which was? Which? I love it? Like do you

1440
01:20:46,840 --> 01:20:49,360
Speaker 1: hear from James Harden like the people like, oh, because

1441
01:20:49,400 --> 01:20:51,960
Speaker 1: because it's that ship talking. I'm a ship talking. I

1442
01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:54,240
Speaker 1: mean I should talk with the best of them a

1443
01:20:54,280 --> 01:20:56,120
Speaker 1: little bit. Sometimes I get in trouble for it. But

1444
01:20:56,320 --> 01:21:00,720
Speaker 1: you know, my point to KG in saying was how

1445
01:21:00,960 --> 01:21:03,439
Speaker 1: was an up and under a travel when they let

1446
01:21:03,560 --> 01:21:06,640
Speaker 1: guys in the NBA do the James Harden and do

1447
01:21:06,800 --> 01:21:10,360
Speaker 1: the Jannice attendt coompo. I mean Janice will have a

1448
01:21:10,560 --> 01:21:15,040
Speaker 1: top ten play on Sports Center and he will travel

1449
01:21:15,200 --> 01:21:18,080
Speaker 1: from half court and get an and one and everybody's

1450
01:21:18,080 --> 01:21:22,800
Speaker 1: going apes ship over this play, and it's like he traveled,

1451
01:21:23,120 --> 01:21:27,200
Speaker 1: Like I don't understand how this isn't like how you

1452
01:21:27,280 --> 01:21:29,439
Speaker 1: don't think this is a travel So that was my

1453
01:21:29,560 --> 01:21:32,080
Speaker 1: only thing was I had to mimic James Harden because

1454
01:21:32,600 --> 01:21:35,000
Speaker 1: he does shovels feet sometimes not all the time. Now

1455
01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:37,519
Speaker 1: the dude has handled he gets the rack quick, gets

1456
01:21:37,560 --> 01:21:40,720
Speaker 1: a shot shot off amazing, but he does travel. In

1457
01:21:40,800 --> 01:21:42,320
Speaker 1: the NBA and in the w n B, is there

1458
01:21:42,360 --> 01:21:45,000
Speaker 1: a star power like you get away with stuff because

1459
01:21:45,040 --> 01:21:48,400
Speaker 1: you're Candice, James Harden gets away with the Greek freak.

1460
01:21:48,439 --> 01:21:49,760
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna try to say his name. You

1461
01:21:49,800 --> 01:21:53,000
Speaker 1: said it good, uh, Janice? Like is there like a

1462
01:21:53,080 --> 01:21:55,160
Speaker 1: sort of like, oh, we're gonna give this guy a

1463
01:21:55,200 --> 01:21:58,680
Speaker 1: little bit more leeway because it just it blows my

1464
01:21:58,880 --> 01:22:03,360
Speaker 1: mind the mount of like I mean, you have Russell

1465
01:22:03,400 --> 01:22:06,920
Speaker 1: Westbrook that gets the ball and walks for seven steps

1466
01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:10,439
Speaker 1: and then dribbles and there's no I mean, there's no call,

1467
01:22:10,560 --> 01:22:13,840
Speaker 1: there's no traveling call or anything. So I think it's

1468
01:22:13,960 --> 01:22:17,559
Speaker 1: just a little much for me. I think they need

1469
01:22:17,640 --> 01:22:20,120
Speaker 1: to kind of go back because then but the NBA,

1470
01:22:20,200 --> 01:22:22,560
Speaker 1: it's like it's all or nothing. It's like they go

1471
01:22:22,720 --> 01:22:24,880
Speaker 1: to a point of emphasis. So next year if they're like, oh,

1472
01:22:24,960 --> 01:22:26,800
Speaker 1: traveling is gonna be a point of then it's like

1473
01:22:26,800 --> 01:22:29,160
Speaker 1: if you move your pinky tone, it's a travel. Like

1474
01:22:29,200 --> 01:22:31,200
Speaker 1: do you remember like respect for the game was like

1475
01:22:31,240 --> 01:22:33,360
Speaker 1: an emphasis and it was like they blinked at a

1476
01:22:33,360 --> 01:22:35,680
Speaker 1: wrath and it was technical. So just like, can we

1477
01:22:35,800 --> 01:22:39,320
Speaker 1: just call the travels that are outrageous? I'm not even

1478
01:22:39,400 --> 01:22:42,240
Speaker 1: asking for them to call every travel just outrageous respect

1479
01:22:42,280 --> 01:22:44,360
Speaker 1: for I totally forgot about that. It was like they

1480
01:22:44,400 --> 01:22:46,720
Speaker 1: were getting teed up for being what like it was

1481
01:22:46,760 --> 01:22:49,599
Speaker 1: a technical. Now, as a fan of basketball and you're

1482
01:22:49,600 --> 01:22:52,519
Speaker 1: a ship talker, how do you feel about a great

1483
01:22:52,600 --> 01:22:57,880
Speaker 1: number of um NBA players dressing for games like they're

1484
01:22:57,880 --> 01:23:01,040
Speaker 1: going to the met Gala like now, like because some

1485
01:23:01,160 --> 01:23:03,760
Speaker 1: of these dudes are wearing wild ship like the met

1486
01:23:03,800 --> 01:23:06,800
Speaker 1: galows the other day, Like I mean, and now, also,

1487
01:23:07,040 --> 01:23:08,800
Speaker 1: my may and I were seen that whole era of

1488
01:23:08,920 --> 01:23:13,400
Speaker 1: nineties dudes that got persecuted, crucified, like this is not

1489
01:23:14,120 --> 01:23:17,800
Speaker 1: what happened to the dress code. Another one that's another one.

1490
01:23:17,920 --> 01:23:20,479
Speaker 1: Business Casual is a point of empas. Business Casually had

1491
01:23:20,520 --> 01:23:23,679
Speaker 1: a T shirt and change I know that ain't business casual,

1492
01:23:24,120 --> 01:23:26,519
Speaker 1: let alone someone like the I mean, Russell took it

1493
01:23:26,600 --> 01:23:29,800
Speaker 1: too far, my Durrant. Every time I see a guy

1494
01:23:29,920 --> 01:23:33,679
Speaker 1: coming like uh me and Terry Rogier wearing a football jersey,

1495
01:23:33,720 --> 01:23:35,719
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's the ship that they took away because

1496
01:23:35,760 --> 01:23:38,599
Speaker 1: if guys are wearing Yeah, but you know what now,

1497
01:23:38,880 --> 01:23:42,599
Speaker 1: the NBA is about to take over as America's league. Honestly,

1498
01:23:44,400 --> 01:23:47,719
Speaker 1: I think football in the next couple of years. NBA

1499
01:23:47,960 --> 01:23:50,559
Speaker 1: is like now, first of all, you can see them,

1500
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:53,840
Speaker 1: so it's not like a guess of who's who, so

1501
01:23:54,040 --> 01:23:58,280
Speaker 1: you recognize them. And they've taken this like trolling. They

1502
01:23:58,360 --> 01:24:02,720
Speaker 1: wear sweatshirts, say rookie and the definition of rookie. They

1503
01:24:02,880 --> 01:24:05,920
Speaker 1: they're wearing outfits where you're talking about Russell Westbrook's outfit,

1504
01:24:06,320 --> 01:24:08,840
Speaker 1: you're talking about him so good for the game. I

1505
01:24:08,920 --> 01:24:11,680
Speaker 1: think it's great. And because that's what it is now Instagram,

1506
01:24:11,840 --> 01:24:16,200
Speaker 1: that's what it is. Bad clips. They want something to

1507
01:24:16,360 --> 01:24:19,880
Speaker 1: draw viewers. I mean, we're laughing about this because the

1508
01:24:19,920 --> 01:24:24,000
Speaker 1: whole Russell Westbrook Kevin Durant story, it was like every

1509
01:24:24,040 --> 01:24:26,439
Speaker 1: time I turned on the television, it was like did

1510
01:24:26,720 --> 01:24:29,439
Speaker 1: have they played? Like what happened? Have they played? Like?

1511
01:24:29,560 --> 01:24:31,880
Speaker 1: What is this the fourth game they're playing? Are we

1512
01:24:32,000 --> 01:24:37,080
Speaker 1: still talking about? So it's just they love storylines. That's

1513
01:24:37,120 --> 01:24:43,559
Speaker 1: what NBA is and you know, I just that. I mean,

1514
01:24:43,560 --> 01:24:45,400
Speaker 1: the NBA is doing a hell of a job at it.

1515
01:24:45,640 --> 01:24:49,679
Speaker 1: So you doing sideline, you doing analysts? Is that something

1516
01:24:49,720 --> 01:24:51,880
Speaker 1: you want to do when you finished playing? And how

1517
01:24:51,960 --> 01:24:54,439
Speaker 1: much more are you're gonna be doing? Uh during the playoffs?

1518
01:24:54,520 --> 01:24:58,720
Speaker 1: If any? And like, what what is your dream with that?

1519
01:24:58,960 --> 01:25:01,800
Speaker 1: If a dream of it at all? So I love

1520
01:25:01,880 --> 01:25:06,760
Speaker 1: basketball and I love sitting on my couch watching basketball.

1521
01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:10,040
Speaker 1: So when T n T said hey, we want you

1522
01:25:10,120 --> 01:25:13,320
Speaker 1: to work for us and do that, it was like, okay,

1523
01:25:13,800 --> 01:25:16,600
Speaker 1: that's that's considered work. And then you go there and

1524
01:25:16,680 --> 01:25:19,680
Speaker 1: it's such a great family atmosphere. You have legends that

1525
01:25:19,760 --> 01:25:22,920
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there sharing chips with and they're talking to

1526
01:25:23,000 --> 01:25:25,439
Speaker 1: me as an equal, and I love it because they

1527
01:25:25,479 --> 01:25:28,519
Speaker 1: were talking the game of basketball. So I would love

1528
01:25:28,640 --> 01:25:31,720
Speaker 1: to transition into that after basketball. It's my passion and

1529
01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:34,200
Speaker 1: it's something I'm gonna do anyway, so why not, you know,

1530
01:25:34,320 --> 01:25:38,639
Speaker 1: get paid for it. But in terms of basketball, I'm

1531
01:25:38,720 --> 01:25:42,639
Speaker 1: a I'm a I've learned if you plan too far

1532
01:25:42,720 --> 01:25:46,680
Speaker 1: in advance, there's other plans. So for me, I'm going

1533
01:25:46,720 --> 01:25:49,720
Speaker 1: to focus on this season, figure it out, then the

1534
01:25:49,800 --> 01:25:51,439
Speaker 1: next one, then the next one, then the next one,

1535
01:25:51,560 --> 01:25:54,599
Speaker 1: like or if it doesn't, you know whatever, I hope

1536
01:25:54,600 --> 01:25:56,800
Speaker 1: I'm prepared for whatever is throwing my way. All right,

1537
01:25:56,880 --> 01:26:01,400
Speaker 1: obligatory question. It's always with the NBA. You always say

1538
01:26:01,439 --> 01:26:05,040
Speaker 1: who's your top five NBA play goodness? All right, who's

1539
01:26:05,080 --> 01:26:08,800
Speaker 1: your top five female basketball players? If you were starting

1540
01:26:08,800 --> 01:26:12,000
Speaker 1: a lineup and you couldn't be on it, who would

1541
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:15,080
Speaker 1: you pick as your top five? So I had the

1542
01:26:15,400 --> 01:26:18,040
Speaker 1: honor to play with Tisha Pinacherio. She's a point guard

1543
01:26:18,800 --> 01:26:23,919
Speaker 1: uh Portugal. Grew up watching her play with the Monarchs

1544
01:26:24,160 --> 01:26:25,560
Speaker 1: and I wanted to be like her. She was the

1545
01:26:25,560 --> 01:26:29,640
Speaker 1: one that brought that, like Jason Williams flair to the

1546
01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:32,040
Speaker 1: w b A. She was throwing no looks and all

1547
01:26:32,120 --> 01:26:34,800
Speaker 1: that stuff. So Tisa Pinachero, she's also my agent now,

1548
01:26:34,960 --> 01:26:37,679
Speaker 1: so that's cool. Yeah, it's really cool. She was my teammate,

1549
01:26:37,760 --> 01:26:42,320
Speaker 1: my agent all that, So she's number one. Diana Tarassi

1550
01:26:42,680 --> 01:26:45,000
Speaker 1: is one of the best players to play the game.

1551
01:26:45,160 --> 01:26:48,519
Speaker 1: I was her teammate in Russia for two seasons, and

1552
01:26:49,520 --> 01:26:54,200
Speaker 1: you know, she's phenomenal passing, scoring competitor. So I'd have

1553
01:26:54,280 --> 01:26:57,639
Speaker 1: to say Diana Trassi um as a competitor. It's hard

1554
01:26:57,720 --> 01:27:01,000
Speaker 1: for me to list Maya Moore as one because we're

1555
01:27:01,040 --> 01:27:03,479
Speaker 1: still playing against each other. But at the end of

1556
01:27:03,520 --> 01:27:06,320
Speaker 1: the day, uh, she's a great competitor. I've had a

1557
01:27:06,360 --> 01:27:10,920
Speaker 1: lot of fun competing against her. Um that's three. That's three.

1558
01:27:11,080 --> 01:27:13,240
Speaker 1: I would say Tina Thompson. I grew up trying to

1559
01:27:13,320 --> 01:27:16,080
Speaker 1: emulate her turnaround jump shot, and she was one of

1560
01:27:16,120 --> 01:27:20,000
Speaker 1: those undersized posts so that stepped away from the basket

1561
01:27:20,120 --> 01:27:21,519
Speaker 1: was able to shoot the three. And that's when I

1562
01:27:21,640 --> 01:27:23,880
Speaker 1: kind of was like, dang, just because I'm six four,

1563
01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:25,559
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean I have to be under the basket.

1564
01:27:25,840 --> 01:27:28,320
Speaker 1: I can shoot threes two and you know, face up

1565
01:27:28,320 --> 01:27:30,200
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And then of course Lisa Leslie.

1566
01:27:30,920 --> 01:27:33,360
Speaker 1: She was my teammate for you know, for two or

1567
01:27:33,400 --> 01:27:35,439
Speaker 1: three years on l A Sparks, and I learned a

1568
01:27:35,479 --> 01:27:37,720
Speaker 1: lot from her. I was her rookie, and you know,

1569
01:27:37,880 --> 01:27:40,880
Speaker 1: she's the best center. I would play the game top

1570
01:27:41,000 --> 01:27:44,760
Speaker 1: five if you're making not even like the best, your

1571
01:27:45,160 --> 01:27:47,240
Speaker 1: your five favorite players. They don't even have to be

1572
01:27:47,320 --> 01:27:50,840
Speaker 1: positional NBA players of all time. You're You're like, if

1573
01:27:50,880 --> 01:27:53,240
Speaker 1: you're setting a line up, like these are my guys,

1574
01:27:53,400 --> 01:27:55,000
Speaker 1: who would it be? All Right? So I'm gonna start

1575
01:27:55,000 --> 01:27:59,240
Speaker 1: with the biggs first, because the guards get hard shot

1576
01:28:00,560 --> 01:28:04,720
Speaker 1: and I think everybody remembers the throw it to him

1577
01:28:04,800 --> 01:28:07,240
Speaker 1: in the post shack and just let him go to

1578
01:28:07,280 --> 01:28:09,840
Speaker 1: work and bang and bang and bang. I'm talking about

1579
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:13,200
Speaker 1: Orlando Magic chat, that Orlando Magic shack that used to

1580
01:28:13,200 --> 01:28:15,680
Speaker 1: get up and down the court shack, that one that

1581
01:28:15,800 --> 01:28:18,960
Speaker 1: used to start the break, give it up, get it backshacked.

1582
01:28:19,080 --> 01:28:21,479
Speaker 1: That one. That's who I went on my team right there.

1583
01:28:22,280 --> 01:28:24,599
Speaker 1: He was so dominant that you take it for granted,

1584
01:28:24,640 --> 01:28:27,000
Speaker 1: and he made it look so easy. He did it

1585
01:28:27,080 --> 01:28:30,759
Speaker 1: to everybody I tell I tell him all the time. Orlando,

1586
01:28:31,160 --> 01:28:36,280
Speaker 1: Wow for that for letting that walk away under technicalities. Anyway,

1587
01:28:36,960 --> 01:28:41,320
Speaker 1: the four, Now this is difficult for me, but I'm

1588
01:28:41,400 --> 01:28:46,400
Speaker 1: going to say, Hachimo la Jouan is the one that

1589
01:28:47,080 --> 01:28:50,479
Speaker 1: I feel like I watched most as a kid. My

1590
01:28:50,640 --> 01:28:53,479
Speaker 1: dad would put on clips of Achiem la Joan's footwork

1591
01:28:53,680 --> 01:28:55,960
Speaker 1: because everybody at that at that age always talked about

1592
01:28:56,280 --> 01:28:59,800
Speaker 1: guards having footwork, but post needed it too, so do

1593
01:29:00,080 --> 01:29:04,160
Speaker 1: watch what he did, and that just reaffirms that my

1594
01:29:04,320 --> 01:29:07,400
Speaker 1: up and one under isn't a travel KG because Hakim

1595
01:29:07,479 --> 01:29:09,040
Speaker 1: a la Juan used to do the up and under

1596
01:29:09,320 --> 01:29:11,840
Speaker 1: all the time, and I mean it wasn't a travel

1597
01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:17,800
Speaker 1: that that's great footwork. So anyway, Hachim Alajuan, um my three,

1598
01:29:18,880 --> 01:29:21,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put Lebron at the three. Just hear me out.

1599
01:29:21,439 --> 01:29:23,439
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put I'm not gonna argue with you. I'm

1600
01:29:23,439 --> 01:29:26,439
Speaker 1: gonna pull Lebron at the three just because he can

1601
01:29:26,760 --> 01:29:29,320
Speaker 1: want to. I can't put him at the two or

1602
01:29:29,400 --> 01:29:33,040
Speaker 1: the one because of my next two, which is going

1603
01:29:33,080 --> 01:29:37,920
Speaker 1: to be extremely hard and surprising. But um, Lebron is

1604
01:29:38,040 --> 01:29:41,240
Speaker 1: that that guy that can do everything, and I want

1605
01:29:41,360 --> 01:29:45,599
Speaker 1: him as my three. He can handle the ball. Whatever. Anyway, Lebron,

1606
01:29:45,680 --> 01:29:49,240
Speaker 1: I don't even need to say why my two is difficult.

1607
01:29:49,479 --> 01:29:52,160
Speaker 1: Just doesn't matter. I'm gonna skip my two for a second.

1608
01:29:52,200 --> 01:29:54,639
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to my one. Alan Iverson is my one.

1609
01:29:54,840 --> 01:29:57,000
Speaker 1: Alan Iverson is the reason why I wear number three.

1610
01:29:57,360 --> 01:29:59,880
Speaker 1: Alan Iverson was the reason why I was able to

1611
01:30:00,080 --> 01:30:03,240
Speaker 1: be who I was because as a result of me

1612
01:30:03,320 --> 01:30:05,439
Speaker 1: being a girl like he acted the way he was,

1613
01:30:05,560 --> 01:30:07,240
Speaker 1: and it didn't matter. He still act on the way

1614
01:30:07,320 --> 01:30:09,519
Speaker 1: he is, and as much as people hate on him,

1615
01:30:09,840 --> 01:30:11,920
Speaker 1: I respect the hell out of it, just because it's

1616
01:30:11,960 --> 01:30:13,880
Speaker 1: like he's not going to conform to what you want

1617
01:30:14,000 --> 01:30:16,720
Speaker 1: him to do. And I think that's how I've grown up.

1618
01:30:16,760 --> 01:30:19,120
Speaker 1: That's how I was taught, is like, just because you're

1619
01:30:19,120 --> 01:30:21,280
Speaker 1: a girl. I had two older brothers. My dad was like,

1620
01:30:21,280 --> 01:30:23,559
Speaker 1: we're going to treat you the exact same. Just because

1621
01:30:23,560 --> 01:30:25,960
Speaker 1: you're a girl doesn't mean that you can't do this.

1622
01:30:26,120 --> 01:30:28,000
Speaker 1: Just because you're six four doesn't mean you can't bring

1623
01:30:28,080 --> 01:30:30,880
Speaker 1: the ball up the court. So everything that I am

1624
01:30:31,640 --> 01:30:33,400
Speaker 1: is a result of trying to emulate him. I had

1625
01:30:33,479 --> 01:30:36,880
Speaker 1: his sweat bands everything like he My brother played with

1626
01:30:37,000 --> 01:30:38,920
Speaker 1: him in the n b A. He gave me his

1627
01:30:39,040 --> 01:30:41,839
Speaker 1: number three bands. I still have them in my office

1628
01:30:42,720 --> 01:30:46,000
Speaker 1: on Yes, he wore them in a game and handed

1629
01:30:46,040 --> 01:30:49,200
Speaker 1: them to me like it was insane. So anyway, AI

1630
01:30:49,360 --> 01:30:52,960
Speaker 1: is my number one. Number two is hard because I

1631
01:30:53,080 --> 01:30:55,800
Speaker 1: don't want to leave Kobe off because I'm in l

1632
01:30:55,840 --> 01:30:58,000
Speaker 1: A and Kobe's my dude, and I think he is

1633
01:30:58,040 --> 01:31:02,720
Speaker 1: definitely top three. But if I have to pick, you

1634
01:31:02,800 --> 01:31:06,439
Speaker 1: can't leave m J off and I can't put Kobe

1635
01:31:06,520 --> 01:31:10,000
Speaker 1: at the three, and I can't put him at the one, right,

1636
01:31:10,479 --> 01:31:12,040
Speaker 1: so you leave in Kobe. All so I have to

1637
01:31:12,120 --> 01:31:14,240
Speaker 1: bring him as my first sub. So I'm hoping he's

1638
01:31:14,280 --> 01:31:16,559
Speaker 1: just I'm hoping he'll take it as like a Steph

1639
01:31:16,640 --> 01:31:20,000
Speaker 1: Curry approach, where it's like the culture I'm trying to build.

1640
01:31:20,120 --> 01:31:22,439
Speaker 1: Maybe Kobe now, but Kobe when he was playing like

1641
01:31:22,520 --> 01:31:25,559
Speaker 1: Kobe now, you might have more. Kobe now is going

1642
01:31:25,600 --> 01:31:27,920
Speaker 1: to have a perspective as like you can't leave Mike

1643
01:31:28,000 --> 01:31:30,559
Speaker 1: off of the list. And Kobe really can't really play.

1644
01:31:30,640 --> 01:31:33,680
Speaker 1: I mean he can play right, but you know so

1645
01:31:35,120 --> 01:31:37,080
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna argue with that five. That's a good five.

1646
01:31:37,120 --> 01:31:42,320
Speaker 1: All right. Listen, Canice Parker Hall of Fame. You're going

1647
01:31:42,400 --> 01:31:44,320
Speaker 1: to be in the Basketball Hall of Fame, Nay Smith

1648
01:31:44,479 --> 01:31:48,160
Speaker 1: Basketball Hall of Fame. You're gonna be playing uh NBA,

1649
01:31:48,479 --> 01:31:53,080
Speaker 1: w NBA this season. Your back's gonna be okay, You're

1650
01:31:53,080 --> 01:31:56,639
Speaker 1: gonna come to a game, oh for sure? For sure?

1651
01:31:57,439 --> 01:32:02,519
Speaker 1: York for sure? For sure? And all right, and last question,

1652
01:32:03,600 --> 01:32:08,240
Speaker 1: we set the table, who's win the championship. I agree,

1653
01:32:09,240 --> 01:32:10,800
Speaker 1: that's what I want, that's what I need. I have

1654
01:32:10,960 --> 01:32:15,120
Speaker 1: my broom gold State from last season, Golden State Verse Cleveland,

1655
01:32:15,280 --> 01:32:17,760
Speaker 1: Golden Say Verse Cleveland. I like Boston next year, though

1656
01:32:18,400 --> 01:32:22,840
Speaker 1: Bron comes West. I got Golden State Boston in the

1657
01:32:22,920 --> 01:32:28,120
Speaker 1: finals next year. If Lebron comes to the Lakers, I

1658
01:32:28,240 --> 01:32:30,599
Speaker 1: got Boston in Golden State in the finals next year.

1659
01:32:30,760 --> 01:32:34,520
Speaker 1: All right, Candice Parker, I am wrapped for Stereo podcast.

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