WEBVTT - Blake Griffin Loves Candy 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:04.439 Hi, I'm Slum. I'm fourteen years old, well almost fifteen, 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:08.200 and I love the NBA. Today on the show, we 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:10.879 have one of the most recognizable players in the league. 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:14.280 Some have called him Pi Griffinith and even the Rim Reaper. 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:20.840 Today we had a one and on Blake Grift. 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:21.360 So. 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:24.119 I've heard a rumor that during your rookie season with 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.319 the Clippers you were forced to carry around adoor the 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:30.000 Explore backpack and you had to have your teammates sweaty 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:32.880 socks in the backpack. Is that true? 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:35.839 Uh? The backpack, Yes, is true. The contents of the 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.480 backpack sort of varied at first. I had to carry 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:42.080 like playing cards for the older guys they played card. 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.800 I don't think I ever had dirty socks in there. 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.360 I wanted to feel like DeAndre Jordan, I know who's 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:48.160 smell the worst. 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.720 But I guess yeah, it wasn't the If you like 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:53.880 lean into it and you just go along with it, 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:55.480 it's not as fun for them. But if you're like 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:57.760 upset that you have to carry this backpack, then they 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:59.959 get more joy out of it. So I just kind 0:00:59.920 --> 0:01:03.760 of leaned into it and was it pink? It was pink. Obviously, 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:05.520 just had Dora and boots on them. 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.600 Yeah. But if your rookie season you were hurt to 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:10.000 you have we heard on the bench when you were 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:10.840 like no. 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.679 No, no, yeah, that would just staying on the bench 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.600 with the backpack. Yeah, no, thankfully, not on the bench 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:17.440 just when we traveled. 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.280 I mean, people wear some interesting things in their hurts, 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.800 so you still would have probably you somehow would have 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:26.520 been on like like lead to report fashion for your door. 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:27.840 The explorerbackpack would. 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:29.399 Have been like on the conservative side of the door 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:30.399 explorerback deck. 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:32.000 By the way, Kyle Kusma was going to listen to 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:33.240 this and be like, oh, I should do that, And 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:35.000 we're just like a Dora sew or something. 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:36.680 It's the next trend exactly. 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:40.280 We're trendsetters. Okay, So, as you know, I'm fourteen years old, 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.119 but I'm about to be fifteen and I'm going into 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.880 ninth grade. I know that you were homeschooled until about 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:49.440 eighth grade. So my normal question would be, you know, 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:51.600 I want to know everything about you when you were fourteen, 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:53.880 but I guess your life is a little different because 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:57.040 you just entered something that people had been in since kindergarten. 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.200 So just I want to know everything about your eighth 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:00.320 and ninth grade years. 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:05.160 So homeschooling for me was like not that crazy because 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:07.040 we had some friends at homeschool and they just like 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:07.880 didn't play sports. 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.120 They didn't I had a neighborhood full of kids. 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:14.120 My brother and I played every sport you can imagine, 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.239 so we were just constantly around kids, so it wasn't 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:21.080 too strange for me. My mom was a school teacher, 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:24.960 so the way she set it up was very Obviously 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:26.960 we didn't go from class to class, but we had 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.399 we went subject to subject every single day, same one. 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:31.799 You know. She had a lesson plan. We followed that. 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:35.000 So the best part about it was we started like 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.320 eight thirty and I was done around like twelve twelve 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:39.480 thirty every day. So my brother and I just like 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.080 did whatever. We'd go play outside, we play basketball, whatever 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.120 sport we were playing at the time. Wait for the 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:48.640 neighborhood kids see at home, play with them, and that 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:49.480 was kind of our day. 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:52.760 You entered like traditional school in eighth or nine into 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:54.919 eighth grade? Yeah, and what was that? Like? How tall 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:55.320 were you then? 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.560 I was probably like five eleven maybe like and then 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:01.760 grew to probably be like six one. I was like 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:03.400 six to one at the end of eighth grade, and 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:04.560 I was like six six at. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.440 The beginning of that because of your hype, Did you 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:07.680 think you could make it to the league. 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:10.840 It was like a dream, but I wasn't. I was 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:14.200 like a I don't know, I just never it didn't. 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.560 It wasn't like a reality until it truly became a 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.080 reality for me. I was just always like somewhat skeptical, 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:21.119 but it was always a dream. 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:22.600 I feel like once you hit six six, you were 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.919 probably like, wait, this is actually probably. 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.800 Really the person goes up every every like inch taller 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:28.239 you get. 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:33.200 So yeah, yeah, okay, so obviously in Oklahoma, Okay, see 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.760 is fairly new. So what team did you What was 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:36.640 your childhood team? 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.560 Honestly, growing up, it was more about like players because 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:41.600 back then, like we didn't have the league League Pass 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:43.800 to like be able to like watch every team. I 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.120 didn't really get to go on the internet and watch 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.280 like highlights. That wasn't like really a thing when I 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.160 was growing up, So I would just watch like the 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.400 national televised game. So I was like when I was young, 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.520 it was Michael Jordan and then it was like Vince Carter. 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:59.800 We would get like Lakers games next game. So I 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:01.800 was just kind of like watching players. I didn't really 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:03.840 have that like true affinity for a team. 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:05.320 Who was your favorite player? 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:06.680 My favorite player is Michael Jordan. 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:11.280 Always classic, very predictable. I was hoping you would say something. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.000 Totally random, but something like Muggsy bogues. 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:20.120 Okay, don't no need to disrepect Muggsy. Fun fact, I 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.359 was actually for some wild reason, he posted a picture 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:24.280 of me on Instagram. 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.200 All right, well, let's hear the other story for that. 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:32.040 So I was at NBA Cares Day and I was volunteering, 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.359 and I don't know, he just like took a picture 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.360 with me. And then the next day I like looked 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:40.080 at his Instagram and I was like, did he post that? 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:43.320 That's so weird. But yeah, but Muggsy shout out, you 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:44.960 have good social media manager. 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.640 And he's a very nice guy, very nice guy. 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:51.400 So as you know, currently with AU and e y 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.720 b L NBA Prospects five Stars, four stars, they're playing 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:56.560 each other. They all they all know each other now 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:58.440 because they're going to the same place as like Peach 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:02.280 Jam and stuff like that. When when you were fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.160 what players did you play man? 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:05.760 Everybody? 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:15.039 I mean, Derek Rose, Kevin Love, Kevin Durant, Kyrie Chandler 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.000 Parsons was a good friend of mine, like kind of 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:20.640 on the ey AU circuit at the time. Almost every 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.080 like every any guy that's like around my age. 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:25.320 Was it obvious when you were there, Like if you 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.679 were like playing against Katie, was it just like obvious, 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:29.680 like you just knew at that moment that he was 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:30.240 gonna make it? 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:32.880 Yeah, yeah, he I mean he was like kind of 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.520 the same player. Like his games. I remember when you'd 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.279 play against his games, like the gym would be packed. 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.120 And he also played on a really good team. I 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.760 think Ty Lawson maybe played on his team played in 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.040 the NBA for a while. There was like tons of 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.960 guys on his team, So anytime you played those guys, 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:49.000 you always knew. 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.239 Like, were there any guys that were like drastically worse? 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.919 Like was crazy enough? But Kyrie you were like, wait, 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:55.680 he made it because when you saw him when you 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:56.719 were younger, that was crazy. 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.880 Uh nook, Like he was always really good from the beginning. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.640 I think I probably was one of those guys that, 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:08.120 like I wasn't ranked until my junior year, so I 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:08.479 don't know. 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.200 I was sort of somewhat of a late bloomer. 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:11.760 But there's guys like that for sure, Like that, you 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.080 didn't really like Jimmy Butler, I don't think was really 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:18.360 like highly touted, even like Damian Lillard. Damian Lillard, Steph. 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:21.080 Like people well because Dell, but like still he like 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.240 on his like it's not Max Preps, but whatever the 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:24.400 website was, he didn't even have a. 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:25.320 Picture for sure. 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.320 Absolutely, Yeah, there's definitely guys like that always kind of 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.240 pop up. But there's also guys who are like super 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.960 highly ranked that it's hard to see that when you're 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.600 in high school and you're like competing against them, but once, 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.479 like as you're older, like now I look back, I'm 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.479 just like, man, you just can't take anything for ground. 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:45.960 Speaking of Steph, when Oklahoma played David Davidson, he dropped 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:47.880 forty four Okay, but you won. You had twenty one 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.840 rebounds and twenty five points. Right, did you in that 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:52.480 moment where you like, this kid is going to be 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.560 the greatest shooter ever? Is that just not when you're 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.920 like he was so young, you know, no one really knew, 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:58.919 but could you see that playing against him? 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.680 I mean, you knew he was going to be you 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:03.600 knew he was a great shooter. That was like our 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.800 whole scouting report coming into it. And the crazy thing 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.160 about that game, he had a good game, the whole game, 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.760 but like he really kind of went off at the 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:13.360 end too, and it was like it was one of 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:14.120 those moments. 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:15.320 Where it was like and they say, he's not clutch. 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.680 Yeah, that's crazy, that's crazy. That's a whole different thing. 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.760 See, you guys heard it here. Blake Griffin thinks Steph 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:25.239 Craz's clutch. So now you can't even debate it. Okay, 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.600 so let's move on. Now I heard about you when 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.520 you were a kid. That's cool, right, But now I 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.320 want to hear about your life as you grew older. Okay, 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.240 So the classic question, what was your welcome to the 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:35.800 league moment? 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:37.600 Welcome to the league moment? 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.840 We were playing It was a preseason game and we 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:44.600 were playing San Antonio. In San Antonio, I'd grown up 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:48.200 watching I read like a bunch of David Robinson books. 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.320 I had grown up watching him play. 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:53.520 For a long time. Tim Duncan play for a long time. Actually, 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:55.680 the first NBA game I ever went to was a 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.680 Spurs game. I was like nine years old, and I'm 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:00.680 warming up on one end and I just kind of 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.240 like glanced down at the other and not even thinking anything, 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.000 and Tim Duncan is like, you know, forty feet away 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.000 from me, like warming up, going through this whole thing, 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.280 and like, for some reason, that's when it like hit me, 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.520 that's crazy. I can't believe I'm about to do your stackshot. 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:16.640 I was like I had to like pull myself back 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:18.920 together and like, you know, keep warming up. But I 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:22.000 didn't really have one where it was like in the moment. 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.760 Of the game and well, you're lucky because your rookie 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.280 season was so dull and it was like everyone else 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.640 who's like puny little rookies and people were like dunking 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:31.840 on it. You were you were dunking on the vegan. 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.240 It was a little bit. I still had some moments 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:35.719 where you're just like, man, this guy is. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:37.960 So good less than others, so let's be honest, less 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:38.240 than oother. 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:39.199 I appreciate it. 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.480 So I asked you what you're welcome to the league 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:48.960 moment is. But I think personally, as an LA kid, 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.640 I think you're lucky because you were drafted to the 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:55.120 Clippers and like Ella's a pretty fun place to be 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.319 drafted to. That's immediately like, come on, you're in Hollywood. 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.640 So instead of what you're welcome to league moment, what 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.679 was your welcome to LA moment? Like when was it 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.520 like you were drafted, you came to LA and you 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:07.319 were just like, I'm here, this is cool. 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:09.600 That's a good question. 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.080 It's interesting that you say that, though, because at the 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.800 time when the Clippers got the first pick, everybody was 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:19.280 telling me to like take a stand, not not tell 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.920 the Clippers not to draft me. They'd had like a 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:26.319 long string of number one pick sping bus, they'd had 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:28.400 a you know, they had made the play, they'd made 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.719 the playoffs once in however many years. 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.000 You did bring them to the playoffs for the first 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:33.120 time since two thousand and six. 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:36.760 You know your stats. I don't know my welcome to LA. 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:40.280 I think like playing probably playing like in Staples against 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.760 the Lakers at the time when we first started, like 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.520 the Clippers, weren't you know, we we sort of got 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:45.959 it going. 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:47.960 But it's not it's not like the Lakers. 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:50.760 Was there anything with the celebrity. 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.120 Though that Like, yeah, I remember Jack Nicholson gave me 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:56.200 a little fist bump one time, like after I'd had 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.280 a dunk right before halftime, I was putting my mouth 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.000 beast down. I was walking by him, you know, you said, 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.599 right there by the away bench, and he gave me 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.320 a little fist bump and he didn't say anything, but 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:05.840 he kind of like did that, And I was like, 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:06.360 I love. 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.160 That's what happens when you're drafted to the Clippers and 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.000 not like I was going to say the Magic, but. 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:12.640 I didn't want to, like oh right right, yeah, like 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:13.280 awkward with the. 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.439 Magic, but like it's true. I mean it would be 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.360 cooler to be you do want to alienate yourself. 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:18.680 To Magic fans? 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:21.480 Yeah, Like I still love you. That's pretty cool. 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:22.319 Yeah, it's a little different. 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.640 Okay, So who is like a player that you go 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:27.960 up against that's it's not like an All Star but 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.960 every time he just guessed you like he's it's like 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:32.400 an underrated. 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:35.600 Player, uh like in my position or just in general, 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:36.120 just like. 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:37.400 In general, that's tough. 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:42.839 Uh So last season, Ish Smith, who actually played with 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:45.800 in Detroit two times. He actually he started out the 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:49.080 season with Charlotte and then finished the season with the 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:53.000 Washington Wizards twice in the second half, particularly in the 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:57.080 fourth quarter, just destroyed us, like destroyed us. We had 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.160 a chance in both games. We didn't have a great 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.920 season last year, but he's one of those guys that 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.520 he's a guy that I always point to that's like, 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.400 you guys don't understand how good these guys are. Like 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:12.960 somebody who like isn't as well known, is just such 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.800 a good player and killed us two times in one 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:19.160 season with different teams in the same. 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:22.640 Way and we couldn't do anything. Yeah, he's great. He's 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:23.200 a great guy. 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:24.240 Should I get a jersey? 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.680 Yeah? Should get it Ish Smith Smith jersey. 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.520 Okay. I'm a really big Warriors fan, And something I 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:31.040 like to do is I like to get jerseys of 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.320 players that probably no one else has, not like no 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.440 one else, but like I like to be like, look 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:35.640 at me. 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:36.480 I like that. 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.240 So I rock a want Asconna Anderson a lot because 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.480 he was just traded to the Lakes Lakers, and I'm like, 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.800 I shouldn't have bought jersey, but something about him leaving 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.079 that makes me want to buy a Dante DiVincenzo jersey. 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.880 But then I'm like, he's probably gonna leave two or 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:53.000 like a Quandary Weatherspoon, like, come on, that's so sick 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:53.840 if you rock that. 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.400 Yeah, but like it's almost even better if they're like 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.199 if they're there for life, then it allows more people 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.160 to get that jer That jersey is. 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.800 Like theminga rookie. Come on, Like that's that's big time. 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.760 And like people in like ten years people are like, oh, 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.360 look at my comminga Jersey. I'm like, yeah, well when 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:12.920 comingo was, I mean, well, we know he's amazing, but 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:14.520 like he doesn't have his big of a role because 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.679 the Wars the Warriors, and like I I had a cominga. 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.760 Jersey and you have a wand just gone away Jersey. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:22.400 Not that many people can say that. 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.800 That's why it's big time. I really wanted a Gary 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:29.200 Payton in the second Jersey, but he's now on the Trailblazers, 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.240 so I guess it was just meant to be that 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:32.160 it didn't come in time. 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:32.360 You know. 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:36.160 Yeah, let that be a listen though exactly. I always 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:41.200 always pull the trigger on that one. Does sound fire chios? Yeah, 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:42.320 another great guy. 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:44.200 True, well you probably know better than me, but I 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:45.600 feel like he just seems really cool. 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:45.839 Yeah. 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.600 I played with him in Brooklyn, not this past season, 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:51.520 but the season before. It's hilarious and a really really 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:52.520 good basketball players. 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:53.800 Yes, he's only five eleven. 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:58.959 Yeah, it's tiny cheese what we call cheese. 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.400 So this is by far my favorite segment. Let's just 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.320 say it so. Stephen A. Smith is known for his 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.800 hot takes. But Blake, listen to me. I don't think 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.200 you've ever seen a take hotter than Kelly. You've read here. 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.600 The takes that we're about to say, okay, are going 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:16.199 to be so hot, like green eyes that you drown 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.920 in Kelly's eyes beautiful, the like bleached blonde hair that 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:21.719 he has. That's what these takes are gonna does he 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:23.880 still have? I can't keep up with like he Actually 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:25.920 I did see his Instagram post yesterday. It's actually now 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.760 back to brown. Okay, but I like how he changes 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:32.040 it out. Yeah see, And that's what these these takes 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.400 are going to be. Unpredictable. I mean, so it's rapid 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:39.080 fire ish like we can explain, but let's go pretty fast. Okay, 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.720 when you can't say yourself and the person has to 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.000 be in the league currently, those are the two rules. Yes, 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.040 and you have to listen to them or else you 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.240 will be with me and you don't want to be 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.480 in trouble with You're Okay? Which NBA player is the 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.840 best dressed? You want to say yourself? 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.880 Don't you feel like you always want to? I'll go 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.480 with Russ just because he just has has done it 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.280 forever and like he's sort of the one that kind 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.240 of like got everybody else on this, Like. 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.240 Agreed, I like his mech Gala outfit. 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:07.840 Okay. 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:09.160 Who has the best shoe game? 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:11.240 The best shoe game? PJ Tucker? 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.920 Okay, good because every time I ask that question, if 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.000 someone doesn't say PJ Tucker, I'm like, you're weird. Like 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.160 he has a house for his shoes. That just has 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:18.760 to be the end. 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.560 Yeah, he also like appreciates shoes that you just like, 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.120 like I didn't even know those existence. 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:26.680 Yeah, some company made like a shoe commercial with him, 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:28.400 and I was just like, that is so smart. 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:30.600 I didn't see that. That is smart, very smart. 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.800 You should look it up. Who is the funniest current 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:34.560 NBA player? 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:35.560 DeAndre Jordan? 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.680 Interesting? What's like the funniest thing he ever did? When 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.640 you were in LA? But it has to be appropriate 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:41.760 because I am still a kid. 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:43.320 Yeah, obviously. 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.360 I don't know I don't think it's just like a 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.640 He's just like has the ability to talk to everybody 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.720 or make everybody laugh. He's like one of those glue 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:55.560 guys on a team that sort of keeps everything like 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:56.440 and keeps people together. 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.920 Okay, Which NBA player is the best singer? 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:01.600 I would say Victor Oladipo. 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:03.200 I guess did you see him on the mask singer? 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:03.560 I did. 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.240 I saw a clip of it, but I didn't watch 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:08.600 the mask. He also has like an album, he does, Yeah, 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.760 he has an album. And one day we were at USA, 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.520 like doing in Vegas at USA like training camp, and 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:16.600 he was like just like singing, just like kind of 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:17.160 to himself. 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:19.760 Was like, Wow, Which NBA player is the best rapper? 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:20.960 Because that can start controversy. 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:25.040 Oh, that can't start controversy. I'll go with Dame Lillard. 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.320 I like, I feel like the other answer is slightly 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:31.000 problematic right now. You know what I'm saying. You guys 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:32.320 get it, get it, you get it. 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:38.120 Yeah, I guess I'm just gonna keep going. And Andre 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.280 Drummons pretty good. Andre Drumm's pretty good too. 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.280 Which NBA player could run for president and win? 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.080 Chris Paul or c J McCollum probably. 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.920 Like a Christ of all. That is a really good call. 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:52.440 I feel like most people that I've asked said Lebron, 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.480 but I think Chris Paul because Lebron it's like some 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.280 people hate him, some people love him, whereas Chris Paul. Like, 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.960 I've never seen anyone who just like hates Chris Paul. 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.640 I mean, you've been his teammate, like some refs, some refs, 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.080 but a lot of refs. Hey, that's only one vote. 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.480 Yeah, that's true. That's true. It's true. 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:10.760 And he's been all around the league a lot of 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:14.120 different states. Would he would get their electoral college. 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.440 Votes and he was the NBPA president for while. 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:19.200 Oh yeah, so you were the rookie of the Year 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:23.600 and ESPN named you one of the top fifteen best 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:27.760 rookies of all time. So in this past NBA season, 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:31.400 if you like, not Adam Silvana, any of the journalists, 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:33.520 if you got to choose who the rookie of the 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:35.760 Year would be, would you still give it to Scotty Box. 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:40.840 Oh Man, Uh yeah, he had. I mean he had 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:41.800