Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Slum. I'm fourteen years old, well almost fifteen,
Speaker 1: and I love the NBA. Today on the show, we
Speaker 1: have one of the most recognizable players in the league.
Speaker 1: Some have called him Pi Griffinith and even the Rim Reaper.
Speaker 1: Today we had a one and on Blake Grift.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: I've heard a rumor that during your rookie season with
Speaker 1: the Clippers you were forced to carry around adoor the
Speaker 1: Explore backpack and you had to have your teammates sweaty
Speaker 1: socks in the backpack. Is that true?
Speaker 2: Uh? The backpack, Yes, is true. The contents of the
Speaker 2: backpack sort of varied at first. I had to carry
Speaker 2: like playing cards for the older guys they played card.
Speaker 3: I don't think I ever had dirty socks in there.
Speaker 1: I wanted to feel like DeAndre Jordan, I know who's
Speaker 1: smell the worst.
Speaker 2: But I guess yeah, it wasn't the If you like
Speaker 2: lean into it and you just go along with it,
Speaker 2: it's not as fun for them. But if you're like
Speaker 2: upset that you have to carry this backpack, then they
Speaker 2: get more joy out of it. So I just kind
Speaker 2: of leaned into it and was it pink? It was pink. Obviously,
Speaker 2: just had Dora and boots on them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But if your rookie season you were hurt to
Speaker 1: you have we heard on the bench when you were
Speaker 1: like no.
Speaker 2: No, no, yeah, that would just staying on the bench
Speaker 2: with the backpack. Yeah, no, thankfully, not on the bench
Speaker 2: just when we traveled.
Speaker 1: I mean, people wear some interesting things in their hurts,
Speaker 1: so you still would have probably you somehow would have
Speaker 1: been on like like lead to report fashion for your door.
Speaker 1: The explorerbackpack would.
Speaker 3: Have been like on the conservative side of the door
Speaker 3: explorerback deck.
Speaker 1: By the way, Kyle Kusma was going to listen to
Speaker 1: this and be like, oh, I should do that, And
Speaker 1: we're just like a Dora sew or something.
Speaker 3: It's the next trend exactly.
Speaker 1: We're trendsetters. Okay, So, as you know, I'm fourteen years old,
Speaker 1: but I'm about to be fifteen and I'm going into
Speaker 1: ninth grade. I know that you were homeschooled until about
Speaker 1: eighth grade. So my normal question would be, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to know everything about you when you were fourteen,
Speaker 1: but I guess your life is a little different because
Speaker 1: you just entered something that people had been in since kindergarten.
Speaker 1: So just I want to know everything about your eighth
Speaker 1: and ninth grade years.
Speaker 2: So homeschooling for me was like not that crazy because
Speaker 2: we had some friends at homeschool and they just like
Speaker 2: didn't play sports.
Speaker 3: They didn't I had a neighborhood full of kids.
Speaker 2: My brother and I played every sport you can imagine,
Speaker 2: so we were just constantly around kids, so it wasn't
Speaker 2: too strange for me. My mom was a school teacher,
Speaker 2: so the way she set it up was very Obviously
Speaker 2: we didn't go from class to class, but we had
Speaker 2: we went subject to subject every single day, same one.
Speaker 3: You know. She had a lesson plan. We followed that.
Speaker 2: So the best part about it was we started like
Speaker 2: eight thirty and I was done around like twelve twelve
Speaker 2: thirty every day. So my brother and I just like
Speaker 2: did whatever. We'd go play outside, we play basketball, whatever
Speaker 2: sport we were playing at the time. Wait for the
Speaker 2: neighborhood kids see at home, play with them, and that
Speaker 2: was kind of our day.
Speaker 1: You entered like traditional school in eighth or nine into
Speaker 1: eighth grade? Yeah, and what was that? Like? How tall
Speaker 1: were you then?
Speaker 2: I was probably like five eleven maybe like and then
Speaker 2: grew to probably be like six one. I was like
Speaker 2: six to one at the end of eighth grade, and
Speaker 2: I was like six six at.
Speaker 1: The beginning of that because of your hype, Did you
Speaker 1: think you could make it to the league.
Speaker 2: It was like a dream, but I wasn't. I was
Speaker 2: like a I don't know, I just never it didn't.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like a reality until it truly became a
Speaker 2: reality for me. I was just always like somewhat skeptical,
Speaker 2: but it was always a dream.
Speaker 1: I feel like once you hit six six, you were
Speaker 1: probably like, wait, this is actually probably.
Speaker 3: Really the person goes up every every like inch taller
Speaker 3: you get.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, okay, so obviously in Oklahoma, Okay, see
Speaker 1: is fairly new. So what team did you What was
Speaker 1: your childhood team?
Speaker 2: Honestly, growing up, it was more about like players because
Speaker 2: back then, like we didn't have the league League Pass
Speaker 2: to like be able to like watch every team. I
Speaker 2: didn't really get to go on the internet and watch
Speaker 2: like highlights. That wasn't like really a thing when I
Speaker 2: was growing up, So I would just watch like the
Speaker 2: national televised game. So I was like when I was young,
Speaker 2: it was Michael Jordan and then it was like Vince Carter.
Speaker 2: We would get like Lakers games next game. So I
Speaker 2: was just kind of like watching players. I didn't really
Speaker 2: have that like true affinity for a team.
Speaker 1: Who was your favorite player?
Speaker 3: My favorite player is Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1: Always classic, very predictable. I was hoping you would say something.
Speaker 3: Totally random, but something like Muggsy bogues.
Speaker 1: Okay, don't no need to disrepect Muggsy. Fun fact, I
Speaker 1: was actually for some wild reason, he posted a picture
Speaker 1: of me on Instagram.
Speaker 3: All right, well, let's hear the other story for that.
Speaker 1: So I was at NBA Cares Day and I was volunteering,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, he just like took a picture
Speaker 1: with me. And then the next day I like looked
Speaker 1: at his Instagram and I was like, did he post that?
Speaker 1: That's so weird. But yeah, but Muggsy shout out, you
Speaker 1: have good social media manager.
Speaker 3: And he's a very nice guy, very nice guy.
Speaker 1: So as you know, currently with AU and e y
Speaker 1: b L NBA Prospects five Stars, four stars, they're playing
Speaker 1: each other. They all they all know each other now
Speaker 1: because they're going to the same place as like Peach
Speaker 1: Jam and stuff like that. When when you were fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,
Speaker 1: what players did you play man?
Speaker 3: Everybody?
Speaker 2: I mean, Derek Rose, Kevin Love, Kevin Durant, Kyrie Chandler
Speaker 2: Parsons was a good friend of mine, like kind of
Speaker 2: on the ey AU circuit at the time. Almost every
Speaker 2: like every any guy that's like around my age.
Speaker 1: Was it obvious when you were there, Like if you
Speaker 1: were like playing against Katie, was it just like obvious,
Speaker 1: like you just knew at that moment that he was
Speaker 1: gonna make it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he I mean he was like kind of
Speaker 2: the same player. Like his games. I remember when you'd
Speaker 2: play against his games, like the gym would be packed.
Speaker 2: And he also played on a really good team. I
Speaker 2: think Ty Lawson maybe played on his team played in
Speaker 2: the NBA for a while. There was like tons of
Speaker 2: guys on his team, So anytime you played those guys,
Speaker 2: you always knew.
Speaker 1: Like, were there any guys that were like drastically worse?
Speaker 1: Like was crazy enough? But Kyrie you were like, wait,
Speaker 1: he made it because when you saw him when you
Speaker 1: were younger, that was crazy.
Speaker 2: Uh nook, Like he was always really good from the beginning.
Speaker 2: I think I probably was one of those guys that,
Speaker 2: like I wasn't ranked until my junior year, so I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: I was sort of somewhat of a late bloomer.
Speaker 2: But there's guys like that for sure, Like that, you
Speaker 2: didn't really like Jimmy Butler, I don't think was really
Speaker 2: like highly touted, even like Damian Lillard. Damian Lillard, Steph.
Speaker 1: Like people well because Dell, but like still he like
Speaker 1: on his like it's not Max Preps, but whatever the
Speaker 1: website was, he didn't even have a.
Speaker 3: Picture for sure.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Yeah, there's definitely guys like that always kind of
Speaker 2: pop up. But there's also guys who are like super
Speaker 2: highly ranked that it's hard to see that when you're
Speaker 2: in high school and you're like competing against them, but once,
Speaker 2: like as you're older, like now I look back, I'm
Speaker 2: just like, man, you just can't take anything for ground.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Steph, when Oklahoma played David Davidson, he dropped
Speaker 1: forty four Okay, but you won. You had twenty one
Speaker 1: rebounds and twenty five points. Right, did you in that
Speaker 1: moment where you like, this kid is going to be
Speaker 1: the greatest shooter ever? Is that just not when you're
Speaker 1: like he was so young, you know, no one really knew,
Speaker 1: but could you see that playing against him?
Speaker 2: I mean, you knew he was going to be you
Speaker 2: knew he was a great shooter. That was like our
Speaker 2: whole scouting report coming into it. And the crazy thing
Speaker 2: about that game, he had a good game, the whole game,
Speaker 2: but like he really kind of went off at the
Speaker 2: end too, and it was like it was one of
Speaker 2: those moments.
Speaker 1: Where it was like and they say, he's not clutch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's crazy, that's crazy. That's a whole different thing.
Speaker 1: See, you guys heard it here. Blake Griffin thinks Steph
Speaker 1: Craz's clutch. So now you can't even debate it. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's move on. Now I heard about you when
Speaker 1: you were a kid. That's cool, right, But now I
Speaker 1: want to hear about your life as you grew older. Okay,
Speaker 1: So the classic question, what was your welcome to the
Speaker 1: league moment?
Speaker 3: Welcome to the league moment?
Speaker 2: We were playing It was a preseason game and we
Speaker 2: were playing San Antonio. In San Antonio, I'd grown up
Speaker 2: watching I read like a bunch of David Robinson books.
Speaker 3: I had grown up watching him play.
Speaker 2: For a long time. Tim Duncan play for a long time. Actually,
Speaker 2: the first NBA game I ever went to was a
Speaker 2: Spurs game. I was like nine years old, and I'm
Speaker 2: warming up on one end and I just kind of
Speaker 2: like glanced down at the other and not even thinking anything,
Speaker 2: and Tim Duncan is like, you know, forty feet away
Speaker 2: from me, like warming up, going through this whole thing,
Speaker 2: and like, for some reason, that's when it like hit me,
Speaker 2: that's crazy. I can't believe I'm about to do your stackshot.
Speaker 2: I was like I had to like pull myself back
Speaker 2: together and like, you know, keep warming up. But I
Speaker 2: didn't really have one where it was like in the moment.
Speaker 1: Of the game and well, you're lucky because your rookie
Speaker 1: season was so dull and it was like everyone else
Speaker 1: who's like puny little rookies and people were like dunking
Speaker 1: on it. You were you were dunking on the vegan.
Speaker 3: It was a little bit. I still had some moments
Speaker 3: where you're just like, man, this guy is.
Speaker 1: So good less than others, so let's be honest, less
Speaker 1: than oother.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: So I asked you what you're welcome to the league
Speaker 1: moment is. But I think personally, as an LA kid,
Speaker 1: I think you're lucky because you were drafted to the
Speaker 1: Clippers and like Ella's a pretty fun place to be
Speaker 1: drafted to. That's immediately like, come on, you're in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: So instead of what you're welcome to league moment, what
Speaker 1: was your welcome to LA moment? Like when was it
Speaker 1: like you were drafted, you came to LA and you
Speaker 1: were just like, I'm here, this is cool.
Speaker 3: That's a good question.
Speaker 2: It's interesting that you say that, though, because at the
Speaker 2: time when the Clippers got the first pick, everybody was
Speaker 2: telling me to like take a stand, not not tell
Speaker 2: the Clippers not to draft me. They'd had like a
Speaker 2: long string of number one pick sping bus, they'd had
Speaker 2: a you know, they had made the play, they'd made
Speaker 2: the playoffs once in however many years.
Speaker 1: You did bring them to the playoffs for the first
Speaker 1: time since two thousand and six.
Speaker 2: You know your stats. I don't know my welcome to LA.
Speaker 2: I think like playing probably playing like in Staples against
Speaker 2: the Lakers at the time when we first started, like
Speaker 2: the Clippers, weren't you know, we we sort of got
Speaker 2: it going.
Speaker 3: But it's not it's not like the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Was there anything with the celebrity.
Speaker 2: Though that Like, yeah, I remember Jack Nicholson gave me
Speaker 2: a little fist bump one time, like after I'd had
Speaker 2: a dunk right before halftime, I was putting my mouth
Speaker 2: beast down. I was walking by him, you know, you said,
Speaker 2: right there by the away bench, and he gave me
Speaker 2: a little fist bump and he didn't say anything, but
Speaker 2: he kind of like did that, And I was like,
Speaker 2: I love.
Speaker 1: That's what happens when you're drafted to the Clippers and
Speaker 1: not like I was going to say the Magic, but.
Speaker 3: I didn't want to, like oh right right, yeah, like
Speaker 3: awkward with the.
Speaker 1: Magic, but like it's true. I mean it would be
Speaker 1: cooler to be you do want to alienate yourself.
Speaker 3: To Magic fans?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I still love you. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a little different.
Speaker 1: Okay, So who is like a player that you go
Speaker 1: up against that's it's not like an All Star but
Speaker 1: every time he just guessed you like he's it's like
Speaker 1: an underrated.
Speaker 2: Player, uh like in my position or just in general,
Speaker 2: just like.
Speaker 3: In general, that's tough.
Speaker 2: Uh So last season, Ish Smith, who actually played with
Speaker 2: in Detroit two times. He actually he started out the
Speaker 2: season with Charlotte and then finished the season with the
Speaker 2: Washington Wizards twice in the second half, particularly in the
Speaker 2: fourth quarter, just destroyed us, like destroyed us. We had
Speaker 2: a chance in both games. We didn't have a great
Speaker 2: season last year, but he's one of those guys that
Speaker 2: he's a guy that I always point to that's like,
Speaker 2: you guys don't understand how good these guys are. Like
Speaker 2: somebody who like isn't as well known, is just such
Speaker 2: a good player and killed us two times in one
Speaker 2: season with different teams in the same.
Speaker 3: Way and we couldn't do anything. Yeah, he's great. He's
Speaker 3: a great guy.
Speaker 1: Should I get a jersey?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Should get it Ish Smith Smith jersey.
Speaker 1: Okay. I'm a really big Warriors fan, And something I
Speaker 1: like to do is I like to get jerseys of
Speaker 1: players that probably no one else has, not like no
Speaker 1: one else, but like I like to be like, look
Speaker 1: at me.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 1: So I rock a want Asconna Anderson a lot because
Speaker 1: he was just traded to the Lakes Lakers, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have bought jersey, but something about him leaving
Speaker 1: that makes me want to buy a Dante DiVincenzo jersey.
Speaker 1: But then I'm like, he's probably gonna leave two or
Speaker 1: like a Quandary Weatherspoon, like, come on, that's so sick
Speaker 1: if you rock that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but like it's almost even better if they're like
Speaker 2: if they're there for life, then it allows more people
Speaker 2: to get that jer That jersey is.
Speaker 1: Like theminga rookie. Come on, Like that's that's big time.
Speaker 1: And like people in like ten years people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: look at my comminga Jersey. I'm like, yeah, well when
Speaker 1: comingo was, I mean, well, we know he's amazing, but
Speaker 1: like he doesn't have his big of a role because
Speaker 1: the Wars the Warriors, and like I I had a cominga.
Speaker 2: Jersey and you have a wand just gone away Jersey.
Speaker 2: Not that many people can say that.
Speaker 1: That's why it's big time. I really wanted a Gary
Speaker 1: Payton in the second Jersey, but he's now on the Trailblazers,
Speaker 1: so I guess it was just meant to be that
Speaker 1: it didn't come in time.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let that be a listen though exactly. I always
Speaker 2: always pull the trigger on that one. Does sound fire chios? Yeah,
Speaker 2: another great guy.
Speaker 1: True, well you probably know better than me, but I
Speaker 1: feel like he just seems really cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I played with him in Brooklyn, not this past season,
Speaker 2: but the season before. It's hilarious and a really really
Speaker 2: good basketball players.
Speaker 1: Yes, he's only five eleven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tiny cheese what we call cheese.
Speaker 1: So this is by far my favorite segment. Let's just
Speaker 1: say it so. Stephen A. Smith is known for his
Speaker 1: hot takes. But Blake, listen to me. I don't think
Speaker 1: you've ever seen a take hotter than Kelly. You've read here.
Speaker 1: The takes that we're about to say, okay, are going
Speaker 1: to be so hot, like green eyes that you drown
Speaker 1: in Kelly's eyes beautiful, the like bleached blonde hair that
Speaker 1: he has. That's what these takes are gonna does he
Speaker 1: still have? I can't keep up with like he Actually
Speaker 1: I did see his Instagram post yesterday. It's actually now
Speaker 1: back to brown. Okay, but I like how he changes
Speaker 1: it out. Yeah see, And that's what these these takes
Speaker 1: are going to be. Unpredictable. I mean, so it's rapid
Speaker 1: fire ish like we can explain, but let's go pretty fast. Okay,
Speaker 1: when you can't say yourself and the person has to
Speaker 1: be in the league currently, those are the two rules. Yes,
Speaker 1: and you have to listen to them or else you
Speaker 1: will be with me and you don't want to be
Speaker 1: in trouble with You're Okay? Which NBA player is the
Speaker 1: best dressed? You want to say yourself?
Speaker 2: Don't you feel like you always want to? I'll go
Speaker 2: with Russ just because he just has has done it
Speaker 2: forever and like he's sort of the one that kind
Speaker 2: of like got everybody else on this, Like.
Speaker 1: Agreed, I like his mech Gala outfit.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Who has the best shoe game?
Speaker 3: The best shoe game? PJ Tucker?
Speaker 1: Okay, good because every time I ask that question, if
Speaker 1: someone doesn't say PJ Tucker, I'm like, you're weird. Like
Speaker 1: he has a house for his shoes. That just has
Speaker 1: to be the end.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he also like appreciates shoes that you just like,
Speaker 2: like I didn't even know those existence.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some company made like a shoe commercial with him,
Speaker 1: and I was just like, that is so smart.
Speaker 3: I didn't see that. That is smart, very smart.
Speaker 1: You should look it up. Who is the funniest current
Speaker 1: NBA player?
Speaker 3: DeAndre Jordan?
Speaker 1: Interesting? What's like the funniest thing he ever did? When
Speaker 1: you were in LA? But it has to be appropriate
Speaker 1: because I am still a kid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously.
Speaker 2: I don't know I don't think it's just like a
Speaker 2: He's just like has the ability to talk to everybody
Speaker 2: or make everybody laugh. He's like one of those glue
Speaker 2: guys on a team that sort of keeps everything like
Speaker 2: and keeps people together.
Speaker 1: Okay, Which NBA player is the best singer?
Speaker 3: I would say Victor Oladipo.
Speaker 1: I guess did you see him on the mask singer?
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 2: I saw a clip of it, but I didn't watch
Speaker 2: the mask. He also has like an album, he does, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he has an album. And one day we were at USA,
Speaker 2: like doing in Vegas at USA like training camp, and
Speaker 2: he was like just like singing, just like kind of
Speaker 2: to himself.
Speaker 1: Was like, Wow, Which NBA player is the best rapper?
Speaker 1: Because that can start controversy.
Speaker 3: Oh, that can't start controversy. I'll go with Dame Lillard.
Speaker 1: I like, I feel like the other answer is slightly
Speaker 1: problematic right now. You know what I'm saying. You guys
Speaker 1: get it, get it, you get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess I'm just gonna keep going. And Andre
Speaker 3: Drummons pretty good. Andre Drumm's pretty good too.
Speaker 1: Which NBA player could run for president and win?
Speaker 3: Chris Paul or c J McCollum probably.
Speaker 1: Like a Christ of all. That is a really good call.
Speaker 1: I feel like most people that I've asked said Lebron,
Speaker 1: but I think Chris Paul because Lebron it's like some
Speaker 1: people hate him, some people love him, whereas Chris Paul. Like,
Speaker 1: I've never seen anyone who just like hates Chris Paul.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've been his teammate, like some refs, some refs,
Speaker 1: but a lot of refs. Hey, that's only one vote.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. That's true. It's true.
Speaker 1: And he's been all around the league a lot of
Speaker 1: different states. Would he would get their electoral college.
Speaker 3: Votes and he was the NBPA president for while.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so you were the rookie of the Year
Speaker 1: and ESPN named you one of the top fifteen best
Speaker 1: rookies of all time. So in this past NBA season,
Speaker 1: if you like, not Adam Silvana, any of the journalists,
Speaker 1: if you got to choose who the rookie of the
Speaker 1: Year would be, would you still give it to Scotty Box.
Speaker 3: Oh Man, Uh yeah, he had. I mean he had
Speaker 3: a really good rookie year.
Speaker 2: I thought I thought, uh, Cave Cuttingham had a great
Speaker 2: rookie year too, it's just I don't I don't know
Speaker 2: what we're doing with these awards, like.
Speaker 3: Especially Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 2: Like a lot of people's thing was, well, Scottie Barnes'
Speaker 2: team is better than CAD's. Yeah, but like as a rookie,
Speaker 2: like aren't you just supposed to be having like a
Speaker 2: great season. I still think Scotty Barnes deserved it, but
Speaker 2: I also think, like Evan Mobley is really I'm a.
Speaker 1: Huge believer in that the NBA awards are corrupt because
Speaker 1: most improved player I will I live by this. Jow
Speaker 1: shouldn't have won. He is on a normal progression of
Speaker 1: an NBA star. Jordan Poole went from playing in the
Speaker 1: G League to being a starter in the NBA finals,
Speaker 1: going back to the Wars. But it's not I'm not
Speaker 1: being just okay, but it's not just about the worst.
Speaker 1: Same with Desmond Baine and he I mean, Joe actually
Speaker 1: gave the award to Desmond Bain after I don't know
Speaker 1: if you saw, but like same with Desmond Baine. It's
Speaker 1: these guys who went from me second round picks late
Speaker 1: first round picks in the G League then being big players.
Speaker 1: Jaw Is incredible, but he's he has a normal progression,
Speaker 1: Like he went from like Rookie of the Year to
Speaker 1: an All Star. Like next he would probably get MVP,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2: I actually do agree with you not to take anything
Speaker 2: away from Jaba.
Speaker 1: No, of course not.
Speaker 2: He had an unbelievable year, but you're right, he like
Speaker 2: Rookie of the Year to All Star to like it's
Speaker 2: tough to give somebody a Rookie of the Year and
Speaker 2: then I also a most improved player.
Speaker 1: It's like if they gave you most improved Player during
Speaker 1: your like rookie season because your first season didn't play
Speaker 1: and you'd be like, I mean, yeah, technically I improved from
Speaker 1: sitting on the bench.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, this guy didn't play at all last year,
Speaker 2: and look at him now.
Speaker 1: He went from not playing to un that's amazing. So
Speaker 1: now we're going to move on to our final segment.
Speaker 1: It's funnycause we talked about Muggsy Bogues very short, the
Speaker 1: shortest player to ever play in the NBA, Maneu Bowl
Speaker 1: the tallest player to ever play NBA. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: go with Muggsy or Maneu, two very different things. And
Speaker 1: I want to hear your choice.
Speaker 3: This is straight rapid fire.
Speaker 1: Last shot.
Speaker 3: I'm Jerakobe Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1: This one may have get you going Oklahoma State or
Speaker 1: University of Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: The University?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I okay, Nike or Adidas?
Speaker 3: Nike?
Speaker 1: Is that only because you have to deal with nice.
Speaker 2: I'm a Jordan athlete. But it's like it's Nike, you know.
Speaker 3: Nike and Jordan.
Speaker 1: Katoride or Powerade Powrate's nasty. People don't drink powery know,
Speaker 1: Powerids for the week, Gatorades for the song right, Instagram or.
Speaker 3: TikTok probably just Instagram, but TikTok's great. I agree.
Speaker 1: I love TikTok okay Out on the Town or Netflix
Speaker 1: and Chill.
Speaker 2: Staying in like Netflix, Netflix and chill sweet or salty sweet.
Speaker 3: I'm a huge sweet tooth, huge sweet tooth.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite dessert anything?
Speaker 2: I love ice cream, mcconnald's ice cream, Sea Salt cream
Speaker 2: and cookies.
Speaker 1: McConnell's The Way to Go. Mcconnad's is a nice from
Speaker 1: place in LA and they have fabulous ice cream and
Speaker 1: I like their birthday cake flavor.
Speaker 2: It's great. I had actually had it last time. I
Speaker 2: always go see salt cream and cookies. But I tried
Speaker 2: it last time.
Speaker 1: I think my dad may have gotten like olive oil
Speaker 1: from there once. That was a really.
Speaker 3: Question interesting I got to talk about.
Speaker 1: It was like, that's not that's clash, no choice I left.
Speaker 1: It was like, I'm not sleeping in your house.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm driving home?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Michael Jordan or Lebron James? Oh, I love you though.
Speaker 2: No, Yeah, listen, when you have to pick one, it's
Speaker 2: not like that you're saying one's bad.
Speaker 1: And like, I, as a Warriors fan, personally believe that
Speaker 1: Steph just ruined Lebron's chances of being the greatest of
Speaker 1: all time. I mean, they both have four rings.
Speaker 3: Is this a Warriors podcast?
Speaker 1: It's not a Warriors podcast. But if the Warriors wanted
Speaker 1: to sponsor me, I wouldn't say no.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean, we got to get a
Speaker 3: Warriors player on.
Speaker 1: I know if you would love to text one of them,
Speaker 1: that would be great.
Speaker 3: I'll try. I'll try.
Speaker 1: Great, that will work well for me. Another high five? Okay,
Speaker 1: Zion or jaw oh Man.
Speaker 3: I mean I think you just got to go.
Speaker 2: I think you gotta go job just because he's we
Speaker 2: haven't seen Zion play.
Speaker 3: I love Zion's game.
Speaker 1: Giving Zion the most important player wouldn't be crazy because
Speaker 1: he's had a different progression, but.
Speaker 2: He's still he's averaged like twenty. I guess if he
Speaker 2: went from like I don't know what he averages, but
Speaker 2: he went from like twenty to like thirty, I guess.
Speaker 2: But still, it's like you should probably give that award
Speaker 2: to guys who, like, you know, went from like seven
Speaker 2: to fifteen or like twelve to twenty, you know.
Speaker 1: And I also think something about him is like people
Speaker 1: didn't realize when he played how good he was. He
Speaker 1: was the youngest ever starting All Star and yes that
Speaker 1: was because someone was hurt, but like, still he's is.
Speaker 3: That jar or wait oh Zion really?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And like he's done so much he just hasn't
Speaker 1: been able to show it. But Jaw's jaw.
Speaker 3: Last season was Yeah, he was, he was, he was great.
Speaker 1: Yeah. New York or La La good? You know what,
Speaker 1: you get another high five for that one. I love
Speaker 1: New York City, but like La is the place to be?
Speaker 3: No, yeah, they're both great.
Speaker 1: Rinaldo or Messy.
Speaker 3: Oh messy.
Speaker 1: I saw a TikTok yesterday and it was parking spaces
Speaker 1: at the Nike headquarters and your parking spot is next
Speaker 1: to Ronaldo. So maybe he crashed his car in two
Speaker 1: years after he heard that you think messy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh that's cool. You set me up with his question.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Ronaldo just swam right into him. Oh maybe like
Speaker 1: in six months, I'm going to be able to get
Speaker 1: my permit and Ronaldo can give me my lessons and
Speaker 1: I'll be like, I think we should go to the
Speaker 1: to the Nike parking lot and then we'll just go
Speaker 1: like straight into your car.
Speaker 3: After we do this podcast, you're gonna advocate this.
Speaker 1: It would go viral on TikTok and I would film
Speaker 1: it so like I've again, not a good decision, but
Speaker 1: probably would go viral.
Speaker 3: You hear that drivers drivers instructor.
Speaker 1: That's not good Doris Burke or me.
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, come on.
Speaker 1: My guy. I think that's a really good way to end,
Speaker 1: Blake Griffin. You heard it here first people. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: good at interviewing basketball.
Speaker 3: It's a great interview. That was awesome, very well done.
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