Speaker 1: Welcome back to Unplugged. We got a good one for
Speaker 1: you guys.
Speaker 2: This week.
Speaker 1: We're welcome to the family our guy mad Max. He'll
Speaker 1: be joining me talking everything from NBA, more Max stories,
Speaker 1: what he's going to be doing with the company, a
Speaker 1: little bit of college.
Speaker 2: So make sure you guys stay.
Speaker 1: Tuned first and foremost, Man, I want to get this
Speaker 1: whole thing started with welcoming the newest member to the family,
Speaker 1: Mad Max.
Speaker 2: Max, Welcome, bro.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it, Man, thanks a lot. Yeah, I've been this
Speaker 3: for a long time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, we've been trying to line up for a long
Speaker 1: time and and you know, perfect timing was perfect time,
Speaker 1: and we locked down an all star Man. And the
Speaker 1: feedback from your episode has been incredible. I mean millions
Speaker 1: and millions and millions of impressions and comments and celebrities
Speaker 1: commenting that you know, to say that that was their favorite.
Speaker 1: This is the best episode. We've had a long list
Speaker 1: of great guests, and Max, you stole all the thunder Man.
Speaker 1: How is how is the feedback and re spons being
Speaker 1: from appearing on our show during All Star for you?
Speaker 4: Man, I done blew up like I was, like I'm
Speaker 4: played like I was playing in the day of NBA.
Speaker 4: God damn, I go, Mom, just be like, man, oh, Max,
Speaker 4: let me take a picture with you. I was like, man,
Speaker 4: MANE used to get this ship like, but now it's
Speaker 4: just it's crazy. It's crazy. Man, it was crazy. But
Speaker 4: it was a great show. And that's what everybody talk
Speaker 4: about the show Man. It was like, that was one
Speaker 4: of the best ever. So, I mean, you got kids,
Speaker 4: you got moms, you got people talk about it, listening
Speaker 4: to it in the car going to church. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's so so much. It's a good positive feedback. It
Speaker 4: was a blessing.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: I had fun on it.
Speaker 2: It was great.
Speaker 1: And still seeing clips go viral, it's it's amazing. You'll
Speaker 1: be a recurring guest to close this season on a
Speaker 1: couple of different platforms. But also we got something cooking
Speaker 1: up with you. We got some stuff we've talked about
Speaker 1: about story time with Max.
Speaker 2: We got to figure out what the name is.
Speaker 1: And I'm calling out any young and upping coming uh animators.
Speaker 1: We need some animators for Max's new short series. Man,
Speaker 1: so come come fuck come fuck with us and Max,
Speaker 1: and we need to fuck with.
Speaker 2: Max with Max.
Speaker 1: Hey, So any animators out there, man, hit us in
Speaker 1: the dms. We're looking for young, new, up and coming
Speaker 1: animators man to animate Max story times, so that should
Speaker 1: be fun.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: We're really excited to get you in the mix. It
Speaker 1: kind of feels like our sweet spot with that show
Speaker 1: is eighties and nineties, kind of early two thousand players,
Speaker 1: Like our fan base goes crazy for that man, So
Speaker 1: you fit right in that fold and you yeah, like
Speaker 1: I said, you stole all the light man, So we're
Speaker 1: excited to have you here with us. Some of the
Speaker 1: big celebrities jumped on, like Jamie Fox said it was
Speaker 1: the greatest interview ever. What does I mean when you
Speaker 1: hear something like that from from a legendary one of
Speaker 1: the most talented mans in the business, how does that
Speaker 1: make you feel?
Speaker 3: Man, it's a blessing. Man, Just you know, that's my guy.
Speaker 3: I've been watching him for a long time.
Speaker 4: I've never ever officially had a chance to meet this motherfucker,
Speaker 4: but I do want.
Speaker 3: To meet your motherfucking.
Speaker 4: L a more.
Speaker 3: I've got to got to make.
Speaker 2: It'm line that up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna line that. He's gonna see this too.
Speaker 1: I'm a line that. That's that's the rope on the show.
Speaker 1: And we can make sure we definitely lined it up.
Speaker 1: But one thing I wanted to tap into Max. I've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of cougars on their hollering for old Max.
Speaker 1: A lot of cougars on there. A lot of ladies
Speaker 1: was on there hollering for old Max. Max, you still
Speaker 1: got that.
Speaker 4: Juice, baxt Hey, Hey, I know I've seen that too.
Speaker 3: I saw that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to disrespect I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: want I don't want to disrespect your citution. I don't
Speaker 1: know what your situation is, but I just saw a
Speaker 1: lot of ladies in there loving on Max.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw that too.
Speaker 4: Man, Damn, I ain't think they want the old dog.
Speaker 3: I ain't think they want old Dog.
Speaker 4: I appreciate Hey, but hey, real appreciate all your hey, Hey,
Speaker 4: appreciate you ladies, man, I appreciate all the love. Stay
Speaker 4: stay tuned now, Like we say, stay tuned. It's a
Speaker 4: lot of more ship coming out. But we're gonna catch up.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna catch up to you.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 1: One of the funnier comings that we saw that we
Speaker 1: wanted to highlight. Someone said, any athlete they could smoke,
Speaker 1: snort and drink and still put up numbers as a superhero.
Speaker 1: Regular people can't.
Speaker 3: Keep That's what the fuck I was, Like, I keep
Speaker 3: saying roy Max, Like when I was at Florida, Man,
Speaker 3: half of the time, Man, I ain't even know I was.
Speaker 3: What the fuck I was? Man, I was sure I
Speaker 3: was the time at that motherfucker.
Speaker 4: I mean, I wasn't going to class. I was just
Speaker 4: you know, fucking fighting with coaches and ships. Not my coach,
Speaker 4: but one coach, my head coach. God bless them though,
Speaker 4: but it was just it was just a mess man
Speaker 4: at the University of Florida. The University of Florida. Y'all
Speaker 4: need to get this shit together. And I appreciate y'all
Speaker 4: trying to. We're trying to get in touch with each other,
Speaker 4: and we're trying to make this happen.
Speaker 3: But I need let's make this shit happen. Now, come
Speaker 3: on now before I get off this earth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, man, you already know we're gonna put
Speaker 1: some heat on them, hopefully be able to sit down
Speaker 1: and see we could make happen. But I mean, outside
Speaker 1: all that, you look great man, sixty years old, still
Speaker 1: active bike riding. How you doing. I remember when we
Speaker 1: had talked at all star. You were just recovering from
Speaker 1: a bike accident. Your body back healthy?
Speaker 2: You good, man, I'm healthy now.
Speaker 4: Shit, you know, I heal real well. You know to
Speaker 4: be as old as I am.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: So I'm fine, Man, I'm healthy. I'm all the way
Speaker 3: back now.
Speaker 4: I can do all my animal made a shit like
Speaker 4: I like to do when I'm on the camera, and
Speaker 4: I can do all my shit.
Speaker 3: So I'm back. Man.
Speaker 1: We've had a lot of people on this show, and again,
Speaker 1: you were one of the most fierce competitors out there.
Speaker 1: We got a little taste of some stuff with you
Speaker 1: and MJ. You got any stories with Kobe oh Man?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Man, Kobe Ship? Who when I hate to tell
Speaker 4: this my fucking story.
Speaker 3: God bless you, Kobe Man. God damn Cob Man.
Speaker 2: He was.
Speaker 4: He was in high school his senior year. I was
Speaker 4: with the Sixers back in I.
Speaker 3: Think it was ninety five, ninety six something like that.
Speaker 4: He was in high school with the Sixers and and
Speaker 4: John and Lucas bringing and the practice with us and Ship.
Speaker 3: So I was like, man, they got my mother forgotn't
Speaker 3: seen him. I see him over there, Lord Marion playing
Speaker 3: and Ship. I'm watching him, you know, on TV, and
Speaker 3: I'm watching him play. I'm like, he's tough. Damn.
Speaker 4: I don't think he ready for this damn grown man ship.
Speaker 4: You know, That's what I thought when he walked in.
Speaker 3: That motherfucker, you know, you know, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: But then so we started playing and he was playing,
Speaker 4: and you know, and and I think it was me
Speaker 4: and Jerry Stackhouse. We were on the starting team with
Speaker 4: the sixers in Kobe. That just throw Kobe on our.
Speaker 3: Second team and shitting, I'm.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm going kolbe shit, Well I'm a two
Speaker 4: in here two so shit and shit, that motherfucker came
Speaker 4: at me, I said, I pulled up all I said,
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, Okay, this little motherfucker's for real. I said,
Speaker 4: this motherfucker the heah, I said, So I gotta really
Speaker 4: scrap up.
Speaker 3: And you know, check the smotherfucker.
Speaker 4: So I was like, God, damn the motherfucker. So then
Speaker 4: I scrapped up. The next time. You know, probably not
Speaker 4: not the next two times. He probably ain't do nothing,
Speaker 4: but he really had my ass beat.
Speaker 3: He could have.
Speaker 4: Did something, but I was glad to nigga he was
Speaker 4: passive because I think he was just trying to feel
Speaker 4: his way around the motherfucker. You know out there on
Speaker 4: the court, you know you don't wanna step on. Nobody told,
Speaker 4: especially you watch playing on TV. So this motherfucking then
Speaker 4: so I'm like, god damn.
Speaker 3: So he had me be. He could have went on
Speaker 3: took the shot, but he gave it up, made great passes.
Speaker 3: I said, damn, the smitherfucker play. So then I got Damn.
Speaker 3: I tried to get the physical with it, motherfucker. And
Speaker 3: why did I do that?
Speaker 4: This just mother He started putting my lass in that
Speaker 4: post and started talking and doing all that.
Speaker 3: I said, this motherfucker play just like.
Speaker 4: Mike, and this I mean that when my motherfucker was
Speaker 4: tough man.
Speaker 2: He was.
Speaker 4: He was so tough man and didn't he started coming
Speaker 4: downhill at me, and man, it was unbelieva me. I
Speaker 4: couldn't do nothing with this smartfucker man. And but back
Speaker 4: then he wasn't talking shit. He was just he was
Speaker 4: just killing niggas and just killing.
Speaker 2: He just came.
Speaker 4: He came down and gave me probably about twelve straight
Speaker 4: and John Leuis stock and called time out and asked.
Speaker 3: Me, man, when are you gonna go This motherfucker?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: When is you gonna start going this motherfucker this man,
Speaker 3: God damn. So that's when I told Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 4: That's when I told Kobe being Brian, I said, Kobe,
Speaker 4: I want to tell you something, son. I said, Man,
Speaker 4: don't you touch no motherfucking college for man.
Speaker 3: You come on, man, you read at it.
Speaker 4: Man, I'm one of the better defenders in this motherfucker.
Speaker 3: The way you did today, Man, I know I found
Speaker 3: come on, man, come on to get your money.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's my story about man much love.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, man, rest of peace. I loved it because
Speaker 1: I've heard that story before. But I say, I didn't
Speaker 1: know you were. I just heard he went out there
Speaker 1: and did his thing. I didn't know you was guarding him.
Speaker 2: So he gave me.
Speaker 3: They got me caught up in the motherfucking bullshit.
Speaker 2: Kind of.
Speaker 1: Another story I literally just heard the other day. Magic
Speaker 1: Johnson went on Byron Scott's podcast talk about when you
Speaker 1: called out Magic.
Speaker 2: Do you remember that happened?
Speaker 3: Yeah, see I saw that ship.
Speaker 2: And we're gonna play the clip. We're gonna play the clip.
Speaker 6: I remember when Maxwell was on you.
Speaker 5: Maxwell said he could guard him out loud, out loud,
Speaker 5: So me and I said, Buck, you did you what
Speaker 5: he just said? He starts skyt hooking Max last death
Speaker 5: right and you know me and cool Buck, that's why
Speaker 5: we're talking.
Speaker 2: About kill his ass.
Speaker 5: He can't call you Buck, Buck catch the next one
Speaker 5: the post Max.
Speaker 2: Saying hey, man, come help, come out. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: you don't need no help. Know what you said.
Speaker 5: And that was like the first time you saw Buck
Speaker 5: turned and somebody said, oh no, no, no, you said you
Speaker 5: don't need no help because we always talked with each
Speaker 5: other and get each other going, because we held each
Speaker 5: other to a different standard.
Speaker 2: Max to the trick bag.
Speaker 1: Huh Hey, magic a magic is six magic is six nine.
Speaker 1: Though people don't realize how big man? How what do
Speaker 1: you how tell you? Sixty four six three six four?
Speaker 3: I'm six four? Yeah, I'm six.
Speaker 2: Four yeah, So.
Speaker 3: I never was. I was one hundred and ninety five pounds,
Speaker 3: but I didn't no excuse.
Speaker 2: But you're real man.
Speaker 3: That's a real true story. And fine, that's a bullshit by.
Speaker 3: You're on some bullshit b you know you my nigga
Speaker 3: be but I ain't like it. Where you how you
Speaker 3: gonna bring that ship up on y'all page? Man? Okay,
Speaker 3: b we're gonna get I'm gonna get you on some
Speaker 3: to be But that's cool. Bee, I like that ship.
Speaker 3: That's well, but it's a cool fucking story. And Magic.
Speaker 4: Yeah you did do that, but on the flip side though,
Speaker 4: Now I gotta tell it's two sides of all the ship.
Speaker 3: Okay, Now I was big, I asked the Navy.
Speaker 4: Yeah he did put me down that post, y'all saying
Speaker 4: he did block the little shot, but I ain't.
Speaker 3: He blocked a little shot when I went in there.
Speaker 3: But but normally.
Speaker 4: Magic after they score, when Madgie thought I got them,
Speaker 4: look on me when they score, magic, bick ass, they
Speaker 4: cross guard, damn you got coming to me and Magic
Speaker 4: running over there, Togain and Magic getting out the well.
Speaker 4: This motherfucking problems because he knows I was back at it.
Speaker 3: Gonna have Mattie, you know you weren't coming over that.
Speaker 3: Now use cross guard now, y'all. Motherfuckers get this story
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 1: They Hey, Madi, you want no problems on defense?
Speaker 4: No, sir, Matty big ass couldn't move his feet now.
Speaker 4: I love him to death now, but goddamn now matter,
Speaker 4: use a couchy on defense. Its CAUs d now I
Speaker 4: love him. I love cash on defense. Now you go
Speaker 4: raight by that big old motherfucker. Now slow now semen.
Speaker 1: Bootsmen, boots, and we gotta line you up with b Scott.
Speaker 1: That's the holy too. We play golf together. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: line you have a be Scott when you come out here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, tell me I gotta get it too. Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Well let's get to some current NBA news. Uh.
Speaker 1: This segments called Sparks or Fire, brought to you by
Speaker 1: Row Fast Acting long Lasting Geno Davis ed Treatment. So
Speaker 1: have you seen Brandon Jennings calling out all the players
Speaker 1: from his own night raft lately? Yes, that seems like
Speaker 1: some ship you might That seemed like some ship you
Speaker 1: might do.
Speaker 2: Max, jeff T not not anybody.
Speaker 3: Are you gonna play jeff T?
Speaker 2: I want to play Jeff T.
Speaker 1: I want to play Ty Loss and I want to
Speaker 1: play lou Will.
Speaker 4: I like Brandon Jenner's a lot, you know, I mean
Speaker 4: like me too. He was he was tough and they
Speaker 4: came in the league. I like Brandon Jenny, but I
Speaker 4: think Brandon was smoking some real good ship.
Speaker 3: Well I thought they went on.
Speaker 4: I mean, I love you, Brandon, now you know I
Speaker 4: love you boy, you know I love you so but
Speaker 4: I don't know what they were smoking before they.
Speaker 2: Went on, and he went on. He want to he wanted.
Speaker 2: He went on saying, and I'll give it.
Speaker 1: I mean, Brandon Jennings has always been when he was healthy,
Speaker 1: He's been a killer since I since high school. He
Speaker 1: went overseas and then came and when he got to
Speaker 1: the league, he was ready to go and he was
Speaker 1: rocking his first year. But I mean, Drew Holliday is
Speaker 1: is tough. Drew Holliday is tough. Brandon was a big
Speaker 1: time scorer. But Brandon or you know, Drew his two ways.
Speaker 1: He's smart, built four tough. Uh. He also called out
Speaker 1: some other guys though. He called out Jeff Tig, Ty Lawson,
Speaker 1: Lou Will all them dudes.
Speaker 2: Tigue was a killer.
Speaker 1: Ty Lawson is still playing overseas if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 1: So he's ready and you know, you know sweet Lou
Speaker 1: Lou is always ready to hoop.
Speaker 2: So in twenty four hours, all.
Speaker 1: All these dudes responding, So we may have some kind
Speaker 1: of one on one challenge. Maybe we can get some
Speaker 1: money together for all the smoke and have you hosted
Speaker 1: the one on one Hey.
Speaker 2: Hosted by Mad Max. Let's maybe maybe we didn't like that,
Speaker 2: might need to go.
Speaker 1: We might need to go get ce four the sponsor
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Speaker 2: Brand.
Speaker 3: He said that, he said he want he called that
Speaker 3: name we wanted.
Speaker 1: Let's make it, Hey, b b J. You was called
Speaker 1: you was cold, bro. But I hope you're ready because
Speaker 1: you called us some real, some real hoopers. But I
Speaker 1: love I love that kind of competitive spirit. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know he's necessarily agree, but I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta think that way. And you know Brand has
Speaker 1: always been a hooper. So I'm not even mad at
Speaker 1: the way he's thinking. But now you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: back it up. He's probably not. Drew's not gonna play
Speaker 1: him obviously. You know he's still in the league doing
Speaker 1: the same. The guys out the league that you called out,
Speaker 1: you got they coming. So Max is this is this
Speaker 1: is this sparks or fire? Max is real fire or Sparks?
Speaker 3: Oh man, I think it's fire Man. I like it.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 1: It's fire fire, sir, anyone, anyone you can call out
Speaker 1: your draft class. I don't think most people in Max's
Speaker 1: draft class can still really move around. Max is the
Speaker 1: Max Is Special. Max still move around like he's in
Speaker 1: his thirties. But this motherfuckers, man.
Speaker 3: You hit it right on, you hit it round the head.
Speaker 3: My knick.
Speaker 4: These motherfuckers, you know, these guys. I wouldn't even know
Speaker 4: who these motherfuckers is have.
Speaker 2: Now you know they been.
Speaker 3: I love all your motherfuckers.
Speaker 4: I love all your motherfuckers. Now, don't get offended, and
Speaker 4: I'll be talking shit about old Max. Don't come in
Speaker 4: my box with all that bullshit. I love all your
Speaker 4: motherfuckers from the eighty eighty five. You motherfuckers doing better
Speaker 4: than what you was doing.
Speaker 2: What you used to do.
Speaker 1: Shit, do something, huh hey transitioning. The Celtics were just
Speaker 1: purchased for a record sale for North American franchise six
Speaker 1: point one billion. But what I wanted to discuss obviously,
Speaker 1: congratulations to the new ownership, But the narrative that that
Speaker 1: that you know, the ratings are down and and and
Speaker 1: the NBA needs to fix this this and that. At
Speaker 1: the end of the day, the business of the NBA
Speaker 1: is still booming, and I don't want people and we
Speaker 1: were someone to talk about the ratings and all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. But it's big as it's ever been
Speaker 1: on on social media. Obviously, out of every sports team
Speaker 1: ever sold, you know this, this team just went for
Speaker 1: the most. So I think this opens a lot of
Speaker 1: doors and room for expansion.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: You know, the NBA has been talking about adding a
Speaker 1: couple more teams. You know, they just signed that huge
Speaker 1: ivany six billion dollar TV deal, biggest obviously in sports.
Speaker 1: What does it say about the strength of the NBA.
Speaker 1: I think everyone always likes to complain about it, but
Speaker 1: at the end of the end of the day, the
Speaker 1: business of the NBA has never been as strong as
Speaker 1: it is now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I think.
Speaker 4: With all the gambling sites and all this other stuff
Speaker 4: and and just you know, just like you said already,
Speaker 4: the TV deal, man, it's after man, so and that's
Speaker 4: why these guys are able to pay these guys all
Speaker 4: this money, the way they pay these guys nowadays, because
Speaker 4: of the TV ratings and.
Speaker 3: The way it's out the roof.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: But I don't have a problem with it, but I
Speaker 4: wish the motherfuckers would give old Max a little something
Speaker 4: out of that motherfucky five.
Speaker 1: Oh God, damn Max, what kind of deal could you
Speaker 1: have got today? Don't don't, don't be a deal for
Speaker 1: give me a five year that Max, that Max would
Speaker 1: have got for five years.
Speaker 2: They had to be in the two hundreds.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. At least at least I'm gonna
Speaker 3: be monison Ship. I'm gonna say about one.
Speaker 2: That would have been good enough for Max yoah.
Speaker 3: Ship Max big Hey man, Hey, I'm I'm gone.
Speaker 4: Nigga, that's generational wealth, that generational wealth.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be done. Y'all are gonna hear about me.
Speaker 3: I'm straighten the fuck up.
Speaker 4: They're gonna say, damn, this motherfucker has changed like a motherfucker.
Speaker 3: Yeah, nigga, ain't mad. Max, don't know this motherfucker.
Speaker 2: Glad Max, Glad Max? This money? Uh shit, man.
Speaker 1: The West, the Western Conference, the Rockets are second in
Speaker 1: the West. They won nine out of ten, seventh in offense,
Speaker 1: second in defense since this stretch. Uh, this is a
Speaker 1: young team out there. What are your thoughts on this team?
Speaker 1: They definitely want smoke, but what is your thought on
Speaker 1: this young Rockets team led by one of the best
Speaker 1: minds in basketball.
Speaker 2: Email you Doka, Oh, man, I don't know.
Speaker 3: What you Doka is doing over there.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: He's a he's a real good coach, man.
Speaker 4: I mean he he blessed Boston by leaving the team
Speaker 4: over there. Who's with the young guy over there coaching now?
Speaker 4: But I mean the Rockets, man, those guys man, they.
Speaker 3: Want some smoke. Like you said, man, they don't care
Speaker 3: who they play. They competitive. Man.
Speaker 4: I just think with the Rockets, man, this summer, they
Speaker 4: got to get somebody like like they keep saying.
Speaker 2: KD or you know what I mean. I was going
Speaker 2: to ask you.
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you they need a solidified vet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, a real solidify, a real score type guy
Speaker 4: over there. Man. I mean I mean once they need
Speaker 4: a real true score. I mean, a guy's gonna get
Speaker 4: double team night in and night out. I mean because,
Speaker 4: I mean because on the defensive end.
Speaker 3: They got it. They ain't scared of it, no more fucker
Speaker 3: by it. They scared of him. I mean, I love
Speaker 3: they to nasty on defense.
Speaker 4: Shit that reminded him of my I mean shit, I
Speaker 4: mean they got dealing crazy ass over there being dealing,
Speaker 4: you know, I mean dealing the villain I call him so,
Speaker 4: I mean so, and they got a lot of guys
Speaker 4: loves compete. The Thompson guy, that one of that twin
Speaker 4: guy here, I mean, he's crazy, but he's a crazy,
Speaker 4: he's a beast. And uh then they got Tory coming
Speaker 4: off the bench and they just got to I mean,
Speaker 4: I love their team, but they just need that one piece,
Speaker 4: and I think it need a guy like KD.
Speaker 1: Like a guy like I mean, I think that's a
Speaker 1: perfect you know, you see we talked about it last
Speaker 1: week on the show with Kd's body language and kind
Speaker 1: of just the frustration that I think, you know, obviously
Speaker 1: losing causes, but also I think he got a little
Speaker 1: frustrated we got about getting thrown, you know, in the
Speaker 1: mix of the trade that line without giving giving the
Speaker 1: heads up. But if you take KD and put him
Speaker 1: off on this Houston team, I mean you that that's
Speaker 1: a championship contender off the rip because for every reason
Speaker 1: that you named, all the pieces that they have surrounding him,
Speaker 1: a young, hungry team bench.
Speaker 4: Everything, they got guys from up the bench compete. I
Speaker 4: mean it's I love the Rockets team. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 4: so I.
Speaker 3: Think they could make they can they can do a
Speaker 3: little bit better with some of the pieces they got.
Speaker 4: They got a lot of pieces they can get, do
Speaker 4: some trading a little bit, just summering and and get
Speaker 4: some more better pieces, you know. But I mean, I
Speaker 4: like the direction they're going in and Ship. I love
Speaker 4: what the Rockets are doing.
Speaker 1: That's my squad, right So Max, you know, and and
Speaker 1: Vent and have been to the finals and been to
Speaker 1: the top of the mountain. We we know normally, come
Speaker 1: playoff time, experience matters, and although the Rockets are young,
Speaker 1: they're sitting at the top of a tough Western Conference,
Speaker 1: but we know, come playoff time, it's a it's a
Speaker 1: different type of game.
Speaker 2: Do you see.
Speaker 1: It's two part question. Obviously, okc is is a young
Speaker 1: team too. They've had their ups and downs in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and this could possibly be the year they come out.
Speaker 1: Are you betting on those two younger teams at the top.
Speaker 1: Are you still looking more at those veteran teams, the Warriors,
Speaker 1: the Lakers possibly Denver if they can get their act
Speaker 1: together this this home stretcher, or do you think this
Speaker 1: could be the year that one of the younger teams
Speaker 1: represent the Western Conference?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I just think this year, man, I mean, okay, see man,
Speaker 4: them young boys.
Speaker 3: Them boys playing tough, man.
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean they're undersized a lot when they
Speaker 4: sometimes when they playing out there where they have both
Speaker 4: of the seven pulls off the floor. Now they start
Speaker 4: to staging them now. But yeah, but I like, okay,
Speaker 4: see man, because Shay Gilchris Man, I'm a motherfucking man.
Speaker 3: That's a fucking problem. That's a fucking real problem out jaed.
Speaker 4: That's I mean, shit, man, I mean, off night is
Speaker 4: twenty six like last night of the Cruiser in the
Speaker 4: first quarter, like I'm gonna let the smart folks get
Speaker 4: off and shit they just I mean, but I mean
Speaker 4: that's smart.
Speaker 3: Fuck he's he's he's on another plane.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 4: But I just think in seven games series, I think
Speaker 4: it'll be tough, you know, I mean for anybody to
Speaker 4: beat them. But that's why I like in the West man.
Speaker 4: But I mean, I mean, I just those guys. I
Speaker 4: like the way those young guys play. They compete hard, man,
Speaker 4: and then and then they got you the two bigs,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, you know Homeroom and another
Speaker 4: big guy, you know, Hartenstein. So I mean both of
Speaker 4: those guys well, so.
Speaker 3: I mean I like the team.
Speaker 4: I like them, but I mean Denver, you know, they're scary, Yes,
Speaker 4: Denmer in the seven game series with them would be scary, man.
Speaker 3: I mean Denver winning there and beat them like a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 4: So you know, and I think they was trying to
Speaker 4: send them motherfucker and let them motherfuckers.
Speaker 3: Know all right now, y'all better be ready when the
Speaker 3: ship happens.
Speaker 4: And then then the Lakers will be scary too, you know,
Speaker 4: with both of those motherfuckers, with Luca and Lebron, you know,
Speaker 4: and then the way they've been playing deepense, they've been
Speaker 4: playing around. I mean, guys been making shot. So Lady's
Speaker 4: gonna be tough to on a seven game series because
Speaker 4: just the fact that you have Lebron and.
Speaker 1: Luca and Luca. Yeah, no, I agree. I think this
Speaker 1: could be the year that Oklahoma City is on their
Speaker 1: shit and represents the West.
Speaker 2: But it also could be a year that.
Speaker 1: They get knocked out or you know, beat in the
Speaker 1: second round and have to lick their wounds because you know,
Speaker 1: once they arrived, they're going to be there for a
Speaker 1: three or four year run, and it could very well
Speaker 1: start transitioning into college. The transfer portal. I want to
Speaker 1: talk about this, and I also want to talk about
Speaker 1: a little bit about the age thing, because we both
Speaker 1: have You have a son that was in high school
Speaker 1: last year that's in junior college now, and I have
Speaker 1: sons coming down the pipeline. So don't let me forget that.
Speaker 1: But the transfer portal is open in the middle of
Speaker 1: March Madness and JJ Watt, former NFL great tweeted the
Speaker 1: NCAA transfer portal opening before March Madness ends, same as
Speaker 1: the football portal opening before Bold season ends, is prepostero.
Speaker 1: That's a big word, literally, cannibizing your own sport. Imagine
Speaker 1: NFL free agencies starting the Monday after wild Card weekend. Obviously,
Speaker 1: this portal nil collectives all this shit that people were
Speaker 1: screaming for, and I was one of them screaming for
Speaker 1: athletes need to be paid. All this stuff is kind
Speaker 1: of materialized in the last handful of years, and it
Speaker 1: really really seems like the wild wild West. But let's
Speaker 1: address one of these at a time.
Speaker 2: The portal.
Speaker 1: The portal is an absolute mess. Thousands and thousands upon
Speaker 1: thousands of kids in there for only maybe two hundred
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty schools, so only so many different opportunities.
Speaker 1: But the thought that it's open while the biggest part
Speaker 1: of your season is happening. What is your thoughts on that?
Speaker 2: Max?
Speaker 4: Oh, Man, that's portal. Shit is crazy, man, But I
Speaker 4: mean I get it, you know. I mean, I mean
Speaker 4: we've been on this for a long time. Athletes get
Speaker 4: paid college I mean, but I mean I just think
Speaker 4: they just got a shit's out of control. I mean,
Speaker 4: you got I mean, it's just how she got twenty
Speaker 4: seven year old motherfuckers and shit. And I heard Bruce
Speaker 4: now I here Bruce Pearl and shit say the other day, like, man,
Speaker 4: he's trying to talk to this kid back coming back
Speaker 4: into school, and his kid's already twenty six years old.
Speaker 4: He's really trying to talk this motherfucker in the coming
Speaker 4: back to school and he's twenty six years he's gonna
Speaker 4: be twenty eleven.
Speaker 3: Man, who does this shit? Man, what are we talking about? Man? This?
Speaker 3: I mean, they got to have an age limit on
Speaker 3: this ship. I don't care about paying these pay the kids,
Speaker 3: pay the kids.
Speaker 4: Whoever pay who's supposed to get paid, do that, do
Speaker 4: all that.
Speaker 3: But man, you got to put an age limit on
Speaker 3: this shit. Man. You got a fucking.
Speaker 4: Twenty seven, twenty six year old man playing against a
Speaker 4: fucking nineteen eighteen year old kid.
Speaker 3: Man. I mean, oh man, that's all I'm saying. Man,
Speaker 3: you gotta they gotta put an age limit on this ship. Now.
Speaker 4: Like I mean, back in the day when I was
Speaker 4: graduating not a car I went four years at the
Speaker 4: University of Florida. Okay, okay, and motherfucker was doing that.
Speaker 4: Back then, it wasn't nobody really coming at one.
Speaker 2: That was the norm. Yeah, that was the norm.
Speaker 4: Yep, yeah, so so and goddamn I was twenty two.
Speaker 3: You know when I went to them, I was twenty two.
Speaker 2: God damn.
Speaker 3: I mean, what age limit. We're like, we're gonna let
Speaker 3: nw it's gonna go to twenty seven this ship. This
Speaker 3: kids ain't got a goddamn chance.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I definitely think that there has to be some sort
Speaker 1: of age limit set. I mean, I think seventeen some
Speaker 1: guys are coming in at seventeen a little bit younger,
Speaker 1: but twenty three. I think twenty four has to kind
Speaker 1: of be the cap. I mean, I think if you're eighteen,
Speaker 1: that gives you two extra years. If you have four
Speaker 1: eighteen to twenty two is four years injury, red shirt whatever.
Speaker 2: Since you would give maybe two extras.
Speaker 1: But I think after anything after twenty four and I'm
Speaker 1: all for everyone trying to get education, and that's what
Speaker 1: some because when I discussed this, oh that you can't
Speaker 1: tell who and who can't get it. If you're trying
Speaker 1: to get education, that's great. Just get off, get out
Speaker 1: the way of the sports side of things. But again
Speaker 1: I don't blame the kids or the coaches, because this
Speaker 1: is what it is like. Coaches are playing, you know,
Speaker 1: getting kids for their job like this, Their jobs depend
Speaker 1: on these older kids. And we know how big of
Speaker 1: a difference an eighteen year old body to a twenty
Speaker 1: two year old body, to a twenty four year old body,
Speaker 1: to your coming into your man, your prime at twenty six,
Speaker 1: twenty seven, twenty eight as an actual man. So to
Speaker 1: think about that playing against you know, kids that are seventeen, eighteen, nineteen,
Speaker 1: it just doesn't really make sense to me. And again
Speaker 1: I think, you know, the transfer portal is crazy, and
Speaker 1: I'm all four kids getting money, but I just think
Speaker 1: they have to somehow find some regulations, whether there's a
Speaker 1: there's a there's a sit out period like there used
Speaker 1: to be. Remember if you used to transfer years, used
Speaker 1: to have to sit out for a year. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: has to be some sort of some kind of regulations
Speaker 1: or ordinance, or there has to just be someone has
Speaker 1: to bang the gavel and put some ship because this
Speaker 1: is it's just absolutely fucking crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: His out of control. Man, it's so out of control. Man,
Speaker 3: I just I fucked that. Damn. I man, my kid
Speaker 3: just got schooled that ship. But it's okay, Yeah, we're good,
Speaker 3: We're still work hard.
Speaker 1: But let's talk about that because again, I have kids
Speaker 1: that are sophomores that you know, just just turned sixteen,
Speaker 1: and you know they're trying to make.
Speaker 2: Their way and grinding every day.
Speaker 1: And then again, you had a son who was a
Speaker 1: senior last year right in high school and you know,
Speaker 1: put great numbers, two time state champion, played with the
Speaker 1: kid over it.
Speaker 2: What's the kid of duke that he or he played
Speaker 2: with the kid of duke?
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, and your son was right in the mix.
Speaker 1: But just all these he's a smaller guard and all
Speaker 1: these older, bigger guys are are are you know, are
Speaker 1: taking up jobs?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And I get it, And like I said, once again,
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, but shit, my man, he's six four,
Speaker 4: but he was said he was six four, one thirty five.
Speaker 3: You know, out of high school, he worked out a lot.
Speaker 2: He just cain't.
Speaker 3: You know, he just can't gain weight like his dad.
Speaker 3: It just I just can't gain weight, you know. And
Speaker 3: he got my you know DNA. This motherfucker just can't
Speaker 3: gain But he's gotten bigger. But he went. He had it.
Speaker 3: You know, we had and I ain't complaining.
Speaker 4: I know a lot of you motherfucker's finna get in
Speaker 4: my dim not this motherfucker shit. Oh match, you should have.
Speaker 4: You should have got him ready. He just wasn't ready
Speaker 4: and Max all this bullshit. So I was getting ready
Speaker 4: for that bullshit too. Okay, but back to the story.
Speaker 4: But no, man, my man was he was two times.
Speaker 4: I mean we he state champion at North Back High
Speaker 4: School out of Charlotte. I mean him and I said,
Speaker 4: average the average twenty one, you know, six rebounds, you know,
Speaker 4: three steals, you know. I mean, he was a hell
Speaker 4: of a ball player.
Speaker 3: But he just I mean he was. He was a
Speaker 3: four star.
Speaker 4: They an four star and good man, no more, motherfucker
Speaker 4: college basketball.
Speaker 3: Motherfucker. You got to be.
Speaker 4: Five star McDonald's all American. I mean, you got to
Speaker 4: be one of those guys like that the goal.
Speaker 1: Then take an older three star or with experience and
Speaker 1: strength and and you know, someone who's been through that battle.
Speaker 1: I think I was here. I was hearing some guys
Speaker 1: talk during the tournament this weekend, and just the biggest difference.
Speaker 1: And it's true on every level because obviously making that
Speaker 1: jump to the NBA, where it used to be the
Speaker 1: strength was was a lot different. Just the strength of
Speaker 1: the game, the strength and the speed of the game.
Speaker 1: Each level you go to is a lot different and
Speaker 1: you have to really be prepared for that to be.
Speaker 2: Able to hold your own. Man.
Speaker 1: So again, the n C double A, it's the best
Speaker 1: time in college basketball is right now on the men
Speaker 1: and women's side. But yeah, I just think this, this
Speaker 1: portal and all this stuff is absolutely crazy.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: So you know, hopefully something will be figured out and
Speaker 1: you know, we can see these kids playing. This message
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Speaker 1: Who is the greatest leader on the floor or captain
Speaker 1: you ever played with?
Speaker 3: Captain? Mm hmm hmmm. Damn boy, that's a good question. Man.
Speaker 3: Oh oh man.
Speaker 4: Probably guy when I was in college, my man, God
Speaker 4: bless him, Ronnie Montgomery, uh was back. Huh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: yeah he was. He was such a special guy, man,
Speaker 4: and such a great teammate, and he lift everybody up.
Speaker 4: And I mean, I'm just saying this because the motherfucker
Speaker 4: he kept me under wraps, you know, because because I
Speaker 4: knew it was hard for him. But he was the
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. I love it. Now.
Speaker 1: Question who are you rooting for in the NCAA tournament
Speaker 1: right now? Are you still rooting for Florida? Even though
Speaker 1: it's a little rocky over there? You just watching games?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a rocket, But I'm still rooting for my Gators.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: I think we have a legit chance to win it
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 4: I mean, I like the way the guys playing and
Speaker 4: our coach is doing a great job.
Speaker 3: So I'm rooting for the Gators. Let's go, go Gators, baby,
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Hey tough one yesterday, man, man, yesterday you call almost
Speaker 1: got y'all boys.
Speaker 4: Get two time champion back to back. You know they
Speaker 4: gonna miss hard. That's gonna be a hard out. You know,
Speaker 4: the motherfuckers got pride. You know the coach over there
Speaker 4: is good coach, great coach. So you know, we knew
Speaker 4: it was gonna be tough, but I thought, damn, it's
Speaker 4: gonna beat them by I was gambling.
Speaker 3: Motherfucker's flaughter got damn. Now I'm trying this, my littlefucker.
Speaker 3: How this guy damn kid spread. Yeah, this motherfucker fucked
Speaker 3: the money up yesterday. The motherfucker the kids shot.
Speaker 4: The kids shot the goddamn ball at the end of
Speaker 4: the game at the buzzer, and y'all down five fucking points, man,
Speaker 4: Stop doing that ship.
Speaker 1: Hey, they got commercials for niggas like you, Max, I know, Hey, thanks,
Speaker 1: they said, don't fuck hey, don't fuck with these kids
Speaker 1: if yeah, yeah, ye Man, Hey you're Max Max. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you, man, Welcome to the family. We're gonna have
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Speaker 1: But we wanted to thank you so appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Man. Have a good one. We'll talk soon, bro, all right,
Speaker 2: no doubt.
Speaker 3: Thanks man.
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