Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Slum. I'm fifteen years old and I know
Speaker 1: the NBA. Today's guest really needs no introduction. He's one
Speaker 1: of the most famous faces in the NBA, a multiple
Speaker 1: time All Star, respected by everyone in the league, and
Speaker 1: now a member of a my Golden State Warriors. Today
Speaker 1: we're talking to the point God, Chris Park. Okay, Chris,
Speaker 1: So we're sitting here at UCLA for your Club sixty one.
Speaker 1: Can you let us know a little bit about what
Speaker 1: that really is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, A Club sixty one is a leadership program that
Speaker 2: I started and then name sixty one comes from my
Speaker 2: late grandfather, and it's been really cool. I try to
Speaker 2: bring a group of kids from every city that I've
Speaker 2: played in, which is a lot now over my NBA career,
Speaker 2: and I bring a number of kids here to LA
Speaker 2: and over the course of three days we do all
Speaker 2: different types of things. Community service, We talk like at night,
Speaker 2: we have real conversations about life and just allow them
Speaker 2: to express themselves. We do financial literacy, taking them to Lockmow,
Speaker 2: just doing things and trying to give him a head
Speaker 2: start on different things that they may need.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that is life changing because I know this
Speaker 1: podcast for me is too, so anything with you life changing.
Speaker 1: So I like to start off. You know, I'm fifteen
Speaker 1: years old, and sort of the thing about Sloan knows
Speaker 1: is that I have a different perspective, right, I'm a
Speaker 1: fifteen year old girl, which is not probably the normal
Speaker 1: person that's usually interviewing you.
Speaker 2: I'm guessing no, I mean, I got a fourteen year
Speaker 2: old son. I'm sure he's.
Speaker 1: They're interviewing you most. But so I want to know
Speaker 1: about you when you were fourteen? What was your personality like?
Speaker 2: Man? Fourteen, So I would have been going to my
Speaker 2: freshman year high school. Man, I just came off being
Speaker 2: a class president in eighth grade, but then going to
Speaker 2: the ninth grade, everybody they knew me in school, the
Speaker 2: CJ's little brother. I got an older brother. So I
Speaker 2: was starting high school trying to find myself and trying
Speaker 2: to find myself as a basketball player. I played JV
Speaker 2: basketball for two years as a JV I mean as
Speaker 2: a freshman as sophomore. So I was just trying to
Speaker 2: figure out myself.
Speaker 1: And then at fifteen years old, what were you like
Speaker 1: as a basketball player? Like you said, you know you
Speaker 1: were on JV. I read somewhere that you were five eight?
Speaker 1: Is that? Is that true?
Speaker 2: Probably on a good day, Yeah, exactly exactly. It's funny.
Speaker 2: I was short. I always say I was vertically challenged
Speaker 2: my whole life, and so I just sort of had
Speaker 2: to try to figure it out. I played football too, yes, right,
Speaker 2: so that's where a lot of the physicality came from.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I was a after school counselor
Speaker 2: at a YMCA. You know, I was working at a job,
Speaker 2: and so I don't know, just hanging out with my friends,
Speaker 2: playing at the YMCA and trying not to get in trouble.
Speaker 1: So then, what was it like that moment where you
Speaker 1: realized like you were going to be a generational talent?
Speaker 2: Well, thank you first and foremost.
Speaker 1: That was commenting question, right.
Speaker 2: I don't know. You know, I was telling the kids today,
Speaker 2: I was talking to him. I was hoping as a
Speaker 2: kid that I could play in the NBA and the NFL. Right, wow,
Speaker 2: I used to dream, you know. It wasn't until I
Speaker 2: got a little bit.
Speaker 1: Like bo Jackson, see look at you. That's what this
Speaker 1: is called slow notes like the commercial boat.
Speaker 2: Did not know that? Did not know that? But that's
Speaker 2: don't learn something new every day exactly. And what's crazy
Speaker 2: about it is as a kid, I didn't know. I
Speaker 2: didn't pay attention to the fact that football and basketball
Speaker 2: were like the same time. Yes, you know, and I'm
Speaker 2: so glad nobody ever burst that bubble for me, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, and just allowed me to have
Speaker 2: that dream and thinking that I could do both, but
Speaker 2: that that was my goal to playing the NBA in
Speaker 2: the NFL.
Speaker 1: I feel like we need to see you out there
Speaker 1: in the NFL, like is cool. I wish there was
Speaker 1: like a celebrity game. I want to see you out there.
Speaker 2: I'm cool. No, I play quarterback. Get me the red
Speaker 2: shirt so they can't touch me.
Speaker 1: Who is your like NFL player comparison?
Speaker 2: My player comparison? I don't know. I was a huge msman.
Speaker 2: I used to love Deon Sanders, right, because when I
Speaker 2: played football, I played both sides, right, I played quarterback,
Speaker 2: I played running back, I played cornerback. I played all
Speaker 2: of that. So but I still love football to this day.
Speaker 1: I love that. So then as a basketball player, though,
Speaker 1: which NBA player did you sort of emulate your game
Speaker 1: on when you were.
Speaker 2: Fifteen when I was fifteen. I don't know if I emulated,
Speaker 2: but the person. It's funny. At that age, I watched
Speaker 2: so much basketball, but I was the biggest Michael Jordan
Speaker 2: fan you could find. But obviously I couldn't play like
Speaker 2: mj even though you try. But Alan Iverson, Hey, that
Speaker 2: was my guy. You know what I mean. Believe it
Speaker 2: or not, I had braids At one point, I was
Speaker 2: going to say, once upon a time, I had braids. Man,
Speaker 2: I used to wear a sleeve any and everything Alan
Speaker 2: Everson was doing was what I wanted to do.
Speaker 1: And so pre the New Orleans era, were you a
Speaker 1: Hornets fan or what was that like growing up in
Speaker 1: North Carolina?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Pre uh, I like the Hornets, but I was
Speaker 2: just Michael Jordan's Yeah, anything Michael Jordans. I'm born and
Speaker 2: raised in North Carolina. He's from North Carolina. Whatever Michael
Speaker 2: Jordan was doing was who I was with.
Speaker 1: So there was no when you were drafted to New Orleans,
Speaker 1: there was no connection there like, oh, this team used
Speaker 1: to be in North Carolina, Like you didn't feel that.
Speaker 2: Way now it was a connection. It was a connection
Speaker 2: because Charlotte is an hour away from where I grew up, right,
Speaker 2: so I didn't really get to go to games like that.
Speaker 2: First of all, we couldn't afford it. But one of
Speaker 2: the memories that I do have, so Muggsy Bogues played
Speaker 2: at Wake far so yes, and I was a huge
Speaker 2: Muggsy fan. And when I got he'd go, He'd go
Speaker 2: when it come to that. And Muggsy when I committed
Speaker 2: to go to Wake, actually took me under his wing,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Like and just I remember
Speaker 2: he let me come speak at his camp. I used
Speaker 2: to go kick it at his house. And then one
Speaker 2: of my fondest memories too of all the Hornets was
Speaker 2: master P was on there was on their preseason team
Speaker 2: and I got to go, got to go to a
Speaker 2: game to see master P playing for the Charlotte Hornets.
Speaker 1: That's so cool. And you know at West Fourth High School,
Speaker 1: you know, I know that. And just said, AAU, did
Speaker 1: you ever have any run ins with any other NBA players?
Speaker 2: A You A lot of them, A lot of them.
Speaker 2: So I played AAU my whole life, eleven and under
Speaker 2: all the way to seventeen and Under didn't win the
Speaker 2: championship until seventeens. My last year playing AU, we won
Speaker 2: the championship. But me and Bron had known each other
Speaker 2: probably since we was like fourteen, so we were fourteen.
Speaker 2: His team all Ohio Shooting Stars. They they finished second
Speaker 2: and we finished third. Okay, right, because it's one team
Speaker 2: out of California to forty stars used to win it
Speaker 2: every year.
Speaker 1: That's where it's at, California.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, whatever, huh. They wanted elevens, twelve, thirteen's fourteenth.
Speaker 2: But then too, when I was sixteen, I played against Andrew.
Speaker 1: Do they have any players the California team?
Speaker 2: I don't think. So.
Speaker 1: It's funny to look back at that because it probably
Speaker 1: mattered to you so much, and then like you and
Speaker 1: Browner are here now and where that definitely mattered.
Speaker 2: They used to have a dude named Shane Harrison who
Speaker 2: went to Modern Day. They had a point guard I
Speaker 2: think named Travonte Nelson's crazy. I remember that because they
Speaker 2: were just so good. They were so good at that age.
Speaker 2: But I played against Shannon Brown, I played against Andre Gadala.
Speaker 2: Me and Drake played against each other. He used to
Speaker 2: play for the Illinois Warriors. I was on a sixteen
Speaker 2: and on the team, and he was on the seventeen
Speaker 2: and on the team.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that's ironic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I mean you just know each other for
Speaker 2: so long because you play on all these circuits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And speaking of that, like, I know
Speaker 1: little Chris, your son fourteen, I'm fifteen, you know, probably
Speaker 1: playing AIAU. Now, what differences do you see sort of
Speaker 1: in the state of your youth basketball careers? Like what
Speaker 1: is the difference between AAU then and AAU now or
Speaker 1: social media then? And obviously you probably didn't have that
Speaker 1: aspect of your basketball career.
Speaker 2: It's a lot different. It's a lot different. My son
Speaker 2: plays out here with Russ's AU team with Why Not,
Speaker 2: and I have an AAU program that's on the East
Speaker 2: coast in North Carolina.
Speaker 1: And so which is an incredible alumni.
Speaker 2: Man, we blessed and fortunate, my parents, everybody. We've been
Speaker 2: doing this for a long time, and you know, it's
Speaker 2: just different now. Obviously social media kids now everybody shows
Speaker 2: their highlights, not the low lights. Yeah, you know, And
Speaker 2: so you're just trying to make sure that all the
Speaker 2: kids understand the work ethic that has to go into
Speaker 2: being great at anything.
Speaker 1: So now I want to move on to your NBA career.
Speaker 1: We've talked about you when you were fifteen and it's
Speaker 1: a good age. Good things happen now, but I feel
Speaker 1: like better things have happened to you now. So what
Speaker 1: do you think is the most memorable play of your career?
Speaker 2: Oh? Man, the most memorable play of my career. That's tough,
Speaker 2: that's really.
Speaker 1: I asked tough questions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't I don't know. I don't know the
Speaker 2: most memorable play. I'm trying to think, and I'm usually
Speaker 2: really good at these things. But it's probably one of
Speaker 2: the plays when I first came into the league. Might
Speaker 2: have been my first bucket in Oklahoma against the Sacramento Kings,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, So two thousand and five,
Speaker 2: a little while ago, you know, But yeah, that's probably
Speaker 2: one of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that must have been so weird playing in Oklahoma
Speaker 1: when you're a team based out of New Orleans, Like,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine how that is, especially when you're thrown
Speaker 1: into the league in the first place, which is anyway stressful,
Speaker 1: and then you're totally relocated, Like, I can't imagine that.
Speaker 2: It's wow, it's wild. And I think too, the reason
Speaker 2: why you do it, and there's always this amazing connection
Speaker 2: between myself and New Orleans is because I got drafted
Speaker 2: right before Katrina hit. Yeah, you know, so that was
Speaker 2: something that's always embraced me with that city, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: And talking about most memorable place, what is the most
Speaker 1: memorable assist of your career?
Speaker 2: The most memorable assist? Uh, yeah, that one's probably gonna
Speaker 2: have to be to to DeAndre Jordan's you know what
Speaker 2: I'm Yeah, he caught a dunk. Uh. It was crazy
Speaker 2: and that's my guy now, Brandon night h it's sick.
Speaker 2: I was on the right wing and that's me and
Speaker 2: DJ used to work on that in practice, is when
Speaker 2: the team would down the ball screen and he would
Speaker 2: act like he was coming to set a screen for me.
Speaker 2: He just run to the rim for a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You can find that clip anywhere.
Speaker 1: I've seen it. So how do you think your game
Speaker 1: has evolved since your rookie year?
Speaker 2: Man? So, uh, it's yeah. It's cool though because this morning, uh,
Speaker 2: this morning actually worked out with no one playing the
Speaker 2: country h kid AJUDABNSA. So it was crazy because we
Speaker 2: was talking about how your game starts to change at
Speaker 2: times and you don't even realize it. Yeah. Right, So
Speaker 2: I'm constantly watching film, watching YouTube, watching all this stuff
Speaker 2: for me playing over the years, and I'll see a
Speaker 2: move that I used to do and I'd be like, damn, what, Well,
Speaker 2: I don't do that no more. And so your game
Speaker 2: just sort of changes and evolves sometimes for the betterment
Speaker 2: of your game, right, Like sometimes you figure out, yeah,
Speaker 2: depending on who you are. Luckily I've been on the
Speaker 2: good side of it for the most part. But it's
Speaker 2: just it may take you less droubles to get to
Speaker 2: a certain spot. So I think obviously athleticism has dropped considerably.
Speaker 2: But what you lose in athleticism a lot of times
Speaker 2: you find in awareness.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And throughout your career, I mean, you've
Speaker 1: won so many awards, but which has really meant the
Speaker 1: most to you?
Speaker 2: Oh? Man? Which award has meant the most to me? Yeah,
Speaker 2: There's been a lot of different ones, but I'll say
Speaker 2: the one that that really touched me, and it was
Speaker 2: pretty emotional, was the Kobe and GG Award. You know.
Speaker 2: I received that at the at the All Star Game
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, and and Vanessa actually gave
Speaker 2: it to me. And knowing how much Kobe meant to
Speaker 2: not only me, but to everybody into the game, it's
Speaker 2: something that I got in my house and that I cherished.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So moving on now, what was your what's
Speaker 1: your like? Pregame song slash pregame ritual?
Speaker 2: I got a gang of pregame ritual. You ain't got
Speaker 2: enough time right now for all things. Give it to
Speaker 2: us to get ready for the game. Uh pregame song? Man,
Speaker 2: My my playlist is so different, like it could be
Speaker 2: Kirk Franklin at one point, and then it's gonna go
Speaker 2: to Lil Wayne, then Jay Z, then right back to
Speaker 2: Latini Adams. I listened to a lot of gospel music
Speaker 2: before the games, but and then all the stuff that
Speaker 2: I got to do before games. Sheesh, oh man, let
Speaker 2: me let me go. I gotta think, because I gotta
Speaker 2: a drink that I drink or whatnot. I gotta hit
Speaker 2: the lid three times, then I take the lid off,
Speaker 2: and then like I'm toasting the DeAndre Jordans, even though
Speaker 2: we ain't teammates no more. We started that when I
Speaker 2: was with the Clippers, so I still like toasted him
Speaker 2: in the locker room. Then I drink the drink.
Speaker 1: Then, man, what is the drink?
Speaker 2: The drink I was like beat juice and all this
Speaker 2: difference okay, and then I usually take a I do
Speaker 2: a shot of espresso before the games, and then I
Speaker 2: have to call I have to call my wife before
Speaker 2: every game, right before I leave the locker room, like seriously,
Speaker 2: if she don't answer, I will go nuts, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, just because you the routine of it.
Speaker 2: What else I gotta do? I gotta I go and
Speaker 2: find a slam board in the locker room, right, a
Speaker 2: slamp board, and I stand on the slamt board three times?
Speaker 1: Right, so we oh, well about your number. Let's let's
Speaker 1: forget I just said I can get really deep there
Speaker 1: and be like three. Where does that come from? And
Speaker 1: then I was like, oh, CP three.
Speaker 2: So usually the guys that work in the locker room
Speaker 2: they say it with me two one two three, And
Speaker 2: then when we run out on the court. See, it's
Speaker 2: a whole lot of stuff. The first play that I do.
Speaker 1: Certainly we need to do a whole episode just we
Speaker 1: can bring.
Speaker 2: Some beat you special.
Speaker 1: We can do it together. I mean I may have
Speaker 1: something different than like Blue Gate, right or something. It's
Speaker 1: like more my style. Okay, so we're gonna move on
Speaker 1: to another segment that I like to call takes harder
Speaker 1: than Kelly you Braid Junior. Yeah, so, oh you heard me?
Speaker 1: Takes harder than Kelly you Brad Junior?
Speaker 2: What is going on?
Speaker 1: You know exactly what I'm saying. I know, I know
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So these are really hot takes, clearly,
Speaker 1: so get hot with me in these takes. Let's which
Speaker 1: NBA player is the best dressed?
Speaker 2: Best dressed me?
Speaker 1: That's sweet? Okay, Now give someone else somebody like talk
Speaker 1: about someone.
Speaker 2: Else, somebody else that addresses that shay of course, I.
Speaker 1: Love his fits to who is the best shoe game?
Speaker 2: The best shoe game? Okay, I got it? Uh, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I don't pay attention to gouts shoes like that.
Speaker 1: You're just two walked in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know who not. PJ
Speaker 2: Tucker talk tuk got a lot of shoes too, Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: bron Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay. Which NBA teammate is the best singer Darius Baisley?
Speaker 1: Really interesting? Okay, I've never heard that answer before.
Speaker 2: I like that. No.
Speaker 1: I usually ask which NBA player could run for president,
Speaker 1: and literally every time it's unanimous it's you. So instead
Speaker 1: of asking you that question, I want to know would
Speaker 1: you run for president?
Speaker 2: How do you think you? No no chance?
Speaker 1: Because I was gonna like propose an idea that you
Speaker 1: could be president. I could be vice president, would be
Speaker 1: super cool.
Speaker 2: Just be the president. Okay, you do that.
Speaker 1: I got your vote absolutely and your endorsement. I better see.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have like a whole commercial, right like instead
Speaker 1: of State Farm, just sloan for president.
Speaker 2: Okay, you're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the goal after this. Hopefully this works out
Speaker 1: enough so that I can be the president. Which arena
Speaker 1: is your favorite to play in? Environment wise?
Speaker 2: My favorite arena? Environment? Oh the Garden MB Madison Square
Speaker 2: Guard is nothing like it. Madison Square Garden is so
Speaker 2: dope because the energy in there is obviously you in
Speaker 2: the Mecca. But they like appreciate really good basketball. Yeah right,
Speaker 2: So when I say that, I mean, if you go
Speaker 2: play in Utah, I don't care how good you playing,
Speaker 2: they booing you. Oh yeah, I ain't gonna like you,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? But in Madison Square Garden,
Speaker 2: if you play the game the right way and you
Speaker 2: show up and you hoop, they always appreciate really good basketball.
Speaker 1: And then now we said environment, But I want to
Speaker 1: know which which arena has the best food in your humble.
Speaker 2: Opinion, in my in my opinion, I mean most of
Speaker 2: the time I'm playing, I'm not eating.
Speaker 1: So the reason why I asked that question is because
Speaker 1: I watched an interview with your now teammates Steph Curry,
Speaker 1: and he was saying he was like ranking the stadium's popcorn,
Speaker 1: and I was confused because I was like, why are
Speaker 1: you eating the pop part? You know, could you ever
Speaker 1: eat the food or.
Speaker 2: No, you can. It's funny. I mean, you got like
Speaker 2: in San Antonio, you could order water Burger, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. And every time I used to play
Speaker 2: in Atlanta, I get Chick fil A. You know. But
Speaker 2: it's different too now, Like I mean, when I first
Speaker 2: came into the league, give me some chicken fingers and
Speaker 2: French fries before the game. A lot different now it's
Speaker 2: a lot different now. But yeah, once upon a time, yeah,
Speaker 2: I loved playing like in Atlanta or whatnot, so you
Speaker 2: get that Chick fil A.
Speaker 1: I also think another thing is is like how much
Speaker 1: everything has sort of grown, Like Chick fil A used
Speaker 1: to be sort of special to cities like that, and
Speaker 1: now it's everywhere.
Speaker 2: You know, you can get that everywhere, so on Sunday,
Speaker 2: so I can't get it.
Speaker 1: Don trip What non NBA player celebrity is the best
Speaker 1: at basketball?
Speaker 2: Uh? You know who can hoop? Who can really hoop?
Speaker 2: Jay Cole?
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean like a pro stint.
Speaker 2: Basically, we played against each other in high school.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we played against each other in high school. And
Speaker 2: then a couple of summers ago, I was home in
Speaker 2: North Carolina and we had a whole bunch of North
Speaker 2: Carolina guys come up in hoop and Jake Cole came
Speaker 2: up and hooped with us, so he legit.
Speaker 1: That's so cool. What is the coldest jersey you ever worn?
Speaker 1: Not like the team, but just like the sickest jersey.
Speaker 2: I'll probably have to say too. So one of them
Speaker 2: is the Marti Gras audition when I played in New Orleans.
Speaker 2: And then it's crazy because I see pictures here and
Speaker 2: there of when I played in Oklahoma City for New Orleans.
Speaker 2: I got to be clear because I played in Oklahoma
Speaker 2: City too. For Oklahoma for the clarifications, but for Valentine's
Speaker 2: Day we had red jerseys.
Speaker 1: That's so cool.
Speaker 2: We had red jerseys.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think of the T shirt jerseys. You
Speaker 1: want that to come back.
Speaker 2: You know what. I wasn't mad at him, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, I wasn't mad at him. You definitely
Speaker 2: had to get a little bit bigger or whatnot. But
Speaker 2: when I played for the Clippers, that's another one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: those those like baby blue Clippers jerseys. Yeah, that was
Speaker 2: dope too.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is this is a hot take. If a
Speaker 1: time traveler told Clippers or Rockets to you that you
Speaker 1: would be on the Warriors, what do you think you
Speaker 1: would say?
Speaker 2: No, my language ain't no way. There is no way.
Speaker 2: And it's so it's so fun and kind of cool
Speaker 2: that it ain't like a pink elephant in the room
Speaker 2: or whatnot. I remember me and Steph worked out together
Speaker 2: in Vegas or whatnot, and a few of the coaches
Speaker 2: walked in they saw me in Warriors gear. They was like,
Speaker 2: this is crazy. You would have thought. So. The fact
Speaker 2: that we all can talk about it and it's not
Speaker 2: like it's some secret like don't say this and don't
Speaker 2: say that is really cool because it's like that with
Speaker 2: my family, with everybody, everybody who's been supporting me for
Speaker 2: all these.
Speaker 1: But it's almost like full circle sort of. I think
Speaker 1: in some.
Speaker 2: To say the least, you know, but it shows you
Speaker 2: like the power of sports, you know what I mean
Speaker 2: and what can be and I'm excited to see what
Speaker 2: we do.
Speaker 1: So am I please wint a chip? Please say for
Speaker 1: my mental health? Please? Okay, So this is a new
Speaker 1: segment that you're the first person I'm doing it with.
Speaker 1: So this is quite exciting. You should be really excited.
Speaker 1: And the idea of that is, you know, so much
Speaker 1: of the media is focused on negative clickbait and putting
Speaker 1: players and teams against each other. But as a teenage
Speaker 1: girl bringing this other sort of diverse perspective, I want
Speaker 1: to be more positive. So this segment is all positivity. Okay, excited? Yeah, Okay?
Speaker 1: What is one thing that makes each of these players
Speaker 1: so special? Devin Booker, DeAndre Jordan and Lebron.
Speaker 2: Book I think it's his not just his ability to
Speaker 2: play basketball, but like who he is as a person,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Like a lot of times
Speaker 2: you guys get a chance to see the athlete, the
Speaker 2: basketball player, but I mean to know these people personally,
Speaker 2: to know him and how he is with his family
Speaker 2: and you know his dog, Yeah, his dog Haven, his brother, Davon,
Speaker 2: but especially his sister Maya, who is like my whole heart,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. Like she is the most
Speaker 2: beautiful girl you'll ever see in your life, with the
Speaker 2: kindness and beautiful, most beautiful heart. And to see him
Speaker 2: in those moments with her, with his family is what
Speaker 2: made I think me and book so tight.
Speaker 1: Not the basketball, Okay, So now DeAndre Jordan.
Speaker 2: DJ DJ big fellow. Man, that's that's my guy right there.
Speaker 2: We played together for six years and we still talk
Speaker 2: on the regular. We had a book party for my
Speaker 2: book I just released the other day at Eigers and
Speaker 2: DJ was there, you know what I mean. When he
Speaker 2: won a championship, man, I was emotional for him. I
Speaker 2: talked to him that night and the next morning. It
Speaker 2: was just so happy for him, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: because he deserves it. So DJ just one of the funniest,
Speaker 2: kindest human beings you ever see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, and then lastly Braun.
Speaker 2: And Braun man, you know, blood couldn't make us closer,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Life, life happens, things happen
Speaker 2: here and there and whatnot. But I think to see
Speaker 2: the positive impact that he's had on my life, my
Speaker 2: family's life, everybody around me, and the same with him, like, well,
Speaker 2: we'll be family for the rest of our lives.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a very good compliment giver. So now I
Speaker 1: want to ask, what is the best compliment you've ever
Speaker 1: received from another NBA player.
Speaker 2: I think the thing that I'm probably most proud of
Speaker 2: is the fact that we're the only sports league that
Speaker 2: has health insurance. Right, and it sounds small or people
Speaker 2: will be like, what, why does that matters? Because there's
Speaker 2: a lot of great players who came before us, right,
Speaker 2: and to be the only professional sports league that has
Speaker 2: health insurance for past players, whether it be Tiny Archibald,
Speaker 2: doctor j all these guys who paved the way for us.
Speaker 2: At this point my career, I'll be playing on the
Speaker 2: road and I'm warming up getting ready for a game,
Speaker 2: and I'm just locked in on the game and a
Speaker 2: former player will come up and tap me and they'd
Speaker 2: be like, Chris, thanks, and I'll be like, what's going on.
Speaker 2: They'd be like for the health insurance, you know, because
Speaker 2: back in the day when the league first started, these
Speaker 2: guys didn't have access to all the health and all
Speaker 2: the doctors and all that. So I think that would
Speaker 2: be the.
Speaker 1: Number one thing for sure. And what about this Warriors team?
Speaker 1: Are you most excited.
Speaker 2: For a couple of things? Probably the one thing is
Speaker 2: probably playing with guys who are like so cerebral, right
Speaker 2: who you know, they so smart in the way that
Speaker 2: they move and the way that they know each other,
Speaker 2: and so just trying to blend into that, and then
Speaker 2: also being in the Chase Center and being on the
Speaker 2: good side of when they go on and runs and
Speaker 2: making autumn threes, you know what I mean. And it's
Speaker 2: gonna be very interesting. It's gonna be an adjustment for
Speaker 2: probably not only me, but for all the fans too.
Speaker 2: So I can't wait.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see how that looks. It feels like
Speaker 1: we're all just anxiously waiting to see what that looks like.
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, so you've been in the league for
Speaker 1: a good amount of times. You're heading into your nineteenth season,
Speaker 1: which is, you know, more than I've been alive. So
Speaker 1: that's funny. But which players development and growth over your
Speaker 1: career has impressed.
Speaker 2: You the most over my career.
Speaker 1: In the span of those nineteen years, You know, it
Speaker 1: could be a guy that was a rookie last year.
Speaker 2: Or someone from your first year, right, Man, I probably
Speaker 2: say Shae. I probably say Shae because I'm a little
Speaker 2: biased too, because Shae is seriously like my brother, and.
Speaker 1: It's Kinn because he's my husband.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, listen, my boy Shade just got engaged too.
Speaker 2: So what's wild about Shae is I seen him in
Speaker 2: Vegas at Summer League when he had got traded to
Speaker 2: go to OKAC from the Clippers, and I seen him
Speaker 2: and I adapted him up and I was like, man,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a great situation for you. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm happy for you. Boom. Maybe like five six days later,
Speaker 2: I got traded to Okay See too with him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And so that year and Oka See was it was
Speaker 2: probably one of the most important years in my career
Speaker 2: and I got a chance to sort of reinvent myself.
Speaker 2: But Shae, Bays Schroeder, Steven Adams, all them guys on
Speaker 2: that team sort of helped me like fall back in
Speaker 2: love with the game now that I fell out of
Speaker 2: love with it, but just seeing Shae and being my
Speaker 2: teammate and now seeing how his game is just going
Speaker 2: to a whole nother level, I'd be so happy for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, He's special for sure. Okay. So, as you know,
Speaker 1: the name of my podcast is Slow Knows and Sloan
Speaker 1: knows your game? But do you? So I'm going to
Speaker 1: ask you some trivia about yourself and let's see. Let's
Speaker 1: see how you do, Chris, Okay.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 1: What was your college GPA?
Speaker 2: Oh man, my college GPA. I was an academic All America.
Speaker 1: I know that, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so let's say three six.
Speaker 1: Three point two.
Speaker 2: Okay, that was one of them teachers.
Speaker 1: But how many steals did you average in your senior
Speaker 1: year of high school?
Speaker 2: My senior year of high school, probably like eight six six.
Speaker 2: You're very confident in yourself, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you were third on the NBA list for
Speaker 1: most assists. What is that number?
Speaker 2: Third on the list for most assists? Oh? That rhymes?
Speaker 2: Ok So, how many assists do I have in my career? Yes,
Speaker 2: I'm asking you, dang ten thousand, five hundred.
Speaker 1: Eleven, five hundred and one. Oh and this isn't trivia.
Speaker 1: But now that you're a warrior, I mean, how much
Speaker 1: do you think that that is going to increase? Because
Speaker 1: it's basically a cheap code. Now, I mean, you just
Speaker 1: passed the ball, and like, let's be real, it's gonna go.
Speaker 2: Man. I don't know. I ain't even thought about that
Speaker 2: aspect of it yet. I just as soon as you
Speaker 2: asked me about it some time.
Speaker 1: I'm just opening up.
Speaker 2: See John Stockton pot right into my egg because he
Speaker 2: got the record for fifteen thousand or something.
Speaker 1: So you think you can get that as a warrior.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta play about five more years to catch him.
Speaker 1: You better I want to see that, Okay. So in
Speaker 1: two thousand and six, you were one vote away from
Speaker 1: winning unanimous Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know who did.
Speaker 1: Who is that one player that was voted other than you?
Speaker 2: Oh? It was d Will But it was the beat
Speaker 2: rider in Utah. So you know who that guy is exactly.
Speaker 2: I know exactly who it was.
Speaker 1: He haunts you in your head, not at all.
Speaker 2: He was just look d Will my man all day long.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the guy in Utah he voted.
Speaker 1: I don't like him. During your senior year of high school,
Speaker 1: you let your school West Forsyth to what record.
Speaker 2: My senior year? Yes, ooh, I'm really guessing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very impressible.
Speaker 2: Obviously lost the game. We'll go to the state championship.
Speaker 2: So what do we lose? Three games?
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, three games? And how many games did you win?
Speaker 2: Oh? Back then?
Speaker 1: Thirty twenty seven seven on Chris okay close sort of?
Speaker 1: How many regular season games have you played over the
Speaker 1: course of your career? Mm?
Speaker 2: Hm oh Man eleven Nred No.
Speaker 1: One thousand, two hundred and fourteen.
Speaker 2: Twelve hundred, twelve hundred and fourteen. A lot of games.
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