1 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 1: Man, did y'all see the kid who was talking about 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 1: the hockey? Shit? Did y'all see that discussion? 3 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:10,400 Speaker 2: No, Church was just telling me about it. 4 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, I forgot the kid's name. He does a good 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: job with uh And I don't mean to call him 6 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 1: a kid. He's a grown man. Shot to him. But 7 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: I saw what he said about you know he was 8 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 1: I see he was making points on the NHL and 9 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: hoves growing shout out to the NHL and hockey. Yeah, 10 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:29,479 Speaker 1: then he was just going at the league and you know, 11 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 1: hockey's dope. Man. But yeah, when I think about connection, 12 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: at least with audience, at least in America, man, you 13 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: gotta have somebody that at least from our culture or 14 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 1: somebody from culture. Bro. You ain't got no coaching in 15 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: your in your sport. Bro, it's hard to actually penetrate 16 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: any any kind of following this in America. Bro, you 17 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: got to have something that you know what I'm saying 18 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: that that kind of reflects the fan and the people 19 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 1: that are watching, you know, and hockey don't reflec like that. 20 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: You know, Papa Jones kids are in hockey. Shout to 21 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 1: the Jones family, but we never hear about them. You 22 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I know, hockey's having this big 23 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: ass tournament going on, and it seems like fighting is 24 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: is depressident. 25 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 2: Right, yeah, four nations. 26 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: But I'm just saying it's being ran by these guys 27 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: like US and Canada ain't fault. I think they I 28 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: think the most they fought was like four times in 29 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: the last some years, and then all of a sudden 30 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: there was like ten fights that broke out where the 31 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 1: guys text each other. Well, let me say this, bro, 32 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: Apple's oranges, pears, grapes. I like them all. They all 33 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: guy sees. They all are under fruit. You know this 34 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: thing of professional sports man, it's all. It's all about 35 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: what you like. But I just hate when I hear 36 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 1: I didn't like how he was trying to bash the lead. 37 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: You know, first off, man, we played for pride, We 38 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: pay for legacy, we play for namesake always, like any 39 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 1: other athlete in any sport, right there. Man, I get it. Man, 40 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: when players don't you know, not necessarily don't play, but 41 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: when they have injuries and they sit out, I don't 42 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: think people understand the goal here. The goal with the 43 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: league is the longevity. You know, obviously, you know it 44 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,920 Speaker 1: always goes back to these old and new lenses that 45 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 1: we look through. The league gave these kids a chance 46 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 1: to be able to rest their bodies and have chances 47 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 1: to where it was so much on the league, nobody 48 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: actually said anything, nobody actually stood up for it. Bron 49 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: and I can say that these this group of guys 50 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 1: who have let the last fifteen to twenty years, they've 51 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: made it the precedent about rest. I think the league 52 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: does need to give the guys more rest. I think 53 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 1: All Star should go from actually Wednesday to Saturday. You 54 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, because the guys got to actually 55 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:51,640 Speaker 1: work Saturday Sunday. They actually gotta work Friday Saturday Sunday, 56 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 1: so they don't really get a break. And then what 57 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: they get Monday Tuesday, they gotta travel since for the league. 58 00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: I get it. I heard the debate. I heard it. 59 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, hockey doesn't do 60 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 1: anything for culture. Y'all don't talk about how actually black 61 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: men and a group of black men that moved to Nova, 62 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: Scotia actually founded the game and then got ousted out 63 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: of the game. You hear me, Yeah I didn't, Yeah 64 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 1: I didn't, I didn't. I was trying to understand. I 65 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:20,359 Speaker 1: heard both. I heard his part about hockey. But yeah, man, 66 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 1: the league, the league is in this new lens, and 67 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: this league is not through the old lens. And this 68 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: league is a marathon. It ain't necessarily what you're doing now. 69 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 1: It's like what you're doing now, what you're doing later, 70 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:33,359 Speaker 1: and then what you're doing five ten years from now. 71 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 1: And that's how you see the Longevila Lebron and I 72 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: think that's the way that the league gonna do. But 73 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: to beat up another sport, to like glorify your own, 74 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 1: I wasn't feeling that. And then two, yeah we got 75 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: different Yeah, we got different rules for reasons. We all 76 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: passion the sport. We all the emotional sport hockey. To 77 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 1: me when I watched those guys are passionate too. But man, 78 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 1: you gotta imagine going into a setting where and then 79 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: you're talking about teaching kids, imagine going into a setting 80 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: where you know you want to fight. I don't know 81 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: if they be watching, bro, but ain't nobody fighting today? 82 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: These kids got switches out here. Dog, ain't nobody screaring 83 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 1: up fighting? Then you better have some composure about yourself, bro, Man, 84 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: get get bold in the facing in the Western Conference, 85 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: gain by your by one of your good friends, and 86 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:22,040 Speaker 1: then and then have some composure. Because what you need 87 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: to teach the kid at home is that boy, as 88 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: a boy, I hit bigger than you, hit harder you, 89 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:29,039 Speaker 1: He fastened you and all that, and that's reality. And 90 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 1: these kids that don't want to fight pulling switches, man, 91 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:33,559 Speaker 1: he got a bigger switch and all that. So, yeah, 92 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: the thing is to teach being a bigger person talking 93 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: and communicating and resolve it. Yeah, yeah, I saw this 94 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,279 Speaker 1: whole spell. I wasn't I wasn't feeling that though, you 95 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying with respects to to hockey and 96 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:47,359 Speaker 1: them trying to get that viewership right, But yeah, today 97 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 1: tap into some culture. I don't know what that's gonna be, 98 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 1: at least for Americans, at least for the group of 99 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 1: people that I'm around, and how we talk about sports 100 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:56,840 Speaker 1: and it being relative to us and all that. Yeah, 101 00:04:57,120 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 1: it doesn't, it doesn't do a reach. I say the 102 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: same thing about four to one. Well, my one don't 103 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 1: had nobody from America who we look at, and I 104 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: heard his stories and all that. You know what I'm 105 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: saying now follows his grind and he not got here. Nah, 106 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:11,600 Speaker 1: I don't think those sports actually are for us, so 107 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: they don't profile us in them or you know, actually 108 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: feature us, so you know, we don't get no ships. 109 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 1: The sports actually pertain to where people come from the 110 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: culture and the heartbeat and the passionate emotion. That's what 111 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: That's what man. I'm an American, so you know, that's 112 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 1: that's what we love. You know what I'm saying that 113 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: the hockey game is built or it comes off like 114 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: it's built for the Canadian viewer. You know what I'm saying, Now, 115 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: fuck with Canada, fuck with hockey, I fuck with all 116 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,599 Speaker 1: that shit. But yeah, I don't know anybody in it. 117 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: They don't they don't really do player profiles. You know 118 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 1: what I'm saying big enough for all of us to see. 119 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 1: So yeah, you know what I'm saying. I want feeling 120 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: his take on that, because the league got a lot 121 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 1: of shit that we fight do. We have our problems, absolutely, 122 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 1: just like any other sport. But I support both man 123 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 1: shouts in the NHL and what they're trying to do 124 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 1: or hope they get it right, and I hope somebody, 125 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:05,840 Speaker 1: uh from the neighborhood actually is able to get drafted 126 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: like the Popeye Jones sons and all that ship. You 127 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:10,359 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, and we hear about them stories. 128 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 1: Let's get to it, man, Yeah, y'all know what it is. 129 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:21,840 Speaker 1: Let's get it. Can't you certify? Yes, sir, certain faster 130 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: certuf Certifi Certifa certain certifa certain. It's a green summer. Yeah, 131 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 1: we built differently. You ain't watching the games like I'm 132 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: watching them again. You'm outside, We're alive. That's when you 133 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 1: stopped production that we go back, but we want just 134 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 1: gid it. 135 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 2: So first up, I want to ask you about just 136 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 2: kind of being out in the Bay for all stort weekend, 137 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 2: what that experience is like and what you're what you 138 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 2: did while you're out there. 139 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, shoutut to the Bay, man, real shit, man. I 140 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 1: know it was in San fran the Bay area and 141 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 1: all that, but shout out to the Bay. I thought 142 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 1: NBA did a great job of just glorifying the Bay 143 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: in San Francisco for the four days that the whole 144 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 1: event and festivities was out there. I thought all the 145 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: parties was dope. I think the Bay needed it too. Man. 146 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: It was a good time to come up there. It 147 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 1: was a good time to glorify all the not just basketball, 148 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: but the artist. Little Russ shot to litle d shot, 149 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: the little Russ shot the artist. Smoke shout, the Fordy 150 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 1: water shout, the short shout, the you know, Steph, the whole, 151 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: the whole, the whole bay Man, the whole bay. When 152 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 1: I saw that Steph Curry and under Armor had damn there, 153 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: bought the whole everything in San France, I knew Nike 154 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: and Bron was gonna be second. It made sense when 155 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: I saw him not play. When about him was you know, 156 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: obviously a Steph Curry feature, and then too, if I'm 157 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 1: being honest, I octually thought that the league is doing 158 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: a bit of R and D to see how, you know, 159 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 1: fans react to a non Lebron being in our league. 160 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: I think that that's a real thing. But other than that, 161 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 1: man had a great time. Man dunk contest was cool 162 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: as fuck as my first time seeing it from that perspective. 163 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: Shout to Trade McGrady, hey Man gave me some good 164 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: pointers on you know how to look at it? You 165 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Because I went in there one 166 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 1: way and then talking to him, I actually went in there. 167 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: I was like okay, and it was for the pure 168 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: art of and they showed out. Man. I thought the 169 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: kid from Dispersed Castle was his his dunks, him and 170 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 1: mac Man. They was bringing it. All the guys was 171 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: bringing it. But the kid from Chicago tried some ship 172 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: between his legs and whatever. And I thought if he 173 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 1: used the leather ball that he would have actually could 174 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:36,839 Speaker 1: have could have done it. But it was an incentives 175 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 1: for using the AT and T ball. That's another thing 176 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: I learned, you know what I'm saying. But yeah, man, 177 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: it was a great time and I thought the league 178 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: put on a good show. I thought the format was different, 179 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 1: but it was super exciting for us to you know, watch, 180 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: and you know, people got to remember, man, these games 181 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:56,839 Speaker 1: are not basketball games. There are events, and what the 182 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 1: NBA is putting on is a production. I didn't like 183 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:03,680 Speaker 1: how they did Shaq and the TNT crew. I thought 184 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: those guys should have sat on like some fucking thrones. Man, 185 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: y'all don't understand. Man. Two decades of being able to 186 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 1: cover a beautiful game and be able to register and 187 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: get viewers to chime in and have conversations and have 188 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 1: tough debates and Kenny Teach and Ernie Lead and Charles 189 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 1: and and and and and and shot give like a 190 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: superior in a premium analyst group. Man, I thought that 191 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: they could have did a better job of that. To 192 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 1: see some of the greats and you send them off fishing. No, 193 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 1: I won't feeling that at all. You know, them guys 194 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 1: should have been crowned and put put crowns on their 195 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 1: head and sat in some king thrones and then talk 196 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: about you know what's next or something. You know what 197 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 1: I'm saying. They need to be glorified, not You know, 198 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: when niggas go go fishing, it's because they didn't reach 199 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: it or their goals had stopped. You know what I'm saying. 200 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 1: Think about what that means. When they send the team fishing, 201 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,599 Speaker 1: that means that season is over. They finished start. You 202 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Now, I looked at them as 203 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 1: as it's like, you know, the pillars of this ship. 204 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:06,680 Speaker 1: You know that that TNT crew has has created kind 205 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 1: of like a script on how to do this and 206 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:12,680 Speaker 1: having impressionable people and there having having people that you 207 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: care about that you didn't know that had this type 208 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:17,959 Speaker 1: of insight on the game. You know what I'm saying. 209 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: But yeah, man. Overall, Man, I had a good time. Man, 210 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: it was a great experience to see it from this side, 211 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 1: because you know certify I took the cameras up there, 212 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: and uh yeah, we had a good time. Man. Shout 213 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 1: the little Russ man lit. Russ is probably artist that 214 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 1: I followed and been keeping track up. But man, I 215 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: got to feel his energy and got to be present 216 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:40,560 Speaker 1: amongst him. Man, he got a great presence in a great, 217 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: great mind. Man. It was dope to bill with him 218 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 1: and be around that shot all the smoke, Brian Daly 219 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:48,960 Speaker 1: and all those guys. It was a good time out there. 220 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 1: Thank you Bay, thank you Sam frand I appreciate it 221 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 1: real ship. 222 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:54,200 Speaker 2: Going to the game just All Star weekend, there was 223 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 2: a lot of chatter about something that you had brought 224 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 2: up years ago and have stayed on the one on 225 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 2: one and there's been a lot of discussion about it, 226 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 2: and they're leading towards potentially doing it next year, at 227 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 2: least trying to do it next year. 228 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 1: Are they listen? 229 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:09,959 Speaker 2: Yeah, what were your thoughts on kind of the players 230 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 2: talking about it and a lot of the media members 231 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 2: talking about it and it being something that you and 232 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 2: I have discussed for years now. 233 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, I sometimes don't think that people are actually listening 234 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 1: to what we say. I think somebody sometimes people think 235 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 1: we're just in here, we all fucking around, we have 236 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:27,959 Speaker 1: a good time with it. But a lot of shit too, man, 237 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 1: is from the inside. And what I see, you know, 238 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 1: wares used to be a big part of how you 239 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 1: sharpen your tools and how you deepen your bag. Yeah, 240 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 1: it was always that Warrior or that Viking thing that 241 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:43,560 Speaker 1: we did. And I just think that if if the 242 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: fans had a chance to see that passion and how 243 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:51,120 Speaker 1: each guy is actually trying to get it in that setup, 244 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 1: in that format, I thought that that would be I 245 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: thought that would be entertaining for the league. And I 246 00:11:57,040 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 1: didn't really think that, you know, just because of their 247 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: level of embarrassment, the level of you know, winning loss. 248 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 1: Somebody has to win, somebody has to lose. But I 249 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,320 Speaker 1: thought that that that alone could could entertain and being 250 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:14,079 Speaker 1: very entertainment and very very entertaining event for the league. 251 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 1: So it's good that it's good to see they actually 252 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 1: start to pick up some of these different pieces and 253 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: start to activate them. 254 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 2: So we'll see, Yeah, players like hard Dan and they 255 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:26,599 Speaker 2: had interest in doing it. 256 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 1: So Kyrie came out said here do it. Yeah, and 257 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 1: that's what you need. I think more of initiative. Some 258 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: of your superstars are starting to take initiative and jump 259 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 1: out there. I've seen Josh say here he might have 260 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:39,959 Speaker 1: to jump in the dunk contest. I've seen Gianni Is 261 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 1: following him and say, hey, if you do what, I 262 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:43,560 Speaker 1: do it, and then I see exact you know, and 263 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 1: then Aaron so I love it. I love it. You 264 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 1: got to have this type of joke, in this type 265 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 1: of vibration from your from your main players to be 266 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 1: able to have these events be meaningful. 267 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,199 Speaker 2: Also, we can always brings you know a lot of 268 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 2: great NBA players currently and from from uh you know 269 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 2: yes year. Who were some people that you kind of 270 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 2: connected with that resonated with you? 271 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 1: Uh well, always Man, always the great man. I've seen 272 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 1: doctor j It's always great to see doctor j Gp. 273 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 1: Always my my homeboy, always my my big bro. J kidd. 274 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:19,599 Speaker 1: I got to see Jaylen Brown, got to see some 275 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:25,319 Speaker 1: Uh Tatum, got to see you know, Spider mold Eric Mobley, 276 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:26,800 Speaker 1: I got to see all those guys. I got to 277 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,679 Speaker 1: see a good combination of everybody. JAYL. Roder, it was 278 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 1: good to see him. Lou D. Yeah, everybody that was 279 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:35,559 Speaker 1: from the Bay Man fawdy, I got, I got a 280 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 1: chance to say, what up everybody? She had some love, 281 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 1: you know, some get some love, get some praise. That's 282 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: what it was about. 283 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 2: Another player you ran into at that Chase activation was 284 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 2: town Cat. 285 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, my bad shout the cat. Shouta Litho, big fella, 286 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:56,199 Speaker 1: that's up. That's up. Good out here, trying to keep city, 287 00:13:56,360 --> 00:14:00,559 Speaker 1: trying to keep up, keep straightening this jay out. I'm 288 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaker 1: off right, he got nice, he got a super nice look. 289 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: You know what to ship. Never come out as you 290 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 1: never come out as, never come out that your ship 291 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:13,839 Speaker 1: like them testing all that show. You know what I'm saying. 292 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: We jumped on Letho when when you know, he was 293 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 1: just starting what he was doing and he was trying 294 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 1: to get people to believe in what he was doing. 295 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: And he's been consistent with that. Shout to Letho, man, 296 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta go back and kesh Leithau. That 297 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 1: was like five six years ago, wasn't it. And then yeah, 298 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 1: cat Man just having a great year playing a huge 299 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 1: market with the Knicks and catching up with him and 300 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: shout to chase for the event that the people and 301 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 1: the contestants that was in the event was cool. Had 302 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 1: a great time with that. Yeah, it was cool. It 303 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 1: was cool man, and it was It wasn't stressful, man. 304 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: Everything was real light and shill just a way I 305 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 1: like it. 306 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 2: Another thing that happened was it was the Nike Future game. 307 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 2: Aj Debansa was in it and I saw that you 308 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 2: had a moment with him at the game. Jermaine o'neils 309 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 2: was also in that game. It was Dynamic Prep against 310 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 2: Utah Prep and Nike used to today be a new shoe. 311 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 2: I'm just wondering what you learned from de bans and 312 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 2: when you when you met him the other day. 313 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 1: First off, shout to the young kid a j I. 314 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 1: I met him and passing his dad had stopped me 315 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 1: and asked me to take a picture with him. I 316 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 1: know who he is. I didn't. I never met him 317 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 1: before I took the pick, said it up to him. 318 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: I know he's going to Utah following him. I know 319 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 1: he's the number one player, or at least one of them. 320 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 1: And Jo's son, Jo's son locked that up. Yeah, I 321 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 1: heard jo Son locked that ship up and ended up 322 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 1: getting the MVP. Shout the little O'Neill. Shout to j 323 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: O and his fan, his daughter doing her thing in volleyball, 324 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 1: the whole family's excellence. But yeah, Jo's son actually locked 325 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 1: that up. We got to go back and check that out. Yeah, 326 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: we gotta. We got to shoot that out. But I 327 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 1: hear young Fellows the real deal, and uh yeah, I 328 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 1: look forward to just seeing him grow and see what 329 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: he do in Utah. 330 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 2: Another player we ran into with Jason Tatum. He pulled 331 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 2: up on you, you know, inviting you out to Boston. 332 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 1: You got to see Tate, you know, he jumped right height. Man, Hey, 333 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 1: we give you some game as man, what we're doing. 334 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, no, man, trying to build this thing. 335 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 1: I got it. I gotta get man, Come on, man, 336 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 1: like man, I live on the West Coast. Yeah, I 337 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 1: got you though, you feel me. 338 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:11,720 Speaker 2: But Celtics eight and two in their last ten, Tailor 339 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 2: playing some of his best stretch of basketball this season. 340 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 2: What have you kind of just seen from him as 341 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 2: a young man kind of coming up in the game 342 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 2: and obviously a champion now. But he keeps developing. 343 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 1: Yeh, keep developing, and he's growing. He's growing this game. 344 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: He looks stronger this year. He's playing through files, playing 345 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:28,160 Speaker 1: through a lot of contact. I would like them to 346 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 1: be a little more consistent on the second and third effort. 347 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 1: You know. Sometimes when he's done get files, he'll melt 348 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 1: right there and kind of complain a little bit. But 349 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 1: I think, at least for me, when I watched Tatum, man, 350 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 1: it's just you know, him learning how to take over games. Obviously, 351 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 1: he has a bunch of talent around him so he 352 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 1: doesn't have to do too much. But I think him 353 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 1: and Jay, him and j Brown do a great job 354 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: of being ahead of the snake of that team. I 355 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: love all the pieces that they have up there that 356 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 1: has created this green buzz saw. And yeah, I think 357 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 1: Tatum's gonna get even better. I think not only as 358 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 1: his as he gets older, he's gonna get smarter. I 359 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 1: think his IQ is going to grow. He's gonna get 360 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 1: better at playmaking. I see his handles has gotten a 361 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: light tighter for him to go in and out and 362 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 1: be able to you know, go in and get files 363 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 1: and stuff. So I see the growth. I see the growth. 364 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 1: I see the growth in his game. I see the 365 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 1: growth in his confidence, you know, coming down being able 366 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:25,400 Speaker 1: to put the nail on the coffin or hit big 367 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: threes or be able to you know, like, I see 368 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 1: what he's doing, but I'm excited for his growth in 369 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 1: what he's going to be. I don't think that we're 370 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 1: seeing the best of him yet, and I think the 371 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 1: best of him is yet to come. Shout to JT 372 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 1: and Deuce Man. Out of the history of Duncan, out 373 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 1: of all the brothers that's not came through and walked 374 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 1: on air, you mean, tell me a white boy comes 375 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 1: through and dominates the dunk contest? And when's it three 376 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:56,879 Speaker 1: in a row? Yah already got the three point contest. 377 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:01,120 Speaker 1: It's all fucked up on white guys, just showing. Hey, y'all, 378 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: remember white guys couldn't jump. White boys jumping out the gym. Now, 379 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 1: dog bust of the other kid that we that we 380 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,400 Speaker 1: don't want in the dunk contest. That's the nigga that's 381 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,400 Speaker 1: really running it. What's the Jordan kid that throws behind him? 382 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 1: Come on, help me, Nate. You're not watching the games, Nate. 383 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:21,439 Speaker 1: He's in the street. White kid, he'll throw that and here, look, Jordan, 384 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:23,040 Speaker 1: there you go. 385 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, And Harry Payton freaked out when he when he 386 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 2: saw the dunks he did. 387 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, you hear what I'm saying again. We need if 388 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: we're gonna do this all right, all right, cool, all 389 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 1: stars ain't getting it all right? Open it up for 390 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: the streets. Let's that. Let's let the streets. Let's that 391 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:40,119 Speaker 1: the coach will come in here. Yeah, I'm finna go 392 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:43,920 Speaker 1: get kool aid, peanut, all the motherfuckers I know to watch. 393 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 1: Hey dog, I'm going hook Ronnie Field a Fields. I 394 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 1: know you gotta win wind Mill in there somewhere, shure, 395 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 1: I God damn ship, tell lu Yo that more. Ronnie 396 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:58,439 Speaker 1: could probably steal dunk. It's a little fast and shot 397 00:18:58,480 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 1: the fields air Fields out. 398 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, Ticket, you've mentioned how post All Star break is 399 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 2: the timer teams kind of separate themselves from the past. 400 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 2: What team are you looking at that will put together 401 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:12,560 Speaker 2: that continuity and consistency and kind of push themselves ahead 402 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 2: in this next five to ten game stretch. 403 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 1: When I saw bron sit out the All Star Game, 404 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,639 Speaker 1: that said to me that he's trying to get rest 405 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 1: as much as he can for the second push. I 406 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 1: think the Lakers are going to dramatically go up the list. 407 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 1: I think what team that no one's talking about is 408 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 1: the Clippers. I think the Clippers are going to have 409 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 1: a little search. I look for them to climb. I 410 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 1: look for Denver to get a little better. I'm eager 411 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:43,360 Speaker 1: to see where Phoenix goes. Phoenix is at the bottom 412 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:45,199 Speaker 1: of the other thing. I don't know if they can 413 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: make it a little push, but I like their team 414 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: at least the talent on there. But like I think, 415 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:52,880 Speaker 1: like all of us were sitting here scratching our heads 416 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: to you know, can they reviolve it with the second 417 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 1: half push? And then a bunch of the teams ain't 418 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:01,159 Speaker 1: nobody talking about, like the memphisis the Houston Rockets, who 419 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,120 Speaker 1: are really made making some surges. The Rockets are gonna 420 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:06,680 Speaker 1: be there. They got this, They got a young team, 421 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:08,439 Speaker 1: and they got a weapon, and I think that did 422 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:14,199 Speaker 1: nobody plan for with with that men hey man, and 423 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:17,679 Speaker 1: how he's playing and how he's his playmaking, his not 424 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 1: only playmaking, but he's scoring, his activity, his rebound, his 425 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 1: offensive rebounding, his steel just just everything. Bro, He's he's 426 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:29,400 Speaker 1: making everything around him better. So yeah, I look for 427 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 1: Houston to be there. And then yeah, Shay, I see 428 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:35,680 Speaker 1: Shaye actually really him and the Okay, see we get 429 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:37,679 Speaker 1: to see the Twin Towers and what they look like. 430 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:40,360 Speaker 1: So it's a lot of natives there that we can 431 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 1: actually go to. You know, to answer your question that 432 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 1: I don't think it's just one team. I think it's 433 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 1: I think there's multiple teams just from the Service. But man, 434 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:49,160 Speaker 1: this is the best part of the league right here, 435 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 1: this this race to the to the finish line to 436 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,120 Speaker 1: see how everybody finishes and what are. 437 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 2: Some teams that have kind of struggled And I'll just 438 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 2: call it the first half a pre All Star that 439 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:00,439 Speaker 2: you feel like, hey man, they can they turn it 440 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 2: around and make a push here. 441 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,920 Speaker 1: Well, Orlando's been hurt for so long. I think we 442 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: were eager to see Orlando team that's healthy. I think 443 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 1: they're gonna make a major push. I think the war 444 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:14,439 Speaker 1: the wars are going to make a big push. I 445 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 1: think Steph Curry coming off MVP, you know, All Star Game, 446 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 1: being in the Bay, I think the Warriors are going 447 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 1: to have a surge of energy. I don't know if 448 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:25,600 Speaker 1: y'all saw, but Draymond throughout that that they was going 449 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:28,680 Speaker 1: to win the NBA Championship this year. So he's seen 450 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:31,200 Speaker 1: something that actually revived not only him, but the rest 451 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,880 Speaker 1: of his teammates, so they got to play under that pressure. 452 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 1: But yeah, this is the best part of the league 453 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 1: to me, the second the second half, because everything counts. 454 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 1: You know, you don't want guys sitting out, and you 455 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 1: want everybody to be as healthy as they can be 456 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,200 Speaker 1: going into the playoffs. So yeah, we'll see. Just this 457 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 1: is it right here at the race. 458 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:54,160 Speaker 2: The race is on and for you walk me through 459 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:57,199 Speaker 2: like post all start from like a player's perspective, like 460 00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 2: what's your mindset? How do you convey that as being 461 00:21:59,480 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 2: a leader? 462 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,360 Speaker 1: Well, the second half, man, after you come off All 463 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:05,880 Speaker 1: Star man, you get a couple of days to kind 464 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 1: of you know, recalibrate. But going into All Start, you 465 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 1: already know like, look, I'm going in here, X, Y 466 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,159 Speaker 1: and Z, I'm gonna get my shots, I'm get my 467 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 1: sprint seeing I'm you know, do my little cardio just 468 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 1: to keep myself. Everything you're doing alone the weekend is 469 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:25,200 Speaker 1: just to get you through the weekend safely, calmly, injury free. 470 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 1: And then you already locked in second half, you get 471 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 1: an extra extra juice, you get a different reinsurgence of energy, 472 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:36,879 Speaker 1: and yeah, it carries you to probably the end of 473 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: March early April, and then not to say you hit 474 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 1: a wall or nothing, but you go through like this 475 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: little April, this little April breeze where everybody's trying to 476 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:49,120 Speaker 1: position themselves, and by the second week in April, everybody 477 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 1: kind of knows where they're gonna be at. But that's this, 478 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 1: This whole mentality is just this second half mentality is 479 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,200 Speaker 1: about where you want to be as a team position wise, 480 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 1: because every team has strategized to be a certain place. 481 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 1: I know some of the teams that are expecting to 482 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:08,360 Speaker 1: be there are already strategically putting together Okay, we want 483 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 1: to match up with this team, we want to be 484 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 1: able to be So it's a bunch of that, you 485 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,120 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But this is the real deal, 486 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,639 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. These games not only count, 487 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,640 Speaker 1: but they mean something more than never. So I look 488 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 1: forward to seeing how this all pans out. 489 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 2: And then also as a player, when you were when 490 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 2: you were kind of jocking for position, were you thinking 491 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 2: more about who your first round matchup is, or hey, 492 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 2: let's just get the highest seat possible. 493 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 1: You know what the mentality is game by game you know, 494 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: you don't want to look too far. I wasn't a 495 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 1: person to be looking down. Man, we got the Spurs 496 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,399 Speaker 1: in two weeks or we got did to the you know, 497 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,600 Speaker 1: I really respected you know, game in game out. I 498 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,880 Speaker 1: didn't like looking. You know, some people know the schedule. 499 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 1: I never knew the schedule. I knew who I was 500 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:54,479 Speaker 1: playing that night that you know what I mean, and 501 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 1: then the next you know, and then it really helped 502 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 1: me keep a focus on the task in hand, regardless 503 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,480 Speaker 1: of who I was playing, regardless of if it was 504 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: a Boozer or Andre Blanche or Chris Bosh or c 505 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 1: Web or Dirk, it didn't it didn't matter. Everybody had 506 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,119 Speaker 1: a you know, every jew has a shine, and you 507 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:16,359 Speaker 1: had to respect that person shine and their their superpower. 508 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:21,680 Speaker 1: So yeah, second half, yeah man, yeah, second half is 509 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 1: about yeah, this this is to get on right here. 510 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 1: But yeah, I was never a person to be looking 511 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:30,879 Speaker 1: four or five games ahead. You got to take it 512 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 1: one game at a time, and then that's how you 513 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 1: build up. 514 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,680 Speaker 2: There's a clip kind of going around of Kevin Durant 515 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,199 Speaker 2: getting emotional talking about the game of basketball and how 516 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,920 Speaker 2: it's changed his life and how you know, it's gotten 517 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 2: him out of the streets and changed his family's life. 518 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,639 Speaker 2: For you, what is the game given to you that 519 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 2: you kind of cherish the most? 520 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,520 Speaker 1: Man, The games gave me giving me a notoriety in 521 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 1: which everybody has gotten to see me be creative in 522 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 1: a basketball art form, things that I used to like 523 00:24:58,080 --> 00:24:59,919 Speaker 1: to do in my own private time, and things that 524 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 1: recreation of me actually became a career in a way 525 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 1: of life for me. It's helped me and countless ways, 526 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 1: not just working with others, but how to communicate with 527 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 1: others that are not from the same how to deal 528 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:19,640 Speaker 1: with different races, how to respect everybody, how to game respect. Yeah, man, 529 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,439 Speaker 1: the game has given me so many life lessons and 530 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 1: so many things that I actually use in my everyday life. 531 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,639 Speaker 1: That yeah, man, I'm just I'm just fortunate like everybody 532 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 1: else who's come through professional sports. But when Slim got 533 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: a when Katie got emotional, I felt that because the 534 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,160 Speaker 1: game has done a lot, you know what I'm saying, 535 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,680 Speaker 1: And when you come from where we come from, bro man, 536 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 1: people don't know the ins and outs of how you 537 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: got to get you know, to and from and what 538 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,919 Speaker 1: that journey is like. Every day in some of these cities. 539 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 1: It's real. So you know, to to hear him talk 540 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:53,760 Speaker 1: about or to hear him go back and kind of, 541 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 1: you know, think about his journey. I felt that, you 542 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,080 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, shout to Slim man Slim on 543 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 1: the dopests to do it man KD the want of 544 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:05,879 Speaker 1: the dopest to do it. You know what I'm saying. 545 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 1: When you meet it, be more. You meet a motherfucker 546 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 1: from d C, they gonna hit you with you what 547 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,719 Speaker 1: LP Slim, Slim everything, slim shot the slim feel me. 548 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:15,920 Speaker 2: And then you're someone that kind of I feel like, 549 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,440 Speaker 2: pride yourself on giving back to the game and giving 550 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,679 Speaker 2: jewels to the younger players. How important is that? And 551 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 2: like being in the whole Star we can say where 552 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,920 Speaker 2: you can't speak to so many current players, it's very important. 553 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,160 Speaker 1: Man. You know, these these young guys are not doing 554 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 1: they're not really recreating the will and none of that. 555 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 1: You know. You know, the Jews that we give the 556 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 1: young guys are Jews that we actually actually obtained through 557 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 1: the journey. And you know, the lee likes it and 558 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 1: they don't like it, you know, because when you give Jews, 559 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:44,639 Speaker 1: there's a lot of leverage in those jews. There's a 560 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:46,919 Speaker 1: lot of it's a lot of things that if you 561 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,280 Speaker 1: know what you're doing, you can actually activate those things 562 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,240 Speaker 1: to actually help your career, you know. And also sharing 563 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,719 Speaker 1: the perspective of these events, sharing the perspective with some 564 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 1: of these young guys to to remind them that the 565 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:00,680 Speaker 1: dunk Contest is not a dunkon test, but it's a 566 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 1: showmanship of you. You got a new shoes, you got 567 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:05,639 Speaker 1: anything cracking. You know how many people are watching the 568 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 1: Dunk Contest. Know the viewership is on Saturday night. It's 569 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: a great place to you know, if Shay you're coming 570 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 1: out with his shoe, or if you got any product 571 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: that you wanted to get off. Man, the Dunk Contest 572 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 1: is the biggest stage. But you know, everybody is privy 573 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 1: to getting so much attention that I don't know if 574 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,640 Speaker 1: the same incentives are there. I think the league needs 575 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 1: to recalibrate the incentives and then start with something fresh. 576 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 1: But I think those jees and those interactions are needed. 577 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 1: I think the young boys are actually looking for vets 578 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 1: to come in and give them a script or a 579 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,159 Speaker 1: wear of life. I know parents are parents, parents are 580 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 1: there to be guardians and to help grow their their 581 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:50,600 Speaker 1: significant kids. And that's the way it should be. Parents 582 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 1: shouldn't be agents. Parents shouldn't be you know, in positions 583 00:27:54,920 --> 00:28:00,240 Speaker 1: of they should be helping the kid, you know, nothing less, 584 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 1: nothing more, and be supportive of it. If you heard 585 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,920 Speaker 1: some of these stories out here, yes, it's out of control. 586 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 1: So when you were able to talk to some of 587 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:10,680 Speaker 1: these young kids, they're able to grab some of the 588 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:14,240 Speaker 1: jews that you give them and actually actually apply to 589 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,639 Speaker 1: their own lives. And it's good and bad. You know, 590 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,439 Speaker 1: no one likes No one likes you when you're smarter. 591 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 1: No one likes you when you're actually growing and you're 592 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,680 Speaker 1: standing up for yourself. You're putting certain shit down, you're 593 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 1: not tolerating certain shit, you're cutting out certain shit. Nobody 594 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,600 Speaker 1: likes that process because some of those people are in 595 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 1: that are in that in that removal. You know what 596 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 1: I'm saying. But my definition of growth is when you're 597 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 1: able to start someplace and see yourself greater from the 598 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: place you started. So you know, it's got it right. 599 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 1: But yeah, man I saw something that was dope too. 600 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 1: Man I saw Steph Curry and Kyrie, you know, to 601 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 1: speak in the game bro. I love him. Players, especially 602 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 1: active players that played each other. Probably Chris Webber myself 603 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 1: would have never done this. Sheeting myself would have probably 604 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 1: never done this. But Gary Payton in his older days, 605 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:00,719 Speaker 1: he was still a premier guard. He was probably one 606 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 1: of the best, if not the best, him and John 607 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 1: Stockton because he was six five sixty six. He could 608 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 1: guard multiple but he was still that dude up in Seattle. 609 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 1: Man Cole went to him and asked him a defensive 610 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 1: question and it became a discussion and he just went 611 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 1: into like og, like nah, you know, you gotta you 612 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 1: gotta do this. And then when he was showing us, 613 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 1: I was like, damn, Like it was all technique, you know. 614 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 1: And he was just showing how to get get inside 615 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 1: the inner hand and get the rip. And he was 616 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 1: just how he was showing it looks so simple on 617 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 1: how when he displayed it, but then when he was 618 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:39,880 Speaker 1: talking about it, it sounds so difficult. So for him to 619 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:44,479 Speaker 1: take the time to teach being in myself and go 620 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,800 Speaker 1: through that patiently when everything else was going on, he 621 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 1: stopped it. He was patient. Shot the GP for that man. 622 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:54,680 Speaker 1: I saw Steph currying Carrie sharing like knowledge and he 623 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,840 Speaker 1: was like, you know, they was like how it just 624 00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: looked like they were just in a conversation of basketball. Now. 625 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,400 Speaker 1: I fucking loved it. I loved it. That's what we 626 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: need more of, man, them jews being being shared amongst players, 627 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:11,920 Speaker 1: and yeah, man still shop and still real recognized real. 628 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,080 Speaker 1: I love that. That was dope for the game. 629 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:19,400 Speaker 2: Speaking of growth, Sga Debut's signature shoe, First Team All 630 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,440 Speaker 2: the NBA the last two years, most likely going to 631 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 2: be for third year straight. He's the MVP leading favorite 632 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,720 Speaker 2: first team in the West. What are your thoughts in 633 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 2: just him as a young man twenty six years old, 634 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:30,160 Speaker 2: kind of coming up in the game and all this 635 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 2: stuff's happened to him in such a short period of time. 636 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 1: If any player is built for like the limelight, I 637 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,880 Speaker 1: say it's this kid. This kid has always been chilled. 638 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 1: He's always played the Bruce Wayne. He's always played like 639 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:43,920 Speaker 1: the fly ass kid to the side. You know what 640 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 1: I'm saying. If you go back over time and you 641 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 1: watch every time I seen him at the dunk contest, 642 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 1: He's always had some dope shit on. He's always had 643 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,440 Speaker 1: his own little flare, and he's always been in his 644 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 1: own kind of Lane, and he's gotten better each year. 645 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,840 Speaker 1: He's been consistent each year, and I think now he's 646 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,800 Speaker 1: taking on like a different level of superstardom. He is international, 647 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,720 Speaker 1: but I hear a lot of kids, you know, just 648 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 1: fucking with him. You know what I'm saying, shout to 649 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,600 Speaker 1: Shaye Man. He got a dope shoot. Converse A jont 650 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,640 Speaker 1: was cool. I love the color wave. I thought it 651 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,400 Speaker 1: was different from everything that was out there. And yeah, 652 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,840 Speaker 1: he's just continuing to grow. Man. He's my pick for 653 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:27,160 Speaker 1: MVP this year. He's been the most consistent because obviously 654 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 1: he got to finish off the second half. But I'm 655 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: looking for bigger and better things for him. Man, He's 656 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 1: one of the ones that's gonna be in the conversation. 657 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,120 Speaker 1: You know. He's one of the rare guards that we 658 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 1: get that's bringing back the MIDI and he's perfecting this. 659 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,640 Speaker 1: Three balls, gotten a lot more tighter, His bag has 660 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:44,480 Speaker 1: gotten deeper. You know what I'm saying, Shout to shay 661 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,080 Speaker 1: Man and his growth in his work, man, because you 662 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:50,200 Speaker 1: can't get there without the work. Feel me shout there 663 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:51,000 Speaker 1: sh a Man. 664 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 2: Going back to the All Star Game kind of what 665 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:55,920 Speaker 2: were your thoughts of the fourteen bracket and the new 666 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 2: system that they implemented this season. 667 00:31:58,080 --> 00:31:59,680 Speaker 1: You know, I looked at it like in an event. 668 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,000 Speaker 1: I didn't look at it like it was you know, 669 00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,920 Speaker 1: the All Star Game is an event, and any event 670 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,360 Speaker 1: with ticket value, you know, people just don't want a 671 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,280 Speaker 1: game now. You know, with all the tech owners and 672 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 1: all the tech enthusiasts, we a lot of sponsors are 673 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,160 Speaker 1: tech crypto, you know, the all the stuff that's gonna 674 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,240 Speaker 1: propel us forward. So you got to know that through 675 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 1: the new lens, some of this thing's gonna take precedent. 676 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,000 Speaker 1: You know, We're just not gonna sit down and watch 677 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:29,720 Speaker 1: an All Star game and that's it. You know. And 678 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,960 Speaker 1: in the microwave world that we live in, people want 679 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 1: things now. People want things and more than you know, 680 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,640 Speaker 1: you get a pair of shoes people today now motha 681 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:41,280 Speaker 1: want the hoodie to go with the shoes and the 682 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 1: whole jont you know what I'm saying. So, you know, 683 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,240 Speaker 1: I think the league is trying to find ways to 684 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,760 Speaker 1: keep not only the interests, but to grow the game too, 685 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:52,920 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So you know, when you 686 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 1: have Raphael Sadik who's from Oakland, and it's a music 687 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:01,200 Speaker 1: muse and guru and Faulty Walter and you know, you 688 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,719 Speaker 1: gotta understand that it's for wherever you are. And I 689 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 1: love that there was like that, you know what I'm saying. 690 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:10,600 Speaker 1: I think they should go back to having fifteen players. 691 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,320 Speaker 1: And then I thought, if bron was going to sit down, 692 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 1: you should have brought in like some bonus or pile, 693 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,560 Speaker 1: should have brought pole Land and let him play or whatever. 694 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:25,960 Speaker 1: But yeah, man, I thought in the event of throwing 695 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,480 Speaker 1: any event, it was cool for everybody. I thought Steph 696 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,080 Speaker 1: Curry showed up and showed out for the fan base, 697 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,360 Speaker 1: and it was only right that he was All Star MVP. 698 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 1: But yeah, I thought all that was predicated for San 699 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,000 Speaker 1: Francisco in the Bay as it should as it should 700 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 1: have been. 701 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,960 Speaker 2: What do you remember about your first All Star? You 702 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,480 Speaker 2: made it in your second season. 703 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,160 Speaker 1: Had experience with the rookie game to be able to 704 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:53,000 Speaker 1: kind of culminate and take in everything that was in 705 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:57,280 Speaker 1: the All Star weekend, And I remember just you know, 706 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:04,680 Speaker 1: establishing myself and then meaning the countless All Stars, Jordan's shot. 707 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:08,000 Speaker 1: Everybody was super nice, everybody was dope, cool to be around, 708 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:12,640 Speaker 1: everybody had advice. And then my second year when I 709 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,400 Speaker 1: was a reserve was. I was just happy to be 710 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,839 Speaker 1: there as every year that I made it, and very 711 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,719 Speaker 1: fortunate because you know, yeah, you don't see the same 712 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,040 Speaker 1: players there every year, so if you're able to be there, 713 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,640 Speaker 1: it means that you're doing something right. But yeah, I was. 714 00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:27,640 Speaker 1: I was trying to soak up and get knowledge from 715 00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:30,440 Speaker 1: every old head that I was tapping into, Robert Parrish, 716 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:35,279 Speaker 1: Wilt Oscar Robinson, everybody, you know what I'm saying. I 717 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,879 Speaker 1: looked up and they were showing a clip and then 718 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,759 Speaker 1: the clip I think it was an old dunk contest 719 00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,600 Speaker 1: and they had to Kenby in it. You know what 720 00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:47,319 Speaker 1: I'm saying. They had, they had the guy, They had 721 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,840 Speaker 1: guys in it, and I was sitting there looking at it, like, damn, 722 00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,560 Speaker 1: it's crazy. It's crazy how we take for granted that, 723 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,640 Speaker 1: you know, we all gonna be here. And I kind 724 00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,080 Speaker 1: of had a surreal moment for a second, just to 725 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,120 Speaker 1: appreciate everybody. But yeah, I've always wanted to say that 726 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,319 Speaker 1: I had a conversation or I was able to touch 727 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,680 Speaker 1: or dap up or talk to or share a moment 728 00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:13,080 Speaker 1: with some of the greatest. That's that's that's ever played, 729 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:14,440 Speaker 1: because that's what this is about. 730 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,000 Speaker 2: Would you say that's the best part of All Star Weekend? 731 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,719 Speaker 2: That brings you know, all the stars from from yesteryear 732 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:20,520 Speaker 2: to today. 733 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:25,000 Speaker 1: That's the best part about they all start weekend. It brings, 734 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:30,120 Speaker 1: It brings the generations together to culminate and to build 735 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,959 Speaker 1: and be amongst each other. You know what I'm saying. 736 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,320 Speaker 1: You know which, the league would have some more intimate 737 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:40,680 Speaker 1: settings where guys in old heads can actually sit and build. 738 00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,320 Speaker 1: Sometimes when we sit in and building, you got fans 739 00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:45,400 Speaker 1: in here, you can't really you know, lock in like 740 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,680 Speaker 1: you want to. Everybody's trying to create their own little 741 00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:51,239 Speaker 1: space in the square and own that square. And yes 742 00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,920 Speaker 1: it's hard, but we need more of it. I can 743 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:56,960 Speaker 1: see why the league don't want too much of the 744 00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,200 Speaker 1: old genius around to be able to give these young 745 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,319 Speaker 1: guys some script because these young guys are activists too. 746 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:04,239 Speaker 1: They have a voice and they want they voice heard. 747 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,960 Speaker 1: So the player empowerment is is this is as high 748 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,839 Speaker 1: as I've ever seen it. And uh, I can see 749 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,800 Speaker 1: the league trying to actually get some get some resolve 750 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:17,640 Speaker 1: and trying to get some some handle on everything. But yeah, 751 00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:22,640 Speaker 1: we'll see. Let's do some game picks. Yes, sir, we're 752 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:26,960 Speaker 1: back up, back up. What is it? Thursday, Friday? Friday? 753 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:29,200 Speaker 2: Knicks a cast o? 754 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,480 Speaker 1: This is this is this is this this, this is this, 755 00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:38,279 Speaker 1: this is the this this Yes, yes, Cleveland at is 756 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,919 Speaker 1: the Knicks at Cleveland, Yes sir. Oh yeah, So I'm 757 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:43,960 Speaker 1: eager to see the first ten games with the cast 758 00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,480 Speaker 1: with DeAndre, you know, Hunter coming over there, and just 759 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:50,239 Speaker 1: seeing how how all this is gonna work. What's the 760 00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,279 Speaker 1: kid that was playing the three for them that had 761 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:57,080 Speaker 1: to hurt shoulder, col I don't pee. I don't think 762 00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,560 Speaker 1: we understand that if he goes to the second unit. 763 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,680 Speaker 1: Cleveland really damned. There has two starting second units to 764 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:05,719 Speaker 1: where you can put out of those four, out of 765 00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:10,840 Speaker 1: those five, you can you can have DeAndre, uh Mobley, Garland, 766 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:15,520 Speaker 1: sit Spider and Big Fella. You can have a spy. 767 00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:18,880 Speaker 1: There's so much you can do with that. Cleveland is scary. 768 00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,040 Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to see what they look like. I 769 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,920 Speaker 1: think the Knicks have to come out of this break 770 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,200 Speaker 1: with a joke. They gotta they gotta actually hit somebody 771 00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:29,160 Speaker 1: in the mouth and actually go on like a five 772 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,120 Speaker 1: to six game winning streak. They gotta they gotta make 773 00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,080 Speaker 1: a president and the presence into the East going into 774 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:40,640 Speaker 1: this this finishing God, you know what, give me, give 775 00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:42,799 Speaker 1: me the Calves. I just think they're deeper and they're 776 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,600 Speaker 1: at home, and uh, I think the Calves are actually 777 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,680 Speaker 1: trying to put themselves in the cement and be like, 778 00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,000 Speaker 1: you know what, we're here and we're for real. So yeah, 779 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:52,080 Speaker 1: we're fin the sea. 780 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,480 Speaker 2: They have an identical record of okay, see right now, 781 00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,279 Speaker 2: so they're tied for the best record in the NBA. 782 00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:57,720 Speaker 1: Really the Calves, yes. 783 00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:01,480 Speaker 2: Sir, and as you said, best starting five in the 784 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,560 Speaker 2: league once they got the DeAndre Hunter trade and they're 785 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,000 Speaker 2: two and oh since having DeAndre Hunter in their lineup. 786 00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,319 Speaker 1: Yeah, the Calves have to go do that to be 787 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,279 Speaker 1: able to deal with this green buzz saw. And I 788 00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:13,520 Speaker 1: think that the Calves getting better like this is going 789 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:17,040 Speaker 1: to actually make Boston's level go to another level. You 790 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:17,600 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. 791 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:24,160 Speaker 3: Saturday night, let's go Saturday night, baby, Saturday night watching you. 792 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,240 Speaker 2: This is so we got the Lakers at the Nuggets. 793 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:41,040 Speaker 1: Hey, Friday night watch you, Saturday night watching you? Hey, 794 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:44,200 Speaker 1: the Lakers in Denver, Yes, give me the Lakers. I 795 00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:47,759 Speaker 1: think the Lakers gonna come out and listen, stop Church, 796 00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:52,000 Speaker 1: I'm this is just analytical. Just relax, man, Relax, man, 797 00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:53,760 Speaker 1: I can pick the Lakers. You know what I'm saying. 798 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,759 Speaker 1: This is analytical work. Relax. Listen. Denver is the team 799 00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:02,560 Speaker 1: no one's talking about, because I felt like towards the right, 800 00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,919 Speaker 1: right right as the first house was ending, they had 801 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,560 Speaker 1: like a serve of some really good games. I think 802 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:14,640 Speaker 1: Jamal's re activated Errands back right now, That's what I'm saying. 803 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,120 Speaker 1: Ain't nobody talking about Denver. But I really think that 804 00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,760 Speaker 1: if the Lakers are gonna be taken serious, they gotta 805 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,319 Speaker 1: come out and they gotta hit. They gotta come out 806 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:27,560 Speaker 1: with like a lightning boat. And these first five teen 807 00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,320 Speaker 1: games gonna gonna be gonna be everything. Anybody that can 808 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,040 Speaker 1: get a win, Street going, it's gonna show. But yeah, 809 00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:34,759 Speaker 1: give me the Lakers, man. I think the Lakers got 810 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,160 Speaker 1: something to prove. Let's go to Sunday. 811 00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:41,840 Speaker 2: Sunday, we got the thunder at the t Wolves. 812 00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,560 Speaker 1: The thunder at t Wolves. Yes, sir, nobody's really talking 813 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,320 Speaker 1: about the t Wolves this year. Man. I think Julie's 814 00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:53,080 Speaker 1: been out, but they've been playing good ball. Man. They've 815 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:57,080 Speaker 1: been a little bit inconsistent and stuff and still being Yeah, man, 816 00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,279 Speaker 1: okay see it's like a well oiled machine right now 817 00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,879 Speaker 1: that it's gonna be hard to slow them down. Yeah 818 00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,760 Speaker 1: give me okay see, even though I like the wolves 819 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:06,759 Speaker 1: at home, I'm gonna take you. Okay see, it's just 820 00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,200 Speaker 1: they're playing with a different purpose and spirit right now. 821 00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:15,239 Speaker 2: All right, I got some stuff all ship from the 822 00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,040 Speaker 2: Dope Shout out to Little D. 823 00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:20,200 Speaker 1: Shout out to mister Fab from the Dope Era. I 824 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:23,200 Speaker 1: appreciate your guys for all the wear. I saw the 825 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,359 Speaker 1: shop here, I had the ass. I was like, yo, 826 00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:27,279 Speaker 1: y'all gotta have my size yo. 827 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:30,359 Speaker 3: The Dope era, y'all was looking at this like man, 828 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:35,880 Speaker 3: the Dope Era. A yes, sir, you knows something of 829 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,360 Speaker 3: the south Man. They sent me the purple joint. So 830 00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:46,239 Speaker 3: the vlure not the valure suit, not the vlure turbok, 831 00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:58,479 Speaker 3: don't play word. Oh yeah, good looks. Good looks man 832 00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:02,120 Speaker 3: a D. A Hey, mister Fab, I appreciate you guys. 833 00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:04,760 Speaker 3: Man shout the Dope Era. You know what I'm saying. 834 00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:08,440 Speaker 3: Got them Boston Green boys, No e, you cannot have these. 835 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,319 Speaker 3: No stop looking at these. 836 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:14,040 Speaker 1: Get your own e. Get your own the dope era, 837 00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:20,359 Speaker 1: your boy. This what's up? That is the mental health Yeah, 838 00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:24,040 Speaker 1: Doug therapy for men. Yeah, that's what's up. Man. Make 839 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,000 Speaker 1: sure we out here take care of our mental health. Man, 840 00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:29,279 Speaker 1: do what you need to do real shit. Fuck everything else? 841 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:33,440 Speaker 1: What else we got in here? Yeah? Shout to the 842 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:36,359 Speaker 1: NDA na A CP doing the event this year. They 843 00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,440 Speaker 1: still doing the event on the golf joint. Shout to 844 00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,239 Speaker 1: the twins. Shout to everybody over there doing it. What's 845 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:45,560 Speaker 1: my girl? The name Nissa and Seema? Throw the dopest event. 846 00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,880 Speaker 1: You got an event? Have them girls run yo, shit man, 847 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,600 Speaker 1: you and me, they got all the sponsor. We got 848 00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:56,799 Speaker 1: everything here. Huh Hey, Ruster fight. Shout to my dog 849 00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:01,360 Speaker 1: Jess Jesse up there. Ruster fight right man, Have me 850 00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:05,279 Speaker 1: laid and lace. You know what I'm saying. Always Bill 851 00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:09,439 Speaker 1: Russell in the house. You already know right, Russeter fight. 852 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,640 Speaker 1: Keep keep doing the hot ship. We need that little decapsule. 853 00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:14,399 Speaker 1: That's what we need. We need that. Oh I need 854 00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,040 Speaker 1: that Marshan shit, that's what I need. I need that 855 00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:19,719 Speaker 1: Marchan joint. He ain't need here and I don't see 856 00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,120 Speaker 1: it in here at church. Church. You got my marchhawk 857 00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:26,400 Speaker 1: shit at church. No, ain't no red shirt. Ain't no, 858 00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,120 Speaker 1: ain't no golden blue shirt in here either where the 859 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:32,840 Speaker 1: fag of color is at. But yeah, well, good looks. 860 00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,319 Speaker 1: I appreciate you, guys. Man, Dope Eraror. I saw him 861 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,680 Speaker 1: have the blue joint. Yeah that was hot and I 862 00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:40,360 Speaker 1: need to get that joint. Marshawn had on with the 863 00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,080 Speaker 1: street What was that tell me? I don't know what 864 00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:47,800 Speaker 1: the street department. Yeah, I need that. Yeah that was hard, 865 00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:49,880 Speaker 1: but good looks of Dope Era for that. Man. I 866 00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:53,560 Speaker 1: appreciate that. Man. Good guys. Hey man, y'all know what 867 00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,279 Speaker 1: it is. Those are the picks of the week. Let's 868 00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:57,319 Speaker 1: get it your sir,