Speaker 1: The first round of five O five, how's anna leave?
Speaker 1: He ain't make a shot yet? Four one on steaming?
Speaker 1: Ah my, I got three lacks. Hey, he gotta he
Speaker 1: gotta shoot with all the places. Come on, what's up
Speaker 1: on steamer? Oh? Get the money? Talk about Look at
Speaker 1: him concentrating three one? Hey, that's it. That's away Smith.
Speaker 1: That was yours truly Saturday in Vegas. Responded to that
Speaker 1: free throw shoot each viallenge from my brother Kenny Smith
Speaker 1: at TNT. Kenny decided to shoot with his left hand,
Speaker 1: and that essentially sealed his faith against ware as I
Speaker 1: won three to one. Listen, y'all, it's all in fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, come on, man, you know it's
Speaker 1: free throw shooting contests and stuff like that. Sort of
Speaker 1: bricks we were laying when we shoot from threes, right,
Speaker 1: But I tell you this much. That's because first of all,
Speaker 1: we practice indoors, and we only practiced on the free throws.
Speaker 1: Didn't know we were gonna be outside. And then when
Speaker 1: we go outside, it looked like the damn rim was
Speaker 1: eleven feet instead of ten feet high, and the three
Speaker 1: point line looked back. I mean, it reminded me when
Speaker 1: I went on the first on the mound for the
Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium for the first pitch, I mean, looked like
Speaker 1: a damn mile away for crying out loud. And I
Speaker 1: shot three air balls, just like everybody else did. Shock
Speaker 1: shot airballs, Kenny shot airballs, Ernie Johnson shot airballs. Charles
Speaker 1: Barkley definitely shot airballs. Okay, but I hit one. But
Speaker 1: I would have hit more if I warmed up a
Speaker 1: little bit more. But it's cool. It's cool, but you know,
Speaker 1: this basketball is not baseball, so I wasn't worried about it.
Speaker 1: I just knew that I had to make shots because,
Speaker 1: I mean, after the first pitch fiasco, I couldn't go
Speaker 1: out there and shoot the free throws and not show up.
Speaker 1: But in all seriousness, I want to give props to
Speaker 1: the whole TNT Cusie. They come to ESPN next year,
Speaker 1: and I can't speak for everybody else, but I'm ecstatic
Speaker 1: that they're doing that. I'm ecstatic that they're doing that.
Speaker 1: You know what, As I've said, you know, listen, ESPN
Speaker 1: and Disney. I mean, listen, I've been there for the
Speaker 1: last twenty years or so, okay, and I've had a
Speaker 1: phenomenal relationship with all of those guys as I've set
Speaker 1: on many occasions, all right, and so for me, it's
Speaker 1: just about looking at them. I just wanted to say
Speaker 1: Kenny did me a favor, all right, because if he
Speaker 1: shot right handed, he probably would have smoked me. He's
Speaker 1: a career eighty three percent shooter, all right. He's an
Speaker 1: NBA two time NBA champion. I know my lane. His
Speaker 1: brother Vincent taught me how to play for crime. Now, lie,
Speaker 1: I know better. Kenny Smith is Kenny Smith. So people
Speaker 1: looking at him and acting like I legitimately beat him.
Speaker 1: I made my free throws. Okay, that's really all that's
Speaker 1: good out of this. The man shot left hand next time,
Speaker 1: he ain't gonna give me that kind of book break.
Speaker 1: I know this, all right, So I appreciated it. I
Speaker 1: had a lot of fun, but I just got a
Speaker 1: lot of love for them. We all go back decades,
Speaker 1: and so to have that, to be on tn T
Speaker 1: with those guys having that kind of fun, I just
Speaker 1: can't say enough about what an experience it was, and
Speaker 1: I just wanted to thank them for it. Right, It's
Speaker 1: all in fun, and nobody walking around here with some
Speaker 1: big head just because I hit three free throws were
Speaker 1: crying out lot. Even though it was pressure, it was
Speaker 1: on national television. Everybody was watching, and had I miss,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't hurt the end of it. So I did
Speaker 1: respond to the pressure of the moment. I would give
Speaker 1: myself credit for that, but not for beating Kenny Smith,
Speaker 1: who rolled left handed. I know better, y'all. I know better.