Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I tell my son all the time. Man,
Speaker 1: the key to anything that you want to do is
Speaker 1: just the consistency. Yeah, just being consistent. Don't trust me.
Speaker 1: Trust the work.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I could tell you anything that's right, You can tell
Speaker 1: them anything, but trust the work that you put in.
Speaker 1: Consistent work you put it in, and you'll start to see.
Speaker 2: The results, you know what you did until your point
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 3: Man, I think a lot of times our kids dismiss
Speaker 3: who we are.
Speaker 1: Man. God damn boy, my son won't listen to me
Speaker 1: for shit, you know, a strange as the liquor store listen.
Speaker 2: We just pops to them, you know.
Speaker 3: And that's a it's a catch twenty two because like
Speaker 3: being present in your children's lives, in their lives sometimes,
Speaker 3: like you know, they don't know what it's like to
Speaker 3: not have that influence, that protection, that leadership that guide us.
Speaker 3: And because they hear our voice so much, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean, they can shut us down sometimes.
Speaker 2: So I think it takes a village.
Speaker 3: That's why you got to have the right people around
Speaker 3: them to echo the message, because I don't want them
Speaker 3: to get the lesson, I mean, the message just from me,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, I want to I want
Speaker 3: them to get the lesson in it without having to
Speaker 3: experience failure, experienced hardships. I want them to get it
Speaker 3: along the way. So just be patient with them.
Speaker 2: Boys. Man, you got some good boys.
Speaker 1: I got some good boys. But I mean, I'm happy
Speaker 1: you touched on this because we talk about just being pops,
Speaker 1: you know, to them, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: I was able to be there, you know, with you
Speaker 1: and for you through one of your toughest times when
Speaker 1: you lost your father, Yes, sir, and then you know,
Speaker 1: fast tracked years later and I lose my father. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You know, we talk about our
Speaker 1: kids and we talk about those moments, and you think
Speaker 1: that you have any eternity with them, and you think,
Speaker 1: I would never thought that I'd be sitting here right
Speaker 1: now with my father, my stepmother, and my mother all deceased.
Speaker 1: So you think that you'll have an eternity with them.
Speaker 1: But just talk about the influence and the impact that
Speaker 1: your father had on you, because you know, besides basketball, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're talking about work ethic, getting up every day, his
Speaker 1: own flower shop. But like those skills, that mindset, those habits, yeah,
Speaker 1: are the reason why you could succeed in basketball because
Speaker 1: you take that mindset, you take those habits, and you
Speaker 1: apply that somewhere else. Yeah, but talk about Pops and
Speaker 1: how he instilled that in you, even though it wasn't
Speaker 1: all the time that you might have wanted, it was
Speaker 1: enough time, oh yeah, to mow you into the man
Speaker 1: that you are.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 3: Look, I would have taken you know, thirty years with
Speaker 3: my Pops in one hundred years, would have dead, be dead.
Speaker 2: Yes, you know.
Speaker 3: He was present, he was active, he was fun, he
Speaker 3: was loving, he was caring.
Speaker 2: He handled adversity.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, seeing him go through adversity, especially
Speaker 3: in the early nineties, really helped me through this phase
Speaker 3: of life, of my phase of adversity.
Speaker 2: And the way that he was able to carry it.
Speaker 3: Number one still show up, number two and then third
Speaker 3: bounce back.
Speaker 2: So having that Pops in your life, I really feel.
Speaker 3: Like it gives you an advantage on manhood, you know,
Speaker 3: because you don't have to learn certain things on the fly.
Speaker 3: You get to learn from their experience and their mistakes.
Speaker 3: So I'm thankful I had my dad as long as
Speaker 3: I had them. I miss him a whole bunch. I
Speaker 3: think The thing that I missed most about like his
Speaker 3: consistency of checking up on me. He knew my schedule,
Speaker 3: he knew how to find me. He always encouraged me.
Speaker 3: But I think what I miss probably the most is
Speaker 3: his sense of humor. He's a shit talk of extraordin there.
Speaker 3: He could talk to anyone at any time. And I
Speaker 3: really miss my father. I miss your father, man, and
Speaker 3: I'm so thankful. You know, we got to share that
Speaker 3: little time and space together because the pride that you
Speaker 3: would see on their face when we will walk out
Speaker 3: after the games, you know, you know, I could go
Speaker 3: back to like high school when they would talk shit
Speaker 3: to each other, you know, and things like that. So
Speaker 3: like to have that experience and then have it on
Speaker 3: an NBA level, Man, Kudos to our fathers, man, they
Speaker 3: really showed up and showed out.
Speaker 1: I mean for me, Bro, and I think about, you know,
Speaker 1: just the person I am today and the things that
Speaker 1: I'm doing and the things that I'm you know, accomplishing.
Speaker 1: It's because they prepared me, Bro that Like when my
Speaker 1: father passed away, I wasn't confused. I was obviously I
Speaker 1: was in pain, I was hurt, but I wasn't confused
Speaker 1: about what to do next. You know, so many times
Speaker 1: oftentimes you have adults that lose their parents and they
Speaker 1: don't know what to do next. They're lost, they're confused.
Speaker 1: I understood the mission completely, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like they raised me that kind of man. So regardless
Speaker 1: of whether I was in pain, I knew to get
Speaker 1: my ass up and I knew to keep pushing forward.
Speaker 1: And I knew what I had to do. And I
Speaker 1: had to leave my family. I got to take care
Speaker 1: of my brothers. I gotta take care of my sisters.
Speaker 1: I got to make sure that everybody good over here.
Speaker 1: I got to make sure that Mom's house still good.
Speaker 1: I got to make sure we still get together on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: I got to I know what the mission is. They
Speaker 1: prepared me for that, it was. It was no confusion
Speaker 1: at all. So now I see what those years was about,
Speaker 1: what they were building, what they were preparing me for,
Speaker 1: whether they was gonna be here or not. Knew that
Speaker 1: I was gonna be ready to be the man that
Speaker 1: they needed me to be.
Speaker 2: That's right, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Right, So, when I was scoring twenty five and my
Speaker 1: daddy said, you ain't got to kill an instinct you
Speaker 1: should just go thirty five, those kind of habits of
Speaker 1: never settling.
Speaker 3: Never settling. I remember when I was putting my arm
Speaker 3: in the room. My daddy said, yeah, Bubbo, you dunking
Speaker 3: that bit. But I don't want you dunking it like this.
Speaker 3: I want you dunking that bitch like this. I'm like, damn,
Speaker 3: I can't never satisfy them on the never satisfying on
Speaker 3: the court. But man, I really miss that now, Man
Speaker 3: I really missed that. I really miss that. And I
Speaker 3: think one of the lessons that we can learn from
Speaker 3: them that maybe they didn't teach us is as black men,
Speaker 3: as successful black men who have a lot of responsibility
Speaker 3: to do a little bit more self care, right, because
Speaker 3: like we check out a lot earlier than every other
Speaker 3: demographic on the planet, and so like, you know, what
Speaker 3: can we do to have longevity. It's not it's good
Speaker 3: to have success, but you want to have long success.
Speaker 2: Yes, So are we getting our checkups? Are we getting
Speaker 2: our pro state check?
Speaker 3: Are we eating the right way? Are we exercising? Are
Speaker 3: we diet and are we getting the right sleep? Are
Speaker 3: we stress managing all those holistic things that you learn
Speaker 3: along the way that maybe they didn't have the information.
Speaker 2: Have you healed from trauma?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 3: And things like that, right, and so on top of
Speaker 3: the lessons that they taught us, what can we build
Speaker 3: off of to leave a better legacy and equip our
Speaker 3: kids for the next love phase of life?
Speaker 1: And I think that's that's an important message that you
Speaker 1: brought there. One thing that you brought up earlier is
Speaker 1: talking about being four miles from the beach. But it
Speaker 1: seems so far away, right, I tell people all the time,
Speaker 1: I've never been in South Beach. I got in the NBA. Yeah,
Speaker 1: people think we grow up on South Beach.
Speaker 2: No, that's not da Hey.
Speaker 1: We don't go over there, man, we do not go
Speaker 1: over there at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not day count.
Speaker 1: That is not that is not Miami at all. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And it's so different, man, like just kind of growing
Speaker 3: up in the eighties, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 3: one of the I always remember me and you when
Speaker 3: we get into it. We're talking back and for man
Speaker 3: from you know.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying, like that that was a turn back
Speaker 2: in the day.
Speaker 1: Today, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So then, Like, but the thing about it is, man, like,
Speaker 3: you grow up in this culture of South Florida. Sports
Speaker 3: and basketball and football give you an opportunity to compete
Speaker 3: with some of the best young athletes. And then you
Speaker 3: get exposed to the streets because, like you know, it
Speaker 3: was the eighties, so it was it was it was
Speaker 3: wide open down here. So you saw the car culture,
Speaker 3: the don'ts, you saw, you know what I mean, the
Speaker 3: strip club culture and all those different things. You know,
Speaker 3: and we jumped off the porch real early. So you know,
Speaker 3: in doing that, you.
Speaker 2: Get exposed to a lot.
Speaker 3: So you probably saw some things that you shouldn't have seen,
Speaker 3: experienced some things that you shouldn't have experienced, and you
Speaker 3: kind of carry that, right, you kind of carry that
Speaker 3: into the next phase of your life, and if you're
Speaker 3: not careful, at some point it'll catch up with you.
Speaker 1: This is true.
Speaker 2: This is true.
Speaker 1: So now you drafted number ten, that's right, you feel
Speaker 1: like you made it somewhat.
Speaker 2: I didn't get invited to the draft.
Speaker 3: No I didn't get the experience, you know, shaking David
Speaker 3: Stern's hand.
Speaker 2: No I didn't.
Speaker 1: You didn't get invited. I did, sound like you still
Speaker 1: salty about that. I know you're not. I know you not.
Speaker 1: I know you now you sound like you're still salty
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, you want the full experience.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I didn't get to go to the combine. I didn't
Speaker 3: get to go, you know, to the draft and things
Speaker 3: like that. Even though I was considered a lottery pick,
Speaker 3: in one of the top draft prospects. It just didn't
Speaker 3: work out for me that way.
Speaker 1: So you didn't get invited because I ain't get drafted,
Speaker 1: So I don't know, So you didn't get invited.
Speaker 2: I didn't get invited to the draft?
Speaker 1: What about the draft combines?
Speaker 3: The combine, it was like, okay, you have to play
Speaker 3: in it, and if you're a lottery pick.
Speaker 1: You just did specific workouts.
Speaker 2: Just go work out for teams.
Speaker 3: I'm one of the top fifteen prospects, so I wasn't
Speaker 3: gonna go and play against the second rounder. Yeah you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, or potential under It did me
Speaker 3: nothing for my potential in my upside. So because I
Speaker 3: didn't do that, I didn't go to test so I
Speaker 3: didn't get that experience. But I got to share that
Speaker 3: moment with my family and so that was a beautiful
Speaker 3: thing about it. But yeah, I mean, you want to
Speaker 3: always get a chance to you know, shake the court.
Speaker 1: I know you did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we turned up that I know you did.
Speaker 1: Talk about it about it, got damn talk about it.
Speaker 2: Turned up that night. You know.
Speaker 3: We had a good time, but more so for me.
Speaker 3: You know, at that phase of life, man, it was
Speaker 3: really just trying to get us out of poverty.
Speaker 2: You know, shit had got rough.
Speaker 3: My dad had a stroke my freshman year and things
Speaker 3: like that, and I was looked at as the bread
Speaker 3: winner in the family. And it's a lot of responsibility
Speaker 3: when you're seventeen years old, man, and you're responsible, you know,
Speaker 3: financially for your family, inspirationally for your family, and not
Speaker 3: to minimize you know, everybody else in the family, because
Speaker 3: everybody held it down as best as they could. But
Speaker 3: it was a unique situation. I had a unique talent.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we had a good time. I flew out
Speaker 3: to Cali, got got up with Demos and Q you know,
Speaker 3: a day or two after the draft, and yeah, man,
Speaker 3: we turned up. You know, probably a little bit too much.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, talk about that, Earl Boykins, Cordmugatti, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Miles le bar Q Rich like y'all would loaded man
Speaker 1: talk about that? Headbands? Yeah, like it was a vibe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a vibe man, the Clippers.
Speaker 3: Man, it was a lot of fun being in la
Speaker 3: It's a beautiful place, got a lot to offer, great weather,
Speaker 3: and we were all doing things for the first time together.
Speaker 3: So we did a lot of cooking out, a lot
Speaker 3: of barbecuing, a lot of playing the video game, a
Speaker 3: lot of hanging out. We vibe, right, but the infrastructure
Speaker 3: was not there for us to develop as players.
Speaker 1: You couldn't got you got Chicago, you got East Saint Louis,
Speaker 1: you got New York for a lot of that.
Speaker 3: And we brought it, brought We brought all them elements.
Speaker 3: We brought all them elements to l a bro We
Speaker 3: kicked it.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: We had a good time out there, we really did.
Speaker 3: And all of us went on to have long careers.
Speaker 3: That's the thing about it. It's not just about assembling talent.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you got to have the right pieces. And it
Speaker 3: was just too many young players, you know, So it
Speaker 3: was still a lot of internal competition. But man, you're
Speaker 3: talking about like some talented guys.
Speaker 2: I had a ship. Man, I had a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the right mind. I mean, internal competition
Speaker 1: is how it's supposed to be Iron supposed to shopper iron. Yes,
Speaker 1: every day, every single day, Iron supposed to shop iron.
Speaker 1: Like you know, as much as you know, we talked
Speaker 1: ship to each other. Once we went out of town,
Speaker 1: nobody else could say shit and could nobody say shit
Speaker 1: to be like we we played, we could talk to
Speaker 1: shit each other all day. Yeah, we're gonna go at
Speaker 1: each other all day, for sure, but when we go
Speaker 1: out of town, ain't nobody fit the fuck with you,
Speaker 1: ain't nobody for the fuck with me. But we believe
Speaker 1: in that iron shopping iron ship. Yeah, we believe in that.
Speaker 3: I think about you, u D You know, you've always
Speaker 3: just really been the muscle You've been to Luga Brossi
Speaker 3: of this ship for years. Man, you know, like the
Speaker 3: loyalty and the love and the compassion and the the
Speaker 3: oversight that you had. You took it personal, being from
Speaker 3: down here right to represent it. So you wanted all
Speaker 3: our guys to feel safe, comfortable, protected, and.
Speaker 2: You stood on that.
Speaker 3: A lot of things we can't even talk about, because
Speaker 3: like you did a lot of things behind the scenes
Speaker 3: that allowed a lot of guys, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: passes down here to be able to you know, breathe.
Speaker 1: I mean, I connected with the right people, and that's
Speaker 1: why I won't leave today. And people always talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, the opportunities that I had to leave. Man,
Speaker 1: the love that I get from the city. You can't
Speaker 1: put a price tag on that. Yeah, I can go anywhere.
Speaker 1: I don't need know security. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm connected to the people. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So now that I'm retired, I'm gonna get them back
Speaker 1: everything they gave to me. Affordable housing, the medical marijuana.
Speaker 1: Stop going to jail. Stop going to jail for weed.
Speaker 1: My brothers, we ain't got time for that. Life. It's
Speaker 1: legal now, go get your card, get your paperwork, understanding
Speaker 1: the law. You know what I'm saying, all that shit,
Speaker 1: I'll make sure we got all that. We ain't got
Speaker 1: to worry about jobs. Stop hustling. We gonna get jobs
Speaker 1: out here. We don't give you opportunities. Now. You just
Speaker 1: got to make choices, Make the right choices. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get the city back everything they gave to me.
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