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Speaker 1: When you first got to the league. Who was the

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Speaker 2: Oh man, that's you ain't gonna never forget. For me,

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Speaker 2: it was grand Hill. I was like, oh man, I

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Speaker 2: I swear on everything I love. The last five minutes

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Speaker 2: of the game, he came down. He either scored I

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Speaker 2: And it was just like, I felt like I lost

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Speaker 2: the game. I think he had like thirty eight fifteen assists,

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Speaker 3: And I'm in the locker room, like you felt defeated.

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Speaker 2: I felt defeated. Crime anybody that was that was a

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Speaker 2: you know the crazy thing about this, Grand Hill was

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Speaker 2: the player who I idolized when I was in high school.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at dude, I'm like, oh, him, Steve Smith

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Speaker 2: that him, and so I'm ready for this. I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 2: this is that right here? I need to get back

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Speaker 2: in the live straight up.

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Speaker 4: All right, we're back man, knuckleheads and full of fact.

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Speaker 4: Season three. We are here on location blackest one in

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Speaker 4: the building. We got a very special guest, very special

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Speaker 4: guest man. We got the truth, Hall Pierce. He's square

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Speaker 4: in the building. Hall of Fame, Jersey up and Beantown Rafters,

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Speaker 4: legendary tune in y'all were about to talk our ish.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what.

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Speaker 1: My coach has this drill. He used to tell me

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Speaker 2: Feeling like Greek freaky doing that right now, he take

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Speaker 1: And so when you came out, Junior, how you went

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Speaker 5: Hold up? Hold up, I didn't know you was from Oakland.

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Speaker 2: I was born in Oakland. A lot of people didn't know.

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Speaker 5: That me and were talking about he like he's from

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Speaker 2: But then, yeah, so I was born. I grew up

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Speaker 5: I never knew that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I moved to l A since most of

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Speaker 2: my mom family lived in l A. Yeah, you know

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Speaker 2: in Oakland for sure.

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Speaker 1: So you chose Inglewood when you got there, Like, uh,

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Speaker 1: before you chose Inglewood, did you you hear about the

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Speaker 3: You know what?

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Speaker 2: It was just all about what my mom took me. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna live over here now, son, So this is

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Speaker 2: I wasn't really in the basketball. I played football because

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Speaker 2: all the kids that I met, they all hoops so

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Speaker 3: The hoop.

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Speaker 2: Contest. He was like everything for all the hoopers in Inglewood,

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Speaker 2: Lisa Leslie went to Morningside, which is in Inglewood. That's

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Speaker 4: At what point did you start hooping against and meet

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I met b D when we was like I

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Speaker 5: For real.

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Speaker 2: He was like built like Irison back then. You don't

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Speaker 2: I'm like he was just small. So like when I

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Speaker 2: started on my junior high AU team and like out

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Speaker 2: of the Inglewood, why we had Andre Miller went there?

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Speaker 2: Now Andre was was a fat kid growing up. Andre

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Speaker 2: Miller was dominant after WI He like a y a legend.

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Speaker 4: Came to the league with the big boy post up

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Speaker 1: Want he wanted them. People that don't get mentioned a lot,

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Speaker 3: Say his name.

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Speaker 5: He definitely And I got.

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Speaker 1: I know somebody from l A, like the first big

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Speaker 2: I don't even like him growing up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like rival.

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Speaker 5: So that was the same years, man, What that was.

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Speaker 2: All like like a year older than Shame. But I'm

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Speaker 2: the city were playing him in the finals every year,

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Speaker 2: every tournament, every tournament, I lost to him, every one,

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Speaker 2: every one of them. I'm talking about dude coming down.

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Speaker 2: They had the fresh You know, I played for the

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Speaker 2: team Case Swiss. We were Case Swiss. We was broke,

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Speaker 2: was the head team. But you know, kids confident. We

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Speaker 2: dunking eighth grade. Yeah, he was, like I guess he

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Speaker 2: stayed that same size from like could you imagine, Like

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Speaker 2: talking about early ninety when you were eighth grade, everybody

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Speaker 2: was talking about tapping the backboard. So you look down

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Speaker 2: the layup line and this kid out here, Dunky, he

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Speaker 2: And he in that like seventh grade. It was like

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Speaker 2: I was like, let you.

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Speaker 3: He had so much hype around him. I was like dude.

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Speaker 2: He was that dude like in a tournament. They flew

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Speaker 2: people didn't know KG flew out the play off me

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Speaker 2: this tournament. Oh okay, they brought in it. This was

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Speaker 2: twenty five at the half a kg, Like, who is

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Speaker 2: this gid? I'm telling you it's a story we still

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Speaker 3: So he was.

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Speaker 2: He got off the plane and just k gave us

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Speaker 2: we won the last one.

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Speaker 5: See, people don't understand that that was how that era was.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 4: People was really breaking their neck to like fly kids

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Speaker 4: talking about what KG came to Chicago. First time I

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Speaker 4: and Wolf coached Gott to coach him at Ferragut. He

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Speaker 4: was talking noise to hell. You know how it is Chicago.

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Speaker 4: They gonna talk to somebody to.

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Speaker 5: He's like, oh, that's all right, I'm ready, that's all right.

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Speaker 5: Wait to that. Wait that jumbo jet Land.

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Speaker 4: He kept talking about this way to the jumpbo Jetland,

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Speaker 5: He got ticket.

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Speaker 4: Robert Traylor and Albert White, we got he came with

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Speaker 4: three of them, so he what and they had Ronnie

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Speaker 4: already that's what.

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Speaker 2: The next Georgian.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like so I'm sitting there as a

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Speaker 4: young boy. I'm seventh eighth grade. I played, you know,

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Speaker 4: my AU team playing in the other general. Well, it's

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Speaker 4: like one of those type. All the levels and everything

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Speaker 4: were over there looking like yo. When they came in.

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Speaker 4: It's like, dude, the like NBA players, right, you know,

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Speaker 4: like you know, KG was real like same like sixt eleven.

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Speaker 5: I'm long and tall. Then you got track to trail.

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Speaker 4: I'd never seen nobody high school big as him.

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Speaker 5: White was like six eight Duncan throwing that ship.

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Speaker 3: He was.

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Speaker 5: They was like.

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Speaker 4: I was like, I'm looking at this like a whole

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Speaker 3: You didn't want miss the basketball or nothing.

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Speaker 2: That's what they did. You already know that already we

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Speaker 3: I should have met them in the championship or something. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: State because our state is the South Southern CALVERSU Northern Cal.

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Speaker 5: They changing in Chicago.

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Speaker 4: It used to be like how you said they used

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Speaker 4: Now like five teams can go downstate from the city.

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Speaker 3: That's California.

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Speaker 2: It's big, man, that's California, the biggest.

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Speaker 3: Hell. You gotta play something. Teams gotta be one champion

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Speaker 1: You already chose Kansas to go school with Roy when

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Speaker 2: Man, you know what, I almost went to Oregon or

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Speaker 2: it was coach Green, you know, but I was getting

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Speaker 3: Coast coach Green's that's that's the black good.

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Speaker 4: Distinctively tell and know that time when it went from

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Speaker 2: I knew myself, I stay here, I ain't gonna make it,

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Speaker 5: That's why, straight up.

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Speaker 2: And then I love the environment. Trusted Roy. You know,

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Speaker 4: I tell you one thing that I never forget about

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Speaker 4: I told you how close I was. If it wasn't,

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Speaker 5: Accent and he's like like he like, listen when I

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Speaker 4: I'm a fan of queen Ridge, and he was like,

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Speaker 4: I know how this process goes and all that. He

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Speaker 4: every time might have always saw him, likely it's only

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Speaker 4: It wasn't like no bitterness or no nothing. And I

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Speaker 4: you always get to feel that it's always a solid,

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Speaker 5: Time of his guys.

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Speaker 2: So I always love Roy.

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Speaker 3: He pushed me.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you he made me. He made me a.

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Speaker 2: So like I was projected to go between after my sophomore,

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Speaker 2: and I'm gonna try to be the number one pick.

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Speaker 2: I know I'm gonna be preseason All American. I got

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Speaker 2: be the number one pick because like me and Chauncey.

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Speaker 2: I remember me and Chauncey. You know, we went to college.

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Speaker 2: He went to Colorado. So we used to talk and

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Speaker 2: he's like, we're gonna come out together. Then Chauncey caught me,

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Speaker 2: like I'm out. I was like, damn. You know, Chauncey

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Speaker 2: I was like, damn, So I'll stay then other year

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Speaker 2: be the number one pick. Though, you got it, I'll

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Speaker 2: see you next year.

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Speaker 3: Go straight up.

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Speaker 1: When you got drafted, did you think it was gonna

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Speaker 2: Man, I didn't even work out for the Celtics. I

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Speaker 2: didn't even work out.

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Speaker 3: Didn't work out for the clip you know.

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Speaker 2: Look, I was projected to be the number two pick,

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Speaker 2: which was Vancouver, which is miss miss Grizzlies right now.

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Speaker 2: I work out for that. I wanted to be the

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Speaker 2: number one. I was like, I worked out for them.

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Speaker 2: I worked out for him. I'm like, all right. So

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Speaker 2: I'm like I'm projected go number two. I'm thinking I'm

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Speaker 2: call my a man, give me another workout with them.

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Speaker 2: I want to go home and be the number one pick.

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Speaker 2: I was like, nah, I begged them for another workout, like.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And then so, man, I remember the top ten teams,

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Speaker 2: now I'm eaning back in the chair, like I don't

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Speaker 2: know where the hell I'm going now, seven come a

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Speaker 2: come nine come. I'm like, then ten come like Celtics.

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Speaker 2: You know, I hated the Celtics. I know, I'm a

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Speaker 2: was like, you want to smile because you getting drafted.

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Speaker 2: I'm in the back of my head like there's some

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Speaker 2: bullshit exactly straight up. You know, stuff happened for a reason.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. You just never know where

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Speaker 3: Get to Boston.

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Speaker 1: And one of the people, just my ogi we looked

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Speaker 1: Like I feel like he's one of them players too,

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Speaker 1: that the unsown heroes that really don't get the cred

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Speaker 3: He was my big brother? Like he just took me

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Speaker 2: Everybody's I went everywhere with him practice. We're gonna talk

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Speaker 2: talking mass shit. I'm like, whoa, what's going on here?

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Speaker 5: I wasn't.

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Speaker 2: I was like, you ain't about to be talking to

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Speaker 2: like because we was on opposite teams and he just

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Speaker 2: We're gonna go. We're gonna go to the parklay against

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Speaker 2: So that's how that was. But I love him for that.

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Speaker 2: He on and off the court man and he he

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Speaker 5: All of that like how people come on bro.

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Speaker 4: He got one of the most legendary quotes, like hey, hey,

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Speaker 2: Because it ain't no four foreigners.

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Speaker 4: Talking about I'm talking about gonna do it And I

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Speaker 2: Know, it's so crazy too, so like you know, he

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Speaker 2: founded at like fast media. Now that's a normal thing today.

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Speaker 2: It's like, man, they looking at him like he's a

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Speaker 2: bad guy. And he had fun and nobody liked that,

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Speaker 5: Now it's like, look at his passion for the game,

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Speaker 4: Like bron nothing but passion and nothing but a twine

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Speaker 5: I just hate the way the narrative be because he

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Speaker 4: A boy the entire time, like and the whole, like

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Speaker 2: And trust me, I'm talking about after you. Man, he's

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Speaker 1: I love man, y'all chemistry together, the way y'all played together,

439
00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:23,960
Speaker 1: y'all encouraged each I remember when we first got to

440
00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,399
Speaker 1: the league and man, just seeing y'all put I liked

441
00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,600
Speaker 1: how y'all squad was put together with Eric Williams and

442
00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:30,359
Speaker 1: all that stuff.

443
00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:31,280
Speaker 3: And y'all was.

444
00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,840
Speaker 1: Going through them battles with New Jersey with Jason Kidd

445
00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:38,480
Speaker 1: and and all them, and I know y'all was fighting

446
00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,800
Speaker 1: for them titles them days. But I remember how how

447
00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,320
Speaker 1: like what type of team y'all was, A grinding team.

448
00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:46,560
Speaker 1: Y'all was kind of way different than the team that

449
00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:51,160
Speaker 1: we just went the championship with. Or yeah, like how

450
00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,240
Speaker 1: they play today. Yeah, like I'll be looking like, yeah,

451
00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,600
Speaker 1: go the state. They changed the way we played.

452
00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,160
Speaker 2: I was like, in two thousand and two, this is like,

453
00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:01,159
Speaker 2: if you go back and look at our taste we

454
00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:05,000
Speaker 2: had to stretch for. Yeah, we had put three around one. Yeah,

455
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,639
Speaker 2: we shot forty fifty threes a night. And I'm like,

456
00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:08,720
Speaker 2: that's the way they play now.

457
00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:11,399
Speaker 4: But it's just funny, like how you say everything is

458
00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,440
Speaker 4: looked that different now because the five when we was

459
00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:18,240
Speaker 4: with Phoenix, when we was letting that thing fly, oh man,

460
00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:22,679
Speaker 4: seventeen attempt from three nineteen attempts to three like letting everybody,

461
00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:24,960
Speaker 4: Joe letting it go, Barbosa letting it go.

462
00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:26,639
Speaker 5: Tricks were shooting three.

463
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,679
Speaker 2: Let me tell you about Phoenix. That had to be

464
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,840
Speaker 2: the fastest team I ever played against. Dog Like it

465
00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,240
Speaker 2: was straight up like if you laid the ball up,

466
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,240
Speaker 2: you ain't had time. I was so time the first

467
00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:47,480
Speaker 2: quarter every time we played Phoenix, because they gonna get

468
00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:49,639
Speaker 2: the ball out and throw it the head. I was like, damn,

469
00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:50,960
Speaker 2: it was like a track meet.

470
00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:54,879
Speaker 1: With y'all's pushing that Jones, every big Steve Hunter running

471
00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:59,679
Speaker 1: fast and seven for the Steeds the wind right. I know,

472
00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:03,480
Speaker 1: y'all get over the hump, but when Twine got traded,

473
00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,919
Speaker 1: and now it's just you by yourself that I remember

474
00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:07,840
Speaker 1: them like them.

475
00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:09,480
Speaker 3: First I think it was like two years or something

476
00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:09,679
Speaker 3: like that.

477
00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:14,760
Speaker 5: Man that hurt, but then Superman but still like this.

478
00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,520
Speaker 2: We went to the Eastern Conference finals, so I thought

479
00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,560
Speaker 2: we was building something. Yeah, you know, you're thinking like, okay,

480
00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,159
Speaker 2: we're not far from a championship. But then it's just

481
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,320
Speaker 2: after that conference finals appearance, it was like we regressed.

482
00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,199
Speaker 2: We started losing players. Then he traded. Then we went

483
00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:34,679
Speaker 2: to a whole I'm starting prime. Now we re re rebuilding,

484
00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,080
Speaker 2: and I'm like, hold on, what's going on? You know?

485
00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,119
Speaker 2: So that one hurt when we lost when we traded

486
00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:43,080
Speaker 2: Twin Yeah, I ain't gonna even lie.

487
00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:45,679
Speaker 1: Then you know, you go through them sorrow years of losing.

488
00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,800
Speaker 1: You ain't never really lost in your career. But then

489
00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:51,520
Speaker 1: you get a trade for Ray Allen, You get a

490
00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:55,640
Speaker 1: ticket that summer, and the hype around, you know, as

491
00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,159
Speaker 1: NBA player's competitor, we be like, oh ship, then the

492
00:22:58,200 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 1: motherfuckers with the crown.

493
00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,359
Speaker 3: Now we gotta look.

494
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,720
Speaker 2: So look we put the trade together, and I ain't

495
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,280
Speaker 2: gonna I remember a lot and then me and him,

496
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:10,640
Speaker 2: this dude, right here. We had our battles. I don't

497
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 2: even know, like we we I don't even know where our

498
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 2: ship came from. Like, but we put our team together.

499
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 2: And I remember a quote from him they ain't one

500
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:20,520
Speaker 2: ship yet or something.

501
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:21,239
Speaker 5: I remember this.

502
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,159
Speaker 2: I don't know what, like, because everybody was like we

503
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:25,959
Speaker 2: was on all the cover of the magazines. And then

504
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,400
Speaker 2: I heard something from Q they ain't one ship yet,

505
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:33,200
Speaker 2: Like this is pre season. You know what this fucker

506
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,000
Speaker 2: right here, it's always something for him.

507
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,240
Speaker 3: They gay up, they gay out the crowd. But it

508
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:39,200
Speaker 3: was well deserved.

509
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,240
Speaker 1: Like what y'all put together was like perfect, and then

510
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,760
Speaker 1: you get a wild caught in Rondo and then you

511
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,000
Speaker 1: get all these young guys just willing to listen to

512
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:49,120
Speaker 1: everything that y'all and Doc say.

513
00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 3: So it was like, yeah, it changed.

514
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:52,440
Speaker 5: You know how we changed?

515
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 1: You know how we said the NBA players and we

516
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 1: sit at home during the off season, and then it

517
00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:01,879
Speaker 1: be that one trade or that two trade changed. It

518
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:03,600
Speaker 1: was like we were looking at the Lakers and all

519
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, no, we gotta pay attention to them,

520
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 1: and all the Celtics or the Miami Heat or whoever

521
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 1: it is, you know, and everybody antennas go up when

522
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 1: you see that. So with y'all, it definitely did. You know,

523
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 1: everybody was gonna give you all y'all best shut.

524
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 4: But that was the symbolic of what our error was too.

525
00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. It's different. We weren't gonna

526
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,240
Speaker 4: sit back and just listen, like all right, I was

527
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 4: playing for the next then. So it's like every single

528
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 4: interview they come in, they talking about y'all every after

529
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:34,359
Speaker 4: a second, like what they did they like, man, listen,

530
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:36,200
Speaker 4: like going on with that, like you know what I'm saying,

531
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 4: But like that was the difference of how we were.

532
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 4: We were gonna get agitated by that and say some

533
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:42,159
Speaker 4: shit like that's just.

534
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:42,720
Speaker 5: How we were.

535
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:46,120
Speaker 4: We were competitive and we weren't going We weren't that generation.

536
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:48,280
Speaker 4: That's not knocking this generation because I'm a fan of

537
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 4: everything as long as basketball, I'm a fan. But I

538
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,280
Speaker 4: was saying this the other day, like I wish that

539
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:55,399
Speaker 4: I would have went through my career like I never

540
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 4: would have took the pictures on the court like they do,

541
00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,280
Speaker 4: but I wish I'd have got a lot of dudes jerseys.

542
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,119
Speaker 4: But I never I would have stood up there, and

543
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,359
Speaker 4: you know, did all that, but like I definitely was

544
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:10,160
Speaker 4: too competitive. We were way too competitively. But I see

545
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 4: you damn Jersey like that was that was our.

546
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,320
Speaker 5: Disposition supposed to it is now it's.

547
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 2: More like I can't hate against it though now. But

548
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 2: because like what I do love about this generation they

549
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 2: all boys and they work out, which is cool, but

550
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:28,879
Speaker 2: they do business together too. I wish that we was

551
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 2: more none of that, like you know what I'm saying.

552
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,720
Speaker 2: That's what I like about this.

553
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,439
Speaker 4: Our generation was was gonna if somebody found a secret,

554
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:38,640
Speaker 4: they was gonna say hold on.

555
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,119
Speaker 2: And they set the narrative, you know what I'm saying.

556
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,439
Speaker 2: But they got allowed like this era got more of

557
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 2: a voice too. Though with the social media, they don't

558
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,639
Speaker 2: give a damn. Like it's more people demanding trade. You know,

559
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,720
Speaker 2: we demanded trade. It was gonna be like outcast city

560
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 2: whole articles like you know, it's gonna like now you

561
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,399
Speaker 2: got you can control you can control them that voice.

562
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know back then it was play basketball.

563
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 1: Shut up, we play you to play basketball.

564
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 3: Show. You can't do nothing outside.

565
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 1: We don't want you to do a movie or TV

566
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 1: show or put too many commercials out of you. That

567
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 1: means you you're doing commercials every day, you're not working

568
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 1: on your game.

569
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 3: You get Caz.

570
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 1: I heard the energy and training camp from from the

571
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:20,200
Speaker 1: training camp all the way.

572
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 3: The whole season was just different.

573
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 1: And I know you going from them battles with twe

574
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 1: and then you had them couple of losing seasons and

575
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:30,959
Speaker 1: then you get this trade on or something and then

576
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 1: this training camp that with a coach like Doc, that's

577
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,639
Speaker 1: with the ship from Chicago.

578
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:44,359
Speaker 2: The most intense thing I ever been a part of.

579
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,719
Speaker 2: You know, I didn't been around KG, but at this

580
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 2: point we go to Rome. I'm talking about it's the

581
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,399
Speaker 2: loudest practice, it's the hardest practice, and he set the

582
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 2: bar every day because you know, when you're out there

583
00:26:55,800 --> 00:27:00,679
Speaker 2: by yourself, I'm the lone star. It's like around the twine.

584
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,439
Speaker 2: Never been around other great players. And it's like, so

585
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 2: I'm looking I'm looking at how he worked, I'm looking

586
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,439
Speaker 2: at his intensity, and now it's picking me up and

587
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 2: now I'm doing more and now I'm like, now my

588
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 2: mentality go to another rule. You know. So I'm looking

589
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 2: at this every day. I'm seeing ray work, I'm seeing

590
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,160
Speaker 2: ticket work, and I'm like, I'm trying to I'm trying

591
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 2: to match or do better, but we were constantly doing

592
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 2: it to each other, so now it's pushing us to

593
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 2: be even better. Like KG get there like eight am,

594
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 2: all right, I'm gonna get there at seven thirty. Then

595
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:29,119
Speaker 2: the next day he get there at seven and beat me.

596
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:30,679
Speaker 2: Oh no, I need to get there at sixty. Like

597
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 2: That's how it was, but it made us better.

598
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 5: That's the one thing.

599
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 4: Like when it comes to KG, like throughout the whole

600
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 4: time since I got in the league and when I

601
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 4: first got to play against him, and see like always

602
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 4: used to be like you gotta be spun, like physically

603
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:50,120
Speaker 4: spun after every time, cause he'd be so lock, so intense,

604
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,160
Speaker 4: and it's like bro, and it's like you.

605
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,199
Speaker 5: Know how you play against people? All right? He faking

606
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 5: right and saying no, bro.

607
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 4: This is this is every time, like you can watch it.

608
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 4: He did something for teen and some where he did

609
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 4: like a hype video and he would just talk.

610
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 5: I was like, bruh, this man ready to go run

611
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:05,679
Speaker 5: through a big wall right now?

612
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,439
Speaker 4: He talking and had That's what I used to be

613
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 4: sitting there looking at that like bruh, how that feel

614
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 4: to be around that every single day?

615
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 2: That see, this is how I measure greats. You know

616
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,399
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. So like, you got the great players

617
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,919
Speaker 2: throughout history and they probably won, But how do you

618
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 2: influence your teammates?

619
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:24,679
Speaker 3: Right?

620
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 2: You know that's a big factor in me when I

621
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 2: look at great players, like how did you make them better?

622
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 2: You know, you could just be great on your own?

623
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:34,920
Speaker 2: Like it's a lot of great players on their own,

624
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 2: but like, how do you motivate the other guys? Just

625
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 2: every day I knew I had to be ready mentally.

626
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 2: It wasn't no bullshitting, but I wanted that. I was like,

627
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 2: now I'm in a position I got a chance to win,

628
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. All these other bullshit years,

629
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 2: I'm like, man, I'm done with they. I don't even

630
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 2: want to be around this no more. And then we

631
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 2: bring in KG. But that that was an honor to

632
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 2: just see that every day. You know a lot of

633
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 2: a lot of players, you know, you you had a

634
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 2: chance to be y'all had a chance to be around

635
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 2: some great and you see how different it was. Like

636
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 2: it's an honor. And I wish every player in the

637
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 2: NBA have a chance, because it's not everybody a great.

638
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 5: Everybody don't get a chance.

639
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 2: Great teammate, like you don't get a chance to play

640
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 2: with Lebron or Kobe or you know, like to really

641
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 2: see it first half and to watch it every day

642
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 2: influence everybody on and off the court and say, I

643
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 2: was like I shared it with him.

644
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 3: That was an honor, straight up.

645
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 4: That's how That's how I feel about Steve nash Bro

646
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 4: because it was like that I only played with him

647
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 4: for that one year, but for me, that was my

648
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 4: like you said, that was my first time playing. He

649
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 4: was the MVP that year, so that was like my

650
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 4: first time and just just his presence, know what I'm saying,

651
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,719
Speaker 4: what he meant everywhere we win. It was like damn,

652
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 4: like these people love Steve. It was like it's my

653
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 4: first time being around, Like, oh, you for real a superstar?

654
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: Then you y'all won a championship. Y'all go you know,

655
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 1: y'all go through Lebron, y'all go through all that you

656
00:29:56,480 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 1: find to play against the Los Angeles Lakers, your childhood

657
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: team that you grew up loving and watching, and like

658
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: you got to play the Lakers, Like how did that

659
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 1: moment feel?

660
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 3: And you know, after you want.

661
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 2: It like what you felt about it, dude, that was

662
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 2: a dream come true, like straight up, like even though

663
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 2: like growing up I'm a Laker fan, I wanted to

664
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 2: be a Laker, but I'm not a Laker. Now I'm

665
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 2: on the Celtics. I'm playing the Lakers in the championships.

666
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 2: Like how ironic is this? You know what I'm saying?

667
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 2: A kid from La Inglewood playing Boston going to the

668
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 2: championship versus the Lakers. It was like storybook for me.

669
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 2: It was just like, man, I couldn't have asked for

670
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,719
Speaker 2: a better script. Now I'm a part of history just

671
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 2: matching up with him in the final. This is what

672
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 2: got me into basketball, watching Lakers, watching this ribery, watching Magic.

673
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 2: Magic was my favorite player, and so now I'm a

674
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,719
Speaker 2: part of this, this lure and to beat them, it

675
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 2: was just like, man, sounds like a dream come true.

676
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 2: And get the MVP versus Kobe, Like that was like, man,

677
00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 2: you know what I did?

678
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 3: So we won.

679
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 2: We all go to Vegas kicking. So I got the

680
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 2: m v P trophy. I come back to La I

681
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 2: live out here, man, I go to Katana right there

682
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 2: on sunset, and I put the MVP trophy right on

683
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 2: the table outside boom like fifteen of my boys in

684
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 2: there having drinks everybody. I'm feeling myself right there, right,

685
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 2: I'm feeling myself right now. I'm at Katana outside. You

686
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 2: know how the fatty I put the trophy right there?

687
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 2: Oh they was hating Dad. Oh no, I'll never forget that.

688
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 2: Then let me tell you another story. So we lose

689
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 2: to the Lakers in twenty ten, and I'm sitting in

690
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 2: Johnny Rockets with my boy and this kid coming Johnny Rockets.

691
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 2: He must have heard I was there. Went back, kid

692
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 2: coming here with the biggest Laker flag I ever seen. Right,

693
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 2: I'm talking about the flag. It was a pole. It

694
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 2: was a pole. He walked in. It was like, hey, Paul,

695
00:31:55,440 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 2: can you sign my flag? Almost lost? Almost lost. I

696
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 2: was like, hey kid, if you don't get your ass

697
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 2: right now, trying to be cautious, you don't get your

698
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 2: ass out of here right now. So heated. I was like,

699
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 2: oh man, I tell people this story. Doll was like,

700
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 2: oh man, look, it always come back to you.

701
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 1: Rajon Rondo, Like when I went to that training camp

702
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 1: after y'all won a championship. Know, he was hooping before

703
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: training camp starting, and I'm looking at Rondo and just

704
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: how much of a court leader that he was, how

705
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: he played, it seemed like it clicked, especially like after

706
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: that championship. You're just like he really clicked. I'm calling

707
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 1: my homeboys back. No Rondo top five point boards. I'm

708
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: telling you, man, this ain't a flu. He doing this

709
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 1: every year. Now, you know what I'm saying, the mentality

710
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: and Rondo. What you think about Rondo?

711
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 2: I think he took on our personality too, because I

712
00:32:56,160 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 2: know KG really took Rondo under his wing. Then after

713
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 2: we won, he just be turned into a monster like

714
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 2: he's talking about twenty assists, nights, fifteen rebounds. I'm like, dude,

715
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 2: we had to give him the keys. It was like

716
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 2: we was old G's and you know when you old

717
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 2: Jesus show this our ship. But it was just like

718
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 2: we gotta get his youngsters. Here go, he go have

719
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 2: some of these kids run. He running, you doing too much.

720
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 2: We can't hate on you. You know what I'm saying.

721
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 2: You know we can't he here go do you? And

722
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 2: we just gave the keys. That gave the keys, and

723
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 2: he just turned into a monster like he was putting

724
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 2: up numbers that you only seen them video games. From

725
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 2: a point guard like eighteen points, eighteen rebounds, like twenty

726
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 2: assists like dann what just like for real, Like if

727
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 2: you don't see them numbers from a point guard, you

728
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 2: wasn't seeing them from point guards in two thousand and not,

729
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 2: especially with the rebounds and even the eighteen nineteen assists.

730
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 2: It was crazy. It was crazy.

731
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: I just I wish we could have got three championships

732
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 1: runs out of y'all. Y'all in the Lakers them three years,

733
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: and we could have seen that we got three hurt

734
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 1: that next year and then got hurt.

735
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 2: But you know, things having for a reason. We had

736
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 2: a good run. You know, when we came together, we

737
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 2: was like, we want to get two out of this.

738
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 2: That was our goal. You know, we even talked about

739
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 2: we can squeeze two out of this. That's what our

740
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 2: goal was.

741
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: But you know, and I liked you like the pieces

742
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 1: that complimented your team, the p J Browns to Tony Allens,

743
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 1: the so you.

744
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 2: Had a baby, Yeah, big baby had the biggest piece.

745
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you what the biggest unsung My god, pose.

746
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 5: I'm trying to get the name.

747
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 3: I couldn't get it out of polls.

748
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:51,400
Speaker 4: Right from that one, especially that was the year big shots,

749
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 4: big shot big shots.

750
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, Pose was like one of the big glug guy you.

751
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 3: One of my favorite like that.

752
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 2: Ever, it's what guys that help you win championships career.

753
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:11,720
Speaker 1: The way poles play created the way Tony Yallen became

754
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like how how Tony Y

755
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: Allen became more like it's just like all right, I

756
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:19,240
Speaker 1: just got to hit a shot and I gotta really

757
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 1: lock up, you know what I'm saying.

758
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 2: I Pose had more of a jumper, but Tony, Yeah,

759
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 2: he was more grimy.

760
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 3: He brought his.

761
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 1: One of the dopest nicknames in NBA history is The

762
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: truths love your nickname. I feel like if it fits

763
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 1: you perfect, Like man, what does it mean for the

764
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 1: world to call you the Truth?

765
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 2: And I mean I think the first part about it

766
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,399
Speaker 2: is who gave it to me? You know, Shock gave

767
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:52,240
Speaker 2: me the nickname. So it's like, damn, it's coming from Shock,

768
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 2: the prime Shack saying like the truth, you know what

769
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 2: I'm saying, and they're just stuck and after after I

770
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,360
Speaker 2: like game, I'm like a good photo piece or something,

771
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 2: just like you know, watch out. Paul Pierce's he my

772
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 2: fucking truth. He said it just like that, And so

773
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:13,720
Speaker 2: it's a big article on Boston next day, the Truth

774
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 2: when they're just tund of stuck. So I was like, shoot,

775
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,399
Speaker 2: that's that point. At that point, I felt like, all right,

776
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 2: all ride right, I got a nickname now. And now

777
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,760
Speaker 2: I'm hearing people calling me that. I'm like, okay, that's respect.

778
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 3: That's when you went and got the tattoo and everything.

779
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 2: You know, I got the tag.

780
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 3: Take this away, take this away.

781
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 2: But I'm like, oh, I didn't made it. You know,

782
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 2: you get a nickname, you.

783
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,359
Speaker 3: There, you there, You get a nickname, straight up.

784
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 2: That's the thing about today, And I tell people today

785
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 2: they gonna they don't have no more nicknames.

786
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 4: It's gone, like the real genuine dope ain't know.

787
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 2: Like I mean, I'm looking at all the nice players

788
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 2: who who got the outside of You got King James,

789
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,760
Speaker 2: but who what's Kevin dur France should have a nickname.

790
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 4: Everybody said Spider he got a cool and Spider Mitchell,

791
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 4: you know.

792
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 3: Don't got as much as they had him back there.

793
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, Like I ain't seeing the shoes, you know,

794
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 2: they still gonna be named the shoes after him.

795
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 5: I don't see no more like the answers.

796
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I get the answers.

797
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: I want to I want to talk about your game

798
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 1: because I played small full and I was messed up

799
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: with you a lot, and like.

800
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 3: Your step back.

801
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: Your step back was like I never paid attention to

802
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 1: nobody doing the step back until I played against you,

803
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 1: because that was like a patented move. Like, oh, if

804
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 1: I get this step back off, this ship is old

805
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 1: with like playing in Portland, I was playing you. When

806
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 1: I was playing you good, I had a good game,

807
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: and Ruben at the end of the game was like, no,

808
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:52,919
Speaker 1: I want to get him. So he came and got

809
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: you right, And it's like I'm guarding the other guy

810
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 1: and I can basically just tell him everything that you're

811
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 1: finna do. And you step beck this ass and yeah,

812
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: like step back, Like where did you get that from?

813
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 1: What made you get so comfortable with the step back movie?

814
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 2: Man? You know, it was just something I worked on

815
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 2: and I can't really say where I really got it.

816
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,880
Speaker 2: Maybe you know, since I wasn't the fastest guy and

817
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 2: I couldn't like I was strong, so if I get

818
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 2: you on my side, but I was just like, shoot,

819
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 2: I really hadn't use my game like jazz stuff. And

820
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 2: I did it one day and I remember earlier. I

821
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 2: believe I did it in my first year and I

822
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 2: was working on it, and I was like, this was

823
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 2: a move right here because I saw how much space

824
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 2: it created, because you know, when you learning a game,

825
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:40,240
Speaker 2: we always talking about space, how you're gonna create space.

826
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 2: And I was like, I ain't nothing creating more space

827
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 2: than this, Like I'm getting this much room to get

828
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 2: a jumper off. And so I just worked on it,

829
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 2: going left, going left, going right, going left, and I

830
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 2: did it every day, do it every day. I had

831
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 2: a little ball with coming garcass boom boom doing it

832
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 2: every day. People are practice and I was like, man,

833
00:38:58,680 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 2: this is Letho right here.

834
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 3: Your step back was so good.

835
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 1: I rather sent you to your your right let you go,

836
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,760
Speaker 1: because I rather send you right.

837
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 3: And let you even though you can step back right.

838
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 2: Too, But I want to go left and step back, but.

839
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 1: You wanted to go left and step back. And then

840
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 1: I want to talk about this. I'm a dunker. You

841
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 1: got bodies. People people.

842
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 4: Two things like when you step back because I seen

843
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 4: you on the jump or something, they was trying to

844
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 4: act like that you didn't like you wasn't one of

845
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 4: the like first like I was watching that, like, first

846
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 4: of all, that's real talk, Like I want to say,

847
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 4: but go look at the tape. They don't lie like

848
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 4: it's there, Like I was doing this and doing it well,

849
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 4: like and with the dunks, because they tried you with that.

850
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:56,399
Speaker 2: Too far that this generation only saw late me when

851
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 2: I like when I was an athletic, but early y'all

852
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 2: from dunk.

853
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 5: A couple of.

854
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:07,800
Speaker 1: Using the body like you all the dunks you dumped on,

855
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 1: all the people you dumped on?

856
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 3: Who was that one? And you was like, man, that's

857
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:12,359
Speaker 3: my favorite one.

858
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 2: I'm gonna probably say Zo. I called Zoe pretty good

859
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 2: one time. I was like, I called him almost like

860
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 2: the ves. We could see people don't believe it back

861
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 2: body though, And remember I remember this. I was like,

862
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:31,879
Speaker 2: oh I just called Zoe.

863
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody want to Everybody wanted dunk because I was

864
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 1: going to get every That's why.

865
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 4: That's why everybody wanted the dunk on Zo and a

866
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 4: lot of people did because you do it for everything.

867
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 5: You know.

868
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 3: It's crazy.

869
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: I was in Miami playing with Portland, went to the

870
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,359
Speaker 1: whole and I could have dunked it, but I didn't

871
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: feel like he was old too. I didn't feel like

872
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,439
Speaker 1: his old ass was gonna get that right.

873
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,919
Speaker 3: So he whined up wipe getting a bit the reil

874
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 3: right here. He wind up blocking that.

875
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 5: Bitch right here, right like that.

876
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: Guess what he sent me a picture of him blocking

877
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 1: my shot. He said a d miles, Thanks for the

878
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: thousand block.

879
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 2: Oh no, it was on you killed me. You're welcome.

880
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:22,839
Speaker 1: I hate that ship to this day that I got

881
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 1: the thousand blocks.

882
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,879
Speaker 2: I couldn't be nine ninety nine I got.

883
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:31,360
Speaker 5: I got a photo up to a man my thousand blocks.

884
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 3: Oh that's me right there.

885
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 4: That's a good one right there, speaking of what you said,

886
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 4: right because because the funniest ship, like when we talk

887
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:43,879
Speaker 4: about me and Yo beef right like you look up

888
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 4: literally like I didn't been looking for some ship on

889
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 4: the internet, like I type my name and looking for

890
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 4: some shit.

891
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 5: I just seen stuff.

892
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 4: Pop on the internet, like Paul Pierce and Q Ridge

893
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,359
Speaker 4: beef Like it started when they were at Kansas on

894
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 4: these visits. It was with a girl, it was with this,

895
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:04,800
Speaker 4: it was man, well this is crazy, like it literally.

896
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 3: We was hooping.

897
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 4: This was like summer of maybe I don't know when

898
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 4: it was definitely dumb, dumb, dumb earl in l A.

899
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 4: And it continued like we played in the summer l A.

900
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 4: We played in Chicago and hoo me, you and and

901
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 4: I'm talking about me and him against you and Twine

902
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 4: were talking about trash and that's that's really what.

903
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 5: It's I think.

904
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 2: I think that's where it do come from.

905
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:31,320
Speaker 4: Because it was like, all right, were competing, we're talking trash,

906
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 4: and then it's like you come from the same type place. Whereas,

907
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 4: like you said earlier with with Twine whole, I ain't

908
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 4: about to us about the curl up. Its about to

909
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 4: be this. So it was neither one of us back

910
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:45,759
Speaker 4: and down and it was legit. We got thrown out

911
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:47,919
Speaker 4: of game everything. Martin Luther king.

912
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 5: Day in New York in the garden, we both like,

913
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 5: he says something.

914
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,359
Speaker 4: I'm like, whatever, I say something. He goes you get

915
00:42:54,400 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 4: the box double take, and it's like he says something.

916
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 4: We get taped out the game in the.

917
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 3: Hallway on a black holiday.

918
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 5: Miami. He did, oh.

919
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:10,760
Speaker 2: Man, when we was in when he was in Miami,

920
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:12,959
Speaker 2: I ain't gonna forget this either I fail or something.

921
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's the playoffs. Player in front of the

922
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 2: bench or something, and then he came and stood over me.

923
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 2: I was like what, I'm just like.

924
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 5: He came trying to carry me out after the game.

925
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 4: I can promise you I remember the interview going off.

926
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 4: I got my wife beat on the interview. I'm already knowing.

927
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,879
Speaker 4: You know, at this point, I'm off the chain. They

928
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 4: over there, they trying to talk to me. I'm sitting

929
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,320
Speaker 4: there like what, like, you know what I'm saying?

930
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 5: He like, he like, what was going on? Like, man,

931
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 5: I don't know what was going on?

932
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:42,439
Speaker 4: Why you asking me? I'm like, I'm going after meeting.

933
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 4: He's saying somebody I said, I just don't like him,

934
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 4: and they know it. It was like you look at

935
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 4: the interview from Casey. He goes, He's like, man, I

936
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 4: ain't got nothing to do with that. My own it

937
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:52,839
Speaker 4: was wrong.

938
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 2: We used to go at it like, yeah, probably extend

939
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 2: from the summer of me going Chicago. You in l

940
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:03,879
Speaker 2: A U s l A Runs. I mean, I used

941
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 2: to always scrimmage with y'all, uh with y'all squad, just

942
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 2: with the Clippers, like the Southwest.

943
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 3: South We used to be up there south West College,

944
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 3: up there with y'all.

945
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 2: But it was just like I respected y'all and I

946
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 2: respected you. But it wasn't like I was just like man,

947
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 2: fuck him, Like, man, we're gonna compete. Get I mean,

948
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 2: we can get down, but I'm gonna bust your gast

949
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:29,799
Speaker 2: or you're gonna try to bust mine. It was just

950
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:35,279
Speaker 2: what it was like, that's really really first what's up?

951
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 5: What's up?

952
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 1: When we first got to the league, Like like I said, Man,

953
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: I love that you used to show. I remember the

954
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 1: first time I kind of like saying you kind of

955
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 1: saying something to it.

956
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 3: We was at uh Magic Johnson.

957
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 1: Then you know, we played a scene and then that

958
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 1: next year we played a scene and you was like, man,

959
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: I like y'all young boys many.

960
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 3: I like y'all youngy'all play hard. You know what I'm saying.

961
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 1: I don't funk with these up in jerseys, but man

962
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: I get y'all ship.

963
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 2: You know I did. I was like, Man, I saw

964
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:10,320
Speaker 2: you in high school at the Mickey D's in Boston.

965
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 3: I played in Boston, Boston at the game.

966
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:15,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, when I first saw you and I was

967
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:20,319
Speaker 2: like he nice right there, you dunk and everything I

968
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 2: felt my first time the Boston at Boston at the

969
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 2: Mickey D's. I went to the game and saw you.

970
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember that came down there and.

971
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 2: I didn't come after the game, but I remember I

972
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 2: was in the stands right there.

973
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 3: I remember seeing that was dope to that was a

974
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:35,359
Speaker 3: dope experience of man.

975
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: I enjoyed that on the park, like Baby told us

976
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 1: this story about the first by about the first day

977
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: in London and training camp, how he was late, he

978
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 1: missed the bus and y'all was having a team dinner

979
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: and came in with the little kid, like I rode

980
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: the bike from the little kid, like what you remember

981
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: from that story.

982
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 2: He got so many stories. I don't even know that day,

983
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 2: every day of the story been with that day he

984
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 2: said he got a ride or Baby got so many stories.

985
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:07,720
Speaker 2: But what y'all go understand, you do a baby study

986
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 2: right in college drummer and theater, like we used to

987
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 2: hear every day for Baby, Like I don't know if

988
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get mad, Baby, I don't know if I'm

989
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:19,840
Speaker 2: gonna get the love Baby. I don't know what Baby

990
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 2: gonna show up. Straight up, Baby, I gotta be prepared

991
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:28,239
Speaker 2: for all of them, like straight up, man, He gave

992
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 2: us the wildest story, like yeah, had to jump in

993
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 2: the car, I hit hiked or I jumped on the

994
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 2: bike and I had so I can get to over here.

995
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 3: I was like, we was like what, like what what? Baby?

996
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:41,880
Speaker 5: Let me ask you this. I don't know, maybe not.

997
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:43,280
Speaker 4: I don't know if you did it on your rookie

998
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 4: deal or when you first got bread, like tell me

999
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:48,359
Speaker 4: something that you bought. It was just like now you're

1000
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 4: a grown up adult and you wouldn't.

1001
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:54,280
Speaker 2: Never no, oh that I bought that, I would regret.

1002
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 5: I regret, but just you look back on I was

1003
00:46:57,560 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 5: a young boy.

1004
00:46:58,280 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 3: Like damn, I paid this much for that.

1005
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 2: Man had to be a diamond necklace, Like I got

1006
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:05,840
Speaker 2: a diamond necklace. Though it took him inte herey we

1007
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 2: came up in the air where you got you gotta

1008
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:08,840
Speaker 2: get your jewelry right.

1009
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 5: Ay?

1010
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 2: I just made everybody changed. The whole culture of the

1011
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 2: league called the space say all the time, like you

1012
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:26,240
Speaker 2: start catch wearing braids, tatty. Now you got to catch

1013
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 2: chained up everybody that's coming from AI that straight up.

1014
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 2: And so when he got the chair, I'm like, I

1015
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:32,359
Speaker 2: gotta get my chain game, right.

1016
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 5: I show up and we were doing you pay.

1017
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 2: Like you look like a hundred. I think I pay

1018
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 2: like one hundred and fifty, okay on a on a

1019
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 2: diamond change that I don't even wear no more.

1020
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 5: The nice love.

1021
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 2: My savement in my safe for years.

1022
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 4: First first change that we ever brought bro We broke

1023
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 4: that thing down like three times.

1024
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:04,760
Speaker 5: It was the first one. Boy had Q rich design

1025
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 5: stoopid and.

1026
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:11,400
Speaker 4: I'm talking about I was like, all right, like a

1027
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 4: couple of years, I said, I'm just getting cute. Had

1028
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 4: a big ass Q from that because it was still big,

1029
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 4: and I broke that down.

1030
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:20,960
Speaker 2: Then I had like a bracelet coming with stupid stupid.

1031
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 4: Big boy jewelry boy hanging all the way down to

1032
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:24,480
Speaker 4: your table.

1033
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 2: They starting to come back. Now I'm seeing a lot

1034
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 2: of these rappers do it. Yeah, but not the NBA

1035
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:35,839
Speaker 2: players ain't doing it.

1036
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 4: But no, you said, the Quavos and the and the

1037
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 4: the baby baby man and.

1038
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 5: Boy had rings crows, her teeth fighting.

1039
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 4: They got all the boy they went to watch on

1040
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 4: each wrisk. Now, like I said, they can't tell time

1041
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 4: on them, one of them both from to Icy ain't

1042
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,919
Speaker 4: none of I'm saying. They just big boy, What time

1043
00:48:58,040 --> 00:48:59,720
Speaker 4: you asked, what time they pull out their phone.

1044
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 2: I can't.

1045
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 3: I don't want to forget this.

1046
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:09,279
Speaker 1: You burn Andre Miller, Like y'all was like that generation

1047
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 1: of l A kids.

1048
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:11,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, they went to.

1049
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:13,759
Speaker 1: Because it won't that many kids from l A that

1050
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:16,400
Speaker 1: was in the league then. And then you look at

1051
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:20,759
Speaker 1: the league now, it's like every team l A.

1052
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:21,880
Speaker 5: I started l A.

1053
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. It was a whole It

1054
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 3: was a whole lot of Midwest and East.

1055
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 2: Coast right now, CALLI is killing, is.

1056
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:34,360
Speaker 1: Killing to see from y'all era, from y'all three to

1057
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:38,320
Speaker 1: now seeing like the west Brooks, the hard and Paul

1058
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: George the wise I.

1059
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 3: Can't even name, like real white Yeah.

1060
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 1: And they at the top of the list. Like how

1061
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:49,280
Speaker 1: do you feel about just speak on like that transition

1062
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 1: from then and now, how do you feel about it

1063
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 1: right now?

1064
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 2: I mean I feel like, you know, Cali ballers didn't

1065
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 2: really get respect. Yeah, when I came out, it was.

1066
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:00,800
Speaker 5: Like it was coming. I was sold.

1067
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:04,279
Speaker 2: Everybody, look straight up, he runs. That was that was

1068
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,759
Speaker 2: the take on us. It was like, So that's why

1069
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 2: I wanted to make sure, especially when I was younger,

1070
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:11,799
Speaker 2: when I'm in the league, they ain't a reputation, ain't

1071
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,439
Speaker 2: gonna be on me, like they gonna be like nah,

1072
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 2: you know. And then I wanted the guys coming up

1073
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 2: to see that. So now when you know, when you

1074
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:22,280
Speaker 2: be in a certain way, they look at that James Harden,

1075
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:23,839
Speaker 2: you know, I see I talked to James hard when

1076
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:25,959
Speaker 2: he was in college. You know, Westbrook also been around

1077
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 2: when he was a young kid. And I wanted to

1078
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 2: be kind of like that, that person that idol that

1079
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,359
Speaker 2: come from the same place y'all come from. Like, look,

1080
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 2: we ain't soft out here. Y'all got to come out

1081
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:40,400
Speaker 2: here and rep you know, we La casts, we Inglewood

1082
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 2: cast y'all got to come out here and rep. And

1083
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:44,360
Speaker 2: I just try to set an example. And I know

1084
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:47,799
Speaker 2: Baron did that too, and Andre Miller and so now

1085
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,799
Speaker 2: you're seeing there, it's a different narrative on cash from LA.

1086
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 2: When you look at guys like Harden and Westbrook, you like,

1087
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 2: these cats is real.

1088
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 3: Deal, at least at least five of them.

1089
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:02,880
Speaker 2: From George Kawhi, it's a different narrative on the LA ballers.

1090
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 1: Now, I feel like even us being Clippers, like we

1091
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:10,839
Speaker 1: was a part of that era which catch from LA

1092
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,759
Speaker 1: that came up and seen like ball even though We're

1093
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 1: from the Midwest, but like I feel like we're part

1094
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:18,560
Speaker 1: of this West coast thing where you see these cats now,

1095
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 1: and you know, these cats admired the Baron Davis, you

1096
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:24,239
Speaker 1: know y'all and all that stuff and came up and

1097
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 1: now you see so many of them. Trevor Reza, like

1098
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 1: I used to go to We used to go this

1099
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: high school game. He's a freshman at high school with

1100
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 1: a sign. Adams now like we used to go to

1101
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 1: the hospital game and just to see him have a

1102
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:37,520
Speaker 1: successful career.

1103
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:43,720
Speaker 3: For him and his family, all of them, the Yukon

1104
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 3: so like just to.

1105
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 1: See, just to see the new era of LA hoops

1106
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,360
Speaker 1: was just like a dope scenery.

1107
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. They definitely changed the landscape. Yeah, without a doubt.

1108
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:58,200
Speaker 1: So the Clippers got two homegrowns, you know, they got

1109
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:02,799
Speaker 1: to Paul George and Kawhta Sea Cats from LA to

1110
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:04,960
Speaker 1: go off and have their careers, to come back home

1111
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:08,240
Speaker 1: and try to make not the Lakers, but the unsung

1112
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:11,239
Speaker 1: heroes a contender and bring them a tightle.

1113
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 2: What you think about I think that's the best food

1114
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:17,360
Speaker 2: they could have done. And I'll tell you why, Because

1115
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 2: it's a Lakertown it's always gonna be Lakertown no matter what.

1116
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:25,920
Speaker 2: But if you could be the first to do something

1117
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:31,360
Speaker 2: like what Kawhi did in Toronto, you love forever. So

1118
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 2: then you become a pioneer. They can pioneer the Clippers organization.

1119
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:40,439
Speaker 2: If they win a chip one, that's it. And then

1120
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:44,200
Speaker 2: it's like you, they statue you the first one to

1121
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 2: do it. You a pioneer. And I thought that was

1122
00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:51,279
Speaker 2: like gutsye and like you know they I think they

1123
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 2: saw that. I mean, Kawhi already did it for a

1124
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 2: franchise where he's going to be immortalized in Toronto. He

1125
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:59,239
Speaker 2: can do no wrong. One year I brought you all

1126
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 2: the chip. I'm out. I did what I had to

1127
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:03,839
Speaker 2: do for y'all. But he can always go back there

1128
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 2: even free, do whatever you want. Whatever he he gonna

1129
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:09,360
Speaker 2: get a statue out there. Play how many people you know?

1130
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 2: Playing one year for a franchise and go get a statue.

1131
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:17,360
Speaker 5: He go get a statue.

1132
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 3: Can he do it two years in a row?

1133
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 2: I think they got a great shot. I think, like

1134
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:25,200
Speaker 2: this is my thing. If Kawhi win this year, Like

1135
00:53:25,239 --> 00:53:26,399
Speaker 2: where do you rank him?

1136
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:28,919
Speaker 3: You gotta be the best. You gotta be the best

1137
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 3: in the league.

1138
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 2: No, but I'm just saying like all time, We're talking

1139
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:32,840
Speaker 2: all time.

1140
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:33,440
Speaker 3: All time.

1141
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 2: Now, oh yeah, he got like him and Lebron right now,

1142
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 2: got a chance to be one of I don't I

1143
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:42,839
Speaker 2: can't even think of one right now, but it could

1144
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:46,319
Speaker 2: be one of very very few of players that won

1145
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 2: a championship with three different franchises. They only if they

1146
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 2: do it, if they do it. And so now it's like, damn,

1147
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:59,839
Speaker 2: where where we're gonna put Kawhi in history now? If

1148
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 2: he here? And when that was like you know what

1149
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 2: that was like? Like when Dion went the Dallas in

1150
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:10,760
Speaker 2: one it was like and it's like, damn.

1151
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 4: Speaking in terms of the next five years, next five years, right,

1152
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:19,239
Speaker 4: if you gotta start one of them bench one and

1153
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:27,800
Speaker 4: cut one of them between Yannis Kawhi and Luca start

1154
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:30,920
Speaker 4: bench cut for the next five years, who gonna who

1155
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:33,880
Speaker 4: would you start bench cut over? Like this is everybody's

1156
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:36,759
Speaker 4: in their prime and nobody shouldn't be aging out of

1157
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 4: their prime next five years? Who you starting benching and cutting?

1158
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 4: If you if you got what you're doing, Luka Donkic.

1159
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:46,560
Speaker 4: This is gonna hurt me to say, honest and it's

1160
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:48,880
Speaker 4: not has nothing to do with who I think is better.

1161
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 4: I think Kawhi is the best player out of them three.

1162
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 5: So you starting Kawhi, No, I don't, but I'm.

1163
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:03,920
Speaker 2: Going off you said five next five years, I'm starting

1164
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:08,320
Speaker 2: Luka Donkas Okay, Man's twenty years old and crushing the league.

1165
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:14,360
Speaker 2: First of all, I'm benching Jannis okay, and I'm cutting

1166
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,399
Speaker 2: Kawhi only because he's the oldest right out of the three.

1167
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:19,120
Speaker 2: But right now he's the best player.

1168
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:19,720
Speaker 3: Okay.

1169
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:23,239
Speaker 2: So this ain't a shot at nobody. But you said

1170
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:26,399
Speaker 2: the next five years, Luca Donkins is averaging thirty ten

1171
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 2: and he only twenty. You telling me get like, who

1172
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 2: do that? Lebron didn't even do that? Like straight up.

1173
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:37,520
Speaker 3: You play one of my young boys.

1174
00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:37,719
Speaker 5: Man.

1175
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:40,600
Speaker 1: I'm very proud of his career right now. Bradley Beal.

1176
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:43,440
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of Bradley Beal and John Wall

1177
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 1: Like im won the ones that root for them to

1178
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 1: succeed because I feel like they can do something like

1179
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:54,320
Speaker 1: the experience you had down in Washington with them guys,

1180
00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:56,840
Speaker 1: and just talk about just them two guys in general.

1181
00:55:57,080 --> 00:55:59,359
Speaker 2: You know, at that point, I was like pretty much

1182
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:02,880
Speaker 2: passed my and so I just was like a leadership bro,

1183
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:05,240
Speaker 2: so you know I want to give him. I watched

1184
00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:07,120
Speaker 2: them the year before they got put out, I think

1185
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:09,799
Speaker 2: by Indiana, and I was like, they just need a

1186
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 2: little more leadership.

1187
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:11,120
Speaker 3: You know.

1188
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:13,080
Speaker 2: I can come in there and get his team something.

1189
00:56:13,120 --> 00:56:15,000
Speaker 2: You know, I ain't got. I ain't the star no more.

1190
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 2: But I can like give them a veteran presence, you know,

1191
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:19,840
Speaker 2: I can make I can go steal a guy, you

1192
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:21,920
Speaker 2: can go to to hit big shots.

1193
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:25,480
Speaker 5: And when you yeah, I.

1194
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:29,239
Speaker 2: Wasn't gonna give you, and it'd be certain nights, I'll

1195
00:56:29,239 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 2: get you twenty twenty five at most nights, and the

1196
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 2: ge between ten and fifteen at that point. But it

1197
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:36,719
Speaker 2: was like that was the best, the most fun I

1198
00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 2: had for one year. I was there because I had

1199
00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:41,359
Speaker 2: a chance to kind of mold them young boys. They

1200
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 2: really looked up to me. I saw them. I showed

1201
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 2: them how to work every day. I got there early

1202
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 2: every day, and then I look up when they I'm

1203
00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:50,240
Speaker 2: looking like, yo, I'm thirty six. Y'all need to be practicing.

1204
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:52,600
Speaker 2: Y'all know y'all can't sit down today, you know. So

1205
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 2: I try to teach them habits and I feel like,

1206
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:58,279
Speaker 2: you know, whatever they accomplish, you know, from this point,

1207
00:56:58,280 --> 00:56:59,759
Speaker 2: from that point on, my one year, I had a

1208
00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 2: look was something to do with it. It's starting, you know,

1209
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:06,319
Speaker 2: something in it. And I had an influence in in there.

1210
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:08,560
Speaker 2: And like so when I see guys that I play

1211
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 2: with that I had a little bit of influence on it,

1212
00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:13,799
Speaker 2: make me proud like a big brother, you know. So

1213
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:15,879
Speaker 2: like when I see Brad make the All Star team,

1214
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 2: I'll be like, I feel like, you know, man, hopefully

1215
00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:21,240
Speaker 2: I could have I gave him something to help him

1216
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:23,800
Speaker 2: back to he reached that point, you know, So that

1217
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 2: made me feel good when I see them succeed like that.

1218
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 1: You had a long career, so for a phone and

1219
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 1: you get the opportunity to play in LA, not for

1220
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:35,720
Speaker 1: the Lakers, for the Clippers, but just but just to

1221
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 1: be in LA and just to get that experience of like,

1222
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 1: all right, I'm coming home every day, I'm at a

1223
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 1: Staples Center. I never thought I'd actually be playing in

1224
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:46,400
Speaker 1: Los Angeles.

1225
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 3: You know.

1226
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:48,600
Speaker 2: That was like all right. When I was like, all right,

1227
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:51,360
Speaker 2: I'm going to the Clippers, it was like I had

1228
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:53,760
Speaker 2: my mind like all right, it's time to start looking

1229
00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:54,600
Speaker 2: to a retirement.

1230
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know I lived here.

1231
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:58,120
Speaker 2: That's the reason I came to LA because I had

1232
00:57:58,120 --> 00:57:59,960
Speaker 2: some other places I could have win finished my career,

1233
00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 2: but I'm like here, I get to be at home,

1234
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:04,960
Speaker 2: finish it off way and started. You know, all my

1235
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 2: friends and family can coer be around them all year round.

1236
00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:10,240
Speaker 2: Because when you gone and you off in these other

1237
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:14,080
Speaker 2: states for all these years other teams, time moved past,

1238
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 2: and you see, like you know, aunties and uncles and

1239
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:19,479
Speaker 2: friends getting old or passing away and you're not there.

1240
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:22,920
Speaker 2: You miss so much. And so I was just happy

1241
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:25,280
Speaker 2: to be close to moms because she was getting she's

1242
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 2: getting older, and like I could be around family and

1243
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:30,400
Speaker 2: in my career and it was just like it wasn't

1244
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:32,480
Speaker 2: no better way. And then Doc was the coach. What

1245
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:35,840
Speaker 2: made it easy, you know, that's what made it easy.

1246
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 2: I got Doc, I got Sam Cassell, who I played with.

1247
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 2: I'm really all I'm really doing is chilling now.

1248
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 1: I'm just chilling evil, Like how much time get took

1249
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 1: out of our life, Like we missed a lot of

1250
00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:51,280
Speaker 1: holler miss a lot of stuff. We missed a lot

1251
00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:53,920
Speaker 1: of birthdays. We missed a lot of stuff. And you

1252
00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:57,760
Speaker 1: know you're playing a fifteen some career. You know, your

1253
00:58:57,800 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 1: career is like man, when you miss so many year,

1254
00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:02,120
Speaker 1: especially being on the whole other side of the country,

1255
00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:03,400
Speaker 1: real they.

1256
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:05,000
Speaker 3: Seeing you two months out of the year.

1257
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:07,800
Speaker 1: You want a vacation, You don't want to just what

1258
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 1: you want to get some some people go home a week.

1259
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:14,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, so much. And people don't understand the sacrifice because

1260
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 2: then even when you're home, you start training. You know,

1261
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:23,120
Speaker 2: you like, I ain't got time for ship regimen, got train, Like, yeah,

1262
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 2: that's the one. Like people say you have any regrets

1263
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:28,120
Speaker 2: from your career, The only regret I have is missing

1264
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:31,760
Speaker 2: out on like say like my kids first step or

1265
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 2: that learned teachers. Like when I'm gone, they get up

1266
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 2: and start walking, Like you know, that's like missing family stuff.

1267
00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:44,160
Speaker 3: Like your house live. You're just going thing and.

1268
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:45,960
Speaker 2: You know it's not we can control. But you know,

1269
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:48,280
Speaker 2: we're putting food on the table, We're helping like a

1270
00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 2: lot of family members.

1271
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 4: What the alternative could be. We're very aware of that.

1272
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:55,160
Speaker 4: So we're gonna keep this this grind going. I want

1273
00:59:55,240 --> 00:59:57,240
Speaker 4: you to talk about how I feel like you know

1274
00:59:57,240 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Like all of us here, we poop

1275
00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:00,640
Speaker 4: different or whatever.

1276
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 5: Had Jersey retired, Like for you to have your jersey.

1277
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:07,360
Speaker 4: Retired for the Boston Celtics, Yeah, like that, Like you

1278
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:09,840
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. First of all, it's rare for

1279
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:13,200
Speaker 4: any NBA player to get their jersey retired by any

1280
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:16,920
Speaker 4: organization period, But for you to get your jersey to

1281
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:20,480
Speaker 4: go up in the legendary Boston Garden with the names

1282
01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:22,440
Speaker 4: in the in the in the in the legends that

1283
01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 4: is going up, that would like talk about what how

1284
01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 4: much that means? Especially coming from the whole start going

1285
01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:29,960
Speaker 4: forward circle you not even wanting to be there.

1286
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:31,760
Speaker 5: The Lakers fan, the.

1287
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:36,080
Speaker 2: Man that was like that gave me chills. Man when

1288
01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:38,400
Speaker 2: he called me that summer, when Win gross Bed called me,

1289
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:40,320
Speaker 2: He's like, we want to retire your jersey in February,

1290
01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:43,240
Speaker 2: I was like what Already I was like, you know,

1291
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:45,120
Speaker 2: this is something that drove me. You know, you go

1292
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 2: up here, you can't help but to look up exactly

1293
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:51,480
Speaker 2: all these damn bad visitors, see all these damn numbers retired.

1294
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:53,840
Speaker 2: You know, I know everybody number up there and the

1295
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:56,439
Speaker 2: player that go with it, And I'm like I had

1296
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:59,280
Speaker 2: my eyes on that from day one though, Like I

1297
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:01,920
Speaker 2: was like, shoot, I want my number up here because

1298
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 2: it ain't like no other place, you know what I'm saying,

1299
01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:10,280
Speaker 2: It's different, different Boston. And I remember my speech and

1300
01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:13,080
Speaker 2: I was like, shoot, if I said this exactly I

1301
01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:15,560
Speaker 2: said my speech when they retired. I said, if I

1302
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:19,040
Speaker 2: never make the Hall of Fame, me getting my jersey

1303
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:20,720
Speaker 2: retired in Boston is good enough.

1304
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:21,600
Speaker 3: Straight up.

1305
01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:25,120
Speaker 5: That's that's prestige. Like straight up.

1306
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 2: I was like, that's good enough for me.

1307
01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:31,320
Speaker 4: So with your transition to like, you know, we all

1308
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 4: are basically in media now basically doing that, Like how

1309
01:01:34,680 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 4: was that going for you? And what made you want

1310
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:37,560
Speaker 4: to do that?

1311
01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 2: You know what? I didn't even know I was going

1312
01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:41,920
Speaker 2: to be doing it, but like, yeah, you know what

1313
01:01:41,920 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 2: I'm saying. But like so like my last year with

1314
01:01:44,160 --> 01:01:47,000
Speaker 2: the Clippers, I worked the finals and so I was

1315
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:49,240
Speaker 2: guessed on the whole finals and.

1316
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:50,720
Speaker 5: I was just like pretty cool.

1317
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:52,560
Speaker 2: I was like, I like doing this, this is cool.

1318
01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:55,120
Speaker 2: And so after I retired, it was like I was asked,

1319
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:56,800
Speaker 2: do I want to join the team, And I was like,

1320
01:01:57,280 --> 01:01:59,360
Speaker 2: because I'm looking at it, like shoo, I ain't doing

1321
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:01,360
Speaker 2: nothing but everything I used to do in the locker.

1322
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:04,600
Speaker 4: Room, what you're going and even if in the locker room.

1323
01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:07,000
Speaker 4: Like like for me, it was like I do this

1324
01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:08,280
Speaker 4: every single day at home.

1325
01:02:08,400 --> 01:02:08,960
Speaker 5: We sit here.

1326
01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:12,280
Speaker 4: It's just we sit here and we we we think,

1327
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:14,760
Speaker 4: and we talked the game different than the average person.

1328
01:02:14,840 --> 01:02:17,760
Speaker 4: So we're sitting there even with him, even though he's

1329
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:20,880
Speaker 4: not personally like on TV doing TV, he can do it.

1330
01:02:20,960 --> 01:02:24,760
Speaker 4: He sits there and we tell you, man that like

1331
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:27,000
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, We're breaking downs and all

1332
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:27,880
Speaker 4: of that because.

1333
01:02:27,880 --> 01:02:30,800
Speaker 2: Just second I see what they coming, They're about to

1334
01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:33,840
Speaker 2: run this fade. I see it. Like we do this

1335
01:02:33,880 --> 01:02:35,800
Speaker 2: every day on the bus, the locker room.

1336
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:39,240
Speaker 4: And we understand the language, the terms, the terminology from

1337
01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:41,640
Speaker 4: one team to the next, to play calling, all of that.

1338
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:43,440
Speaker 2: It all comes second nature. And I was like, so,

1339
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:46,760
Speaker 2: y'all gonna tire me to come out here and do

1340
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:49,240
Speaker 2: something I really always do every day because.

1341
01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:54,240
Speaker 4: It's not you don't know what I was about to say.

1342
01:02:54,240 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 4: It's not many players I know that don't watch the game,

1343
01:02:57,920 --> 01:03:03,040
Speaker 4: but we'd be surprised this new generation. They'll get to

1344
01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:06,680
Speaker 4: the hotel and won't turn on the games. They plug

1345
01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:08,760
Speaker 4: in the video game. And I'm not saying I'm a gamer.

1346
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:12,240
Speaker 4: I play two K and all that but always watched

1347
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:13,120
Speaker 4: the games.

1348
01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:14,480
Speaker 3: You're not a gamer.

1349
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:17,120
Speaker 4: We're gonna go to dinner and watch the game or

1350
01:03:17,160 --> 01:03:18,560
Speaker 4: somewhere they don't watch the game.

1351
01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:22,520
Speaker 5: I'm not speaking for everybody, but there there's a good selection.

1352
01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:23,320
Speaker 5: I spent time.

1353
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:25,200
Speaker 4: You know, I worked for the Pisons, and I've been

1354
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:28,640
Speaker 4: around different groups and it's like I'm looking like, yo,

1355
01:03:28,960 --> 01:03:30,240
Speaker 4: y'all not watching the game tonight.

1356
01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:31,800
Speaker 3: You know what this generation to me?

1357
01:03:32,120 --> 01:03:33,640
Speaker 2: And I don't want to sound like a hater, but

1358
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:37,000
Speaker 2: I feel like they do it more for They don't

1359
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:39,960
Speaker 2: play for the passion or the competitive drive. It's more

1360
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:42,960
Speaker 2: for their brand, for the cloud and the cloud and

1361
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 2: the bread.

1362
01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:44,520
Speaker 3: You know.

1363
01:03:44,640 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 2: It was like if I just go hard and I

1364
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:48,160
Speaker 2: work harder, bread don't come. Whatever.

1365
01:03:48,720 --> 01:03:52,840
Speaker 1: We came in playing trying to get everybody respect, like man,

1366
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:54,040
Speaker 1: we're good enough to play.

1367
01:03:53,800 --> 01:03:57,000
Speaker 4: With yobs, and like, for me, that's what I love

1368
01:03:57,080 --> 01:03:59,360
Speaker 4: about us having this, Like you know what I'm saying,

1369
01:03:59,400 --> 01:04:03,160
Speaker 4: I feel like the only reason we can have you come,

1370
01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:05,480
Speaker 4: We can have Kobe come, We have who will come.

1371
01:04:05,560 --> 01:04:07,440
Speaker 5: Because we weren't.

1372
01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:10,320
Speaker 4: All stars or superstars, but but you guys knew that

1373
01:04:10,480 --> 01:04:12,560
Speaker 4: every night, like you said, we had our we had

1374
01:04:12,600 --> 01:04:13,800
Speaker 4: what we had and you are.

1375
01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:17,840
Speaker 5: I'm nowhere near that, but we had to.

1376
01:04:17,840 --> 01:04:21,240
Speaker 4: Get our restaurants. That's that's what I'm saying. And it

1377
01:04:21,360 --> 01:04:23,920
Speaker 4: was like you like, that's why I can go to sleep,

1378
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:28,520
Speaker 4: like you got internet shows and all this, Like you

1379
01:04:28,520 --> 01:04:30,680
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. When I'm speaking, I'm just literally

1380
01:04:30,680 --> 01:04:32,760
Speaker 4: speaking on the pen. I ain't got no hate for nobody,

1381
01:04:33,680 --> 01:04:35,480
Speaker 4: even Lebron, like because people a lot of people think

1382
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:36,200
Speaker 4: I hate on Lebron.

1383
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 5: I'm not hating on him.

1384
01:04:37,040 --> 01:04:40,640
Speaker 4: I just we venturing to the Kobe and Michael Jordan conversations.

1385
01:04:40,640 --> 01:04:43,560
Speaker 4: That's a different conversation for me, So I say certain

1386
01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:45,960
Speaker 4: things about that that may not be favorable for him,

1387
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:48,240
Speaker 4: but that don't mean that he's not, bar none, one

1388
01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:49,840
Speaker 4: of the tops in the history of the game, and

1389
01:04:49,880 --> 01:04:53,320
Speaker 4: he doing stuff that nobody ain't seen and he's unbelievable.

1390
01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:55,680
Speaker 4: But it's just different. We talk about them too. But

1391
01:04:55,720 --> 01:04:58,320
Speaker 4: my thing is that we can me and d consider

1392
01:04:58,360 --> 01:05:02,160
Speaker 4: across from you, Kobe, even Lebron, because I played against

1393
01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:04,560
Speaker 4: him and he, to a man, he knowed it. I'm

1394
01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:07,480
Speaker 4: gonna show up and I'm not the caliber player y'all work,

1395
01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:09,600
Speaker 4: but goddamnit, you about to go to water Night and

1396
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:11,920
Speaker 4: you're about to know that you went to water Night,

1397
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:13,880
Speaker 4: and I'm cool with that. I'm like, you know what

1398
01:05:13,880 --> 01:05:16,560
Speaker 4: I'm saying to me, that's my that's my trophy. When

1399
01:05:16,560 --> 01:05:18,480
Speaker 4: I see and I know that I got that respect

1400
01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:22,160
Speaker 4: from my peers, no matter what level they were, top level,

1401
01:05:22,200 --> 01:05:25,040
Speaker 4: this level, that level, I relate and I got that

1402
01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:28,240
Speaker 4: respect from him because it's it's you. And I know

1403
01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:32,800
Speaker 4: it's some Hall of famers and superstars that don't get

1404
01:05:32,840 --> 01:05:35,880
Speaker 4: that same level of respect because they weren't with it

1405
01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:37,520
Speaker 4: in a certain way. You know what I'm saying, Like

1406
01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:40,280
Speaker 4: they weren't built that way. I find I get my

1407
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:43,280
Speaker 4: respect knowing that I was built that way. But even

1408
01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:46,080
Speaker 4: no matter what level somebody wanted to bring on, I

1409
01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:47,480
Speaker 4: was with it and they all knew it.

1410
01:05:47,560 --> 01:05:49,400
Speaker 2: Now, you ain't saying that a lot nowadays, though.

1411
01:05:49,480 --> 01:05:51,840
Speaker 1: That's what I say when you came up, like who's

1412
01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:54,480
Speaker 1: them players? Or who was that player that you was like?

1413
01:05:54,960 --> 01:05:56,720
Speaker 1: And I want to be like him? I want to

1414
01:05:56,760 --> 01:05:57,640
Speaker 1: be like that person.

1415
01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:00,680
Speaker 2: I mean it was magic. I mean I grew up

1416
01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:04,000
Speaker 2: a Laker fan. It was magic. But I was like,

1417
01:06:04,600 --> 01:06:06,720
Speaker 2: you know, the way I play, I can't, I can't

1418
01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 2: gonna be magic as I got older. So it was

1419
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:14,960
Speaker 2: Grant Hill and Steve Smith, Steve and these are three

1420
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:17,680
Speaker 2: because I watched them all, and Jimmy Jackson because we

1421
01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:25,360
Speaker 2: all played Jimmy jack When the three then three, I like,

1422
01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:27,800
Speaker 2: I felt like I can be like them, like play

1423
01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:29,720
Speaker 2: like them. You know, even though I had I was

1424
01:06:29,720 --> 01:06:31,560
Speaker 2: a fan of Hero Miner, but I was like, these

1425
01:06:31,600 --> 01:06:35,520
Speaker 2: three Greg fit more of my gamest, Steve Smith the

1426
01:06:35,520 --> 01:06:39,440
Speaker 2: coolest O G Yeah, jim Jackson, So this was Jackson.

1427
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:41,720
Speaker 2: I couldn't wait when they came on in college or

1428
01:06:41,720 --> 01:06:44,320
Speaker 2: the league I was watching. I was close eye on them.

1429
01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:45,880
Speaker 5: All three of them at Turner.

1430
01:06:46,080 --> 01:06:48,360
Speaker 2: Them is like, I don't know if I ever told

1431
01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:50,600
Speaker 2: them that, but you know if they hear this, they

1432
01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:52,800
Speaker 2: gonna know that they was guys that I like, really

1433
01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:53,640
Speaker 2: watched growing up.

1434
01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:56,160
Speaker 5: How was it for you the first time you played

1435
01:06:56,160 --> 01:06:56,800
Speaker 5: against m J.

1436
01:06:58,320 --> 01:07:02,480
Speaker 2: Man, I was like, that was my idol, And you

1437
01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:04,760
Speaker 2: know I had a chance to play against MJ. It

1438
01:07:04,920 --> 01:07:09,000
Speaker 2: started in Chicago. You know, he was playing thinking about

1439
01:07:09,040 --> 01:07:11,000
Speaker 2: coming back, and I was going out there with twe

1440
01:07:11,880 --> 01:07:14,280
Speaker 2: you know, he talking ship hitting fadeaway his owners. The

1441
01:07:14,320 --> 01:07:16,600
Speaker 2: next thing know, he went the Wizards I was like, man,

1442
01:07:17,160 --> 01:07:20,240
Speaker 2: because I like the year I came out of college

1443
01:07:20,280 --> 01:07:22,880
Speaker 2: got drafted, he retired, so I was disappointed. He just

1444
01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:26,040
Speaker 2: won the chip. So like, I'm playing against MJ. You know,

1445
01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:28,800
Speaker 2: this is my dream. And so then he retired. I

1446
01:07:28,920 --> 01:07:31,600
Speaker 2: was like, oh, no, that's that one thing you want

1447
01:07:31,640 --> 01:07:34,800
Speaker 2: to play against. You want to see this in person

1448
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:37,800
Speaker 2: there and then he came back. But I don't it

1449
01:07:37,840 --> 01:07:38,840
Speaker 2: ain't It wasn't the same.

1450
01:07:39,040 --> 01:07:41,760
Speaker 4: It wasn't like I got pictures of the crib. You

1451
01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:45,160
Speaker 4: know every time I played, Like what you said, I

1452
01:07:45,240 --> 01:07:49,960
Speaker 4: wanted to play against me. That was what I wanted

1453
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:51,280
Speaker 4: to I'm not gonna lie.

1454
01:07:51,560 --> 01:07:52,520
Speaker 2: But he still gave me.

1455
01:07:52,560 --> 01:07:54,000
Speaker 3: A good still.

1456
01:07:56,320 --> 01:07:59,080
Speaker 1: Forty years old average of twenty and the league and

1457
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:02,120
Speaker 1: it still was school had was Yeah, for real.

1458
01:08:02,640 --> 01:08:03,320
Speaker 3: That's amazing.

1459
01:08:03,520 --> 01:08:06,040
Speaker 2: That is but that was a dream just to just

1460
01:08:06,120 --> 01:08:07,200
Speaker 2: to be on the court with MJ.

1461
01:08:07,680 --> 01:08:08,919
Speaker 3: It's a shot that you made.

1462
01:08:09,080 --> 01:08:12,880
Speaker 1: I think it was against Al Harrington and he was

1463
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:15,720
Speaker 1: like kind of talking trash to him before you tell

1464
01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:18,640
Speaker 1: It's like you told him what you're finna do, and

1465
01:08:18,800 --> 01:08:19,320
Speaker 1: you did it.

1466
01:08:20,040 --> 01:08:22,120
Speaker 5: I'm gonna just say this, I probably would have fought

1467
01:08:22,160 --> 01:08:26,040
Speaker 5: you after that. Liked ass I ain't that's what our

1468
01:08:26,160 --> 01:08:26,720
Speaker 5: era was.

1469
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:28,320
Speaker 2: Like, you don't see that no more.

1470
01:08:28,760 --> 01:08:29,519
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

1471
01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:32,880
Speaker 2: I grew up watching g P and all these cats,

1472
01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:34,920
Speaker 2: like this is what it was. It just like we're

1473
01:08:34,920 --> 01:08:37,240
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. We at it, we at it.

1474
01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:41,760
Speaker 5: Talking to sign it and I was like, you, like,

1475
01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:45,040
Speaker 5: I think about when.

1476
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:50,719
Speaker 2: You're watching that. That's like, oh okay exactly. I'm like, yeah,

1477
01:08:51,360 --> 01:08:54,599
Speaker 2: that's get that's getting me all hight. I'm like, man,

1478
01:08:54,680 --> 01:08:57,880
Speaker 2: that like that's what that to me is what playoffs is.

1479
01:08:58,439 --> 01:08:58,720
Speaker 4: It is.

1480
01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:04,400
Speaker 2: Man, and we were great friends, but we was competing

1481
01:09:06,520 --> 01:09:09,400
Speaker 2: back and forth. That's what the game was.

1482
01:09:09,560 --> 01:09:09,760
Speaker 3: Then.

1483
01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:13,120
Speaker 2: That was like, come on, man, I'm like, I'm trying

1484
01:09:13,160 --> 01:09:15,280
Speaker 2: to find the edge out here. I don't like you

1485
01:09:16,479 --> 01:09:21,880
Speaker 2: this trying to get the dove out here. Yeah, I'm like,

1486
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:23,840
Speaker 2: you know what I talked that a lot of people say,

1487
01:09:24,240 --> 01:09:26,240
Speaker 2: and this is what I tell people about me talking trash.

1488
01:09:26,320 --> 01:09:29,599
Speaker 2: I did it for me, yeah, because getting me going.

1489
01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:33,120
Speaker 2: It's getting me going now like I'm talking, I'm talking

1490
01:09:33,240 --> 01:09:35,599
Speaker 2: from trash and I'm like, i gotta back this up though.

1491
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:39,280
Speaker 2: If talking to walk this walker, I'm gonna be talking.

1492
01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:41,519
Speaker 1: To KG was one of the ones that when he talked,

1493
01:09:42,120 --> 01:09:43,639
Speaker 1: he didn't talk. He talked to himself.

1494
01:09:44,720 --> 01:09:48,719
Speaker 2: No, listen, this is the KG dude. He'll be talking

1495
01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:51,559
Speaker 2: to you. Would just be looking this way right here.

1496
01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:55,800
Speaker 2: He'll say something to you and then you be like what.

1497
01:09:58,680 --> 01:09:59,600
Speaker 3: That was me?

1498
01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:01,559
Speaker 5: Like what you're talking about?

1499
01:10:02,120 --> 01:10:03,519
Speaker 3: It seems like you talked to himself.

1500
01:10:04,439 --> 01:10:06,120
Speaker 2: He talked about like you're right here. At the free

1501
01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:08,960
Speaker 2: throw out, he'll say something like wood to woo, and.

1502
01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:12,680
Speaker 4: You be like he's classy, like he used to be

1503
01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:16,840
Speaker 4: so classic, like like being like he'll throw you out

1504
01:10:16,920 --> 01:10:19,479
Speaker 4: like be all light. Then at the jump off and

1505
01:10:19,600 --> 01:10:24,160
Speaker 4: like you said, I like, no, my death, you up

1506
01:10:24,240 --> 01:10:26,920
Speaker 4: or something, But I don't look at you, not just

1507
01:10:27,080 --> 01:10:29,080
Speaker 4: might respect you, but you like.

1508
01:10:29,360 --> 01:10:31,800
Speaker 2: Getting you know what I'm saying, like for real, like

1509
01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:34,360
Speaker 2: and then he get you know how he be when

1510
01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:36,920
Speaker 2: he gets all super sweat, he's gonna be super sweaty.

1511
01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:39,519
Speaker 2: And then he get up close. This's another thing he

1512
01:10:39,600 --> 01:10:44,040
Speaker 2: used to do. Man, he'd be so sweaty that when

1513
01:10:44,080 --> 01:10:49,200
Speaker 2: he blows growing and spit, it's not sweat growing and

1514
01:10:49,360 --> 01:10:51,240
Speaker 2: sweat and he in your face. He didne did that

1515
01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:54,160
Speaker 2: some cats and they like like ready to scrap with him,

1516
01:10:54,240 --> 01:10:56,040
Speaker 2: like dog and I tell K, I say, K, if

1517
01:10:56,040 --> 01:11:01,760
Speaker 2: you ever do that to me, I'm like, if you

1518
01:11:01,840 --> 01:11:06,040
Speaker 2: ever do that out hands on, you just know that.

1519
01:11:06,479 --> 01:11:09,920
Speaker 2: Like some of the stuff he would do, like this

1520
01:11:10,080 --> 01:11:14,720
Speaker 2: is one I'll never forget. He dunked so hard over

1521
01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:21,640
Speaker 2: Andrew Bogan, Andrew Bogan go for everything. He dunked it,

1522
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:25,360
Speaker 2: and you know it's already enough to get dunked on.

1523
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:29,599
Speaker 2: But then he dunked him, looked at him and then

1524
01:11:29,680 --> 01:11:35,679
Speaker 2: shot him a bow to his chest. Dog, you already

1525
01:11:35,800 --> 01:11:37,960
Speaker 2: dunked me. And then was like.

1526
01:11:39,840 --> 01:11:41,960
Speaker 3: I was like, no, he did not just do that.

1527
01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:44,599
Speaker 2: I was like, dag. I said to him that, I said,

1528
01:11:44,840 --> 01:11:45,960
Speaker 2: if you ever did me like that?

1529
01:11:46,160 --> 01:11:46,360
Speaker 5: Dog.

1530
01:11:47,439 --> 01:11:49,320
Speaker 2: He had a lot of the moments like still he

1531
01:11:49,360 --> 01:11:52,519
Speaker 2: would do that. I couldn't believe more people wouldn't fighting

1532
01:11:53,680 --> 01:11:56,400
Speaker 2: like straight up like he was like straight up like

1533
01:11:56,640 --> 01:11:59,720
Speaker 2: not only embarrass you and just make you just I'm

1534
01:11:59,720 --> 01:12:02,200
Speaker 2: looking like, how does he getting away? Is everybody scared

1535
01:12:02,240 --> 01:12:05,960
Speaker 2: a tick like this? He look crazy and he looked

1536
01:12:06,960 --> 01:12:09,160
Speaker 2: so high that you just he might tear your head

1537
01:12:09,240 --> 01:12:14,920
Speaker 2: off his intensity. So if you don't match that, it's

1538
01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:16,120
Speaker 2: definitely another level.

1539
01:12:19,200 --> 01:12:22,679
Speaker 4: Things I've ever seen is when you hit the game,

1540
01:12:22,760 --> 01:12:27,880
Speaker 4: when in New York, came out of nowhere and missed.

1541
01:12:28,360 --> 01:12:34,400
Speaker 2: He dies light flash because he already got too much.

1542
01:12:34,479 --> 01:12:39,160
Speaker 2: Times he jumped, I didn't even see him, like I

1543
01:12:39,240 --> 01:12:42,120
Speaker 2: didn't even know this was going on when it first happened.

1544
01:12:43,439 --> 01:12:44,600
Speaker 5: I know this was going on.

1545
01:12:44,720 --> 01:12:46,360
Speaker 2: So I looked at the tape. I was like, oh,

1546
01:12:46,479 --> 01:12:50,040
Speaker 2: he down there, broke his neck. So I'm over here,

1547
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:51,160
Speaker 2: you know, I'm.

1548
01:12:51,080 --> 01:12:51,759
Speaker 3: In my moment.

1549
01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:54,720
Speaker 2: Hit the game with I'm over here like I'm in

1550
01:12:54,840 --> 01:12:57,200
Speaker 2: my moment. And then I'm like, you know, I don't

1551
01:12:57,200 --> 01:13:01,320
Speaker 2: want to be jumped on like this, Like I'm going

1552
01:13:01,320 --> 01:13:01,519
Speaker 2: to do.

1553
01:13:06,520 --> 01:13:07,200
Speaker 3: Everything like.

1554
01:13:08,720 --> 01:13:10,360
Speaker 2: You did a game winn her matter. It's a square

1555
01:13:10,439 --> 01:13:12,760
Speaker 2: guard you. I'm in my I'm in my moment right now.

1556
01:13:12,840 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 2: I'm like, hold on, let me get the stage real quick.

1557
01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:18,280
Speaker 2: Let me and so what I look back that it's

1558
01:13:18,360 --> 01:13:20,320
Speaker 2: funny to the day I look on how he feels

1559
01:13:21,520 --> 01:13:25,080
Speaker 2: he damn there broke his neck like he jumped once,

1560
01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:27,320
Speaker 2: but not only jumped runs but then jumped again.

1561
01:13:29,280 --> 01:13:30,479
Speaker 3: That was that was a classic.

1562
01:13:30,600 --> 01:13:36,880
Speaker 2: I have that picture. The picture. The picture is Ray

1563
01:13:39,120 --> 01:13:42,560
Speaker 2: Ray looking at him KG over here doing bowing to

1564
01:13:42,680 --> 01:13:45,120
Speaker 2: the crowd. It's a crazy picture when you're looking at

1565
01:13:45,560 --> 01:13:48,840
Speaker 2: they I'm doing this and they falling Ray looking at

1566
01:13:48,920 --> 01:13:50,679
Speaker 2: him crazy KG a half.

1567
01:13:50,600 --> 01:13:51,760
Speaker 5: Core bow that like.

1568
01:13:54,920 --> 01:13:58,639
Speaker 2: This is like my favorite picture ever. Oh man, that's

1569
01:13:58,680 --> 01:13:59,280
Speaker 2: my favorite.

1570
01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:02,559
Speaker 5: So you know, we appreciate you coming on. We always

1571
01:14:02,800 --> 01:14:05,640
Speaker 5: from shower. We got a little you know, a little exclusive.

1572
01:14:05,720 --> 01:14:08,440
Speaker 3: Okay, the black box.

1573
01:14:08,640 --> 01:14:11,200
Speaker 4: As Probably the best thing you're gonna enjoy is the

1574
01:14:11,320 --> 01:14:12,720
Speaker 4: love boom good.

1575
01:14:12,760 --> 01:14:15,360
Speaker 5: He's just the very special bs O people.

1576
01:14:15,520 --> 01:14:19,640
Speaker 2: Okay with the logo, Damn, you know that's what's up.

1577
01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:20,400
Speaker 3: That's what something.

1578
01:14:20,439 --> 01:14:24,639
Speaker 2: Man has its privileges and I got that my dogs.

1579
01:14:24,720 --> 01:14:24,920
Speaker 3: Man.

1580
01:14:25,240 --> 01:14:29,040
Speaker 2: Yeah good chatting out with your man. It's all loved always,

1581
01:14:29,080 --> 01:14:30,520
Speaker 2: you know how we always.

1582
01:14:30,320 --> 01:14:30,920
Speaker 5: That's the truth.

1583
01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:33,080
Speaker 2: Everybody bros all day long.

1584
01:14:33,080 --> 01:14:33,759
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

1585
01:14:34,400 --> 01:14:53,760
Speaker 5: You know, fraternity all day. The Players Tribute dot Com