WEBVTT - Episode 114 w/ Baron Davis 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:16.880 And it's drinks motherfucking podcast. He's a legendary queen's rapper. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:19.200 He's Greed is your boy in O r E. He's 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:21.880 a Miami hip hop pioneer. One up is d J 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:24.400 E f n. Together they drink it up with some 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:29.480 of the biggest players in the most professional unprofessional podcast. 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:32.760 And your number one source for drunk fast drinks motherfucking 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:35.520 every day is New Year's e. That's like it's time 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:45.959 for drink champs, drink up, motherfuck mother. Hey he said, Greed, Hope, 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:48.440 this is your boy in O r U, d J 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:55.760 E fnther drink chap mark you. And right now we 0:00:55.880 --> 0:01:01.400 got one of the illest basketball players, one of the 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:08.160 best people alive. And he's been doing movies. I've seen 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:12.680 him in What's the movie was in? Um? What Adam 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:18.560 salm Adam sald of Money was one of the movies. Yeah, 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:26.240 let's make some so so so. The crazy thing is 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:30.880 you're one of these people that transition, meaning you actually 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:35.120 had a luxurious NBA career and then you actually transition 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:39.160 to do other things. How did you come up with that? Uh? 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:48.080 You know, I'm from l A, so Okay, Uh may area. 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:53.800 We talked about college. Um, but you know, born and 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.040 res in led South Central and then I went to 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:59.800 private school and uh Sta Monica. So I always my 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:01.880 mother always tell me, like, you know, have a backup 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:03.720 play and have a backup plan. So I always wanted 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.720 to like make movies and you know, tell stories and 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.120 things like that, especially because you know, it was like 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:11.440 the stories that kept me alive, and like, you know, 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:13.320 that's how that's how I got to I felt that's 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:18.120 how I got to the NBA. You feel now nowadays 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:27.079 the NBA it seems a little soft. It seems like 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.400 like you know, back then, the Knicks had beef with 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.600 the Balls, and we knew that when they when the 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.839 Bulls came in town, we're gonna rough them off. They're 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:40.360 gonna get roughed up. Like Downadays the NBA seems like 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:45.560 if you like this is technical found, it's not. It's 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.200 not the best now. I mean yeah, but I mean 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:52.519 when you think about it, though, like the game got evolved, right, 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:57.080 the game get way faster, and so you can't play 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.880 like you did back in the day, right, can't be 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.520 know Charles Oakleys, because then it wouldn't be no Lebron 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:07.000 James and no, Kevin, like, you can't play. You can't 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.160 play that way. So you know, I kind of came 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.880 in at the late late stage of that with you know, 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.480 dudes were still fighting like chunk them and all that 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.800 as well. Yeah, but you gotta elbow back, you know 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.480 what I mean. And it's like, you know, that's how 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.400 you earn your respect. You feel what I'm saying. And 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:25.679 it was more so like a tough thing or a 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.560 respect thing. And you know, really it was like about 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.239 the vets, you know, just like your older brother kind 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.400 of like bullying you as a kid. You feel what 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.960 I'm saying, and so you learn a lot through that. 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.280 You feel you think you could could have survived in 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.960 today's NBA. Oh yeah for something, because you think it's weaker. No, no, no, 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.000 I can play right now because it's just more suited 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.080 towards the game that you know I could play. You 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:49.080 know what I mean. I can shoot, I can pass it, 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.800 I can drive, you know, I can still defend. I 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.120 can still and it's faster, so you're moving up and 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.040 down the court and it's not a lot of contact. 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.520 And so when I used when I played, you know, 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:01.640 it was always like I had to playing a post 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.760 a guard, a bigger guard, you know, play more than 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:08.320 just being a point guard. And so now in today's there, 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:10.160 I could probably just be a point guard and be 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.640 cool with that. Are like a guard out there, Fat 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.320 Joe had told me the other day, Right, I'm hanging 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.240 out with Fat Joe, and Fat Joe says, Yo, being 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:22.560 an athlete and being a radio personality is pretty much 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:24.760 the same thing. And I'm like, Fat Joe, what are 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.280 you talking about? I feel like you're retarded. And then 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.320 he goes, he goes, look, if your athlete, you canna 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:33.000 wake up the next day. You'll play for Charlotte and 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.840 then the next day being l a Clippers and then 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:40.039 the next day And he's like that, So I didn't 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.880 get it at first. Now, have you ever been traded 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.120 to a place where where you didn't want to be? Yeah, 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:51.160 let's talk about it. Let's oh man, Uh so you 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.560 never know. Look the code thing about it, dog is 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.280 you never know you're getting traded because you see people 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.520 get trade you like, damn, I got ain't it done? 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.840 Like damn, that's suck up, you know what I mean? 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.360 And they're like, you don't never know you get traded 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:12.640 until you're like, oh shick, like and uh, I was 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.080 in the locker room. And so Coach Benney down Negro. 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.240 After you know, we had just a Live City and 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.840 All Star weekend. I was still kind of playing hurt 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:26.640 Blake was still the Clippers. So Coach Benney down Negro 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.359 was like, man, look you you you brought us this 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.120 whole live city, this whole thing, like you know, like 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.920 you've city. We're gonna, uh, We're gonna set you out, 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:37.880 you know what I mean, and like let you kind 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.640 of like, hell, you know your grandma done things like that. 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:42.840 You know what you're going through, you feel I'm saying, 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:44.760 So we're just gonna set you out. You know. They 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:46.720 used the next couple of games on the road, let 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.080 the young guys play because we feel like we got 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.680 enough next year to like be able to like do something. 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.640 I'm like, all right, cool, so you know, okay, see 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.159 game coming. He's like, well, you know, I said I 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:58.960 was gonna set you out, but you know, you know 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.479 my playing, I'm like I don't, but like, damn dog, 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.240 you just told me I was hurt to sit out. 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.480 I played. So then the next game, we're in New 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.960 Orleans and he's like, I'm thinking, like, all right, I 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.000 played it, okay, see I'm gonna play. He's like, no, 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.039 You're gonna sit out. And he was like, you don't 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:15.880 even have to come out. I was like, all right, 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:17.280 I ain't gonna come out. You know, I don't want 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:18.720 to sit on the bench. You know what I mean 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.920 to be hurt. I'm back in New Orleans, you know 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.240 what I mean. I want to hear that. So I'm 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.400 thinking he's doing me a favorite man Like half time, 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:29.720 come in, somebody like, yo, dog, you heard you getting trade. 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.720 I'm like, hell, no, you're I'm just saying that. I'm 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:34.680 just sitting the back, chilling wait for us to get 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:41.719 on the plane. You feel me, ain't get nothing. I'm 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.240 just sitting in the back, you know, stretching, watching the game, 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.680 and I ain't hearing nothing. Hear nothing. Then now you 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.760 know the game started rolling around after the game, and 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:54.719 then people like yo, like you know, like so quiet 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.680 and ship like, wait, so are you saying that your 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:59.760 teammates new? You know, I don't think they knew. I 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.000 don't even nobody no no that that at that time, 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.359 the only people knew it was the team, right and 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.640 the coach and so my teammates didn't know, and then 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.880 a reporter saying something like yeah. Like the report was like, yo, 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:13.760 you gotta call your agent because they're trying to trade 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:17.520 you to Cleveland and Cleveland and had Lebron was like, oh, 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:23.160 I can't stand in and go somewhere else, you know what? No, 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:28.040 not that, no, no, no, because they traded me in 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:31.960 the number one pick, which was Kyrie Cleveland. Oh so 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.560 that's how Cleveland got the number on pick. That's how 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.120 they got Kyrie. Now I'm sitting in the locker room 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.160 like all right, well ship, let me put on my ship. 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.080 And the next you know, I'm like, man, I'm getting 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.760 traded in my agent Like hell yeah. Now describe that. 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.560 Describe how it is being like in one city one 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:51.040 day and then the very next day you gotta go 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.560 to another city. You gotta get along with people that 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:58.000 you was just beefing with, right I mean? Or is 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.400 that not really how the NBA? Sometimes sometimes I was like, 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.360 you know, but you gotta you know, you gotta go 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.240 to work with the same person. You know what I'm saying. 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.960 It really like it ain't really know real beef, you 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.119 know what I mean? Like everybody really got no beef 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.720 with each other, you know, but what's this guy now? 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:17.960 Alonzo Ball? Is that because the very first day, right, 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.760 it comes in the NBA and this guy comes straight 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.840 up to him and it was like I forget what 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:30.560 he did Beverley, And to me, it was like, that's 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:34.920 like me welcome in a new artist hip hop. It's like, yo, 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.319 look nigga, you could you could get money, but it's 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:41.600 gonna be rough. How did you feel when you see 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:45.640 that moment? Uh? I kind of liked it for Alonzo, 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:50.319 you know, for him, it was just like now it's 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.520 like automatically, that's what it is, Homy, you know what 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.480 I mean. So from he gonna get everybody best, you know, 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:01.080 Patrick Beverley gonna be Patrick be He's like, you know, 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.959 like that's how that's how he programmed. So it ain't no, 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.439 he ain't gonna play nobody no different, you know what 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.199 I mean. And and you know, and and play that 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.679 style no different. But with this rookie, you know, National TV. 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.320 You know what I'm saying, Like, that's kind of like 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.120 if I'm a rookie and I'm him, that's kind of 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.640 how I like that. I want that because I'm gonna 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.800 remember you, and I always remember that moment. So once 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.679 I get the edge, I'm gonna kick your ass every time. 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:28.320 You know what I mean. I'm gonna dog you out 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:30.640 once I get better than you, once I get stronger 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:32.440 than you. Once you can't do that to me no more, 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.440 I'm gonna dog you out. So you know, it's just 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.680 a matter of that ship make him want to work harder, 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.800 because that's a measuring stick. You feel what I'm saying. 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.440 It's like day one, that's a measuring stick. Like he 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.000 a dog, he a wolf, Like I gotta shake him off. 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.960 But is that how the NBA used to be, like 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.640 when you come into the league. If you yeah, that's yeah, 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:56.440 that's my That's been always been my mentality. You know, 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.240 I think that. I think the younger kids is different, 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.200 you know what I mean, like because you know, they're 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.959 judged differently, you know what I mean. They're not judged 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.960 by diving on the floors, you know what I mean, 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.800 the heart and the hustle. It's more about the stats, 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.480 to position and playing a role doing other things, you 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.000 know what I'm saying. And so because they're scoring a 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:19.360 lot of points, it's more so like when you watch guys, 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:22.000 everybody kind of playing in patterns, you know what I'm saying. 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.480 So it's not a lot of isolation. It's not a 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:26.319 lot of post uff and things like that. It's a 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.680 lot more ball movement and more and more they play 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:33.360 fast break or secondary fast break basketball. Now, let's get 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.160 to the let's get to the elephant in the room. 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:36.840 I know, me and you was on the same level. 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.920 You don't even know. Do the Knicks have a chance. 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:44.720 It's Paul Zingus. What's that nigga name. He's nice. It's nice, 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:53.760 Paul Zingus, the fucking unicorn. No, he's nice. He's nice. 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.560 And my money tell you something that he's for some 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.080 he's for sure. He's for sure. And why are they 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.840 doing better betterless since Metal left? I can't. I can't 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.439 believe this. You know, one is earlier in the season, 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:08.640 you know what I mean. Phil Jackson's an asshole. Let's 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:10.959 just throw that out there. Uh, you know a little bit. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.520 I don't know Phil Jackson's asshole. Yeah, I mean I 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.040 definitely think that Phil Jacks. I'm gonna tell you I'm 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.800 Jackson's I see Phil Jackson walking down the street. It's 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.040 just me and him. And I had to look at him. 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:28.360 I felt like I couldn't take him. He felt like 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.440 he was out of the you know what I mean, 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.080 just so I looked, just out of touch. You're married, 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.360 and I said, just think of my win right now. 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:42.559 I said, Phil, I want to funk you up. I 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:51.920 said you better, I say, cool. Wait, Actually, remember when 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:55.079 you told me that Phil Jackson, I said he was 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.400 dope or not? And I looked at himself. Feel you 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.680 fucking up? And he looked at me and said, look, 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:09.559 little nig But dude, we got a chance. As a 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.440 Nick fan, listen, I'm gonna be honest. I'm gonna be honest. 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.719 Let me finish my statement. You will get more. You 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:20.440 hit whatever you want. Listen. As a Nick fan, we've 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:25.240 been disappointed for twenty decades. We just want one chance. 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.680 You know. As a person who wears Jordan's, I really 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:35.439 hate that man because every year I felt like we're 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:38.000 gonna make it, and then he would hit the last shot, 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:46.360 you motherfucker, pipping everybody, pipping um. He lives in Miami. 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:50.800 Now I see him. I've probably never spoke to him. 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:55.360 I probably never said hot because the bulls they just 0:12:55.440 --> 0:13:01.840 killed our career. Look am a lying. Look you're feeling us. Dude. 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.880 Do you think then, do we have even a slight 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:10.400 bit of a chance? Um? No, honest, I don't know. 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.079 I always say the Knicks have a chance because it's 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.719 New York and and the heart and the energy of 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.960 the city. Like no, no, no, I'm being real like 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:24.760 the fans. The fans is crazy, right, and the fans 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:28.040 can ultimately become the sixth Man. You feel what I'm saying. 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:32.520 But I think that just putting New York and just 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.280 to ne and just like it has to be like 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.280 it got to be a fabric, you know what I mean. 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.840 They got to be an understanding that you know, this 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.040 is the Knicks, This is how the Knicks rocking and 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.719 rolling this you know what I mean? And like you know, 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:52.240 it has to be like um no matter if like one, 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:56.280 you can't just keep putting trying to put pieces together, 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:58.000 You feel what I'm saying, because that's gonna Do you 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.199 think when they traded Metal that was a bad more? Um? 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.360 I don't think. I don't. I don't necessarily think it 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.520 was a bad movie. I don't think it was. I 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:10.439 thought it was pis. I mean, everybody was pissed. You 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.480 know what I mean? I think everything Puerto rican man, 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:17.720 but at this trade quarter weekend, Yeah, he's Puerto rican man. 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.120 You don't. You don't trade Puerto Ricans. That's not the 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:24.440 way it works, right, drags on. I I just think 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:28.640 that it was. He's my friend. Man, I'm just now 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.520 we didn't already like that's it. That's the way it worked. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:34.720 What's going on? Think you gotta pick gap shirt on? 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:38.280 He gotta like and he's my friend. That's the way 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:43.880 it works. Not the Swissers is bring him in, bring 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:47.480 him in, get out of the seat, you hold up 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.240 one segment, drink Champs Army. 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Get that drink Champs, Army what, I 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:44.840 don't know what you gotta Michael, Mike the thinking now listen, No, 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:46.920 but this is what it is. But it's like they 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.440 have to, you know, with the Mellow thing. It's like, 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:52.960 I'm not mad at that train because it was kind 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:55.960 of like I was coming to. And if you can't 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.720 honor somebody who's like or or figure out a way 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:01.920 to make it right, you know what I mean, or 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.320 make it right for him, then let him do what 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:05.800 he needs to do, you know what I mean, he 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.080 towards the end of his career. Let him go get 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.320 a shot, to go play with somebody else, you know 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:12.120 what I mean, Be happy and do what he want 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.520 to do, because right now, it's not Mellow's fault, you 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.840 know what I mean, It's not you know, it's it 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.840 can't be all on one player, you feel what I'm saying. 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:24.000 So it's about like, where is the system that protects 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.679 the players? When you look at Golden State, you know 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:31.120 what I mean. You're always talking about Golden State State. 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.400 You know, I'm just saying, go to the State Warriors, 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.320 or or when you talk about Cleveland, Yeah, you talk 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:38.800 about le Broma. It's like the Cleveland Cavaliers. They got 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:43.080 a system, you know what I mean. Not the system 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.840 is in play to win San Antonio. They the system 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.560 is in play to win. You come here, you're playing 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:51.960 a certain way. Have you ever been to a system 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.119 where you didn't agree with the system but you got 0:17:54.200 --> 0:18:02.280 traded there? Uh, everybody drink chapters. Everywhere I got traded 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:06.359 was like, uh, starting in New Orleans. When I got 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:09.120 traded to go to State, you know, they was like dead. 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.359 It was like Night of the Living Dead. You know 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.639 what I'm saying. I didn't want to be there, But 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.479 at the same time, it was just like damn, like 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.200 these dudes walking around like zombies, Like, Hey, we want 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:22.080 to play basketball and I've been hurt, so like we 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:24.320 gotta do something. Jay Rits the only one who really 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.160 wanted to play, So I was like ship man, It's 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:29.280 like Night of the Living Dead and so I didn't 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.439 want to be there, but you know, turn it around, 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:33.800 I guess. You know, once we got the bright coach 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:35.720 and it seemed to like start working, you know what 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.560 I mean. And then when I got traded to Cleveland, 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:40.560 I didn't want to be in Cleveland, you know what 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:45.880 I'm saying. Kyrie was still in high school and Lebron 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.399 had just left, so they had come off like losing 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.720 twenty three straight. So it was like it was like 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:54.040 it was not a great place. But I went to 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.600 Cleveland made the most out of it, you know what 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:00.560 I'm saying, and like, you know, they turned it around 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:02.960 after that, you feel what I'm saying. So it didn't 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:08.560 really matter. Like I think, when I went to the Clippers, 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.160 I was probably the worst kind of system that I want. 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.800 And you was under Sterling. Yeah, because let me just 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:16.520 tell you something. I'm gonna be honest with you guys. 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:19.199 I was trying to get an apartment in l A. 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:25.280 My credit is horrible. Nobody approved me. The only building 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:30.080 that approved me was the Sterling building because you take cash. 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:33.840 Because I hate my manager and I'm like, yo, Bob, 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:36.360 I'm not gonna see here. He's like, you can't move 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:41.119 to Donald Slles building Like what He's like, that's like 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:44.280 moving in the trunk And I'm like, oh, yeall did 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:48.480 everything beside my fucking name to the fucking check And 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:51.280 he's like you can't not move it? And he called 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:56.040 um Magic Johnson a nickna? Like how do you call? 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:58.639 How did everybody could call nigga? I just feel like 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.399 Magic get the pass? Yeah, like you ain't apposed to 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:03.840 go Like he's like, he's not supposed to be a nigger? 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:10.040 Like I went too far? How you how you calling 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:13.440 Magic a nigga? Like when did when did you as 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:16.720 a person who played for NBA team, as a person 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:20.800 who played and know the politics, when you heard that, 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:23.800 were you shocked or what you like? This is normal. 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:27.040 I wasn't shocked at up when I when I got there. 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:30.880 What shocked me is when I got there and when 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:33.600 I did my press conference, it was almost like the 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:36.320 movie The Devil's Advocate. As soon as I come out 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:39.160 of the press conference, the head of the chief dude 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:42.680 to like communications saying, hey man, he may say something 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:44.360 to you. You know what I mean, I know you're 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:46.640 from here. He may say something to you that may 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:50.840 be out of pocket or something when he was playing 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:54.240 for the Clippers. After I announced after that game the 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:56.760 speech and whatnot, because I didn't know, you know what 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:58.919 I mean. I'm like, y'all, I'm coming back to I'm 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:01.120 about to get it rocking. I'm gonna turn it around. 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:04.040 You feel them saying like, no matter what, like I'm 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:06.560 not thinking about who the owner is. I know a 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:08.959 bunk about who the owner is, and so they're warning 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:11.040 you about that. He said, Yo, he about to say 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:12.920 he gonna say some crazy shot. I said, Man, he 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:18.960 ain't gonna say no crazy. But then, like every day 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:21.240 you live in it, though, you realize, like, oh, ship, 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:24.040 this is like a dictatorship, you know what I mean, 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:28.040 And people say, like the man is racist. Just like that, man, hey, everybody, 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:30.600 you feel I'm saying, you don't have no respect for nobody. 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:34.440 So it's not it's it's like racism is just like 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:37.160 racism is a short word to describe him. You feel 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:39.520 what I'm saying, That's like, that's like a copile word 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:42.000 to to describe him. And like the way that the 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:44.600 whole system was being red. So for me, it was 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:47.400 just like no bullshit. After my first year I went 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:50.640 to Africa, I was like, you know what, like either 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:53.080 I'm gonna do something crazy or I need to go 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:57.520 somewhere where I feel like I need to appreciate everything 0:21:57.560 --> 0:22:01.159 that I have as a black man in America. And 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:03.000 so I went to Africa, and I you know, went 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:05.879 to Africa like three or four weeks and just was 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:08.000 like I needed to see something now that you know 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:12.960