Speaker 1: On this episode of.
Speaker 2: This League, we have a special interview with former NBA player,
Speaker 2: two time NCAA champion, and now skills development coach for
Speaker 2: the New Orleans Pelicans.
Speaker 1: How do we say their name? How do we say
Speaker 1: his name? Corey Corey Brewer.
Speaker 2: We also catch up on some quick news, including a
Speaker 2: flock of birds that almost took down the Utah Jazz
Speaker 2: Team plane. Russell Westbrook spitting facts about why the media
Speaker 2: is just absolutely trash. I mean, in some ways it's true,
Speaker 2: some rulers about Lebron recruiting, Steph H.
Speaker 1: Scooby and tackle. Also why or.
Speaker 2: Whether the Pelicans are or are not trustworthy? Kind of
Speaker 2: timely given that we had quarry on. So this story
Speaker 2: is pretty crazy. Utah Jazz Team plane, flock of birds, collision,
Speaker 2: birds dead.
Speaker 1: Obviously no birds made it out alive.
Speaker 2: I don't know so if I needed to highlight that,
Speaker 2: but blood splattering, bird guts and flames. Marty players said
Speaker 2: that there were flames. Players were letting their families know this.
Speaker 1: Could be the end.
Speaker 2: That's so terrifying, fucking terrifying. So this is the backstory.
Speaker 2: Jazz Team plane took off from Salt Lake City Tuesday,
Speaker 2: flying to Memphis twenty minutes after takeoff, thank god, twenty
Speaker 2: minutes after takeoff, by the way, not you know, two
Speaker 2: hours into the plane ride, because they would have had
Speaker 2: to turn around and maybe had to make an emergency landing.
Speaker 1: Somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 2: Their plane struck a flock of birds, and for ten
Speaker 2: to fifteen minutes players were sending their regards to their
Speaker 2: family members. Players said that they saw flames and they
Speaker 2: ended up flying back to Salt Lake City, and instead
Speaker 2: of Adam Silver, I'm sure the team must have called
Speaker 2: the league to say, hey, we almost died here.
Speaker 1: But instead of of like, hey take a day. We
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 2: We're delaying lots of games due to COVID. We understand
Speaker 2: there's some trauma here. Probably all of your team, all
Speaker 2: of your staff must be shaken up. They said, no, no,
Speaker 2: there's a second plane. We need you to get on
Speaker 2: it right now. John Morant is waiting. When you think
Speaker 2: about it like that, you're.
Speaker 1: Like, whoa, that's wow. Okay.
Speaker 2: So then the Jazz did go to Memphis. They got
Speaker 2: on that plane except for Donovan. Mitchell was like, no,
Speaker 2: I'm not getting on that plane. I personally am good
Speaker 2: on this whole plane business right the second, I am
Speaker 2: definitely not going I get that. Did you know that
Speaker 2: Donovan Mitchell's greatest fear on Earth is dying in a
Speaker 2: plane crash.
Speaker 3: I didn't, but that's a rational fear. I don't love
Speaker 3: flying either, so I a rare instance where I will
Speaker 3: feel for Donovan.
Speaker 2: So Spider said that when he was getting drafted, his
Speaker 2: biggest fear was taking a plane on a regular basis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think about it a lot, like
Speaker 3: I would not want to be on a plane as
Speaker 3: much as these guys are. And I think flight attendant
Speaker 3: is the worst job in America.
Speaker 2: Hundreds of flights, like you said, thousands of miles. And
Speaker 2: he said, I take a window seat so I can
Speaker 2: clearly see everything that's going on. I e Probably saw
Speaker 2: the flames, definitely saw the birds, knowing for fifteen minutes
Speaker 2: there is some shit going down in Donovan is just
Speaker 2: probably face pinned to the window, like, uh, guys, guys,
Speaker 2: things are happening, turbulence. He talked about his fear of
Speaker 2: flying before. He said this before the draft.
Speaker 1: Can you play the clip enjoying the process, loving it?
Speaker 4: I hate flying though, So that's like the big that's
Speaker 4: the bad part. I'm terrified of flying. Yike's I just
Speaker 4: pray and just stare out the window. I actually, I'll
Speaker 4: pay extra to sit in the window seat. That's that's
Speaker 4: my thing. I'll take the no leg room over the
Speaker 4: windows set so I can see like where I'm going,
Speaker 4: see why I'm going down and whatnot. Is cool because
Speaker 4: like I know why we're going down, but like you know,
Speaker 4: the terblets kind of freaks me out.
Speaker 2: I see why we're going down. Why I stand with Spider,
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: No way I get on that second plane. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine disembarking and.
Speaker 2: You see that there's this photo of the plane and
Speaker 2: there's just blood everywhere, just covered in blood, and you're
Speaker 2: like it was a rough picture, rough picture, Like I said,
Speaker 2: no birds survive. And then you're like, okay, ready to
Speaker 2: go home, relax, lay in bed, and they're like, no,
Speaker 2: no time to lock down. Dylan Brooks, Fuck you guys,
Speaker 2: I'm out. If my greatest fear in life was dying
Speaker 2: in a plane crash and one of my greatest heroes
Speaker 2: in life fifteen months ago dies and a helicopter crash,
Speaker 2: it is not inconceivable to think that I am Marshall.
Speaker 2: We are Marshall might be in my future. It's not
Speaker 2: something that hasn't ever happened before. So yeah, I would
Speaker 2: say if I am Donovan Mitchell, I'm like, yo, I'm
Speaker 2: Royce White. Now I am taking buses, I am taking trains.
Speaker 2: I will hire my own SUV driver to take me
Speaker 2: from Salt Lake.
Speaker 1: To Denver to Portland to the Bay.
Speaker 2: I'll take one flight to get to the East coast,
Speaker 2: and I'm taking the trains in the Northeast trips. Like
Speaker 2: that's what I am doing. I think that they should
Speaker 2: just start road tripping. So the teammates people were asking like,
Speaker 2: how do they feel like Donovan Mitchell didn't want to
Speaker 2: join his team?
Speaker 1: Didn't want to join his team? Is he a good player?
Speaker 1: Is a team player?
Speaker 2: Everyone was like, no, we totally get it Donovan, because
Speaker 2: you know, you know, throughout Donovan's career he's told his
Speaker 2: friends and his teammates, like what his greatest fear on
Speaker 2: Earth is?
Speaker 1: Every time he probably pours the plane, he's.
Speaker 2: Probably got a pocket full of ambient and Xanax and
Speaker 2: just trying to like make it from point A to
Speaker 2: point B. Jordan Clarkson, who I love said, I don't
Speaker 2: I understand fully why don didn't come. All of us
Speaker 2: were here in limbo. This is something that we've got
Speaker 2: to push through and get over it. This is just
Speaker 2: a tough situation. I don't think that's happened many times
Speaker 2: on a plane ride.
Speaker 1: I've talked to.
Speaker 2: So many of my friends in the league and they
Speaker 2: said that's their greatest fear as well.
Speaker 1: Yikes.
Speaker 2: I do not know how long it's gonna be until
Speaker 2: Donovan Mitchell gets back on a plane.
Speaker 3: I think I have similar feelings to how Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 3: feels about flying, Like I don't really think about it
Speaker 3: until I'm like on and we're about to take off,
Speaker 3: and it's like, oh, like as a numbers guy, like statistically,
Speaker 3: like I know there's not really one in eleven million, right,
Speaker 3: but you're still flying through the air in like a tube,
Speaker 3: so like it isn't It can be uncomfortable for sure,
Speaker 3: And then to get that close to your worst nightmare
Speaker 3: coming true, like and then ask to get on a
Speaker 3: plane minutes later, Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be interesting to watch whether he goes
Speaker 2: there's a back to back home stand and then they're
Speaker 2: gonna end up going. I forget where they go next.
Speaker 2: We'll see if he gets on that plane. We'll see
Speaker 2: when he gets on the plane. I promise you there's
Speaker 2: more to come on this story. I think this is
Speaker 2: just the beginning.
Speaker 1: If you are not familiar with this song, represents it
Speaker 1: represents one.
Speaker 2: Why not, mister Russell Westbrook, we have a developing situation
Speaker 2: on our hands.
Speaker 1: Marty Woo woo.
Speaker 2: It is a love I don't know if a love
Speaker 2: triangle is the right way to put it.
Speaker 1: It's a triangle between steven A.
Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook, and Russell Westbrook's wife. This is what happened.
Speaker 2: Stephen A did what steven A always does, which is
Speaker 2: come at Russ's neck for no reason at all. So
Speaker 2: Russ had an incredible night.
Speaker 1: It was what it was thirty.
Speaker 2: Four teen and twenty one.
Speaker 1: So three things were happening simultaneously.
Speaker 2: One Russ had himself that night right right thirty four
Speaker 2: fourteen twenty one, good lord, and everybody was just celebrating Russ.
Speaker 2: He's had a lot of those nights actually, by the way,
Speaker 2: this season, in fifty games, he is now the franchise
Speaker 2: leader of triple doubles on the Wizards.
Speaker 1: In fifty games. He now leads the franchise.
Speaker 3: Ever, I think he was I think he became only
Speaker 3: the third player to have a thirty point twenty assists
Speaker 3: night behind it was him magic and someone else I think.
Speaker 2: Right, exactly, Yeah, so that happened, and then steven A,
Speaker 2: like steven A always does, has to comment on it. Right,
Speaker 2: And because Russell Westbrook appreciation segments, as you might know
Speaker 2: from our social clips, don't exactly move the needle, he decided, yes,
Speaker 2: that's good, but I'm gonna actually use this opportunity to
Speaker 2: slander Russ and discredit and diminish Russ. And why he
Speaker 2: hasn't wont to ring because all he is is a
Speaker 2: professional stat getter. He's this, he's that like, not a
Speaker 2: team guy. He's surrounded by all this flowery praise. But
Speaker 2: you know what, Steve and A is gonna give him
Speaker 2: a stick, stick stick play the clip.
Speaker 5: Russell Westbrook went off last night.
Speaker 6: We all know that a trip will double thirty five
Speaker 6: points fourteen boys twenty one.
Speaker 7: It says fourteen to twenty six shoot from the floor
Speaker 7: four six from three point rates.
Speaker 8: And he did it all without Bradley Bailey uniform. And
Speaker 8: he is about the amazing part about Westbrook's game last night.
Speaker 1: I don't give a damn how about any of it.
Speaker 5: Because the Wizards just are not very good. They're not
Speaker 5: going anywhere.
Speaker 3: You're seventeen to twenty eight in the Eastick Conference. From
Speaker 3: crying out loud.
Speaker 5: They're not going anywhere.
Speaker 6: And this is far from the first time Russell Westbrook
Speaker 6: has played on a team that is falling short.
Speaker 5: He's had talent along his entire career.
Speaker 6: James Harden, Paul George, James Harden again, Victor all.
Speaker 8: The Depot, Bradley Belly, where's the chip.
Speaker 5: To show for it?
Speaker 1: Okay, that's enough?
Speaker 2: Oh my lord, Okay, I mean I'm yeah, I guess
Speaker 2: like cool, like fine. So then Nina I believe her
Speaker 2: name is Westbrook, Russell Westbrook's wife takes that opportunity to say,
Speaker 2: I've had a.
Speaker 1: Fuck enough of Steven a going out my husband. Please stop.
Speaker 1: Can you give a suggest to what she said?
Speaker 3: Yes, so she sent out? Uh so, how tiring is
Speaker 3: it to be minding your own business and have notifications
Speaker 3: pop up on your phone about people being negative and
Speaker 3: hating on your family? Yeah, there are several things wrong
Speaker 3: with what Stephen A. Smith says here, and she went
Speaker 3: on to say Russell is the happiest he's ever been.
Speaker 3: Not having a championship does not quote hurt him a lot. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know nothing about him. If you did, you know
Speaker 3: that he is way, way more than a championship. He
Speaker 3: is a champion of life, a champion of his people.
Speaker 3: He doesn't care about your championship and certainly not your opinion.
Speaker 2: And then meanwhile, the NCAA tournament is going on, right
Speaker 2: and you've got kids missing free throws, and these kids
Speaker 2: are getting death threats. You've got commentators saying all kinds
Speaker 2: of wild things.
Speaker 1: Perfect storm.
Speaker 2: In one instance, Russ is bawling out while the NCAA
Speaker 2: tournament is going on. And I think Steve and I
Speaker 2: has been talking about Russ since he was at UCLA.
Speaker 2: By the way, so Russ, I think has this timing
Speaker 2: could not have been worse or better. Where he wanted
Speaker 2: it to directly respond not only to what stephn A
Speaker 2: had to say, but also about the media as a whole,
Speaker 2: and really wanted to illuminate how what we say in
Speaker 2: the media can affect that person's life and their brand.
Speaker 1: Here's what Russ had to say.
Speaker 6: You know, I watched these college games, and I'll watch
Speaker 6: these kids and these announcers. Man, they get on the
Speaker 6: TV and just say anything about a kid. They don't
Speaker 6: even know him. They don't know his family, they don't
Speaker 6: know where he's from, they don't know what he's been through,
Speaker 6: they don't know his struggles, they don't know his pain.
Speaker 6: They don't know anything about the kid. But one thing
Speaker 6: said on TV can determine how you perceive this kid
Speaker 6: on TV, which will allow him not to be able
Speaker 6: to reach his goals. What you will allow him not to
Speaker 6: be able to get drafted, which will allow him not
Speaker 6: to take care of his family, which will now not
Speaker 6: create generational wealth. Like I said before, a championship don't
Speaker 6: don't change my life.
Speaker 5: I'm happy.
Speaker 6: I was a champion once I made it to the NBA,
Speaker 6: Like I grew up in the streets. I'm a champion.
Speaker 6: Nobody can I don't have to be an NBA champion.
Speaker 6: I know many people that got NBA champions that's miserable,
Speaker 6: have done nothing for their community, have done nothing for you, just.
Speaker 1: Spitting facts the people.
Speaker 2: On the recent episode of Brian Windhorse's pod, Mark Spears
Speaker 2: was talking about how he asked Alan Iverson. Why Alan
Speaker 2: Iverson is not in the media, why he's not on
Speaker 2: the jump. Alan Irison said, my entire career, the media
Speaker 2: did everything that they could to lift me up, just
Speaker 2: to break me and pull me down. I don't want
Speaker 2: to say negative things about other players, and if I'm
Speaker 2: in the media, I have to. And I think that's true. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the media always has had.
Speaker 1: Trouble balancing that. I have trouble balancing that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's a line you have to walk,
Speaker 3: for sure.
Speaker 2: Speaking your opinion without bringing someone down and damaging their reputation.
Speaker 2: And you see that there are players who are great Kadi, Kyrie, Harden,
Speaker 2: Russ all happened to have played with one another at
Speaker 2: certain points in times. These players are distrustful and prickly
Speaker 2: to the media for a reason. Kyrie is a cancer.
Speaker 2: He's considered a cancer that is stuck around with him.
Speaker 2: You hate personally hate Kyrie for his zodiac stuff that
Speaker 2: he does in his sage burn he beats to his.
Speaker 3: Own drum and more of the abandoning his team in
Speaker 3: the middle of the season multiple times.
Speaker 2: More to do with that Kevin Durant and him going
Speaker 2: to the Warriors, and that has changed his narrative. You've
Speaker 2: got James Harden and him being selfish, and Russ has
Speaker 2: been painted with being selfish. These players have been painted
Speaker 2: in a way that they're teammates.
Speaker 1: Like we talk about with Corey Brewer, who will be
Speaker 1: on later.
Speaker 2: On in the show, that these things aren't necessarily true,
Speaker 2: but the media says what they say, and then it's
Speaker 2: just like a dead carcass, you just drag it around
Speaker 2: for the whole rest of your career. And it's interesting
Speaker 2: because the business of commentating is that stephen A, no
Speaker 2: matter what stephen A said like that was interesting as
Speaker 2: hell to listen to right the way he said it.
Speaker 1: I don't give it.
Speaker 3: Damn. I'm the first to admitted I don't love what
Speaker 3: he says, but I love.
Speaker 2: That the drama we are paid to entertain. And there
Speaker 2: is nothing less entertaining than saying, Russell Westbrook's very good
Speaker 2: at basketball. You know, I think the world kind of
Speaker 2: already knows that there always needs to be a why,
Speaker 2: There always needs to be some level of context that
Speaker 2: things need to get put into.
Speaker 1: Right, So Russell Westbrook does X.
Speaker 2: On a random Tuesday, What does that actually mean for
Speaker 2: US viewers? Does that mean that he's closer to getting
Speaker 2: what this whole thing is. For the whole reason that
Speaker 2: they play these games, the whole reason, let me back up,
Speaker 2: the whole reason we say that they're playing these games
Speaker 2: is to win a championship. The whole reason that the
Speaker 2: NBA holds these games is to go and.
Speaker 1: Search for a championship. The reason that Russell Westbrook plays
Speaker 1: basketball may not be just to win a championship.
Speaker 2: It may be, like Harden said, he talked about this
Speaker 2: when he went to the Rockets, is to make generational
Speaker 2: wealth so that they can help feed their families and
Speaker 2: take care of their community for generations to come, regardless
Speaker 2: of whether they win a ring or not. We though,
Speaker 2: want to say.
Speaker 1: Like, what is it about Russell Westbrook? He has all
Speaker 1: these stats? Is he a leader? Is he not a leader?
Speaker 2: What is he thinking when he gets out on the
Speaker 2: court and he makes these decisions.
Speaker 1: Did you see him shrug off that journalist Marty? Is
Speaker 1: he like that to his teammates?
Speaker 2: Like we just make all these things up because we
Speaker 2: have to find something for someone to want to listen to. Yeah,
Speaker 2: on a day today, basis right? And also like, how
Speaker 2: does this connect to the future? What does that mean
Speaker 2: about the past? What does this mean in terms of
Speaker 2: his legacy around all of his contemporaries in history. That's
Speaker 2: the formula past future, historical legacy.
Speaker 1: What can we make sense of this one performance and
Speaker 1: make it into something greater?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: And that's why Stephen A says what he says. This
Speaker 2: is why I say what I say, Like, you take
Speaker 2: one incident and then you extrapolate it forward. I just
Speaker 2: did it. Is Donovan Mitchell ever going to fly a
Speaker 2: plane again? That's like what I said, Right, How many
Speaker 2: times can I say Russell Westbrook is really fucking good
Speaker 2: at basketball?
Speaker 1: But then it's like, oh, well, can he lead? Can
Speaker 1: he get a championship? Can he do this? Can he
Speaker 1: do that?
Speaker 2: Nobody wants to know, Like, hey, Russell Westbrook donated two
Speaker 2: point five million dollars.
Speaker 1: To build a school. It's like, this is the basketball show.
Speaker 2: I came here to learn about what's happening around the league,
Speaker 2: not all of these things that he's doing to impact.
Speaker 2: And that's unfair, but that's I think the way that
Speaker 2: it is. Our brains are wired to do this, and
Speaker 2: this is the business that we are in, and this
Speaker 2: is a symbiotic relationship by the way, if it's not
Speaker 2: for Stephen a promoting the league, getting people excited to
Speaker 2: watch and hate watch Russell Westbrook on a day to
Speaker 2: day basis, Russell Westbrook doesn't make two hundred and five
Speaker 2: million dollars in making multi generational wealth. So there's a
Speaker 2: certain point where that damage and that reputation is also
Speaker 2: what fuels the generational wealth. So I don't think this
Speaker 2: is changing. I think when Russell Westbrook has twenty one
Speaker 2: assists in a game, maybe time to.
Speaker 1: Heap a little praise.
Speaker 3: You can celebrate that.
Speaker 2: You can celebrate that. That's fucking crazy to be able
Speaker 2: to do that in a game. Damian Lillard had ten
Speaker 2: assists in a quarter the other night, and I was like,
Speaker 2: immediately thought to myself, this man might have forty assists
Speaker 2: if you extra can you imagine? That's the reason though,
Speaker 2: I think that you find one players extremely distrustful. What
Speaker 2: are you gonna do with this interview? What are you
Speaker 2: gonna do with this time with me? How are you
Speaker 2: going to shape this and make me look two? I
Speaker 2: think that's why you have Uninterrupted, You've got a players.
Speaker 1: Tribune, Sue Bird has a new media company.
Speaker 2: There are players who are now saying JJ there and
Speaker 2: we'll talk about him a little later in the show,
Speaker 2: and that say, you know what, I'm just gonna take
Speaker 2: control of how I'm perceived. I'm gonna take control of
Speaker 2: not only how I am perceived, but how my crew
Speaker 2: is perceived. We're gonna put our own content on our
Speaker 2: own timeline how we want.
Speaker 1: The world to see us.
Speaker 2: We don't want the media to be the only ones
Speaker 2: responsible how we're seen.
Speaker 1: I think that's fucking dope. I like that.
Speaker 2: We also still need people like steven A to stir
Speaker 2: up the pot a little bit and.
Speaker 3: Give them stuff to talk about on their podcast, and.
Speaker 2: Give them stuff to talk about on their podcast, and
Speaker 2: also give people a reason to watch Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's an ugly.
Speaker 2: Business, and like I said, I don't think it's going
Speaker 2: anyway anytime soon, especially with social media and Twitter specifically,
Speaker 2: it might actually get worse this week. This is the
Speaker 2: kind of news I need, Marty in my life, the news.
Speaker 1: That's just so far from happening.
Speaker 2: I think it's almost impossible, but still very very fun
Speaker 2: to think about.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 1: There has been a long running rivalry.
Speaker 2: Somehow like some type of connection where like when Steph succeeds,
Speaker 2: everyone talks about Braun, and when Bron succeeds, everyone talks
Speaker 2: about it's Steph. There's a comparison that happens between them
Speaker 2: and their MVPs, and I don't know what it is, really,
Speaker 2: but it exists, and it's almost has been pulling them
Speaker 2: apart right from one another. Lebron has said some things
Speaker 2: about Steph. Steph has said some things about Braun. We
Speaker 2: won't get into all that, but you can just do
Speaker 2: some googling, and you know they've they've said some shady
Speaker 2: ass shit about one another.
Speaker 1: Yeah, discrediting one another.
Speaker 3: I mean, you play in four finals against each other,
Speaker 3: It's there's there's gonna be some feelings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2: But to see Lebron James take Steph Curry on his
Speaker 2: All Star team and to watch them play together, the
Speaker 2: joy that they had with one another, I immediately thought to myself, Marty,
Speaker 2: what would it be? What would a team look like
Speaker 2: with Braun and with Steph? Could they be the duo
Speaker 2: the like a duo that they don't need another All Star?
Speaker 2: Could they win a title together? That's immediately where my
Speaker 2: mind went. Is that where your mind went?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, right, Like, you think to yourself, what could
Speaker 2: that be? Remember when Kyrie and Kad were on the
Speaker 2: court during All Star Game last year together, everybody's like
Speaker 2: or two years ago, everybody's like, oh yeah, what are
Speaker 2: they saying?
Speaker 1: Do they want to go and play again? And they did,
Speaker 1: didn't they?
Speaker 2: So now the news is bubbling up. Brian Winhorse the
Speaker 2: Lebron James follower of sorts. He made his living following
Speaker 2: Lebron James around when he was like sixteen years old
Speaker 2: and now he's the guy. He had a podcast come out,
Speaker 2: same podcast with Mark Spear and Nick Fredell, and he
Speaker 2: said there was some possibility that Lebron James is recruiting
Speaker 2: Steph Curry. Here is what he had to say.
Speaker 7: Lebron thinks there's some doubt. Otherwise he wouldn't be doing
Speaker 7: this because I know he feels a certain way about
Speaker 7: Steph because I watched it.
Speaker 3: Yep, what do you mean.
Speaker 5: You think Lebron thinks he may leave?
Speaker 2: Lebron started recruiting with the All Star Yeah, he said,
Speaker 2: I know he feels a certain kind of way about Steph.
Speaker 1: When he says that, he means a negative way about Steph.
Speaker 3: Keep going.
Speaker 5: He's not going to leave.
Speaker 4: He's not not right now, He's not gonna leave everybody.
Speaker 7: So fine, he gets a lot of time to I'm
Speaker 7: just I'm just saying step is eligible for contracts.
Speaker 1: Hasn't signed it yet.
Speaker 5: Just happened.
Speaker 7: Just to be clear, Steph, step is eligible for contract
Speaker 7: extension this summer, has it signed. Lebron started recruiting him
Speaker 7: a All Star.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but he might be playing for somebody else and
Speaker 6: once the next contract.
Speaker 7: Now, listen, man, I'm not I'm just saying.
Speaker 3: I'm just stating im.
Speaker 5: With the Lakers, he might to New York. The point,
Speaker 5: The point is well taken.
Speaker 9: You're going, yes, Please tell me more about this, Please
Speaker 9: tell me more about how there's a possibility we could
Speaker 9: see Steph Curry and Lebron James in the same jersey together.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, of course, Mark Speer, of course, Nick
Speaker 2: Fodell are gonna poop poo this. They cover the fucking
Speaker 2: Golden State Warriors on a night to night basis. Do
Speaker 2: you think they in their mind could ever conceive of
Speaker 2: in a situation where Steph Curry spurns the Golden State
Speaker 2: Warriors and bounces Absolutely not. No, Yes, I think that
Speaker 2: there's probably point zero zero zero zero zero one percent
Speaker 2: chance that that happens. But all I want to do
Speaker 2: is imagine a world where that is the case. What
Speaker 2: do you think it would look like.
Speaker 3: I mean, they'd win a lot of basketball games. I
Speaker 3: wouldn't love it. I don't know. I just I'd rather
Speaker 3: see them play against each other. I am a little
Speaker 3: old fashioned that I wouldn't love it. But the product
Speaker 3: would be something dep tremendous, something truly to be he.
Speaker 2: Just imagine one these two guys enjoy the game physically
Speaker 2: out out there for the world to see. Right, Remember
Speaker 2: when Steph Curry did his little shimmy shimmy and he
Speaker 2: kind of squatted pretendity pooped on the court. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: and Braun doing the things that Broun does when.
Speaker 1: He's like feeling it.
Speaker 2: Them two together, hyping each other up would be insufferable.
Speaker 2: For one second of all, they would be shitting on
Speaker 2: the rest of the league.
Speaker 1: Braun playing the point, Steph coming off ball. Just that duo.
Speaker 2: Just imagine it for a second, Steph running around doing
Speaker 2: Steph things and Lebron no look passing, Steph cutting to
Speaker 2: the lane.
Speaker 1: Oh my lord.
Speaker 2: The ratings, Marty, the ratings NBA wet dream in terms
Speaker 2: of ratings on Tuesday night on a Wednesday, any time,
Speaker 2: I would watch every even on the East Coast.
Speaker 1: I would watch every single Laker game.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know what the record for national TV games,
Speaker 3: but they would break it.
Speaker 1: They would break it. I mean every single game would
Speaker 1: be nationally televized.
Speaker 2: I think, why do you think it would be like
Speaker 2: if in terms of like who wins the trade?
Speaker 1: Ad for Steph straight up?
Speaker 3: Ooh uh? I mean eighty's younger. Uh, but Steph's gonna
Speaker 3: be able to do what he does for a long time.
Speaker 3: I don't know. That's actually very interesting. I would I
Speaker 3: don't know, they already won with AD, so I would say,
Speaker 3: let's let's just keep rolling with this.
Speaker 2: Imagine Steph Curry signs a MAX deal with the Warriors
Speaker 2: two years from now. He's like, this is not you
Speaker 2: guys like big men way too much. Who wins the trade?
Speaker 2: It's a d and Clay Wiseman, Draymond. I don't know
Speaker 2: who else is there at the time. They'll have Minnesota's
Speaker 2: pick if it's not number four or if it's not
Speaker 2: three year below, and Steph's like, you know what, I'm
Speaker 2: out I think like both teams get better, you do,
Speaker 2: I mean get better for me in my mind?
Speaker 3: I don't know I would kind of. I don't love
Speaker 3: Ad Wiseman playing together.
Speaker 1: I don't love that guys ship Wiseman the fuck out.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, it just is so enticing to me.
Speaker 1: I thought about it.
Speaker 2: For a long time after that All Star Game because
Speaker 2: Bron was just like hyping stuff up.
Speaker 1: Shoot from half court, Steph, shoot from half court.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine all the shit he would get Steph
Speaker 2: to do on a night to night basis, just like
Speaker 2: pumping up like his fucking hype man got Lebron James
Speaker 2: the hype man, Steph Curry the hypeman. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: I know the Embers are just gonna keep keep burning
Speaker 2: until Steph signs that contract.
Speaker 1: Though, I know that.
Speaker 2: Could you hear how giddy Windhorse was when he was
Speaker 2: delivering that news.
Speaker 3: Yeah he had a little uh yeah, you could hear
Speaker 3: it in his voice. For sure.
Speaker 1: That is the duo we all except for you, Marty.
Speaker 2: Want to see there's a little Laker cleanup though to do. Also,
Speaker 2: following the Drummond to La news, did you hear this
Speaker 2: Dennis Shrewder first of all, Dennis fucking Shrewder offered twenty
Speaker 2: one million dollars per year and did not say yes please,
Speaker 2: He said no thanks, he said no thank you.
Speaker 1: Who the fuck is Dennis Shrewder think he is?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's a that's a shitload of money, and that's certainly
Speaker 3: I mean it's yeah, that was that was very bizarre.
Speaker 1: Think he's Kyle Dennis Shruter thinks he's Kyle Lowry.
Speaker 3: He thinks he should.
Speaker 1: Twenty four twenty five million dollars.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, you can't go too much
Speaker 3: further up from that until you get to the max.
Speaker 3: He's not a max player, So he's.
Speaker 1: Not a max player.
Speaker 2: Like if you look at guys who are making in
Speaker 2: that twenty four twenty five million dollar range. Shit, I
Speaker 2: thought Dennis Shruder was in the Alonzo range and he
Speaker 2: got offered he gets paid the Lonzo range right now. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he says no to twenty one million dollars.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2: It seems like he's got them over the barrel because
Speaker 2: there's a lot of news saying like, oh, Lakers think
Speaker 2: that Truder's the future. The point guards. They need to
Speaker 2: lock him up. They're offering him an extension now they
Speaker 2: want it to get done. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Like, is Dennis Shrewder better than we think he is?
Speaker 3: Maybe they're thinking the CAP's gonna go up? Maybe, I mean,
Speaker 3: but like that's, uh, that's pretty big gamble. So eighty
Speaker 3: four million dollar gamble after a pandemic. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: They're already paying Brahm the max, are paying a d
Speaker 1: the max. You give Shrewd to that money, what.
Speaker 2: Are they doing twenty Like, imagine a team offers him
Speaker 2: twenty four twenty eight million. At some point you got
Speaker 2: to figure out, Like, he's too expensive, man, he's too expensive.
Speaker 2: Also other news, the Lakers have a plethora of centers.
Speaker 2: I know that Andre Drummond went down with a toe
Speaker 2: toenail injury.
Speaker 1: I know that sounds funny, but I'm sure it hurts
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 2: They they heard a lot toenail injury has sidelined him.
Speaker 2: But they have Montrez Harald, They've got Andre Drummond, and
Speaker 2: they've got Mark Gasol, and then they have a d
Speaker 2: who likes to play for but he probably will play
Speaker 2: five in the playoffs when he comes back, so it
Speaker 2: sounds like one too many centers they've asked him. They
Speaker 2: asked Frank Vogel whether they were going to waive or
Speaker 2: buy out Mark Gasol, and he said, we have not
Speaker 2: talked about that. But he did not say no. He
Speaker 2: just said, we haven't spoken about that just yet. Doesn't
Speaker 2: hurt to have a veteran big man in your pocket.
Speaker 2: He's very smart, can pass, gives you lineup flexibility in
Speaker 2: case you need a guy like Mark Gasol to play
Speaker 2: make say Dennis Schruder goes down or something happens. What
Speaker 2: do you think do you think that they keep him?
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know, he would get swooped up.
Speaker 3: I would imagine that there's got to be a guy
Speaker 3: a team that can use a backup big like that.
Speaker 3: So I don't know if you release him, then you
Speaker 3: risk like Phoenix or some one like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's exactly right. I think you got
Speaker 2: a player who's definitely washed, but skilled, great locker room guy.
Speaker 1: We know that, And what like are we doing here?
Speaker 2: Genie Bus has the money, Just pay the luxury tax,
Speaker 2: just pay out it out. Let Lebron have another good
Speaker 2: locker room guy and keep other contending teams from getting
Speaker 2: a big man that they might need in the heart
Speaker 2: of the city.
Speaker 1: There's no love in the heart of the NBA.
Speaker 2: It sounds like, ain't no love in the heart of
Speaker 2: the big easy.
Speaker 1: No, no new news coming out, Marty.
Speaker 2: Yikes, we've been hearing about guys so happy with their
Speaker 2: new teams.
Speaker 1: Vouch.
Speaker 2: It's happy in Chicago, Fournier Hornier for Fournier In Boston.
Speaker 2: Forty players traded, most of them happy to be in
Speaker 2: a new situation. One player not happy about how the
Speaker 2: trade went down. A man with a man's a platform,
Speaker 2: a man who is a shooting specialist with his own podcast,
Speaker 2: took to the streets to air out the New Orleans
Speaker 2: Pelicans and their business about how they handled him all
Speaker 2: fucking season.
Speaker 1: Did you hear any of this?
Speaker 3: Yeah no, I watched it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. So here's here's the deal.
Speaker 2: On the last episode of The Old Men in the
Speaker 2: three podcasts, JJ Reddick went ham about how he felt
Speaker 2: like the Pelicans fucked him over and lied to his face.
Speaker 2: Here is the timeline. He made a trade request in November.
Speaker 2: As you remember, late start. December twenty second was when
Speaker 2: the season started, so.
Speaker 3: He asked for the trade.
Speaker 1: Yep. Still the off season, he asked for trade.
Speaker 2: He saw the writing on the wall with Van Gundy
Speaker 2: that he was not going to get enough touches, and
Speaker 2: he was like, Yo, David Griffin and the GM Langdon
Speaker 2: who's also a fell dookie, he said, Yo, I don't
Speaker 2: want my family to leave Brooklyn. I don't really want
Speaker 2: to leave Brooklyn either because of the pandemic. I don't
Speaker 2: want to move them and deal with this. And they're
Speaker 2: they're settled, they're sheltering in place.
Speaker 1: If you will.
Speaker 2: And Griffin said to JJ, like, just come down for
Speaker 2: a month, like if you like it, like you're good.
Speaker 2: If you still want out, I give you my word.
Speaker 2: We will get you to a situation that you like.
Speaker 2: And Reddick was like, he obviously did not honor his
Speaker 2: word because I told him I wanted to be in
Speaker 2: any city that on my off day I could take
Speaker 2: a train or a bus to see my family.
Speaker 1: I don't need to be in Brooklyn.
Speaker 2: I know that that's unfair, but just trade me anywhere, DC, Philly, Nix,
Speaker 2: anywhere that I can drive to see my family in
Speaker 2: an off day.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So he was like, I look at the buyout situation
Speaker 2: not as like, Oh, I'm gonna go get bought and
Speaker 2: go to Brooklyn. I just want to be able to
Speaker 2: see my family and be in driving distance. He then
Speaker 2: explained why he was so fucking pissed in detail. He said,
Speaker 2: why this is crazy?
Speaker 1: Why should any player trust this organization at all?
Speaker 2: I don't think you're gonna get honesty from that front
Speaker 2: office objectively speaking, and that's not an opinion. I just
Speaker 2: don't think you're going to get that. And here's where
Speaker 2: it gets really real.
Speaker 1: I don't think what happened with me is necessarily an
Speaker 1: isolated incident.
Speaker 2: I think front offices around the league operate in their
Speaker 2: best interest and I get that.
Speaker 1: I understand that, truthfully, I do.
Speaker 2: I think I was a little naive though, thinking I
Speaker 2: was in year fifteen, attempting to do things the right
Speaker 2: way throughout my career. But in terms of this front office, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's not something where I would expect the agents who
Speaker 2: worked on this with me to ever trust that front
Speaker 2: office again. And he ended up in Dallas where he
Speaker 2: did not, which is, by the way, in driving distance
Speaker 2: of Brooklyn. Unless you're Damnard Mitchell.
Speaker 1: He said he was.
Speaker 2: Jarred by the trade and told Mark Cubanot In any
Speaker 2: other year, I would be so thrilled to be here,
Speaker 2: but I.
Speaker 1: Need to see my family.
Speaker 2: So basically, he was promised after a month he'd be
Speaker 2: able to go where he wanted to go, and he
Speaker 2: just never got there.
Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, did a little research JJ Reddick's agent. It's
Speaker 1: the same agent that represents Zion Williamson.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that there's tea coming along the bend
Speaker 2: down the bend, but I don't think it was a
Speaker 2: coincidence that he made it so stark that I don't
Speaker 2: think my agents will ever trust this office again.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: That just goes to show you, maybe don't fuck over
Speaker 2: a fifteen year old veteran with a megaphone of a podcast.
Speaker 1: He's been interviewing everyone.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he interviewed on the other.
Speaker 1: Day, this person not. You don't think there's.
Speaker 2: Always an in between period where you're not quite recording,
Speaker 2: but you're not quite not talking about the thing. I'm
Speaker 2: thinking maybe during those times he's going to sewer New
Speaker 2: Orleans if he has the opportunity, like, fuck ne Orleans,
Speaker 2: by the way, fuck New Orleans. They ask him. It's
Speaker 2: really gonna be interesting to see how this is gonna
Speaker 2: affect the Pels going forward.
Speaker 1: Do you think that it makes any difference.
Speaker 3: For them moving forward? I mean, lucky for them, they've
Speaker 3: got four to five years to mend that relationship with
Speaker 3: Zion because he's stuck there until then. H But this
Speaker 3: is very bizarre and I don't really even get it,
Speaker 3: Like why why would Griffin give him his word if
Speaker 3: they had no interest in doing that, Because you could
Speaker 3: just say, like, no, you're making twelve million dollars and
Speaker 3: you're in year fifteen and you're having the worst year
Speaker 3: of your career. No, Like, I can't make a decision
Speaker 3: on my roster based on what you're asking. That would
Speaker 3: be I think a reasonable thing to say. But or
Speaker 3: just buy him out or yeah right, yeah exactly. And
Speaker 3: then but then to just come say, hey, we're gonna
Speaker 3: trade you. He traded them to Dallas for chips? Yeah
Speaker 3: for nothing? Yeah it really Yeah No, it was a
Speaker 3: week move by Griffin. I don't really get it. I
Speaker 3: don't I don't understand the advantage that he got from
Speaker 3: it at all.
Speaker 1: Me neither. Up next is an interview with Corey Brewer.
Speaker 2: Corey Brewer today on this league, we have a very
Speaker 2: special guest. Two time NC double A champion, probably on
Speaker 2: one of the best most dominant NC double A teams
Speaker 2: of all time. I would say, h fourteen year vet
Speaker 2: responsible for killing the Clippers title hopes. Now it skills
Speaker 2: development coach with the New Orleans Pelicans.
Speaker 1: Corey Brewer, thank you for joining us, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 5: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Do you remember me?
Speaker 5: Are you looking so familiar? And I'm like, I know,
Speaker 5: why do I know?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 2: Marty, I'm gonna tell you this story about how me
Speaker 2: and Corey first met. I was working for USA Today
Speaker 2: at the time, and I was just a little baby
Speaker 2: in the media space. I was just trying to do
Speaker 2: my thing, just trying to make moves and like be
Speaker 2: unique and be different, right And USA Today is one
Speaker 2: of those places where it's like you kind of have
Speaker 2: to try to drive news, but I was not about that.
Speaker 1: And and Corey was with Covey.
Speaker 2: They were both in the LA offices of USA Today.
Speaker 2: He was with Robert Covington, another one of my favorite players,
Speaker 2: and I was doing I think we were doing an interview.
Speaker 1: But I was doing some push a push up challenge.
Speaker 1: Does any of this ringing a bell?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: So, so we do this whole thing, and somehow it
Speaker 2: comes up.
Speaker 1: This is so stupid. So it comes up.
Speaker 2: I tell Corey and Covey I have hops and these guys.
Speaker 2: These guys are like, I don't think you can touch
Speaker 2: that exit sign on the ceiling, and I'm like, yes,
Speaker 2: I can.
Speaker 1: I'm certain that I can. And Corey's like.
Speaker 2: I don't think that you can, and for whatever reason
Speaker 2: me as me that I am.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I'm gonna show you that.
Speaker 2: I I know that you guys can dunk, but I
Speaker 2: really want to show you my vert like.
Speaker 1: So I asked Cory, I say, can I take a
Speaker 1: running start? He's like, yeah, sure. At this point, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty certain he does not think.
Speaker 2: Which is making me more aggressively wanting to touch this
Speaker 2: exit sign. So I run and I slap because you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm gonna like barely touch it
Speaker 2: with my fingers or what I needed to touch it,
Speaker 2: and I ended up touching it in the middle of
Speaker 2: the hand.
Speaker 1: The exit sign falls down, boom, crash, hits me in
Speaker 1: the face.
Speaker 8: I fall.
Speaker 5: Because it had.
Speaker 1: And it did not go at all the way that
Speaker 1: I plan.
Speaker 2: And Corey's PR person was a woman she was pumped
Speaker 2: that I ended up doing it. Everybody was a little
Speaker 2: concerned whether I was going to touch it because there
Speaker 2: was a lot of build up and lead up to this,
Speaker 2: so I didn't know if you would remember that. But
Speaker 2: how crazy when you when this happened, Corey, were you
Speaker 2: thinking to yourself, like, what the fuck am I it's happening.
Speaker 5: I was like, she really just broke the exercise.
Speaker 2: Like I think now back to it, and it's like
Speaker 2: this five to five journalist is really trying to show
Speaker 2: her hops to me, like.
Speaker 1: Ball is life. Man.
Speaker 2: I honestly don't even know why I did it. I
Speaker 2: just I don't even know why I was trying to
Speaker 2: flex like that. It was just the all time Trista move.
Speaker 2: I mean, it sounds like you had the hops though
Speaker 2: I did have the hops, had to had to show
Speaker 2: I was also an athlete.
Speaker 1: Like I said before, you.
Speaker 2: Were on one of the most dominant NC double A
Speaker 2: teams in at least my memory, right, you would you
Speaker 2: would say that that's that.
Speaker 1: Back to back. I went to Oregon, so that was
Speaker 1: a that Elite eight hurt.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we had to all the way.
Speaker 1: I had to take us out along the way.
Speaker 2: I think you guys had upwards of ten pro players
Speaker 2: on that roster.
Speaker 8: Oh man, we had at least fixed.
Speaker 1: For sure, and that's some international pros.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we had some guys to play overseas. Yeah, we
Speaker 8: had a lot of guys to play pro basketballs.
Speaker 1: That's wild.
Speaker 2: Six NBA guys, four international players.
Speaker 1: It was one and done. Super popular then too.
Speaker 2: But you guys decided to come back and take me
Speaker 2: through that decision, why you guys decided to do it
Speaker 2: and how you came to that kind of conclusion.
Speaker 8: It was a thing that me, Jo Kim, Al and
Speaker 8: Twining Green, we all came together. So our freshman year
Speaker 8: we were roommates and we just instantly became like best friends.
Speaker 8: Like all four of us, we were always together. We
Speaker 8: did everything together. We were always in the gym, playing
Speaker 8: one on one, playing two on two. We just loved
Speaker 8: to play basketball. We also just like we loved each other,
Speaker 8: like we had a blast together, and it was just
Speaker 8: one of those things like it was just chemistry instantly.
Speaker 8: So you know, we had David Lee, Matt Walsh, and
Speaker 8: Anthony Robish in our freshman year and me and Al started,
Speaker 8: but Joe Kim and Joe Kim really didn't. He didn't
Speaker 8: even play, and to came it was crazy and Tourying
Speaker 8: came off the bench. But the next year it was
Speaker 8: like it was our time. Like those guys went pro,
Speaker 8: and it's like it's our team. Like we're all roommates,
Speaker 8: we're together every day. Now we're all we're going to start.
Speaker 8: And then I got Lee Humphrey. That was that was
Speaker 8: my man. He's from Tennessee. Also on from Tennessee. We
Speaker 8: had been knowing each other for a long time. We
Speaker 8: played on the same May You team, so me and
Speaker 8: Lee was pretty close. So like I was hype. I'm like, yo,
Speaker 8: this is us, Like this is our five, Like we
Speaker 8: got a chance, like and nobody gave.
Speaker 5: Us a chance.
Speaker 8: We were ranked like seventy fifth the beginning of the year.
Speaker 8: So but we still believe in ourselves. So we started
Speaker 8: off seventeen and old. We had a little hiccup, but
Speaker 8: then we we end up winning the championship. So you know,
Speaker 8: everybody's expecting us to go to the draft for sure.
Speaker 8: You know, after you win the championship, you know our
Speaker 8: stock was high. It's like really hot. We're all gonna
Speaker 8: be a lot of your picks. That's what they were saying.
Speaker 3: Joe Kim was probably gonna be the first pick.
Speaker 5: Definitely number one. Griani doesn't go number one if we
Speaker 5: come out in a show number one.
Speaker 8: But it was one of those things where you know
Speaker 8: where you're having so much fun, it's like you don't
Speaker 8: want it to end. We really didn't want it to end,
Speaker 8: like we were having that much fun. Like it was
Speaker 8: like just everything was perfect, Like we love the game,
Speaker 8: we see each other every day, we're winning, like we're
Speaker 8: at the University of Water, like amazing campus football teams
Speaker 8: winning Like every.
Speaker 5: Day is a great day you wake up.
Speaker 8: So so after we wanted we all went home to
Speaker 8: like see our families and we were trying to make
Speaker 8: a decision. And you know me personally, I went home
Speaker 8: and my dad was like, you don't have to go
Speaker 8: to the NBA about It's not about the money. It's
Speaker 8: not about us. Like we're we're fine. Like my parents
Speaker 8: were older, so my parents were in their sixties at
Speaker 8: the time. They were like, We've lived our whole life.
Speaker 8: This is all about your life. It's about what makes
Speaker 8: you happy. So for me, when I went back to school,
Speaker 8: I kind of I was like I want to stay
Speaker 8: in school, like I'm having so much fun. Don't get
Speaker 8: me wrong, the NBA. I want to I want to
Speaker 8: play in the NBA's dream come true. But you can
Speaker 8: only go to college one time. Once you leave college,
Speaker 8: it's over, Like you can't just go back like now,
Speaker 8: I guess gods can test the water back then it
Speaker 8: was like you're the winner.
Speaker 5: You're didn't. So when I.
Speaker 8: Got back, I was kind of like leanings like I
Speaker 8: wanted to come back, and then I feel like Al
Speaker 8: was kind of LENINGX was going and Joe was more like, yo,
Speaker 8: if we're if we're coming back, we're all coming back.
Speaker 5: One of us come back. We're all coming back. So
Speaker 5: after talking, we kind of decided like, man, we're having.
Speaker 8: Too much fun. We can only do this one time, Like,
Speaker 8: let's do it again, Let's let's go one more time.
Speaker 8: Let's let's let's see if we can went back to back,
Speaker 8: and we finally made the decision like let's do it.
Speaker 8: We're coming back to school, and it's a great decision.
Speaker 3: That's dope.
Speaker 2: How do you think you guys, you guys were all roommates.
Speaker 2: How do you think that changes the on court chemistry?
Speaker 8: Oh, it definitely It helps a lot when you're with
Speaker 8: somebody every day.
Speaker 5: You live with guys. Me and Al have a bunch
Speaker 5: of the same.
Speaker 8: Classes, Like we were just always together, so you kind
Speaker 8: of like you really know those guys. You know their tendencies,
Speaker 8: you know what bothers them, you know what makes them happy.
Speaker 8: It's just one of those things. So you just get
Speaker 8: to really learn their personalities. I feel like that's the
Speaker 8: biggest thing. Really knew each other's personality. So when we
Speaker 8: got on the court, you kind of you know how
Speaker 8: to push your guy's buttons to get him to play harder,
Speaker 8: to get him to do something.
Speaker 3: Next year, Hey, y'all, did that big like announcement in
Speaker 3: the arena when you decided to come back to three
Speaker 3: of y'all? What was that like? Cause you gotta you
Speaker 3: had to have gone into that situation knowing I'm never
Speaker 3: going to own a room quite like this ever again.
Speaker 5: In my life.
Speaker 3: So what was the build up to that?
Speaker 5: I mean, it was amazing.
Speaker 8: It was so many people there, like he has to
Speaker 8: be like, the whole Old Dome was like packed.
Speaker 5: It was like a game against Kentucky or something. It
Speaker 5: was packed. So everybody was just happy their height. We
Speaker 5: just won.
Speaker 8: We had the trophy there, like everybody wants to know,
Speaker 8: like what are they gonna do? Like you said, we
Speaker 8: got the whole room all eyes on us, and you
Speaker 8: know we said we were coming back. Everybody just goes crazy.
Speaker 8: It's like a moment you're never gonna forget.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then t bet Swagger Jackie a couple of
Speaker 3: years later.
Speaker 2: Okay, you know we did it first, just kings on
Speaker 2: campus just like a victory tour, like a float and
Speaker 2: entire next year to go back to back. When you
Speaker 2: watch March Madness, now, if it was me, I would
Speaker 2: be comparing my team to every March Madness run that
Speaker 2: there is, right, Like I wonder how our team would
Speaker 2: stack up against this national title team?
Speaker 1: Do you do that?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 5: For sure?
Speaker 8: If you're watching the games, you're like, who's gonna win
Speaker 8: it all? Like could they could they beat us? Like no,
Speaker 8: there's no way they could beat us, Like just thinking
Speaker 8: them back, just looking at all the teams, like over
Speaker 8: the years, I've been doing it for years, like always come.
Speaker 5: To the conclusion like they couldn't beat us.
Speaker 2: You don't think since since seven any national champion would
Speaker 2: have beaten you guys.
Speaker 8: No way, I guess I's been some really good teams,
Speaker 8: don't get me wrong, Like even if the Kentucky team
Speaker 8: with Anthony Davis was really good, Like, but it's just
Speaker 8: like there's no team that could beat us because we
Speaker 8: had everything. We had all five positions, Like I don't
Speaker 8: really look at a team like has all five positions.
Speaker 8: And definitely there's no two bigs, like two bigs together
Speaker 8: that was better than our two boats.
Speaker 1: That's facts. You believe that, Marty. Do you think that's true.
Speaker 3: That no team since then?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I can't really think of when. This
Speaker 3: Gonzaga team this year is fuck it. They can ball,
Speaker 3: so I don't know if they may.
Speaker 1: I don't know, though.
Speaker 3: Man, they're not built like I wouldn't put put them
Speaker 3: up against them at all.
Speaker 1: No, we're not built like that.
Speaker 2: There's I mean, it's Gonzaga, sure, sure, I mean enough
Speaker 2: set about Gonzaga, like no shot to the Pacific Northwest
Speaker 2: where I'm from. But like those Florida boys and a
Speaker 2: bunch of friends that are living together, I mean, you
Speaker 2: guys were hard rocks.
Speaker 1: Joe kiem Noo is a fucking hard rock.
Speaker 5: Oh for sure. Nobody's playing harder than that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, him swimm doing his swimming thing when he runs.
Speaker 2: You said that Georgetown and Jeff with Jeff Green and
Speaker 2: Roy Hibbert were Florida's biggest test, right.
Speaker 1: We were just year.
Speaker 8: They gave us the biggest problem because they slowed the
Speaker 8: game down. We like to play fast and we were
Speaker 8: getting up shot shooting a lot of threes. They slowed
Speaker 8: it down and they gave us some trouble and it
Speaker 8: came down to us making some place at the end.
Speaker 5: But Jeff is playing great and Roy was. That's a
Speaker 5: big dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were just talking about last episode kind of
Speaker 2: the death of the rebounder and how guys like Roy
Speaker 2: Hibbert you just basically woke up and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: Roy Hibbert was no longer a playable a playable piece. Right.
Speaker 2: The traditional center has sort of been devalued as somebody
Speaker 2: who's in the role that you're in.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Do you think that there's room for a traditional center
Speaker 2: in this league with the modern NBA or no?
Speaker 5: Oh, for sure.
Speaker 8: It's just some certain situations, certain teams you can play guys,
Speaker 8: but a lot of teams are the way they're building
Speaker 8: their teams. It's all about shooting and spreading the floor
Speaker 8: in a lot of space. But like, if you build
Speaker 8: your team, you got a big that can really play,
Speaker 8: He's gonna play. But it's not like it's not like
Speaker 8: the past years, like just because he's seven foot you're
Speaker 8: not guaranteed playing in the NBA anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, at one point in time, it was like all
Speaker 1: you have to do is be born tall.
Speaker 5: Oh for sure, if you were seven foot you can revalue,
Speaker 5: would definitely going to in the NBA.
Speaker 3: I still can. I still contend if I was seven
Speaker 3: feet tall, I could have had Spencer Hawes' career. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: it's a it's it's a testament to my belief in myself.
Speaker 5: Not Spencer.
Speaker 2: Marty also thinks he's an athlete. Sure you don't see
Speaker 2: Marty right now, but he also believes that he's He's as.
Speaker 5: Sure seven foot though you got a chance to do.
Speaker 3: I feel the same way.
Speaker 1: If I was seven foot tall, I would have been
Speaker 1: doing something too. I'm still playing, no doubt you.
Speaker 2: Uh, you've played with a lot of great players, Russ
Speaker 2: being one. And okay, see did you see what uh
Speaker 2: he recently said about Steven A.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I seen some of the stuff he said,
Speaker 8: some stuff about how the media portrays you.
Speaker 1: So what do you what do you think about that?
Speaker 8: It's true some guys get bad reps, Like it can
Speaker 8: be one thing somebody says in the media and it
Speaker 8: follows them around their whole career, and that may not
Speaker 8: be anything. That person may not be like that at all.
Speaker 8: So it is understandable. So and for a guy like Russ,
Speaker 8: he really does a lot in the community. He's a
Speaker 8: great teammate. Also, I played with him, so I know
Speaker 8: personally one of my favorite teammates. So he's all about winning.
Speaker 8: He's gonna every night, he gives it as all like
Speaker 8: you can't not like a guy like that. It goes
Speaker 8: out there every night in places tell So sometimes there's
Speaker 8: a lot of a lot of unfair Christians.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's one of those players who's may be one
Speaker 2: of the few that still goes full max eighty two games.
Speaker 1: For sure, he's gonna play with load management.
Speaker 2: He's gonna give you one hundred percent of every single possession.
Speaker 2: What do you think the biggest difference is between how
Speaker 2: he's been painted and how he actually is with his team.
Speaker 8: I just feel like sometimes people they think he's selfish
Speaker 8: or he's not really about the team, which is totally off. Still, yeah,
Speaker 8: he's a great teammate. He's all about the team, and
Speaker 8: he really wants to win.
Speaker 2: I remember Stephen Adam said that he and Russ would
Speaker 2: like fight over rebounds sometimes get a rebound. There's a
Speaker 2: balance between happiness and chips.
Speaker 8: Definitely, it has to be a balance, you know. Now
Speaker 8: with everything's going on in the world, there's a lot
Speaker 8: of different things going on. So guys that are doing
Speaker 8: doing what they can in the community, and it's really
Speaker 8: it's really a good thing. Like they're doing their best,
Speaker 8: they're doing anything they can.
Speaker 5: Do to help.
Speaker 8: So for you to judge a guy to talk about championships,
Speaker 8: everybody wants to win a championship.
Speaker 5: Guys are not not.
Speaker 8: Trying to win championships. You know, sometimes it happens for guys,
Speaker 8: sometimes it doesn't. But these guys are doing a lot
Speaker 8: of special things off the court, So you got to
Speaker 8: you gotta show them some respect and trump some love
Speaker 8: for all the things they're doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's a team game too, so like you
Speaker 2: can't just put every time that Russ didn't win a
Speaker 2: chip on Russ.
Speaker 8: Of course, not like sometimes the teams have better teams
Speaker 8: and you know it's a lot of great players then
Speaker 8: win championships.
Speaker 3: You were just in the league, you were in the bubble,
Speaker 3: So like, what what led to the Pelicans being that
Speaker 3: first uh, that first job that you saw?
Speaker 5: Yeah? For sure, I like, I'm sorry, I play. I
Speaker 5: can still play, for sure.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: If it wasn't for COVID, I definitely probably would still
Speaker 8: be trying to play. But with everything happening with COVID
Speaker 8: and I just had a baby, I like kind of
Speaker 8: wanted some stability and not have to worry about like
Speaker 8: trying to get into protocols or trying to find a job,
Speaker 8: trying to go here, trying to like be away from
Speaker 8: my little my little guy all the time. So and
Speaker 8: I always went to coach, and so when this opportunity
Speaker 8: came up, it was hard to turn it down, just
Speaker 8: because it's a great situation with a bunch of young
Speaker 8: players are really good and a bunch of guys I know,
Speaker 8: got played with freaking half my team, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was. Yeah, I was gonna ask you about
Speaker 3: that too, Like, how does it feel like you just
Speaker 3: having so many guys that you played with and against
Speaker 3: you know, still playing and you're on the bench. Is
Speaker 3: that a little weird or like, how how does that
Speaker 3: dynamic work?
Speaker 5: It's I want to say it's weird. They still treat
Speaker 5: me like I'm.
Speaker 8: Gonna play right right, But they listen to them because
Speaker 8: they know, like like if I say something I'm not
Speaker 8: saying just to be talking, like I'm only gonna say
Speaker 8: something about if I know it's right, if I did
Speaker 8: it before, like I know I did it, so I
Speaker 8: know it can be done.
Speaker 5: So if I tell you like it needs to be
Speaker 5: like this, they listen. So I play. It's a little
Speaker 5: easier for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you played on that young Laker team with it
Speaker 2: was Randall, Lonzo, Josh Hart, Jordan Clarkson, b I, KCP, Kuzma,
Speaker 2: Larry Nance Junior. Do you think if those guys developed
Speaker 2: into who they are now, which is obviously like especially
Speaker 2: for you in your field, you know that each situation
Speaker 2: develops guys differently, but just hypothetically speaking, how good do
Speaker 2: you think that Lakers squad is? If they all fully
Speaker 2: baking the oven in la.
Speaker 8: I think they would have ended up being pretty good,
Speaker 8: being really good actually, because you know, if you get
Speaker 8: a group and they stay together, and all those guys
Speaker 8: work extremely hard. I think a lot of times people
Speaker 8: don't see the work these guys put in.
Speaker 5: And all those guys they were putting in a lot
Speaker 5: of work.
Speaker 8: So it's just in situations when you have a bunch
Speaker 8: of young guys, teams want a team like in.
Speaker 5: The market like LA.
Speaker 8: They want to win right away though, so it's they're
Speaker 8: not going to just develop you when they can get
Speaker 8: a guy like Lebron. So argue with what the Lakers did,
Speaker 8: Like they did it right. They had a lot of
Speaker 8: good young talent and they turned it into Lebron James
Speaker 8: and Anthony Davis. So the Lakers did a great job
Speaker 8: as a franchise and these young guys, they kept working
Speaker 8: their butts off and that's why they're in a good
Speaker 8: situations there right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really interested in how the offense has changed.
Speaker 2: I know that you weren't there obviously last year, but
Speaker 2: you guys are doing a lot of interesting things using
Speaker 2: the using Zion the way that you're using him, Lonzo's
Speaker 2: being used in a different way obviously, like Zion being
Speaker 2: this primary playmaker. It's interesting because Warriors are using Draymond
Speaker 2: like that a little bit too, and you've got Braun
Speaker 2: that sort of does that too, this whole point forward thing. Uh,
Speaker 2: do you think that's like a new wave or is
Speaker 2: this just like a it's like you said, a situational
Speaker 2: thing depending on how the coaches want to use their players.
Speaker 5: You have a talent of like William you're gonna give
Speaker 5: the ball. You're gonna so.
Speaker 8: I'm not gonna say situation. Know what's going on in
Speaker 8: the NBA. This is a Zion Williamson things for us,
Speaker 8: Like this guy is really good and he's really good
Speaker 8: with the ball in his hands, so we're gonna get
Speaker 8: him the ball and let him be Zion Williamson. And
Speaker 8: that's why we've been really good. And he has a
Speaker 8: lot of teammates like Linzo and beyond they want him
Speaker 8: to be so they're able to here, you go, big fella,
Speaker 8: we're gonna we're gonna help you and do what we do.
Speaker 5: You do what you do.
Speaker 2: It's interesting because b I and and Lonzo were both
Speaker 2: stars and their own right when they were doing their thing.
Speaker 2: To be able to defer to to Zion when Zion's
Speaker 2: younger and and want him to be great, that's special,
Speaker 2: definitely special.
Speaker 8: That's why I think these guys are gonna be This
Speaker 8: is gonna be a really good future. And you got
Speaker 8: two superstars. I was All Star last YEARNS All Star
Speaker 8: this year. And then you have a guy like Zoe
Speaker 8: who's really good. He doesn't get enough credit for how
Speaker 8: good he is, and he's only getting better because he's
Speaker 8: twenty three years old. All these guys are young and
Speaker 8: they're only gonna get better. So they just got to
Speaker 8: stick together.
Speaker 2: I got banged on on Twitter because I said I'd
Speaker 2: rather have Lonzo as my point guard over Ben.
Speaker 1: Simmons, and I was fair.
Speaker 2: I said that people, So I give I give Lonzo
Speaker 2: a lot of credit.
Speaker 5: Way he's shooting the ball.
Speaker 1: I tell you what, I tell you what.
Speaker 3: Hey, can we teach I on another move other than
Speaker 3: that spin to the left?
Speaker 5: And man, they can't stop.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, it's so funny to me whatever
Speaker 3: I talk about. I'm like, he kind of does the
Speaker 3: same thing a lot, and no one seems to be
Speaker 3: able to do anything.
Speaker 5: Isn't that your joby? He's like you look up and
Speaker 5: you're like, oh, he's not not for two? Like what
Speaker 5: every night? Like they can't stop? So just keep doing
Speaker 5: that move.
Speaker 1: Literally all go over there too.
Speaker 2: You can see them trying to shade left and try
Speaker 2: to stop and it's like you just he's just too strong.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's too strong once he gets to the way he
Speaker 8: wants to get to. And it's the touch. He has
Speaker 8: an amazing touch to be so big and just like
Speaker 8: it just falls in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not like it's not like some of these
Speaker 2: other guys that hit the ball hard off the backboard
Speaker 2: and just hope it goes in off the angle you know,
Speaker 2: is soft touch.
Speaker 1: No, it's funny.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's interesting to watch his development and he's
Speaker 2: not one of those guys. I'd love to see Zion
Speaker 2: give the like you're too little. He never does that.
Speaker 2: He never like just is like, you know, never does
Speaker 2: any flexing. You know me as somebody who wants to
Speaker 2: hit the exit sign like if I was if I
Speaker 2: was him, I would be running the scoreboard up when uh.
Speaker 2: I remember when you were drafted. Me and Marty were
Speaker 2: talking about this when we found out that we were
Speaker 2: going to talk to you about how David Stern said
Speaker 2: your name. He was like, he said it so funny.
Speaker 1: Like Corey Brewer.
Speaker 3: I think someone shouted it out in the crowd and
Speaker 3: then he was like, oh yeah, Corey Brewer, I don't know.
Speaker 3: It always stuck with me. I was wondering if you
Speaker 3: ever heard that.
Speaker 5: I've never heard that. When I was like, go back
Speaker 5: and watch it.
Speaker 8: Like, first of all, I didn't think I was going
Speaker 8: to Minnesota, so I was shot, and I was.
Speaker 2: Kind of like, Minnesota, Yes, that's everyone who ever gets
Speaker 2: drafted in Minnesota.
Speaker 5: I really thought I was going. I thought I was
Speaker 5: going to pick later.
Speaker 8: So when I when I went, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 8: I'm just happy to.
Speaker 5: Be drafted, like dream come true. But he and no
Speaker 5: one was sitting right next to name.
Speaker 2: Did you feel any pressure being that first draft pick
Speaker 2: after KG left for Boston.
Speaker 8: See that's the thing. KG hadn't left for Boston yet
Speaker 8: when I got drafted.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was that in between zone.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was like two weeks after, three weeks after
Speaker 8: I got drafted. So they probably never could use any
Speaker 8: of my interviews when I got drafted, because all I
Speaker 8: talked about was.
Speaker 5: Oh man, I can't wait to wait to get to Minnesota.
Speaker 5: I used to love growing up. I get that it
Speaker 5: ain't OKG.
Speaker 2: So it's like, okay, That's what happened when Sexton was
Speaker 2: drafted too, because he was like kept talking about Lebron
Speaker 2: and Lebron left two weeks later.
Speaker 8: And the craziest thing for me is we end up
Speaker 8: making the trade and we brought in a bunch of
Speaker 8: young guys, and we brought in Al Jefferson and they
Speaker 8: gave him a big contract. So it was like, Oh,
Speaker 8: we're going to go to Al Jefferson, like we're gonna play,
Speaker 8: We're gonna go into our big man. So that was
Speaker 8: the craziest adjustment for me in the NBA was I
Speaker 8: go from playing fast moving all the time to standing
Speaker 8: in the corner and throwing it in the post every possession.
Speaker 5: I'm I'm lucky I made it. As long as I'm made,
Speaker 5: that could have been end of me.
Speaker 1: You uh.
Speaker 2: I've always had relationships with friends where when they have
Speaker 2: a little bit of beef, I have beef with that
Speaker 2: person too. That's like kind of how I am as
Speaker 2: a friend. I know Joe Keem has had his uh,
Speaker 2: his tussles with KG. When KG came back to Minnesota
Speaker 2: and you were on that team, did you give him
Speaker 2: like an elbow on Joe Keane's behalf in practice.
Speaker 8: I don't think their beef is this series when he
Speaker 8: came back, but definitely I would take up for my
Speaker 8: guy if I could.
Speaker 9: It's like this one's for Noah, look for my guys.
Speaker 1: No doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 2: You talked about Zach Lavine being one of the most
Speaker 2: underrated players. Uh, and he's now having that breakout season.
Speaker 2: What do you think was about his game gave you
Speaker 2: that feeling.
Speaker 5: I had exactly when he was early when he was
Speaker 5: a rookie.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I used to go back to the night and
Speaker 8: work out and he would be in there just working
Speaker 8: on his game. And he always is always working hard,
Speaker 8: and I could tell like, this kid's gonna be really good.
Speaker 8: And just the last few years he was getting better
Speaker 8: and better, and I'm like, oh man, he's getting comfortable,
Speaker 8: he's about to he's gonna.
Speaker 5: Have a breakout year.
Speaker 8: And I just felt like this year with coach Donovan,
Speaker 8: my guy, coach Donovan going over there, he was gonna
Speaker 8: another level and.
Speaker 5: Hey, he proved me right.
Speaker 2: What's the difference between college coach Donovan and pro coach
Speaker 2: Donovan because you played for both not too much.
Speaker 8: Actually, you know, in college he's a little more intense
Speaker 8: because you treat guys a little different when they're you know,
Speaker 8: when you're in college, a little different. But he's always
Speaker 8: been a players coach, So that's why I kind of
Speaker 8: knew he would be a really good NBA coach because
Speaker 8: he was a players coach and he always puts his
Speaker 8: players into addition to see like, it's not about his system,
Speaker 8: it's about the guys he has and the way they play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of guys.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of coaches try to keep their
Speaker 2: system the same, regardless of the personalities and the personnel
Speaker 2: that they have. I think one of the greatest examples
Speaker 2: of that is happening right now with Steve Kerr. Like
Speaker 2: Steve Kerr wants to run things the way he wants
Speaker 2: to run them, no.
Speaker 1: Matter who's there, he's gonna do it his way. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just facts.
Speaker 2: But uh, did he did he call you the drunken
Speaker 2: dribbler while you were playing for him in OKC like
Speaker 2: he did when you were in Florida.
Speaker 8: Nah, that's funny. I got the drinking dribbling in college.
Speaker 8: But it's funny because they say I dribbled drunk, but
Speaker 8: I never lose the ball. So like I'm the best
Speaker 8: drunk driver ever, Joe, because they'll be like, yo, you
Speaker 8: can't dribble at all, but nobody ever takes it.
Speaker 5: He never lose. How is that possible.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just a little bit sloppy looking.
Speaker 8: That's awesy. I've been clubing my whole life, so it
Speaker 8: just looks fun.
Speaker 3: I'm going to call a little bit of cap on that.
Speaker 3: I know, you were balling way too hard to not
Speaker 3: go into practice hungovers.
Speaker 10: Sometimes this way we had a lot of fun and
Speaker 10: college go back and win it again.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, and if it's working, just keep you know,
Speaker 2: if it's not broke, don't fix it.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 2: I was mentioning your name to a Clipper fan who's
Speaker 2: a barista down the corner for me, and we talk
Speaker 2: about basketball a lot, and I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm talking to Corey Brewer later and he's like, Corey Brewer,
Speaker 2: he ruined our one chance at a title. As a
Speaker 2: Clipper fan, it was the year before the Warriors were
Speaker 2: really really good. It was what twenty fifteen, right, I
Speaker 2: think it was twenty fifteen, and.
Speaker 1: The Rockets were down.
Speaker 2: It was it was Clippers were up three to one,
Speaker 2: on the rockets, and then Corey Brewer came loose. I
Speaker 2: think someone else came loose to Josh Smith. Yeah, Josh
Speaker 2: Smith and Blake Griffin had some like crazy layup and
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, Corey Brewer and Josh Smith
Speaker 2: like took fire. I think you had nineteen points in
Speaker 2: game six and ten rebounds something crazy?
Speaker 5: Uh in the fourth quarter?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What what do you.
Speaker 2: Remember about that series with the Clippers? And do you
Speaker 2: think that that was their one chance that you guys stole?
Speaker 8: We I remember they were really good and nobody gave
Speaker 8: us a chance. They thought, you know, they're of three
Speaker 8: to one. It was over, and I remember being down twenty.
Speaker 8: In my mind, I'm like, all right, we're down twenty.
Speaker 8: We just got to make a run. And I remember
Speaker 8: getting a layout, then getting another layup and making the
Speaker 8: three and hafter that I was like, oh, it's on,
Speaker 8: I can't miss, and then Josh got hot.
Speaker 5: It was just a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: We talked a little bit about Zoe.
Speaker 2: I would be remiss to not ask about the fact
Speaker 2: that he is on and expiring a lot of chatter
Speaker 2: about whether he wants to stay in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: He just I think.
Speaker 2: Went on the record yesterday say, I do want to stay.
Speaker 2: I think he's playing some of his best basketball. I
Speaker 2: think him being off ball and being a shooter and
Speaker 2: playing defense versus being the playmaker. Now that Zion's being
Speaker 2: the playmaker makes him an even bigger valuable like asset
Speaker 2: for the for the team.
Speaker 1: Do you think he.
Speaker 2: Has played himself into a large role, like do you
Speaker 2: do you see him sticking around after this year?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 8: Sure, I play You're gonna figure around because he likes
Speaker 8: the Simmons and he likes it here. He loves New Orleans. Well,
Speaker 8: he wants to be here, so I thought you'll be here.
Speaker 1: I think New Orleans is an underrated city.
Speaker 2: It's a We talked about it being tough to build
Speaker 2: a brand in New Orleans because it's a football city.
Speaker 2: But I love it there from a music and food perspective.
Speaker 2: It's one of my favorite places in the country.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it's a great city. But if you're winning,
Speaker 5: it doesn't matter what mark you and we just got
Speaker 5: to win, right. Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, as long as you're really good, you can make
Speaker 3: a mark. You can make a Yeah, you can make
Speaker 3: that for yourself wherever you go. And yeah, I love
Speaker 3: New Orleans too.
Speaker 5: I would.
Speaker 3: I went to l s U from there, great great place.
Speaker 1: Go Ducks.
Speaker 3: Both you teams, y'all got us. Y'all got us when
Speaker 3: you were there. It's fine. The John Brady are y'all
Speaker 3: ended the John Brady era. Actually, I think I think
Speaker 3: that was his last game in the tournament.
Speaker 1: Corey, Corey, thank you so much for coming on the show.
Speaker 1: It's been a blast. I'm so glad that you remember
Speaker 1: me and my gigantic hops.
Speaker 2: Tell your friends that there is a barstool employee with
Speaker 2: tremendous hops, like if she was a foot taller, she'd
Speaker 2: be in the w N b ah.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much. Do you have anything else, Marty? Are
Speaker 1: we gucci?
Speaker 3: Uh No, I think we're good. Just wanted to let
Speaker 3: you know we might be at the game in Brooklyn
Speaker 3: at some point, so my uh might come say.
Speaker 2: Hey, Yeah, we'll come say hi if we do. Actually,
Speaker 2: don't don't be shady though we do. Don't be like,
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