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Speaker 2: The volume.

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Speaker 3: Hi, Rory, we are back for another episode of Don't

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Speaker 3: Know Ball? Yes you know show that we have now

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Speaker 3: to talk to some people that know a lot about ball.

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Speaker 3: And today it's a special day because this is our

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Speaker 3: first first this is our first.

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Speaker 4: Number one overall.

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Speaker 3: Yeah selection in his draft, that is true. So with

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Speaker 3: the first pick in the two thousand and four NBA draft,

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Speaker 3: Rory Orlando Magic selected somebody out of high school who

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Speaker 3: had a lot of promise, a lot of upside. I

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Speaker 3: think ended his career being probably one of the most

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Speaker 3: underrated big men that I've ever seen play the game.

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Speaker 3: Definitely revolutionized the position one the most athletic, one of

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Speaker 3: the most athletic big men we've ever seen in the NBA,

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Speaker 3: and I probably have more respect for him today now

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Speaker 3: I got a chance to stand next to him.

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Speaker 4: He's not as told as I thought he was, So now.

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Speaker 3: I got even more respectful him because it's niggas on

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Speaker 3: the perimeter that's toller than him, and they did they

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Speaker 3: couldn't do what he did.

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Speaker 2: So we are joined today by Dwight. How with Dwight?

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Speaker 2: How you feeling that? Listen man, so he will.

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Speaker 5: When he got off the elevator, he was like, nah,

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Speaker 5: he's kind of small.

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Speaker 3: You know what it is when you no, no, no,

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Speaker 3: definitely not saying that, but you know what it is, Dwight.

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Speaker 3: When you and I stand next to, you know, and

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Speaker 3: hanging out with KD, and I'm stand next to KD,

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Speaker 3: it's like, damn, I would think that Dwight is much

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Speaker 2: Durant, Yeah, KDS seven feet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, But that's what I'm saying a lot of people

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Speaker 3: don't know that, right, But on the court, because of aesthetically,

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Speaker 3: you just look like.

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Speaker 2: Look like I was a set It's crazy.

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Speaker 6: When I played for the Lakers and Antoine Jamison was

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Speaker 2: He was like, bro, you really ain't seven feet.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you like six eight for real, That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 6: Said what you mean? He said, because pal seven to

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Speaker 6: one and he killing you right now. I was like, bro,

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Speaker 6: it's just when I get on the court, I look talk.

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Speaker 6: I'm always jumping touching the Yeah, but it's crazy, like, yeah,

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Speaker 6: I was one of the shortest centers to play.

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Speaker 4: I mean one of the shortest. Me saying that is crazy.

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Speaker 3: But the way you played the position though, Dwight, Now

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Speaker 3: we know me particularly speaking, I saw you in high school.

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Speaker 3: I obviously knew the talent was there. Everybody knew you

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Speaker 3: would be the number one overall pick. But that position,

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Speaker 3: and I think that time, the center position was kind

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Speaker 6: It's crazy because when I got to the team, I

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Speaker 3: don't think you really came out the gates like slow.

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Speaker 3: You had like a it was just this period I did,

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Speaker 6: Every day I was doing this, waking up at four o'clock,

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Speaker 6: Willis was the one who woke me up. I tried

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Speaker 6: to box him out one day. Chicken Wayne. Yeah, he

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Speaker 6: Chicken Wayne my arm and he held it down, and

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Speaker 6: I said after that, I will not let nobody ever

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Speaker 6: AAU was a different type of game that we came from.

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Speaker 6: back then. So you know, with me coming in number

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Speaker 6: So now it's like, I gotta come back with a plan,

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Speaker 5: What was the media side like that, because I mean

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Speaker 5: even you know, high school, when did they cut that off?

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Speaker 7: The next year, yes, I thought. So it was a

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Speaker 5: And outside of being the number one pick, being a

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Speaker 7: Outside of dealing with grown ass men in the paint?

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Speaker 6: Man, I didn't know what I was dealing with. I

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Speaker 6: didn't know what was going on because it's like all

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Speaker 6: do what I'm doing with basketball? Now we're mixing it

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Speaker 2: That I knew.

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Speaker 6: Now I go from this small school to the big world.

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Speaker 6: I didn't know noneing about this. So it was a

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Speaker 2: Man, we didn't know how to deal with it coming in.

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Speaker 6: I didn't have to deal with any negativity like that

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Speaker 7: Who pissed you off the most?

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Speaker 5: In the media at that time, I mean, it wasn't

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Speaker 6: It was probably like the Skip baylesss like I would say,

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Speaker 6: That's how I was thinking back then. Yeah, he always

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Speaker 6: back in the day it started what we call with

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Speaker 6: everybody having an opinion. Yeah, staff, somebody who's never did this, like,

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Speaker 3: Respect it more coming from God because I like what

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Speaker 3: job with it as well. I think I caught one

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Speaker 3: and I was like, well, Dwight, You've always been well spoken,

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Speaker 3: but it just seems more natural to have guys that

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Speaker 3: is that something that you had to learn later on, Like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: these guys, they're just speaking about it, so I can't

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Speaker 4: They just doing their job.

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Speaker 6: It's hard not to because people on the outside teams

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Speaker 6: put them in a position like, is this true?

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Speaker 6: Player like months, Yeah, that's how we're taking it because

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Speaker 6: it's like, Yo, I'm really out here grinding every single day,

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Speaker 6: and now you're telling people I'm gonna castle in the

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Speaker 2: I'm lazy.

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Speaker 6: Y'all don't want hard, Like you can't do that. That's

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Speaker 2: How they played.

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Speaker 3: So now you have the career that you have obviously

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Speaker 3: But personally, how did you take that? Like when you

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Speaker 6: Was pissed off. Yeah, yeah, I was. I was like, man,

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Speaker 4: Okay, that's the issue I had with it.

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Speaker 3: I'm like some of these guys, I get it you

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Speaker 6: So I was very pissed off, and I was like, man,

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Speaker 2: Have my resume and they're on it. That's a fact.

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Speaker 6: But as it got closer to when they I think

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it will be off for me to name sixty five.

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Speaker 6: So for that to happen, or seventy six sixty players,

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Speaker 6: sixty five players left, whatever, for that to happen, I'm like, yo,

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Speaker 6: I'm not gonna make it. So watch it on TV.

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Speaker 5: Like you'd obviously know about NBA politics better than most

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Speaker 7: Do you think there's a reason why you were left off?

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Speaker 5: Was it politics as usual? Is there a specific person

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Speaker 6: That Man, that's a tough one. Man, I don't want

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Speaker 8: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: It's just that the numbers don't add up, and it

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Speaker 2: It has nothing talk about the real story.

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Speaker 6: Let's put it put in the film and my stats

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so I'll ask for this list thing because this

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Speaker 5: were debating like, all right, yeah, there's legends on this list,

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Speaker 5: Do you think that also lends itself to basketball like yeah, like, yeah,

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Speaker 5: Like you shouldn't even be on this top seventy five.

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Speaker 2: It was somebody on there. What was his.

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Speaker 5: Name's white and his name was Bob Coosey.

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Speaker 2: That's his name.

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Speaker 6: I play with him on two K well Live when

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Speaker 6: I was in high school. Was better than him. No way,

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Speaker 6: I'm not talking, but his name, bro, there's no way

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Speaker 3: No, I listen, there's more names than that on that

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Speaker 3: I don't see it, like not because again Orlando Magic,

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Speaker 4: I went to games with the guard. I went to

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Speaker 3: Like when those teams came into the city, there was

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Speaker 4: It was Jammy you know those other guys.

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Speaker 3: But it was like what y'all gonna do about him

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Speaker 2: Had that feeling.

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Speaker 6: I know it's not I just know it because I man,

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Speaker 3: Mad he's saying it. I was like, man, yeah, Van Gunner,

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Speaker 2: But they who are these people that actually voted?

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Speaker 3: And how did they get the right to vote for

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Speaker 2: I'm saying, we have talked.

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Speaker 6: They showed the list, but it's like, how are these

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Speaker 2: What makes it? I think one of the people was

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Speaker 6: Have the right to vote for who should be top

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Speaker 6: players that I would say maybe wasn't superstars or all

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Speaker 6: No disrespecting nobody, but like they're the ones that should

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 7: They knew how tough it was to go against that person.

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Speaker 5: And it's funny Peg and Maul we're having a conversation

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Speaker 5: off Mike before you came here that I thought it

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Speaker 5: it's going to be the way I view Wilt Chamberlain,

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Speaker 5: Like I've heard about it, but I don't fucking know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like, and that's my favorite player, so Dann well, yeah, okay.

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Speaker 5: But we're just getting that now, how could they vote

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Speaker 7: How do you even vote for that?

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Speaker 6: Because the name it's like for this, a lot of

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Speaker 7: Which is true.

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Speaker 5: But also that goes with branding and Shaq continuing to

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Speaker 7: Like his name is continue on.

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Speaker 3: But and y'all got YouTube though YouTube Shack, And then

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Speaker 5: I really don't want Shack on that side. But I'm

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Speaker 4: I sat down in front of the TV plenty of

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Speaker 7: Yeah, but we have a ten year difference.

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Speaker 3: You like nothing nothing like it, the a the greatest ever.

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Speaker 3: I don't Dwight, don't even look at that. Who your

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Speaker 4: Old time?

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Speaker 6: Michael Jordans, don't say that the goat gotta be Kareem.

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Speaker 4: Okay, but you and I know why you're saying that.

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Speaker 3: You're talking about just as far as basketball career, high school,

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Speaker 4: I get, and I'm not strict. I'm not mad at that.

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Speaker 4: I'm not mad at that.

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Speaker 3: But Michael Jordan, what he did, what he came in

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Speaker 3: are supposed to be more athletic, y'all supposed to have

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Speaker 3: more moves, y'all supposed to all these opportunities to score

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Speaker 2: Get close because it's harder than eighty four.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's harder to score now.

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Speaker 6: If guys are more athletic, they're stronger, they jump higher,

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Speaker 6: they're faster on offense. What about the guys on defense,

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Speaker 6: it's the same thing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but I don't think that.

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Speaker 3: Again, in this why we had to show, I don't

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Speaker 2: That's true because it was so let alone.

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Speaker 7: I would say the era he played in.

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Speaker 4: No, right now he would have a way more Time's

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Speaker 7: That's what I'm saying. What easier for iverson the score

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Speaker 8: Well?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's I said.

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Speaker 7: This is one example.

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Speaker 3: If you were to drop Michael Jordan and this, like

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Speaker 3: I always say this, no, but listen, this.

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Speaker 2: Is this is what I say. I say that.

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Speaker 3: If Steph Curry had the ego of Michael Jordan, just

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Speaker 2: But what which what kind of ego? What do you mean?

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Speaker 3: Because I say that because Steph is such a passive guy,

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Speaker 4: Just to be like I don't like he looked at me.

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Speaker 6: That's the eraror that we played in. I mean, that's

441
00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:04,080
Speaker 6: the ara that by Michael Jordan. Like they had to

442
00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:06,920
Speaker 6: find an issue. Remember it was no friends back then.

443
00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,359
Speaker 6: People like they hated each other, but they used to

444
00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:13,359
Speaker 6: get mad at us for hanging out with each other, like,

445
00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,760
Speaker 6: why you angle him, that's the enemy. It's like, no,

446
00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,800
Speaker 6: we're just hooping against each other. We're supposed to be cool. Yeah,

447
00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:22,120
Speaker 6: I think that that was just the era. Because oh

448
00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:24,040
Speaker 6: I was looking at some stats. They said that Michael

449
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,119
Speaker 6: Jordan's they said he had a forty eight inch vert.

450
00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,879
Speaker 6: That's ridiculous. You don't believe it, that's hard to believe.

451
00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:34,359
Speaker 4: But why you don't believe that, because.

452
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Speaker 6: I mean, he would be touching the top of the

453
00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:39,120
Speaker 6: whole backwards easy forty eight.

454
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:41,560
Speaker 5: He did the measurements at the dunk contest. We watched

455
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Speaker 5: who you Me? Yeah, you know what I'm saying, Michael

456
00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,720
Speaker 5: Jordan's I know what I'm saying. You know the exact measurements.

457
00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:49,480
Speaker 4: At the top of the back.

458
00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,600
Speaker 3: Well, I think that's we know it's exaggerated, a forty

459
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,639
Speaker 3: in and we know it's exaggerated. But if you go

460
00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:58,040
Speaker 3: back and look at tapes of Michael coming out of

461
00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:03,040
Speaker 3: North Carolina, just look physically the way he looked against

462
00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:04,160
Speaker 3: everybody else.

463
00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:06,800
Speaker 6: Because everybody else didn't have it, But now everybody else

464
00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:08,480
Speaker 6: got all those same things.

465
00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:09,119
Speaker 2: That's why I'm.

466
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,600
Speaker 3: Still don't look like that because it don't because back

467
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:13,359
Speaker 3: then it was a whole different game.

468
00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:15,560
Speaker 2: Like now I'm trying to learn how.

469
00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:17,439
Speaker 6: To do the moves that the youngest is doing, like

470
00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:20,320
Speaker 6: the whole euro steps, all these different moves, like the

471
00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:23,600
Speaker 6: going side step and coming back and catching his shooting

472
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:25,720
Speaker 6: and then take another side step.

473
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 7: The learning how to travel travel.

474
00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:30,680
Speaker 2: Okay, but that's just the new age basketball. It's AI.

475
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:38,560
Speaker 9: This is AI basketball, That's what I'm saying, y'all gotta get.

476
00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:40,639
Speaker 3: I'm watching Haler burtont step. He picked up his dribble

477
00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:44,520
Speaker 3: in the paint. He's at the three, like, and it's

478
00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:45,080
Speaker 3: no whinsle.

479
00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,200
Speaker 4: I'm like, but.

480
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 6: That's how it is now, Like everything is. It's an

481
00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:54,400
Speaker 6: upgraded system, like the way the players were back then.

482
00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:57,480
Speaker 6: If they would have had the same type of train

483
00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,199
Speaker 6: and the same type of facilities, they would have been

484
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 6: able to do all this stuff that's being done now.

485
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 6: But they was only going off what they had, which

486
00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,280
Speaker 6: is simpler, which made the game easier. So to us,

487
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:11,960
Speaker 6: why Mike looks so cold because he won two dribbles

488
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 6: into everything? That's what we like, we want. Why you

489
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:17,960
Speaker 6: gotta take all them jewels and do all that right

490
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,280
Speaker 6: to it? Yeah, but that's the era that we grew

491
00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:22,359
Speaker 6: up in. But now we're looking at the era where

492
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 6: they taking angle Somebody take this angle away because he's

493
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,119
Speaker 6: strong enough and he can get you to take that

494
00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 6: angle away. Now you gotta find another way to get

495
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:33,400
Speaker 6: to another angle. So it's just it's a different ball game.

496
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,159
Speaker 3: Where's Mike at on your all time list? Because I

497
00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 3: gotta be two or three. I just have Fareem at

498
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:40,440
Speaker 3: one because.

499
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Speaker 2: I respect that if you would have had him going

500
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 2: five out of my God, Dwight, we can't, No, you can't.

501
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,120
Speaker 2: But Kareem is just like, I'm not mad at that.

502
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,720
Speaker 3: I'm never mad at nobody has Karemabard number one points.

503
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:58,359
Speaker 6: He got that total thirty nine points, thirty eight shout

504
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:00,720
Speaker 6: some craser all too.

505
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 2: They're saying how hard that is and only had one shot? Yeah,

506
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 2: I get it.

507
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 4: So he dominated.

508
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 3: He he dominated every level of basketball without a doubt.

509
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:15,720
Speaker 6: I'm never arguing. And he did it with two names. Yeah,

510
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 6: he might be the coldest. There ain't no player colder them.

511
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,680
Speaker 6: He did it, as lou Al said that Eddie with

512
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 6: Bruce Lee. Real ass and what's.

513
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,320
Speaker 7: Up thirty eight thousand points?

514
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what he was at. It's crazy.

515
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:34,639
Speaker 5: I mean, do you think with how the league is,

516
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,960
Speaker 5: it's better for the league moving forward, like with it

517
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:42,760
Speaker 5: less physicality, people being your AAU style friends, and you

518
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 5: think it's better.

519
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 2: Well, I just think that.

520
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,919
Speaker 6: See, the game is global and they want more scoring,

521
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:53,280
Speaker 6: they want more entertainment. The world we live in, people

522
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:57,639
Speaker 6: get so like distracted fast. They have to do do

523
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,880
Speaker 6: things to keep it entertaining, and so I think it's

524
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 6: in a great position.

525
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 2: The only thing I.

526
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 6: See is it's oversaturated with talent, and that it's not

527
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 6: enough teams, it's not enough all star spots, it's not stuff,

528
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,360
Speaker 6: it's not enough money to go around for all these players,

529
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 6: because they're going to continue to get better. And the

530
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 6: only thing for the players I want them to start

531
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,399
Speaker 6: doing more is probably just playing more pickup the younger

532
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 6: players trying to get to the league, because.

533
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 4: Everybody got one workout, yeah.

534
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 3: One one way to play basketball.

535
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:37,120
Speaker 10: Yeah.

536
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 6: Once you go once and go back to that, then

537
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,119
Speaker 6: the game itself is going to regain the love and

538
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,119
Speaker 6: the passion that it used to have. Just think about

539
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:47,640
Speaker 6: how back in the day it's just us hooping, like

540
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 6: it just felt so good to get out there and hoop.

541
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 6: You ain't got no money involved. Now the players, now

542
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,199
Speaker 6: they got to worry about making sure they when they

543
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,640
Speaker 6: call them the parlayd all that. Like people get mad

544
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,640
Speaker 6: about if somebody don't get enough rebounds.

545
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:03,199
Speaker 2: Or score enough points.

546
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 6: That could put a lot of pressure on these young guys,

547
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,159
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. So then people wasting their

548
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,919
Speaker 6: money doing it. Say people gonna bet do what they do, They're.

549
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 2: Going to always do that.

550
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, But how did you feel about the whole nil,

551
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 3: Like do you feel like that's hurting college basketball?

552
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:22,159
Speaker 4: Or how do you feel about the transfer portal?

553
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 3: Like if Dwight Howard in high school had those options

554
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 3: in front of him, how does that look for Dwighton going.

555
00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:31,879
Speaker 6: To the league only because I wasn't going to the

556
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 6: league for money. I wanted to go to the league

557
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 6: just because I wanted to be one of the greatest

558
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 6: to ever play. That was my goal, wasn't. Man, I

559
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,879
Speaker 6: gotta get some money so I could live. I always

560
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 6: felt like God was going to provide for me if

561
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:50,880
Speaker 6: I use my gifts properly. So I think the NIL

562
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,399
Speaker 6: can be a great thing and also it could be

563
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 6: a bad thing depending on how people use it. You know,

564
00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:59,439
Speaker 6: a lot of families would want to use it to

565
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 6: take get them get themselves out of a situation.

566
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 2: But also at the same time.

567
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,439
Speaker 6: What if you don't know what to do with this

568
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 6: money and this fame, and you're giving up your name,

569
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 6: image and likeness, like and everybody's doing that now, I

570
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,919
Speaker 6: don't think that's that part is a great thing for

571
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:21,199
Speaker 6: these young athletes to give up your name, image and likeness.

572
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 2: That's who you are.

573
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 6: And if you're doing it at a young age, you

574
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, it's like you you won't stop.

575
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,919
Speaker 6: You have to keep feeding that beast. Oh man, I

576
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 6: gotta come back. My name, image of likeness is on

577
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 6: the line, and that's a lot to give up, you

578
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying.

579
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 2: So that's the only part I don't.

580
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:44,160
Speaker 5: I mean, but if hypothetically, if like you know, KG

581
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 5: and Kobe didn't prove that you could be successful right

582
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:49,400
Speaker 5: out of high school, because I mean, Bron hadn't really

583
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:50,679
Speaker 5: been proven at that point.

584
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 7: Do you still Bron is what a year?

585
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 9: Yeah?

586
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 2: What he right after me, before me.

587
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 5: Prove I'm talking about at that KG and Kobe, we

588
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,160
Speaker 5: knew you'd come out of high school and be a superstar,

589
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:05,400
Speaker 5: bron Rookie the Year.

590
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 7: Great, but that was one year. Do you think you

591
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 7: still wouldn't have taken that time to develop in college?

592
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 2: College?

593
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 7: Maybe one or two years?

594
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 2: How Like, Okay, this is what I told my mom.

595
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 6: I said, people go to college to learn how to

596
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,639
Speaker 6: make money and whatever it is that they're trying to

597
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:23,119
Speaker 6: make money.

598
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 2: And this is what the NBA is for me.

599
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 6: I'm making money in the thing that I want to do,

600
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 6: but I'm not doing it for money. But guess what

601
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 6: if I could play this game every day and get

602
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:36,360
Speaker 6: paid for it, why not do that?

603
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:37,199
Speaker 2: You know?

604
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 6: So she said, you're right, son, this is what you

605
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 6: wanted to do, So you go ahead and be the

606
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 6: greatest that you could be.

607
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 5: What were some of those conversations like with J R.

608
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 5: Smith Sebastian Telfair at the McDonald's.

609
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 2: Just like they knew what I was gonna do. We

610
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 2: know what you're gonna do before you're going.

611
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 8: To the league.

612
00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 2: You better, you better go to the league.

613
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 6: And I'm like, y'all right, Like if I got a

614
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 6: chance to go top if you get a chance to

615
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 6: go top three in the NBA draft, you would be a.

616
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 2: Food to go to college.

617
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 3: Knew you was going one though, Yes, But I'm just

618
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 3: saying for anybody in general, like if you get a

619
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 3: chance to go top three, if you know you can

620
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 3: go number one, come on now, Yeah, that'd be like

621
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 3: knowing that you got a box behind this door that's

622
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 3: one hundred million dollars and.

623
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 6: Everybody in the world know it. And you say, you

624
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 6: know what, I'm gonna go to college and go get earn.

625
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 5: You just earned it just waging with stuff. I mean,

626
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 5: even though I want no beef with Kwame Brown at all,

627
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 5: I don't want to go back and forth on YouTube,

628
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 5: but you know that always be in the back of

629
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 5: my mind too. But what did he do at that point?

630
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 7: What year was the old one?

631
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 2: He didn't do anything wrong, Like see, I.

632
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 7: Agree it's a weird system with wizards.

633
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 6: And not even that like he made it out the

634
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 6: rat race.

635
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

636
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 6: That's how you can't take it like, man, he didn't

637
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 6: have an awesome career. He did played over ten years

638
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 6: in the NBA. The average career in the NBA is

639
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 6: three to four years, folks. So for somebody to go

640
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 6: past that, now, maybe he didn't meet everyone outside of

641
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 6: himselfs expectations because they had expectations for him, but he

642
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 6: met his He made it to the league. That's probably

643
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 6: what's what his wife was, I gotta make it to

644
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 6: the league. Everybody had their different reasons. Everybody loved ball

645
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 6: for different reasons, you know what I'm saying. So you

646
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 6: know I can't fault him for that. Yeah, And just

647
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 6: think about this. You coming into a league and your

648
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 6: favorite player is on your team and it's Michael Jordan,

649
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 6: and like he's Michael Jordan. You're eighteen, Like that's a

650
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 6: lot on you. And then for this person to be

651
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 6: on you so heavy you're not understanding.

652
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 4: That's a lot.

653
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 3: I never really like took a second and thought about

654
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 3: just that, Like you grew up looking at this figure

655
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 3: that is like this is like one and now he's

656
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 3: mad at me because I dropped the pass he just

657
00:30:58,440 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 3: threw to me.

658
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 2: And it's like, Nigga, I'm watching the greatest player ever.

659
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 4: I'm just staring at him, like Michael Jordan just passed me.

660
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 5: And even I was young, but I remember the media

661
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 5: like this is Jordan hand picked this draft pick. Even

662
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 5: though he's on the team, Jordan is drafting him. They

663
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 5: were doing specially. I feel like he went to Jordan's

664
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 5: like house in North Carolina, like they made.

665
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 6: That probably were so inspired, and then he probably felt

666
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 6: shitting on right after that because he was like, damn, man,

667
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 6: I fucked up with Michael Jordan. That could probably sting

668
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 6: a lot as a.

669
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 2: What is that pressure though, Like knowing that you're the

670
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 2: number one pick? Like, what is that for me?

671
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 3: It's like it's just a different glow you got in

672
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 3: the green room when everybody know you're going number one.

673
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 6: I was afraid if I was gonna go number one

674
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 6: and number two for a second, and then I remember

675
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 6: one of the guys said, hey, I actually wasn't one

676
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 6: of the players.

677
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.

678
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 6: It's my agent, Aaron Goodwhen he said Dwight Sin's they

679
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 6: call your name, you your mama, hugging the kids, taking

680
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 6: pop's hand, you get ready to smile.

681
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 2: So I said, oh, that mean I'm going number one.

682
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 6: As soon as he said that could when the green room,

683
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 6: and I think they do the green room a little

684
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 6: different now how it goes, but man, back then it

685
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 6: was a little it was treacherous. It was like we're

686
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 6: in the garden, you know, the fans is everywhere. I

687
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 6: think before they had all of us outside. It was

688
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 6: a great experience, man, But being eighteen looking back on it,

689
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 6: it was a whirlwind. It happened so fast, like one

690
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 6: day I wake up, I'm in this you know, sixteen

691
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,959
Speaker 6: student class and my senior class school is super small.

692
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 6: Next day I'm getting drafted into the NBA. All my

693
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 6: dreams come true. Like, man, this is this is sick.

694
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, So let's talk about the two thousand and non season.

695
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 3: So the Lando Magic y'all beat Lebron the Calves to

696
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 3: go to the finals.

697
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 4: What was that?

698
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 2: You had the close out game again, so you had

699
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 2: a crazy game think.

700
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 3: Forty one in nineteen, a light double up white through

701
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 3: that out. They said, you know he's and he's still

702
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:13,719
Speaker 3: remember forty one nineteen. That was right there at the office.

703
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 3: Forty and nineteen is absolutely but against that team, against

704
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 3: that player in that moment to go to the finals,

705
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,959
Speaker 3: like the what do you as a player take us

706
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 3: in that moment where you feeling in the zone like, oh,

707
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 3: I'm having one of those games. This is one of

708
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 3: those like what is that? How do you control that emotion?

709
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 2: You can't.

710
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:41,239
Speaker 6: It's just like one you feel everything that's going on

711
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 6: from the crowd because we're in Orlando, so the crowd

712
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 6: is hyped because this is the furthest we've been in

713
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 6: a long time, and you can feel that the intensity.

714
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 6: Everybody's so hype, and it's like the only thing on

715
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 6: our minds is they've been talking about this Cleveland Laker matchup.

716
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, they wanted it bad. They wanted it so bad.

717
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 6: We seeing all this stuff on TV, the com marshalls,

718
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 6: everybody's just counting us out, and that just brought out

719
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,840
Speaker 6: so much anger that it was like, we are finna

720
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 6: destroy Cleveland, whatever it takes. We're gonna send them home

721
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 6: mad that they they from playing us. And that last

722
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 6: game was like a statement like, nah, y'all gonna remember

723
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,720
Speaker 6: Orlando Magic. Everybody don't remember we the team that stopped

724
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 6: Lebron and Kobe from going to the.

725
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 3: Fut That series was still that that time really was

726
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 3: like some of the best baasketball that I think that

727
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 3: we had, the matchups, the individual players, the teams.

728
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 4: When did it start to click for y'all?

729
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 3: Though that obviously, you know, you felt like everybody was

730
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 3: counting y'all out and things like that, But when did

731
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 3: it really start to click like, oh shit, we got

732
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 3: a legit shot.

733
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 6: Well really that how we started out that whole that

734
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 6: whole season when not playoffs. We started out against Philly

735
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 6: and we were we were down. I think we had

736
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,320
Speaker 6: to go to game six. We lost the first game.

737
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 6: Fans went crazy owners at home, How y'all make it

738
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 6: this far? Y'all best team and y'all lose the first game?

739
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 6: They going crazy owners. So I guess suspended game six.

740
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 2: We're already up. We just needed one more game.

741
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 6: And I'm like, man, we can't go to no game

742
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 6: seven because anything can happen.

743
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 2: But I'm suspended. I'm tripping. So we end up winning

744
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 2: a game.

745
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,879
Speaker 6: I think we played Boston the next round and then

746
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 6: we play Cleveland.

747
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 2: Boston's a battle in itself.

748
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 6: Yeah, So after beating Philly and Boston, we felt like

749
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 6: we had the upper hand on Cleveland all year and

750
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 6: we knew about why the town of game come. We

751
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 6: had a plan for Lebron, We had a plan for Galskins,

752
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:01,839
Speaker 6: anybody on the court. We had a plan for it

753
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 6: and we wanted to dominate them, and I think we

754
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 6: did that.

755
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 4: Did you have.

756
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 3: Any moments in playing the calves where you're looking at

757
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 3: Lebron and what they're doing, Like damn, Like he's really

758
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,280
Speaker 3: on a different level as far as just pure athleticism

759
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 3: because I think that series, like Bron didn't show one

760
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 3: of his best playoff series that y'all just beat them,

761
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,840
Speaker 3: But like he played at a high level.

762
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 2: Almost every game. He had a great game.

763
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:33,880
Speaker 3: Like you never looked across the court and was like,

764
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:36,240
Speaker 3: how the fuck is he still?

765
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 2: Like we can't stop and we can't.

766
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 6: N We was in a mold. I didn't see him.

767
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 6: I just saw the trophy. He was in a way.

768
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 6: I was looking at the trophy like, man, he is

769
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 6: in the way. He is a person and this team

770
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 6: is in our way. Like yeah, he got to go.

771
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 6: He got to go.

772
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 9: Yeah.

773
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 3: So the next round, y'all get the organization that's probably

774
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 3: the most prestigious organization and definitely in basketball, maybe in sports.

775
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 4: But what is that feeling that we got La? We

776
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 4: got the Lakers got told.

777
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 2: I was like, this is it.

778
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 6: We're playing against the Lakers in the finals. The magic

779
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 6: Orlando was going. We saw Orlando flags all over Orlando.

780
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:23,799
Speaker 6: The crowd, the fans is going crazy. I'm like this

781
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 6: at number two, you know what I'm saying that it

782
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,760
Speaker 6: was At first, everybody was talking about this was Mickey

783
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 6: mouse Town. They wasn't like, they wasn't calling us Orlando magic,

784
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 6: calling us Orlando tragic. So for us to be go

785
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:41,280
Speaker 6: from to go from that to being in the finals, man,

786
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 6: that's feeling in the world. To beat the Calves and

787
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 6: then now playing the Lakers. The games was crazy.

788
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 7: And let's not act like Boston was a trash.

789
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 6: Boston wasn't a trash team. So we went through hell

790
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 6: to get to By the time we got to the Lakers,

791
00:37:58,080 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 6: we had.

792
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:00,040
Speaker 2: No more Interget.

793
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 7: Look at all the teams you had to go through

794
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 7: just to get to Kobe.

795
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, just to get to the big balls. You ever

796
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 2: played like a video game?

797
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,240
Speaker 9: I got one life left and now you're playing against

798
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 9: he got hold of he got I like, bro, this

799
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:16,879
Speaker 9: is not fair.

800
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 2: He got three seven footers. Oh my god, Oh my god.

801
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 3: You had now when you got to the finals, Uh yeah, yeah, yeah,

802
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 3: you're you're running mate.

803
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 2: Jamia was hurt, yes, but skip skip.

804
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 6: No, no skip and Anthony started the whole playoffs and

805
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 6: it was hurt up until the finals.

806
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:42,399
Speaker 8: Right.

807
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,400
Speaker 2: I always feel like that was a bad call on

808
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 2: Van Gundy.

809
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 6: We can't blame Van Gundy and I and I and

810
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:52,319
Speaker 6: I and you know a lot of times we tried

811
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 6: to blame Van Gunny because he was the head coach,

812
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 6: but we all agreed to let to have Jamir play,

813
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 6: to for jami to come back and play because he

814
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,799
Speaker 6: wanted them to play. It's not like we didn't, Yeah,

815
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 6: but I think it kind of messed up the chemistry

816
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 6: between Anthony and Skip. Okay, that kind of putting them

817
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 6: in a place like, man, we got y'all here, and

818
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 6: obviously we rock with Jamir, but Man, me and Skipped

819
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 6: did our jobs. So looking back on it, like I

820
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 6: can understand why coach and all of us wanted Jamiir

821
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 6: back because we thinking like at the time, like man,

822
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 6: we finally got him back.

823
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:32,359
Speaker 2: Now it's it's go time.

824
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:36,359
Speaker 6: But chemistry and time in is super important. Everything has

825
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,760
Speaker 6: to be a line in order to win those championships.

826
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 6: And that was our one time, that was that was

827
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 6: our one shot we got.

828
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 3: We got somebody that wanted to call in and just

829
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,720
Speaker 3: talk to you. I told me was coming in today.

830
00:39:52,160 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 10: Oh oh my god, oh my god.

831
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 2: Yo.

832
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 3: We were just talking about we were just talking about

833
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 3: the old non finals and uh, Dwight was saying. Dwight

834
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 3: was saying Trev Trav couldn't guard. It was like he

835
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 3: kept calling for a switch switch.

836
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 6: One thing I will say about Trail is he is

837
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:22,479
Speaker 6: one of the most solid people in the world. Brother,

838
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:26,800
Speaker 6: outside of whatever's going on on the with basketball, he

839
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 6: is one of the most solid and on the court

840
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 6: we've been We've been battling each other since we was

841
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 6: some JITs. Yeah, and it's crazy to see how long

842
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 6: your dreads got mine ain't grown. Send the White Little Moses, bro,

843
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 6: I saw the God Little.

844
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 8: Jesus when you started writing at the same time.

845
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 6: Yeah, we started at the same time. I learned from you.

846
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 2: Why yeah, man.

847
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,360
Speaker 3: So we were just talking about the old nine, the

848
00:40:56,440 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 3: old non finals, trav. Uh. When did y'all feel when

849
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:03,839
Speaker 3: y'all got because obviously Dwight was saying everybody wanted La

850
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 3: Cleveland to see. Obviously Kobe and Braun d dwighten them

851
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 3: sent them packing. When dwighten them sent broad in a packing,

852
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 3: did you feel like, oh, we got this, this is

853
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 3: easy walking through them, or did y'all feel like, damn, man,

854
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:19,919
Speaker 3: we got to go out there and beat this big

855
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 3: shoulder dude?

856
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 4: And Jamie and Nelson and up.

857
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:24,280
Speaker 8: Man.

858
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 10: First off, personally, for me, I wanted to play them

859
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 10: so bad. So I knew, like if they won, like

860
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:34,879
Speaker 10: it would be like the energy of like just the

861
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 10: world and the universe just coming back on the ass

862
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 10: if we played them, Yeah, you know, like they traded me,

863
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:47,359
Speaker 10: Orlando traded me from uh well, I got traded from

864
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 10: there to Lam you know, so I knew their whole

865
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:56,360
Speaker 10: everything that they did. I knew what pissed some of

866
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 10: the players off. I knew what got under Dwight skin.

867
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 10: I knew how to agitate them. So like the things

868
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 10: that I would share about what they did, you know,

869
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 10: I would tell my team.

870
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:12,280
Speaker 2: Yeah.

871
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 10: So yeah, I felt like we had the advantage in

872
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:16,479
Speaker 10: a way.

873
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:21,320
Speaker 3: Well Dwight, Dwight, he said that he didn't because I

874
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,719
Speaker 3: kind of blamed. I still I respect what Dwight said.

875
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 3: All of them agreed to have Jammiya come back and play,

876
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 3: But I felt like with Skip and Anthony Johnson was doing,

877
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 3: I think that that kind of messed up the chemistry.

878
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 3: Did y'all game plan for skipping a j and liked

879
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 3: WinCE Jimmy came back, Like what was the switch that

880
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 3: y'all made in the locker room.

881
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 10: It's crazy because I think Mier was an All Star that.

882
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,320
Speaker 8: Year too, right, was he was Dwight?

883
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 10: Yeah he was, Mire was an All Star that year

884
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 10: that he fucked his shoulder up. So when they when

885
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 10: Skip got put in the line up, that caught the rhythm,

886
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 10: like a really really good rhythm. But Jamier is the

887
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 10: All Star starter who year after year like his play

888
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 10: has you know, gotten them to where they was at.

889
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 10: But making that switch at that time while you rolling

890
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:19,440
Speaker 10: or while their team was like moving the way it

891
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,840
Speaker 10: was moving, it was a tough decision to make for

892
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 10: a coach and a team to try to adjust to

893
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 10: without having like practice and shit like that. So that

894
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 10: was another advantage that I think that uh I was

895
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 10: able to have.

896
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 2: Now I do.

897
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 3: I think I do remember one time, I think, trev

898
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 3: you got a poster on Dwight.

899
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 8: You know you tried it. The White is a fucking

900
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 8: hat man.

901
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 10: Scher has d White literally slapped it holding my ar.

902
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:53,839
Speaker 2: I do have this top.

903
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 10: I'm probably two hundred and seven pounds, the white all

904
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 10: of two sixty.

905
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't have my little You have to hack Trevor.

906
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 6: I'm gonna tell you why. Every time Trevor wants to

907
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 6: dunk on you, he does a karate kick to kick you. Yeah,

908
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 6: so I had to make sure he wasn't gonna kick

909
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 6: me and then dunk on me.

910
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 8: I got here.

911
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 2: You a hack, Bro, Trevor. I appreciate you calling in bro.

912
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 3: Saying that if I am a hack, my brother Trevor reason,

913
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 3: I know who's gonna get him freeing up. Yeah, So

914
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 3: Dwight take us to the last game. You lose the

915
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 3: finals in two thousand and nine to to Travan Kobe

916
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 3: and the Lakers.

917
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 4: What is that emotion in the locker room?

918
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 2: Man?

919
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 6: Before we got in the locker room, I set on

920
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 6: the court with Jamir and watched him celebrate. I was

921
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:57,799
Speaker 6: just like, man, man, I just got to sit here. Man,

922
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 6: this shit really it really hurts.

923
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:00,399
Speaker 9: Man.

924
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 6: We put in so much time to get here, and

925
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:08,799
Speaker 6: we don't know if we can get back again because

926
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 6: it's hard. But let's remember this feeling. So when we

927
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 6: get back in the gym, Yeah, this is what we're

928
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 6: fighting for. And so that's what that's what we did.

929
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 6: When I got back home and I was so hurt,

930
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 6: I set outside of my house about five five six

931
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 6: hours and I listened to the lose Yourself in the

932
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:29,720
Speaker 6: Moment your own house.

933
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:36,919
Speaker 2: I was like, man, I just lost one shot, man,

934
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 2: one shot. If I never get back to Kobe, I'm

935
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:44,280
Speaker 2: telling you, I was so sick.

936
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:47,959
Speaker 6: Man. I just set outside like that was my one shot. Man,

937
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 6: Like this is him, this is Kobe the Lakers. Like,

938
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:56,240
Speaker 6: I'm like, man, that the Magic would have won the championship,

939
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 6: like that would have been everything that we wanted in

940
00:45:59,880 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 6: on Orlando, And uh.

941
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 3: Damn, talk to me about the because you were on

942
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 3: the bubble ring, right, the bubble that's when you got.

943
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 2: Your everybody you called it the bubble ring because it is.

944
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:12,839
Speaker 4: What you mean.

945
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 3: But okay, let's have that. Let's have that conversation. You

946
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 3: don't feel like we should call it the bubble ring? Why, Well,

947
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 3: because everything around it. The season will stop, y'all wan

948
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 3: vacation for maybe.

949
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 2: Three months, so that should make it harder.

950
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:29,360
Speaker 3: Well, this is why I want to have this conversation.

951
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:32,840
Speaker 3: I'm on the side of I don't. I don't see

952
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 3: how it's harder from the standpoint that we know exactly

953
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 3: how much traveling and having our fans screaming down on

954
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 3: top of the other team affect the game, Dwight, don't

955
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 3: say that, don't don't affect the game.

956
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 6: Okay, So then why didn't it affect either either way

957
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 6: when we didn't have fans.

958
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 3: No, No, I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that

959
00:46:57,840 --> 00:46:59,839
Speaker 3: it didn't affect either way. I'm just saying I think

960
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,840
Speaker 3: at that's a bigger element that is now missing, is

961
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 3: the fact that we don't have to go into La

962
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 3: and beat the Lakers, or we don't have to go

963
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 3: into Orlando and beat the Magic, or we don't have

964
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 3: to go into San Antonio and beat the Spurs.

965
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 6: But if we're the Lakers, everywhere we go, we're going

966
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 6: to be the home team. It doesn't matter where we

967
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 6: play at. Name one place we're going to go play at.

968
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 6: If we're the Lakers, all championship run Boston.

969
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 3: You felt like if we were winning the Boston in

970
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 3: one who as the Lakers?

971
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 2: That team we did it already. The celt doesn't even

972
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 2: go to the finals. We had the best.

973
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:38,880
Speaker 3: No, no, I'm saying the records as opposed to having

974
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 3: fans and not have it's tougher to go into Boston

975
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 3: and win in that building.

976
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 5: When you were in Orlando, did you feel like the

977
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 5: Lakers were at home when you guys played in Orlando.

978
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 7: Yes, oh okay.

979
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:51,320
Speaker 2: Just like when we played Detroit.

980
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 4: I could see Orlando being that way.

981
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 2: Of course, the Lake I'm talking about where it's rivalry shit, like.

982
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 6: You're not one team that's only Boston everywhere, the Lakers.

983
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 3: But I'm just saying, if you're the Spurs, it's.

984
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 6: Hard when the Spurs, we had more Laker fans there.

985
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 6: You're talking about for the playoffs. You're talking about for

986
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 6: the finals. If we're playing the finals team, I mean,

987
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:12,839
Speaker 6: it's an Eastern Conference team.

988
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:15,720
Speaker 3: Did we want Lakers fans and Spurs games than Spurs

989
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 3: fans in the playoffs?

990
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 2: Do?

991
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 3: We didn't play them in the I'm just saying, like

992
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 3: when the Lakers played the Spurs, like when Kobe did

993
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 3: play them, the Spurs not, but.

994
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 2: Back then it was a lot of Laker fans at

995
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 2: them games.

996
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 4: I'm sure it is because the Lakers the brand is

997
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 4: just so.

998
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 6: So that's what I'm saying. We got home court advantage everywhere.

999
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 6: We're not getting affected by that. But how does it what?

1000
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 6: I'm all right, so you got the bubble, you.

1001
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 3: Said that we was out for hollow three so three

1002
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 3: months of no basketball, no no training, none of that.

1003
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 3: But the oldest team to come back and beat everybody

1004
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 3: fars square?

1005
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:53,440
Speaker 6: How many times? What was it for? Did we sweep everybody?

1006
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:54,839
Speaker 2: I don't know.

1007
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 7: It was close? Was our one team prety dominant?

1008
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 2: Oh it was four to one everybody?

1009
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:00,359
Speaker 8: Yeah?

1010
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was. It was a quick time.

1011
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:05,879
Speaker 2: So that what does that mean? But everybody had the opportunity.

1012
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 7: Well, let me ask you.

1013
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:08,319
Speaker 5: Is there a difference in the energy of when you

1014
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 5: went to the finals with the Magic playing the Lakers

1015
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 5: than when you were in the bubble in the finals?

1016
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 2: You can't know.

1017
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 5: I'm saying there was no worlds. There was no difference

1018
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 5: in the energy of walking onto the court.

1019
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 7: That's what I'm mean. But what is the all right,

1020
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:22,719
Speaker 7: So we're asking we don't know.

1021
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:26,320
Speaker 6: Obviously, if it's no fans, there's gonna feel different for

1022
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:28,399
Speaker 6: when it's a whole bunch of fans there. But we

1023
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 6: was the best team coming going into the pandemic anyway.

1024
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 7: No, I get that part of it.

1025
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 3: But I'm just saying, when you have the stoppage, and

1026
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 3: then you obviously have guys being outspoken about not wanting

1027
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 3: to go to the bubble, you have guys that's in

1028
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:44,359
Speaker 3: the bubble that's not comfortable. They're like, yo, bro, I'm

1029
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 3: ready to get out of here. So I'm just thinking, like, guys,

1030
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:51,240
Speaker 3: don't really care. This is It kind of came across

1031
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 3: like we got the best players in the world, we

1032
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:59,359
Speaker 3: put them inside the bubble, and they're basically like, au shit,

1033
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:01,919
Speaker 3: they know what's the games are. The teams are showing

1034
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 3: up to the gym. But to me, it's not the

1035
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 3: same as when I'm watching Orlando and the Lakers in

1036
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 3: two thousand and nine.

1037
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:14,839
Speaker 6: But then like it's just the lockout year, the lock

1038
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 6: We don't say lockout championship.

1039
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:20,800
Speaker 3: They because but it isn't. But it wasn't. It wasn't

1040
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 3: as long as the cold, the bubble.

1041
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:24,879
Speaker 2: It wasn't. Just it should have been the hardest time

1042
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:28,200
Speaker 2: for us. That's a harder time. We're in a bubble.

1043
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 3: You play, I'm asking you if you feel like it's

1044
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:33,799
Speaker 3: tougher than I'm taking It was actually played in two

1045
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:36,320
Speaker 3: thousand and nine and you played in the Bubble Championship.

1046
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 6: So what I'm saying is tough. Is the circumstances that

1047
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 6: we're all up under. I would love to travel during

1048
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 6: the Finals and be with my family and.

1049
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:45,320
Speaker 2: Go to LA and chill.

1050
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 6: That's that's probably harder to play now because now I

1051
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 6: gotta worry about everybody coming to the games. I gotta

1052
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 6: worry about making sure the tickets is right, the flights

1053
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:56,960
Speaker 6: is right.

1054
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 3: So what I'm saying it's harder, it's tougher, But it

1055
00:50:59,239 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 3: has nothing to do with basketball.

1056
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 8: This is.

1057
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:06,760
Speaker 2: Playing in the in the bubble.

1058
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 6: It's pure basketball, So it should make it harder to

1059
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 6: play against another team because it's no other searching stance

1060
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 6: besides basketball. So now everybody's playing, they they best. Jamal Murray,

1061
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 6: he's getting fifty piece pieces in the bubble.

1062
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 2: He had nothing to worry about.

1063
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:28,239
Speaker 6: He had no other outside stress when it comes to

1064
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 6: game day. Now, the stress that we had is dealing

1065
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:34,720
Speaker 6: with the whole world. Bend at Stop. Were getting COVID

1066
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:37,040
Speaker 6: tests three times a day when we can't even catch

1067
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,359
Speaker 6: a cold in there. Why are we getting COVID test

1068
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 6: so much? It's no reason for that. It's nobody there

1069
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:45,800
Speaker 6: but us. Imagine waking up every day, getting the real

1070
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 6: COVID test three times a day just to play a game.

1071
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 6: So yeah, it's people could put an asher, but they

1072
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:57,880
Speaker 6: wasn't there. So I guess they're gonna say, well, that

1073
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 6: was easy. It's Lebron, that was his team. Yeah, but

1074
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:04,439
Speaker 6: come on, man, if the next with the one y'all,

1075
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:05,799
Speaker 6: I bet you would have said it was an astro.

1076
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 3: I would that would be a nasty championship, would I

1077
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 3: would say it was the greatest championship of all time.

1078
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:13,560
Speaker 4: Champions But I would say that's nat I.

1079
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,840
Speaker 6: Would say it would be nasty because it's no parade

1080
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 6: and no other stuff that got with it. That's the

1081
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 6: nasty part. I want a parade. I won't at least

1082
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:24,279
Speaker 6: we didin't get a chance to do nothing. Man, only

1083
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:27,280
Speaker 6: parade I got was on my two K man I won.

1084
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:28,759
Speaker 2: So see I did.

1085
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:31,880
Speaker 3: This is damn So you didn't win an O nine,

1086
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 3: but you wanted you won in twenty twenty. Right, tough

1087
00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:38,960
Speaker 3: question because I think I know your answer. Would you

1088
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 3: rather have won in O nine than twenty twenty?

1089
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 8: Yeah?

1090
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 2: Orlando, Why it's Orlando? Okay, first championship, Yeah.

1091
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:49,240
Speaker 7: That's a staple like that.

1092
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:52,279
Speaker 6: That's like the first one that changes everything. So of

1093
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:54,759
Speaker 6: course in Orlando, and then the crowd is there just

1094
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 6: before the new arenas finished. Oh my god, going into

1095
00:52:58,160 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 6: the New Arena with Arene.

1096
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 7: Yeah, all right, quick question at disney World?

1097
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 2: What rank and to end up at Disney World? Oh

1098
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 2: my god?

1099
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 7: Yeah, you literally say it that D like you just

1100
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:10,640
Speaker 7: want to be a championship.

1101
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 2: What you're gonna do?

1102
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 3: Likes going across the street.

1103
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 2: Back to my room. I got some sod. I'm going

1104
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 2: to my room. All right, Prime Shack or prom Dwight.

1105
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:29,440
Speaker 6: I gotta go with myself. But Prime Shack is a

1106
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:31,919
Speaker 6: big old beast. But I'm not backing down.

1107
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:33,439
Speaker 4: No, I know you ain't backing down.

1108
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:41,879
Speaker 6: But seven to two, seven two, three twenty and I'm

1109
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 6: pushing six eleven with shoes on to sixty five. It's cool.

1110
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 6: I'm a battle my ass off. I'm strong as ship.

1111
00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 6: So hey, I'm going with Prime Dwhight.

1112
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,080
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm mad. I'm not mad at that.

1113
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:55,840
Speaker 6: I'm five ship out of them too. But you know,

1114
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 6: in our career, if you've ever seen it, we both have.

1115
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:02,879
Speaker 6: I think we average like five files every game against Yeah.

1116
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 4: Absolutely, it's a lot of that going on.

1117
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, what does the.

1118
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:09,880
Speaker 5: NBA need to do with All Star weekend in general?

1119
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 5: Not just the All Star Game but three point contests? D?

1120
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:14,800
Speaker 4: Why you gotta come back into the dunk contest.

1121
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:17,439
Speaker 6: What I mean, what you want people to do. I'm

1122
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:21,400
Speaker 6: telling y'all it's oversaturated. Like think about it. Yeah, we

1123
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 6: have seen all the dunks in the world. What else

1124
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:24,760
Speaker 6: can somebody do?

1125
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 5: Do you think they need to add in some of

1126
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 5: the I mean they try to do it, but the

1127
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:32,360
Speaker 5: YouTube dunkers and bringing people up from G League just

1128
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:33,359
Speaker 5: for that weekend, Like.

1129
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 2: You can do that stuff too.

1130
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 6: But again, now everybody wants to be compensated for what

1131
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:41,960
Speaker 6: they're doing there in ils.

1132
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 3: I mean, they make enough money doing it. I don't

1133
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:48,920
Speaker 3: make enough money. No, no, no, no the YouTuber I

1134
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 3: understand that.

1135
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:51,839
Speaker 6: But the YouTuber is saying, hey, you if you want

1136
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:53,719
Speaker 6: my name, image and likeness and you want me to

1137
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 6: get out there and dunk, I want to get paid.

1138
00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:58,760
Speaker 2: I want to I want to do all this stuff.

1139
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 6: So now I think looking at all that, you know

1140
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:04,440
Speaker 6: the biggest thing is to attract this new market.

1141
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:07,440
Speaker 2: So if I was them, they got all them chaps

1142
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 2: GTP servers.

1143
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 6: Just ask all the ais and AI is gonna tell

1144
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:12,959
Speaker 6: them how to make All Star better.

1145
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:18,000
Speaker 3: They're trying something with It's the world versus the NBA, right,

1146
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:20,400
Speaker 3: They already do that though, But that's that's what the

1147
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:21,879
Speaker 3: younger guys when.

1148
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 2: They're gonna play that the World versus Us in the

1149
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 2: in the States.

1150
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, let fall Star weekend, But is that that's cool

1151
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:33,399
Speaker 5: to add on to the All Star Weekend. I'm gonna

1152
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:34,839
Speaker 5: watch it, but that's not a game changer.

1153
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 2: It's not going to be a game. It's just going

1154
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:43,480
Speaker 2: to be normal. Can you know who's you know, it's

1155
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 2: not going to ever be the same. We don't.

1156
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:49,479
Speaker 6: We don't seem so much good talent. We done seeing

1157
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 6: the best of the best of the best of the world.

1158
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:54,320
Speaker 6: So now we're expecting the All Star Game to be

1159
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:58,839
Speaker 6: something crazy when it just ain't. The times we lived

1160
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:00,920
Speaker 6: in we probably gotta let that go because it was.

1161
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 6: It's nostalgic for us to be like, damn, I remember

1162
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:05,480
Speaker 6: when it was in the All Star Game. Everybody had

1163
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:08,799
Speaker 6: their home jersey on all that stuff. Yeah, it's cool,

1164
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:13,160
Speaker 6: but now we didn't. The Times is saying for some different.

1165
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:16,279
Speaker 3: I mean, I like the idea of having the World

1166
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 3: versus USA and in the All Star Weekend, only because

1167
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:26,160
Speaker 3: I don't know if the USA wins. Oh right now,

1168
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:30,080
Speaker 3: right now, that's what your game. But who's gonna play

1169
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:30,839
Speaker 3: the last three?

1170
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:34,560
Speaker 2: How they are people gonna really play?

1171
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:36,719
Speaker 4: What's the I think if it's I think if it's

1172
00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 4: that structure, that format.

1173
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:41,879
Speaker 2: But what's the center behind it? Sho do you pick?

1174
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 2: How do you vote?

1175
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 9: Now?

1176
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:47,280
Speaker 5: I think if they did it with the actual All Stars,

1177
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 5: it would give more incentive because I think America would

1178
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:50,880
Speaker 5: have something to prove because I think.

1179
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:53,719
Speaker 2: The Olympics.

1180
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 4: Then, so why do y'all know what difference?

1181
00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:57,799
Speaker 5: Because it's every single If it's the world, everyone, that's

1182
00:56:57,880 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 5: just not citizen.

1183
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:03,279
Speaker 3: Each team the world versus the US the best player, Yeah,

1184
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 3: the US. That could be tough because now you got

1185
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:07,680
Speaker 3: Luca on the same team.

1186
00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:10,759
Speaker 2: Time, you ain't got enough time for you need more

1187
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:16,800
Speaker 2: than the All Star Game. You see what I'm saying.

1188
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 6: Time and you're like, man, hold on, who we gonna get?

1189
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:21,000
Speaker 6: We got we got to make sure we picked the

1190
00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 6: right guys. And then it take away from it going

1191
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 6: back to the All Star voting. Remember these guys is

1192
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 6: also trying to make sure for longevity they get on

1193
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 6: the All Star team so they can get another year

1194
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 6: in they contract all different things. So now that the

1195
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 6: money is so much, it's so much stuff involved to

1196
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:40,200
Speaker 6: just make it difficult. The one thing I would like

1197
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:43,280
Speaker 6: to see is not with the All Star Game, but Olympics.

1198
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:46,480
Speaker 6: Instead of having the Olympics in another city or another

1199
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:49,880
Speaker 6: country every year, I think that they should go back

1200
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:54,160
Speaker 6: to Greece where it started at, fix it up to

1201
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:56,560
Speaker 6: where it looked like the old school kind of style,

1202
00:57:56,680 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 6: but make it new school. But just keep it there

1203
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:02,000
Speaker 6: every year so we can bring the value back into it.

1204
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:05,440
Speaker 6: Because when you have it in every every place around

1205
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:09,160
Speaker 6: the world, they they putting all their money up for

1206
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 6: one year or for a couple of years just to

1207
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:14,160
Speaker 6: build this place up. And then now when the Olympics

1208
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 6: is over it you got all these nice venues, but

1209
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:18,120
Speaker 6: nothing to do with it.

1210
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:19,080
Speaker 2: I do want better.

1211
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:22,160
Speaker 5: They'll build all that shit just to bid. They might

1212
00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:23,560
Speaker 5: not even get the Olympics.

1213
00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:26,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the bid for it. So just like they're

1214
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:28,360
Speaker 6: having in it. Are they still having it in California?

1215
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:29,840
Speaker 7: It's in LA. Yeah, the next one in LA.

1216
00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:32,240
Speaker 2: So they're having in LA. They have to bid for

1217
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:33,280
Speaker 2: for a couple of years.

1218
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 7: The Olympics.

1219
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 2: What about all the people that live there that have

1220
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:40,040
Speaker 2: to travel and work. We're not going to go to

1221
00:58:40,120 --> 00:58:41,600
Speaker 2: the Olympics. So I have to just live.

1222
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:43,440
Speaker 6: I be going to do all that stuff. So now

1223
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 6: let's put it back to where it started. Let's bring

1224
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:47,880
Speaker 6: the value back into it. Let's kind of get the

1225
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 6: real gold medals, the real silver medals. Make it mean

1226
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:55,040
Speaker 6: something again. Like every country when they go playing Olympics,

1227
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 6: it really means it. Don't seem like it's like for

1228
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:01,880
Speaker 6: us in America. So I think that'll get back to

1229
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 6: everything else. Like, hold up, now, if we want to

1230
00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:06,080
Speaker 6: be the most dominant, let's do it in the Olympics,

1231
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:10,880
Speaker 6: let's be the most dominant in NBA baseball, whatever it

1232
00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 6: may be.

1233
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:14,760
Speaker 3: Now, this news just broke. The Bus family is entering

1234
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:18,480
Speaker 3: an agreement to sell majority ownership of the Los Angeles

1235
00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:21,280
Speaker 3: Lakers to Mark Walter, the CEO and chairman of diversified

1236
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:23,880
Speaker 3: holding company t WG Global.

1237
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 2: This just happened.

1238
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:25,640
Speaker 8: Just happened.

1239
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:26,320
Speaker 4: News just broke.

1240
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:31,160
Speaker 3: The Bus family is entering an agreement to sell majority ownership.

1241
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:32,960
Speaker 2: How much money.

1242
00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:39,320
Speaker 8: Is there?

1243
00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 7: A number?

1244
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:44,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked.

1245
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:48,120
Speaker 6: He talking about billions, because I know, mister, I know

1246
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:50,800
Speaker 6: the one that who who have transitioned a couple of

1247
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 6: years ago.

1248
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:52,840
Speaker 2: You don't woke up by that great.

1249
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:59,160
Speaker 7: Yeah, ten billion billion alleged.

1250
00:59:58,840 --> 01:00:02,680
Speaker 2: Now alleged to billion. Is that enough? That is enough,

1251
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:12,120
Speaker 2: that's enough to get it done, get it done. You

1252
01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:15,160
Speaker 2: never don't see her again. It's funny because like doing

1253
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 2: that's what Phil jacksonsone right now, Oh, ten billion is

1254
01:00:33,720 --> 01:00:34,560
Speaker 2: crazy for.

1255
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:38,800
Speaker 6: Majority order ship majority one. Man, Just give me a

1256
01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:42,400
Speaker 6: well since we didn't, since we didn't have our parade.

1257
01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:49,280
Speaker 7: We can do the five year anniversary. Man, give me something.

1258
01:00:51,320 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a that's a crazy you know, hair and

1259
01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:56,920
Speaker 3: numbers like that is like, you know, you never think

1260
01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:57,479
Speaker 3: that you would.

1261
01:00:58,320 --> 01:00:59,680
Speaker 2: I don't think we've ever seen anything like that.

1262
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:01,160
Speaker 9: No, I'm.

1263
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:03,240
Speaker 2: I've never seen it.

1264
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 4: But what does that mean for the Lakers?

1265
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:04,720
Speaker 8: Though?

1266
01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:06,000
Speaker 2: Like, what do you think that means for.

1267
01:01:07,520 --> 01:01:10,240
Speaker 3: You know, the Los Angeles Lakers because now they still

1268
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 3: they're so majority ownership.

1269
01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:13,840
Speaker 7: Like a sports organization.

1270
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 2: It's like, it's sorry that all right, it's our whole lives.

1271
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:21,680
Speaker 2: We've known the Lakers to be from where Los Angeles, no, no, no, no,

1272
01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:25,640
Speaker 2: from whom there you go the bus fan every we

1273
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:30,200
Speaker 2: know bus bus they own it and then it ain't

1274
01:01:30,240 --> 01:01:33,400
Speaker 2: the bus is no more. It's just like the world

1275
01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:34,360
Speaker 2: is changing, bro.

1276
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:37,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's that's exactly what that that's that's a

1277
01:01:38,280 --> 01:01:41,040
Speaker 3: that's like Stanbrenner not having or the star Broners.

1278
01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:42,080
Speaker 2: Anything to do with the Yankees.

1279
01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:44,880
Speaker 7: That's that's the only family I could compare that to

1280
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:47,360
Speaker 7: those organizations.

1281
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:50,240
Speaker 4: Ten billion dollars. This this changes, you.

1282
01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:54,840
Speaker 3: Know, they're not they're there's shifts at this shifts a

1283
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:57,000
Speaker 3: lot of ten billion dollars.

1284
01:01:57,880 --> 01:02:00,080
Speaker 2: What are they about to do to the Lakers? I

1285
01:02:00,240 --> 01:02:06,760
Speaker 2: want in listen, I would be whatever y'all need me

1286
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 2: to be on team.

1287
01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:13,600
Speaker 5: Hey, now I totally understand why it's not the Staples

1288
01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:15,240
Speaker 5: Center anymore because who shopped at Staples?

1289
01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:16,240
Speaker 7: You know you can't afford that.

1290
01:02:17,040 --> 01:02:17,800
Speaker 8: No see?

1291
01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:21,360
Speaker 2: And then a smart cryptocurrency now it's blowing up.

1292
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:24,680
Speaker 7: Who can we google? Who bought it?

1293
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:28,400
Speaker 4: A multinational conglomerate holding company founded by Mark Walter with

1294
01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:33,440
Speaker 4: interest in financial services, insurance, AI technology, sports, media, entertainment,

1295
01:02:33,520 --> 01:02:34,000
Speaker 4: and energy.

1296
01:02:34,120 --> 01:02:36,440
Speaker 5: So it's one of those companies where you know absolutely

1297
01:02:36,520 --> 01:02:38,240
Speaker 5: nothing of what they do and it's just a bunch

1298
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:38,720
Speaker 5: of words.

1299
01:02:38,960 --> 01:02:39,840
Speaker 7: And they're billionaires.

1300
01:02:40,040 --> 01:02:44,080
Speaker 2: Okay them, you do everything? Oh my god.

1301
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:48,560
Speaker 5: Anytime you see private investment services with an enterprise value

1302
01:02:48,760 --> 01:02:51,640
Speaker 5: exceeding forty billion dollars and.

1303
01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:55,040
Speaker 2: They just they gave the Lakers ten billion, just a

1304
01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:56,280
Speaker 2: ten piece, don't worry about it.

1305
01:02:56,320 --> 01:02:58,680
Speaker 6: Hey, here's ten billion. We're going to take this company

1306
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:01,280
Speaker 6: that you had for aready how long the Lakers?

1307
01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:07,200
Speaker 2: Probably fifty years? Yeah, what can you do with the

1308
01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:09,800
Speaker 2: Lakers now? Seventies? I believe Do you think that was

1309
01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:13,640
Speaker 2: a great move? Well, money talks got to get it

1310
01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:16,200
Speaker 2: done in this world. AI.

1311
01:03:16,320 --> 01:03:19,080
Speaker 5: Who knows where AI and sports are going? And how

1312
01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:21,400
Speaker 5: you own everything that happened with the Lakers.

1313
01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:23,640
Speaker 2: Where's it going? It ain't gonna be no more players,

1314
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:27,920
Speaker 2: It's gonna be all AI. So while you're doing it, that's.

1315
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:31,840
Speaker 5: Now they're telling the Lakers for AI and all the

1316
01:03:32,040 --> 01:03:35,720
Speaker 5: likeness of every player that was ever on the Lakers's.

1317
01:03:37,120 --> 01:03:38,160
Speaker 7: He was folding that deal.

1318
01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:40,040
Speaker 2: Ain't nothing. What's gonna be playing.

1319
01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:43,200
Speaker 6: Everybody's gonna be at hole looking at it VR sets

1320
01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:44,520
Speaker 6: of fake Lebron.

1321
01:03:45,840 --> 01:03:47,880
Speaker 3: Now I do I do believe the way we'll we'll

1322
01:03:48,600 --> 01:03:50,439
Speaker 3: view basketball games is gonna change.

1323
01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:51,000
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1324
01:03:51,040 --> 01:03:53,440
Speaker 3: I can see them doing something where each player has

1325
01:03:53,520 --> 01:03:56,280
Speaker 3: a point of view camera on them and you can

1326
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:56,680
Speaker 3: kind of.

1327
01:03:57,280 --> 01:03:59,120
Speaker 4: Figure out who to follow the whole game.

1328
01:03:59,600 --> 01:04:02,200
Speaker 6: Things like damn much. See they taken away from the

1329
01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:05,480
Speaker 6: integrity of the sport. But at the same time, it's

1330
01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:08,439
Speaker 6: AI and this is what people want. They always trying

1331
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:10,200
Speaker 6: to stay a step ahead of the game.

1332
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:13,520
Speaker 4: So this is a major move when you see numbers

1333
01:04:13,600 --> 01:04:13,760
Speaker 4: like that.

1334
01:04:13,840 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 3: Though Dwight as a player, a young Dwight Howard, let's

1335
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:25,040
Speaker 3: say he's drafted by the Lakers, amazing first three years.

1336
01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:28,480
Speaker 3: It's time for you to get your extension, your negotiation.

1337
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:31,080
Speaker 3: Now you negotiate with the Lakers. This deal happened for

1338
01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:33,840
Speaker 3: ten billion dollars. What does dwighteness agent sit down to

1339
01:04:33,880 --> 01:04:34,320
Speaker 3: talk about.

1340
01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:37,800
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, agent, I love you.

1341
01:04:40,640 --> 01:04:43,360
Speaker 7: And refer to him as a you know, a.

1342
01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:50,000
Speaker 2: Yeah agent love Yeah. Yeah, yeah, but this next deal, I.

1343
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:51,400
Speaker 8: Think I have to do it on my own.

1344
01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:54,200
Speaker 7: You're not taking ten percent?

1345
01:04:56,320 --> 01:04:57,600
Speaker 2: Ten billion is up.

1346
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:02,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, But I mean, does that change any of the

1347
01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:06,080
Speaker 5: market value for Lakers players just because that deal happened.

1348
01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:09,000
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's going to be.

1349
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:12,440
Speaker 6: The cap, the caps. Yeah, well, the cap is always

1350
01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:15,040
Speaker 6: the captain this league. That everything is cap everything.

1351
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:20,280
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, yeah, Yo, the Big Three. We can't

1352
01:05:20,360 --> 01:05:21,520
Speaker 3: let you go without talking about this.

1353
01:05:21,680 --> 01:05:25,439
Speaker 2: Now. They hit the chat the other night they said

1354
01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:27,600
Speaker 2: we had Dwight coming in on Wednesday.

1355
01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:28,680
Speaker 4: I'm like, yo, yeah, Dwight Man.

1356
01:05:28,720 --> 01:05:30,240
Speaker 3: I hung up with Dwight and travel a couple of

1357
01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:33,840
Speaker 3: nights and they was here in New York. Uh, I said, Dwight.

1358
01:05:33,960 --> 01:05:34,400
Speaker 2: Cool man.

1359
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:38,080
Speaker 3: Then they send because we're supposed to have Lance here

1360
01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:41,800
Speaker 3: earlier today, but he missed his flight. So they was like, yo,

1361
01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:44,680
Speaker 3: any overlap, Like I said.

1362
01:05:45,360 --> 01:05:45,920
Speaker 7: What happened.

1363
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:51,439
Speaker 4: So he's seen the clip. I'm like, that's just basketball man. Yeah, yeah,

1364
01:05:51,520 --> 01:05:52,240
Speaker 4: like it ain't nothing.

1365
01:05:52,680 --> 01:05:55,080
Speaker 6: See, I think before that they had allowed so much

1366
01:05:55,080 --> 01:05:58,960
Speaker 6: stuff to happen before the game, and I think it had.

1367
01:06:01,360 --> 01:06:03,760
Speaker 6: I was just out of my element, okay, And I

1368
01:06:04,240 --> 01:06:07,560
Speaker 6: was pissed off more so at myself after that for allowing,

1369
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:11,640
Speaker 6: you know, allowing that whole game to even get to

1370
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:12,240
Speaker 6: that point.

1371
01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:14,960
Speaker 4: Okay, you feel like you played a part in it

1372
01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:16,200
Speaker 4: getting to that point.

1373
01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:20,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, because I mean, one, I didn't know how the

1374
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:23,280
Speaker 6: game goes into Big three, you know what I'm saying.

1375
01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:26,600
Speaker 2: So you know, I'm before the game, everybody's like, yeah,

1376
01:06:26,640 --> 01:06:27,880
Speaker 2: this is a trash talking lead.

1377
01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:30,360
Speaker 6: We want you guys to talk trash, and all the time,

1378
01:06:30,440 --> 01:06:33,960
Speaker 6: I'm like, okay, then I can talk trash and what

1379
01:06:34,120 --> 01:06:36,919
Speaker 6: else yeah, I want you all to you know, get

1380
01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:41,160
Speaker 6: get it. It's way physical. I'm like, okay, all right,

1381
01:06:41,920 --> 01:06:44,040
Speaker 6: So we're playing like certain things was happening. It was

1382
01:06:44,080 --> 01:06:47,680
Speaker 6: a play where Lance had kind of got scored on

1383
01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:51,080
Speaker 6: and then he shoved the ball in Jordan Crawford's chest

1384
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:54,120
Speaker 6: and so that kind of got Jordan heated. The next

1385
01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:56,800
Speaker 6: play you see Jordan taking his finger, going all up

1386
01:06:56,840 --> 01:06:58,840
Speaker 6: in his nose and searching for buggers and shit.

1387
01:07:00,480 --> 01:07:02,080
Speaker 2: So that happened.

1388
01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:05,360
Speaker 6: Then more in a game, they yelling in our faces.

1389
01:07:05,440 --> 01:07:08,360
Speaker 6: Before the game, they doing the same thing. So I'm like, man,

1390
01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:11,320
Speaker 6: it's a little bit too much man. And so the

1391
01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:13,560
Speaker 6: play with Man, Lance kind of get into a scuffle

1392
01:07:14,640 --> 01:07:16,280
Speaker 6: kind of like pick up his fist out like he's

1393
01:07:16,280 --> 01:07:17,880
Speaker 6: gonna throw a punch, So.

1394
01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:20,400
Speaker 2: Like put my hand up, like hold up, what the

1395
01:07:20,480 --> 01:07:24,400
Speaker 2: fun going on again? So I'm like yo. And then

1396
01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:26,680
Speaker 2: at that point I'm like I kind of blapped that

1397
01:07:26,800 --> 01:07:27,440
Speaker 2: for a second.

1398
01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:27,840
Speaker 8: Yeah.

1399
01:07:28,440 --> 01:07:30,520
Speaker 2: Then when I grabbed him and started to pick him up,

1400
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:37,880
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh shit, I'm fucking tripping. But that's how

1401
01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:40,360
Speaker 2: I started, I thought. But in the moment, I'm in

1402
01:07:40,480 --> 01:07:43,520
Speaker 2: the moment, so I'm like, oh shit, yeah, yeah, And

1403
01:07:43,640 --> 01:07:46,520
Speaker 2: I'm also thinking too, like by the time they see

1404
01:07:46,760 --> 01:07:50,120
Speaker 2: us really starting to go, I'm thinking everybody because I'm like, oh, Ship,

1405
01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:50,680
Speaker 2: this is too much.

1406
01:07:50,760 --> 01:07:52,680
Speaker 8: Yeah, bring it up. Yeah.

1407
01:07:52,800 --> 01:07:55,800
Speaker 6: Then it just I start tripping over Ship in the

1408
01:07:56,480 --> 01:08:00,320
Speaker 6: floor and the people on the boy the basket, and

1409
01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:02,120
Speaker 6: then I'm looking at babies and Ship.

1410
01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:08,919
Speaker 11: I'm like, man, a baby, Like man, there's a lot

1411
01:08:09,080 --> 01:08:14,080
Speaker 11: so I mean, it's not but that's just basketball.

1412
01:08:14,200 --> 01:08:17,240
Speaker 2: I think. I think you know Chat, I said, Man,

1413
01:08:17,280 --> 01:08:18,639
Speaker 2: that's just bad. They didn't throw no punch.

1414
01:08:18,840 --> 01:08:21,679
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm like, man, first of all, throwing the punch

1415
01:08:21,800 --> 01:08:27,240
Speaker 6: with that's so disrespectful and basketball all all these kids

1416
01:08:27,280 --> 01:08:30,160
Speaker 6: and families that's there like that, that's when it becomes

1417
01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:33,560
Speaker 6: a brawl when you have some kind of situation like

1418
01:08:33,680 --> 01:08:38,240
Speaker 6: that happened, and so I'm glad it didn't escalate to that,

1419
01:08:38,680 --> 01:08:41,240
Speaker 6: but I'm glad it did happen to you kind of

1420
01:08:41,280 --> 01:08:45,160
Speaker 6: got all that energy got the way down. Now for

1421
01:08:45,280 --> 01:08:47,559
Speaker 6: the rest of the season, everybody can just hoop.

1422
01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:50,800
Speaker 3: Now we saw Mike, Michael Beasley and Alance just played

1423
01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:52,120
Speaker 3: one on one last week.

1424
01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:56,280
Speaker 4: How good is Michael Beasley to me personally? I feel

1425
01:08:56,360 --> 01:08:58,920
Speaker 4: like he probably has.

1426
01:09:01,680 --> 01:09:02,560
Speaker 2: The same.

1427
01:09:04,560 --> 01:09:07,080
Speaker 4: Skill set is a Carmelo Anthony. I don't think he

1428
01:09:07,120 --> 01:09:07,280
Speaker 4: had to.

1429
01:09:07,280 --> 01:09:09,840
Speaker 3: Obviously, the professionalism and maybe some other things kind of

1430
01:09:10,680 --> 01:09:14,439
Speaker 3: you know, hindered his potential in the career in the

1431
01:09:14,560 --> 01:09:17,080
Speaker 3: NBA and what he could have accomplished, But just from

1432
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:21,080
Speaker 3: a skill set, to me, Michael Beasley is one of

1433
01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:23,320
Speaker 3: the most gifted basketball players I've ever seen.

1434
01:09:24,520 --> 01:09:29,160
Speaker 2: I think he is too. I think, man, it's just timing.

1435
01:09:30,360 --> 01:09:33,720
Speaker 6: He was a team and a situation at a time

1436
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:37,719
Speaker 6: where it wasn't accepting I guess with how they felt

1437
01:09:37,800 --> 01:09:41,680
Speaker 6: his behavior was Miami whatever. And you know, once you

1438
01:09:41,840 --> 01:09:44,160
Speaker 6: get kind of a bad rep in the league and

1439
01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:45,599
Speaker 6: it's really hard to come.

1440
01:09:45,560 --> 01:09:48,719
Speaker 2: Back from it. And I think he's awesome. I remember meeting,

1441
01:09:48,960 --> 01:09:50,600
Speaker 2: you know, Mike in high school, him in.

1442
01:09:52,160 --> 01:09:55,760
Speaker 6: KD at the Top one hundred camp, and they had

1443
01:09:55,840 --> 01:09:57,880
Speaker 6: asked me to talk to both of them, and I

1444
01:09:58,000 --> 01:09:59,760
Speaker 6: saw both of them. I'm like, man, both of these

1445
01:09:59,800 --> 01:10:02,000
Speaker 6: guys has got a chance to really be special. I

1446
01:10:02,080 --> 01:10:04,680
Speaker 6: told KD. Then I said, man, you can be one

1447
01:10:04,720 --> 01:10:06,240
Speaker 6: of the best scores in the NBA.

1448
01:10:06,400 --> 01:10:06,559
Speaker 8: Ever.

1449
01:10:08,280 --> 01:10:12,519
Speaker 2: He is absolutely Bees is just one of the coldest

1450
01:10:12,560 --> 01:10:13,519
Speaker 2: basketball players.

1451
01:10:14,200 --> 01:10:17,960
Speaker 6: It's just all about time and the opportunity I think Miami,

1452
01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:20,000
Speaker 6: he was on a team where it was who was

1453
01:10:20,040 --> 01:10:20,519
Speaker 6: on that team?

1454
01:10:20,600 --> 01:10:23,240
Speaker 2: Man? Was it d way the way? Yep?

1455
01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:26,640
Speaker 6: It's if you don't have that, if you don't have

1456
01:10:26,720 --> 01:10:30,760
Speaker 6: a team when you come into the league, like Mike deserve.

1457
01:10:30,479 --> 01:10:31,599
Speaker 2: To have his own team.

1458
01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:35,240
Speaker 6: So his talent is that thin, you know, that's how good,

1459
01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:40,599
Speaker 6: that's how talented he is. I just feel like maybe

1460
01:10:40,680 --> 01:10:41,320
Speaker 6: he didn't have.

1461
01:10:42,960 --> 01:10:44,840
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know why they did him

1462
01:10:44,880 --> 01:10:47,080
Speaker 2: like that. Man, yeah, he I don't know why. I

1463
01:10:47,160 --> 01:10:50,080
Speaker 2: think that. It can't make you depressed.

1464
01:10:50,280 --> 01:10:53,280
Speaker 6: Oh yes, I've had those days, in those moments and

1465
01:10:53,360 --> 01:10:54,559
Speaker 6: those times of depression.

1466
01:10:55,400 --> 01:10:56,400
Speaker 2: Why does team do that?

1467
01:10:56,640 --> 01:11:00,680
Speaker 6: And it's like you can't expect me not to make

1468
01:11:00,760 --> 01:11:06,000
Speaker 6: a mistake or feel in certain situations like you know, one,

1469
01:11:06,080 --> 01:11:10,559
Speaker 6: I'm human, I'm young as hell. You're giving me all

1470
01:11:10,600 --> 01:11:12,200
Speaker 6: this at twenty three, twenty four?

1471
01:11:12,880 --> 01:11:15,600
Speaker 2: What do you expect? You know what I'm saying, Like

1472
01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:17,519
Speaker 2: we didn't grow up.

1473
01:11:18,120 --> 01:11:20,600
Speaker 6: I may have you know both my parents, but my

1474
01:11:20,720 --> 01:11:24,480
Speaker 6: parents know about millions of dollars. You understand the lifestyle

1475
01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:27,080
Speaker 6: that come with this, And I'm the one that's living it.

1476
01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:29,400
Speaker 6: Mike's the one that's living in all these other players,

1477
01:11:29,479 --> 01:11:35,760
Speaker 6: we're we're living this this lifestyle. So it's like if

1478
01:11:35,840 --> 01:11:38,439
Speaker 6: you're not in it, if you haven't been a part

1479
01:11:38,479 --> 01:11:41,080
Speaker 6: of it's like, how can you understand it? And you know,

1480
01:11:41,200 --> 01:11:43,120
Speaker 6: for Mike Man and a lot of guys who'll be

1481
01:11:43,200 --> 01:11:45,679
Speaker 6: depressed and stuff like that, it could be difficult.

1482
01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:51,080
Speaker 3: How do you deal with those moments of having the

1483
01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:54,519
Speaker 3: success that you have and you know, achieving things that

1484
01:11:54,760 --> 01:11:57,320
Speaker 3: not many people will ever achieve and reaching these heights,

1485
01:11:58,040 --> 01:12:02,840
Speaker 3: but then also feeling those moments of not being fulfilled,

1486
01:12:03,120 --> 01:12:07,360
Speaker 3: not being motivated. How does Dwight Howard how did you

1487
01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:09,639
Speaker 3: navigate those moments in your career?

1488
01:12:11,040 --> 01:12:17,920
Speaker 6: Ooh, man, Sometimes I just have to travel, get away

1489
01:12:17,960 --> 01:12:21,919
Speaker 6: from the States, get away from you know, my normal routine,

1490
01:12:22,640 --> 01:12:25,280
Speaker 6: and just you know, see the world different, you know,

1491
01:12:25,640 --> 01:12:29,439
Speaker 6: sometimes traveling you see how people live and you know

1492
01:12:29,640 --> 01:12:33,400
Speaker 6: other places and it's like, man, you know, everybody's out

1493
01:12:33,439 --> 01:12:36,080
Speaker 6: here and there's one mission for everybody in the whole world.

1494
01:12:36,280 --> 01:12:39,840
Speaker 2: Was just trying to survive until the next day. Everybody,

1495
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:42,519
Speaker 2: no matter where you are, everybody's.

1496
01:12:42,080 --> 01:12:45,599
Speaker 6: Just trying to survive. And you see that and I'm like, man,

1497
01:12:47,360 --> 01:12:50,000
Speaker 6: I done did so much in my younger days that

1498
01:12:50,560 --> 01:12:54,080
Speaker 6: you know I can rest easy knowing that the hard

1499
01:12:54,120 --> 01:12:56,479
Speaker 6: work is a lot of my hard work behind me.

1500
01:12:56,520 --> 01:12:58,599
Speaker 6: I done work so hard to build up this life

1501
01:12:58,640 --> 01:13:01,760
Speaker 6: that I have. Now I should just be thankful, you know.

1502
01:13:01,880 --> 01:13:03,840
Speaker 6: So when I have those moments, I'm like, Man, God,

1503
01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:07,200
Speaker 6: I'm just so thankful for you. I could have been dead,

1504
01:13:07,320 --> 01:13:09,479
Speaker 6: I could have been out in the streets, I could

1505
01:13:09,520 --> 01:13:11,760
Speaker 6: have been doing anything else. But you allowed me to

1506
01:13:11,840 --> 01:13:15,559
Speaker 6: play this one sport for all these years. And it's

1507
01:13:15,600 --> 01:13:18,880
Speaker 6: because of my dedication, my discipline to the sport, to you,

1508
01:13:19,600 --> 01:13:21,679
Speaker 6: and to my faith that I have these things.

1509
01:13:21,760 --> 01:13:26,639
Speaker 2: So, Man, thank you. Going overseas is probably one. They're

1510
01:13:26,680 --> 01:13:28,560
Speaker 2: really just getting a loan? Man, Was that?

1511
01:13:28,720 --> 01:13:30,320
Speaker 3: Was that one of the things that played the fact

1512
01:13:30,360 --> 01:13:32,400
Speaker 3: in your decision to go to Taiwan was just wanting

1513
01:13:32,479 --> 01:13:36,360
Speaker 3: to get out of your norm and find motivation again.

1514
01:13:36,720 --> 01:13:39,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, Man, Taiwan's amazing. I remember getting ready to go

1515
01:13:39,680 --> 01:13:40,520
Speaker 6: to Taiwan.

1516
01:13:40,200 --> 01:13:41,639
Speaker 2: People like why would you go over there?

1517
01:13:42,520 --> 01:13:42,720
Speaker 8: Yeah?

1518
01:13:42,800 --> 01:13:44,560
Speaker 6: Taiwan's A third one comes from like how would you

1519
01:13:44,640 --> 01:13:47,519
Speaker 6: know what Taiwan is? You ain't never right right, Like,

1520
01:13:47,920 --> 01:13:49,439
Speaker 6: you don't know what I'm gonna get from.

1521
01:13:49,400 --> 01:13:50,200
Speaker 8: Going out over there.

1522
01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:52,919
Speaker 2: But if God is telling me to go to Taiwan

1523
01:13:53,760 --> 01:13:55,479
Speaker 2: and he's opening doors. I'm gonna go.

1524
01:13:55,960 --> 01:13:58,400
Speaker 6: I go to Taiwan, stay there for eight months, end

1525
01:13:58,520 --> 01:14:02,000
Speaker 6: up getting my own Basketball All League, getting a gold card,

1526
01:14:02,080 --> 01:14:04,680
Speaker 6: which means I can do business all over Taiwan and

1527
01:14:04,800 --> 01:14:07,439
Speaker 6: my whole family. So it's like I done set myself

1528
01:14:07,560 --> 01:14:11,439
Speaker 6: up for the future by going by listening to God

1529
01:14:11,560 --> 01:14:14,240
Speaker 6: and taking a step of a leap of faith, you

1530
01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:14,840
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying.

1531
01:14:15,000 --> 01:14:18,240
Speaker 2: So Taiwan really gave me wings.

1532
01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:21,479
Speaker 6: You know, going overseas, you know, playing basketball again just

1533
01:14:22,560 --> 01:14:27,800
Speaker 6: the obviously the NBA and the Taiwanese League is different. Yeah,

1534
01:14:27,840 --> 01:14:34,480
Speaker 6: you know, I would say, like the fans really inspired

1535
01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:36,439
Speaker 6: me while I was there and motivated me to just

1536
01:14:37,160 --> 01:14:40,760
Speaker 6: remember why I played, you know what drove me back

1537
01:14:40,800 --> 01:14:42,880
Speaker 6: in the day. And I'm like, man, this is awesome.

1538
01:14:43,040 --> 01:14:52,760
Speaker 6: Seeing ninety year olds come to the games. I'm like, yo,

1539
01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:56,760
Speaker 6: this is awesome, man, just to witness this. Man, there's

1540
01:14:56,840 --> 01:15:00,240
Speaker 6: people coming from different parts of the world. They know

1541
01:15:00,320 --> 01:15:03,720
Speaker 6: who I am, Like, I'm from college part of Georgia. Yeah,

1542
01:15:03,880 --> 01:15:04,840
Speaker 6: there's somebody.

1543
01:15:04,760 --> 01:15:05,640
Speaker 8: All the way in.

1544
01:15:07,200 --> 01:15:10,320
Speaker 2: Whatever part of Taiwan this is. Don't got no TV.

1545
01:15:10,320 --> 01:15:13,920
Speaker 6: Screen, and they know my name, my family, name. They

1546
01:15:14,040 --> 01:15:16,280
Speaker 6: gonna give me anything they can to.

1547
01:15:16,360 --> 01:15:18,679
Speaker 2: Show me they love me. Yeah, that's an awesome feeling.

1548
01:15:18,720 --> 01:15:20,360
Speaker 2: I was happy. I was happy to see you, you know,

1549
01:15:20,560 --> 01:15:21,800
Speaker 2: just being yourself and having fun.

1550
01:15:21,880 --> 01:15:23,679
Speaker 3: But I'm gonna be honest. When I saw them stats,

1551
01:15:24,240 --> 01:15:26,200
Speaker 3: I said, Dwight gotta cut this ship out.

1552
01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:26,400
Speaker 2: Man.

1553
01:15:26,439 --> 01:15:31,200
Speaker 3: He over there, I said, why Dwight's premeditated murder?

1554
01:15:31,240 --> 01:15:34,240
Speaker 7: I'm like, what it was for funzies.

1555
01:15:35,520 --> 01:15:38,479
Speaker 4: Man, like sixty and thirty. I was like, come on, man,

1556
01:15:38,560 --> 01:15:39,800
Speaker 4: get your ass back over there?

1557
01:15:39,920 --> 01:15:44,519
Speaker 2: Man, what's playing over there like that? You can't You

1558
01:15:44,720 --> 01:15:47,720
Speaker 2: was over there putting up. It's just like, yo, come on, man,

1559
01:15:47,760 --> 01:15:49,800
Speaker 2: stop playing with those people. Man, lead them people alone.

1560
01:15:49,880 --> 01:15:50,639
Speaker 2: Had so much fun.

1561
01:15:52,200 --> 01:15:58,200
Speaker 3: I'm just even like dunking on my knees too. Man, Listen,

1562
01:15:58,280 --> 01:15:59,920
Speaker 3: they could be told to you, but they ain't. Never

1563
01:16:00,200 --> 01:16:04,200
Speaker 3: see nothing like Dwight out in Taiwan. You're right exactly

1564
01:16:05,360 --> 01:16:05,920
Speaker 3: what I'm saying.

1565
01:16:06,479 --> 01:16:10,320
Speaker 6: But I had so much fun just being able to

1566
01:16:10,479 --> 01:16:14,200
Speaker 6: be outside of like it was like, I know you

1567
01:16:14,320 --> 01:16:17,800
Speaker 6: probably heard people say it before, like they have a

1568
01:16:17,920 --> 01:16:23,240
Speaker 6: person and they have another personality, Like so DH twelve,

1569
01:16:23,360 --> 01:16:26,640
Speaker 6: that's the basketball player that's now.

1570
01:16:26,640 --> 01:16:28,720
Speaker 2: I got a chance to be Dwight Howard over there,

1571
01:16:29,479 --> 01:16:33,120
Speaker 2: get out, just walk Okay, you know what I'm saying.

1572
01:16:33,400 --> 01:16:37,360
Speaker 6: Just go to the park and just sit. Yeah, you

1573
01:16:37,439 --> 01:16:39,759
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. Like little stuff like that experience

1574
01:16:40,280 --> 01:16:43,559
Speaker 6: the greatest him. Though these are experiences like in America.

1575
01:16:43,680 --> 01:16:47,000
Speaker 6: Sometimes it's be hard because it's an expectation. I go out, Hey,

1576
01:16:47,120 --> 01:16:49,240
Speaker 6: come here, let me take a picture. Yeah, you will

1577
01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:50,120
Speaker 6: talk to my cousin.

1578
01:16:50,240 --> 01:16:50,439
Speaker 9: Yeah.

1579
01:16:50,800 --> 01:16:53,960
Speaker 2: You know, when I'm over there, they just who dum,

1580
01:16:54,320 --> 01:16:56,920
Speaker 2: I love you. Yeah, and then they just let me,

1581
01:16:57,120 --> 01:16:58,400
Speaker 2: you know, go about my day. Now.

1582
01:16:58,600 --> 01:17:01,559
Speaker 6: Obviously they want pure and stuff, but sometimes they seemed

1583
01:17:01,680 --> 01:17:03,799
Speaker 6: like oh he just yeah, they go dwhite.

1584
01:17:04,760 --> 01:17:07,760
Speaker 2: That felt really good. Yeah, that's dope. I mean I

1585
01:17:07,760 --> 01:17:08,719
Speaker 2: think you need those moments.

1586
01:17:08,760 --> 01:17:11,719
Speaker 7: Even Steph talked about his experience in China that was similar.

1587
01:17:11,920 --> 01:17:12,120
Speaker 8: Yeah.

1588
01:17:12,160 --> 01:17:15,040
Speaker 7: Well so yeah, I think that's great. That's where Steph was.

1589
01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:16,880
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, stepping all over.

1590
01:17:17,160 --> 01:17:17,360
Speaker 8: Yeah.

1591
01:17:17,680 --> 01:17:19,519
Speaker 7: But now we really appreciate you, man.

1592
01:17:19,560 --> 01:17:20,320
Speaker 8: This was great.

1593
01:17:20,800 --> 01:17:21,639
Speaker 7: Thank you for coming through.

1594
01:17:21,760 --> 01:17:24,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, Dwight, it was a it was I mean, we again,

1595
01:17:24,320 --> 01:17:27,679
Speaker 3: you know, I've had I was around you and Trap

1596
01:17:27,800 --> 01:17:28,960
Speaker 3: some nights when I was here.

1597
01:17:29,200 --> 01:17:31,720
Speaker 4: We hit the club a little bit. But I was

1598
01:17:31,760 --> 01:17:32,360
Speaker 4: telling the guys all.

1599
01:17:32,600 --> 01:17:36,120
Speaker 3: One thing about Dwight what you see on TV when

1600
01:17:36,160 --> 01:17:39,360
Speaker 3: he's speaking, he's the same person like on and off

1601
01:17:39,439 --> 01:17:41,400
Speaker 3: the floor, Like he just has this energy and spirit

1602
01:17:41,439 --> 01:17:45,920
Speaker 3: about him. That's just very welcoming, very you know, no ego,

1603
01:17:46,120 --> 01:17:47,479
Speaker 3: and you have all right to have an ego. You

1604
01:17:47,640 --> 01:17:51,320
Speaker 3: larger than life figure, done some great things in the NBA,

1605
01:17:52,360 --> 01:17:54,240
Speaker 3: but always always, even from.

1606
01:17:54,160 --> 01:17:56,200
Speaker 2: When you came in, had the same spirit in it.

1607
01:17:56,320 --> 01:17:57,080
Speaker 2: You're very humble.

1608
01:17:57,560 --> 01:18:01,000
Speaker 3: The way you carried yourself very professional. I think that

1609
01:18:01,120 --> 01:18:02,920
Speaker 3: and that played a lot in the success that you

1610
01:18:03,040 --> 01:18:05,680
Speaker 3: had in the NBA as well. So thank you for

1611
01:18:05,760 --> 01:18:10,040
Speaker 3: coming through, Dwight. We appreciate you. Thanks and get men

1612
01:18:10,080 --> 01:18:11,840
Speaker 3: called Jeanie man, get some of that ten Bill man.

1613
01:18:11,920 --> 01:18:14,639
Speaker 2: Don't come on. We ain't getting no listen.

1614
01:18:14,680 --> 01:18:15,599
Speaker 4: He ain't getting no parade.

1615
01:18:15,720 --> 01:18:17,880
Speaker 2: You no parade. They calling it a bubble.

1616
01:18:17,640 --> 01:18:21,360
Speaker 6: Ring a couple hundred thousand, a couple hundred million, and

1617
01:18:21,479 --> 01:18:23,719
Speaker 6: let everybody know that the bubbles is real.

1618
01:18:25,120 --> 01:18:30,599
Speaker 2: What's up, j come on, Jennie stopped playing