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Speaker 1: Welcome to All the Smoke, a production of The Black

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Speaker 1: Effect and our Heart Radio and partnership with Showtime. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back Man, season two of All the Smoke. We got

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Speaker 1: a real special guys. What's up with your Brodie? With

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Speaker 1: the virtual handshake, I'm gonna tell you something that I

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Speaker 1: never told go back, I want to smoke. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to another edition to All the Smoke. Jack, what's up

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Speaker 1: with you? Broke my boy? What's going on? Holiday season? Yes?

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Speaker 1: It here, man, I can't call it just chilling. Just

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Speaker 1: got back from Arizona with the Twins for a little

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Speaker 1: au tournament. Now it's my off week, kick my feet

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Speaker 1: up and catch up on life. Man. Everything good out there,

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Speaker 1: Everything good, man. We get ready to go home for holidays.

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Speaker 1: But how did the boys doing the tournament? They won

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Speaker 1: the championship, man, So we went out to Arizona, did

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Speaker 1: our things. So we gotta head out to Jail's having

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Speaker 1: a tournament in Dallas, UM next month. That will be

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Speaker 1: like the top five teams in the country. So we

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Speaker 1: got a chance to work around and get number one.

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Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to it. I might gotta pull

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Speaker 1: up anyway, man. The newest Golden State Warriors were both

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Speaker 1: a fan of this young player, very talented, exciting, light

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Speaker 1: skinned killer. Welcome Kelly, you right to the show man.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your time, Thanks for having Golden State Warriors.

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Speaker 1: I mean that that's something Jack and I know you

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Speaker 1: know a lot about That's where you know, our brother

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Speaker 1: Our brotherhood began in two thousand and seven, and then

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Speaker 1: I was fortunate enough to go back in seventeen and

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Speaker 1: win the ring before I left. But man, tremendous organization,

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Speaker 1: top notch. We saw you messing around with our guy

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Speaker 1: Raymond ridd before. What has it been like, I mean,

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Speaker 1: what was the experience from Damn? I got traded from

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Speaker 1: Phoenix to Okay see and the next thing you know,

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Speaker 1: now I'm in Golden State. What was that? You know,

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Speaker 1: seventy two hours? Like, man, it's been a whirlwind. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: you know the business of basketball, it could be you know,

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Speaker 1: very just anxiety. Feel you don't know what's going on,

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Speaker 1: you know, with your future. But at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, man, everything happens for a reason, and you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe sitting here with Fourrior's shirt on is is for

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Speaker 1: a reason. So you know, I'm trying to make the

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Speaker 1: best out of this situation. Have you got a chance

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Speaker 1: to talk to any of your new teammate chet, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I actually been in for the past two days, just

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Speaker 1: checking in. Steph reached out via text before I actually

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Speaker 1: met him in person. Draymond reached out yesterday. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: guys in this locker room. Hey, one thing I love

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Speaker 1: about the organization. You know, I played for a lot

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Speaker 1: of teams. I want championships with other teams, but they're

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Speaker 1: gonna they make you feel like family dolls. They make

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Speaker 1: one thing about it, we men mad know what you're

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Speaker 1: gonna do on the court. So you're gonna be just fine, bro,

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Speaker 1: because they're gonna make sure they take care of everything else.

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Speaker 1: I look at you too. Man's people who lay at

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Speaker 1: the groundwork for just that. The nineties eighties basketball era.

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Speaker 1: You know, even when you guys weren't necessarily in their

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Speaker 1: just being a hard nosed and going out there and

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Speaker 1: I've been blessed to know that guys have already done that,

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Speaker 1: the relationships. Yeah, I appreciate you. You have a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun. Well where were you at when you heard

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Speaker 1: the Clay Thompson news, because you know, kind of whether

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Speaker 1: I think how you ended up going to Golden States,

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Speaker 1: So where were you at when you heard that? You know,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So you know, what, what

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Speaker 1: back straight up. See y'all y'all together up my guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: do too often. You know everything you're hearing. You know,

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Speaker 1: So we're definitely sending shout outs to our guy, Clay

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Speaker 1: you know, the other day fleet on I g So,

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Speaker 1: you know, praying for the best, but you know, the

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Speaker 1: have some fun out there. Yes, sir, let's let's take

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Speaker 1: it back to your early years. Grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Speaker 1: What was that like? New Orleans? Was it was? It was?

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Speaker 1: It was tough, man, I think boom, Yeah. You know,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I credit New Orleans. I always called

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like I'm to my overnight, I'm

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Speaker 1: all that just for just us to survive, to get

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Speaker 1: So he transitioned to Houston, Texas two thousand thirteen. You

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Speaker 1: Bill self was somebody that was there. You know, he

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Speaker 1: and I learned that everything ain't gonna be in it too.

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Speaker 1: that now that I'm a Golden State Warrior. Um. You know,

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00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,480
Speaker 1: we have to eliminate all doubts of any people that

428
00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:45,280
Speaker 1: said that the Golden State Warriors didn't get the championships

429
00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:47,879
Speaker 1: out of the mud like that. You know, all the

430
00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:51,240
Speaker 1: bandwagon talk and all that stuff. Okay, well, I am

431
00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:54,280
Speaker 1: not of the superstar status of a k D, but

432
00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,000
Speaker 1: I can be just as effective with this group of

433
00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:00,119
Speaker 1: people because we can float together and work together to

434
00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:03,640
Speaker 1: achieve one goal. So that's that's really my my mind

435
00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:06,200
Speaker 1: set here. I want to eliminate all doubts about how

436
00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:08,800
Speaker 1: how great this organization is and how they have already

437
00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:11,000
Speaker 1: laid the foundation to be great in the future. So

438
00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:14,560
Speaker 1: that's it. I want to bounce back a little bit.

439
00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:18,760
Speaker 1: Uh last season, bubble, Um, you get hurt going into

440
00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:21,760
Speaker 1: the bubble you were sidelines. What happened because I didn't

441
00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:23,040
Speaker 1: really get the chance to hear. I know you did

442
00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,760
Speaker 1: something to yourknee, But what happened and how did it happen? Yeah?

443
00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:30,879
Speaker 1: I told my meniscus um, I right, my right meniscus um,

444
00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:33,959
Speaker 1: and I had to get surgery right before the COVID

445
00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:37,600
Speaker 1: and the quarantine and stuff happened. So I get surgery

446
00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:41,520
Speaker 1: um around in March, and then everything shuts down and

447
00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:44,800
Speaker 1: I'm continuously rehabbing with the team at the facility, but

448
00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,720
Speaker 1: I can't come in anymore due to the COVID. Uh,

449
00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,639
Speaker 1: So I had to rehab from home and like just

450
00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:53,119
Speaker 1: get get right on my own, which was cool, like

451
00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:56,160
Speaker 1: I'm always able to adapt to just different circumstances, but

452
00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:58,879
Speaker 1: the mental clarity for me to go out there and

453
00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:01,280
Speaker 1: compete at a high level, and especially after season and

454
00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:03,960
Speaker 1: I just came off of I really didn't feel right

455
00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:08,199
Speaker 1: going into the bubble and another uncertain trial run to

456
00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:10,440
Speaker 1: just go all out and try to help this team.

457
00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:11,919
Speaker 1: But at the end of it, I was there to

458
00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,560
Speaker 1: support there, to give all my energy to them and

459
00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:16,760
Speaker 1: you know, help them in any type of way to win,

460
00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:18,719
Speaker 1: and they went aid no, still didn't make it. So

461
00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,000
Speaker 1: I feel as if even if I would have played,

462
00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:22,720
Speaker 1: it would have kind of just put me in a

463
00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,520
Speaker 1: position tour. It's like all Kelly you Braids is having

464
00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:27,879
Speaker 1: been working Kelly you Braids and where he was before

465
00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:30,679
Speaker 1: you know, everything stopped. So it was a lot of

466
00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,840
Speaker 1: cons over over the face of that time that I

467
00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:36,200
Speaker 1: just didn't I wasn't comfortable with dealing with at the time.

468
00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:40,480
Speaker 1: But I'm back now. So no, you definitely made the

469
00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:43,040
Speaker 1: right decision. Like I said, I credited Clay earlier that

470
00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:45,320
Speaker 1: Clay took his full time. That's the one thing you

471
00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:47,760
Speaker 1: can't listen to the whispers in the bullshit, especially when

472
00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,480
Speaker 1: it comes to coming back from an injury. Obviously, the

473
00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:51,919
Speaker 1: goal of the team is to get you on the

474
00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:54,120
Speaker 1: court as fast as possible, but you have to understand

475
00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:57,160
Speaker 1: your your own business and beyond this team. You got

476
00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:00,600
Speaker 1: a full fifteen, hopefully twenty year career play, so it's

477
00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:03,359
Speaker 1: always important, even something with the meniscus. Meniscus was the

478
00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,719
Speaker 1: only knock on wood surgery I had while I played,

479
00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:07,800
Speaker 1: but I took the full time, you know, coming back.

480
00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:09,680
Speaker 1: And still even when I took the full time coming back,

481
00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:11,960
Speaker 1: I didn't feel right because I came back right before

482
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,719
Speaker 1: the fucking playoffs when I was with the Lakers. I'm

483
00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:15,400
Speaker 1: just like, yo, I've been out for eight weeks now

484
00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,240
Speaker 1: and I don't even you know what it means. So

485
00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,200
Speaker 1: luckily nothing that came of that. But I definitely think

486
00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:20,880
Speaker 1: you made the right decision. Man, you gotta make sure

487
00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:23,600
Speaker 1: you take carself first, because that's that's the only way

488
00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:25,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna keep making this money. And keep me able

489
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:27,399
Speaker 1: to do the job you love, Thank you man. Yeah,

490
00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:31,240
Speaker 1: for sure, I wanted to hope believe that, but I just, yeah,

491
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,760
Speaker 1: I knew for a fact, like I would rather just sacrifice,

492
00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:36,879
Speaker 1: you know, me wanting to hope so bad than me

493
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,639
Speaker 1: being out here rehabbing and get right. So thoughts on

494
00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:41,880
Speaker 1: the upcoming. Obviously you haven't got a chance to play

495
00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:43,320
Speaker 1: for a while, so you're probably one of the ones

496
00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:46,080
Speaker 1: that are excited about let's get this ship started. December

497
00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,720
Speaker 1: can't come fast enough. Yeah, I was on the call actually, uh,

498
00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,400
Speaker 1: you know when we everybody voted and we made made

499
00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 1: the change, and I'm like, yo, let's get it, Like,

500
00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,240
Speaker 1: but how are we gonna how are we gonna protect

501
00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:01,600
Speaker 1: each other, you know, in this mist of this uncertain

502
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,280
Speaker 1: COVID time and that that's that's the only question that

503
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:06,520
Speaker 1: I had, you know, because there's some real stuff going

504
00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:08,120
Speaker 1: on in the world. But at the end of the day,

505
00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,400
Speaker 1: the energy of basketball is going to bring people more

506
00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 1: happiness than you know, anything else going on. So I'm

507
00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:15,399
Speaker 1: just ready to get out there and just start just

508
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:19,000
Speaker 1: hoping for the fans. And you know, COVID is taking

509
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,280
Speaker 1: the fans away a little bit too. So I just

510
00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:23,399
Speaker 1: can't wait till we can get packed houses in arena

511
00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:25,879
Speaker 1: so we could really perform. Have they explained to you,

512
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:28,200
Speaker 1: guys what it's gonna be like, because you know, obviously

513
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,359
Speaker 1: you're in California now and we're hot. We're about to

514
00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:32,160
Speaker 1: shut down, they say, in the next couple of days.

515
00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:34,760
Speaker 1: So have they explained to you what game situations could

516
00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:39,239
Speaker 1: possibly be like come December? Um, honestly, man, I know

517
00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:42,160
Speaker 1: for a fact it's gonna be a percentage of fans, um,

518
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,960
Speaker 1: if any to start off the season. Um, it's gonna

519
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:47,320
Speaker 1: be a lot of trial in thereror to see you know,

520
00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:49,280
Speaker 1: how we could do the COVID testing and all that

521
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 1: stuff for the people who come to the arena. But

522
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,040
Speaker 1: as a basketball you know, as as as a league,

523
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,639
Speaker 1: we're gonna pretty much just keep everything moving and flowing

524
00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:01,320
Speaker 1: just like they always do. Um, you know, chevny two

525
00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:04,200
Speaker 1: game season of course, which is ten games less than

526
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:07,919
Speaker 1: you know it's normally been, And we're gonna have a

527
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,320
Speaker 1: less preseason game so and we're gonna end a little

528
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:15,040
Speaker 1: bit earlier than if we were to start in January.

529
00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:17,879
Speaker 1: So it's a lot of pros to everything, but we

530
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 1: just gotta make sure everybody stay healthy because we don't

531
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:22,600
Speaker 1: want any outbreaks going on as we travel around the world.

532
00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,960
Speaker 1: So absolutely. And they also got to play in now

533
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,880
Speaker 1: while I was on the Jump last week, and they

534
00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,000
Speaker 1: talked about the playing now. So now I think that's

535
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 1: up to the number seven spot is up for grabs.

536
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 1: I think seven to ten that there's like a little

537
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:38,720
Speaker 1: round robin tournament to get into the tournament, so it's

538
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 1: gonna be I think that was the way the NBA

539
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,679
Speaker 1: trying to get a few more games and continue to

540
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:47,360
Speaker 1: make that TV revenue grow. Jack, being a former Warrior,

541
00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 1: a city you're still loved into this day, what kind

542
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 1: of advice would you give young grow about being in

543
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:55,359
Speaker 1: the Bay and what to expect. Man. One thing about it,

544
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:58,119
Speaker 1: You're not gonna find a city with more lawyer fans.

545
00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:00,480
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's not gonna be too much

546
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 1: different just because it's not in Oakland. But the city

547
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 1: gonna love you, Bro. And one thing about it, we

548
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 1: love playing basketball and I know you're similar, but the

549
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,919
Speaker 1: atmosphere is going to bring the best out of you. Bro.

550
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 1: I played in a lot of a lot of teams

551
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 1: a lot of different states, but it's no city it's

552
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 1: no fans like go to States. And on the flip side,

553
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, the organization Dog I had been

554
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 1: through a lot for I came there, you know what

555
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 1: I mean. This that was the first team out everything

556
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 1: I've been through with the broad and this Strip Club stuff.

557
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:28,440
Speaker 1: As soon as I get there, don Nelson makes me

558
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,480
Speaker 1: a captain. You know, I've never been a captain before this. This,

559
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 1: this team relied on me as one of their star players.

560
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 1: So this, this is the organization. Dog is probably by

561
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 1: far my favorite and one of the top organizations to

562
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,480
Speaker 1: play for. But the city along with the organization, you'll

563
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,639
Speaker 1: never find them come together to get the support like

564
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:48,160
Speaker 1: you do as a player. There love facts show. I'm

565
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,200
Speaker 1: excited because I mean being a fan of the Warriors

566
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:51,639
Speaker 1: and they're being a fan of your game. I know

567
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: how much they're gonna love you because you play hard

568
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,399
Speaker 1: as the motherfucker. You dunk, you shoot threes, and you

569
00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 1: play defense like those are like there their three favorite things,

570
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I know you're gonna

571
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,360
Speaker 1: bring a lot of excitement to the city. Um, I'm

572
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 1: looking forward to, like you said it, going back to

573
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,680
Speaker 1: somewhat normalcy. So you can really experience what that energy

574
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,160
Speaker 1: is like, not only on the court but off the court.

575
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 1: Because the energy off the court between those two cities

576
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 1: out there, Oakland and l a are excuse me, Oakland

577
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,159
Speaker 1: and San Francisco. Man, the fan love is crazy. But

578
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 1: just the environment and in the energy leading up to

579
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:23,280
Speaker 1: the playoffs out in the Bay and the sun starts

580
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 1: coming out and the girls stay out, it's definitely something

581
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 1: special out there, man. So we're definitely, like I said,

582
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:32,840
Speaker 1: a fan of you and a fan of the Warriors

583
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 1: looking at looking forward to, you know, these next few

584
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:38,720
Speaker 1: years for you up there. Appreciation, Thank you. Let me

585
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 1: get better, go ahead and perform. Jack touched on it earlier.

586
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,880
Speaker 1: Plenty of highlight dunks. Is there a couple of them

587
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 1: that stand out for you? Because, like you said, you

588
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 1: got everyone from the smallest of the biggest in the

589
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: game thus far. JaVale McGee was my favorite. I was

590
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 1: gonna say, Javail Man. He's a big dude. He's a

591
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 1: big dude, like very tall, Like you know what I I say.

592
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 1: You know, it's out of block shots and time everything.

593
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 1: But you know I had a quicker jump than him

594
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 1: and that in that Laker game, and then uh, the

595
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:11,359
Speaker 1: night after I get PG g G. Yeah, you body

596
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,640
Speaker 1: pg drillable. Yeah, I kind of I kind of made

597
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:16,239
Speaker 1: them a little salty, and I gave him. I gave

598
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:18,159
Speaker 1: him the advantage to by trying to, uh, you know,

599
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,880
Speaker 1: chase down block one of his dunks, which I shouldn't

600
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 1: have did because it kind of like, you know, he

601
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:25,679
Speaker 1: could feel itself a little bit. But at the end

602
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 1: of the day and I'm here, you know, I'm trying

603
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: to compete with the best, and you know I'm trying

604
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 1: to be the best too, So that's really it, Like

605
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:33,959
Speaker 1: I'm just really trying to go out there and just

606
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:40,919
Speaker 1: punish motherfucker's. You want all the smoke straight up. You know,

607
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 1: you're not someone who talks much on the on the court.

608
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,440
Speaker 1: You let your plane do the talking. But you're someone

609
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 1: who has these little antics when you dunk on motherfucker's

610
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,879
Speaker 1: with the blowing kisses and the push ups and the smiles.

611
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:52,879
Speaker 1: Where did that come from? Because, like I said, me

612
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 1: and Jack with someone, if we dunked on someone or

613
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 1: did something, we're cussing the motherfucker out talking ship. You

614
00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 1: take the other approach, but it's just as effective. Yeah, Well,

615
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 1: I mean I guess how much you could call like,

616
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 1: you know, a competitor, but at the end of the day,

617
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: like like a smooth ship talker, because that's just like

618
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 1: some petty ship to get under somebody's skin for real,

619
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 1: and then it ain't really like coming at you like

620
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: YouTube would do you know what I'm saying, y'all would

621
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:22,440
Speaker 1: just let him know, like like I can't necessarily do that.

622
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,440
Speaker 1: And it's this this era man, which I would love too,

623
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: but I gotta just do it a different a different way.

624
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:30,919
Speaker 1: It got to be a little more smooth. So you know,

625
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: I got what I'm starting to do. They started to

626
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 1: pick up on it anyway and give me text for it.

627
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,360
Speaker 1: So I gotta figure out some other way to talk

628
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,640
Speaker 1: ship to now. So yeah, don't I don't, don't listen

629
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: to Matt. Matt. It's an asshole. You keep you keep

630
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 1: being a smooth asshole. Matt, just an asshole. Yeah, I

631
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 1: don't think. I think I'm more light skinned and that

632
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: more dark skinned. Obviously, you know what it is. That's

633
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 1: what it is. That ship is. Hey, hey, but real

634
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 1: talk Jack. I would rather have someone talk shipped to

635
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 1: me than like blow me a kiss or like smile

636
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:16,239
Speaker 1: because that makes it man, because I know that's like

637
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,679
Speaker 1: instead of instead of punching someone, you slap him, Like

638
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 1: that's disrespectful. This fun, uh, you know, Jack and I

639
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,640
Speaker 1: kind of caught the back end, back the tail end

640
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,400
Speaker 1: of it. But social media is so prevalent in today's game.

641
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,719
Speaker 1: You're very active, you have a large following on it.

642
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: How important do you feel like having a balance between

643
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 1: obviously your professional but still staying active on social media is?

644
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: To you One of the best blessings that I've ever

645
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: had was to meet, uh, like, one of my best friends,

646
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 1: Cam Beverley, who you know, he is my you know,

647
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: my videographer. He is my credit director to my brands,

648
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: so you know, he really runs the majority of my

649
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 1: social media. You know, your post for me, you'll check

650
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 1: my interactions, insights, you know. And all I gotta do

651
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: is really whip up captions and send them to him.

652
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,719
Speaker 1: And it's just from music and songs that I listen to.

653
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: So it's really an easy flow. But I know, I

654
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 1: know the important su getting on the social media aspect

655
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: of everything so that I don't stress myself out looking

656
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: at comments and all that extraness. And you know, I

657
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: could just keep flowing and living my life. But you know,

658
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: social media is something that we all need just to

659
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: build our brands and other than that, like I don't

660
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 1: see it being anything else. Like I'm not on there

661
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: just to have fun or look at nothing. So I

662
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: just try to use to get money. For the origin

663
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 1: of tsunami poppy Where that name comes from? What does

664
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: it mean? Well, tsunami um is an upgrade from a

665
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: wave um. You know, it's just the flows of life,

666
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: flows of energy. You know. I try to adapt the

667
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 1: water for real, just like Bruce Lee said, And that's

668
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: where that's where you know, the tsunami, the wave, the water,

669
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 1: all that, all that double entire just come from. And

670
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 1: you know, I just try to adapt, like water man,

671
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: life comes at you in full circle. You never really

672
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: know what the hell we're gonna happen the next day.

673
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: But you know, as long as you adapt to the

674
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 1: times and you adapt and make sure that you come

675
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: out on top, that's what everything is about. So it's

676
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: really like a triumphant character. And I'm trying to just create,

677
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: you know, somebody that people can look up and then

678
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: realize that damn I could. I could really do this too,

679
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 1: you know. I could be somebody you know, when in

680
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: the in the darkest times of my life. So that's

681
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: where that comes from. Man, I don't really I don't

682
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: do it for people to call me poppy or nothing

683
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: like that. But I do see a lot of my

684
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 1: little kids in the league, you know, coming in. You

685
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: know who appreciate the wave. I'm gonna say that. You

686
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: know a lot of people appreciate the wave and they'll

687
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 1: try to take the wave. It's one of theirs. So

688
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 1: I just try to jump on top of and say

689
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 1: I'm the father of creating ship and that's it. Yeah,

690
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 1: Now you definitely a wave guard. A lot of people

691
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: don't understand, man, it ain't on You got on? Is

692
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 1: who is? Who got it on? I tell people at

693
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: all time. I tell my sons that. So yeah, you

694
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: you definitely leading the culture in in a in a

695
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 1: way new wave shout out to man. I appreciate he

696
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: sent me a nice little box, uh his sweatsuits when

697
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 1: it first drop, man, So that's love. And you know

698
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: I had to support you know, you know, you're pretty boys.

699
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: Got to support each other. Man. You pretty motherfucker's. You

700
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 1: two pretty motherfucker's. It was on the move around that time, Man,

701
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 1: you stuff handled. I actually hit up to all the

702
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: smoke podcasts and I just realized that I was gonna

703
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: be able to hit mad up because I was in

704
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: that lay at the time, so you know, you was

705
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 1: working that I appreciate. That was love pretty bars connect

706
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: that was uh I mean, and we touched on that.

707
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 1: I mean, you just respect man. You you're flying with

708
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: your ship and your movements the way you moved. Where

709
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: did that style of fashion come from? Was that something

710
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: you're born with, something you picked up on? And if so,

711
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: who was someone you looked up to in that space

712
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: to kind of get you on your own wave? Man?

713
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 1: I grew up I'm from New Orleans, so you know

714
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 1: New Orleans has a culture about it that smooth jazz,

715
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: uh French French esque. So I mean, I've always just

716
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: had that that type of drip in my blood. So

717
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: for me to be able to like grow through high school, man,

718
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: I was traded basketball shorts, hoodies and maybe put on

719
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 1: the jeans pair of jeans with some Jordan's or something.

720
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: But I never really had that that need for fashion

721
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: or anything like that. But I started to get into

722
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 1: it when my dad used to say, like the stuff

723
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: that I used to wear. It wasn't polished. I used

724
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 1: to he's sound look homeless. But I used to be like, man,

725
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: this this would make me feel good, you know what

726
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And I would just continue to push that

727
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: mode of trying to push that boundary of what made

728
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: me feel good man, because I mean, whatever I wear

729
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: a dog, it's what makes me happy in that day.

730
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: Like so, you know, and and when it comes to fashion, man,

731
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: fashion is just a word at the end of the day.

732
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: It's about how you rocket, you know, how confidently you rocket,

733
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 1: and then you know what, if you can get somebody

734
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 1: else to rocket, That's pretty much what that is. Yeah.

735
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 1: So in two thousand seventeen, while we're on the fashion tip,

736
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: you you know, you made a cause a little controversy

737
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: and league by wearing a Supreme Lake sleeve where they

738
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 1: you know, they asked you to stop and then JR.

739
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: Went and got us the Supreme thing tat it on

740
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: his leg. How did that whole idea come about? And

741
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 1: did anything negative come from it? No? I told I

742
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: mean I wore uh we played Brooklyn, I wore it

743
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: in the game, took it off second half. They told

744
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: me to take it off, I was gonna get fined. Uh,

745
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 1: it was nothing, man. I was really just trying to

746
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: be different, you know. I see they had the NBA

747
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 1: logo on it, it it had Nike logo on it, but

748
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: it just said Supreme. So I wanted to be one

749
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: of the ones who did it um And then it

750
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: definitely created a lot of a lot of media attention.

751
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: But I played terrible that game too, you know, so

752
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: that it wasn't nothing like I felt like I was.

753
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: I was doing a little too much too after that

754
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 1: because I didn't played well and I was so focused

755
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: on like just breaking the internet on some young young

756
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: dude stuff that I it took me off from my

757
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: game and that's not it. So it's real of you

758
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 1: to see that. But did they send you any gear

759
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: after that? I mean, you know, man, Jr got the

760
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: whole photo shoot. J R got a photo shoot with

761
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 1: this man. It's seeing me nothing, man, but it's good.

762
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 1: It's love. I still rock that stuff. So yeah, So

763
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 1: thoughts on you know, when Jack and I came in

764
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: the league, it was white five x white teas, baggy pants,

765
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: and then it went to walkers and now it's to

766
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 1: the game where it is now, which is at an

767
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: all time I kind of feel like NBA steps culture.

768
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: You know, when we switched the suit, you start seeing

769
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: other sports and suits, you start seeing rappers and suits.

770
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,360
Speaker 1: We kind of moved the needle when it comes to fashion.

771
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 1: You're definitely at the at the forefront of that in

772
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 1: the NBA. What if it has been your thoughts on

773
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:37,720
Speaker 1: the progression of dress from say twenty years ago to today.

774
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: It's just it's it's really like it's an Evan flow though,

775
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 1: because the way music change is the same way fashion change.

776
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: And if I think the NBA players, since we don't

777
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 1: we ain't able to like go out and have songs

778
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 1: that's on the charts to influence the whole generation of people,

779
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: they have to look at what we got on and

780
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,280
Speaker 1: what we're doing and how we're acting on the court

781
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: to influence their music, you know what I'm saying. So

782
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: nowadays it's it's more like the young young rappers who

783
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,840
Speaker 1: want to be rock stars, and you know, it's less

784
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 1: of the real the real straight dudes really out there

785
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: kind of get to it and sending their message out there.

786
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: So I think that's the ebb and flow of it.

787
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: Because the new generation of artists. They really they try

788
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: to wear baggy type clothes, boot cut pants, um, just chains,

789
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,879
Speaker 1: all this type of stuff. But you know, it all

790
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: ties in together, you know it all it's fashion and

791
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,839
Speaker 1: basketball and music is all one and the same. For real,

792
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,319
Speaker 1: it's just a different field. So I mean, I don't know,

793
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 1: I ain't goes. I don't know who really pushed the mold,

794
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: but I know for a fact that you know, we're

795
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: more visible than a lot of rappers when we come

796
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: win this our season time, Matt, Matt, you said, we

797
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: said twenty years ago. The motherfucker was only four or

798
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 1: twenty years ago, my bro. So yea, yeah, but he

799
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: was talking and walking to board, but he was four.

800
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,320
Speaker 1: You think me somebody you know, maybe he was plat

801
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: for but he didn't know what was going on, say

802
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 1: ten years, but twenty years. You gotta remember we always

803
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: bro for real, real ship. My bad. But I know

804
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 1: he's seen what AI used to dress like, with the

805
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 1: chains and the white teas and the do rag and

806
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 1: the baggage fans like that. We had a they changed

807
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: to dress code because of him. Ye see where it came,

808
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: to see where it came from, and to like him

809
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: leading the charge Now, I just kind of want to

810
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: feel with that Vidua was, Bro, that's it I'm gonna do.

811
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:31,399
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do something different, man. I mean, I'm gonna

812
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 1: be rocking my own brand's clothes. Like you know what

813
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: what you saw from Dope Soul is not what Dope

814
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 1: So is. That was just something to get us on

815
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: the on the on the on the scene. Um, you

816
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 1: know it's real high end because so real embroidery, real

817
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So I'm gonna try to switch that up, man,

818
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: so everybody could be individuals man real. Yeah. Well, if

819
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: you got if you got any fly ship for older

820
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 1: niggas such as myself, you know the address already of course, man,

821
00:36:56,680 --> 00:37:00,800
Speaker 1: for sure I might need to message this time. And also,

822
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: happy early birthday, bro, you got a birthday coming up. Happy,

823
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. So you've faced you've been through

824
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: a lot, man, You've been in the league. What are

825
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: you going to this come back to be your seventh year? Yeah,

826
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: something like that. So you yeah, you've been You've seen

827
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:18,800
Speaker 1: all aspects of the game thus far. You know what

828
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: I mean. You you you've been drafted fifteen SAT your

829
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: first year, experienced success traded, really found your footing, traded again,

830
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 1: now traded to Golden State where its styles like now

831
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,879
Speaker 1: it's time for this boy to make his name. Up

832
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,399
Speaker 1: to this point, what has just been your whole thought

833
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,359
Speaker 1: process of the NBA, Like I said, experienced so much

834
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: at a young age already, from being drafted to Washington

835
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,879
Speaker 1: and playing with John and Brad who when a time

836
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 1: that I was with Brad, he was on the cusp

837
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: of you know not he wasn't an All Star yet.

838
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 1: And then I've seen John who was an All Star

839
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,800
Speaker 1: like continuously year after year in his like I wouldn't

840
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: saying his prime, but like in his real flow. And

841
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 1: then I got to see Brad become an All Star

842
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 1: and then John to take the back seat and not

843
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 1: be an All Star for a year because if it's

844
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,319
Speaker 1: injury obviously, and it was just like yo, you know,

845
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: you gotta just keep staying with it. You know, you

846
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: gotta keep staying with it so that you can make

847
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: a name for yourself, because it's about the collection of

848
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: what you do over spend the time, not the collection

849
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: of what you do over one year, two years. So

850
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 1: you know, I just gotta stay with it, man, because

851
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 1: I want to win championships. You know, I want to

852
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 1: be an All Star, of course, and you know all that,

853
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 1: all that is a conversation in the formula for somebody

854
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 1: to be potenional in the Hall of Fame. So you know,

855
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 1: as as time ticks, man, you just gotta continue to

856
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:34,319
Speaker 1: stay with it. And if you know, God speed it

857
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 1: my time don't don't don't tick like that in my favor.

858
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, I know I got

859
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:40,959
Speaker 1: a lot of things going from me that I could

860
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,959
Speaker 1: just be a staple in this NBA. You know, before

861
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 1: it's all saidn't done. Mm hmm. Now you stay on

862
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: the path, you're gonna get. You're gonna get what you're

863
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: looking for. Are be coming down the stretch to the

864
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: final questions. These are just quick hitters. Whatever comes to

865
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 1: your mind. First, Um, toughest matchup you've had thus far

866
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 1: in the lead and y Drew Holiday, uh dude, dude

867
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 1: to everybody say this nigga name Man is a beast man.

868
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 1: He don't waste no movements, He's strong and he's smart.

869
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 1: So like, I really salute to him. One of my

870
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 1: favorite players in this league. So yeah, mine, any artists

871
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: you would like to be named dropped by. I'm gonna say, right,

872
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: wave your way, right way, man, here the ghetto gospel

873
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,399
Speaker 1: singer for show Ye shout out, shout out right away, man,

874
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 1: nice man. If you were going to do an all

875
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:36,000
Speaker 1: fashion starting five for the NBA, obviously with you in it,

876
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: who would be your other four counterparts in there? Jordan Clarkson,

877
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: h James Johnson. Um, I'm gonna put Russ in there,

878
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 1: Salute Russ Um. Who else? Man? I gotta get a

879
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,280
Speaker 1: big fella in there. Man, I'm gonna put DeAndre Aiden there. Uh.

880
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:54,760
Speaker 1: You know, I'm saying he'll he'll hear a fresh seven footer.

881
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 1: He just don't be caring enough to be dressing up

882
00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 1: to games and stuff. But uh, and I'm gonna say D'Angelo.

883
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:08,879
Speaker 1: D'Angelo got a smooth like smooth cats way. So yeah, y'all, y'all,

884
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 1: y'all swag low ki remind me of each other. The

885
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: way y'all you know, kind of just carry yourself and

886
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: the way you can set step trends on and off

887
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 1: the court. Five dinner guests, dead or alive to have

888
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:24,439
Speaker 1: an amazing night conversation with Michael Jordan Kobe. I need

889
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: them to go at it so I could really pick

890
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,359
Speaker 1: their brain about what they're going at it about. I'm

891
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 1: gonna go Prince. I want to lady to Dinna. You

892
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: might want to lay that down. You're right, You're right,

893
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: You're right. I'm gonna go with my uh my girlfriend

894
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 1: shot sho Okayah, I don't need know abody else. You

895
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 1: might need a young rapper in the mix to do.

896
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: That's what I'm trying to think of. But I don't

897
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:50,240
Speaker 1: want to sell because you know what I'm saying people,

898
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: it'd be weird that, Uh, I'm gonna have to go

899
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: with a somebody that's popping. I'm gonna go with a

900
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: little Wayne Man show that alright, Jack, Before you ask

901
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: the last question, let me ask you this. Who's your top?

902
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 1: We haven't talked too much about music, but I know

903
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,840
Speaker 1: you're really into who right now? Who are your top?

904
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 1: You know three five artists that you have heavy in rotation.

905
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Rid Wave obviously I said him earlier.

906
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: I got young Boy on there. He's speaking of it's time.

907
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:26,359
Speaker 1: What's up top? Yeah, he's speaking in murder music right now.

908
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: I need that energy, um, and I'm gonna go with

909
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 1: Rex Life Rod. He he's actually from the Bay, you know,

910
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 1: and I encourage you all to listen to him if

911
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: y'all haven't. Man, he really just he's like a like

912
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: a preacher, you know what I'm saying. He could just

913
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,439
Speaker 1: speaking to things that you'll be thinking about. So Rex Life,

914
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: Rode Man, shout out for Roger. Right, who do you

915
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 1: want us to have on the show? Now? Before you

916
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 1: answer this, whatever you're answer is, you have to be

917
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:52,839
Speaker 1: able to help us get them on this show. So

918
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:54,280
Speaker 1: who do you think should be on All the Smoke

919
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: for show? Uh? Who do I think should be on

920
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 1: All the Smoke? Uh? Who has already been on All

921
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 1: the Smoke? That's tough. That's a good point. Yeah, you

922
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: know what, man, I really want you all to get

923
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,320
Speaker 1: trying to get young Thug on the show. You know why, man,

924
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 1: because like he he misunderstood and he's a leader of

925
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:18,399
Speaker 1: a generation for real life, and you know, I want

926
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:20,800
Speaker 1: him to be explained, like why he wore the dress,

927
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: why he did all that extra sit But you know,

928
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, man, he makes some

929
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 1: pretty different music and it's kind of fire if you

930
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 1: really listen to it. Now, I I love Slie. I love.

931
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know, a lot of people

932
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 1: don't notice when I right, when he first started blowing up.

933
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: I had a house in Maybeleson. He drove. You know,

934
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:40,840
Speaker 1: I've been rapping for years. He drove, came to my

935
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,240
Speaker 1: house and did a song for me in my studio.

936
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:45,759
Speaker 1: So he always been a real but he always been

937
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:47,399
Speaker 1: a real with slime. I always been a real one

938
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Speaker 1: man for shoot out, shout out always. So I want

939
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: to thank you, guys man for shore No, thank you man,

940
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: good luck, appreciate you. Great, great situation. You know, Raymond Ritter,

941
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: that's our guy, great guy man, great team. I can't

942
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 1: say enough good things about that organization, man, So I'm

943
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 1: excited to see you get to work with them this season.

944
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: So good luck with everything. Bro. Yeah, and make sure

945
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 1: you tell Mike Brown and Steve krist Say, what's happening.

946
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,359
Speaker 1: I got you for show show. Appreciate you, Geez love

947
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:18,959
Speaker 1: love b appreciate you. The newest Golden State Warrior, Kelly Bray.

948
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Speaker 1: We appreciate your time. Man. You can catch this on

949
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 1: Showtime Basketball YouTube or the I Heart platform, Black Effects

950
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 1: Podcast Network. We'll catch you all next time piece. This

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Speaker 1: is all a Smoke, a production of The Black Effect,

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