Speaker 1: You see they talking about Luca comparing him to Larry Bird. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you nobody's doing that right, Let's here it because Larry
Speaker 1: Bird should talk that shit to niggas, white boys, Asians
Speaker 1: didn't didn't give a fuck who he was. You understand,
Speaker 1: Larry Bird played during the era where shit, you was
Speaker 1: talking shit, a fight might come with that ship. You understand, shit,
Speaker 1: I knew, I knew Larry Bird was a beast when
Speaker 1: he was talking shit to Xavier McDaniel. If you know
Speaker 1: who X Man is, If everybody know who X Man is,
Speaker 1: go go back and watch X and and Oh fighting
Speaker 1: in the garden and ain't nobody trying to break it up?
Speaker 1: You remember that? You remember that oh in X in
Speaker 1: the corner getting ready to get down, and ain't nobody
Speaker 1: trying to stop nothing. That's what I'm saying. So Luke
Speaker 1: out here talking there, she is Knick talking to like,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Ain't no more hard fires,
Speaker 1: Ain't no more physicality in the league, Ain't no You know.
Speaker 2: Who is the player that like would talk shit to you?
Speaker 2: And you're like, yo, this guy like was there was
Speaker 2: there someone that was you? And you're like this guy.
Speaker 1: J Blanch Yeah, j Live, I didn't know that. Uh.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that Dre Blanche was gassed to play
Speaker 1: against me. I didn't know none of this until I
Speaker 1: actually sat and chilled with him one time. Okay, but
Speaker 1: we used to always play the Wizards and then he
Speaker 1: went to where Brooklyn. Yeah, yeah, I used to Yeah,
Speaker 1: he used to stay talking, stay talking ship right, I
Speaker 1: used to love. I used to love play against guys
Speaker 1: like that because he was motivated. He was it was
Speaker 1: never short of his best. And you know, jay Lo
Speaker 1: had like a little bag. So yeah, every time we played,
Speaker 1: I used to always be like, man, who is this?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: You know who I am? I don't give a funk.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, man, who is the she? Like man,
Speaker 1: I don't know who that is? Man, I wouldn't even
Speaker 1: know who I am. D Live, Why shout to dre
Speaker 1: Live man, that's my daughter used to push your man
Speaker 1: coolest fun. That's a rare reality show right there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we need to go find Dre Love and the reality show.
Speaker 1: Let's get it. Yeah, den y'all know who it is.
Speaker 1: It's take it in truth, baby, Let's get it. So
Speaker 1: shout to Tayloo man in the five year seventy seventy million.
Speaker 1: Shout to t Lou that's what's up us, our dog
Speaker 1: coach is getting that bag. Now, what's up. That's what's up.
Speaker 1: That was the max he's been. That was the max contract.
Speaker 1: Yeah for the players when I first got in the
Speaker 1: league and I see the Clippers taking them off the
Speaker 1: market seeing you know, I know the Lakers have a vacancy.
Speaker 1: So yeah, shout to T Lou Man, I'm glad he's
Speaker 1: uh is that the highest man? I think he's in? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: five years? Uh so what's that like, twelve years? That's good?
Speaker 1: Twelve point fourteen years. Yeah, he's been. He's been part
Speaker 1: of the wave. And yeah, it's about what's next for
Speaker 1: the Clippers and getting over this hump man. You know,
Speaker 1: I think Paul George is up. You think they're gonna
Speaker 1: get Paul George and max money or should give him
Speaker 1: max money? How old is he? Paul George is thirty?
Speaker 1: I think three four thirty three? What? Uh well, the
Speaker 1: max five years take them to thirty eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just for context, they gave Kawhi a three year extension.
Speaker 2: Three for around one fifty three.
Speaker 1: Is our oldest Kawhi. He the youngest out of all
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 3: Right, Paul George is thirty four years old.
Speaker 1: Thirty four years old, so that means Kawhi for thirty two,
Speaker 1: probably thirty two. So they gonna probably keep these two.
Speaker 1: Are they gonna keep these two together? Would you keep
Speaker 1: these two together?
Speaker 3: Take it right on thirty two?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think I would just sign Paul George in a
Speaker 4: line up his contract with kawhis So if he got
Speaker 4: three years, yeah, I'll give PG three years and see
Speaker 4: where we at. I don't know if I'll give him five,
Speaker 4: you know, I'll line they contracts up.
Speaker 1: What number given? Three year one fifty? You can give
Speaker 1: them three year one? Yeah, you can give them what
Speaker 1: you gave Kawhi. Yeah. I mean I think his.
Speaker 4: Protecting his productions and say that that's the market in
Speaker 4: the league.
Speaker 1: What you're gonna get better right now? You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. What you're gonna get better to compete for
Speaker 1: that number?
Speaker 3: He was an All Star this year.
Speaker 1: He was an All Star game. I'm just listening. I'm here,
Speaker 1: and I like Paul George. I'm a Paul George fan.
Speaker 1: I actually think they they need to invest in the
Speaker 1: big y'all.
Speaker 4: I love Zoo, but they they problem ticket is we
Speaker 4: don't know who the Clippers are every year because they
Speaker 4: are always hurt. They started when they started rolling. This year,
Speaker 4: when they was all together, they was rolling, remember, and
Speaker 4: you're hurt.
Speaker 1: I light all them up. I let them go three
Speaker 1: more years.
Speaker 4: I'm moving into the end to a dome, so I
Speaker 4: want fans, you know, and you're gonna be a contender.
Speaker 4: They was top four in the West, so imagine if
Speaker 4: they healthy going into the end too a dome. I'm
Speaker 4: signing all them cats keep it one yet, but it's
Speaker 4: got to be a certain number so I can keep them.
Speaker 4: But I'm signing all of them and I'm playing. I'm
Speaker 4: signing them all to like the same length deal.
Speaker 3: What about Harden and Westbrook?
Speaker 1: Like I said, what do you do with hard in
Speaker 1: the Westbrook? I'm signing all of them. Harden, west I
Speaker 1: think you've running this for like like you said, you're
Speaker 1: gonna see something in some of that, and you know.
Speaker 4: You resigned Lou, you resign Kawhi, So like we're not rebuilding.
Speaker 1: Let's let's run it. Yeah, you run it and then
Speaker 1: you run this out. You in into like thirty seven,
Speaker 1: thirty eight. Yeah, yeah, unless it looks crazy, crazy, or
Speaker 1: you got to make a decision, decision, or something comes
Speaker 1: up where you can make a move. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Yeah, you gotta run. You gotta get younger.
Speaker 1: At some point, you gotta get some.
Speaker 4: Young unless you can flip you keep Kawhi. Your base
Speaker 4: is Kawhi and Paul George. Right now, you don't have
Speaker 4: I'm hearing rumors about Chris Paul, but I'm like, I'm
Speaker 4: not really I don't think he fit with if they
Speaker 4: signed Westbrook and and and heart A needs some organization, man,
Speaker 4: they need some youth and organization.
Speaker 1: They don't have any structure. Who's the point guard over there?
Speaker 1: James hard is the point guard. He had a solid year,
Speaker 1: He was solid, But they need some They need a
Speaker 1: backup guard who you can be like that can take
Speaker 1: them into the next chapter. And I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: that's a draft pick or somebody that's young and nobody
Speaker 1: untapped talent. There ain't no draft, ain't no draft pick
Speaker 1: coming into the league doing what no that you just
Speaker 1: developed for like the next three years. And saying three
Speaker 1: years you said developed, I thought you you I thought
Speaker 1: you was talking about come in pluging right. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: This draft class is gonna take like two three years
Speaker 1: of development. You agree with that. Everybody in this class
Speaker 1: is gonna have to develop like two three years. I
Speaker 1: don't see not you know, I don't see no impact
Speaker 1: right if not yet? Yeah, and I think the bigs
Speaker 1: that are in this league are gonna Yeah, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a bit of a shell shot. I look at Wimby.
Speaker 1: Wimmy had a bunch of elements. He can go to
Speaker 1: the you know, and hand and stuff. Some of these
Speaker 1: bigs ain't that versatil you know, it's it's just straight
Speaker 1: up traditional given to him on the block. They gotta
Speaker 1: they gotta face up. Probably they got a right hook,
Speaker 1: a left hook, you know, Like, no, the lead is
Speaker 1: so much mobile than that. You gotta be able to guard.
Speaker 1: Look at Rudy, Ruddy man, Rudy, you know you get
Speaker 1: calling all these mismaans. You gotta be able to guard.
Speaker 1: That's you know, your big.
Speaker 4: Gotta be out of guard, bro, straight up, and the
Speaker 4: only reason he down there, Yo, big gotta damn there
Speaker 4: guard for a fall five position being dead us.
Speaker 1: That's the rule, now, bro, If you can't guard, you
Speaker 1: can't be on the flow. And the only reason they
Speaker 1: got Rudy out there is because you feel like I
Speaker 1: gotta put him out here, and he got all these
Speaker 1: other titles in what you're paying them. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, real ship right. If this is anybody else, man,
Speaker 1: we be talking crazy about the mother while we got it,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Uh, just going back to the Clippers with the draft picks.
Speaker 2: They gave away all their picks and that, George, you
Speaker 2: gotta run.
Speaker 1: You gotta run it. If you gave all your draft
Speaker 1: picks away, you gotta run it. But it ain't nothing
Speaker 1: in the draft that's gonna be better than what you
Speaker 1: got right now. That's what I'm saying that. And then
Speaker 1: I don't see nothing, well, respectfully, I didn't see nothing
Speaker 1: that was like, oh my god, you put him with
Speaker 1: him and he going to be like you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So that's why I'm looking forward to the
Speaker 1: draft too, because it's gonna be a bunch of gyms
Speaker 1: that come out of that. Yeah, like down the line, hope.
Speaker 1: But that ain't nothing right now. So I'm with Pete man,
Speaker 1: you know, we signed this. Run it back, run it
Speaker 1: for like three four years. But you got to get
Speaker 1: some young You gotta get you a young wolve in here.
Speaker 1: You feel me, like in these next three four years
Speaker 1: and with this them having this base and by the way,
Speaker 1: this is not approven. They're not proven either. The Clippers
Speaker 1: are still putting in pieces and to the puzzle, and shit,
Speaker 1: you think that as long as they've been together, Bro,
Speaker 1: this puzzle should have been together a little more. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? Real shit, bro, real shit, real shit.
Speaker 1: We're just like that fourth year, fifth year together that well,
Speaker 1: James Harden just got there. I got that. But I'm
Speaker 1: talking about Kawhi and god damn and yeah, yeah, they've
Speaker 1: been together five years and the body of work ain't
Speaker 1: solid like like like we anticipated or like I expected.
Speaker 1: You know, this next these next three years they got
Speaker 1: on him. Man, they gotta squeeze the title out of
Speaker 1: this man. That's that's a far reach. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: older and the leaves getting younger and better. But then
Speaker 1: you look at the West. We got Dallas Minnesota not
Speaker 1: taking nothing away from him, Like Clippers can match up.
Speaker 1: They can't beat now one of them teams. Well, Kawhi
Speaker 1: wasn't healthy. This year. Man, I'm saying, Man, you know,
Speaker 1: Kawhi gonna make a difference. Though. Kawhi was over there.
Speaker 1: You even said it the year though.
Speaker 4: Man, during the year you was like, Manhi over there,
Speaker 4: Kuhi over there smiling for the first time. Remember you
Speaker 4: said that earlier. Because they was rolling, he was playing
Speaker 4: at a high level and everything was going.
Speaker 1: So that's a factor. That's a factor though. And this
Speaker 1: ship lasted like thirty seconds, I think right after I
Speaker 1: said that, it went to piece and went the ship
Speaker 1: lord like straight up, you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 1: with the peace, how long do you stay with it? Pe,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm asking for three years? The three years
Speaker 1: after you just gave damn this eight years you had
Speaker 1: to be with her made years to see, Hey, this
Speaker 1: is thing.
Speaker 4: Look look my first relationship, right, I was with a girl.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: Nobody wants to hear that I was with her for
Speaker 4: nine This ship, man, it was really old after six.
Speaker 4: It just took us three years to realize it, you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. But when you look at it,
Speaker 4: I was with her nine years though, and I got
Speaker 4: engaged to her and we got the year nine. This
Speaker 4: is when I was right out of the fresh out
Speaker 4: of college, and it was just like your whole twenties.
Speaker 1: No, it wasn't.
Speaker 4: It was like the twenty seven pretty much. And I
Speaker 4: was like, damn, we should have broke up three years ago.
Speaker 4: You know, you be with somebody a little bit too long.
Speaker 4: You're just like, damn, we could have you know, that's
Speaker 4: that's just maybe.
Speaker 1: This what we got with old girl. You was like eighteen.
Speaker 1: I got it when I was like nineteen, and then
Speaker 1: she went through the nine years year thirty twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Probably should have broke up years ago. And this is business. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a business. Is not good business to see that
Speaker 1: you listen any anything else after five years of not
Speaker 1: being proven, Man, that's insanity. Real ship, If you put
Speaker 1: something together and you've been fucking with it for five years,
Speaker 1: you already know what it is, man. That's that's nah.
Speaker 1: That's not good management, though, bro that it ain't And
Speaker 1: that's not success, by the way, it's not. And then
Speaker 1: you finish, say you finish, put three more.
Speaker 4: That's all you right about everything, But you do it
Speaker 4: anyway until you figure it out.
Speaker 1: It's not even right to to your fans, man, Your
Speaker 1: fans are sitting back thinking that you know what you're
Speaker 1: doing and we're trusting what you're putting out here in
Speaker 1: the product. We're still we got a sugarcarn. We're still
Speaker 1: in line. You're still giving us this ship. We're still
Speaker 1: rolling up, breaking this down. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm still in line with it, though, I gotta go.
Speaker 1: You gotta give me something else, get you to say accident,
Speaker 1: we gotta give you something else. So I've been there,
Speaker 1: I be coming in here all do it's still working? Nah? No,
Speaker 1: me be honest, man, I think people want this big
Speaker 1: ass fucking drama of something because all the other series
Speaker 1: have been like this, and oh when bron made it
Speaker 1: in Code, when he did this in Michael Jordan and listen, man,
Speaker 1: their path is their path. It's first all. Let me
Speaker 1: say something. It's not on the fucking Celtics stick. Guys
Speaker 1: are getting hurt, falling out the fucking not playing, falling
Speaker 1: out the lineup, et cetera, et cetera. You're getting first off,
Speaker 1: there's still other professionals that are coming in playing hardest
Speaker 1: shit and they're still trying to win. And then too,
Speaker 1: the close out of game on the road. Man, I
Speaker 1: don't know what people want. People want all this heartfelt
Speaker 1: drama and going down in seven games. Nah, they ain't
Speaker 1: the script here. They script the damn there seventeen sixteen
Speaker 1: games better than anybody in the East. They steamrolled through
Speaker 1: your team. If your best player, then your team will
Speaker 1: really steamroll you. And it is what it is like that,
Speaker 1: And then too, you're down on the road. Ain't teen
Speaker 1: pe They think that you could just hit a button
Speaker 1: and all sudden you're tied. No, man, you have to
Speaker 1: go win on the road. And it's hard as ship
Speaker 1: to win in the role, and it's even more hard
Speaker 1: to close out a team. But they know the Celtics
Speaker 1: for all this other ship that they can't control, and
Speaker 1: that's out of their control. What the fuck out here
Speaker 1: with that? This is where we at with it. Well,
Speaker 1: you understand that health is a factor every year. I
Speaker 1: got it.
Speaker 4: Ain't on them to me. They did what they're supposed
Speaker 4: to do. Now, did they get tested in this road?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I thought they got tested in some of them close
Speaker 4: games versus Indiana. Yeah, I get it that it was
Speaker 4: against guys like niem Hard and Nie Smith.
Speaker 1: He's a professional NBA players. You're talking about this start
Speaker 1: on the NBA. But they did what they niggas acting
Speaker 1: like these G league niggas on these some mother motherfuckers
Speaker 1: from over Komba, y'all some shit or from a different lead. Bro.
Speaker 1: These are NBA players.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean yeah, absolutely, So listen shut out to
Speaker 4: c They deal what they had to do.
Speaker 1: They had their business right, did what they had to do.
Speaker 4: And here they are playing for another opportunity to hang
Speaker 4: up another banner.
Speaker 1: So that's all I gotta say to this. You will
Speaker 1: put nigga and then at the end you find out
Speaker 1: his left hand was hurt. That's not on you, man.
Speaker 1: He shouldn't have took the fight. That's what I'm saying. Bro.
Speaker 1: They are handling business as a number one seed. You know,
Speaker 1: the sea's locked in. They don't give it, man, They
Speaker 1: locked into what it is. And you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know what the tough battle testing way. What do you
Speaker 1: mean like, yeah, man, it is what it is. Man. Listen,
Speaker 1: if I'm the Seeds, I'm cool. They ain't taking no
Speaker 1: real you know, no real blows. Everybody's really healthy and
Speaker 1: as healthy as they can be. They got some rip
Speaker 1: they getting ramly they need they need porzingis I think
Speaker 1: for sure when I am looking at the scenario getting
Speaker 1: to the finals, Man, this is the way you want
Speaker 1: it if you're the Celtics. They didn't lose any other players,
Speaker 1: nobody took any major hits or none of that shit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: y'all going into the fucking finals rested. Man, this is
Speaker 1: the This is the as perfect as a scenario as
Speaker 1: you can going to the finals. Man. Usually when you're
Speaker 1: going the finals, man, seven, eight of y'all are damn
Speaker 1: near twenty thirty. You got four different things going on.
Speaker 1: We see each other every day, were still working, but
Speaker 1: then you got a bunch of you know, the other
Speaker 1: guys getting better, and man, bro, it is it is.
Speaker 1: It is a poll. It is a heavy pull through
Speaker 1: the desert.
Speaker 4: You feel stand like it's something something is hurting or
Speaker 4: injured or something something. And the two finals we went to,
Speaker 4: I I was the one sprain knee and then the
Speaker 4: second one I was playing on turf toe.
Speaker 1: Like this is the best something every year. This is
Speaker 1: the best scenario for the Celtics. Not only are they
Speaker 1: getting rest, but they're getting their best players rest. They
Speaker 1: getting to go through film and guess what they got,
Speaker 1: Sam Cassell over there, they got they got they got
Speaker 1: some pieces over there. That's that's not one and he
Speaker 1: over there sharing lit. So man, listen, shout to the
Speaker 1: Seas for handling their business. And yeah, I look forward
Speaker 1: to a great final whoever they end up with Organs.
Speaker 2: And just to kind of go into porzingis a little
Speaker 2: bit more. How is it, you know, missing a big
Speaker 2: chunk of the playoffs and then you come back and
Speaker 2: it's the NBA Finals and his first NBA finals? Is
Speaker 2: there some hesitancy on his side? Is he thinking about
Speaker 2: his calf? Like, what do you think the mindset is
Speaker 2: of a player that's coming back from an injury and
Speaker 2: then being inserted into the finals.
Speaker 4: I think for him, you know, the beauty about him
Speaker 4: is he doesn't have to be the best player, you know,
Speaker 4: just his presence alone on the defensive end, with his
Speaker 4: height and athletics is in the block shots and his
Speaker 4: shooting ability.
Speaker 1: You know, that's.
Speaker 4: A presence and amazing that makes this offense unlock even more.
Speaker 4: You know, So if he coming there, he's not even
Speaker 4: like same rhythm, just his presence alone.
Speaker 1: So like them them.
Speaker 4: Driving lanes that weren't there in the other set, they
Speaker 4: gonna be there because you got this dude spotting up now,
Speaker 4: you know, when they beat you baseline, you got to
Speaker 4: seven foot or just his presidence alone to have somebody
Speaker 4: kick it out, you know. So I just think I
Speaker 4: know he's not gonna be fully one hundred percent. His
Speaker 4: presence has everything to unlock that offense and defense.
Speaker 1: Now porzingis I'm saying he has the luxury of having
Speaker 1: like a been on a great team. And when you're
Speaker 1: on a great team, bro, you know, to piggyback what
Speaker 1: Paul said, he doesn't have the responsibilities of being that
Speaker 1: guy and having a checklist. Now he has a checklist,
Speaker 1: and him on the court makes the Celtics another level
Speaker 1: on both ends. And yeah, I think that he's gonna
Speaker 1: you know, I think he should have some hesitation just
Speaker 1: because but it's just not don't think that he's just
Speaker 1: not playing or not getting in rhythm when he's outside
Speaker 1: of when you see him. I'm sure they running him
Speaker 1: through drills and simulating things to be in Testa's calf,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure they know his durability, like putting them
Speaker 1: in positions to where things he know he can do.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's not gonna be in a lot of
Speaker 1: pick and rolls. They're going probably do a great job
Speaker 1: of trying to hide them. I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 1: the Celtius went zone, if if individuals ones was problem.
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, but then also the beauty about this
Speaker 1: time off, you could test it.
Speaker 4: Now you get what I'm saying. So if he come
Speaker 4: in the game, won you already know they ain't probably
Speaker 4: been through a few scrimmages.
Speaker 1: Now that's what I'm trying to tell you. He's been out.
Speaker 1: He's been out too serious, you understand. So I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure he's getting shot up and still in the rhythm.
Speaker 1: It'll just be about his their ability and how long
Speaker 1: can you have him out there. But it's a plus
Speaker 1: because look at the Celtis. They've been doing all this
Speaker 1: without him. Now you get you get a piece like that,
Speaker 1: bag man. Listen, if the Celsius can keep this team
Speaker 1: and add on to the bench a little bit, bro,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you this is the Celtics window right here.
Speaker 1: I mean for like a three four year run too.
Speaker 1: I'm on some real ship. Because you gotta think that
Speaker 1: their best players, them, you know, them two little demons
Speaker 1: over there, they gonna get better. They're gonna get meaner,
Speaker 1: they gonna get older, they gonna have a sense of responsibility.
Speaker 1: Check their growth, bro, I'm expecting them and they growth.
Speaker 1: They're gonna do some other ship watch.
Speaker 2: Speaking of the growth, Jalen Brown wins the Eastern Conference
Speaker 2: Finals NBP.
Speaker 3: He missed the All NBA NOD.
Speaker 2: I think people are critical of that or missing that
Speaker 2: just kind of what have you seen from Jalen Brown
Speaker 2: over this playoff series that you've seen his growth and
Speaker 2: development as a player.
Speaker 1: Actually, I like I like when players play mad. I
Speaker 1: like when players play with an edge. I think to
Speaker 1: be motivating in this league says a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: in the world of everything and a lot of things
Speaker 1: to be you know, influenced by the fact that you know,
Speaker 1: he still cares and you know wants to you know,
Speaker 1: you know what he really wants some respect on his name. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some respect on the boy's name. Man. So that's that's
Speaker 1: what he's in the conversation and funk all that what
Speaker 1: he get paid. I'm talking about the doing. What he
Speaker 1: doing on the court, it's a fucking force and I
Speaker 1: love that. I hope they leave him out of some
Speaker 1: more awards so he go crazy again straight up, But yeah.
Speaker 1: Man shout to him. Man shout to Jay Brown for
Speaker 1: doing this thing and keep going. Job not finished, Job finished. No,
Speaker 1: he really playing. I think JB really playing with a
Speaker 1: chip on his shoulder. You know, did you hear it?
Speaker 1: Like when you listen to him, he's supposed to I
Speaker 1: like it.
Speaker 4: He got he got the MVP when they yelled at
Speaker 4: when Max, when Cornbrad called him out for like to
Speaker 4: get the MVP. He was like, oh, like, oh me,
Speaker 4: you know, I really don't be expecting all of that,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. Huh, you know, he really
Speaker 4: don't be expecting all of that. So I was just like, damn.
Speaker 4: Then when he went to the press conference, you know,
Speaker 4: he was like, damn, you know, I really don't win nothing.
Speaker 1: I ain't never won nothing, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It was just like, damn.
Speaker 4: I was shocked. He was like, I'm shocked. He's like,
Speaker 4: I'm shocked that gave its. He wasn't expecting it though,
Speaker 4: he just going out there. Hooper's like, you know, I
Speaker 4: wasn't even really expecting. I'm just doing me, So you know,
Speaker 4: I'm thankful to the to the highest, and like I'm
Speaker 4: thinking he really using this cause he looked he made
Speaker 4: second team All NBA last year. Now he on a
Speaker 4: sixty sixty four win team and they only get one
Speaker 4: player on the first team.
Speaker 1: That didn't make no sense to the league. Gotta change
Speaker 1: a lot of things, bro, Yeah, they gotta change. So
Speaker 1: you know, I think that a lot of the Marlin
Speaker 1: names that were bigger names didn't have good seasons. I'm
Speaker 1: just being one hundred and.
Speaker 4: They probably put up the numbers, but I don't think
Speaker 4: like they teams didn't play well.
Speaker 1: En hit that ship, like I think he.
Speaker 4: Should have got it over I thought I thought he
Speaker 4: should have got it maybe over at Booker or Kawhi.
Speaker 4: I mean truthfully, like later they both.
Speaker 1: Had a better year. He was on a better team,
Speaker 1: better team. You dropped one of them. Ain't nobody tripping.
Speaker 4: And it's not a knock on them, but I just
Speaker 4: thought the team success. You know, shit kind.
Speaker 1: Of like, man, this is the Nash Clear. You know
Speaker 1: what you do in the vision you notice like the
Speaker 1: Nash back if your stocking' what it is if you
Speaker 1: ain't putting in the body of working that year. Man,
Speaker 1: your peers overside you or overseed you. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, it's just what it is. You know, Kawhi
Speaker 1: was hurt the ship, I mean Booker, Booker and uh
Speaker 1: and and Phoenix. What then paying out to what we
Speaker 1: what we thought, man, the fucking Celsius was what we
Speaker 1: thought the whole fucking year. And they was consistent. You're
Speaker 1: supposed to reward a couple of those guys on that ship,
Speaker 1: but really they got damn near the best there starting
Speaker 1: five in the league. Can't even say all that ship. Noah,
Speaker 1: we're saying it, and they should have been rewarded for Sorry,
Speaker 1: you know what he like motivated, motivated. I love it.
Speaker 1: I hope I hope they don't get him some more ship.
Speaker 1: He keeping through. Shouldn't get that. Let me get the
Speaker 1: big track that Nigga said. I'm two gays from the finals.
Speaker 1: Don't give a fuck about that. That's what trophy that's winning.
Speaker 1: Let's get it man. Then and then too, I hate
Speaker 1: that they touched that Eastern the Eastern Conference ball, Yo.
Speaker 1: A rule that was a rule we had do not
Speaker 1: touch the rock, right, everybody knew what that meant. Don't
Speaker 1: touch it. Now, I wonder where that is at to
Speaker 1: this day. I think we threw that ball away the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference Championship. I think I think we had an
Speaker 1: assistant pick it up because none of us would touch dude.
Speaker 1: Nobody wanted it like so much. That ship was like
Speaker 1: I think we was giving it to Rondo. I think
Speaker 1: because wasn't on it. Ain't none of us on that ship.
Speaker 4: And nobody was on it. I don't know where that
Speaker 4: trump finished today. It's not nowhere because you know they don't.
Speaker 4: That trophy is nowhere, Like, I don't know if it's anywhere.
Speaker 4: Just think I think they giving them a charity, y'all.
Speaker 4: Like here, put this in your living room.
Speaker 1: Maybe like to the Boys and Girls Club or something
Speaker 1: like that, to get a grandma. Here, Grandma, go put
Speaker 1: down this mantal pieces. You know what I'm saying. You
Speaker 1: played Hooper prints. Hell yeah, you played Hooper print not
Speaker 1: to be on No Chapelle ship. So just slow you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Like you was Hooper, y'all was
Speaker 1: in the same gym shooting. Lord, listen, real ship you got,
Speaker 1: he can hit me out. Everybody that's been to Paisley
Speaker 1: Park past two thirty know what I'm talking about. Damn,
Speaker 1: that's that's late. Lord. Lord, we've being the club and
Speaker 1: bro coming there and he'll just grab a couple of
Speaker 1: us and then you grab whoever and then we're out.
Speaker 1: So he would do that and then he would be
Speaker 1: performing new music and ship too because he had the
Speaker 1: stage and it was like a little it was like
Speaker 1: a it's like a big ass studio, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But in the studio he got places where record.
Speaker 1: He at a place where he auditions and you know,
Speaker 1: kind of goes through his acting what he's gonna do
Speaker 1: on tour. And then he got well.
Speaker 4: You're talking about this was like a out of like
Speaker 4: a at a house or in a park.
Speaker 1: And this is at his studio called Paisley Park Studio
Speaker 1: crib in there he living there. He got a whole,
Speaker 1: it's a whole, a b n C. You feel me.
Speaker 1: But in the joint it looks like a big ass stage,
Speaker 1: like a sound stage, and part on the side. He
Speaker 1: got a court in there and Lord in there like AI.
Speaker 1: And he's from the North side. If anybody on the
Speaker 1: north side of Minneapolis, that's some goon ship like that,
Speaker 1: ain't you know? North and south of the straight up.
Speaker 1: And he in there talking the Cold Cash Ship. He
Speaker 1: play out of his shirt. He in there looking like
Speaker 1: Prince hair going I could I couldn't even wow. Lord,
Speaker 1: But it's also a concert going on. Niggas over here.
Speaker 1: You know again, dice game in here?
Speaker 4: You know it's just man, this is just a spot
Speaker 4: where he's just like this ship was on seven in
Speaker 4: the morning, right right, This is this is that little
Speaker 4: getaway to Shisney.
Speaker 1: Yah. Yeah, crack, I can't even imagine ball hard. I'm
Speaker 1: talking like Game two eleven one talking that ship. You
Speaker 1: better get up like he ain't doing all that. He
Speaker 1: likes that. He like he got handles hands. What you
Speaker 1: mean you hear me hit you with a flurry of blows. Brother,
Speaker 1: you ain't see the window, nobody, but I know I'm
Speaker 1: from the hood, lord, nigga who running it? Everybody in
Speaker 1: there trying to guard him here in the yard dropping
Speaker 1: your give me your face side, if you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Right, ain't no, ain't all that little other
Speaker 1: ship that the world was you like? Was you like it?
Speaker 1: I would have been. I was all all in awe, Man,
Speaker 1: I'm in here looking like man. I wish my mama
Speaker 1: could I was over that like I'm in here watching
Speaker 1: Prisy like man, you like trying. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We couldn't. We couldn't. I would have been at all
Speaker 1: done like about it because you know you might not
Speaker 1: get invited back, so you know, kept it. You have
Speaker 1: to keep it cool with you. You could shirt the
Speaker 1: people right right, So that's but yeah, I did that
Speaker 1: twice with it, and I was fortunate to be part
Speaker 1: of that. Joe. You never went to his real ship
Speaker 1: because chan Hanson, which was away from anything but Paisley
Speaker 1: Parkers where he entertained, and then you got to hear
Speaker 1: some new ship. Then he would go back and do
Speaker 1: like Nikki or he'll do doves cry just for the
Speaker 1: fun of it. Like I don't know if y'all Prince fans,
Speaker 1: but Nikki one of the partiest fucking sons he ever did.
Speaker 1: And then he would do it with the big ass
Speaker 1: guitarist Purple ship came on his own, he would do
Speaker 1: like like a rip for like twenty second, did here
Speaker 1: go once? No girl name? They come off that motherfucker
Speaker 1: like yo, if you exactly no, no, no, yeah, yeah, year,
Speaker 1: I'm in here like now, riding home, I'm supposed to
Speaker 1: hit the exit like twenty minutes ago. Out. I'm in
Speaker 1: the man, I not missed my man. You ain't got
Speaker 1: no flicks in the bliss nah, bro, what like that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I know? Yeah, yeah yeah yeah, right right right right
Speaker 1: right that ship right here? Man, come on here, man here, hair,
Speaker 1: breakfast and everything. Let me get out of there, brocause
Speaker 1: you know, artist, they stay in the studio all day.
Speaker 1: I did, right man, what seven o'clock ain't ship to
Speaker 1: and autist they're still in there. That's falling hard sweating.
Speaker 1: What you need to do? You know what you need
Speaker 1: to do with this story? Animation? Yeah, animation. We need
Speaker 1: to animate this story. I never know where else going
Speaker 1: with that.
Speaker 4: Tell you lewis Man shout to we need to do
Speaker 4: an animation of this story right.
Speaker 1: Here, Win and Hoop and Michael or Prince Michael who
Speaker 1: I never seen Michael Jackson who you remember the Jordan commercials.
Speaker 1: I saw that dribble going off, how he was drebbling
Speaker 1: Prince with bonush it out of Michael. It'll be more
Speaker 1: like Prince versus like Chris Brown. That's a better You
Speaker 1: don't know Chris Ball quick enough right right that that
Speaker 1: nigga had a right to left, Yeah, he had a
Speaker 1: right to left. Yeah, like iconic artist. It's like then listen,
Speaker 1: Prince was short, small, compacting fast, some mighty mouse ship
Speaker 1: and hair blowing lord looking like my sister out that
Speaker 1: motherfucker give you work talking ship A yeah, yeah A
Speaker 1: that that's what when you're sitting over it. So when
Speaker 1: the Chappelle ship came out, I had because I got
Speaker 1: the crew. He is not lying. He is not lying
Speaker 1: all that other ship with Charlie Murray. I don't know
Speaker 1: all that, but he is not. I saw the man
Speaker 1: who in real life, and I was like, yeah, he
Speaker 1: would beat the average person. Damn crazy shape too. Right now,
Speaker 1: right now, he beat Nate. Right He'll bone everybody in
Speaker 1: this room church, hell broom, He'll boneus out of Damn
Speaker 1: he can shoot, he can damn yellous sight up back board.
Speaker 1: I saw it. I ain't seen it late. I gotta
Speaker 1: see where it said. He got the little knuckleball on it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you know what I'm saying. But Dave Chappelle for
Speaker 1: bringing that up straight up, that's a well kept secret
Speaker 1: that I don't really think he wanted out here. That's funny.
Speaker 1: You're welcome, certified, yeap. So when I got to Boston,
Speaker 1: you notice when they give you your jersey and your locker.
Speaker 1: On the side of your locker, it shows you who
Speaker 1: wre yeah, number yeah and Badley and Bill Walton is
Speaker 1: on my list for the number five. Oh yeah, that's right, yep.
Speaker 1: And I think Johnny Joe does that or the Celtics
Speaker 1: do that. So that you understand the responsibility of the
Speaker 1: number that you're about to represent for the people that
Speaker 1: actually repped it before you. And when I say, when
Speaker 1: I came to Boston, it felt different. This what was
Speaker 1: different that you embedded in not just a culture, but
Speaker 1: a circular network of players of greatness that came in here.
Speaker 1: And to your talent and who you are, who you
Speaker 1: think you are, you have a responsibility to plug into
Speaker 1: that network. And I felt that ship. And when I
Speaker 1: was the anchor of the defense, I felt the energy
Speaker 1: of When I talked to Bill, that was our connection.
Speaker 1: He was asking me, man, were you anchoring it? What
Speaker 1: you what you're seeing? And the connection in the conversation
Speaker 1: was that. And then he would tell me how he
Speaker 1: would talk the Cools or what they are, what their
Speaker 1: language was, how they were talking, calling out pison and
Speaker 1: he was just giving me lit lord And that was
Speaker 1: what my connection in my eye to while I was
Speaker 1: in there in the bliss to to the Celtics was
Speaker 1: that the responsibility to your talent as to who you
Speaker 1: think you are amongst these grace that's come in here,
Speaker 1: much like the Greek gods of the African gods. And
Speaker 1: that's how I felt, bro. And you get another energy
Speaker 1: from that ship. And then one day you look up
Speaker 1: and them niggas sitting there there watching you, watching you practice.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, how the fuck I'm gonna sit out
Speaker 1: with Bill Russell here watching us practice? Man, you might man,
Speaker 1: and now practice already. Don't hunt it right? We practiced
Speaker 1: how we hoo? And we were niggas man Ty and
Speaker 1: b and me and baby and this man. I don't
Speaker 1: even know how Doc managed all that, but that's what
Speaker 1: it was. Yeah. So shout to Bill walk man and
Speaker 1: representing the five and I hope, you know, made him
Speaker 1: proud for real. Shit. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I had quite a few interactions with Bill, you know.
Speaker 4: Obviously he came to Boston quite a lot and attended
Speaker 4: a lot of like Foundation parties and games and you know,
Speaker 4: just being around doing TV and the one thing that
Speaker 4: always kind of stood up to me. I remember when
Speaker 4: I first met because Bill Walter is kind of intimidating,
Speaker 4: like you don't really know if you should speak to him.
Speaker 4: Like when I first met him, you like, you know, no,
Speaker 4: he's not inviting right right, you know, I'm kind of
Speaker 4: like checking the temperature with him. But then when I
Speaker 4: was in the same room with him, I remember the
Speaker 4: first time he was just like, how you doing. You know,
Speaker 4: he got that are you doing, Paul? And then and
Speaker 4: then once he opened up, you see how jeer for
Speaker 4: he is. You know what I'm saying. He's really got
Speaker 4: a big personality. And he was just like, Paul, just
Speaker 4: love you, man, Just continue to be you don't give
Speaker 4: a debt what people think about you and everything, and
Speaker 4: you know everything will turn out the way you want it.
Speaker 4: And he just always was like share that message with me.
Speaker 4: And then when you look at how he was, you know,
Speaker 4: he was always himself and different and you know it
Speaker 4: was grateful, big concerts and you know, he wore different shirts.
Speaker 1: He was just him.
Speaker 4: He was joyful to be around too, man, And we
Speaker 4: got comfortable around each other throughout the years and we
Speaker 4: always showed each other mutual respect, and you know, it
Speaker 4: was shocking me the truthfully, when when I saw it
Speaker 4: across the ticker on TV.
Speaker 1: You look healthy, he looked. When I see him. He's
Speaker 1: always smiling, he's always bouncing around. He looks mobile, you know,
Speaker 1: and some of the old guys get older. Man, they're
Speaker 1: not moving well. He was moving well. He was still
Speaker 1: calling games man when I saw that ship man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, it was sort of a shock, but it
Speaker 4: was a sad day. It was a sad day for
Speaker 4: the NBA brotherhood or you know. So you know, as
Speaker 4: as we continue, hopefully we can continue his legacy and continue,
Speaker 4: uh to help him be remembered, you know, through his
Speaker 4: through the things he done, not on and not only
Speaker 4: in the game of basketball, but you know, in TV
Speaker 4: and broadcasting and I thought he changed the game in
Speaker 4: that aspect also, Uh, you know, he kept he kept alive,
Speaker 4: He kept it alive for players to transition into that,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. And so he was a
Speaker 4: good he was. Yeah, he was a pioneer, uh in
Speaker 4: that aspect. One of the greatest college players, NBA players.
Speaker 4: It's a it's a it's a it's it's always that
Speaker 4: that damn what if with him too, you know, he
Speaker 4: could have been one of the greatest ever because he
Speaker 4: was coming behind I think he was right behind Kareem right,
Speaker 4: he was right behind Kareem Uh at UCLA because you
Speaker 4: know that Kareem had ran his off then and then
Speaker 4: Ben Walton coming in USLA. I'm talking about UCLA, and
Speaker 4: then he came in uh and ran his chair. He
Speaker 4: had one of the great college careers in UCLA, winning
Speaker 4: multiple national championships, multiple National.
Speaker 1: Player of the Years, and then he carried it into
Speaker 1: the NBA to.
Speaker 4: Where he his first few years, he won a championship
Speaker 4: with the Portland Trail Blazers, and then he started to
Speaker 4: have a lot of problems with his knees and feet.
Speaker 1: Could get that under control, Yeah, his.
Speaker 4: Knees and feet, and he just never bounced back to
Speaker 4: where the level he was at, but his contributions were
Speaker 4: never gonna
Speaker 1: Notice and we appreciate him.