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Speaker 1: this is the I Am Rappaport Stereo Podcast. It's my

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Speaker 1: Am rapp Reports Stereo Podcast, talking Mark Sadness, NBA Madness,

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Speaker 1: But first, like I said, it's my birthday and I'll

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Speaker 1: It's my birthday, Okay. I am now officially forty eight

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Speaker 1: years old. Three twenty five six in the morning, I

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Speaker 1: came screeching, scratching, clawing, and talking ship right out of

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Speaker 1: my mother's china and the world hasn't been quiet since.

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Speaker 1: Give a shout out to my mom, June, my father,

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Speaker 1: and my brother Eric for dealing with all my ship

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Speaker 1: throughout the years. I know it hasn't been easy. Let

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Speaker 1: me give a shout out to my dog, Wheezy. I

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Speaker 1: was thinking about this, My dog Wheezy. Okay, he knows

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Speaker 1: me better than anyone, even better than my wife, better

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Speaker 1: than Gee Moody, better than my mom and my dad.

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Speaker 1: He's heard it all. He's looking at me right now

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Speaker 1: while I'm podcasting. He must think I'm fucking nuts because

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Speaker 1: And I took him, and he slept in my bed

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Speaker 1: that very first night. The motherfucker thinks I'm his father. Wheezy,

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Speaker 1: Nineteen seventy two, broke my femur, fell off a bed. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I had a diaper cast on, and it's a fact.

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Speaker 1: My mother, she will verify this. Six months after having

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Speaker 1: and let's get the funk out of you. Now. I'm

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Speaker 1: not blaming my mother for the filthy language that I have, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I am just I'm just stating history. Okay. I feel

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Speaker 1: My skin looks great. So I'm shooting a typical season two.

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Speaker 1: And there's a woman who works on the show, the

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Speaker 1: makeup artist. She cleans my face. She she gets the

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Speaker 1: what's in the box? I just never liked the number

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Speaker 1: forty seven. It's round, it's got a round the circles.

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Speaker 1: It's better round forty eight. It's it's just a better

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Speaker 1: Forty seven. The year two thousand seventeen, the year that

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Speaker 1: I had some health issues. I lost my voice. That

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Speaker 1: Greno Man Dingo. That was a struggle. That was a

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Speaker 1: big cursor. In the seventies, you know, I grew up

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Speaker 1: I'm forty eight. I'm a pisces. Okay, I'm on the

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Speaker 1: I feel good. I look good. I know I look good.

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Speaker 1: God for bid something happens to Tylu. It's a stressful

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Speaker 1: fucking job. You heard that David Fizdale interview. Okay five

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Speaker 1: data for data. He was on the podcast last week

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Speaker 1: Listen to It, Learn It, Love It Sean Payton, NFL coach.

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Speaker 1: He talked about the stress, the amount of work, the

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Speaker 1: Tyler is the coach of the most scrutinized basketball team

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Speaker 1: But that being said, there's no championship rings there's no championships,

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Speaker 1: there's no Eastern Conference Finals, there's no game sevens that

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Speaker 1: are more important than your life. So I wish Hilu

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Speaker 1: year in the NBA, there's been many storylines, James Harden,

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Speaker 1: do that now. I had dinner with somebody the other day.

418
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: I was home at twelve thirty. Fucked me up for

419
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: three days. I'm literally embedded eight. I don't care a ship,

420
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 1: watch my shows, go to sleep. It's not because I'm old.

421
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 1: Since what do I need to be out for. You

422
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,439
Speaker 1: like to get up early? Get my fucking mind together.

423
00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 1: But I remember, um, this is ship. My first son

424
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: was born two thousand one. It's coming home late. I

425
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: don't know, but maybe it was before he was born

426
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 1: two thousand two. Who the funk knows? Okay, coyote ran

427
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 1: across my roof. I had a house in the hills.

428
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 1: The roof was low or it was high, but then

429
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 1: at a certain point it got low. Cowdy was running

430
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:26,159
Speaker 1: across my roof, ran past my fucking leg, grazed my

431
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 1: leg and ran past me, scared the ship out of me.

432
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: Scared the ship out of me. When I would walk

433
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: my two dogs, my old dog Stanley, not you easy,

434
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: now you, I'm not talking about you. Looking at it

435
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: isn't know what the fun is going on. My old

436
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 1: dog Stanley may he rest in peace, was a she um.

437
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 1: And my other dog, Frankie, my first dog, pure bread

438
00:28:54,960 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 1: uh lab chocolate lab um. When i'd walk him at

439
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: night in the hills, coyotes would walk like up to us,

440
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: like they were gonna rob us. I would be frozen

441
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: with fear. I never like these little fuckers. Okay. So

442
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 1: of course, when I see a coyote in my neighborhood

443
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: carrying a dead cat in his fucking mouth, I don't

444
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: know why people think that that's funny. Okay, I'm scared

445
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: of those motherfucker's. Okay, And you should be in Los Angeles, California,

446
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 1: in the city of l A like the Great Tupac

447
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 1: one said. In the city of good Old Watts, California. Love.

448
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 1: A five year old boy was bitten on a California

449
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 1: college campus just the other day. The boy suffered a

450
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 1: minor leg wound. He is being tested for other diseases,

451
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: and what else could be wrong with you don't know

452
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: what the funk these coyotes could have. You don't know

453
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: what what what if you you listen, you can catch

454
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: something from kissing somebody. I'm I'm pretty sure and I

455
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: don't feel like I want to share it. On my

456
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: forty birthday, I shared when in seven I called Gnaria

457
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: the one time I had an STD. I had an STD,

458
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 1: just started having sex, probably had sex with my fifth

459
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 1: or six girls. The time. I was nuts, I said,

460
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 1: basketball pack practice. Long story short, I felt like I

461
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: pissed myself. Look down in my loaf, little green snot

462
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 1: coming out of my loaf. Scared the shift out of me.

463
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 1: Scared the shift out of me. I had to go

464
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 1: see the the what is not the doctor, they called

465
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 1: it the not the physician. This is in Martin Luther

466
00:30:54,960 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: King High School. Okay, gave me a little pill. Shameful,

467
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 1: shameful as a grown up, even more shameful as a

468
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: seventeen year old. Go in there, a woman gotta unfold

469
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: the loaf, stick the que tip up your loaf, tell you, yeah,

470
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 1: you you got gonna rhea. Nasty fuck you seventeen. You

471
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: don't have the balls to tell the girls, two or

472
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: three girls that you're sleeping around with I got green.

473
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: Dick's not coming out of my dick. I hate to

474
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: offend anybody. I know that's graphic. Okay, I'm just telling you.

475
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: I don't even know how I got Oh yeah, you

476
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: can have to get that from having sex. So if

477
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 1: you get bit by a fucking wild coyote, who the

478
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: hell knows what you could catch. You don't know what

479
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: you could catch. So this college campus is on high alert.

480
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: They want to kill the fucking coyote. They want to

481
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: catch him and kill him. And I understand. Imagine if

482
00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: you're out there running around in a field or a

483
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: part with your five year old and he he gets bit

484
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: by a fucking forget a dog, coyote cuttle kick could

485
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: turn into a fucking werewolf. You don't know what the

486
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 1: fund had happened. You don't know what could happen. That

487
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: little kid could be playing whiffle ball in a couple

488
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: of days, get angry and turn into a fucking werewolf.

489
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 1: I'd be scared shit if I was that kid's parents.

490
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: What else I'm gonna give an update on the sick

491
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: fuck of the Week from last week. This is some

492
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: some more sick weird stuff. Remember the high school teacher,

493
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: Remember the guy who fed the puppy to a snapping

494
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 1: turtle in Idaho. This is a school teacher, a junior

495
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: high school teacher, right sna snapping turtle to a puppy. Well,

496
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 1: the puppy had to be euthanized, because what are you

497
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 1: gonna do. You're trying to create some kind of fucking

498
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: dinosaur animal. You feed a puppy a snapping turtle in

499
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: front of kids, the puppy has to be put down.

500
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: You sick fuck. So not only did you kill the turtle,

501
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 1: you sick fuck, the puppy had to go. Also, lock

502
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 1: this fucking guy up. This guy can't be a goddamn

503
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: school teacher, killed the turtle and they had to humanely

504
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: euthanize the puppy because it is sick animal. Last week's

505
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: sick funck a week. All right, that's it. Listen. I

506
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: can only do so much, Okay, I got birthday parties.

507
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: I am actually wearing. There's a party store in Los

508
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: Angeles on Melrose. Anybody from Los Angeles will a test

509
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: this called the party Store. I went there by myself

510
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: yesterday and I got myself a fucking birthday had. That's right,

511
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: that's right. I'm wearing my own birthday had. Okay. Now

512
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: I don't want presents, I don't want anything. I just

513
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: liked the number. Forty eight, Okay. I went out of

514
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 1: my way to tell people, don't do any surprises. Not

515
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: that anyone was was gonna surprise me. Told my wife,

516
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: don't surprise me. Told the young shooter, don't surprise me.

517
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: Told the dust brothers, do not surprise me. Now, none

518
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 1: of them may have even been thinking or considering doing

519
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,919
Speaker 1: me a surprise party. Maybe that was just wishful thinking.

520
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:16,280
Speaker 1: Maybe I was trying to do reverse psychology on you. Fox. Okay,

521
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,360
Speaker 1: I'm just excited that I looked so good. I feel

522
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: so good. Hopefully my inflammation is down and I can

523
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: continue on the road of looking fantastic at forty eight,

524
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: getting lean and mean and doing the damn thing all right.

525
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 1: Coming up next, my main man, Sexy Rex Chapman. Do

526
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: you know that Rex Chapman was my basketball camp counselor

527
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: at the five Star basketball camp, and I believe seven

528
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:52,320
Speaker 1: or eight. He was one year out of Kentucky. After

529
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,800
Speaker 1: his freshman year, he made a splash at Kentucky high

530
00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: flying white boy, dunking on people's fucking heads at the

531
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: University of Kentucky, winning dunk contes is, doing all kinds

532
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: of flight shit, talking all kinds of ship. And then

533
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,959
Speaker 1: he was my camp counselor. I was like, oh, ship,

534
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:16,280
Speaker 1: we reconnected. Later last year, we're at the NBA Finals together.

535
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:20,320
Speaker 1: He was there with me with the plunger, with the broom.

536
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 1: We're talking all sorts of basketball, n C A A.

537
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: It's March madness. We're talking to NBA. We're talking old

538
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: school players. We're talking rookies of the year. We're talking

539
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,320
Speaker 1: who's gonna be the number one pick in the NBA

540
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: Draft this summer, and so much more. The sexy baritone voice,

541
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:44,760
Speaker 1: Kentucky Wildcat, flying Unicorn, my main man, Rex Chapman. Coming

542
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:49,800
Speaker 1: up next on the I Am Rappaport Stereo podcast, Miles

543
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,359
Speaker 1: Jordan's let me get something funky to bring us into

544
00:35:52,360 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 1: Rex Chapman. All right, you're about to hear the sexy

545
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: baritone voice. Uh man. They used to call them wonder boy.

546
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 1: I think they called him the wonder Kid. At some

547
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: point they king Rex A. K the Wonder Boy. Some

548
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:22,879
Speaker 1: people refer to him. I don't know if he made

549
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 1: this up on your own as sexy Rexy my Man,

550
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 1: former camp counselor at the Five Star Basketball Camp. Um,

551
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: I'm surprised, uh that nothing happened to me, that it

552
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: made it out there, out of there alive. Rex Chapman

553
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: is with me on the Iron Rappaport Stereo podcast. Um,

554
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: what can I say? Rex? It's March. This is your

555
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:52,760
Speaker 1: time of year, right right? I am. I'm the country

556
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: Barry White? Is that what you're saying? Listen? You got

557
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: a nice is it a bone? Like? Have you got

558
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: a nice country? Drool? I mean you know, I mean

559
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 1: I I ushould be like a voiceover artist like you

560
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 1: could be doing like commercials and Chevy. You could be

561
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 1: like Chevy tough, like you know they got like those

562
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 1: commercials where like it's like I got my car, I

563
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: go fishing. That's right, That's right. I could do that stuff.

564
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:20,800
Speaker 1: Think about it. I could be all kinds of a sellout. Yeah, sellout,

565
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 1: sell in, man, sell out, sell in. It's time to

566
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 1: sell it. Man. I got you, I got you, Rex Chapman,

567
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: my man, how you feeling, my friend? I'm great. It

568
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 1: is a great time. Of year, right Mite, I mean,

569
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:38,760
Speaker 1: come on, what's better? We got basketball every level high school, college,

570
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: n B A G league. I mean it's all. It's

571
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 1: the middle of March. Let me just jump into it

572
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: with you. Yes, when you think back to your your

573
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: career at Kentucky, right, uh, you know you guys never

574
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: did that great. You made it to the sweet sixteen

575
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: your second season at Kentucky, right right? Well, when I

576
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: asked you, like, during your two years at Kentucky, who

577
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 1: are the best players that you played against just to Kentucky,

578
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 1: Like you know they may never have gotten for like, well,

579
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 1: who were the guys that most impressed you going against

580
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: them during your time at Kentucky? Um, David Robinson was

581
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 1: the first. And then the second one that comes right

582
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: to mine is mad Max Vernon Maxwell. Um that he

583
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: was burned wash two years ahead, but that was those

584
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 1: were my two years in school, so I played against

585
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 1: him both of my years. But he was a couple

586
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,359
Speaker 1: of years older than me, and just he beat up

587
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: beat me up my freshman year and then I was

588
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,359
Speaker 1: able to keep up a little better my sophomore year.

589
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 1: But he was he was really good, fast, crazy, uh funny. Uh.

590
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:59,359
Speaker 1: Mad Max could really play. Um, I'm trying to play well.

591
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,879
Speaker 1: I will tell you, and I tell him this too.

592
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: First time I played against Steve Alford, I was a freshman,

593
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: he was a senior, and I remember playing that game

594
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,240
Speaker 1: and they beat us. I think I had a bunch

595
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 1: and he had a bunch. And I remember thinking, oh, man,

596
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: if if he's the best player in college, I can

597
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: maybe play in the NBA. Did you really did you

598
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:24,919
Speaker 1: really think? That's what I thought. That was the very

599
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 1: first time I thought. But you know, I didn't know

600
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,280
Speaker 1: he was. He was supposed to be, you know, really great,

601
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 1: and he was. He was really great. But he was

602
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: also a six ft two strictly to guard. So you know,

603
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 1: I love him, love him to death. But yeah, did

604
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: you did you play against him in Indiana? Yeah? We

605
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: played them my my first I probably bought my I

606
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:54,280
Speaker 1: don't know, third, fourth, fifth game in college. We played

607
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 1: them at their place. They wouldn't play us at at

608
00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: our place. They would come and play us in Louisville

609
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 1: at at at Freedom Hall. They would Bobby wouldn't come

610
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 1: playing rapp Arena, but we would go playing Assembly Hall

611
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: and they beat us by it. They either beat us

612
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: in overtime, or beat us late. But it was a

613
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 1: good It was a good game. When you think back

614
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,760
Speaker 1: to playing against Bobby and because you know, for guys

615
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 1: our age or older, um, you know, he was such

616
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 1: a force on the silent like you know, he was

617
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,759
Speaker 1: so intimidating and like he was like a dominant Like

618
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: it was almost like like the sixth Man, like Bobby

619
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:34,799
Speaker 1: Knights there, Like you don't know if he's gonna freak

620
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 1: out on his players, and he was gonna freak out

621
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: on his car. Like was he loud? Was he vocal?

622
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: Well when when you were playing against when he was

623
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: coaching against you, definitely, I mean he was. But you know,

624
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 1: I my dad was kind of like that as a coach,

625
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 1: So I grew up seeing that kind of foolishness. I

626
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: mean just you know, irrational and you know, completely covered

627
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Speaker 1: up emotionally. Um uh, it was hell out. So I

628
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:04,319
Speaker 1: kind of got used to that. But it was it

629
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: was fun playing against him. I'll never forget. They beat

630
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: us my freshman year and then my sophomore year we

631
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 1: came back and we played them in a big thing

632
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: and at the Hoosier Dome that they called the Big Four.

633
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: It was us in Indiana and Louisville and I think

634
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: Notre Dame, and we played Indiana and I really was.

635
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: I think I ended up we beat them in overtime,

636
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: but I had probably twenty I don't know, but it

637
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:37,840
Speaker 1: was a terrible twenty. It really was. Probably was just

638
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 1: really bad until the end of regulation and then in overtime.

639
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: And I remember going into the press room afterwards, and

640
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: Bobby was in there at the microphone. In the first

641
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:51,400
Speaker 1: question I heard them ask him was what did you

642
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: think about Chapman today And he said, I, uh, he

643
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 1: definitely heard him more than he helped him today. Yeah,

644
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 1: And then you know, walk right past me on the

645
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 1: way out, just sort of nods his head, didn't say

646
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 1: a word. That's funny. Yeah, your boy Patrick Knights dead. Yep, yep.

647
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 1: Patrick Knight was a camper when you were you you

648
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: were probably a counselor for him. To God, the fact

649
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,839
Speaker 1: that they allowed you to be a counselor for for

650
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: for teenagers at a camp, I mean, anything could have happened.

651
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: Anything could have happened. Yeah, but it had to be

652
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 1: kind of dope for you guys, because what it was

653
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: being revealed right there. Yo, let me tell you something.

654
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: It was crazy. I remember distinctly seeing you and I

655
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:43,439
Speaker 1: was like, oh shit, rets Chapman, because I had seen

656
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: you in high school, like you know, in the All

657
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 1: American Game or in the dunk contest in the All

658
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: American Game, and then obviously it was such a big

659
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 1: to do your your first year at Kentucky. I was like, oh, Ship,

660
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:57,359
Speaker 1: Like it was like crazy, like as a kid, like

661
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 1: when like you know, these guys are coaching you, or

662
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: you're taking us through drills or you know, you just

663
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 1: sort of monitor the shoot arounds and stuff like, I

664
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 1: was like, this is insane. Like it was. It was

665
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 1: truly like heaven is a playground, like like that five

666
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 1: Star basketball camp. At that time, there was no cameras,

667
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: no cell phones. It was just just basketball and you're

668
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 1: just doing it. It was just happening with so much fun. Yeah,

669
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: and and for real, I mean Ramill and I were

670
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 1: probably two of the best guards in college basketball at

671
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: the time, and Mike. We were getting paid to go

672
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: back there. We were just going, you know, because Garth

673
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 1: needed us to go, asked us to go. It was.

674
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: It was. It was pretty dope back in the day.

675
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 1: So you went to five Star as a camper once,

676
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: and and really that was how I sort of blew up,

677
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 1: because you know, I've been playing around in Kentucky and stuff,

678
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 1: and then I had to go to a I had

679
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 1: to go play on a team that went to Europe

680
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 1: when I was a junior, and I was supposed to

681
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 1: go to the Nike ABC camp on my way back

682
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: from Europe, and I was too tired, and I just

683
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 1: went at home. And then uh, people at five Star,

684
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 1: We're like, once, come on up here. And then I

685
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 1: went up there and then I was, uh, j are

686
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: and all those guys were there and I end up

687
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 1: being m VP of the camp. So um, that was

688
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 1: kind of probably how I kind of vaulted onto the

689
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 1: national sort of deal. But yeah, Ramil and I were

690
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 1: there together at camp as campers with JR. Read, Terry Mills,

691
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: Derek Coleman. It was a good crew. Damn How how

692
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: good was Derek Coleman as a high school He's silly.

693
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 1: He was the best of all of us, for sure.

694
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even think that. I don't think

695
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: you could even argue that, um anymore. Derek was incredible

696
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 1: And the funny thing about him though, was d C

697
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: if you look at him you know, if you go

698
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:55,320
Speaker 1: back and you see him as a as a college

699
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 1: kid at Syracuse, he's skinny Derek Coleman now Derek colemb

700
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:04,839
Speaker 1: and everybody. Derek was always out of shade, you know.

701
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 1: I mean even when he was young like that. It

702
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: was always like, yeah, Derek gets if he loses twenty pounds,

703
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:17,240
Speaker 1: look out, well he could do everything six eleven. The

704
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:19,840
Speaker 1: thing is just to just freak people out, was he

705
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: would get the ball off the board and turn and

706
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:26,319
Speaker 1: with his right hand throw a strike to someone on

707
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 1: the other end. And Derek's left handed. He could do

708
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:34,880
Speaker 1: so much. So talented, uh, funny dude, um and and

709
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 1: a guy you always liked to be around. He could

710
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:39,800
Speaker 1: have played in today's NBA because you know, occasionally he

711
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: would be out on the perimeter. I mean he wasn't

712
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 1: like shooting threes, but he would like he had a

713
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 1: nice jump shot, like if he could have definitely, like

714
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 1: you know, if it had been today, he would have

715
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 1: been one of those guys that could have been around

716
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: the perimeter like a uh, I mean like he was

717
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:56,319
Speaker 1: kind of lamar old him like before lamar right, I

718
00:45:56,320 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 1: mean somewhat um, but yeah, Derek could lay in any era. Alright,

719
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 1: so the tournament this year, who are the teams to

720
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:08,800
Speaker 1: watch and who's the sleeper team? And at this point, Rex,

721
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 1: is that question even ridiculous? Like like it, why is

722
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 1: it ridiculous? You don't know what else is gonna happen, right,

723
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:18,399
Speaker 1: you don't know all those numbers. Everybody over the next

724
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: few days is gonna be loaning to believe in that

725
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:23,760
Speaker 1: there's a number in front of those teams. Those kids

726
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: are all eighteen to twenty one years old. Uh, they're

727
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 1: all they're all playing with a bunch of bad referees

728
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 1: referee in the games. And the twelve in front of

729
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: Davidson and the five in front of Kentucky who are

730
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 1: legitimately all freshmen for Kentucky. Uh, those numbers mean nothing.

731
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: They're gonna tip those balls up and the numbers go

732
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: out the window. Everybody's gonna be surprised. But here's my

733
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 1: opinion on it is Villanova's the best team. They're the

734
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,320
Speaker 1: best team. And I think when it's said and done,

735
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: this team they had they had at least five pros

736
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 1: on their team. Really, yeah, I think so. I think

737
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,759
Speaker 1: all their starters, Um, I want to them to come

738
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: off the bench. But I like all three of their guards.

739
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:15,360
Speaker 1: And then you got Mickel Bridges, You've got uh Spellman

740
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 1: inside who's young and they're really good. I like Jave right,

741
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 1: thank he's fantastic and what he does educate me on this.

742
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 1: Who's going to be the NBA Rookie of the Year

743
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 1: next year? Like, so, who's gonna be the player that

744
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: that comes into the NBA makes a transition and wins

745
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 1: that Rookie of the Year. Like who are the guys

746
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 1: that are gonna be? You know, like if you don't

747
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 1: know them now, you don't follow a lot of college

748
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:42,280
Speaker 1: basketball like myself, Who are going to be the guys

749
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: that I should learn about now? And who's gonna be

750
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:46,879
Speaker 1: that one guy? Like this is the guy who's gonna

751
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:49,759
Speaker 1: be the number one pick? You know? If I had

752
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:52,359
Speaker 1: to guess right now, I would say be DeAndre eight

753
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: for a Marizona Okay? He kind of it kind of

754
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 1: reminds me of Patrick back in the day around the

755
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 1: same nage, you know, just physically put together. Um he

756
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:07,239
Speaker 1: I think he's legitimate, but he's also a big man

757
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:11,880
Speaker 1: in today's NBA and that's kind of you know, he

758
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 1: can't step out and shoot son. But he's a man

759
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:19,839
Speaker 1: and a man among boys right now. Um, Jaren Jackson Jr.

760
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 1: Jaren Jackson remember him, played at Georgetown, played an NBA

761
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: for a while, six five swing man son. His son

762
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 1: is a freshman at Michigan State and he's just learning.

763
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: He's six eleven and long, and I mean he he

764
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 1: beat shots up for fun. He's a professional shot balker

765
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 1: that can do it in his sleep. And then they've

766
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 1: got other kid bridges on their team. They so they

767
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 1: have two lottery thicks. What do you think of Trey

768
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:48,800
Speaker 1: Young as far as getting drafted and going into the NBA.

769
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: Is he an NBA player? He's I think he's an

770
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: NBA player, But I'm just you know, it's just my opinion. Uh.

771
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 1: I love him offensively, is beautiful offensive basketball player, can pass,

772
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: really has a great, great feel for the game. But Mike,

773
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:14,439
Speaker 1: they go at him in a college game whether he's

774
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 1: guarding the one or the two spots, and in the

775
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 1: college game, he can't defend his position. So when that's

776
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:28,360
Speaker 1: a big question mark for me. Um, Look, Stephan Curry

777
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: is not the best defender. Steve Nash not the best defender,

778
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: But those guys would fight you and at least lengthwise,

779
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 1: could you know Steve six three? Uh, try Young is

780
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: small and he's short limbs depth, long limb. You gotta

781
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:46,240
Speaker 1: have that weird mix if you're gonna be you can't

782
00:49:46,239 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 1: just strictly be an offensive player. I mean, god, I

783
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 1: would love that. I try to come back tomorrow. Now

784
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 1: when you look at like these guys, obviously you played

785
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:01,360
Speaker 1: with Dell Curry. H. I believe legend has it that

786
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:05,359
Speaker 1: you actually changed Steph Curry's diapers all right when I

787
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: was researching speaking to digging Deep. Uh, Tito Horrford, who's

788
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 1: Al Horford's dad, was in your draft class first of all, Like,

789
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 1: or do you start to feel like, oh shit, I'm

790
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:21,240
Speaker 1: old as fuck um all the time? Tito Horford's father,

791
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:24,400
Speaker 1: I mean Al Horford's dad was in your draft. Yeah,

792
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 1: Al Horford's dad. Uh, Tito hands of stone by the way,

793
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: Uh couldn't catch anything. I'm so glad Al got his

794
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:40,879
Speaker 1: mother's hands. But yeah, those guys, Harvey, Harvey Grant. You've

795
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 1: got two kids in NBA. I remember the day they

796
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:46,480
Speaker 1: were born. Um, we were, you know, on the same

797
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:50,399
Speaker 1: team with the bullets um del same rate. But it's

798
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:53,279
Speaker 1: everybody you know, it's everybody. This age was just just

799
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 1: just crazy. We're just getting old, Mike, you know it. Well, Rex,

800
00:50:57,239 --> 00:50:58,839
Speaker 1: I want to correct you. You're you're a little bit

801
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 1: older than me. Okay, So I don't want you to

802
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 1: try to drag me into this, all right, Okay, you're

803
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:06,719
Speaker 1: a little bit older than me. I mean I didn't know,

804
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:10,239
Speaker 1: like you know, Tito Horford, the fact that that was

805
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: guy was in your draft, like it just because Al

806
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:16,879
Speaker 1: Horford is like thirty something. Steph just turned thirty. So

807
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 1: like if I do the math, and I don't want

808
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:23,959
Speaker 1: to put your like you're almost like mid sixties now correct? Nah? Nice? Okay, nice?

809
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 1: So okay, okay's New York um. Now now, now, Rex,

810
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 1: who's going to be the Kyle Kuzma of next Year's

811
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: Who's going to be the guy that we're not talking

812
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 1: about now that like six months from now, I'm gonna say,

813
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: Rex Chapman told me this was gonna be Remember who

814
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:44,840
Speaker 1: you remember who I gave you last year? Guy? It

815
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:49,280
Speaker 1: was our guy, Donovan Mitchell, Yes, from Louisville. I said

816
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 1: I had him the fifth I think ranked five overall,

817
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 1: in front in front of two of my Kentucky guys

818
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 1: who I also love. But Donovan Mitchell, I've said it,

819
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:04,800
Speaker 1: he's Joe Dumars two point oh. He's got crazy bounced

820
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 1: but his integrity for the game. He never takes a

821
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 1: possession off. His teammates love him. He plays both ends,

822
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 1: he goes and gets it. That dude is a star.

823
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 1: But at this this year, I don't know, you are

824
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 1: putting me on the spot. There Auburn and they got

825
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 1: a kid named Mustafa Herron that plays with him. He's

826
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:31,360
Speaker 1: sophomore from New York. You can really play six five left, Um,

827
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,920
Speaker 1: swing man can really play. And then the other kid

828
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: out of Arizona that can really play. And they don't

829
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 1: talk a whole lot about his kid named Rowley Alkin

830
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:44,320
Speaker 1: and he's from New York. Um, he can really play. Yeah,

831
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 1: he can play. I just think maybe that systems not

832
00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 1: great for him, but I think he's a pro. And

833
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 1: then they got another Alonso Treger, who's who's probably a pro. Also.

834
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,719
Speaker 1: Now you're not the only one thing that like essentially

835
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:01,920
Speaker 1: this isn't like a very citing draft class. You know,

836
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 1: like this has sort of like been talked about all year. Um,

837
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 1: if you're a GM, you know you're a coach, how

838
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 1: do you do that? Like, what do you do? Do

839
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:13,000
Speaker 1: you trade away? Because there's no one near like like

840
00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: there's no surefire guy. Like you know you watch more basketball,

841
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 1: uh than anyone. I know, you follow college, you see

842
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:23,320
Speaker 1: these like you know what's going on and and you

843
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 1: know what I'm asking you this question. You can't stand

844
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:28,400
Speaker 1: behind someone being like last year it was like Linso

845
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 1: it was Tatum, you know, there was Donovan. You know,

846
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:34,160
Speaker 1: we knew who the guys were. Um, what do you

847
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:36,360
Speaker 1: do if you're a GM or a coach, like you

848
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 1: know about this because essentially, like no one seems that

849
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:43,680
Speaker 1: excited thus fall, I think there are I actually would

850
00:53:43,719 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 1: disagree just a little bit. I think there are five

851
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: or six guys in this this class that are going

852
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 1: to be really good. Um, and much like last year.

853
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 1: I mean we've already seen it last year's class with

854
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 1: Tatum and and uh you know the guys that came

855
00:53:58,160 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 1: in that were able to play right away again US

856
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 1: Junior and a really good class there. But again, these

857
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:06,759
Speaker 1: guys are babies, so it's gonna take him a little

858
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:09,319
Speaker 1: bit of time. When I looked at like like Duke

859
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 1: right now, Um, they've got the big kid Wendell Carter

860
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 1: and and Marvin Bagley. And I don't know if you

861
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:20,320
Speaker 1: saw him Marvin out in l A. I saw him Okay,

862
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:24,400
Speaker 1: freaky good, right, But can he play basketball? Obviously, I

863
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:27,840
Speaker 1: think he'll grow into being he's so he's so athletic,

864
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:31,759
Speaker 1: but I'm like, what's his skill set? But you gotta remember, Mike,

865
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 1: he reclassified too. I mean, think about go back in

866
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 1: the day. I know, if I had my junior year

867
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:41,680
Speaker 1: in high school would have really been my senior year.

868
00:54:41,719 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: I'd have been pretty good, but I wouldn't have been

869
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:47,439
Speaker 1: all that as a high school player, you know. So

870
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:51,719
Speaker 1: he's at to do this year essentially as a high schooling, uh,

871
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 1: senior in high school. So I think that he's gonna

872
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 1: come a long way. He'll come a long way. But

873
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:02,480
Speaker 1: if you've got Wendell Carter and Marvin Bagley, um, I'm

874
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:04,920
Speaker 1: not sure in the end who's gonna be better. I

875
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:07,360
Speaker 1: think they're kind of like Web and Chris Web and

876
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:14,719
Speaker 1: Juwan Howard Pea. Every single March February it's come up

877
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:18,919
Speaker 1: at the rush On. It has been hardcore this year.

878
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:23,040
Speaker 1: I mean they've been talking about this since you were

879
00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:25,880
Speaker 1: in college before you were in college. After in college,

880
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: the conversation is never gonna stop. And you know where

881
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 1: I'm going. Let me just throw it to you like this,

882
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:34,960
Speaker 1: are are n ci A athletes, particularly college basketball athletes,

883
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 1: ever gonna get paid to play college basketball? Like? Where

884
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: do you see this going and ending? Because like the

885
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:42,920
Speaker 1: pressure keeps melting, you know what I mean. And the

886
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:46,200
Speaker 1: kids they know what's up. You know, we just had

887
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 1: a school wide walk out the other day. You know,

888
00:55:49,239 --> 00:55:53,440
Speaker 1: kids are informed, they're passionate, they have points of view. Uh,

889
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:56,759
Speaker 1: you know, Jalen Rose was like boycott the tournament. Where

890
00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: do you see this going? And where do you see

891
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:02,279
Speaker 1: it ending? Well, you know, Mike in your craft, you

892
00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:06,239
Speaker 1: know how that businesses inside now you know the writers deal,

893
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 1: you know the actors deal, you guys, your union and

894
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Well, and the thing about it is

895
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 1: we all grow up and none of us, many of

896
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 1: us who grow up, you know, on the way we're

897
00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:20,239
Speaker 1: gonna go to college is if we get a scholarship

898
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 1: of some kind. And so you grow up and you

899
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 1: think that really is your only way out, and it is.

900
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:28,840
Speaker 1: But the thing is they tell you to sign the

901
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 1: national let of intent that's got nothing to do. Did

902
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:34,719
Speaker 1: you sign one when you went to school? Did you

903
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:37,320
Speaker 1: ever sign one? Mike, He wouldn't know, but they that

904
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 1: wasn't recruiting. That's what I'm saying, right, Cares Cares. It's

905
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:44,759
Speaker 1: that you're I'm committing to the school and you can't

906
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:47,280
Speaker 1: commit to me you're gonna be there as my coach

907
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:49,360
Speaker 1: and all that. What am I doing? It's just a

908
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:54,080
Speaker 1: it's a broken system, and we know what's been going

909
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 1: on for years. Um, it's a it's a silly system.

910
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:00,319
Speaker 1: I think that they're gonna have to clean it up.

911
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 1: And by clean it up, I mean they're gonna have

912
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:06,400
Speaker 1: to start at some point paying the players. And I

913
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:10,239
Speaker 1: don't know how they do that, whether it's a partnership

914
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:14,080
Speaker 1: with the n b A, uh spend the gew League

915
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 1: or that you know, Kentucky basketball program is a separate

916
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:22,480
Speaker 1: entity from the school and it's just sort of school affiliated.

917
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:24,600
Speaker 1: I don't know how they do that, but they've gotta

918
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:27,920
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to start doing it. Unlike these kids,

919
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 1: it's gonna take some time. I'm so proud of these

920
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 1: kids who are doing what they're doing, uh with their

921
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:39,439
Speaker 1: peaceful protests right now regarding firearms, so proud. Um. It's

922
00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:42,000
Speaker 1: gonna take time for people, and I'm glad this is

923
00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 1: the backburner issue. But for the n C Double A,

924
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 1: it's gonna take maybe the FBI getting involved here for

925
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:54,240
Speaker 1: them to sort of shape up. If not, Jalen Rose

926
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 1: is absolutely right, and we know this from our own

927
00:57:57,240 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 1: line of work. The most important time, uh to make

928
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:04,920
Speaker 1: a statement is, hey, right here, you think the n

929
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 1: C Double A wouldn't pay attention if all the all

930
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 1: the kids and every team said hey, look, until you

931
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 1: guys get this figured out, we're not gonna play well

932
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 1: as the same way for when do you do it

933
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 1: in the NBA? You do it right before the All

934
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:21,400
Speaker 1: Star Game, right before the playoffs. When in the Super

935
00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:23,919
Speaker 1: you do it right before the Super Bowl, right before

936
00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:28,600
Speaker 1: the World Series. The problem with that is is that

937
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 1: most players still are playing paycheck to paycheck. Most actors

938
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 1: are still acting paycheck to paycheck, right and so you know,

939
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 1: ultimately the owners can outlast you. But I think it's

940
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 1: gonna be uh n C Double A is gonna have

941
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:47,080
Speaker 1: to uh come to some sort of system. And I

942
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 1: don't you know, I don't need I don't need college

943
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 1: players making a billion dollars a year. I don't I

944
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:54,040
Speaker 1: don't know that I need to making a half million

945
00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:56,760
Speaker 1: dollars here, but you're gonna have to do something, whether

946
00:58:56,880 --> 00:59:01,280
Speaker 1: it's pay them somewhat or pay them somewhat and then

947
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:05,400
Speaker 1: have some sort of stay every everybody. How about here's

948
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:08,560
Speaker 1: where we're going, Like C t E. When what's gonna

949
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 1: happen with this? With the n C double A. You're

950
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:15,600
Speaker 1: telling the only NFL players get players get. Come on,

951
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:19,120
Speaker 1: We've got guys who are gonna be dying soon from this,

952
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 1: and as we know, they probably already are and have been.

953
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:25,360
Speaker 1: But it's gonna happen. They're gonna happen. So n C

954
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:29,440
Speaker 1: double A has all kinds of issues right now. All right?

955
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:33,360
Speaker 1: Last season, you and me sat right next to each

956
00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 1: other Game five in Golden State. You you restrained me

957
00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 1: from possibly getting arrested or locked into a psych ward.

958
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:45,440
Speaker 1: We we go up to the finals. We were in

959
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:49,040
Speaker 1: Cleveland together, we were in Golden State together. You saw

960
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:52,960
Speaker 1: me bring the plunger into the arena. You saw it all.

961
00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:58,320
Speaker 1: We watched the whole series NBA. If we had just

962
00:59:58,520 --> 01:00:01,480
Speaker 1: had a camera crew on, how much fun is that?

963
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:05,680
Speaker 1: It couldn't have been better. I mean from the beginning

964
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:09,160
Speaker 1: to the end. Uh, you know, Karen and Kenyan and

965
01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:12,200
Speaker 1: all those dudes with us. And I mean, but that

966
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:17,360
Speaker 1: that game five, how electric was that? It was nuts?

967
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:20,440
Speaker 1: And you know it's so cool, uh you know, watching

968
01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:23,320
Speaker 1: the game with you and Karen. And I tell people

969
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 1: this all the time, like when I when you're watching

970
01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:29,760
Speaker 1: the game with professional basketball players, and like I remember

971
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:31,840
Speaker 1: like a couple of times, like you were like watch

972
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:35,200
Speaker 1: Katie's gonna blah blah blah, watch the set, like you know,

973
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 1: you guys could sort of see, uh you know, from

974
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:41,320
Speaker 1: the where where the guys are set up on the court, uh,

975
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:44,640
Speaker 1: and where they're they're positioning themselves so offensively or defensively,

976
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:48,680
Speaker 1: how the play is trying to unfold. I mean watching

977
01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:51,120
Speaker 1: it and having you and Karen, you know, just talk

978
01:00:51,480 --> 01:00:53,720
Speaker 1: and and I just had a ball. It was so

979
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:57,120
Speaker 1: much fun. And then but rooting for Golden State and

980
01:00:57,160 --> 01:00:59,440
Speaker 1: the Cleveland overall, I mean it was just a freaking

981
01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:02,640
Speaker 1: I just had so much freaking fun. I mean, it

982
01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:06,000
Speaker 1: was a goddamn I was just in heaven. Yeah I

983
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:09,240
Speaker 1: was too. But I'm gonna throw this right back at you.

984
01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:12,080
Speaker 1: You I get it, and I appreciate you saying that

985
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:16,400
Speaker 1: it's all all good, all love, man. But um, I've

986
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:19,000
Speaker 1: got some friends who are in in the acting world,

987
01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 1: and you know, other celebrity type people that I that

988
01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:25,720
Speaker 1: I know when I watched The Godfather with them, or

989
01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:29,240
Speaker 1: when I watched it, it's the same thing. I could.

990
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:31,840
Speaker 1: I could sit there all night and listen to you

991
01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:34,800
Speaker 1: guys and talk about the lighting and and I'm just

992
01:01:34,840 --> 01:01:38,280
Speaker 1: watching a movie. That's all I'm doing, right, I don't know,

993
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I like it so that that's

994
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:45,320
Speaker 1: what it is though, But it was it was. What

995
01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:50,040
Speaker 1: I love about basketball is that you almost never see

996
01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:53,680
Speaker 1: the same movie. You know, there's always some little wrinkle

997
01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:55,840
Speaker 1: that happens at the end of the game. You know.

998
01:01:56,040 --> 01:01:59,240
Speaker 1: We watched Virginia beat Louisville a couple of weeks ago,

999
01:01:59,320 --> 01:02:01,960
Speaker 1: just a heart breaker, and it was a colony of

1000
01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:05,160
Speaker 1: errors down the stretch that just led to a ridiculous

1001
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 1: outcome and ultimately louis Will not getting into the turn.

1002
01:02:08,680 --> 01:02:12,040
Speaker 1: But that's kind of why we like college because kids

1003
01:02:12,080 --> 01:02:14,960
Speaker 1: can lose their minds at any time, much less so

1004
01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:19,200
Speaker 1: than NBA players. So being that we we we had

1005
01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:22,080
Speaker 1: this experience last year I'm gonna start. I'm gonna start

1006
01:02:22,120 --> 01:02:24,680
Speaker 1: with the finals and work our way backwards. Now, Clay

1007
01:02:24,760 --> 01:02:26,960
Speaker 1: Thompson just had this this injury. I think it's on

1008
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:29,960
Speaker 1: his shooting hand. Uh. That's gonna keep him out for

1009
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:33,080
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. Uh. Steph's dealing with his ankles.

1010
01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:37,280
Speaker 1: The Houston Rockets are doing their thing Lebron, although they're struggling,

1011
01:02:37,280 --> 01:02:40,880
Speaker 1: and I love when they struggle. He Stolebron. Uh, he's

1012
01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:44,840
Speaker 1: innocent until proven that he could be beaten. Toronto's doing

1013
01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:47,480
Speaker 1: their thing, But I just don't believe anybody is gonna

1014
01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:51,720
Speaker 1: get past Cleveland based on what I just said right

1015
01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 1: now where we're at. Of course, these injuries could happen.

1016
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:57,520
Speaker 1: Who are going to be the two teams from the

1017
01:02:57,560 --> 01:02:59,200
Speaker 1: West and who are going to be the two teams

1018
01:02:59,360 --> 01:03:01,280
Speaker 1: from the East to make it to the final four

1019
01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 1: of the NBA? Right now? All right, right now, I'd

1020
01:03:05,200 --> 01:03:10,640
Speaker 1: have to go with the Gonzaga of the NBA, the

1021
01:03:10,720 --> 01:03:16,400
Speaker 1: Toronto Raptors. They listen. I want to believe in the Raptors.

1022
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:20,240
Speaker 1: Dwayne Casey there coach with my coach at Kentucky. Uh,

1023
01:03:20,360 --> 01:03:23,840
Speaker 1: So I believe in them. I want to believe in them,

1024
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:28,080
Speaker 1: But until they actually break through, I'm not sure. I can't.

1025
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:32,640
Speaker 1: It's so hard. Lebron is he's just so good. Uh.

1026
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:36,320
Speaker 1: And if he's able to pull this team has had

1027
01:03:36,320 --> 01:03:40,880
Speaker 1: a complete makeover lead season. Literally, if he's able to

1028
01:03:41,040 --> 01:03:45,400
Speaker 1: somehow will that team to a finals? Oh god, I

1029
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:50,280
Speaker 1: mean it's I I can't imagine that that could happen.

1030
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:52,800
Speaker 1: But we also hadn't seen anybody on this sort of

1031
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:58,560
Speaker 1: street going to the finals before. So, uh, yeah, Boston,

1032
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:02,000
Speaker 1: I still pull it Boston. Uh, you know, Danny and

1033
01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:05,160
Speaker 1: I go way back. I think that they're young. I'm

1034
01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:09,840
Speaker 1: not sure they're ready yet though, when Gordon gets back, possibly,

1035
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:13,960
Speaker 1: but they're a tough one. Uh. Well, I wish Milwaukee

1036
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:18,800
Speaker 1: was better. They should be better in the West, I asked.

1037
01:04:19,080 --> 01:04:23,840
Speaker 1: I've asked uh friends in the East what they think, uh,

1038
01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:28,320
Speaker 1: and I said, hey, Houston for real, and every last

1039
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 1: one of them have said, yes, sir, they're for real.

1040
01:04:31,520 --> 01:04:35,560
Speaker 1: So I think it's the Warriors in uh two horse

1041
01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:38,640
Speaker 1: race Warriors rockets out west? And what do you think

1042
01:04:38,640 --> 01:04:42,160
Speaker 1: about Oklahoma? Because they're a problem. And Russell Westbrook is

1043
01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:46,280
Speaker 1: like he's a savage, right he I never seen anybody

1044
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:50,880
Speaker 1: like there's not a moment off. I get it. No,

1045
01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:54,600
Speaker 1: I'm I'm in awe of him. His motor. That that

1046
01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:56,640
Speaker 1: that's the thing I think that separates him. You know,

1047
01:04:56,680 --> 01:04:59,240
Speaker 1: I could play in bursts like he could played for

1048
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:02,720
Speaker 1: two possess sitions. He can play it for ten possessions

1049
01:05:02,760 --> 01:05:06,880
Speaker 1: and then you know, keep going. His motor is incredible.

1050
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:09,640
Speaker 1: His mentality just want to kill you every night. You

1051
01:05:09,760 --> 01:05:14,720
Speaker 1: gotta love it. I love Paul George, I love Stephen

1052
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:18,880
Speaker 1: uh Steven Adams, which I get he's a coon. He

1053
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:25,439
Speaker 1: and and he likes being nasty, so okay, but they

1054
01:05:25,480 --> 01:05:28,960
Speaker 1: have Mellow and Mellows, my dude. I was with Mellow

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01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:33,560
Speaker 1: for five years and in uh Denver. Love him to death,

1056
01:05:33,960 --> 01:05:38,720
Speaker 1: but he is not I mean, Bellow can't don't get anymore.

1057
01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:43,400
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean he and you see him defensively

1058
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:46,480
Speaker 1: right now. So if they're gonna do it, they need

1059
01:05:46,480 --> 01:05:49,320
Speaker 1: to do it now because you know Mellows. You know, hey,

1060
01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:52,840
Speaker 1: people can't play for him the Hall of Famer, but

1061
01:05:53,080 --> 01:05:55,360
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's tough to watch him right now.

1062
01:05:57,240 --> 01:05:59,400
Speaker 1: And at the end of the day when you see

1063
01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:03,080
Speaker 1: the matchup between Golden State and Houston, and obviously these

1064
01:06:03,080 --> 01:06:06,440
Speaker 1: injuries you know a guy could you know Clay Thompson's

1065
01:06:06,480 --> 01:06:08,880
Speaker 1: thumb injury. Who knows how bad it is? And I

1066
01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:12,120
Speaker 1: think it's on his shooting hand. And Clay Thompson could

1067
01:06:12,160 --> 01:06:14,480
Speaker 1: do a lot of things, and defensively he's always a problem.

1068
01:06:14,560 --> 01:06:16,400
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, we need Clay

1069
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:18,680
Speaker 1: Thompson to be able to shoot the ball. Uh and

1070
01:06:18,760 --> 01:06:22,720
Speaker 1: paying free Matching up Golden State Houston, who wins that?

1071
01:06:22,800 --> 01:06:25,080
Speaker 1: Who do you think would win that? I think a

1072
01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:28,880
Speaker 1: healthy Golden State wins it. I just think they're more versatile.

1073
01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:33,320
Speaker 1: I think they've got taller, longer players, and I think

1074
01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:35,919
Speaker 1: ultimately it's gonna come down. You're gonna have to get

1075
01:06:35,920 --> 01:06:39,200
Speaker 1: stops and James won't get stopped for you. He just won't.

1076
01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:45,040
Speaker 1: He can't play defense, right, he can, he can. He's

1077
01:06:45,080 --> 01:06:48,240
Speaker 1: not the best, but it's just just that he doesn't

1078
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:52,120
Speaker 1: fight harder. That that bothers people, and it would bother

1079
01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:56,080
Speaker 1: you know, teammates. Um Let listen, he's having a having

1080
01:06:56,120 --> 01:07:01,120
Speaker 1: an incredible offensive season. Um he's a beauty basketball player.

1081
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:04,400
Speaker 1: And I do want to clean up Mellow. I love

1082
01:07:04,520 --> 01:07:07,200
Speaker 1: Mellowed at death. I'm just saying, mellow. We all get

1083
01:07:07,240 --> 01:07:09,720
Speaker 1: to that and part of our career. I think you

1084
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:13,000
Speaker 1: could probably still give these guys something this year. But

1085
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:15,760
Speaker 1: it's hard when you're out there and your legs aren't

1086
01:07:15,760 --> 01:07:18,760
Speaker 1: doing exactly what your mind wants it to do. Um.

1087
01:07:18,800 --> 01:07:20,560
Speaker 1: All right, So there we have it. Now, let me

1088
01:07:20,600 --> 01:07:22,600
Speaker 1: throw a couple of old school questions at you. I'm

1089
01:07:22,600 --> 01:07:24,280
Speaker 1: gonna throw names at you. See if you got if

1090
01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:27,640
Speaker 1: you got anything, you got anything. If you don't, you don't. Um.

1091
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:32,120
Speaker 1: Moses Malone. You played against Moses Malone when your grandkids

1092
01:07:32,240 --> 01:07:34,560
Speaker 1: and and this could happen anytime because you're so fucking

1093
01:07:34,600 --> 01:07:39,600
Speaker 1: old when your grandkids come and they say, Grandpa Rex Um.

1094
01:07:39,640 --> 01:07:42,720
Speaker 1: If you can remember, you know, the eighties, Moses Malone.

1095
01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:46,680
Speaker 1: What was Moses Malone like to play against him? Man?

1096
01:07:47,080 --> 01:07:50,520
Speaker 1: He was just so big. He was big, and I never,

1097
01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:53,200
Speaker 1: I don't know that I ever played against the guy

1098
01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:56,080
Speaker 1: that was more comfortable just going down there and putting

1099
01:07:56,080 --> 01:07:59,200
Speaker 1: his ass on you, just being big and demanding the ball,

1100
01:07:59,480 --> 01:08:02,880
Speaker 1: throwing it, getting his own rebound. He was relentless. One

1101
01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:08,560
Speaker 1: of my favorite Moses stories, though, was John Lucas. You

1102
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:13,360
Speaker 1: know John who was number one picking the NBA draft.

1103
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 1: He was a two time n C double a tennis champ.

1104
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:21,599
Speaker 1: Did you know that? So? He and Moses crazy, right,

1105
01:08:22,080 --> 01:08:23,960
Speaker 1: And I asked him once, I said, because he played

1106
01:08:23,960 --> 01:08:27,280
Speaker 1: in Wimbledon. He played against Borg and McEnroe and Connors

1107
01:08:27,280 --> 01:08:28,800
Speaker 1: and all of them. And I said, he said, I

1108
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:31,920
Speaker 1: could beat everybody but them, And I said why. He said, well,

1109
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:34,920
Speaker 1: I could get to anything, he said at the end

1110
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:37,840
Speaker 1: of the day. Though I only played tennis for about

1111
01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:40,519
Speaker 1: four months a year, he said, And they just hit

1112
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:43,400
Speaker 1: more balls than I had. They were better than I was.

1113
01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:48,479
Speaker 1: And I also realized I liked saying we lost better

1114
01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:54,160
Speaker 1: than I lost. That. But but Big Moses Uh. He

1115
01:08:54,200 --> 01:08:57,839
Speaker 1: and Luke went to uh Maryland University of Maryland together

1116
01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:00,760
Speaker 1: and they got up for school the first day. It

1117
01:09:00,800 --> 01:09:05,519
Speaker 1: was like six am and Luke uh and Luke and

1118
01:09:05,560 --> 01:09:08,439
Speaker 1: Moses were rooming together and Luke said, mo, get up,

1119
01:09:08,560 --> 01:09:11,639
Speaker 1: get up. He tried to get up. I went back

1120
01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:13,960
Speaker 1: to sleep. Luke said, come on, we gotta get up.

1121
01:09:13,960 --> 01:09:17,479
Speaker 1: We got class and said Moses turned over to him

1122
01:09:17,479 --> 01:09:21,400
Speaker 1: and said, now I forget that, Luke, I'm going to pros.

1123
01:09:22,520 --> 01:09:26,280
Speaker 1: Got up, he got his stuff, left and entered the

1124
01:09:26,320 --> 01:09:28,800
Speaker 1: draft and that was next and that was it. He

1125
01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:33,080
Speaker 1: was out one day on campus one day. That's crazy.

1126
01:09:35,240 --> 01:09:38,759
Speaker 1: And then and then went and it was a top pick.

1127
01:09:39,360 --> 01:09:43,559
Speaker 1: You know, just silly, talented and such a funny dude

1128
01:09:43,680 --> 01:09:49,559
Speaker 1: and a great teammate, um Rick Mahorne. Yeah it was

1129
01:09:49,760 --> 01:09:52,720
Speaker 1: because you know, I got to know Rick throughout the

1130
01:09:52,800 --> 01:09:54,920
Speaker 1: years I played with him in the in in you know,

1131
01:09:55,040 --> 01:09:58,280
Speaker 1: celebrity games when he was still in the league, uh,

1132
01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:02,360
Speaker 1: you know, the Big Three last. He's such a nice guy,

1133
01:10:02,400 --> 01:10:06,840
Speaker 1: but when he played he was disgusting, mean, vicious and

1134
01:10:06,880 --> 01:10:09,840
Speaker 1: talk about an ass. He's got an ass. I mean

1135
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:13,080
Speaker 1: he's just big and mean. And I tell him to

1136
01:10:13,120 --> 01:10:15,840
Speaker 1: his face to this day, you got bad breath? Like

1137
01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:18,000
Speaker 1: what was it like? Like you run through the you

1138
01:10:18,120 --> 01:10:20,559
Speaker 1: run through the paint with Rick Mahorne? Was was he

1139
01:10:20,640 --> 01:10:22,360
Speaker 1: really that mean? Is it to put on when he

1140
01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:26,240
Speaker 1: were playing against him? No, it really wasn't. But what

1141
01:10:26,320 --> 01:10:30,639
Speaker 1: was his genius was that he would hit guys like me.

1142
01:10:30,720 --> 01:10:33,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean just you know, if you came

1143
01:10:33,200 --> 01:10:35,640
Speaker 1: across the lane in the eighties and nineties, you were

1144
01:10:35,680 --> 01:10:37,559
Speaker 1: getting hit. You had to get hit. It was sort

1145
01:10:37,600 --> 01:10:40,040
Speaker 1: of the rule. I mean, you you get, you touch

1146
01:10:40,160 --> 01:10:43,800
Speaker 1: somebody when they go through there. Well, you know there

1147
01:10:43,800 --> 01:10:47,400
Speaker 1: are big guys like Karl Malow what would try to

1148
01:10:47,439 --> 01:10:49,880
Speaker 1: get you. But he's not trying to get the seven footer.

1149
01:10:50,160 --> 01:10:52,719
Speaker 1: Rick was trying to get everybody. And when he would

1150
01:10:52,720 --> 01:10:55,160
Speaker 1: get you with his little ass, you know, bump you

1151
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:57,000
Speaker 1: with his ass or hit you with a chicken wing,

1152
01:10:57,400 --> 01:10:59,519
Speaker 1: and it was somebody like me. If it got me

1153
01:10:59,600 --> 01:11:02,800
Speaker 1: real good, he would just start giggling. You know, it

1154
01:11:02,880 --> 01:11:05,479
Speaker 1: was like that. And uh, you know, so I would

1155
01:11:05,479 --> 01:11:07,600
Speaker 1: take great pride and you know, just sneaking him on

1156
01:11:07,640 --> 01:11:10,040
Speaker 1: the back pick and messing him up during the course

1157
01:11:10,080 --> 01:11:12,960
Speaker 1: of the game. But words and the wise, do not

1158
01:11:14,479 --> 01:11:17,760
Speaker 1: do not go up behind Rick Mahorn at this day

1159
01:11:17,760 --> 01:11:21,040
Speaker 1: and age and try to touch him or grab him

1160
01:11:21,040 --> 01:11:23,920
Speaker 1: anyway in any way might kill you. His back is

1161
01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:28,240
Speaker 1: so jacked up now you see how he walks. Mike, Yeah, yeah,

1162
01:11:28,360 --> 01:11:32,040
Speaker 1: but Rick, big teddy bear, I love that dude. All right. Now.

1163
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:34,800
Speaker 1: You played against Jordan, you played against Magic, you played

1164
01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:38,080
Speaker 1: against Isaiah Thomas. I mean all the guys. Kevin Johnson,

1165
01:11:38,720 --> 01:11:41,800
Speaker 1: who's the guy that we forget about that's not on

1166
01:11:41,840 --> 01:11:44,320
Speaker 1: that top of that list that gave you the biggest

1167
01:11:44,360 --> 01:11:48,040
Speaker 1: fits um that you were just most impressed with. Wow.

1168
01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:53,679
Speaker 1: Clyde Drexler. Um. Clyde was unbelieva a little six seven,

1169
01:11:54,120 --> 01:12:02,200
Speaker 1: huge hands, um, just incredible basketball player. The different biggest

1170
01:12:02,200 --> 01:12:06,200
Speaker 1: differences between he and Michael I think was their motor

1171
01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:10,960
Speaker 1: and and in that Michael went got it every night,

1172
01:12:11,240 --> 01:12:15,639
Speaker 1: it didn't matter, and Clyde sort of felt he played

1173
01:12:16,120 --> 01:12:21,040
Speaker 1: much when they felt challenged. That's when they played. And

1174
01:12:21,120 --> 01:12:23,639
Speaker 1: so I played on a bunch of bad teams. Probably

1175
01:12:23,680 --> 01:12:26,439
Speaker 1: that's probably why I wasn't playing very hard. But now

1176
01:12:26,840 --> 01:12:31,160
Speaker 1: I think that Clyde was crazy talent. Joke to me.

1177
01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:36,400
Speaker 1: One guy that just busted my ass was Ricky Pierce

1178
01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:39,720
Speaker 1: when I was a rookie. Ricky Pierce scored on me

1179
01:12:40,320 --> 01:12:45,839
Speaker 1: three straight possessions and was talking junk to our bench,

1180
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:50,320
Speaker 1: talking jump to our coach and said, you know, Kentucky

1181
01:12:50,520 --> 01:12:52,439
Speaker 1: running back down and saying, yea ill better get this

1182
01:12:52,520 --> 01:12:55,880
Speaker 1: white off of me as fast as and I'm thinking, yeah, yeah, yeah,

1183
01:12:55,960 --> 01:13:00,840
Speaker 1: get him off. You're like, listen to him. I don't

1184
01:13:00,840 --> 01:13:04,680
Speaker 1: want anything to do with this grown Mike. I was.

1185
01:13:05,280 --> 01:13:08,880
Speaker 1: I should have been my junior year in college. That's crazy,

1186
01:13:08,920 --> 01:13:14,719
Speaker 1: all right, Yo, Rex, I appreciate you coming on the podcast. Um. Somehow,

1187
01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:17,559
Speaker 1: somewhere we gotta figure out a way to do something

1188
01:13:17,600 --> 01:13:20,800
Speaker 1: in the finals because we have to relive the gorgeousness.

1189
01:13:20,880 --> 01:13:24,040
Speaker 1: There's so much fun to rock with you last year.

1190
01:13:24,040 --> 01:13:26,840
Speaker 1: And you know, hopefully we we we could take a

1191
01:13:26,840 --> 01:13:31,280
Speaker 1: trip this uh this spring always and uh yeah, we'll

1192
01:13:31,280 --> 01:13:34,280
Speaker 1: come back on. I'll come back on once Kentucky basketball

1193
01:13:34,360 --> 01:13:36,759
Speaker 1: years over where I can use some more colorful language

1194
01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:39,240
Speaker 1: where I won't feel like I'll get fired from every game. Now,

1195
01:13:39,400 --> 01:13:42,160
Speaker 1: you're good, We're keeping you. See. You heard me saying

1196
01:13:42,240 --> 01:13:44,840
Speaker 1: freaking a couple of times, right, So I brought it back.

1197
01:13:45,200 --> 01:13:48,519
Speaker 1: I caught myself. Yeah good, Yeah, we gotta police each

1198
01:13:48,520 --> 01:13:54,439
Speaker 1: other absolutely. All right, Rex, I appreciate. I'll talk to

1199
01:13:54,439 --> 01:14:00,880
Speaker 1: you soon, my man. All right, man, all right, that's it.

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01:14:01,439 --> 01:14:05,920
Speaker 1: That's it. We came, we saw, we conquered, and I

1201
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Speaker 1: told you once, I told you twice we were gonna

1202
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Speaker 1: do the damn thing. Have no fear. The Iron Rapp

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