Speaker 1: What's up? Everyone? Welcome to episode thirty of Slow Notes,
Speaker 1: which feels insane to be saying out loud, and today
Speaker 1: we have a very exciting guest, Danny Green. Danny, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for coming on.
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me. Of course, it's an honor, it's
Speaker 2: a true pleasure.
Speaker 1: Thank you. So I'm seventeen, and I know you're not
Speaker 1: seventeen anymore, but you once were, Danny, believe it or not.
Speaker 1: So I want to hear about you as a seventeen
Speaker 1: year old. What was your game?
Speaker 3: Like, I'll tell you I wasn't as informed as you
Speaker 3: kids are today, Like I was not that smart. To
Speaker 3: be able to run a podcast is impressive.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: My game, I would say I was good at a
Speaker 3: lot of things, but not great at anything. And that
Speaker 3: was my kind of thing throughout most of my life.
Speaker 3: I was a late bloomer where I didn't get recruited
Speaker 3: highly until my senior year. Like, I could pass the
Speaker 3: ball pretty well, like a rebound, well like a blockheit
Speaker 3: I could play defense. I could shoot decently. I could
Speaker 3: back then, I could handle the ball decently. Now I
Speaker 3: haven't dribbled. I don't dribble as a pro. I didn't
Speaker 3: dribble much at all, but I could do a little
Speaker 3: bit of everything pretty well. But it wasn't great at anything.
Speaker 3: It wasn't until I got to even after college. It
Speaker 3: wasn't until I got to the pros where I kind
Speaker 3: of honed in on one specific thing and tried to
Speaker 3: be great at it, and I started getting better at
Speaker 3: shooting and I focus on certain things. But when I
Speaker 3: was younger, my game was do a little bit of everything.
Speaker 3: I played pretty much all five positions.
Speaker 1: So as a late bloomer, when did it hit you, like, wait,
Speaker 1: I think I can make it to the leate.
Speaker 3: It was always a goal and I never thought it
Speaker 3: was achievable. It kind of came and gone multiple times
Speaker 3: throughout my life. So seventeen no, I think when I
Speaker 3: got McDonald's, I got selected to being a McDonald's game,
Speaker 3: it was like, Okay, I might have a chance. And
Speaker 3: then I went to college. Then it was like coming
Speaker 3: off the bench start all over again. I had to
Speaker 3: do all four years. I wasn't starting that. I didn't
Speaker 3: start till my senior year, so it was like I
Speaker 3: might get a chance unity to make it to the NBA.
Speaker 3: Then it was like after my junior year, I played well.
Speaker 3: I still came off the bench, but it was like,
Speaker 3: I might have a shot at making to the NBA.
Speaker 3: Senior year we won a national title. Was lucky enough
Speaker 3: to do that. Then it was like, all right, this
Speaker 3: might be an opportunity not only make the league, but
Speaker 3: be able to.
Speaker 2: Like beat in the league and play.
Speaker 3: Then once I got there, it was like, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: I got cut a couple of times, had to find
Speaker 3: a rotation. I'm like, I don't know if I'll be
Speaker 3: a rotational player in this league. So it was kind
Speaker 3: of up and down. But the first time that I
Speaker 3: thought I had a shot at doing it was when
Speaker 3: I made the McDonald's All American Game.
Speaker 1: I see. Okay, So you mentioned UNC, which is where
Speaker 1: you went to college, and like you said, where you
Speaker 1: won a national championship, which is amazing. How and why
Speaker 1: did you choose UNC over other offers you had, like Georgetown, Yukon.
Speaker 2: It was it was easy. It was easy for me.
Speaker 2: I grew up a Carolina fan, so I mean I
Speaker 2: was a kid as a kid because you grew up
Speaker 2: in New York. I grew up in New York.
Speaker 3: My father was a fan of certain back as I
Speaker 3: learned as I got older. He was a fan of
Speaker 3: the good teams and a great kind of kind of
Speaker 3: you know, we weren't New York sports fans. We weren't
Speaker 3: a bit except for the Yankees were in big jets.
Speaker 3: He does like them now, but I didn't grow up watch.
Speaker 3: I grew up watching like Michael Jordan and the Bulls,
Speaker 3: like certain players, and then you know, Michael Jordan I
Speaker 3: was went to Carolina and Jerry Stackhouse or Sheep Wallace
Speaker 3: and all those guys. Some of the greatest players have
Speaker 3: come from that school. And it was back then a
Speaker 3: big time school, and if you were able to go there,
Speaker 3: it was like you had a really good shot at
Speaker 3: making it to the NBA. So I grew up as
Speaker 3: a fan as a kid because of my dad. He's
Speaker 3: a fan of the game, and all my family were
Speaker 3: fans of other not just Carolina, but other players and
Speaker 3: other teams and pros and certain colleges, but Carolina was
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 2: Once they started recruiting. It was easy decision for me.
Speaker 1: Three or four years. What was your favorite memory at UNC.
Speaker 3: Man, It's hard just because I had a lot of
Speaker 3: great battles with my teammates, my brothers became an adult
Speaker 3: in college. They say the best years of your life
Speaker 3: for a reason, because you know you never have that
Speaker 3: experience again.
Speaker 2: And the pros.
Speaker 3: It's tough because freeg and see everybody, like trades, move changes,
Speaker 3: you don't keep the same group together for a long
Speaker 3: period of time. But every I have a lot of memories.
Speaker 3: I woul see national title was number one, but beating
Speaker 3: Duke and Duke every time we played there is pretty
Speaker 3: special memories. Like we beat them a good amount of times.
Speaker 3: I was lucky enough to go undefeated. And Cameron and
Speaker 3: every even the losses, every loss that we had in
Speaker 3: the tournament, every time we went to the tournament, AC
Speaker 3: tournament and the NCAA tournament. Every time we went to
Speaker 3: the tournament, we went further each year and even though
Speaker 3: we didn't you know, we weren't successful or as successful
Speaker 3: as we wanted to be, it was a learning experience.
Speaker 3: And those were the best memories, even the losses, because
Speaker 3: we went to battle and our brothers, they showed how
Speaker 3: much we cared and loved you know, the game, and
Speaker 3: how much you know, blood, sweat and tears we put
Speaker 3: into it. So it was it was those were special
Speaker 3: memories as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so speaking of Duke, I want to know, like,
Speaker 1: are the camera crazy? Is really that crazy?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean I think the world is different now than
Speaker 3: how it was then. There's a lot of things. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you can't say certain things now, you can't do certain
Speaker 3: things now. But yeah, I always thought they held like
Speaker 3: classes because they had certain like chance that they would do.
Speaker 3: They'd be on like in sync, they would be you know,
Speaker 3: have certain signs, even certain even in Maryland and Clemson,
Speaker 3: they had some great arenas where student section and fans
Speaker 3: would say things will have great signs, would be funny.
Speaker 3: And back then they had the speedo guy. I don't
Speaker 3: know if you guys ever looked that up before. I
Speaker 3: think he was banned after all, he wasn't allowed at
Speaker 3: a certain point. But that was a funny thing. But
Speaker 3: they had some great crazy I was like, if you're
Speaker 3: a fan of Duke, they had some you know, some
Speaker 3: great like things that they did, you know, to try
Speaker 3: to distract players that came in. And you know, it
Speaker 3: was always fun for us, especially if you win, it's
Speaker 3: always funny after, but if you lose, it's a it's
Speaker 3: a pain and ass and yeah, but yeah, we enjoyed
Speaker 3: the moments of going into other teams buildings and obviously
Speaker 3: winning some games with seeing with how creative the fans were.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's cool for sure. It seems like you
Speaker 1: had an incredible experience at UNC, and like you guys know,
Speaker 1: I'm seventeen, so I'm just.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know you're du Yeah, we can we can
Speaker 3: over you know, chap Hill was a little better than Duke.
Speaker 3: I would say so, not pitching it fully.
Speaker 1: But I do want to you're a pitch. That's what
Speaker 1: was nast you pitched me.
Speaker 3: I think it's better than Duke, And obviously not because
Speaker 3: which is better overall? Okay, but I think there's a
Speaker 3: more like the diversity is there. Yeah, it's better. We
Speaker 3: have a it's a great little bubble. But you know,
Speaker 3: they love their sports, they love their people. They're very hospitable.
Speaker 3: Everything is Carolina blue, from you know, the fire hydrants
Speaker 3: to the fire trucks. Wow, that's yeahs sky blue everywhere.
Speaker 3: It's the best blue in the world. But you know,
Speaker 3: it's a it's a it's a great fraternity and a
Speaker 3: great alum.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think you enjoy it.
Speaker 1: It's a good pitch. I'm not going to consider it,
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Dan.
Speaker 1: So earlier you said that your dad wasn't really a
Speaker 1: New York sports fan other than the Yankees, which didn't
Speaker 1: really give you any reason to be a York fan either.
Speaker 1: So growing up you weren't a Knicks fan. Did you
Speaker 1: ever go to games at the Garden or that special?
Speaker 3: No, I mean so we never a Knicks fan, mind you.
Speaker 3: I mean it wasn't a I wouldn'tay, it wasn't a thing.
Speaker 3: I wasn't. No, I wasn't They had some times. I
Speaker 3: wasn't poor, but I wasn't like one of those kids
Speaker 3: that can just buy a bunch of tickets to go places.
Speaker 3: And we were so stuck in basketball. We just played.
Speaker 3: We didn't have time for anything else to like go
Speaker 3: attend a bunch of stuff. So like back then we
Speaker 3: played three and four games a day. Now, you know,
Speaker 3: kids are there's load managed LOLd management in every level
Speaker 3: now from high school to college. You know, we play
Speaker 3: a lot of football. I played, I played a lot
Speaker 3: of basketball. We played a lot of sports, but we
Speaker 3: just wasn't at the time when it was time. We
Speaker 3: didn't are fortunate enough to go and be in great seats.
Speaker 3: But I was not a Knicks fan. I was not
Speaker 3: a Mets fan or Giants. He is a fan of
Speaker 3: some of those teams now as he've gotten older. But
Speaker 3: I said, I was always a fan of certain players,
Speaker 3: even though we came to football. It was like, you
Speaker 3: know Peyton Manning, it said, Michael Jordan will come to NBA.
Speaker 3: Even you know certain other teams, certain players. But it
Speaker 3: was not the New York sports fan. And I'm not
Speaker 3: saying I disliked them, but I just never grew up
Speaker 3: in that of being a New York like New York.
Speaker 3: I was in New York, but not a New York
Speaker 3: sports fan.
Speaker 2: I see.
Speaker 1: So when I was researching for this episode, I read
Speaker 1: something pretty cool about you that in your freshman year
Speaker 1: of high school you were actually the quarterback on your
Speaker 1: schools football team.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 3: I did play football up until my sophomore year and
Speaker 3: then I transferred school.
Speaker 1: But yeah, what was that like? Having to balance basketball,
Speaker 1: football and academic workload?
Speaker 2: That wasn't easy.
Speaker 3: The hardest part for me was actually making the decision
Speaker 3: to choose which one I wanted to play like full time.
Speaker 3: That was the hard part, But trying to balance academics
Speaker 3: high school. I feel like I wouldn't say super easy,
Speaker 3: but it's easier. I went to public school until I transferred. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so public school is not as challenging as private school
Speaker 3: where you have like academic detention and stuff like that
Speaker 3: you have to wear a uniform every day. Once I transferred,
Speaker 3: I realized it was a lot harder and different. So
Speaker 3: trying to do all those sports and carry the academic
Speaker 3: load it would have been tougher. And in college doing
Speaker 3: the same carrying that load with the credits you're trying
Speaker 3: to keep with eight am classes and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So for me, the hard part was said it was
Speaker 3: giving up football because I loved it a lot as
Speaker 3: a kid, and it was like choosing which one I
Speaker 3: wanted to do and like focus on that and try
Speaker 3: to like make myself into that and go to school
Speaker 3: for free for playing that sport. But yeah, doing academics
Speaker 3: wasn't wasn't easy either. With playing a bunch of sports,
Speaker 3: it was. It was challenging.
Speaker 1: I want to hear what your uniform looked like.
Speaker 3: It's some of them at school for us, I mean
Speaker 3: we just had like a blue navy blazer, like khaki pants,
Speaker 3: like like beige pants, white button, white button up and tie.
Speaker 3: You had to wear a suit. You couldn't wear you
Speaker 3: had to like you get to shave. You couldn't wear jewelry.
Speaker 3: You can wear earrings, you couldn't wear a lot of things.
Speaker 3: You have to make sure your tie, pants were buckled
Speaker 3: up and up on your waist. Because your kids used
Speaker 3: to wear pants sag and a little bit, make sure
Speaker 3: you I think they still do. Yeah, I'm sure there's
Speaker 3: things have changed, but I'm sure it's similar. But yeah,
Speaker 3: we just had a blazer, button up tie and and
Speaker 3: some khaki pants, and I think it changed, like if
Speaker 3: freshman sophomore had to wear different colored pants something like that.
Speaker 1: You already. Yeah, uniforms are crazy. I only had one
Speaker 1: in elementary school, and I actually now I realize I
Speaker 1: liked it because now I have to wake up every
Speaker 1: morning and it makes it easy where yeah, you just
Speaker 1: have to roll out of you on the thing.
Speaker 3: You appreciate more things as an adult, you realize, like
Speaker 3: like even now, like we appreciate appreciate learning things new
Speaker 3: every day, but when you're in school, you like you
Speaker 3: don't care to learn certain things. Yeah, back then, it's
Speaker 3: like I wanted to wear outfits. But it's like it
Speaker 3: made things easy for me. I didn't have to choose
Speaker 3: outfit every day. You know, I just iron the same clothes,
Speaker 3: clean what I need to clean, make sure I have
Speaker 3: like five of the same button ups, a blazer, and
Speaker 3: some khaki pants, same uniform every day.
Speaker 2: So it made it very easy. But I didn't appreciate
Speaker 2: it till I got older.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, agreed. Okay, So now I want to move
Speaker 1: on to about your NBA career. We heard about you
Speaker 1: when you were seventeen, but now we're going to talk
Speaker 1: real hoops. Okay, So I want to start off with
Speaker 1: the twenty thirteen title against the Heat and Brown. Looking back,
Speaker 1: what stands out to you most about that?
Speaker 3: Twenty thirteen was not a great standout year. For the
Speaker 3: thing that I remember most is losing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know.
Speaker 3: We had a great fun series. I played well, had
Speaker 3: a chance to win, and I've been lucky. I've won three,
Speaker 3: so you know, by any means, not trying to be greedy,
Speaker 3: but it would be nice to have gotten that other
Speaker 3: one too, and I had a chance of being like
Speaker 3: finals MVP. Everybody talks about that, had a great series.
Speaker 3: But the memory that says out the most is just
Speaker 3: how much fun it was getting there and playing there,
Speaker 3: but just ultimately we did lose and lost in seven
Speaker 3: game series and it really took a turn in game
Speaker 3: six for us. So that ray Allen shot always comes
Speaker 3: to mind when everybody brings up twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you talked about how you've won three rings,
Speaker 1: which is an incredible accomplishment, and later on in the
Speaker 1: interview of Action asking you a trivia question about that.
Speaker 1: So I had to get excited, get.
Speaker 2: Get start thinking brain rolling exactly.
Speaker 1: But I want to know obviously all of them were
Speaker 1: extremely important to you in different ways. Is they're one
Speaker 1: that stood out the most?
Speaker 3: You know, people ask that all the time, like which
Speaker 3: one was the like the most important? Yeah, it's like,
Speaker 3: I don't know. You guys might have kids here. Every
Speaker 3: time somebody I give them analogy, like if you have
Speaker 3: multiple kids, which you can't choose your favorite, which one
Speaker 3: which experience was If I'm sure they appreciate one they
Speaker 3: parent you differently, and I probably appreciate one that's less maintenance,
Speaker 3: low maintenance than the others. But each birth experience, I'm
Speaker 3: sure they enjoyed love and they like them for different reasons.
Speaker 3: You know, your first is your first. So San Antonio
Speaker 3: was probably the most special. The most fun I had
Speaker 3: during the year was probably in Toronto, and then the
Speaker 3: most difficult one was probably in the Bubble. Mentally, emotionally
Speaker 3: was tough. But they're all special to me in different ways.
Speaker 3: I can't say I love one more than the other
Speaker 3: because you know, they're all your kids. They're all your kids,
Speaker 3: you know, So that's what I'd like to give people
Speaker 3: that analogy.
Speaker 2: But they're all with special but said in different ways.
Speaker 1: What do you say to the haters that say, oh,
Speaker 1: the Bubble Ring wasn't real.
Speaker 3: The ring is real. You know, I still I got
Speaker 3: the hardware. To anybody else wanted, they'd still be I
Speaker 3: think it's just mostly because there's the Lakers, Yes, that too.
Speaker 3: People either love or hate the Lakers, and people will
Speaker 3: love or hate Lebron, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: There's Lebron haters and there's.
Speaker 3: You know, Lakers theaters, so you know, and a lot
Speaker 3: of those people that don't like the Disney Mickey Mouse
Speaker 3: ring or somebody else that won, they'd give them full credit.
Speaker 2: You know, it happens.
Speaker 3: You know, nobody can take that away from you, regardless
Speaker 3: of what the stipulations were or the conditions were, a
Speaker 3: lot of teams have won because of injuries, or because
Speaker 3: somebody wasn't somewhere, or because of you know, uh, a
Speaker 3: lockout year. You know, they don't say they don't put asteris.
Speaker 3: Oh you won because of lockout, It doesn't matter. You
Speaker 3: want somebody has to win. And you know, we were
Speaker 3: fortunate enough to get that done, be that team to
Speaker 3: be the last one standing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And I know during the locko you played in Slovenia, right,
Speaker 1: I did like that. I did quite different from the NBA.
Speaker 3: Very humbling, yes, very different. I did not know where
Speaker 3: it was. I'm not great at geography. Even as I've
Speaker 3: gotten older, I'm still not great at geography on the.
Speaker 1: Map, and that's like one of my best things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I never heard of the country until my
Speaker 3: AE brought it to my attention. So I didn't know
Speaker 3: where it was. I never heard of it. I didn't
Speaker 3: know what the language was. They spoke there. Luckily they
Speaker 3: did speak English, most of them did. It was a
Speaker 3: nice city, it was cool, it was clean. But yeah,
Speaker 3: that lifestyle is very different, you know, travel, the way
Speaker 3: you travel is different, the way you play is different.
Speaker 3: The way you practice different twice a day, the weather
Speaker 3: is different, the way you get paid is different. So
Speaker 3: it was very humbling and it made me appreciate the
Speaker 3: NBA very much, so much more. And once I was
Speaker 3: able to get back, I was like, you know, I
Speaker 3: want to make sure that I'd stay here as long
Speaker 3: as I can, and I'm gonna work to to not
Speaker 3: ever leave this place if I.
Speaker 2: If I don't have to.
Speaker 3: But you know, knocked over overseas, it's a great opportunity
Speaker 3: to play and make money. I even thought about going
Speaker 3: back at some point before I retired, but you know,
Speaker 3: I have a family now, so things are different. You
Speaker 3: have to make decisions not only for yourself but for
Speaker 3: the people that are you know, attached, you know, attached
Speaker 3: to you. So yeah, but overseas, that experience was humbling.
Speaker 3: There's different places that are different, so, you know, because
Speaker 3: how do.
Speaker 1: You choose Slovenia over China or Spain or that was
Speaker 1: just the opportunity.
Speaker 3: It's usually the opportunities that present to you. You get
Speaker 3: a chance to choose. Sometimes a lot of times you don't,
Speaker 3: even just like an NBA like, sometimes very few people
Speaker 3: get to choose where they want to go when they
Speaker 3: want to go, and how they want to get paid.
Speaker 3: And that's just anything in life you get was presented
Speaker 3: to you. Weigh the options and see what's the best opportunity,
Speaker 3: and it's like, you know, this is something I could
Speaker 3: make good money, stay in shape, play and play well,
Speaker 3: and then also you know, explore some of Europe.
Speaker 1: So yeah, totally. Obviously I was just a little baby
Speaker 1: when you when you were on the Spurs, So though
Speaker 1: I don't remember much of it, I've obviously seen really
Speaker 1: cool YouTube clips and everything like that from that Spurs era.
Speaker 1: And I'm curious, what's the best quote coach Pop ever
Speaker 1: said to your team?
Speaker 2: Ooh, there's so many.
Speaker 3: There's so many gems that I've learned from Pop just
Speaker 3: as a man, uh not not you know, I would
Speaker 3: say as a player, yeah, but as an adult. You know,
Speaker 3: he put a lot of things perspective for us of like,
Speaker 3: you know, don't take it for granted. The NBA is
Speaker 3: Christmas every day. There's real world problems going on, and
Speaker 3: he give us examples, you know, every couple of days
Speaker 3: to be you know, thorough countries are going through this.
Speaker 3: There's a world going over here, there's people getting bombed
Speaker 3: over here, like and you're waking up. Just play basketball
Speaker 3: game to work and make a lot of money to
Speaker 3: take care of yourself and your family. So those things
Speaker 3: always put things like they always, you know, gave us
Speaker 3: a good perspective on life.
Speaker 2: But I do.
Speaker 3: Hold a certain amount of things that pertain to your
Speaker 3: character that he said close And one of the things
Speaker 3: is why Timmy is so great of.
Speaker 2: Who he is and why he.
Speaker 3: Was and Pop is they never allowed the game to
Speaker 3: or let themselves feel bigger than the game or bigger
Speaker 3: than anyone else. So you know, the biggest company he
Speaker 3: ever gave Timmy was you know, he's the same gentleman
Speaker 3: that walked through that door when he was rookie that
Speaker 3: he is now when he's finished playing. And Pop is
Speaker 3: the same guy I'm sure that he is now that
Speaker 3: he when he was when he first got that.
Speaker 2: He's never changed.
Speaker 3: So you know his always that would say kind of
Speaker 3: stay even keel, never let it get too high, gatu lo,
Speaker 3: but never allow any of these things to change you
Speaker 3: as a person, or let let it go to your
Speaker 3: head and think you're bigger than anything because you're good
Speaker 3: at a basketball game.
Speaker 1: You can see that in all the aspects of Tim Duncan,
Speaker 1: like from his outfits to the way he plays his
Speaker 1: outfits are was there a specific outfit of Tim's ever
Speaker 1: that he walked in?
Speaker 2: I love them all?
Speaker 1: Are you wearing?
Speaker 2: I love them all?
Speaker 3: Because he allowed us because usually you follow the superstars
Speaker 3: lead when it comes to anything.
Speaker 1: And if so, you were gonna start wearing Burkinstone.
Speaker 3: I'm just it just made it easy for us because
Speaker 3: there was no like certain teams have like a uniform,
Speaker 3: not a uniform, but they have like a dress code.
Speaker 3: It's like before we get on the plane, make sure
Speaker 3: you wear team sweats or you know, certain in Carolina
Speaker 3: we had to wear suits and ties, like for certain
Speaker 3: pregame meals with Timmy because he was so las a
Speaker 3: fair with everything, it was like, yeah, you know, we
Speaker 3: don't have to have a dress code, don't have to
Speaker 3: do this, would have to It's like, you know, you
Speaker 3: could be comfortable. You know, even when we went to dinners,
Speaker 3: like yeah, we have this thing with team dinner. You know,
Speaker 3: certain superstars like yeah, make sure you're dressed up or
Speaker 3: do this with fact like and even on certain teams,
Speaker 3: you just feel you have to keep up, which ultimately
Speaker 3: means you probably have to spend more money to like
Speaker 3: wear fashionable things. With Timmy was like, you don't have
Speaker 3: to impress anybody. You don't have to keep up, and
Speaker 3: you don't have to like there's not many restrictions or
Speaker 3: rules when it comes to doing those type of things
Speaker 3: outside of basketball.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So there's another superstar that you played with that
Speaker 1: is quite different from Tim Duncan. Yeah, that's Kawhi letter
Speaker 1: you want two chips, Yes, Kawai right, And we all
Speaker 1: see Kawhi being this guy that doesn't laugh, is very serious,
Speaker 1: you know, a little quirky. But you have had such
Speaker 1: a deeper relationship with him. I'm wondering what does Kawi
Speaker 1: look like behind the scenes.
Speaker 3: Actually, him and Timmy aren't that much different. And Timmy
Speaker 3: seemed seemed like a Kawi I got most people too.
Speaker 3: You know a lot of people thought Timmy didn't talk.
Speaker 3: Timmy talked a lot. Actually, he was a very good leader.
Speaker 3: He was encouraging not only with his words but his actions,
Speaker 3: and Kawhi saying as he got older he became more
Speaker 3: of a leader.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 3: But behind close doors, he's a funny guy and he
Speaker 3: cracks jokes. It's just funnier when it comes from him
Speaker 3: because you just don't expect it. But uh, yeah, him
Speaker 3: and Timmy are very much to themselves. They're quiet, they
Speaker 3: don't but they lead when they need to. He loves
Speaker 3: to compete, you know. He gets to the gym, really
Speaker 3: leaves late, you know, takes care of his body, does
Speaker 3: the things he's supposed to. It sucks to see him
Speaker 3: go through the injuries he's gone through. But I said,
Speaker 3: him and Timmy are very similar in the fact that
Speaker 3: they do work. They do say themselves, but they do
Speaker 3: talk and make jokes and like to do certain things
Speaker 3: when they have the time to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's funny that you called him duncan Timmy.
Speaker 1: I haven't really heard that. I like that, So I'm
Speaker 1: just calling that. What's the best Timmy dunk?
Speaker 3: You'd on his friends and call him that. No, Timmy
Speaker 3: is great man, So the best Timmy dunk? Tim dunk?
Speaker 3: Tim's story so the best story of him, just like
Speaker 3: off the off the court, I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm sure you've seen more of it now that he's
Speaker 3: done playing like he does the UFC or the taekwondo
Speaker 3: like he does some fighting and stuff that I imagine
Speaker 3: him as one of those guys is ready for the
Speaker 3: end of the world, Like if it was a zombie apocalypse,
Speaker 3: He's the guy I'm running to or his house because
Speaker 3: I'm sure he has like a safe house, a bunker
Speaker 3: and all the weapons you need. I just remember we
Speaker 3: did paintball with him and he's six eleven, but somehow
Speaker 3: he's very stealthy.
Speaker 2: You know, you can't hit him.
Speaker 3: He's finding you, he's hitting you all over the play
Speaker 3: and we had a rule don't hit guys too close,
Speaker 3: but he was smoking everybody in this paintball action that
Speaker 3: we had.
Speaker 2: And he's very good.
Speaker 3: So so if there's a zombie apocalypse, I think he's
Speaker 3: very prepared and he's probably a really good shot. So he's,
Speaker 3: you know, good at a lot of things, you know,
Speaker 3: off the court that more than you would expect.
Speaker 2: He was a swim or too. Growing up.
Speaker 3: I learned that the hard like I think guys learned
Speaker 3: that the hard way, because they would come in and
Speaker 3: bet that they could race him in a swimming and
Speaker 3: they'd always lose. Only one person I think got him,
Speaker 3: and I think that was Aaron Bains. Bains was really good.
Speaker 3: If I'm not mistaken. But they both swim like a
Speaker 3: fish man, those big big boils dolphins in the water,
Speaker 3: and they take up a lot of space and they
Speaker 3: move very fast in the water.
Speaker 1: That's so cool. I love to hear that. So I
Speaker 1: want to talk, you know, earlier we talked a little
Speaker 1: bit about the Lakers ring being in the bubble for fans.
Speaker 1: What was life like in the bubble? Not really basketball.
Speaker 1: I can't even found them what to be like for
Speaker 1: basically the whole NBA to be staying in one yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, some guys pointed out to be terrible,
Speaker 3: some guys painted out to be like, you know, it
Speaker 3: was lovely because of the resort.
Speaker 2: I think it was nice.
Speaker 3: It was a nice stay like this is a beautiful
Speaker 3: place that we're in, right, But no matter how beautiful
Speaker 3: the place is, if you're stay in this place for
Speaker 3: one hundred days, it could make you feel you know, enclosed,
Speaker 3: or like feel like you're captured or not in you know,
Speaker 3: you're mentally it'll wear on you. So they did the
Speaker 3: best they could and did a great job of making
Speaker 3: sure everybody stayed clean, no one got sick. Testing people.
Speaker 3: We had the first month or two without families they
Speaker 3: came in later.
Speaker 2: That was tough.
Speaker 3: You know, you're in your own small space. You're just
Speaker 3: with the seeing the same people every day, eating the
Speaker 3: same foods, walk on the same campus. But they brought
Speaker 3: in good food. They brought us some chefs, some like chefs.
Speaker 3: They brought in some food from out side for us
Speaker 3: at times. So that was great. But even when you're
Speaker 3: eating great meals, if you're eating the same meals every day,
Speaker 3: it's like you get tired of it. You know, I
Speaker 3: want some canes or some taco bell that you don't
Speaker 3: get those access to all those things. So that made
Speaker 3: it challenging. But ultimately I said, it was a really
Speaker 3: nice space. They did a great job. It just was
Speaker 3: mentally emotionally draining because you're in that space for so
Speaker 3: like we were there for almost one hundred days.
Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, that sounds crazy. I'm glad I
Speaker 1: didn't have to be a part of that. So a
Speaker 1: classic podcast question, just interview question, is you know what's
Speaker 1: your all time starting five? But you know Slow Noses
Speaker 1: a show where as a teenage girl, I like to
Speaker 1: mix it up a little bit, So I'm going to
Speaker 1: ask you some all time starting fives, but with some
Speaker 1: certain categories to shake it up a little bit. So
Speaker 1: your last name Green is quite the common last name NBA.
Speaker 1: What is your all time starting five of NBA players
Speaker 1: with the last name Green?
Speaker 3: Oh, all right, all right, let me see. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: put Raymond in there at the four. I'm gonna put
Speaker 3: myself at the two. I think I'm gonna put Gerald
Speaker 3: Green at the three. Willie Green, Yeah, Gerald, Yeah, second
Speaker 3: or third? One of those we found out in high school.
Speaker 3: That's another funny story. I want to say Willy Green.
Speaker 3: He's coaching for no Orland still right. I think I
Speaker 3: would put him at the one and at the five.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think who would that's that's a That's
Speaker 3: a tough one. I'd have to probably go to small
Speaker 3: because I don't think there's any centers.
Speaker 2: That's a five. A C. Green, Jamichael Green, Jamichael Jamichael Green,
Speaker 2: a C. Green.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those guys. I'm there's a lot of Greens, but
Speaker 3: either J. Michael probably a C. Green probably he is
Speaker 3: more of a legendary.
Speaker 2: No respect to J. Mike, he's a great teammate. But
Speaker 2: a C. Green. I think it's a legendary dude. For sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The next starting five is you've played with some
Speaker 1: incredible teammates. What's your starting five of your all time teammates.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's always tough for me. I'm gonna go with.
Speaker 3: The five position is the hardest. H At the one,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go. This one's tough too because it's between
Speaker 3: Kyle Ir and Tony Parker, and it's like.
Speaker 1: You can't go wrong with I'm off the bat that's fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so I'm gonna put those two together. But
Speaker 3: before at the one, it's those are my best point
Speaker 3: guards that I got a chance to play with. At
Speaker 3: the two, Manu probably probably for sure, Manu at the three,
Speaker 3: Kawhi at the four, Timmy actually an the four bron.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was about to say, you're leaving out someone.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is gonna be crazy because I'm gonna have
Speaker 3: to leave somebody out because I actually got a chance
Speaker 3: to play with Shaq. So I'm gonna put Shack at
Speaker 3: the five, Tommy at the four, Bron at the three,
Speaker 3: Kawhi at the two, just to throw it out there
Speaker 3: and I'll put I have to put a spur in this.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna put Tony at the one. I like k
Speaker 3: Low at the one as well. I left off Kawhi,
Speaker 3: which is unbelievably hard. Said, yes, KAUI at the two,
Speaker 3: but I left who do I leave off at the two?
Speaker 2: Manu? I left Manow he can be the sixth minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, that is a good I got Timmy
Speaker 3: in there. So I got Timmy, Shaq, Bron Kawhi and
Speaker 3: then Tony at the one. But I mean I would
Speaker 3: that could be k Low as well. So I've had
Speaker 3: some really great teammates. I left off a D Oh wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's crazy.
Speaker 3: And Dwight. I've played with Dwight. I played with a D.
Speaker 3: I played with Rondo. You know, I could have threw Ron.
Speaker 3: I know that chance to play Rondo in his prime,
Speaker 3: and I always wish I could have done that. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I played with a lot of great players.
Speaker 1: Yeah you did. Okay, the last starting five, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask you about this. Before the interview started, Danny and
Speaker 1: I were talking a lot about fast food and crumble
Speaker 1: cookies and taco bell and canes and all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: And I want to know if you had to make
Speaker 1: a starting five a fast food rest, oh Man, what
Speaker 1: it would be but I also want you to be strategic, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: It's like in my head, right, you could be like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: Taco is a point guard, Like I don't see Taco
Speaker 1: bell as the center. You know, you really got to
Speaker 1: think about it that way to really make sure that
Speaker 1: team's going eighty two and up.
Speaker 3: Yes, So my fast food preferences have changed over time
Speaker 3: when I was younger, definitely heavy on some other things.
Speaker 3: I'm definitely gonna put Chipotle.
Speaker 1: In there, obviously at a position.
Speaker 3: Probably at the two. I'm gonna probably put Canes at
Speaker 3: the three, at the four.
Speaker 2: Five guys.
Speaker 1: It's interesting that you don't think five guys should be
Speaker 1: at the five, right, That would be yeah, classic.
Speaker 3: Because I feel like you need like the best fast
Speaker 3: like your best fast food place, probably at the center.
Speaker 3: I think may maybe Chick fil at the five. Can
Speaker 3: put Chick fil at the five at the point guard position? Man,
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think, like, that's tough. I'm trying to
Speaker 3: think of what else that I haven't cut out because
Speaker 3: there's a lot of things I used to eat that
Speaker 3: I don't eat.
Speaker 1: I mean, it could be a classic like a McDonald's
Speaker 1: or like your least I.
Speaker 3: Can't put McDonald's in there. That would be really bad. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 3: I used to eat McDonald's way back.
Speaker 1: No, in and out, I'll put in and out the way.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Because you're an LA guy, I'll put in and out
Speaker 1: of one.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm gonna put because I'm a l
Speaker 3: A guy. But I lived in Texas for a really
Speaker 3: long time and water Burger. I'm gonna put Waterburger at the.
Speaker 1: One time I just had Waterburger for the first time.
Speaker 1: It's good.
Speaker 3: It's good, and I feel like it's more of a
Speaker 3: locational thing, like if you live in that atmosphere, it's
Speaker 3: just a late night you know, everybody has a munchy
Speaker 3: spot Northeast people with like White Castle, that was the
Speaker 3: thing back in the day. Yeah, water Burger is like
Speaker 3: the spot that's like it hits especially late night sometimes
Speaker 3: I think it used to be open twenty four hours.
Speaker 3: But it's like a cultural thing and you become like
Speaker 3: people here, people like, oh they come to visit, Like
Speaker 3: in and out is not that great, but if you
Speaker 3: are part of it, you live here, it's a cultural thing.
Speaker 3: It's like it's a late night great munchy spot or
Speaker 3: whenever you're in the mood for it.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you said that because I actually sort
Speaker 1: of agree that in and out is like I love it,
Speaker 1: I love going in some of my friends whatever, but
Speaker 1: like it's really not it's someone blindfolded me Burger.
Speaker 3: I'd be like, yeah, same with Waterburger, like your first time, like, oh,
Speaker 3: people really hype this up, but over time it gets better.
Speaker 1: Like you, it's sort of like sink into it. That's
Speaker 1: I'm don't have to have it a second time not
Speaker 1: to like understand really what it's about. So three your career,
Speaker 1: you sort of bounce back and forth between the NBA
Speaker 1: and what used to be called the D League the
Speaker 1: NBA Development League.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is now the G League.
Speaker 1: Exactly, which is now the G League. What do you
Speaker 1: say to guys in a similar situation who are bouncing
Speaker 1: back and forth between the NBA and the league. What
Speaker 1: advice do you have for them on how to sort
Speaker 1: of hand handle that?
Speaker 2: Meant?
Speaker 3: You know, I see a lot of the young guys
Speaker 3: today now, and they're going through some different things because
Speaker 3: the expectation with social media becomes like more expectations. Take
Speaker 3: for instance, like LEBRONI right, Everybody's like he's got a
Speaker 3: four year deal, he's supposed to be this that maybe
Speaker 3: he's not ready, and maybe in his mind he's thinking like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm not ready, I'm not good enough. News flash, kid,
Speaker 3: none of us were good enough, Like we weren't good
Speaker 3: at the time. A lot of us when we first
Speaker 3: came in, we were not great. So don't get discouraged,
Speaker 3: you know, like, enjoy the time, embrace the process of
Speaker 3: getting better, you know, work on your game, and eventually
Speaker 3: you will be confident you'll be good enough. The G
Speaker 3: League was a great tool for me to not only
Speaker 3: get better, but gain confidence in myself and what i'll
Speaker 3: you know, what I was doing, and be the player
Speaker 3: that I you know, be a rotational NBA player. So
Speaker 3: guys that are watching or take advice, you know, just
Speaker 3: don't look down upon it. Don't think it's a like demotion,
Speaker 3: you know, just have fun, enjoy it.
Speaker 2: Get better. We've all been there.
Speaker 3: We've all, even the greatest of great have started out
Speaker 3: as not a great, but like come off the bench
Speaker 3: or not. Kobe Bryant came out to the bench from point,
Speaker 3: you know, like Reggie Miller, all these guys. You don't
Speaker 3: realize that until you're like, oh, you know, damn, I
Speaker 3: thought he came in was a star right away. None
Speaker 3: of these guys were stars right away like some of them. Yes,
Speaker 3: but very few guys come in and be great or
Speaker 3: stars right away. Ninety percent of us, like have to
Speaker 3: go through that. So you know, just to enjoy it,
Speaker 3: embrace it in and don't get discouraged. You know you can.
Speaker 3: If you don't think you're good enough right now or
Speaker 3: an NBA player right now, doesn't mean you can't be
Speaker 3: very soon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great advice and I feel like it can
Speaker 1: apply to really life as well.
Speaker 2: For sure, with anything you do.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're only going to get better at but
Speaker 3: if you have consistent repetition of it.
Speaker 1: So now you're a couple months into your retirement, do
Speaker 1: you even watch basketball anymore?
Speaker 3: I do because I have to, it's my job. But yes,
Speaker 3: with a little one, I don't watch as much TV.
Speaker 3: Even when I played. You know, people talking about the
Speaker 3: ratings are down, but I didn't watch it as much.
Speaker 3: I watched what I had to because of teams that
Speaker 3: I played, or scouted or players. But I didn't want
Speaker 3: to burn myself out. I was such a big fan
Speaker 3: as a kid, and I watched it so much of
Speaker 3: my life. As I got older, It's like, you know what,
Speaker 3: I don't want to I want to step away from it.
Speaker 2: When I'm home.
Speaker 3: I want to watch TV series and movies and be
Speaker 3: fresh for like, all right, I'm not burnt out. When
Speaker 3: I come into the gym and watch film. It's like,
Speaker 3: all right, it's fresh for me. So I do watch
Speaker 3: it now, not as much as I did when I
Speaker 3: was younger. I's still am a big movie above TV
Speaker 3: series guy, and because I a little wanted to watch
Speaker 3: a lot of TV. But yes, I do have to watch.
Speaker 1: Burn my job moving into the rapid fire a little bit.
Speaker 1: Because you said you like movies and TV shows. What's
Speaker 1: the best movie you've ever seen?
Speaker 2: There's a million I can't get.
Speaker 1: I can't eve give wait, okay, what about this? Starting
Speaker 1: five best movies?
Speaker 2: I mean, I have to give like one from each category.
Speaker 3: Right, there's like a drama, it's like a comedy, a
Speaker 3: rom com. There's too many movies to choose from. But
Speaker 3: like growing up, like the movies that I love to watch,
Speaker 3: and I have tattoos of them on my body, like
Speaker 3: the Teenage Mutant, Ninja Turtles, Godzilla movies, not like Marvel movies.
Speaker 3: Those were some of my favorite movies to watch as
Speaker 3: a youngster, and even as an adult, you know, it
Speaker 3: still brings me back to childhood. But now I'm a
Speaker 3: big murder mystery guy.
Speaker 1: Like I like that anything with murder I can't do.
Speaker 1: It freaks me out.
Speaker 3: I think you'll grow out it, like once you understand
Speaker 3: certain I didn't like scary movies when I was younger,
Speaker 3: but now watching it and I try to predict things
Speaker 3: or see how things are made, and you can see
Speaker 3: when the sounds are coming in there trying to scare
Speaker 3: you jump, So not scared anymore. When I was a
Speaker 3: young kid, I didn't like scary movies. But now I
Speaker 3: appreciate all aspects of film, so that may be some
Speaker 3: that I want to tap into later on in life.
Speaker 1: We need to see in a movie, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be a post but yeah, maybe one day
Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind being behind the scenes and see how
Speaker 3: it works. And like writing because I feel like a
Speaker 3: lot of movies are predictable, and the ones that that
Speaker 3: I guess capture my attention to the ones that are
Speaker 3: unpredictable and have like different twists and turns. That's why
Speaker 3: murder mysteries are like, all right, trying to solve or
Speaker 3: figure out who was the killer?
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, so now we're gonna be in our rapid
Speaker 1: fire section. All right, So what's your favorite clothing brand?
Speaker 3: All right, rapid fire favorite clothing brand is Puma as
Speaker 3: it stands right now, I'm a Puma athlete. I was
Speaker 3: a poor athlete currently not yet, but Puma is my
Speaker 3: favor my probably my best sponsor that I've ever had
Speaker 3: in my career.
Speaker 1: Gotcha, what's your favorite food?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Before you get to these questions, I don't have a
Speaker 3: favorite anything because its hard for me to choose one
Speaker 3: thing over everything and say I like it that much more.
Speaker 3: But to play along, I'm gonna give you like my
Speaker 3: biggest preferences. I'm gonna go with Italian probably, Okay.
Speaker 1: If you could go to dinner with anyone that or alive,
Speaker 1: who would it be?
Speaker 2: People? Acts?
Speaker 3: But there's a lot of celebrities that I would love
Speaker 3: to And when you ask kids this question, it's always
Speaker 3: like family members. So I would love to have a
Speaker 3: mix of certain celebrities that passed that I never got
Speaker 3: a chance to see, like the Michael Jackson's of the world,
Speaker 3: or like the Robin william Like certain actors and actresses,
Speaker 3: some of them I had get a chance to meet,
Speaker 3: but also like certain fan members that didn't get a
Speaker 3: chance to meet my my little like my grandmother. Yeah,
Speaker 3: my son, like I would love to have dinner when
Speaker 3: he's older, to like know her and her you know,
Speaker 3: be there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I love that. Okay, So if you could
Speaker 1: make the Olympics for one sport that isn't basketball, what
Speaker 1: would it be?
Speaker 3: Ooh, I'm not really great at many other things. You
Speaker 3: are sport what other sports would like would it be?
Speaker 3: It wouldn't be tracked. I wasn't. It took me a
Speaker 3: while to get fast or like to learn to run.
Speaker 3: Swimming people A lot of guys say swim because I
Speaker 3: think that I was a good swimmer at one point.
Speaker 3: I didn't swim a lot as I got older, or
Speaker 3: I just wasn't a big ocean guy because I don't
Speaker 3: like what's out there. Fair, But it was another sport,
Speaker 3: like I used to play football, but I don't think
Speaker 3: I would be Yeah, it's an Olympic sport.
Speaker 1: But there's random things like curling or like breakdowns.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was thinking like maybe maybe volleyball or something
Speaker 3: like that, saying volleyball or something like that.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm trying to like, it wouldn't be badminton.
Speaker 3: It's pretty rare trying to think of something I did
Speaker 3: like ping pong a lot, you know, ping pong, you
Speaker 3: know it if I took that serious and like, I
Speaker 3: would love to be like Forrest Gump, you know.
Speaker 1: Just yeah, all right. So now, if you walk into
Speaker 1: an ice cream shop right, literally every single flavor is
Speaker 1: out there, What flavor are you getting? And then what
Speaker 1: topics are you putting on it? And then are you
Speaker 1: going cup or con because that really says a lot
Speaker 1: about a person.
Speaker 3: Cup golt Man uh around, she looked a little crazy.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go cup.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go vanilla, chocolate cookie dough and all ice
Speaker 3: cream is one of the top preferences.
Speaker 1: Sounds so good, right, And when I do.
Speaker 3: Put toppings on any if it was just vanilla ice cream,
Speaker 3: I would do like some rainbow sprinkles or like chocolate chips.
Speaker 3: Those would be toppings that I would if I just
Speaker 3: regular vanilla ice cream.
Speaker 1: Yes, if you get the whatever chocolate chip situation in
Speaker 1: the ice cream. You can't put like rainbow sprinkles can
Speaker 1: mix that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So if I'm going to do toppings, I have to
Speaker 3: do regular vanilla. But if I'm doing chocolate chip cookie
Speaker 3: dough with an ice cream, I don't really put many
Speaker 3: of the toppings on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes I go like crazy vellin ice creams em
Speaker 1: and ms yes, yeah, sprinkles, you know Reese's cups.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, it's embarrassing. But sometimes I get like cotton
Speaker 1: candy ice cream with like chocolate chips. It's just like
Speaker 1: I'm just hungry and I want to try all the things,
Speaker 1: and I just put it all together and it's just crazy.
Speaker 2: That sounds like a wild It's very like.
Speaker 1: I feel like eventually, like my ice cream paste will
Speaker 1: mature as I get older, you know, and whole palate changes. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Younger, we didn't like vegetables. No Brussels sprouts and asparagus
Speaker 3: is good for you and it's not.
Speaker 1: I'll grow out of it. Then. Do you have a
Speaker 1: favorite candy?
Speaker 3: No, They're all from me, especially when I was when
Speaker 3: I used to go to movies, so I was a
Speaker 3: big move off and I'll go to movies. I would
Speaker 3: get different candies, it depends on the move. Sometimes sweet
Speaker 3: and sour, either like Skittles or Sour Patch Kids. Sometimes
Speaker 3: just chocolate. You get some snow caps or Reese's cups.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you get candy in your popcorn.
Speaker 2: No, we wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1: What no to do that?
Speaker 3: I would do sometimes the ice cream bars, like a
Speaker 3: Snickers ice cream bar, like those things. It depends on
Speaker 3: the move. But yes, ultimately they're they're all. It depends
Speaker 3: on the move.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's fair. I'm an all candy type of
Speaker 1: girl too.
Speaker 2: I just cut back a lot though since I've been
Speaker 2: an adult.
Speaker 1: So now that you're in retirement, though, you have to
Speaker 1: really go for it, just eat a lot of candy.
Speaker 3: I've taken some time off of being like I wouldn't
Speaker 3: say on a diet, but like, hey, but yeah, so
Speaker 3: in a couple of months of just eating some bs
Speaker 3: and not working out as much. But once the new
Speaker 3: year hits, we're back on to being a real adult
Speaker 3: and taking care of your body because you want to
Speaker 3: live longer for your kids.
Speaker 2: Right totally?
Speaker 1: Who does your celebrity look alike Lionel Richie? Hmmm, yeah,
Speaker 1: when you don't pet like it's side by side little
Speaker 1: picture there.
Speaker 3: That's the first person that comes to mind. But there's
Speaker 3: a lot of other you know, they say light skin
Speaker 3: people all look alike. There's a lot of different light
Speaker 3: skin guys out there that I look like. I don't
Speaker 3: know if you've ever seen Power No Snowfall, Snowfall, you've
Speaker 3: ever seen Snowfall. There's a character his name is Melvin
Speaker 3: Grag they call man Boy and the show. I get
Speaker 3: him a lot. But Lionel Richie was of course a lot.
Speaker 3: And there's a bunch of other guys. But any light
Speaker 3: skin guy I.
Speaker 1: See Lionel Richie. Yeah, what's your favorite podcast? Because you
Speaker 1: a podcast? I have a podcast.
Speaker 2: Inside the green Room with Danny. I gotta put Danny.
Speaker 1: I really set you up here.
Speaker 2: You guys are a close second.
Speaker 1: Okay, close, I appreciate it. You know, first is the worst, second.
Speaker 2: Is the best. That's just the way I used to
Speaker 2: say that all the time.
Speaker 1: No, that's my go to Okay, So, now, like I
Speaker 1: said earlier, remember I was telling you to get the
Speaker 1: brain movement for these slow nose trivia. So basically I'm
Speaker 1: gonna ask you trivia about yourself. Okay, and Danny, I
Speaker 1: feel like you're definitely like a very memory, like you
Speaker 1: definitely pay attention to the little details. I tried to,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if you're gonna remember this stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to say. Okay, during your career, in seasons
Speaker 1: where you played at least twenty games, how many times
Speaker 1: did you shoot above forty percent? From three?
Speaker 3: I played in technically fifteen seasons, which is like fourteen,
Speaker 3: and I think out of the fourteen, I think I.
Speaker 2: Was below maybe three times.
Speaker 3: So I would say eleven to be safe, being a
Speaker 3: little cocky is a less than there is more than that.
Speaker 1: It's a little less. It's a lot less.
Speaker 3: Wait, so out of fourteen or I think of fifteen,
Speaker 3: so is it ten? It's not ten, it's less than that.
Speaker 1: It's a lot less than that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Really, wow, above forty how many seasons? So eight it's
Speaker 3: lower than that? No way?
Speaker 1: Six? Six is still incredible. Oh wow, it's still incredible.
Speaker 2: Six out of fourteen?
Speaker 3: Hm? Okay, So I'm thinking I guess the first couple
Speaker 3: of years I didn't play much above twenty games.
Speaker 1: Above twenty games, Yeah, exactly, there you go. That's why.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm sure if you played six seasons.
Speaker 2: Still, it's like, damn, no, it's amazing. I guess so
Speaker 2: depends on.
Speaker 1: You're asking, so humble, I'm telling you it is amazing.
Speaker 2: How damn I thought I was good?
Speaker 1: See that's the one islanos. I really got to see
Speaker 1: what you know? Okay, how many games did you play
Speaker 1: at u NC.
Speaker 2: Ooh?
Speaker 3: I did four years. I think I hold the record
Speaker 3: for the most games played still I did at one point.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's still true, because there's guys
Speaker 3: that played five you it's like fifty.
Speaker 2: Or six years. Singles now, amando big different. R J
Speaker 2: has been there for a while.
Speaker 3: Four years, we've average about almost forty games, So like
Speaker 3: thirty seven thirty eight is so, say four times four
Speaker 3: one hundred and sixty, right, would be? So about one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty games?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, you're really close one hundred and forty five. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is unbelievably impressive. Like when I read it, I
Speaker 1: was like, wow, that's that's crazy. How many of those
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty five games you win?
Speaker 3: I had at one point held the record for the
Speaker 3: most wins there. I don't know if that still stands true.
Speaker 3: Was it one hundred and ten?
Speaker 1: Okay this one? Now you're being too humble to one
Speaker 1: hundred twenty three, okay, which is amazing. Okay, Okay, So
Speaker 1: you were in high school in two thousand and five.
Speaker 1: You're the class of two thousand and five. Then I
Speaker 1: was just like a thought in my parents, not even
Speaker 1: probably I thought of my parents, but anyway, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to remind you the old Yeah exactly, in the
Speaker 1: class of twenty twenty, not twenty twenty five, two thousand
Speaker 1: and five.
Speaker 2: What were you ranked in high school? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I actually just looked this up recently because I'd argue
Speaker 3: with somebody. Somebody thought I was like top twenty five,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, bro, I was not top twenty close.
Speaker 3: I think I was top fifty, yes, but I think
Speaker 3: I was in like the thirty.
Speaker 1: Of forties, yes, thirties, getting closer.
Speaker 3: Like thirty seven, thirty one okay, okay, yeah, pretty good.
Speaker 3: Only is why I was close, because I say, I
Speaker 3: looked it up and I was like he people had this,
Speaker 3: you know, like people formed this image of people in brains, like, yo,
Speaker 3: you were amazing and high. Yeah, the one was not
Speaker 3: that good, Like I was good, but I was not
Speaker 3: that good, and like you were top ten.
Speaker 2: I'm like, there was no way you needed.
Speaker 1: To make it clear that it was like an underdogs.
Speaker 2: I was a late balloon.
Speaker 3: So I bumped up to thirty one, but like before
Speaker 3: my senior year, I was probably below, like out of
Speaker 3: the top.
Speaker 2: Fifty for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, so let's see how good your memory really
Speaker 1: is and how much you really focus on these small details. Okay, Danny,
Speaker 1: you were drafted forty six. Who was drafted forty fifth?
Speaker 1: And can you tell me where he went to college?
Speaker 2: Ooh, I don't know. Forty five forty five? Can you
Speaker 2: tell me the team.
Speaker 1: That was weal, that's part of the question. But okay,
Speaker 1: he was to Florida.
Speaker 2: Oh, the team that drafted Timberwolves. Okay.
Speaker 1: Actually, interestingly enough, the Timberwolves had to pick before you
Speaker 1: and the pick after you, so they pretty much passed
Speaker 1: up on you twice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody passed up with me twice, and forty six,
Speaker 3: I think I had passed twice by everybody. The forty
Speaker 3: fifth pick went to Minnesota and he went to school
Speaker 3: in Florida, US.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have no clue.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, yeah, I have no honest Nick oh,
Speaker 3: nicklethus he was, he was a big time in Greece,
Speaker 3: Nick Coleathas and.
Speaker 2: I remember that. Wow, yeah, I remember our draft class.
Speaker 3: I remember a lot of people that went before me.
Speaker 3: I don't remember exact picks. I think wait an nine.
Speaker 1: A few slow nos A Line Blake was number.
Speaker 3: One, right, has Sheen was number two, James Harden number three, four,
Speaker 3: I forget.
Speaker 2: I know Ricky Rubio was up there.
Speaker 3: I know Brandon Jennings was up there, Drew Holliday was
Speaker 3: up there, Demarto Rosan was up there, TODJ.
Speaker 2: Gibson was in the first round. Like, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of guys the first round.
Speaker 1: Remember you know when we had Draymond on this podcast,
Speaker 1: he closed his eyes and listed every single person in
Speaker 1: the draft. It was crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he I was so far behind. It was a point.
Speaker 2: It was a time where everybody but I was. Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, Danny, this is my last question for you.
Speaker 1: It's a good one, Okay. Can you nominate the next
Speaker 1: Sloan Nose guest?
Speaker 2: Nominate?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Do we can? We pick a region or an area,
Speaker 2: a person.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Like, like, are we when's
Speaker 3: the next pot is it in California?
Speaker 1: This is I appreciate how you're so devoted.
Speaker 3: Yes, we're based here, okay in California. I'm trying to
Speaker 3: think who's local, who's easy locally, who's been doing some
Speaker 3: good stuff, who's been on like.
Speaker 1: One of your boys you can like, you.
Speaker 2: Know, somebody I know.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of, like who's recently also retire,
Speaker 3: Like a lot of guys retired, yeah, and are in
Speaker 3: the podcast in the worlds Now, who's also done? Who's
Speaker 3: doing the podcast game Heavy Now, that's a friend of mine.
Speaker 3: So I don't have many of those. A lot of
Speaker 3: people like me. You already said r j P. The
Speaker 3: ESPN down Who would be a great guest.
Speaker 2: Like somebody that's like I'm thinking of, like the ESPN
Speaker 2: guys that.
Speaker 1: I work with all the cacoing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there's some guys that I work with on Turner,
Speaker 3: I work with guys A Fandle Chandler Parsons is another one,
Speaker 3: like Lou will Chandler Parsons slow notes.
Speaker 1: But Lou Williams, let's okay, that's can I just.
Speaker 3: You can shoot come on, slow, come on, Lou's got
Speaker 3: great stories, he's done his own pot. He's been doing
Speaker 3: great with that, even on stuff with with Turner.
Speaker 2: I have a bunch of random guys another great guests.
Speaker 1: Why don't I just send you like my list of
Speaker 1: like dream and then get him. You'll just get him all.
Speaker 1: That's what it's like a deal. I'll just like postmate
Speaker 1: your canes or something gift and then like that's pretty
Speaker 1: much thought. Yeah, he once a month's time, I will
Speaker 1: send you exactly.
Speaker 2: Sounds like a plan.
Speaker 1: Great, sounds like thanks Sanny, it's so much fun.
Speaker 2: Thank you everyone,