WEBVTT - Blake Griffin 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.760 I remember putting on you know, Oklahoma, you never wear 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:05.280 pants during the summer is so hot, and I remember 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:06.680 I put it like at our school, you had to 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:09.400 wear pants at private school. And I put on my 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:14.680 lash previous year's pants. I was like, Oh, he's not 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:15.160 gonna work. 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:16.239 It's not gonna work. 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:25.360 Hi everyone, my name is Blake Griffin and I have 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:42.560 been Brian's idle for upwards of thirteen years now. So enjoy. 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:41.440 Welcome back, one and all. 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:45.120 This is Off the Beat and I am, as always 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:50.160 your Off the Beat host Brian Bomgartner my guest today, Well, 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:55.959 he could absolutely dunk on you because he is one 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.400 of the best dunkers in NBA history. As you just heard, 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:03.160 I have the Blake Griffin on the show with me today. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:07.479 He is a former member of Lob City, the Los 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:11.080 Angeles Clippers, as well as a member of the Detroit Pistons, 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:15.280 Brooklyn Nets, and Boston Celtics. But as a kid, he 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:19.720 could have his pick playing either football, baseball, basketball. He's 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.440 just an all around athlete who luckily chose to grace 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:27.600 the NBA with his prowess. He is a power forward, 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:32.679 extraordinary and extremely funny guy and a pretty medium golfer, 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:34.800 if I do say so myself. So I guess when 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:39.520 I said great athlete, he's a mid athlete at golf. 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.679 That's fine. He's got plenty of strings. I have had 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.880 the good fortune of getting to know Blake over the 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.840 past decade or so. He taught me how to dunk 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.160 back in twenty eleven. So I'm glad that you're going 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:56.200 to get to know him today. Here he is Blake, Griffin. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:00.760 And squeak. 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:02.800 I love it. 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:09.519 Bubble and Squeakna, bubble and squeak. I cook at every mon. 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.320 Lift over from the ninety boat. 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:22.840 What's up? 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:23.920 Hey? 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.440 Look at you in a little professional booth over there. 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.959 I mean, you know, I am nothing if not professional. 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:31.959 That is true. That's what they say. 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:34.440 I mean, that is what they say. Thanks for dressing 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.280 up for me today. Now, I just sent you a photo. 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:46.280 We had this conversation this week twenty eleven. Yeah, twenty eleven, 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:51.079 Blake and I shot something for a series of specials 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:52.760 I was doing on NBC. 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:56.079 I will share it on social media. I just sent 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.880 you that photo. I feel like my form is pretty good, 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:00.600 Like I feel like I'm down there. 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.720 Can I just take a look again? Just to yeah 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.920 you can warm. Do you maybe honest? Or you want 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.000 me to just do the thing where I'm like, yeah, yeah, 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:09.600 it looks good. 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:10.959 I want you to be honest. 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.639 Okay, the ball, you just got the ball way too 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:14.200 close to me. 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.040 I think that's the I think that's this perspective of 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:18.720 the cale. 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:20.960 Yeah yeah, probably just the angle. I don't know what 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:21.560 I'm talking about. 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:23.120 I think that's just the angle. 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:28.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, okay, listen, you you know what, 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:29.960 why don't you just join a team for the playoffs 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.280 and see if see if they need some help. 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.320 I mean, if you considered calling them, just throw out 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.840 a line like Tom Brady, like, I mean, if anyone 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:42.640 calls I'm here, yeah, maybe really. 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:48.520 You know, maybe no, I'm finish, You're done, I'm done, done, done. 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.160 All right, Well we're gonna we're gonna talk about that. 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:55.080 I saw very clever by the way on social media 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.920 that you had to retire to finally get a trophy. 0:03:58.520 --> 0:03:58.720 You. 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:03.960 I was just with Blake this last weekend in Las 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:09.680 Vegas the Win Hotel for the eight AM Golf Championship 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:16.719 Invitational Celebrity Celebrity Ternament featuring Justin Timberlake. Yeah, I think 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.040 that's the title of it, eight am Golf. They certainly 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.520 are a lot of fun. I had fun playing with you. 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:24.359 How is it playing with me? 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:29.720 It was? It was, man, I'm almost at a loss 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:33.039 for words. It was a very surreal. It was a 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.160 beautiful experience, It really was. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:35.480 It was. 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.720 I mean, we had so much fun. How it works, 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.320 it's like for people who don't know, you play with 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.359 a different group, front nine and back nine. So we 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:47.040 played the back nine of day one and boy, let 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:52.920 me tell you, things went off the rails. It was fun, man, 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:53.919 so much fun. 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:55.239 It was a lot of fun. 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:59.960 And Blake and Chandler Parsons ended up winning the Chance 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:04.120 Beach Chip. Now, did you come down hard down the stretch? 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.080 Is that what happened? Because I thought you were out 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:07.920 of it at that point. I mean, after playing with 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.880 you on day one, I thought, yeah, they don't have 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.600 the staying power. I mean, I don't mean that anyway 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:15.159 except exactly how it sounded. 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.000 Yeah, yeah, I just meant it in the worst way possible. Thanks, 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:22.200 and I appreciate that. Thanks for clarifying that. Actually either way. 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.599 So we started out the front nine of day two, 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.080 I mean we were we were second place after day one. 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:34.159 Day two, well, we played solid on the on the 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.640 first day Day two, the front nine was rough because 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.680 we got strokes. We had, you know, the bogie with 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:42.600 the max you could take for what hast to play 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.680 and all that. There was a couple holes where we 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:48.200 stroked and those were like our bogie holes, so we 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:52.040 actually got to put in a par got it. So 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.520 that helped. And then the last two holes par five 0:05:55.600 --> 0:06:00.920 and the part four birdie birdie, but birdie for eagle 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.400 because we stroked. So we ended up like we were 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.039 like two under on the front nine and then we 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.160 ended up six under on the front nine. So it 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.040 was kind of like our strokes really helped. 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:11.559 To be honest. 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.320 Yeah, I mean for those of you who need strokes, 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.200 I get it. I understand that that's you were good. 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.080 That that's how it worked. Here's the here's the thing. 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:26.880 So Jimmy fallon playing with tournament host, I think we 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:28.919 can safely say that if we don't have the title 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:35.839 right tournament host justin Timberlake, I feel like everyone wanted 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.040 them to win. Now is that just a perception thing 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:40.240 on my part or no? 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:42.920 Well, so they technically did you know, they were like 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.719 thirty minus thirty two hunder. But they don't. They weren't 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:48.640 gonna they weren't going to accept a win, like they 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.320 weren't going to win their own thing. Oh yeah, they won. 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.360 They beat us like five strokes. 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.120 Okay, I thought, so this, now this is starting to 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.120 make way more sense because I thought they had an 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:00.279 insurmountable lead. 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:04.279 Yeah, we wouldn't have. I mean, we wouldn't. We got 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:04.799 a sniffed. 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:04.960 Well. 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.479 Actually, then that legitimizes the whole thing to me a 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.400 little bit more that you guys actually did it. You know, 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.560 there was you know, Justin got hurt. There was people 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:15.440 hitting shots for him. I mean, you know, there was 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:20.240 a whole thing going on. Well, congratulations, How did it 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.720 feel the moment you were handed that trophy, Blake, How 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:25.120 did it feel one. 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.400 Of the biggest sporting accomplishments of my life? Yeah, fig 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:32.080 it actually did. Because we were tied with the guys 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:35.840 who were leading, Archie and Adrian Gonzales. We were tied 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.640 with them going into eighteen. They were already finished and 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.080 we popped them the last hole as well, So we 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:42.680 were like, all we got to do is get a 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:46.080 ball in the green and two putt Part three last week. 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.600 So and we both got laying on the green, picked 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:53.560 a better putt, two putted for the win, and felt good. 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:56.360 Congratulations, Thanks man. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.520 I feel like you're it feels like you're saying that, 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:00.559 but you don't quite need Maybe. 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:01.680 No, I'm happy. 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.120 I had a great time playing with you. Let me 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.200 let me ask you this. Let me ask you this. 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:08.960 Who's the slowest call for that? 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:09.280 You know? 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:15.360 Uh, I know some slow ones. Yeah, do you think 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:17.320 I'm up there? Are you about to set up something here? 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.920 Well, I wasn't gonna set it up. I was just 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.080 gonna say it. I mean, whoever you think is slow, 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:26.840 you're slower. Okay, let's be let's be clear about it. Yeah, 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.920 I mean I think so. All right, Well, but you 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:34.120 know what you're really what you punish us with slowness, 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:35.800 you get back in fun. 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.040 So I appreciate it. 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:38.319 Yeah. 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.280 Yeah, that's the thing. I gotta work on it. Nobody's 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.839 ever told me that. So I'll get faster next year. 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:47.920 I'm gonna play in my co like an hour thirty. 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:52.120 Maybe so much. You're just gonna You're just gonna run. 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:54.320 It was a lot of fun. 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.640 There was a lot of It's the first tournament I've 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.800 ever played in that that shirts came off around the course. 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.959 It was uh, well, it was it was it was fun, 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.880 it was very it was Let me ask you a question. 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.160 I want to get back into your beginnings, but I 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:14.280 do want to ask you this. Are you the most 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:18.199 powerful dunker since Shack? 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:24.080 I mean there's like, okay, so let's go through. There's Dominique, Wilkins, 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:28.839 Sean Camp, shack On obviously, but Shacks was like, I 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.560 mean he's so powerful, and I guess Earlyiam's career got 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.600 up pretty high, but he was like true big man, 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.439 want to hand, you know, just as ran as hard 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.760 as possible. I think Dominique and Sean Camp both like 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:42.200 jumped really high. 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:43.400 Yes, and they. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:44.439 Were super powerful. 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.360 So I don't know, I'm Sean Kemp. That's a that's 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:52.520 a good one. I mean Barkley no, yeah. 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.040 But he just didn't like like no one thinks of 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.640 Barkley and thinks dunks. No, he obviously could and he 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.440 had some good ones. But like those two Dominique and 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.280 Sean Camp, like those two. 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:06.199 Are like Sean Camp, I didn't think of Sean Camp. 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.800 That's a good that's a good one there. Yeah, I 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:13.559 mean both well before you, who do you think is 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:15.960 the most powerful man in the game right now now 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:16.760 that you've retired? 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:23.079 Uh Zion, not even close. Yeah, he's like two seventy 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.440 maybe to eighty maybe two ninety, have no idea, but like, 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.880 and he's like six seven. He's not like super tall. 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:31.120 Is he only six seven? 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:34.280 Yeah, he's not super tall, but I mean how high 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:36.679 he jumps and the force he creates. I took a 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:40.640 charge from him one time three I think I was 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.920 in Brooklyn to get charge from him, and he kind 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.520 of kicked me in the shin, you know, as a 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:49.440 result of it, right, And I had like a I 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:52.240 had like a lump, like a lump, decide, like half 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.959 of a golf ball on my shin, which you think, 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.160 like that's just bump. Where where's the bump coming from? Right? 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.240 I didn't know I had it for like a month 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:00.720 and a half. 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:02.320 Geez. 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:05.360 Yeah, in hindsight, probably shouldn't have taken the charge. But 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.040 you know, well, Bri, I like to put like to 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:09.120 put my body on the line. 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.560 Then you know, did you get did you get the call? 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:13.600 I did? 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:15.080 I got charge? 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:16.520 Yeah? 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:21.000 Your your lob City days and the power with which 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:25.120 you played. The game obviously made you incredibly popular because 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:29.280 that's just fun to watch. But like you said, I mean, 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:34.200 you're putting yourself on the line both both as the 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:38.600 aggressor and the receiver at times. And so yeah, I was, 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:40.800 as I knew I was going to talk to you today, 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.440 I was wondering if there was anybody else. I mean, 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.600 you mentioned Zion, which is obviously a great one that 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.720 that you sort of that you feel like plays in 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:51.360 that same way that you did. 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.720 Yeah, I think like physically it's him. I mean there's 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:58.200 other guys that are pretty physical. But when you like 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:02.280 add in like dunks and like just like you know, Zion, 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:06.920 just like just pure athletics and athleticism, we'll just he'll 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:07.400 beat you. 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:08.439 How tall are you? 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:09.840 Six nine? 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:11.480 Are you? Yeah? 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:13.440 Six ten with shoes if you want. 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:16.480 To, I feel like I'm growing or you're shrinking, because 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.120 I feel like I feel like we were kind of close, right. 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.520 Yeah, maybe maybe we'll let let people decide when they 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:26.480 when they look at that picture. It also could just 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:27.560 be the angle, you know, it. 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.240 Could No, I think it might just it might have 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:34.280 just been the angle. You grew up in Oklahoma. Your 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:39.160 brother played, you played with him, and uh and and 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.720 your dad was a big athlete as well. 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.040 He ran track right At Northwestern Oklahoma. 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.320 He played he played basketball and football. 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:50.560 Basketball and football. 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.280 Yeah, dual sport college guy. 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:55.319 Oh that's impressive. 0:12:55.720 --> 0:13:00.160 Yeah, he back then they wouldn't let freshmen play on 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.600 the varsity, Okay, so he really wanted to play both, 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:05.200 and he was like, I just want to play like. 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.360 I don't think he wasn't looking for like and also 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.319 back then this was this would have been he went 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:14.120 to college in sixty eight, so like professional sports, you know, 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.880 weren't weren't what they are today, right, So I think 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:18.439 he was just like, I just want to play both. 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:22.120 Going to the Northwestern do that? So he yeah, he 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.360 had that was actually at home recently that was going 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:28.480 through his old like memorability. He had like multiple forty 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:32.000 rebound games really at like six or four. He was 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:33.959 a center playing six four at sixty four. 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.280 Well, you obviously didn't see him do that. I mean, 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.800 did he did he play the same way you played? 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:40.000 Yeah? 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.280 Probably, I don't know. I didn't see him play. All 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.080 I go off of now is like seeing clips, like 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.640 articles like that, and like his teammates selling stories and stuff. 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.439 But I knew he I know he can jump out 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.480 of the gym. I know that for a fact. But 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:54.280 that's it's kind of all I know. 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:58.959 Exacly, sports was a big part of your life growing up. 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.880 Did you grow so? Did you grow tall fast? Were 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:02.960 you big? Early? 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:07.280 I was like always the tallest kid in my gray, 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:09.760 you know, always the tallest one on my team. And 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:13.440 but then like end of my eighth grade year, so 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:17.880 like end of May, I was six one and I 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:22.400 was I guess I just turned fourteen. Yeah, And then 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:24.760 beginning of my freshman year, so two and a half 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:29.560 months later, I was like six six six six six 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:30.800 and a half. So I grew like five and a 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:32.720 half inches and two and a half months, and like 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:37.280 stretch marks on my shoulders, like stretch marks on my hips. 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:40.880 It's like, what was going on? I remember putting on 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.600 you know, Oklahoma you never wear pants during the summer 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:45.720 is so hot, and I remember I put it like 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.720 at our school, you had to wear pants at private school. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.000 And I put on my lash previous year's pants, and 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:55.080 I was like, Oh, he's not gonna work. 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:59.160 It's not gonna work. You played baseball, I heard first 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.880 base something else we have in common pitch. That was 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:04.760 the first basement. Yeah, I pitch. 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:06.000 What was your favorite sport? 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.479 You know, I was the best at baseball. 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:18.400 I probably liked basketball the best growing up. I feel 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.640 like now it's you know, just I'm kind of all 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:22.680 in on the football deal. 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:28.080 But I did not play. I think it was my dad. 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:32.400 My dad, he wasn't as interested in football. He was 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:37.040 also a doctor, and I think that maybe subconsciously that 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:38.560 was a part of it, Like he just sort of 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:42.200 didn't steer me in that direction, which is crazy even 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.240 back then, I mean didn't know at all what we 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:47.840 you know, know, the potential is now, So it wasn't 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:51.640 ever like stated, but I kind of later on I 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.400 kind of wondered about that. But you were friends with 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:55.280 Sam Bradford. 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:56.200 Yeah. 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.680 Yeah, we grew up like not not too far from 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:04.680 each other, play all kinds of sports against with growing up, 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:06.680 and then obviously we went to the University of Oklahoma 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.960 together too, So it's pretty cool. I've I've you know, 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:11.840 known him forever. 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.960 What's harder to be better at football or basketball? 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.920 I'm so biased. Well, if you're playing quarterback, you're playing 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.920 like something like that, like insanely hard. I mean you've 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:27.560 got so many responsibilities. Right, Like I always felt like 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:31.440 football was easier for me just because I played like 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:35.040 wide receiver, I played tight end, I played like safety 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:38.120 defensive end. Like so it was just like in high 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.600 school is obviously different, but it's just like just go 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:44.640 just go run and catch or go do this. Whereas basketball, 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.000 you know, it's like you gotta be able to dribble, 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.400 you gotta be able to shoot, gotta you know, there's 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.560 there's a lot going on. So I think like there's 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.080 just more things that you have to do if you're 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:58.560 just a basketball player. Now when it comes to you know, quarterback, 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.960 like I said, like that's that's a that's a whole 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.480 different level. And then football you got to take take 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:08.520 an account the absolute beating right right right right. So 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:10.520 I don't know, I don't know what's harder. 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:14.400 You know, I think the thing that I don't tell 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:15.199 me what you think about this. 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.840 We didn't talk about this this weekend, but like there 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:22.119 is and let's just call this is a terrible, like 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:26.280 simplistic way to say it, but let's just say AAU 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:30.400 basketball like what people sort of refer to as AAU basketball, 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.679 which is run up and down the court, shoot it 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.240 from every which away and try to. 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:40.840 Do big dugs. But there's something about that Clippers team 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:42.000 that I refer to before. 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:43.600 And then I would also say, so, I don't know 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.040 if you're a hater of them or not, but it 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:48.879 was sort of almost from well if you take like 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:53.479 the showtime Lakers, look at you guys, what you were 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.320 doing at the Clippers, and then like what the Warriors 0:17:56.880 --> 0:18:01.640 were doing sort of at their peak, which is moving 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:09.000 so well in space, and that the idea anyway that 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:14.520 you're making a play a pass, dribbling to a spot 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:18.520 for that like you're playing chess as opposed to checkers 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:23.520 or aa, like you're making a play for three passes later, 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:26.920 and that for me is so much fun to watch. 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:30.800 And I feel like you don't see that often and 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.360 you certainly don't think about it, but when you when 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:36.800 you see it happen, it's so beautiful and to me, 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.680 the most beautiful game that there is. 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.840 Yeah, like it. I mean, it's obviously now way more 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:46.160 of a commonplace. And if you look at like the finals, 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:50.000 even like the early two thousands, finals, game scores would 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:54.679 be eighty five, eighty nine, ninety to ninety two whatever 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:58.480 it was. And now I mean teams are still scoring 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.200 plus one ten, you know what I mean. I can't 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:04.159 remember what everybody ended up with last night, but I 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:08.480 know Minnesota scored over one hundred and fourteen maybe, I 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.760 know whatever. All these teams are just like the pace 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:16.200 of playing is so much faster and everybody's philosophy, mostly 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.600 because of the Warriors. We were a big transition team 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:22.600 with the Clippers. The Warriors were obviously like get up 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:25.840 as many threes as possible, shoot it early, or get 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:28.320 to the rim. They want to dump the layups and threes. 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:30.960 And now you're starting to see everybody do that. But yeah, 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:32.679 like when we came in, that was sort of like 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:36.119 the Dirk was like obviously a power forward who was 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:40.160 shooting threes, Kevin Love was and then now, I mean, 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.960 it's probably hard to find a team with a power 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:49.679 forward who's not shooting four threes. Again, right, there's definitely outliers. 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.359 But like you're right though, getting back to the point 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:54.920 of like how teams move the ball, and this is 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:59.320 what Yukon on the men's college side does so well. 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:01.960 It's so fun to watch. 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:04.840 Their offense is like the closest thing I'm not saying 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:07.680 that they they are an NBA team, but how they 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:10.600 move and their sets like that Hurley does such a 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:14.359 good job because their sets are so you watch the 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:16.720 ball go this way, there's an action on the backside. 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.200 Somebody comes off, but it's not for him. He turns 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:21.840 and says for somebody to rip screen down. Somebody else 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.680 comes up, and then the guy who initially started moving 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:27.280 in the first part somehow comes back around and he 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:29.760 gets a shot. They're there, and their defense too, is 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.480 played a lot like an NBA team's defense. So like 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.679 watching them play in the tournament. In the conference tournament, 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:37.800 I was like, no one is going to touch them, 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:39.560 and I hate to be the guy at the end 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.240 after they wanted it. But I was telling like multiple 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:47.200 people like, dude, Yukon is so good. Their offensive defense 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:49.760