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Speaker 1: edition of What's Burning Jack? What's good? Bro? What's something?

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Speaker 1: we got to it out there in Texas. We went

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Speaker 1: the show man. Lakers and Lebron. We're gonna lead off

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Speaker 1: with that. Um. Lakers are struggling, have lost seven to ten. Um.

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Speaker 1: used to go at san Antonio, getting get a chance

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Speaker 1: to match up against him as he was coming into

427
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Speaker 1: his own Now he's a two time champion, two time

428
00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:48,240
Speaker 1: finals MVP, so I think would be dope to get

429
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Speaker 1: a chance to play with him. What about you, I would,

430
00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:55,840
Speaker 1: of course Kyrie. I would love to play with Kyrie. Um.

431
00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:00,520
Speaker 1: I would have loved to play with Katie as well.

432
00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:03,440
Speaker 1: Um one of my favorite players. He's been heard a lot,

433
00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:04,840
Speaker 1: but I would love to play with him. I don't

434
00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,879
Speaker 1: love to play with de Marcus Cousins and four and

435
00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,960
Speaker 1: four UM definitely be Steph Curry. I wish I would

436
00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,120
Speaker 1: have said and got traded the year he got drafted.

437
00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,000
Speaker 1: He didn't believe in him. He didn't believe in him.

438
00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:19,840
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a classic now if you think about it. Man,

439
00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:22,920
Speaker 1: We've got to play with some amazing motherfucking players. Man,

440
00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:24,879
Speaker 1: like everyone you wanted to play with, I got a

441
00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:26,639
Speaker 1: chance to play with, you know what I means. So

442
00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:28,480
Speaker 1: it was it was dope to kind of just be

443
00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:32,240
Speaker 1: there and see that. So the league is in great hands, man,

444
00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:33,600
Speaker 1: with a lot of great players. So that was a

445
00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:38,560
Speaker 1: good question. I like that. Next up, underscore l underscore, gringo.

446
00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:41,320
Speaker 1: What city around the league has the best food after

447
00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:45,720
Speaker 1: you smoke? Or what's what's your go to stoner stone meal?

448
00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:49,000
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie, man. I remember, Matt, I remember

449
00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,800
Speaker 1: when we was in the playoffs in Dallas Crescent Court.

450
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Speaker 1: The motherfucker burs Oh my god, right now, man, fucking

451
00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,840
Speaker 1: Burger bro That ship was fire. And I remember remember

452
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,000
Speaker 1: used to always somehow, I don't know what kind of

453
00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,840
Speaker 1: plug you must have been sucking someone over there or

454
00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:10,639
Speaker 1: Nelly just really loved you, but you always had like

455
00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,240
Speaker 1: the two story sweet when we stayed at that hotel,

456
00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:16,200
Speaker 1: so we was always in your room smoking it out.

457
00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:19,560
Speaker 1: Watching game film. Remember your came through and dropped us

458
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Speaker 1: with some uh uh, what's staring at the world? Do

459
00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:26,400
Speaker 1: my rear view from pop too by game Man? Yeah,

460
00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,720
Speaker 1: but the cressing court? What what was the burger called?

461
00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:32,160
Speaker 1: Who was called the ms keep burger was like Askep

462
00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:37,440
Speaker 1: barbecue burger. That ship was fired. My goodness, broo, we

463
00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:39,240
Speaker 1: both agree with that. So that's how you know it

464
00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:41,159
Speaker 1: was good. As soon as you started talking about it,

465
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Speaker 1: you said, crescing court. I said that just motherfucker's talking

466
00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,800
Speaker 1: about that burger. Shout out the crescing Court of Dallas Man.

467
00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:53,680
Speaker 1: That burger was a classic. Next bad question, don't don't

468
00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:57,280
Speaker 1: check me ninety three. What is one of your favorite

469
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Speaker 1: moments you've experienced with your mom? Shout out to mother's

470
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Speaker 1: for Mother's Day on Sunday. Definitely, Happy Mother's Day to

471
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:10,120
Speaker 1: all the mothers coming up. Um experience with my mom.

472
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Speaker 1: I to be honest with you, I think it's the

473
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Speaker 1: We Believe time because you know, we all have a

474
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Speaker 1: crazy story leading up to how we got to that

475
00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,040
Speaker 1: We Believe team. But my story was I was on

476
00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,320
Speaker 1: the verge of being out the league. You know, I

477
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,879
Speaker 1: was about to go try to play football, and um,

478
00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:25,880
Speaker 1: you know the story has been told, you know how

479
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:27,720
Speaker 1: bet hit me up. I went up there and played

480
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:30,159
Speaker 1: and go went from end up going playing well in

481
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,040
Speaker 1: a pick up game to making that Warrior team. But

482
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,560
Speaker 1: I think my best experience with my mom was she

483
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 1: finally got to see me play and succeed and have

484
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,800
Speaker 1: fun and got a chance to meet that team and

485
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 1: all the moms and the friendship she made, um, you know,

486
00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,640
Speaker 1: before her untimely passing the following year. So I would

487
00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,320
Speaker 1: definitely say my my funnest experience was you know, having

488
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Speaker 1: you know, getting my mom, having my mom get a

489
00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:54,440
Speaker 1: chance to see that team. Um, knowing that she died

490
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Speaker 1: the year after. Well, I have to agree with Matt.

491
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Speaker 1: I think my best specially my best experience was bad

492
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,240
Speaker 1: basketball was to we believe is because my mom she

493
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 1: not only was that felt like my mom, but she

494
00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 1: felt a part of the organization, She felt a part

495
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 1: of another family. You know, I didn't go to state

496
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,880
Speaker 1: like all our moms were friends and those times at

497
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,920
Speaker 1: the times and when we talk about basketball, she only

498
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Speaker 1: talks about those times to go to State. She was

499
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Speaker 1: in San Antonio when I won the championship, but those

500
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Speaker 1: times to go to stay, she held, dear, you know,

501
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:26,399
Speaker 1: we relationship with your mom and asma. But um also

502
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,240
Speaker 1: for me, I think from building my mom a house,

503
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 1: that was a great experience for me and her because

504
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 1: when I built the house, I promised that I was

505
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 1: gonna build her and my grandmother house and I was

506
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 1: able to do that and to see her face knowing

507
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 1: that that I was doing that, that meant a lot

508
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:41,359
Speaker 1: to her. So those two moments, go to stay and

509
00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:43,359
Speaker 1: building our house, I mean, that's the best moments I

510
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 1: can ever think of. You know, that's dope because that

511
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 1: was what obviously, that's what all of our goal is

512
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:49,879
Speaker 1: is is once we get into a position too, is

513
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,639
Speaker 1: to take care of our mom. And I finally that

514
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,119
Speaker 1: season that got into position where I started making some money.

515
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,159
Speaker 1: That next season, she died at the beginning of that

516
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Speaker 1: next season. I think another thing too that that that

517
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:01,200
Speaker 1: I really share with my mom that was special was

518
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: she didn't smoke, but every Mother's Day she would smoke

519
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 1: with me. So she would always hit the joint by

520
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 1: the end of the day and probably happened here passed

521
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 1: out early before before the night end. So that was

522
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,639
Speaker 1: always a little ritual in a tradition, uh that we

523
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,600
Speaker 1: have so rest in peace to Mars. But those are

524
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,160
Speaker 1: some great times, man. Definitely, it's coming up, Jack, Jack

525
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,200
Speaker 1: is coming up on. This year is going to be

526
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 1: fourteen years crazy man, because the Twins Day, the Twins

527
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 1: will be thirteen in November and my mom the Twins

528
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:34,840
Speaker 1: came home as the year after my mom died. It's crazy.

529
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Speaker 1: Next question past twenty three X have you ever played

530
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 1: a street pickup game and face the player you thought

531
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Speaker 1: could play as a pro? Keep it up? Salute from Greece,

532
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 1: Shout out Greece. Um, Yeah, I definitely probably say some

533
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 1: dudes in the men's gym that you run across that

534
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 1: you know, end up playing overseas or something like that,

535
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 1: that could definitely, you know, get a chance. But it's different.

536
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 1: I think everyone thinks that the NBA is so simple

537
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: and and and and it feels so simple everyone being there.

538
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 1: But what people don't understand is the last player on

539
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 1: that bench will go into a normal pickup game and

540
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 1: bus to everybody's ass, you know what I mean. Like,

541
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,119
Speaker 1: it's very competitive. Even if you don't get consistent minutes,

542
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,399
Speaker 1: you can obviously play because you gotta think four fifty

543
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 1: guys in the whole world wants to be in the NBA.

544
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,120
Speaker 1: So salute to all the players in the NBA. There's

545
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,919
Speaker 1: definitely guys out there that we ran across. Um, they

546
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,639
Speaker 1: could do it. But man, it's it's a lot more

547
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 1: than talent that goes into actually making the league. Yeah,

548
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 1: shout out to Greece again. Man, you you're gonna see

549
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 1: a lot of guys coming up that should have made it.

550
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 1: But just to get the opportunity is opportunities that we get. Um,

551
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 1: they're more than more talented. They work out, they play

552
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 1: just as good as we do, you know, but they

553
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 1: make some bad decisions I think, just gonna go their way.

554
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 1: I've seen the millions, millions of guys that I said

555
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,920
Speaker 1: belong in the NBA. But you know what God has

556
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 1: for you, it's for you, and can nobody stop it?

557
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 1: And um, you know he got different strokes with different folks. Yeah, well,

558
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's such a thin line between you know,

559
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,720
Speaker 1: we both have friends and family that that that that

560
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,399
Speaker 1: you know, kept us on that right path because we

561
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 1: could have definitely been a statistic for the wrong side.

562
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: You know, we both got a chance to play fourteen

563
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,640
Speaker 1: years and make money and have successful post careers. But

564
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: you know, it could have been one wrong turn this

565
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 1: way or run wrong turn that way that we could

566
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,679
Speaker 1: have been a statistic on the other side. So definitely,

567
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,359
Speaker 1: like I said, it's always, it's always more than talent

568
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 1: um that that defines whether or not you're gonna make

569
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:36,360
Speaker 1: it in the NBA Heywood Underscore era. Would Jack ever

570
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 1: get in the ring with someone for celebrity boxing? Yea,

571
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:48,640
Speaker 1: would you? No, wouldn't. No playing and simple because I'm

572
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 1: not a boxing Yeah I'm not. I'm not. I'm not

573
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 1: thirsty for money, I'm I'm not holding on by a

574
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 1: lot by lifeline. So I'm not gonna go out there

575
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,520
Speaker 1: and and act like I'm a boxer and embarrass myself

576
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 1: for the world. No boxing. I know, I've been a

577
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,439
Speaker 1: fighter all my life, Matt. I've had many fights in

578
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 1: my life. I know the difference between fighting and boxing,

579
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 1: and it's a big difference. And if you've never been

580
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 1: in the boxing ring and you never felt them gloves,

581
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 1: you haven't been sparring your whole life, You're gonna go

582
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,159
Speaker 1: in there and get yourself embarrassed. As you see, you

583
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,399
Speaker 1: can be a UFC fighter. But if you don't know

584
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:21,680
Speaker 1: how to box, You're gonna go in there and get

585
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,679
Speaker 1: your block knocked off. So no, I won't. And then again,

586
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: I don't have the calmness to be a boxer. You

587
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: knocked me out. The fight is never gonna be over.

588
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:31,439
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wait at your call, I'm gonna be at

589
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: your hotel. I'm gonna put it hit on you. Something

590
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 1: gonna happen. So no, I would never do that. Hey,

591
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 1: I think you made up a great point though, because

592
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 1: me too. I mean, obviously been fighting my whole life,

593
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: but once I started boxing, it felt like I was

594
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 1: starting all over. Like boxing is so much different than fighting.

595
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,159
Speaker 1: It's it's crazy. So just because you think you can

596
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 1: fight it you might have some nice hands, that ship

597
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,640
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily trans over into the boxing ringing like we've

598
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: seen it. It's it's kind of a I guess there's

599
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: a wave now of you know, people wanting to box

600
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: and celebrity boxing. We got the logan Paul Floyd Mayweather

601
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 1: fight coming up. Um shout out showtime Boxing. We will

602
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 1: be in Miami for that. Uh, Steve Espinoza, I hope

603
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 1: you see this episode and realize we will be there.

604
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 1: We need to be ringside. We could work if you

605
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,160
Speaker 1: need us to work. We could chill and be fly

606
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 1: and hid if you need us to do that. But

607
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 1: one way or another, we will be front row with

608
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 1: that fight. Um, what are your thoughts on that? You know,

609
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: obviously Floyd has done some us some charity fights where

610
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,400
Speaker 1: he knocked out the uh, the the the Asian cat

611
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 1: from overseas, uh you know Augusly Floyd one of the

612
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: greatest fires, if not the greatest fire of all time.

613
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: Stepping in the ring with one of these Paul brothers

614
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: who are really taking the taking this celebrity boxing by storm.

615
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 1: A lot of people want to hate on them. The

616
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 1: boys keep knocking motherfucker's out and they're getting paid, paid,

617
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 1: paid to do it. So thoughts on this upcoming fight

618
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 1: with Mayweather and Logan Paul the showtime is putting on? Yeah,

619
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: it's it's it's entertainment obviously. UM, I want to see

620
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: more real boxing fights, doing or not every six months

621
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: of fight, you know, I want to see the real

622
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 1: boxes fight. But I'm excited because Floyd's an entertainer and

623
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 1: this this guy is bigger than Floyd Florida may shure,

624
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 1: it's an exhibition exhibition match, So I wanna go on

625
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 1: his record, but it's about to pay day, and you know,

626
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: Floyd's gonna get a big pay day. He don't do

627
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: anything where he don't make a payd So anytime, how

628
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 1: could you go and get somebody getting the check? And

629
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 1: that's what Floyd doing. I'm gonna go out here, I'm

630
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 1: gonna fight this dude bigger than me and I'm embarrassing

631
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 1: him and get a check. So when went for Floyd?

632
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm. Now I think it's great. You know. Uh,

633
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 1: the celebrity boxing people ask me if I wanted to

634
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: box llo uh, and I'm just like no. I mean,

635
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: I can't box my brother, I can't box someone I

636
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 1: funk with. So but I ever would I ever do

637
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 1: a charity boxing match. I mean, if I was consistently

638
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: still working out doing boxing and I had some time

639
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: to really really put to it, um, I wouldn't be

640
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: against it. But it's not again, it's not something I'm

641
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: looking forward to or really want to do. UM. So

642
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 1: I agree, because, like I said, if I hadn't to

643
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 1: get knocked in front the world and they're gonna be

644
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 1: making fun of me, the fight will never be over,

645
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank go ahead. Next fad question at CPS

646
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: storage was that we believed team the most fun you've

647
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 1: had in the NBA, hands down. I think it was

648
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: because it was so much more than boxing. Uh, so

649
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 1: much more than basketball. And today is the fourteen year

650
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: anniversary of Game six that we knocked him out. You

651
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: remember we did later this night fourteen years ago where

652
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 1: we ended up at the end of the night. Man,

653
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: do I cloud blowing down the fourth season with Snoop

654
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 1: at the end of this night fourteen years ago. But yeah, man,

655
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 1: that we believed team was special. You know, like we

656
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 1: all were brothers to this day still. You know, our

657
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 1: mom's had a friendship. Uh. You know, to think that

658
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: this team has still talked about this much and all

659
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: we did was win the first round series. We didn't

660
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 1: even win the second round. Uh, but we can look

661
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 1: back on that. You know, someone said something interesting today

662
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 1: that I saw. I didn't know. We swept Utah during

663
00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 1: the regular season um that year, and then they had

664
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 1: some help with the rest to get us out in

665
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: the second round. But I didn't know that, mad I

666
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: gotta go back and do some investigate. Yeah, I didn't

667
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 1: know that. I didn't know, I don't know. Yeah, we

668
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 1: swept the season series with the Jazz that year and

669
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: then they beat us in the second round. Uh but yeah, man,

670
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 1: that we believe team was special. On the anniversary of

671
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 1: Game six today, I think that's dope. I'm definitely gonna

672
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: have to smoke one for the cars. Uh what what?

673
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: What what about for you? Uh? Smoking is nothing new.

674
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that anyway. But one thing about it,

675
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: Uh my years there there I hold I hold dear

676
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: to me because now you said it wasn't just about basketball,

677
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: you know. I I grew lifelong relationships with my with

678
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: with people I called my brothers today and we we

679
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: made history doing that, you know what I mean. So

680
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: it just means a lot, you know, to to still

681
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: have the relationship, you know, with my brothers from that time.

682
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 1: That's that's what mean the most to me. Absolutely special

683
00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: times coming up this Thursday, May seven, and we have

684
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: ESPN s own our sister Rachel Nichols on all the smoke.

685
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: Enjoy the teaser. Thoughts on how the league and Adam

686
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: Silver has how did lash has passed events. I don't

687
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: think you can argue like it's been an overall like

688
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: huge success right, the fact that they got a league

689
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: playing and they were able to navigate through a global

690
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: pandemic and keep everyone safe and nobody has had you know,

691
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: knock on every surface near me because we're not out

692
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: of this yet, but no one has had serious health

693
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: problems while you are trying to move people around the

694
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 1: country in groups and a contact sport where everyone sweats

695
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 1: all over each other. There's no easy thing. Have there

696
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: been little things along the way that they may have

697
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 1: wanted to do better? You know now that the hindsight

698
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 1: they would tell you that, you know, so so sure,

699
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: but you know it's kind of like I say, like,

700
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 1: no one's perfect people. You just got to do the

701
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: best you can. And I think they've made really good

702
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: choices a lot of the time. Thoughts on the play

703
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 1: in format because I absolutely love it. I love it too.

704
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people don't find I think

705
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 1: it's awesome. It was really fun in the bubble and

706
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 1: it just gives everybody a little bit more skin in

707
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: the game, but in a way that doesn't feel like

708
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: it's going to mess with the integrity of who wins,

709
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: Like I don't think it's going to make it the

710
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: plan tournament is going to have no effect on who

711
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: wins the NBA title. I don't think whoever makes it

712
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: into the playoff game is gonna win. We've never had

713
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: an eight seed win a title before. Came close a

714
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: little bit with Patrick Ewing, but never didn't happen. Um

715
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: And I certainly don't think a playing team is my guests.

716
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: I mean, who knows someone's now going to do it

717
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: and they're gonna show this clip I'm looking at the

718
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I doubted you who I don't even know,

719
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 1: and I don't even know what team this is, but

720
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: clearly I doubted you, and you can use that as motivation.

721
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: I mean, if the Lakers slide, you know with a

722
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: D and braun, if they happen to slide, like to me,

723
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: if they slide and get into a plan situation, as

724
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: long as they're healthy, I still think they're the best

725
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: team in the Western you know, outside of them, No,

726
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: I think I think that's true. But that's the case

727
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: of the plan. I just don't think the Plan is

728
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 1: going to have a team that doesn't deserve it. I

729
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: guess that's what I should say, because like in a

730
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 1: single elimination thing, in that first game or two the

731
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: actual playing tournament, anyone can win. But what that team

732
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: then has to go into the playoffs, right then you

733
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: have to go into seven game series. So I just

734
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,320
Speaker 1: don't think you're going to get some outlier team that

735
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: shouldn't be there win. So I I should, that's a

736
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 1: good point. I should. I should have seen I messed up.

737
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 1: I should, But I got you, got me, you got me?

738
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 1: But yeah, I just think that it's it's only fun.

739
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: Do you How do you feel about Jack? I just

740
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: feel like it's an interestant twist, you know. I like

741
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: the old school way you are. You gotta earn your

742
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: way in. I don't like all this other ship. You know,

743
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 1: top eight everybody else go home, get on that boat

744
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: early one to three cancoom and uh, you know, everybody

745
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: else that earned it get in there. I like it

746
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 1: because I think it starts to the energy for the

747
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,800
Speaker 1: playoffs a little bit sooner. And it's a cool format.

748
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,399
Speaker 1: You know, seven plays eight or yah seven place eight

749
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 1: and seven. The winner gets seven and then eight the

750
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 1: winner the loser the loser of the seven eight battle

751
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 1: plays the winner of nine and that's husay. Yeah. So

752
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 1: to me, I just think it's great energy. I just

753
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: think it gets the playoffs a jump starre and like

754
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: you said, something different. I mean I get traditioned. But

755
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 1: like we said, I mean, we're just a different time now,

756
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: so why not try something different. I think something that

757
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: they did that worked well in the bubble. Yeah, they're continuing.

758
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,319
Speaker 1: I'm an eighth seed. I ain't even to fight for

759
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: the eight seed. Who you are too, I'm already here

760
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 1: what I got to play for. And by the way,

761
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,399
Speaker 1: the Raptors right this year, it depends on who you are.

762
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: We've been sorry all you are, Rachel to land in

763
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 1: this eight spot. We don't deserve it. The Raptors this

764
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 1: year at the trade deadline, this is a team that

765
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: is two years removed from winning a title, playing in

766
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: a state they don't even live in, like not even

767
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,800
Speaker 1: front of their fans, all this stuff, and they basically decided,

768
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 1: you know what, We're going to try to keep our core,

769
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 1: but we're not going to like go all out to

770
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 1: win a playing game. We don't have to. Our fans

771
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,839
Speaker 1: don't expect that. They're not going to be happy with, Oh,

772
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: we want to play a game, you want a title

773
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 1: two years ago. So for teams like that, for teams

774
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,240
Speaker 1: like the Warrior, I get Draymond being like, I'm not excited,

775
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: but you know what. We had Darren Fox on the

776
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 1: show the other day. He'd like to play, you know,

777
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,840
Speaker 1: And I get that too for him even if you

778
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:10,879
Speaker 1: wouldn't be excited, even though Draymond is not a side

779
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: know when the ball goes up for you and the

780
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: ball goes of him, and you guys are gonna play

781
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:17,720
Speaker 1: your asses. We're winding down, moving ahead to quick hitters.

782
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: The DeMarcus Cousins and Region Rondo impact on the Clippers

783
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: nearly pulled off a comeback against the Nuggets Saturday night.

784
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 1: Both played really well. Wander Rondo had eighteen five rebailds,

785
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: five assists to steals in thirty minutes, but he had

786
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: sixteen points in fourteen minutes. Jack knees to be difference

787
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: makers come playoff time for the Clippers. It ain't no

788
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:42,280
Speaker 1: question about it. They're already making a difference and these

789
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 1: this is the toughness that the team needs. These are

790
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 1: the two guys is gonna do all the talking, all

791
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 1: the pushing, all the stuff that's gonna keep Kauai and

792
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,800
Speaker 1: Paul George focused on the game. This was the biggest

793
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,800
Speaker 1: moves of the season so far with adding them to

794
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: to the already great Clipper team. I think Tyler is

795
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: licking his chops right now. He can't wait to get

796
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 1: in his playoffs and let these goons loose. The Clippers

797
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 1: are scary, and I don't want to gass them too

798
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:09,919
Speaker 1: much because I gassed them last year and it cost

799
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 1: me a bunch of cush ups. But there wasn't This

800
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: team that is a much different team. But like I said,

801
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 1: similar to what I said about Milwaukee in the Eastern Conference,

802
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 1: the Clippers have been floating under the radar r season.

803
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 1: You know, Kauai is dealing with a little bit of

804
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: foot sore news, but I'm sure he's gonna be a

805
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:30,839
Speaker 1: go um come playoff time. They're gonna be a tough

806
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:34,360
Speaker 1: out and don't be surprised if you see them representing

807
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,839
Speaker 1: the Western Conference UH in the finals. Tyler has these

808
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: dudes playing well on the same page. Uh. Like you said,

809
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:43,720
Speaker 1: I got two guys that will do all the dirty

810
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 1: work plus put solid numbers up. UH. Looking to get

811
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 1: Serge Ibaka back soon. This Clipper team is built for

812
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: the playoffs, so we're gonna have to see now. I mean,

813
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: there's been such a curse on that that Clipper name

814
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: since Donald Sterling uh took over the team under under

815
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:02,359
Speaker 1: new ownership. Now maybe the cursl end, but this cook

816
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,760
Speaker 1: of team is playing good basketball, heading in the right direction,

817
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 1: getting everybody healthy at the right time, and should be

818
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: fun to watch during the playoffs. LaMelo Ball made his

819
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 1: return after a risk injury had him sidelined for a

820
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: handful of weeks. They are one and once is to return.

821
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 1: Charlie currently sits in the eighth seed, which is in

822
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 1: a playing situation that East at five the Hawks, six

823
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: of the Heat, seven of the Celtics, eight of the Hornets,

824
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 1: nine of the Pacers, ten or the Wizards. Jack will

825
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,760
Speaker 1: the Hornets lock up a playoff spot to be playing

826
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 1: in the real playoffs. It's gonna be hard to see. Uh.

827
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,399
Speaker 1: It's good to see LaMelo back though, you know, he's

828
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: the he's the the engine to that car um. It's

829
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 1: good to see him back and on their team. But

830
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 1: like I said, they have a chance. Uh, they having

831
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: him back gives him a better chance, you know what

832
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: I mean with a without him on the line up,

833
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,919
Speaker 1: You know, you just kind of Fishy, the leaders not there.

834
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 1: But with this kid back, I think just coming back

835
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 1: starting off one and one, him getting his filed back

836
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,320
Speaker 1: for the game, he could possibly take this team to

837
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 1: the playoffs. The energy, excitement, outside of the numbers he's

838
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: putting up is what he really This team was lacking

839
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,279
Speaker 1: uh in his absences. You can clearly see that. So

840
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 1: I'm excited to get these guys back on track. Um.

841
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 1: I definitely think they can make the playoffs. At the

842
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: playoffs started today, they play the Celtics in the play

843
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: in situation, I would probably take the Celtics right there

844
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 1: to lock up that seventh seed. But then you know,

845
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: between Pacers and Wizards, to me, the Hornets could beat

846
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 1: either one of those teams and lock up the eight seeds.

847
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 1: So I hope they do. I think it will be

848
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: great for the city of Charlotte. I think it'll be

849
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: great for that uh that team. Like I said, they're excitement.

850
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:37,839
Speaker 1: I love the way they play. They're just they're all

851
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: on the same page. Doesn't seem like there's any egos

852
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: out there. Obviously they need Gordon Haywood completely healthy to

853
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: make that happen. But you know, definitely looking forward to

854
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 1: see what these boys can do next up. Julius Randall

855
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 1: has continued his excellent play this season. The Knicks have

856
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: won a left and out of twelve games. Man, I

857
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:57,800
Speaker 1: think that's amazing. Randall is averaging during this stretch twenty

858
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:01,479
Speaker 1: nine points, nearly nine rebounds, really six assists the game,

859
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:05,320
Speaker 1: and it has his team solidly sitting in a playoff

860
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 1: position in the East. Thoughts on Randall and what he's

861
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 1: been able to do to help the Knicks regain some

862
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:13,879
Speaker 1: of their former glory, no thoughts at all. But he's

863
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:18,280
Speaker 1: playing well. Um. I don't think about the Knicks at all. Um,

864
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: I haven't thought about the Knicks. Is Mellow left. But

865
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 1: I have to give Round of his props. One thing

866
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: about me, and I would say that I was high

867
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 1: on Rounded when he was with the Lakers. I just

868
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: knew that they weren't gonna get the best out of him. Besides,

869
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: he had the agility and what he can do as

870
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 1: a lefty. I knew he was gonna be good in

871
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 1: his league. I just knew it was a matter of time.

872
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: I didn't know he was gonna be an All Star.

873
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: But what he's doing right now, I gotta give him

874
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 1: his props. Keep carrying that team, young fella, and I

875
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:43,839
Speaker 1: don't think you know what you're doing for the city

876
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 1: of New York, but you're doing something big for the

877
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,799
Speaker 1: city of New York, Bro, so keep going. Absolutely, he's

878
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: a man, He's he's a god out there. Uh definitely probably,

879
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 1: I mean playing well enough to be first team All NBA.

880
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 1: Most likely will probably be second uh team. But this

881
00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 1: dude has had a great season, first time All Star

882
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 1: and got the Nicks sitting nice um in the middle

883
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: of that Eastern Conference. So salute to you, my brother.

884
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 1: I definitely need to get you on the show. We

885
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:08,800
Speaker 1: had to cancel last week because it was two last minute,

886
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: but we definitely need to catch up with Bro on

887
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: the show too. Next up, Jason Tatum drops a sixty

888
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: piece nugger on the Spurs, and what makes it more

889
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,839
Speaker 1: impressive was the Spurs were up thirty two points in

890
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 1: this game, so every Shotty hit was needed and important,

891
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: becoming or actually tying the single season Celtics record for

892
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:33,320
Speaker 1: most points in the game with the one and only

893
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 1: Larry the Legend Bird thoughts on Tatum and his development

894
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:42,879
Speaker 1: and continued to growth in his game. I'm surprised Pop

895
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 1: didn't retired to that game. I know he's sitting over

896
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: there like, yeah, so solve this is pathetic. Yeah, listen,

897
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 1: abody to give y'all sixty. We would never and about

898
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 1: was when I was standing talking a matter of fact

899
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:56,919
Speaker 1: on no team I was on, you would never get

900
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,319
Speaker 1: sixty on me. But I don't care who you is.

901
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 1: Come on, na, man, man, Now let's talk about san Antonio. Y'all. Sorry, bro,

902
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 1: y'all letting this man get y'all six. I don't care

903
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:10,319
Speaker 1: how cold Tatum is. He is cold, but I'm just saying, bro,

904
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,839
Speaker 1: y'all couldn't do nothing to stop it from getting sixty.

905
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 1: Come on, bro, I just I'm sorry, Pop, I'm sorry, Pop. Now,

906
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:22,359
Speaker 1: I'm a big you know Jason Tatum fan. I think

907
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:24,719
Speaker 1: he just had a birthday to twenty three. If I'm

908
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 1: not mistaken, He's one of the bright young stars of

909
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,400
Speaker 1: this game, will be one of the faces that carried

910
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,439
Speaker 1: this league forward. Um. Just crazy to see. I didn't

911
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:34,879
Speaker 1: get a chance to cast the whole game. I caught

912
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 1: the end, but it's like I said, anytime someone dropped

913
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 1: sixty in the NBA game, that's a beautiful thing to see. Man.

914
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,879
Speaker 1: So set up Jason Tatum and hopefully he can get

915
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: his boys back roll in the right direction. Uh, come

916
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 1: playoff time. Closing thoughts, Jack, we got a big week

917
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 1: coming up, headed out to Memphis for the Iverson Classic.

918
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:56,399
Speaker 1: All the top high school players in the country will

919
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: be in attendance. What are you looking forward to most

920
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 1: about this up? Mean week? Course? And I love I

921
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 1: love this time of the year. Man. I get to

922
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: be around the young the future stars coming up, get

923
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 1: to give them all the game and all the lessons

924
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 1: we learned so they won't have to make none of

925
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:12,799
Speaker 1: the mistakes that we made. And also just you know,

926
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 1: just to be around you know, basketball again, you know,

927
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 1: being around fans and all this type of stuff is

928
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 1: just a good feeling for me to try to get

929
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 1: back to normal. But being a part of allan Opson Classics,

930
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 1: which is becoming one of the biggest high school classics,

931
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 1: uh in the country, the only one that going on

932
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 1: this year. Especially to be on our third year, and

933
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 1: especially to be coaching again, especially be coaching on the

934
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:35,799
Speaker 1: side of you. So a lot of things we're doing,

935
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 1: having the first girl being involved with the Civil Rights Museum.

936
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:41,760
Speaker 1: We're we're making a lot of history with this event,

937
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:44,240
Speaker 1: and I'm just so humbled, humbled, humbled to be involved

938
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 1: having Showtime involved this year again too, So it's awesome.

939
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 1: Definitely shout out our brother Allen Iverson for providing this platform.

940
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: Um No, everything you said, I mean, like I said,

941
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 1: being able to mentor these younger kids and seeing tomorrow stars.

942
00:43:57,920 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be dope. Having a female play

943
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 1: in the game. I think it's going to be special

944
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 1: breaking down walls. So definitely excited to head back to Memphis,

945
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 1: get some good food, some good smoke, and uh man

946
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 1: enjoy the game. Next up, as you all know, May

947
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 1: is mental health Awareness a month. Um. We've had a

948
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 1: lot of people jack kind of step outside their comfort

949
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 1: zone on our show, which I thought was a beautiful

950
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 1: thing and speak on how important uh mental health awareness is. Um.

951
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: Like I said, it used to be something that was

952
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,399
Speaker 1: not talked about, very quiet. But you know, you think

953
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 1: people like Kevin Love and DeMar De Rosen, uh, Paul

954
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 1: George and many more who have come out and kind

955
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 1: of broke the stigma of you know, this is not

956
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 1: something we speak onto, actually having it a topic of conversation,

957
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 1: having a whole having it it's obviously more than just

958
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:46,800
Speaker 1: a month, but I think it's a great start to,

959
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 1: like I said, have these conversations because these these conversations

960
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 1: can save lives. Yeah, man, it's very important, you know.

961
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: I think as athletes it's important that we can continue

962
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 1: to talk about these type of things because people things

963
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:02,440
Speaker 1: just because we make a lot of money and that

964
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 1: we're on TV and we have all these nice things

965
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 1: that we're not human and we don't go through ups

966
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:10,360
Speaker 1: and downs. Well, I can tell you what I smoke

967
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: so I won't go so I won't go crazy mentally,

968
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 1: and I've been smoking my whole life just so I

969
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 1: won't go crazy mentally. Because you deal with a lot

970
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:19,280
Speaker 1: of things. You deal with people that you have trust

971
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 1: in and they end up, you know, burning your trust,

972
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:23,359
Speaker 1: and those type of things can hurt you when you're

973
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 1: doing everything from the hard, doing everything, you know, genuinely, Uh,

974
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 1: those type of things from family and friends can really

975
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 1: tell you off and really take away your focus from

976
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: the game and things like that. So it's good for

977
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: athletes to come out and to be honest with themselves

978
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 1: and to speak out on things like this because not

979
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 1: only is it helping the people that's listening, but it's

980
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:46,239
Speaker 1: also helping the athlete to be able to get it out. No. Absolutely,

981
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: Like I said, it's a very important conversation. Again, hats

982
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:50,879
Speaker 1: off to everyone who's curageous enough to speak about it.

983
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,479
Speaker 1: Continuing to moving these conversations forward, man, is what's needed.

984
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: Like I said, at the end of the day, we're

985
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 1: opening doors to hopefully save some lives before we do

986
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,319
Speaker 1: our closing. I want to do a special shout out

987
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 1: to um Gianna Bryant may One. This past Saturday was

988
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:11,720
Speaker 1: her fifteenth birthday and UM, thank you Vanessa for sending

989
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:16,319
Speaker 1: me this Mamba Sita sweatsuit that I think. I'm just yeah,

990
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna hit vig and see if we can

991
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 1: get you one. But uh, sweatsuits sold out for out

992
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: within hours. Um. Continuing to push her memory and her legacy. Man,

993
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 1: just a tough time. You know, obviously we lost our

994
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 1: brother Code, but you know, to lose g and the

995
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 1: rest of the little girls and and the other parents

996
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 1: on that flight where it was something horrific. But you know,

997
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 1: definitely hats off to Vanessa for keeping gigs legacy alive.

998
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 1: The beautiful young woman would have been fifteen on Saturday,

999
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:47,280
Speaker 1: So again, uh, happy heavenly birthday and uh we definitely

1000
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 1: miss you guys, sir. Happy birthday. Big news coming next week, Jack,

1001
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 1: The Hall of Fame class will be inducted next week.

1002
00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 1: Obviously because of the pandemic, it was postponed. Um. But

1003
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: we've got our brothers KG, rest in peace, Kobe and

1004
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 1: Tim Duncan, along with many others being inducted. UM. Thoughts

1005
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: on this class, some people saying this is the greatest

1006
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame class in the history. It could be

1007
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 1: all our brothers, all deserving. Wish Cope was here to

1008
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 1: hear his speech. But at the end of the day,

1009
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:21,320
Speaker 1: my brother is gonna get honored. Um. I hopefully Vanessa

1010
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: and the kids, uh well get some joy out of

1011
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: this as well. And but Tim dunk KG two guys

1012
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:29,720
Speaker 1: who are the best to ever play the game. Tim Duncan,

1013
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:30,880
Speaker 1: you know how I feel about him, and you know

1014
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:32,800
Speaker 1: I feel about KG. So it's gonna be a beautiful

1015
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 1: day for basketball, and I'm happy for all my brothers. Yeah. Absolutely,

1016
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: congratulations to all the Hall of Fame nominees, but definitely

1017
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:43,800
Speaker 1: shout out to our fan man. What's Burning is available

1018
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 1: every Monday on Showtime Basketball YouTube and you can find

1019
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: us on Twitter and on Instagram at show Basketball. Before

1020
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:53,440
Speaker 1: we go, make sure you catch the new Barnes Boys

1021
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: episode coming to you this week. You can find them

1022
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 1: at their instagram at the Barnes Boys Podcast as well

1023
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: on YouTube. We'll see how next week