Speaker 1: Doctor Dre. I'm looking at you right now. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at all of this.
Speaker 2: Four studio albums, five collaborative albums, three compilation albums, just
Speaker 2: elite on every level. You got twenty albums. I told
Speaker 2: you you forgot how many albums you had twenty it's
Speaker 2: twenty shit.
Speaker 1: Two years old.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll be fifty three Sunday, fifty nine.
Speaker 4: I'll be sixty years old in February.
Speaker 3: Can I say, Stephen A some sports shit. You and
Speaker 3: Doctor Drake gonna know what I'm talking about. But to me,
Speaker 3: doctor Dre is the NICKT. Saban of hip hop.
Speaker 2: Nick Saban's seven time champions six championships at Alabama universally
Speaker 2: recognized the green sion college football coach in the history.
Speaker 3: And I say that because look at all of the
Speaker 3: NFL stars that he put through the league at the
Speaker 3: Hall of Famers. Just think about his track record as
Speaker 3: far as and in the artist that he started. That's
Speaker 3: why I say he's the next same. He's got a
Speaker 3: great career for himself, no question.
Speaker 2: But what about the people he put on That's where
Speaker 2: I'm going with you next. What about those folks when
Speaker 2: you reflect on who you've helped along the way. I'm
Speaker 2: sure you don't want to play favorites. I get that part.
Speaker 3: But I know him as right, but but but.
Speaker 2: But but speak but speak, but speak to it what
Speaker 2: you believe?
Speaker 1: You know, when you hear and.
Speaker 2: See the work of other folks, Snoop is somebody that
Speaker 2: obviously touches you in a very very positive way. Anybody
Speaker 2: else out there, I imagine them and them aybody else?
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, everybody that I've worked with, you know,
Speaker 4: has touched me and touched.
Speaker 1: My career in a certain way. You know what I mean.
Speaker 4: It's like every artist that I put my body into
Speaker 4: has helped me and my family in a certain way,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: So does any one of them stick out?
Speaker 4: Of course?
Speaker 1: Snoop?
Speaker 4: Does you know this is my brother Bet. You know
Speaker 4: We've got you know, Fi and Eminem and Kendrick and
Speaker 4: Anderson Pat you know. I just I just love getting
Speaker 4: in the studio with people that I love to get
Speaker 4: down with. That's all it is to it, as corny
Speaker 4: or as generic as that may sound, that's just what
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 2: What would y'all tell an artist today that you know
Speaker 2: in inspiring artists, you want to make it, you want
Speaker 2: to get in the room and put that work in.
Speaker 3: Be original, Be original because right now there's so much
Speaker 3: copycat mimicking sound and I like imitation. Be original. Find
Speaker 3: your voice, find your production sound, find your ear for
Speaker 3: who you are, and be original even if it ain't hitting.
Speaker 4: Stay you find your collaborator. Just like I don't. I
Speaker 4: don't like the fact that there's like nine different producers
Speaker 4: on one album. I like the idea of one producer
Speaker 4: on one album. The continuity, the continuity is everything.
Speaker 1: And where did that come from? Where did it come from?
Speaker 1: Where you got casts that.
Speaker 2: Want to be with nine different producers on one album
Speaker 2: and stuff like that?
Speaker 1: The hell at that start? I don't know. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it's I don't like it.
Speaker 4: You know, if you're an if you're a producer, you
Speaker 4: should be able to produce the entire album. That's what
Speaker 4: I thought it was supposed to be. That's what I
Speaker 4: was doing at the beginning.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of beat makers, though, Doc. That's what
Speaker 3: the difference between your era and this era is that
Speaker 3: there aren't too many producers as much as there are
Speaker 3: beat makers. It's so lazy to make beats. They giving
Speaker 3: you all these computer package that has the drum loop.
Speaker 3: Has this has y'all had to make the loop.
Speaker 4: I feel like it's a change that's happening right now,
Speaker 4: you know, from all this mumble wrap thing and everything
Speaker 4: that's happening right now, there's somebody in somebody's garage that's
Speaker 4: happening right now that's going to be the next Snoop
Speaker 4: or Dre or next Prince or Michael Jackson or whatever
Speaker 4: that's coming up with something that's going to change the game.
Speaker 1: It's got to happen right now.
Speaker 4: And it's wide open because everything that's happening right now
Speaker 4: when the music game is, especially hip hop, is weird
Speaker 4: as fun.
Speaker 1: I was getting ready to go there. Why do you
Speaker 1: feel that it has to happen now?
Speaker 2: What is it about now that it's happening that there's
Speaker 2: a level of urgency that makes you say change for
Speaker 2: the better?
Speaker 4: Well, it's going to get back to the musicianship. That's
Speaker 4: all it is, you know, like real players. And I'm
Speaker 4: seeing it happen. I'm watching I'm you know, I'm on
Speaker 4: the Internet and I'm watching Instagram and things like that,
Speaker 4: and there's like these kids that are coming up that
Speaker 4: can really play, that can really play and can really
Speaker 4: write and sing and really doing some interesting rapping and
Speaker 4: shit like that.
Speaker 1: So I'm waiting for that to come back. When did
Speaker 1: it go awrived from the stamp.
Speaker 2: I'm just talking about the industry itself in terms of
Speaker 2: people doing things in a manner that you.
Speaker 4: Might By the way, I'm not disrespecting anything that's happening
Speaker 4: right now. I'm just talking about some substance that's to
Speaker 4: getting ready to happen moving forward.
Speaker 1: Okay, got you.
Speaker 3: I think the fundamentals was taken out of it. Like
Speaker 3: you had to have skill, you had to have professionalism
Speaker 3: in order to be an artist. Now you just have
Speaker 3: to have a phone. So it's a big difference when
Speaker 3: you had to have certain things to be qualified as
Speaker 3: an artist. Now it's just a phone makes you're an artist.
Speaker 3: And something stupid or something crazy on the internet gets
Speaker 3: you five minutes of fame. And take that and make
Speaker 3: a record, and you got a two and a half
Speaker 3: minute song that's saying the same thing that somebody else
Speaker 3: just said. Now you consider it hot as opposed to
Speaker 3: it used to be about creativity and understanding the musicianship.
Speaker 3: You know, harmony melodies that don't even matter no more.
Speaker 3: It's just autotune. I want to sound like him. I
Speaker 3: want to say what she said, but I want to,
Speaker 3: you know, do the same things, but just in my
Speaker 3: own way, as opposed to let me be original.
Speaker 2: One of the things that I've always said is that
Speaker 2: when people get on artists, I've always come to the
Speaker 2: defensive artists, and I look at the industry itself, because
Speaker 2: if you're trying to make it and somebody's over and
Speaker 2: they're telling you this is what it's gonna take in
Speaker 2: order for your for your for your music to be played,
Speaker 2: for you to develop and cultivate whatever your brand is,
Speaker 2: somebody is over you saying this is the way to go.
Speaker 2: And if you feel compelled you, if you really really
Speaker 2: want to make it, sometimes you got to listen to them.
Speaker 1: Well, that's how I felt. We never made music for
Speaker 1: that reason. Doc.
Speaker 3: We never made music for the radio, right. We never
Speaker 3: was like, let's make a radio version. We always made
Speaker 3: music that felt good to us. Then when it got
Speaker 3: out to the public, if we had a label that
Speaker 3: had ideas, do a radio version, do this, But we
Speaker 3: never won and tour with that intent.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, you're say something about that, Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: I've always been a fan of shock hop. Just we
Speaker 4: just do what we feel in the moment, and that's
Speaker 4: what I've been doing from the beginning of my career
Speaker 4: from NWA, Fuck the Police and straight out of Confident
Speaker 4: and the whole nine. It's just like we're just doing
Speaker 4: what we feel.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, we just put it out there, and you know,
Speaker 4: at the beginning, we're like fucking radio. If they don't
Speaker 4: play it, it doesn't matter because we know what the
Speaker 4: streets is gonna say, you know so, And that's still
Speaker 4: my mentality.
Speaker 1: That's why you still win it.
Speaker 2: Revisit your emotions for me when you learned A you
Speaker 2: were not going to be one of the twelve selected
Speaker 2: on Team USA and B despite the fact that three
Speaker 2: of your teammates was on the team, two of them
Speaker 2: who spent eighty two games a year deferring to you,
Speaker 2: and one obviously Jason Tatum, who was a year came
Speaker 2: he here a year later. But it's the three time
Speaker 2: first Team All NBA with the last three years.
Speaker 1: What was that like for you the emotions?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was a lot, honestly, and a lot of
Speaker 6: the stuff that we just talked about, I feel like
Speaker 6: delineates into the same conversation.
Speaker 1: But I'll say this.
Speaker 6: In twenty twenty eight, if I have to sign to
Speaker 6: Nike to increase my likelihood to play USA basketball.
Speaker 1: I'll pass. Why one.
Speaker 6: I think that I think the essence, like you see
Speaker 6: it in our grassroots kids, instead of enjoying the essence
Speaker 6: of basketball, are forced to pick a side and look
Speaker 6: at our global game in Europe is closing the gap.
Speaker 6: I believe that we should focus more on our development
Speaker 6: of our youth in grassork and grassroots, and I think sports,
Speaker 6: I think shoe companies should have less control over the
Speaker 6: industry right now. And I was one of those kids.
Speaker 6: You know, I was a top player number one. Actually
Speaker 6: you came to one of my high school games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 6: I was a top player in high school, and you know,
Speaker 6: and it was so much to deal with, you know, Nike, Adidas,
Speaker 6: like going to Adida school, going to a Nike school,
Speaker 6: and the kids should just be focusing on development. And
Speaker 6: I think this has a direct correlation to what we
Speaker 6: see at the highest level, even in you know, an
Speaker 6: Olympic play like politics is not synonymous with basketball. You know,
Speaker 6: it's my role as the vice president, I sit on
Speaker 6: sitting these conversations with now who is Andrew who's our
Speaker 6: executive director, and and Adam Silva, who is the commissioner
Speaker 6: for the NBA, who goes back and forth about what
Speaker 6: we need and what's best for our game. So I
Speaker 6: know what corporate sponsors with their pediment, with their pedigree,
Speaker 6: It's like, I know what the relationship is like, I
Speaker 6: know how those conversations go on. Anybody who thinks sports
Speaker 6: politics are are.
Speaker 1: Not cohesive. They operate in sick with one another.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're lying to yourself. So I'll say it again
Speaker 6: because I know it to be a quote in twenty
Speaker 6: twenty eight. If I have to sign the Nike to
Speaker 6: increase my likelihood of playing USA basketball.
Speaker 1: Our past, why do you mention Nike.
Speaker 6: Because they're the least sponsor for the USA Basketball.
Speaker 2: But I'm also asking you that question is because because
Speaker 2: you were once with Nike.
Speaker 1: Correct, No, you were never with Nike.
Speaker 2: Nod you with a D It's all right, and people
Speaker 2: thought you should go with Nike, and that was not
Speaker 2: something that ended up working out.
Speaker 1: What happened with them.
Speaker 6: I mean, no need to get into the I don't
Speaker 6: want to. I don't have a problem with the industry
Speaker 6: I don't know what I do. You know, I'm you know,
Speaker 6: I do Okay, I say go ahead, jam. I think
Speaker 6: the industry definitely needs some new energy, some new creativity,
Speaker 6: and some new options. I think the way you know,
Speaker 6: the shoe companies go about issuing deals and illustrating people's
Speaker 6: value in terms of IP, in terms of creative control,
Speaker 6: in terms of like how involved you are in the process,
Speaker 6: I think it needs to change. I listened to the
Speaker 6: voices of our older generation. I know players that I
Speaker 6: can name superstars that will tell you right now, man,
Speaker 6: they frustrated as hell. You know, they stuff can't come
Speaker 6: out when they wanted to come out. They have no
Speaker 6: input or control. It was forced to renegotiate certain percentages
Speaker 6: that they think they should have more value, and they
Speaker 6: wish it was other options. So, you know, people like
Speaker 6: to use the word disruptor for me, and I really
Speaker 6: don't like it.
Speaker 1: You don't like the word disruptive for yourself.
Speaker 6: It comes with the territory, okay, But known because everything
Speaker 6: that I've tried to be a part of, everything that
Speaker 6: I am, a part of my thought process has always
Speaker 6: been solution based, you know, listening and being a rep
Speaker 6: representing our four to fifty listening to what players are
Speaker 6: saying behind closing.
Speaker 2: But some people would say solutions can be disruptive from
Speaker 2: time to time, depending on who you're dealing with.
Speaker 6: Yes, no, you're correct. I just don't like to be called,
Speaker 6: just like singularly got it, a disruptor. I know it
Speaker 6: comes with it, but my thought process has always been
Speaker 6: solution based, trying to create a solution for what I
Speaker 6: feel like in society from an athlete perspective is viewed
Speaker 6: as a problem. And that doesn't just stop with the
Speaker 6: shoe industry, the agency model. We can go more in detail. Actually,
Speaker 6: I could talk to you all day about this stuff.
Speaker 6: We have a lot of meanings with the union, which
Speaker 6: I am happy to be involved with. I've been since
Speaker 6: I was twenty one years old, so I've been seven
Speaker 6: years now that I've been participating.
Speaker 1: In the development twenty eight in a couple of days.
Speaker 6: Yeah, man, it's my last two years in my twenties.
Speaker 6: That sounds terrible, terrible, I know, but I've been a
Speaker 6: part of it for seven years and I've learned, you know,
Speaker 6: the ins and outs of the operational aspect of the league,
Speaker 6: the marketing approach, I learned about, you know, how the
Speaker 6: decision making process goes, who has responsibilities, who doesn't, and
Speaker 6: how you know things I looked at in view, So
Speaker 6: you know, I think.
Speaker 1: Things need to change. I'm gonna read a quote that
Speaker 1: you gave.
Speaker 2: But before I read the quote that you gave, you
Speaker 2: were responding to Nike founder Phil Knight. This is in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, who had criticized Kyrie Irvin for his
Speaker 2: quote unquote, slow motion non apology after sharing an antisemitic
Speaker 2: documentary on social media. That's for Kyrie to discuss. We
Speaker 2: don't have to revisit that at all, because there's a
Speaker 2: lot of hits that he took during COVID from myself
Speaker 2: included that he did not deserve. So I want to
Speaker 2: make sure I'm on the record stating that, and he
Speaker 2: and I have a conversation at some point. But I
Speaker 2: remember when you were communicating about Nike in response to
Speaker 2: their reaction to Kyrie, and your exact words was, since
Speaker 2: when does Nike care about ethics? Now, you've never been
Speaker 2: under Nike, like you said you were under Adidas. Things
Speaker 2: did work out, but you didn't hesitate to say what
Speaker 2: you said about them, for sure, Ay and b do
Speaker 2: you not see how that can alien a lot of
Speaker 2: businesses from wanting to do business.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you and your willingness to speak at.
Speaker 6: I think the ones who haven't been in behavior ethically
Speaker 6: for sure. I think the ones who do, I think
Speaker 6: it actually would attract them. But as a major corporation
Speaker 6: who's huge, has a lot of under their umbrella that
Speaker 6: always hasn't maintained an ethical approach to, you know, the
Speaker 6: decision making that they have, especially on the behalf of
Speaker 6: their signee. So being able to.
Speaker 1: To see that because like a lot.
Speaker 6: Of the things you stand for are public, A lot
Speaker 6: of the things you represent our public, and the messaging
Speaker 6: that you put out is public. You know, they don't
Speaker 6: take nothing but a little better a bit of time
Speaker 6: to see what the company represents. And I think that
Speaker 6: is the part where I challenge them to do better.
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Speaker 1: Prospects, run your game.
Speaker 2: Let me transition from cde Lamb to your quarterback, and
Speaker 2: I'm going to be very delicate with what I'm asking
Speaker 2: because we all know what's going on with Dak Prescott,
Speaker 2: and there are things I'm smart enough to know that
Speaker 2: while a negotiation has taking place. You understand we're saying
Speaker 2: only a fool talks about their own negotiations while their
Speaker 2: negotiations are taking place.
Speaker 1: I would know that from personal experience right now.
Speaker 2: But I have to ask you, when you talk about
Speaker 2: looking ahead and looking to the future, how much of
Speaker 2: that thought process is applicable to your quarterback? Considering what
Speaker 2: the quarterback market has dictated with everybody from Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 2: to Joe Burrow to Jordan Love, the list goes on
Speaker 2: and on, how much does that factor into your thinking
Speaker 2: knowing what the market says it is about the most
Speaker 2: important position in football, which is the quarterback.
Speaker 7: Say, well, I'll tell you this. You've nailed it with
Speaker 7: your question and the ground that you have to cover again,
Speaker 7: Dak is a long term decision for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 7: I think Dak one of his unique things is that
Speaker 7: he's going to be able to his makeup what he is,
Speaker 7: his skill levels, what he is as a person, and
Speaker 7: a quarterback will age well. As you look at quarterback
Speaker 7: age and viability I think it will age well as
Speaker 7: he moves into the next five or ten years of
Speaker 7: his life. I think he's the kind of quarterback that
Speaker 7: gets better and better. That we certainly know that time,
Speaker 7: oh father time, that it makes a big difference as
Speaker 7: we get older. But quarterback is a place that that
Speaker 7: experience can manifest itself and wins. Also the hard times,
Speaker 7: the mistakes that have been made, if you've got to
Speaker 7: ride kind of makeup, that's a plus. You need rewarded
Speaker 7: for having gone through that, because you not Steven A
Speaker 7: I'm pointing to, I'm talking about Dak Prescott. You know
Speaker 7: how to use a hard time and turn it into
Speaker 7: an asset. He does that.
Speaker 1: It's one of his qualities.
Speaker 2: What so evidence is there of that, though, Jerry, Because
Speaker 2: I'm thinking about postseason, I know that he's been absolutely
Speaker 2: phenomenal in the regular season. He wins in September, October, November,
Speaker 2: the month of December, I think his record is like
Speaker 2: twenty one and eight, but then January comes the record
Speaker 2: is four and eight.
Speaker 1: And last time I checked, when you started here thirty
Speaker 1: six years ago, it.
Speaker 2: Didn't take you long to get a first ring, then
Speaker 2: a second ring, and then the third Ring inside of
Speaker 2: four years, and the Dallas Cowboys were loaded with a level.
Speaker 1: Of success that we still reveals it this very day.
Speaker 1: At what point, wait, do you look.
Speaker 2: At your quarterback and say, when you're gonna give it
Speaker 2: to me in January?
Speaker 1: You're so good, You're so good.
Speaker 7: No, I mean it, and I appreciate it because you
Speaker 7: literally have gone through the steps of thinking that I've evolved,
Speaker 7: not just over the last week's months, but over the years.
Speaker 7: There is a case where you have to think that
Speaker 7: something's gonna happen that hasn't happened yet, Otherwise you're sitting
Speaker 7: right there with everybody else having measured the experience. In
Speaker 7: that case, I look at his basic great qualities and
Speaker 7: then I fundamentally see someone that is getting better. I
Speaker 7: think he got better with Mike with a coaching him
Speaker 7: directly as his offensive coordinator. I think he has improved
Speaker 7: since the day that he got here. If you really
Speaker 7: want to look at it.
Speaker 2: So you think he was better last year with Mike
Speaker 2: McCarthy as both the head coach and the play call
Speaker 2: it than he was when Kellen.
Speaker 1: Moore was he as the offensive coordinator.
Speaker 7: Well, without diminishing our demeanion Kellen. He was definitely better
Speaker 7: last year. Definitely and by the way, room to get better,
Speaker 7: room to grow. I think that's a fact. The other
Speaker 7: thing is that he's got last year in his heart
Speaker 7: and in his framework of reference. He's got that and
Speaker 7: the disappointments that went with it, some of the positive
Speaker 7: that went with it. He's got that to use this year. Physically, Yes,
Speaker 7: I think he's getting better. I do want to recognize though,
Speaker 7: that as you get older then some of that is diminished.
Speaker 7: This is a position, though, that that long term experience
Speaker 7: can really pay off for you. Now here's the way
Speaker 7: that I look at it completely is that when you
Speaker 7: look at what he brings to the table as opposed
Speaker 7: to the alternative, the alternative is not a one year
Speaker 7: attorney alternative. It's a several year alternative. So when you
Speaker 7: look at the prospects of the likelihood of him over
Speaker 7: the next five years knocking on that door, I like
Speaker 7: those odds, and that to me is where you go
Speaker 7: you pull the trigger on it. Now, it's very important
Speaker 7: that we have a way to reconcile this with Dak
Speaker 7: because we've had the benefit of a lot of supporting
Speaker 7: cast with Dak over the last five, six, seven years.
Speaker 1: Yes, would you give us that? Yes, I would in
Speaker 1: a heartbeat.
Speaker 7: Okay, So we've had a lot of supporting cast. There's
Speaker 7: no question that with Dak having been very well paid
Speaker 7: over the last four or five.
Speaker 2: Years, one hundred and fifty seven point four million dollars
Speaker 2: over the last four years.
Speaker 7: Over the last four that's right. There's no question that
Speaker 7: I got some of that off my credit card. Okay, Now,
Speaker 7: wheres I spent some money that I didn't have very
Speaker 7: common in the NFL, matter of fact.
Speaker 2: In common with you, because that's what you did when
Speaker 2: you first bought the cap.
Speaker 1: Well, it is, it very much is.
Speaker 7: But you have certainly I'd like to say I did
Speaker 7: then too, But I had a passion that I wanted
Speaker 7: to get involved that I scratched then that I'm not
Speaker 7: scratching that passion as much right now. I'm trying to
Speaker 7: be real practical at least in this explanation to you.
Speaker 7: But the facts are that not only have we had
Speaker 7: great supporting cast around Dak, we have also spunked some
Speaker 7: of the money that we've got to spend on Dak
Speaker 7: in the future that went in on his last contracts.
Speaker 7: That's the way the cap works, and that's usually when
Speaker 7: you have a high priced quarterback, what you do. So
Speaker 7: we have the challenge of not only recouping what we
Speaker 7: have spent on him over the last four years, we've
Speaker 7: got to add that to what we're going to be
Speaker 7: paying him for the future. Now that's not Dak's problem
Speaker 7: only in that it's the Dallas Cowboys problem because that
Speaker 7: money is not going to be there to spend on
Speaker 7: supporting cast and so we've got to ask ourselves, can
Speaker 7: we have the kind of success that Dak deserves, We deserve,
Speaker 7: his teammates deserve, our fans deserve. Can we do that
Speaker 7: and get in the range to afford Dak? I think
Speaker 7: we can.
Speaker 1: Dallas winks forward saw to so believe.
Speaker 2: She's spoke in the postgame press conference about the struggle
Speaker 2: of seeing their home arena packed with Clark jerseys. Here's
Speaker 2: what Sabele had to say. Listen to this quote. Obviously
Speaker 2: it's annoying because there were way too many Caitland fans
Speaker 2: in our arena, but kudos. I feel like our Dallas
Speaker 2: fans could have done better. I had mixed feelings seeing
Speaker 2: all the Caitland jerseys in our home but it's an
Speaker 2: amazing sign for women's basketball.
Speaker 1: See, I have no problem with that, Nancy. That's perfectly fine.
Speaker 2: And then Chicago Sky's Andrew Reese is also doing her thing,
Speaker 2: talk about her record setting her record.
Speaker 1: Setting season of record setting rookie year as well.
Speaker 2: I mean, I want you to comment about so I
Speaker 2: belief first, and you heard what she had to say. I
Speaker 2: had no problem with her quote because she's acknowledging and
Speaker 2: appreciating Caitland Clark, but in the same breath saying she
Speaker 2: wished their fans had better supported them. Well, maybe you
Speaker 2: gotta win more, and maybe they will. But I still
Speaker 2: don't have a problem with her quote.
Speaker 1: What about you?
Speaker 8: Well, first, let me just say this, thank you for
Speaker 8: bringing that up and reading the quote. Satu is a
Speaker 8: very very close friend of mine. I have been on
Speaker 8: the court practicing with her and Enrique in the off season.
Speaker 8: These are two of the most unbelievable, intelligent, hardworking players.
Speaker 8: She was first team All WNBA last year, played for
Speaker 8: Germany and the Olympics in Paris. And she's just telling
Speaker 8: the truth. She's saying, Man, this is amazing, what's happening.
Speaker 8: This is what I get from her, having known her
Speaker 8: and saying we want this. You know, I'm a great player.
Speaker 8: A Rique is unstoppable. As you saw Natasha. You know
Speaker 8: Howard is one of those great veteran players. Okay, now
Speaker 8: you saw this. Now, Dallas Wings fans, we want you
Speaker 8: in the seats with our jerseys. And it's a communication.
Speaker 8: You know, communication is three sixty. You say something to
Speaker 8: your fans and hopefully your fans respond. Dallas Wings fans
Speaker 8: are amazing and they will respond and they will show
Speaker 8: up and show out. And I applaud sought to for saying, look,
Speaker 8: I get it, but now I want it, and why
Speaker 8: shouldn't we want it in our own home arena? And
Speaker 8: that's just great communication. And that's why I love and
Speaker 8: admire her.
Speaker 2: Indiana is outdrawing every other team by thirty five percent
Speaker 2: at home and thirty six percent on the road. Chicago's
Speaker 2: Andrew Reese is second in the WNBA.
Speaker 1: Obviously, Angel reached. The Chicago Scott.
Speaker 2: Team is second in the WNBA with an average road
Speaker 2: attendance of ten thousand, nine hundred and twenty nine.
Speaker 1: That's once that the other is.
Speaker 2: As of one week ago, twenty WNBA telecast is average.
Speaker 1: One million viewers.
Speaker 2: Shattering the previous record of fifteen for a season. Caitlyn
Speaker 2: Clark was featured in seventeen of those twenty televised games.
Speaker 2: That's an impact. I know for a fact the Rookie
Speaker 2: Year of the Year race is over. Caitlyn Clark is
Speaker 2: gonna win that. But what do you have to say
Speaker 2: about Adrew Reese and what she's meant to the w
Speaker 2: NBA game thus far this year as a rookie.
Speaker 8: Well, I've watched Ada Reese at LSU. I mean, she
Speaker 8: she's a problem. This woman has just she just broke
Speaker 8: the record. She has a motor like I have not
Speaker 8: seen before. And I know a lot of people, well
Speaker 8: you know she's getting you know, her own rebounds. I mean,
Speaker 8: cut it out. Okay, She's not the biggest.
Speaker 7: Player on the court.
Speaker 8: She's not the fastest player on the court. She's tenacious.
Speaker 8: She is doing her job and as she gains more
Speaker 8: experience in the league, and she was working on her
Speaker 8: three point shot, and you know in her off season,
Speaker 8: she's going to just continue to explode, get bigger, better,
Speaker 8: even more greater than she is right now. And I
Speaker 8: think people need to leave her alone and just appreciate
Speaker 8: her for who she is and how she has played
Speaker 8: this game. And just because somebody has a quiet position
Speaker 8: and somebody has a little bit more flair in their
Speaker 8: disposition doesn't make anybody wrong. I enjoy watching her. I
Speaker 8: love that she's being coached right now by Teresa Weatherspoon.
Speaker 8: I mean, Spoon was pounding her chest right in the
Speaker 8: garden with the liberty. You saw that for many many
Speaker 8: years when he hit the half court shot, you know
Speaker 8: against Houston, you know, to push it to a game five.
Speaker 8: I believe it's okay to have personality, and she has personality.
Speaker 8: Plus she's gorgeous, she looks like a model. She just
Speaker 8: defies everything you want to say about her. So I
Speaker 8: think people again should stop put you know, pigeonholing. People
Speaker 8: just wake up happy. Just for all the new fans,
Speaker 8: just love this game. For the older fans that have
Speaker 8: been waiting for this, just say thank you.
Speaker 1: This is what we've been waiting for.
Speaker 8: Packed houses. We've been waiting for Steven A to have
Speaker 8: us on our show and talk about us on the regular.
Speaker 8: We've been waiting for the media to recognize that we
Speaker 8: are skilled and people do want to see us and
Speaker 8: how you push for us and thank you to all
Speaker 8: the men out there that every job I've ever had,
Speaker 8: I've been hired by a man. So thank you to
Speaker 8: stephen A for you know, caring so much in controversial
Speaker 8: and quite frankly in non controversial moments. I've known you forever.
Speaker 8: You've always been there. You've never held anybody back. All
Speaker 8: you do is lift people up. Do we need that?
Speaker 8: By the way, We're not there yet, but we need that.
Speaker 8: So thank you.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Nancy. I really appreciate you and
Speaker 2: I love you to death. Very last question, Patrick Bett,
Speaker 2: David steven A.
Speaker 1: Smith.
Speaker 2: People like us that have our platforms available to us,
Speaker 2: that reach millions of people, what can we do moving
Speaker 2: forward to assist in helping them make the world a
Speaker 2: better place?
Speaker 9: Man, I think you're doing it. And it's not easy,
Speaker 9: right because everybody has their own selfish reasons why we
Speaker 9: vote or we do what we do.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 9: I used to look at everybody and I would give
Speaker 9: them a score, and I would give myself a score,
Speaker 9: and I would wonder what's the right place to be?
Speaker 9: And I wrote about it in my latest book, Choose
Speaker 9: Your Enemies Wisely, the selfish index. So what is a
Speaker 9: selfish index is.
Speaker 2: By the way, your first two books, your next five modes,
Speaker 2: Master of the Art of Business Strategy twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: and Choose your Enemies Wisely. Business Planning for the Audacious
Speaker 2: Few just came out last year, So this is a
Speaker 2: therap books talking.
Speaker 1: No, no, this is the one you're talking about, Okay.
Speaker 1: In that book.
Speaker 9: When I would talk to my sales leaders sometime I
Speaker 9: sales like to kind of give this example that it
Speaker 9: makes sense. So one guy's like, I want to build
Speaker 9: a big agency and I want to do ten million yere.
Speaker 9: I'm like, brother, every lead you ever get, you only
Speaker 9: want to keep it to yourself. You're selfish, But guess what,
Speaker 9: you're still a closer, So you're a ninety ten leader.
Speaker 9: Ninety percent of all the decisions you make is about you.
Speaker 9: Then I had guys that every lead they ever got,
Speaker 9: they would give it to everybody. And that guy's what.
Speaker 9: That guy's a ten percent selfish, ninety percent selfless, and
Speaker 9: he didn't set a good example because you have to
Speaker 9: be hungry to go compete, right. So then eventually I
Speaker 9: the more and more I looked at everybody on who
Speaker 9: did well and who didn't do well. The more selfish leaders.
Speaker 9: Sixty five percent always did better because that bigger goals
Speaker 9: that were pursuing, but they had a balance of being
Speaker 9: selfish and selfless. Right in this position, you get paid,
Speaker 9: I get paid. There's money on the line. Everybody knows
Speaker 9: what's going on with where you're at right now with contracts.
Speaker 9: We all read about it. You know, there's a lot
Speaker 9: of money on the table for you've been busting your
Speaker 9: tail to get the pay day. It's being able to
Speaker 9: openly speak and willing to have the debate with opposition
Speaker 9: and given them the platform and let the audience think
Speaker 9: for themselves. When you did your first two episodes, when
Speaker 9: you did your podcast and you had Cuomo and Bill
Speaker 9: O'Reilly would have Hannity Hannity and then.
Speaker 1: Cuomo right yes, and I'm like freaking love it. What seriously?
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's good. That's good because now I get to
Speaker 9: sit there and say, like, right now, watching your camera guys. Right,
Speaker 9: most of these guys are from New York. They probably
Speaker 9: don't agree with me politically. They're probably like the strip
Speaker 9: sitting here right now. I just look at his face,
Speaker 9: how read it is. There's no way in the world
Speaker 9: I agree with Pati I look at his face. Got ready.
Speaker 9: That guy doesn't like me, right. But the fact that
Speaker 9: you're putting this conversation out there and they're going to
Speaker 9: have the conversation when they get in their uber and
Speaker 9: they leave and they say, f the sky, they're already
Speaker 9: texting each other. Look at this, right, they're communicating. I've
Speaker 9: been around the block. I freaking love it. The fact
Speaker 9: that that thought is in their minds for them to
Speaker 9: talk shit to me and debate. We're making progress. I'm
Speaker 9: very calm, pfortable with that. And you're doing that right now.
Speaker 9: You got a lot of people that hate you when
Speaker 9: you say stuff.
Speaker 5: How could you say what you said about Biden? How
Speaker 5: could you take a position like that? Why would you
Speaker 5: ever say something like this? And guess what, let the
Speaker 5: discussion begin. I'm in the business of making an appointment
Speaker 5: for the conversation, not in the business being right. I
Speaker 5: think you're doing that, and that's why I call you to.
Speaker 1: Go, my man.
Speaker 2: What a non and privilege to talk to you, my brother.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it, my man, one lonely Patrick bed David.
Speaker 2: It was beautiful. We'll talk against it.
Speaker 1: I look forward to.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, I'm quite sure you'll be
Speaker 2: cold several weeks.
Speaker 1: That's it for the stephen A. Smith yoll, y'all, Talk
Speaker 1: to y'all next time. Later