WEBVTT - ALL THE SMOKE ALL-DECADE TEAM! 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:13.200 Welcome back all the smoke, Episode ten. Yes, finishing out 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:15.280 the new year. Man, we're about to get into the 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.360 decade of two thousand ten to two thousand twenties and 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.279 how wild and transcending it was for the game of 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:25.320 basketball where we were in the mix of all this 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:27.360 and we're gonna sit back and have fun and remin 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:29.280 that's a little bit. I'm cool, you're ready to do that. 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:34.840 Good to see you. Man' been on a little buddy down. 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:39.240 Yeah you mean it's because code out here took my jacket. 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:43.400 This most take your hat out real quick. Oh you 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:45.400 ain't got just like when you ain't got no hang 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:48.400 it's coming. You know, you look like one of the 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:52.040 badass little kids. Like you're a little badass little kids. 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:55.120 But it's taking me back to it's taking me. You know, 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:56.920 last time I had my hair like this, I was 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.959 going to in the stands. Be careful? Do you care 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.040 for alright? Man? So let's jump right into this two 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.600 thousand and ten Man, I was third. It's crazy though, 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:07.679 cause we go decade by decade, Like I was born 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.959 in nineteen eighty, so every decade I'm I'm jumping into 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.080 a whole new you know, set a number, so I'm 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:16.959 pulling up on forty one, forty two. Yeah. So the 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:22.520 two thousand ten season, where were you at ten? I 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:29.600 was who knows, Charlotte maybe, Yeah, that's right. I left 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:31.440 the Orlando going to the Lakers and we beat you 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.600 guys in the in the playoffs that year. So this 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.120 is where you know we start. We pick up with Lebron. 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:41.600 This is Lebron losing to the Celtics two out of 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:45.679 three years and in the tunnel takes off his jersey. 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.720 You knew it was over. I think everyone thought something 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.800 was going on as a fresh Dade where you been 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.040 playing basketball all day, you can't win the game and 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:56.000 you're playing good with your team, So are you just 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.760 god quit? I just had enough that takes us to 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:02.640 the decision. I love the fact that Lebron pretty much 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.920 changed the landscape of basketball from a standpoint of a 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:09.000 player finally being empowered to do what he wants to do. 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.840 So often we know it's a business, so when teams 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.679 cut us, trade us, wave us, don't play us, funk 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:18.520 us somehow because with the business. But when players start 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.840 taking control of their narrative and and doing what it's 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.200 best for them, in their brand and their family. They're 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.160 the bad gut of the villain. I think the only 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.200 to me, the only place he made a mistake was 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.440 drawn that long as sitting down. It just I'm gone, 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.360 you know, or just to me, he could have tightened 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.560 it up. It should have been a spectacle. It could 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.200 it could have just been more of like, hey, you know, 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.440 I decided to, you know, make this new move to Miami. 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:42.560 You know what I mean. I agree with you on 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.400 that too. But like for what he's done for so 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:47.560 many players, like I just love the fact that he 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:49.359 did it his way. Like I'm not mad at it. 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.160 I'm at it if I was in braun shoes and 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:58.680 that I could imagine robe out showed a rose raw security. Oh, 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:00.560 it's like, man, chill out, men. You know what I said, 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:04.720 I've been doing a little thing walking down for thirty 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.480 chains on Like then listens, I know y'all want to 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:08.919 know what I'm doing. You know, out of did I 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.320 did that times? Tim? Like I said, I'm not mad. 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:13.400 I just think to me it could have just it 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.320 rubbed some people the wrong way. But I think the 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.760 moment overall was amazing for athletes and when they let 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.520 me know something about Lebron. He don't give a funk 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.440 with nobody think Bro, That's why I love it. You 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.040 don't give a funk. I'm gonna do it my way. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.320 I know. I could go out there and who everybody asked, 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.160 and hey, y'all can love it and leave it. You 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.960 got to take it. And when everybody was watching, I 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.440 mean even me, I'm sitting there watching where are you going? 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.640 Where he going? He had the whole world watching. Bro. 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:45.120 That was super bad. I'm not mad. Boys and Girls 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:48.120 Club or something like that. It ended up ended up 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:50.200 being away. He was giving back at the same time. 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.560 You know what I'm saying, what people didn't know. He 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.600 always make it work. But anyway, so this is the 0:03:55.960 --> 0:04:00.320 beginning of super teams. This is a swing and the 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.320 historical build through the draft and and hopefully get some 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:07.360 good trades to build your team. This is superstars leaving 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.840 their respective teams and building a team. Um. It was. 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.960 It was scary though, because when when when Braun first 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.960 went to Miami, everybody was like, oh my god, they've 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.000 been dominated and they lose the first year. You know 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:22.480 what I'm saying to me, like what it is just 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.680 big three ships even gonna work, you know what I'm saying. 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:29.760 But time right, Like we always talk about chemistry, and 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:31.640 like I said, could always look good on paper, but 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:33.440 you got to get that chemistry down. I think they 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.400 learned from that. That was the year I was with 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.000 the Lakers. I tore my knee going into the playoffs. 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.320 We were going for a three pet Dallas beat the 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.520 dog shit out of us, swept us, Jason Terry here 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:45.360 like ten threes in one game, and then they ended 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.840 up beating ya, Lebron and them and uh in the 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.440 finals Dirk only Chip, Yeah, that's the one die. Ye. 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:55.919 Those were good times. I wasn't in the two thousand 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.240 times that. We'll get to that another time. Um. It's 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.800 also kind of the be getting of of of social 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:05.279 activism to speak to, you know, coming up in the 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.279 years ahead of that, that's when Uh, I think Lebron 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.320 in the whole Miami Heat team had the trade on 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.880 Martin hoodies on and the Eric Gardner I can't breathe. 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:15.440 I think it was the following year, so I think 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.960 that was kind of the first time him opening those doors, 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:19.719 like I said, for the rest of us. I think 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.640 with his move to Miami, he opened up for players 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.080 to kind of take control, and then with his lead, 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:27.760 he kind of opened up our platform to kind of 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:31.720 speak more on social events, not just sports, and things 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:33.520 that we really feel that are near and dear. Time 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:35.800 that one was the last time the face of the 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:39.240 NBA did that. I led that, the face of sports 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.120 led it. That's what I'm saying. When when was the last? 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.640 Definitely was so big superstar I think we've ever had, 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:49.240 and in any sport. I think it's come because he 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.800 really comes from it, right. It ain't too many superstars 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.479 that actually come from the mud don't really come from it, 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.120 you know what I'm saying. And I think he sees 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.760 things different. I wish people would just kind of understand, 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.760 even though not just Lebron, but you know great players. 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.320 I think we get so caught up in we're in 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.440 the social media world, so you you're riding for your 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.520 team or you want to just hate on guys instead 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.479 of sitting back and realize, like you're witnessing history with 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.120 some of these guys. But k D with Staff, for Lebron, 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.480 with Kobe, and then it's crazy you see more slammer 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.520 than you just not that they need praise or look 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.479 for praise, but just you see more hate than you 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.240 see love, not really realizing and in a moment of 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.039 time when we look back on it's for fifty sixty 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.640 seven years old, like we witness some of the greatest 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:30.600 players ever to play this game. I'll think about it 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.400 a lot because not not have ten times when somebody 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.200 asked me about basketball, they're asking me about Tim Duncan. 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.440 Said yeah, I said, I said, you're not out at 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:43.120 ten times. Not out at ten times when people ask 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.040 me about basketball, they asked me about Tim Duncan. Siries, 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.679 I'll tell you about it later. Yeah, but Tim Duncan 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:50.560 is you know people ask me about Tim Duncan like 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.880 this is the best power for them all time in 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.400 my mind. You know it might not be to everybody, 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.080 but to be able to play with him and him 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.400 to embrace me, to see him on let's get a 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.679 quadruple double all the way through the playoffs into the finals, 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.599 like that stuff with Special Man, and even to come 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.560 in to see for to play against Jay Kid at 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:13.880 that time in the finals, like wow, like he was unbelievable. Bro. 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:15.360 I think we just get it. We get a different 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:17.640 perspective objects because we're out there doing it. But I 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.120 mean we see the greatest and understand how hard it 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:21.880 is to do what they're doing. But I think from 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:23.560 the outside looking in, we just live in the day 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.360 and time where it's it's it's almost weak to show love, 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.840 or to show respect, or or to pray someone. It's 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:31.040 just a lot easier people think to just hate on people. 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:34.320 It's so it's so much easy. And that's the gift 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:35.840 in the curse from social media. You know, it's a 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.360 lot of players such as ourselves to who were labeled 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.400 one way in the game to show the world we are. 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.480 You know, we both were just talking about this off camera. 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.640 That definitely that we've been able to grow a brand 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:48.760 that's going to be much bigger than our basketball brand, 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.240 you know, post career, and that's because of social media 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.120 and the way we could really kind of we're both 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.440 labeled this thugs, gang bangers, bad this, bad that. But 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.080 the one thing we both always had in common with 0:07:58.120 --> 0:07:59.680 our teammates loved us, you know. I mean, so it 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.040 was just a misconception and what the world thought I 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.200 thought we were, you know back in the day when 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.000 we you know, coming into this this decade, there wasn't 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.080 really social media, you know what I mean. Like Twitter 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.080 had just kind of started going in their own and 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:12.640 we didn't really have much of a voice, you know 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.200 what I mean. So if the media painted us one way, 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:15.800 that's what we were, you know what I mean. And 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.720 I think that the emergence of social media has given 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.160 us outlets and giving us all platforms, but also growing 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.160 the game tremendously to make it what it is today 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.160 and for guys to make the money it is today. 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:27.720 I think a lot has to do with social media 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.160 and guys growing their brands. It's a gifting the curse 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:40.800 though definitely. You know. It was one of the high 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.640 school kid his name is Dio on Instagram, and he 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.520 was talking about how some of these blogs be making 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.640 certain players look good and blowing them up, and then 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:51.520 when they step up to him like they really ain't 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:52.920 that good. He said, you don't. He don't even want 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:54.040 to be on you want to you don't want to 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:55.360 be a part of that, you know what I'm saying. 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.079 He wanted he want to stay real, And a lot 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.880 of kids these days were like in the NBA, the 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.760 get caught up in the social media world. It ain't 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.240 real what they and and and and they feel like 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.600 they sudden they're not you know what'cause they reallyn't even 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:09.079 have to earn a spot no more. I've heard this 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:10.800 from me, and they player like, God, young guys don't 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:12.160 even show up early no more. A lot of this 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.600 stuff has changed, and it's because of social media. They 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.559 got them feeling themselves, Oh my goodness, super confident and 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.720 a million followers is over touch back onto. It was 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:22.680 a big thing, like I said, kind of piggybacking on 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:26.959 the off the social media platform. When Lebron Wade CPM 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:30.320 mellow uh spoke up at the piece, you know, just 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.000 kind of speaking on all the violence and and and 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.240 the killings in the in the senseless acts that we 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.800 continue to watch day by day, and I think that 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.440 was huge. Like I said, having kids, we know that 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:43.840 it just kind of resonates when athletes said, you know 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.640 so before sure, but then there's no question then for 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.600 But I just think, you know, when we start using 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.000 our voice, our voices heard around the world, you know, 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:53.760 and that's the kind of attention I think we need 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.120 you to continue to bring to the bullshit that was 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.320 happening in the streets with the unjust killings and just 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.440 where we were as a society. So, like I said, 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.640 you continue to thank these guys for using their platform 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:06.719 and opening up these doors. We could jump into a 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:08.800 situation too, but both of us kind of went through. 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:13.160 Donald Sterling. You mean, this is to the two thousand thirteen, 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.720 two thousand and fourteen season. You know, I was with 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.400 were obviously the Clippers. We felt like, you know, we 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:20.960 had created a new vibe over there and we really 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.040 had a chance to win the championship. So you know, 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:25.960 if you if you keep in mind, we were the 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.040 last team to kind of beat the Warriors before they 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.280 had their dynasty run, you know, so we felt like 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:32.880 we had some special we kept, you know, getting each 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.120 other's way. That's another time. But something that happened during 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.600 the playoffs that year was the tapes dropped it Downald Sterling, 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:40.640 and you were on our team for a little bit 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:45.360 that right before that happened. But you know, you took 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.280 it one crazy way, and we talked about it off 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:48.719 camera that I even know how you felt, because we 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:50.520 hadn't really talked about it because you've already gone by 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.640 the time you hit and then we took it one way. 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:54.360 But tell me how you took it like I was 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.319 already at the end of my career, you know what 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.720 I mean? And I think need be. So you was 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:00.520 on some n w A ship I was. I was 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:04.680 on my black Panther ship anyway. But being cut cut 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:08.400 before that happened, it was a blessing in disguise. Oh 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.480 my goodness, because I would have I was just left 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.240 the team. I wouldn't showed up. I wouldn't show up 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.440 to the more games I would have been. I would 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:18.240 have been outside of the fans, burning the jerseys. Oh 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.559 all that too, burning trees, for sure. But I have 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.000 been burning all the joys I've been. I've been protesting too, 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:25.480 but I've been I've just heard as the fans. You 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.280 made a song with face though, didn't you. I made 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:30.560 a song called America the Beautiful about the whole situation. 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:32.200 How I felt, you know, I felt. I was like, 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:34.640 is it a quarter as a cotton field? And that's 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:36.680 that's how he made it look about, you know, And 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.960 it was it was just upsetting to me, knowing how 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:41.960 much we played the game, you know, how much we 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:44.600 love the game. To know that somebody that you know 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.440 that that's benefiting off what we love to do feels 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.439 like that about it, you know what I mean, real 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:51.600 quick product. But where can they find that song? America 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.600 the Beautiful. You can find that on iTunes and you 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.160 can find it YouTube. We need to set a statement, 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:04.000 scar face, scarface plug your ship and begging to get 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:07.440 them download and trying to get you them download. We 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:09.040 took it different, you know what I mean. And I 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.559 think you know, the ship hit like out the blue. 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.040 We're in Golden State right before game four, you know, 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:17.320 and and then Lincoln we found on social media, and 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:21.280 my reaction I think was different from other people's reaction. 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.959 But like I touched on on on that shown episode 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.599 last time we're here, I faced real racism, you know 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:30.760 what I mean, Like Mannekins died nigger swasticks all over 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.160 my school. Like I faced real racism. So they here 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:39.280 old A's rich white man say speak to to the 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.240 black culture that way. It didn't really trip me out because, 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.480 like I said, like you just touched on, He's definitely 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:46.160 not the only one that thought that when he was 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.920 the only one dumb enough to get to get caught 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.920 by a snake of a a snake, a rat neck 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:56.640 ass goat mouth as woman who was dealing. Yeah, man, 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:58.120 you know what I means. So to me, it didn't 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.680 really trip me out. So like we as we kind 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:03.559 of start, you know, kind of start spreading, like well 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:04.959 if are texting each other, like yo, this ship just 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:06.560 really happened. He just said that ship and so we 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.160 you know, next next day we come in and Doc 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.160 handled it beautifully. I think this is the first thing 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:13.680 for the new commissioner, the first thing on the new 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.000 Commissioner's plate, and then this is our first year with Doc, 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.360 and Doc was the shield for our team, doctors just like, hey, 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.079 you know, first he thought, he asked what we thought, 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.040 and when everyone kind of expressed our opinion, he said, 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:23.440 whatever you do, kind of do it together. But then 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:25.600 Doctors kind of the shield for our team like he wanted, 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:27.360 you know. He obviously everyone knew it was the worst 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:29.360 time to have this ship drop, but he was the 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:30.720 only one to talk to the medi about it. He 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:32.720 addressed all the questions and we were just allowed to 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:34.760 go out there and try to focus, try to play. 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:36.880 We heard hell of ship. You know, you guys shouldn't play, 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.440 You should boycott. How can you play for a racist owner? 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:41.240 How can you do this? How can you do that? 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.600 And I'm thinking, like, y'all know, I mean, first of all, 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:44.800 we feel like we have a good enough team to 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:51.000 win the championship. But yeah, you know what I mean. 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:52.960 So they say something, are you just not gonna go 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:54.280 to work? You know what I mean? So, like I said, 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.719 it was never we were never playing for Sterling. We 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:00.080 were always playing for us and trying to build our 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:01.960 own tradition. They're trying to get the Clippers, you know, 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.960 from being a doormat to a respectable team. So we 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.120 got all kinds of crazy you guys should do this, 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:09.880 you guys should do that. But we just sat down 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.120 and talked, and we threw ideas out there, and I 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:15.480 actually came up with, you know, let's flip our ships 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.120 inside out and when we get out there, thomb on 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:18.880 the ground and kind of just let everyone know. We 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.400 know what he said was wrong, what he did was wrong, 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.960 but we have a bigger goal. And then never had 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:25.680 anything to do with him from the beginning. You think 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:30.400 that just that however, and over y'all pay no. I mean, 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:32.640 we got our asses blowing out in game four, if 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:34.640 if I'm not mistaken, but we ended up winning the 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.120 series and seven and then we were up three one 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.160 against Houston and we tricked that off. So I don't 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.480 think you know, it was noise, but it was. You 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.680 can't blame us tricking ship off on that. It was 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:47.960 just another distraction and we gonna deal with not the 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.680 right motivation, not not from your owner, you know what 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:52.440 I mean, not from the situation, and then you know, 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:54.760 so it was just it was definitely a black guy. 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.080 But like I said, it was a chance for Adam Silver, 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.520 you know, the kind of okay, your first year on 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.200 the job that you're you're you know, what are you 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:05.760 gonna do? And it's amazing. I think that's when he 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:07.720 kind of show people, Okay, you know, I'm ready for 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:09.880 this heavy lifting. He did what he's supposed to do. 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:11.760 We got to do without the league, and we've been 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:15.160 moving on ever since. So this is also a time, 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:21.120 you know, within that two thousand, fifteen, sixteen seventeen era, 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.480 when we kind of start losing pillars that you know, 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.720 we're great in our time. You know, this is when 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.600 a window of time when Tim retired, Kobe retired, Dirk McGuire, 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:31.400 I think d Wade was the last one to leave 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:35.280 Paul Peers retired. Yeah, Kevin Garnett retired. We lost some 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.840 greats of the game, and it was kind of a 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.800 changing of the guard. Although you know, arguably Brown was 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.240 still the best player at that time. You know, Kobe 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.760 was obviously right there, you know, and there was a 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:48.320 time where Kobe was the best player in the world. 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.400 But we lost you know, guys that carried this league 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:56.240 for fifteen, you know, twenty years, So it was a 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:57.880 crazy time. And you know, you've got a chance to 0:15:57.880 --> 0:15:59.720 play with Tim and you know, I got a chance 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.200 to play of a Kobe. I had great battles with Garnette. 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:04.520 Garnette was a motherfucking dog. I wish he was. I 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:06.880 did a radio interview last night with some Warrior people 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.640 and we were They brought the we belief thing. But 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:13.160 how true was the US getting chemical Garnett? Do you know? 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:16.200 Because you were you were Nellie's right hand and went 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.600 Nellie his dog, and then Jack he were a black 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:24.200 step step son. I basually was, yeah, shout out Nelly. Sure. 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.760 I didn't hear nothing about it, bro, So you didn't 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:28.880 know if we were actually or with that rumor or anything. 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.360 I honestly think I honestly know for a fact that 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.400 they would about heard anything about KG. I would have 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:35.600 said something to y'all. Can you imagine though, if KG 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:39.120 would have came Dow we believed team that ship would 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.720 have been sick me. I don't even want to think 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.440 about it. Bro. Yeah, we passed that stop reminiscent. But 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.920 like I said, it was it was not damn that 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:57.440 KG b d you Monte Petrice could have been ugly, 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.400 danger could have been ugly. And like I said, changing 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.400 of the guards. These guys are on their way out. 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:06.000 New guys are are are rising. Like I said, Lebron 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:07.879 kind of had the throne at that time, but shortly 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:11.679 after that we get we get Kaua comes on the 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:16.760 site and thrown at that time, Yeah, what you mean 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:18.879 he's been on the throne for how long? See minute? 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.760 How long is that? So? How long has Lebron been up? 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.399 With him and Kobe overlapping? Because it was, you know, 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.639 only those two at the time we're considered probably you know, 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:30.600 how long was Broun the best player? To you? I 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:32.600 think Broun has been the best player in the league 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:39.680 every year, said his first two years. I think from 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:41.440 from his third year old he's been the best playing 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.240 in the league. To me, I'm not mad at that. 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:46.120 From his third year old, he just dominated. That's when 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.960 he just all around. Oh my goodness, I just gotta 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:52.520 give him his card. From his third year old, Lebron 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:54.840 has been the best plan of the league. With guys 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.240 like Tim Duncan and KG and all those guys being 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.680 really and Kobe, all those guys, he's been the best 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:02.760 in the teams. He took to the finals. He was 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.480 going to the finals every year. Why those guys were 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:09.639 in the league every year with whoever he had. Let's go, 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:11.879 get on my back. You want to come Okay, you 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.240 know what you're going right, We're going to the finals. 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:17.919 Come on. I'm not mad at that. I'm mad at that. So, 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.639 like I said, with with with the pillars of the 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.480 of the community, the Elder Statesman's kind of exiting, this 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:25.720 is like like I said, Lebron's at the top, and 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:28.199 then you have Janice Is coming in. You have kauai 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.800 is making the name for themselves, Steph Clay and Draymond. 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:34.640 When with what the Warriors did, k D and Russ 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:36.879 and Harden, all these new guys are ready to step 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.440 up and be that wave of player and and and 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:42.879 the game itself has changed as well, you know what 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.040 I mean. It used to be uh something we both 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.400 hung our has almost playing defense, you know what I mean, 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:50.400 And that and that is on its way out as 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:52.920 we're finishing as players. But you know, with this new 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:56.439 almost like call of life, you know, the what was 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:58.880 it called in baseball? When when? When? When the home 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:00.720 run ball was going? This it's kind of just a 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:05.080 just a new era of just crazy scoring and and 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:07.879 style of play. And I think a lot has to 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:10.080 do with the Warriors, you know what I mean. People 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:12.119 always say you live by the three, died by the three. 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:16.080 But you know, Stephen and Clay and and these guys 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:19.960 changed the game. Well people don't understand though they did 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.960 change the game. But they changed the game by having 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.480 two of the best shooters ever. They played the same 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:29.800 way we played. We just didn't make this money. We 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:34.400 just didn't make it men shot we went. But people 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:38.480 talked about defense. Every year they in the top ten defensively, 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.080 So people talk about they're not playing deepense. Their offense 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:43.200 makes them have great defense. So people have to stop 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:45.440 saying that they don't play d because there was always 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.520 one of the top defensive James every year they wanted, 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:49.720 but I think two from the fact of, like you said, 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:51.639 although they were the greatest shooters, it was just it 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:53.800 was always you know, you hear the TNT crew that 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:55.600 you can't win with the three ball. You can't do 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:57.440 this with the three ball and the and they proved 0:19:57.440 --> 0:19:59.920 the game wrong. And now with just this newer gen 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.000 narration of kids coming up, it's about shooting threes. And 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:08.160 I go to AU games and I tell you, yes, 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:10.960 you go ten possessions and then nobody touched the paint. 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:13.760 Bro it goes everybody's watching. You know that the key 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:15.199 to the offense back in the day was it had 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:17.119 to touch the paint. You know what I mean, you know, 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:19.920 work inside out, and now it's worked out and further 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:22.920 out and further out half court, which is crazy from 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:26.160 the logo with all these big six nine, six, ten, 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:30.280 two sixty two fifty two fluid guys moving, a little 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:33.000 dude you know named Steph Curry comes in and and 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:36.240 and and finds a way to be effective, not being athletic, 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:39.000 as a strong, as big as these guys, but just 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:42.680 as effective, if not more. Yo. Yo. The question he 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:45.119 got the whole package. We can handle the ball like 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:48.920 no package. And you saw him early on. I mean 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:51.239 you were his teammate. We drafted kind of the end 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:53.760 of what our team was with, you know, Monte and you, 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:56.680 You and Monte hung around. You asked to be traded, right, Yeah. 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:58.960 When when they drafted, like they all, y'all was gone, 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:01.720 all my home was going. Everybody I was around, obviously, 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:04.679 no one new stuff is gonna be. I had no clue, 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:07.640 I had no long I was with like a mother 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:10.080 two And the time wasn't good because at the time 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:13.280 I was within Brandon Jenn's game fifty five. So I 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:16.480 didn't see that. I didn't see this step with that day. 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.199 I didn't see that happening. But he should prove me 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:22.479 wrong and a lot of people wrong. I absolutely agree. 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:24.840 Also to think to how you know, now we can 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:27.479 kind of touch on that that that Warrior running that 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:30.280 Warrior dynasty. How they built you know, like I said, 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:34.600 Lebron took it to you know, teams, I'm going to 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:37.719 where I want to go and come join me. And 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:40.720 then the Warriors did it the old traditional way, you know, 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:43.320 through through through great draft picks and three great draft 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:46.760 and and you know, front office moves and strategic moves. 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:49.040 You know, Jerry West was in that mix, you know, 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:50.840 Bob Myers and the rest of the crew they were in. 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:53.840 They're kind of constructing that team in it and it 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:55.720 kind of like, Okay, well damn, they did it the 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:57.199 right way, you know what I mean. And then you 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:00.720 look at Philly trusting the process. They did it the 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:02.760 right way, you know what I mean. So's there's kinda 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:05.439 do we see what way it's gonna work? You know? 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:07.119 Now we've kind of have a little bit more parody 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:09.320 where it's kind of more two stars and three stars. 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:12.639 But do you see it staying come play with me, 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:13.960 or do you see it kind of going back to 0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:16.480 the old traditional way of you know, building through the draft. 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:19.200 I think it's gonna it's got to come play with me. 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:21.919 Let's build our team, my homeworking most it's gonna stay there. 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:24.760 It's gonna stay there because that's the only way you 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:26.480 can win. Now it's too late to go back to 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:27.560 the other way. You go back to the other way, 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:29.520 you're gonna be at the bottom of the battle. You 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:31.360 have to team up with guys. Too many, too many 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:34.040 teams are good and too many teams have two or 0:22:34.080 --> 0:22:35.800 three All Stars, they might not make it to the 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:39.119 All Star Game, and they may put up All Star numbers. 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:40.959 You know, there's a lot of teams like that. So 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:43.399 I think it's gonna stay with guys going to continue 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:45.320 to try to play with each other because the guys 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:46.920 want to win now, and guys want to be lawal 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:49.320 like Dame. Literally, you want to show some largy. So 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:51.200 it's good that they can make a move and get 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:52.840 a guy like car Melo to add to their team. 0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:54.480 They can get big fellow back, they can have a 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:56.280 good chance to win it. So I think I think 0:22:56.280 --> 0:22:57.760 guys want to stay law you and win it. But 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:00.000 at the same time, they're gonna they still recruiting guys 0:23:00.000 --> 0:23:02.240 of the situation. Yeah, and like I said, the process 0:23:02.280 --> 0:23:03.760 takes too long, and we live in a time and 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:06.359 age where trusting the process is going to get a 0:23:06.400 --> 0:23:09.160 whole bunch of head coaches fired and and and management 0:23:09.240 --> 0:23:13.840 fired and you know tread exactly. So it's it's really now, 0:23:14.119 --> 0:23:16.520 like I said, the door has been opened. I think 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:18.520 the Warriors are kind of an exception, but even they, 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:20.560 you know, we're able to recruit, you know, Kde and 0:23:20.800 --> 0:23:23.480 kind of solidify their dynasty. So I think I agree 0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:26.399 with you with the game has changed and it's changed forever. 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:29.760 When it comes to that, I mentioned previously how trust 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:32.840 the process is the process of the Sixers took and 0:23:32.960 --> 0:23:35.560 a lot of people you know, had mixed opinions on 0:23:36.080 --> 0:23:38.600 if that is the process. They've had a handful of 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:41.000 town of late, you know. They they've also built around 0:23:41.000 --> 0:23:43.520 em Beat and Simmons and and and did some good 0:23:43.520 --> 0:23:45.800 things around them. What do you think about them as 0:23:45.840 --> 0:23:48.760 a as a team right now? And the person that 0:23:48.840 --> 0:23:52.000 the slogan was made for and Beat trust the process. 0:23:52.640 --> 0:23:54.840 He's not happy with the process because he's the first 0:23:54.880 --> 0:23:57.359 person to speak on not having Jimmy Butler is a 0:23:57.400 --> 0:24:00.439 big problem. Choosing Tobias Harris over Jimmy. It was a 0:24:00.440 --> 0:24:03.000 big mistake they had. They had a chance to to 0:24:03.000 --> 0:24:05.600 to cater to Jimmy to keep Jimmy there. I think 0:24:05.680 --> 0:24:07.919 Jimmy is a better fit there. And he was leading 0:24:07.920 --> 0:24:11.199 those guys the guy who and be who they who 0:24:11.240 --> 0:24:13.000 they land, putting their hat on us who who the who, 0:24:13.080 --> 0:24:15.639 the big feller they team. He was the first person 0:24:15.680 --> 0:24:18.160 to say that he's upset with Jimmy Butter not being there. 0:24:18.800 --> 0:24:21.000 That is your star player for him to say that 0:24:21.800 --> 0:24:24.200 things are not right there. So they trust in the process, 0:24:24.200 --> 0:24:26.240 but they made their process took a step back when 0:24:26.240 --> 0:24:27.959 they let Jimmy go. So you don't see them having 0:24:28.000 --> 0:24:30.560 a chance to win anything. No, I wouldn't say that 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:32.240 because they're in the East. They have a chance to 0:24:32.280 --> 0:24:35.080 still win the East. They still have heart for them 0:24:35.119 --> 0:24:37.159 and be together to paint. I think Reddick was a 0:24:37.160 --> 0:24:39.960 big loss to big loss too, you know. So that's 0:24:40.000 --> 0:24:42.720 that that's two big pieces to vetermans to two guys 0:24:42.760 --> 0:24:45.320 that can go anywhere and help any team right now. 0:24:45.640 --> 0:24:47.320 You know what I means. Jimmy Butter is an all star. 0:24:47.440 --> 0:24:50.000 So I just interesting, it's gonna be really interesting the 0:24:50.000 --> 0:24:53.720 process works and playing well. But I love Ben Simester 0:24:54.280 --> 0:24:55.960 and to me, the only way the process works is 0:24:55.960 --> 0:24:59.960 with the championship. That's right. You know that I'm not 0:25:00.040 --> 0:25:02.080 trusting it right now. You know you're not relevant. I'm 0:25:02.119 --> 0:25:04.080 not trusted it. I like them. I like that to 0:25:04.119 --> 0:25:05.679 me that they were my pick earlier to come out 0:25:05.680 --> 0:25:07.720 of the East, you know, and I haven't really wavered 0:25:07.800 --> 0:25:09.359 from that pick. So we'll see how it goes. But 0:25:09.440 --> 0:25:12.359 let's uh, let's talk about how the style of play 0:25:12.440 --> 0:25:15.119 has changed. You know, I think we got the old 0:25:15.520 --> 0:25:18.879 the taste of the old physical air. You came and 0:25:18.880 --> 0:25:21.960 went two thousand. I was two thousand, two thousand three, 0:25:22.520 --> 0:25:25.239 then actually locked in two thousand four. So we got 0:25:25.320 --> 0:25:29.560 a little bit of the hand checking physicality and in 0:25:29.720 --> 0:25:31.160 that part of the game. And that's what I loved. 0:25:31.240 --> 0:25:33.399 That's what we all knew how to play like. I 0:25:33.440 --> 0:25:36.439 still play like that. That's why that's why I'm not 0:25:36.720 --> 0:25:38.480 being playing the Big three, because the Big Big got 0:25:38.560 --> 0:25:40.879 the old old rules. It was fun. I mean, we 0:25:40.880 --> 0:25:43.520 would talk, we would talk about the dogs, you know 0:25:43.560 --> 0:25:45.680 what I mean with the hand checking, the horrid files, 0:25:45.760 --> 0:25:48.360 you know. And I think once again back to going 0:25:48.400 --> 0:25:50.959 to Mellow Nolot gotta taste it that too. And as 0:25:51.000 --> 0:25:52.760 you see, if you see Mellow playing on the court 0:25:52.840 --> 0:25:55.119 right now, you can tell he come the old school poles. 0:25:55.400 --> 0:25:57.679 He's saying funk all the doubters though he's out there 0:25:57.720 --> 0:26:00.000 playing with and I love it. He's saying funk everybody. 0:26:00.000 --> 0:26:02.840 I love it to But like his motor and his hunger, 0:26:02.880 --> 0:26:04.719 like you don't see a couple of weeks ago, there 0:26:04.760 --> 0:26:07.480 was one play where he had three offensive rebounds in 0:26:07.520 --> 0:26:12.919 the row finally went through someone's mouth, like, Yo, welcome 0:26:12.960 --> 0:26:14.879 to that's that's how we play. How we got that 0:26:15.240 --> 0:26:17.320 on some motherucker's though, Like I could tell some people 0:26:17.440 --> 0:26:20.000 Garden Mellower scared, but that's going to transfer on it 0:26:20.080 --> 0:26:22.959 to everybody on the team. It was a good pickup. 0:26:23.600 --> 0:26:25.240 It was a good pick up. But let's like I said, 0:26:25.280 --> 0:26:30.320 it went from being able to be physical to slowly 0:26:30.600 --> 0:26:33.840 like almost flag football now. But at the same time, 0:26:35.080 --> 0:26:37.159 and I tell people, you know, because I kind of 0:26:37.160 --> 0:26:38.760 think like I was one of the last of the 0:26:38.840 --> 0:26:42.000 dying brees to kind of like be like a defensive 0:26:42.080 --> 0:26:44.800 minded three in D type. You know, there's like maybe 0:26:44.800 --> 0:26:47.280 a camp maybe five or six of them the NBA now, 0:26:47.359 --> 0:26:48.920 But it was like it was kind of the end 0:26:48.960 --> 0:26:52.600 of what that kind of last real raw defense was about. 0:26:52.640 --> 0:26:53.920 And like I said, we didn't really get to play 0:26:53.920 --> 0:26:55.439 the defense they got to play, and you know obviously 0:26:55.480 --> 0:26:57.919 the eighties and nineties, but it was our form of it. 0:26:58.000 --> 0:27:01.200 But now with there being no defen and the game 0:27:01.240 --> 0:27:04.240 has grown, you know what I mean. And then you 0:27:04.280 --> 0:27:07.159 think about it strategically and from a business standpoint, like 0:27:07.160 --> 0:27:09.119 when you turn on sports and you don't want to 0:27:09.119 --> 0:27:12.200 see like a defense like an eighty three eighty nine game. 0:27:12.359 --> 0:27:13.639 You know what I mean. People want to see a 0:27:13.680 --> 0:27:16.360 hundred and twenty, but you don't want to see You're right, 0:27:16.440 --> 0:27:19.840 you're we don't want to see more teams losing by 0:27:19.520 --> 0:27:21.760 forty points, you know what I mean. But you gotta 0:27:21.760 --> 0:27:25.000 think highlight wise, dunks, three pointers, transitional game like that's 0:27:25.000 --> 0:27:26.560 what the game is. So that's why it's kind of 0:27:26.560 --> 0:27:28.600 crazy that they've gone away from you can't play no 0:27:28.760 --> 0:27:31.719 defense now. I feel like if you in the NBA 0:27:32.040 --> 0:27:35.600 and you get beat by forty when the playoff time come, 0:27:36.000 --> 0:27:37.920 they need to see you to the c A tournament. 0:27:40.240 --> 0:27:45.119 There's some good teams and still done well. You know 0:27:45.080 --> 0:27:47.040 what I mean. You you gotta be careful saying like 0:27:47.080 --> 0:27:48.480 this because they want to look sit up like the 0:27:48.520 --> 0:27:52.840 Lakers lost my Remember I came with me being on 0:27:52.840 --> 0:27:55.239 the team losing my party. I'm sorry, it's a lot 0:27:55.280 --> 0:27:57.480 of points, forty dogs, it's a lot of points. I 0:27:57.520 --> 0:28:01.160 don't I would I was kicked out? Are I filed out? 0:28:01.560 --> 0:28:03.520 I'm not being I'm not being involved in. I'm not 0:28:03.560 --> 0:28:05.520 being a part of a team that losing my party. 0:28:05.680 --> 0:28:07.840 I'm getting kicked out on purpose. He already I mean, 0:28:07.880 --> 0:28:09.399 I don't even have to say, but you know I was. 0:28:09.640 --> 0:28:14.240 You can kicked out too, There's no question taking that ship. 0:28:14.640 --> 0:28:17.720 A couple of weeks ago, Joanna's dunked on Julius Randall. 0:28:17.760 --> 0:28:21.639 I think from the next My god, I just I 0:28:21.640 --> 0:28:22.920 would have had that. I would have had the swing 0:28:22.960 --> 0:28:27.520 on dude, just the birth to no drill incredible in 0:28:27.560 --> 0:28:30.439 his face, like it was just like like that's how 0:28:30.480 --> 0:28:33.240 I supposed to be. Yeah, it's big played back in 0:28:33.280 --> 0:28:36.040 the day. I like, but they would have tried to 0:28:36.040 --> 0:28:37.680 pun it. Like imagine him coming to Lane with Shack. 0:28:37.680 --> 0:28:39.160 He would have dumped on Shock one time, and Shock 0:28:39.200 --> 0:28:41.000 would have had to take all this ship out, like 0:28:41.040 --> 0:28:42.480 all of it. That's why I like, you know, I mean, 0:28:42.520 --> 0:28:43.960 I got a chance to play with Shock on the 0:28:43.960 --> 0:28:45.800 backside of Crep. But you know in his hey that 0:28:46.000 --> 0:28:47.560 we used to talk and I'm just like, you know, 0:28:47.560 --> 0:28:49.760 when someone's cooking, the guard was cooking, he would tell 0:28:49.800 --> 0:28:51.400 them to send him for the paint, and Shock would 0:28:51.480 --> 0:28:53.160 lay their ass out and they would slow their whole 0:28:53.200 --> 0:28:55.080 momentum down, you know what I mean. And I think 0:28:55.080 --> 0:28:58.720 they're like stuff like that is strategically doing ship like 0:28:58.720 --> 0:29:00.600 that and then kind of in four I missed that 0:29:00.680 --> 0:29:03.000 kind of stuff. You know what I want to say 0:29:03.120 --> 0:29:04.560 about I got a story by saying I had the 0:29:04.560 --> 0:29:07.920 most vulnerable moment everyone ever was shocked happen. So you know, 0:29:07.960 --> 0:29:09.840 we'm sa really cool. When we played something, you know, 0:29:09.840 --> 0:29:11.200 I always run up to him and give him a 0:29:11.520 --> 0:29:15.040 chess buck. Bro Man, you know I'm not even thinking 0:29:15.040 --> 0:29:16.880 about it. I run up to him and give him 0:29:16.880 --> 0:29:18.920 get rid of chess. But he really not pay attention. 0:29:18.960 --> 0:29:21.360 But he turned around the last minute. This mother catch 0:29:21.440 --> 0:29:24.000 me Ben. I'm like, man, if you don't put me 0:29:24.040 --> 0:29:27.040 to all these people out here, this catch me mid 0:29:27.160 --> 0:29:30.000 And so I'm like, come on, manuye, dude, cannot be 0:29:30.000 --> 0:29:33.760 that big. I got some crazy stories about shock in Phoenix. Man, 0:29:34.160 --> 0:29:39.200 he was a big ass prank star. Oh man, when 0:29:39.200 --> 0:29:40.640 we get him on the show, I'm gonna call him 0:29:40.640 --> 0:29:42.080 on some of the shift he did. You got people 0:29:42.120 --> 0:29:45.600 gonna be blowing away with some big fellers did well. 0:29:45.680 --> 0:29:47.560 Let's go well, I mean we're turning of the decade. 0:29:47.560 --> 0:29:50.880 You know, we're heading into a new start where we 0:29:50.920 --> 0:29:57.240 have some great duos. Complete shift, would you say right now? 0:29:57.360 --> 0:30:00.040 Arguably the best dual is a d and Lebron. I 0:30:00.040 --> 0:30:03.160 think that's safe to say. No, the Can and the Brow, 0:30:03.680 --> 0:30:06.160 that's what you're talking about. The King and the Brow. 0:30:06.360 --> 0:30:10.040 That's their names. That's gonna be a duo. If they could, 0:30:10.200 --> 0:30:12.480 you know, play together for you know him, for the years. 0:30:12.480 --> 0:30:14.440 That that's that's gonna go down to history. Remember I 0:30:14.480 --> 0:30:17.320 said that he was. I said that Braun wasn't playing 0:30:17.320 --> 0:30:19.360 like the dog after that first game this season because 0:30:19.360 --> 0:30:20.960 the clip, I say, you need to play with more dog, 0:30:21.040 --> 0:30:23.719 I said, Bron, you can average forty. You can average 0:30:23.720 --> 0:30:27.040 fifty if you want. He's been getting triple doubles every night. 0:30:27.520 --> 0:30:30.800 Best record in the league. The legos are tough. I'm 0:30:31.080 --> 0:30:37.880 gonna lie, you know if he won't. Just don't take 0:30:37.920 --> 0:30:39.720 it easy on him, Bron. Stop playing to the level 0:30:39.720 --> 0:30:42.400 your competition. Get seventy points a night because you can't. 0:30:42.400 --> 0:30:44.920 It's easy. He gotta pace itself though, and damn that 0:30:46.480 --> 0:30:50.040 ship on his legs. You want it now, you wanted 0:30:50.120 --> 0:30:53.920 in you when you want it. I'm asking when you 0:30:53.920 --> 0:30:56.520 want it. I want it every night. You can't have 0:30:56.560 --> 0:31:00.200 it every night after year seventh, in the year seventeen war, 0:31:00.640 --> 0:31:02.520 I mean he paid a million dollars. But it's just things. 0:31:03.560 --> 0:31:05.280 If I just wanted a minute, we spanned a million, 0:31:05.280 --> 0:31:07.560 I was my body just, oh my good. Might have 0:31:07.560 --> 0:31:10.920 spent a million sports. You'll be playing football and basketball. 0:31:10.920 --> 0:31:13.880 I'll be playing fucking rugby in basketball. We'll be all 0:31:13.880 --> 0:31:16.200 over the place, and I'll be boxing. I'll be jumping 0:31:16.200 --> 0:31:17.600 out of jets. All kind of said. If I spent 0:31:17.680 --> 0:31:20.440 a million dollars a million dollars on your body a year, 0:31:20.800 --> 0:31:24.840 nothing shouldn't be wrong with you. Log management, Are you 0:31:24.920 --> 0:31:29.200 kidding me? I'm the other way. Pace yourself. Bro. A 0:31:29.240 --> 0:31:31.720 million of games you can do during the season, but 0:31:31.720 --> 0:31:32.880 I want to see it in the I want to 0:31:32.880 --> 0:31:35.000 see in the playoffs. You can do it. Just do it. 0:31:35.400 --> 0:31:38.000 But right down the hall, Kawai and PG and and 0:31:38.040 --> 0:31:40.840 PG has been back for a minute. Kauai is Kauai, 0:31:41.000 --> 0:31:42.720 you know what I mean. He's really hurt, you know, 0:31:46.160 --> 0:31:47.520 but he's still doing what he's doing. But I ain't 0:31:47.520 --> 0:31:49.040 even talking about little man. I'm just talking about to 0:31:49.080 --> 0:31:51.200 deal itself, you know. I think when Paul George, you know, 0:31:51.240 --> 0:31:54.320 gets his footing back, he's been playing really well. I 0:31:54.360 --> 0:31:57.960 think it's gonna be a Western Conference battle. Uh final 0:31:58.040 --> 0:31:59.640 to go down. It's gonna be fine. We talked about 0:31:59.680 --> 0:32:03.800 all these duos. We just stick is due on TV. Yeah, 0:32:03.840 --> 0:32:05.760 we just do a period. They don't even know if 0:32:05.800 --> 0:32:10.320 you don't even know that. But honest, nice Luca. They're scary. 0:32:10.680 --> 0:32:13.920 Lucas scary. I don't think I was talking to someone. 0:32:13.960 --> 0:32:15.760 I don't think. And this is no knock on Brown 0:32:15.800 --> 0:32:19.160 and no knock on anybody, but offensively skilled. I don't 0:32:19.200 --> 0:32:21.040 think we've ever seen a player coming to the game 0:32:21.360 --> 0:32:23.120 this right. I mean something can say Kareem, but I 0:32:23.160 --> 0:32:24.760 don't even you know, back in the day when he 0:32:24.800 --> 0:32:26.720 came in, he came in completely dominant. But that the 0:32:26.800 --> 0:32:28.480 Luca is different because he can give it to you 0:32:28.880 --> 0:32:32.479 any where you wanted. Do they know that Luca's legit 0:32:32.560 --> 0:32:37.080 six nine, big body, but he's handles, He's step backs, 0:32:37.320 --> 0:32:40.640 doing whatever he wants to this league. All the records 0:32:40.640 --> 0:32:42.680 and numbers. Lebron was putting up that when he was 0:32:42.720 --> 0:32:45.400 breaking at the beginning's career, Lucas doing the same thing 0:32:45.960 --> 0:32:49.000 and squashing them all crazy especial. But what I like 0:32:49.040 --> 0:32:51.000 about him, I say this all the time about players. 0:32:51.080 --> 0:32:53.120 That's the first thing I noticed. He don't back down no, 0:32:53.480 --> 0:32:55.120 hell no, you know what I'm saying. That's the first thing, 0:32:55.200 --> 0:32:57.840 especially when you're coming. I got them from overseas to 0:32:57.840 --> 0:32:59.800 the NBA. The first thing they tried to take you 0:33:00.000 --> 0:33:02.080 are well you know that we I mean we that 0:33:02.200 --> 0:33:04.840 was always kind of the knock with you know, obviously 0:33:04.920 --> 0:33:07.360 a handful of him more special, you know, but a 0:33:07.440 --> 0:33:10.440 euro We was trying to punk them all off the rip. 0:33:10.480 --> 0:33:14.720 They couldn't bunk Carolinko. No, he was a dog. You couldn't, Carolina. 0:33:16.080 --> 0:33:18.920 I'm auer had our whole team, are our whole offense 0:33:18.920 --> 0:33:21.560 funked up in the playoffs. But you know, like I said, 0:33:21.600 --> 0:33:23.600 there were some exceptions for it from over you know, 0:33:24.280 --> 0:33:26.040 the knock back then was you know, they would be 0:33:26.080 --> 0:33:28.240 soft and getting their asks, and they had disappeared. But 0:33:28.280 --> 0:33:30.840 that's one thing. Luca, he's ready for it. He wants 0:33:30.880 --> 0:33:32.280 to get you know what I mean, he's he's ready 0:33:32.280 --> 0:33:35.400 for that head up any day, anytime, anywhere. And you 0:33:35.440 --> 0:33:39.320 know what's crazy though, everybody was talking about when Porzingis 0:33:39.320 --> 0:33:41.920 get there, how it's gonna be crazy. Porzinga's is not 0:33:41.960 --> 0:33:46.040 even on Lucas level. Not what I'll give Porzinga is 0:33:46.040 --> 0:33:48.360 gonna take him a hole after the type of knee 0:33:48.400 --> 0:33:50.600 injury he had. I'm not judging him until next year, 0:33:50.640 --> 0:33:52.280 but obviously I was looking at him the other day 0:33:52.280 --> 0:33:54.240 thinking the way you are else, just like I forgot 0:33:54.240 --> 0:33:56.000 this his first year back from knee injury, but like 0:33:56.080 --> 0:33:58.959 it's not it's man. Before Porzincas got hurt, we were 0:33:58.960 --> 0:34:01.800 thinking him up here, but robbing, I think, Lucas, I 0:34:01.800 --> 0:34:03.680 think they can still get there. You think so. I 0:34:03.720 --> 0:34:07.960 think they might have just slide another person in arriving 0:34:08.000 --> 0:34:10.640 and let him go to be out for something. You 0:34:11.120 --> 0:34:14.920 Alfred getting Batman stuff ready, He's gonna have to I 0:34:14.960 --> 0:34:17.239 don't know. I don't think he's robbing. You might not 0:34:17.280 --> 0:34:20.640 be robbing. I want to hold judgment into things just 0:34:20.680 --> 0:34:26.400 more Alfred. Right now, we done somebody in and Luca's Batman, Superman, Incredible, 0:34:26.800 --> 0:34:30.080 dog Knight, all of them, Dog Knight Rises, all that. 0:34:30.320 --> 0:34:32.000 But they said, I mean, you know you can check 0:34:32.040 --> 0:34:34.360 you can check my my paperwork. You know, I was 0:34:34.400 --> 0:34:36.080 telling people when he first came in the game that 0:34:36.120 --> 0:34:38.000 he has a chance to be one of the greatest players, 0:34:38.520 --> 0:34:41.239 not only European players, but ever. And you mentioned while 0:34:41.239 --> 0:34:43.319 we're talking, you think he's top three and v people. 0:34:43.480 --> 0:34:46.160 Right now, I think Luco will finish this year top 0:34:46.200 --> 0:34:48.920 three m v P if not definitely first team on 0:34:49.440 --> 0:34:52.080 if he don't win it, Yeah, definitely first team on NBA. 0:34:52.200 --> 0:34:54.120 And he's gonna be there for a long time. He 0:34:54.160 --> 0:34:56.160 stay healthy, gonna be there for a long time. I agree. 0:34:56.440 --> 0:34:58.879 I gotta get a Luca Jersey. Shout out Luca, Shout 0:34:58.920 --> 0:35:00.399 out Luka for real. He ain't got nothing to ask 0:35:00.440 --> 0:35:02.279 for beside to just tell him, you know, Luke ain't 0:35:02.280 --> 0:35:03.759 got the shoe deal. Yeah, you know I've been keeping 0:35:03.880 --> 0:35:06.919 He's still trying our shoes. And you don't want to jersey. 0:35:06.920 --> 0:35:10.200 I don't want to Jersey. I'm gonna go to the 0:35:10.200 --> 0:35:12.719 game up. I'd like to definitely like to do with 0:35:12.800 --> 0:35:15.759 Cuban home Rick call out of home me too. You 0:35:15.840 --> 0:35:19.560 mentioned something earlier about Lucas saying, uh, you know, and 0:35:19.560 --> 0:35:21.840 this is almost talking to the defense and what the 0:35:21.840 --> 0:35:23.640 game is like now. It's the easiest going the NBA 0:35:23.680 --> 0:35:27.120 than it was overseas. Yeah, and it makes sense, you 0:35:27.160 --> 0:35:30.680 know he playing overseas. It's probably him. You know, nine 0:35:30.680 --> 0:35:33.759 times over the overseas you have two Americans, so it's 0:35:33.760 --> 0:35:36.479 probably him and another guy that's actually getting to paid 0:35:36.480 --> 0:35:40.840 attention by defense. Everybody's keying on and the NBA, everybody 0:35:40.840 --> 0:35:43.920 has to be tend to. Everybody's hugging their man. Everybody 0:35:44.040 --> 0:35:46.160 gotta be respected. So he just walking to the paint, 0:35:46.360 --> 0:35:49.200 he has more space than anybody, more space needs ever 0:35:49.280 --> 0:35:51.680 had to go one on one and then and the 0:35:51.800 --> 0:35:54.879 NBA guys, they it looks like the guys take more 0:35:54.880 --> 0:35:57.319 pride and playing defense, but they have to because they're 0:35:57.320 --> 0:36:00.600 on the island and the ups and body want to 0:36:00.640 --> 0:36:02.799 be embarrassed. And like I said, I think it's great 0:36:02.840 --> 0:36:04.720 for the game that to have like players like Janice 0:36:04.760 --> 0:36:06.440 and Luca, and I think that talks to it at 0:36:06.480 --> 0:36:09.280 the beginning of the decade, how it's it's grown globally 0:36:09.400 --> 0:36:11.680 with social media and what players have been able to 0:36:11.680 --> 0:36:14.359 speak at about and you know, show that in the 0:36:14.440 --> 0:36:17.040 NBA is just an all around amazing thing to be 0:36:17.080 --> 0:36:18.760 a part of the global game. You know, it's definitely 0:36:18.800 --> 0:36:20.760 a global game. So it's you know, you're you're starting 0:36:20.800 --> 0:36:23.759 to see more younger European stars and that is what 0:36:23.880 --> 0:36:27.120 continues to grow the game. And I said, these players 0:36:27.120 --> 0:36:29.360 continue to get the contracts that they're getting. Have you 0:36:29.360 --> 0:36:34.239 seen Thundmaker's brother like eleven grades something something tall. He 0:36:34.600 --> 0:36:38.680 handled all that. It's crazy. I forgot the kid's name, 0:36:38.680 --> 0:36:41.560 but there's a young katie coming up to the pipeline 0:36:41.560 --> 0:36:44.400 to a helio or and forgot with the kid name. 0:36:44.760 --> 0:36:49.919 Boy he is nice. Let's transition right now into as 0:36:49.960 --> 0:36:54.080 we close out the two thousand tens. Me and Jack 0:36:54.239 --> 0:36:56.320 sat back and made a few lists. Don't try to 0:36:56.320 --> 0:36:59.359 go crazy. Just our list. You like it? Agree? If 0:36:59.360 --> 0:37:03.000 not right? You know, people, when you start making you 0:37:03.040 --> 0:37:05.359 said so and so, man, we don't. We'll care about 0:37:05.360 --> 0:37:08.120 all that we think. You guys, tell us what you think. 0:37:08.440 --> 0:37:10.520 But we're gonna start it off with the top five 0:37:10.760 --> 0:37:15.319 moments of the past ten years, and we'll start at 0:37:15.400 --> 0:37:22.000 number five. Kobe's last game and his story career points. Yes, 0:37:22.120 --> 0:37:25.680 sixty points had the whole stadium going craziness only right, 0:37:25.680 --> 0:37:28.640 like who goes out with their last game being sixty points? Kobe? 0:37:29.560 --> 0:37:31.160 That was crazy. I mean it was just good to 0:37:31.160 --> 0:37:33.759 watch man and knowing I heard he was and to 0:37:33.760 --> 0:37:35.239 see him finished, to go out like that, and how 0:37:35.280 --> 0:37:36.920 we stuck around, you know, like I said, especially with 0:37:36.920 --> 0:37:38.800 the climb and stay. A lot of guys bounce you 0:37:38.840 --> 0:37:40.400 know to get that ring at the end and Kobe 0:37:40.400 --> 0:37:43.160 stage true, Kobe rowed the ship into that motherfucker's sank 0:37:45.600 --> 0:37:48.640 un tempers healthy and can't get ten points right, Sorry, 0:37:48.640 --> 0:37:55.960 motherfucker's shout out to Code. Good back for for Kawai 0:37:56.040 --> 0:38:00.680 Leonards buzzer beater against Philly that ultimately gets the Raptors 0:38:00.719 --> 0:38:04.160 and then Canada their first championship. Note the kids that 0:38:04.320 --> 0:38:06.839 watch that, you see he helped the follow up through 0:38:06.920 --> 0:38:09.239 the goose neck. He just sat there and watched that 0:38:09.280 --> 0:38:13.040 mother bounce bounce. I said, everybody, you gotta keep you 0:38:13.040 --> 0:38:16.279 following through Coach Jack Top five moments number four with 0:38:16.400 --> 0:38:19.120 you know Kauai and you say what you want about Kauai, 0:38:19.200 --> 0:38:22.560 but he's got what two championships and two finals VPS 0:38:22.080 --> 0:38:24.960 and Defensive Player of the Year, and he led Ronald 0:38:25.080 --> 0:38:27.759 Raptors to their first championship and then came there was 0:38:27.800 --> 0:38:31.040 offering him the world out there too, free cars, free houses, 0:38:31.080 --> 0:38:33.680 free life. I'm just saying, you go to the country 0:38:33.680 --> 0:38:36.839 and get them a championship, and you need you can't 0:38:36.880 --> 0:38:38.799 be mad at it't be mad at expect the game 0:38:38.880 --> 0:38:42.960 respected to check it. Number three Russell Westbrooks Triple double run. 0:38:43.640 --> 0:38:46.560 I think we get as a society, we see greatness 0:38:46.600 --> 0:38:48.600 and we get almost tired of it and not really 0:38:48.640 --> 0:38:53.200 historically understanding how amazing what this man did was as 0:38:53.200 --> 0:38:56.120 a basketball player. It was. It was just unbelievable. Me 0:38:56.400 --> 0:38:59.520 knowing the few triple doubles I had my career, I 0:38:59.520 --> 0:39:01.440 only had one. It was close to like five. I 0:39:01.520 --> 0:39:03.440 probably have three or four. Yeah, you know what I mean, 0:39:03.480 --> 0:39:05.520 to consistently average it for what it was a two 0:39:05.560 --> 0:39:08.160 or three years, and to even to the point where 0:39:08.200 --> 0:39:12.200 he went and got nip shoutout rest in peace. That 0:39:12.280 --> 0:39:15.040 was crazy. On the sixties. Yeah, that's that was crazy, 0:39:15.200 --> 0:39:17.640 you know. So definitely, Russell Westbrook one was definitely top 0:39:18.000 --> 0:39:21.720 one of the top moments the Warriors, but not for 0:39:22.000 --> 0:39:24.600 their dynasty so to speak. It was the year they 0:39:24.640 --> 0:39:27.439 beat the Bulls. Record when they surpassed the seventy two 0:39:27.440 --> 0:39:31.080 and ten was seventy three and nine. But they didn't 0:39:31.080 --> 0:39:36.640 win the championship, so that's kind of Yeah, yeah, played good. 0:39:36.840 --> 0:39:39.160 Your regularly was a great regular season team. But that's 0:39:39.200 --> 0:39:41.239 also they gotta think that. So that's when they beat 0:39:42.120 --> 0:39:44.799 down a three one to Okay, see okay, So they 0:39:44.800 --> 0:39:49.160 beat okay see losing the finals, come back with easy 0:39:49.160 --> 0:39:53.239 money money and you know what I mean, solidified the 0:39:53.320 --> 0:39:58.560 end of their dynasty. And the number one moment of 0:39:58.640 --> 0:40:03.840 the two thousand ten dead It to us was Lebron's 0:40:03.840 --> 0:40:08.399 blocking Game seven on the road after leaving Miami, coming 0:40:08.400 --> 0:40:11.920 back to his hometown and winning Cleveland their first championship 0:40:11.920 --> 0:40:14.640 in fifty plus years. Man, that was amazing. That's say 0:40:14.719 --> 0:40:16.640 that changed the whole series. That's say that saved it. 0:40:16.760 --> 0:40:19.040 That was it. I mean, he made a lot of 0:40:19.080 --> 0:40:21.520 blocks doing the course of the amazing, you know what 0:40:21.520 --> 0:40:26.480 I mean, But just that block on the road. He's 0:40:26.560 --> 0:40:30.080 how how he was like chin above the rim, like 0:40:30.239 --> 0:40:33.400 blocked it with all this ship those great players, especially 0:40:33.440 --> 0:40:35.120 in the finals. If you look back in the history 0:40:35.160 --> 0:40:39.120 of time, most great players their moment and their players 0:40:39.160 --> 0:40:43.400 on offense. That was a defensive just kind of speaks 0:40:43.400 --> 0:40:45.600 to what Lebron is. Lebronco beach in many different ways, 0:40:45.680 --> 0:40:49.200 you know, not just scoring. So that was our top five, 0:40:50.400 --> 0:40:55.400 uh moments. So let's get into some honorable mentions that 0:40:55.600 --> 0:40:58.319 just missed the cut. Um. One of them, I don't 0:40:58.360 --> 0:41:01.279 feel but feel free like that. One of them, I 0:41:01.280 --> 0:41:04.840 don't feel feel but feel free you're coming back. You 0:41:04.880 --> 0:41:06.360 don't have your sung glasses on the wrap right now, 0:41:06.800 --> 0:41:10.359 right now. Dirk Dirk's one championship and what they did 0:41:10.440 --> 0:41:12.279 to get it. Um. I was on the Laker team 0:41:12.320 --> 0:41:14.520 that they swept out of the playoffs in the first round, 0:41:14.880 --> 0:41:17.040 and they went up against that that that Big three 0:41:17.040 --> 0:41:20.880 of Miami and they got their first champion. Dirk was dominant. 0:41:21.040 --> 0:41:24.000 That was big. That was big. I mean nobody everybody 0:41:24.000 --> 0:41:26.919 thought that Big three was gonna win that and eight 0:41:27.120 --> 0:41:29.600 nine there was all that, and and Dirk came in 0:41:29.640 --> 0:41:32.440 there and and stole himself on it in convincing fashion. 0:41:32.560 --> 0:41:36.279 Dame Lillard's waved goodbye to the thunder Dame is cold. 0:41:36.960 --> 0:41:38.279 You gotta think too, It's not even on you. But 0:41:38.280 --> 0:41:41.080 the shott he hit to knock Houston out a few 0:41:41.160 --> 0:41:44.200 years before that. But his goodbye his way to Paul 0:41:44.239 --> 0:41:49.520 George and on the ground deep logo. So I mean 0:41:49.560 --> 0:41:54.560 that was all, you know, shout out Dame Dollar. Lebron 0:41:54.640 --> 0:41:57.880 finally gets over uh you know the David and Golias 0:41:57.880 --> 0:42:00.960 situation in Boston in two thousand well to win his 0:42:01.040 --> 0:42:04.440 first first title. So that was just missed. The Katie's 0:42:04.480 --> 0:42:07.000 scoring run. I think we forget. You know, in his 0:42:07.239 --> 0:42:10.440 MVP years two thousand and fourteen year one straight games 0:42:10.440 --> 0:42:15.080 of twenty five or more, we were definitely in the 0:42:15.080 --> 0:42:17.920 mixed probably. But it's crazy with Kate, you know, he 0:42:17.960 --> 0:42:19.480 was just one of the most efficient. Dude, you could 0:42:19.480 --> 0:42:21.080 play good defense, but he's just so much bigger than you. 0:42:21.160 --> 0:42:28.880 Didn't matter all time. And then ray Allen's shot against 0:42:29.320 --> 0:42:31.080 in the two thousand Things, but you don't like what 0:42:31.080 --> 0:42:35.719 what's on that shot? You got a problem with raised? 0:42:36.320 --> 0:42:40.239 Excuse me? So anyway, man, that was all honorable mention. Um. 0:42:40.360 --> 0:42:44.000 Moving right along, we want to rank the top ten 0:42:44.960 --> 0:42:46.880 players of the decade. And so when we say this 0:42:46.920 --> 0:42:50.080 and we maybe leave some people out or have them 0:42:50.120 --> 0:42:51.279 in the rank and are not in the ring, you 0:42:51.360 --> 0:42:53.440 got to realize we kind of felt like some of 0:42:53.480 --> 0:42:55.840 these guys carried over and ended their careers in the 0:42:55.880 --> 0:42:58.520 two thousand tents, but not weren't necessarily their best body 0:42:58.560 --> 0:43:00.680 of work in the two thousand tens with this list, 0:43:00.719 --> 0:43:02.400 so we're not ranking any of these in order. We 0:43:02.440 --> 0:43:04.319 want you guys to put them in order, or we're 0:43:04.360 --> 0:43:06.480 just giving you what we feel at the top ten. 0:43:06.520 --> 0:43:10.799 But let's start off at the top. You want to 0:43:10.800 --> 0:43:13.360 make sure they know that right, because we're saying all 0:43:13.440 --> 0:43:15.359 kind of ship, We're gonna get the honorable mentions out 0:43:15.400 --> 0:43:18.759 the way. First Star with Paul George p G PlayStation. 0:43:18.880 --> 0:43:21.279 I love PG bro coming off and coming back off 0:43:21.320 --> 0:43:23.680 the injury, a couple of injuries, yeah, but that, yeah, 0:43:23.719 --> 0:43:25.719 the big one for the Olympic team and came back 0:43:25.760 --> 0:43:28.359 to do what he has done and doing what he's 0:43:28.360 --> 0:43:30.040 doing with the Clippers. Now. You always got a lot 0:43:30.080 --> 0:43:33.720 of love with PG one. Oh yeah, there's no question 0:43:33.880 --> 0:43:37.800 Kyrie one of your favorite players, human joy stick crazy, 0:43:38.400 --> 0:43:41.520 one of the best finishers I've seen Rod stricking on steroids. 0:43:42.719 --> 0:43:44.399 I'm just a fan of his game, not only his shoes, 0:43:44.440 --> 0:43:46.920 but I'm a fan of his game. Yeah, mellow, someone 0:43:46.960 --> 0:43:49.320 we've advocated for, big fan for us, you know what 0:43:49.360 --> 0:43:51.799 I mean. And and he's he's only mounorable mention because 0:43:51.800 --> 0:43:53.040 in this hey days, I think we're more of the 0:43:53.040 --> 0:43:56.080 two thousands. But he was a monster Hall of Fame 0:43:56.160 --> 0:43:58.000 and glad he's back on Portland. You know, you see 0:43:58.040 --> 0:43:59.799 me and Jack advocating for him, and everyone's out there 0:43:59.840 --> 0:44:01.560 talk and ship saying he couldn't do this, couldn't do that. 0:44:02.880 --> 0:44:05.200 They're playing. We can say what you want, but he's 0:44:05.200 --> 0:44:07.120 playing very well important and we're happening for him. So 0:44:07.160 --> 0:44:08.680 when I got a chance to play with and he's 0:44:08.680 --> 0:44:10.920 just had the worst luck I've probably ever seen a 0:44:10.960 --> 0:44:14.040 player have his DeMarcus Cousins. Yeah, we both love he 0:44:14.080 --> 0:44:16.239 was on pace too, you know, numbers wise to be 0:44:16.280 --> 0:44:18.240 in one of the all time greats with his numbers 0:44:18.239 --> 0:44:21.520 he put up in Sacramento, and then going to New 0:44:21.640 --> 0:44:23.680 Orleans and on the brink of a you know, signing 0:44:23.719 --> 0:44:28.360 a huge deal, tears as Achilles, where are you? You know, 0:44:28.440 --> 0:44:31.240 then comes back and signs, you know, a little small 0:44:31.239 --> 0:44:34.680 deal with Golden State, tears his quad when coming back, 0:44:34.719 --> 0:44:37.160 and then the following summer tears his a c L. 0:44:37.280 --> 0:44:39.720 So it's been nothing of bad luck. We wish Boogie 0:44:39.760 --> 0:44:43.400 the best. Definitely absolutely Boogie. And then one of my 0:44:43.480 --> 0:44:46.120 former teammates and to me, one of the greatest point 0:44:46.120 --> 0:44:48.759 guards and leaders the game has ever seen. I think 0:44:48.760 --> 0:44:52.200 he gets a bad rep sometimes, but Chris Paul probably 0:44:52.200 --> 0:44:55.799 the smartest point guard I've seen playing my time. Chris 0:44:55.880 --> 0:44:57.960 Paul was a killer man, one of the most competitive. 0:44:58.000 --> 0:45:01.080 I put him right up there with a and Kobe 0:45:01.200 --> 0:45:03.400 as far as competitiveness and guys that I played with 0:45:03.760 --> 0:45:06.080 Chris is Chris is a mobster. But let's get into 0:45:06.120 --> 0:45:08.640 our top ten. This is not in any particular order. 0:45:08.800 --> 0:45:10.400 Like I said, we're gonna let you guys judge it. 0:45:10.440 --> 0:45:11.759 We want to see what you guys think, So make 0:45:11.800 --> 0:45:13.399 sure you guys tap in and tells what you think 0:45:13.440 --> 0:45:15.480 your order is. But we feel like these are the 0:45:15.520 --> 0:45:19.399 top ten players of the two thousand tens. Starting off 0:45:19.400 --> 0:45:22.560 with Dwyane Wade lash I think he's the number three 0:45:22.560 --> 0:45:26.839 shooting guard all time behind m J. Kobe. The way, 0:45:26.920 --> 0:45:29.920 what do you think? I can't argue with that? Um 0:45:30.080 --> 0:45:33.439 the dominant whole career. He has the championship to back 0:45:33.480 --> 0:45:35.759 it up, he has the final MVP to back it up. 0:45:35.960 --> 0:45:38.920 I mean, I can't argue with you on that. You 0:45:38.960 --> 0:45:42.560 shouldn't Steph Curry, someone who came in and changed the game. Um, 0:45:42.960 --> 0:45:44.759 you know you live by the three, died by the three, 0:45:44.800 --> 0:45:46.640 and they found a way to build a dynasty out 0:45:46.640 --> 0:45:48.680 of the three. And someone who's coming, like you said 0:45:48.719 --> 0:45:52.680 earlier with joy Stick handled too and has revolutionaries to 0:45:52.920 --> 0:45:55.160 revolutionize the game. How many and how many people can 0:45:55.200 --> 0:45:57.320 you say he's done that has changed the game and 0:45:57.480 --> 0:46:01.680 full of the hand of James Harden on the offensive 0:46:01.760 --> 0:46:05.040 run we've we've never seen, or we haven't seen in 0:46:05.040 --> 0:46:09.000 our lifetime. Obviously one of the greatest all time offensive 0:46:09.000 --> 0:46:13.759 players we've ever seen. I'm speechless when it comes to 0:46:13.840 --> 0:46:16.839 James hard because, like, but ke've been working on your 0:46:16.840 --> 0:46:19.360 actors ship, how like your mannerisms and all your breathing 0:46:19.400 --> 0:46:21.759 and all that. I've gotta see this Jack, is that 0:46:21.840 --> 0:46:24.399 you're trying to be an actor man with him right 0:46:26.040 --> 0:46:29.880 vact scene? Okay, um, but James though, like it's I 0:46:29.880 --> 0:46:32.799 don't understand, Like as much as we played defense and 0:46:32.840 --> 0:46:34.920 as hard as we work, it was no way that 0:46:34.960 --> 0:46:38.400 somebody would be moved so nonchalant and score points like 0:46:38.440 --> 0:46:40.960 that on us. Like he's getting sixty and it's not 0:46:41.000 --> 0:46:45.600 even sweating. You don't have a strong body. He looked 0:46:45.640 --> 0:46:47.759 kind of fat, like you drink beers all day. You 0:46:47.760 --> 0:46:50.320 know what I'm saying, He's getting sixty a game. I 0:46:50.360 --> 0:46:53.600 got some of that, James Harden. Uh. I got frustrated 0:46:53.600 --> 0:46:55.160 at one time. I just had a throne on the ground. 0:46:55.160 --> 0:46:58.200 I just don't deal with getting torched too. Well, yeah, 0:46:58.320 --> 0:47:00.600 it's none what can you do any and people get 0:47:00.600 --> 0:47:02.960 mad because he's mastered the game. He's learned how to 0:47:03.000 --> 0:47:04.520 make people foul, and he's learned how to go to 0:47:04.560 --> 0:47:06.200 the foul line twenty times, although I think the rest 0:47:06.239 --> 0:47:08.319 still calls some bullshit fouls every once in one's three 0:47:08.320 --> 0:47:11.000 point shots. But he's mastered, and I think people get 0:47:11.000 --> 0:47:14.320 mad at the fact that he's outsmarted the game almost 0:47:14.360 --> 0:47:16.600 and become one of the most prolific score we've ever seen. 0:47:16.719 --> 0:47:20.799 Kawhi Leonard the Claw, two time champion, two time final 0:47:20.920 --> 0:47:22.520 m v P. You know you had him as a 0:47:22.520 --> 0:47:24.799 as a young boy in San Antonio, and I remember 0:47:24.840 --> 0:47:26.759 you telling me you saw something in him early. Yeah. 0:47:26.800 --> 0:47:30.399 I knew, well one. I knew that he wasn't gonna 0:47:30.400 --> 0:47:34.759 be in San Antonio. Let me say that too. I 0:47:34.800 --> 0:47:36.360 knew he was gonna be one of the top players 0:47:36.360 --> 0:47:38.319 in this league. He was focused, the way he was 0:47:38.360 --> 0:47:41.120 built and his knowledge of basketball in the way he 0:47:41.120 --> 0:47:43.560 played the game like he was similar to Tim Duncan. 0:47:43.640 --> 0:47:45.640 He's even killed. Hey, nobody take him off his game. 0:47:45.680 --> 0:47:46.880 You can say what you want to him, you can 0:47:46.960 --> 0:47:48.880 knock him down. He know he can play the game, 0:47:48.880 --> 0:47:50.279 and he's gonna play the game will and he was 0:47:50.320 --> 0:47:52.800 focused gonna be in the best Kobe so when I 0:47:52.880 --> 0:47:56.520 think obviously his best days were probably uh two thousand's, 0:47:56.520 --> 0:47:58.439 but he definitely was a killer coming into the early 0:47:58.440 --> 0:48:01.279 part of two thousand up until he you know, kind 0:48:01.280 --> 0:48:05.320 of body started giving out. When you say being that 0:48:05.440 --> 0:48:08.279 speak for yourself. Man, Like I've seen Kobe from high 0:48:08.280 --> 0:48:10.320 school to now, and you got to put together McDonald 0:48:10.400 --> 0:48:14.239 man and cop. It's just it was just it was 0:48:14.280 --> 0:48:16.279 just special. I heard they rob you the MVP in 0:48:16.320 --> 0:48:19.960 that game too. What happened? Well, McDonald's all American game 0:48:20.200 --> 0:48:23.840 check go check, thanks for USA, go check the footage. 0:48:23.880 --> 0:48:26.680 I think I was maybe eight for ten from the field, 0:48:26.680 --> 0:48:29.120 three ft three from the three point line, twenty one points. 0:48:29.280 --> 0:48:32.279 Nobody else was even close to twenty one points, and 0:48:32.320 --> 0:48:37.440 they gave the MVP to a guy named Shaheen Holloway. Holloway, 0:48:37.480 --> 0:48:39.640 but I think, all right, yeah, he had like eight 0:48:39.680 --> 0:48:42.719 points eight as a couple of turnovers. It wasn't we 0:48:42.760 --> 0:48:45.759 want just didn't add up to me, you know what 0:48:45.800 --> 0:48:47.080 I mean. When we get Kobe on the show, you 0:48:47.160 --> 0:48:48.959 gotta talk talking about that. I'm going to ask Kobe 0:48:49.040 --> 0:48:52.080 who he think should have won m VP and That's 0:48:52.080 --> 0:48:54.720 what matters. How code we play that game. He was solid, 0:48:54.719 --> 0:48:56.239 you know, he was chilling, Like, why am I here? 0:48:56.239 --> 0:48:59.120 I'm going to the league. You guys, you beneath me. 0:49:00.200 --> 0:49:07.640 Don't on you shooting? Played away on you and Clay 0:49:07.680 --> 0:49:11.399 Thompson a silent assassin. And you can say what you want, 0:49:11.440 --> 0:49:15.640 but Clay could arguably be, if not the one of 0:49:15.680 --> 0:49:18.320 the greatest shooters we've ever seen. Sixty points and twenty 0:49:18.400 --> 0:49:22.040 nine minutes on two and a half dribbles, one step 0:49:22.040 --> 0:49:25.320 back right, Clay was the killer man. I remember always 0:49:25.320 --> 0:49:27.200 having to chase his ass off screens and they get 0:49:27.200 --> 0:49:28.719 a chance to play with them, and seeing him and 0:49:28.800 --> 0:49:31.359 steps steps work ethic outside of the games, and how 0:49:31.440 --> 0:49:33.440 much they shoot and how much they don't miss. Like 0:49:33.600 --> 0:49:37.000 to really see, I say, Steph has these records and 0:49:37.040 --> 0:49:39.440 gets more shots up because he's better with the ball 0:49:39.480 --> 0:49:41.120 off the ball and can run, picking rolls and do 0:49:41.160 --> 0:49:42.480 all that stuff. But it can when it comes to 0:49:42.600 --> 0:49:45.120 just straight spot up shooting. I couldn't really tell you 0:49:45.239 --> 0:49:47.359 to me who I think is better. It's those guys 0:49:47.360 --> 0:49:49.239 are right neck and next to me. A lot of 0:49:49.239 --> 0:49:51.200 people that don't play basketball. I don't know how hard 0:49:51.239 --> 0:49:53.880 it is to catch a ball in the second and 0:49:54.000 --> 0:49:56.360 moving in your hand to get the scenes to shoot 0:49:56.360 --> 0:50:01.160 a perfect, perfect spinih shot does Oh my god, Watch 0:50:01.200 --> 0:50:03.920 it for all you guys that never know no wasted movement. 0:50:03.920 --> 0:50:06.200 When Clay catches the ball, Watch how he shifts the 0:50:06.239 --> 0:50:09.680 ball like this to where the scenes. His hands are 0:50:09.719 --> 0:50:11.920 right on the scenes and every time you don't even 0:50:11.920 --> 0:50:16.200 recognize them, sometimes moving right along. Anthony Davis, someone that 0:50:16.239 --> 0:50:18.920 you really like. He could have could have been I mean, 0:50:19.040 --> 0:50:20.000 you know what I mean, It could have been m 0:50:20.040 --> 0:50:22.799 VP of the last handful of years. That's something going 0:50:22.800 --> 0:50:24.919 great with the Lakers now. And Brian Yeah, I called 0:50:24.960 --> 0:50:27.600 him Tom Duncan on steroids. Now everybody's stealing all the 0:50:27.600 --> 0:50:33.319 smoke hits stelling now stuff and saying, come on, that's 0:50:33.360 --> 0:50:37.560 our ship. They take an hour ship. But it's cool, 0:50:37.120 --> 0:50:42.320 ain't okay? We'll get him later. Russell Westbrook Monster the 0:50:42.840 --> 0:50:45.759 human door cell battery man, to overcome the injuries he's 0:50:45.760 --> 0:50:48.200 overcome and to put up the numbers here doing what 0:50:48.239 --> 0:50:50.080 I love about Rush. You could you know, he's a 0:50:50.120 --> 0:50:52.120 hater love kind of guy. But I think what outside 0:50:52.120 --> 0:50:54.640 of the numbers, what I personally love is that motherfucker 0:50:54.680 --> 0:50:57.759 plays hard every second he's on the court. I like 0:50:57.880 --> 0:50:59.560 that he marches to the beat of his own drum. 0:50:59.760 --> 0:51:04.080 You know me love to leave it. You know hey, 0:51:04.280 --> 0:51:06.640 average triple double and y'all still kill me. You know 0:51:06.680 --> 0:51:09.000 what I'm saying, y'all, y'all say I can't shoot, Okay, cool, 0:51:09.080 --> 0:51:11.480 I'm still gonna have a triple like I just love 0:51:11.560 --> 0:51:12.960 the way he approached the game, you know what I mean. 0:51:13.000 --> 0:51:14.919 I love it. I love I love it too. Kevin 0:51:14.960 --> 0:51:18.960 Durant arguably one of the greatest scores. It's not the 0:51:18.960 --> 0:51:21.760 greatest score we've ever seen in the game. Is he human? 0:51:22.239 --> 0:51:28.480 Does he have snake? Plays like a point guard in 0:51:28.480 --> 0:51:31.920 a two guard mixed with you know, three guard, actually 0:51:31.960 --> 0:51:35.359 power forward, size, handle the ball. I mean, it's I've 0:51:35.400 --> 0:51:37.759 never seen nothing like in his efficiency, you know what 0:51:37.800 --> 0:51:40.200 I mean. I think people, like I said, James Harden 0:51:40.280 --> 0:51:42.120 is tremendous, but I think there's a few other guys 0:51:42.160 --> 0:51:45.400 that if they were in that role every single night, 0:51:45.400 --> 0:51:47.279 you know, I'm gonna shoot thirty to forty shots. I 0:51:47.320 --> 0:51:50.160 could shoot fifteen to twenty three to score like that. 0:51:50.320 --> 0:51:52.400 If Kevin Durant wanted to, he would lead the world 0:51:52.440 --> 0:51:56.359 and scoring every single year and efficient question, Steph could 0:51:56.360 --> 0:51:57.759 do it too. I think Steph could score like that 0:51:57.840 --> 0:51:59.840 too if that was his role and that that was 0:51:59.880 --> 0:52:02.759 his offensive system. But yeah, Kevin Durant and then last 0:52:02.760 --> 0:52:07.200 but not least, King James k And I think, you know, 0:52:07.239 --> 0:52:11.280 not only on but off the court. Unlike any superstar 0:52:11.360 --> 0:52:13.359 we've ever seen to do as much as he's done 0:52:13.400 --> 0:52:17.880 for the game itself, growing the game, giving guys platforms 0:52:17.880 --> 0:52:22.080 and giving them guys game overall, and in business of basketball, 0:52:22.160 --> 0:52:24.440 and and and branding yourself as a business. I just 0:52:24.440 --> 0:52:27.960 think Lebron has done so much for the game of 0:52:28.000 --> 0:52:32.279 basketball outside of basketball and in basketball, you know, and 0:52:32.400 --> 0:52:36.000 for president and past players. There's no question definitely carried 0:52:36.040 --> 0:52:38.359 the torch. So that was our list, like we said, 0:52:38.360 --> 0:52:41.400 in no particular order. You guys down in the comments, 0:52:41.480 --> 0:52:44.120 give us your top ten players and honorable mentors if 0:52:44.120 --> 0:52:46.560 you like, and see how you fare against our lists. 0:52:46.880 --> 0:52:52.000 Moving right along, teams of the decade coming in, and 0:52:52.120 --> 0:52:57.000 number five, we had the Raptors. They've been hanging around, 0:52:57.960 --> 0:53:00.239 they've been in the Eastern Conference, mix with the with 0:53:00.280 --> 0:53:02.600 the can you know, and then they continued to running too. 0:53:02.640 --> 0:53:04.680 Someone who went to the finals eight straight times. Every 0:53:04.680 --> 0:53:08.200 time they walked to school, they go this route right there, 0:53:09.040 --> 0:53:11.320 because they go this route we try to get to school. 0:53:11.320 --> 0:53:13.600 He right here, they go through Duncan Donuts. He had 0:53:13.600 --> 0:53:17.839 the drift through, Like yeah, like Lebron, get your ass on, bro, 0:53:17.920 --> 0:53:19.880 we don't have a chance. We got they got Lebron 0:53:19.920 --> 0:53:23.879 to leave, made a crazy trade that you know it's 0:53:23.880 --> 0:53:26.560 still talked about, but ended up working for him and 0:53:26.680 --> 0:53:29.719 inquiring Kauai. Kauai came about this business just like you said, 0:53:29.719 --> 0:53:31.480 Like Russ, I don't give a funk. What do you think. 0:53:31.520 --> 0:53:33.439 I'm gonna sit out here and make sure my body 0:53:33.520 --> 0:53:35.839 is ready to play, still playing hurt for you. I'm 0:53:35.840 --> 0:53:37.760 gonna come get you a championship, and then I'm a bounce, 0:53:37.920 --> 0:53:39.839 get these six seven brades to the back and just 0:53:39.840 --> 0:53:45.880 stretch your whatever penitentiary brade job on the business as usual. 0:53:46.040 --> 0:53:50.080 The Calves and Lebron, The Calves are the Lebrons, two 0:53:50.080 --> 0:53:52.120 and one are different, whatever I would say, the Lebrons 0:53:52.440 --> 0:53:55.839 the Lebrons. Someone who went to the finals eight straight 0:53:55.920 --> 0:53:59.320 years and remember a handshake with every teammate, every crazy 0:53:59.400 --> 0:54:01.840 right handshake. It was incredible. He sat down at the 0:54:02.080 --> 0:54:07.120 at the pre postgame press conference and explain the whole 0:54:07.320 --> 0:54:09.960 first two or three possessions of the game to a 0:54:10.040 --> 0:54:13.319 reporter though, like that was crazy, Like how do you 0:54:13.320 --> 0:54:16.000 remember something at happened in the first possession again? And 0:54:16.000 --> 0:54:18.360 they replayed it on TV and it was exactly you 0:54:18.400 --> 0:54:21.320 know what I mean, Like that's crazy, he's crazy crazy 0:54:21.440 --> 0:54:24.200 your former team to San Antonio spurs Man, they picked 0:54:24.320 --> 0:54:28.759 up one championship in this decade, right, but just just 0:54:28.800 --> 0:54:30.839 a fifty win team every year, every year. And it's 0:54:30.840 --> 0:54:32.400 a plug and play to me, I compared to like 0:54:32.480 --> 0:54:34.759 the New England Patriots, you know, me and Popping Belichick, 0:54:34.800 --> 0:54:37.120 and they create these systems where they're able to plug 0:54:37.160 --> 0:54:39.600 and play guys and they're not necessarily all the time 0:54:39.680 --> 0:54:41.359 have the best players, but they're always a team that's 0:54:41.360 --> 0:54:44.800 going to be competitive winning fifty plus games for however 0:54:44.800 --> 0:54:48.400 many years, there was a lot of years by the 0:54:48.440 --> 0:54:51.240 funk out booting your ass party there, you got booted 0:54:51.360 --> 0:54:54.839 because I wasn't buy anything. You wouldn't corporate, I'm not 0:54:55.480 --> 0:54:57.799 giving man. At that time, I wasn't a company. What 0:54:57.840 --> 0:55:00.920 are you still not a company? You've never been to come? No, no, 0:55:01.040 --> 0:55:04.399 but what it was I was a great teammate. Always yeah, 0:55:04.480 --> 0:55:08.440 I wouldn't be leeling myself. That's okay moving around along 0:55:08.480 --> 0:55:15.680 the heat. It's crazy the heat. Uh, you gotta get 0:55:15.680 --> 0:55:18.520 something off your chest. Just good. You need a hug, 0:55:19.480 --> 0:55:20.560 and give you a hug. You came back to the 0:55:22.920 --> 0:55:27.120 definitely the Miami Heat the number two team of the decade, 0:55:27.440 --> 0:55:30.440 winning two out of four championships. They should have won more. Dog, 0:55:30.600 --> 0:55:32.440 I think definite should have won more. I just you know, 0:55:32.480 --> 0:55:35.080 I think they could have added something to a solid 0:55:35.080 --> 0:55:37.120 piece to back up Chris Bosh because he wasn't all 0:55:37.160 --> 0:55:39.000 the way there all the time and he didn't show 0:55:39.080 --> 0:55:41.160 up all the time. With d Wade and Brun, I 0:55:41.200 --> 0:55:43.040 just felt like that that makes they should have won 0:55:43.080 --> 0:55:45.040 more championships. It's a hell of comments, a hell of 0:55:45.080 --> 0:55:48.360 a duo. And then our team of the decade, the 0:55:48.640 --> 0:55:52.480 Going to State Warriors, three out of five championships, changed 0:55:52.520 --> 0:55:57.279 the game um NBA record for wins in the season. 0:55:57.320 --> 0:56:00.160 Although they didn't win the championship, they just I think 0:56:00.160 --> 0:56:03.120 they exemplified the old school way of doing it too. 0:56:03.160 --> 0:56:05.640 Outside of being able to get K D. Lure and KD. Away, 0:56:05.520 --> 0:56:08.760 they built through the draft and they had a great 0:56:08.800 --> 0:56:11.920 Core and Steph Clay and Draymond and people are tripping 0:56:12.000 --> 0:56:13.960 off what they're doing this year. And the way I 0:56:14.000 --> 0:56:15.560 look at it as I mean, these guys are just 0:56:15.560 --> 0:56:18.520 getting a break, you know. I mean Steph and Clay 0:56:18.640 --> 0:56:20.759 probably played more basketball the last fire than any player 0:56:20.760 --> 0:56:23.200 in the history of the game. Uh. You know, Draymond 0:56:23.239 --> 0:56:25.040 is healthy, but I look at his numbers and he's 0:56:25.080 --> 0:56:27.400 only playing about twenties something minutes the game right now. 0:56:27.440 --> 0:56:30.279 What they're doing is letting Dillo do his thing so 0:56:30.360 --> 0:56:32.799 they can use him later if they need to trade him, 0:56:33.000 --> 0:56:34.879 because he's a hell of a player. And then they're 0:56:34.880 --> 0:56:36.680 finding out what these young players can. They got this one, 0:56:36.760 --> 0:56:39.480 Pascal I think his last name is or whatever. He's leading. 0:56:39.600 --> 0:56:41.440 He's leading all rookies and scoring, you know, and they 0:56:41.480 --> 0:56:43.040 he would have never got that opportunity if they have 0:56:43.040 --> 0:56:44.920 a healthy team. You know, you don't get to show 0:56:44.960 --> 0:56:47.759 your things. So the kid pool out of Michigan. So 0:56:47.840 --> 0:56:50.080 what they're doing is they're developing their young talent and 0:56:50.120 --> 0:56:53.120 they're having trade assets and then you mess running put 0:56:53.120 --> 0:56:55.560 two of the one of these young good players de 0:56:55.719 --> 0:56:57.840 low in a lottery pick because they're gonna probably be 0:56:57.840 --> 0:56:59.280 at the bottom and they're gonna be in the lottery. 0:56:59.560 --> 0:57:01.239 You trade for Janice and you're right back in the 0:57:01.280 --> 0:57:03.640 game next year. To close this show out, man, we 0:57:03.640 --> 0:57:06.440 wanted to say goodbye. I think this this the NBA 0:57:06.560 --> 0:57:08.920 is in great hands heading into two thousand twenty with 0:57:08.960 --> 0:57:11.560 a lot of young, bright stars. But you know, with 0:57:11.600 --> 0:57:15.759 the closing of this decade, we saw some great retire man. 0:57:16.040 --> 0:57:21.080 We saw some great Jason Kidd Bayerry do one of 0:57:21.120 --> 0:57:24.480 the all time great point guards. My vet o ge 0:57:25.000 --> 0:57:27.439 story when Mike Bibby mom took me to try out, 0:57:27.960 --> 0:57:30.080 took me up there play beast pick up and Ja 0:57:30.200 --> 0:57:33.280 Kidd was there. I remember that like yesterday, like him 0:57:33.280 --> 0:57:36.240 to embrace me as a youngster. I always every time 0:57:36.240 --> 0:57:38.040 I see him, I thanking for that. But this was 0:57:38.080 --> 0:57:40.400 one of the best town business man to play against 0:57:40.440 --> 0:57:42.960 him in the finals where he was in his man 0:57:43.440 --> 0:57:47.160 and against Tony Park at the time that they were 0:57:47.200 --> 0:57:49.520 talking about trading in San Antonio. So I have a 0:57:49.520 --> 0:57:53.400 special shout out j Kidd absolutely, Dwayne Wade Flash we 0:57:53.760 --> 0:57:56.600 touched on them earlier. You know, great two way player 0:57:56.640 --> 0:57:59.479 before you know, the guy that could do everything. Someone played, 0:57:59.480 --> 0:58:01.560 even took pride in blocks like probably the all time 0:58:01.640 --> 0:58:05.800 leading guard and blocks or something like that. Amazing Kevin Garnett. 0:58:06.720 --> 0:58:08.160 We talked about him early in the show if he 0:58:08.160 --> 0:58:09.520 would have came to the We Believed team, but just 0:58:09.560 --> 0:58:12.280 what he's still for. I just wish everybody had his passion. 0:58:12.760 --> 0:58:15.360 It would be crazy. What if everybody had his pass 0:58:15.440 --> 0:58:16.960 for the games that it wouldn't be no for they 0:58:17.000 --> 0:58:21.120 point blow up. You got to get him on the show. Yes, Um, 0:58:21.160 --> 0:58:22.960 one of your former teammates and someone you love. Tim 0:58:23.000 --> 0:58:29.760 Duncans and duncan big fundamentals are paintball team. Um, but 0:58:30.120 --> 0:58:31.880 I're gonna be the greatest pile for of all time. 0:58:31.960 --> 0:58:35.120 Can do it all, best teammate, super smart, you can coach, 0:58:35.160 --> 0:58:37.120 do him everything. If you want to start an organization, 0:58:37.160 --> 0:58:39.160 you started with Tim dunk The only thing I knocked 0:58:39.200 --> 0:58:44.360 on Timmy can't dress for ship words. You know. I'm 0:58:44.360 --> 0:58:48.520 but that was horrible. That was horrible. Uh. Someone who 0:58:48.520 --> 0:58:51.240 could could have been one of the greats, but just injury, 0:58:51.240 --> 0:58:54.000 bug and and and some bad luck was t mac 0:58:54.640 --> 0:58:59.800 Man Killer because he jumped so high but all but 0:59:00.000 --> 0:59:02.320 shot with similar to clay like. He was always a 0:59:02.360 --> 0:59:05.600 straight range get to the basket dunk on your shoes. 0:59:06.360 --> 0:59:08.680 He's one of the best top ten scorers of all time. 0:59:08.720 --> 0:59:11.160 I agree. I think he's definitely up there. Slept on 0:59:11.400 --> 0:59:15.040 Steve Nash, two time, two time MVP, former teammate of mind, 0:59:15.080 --> 0:59:17.000 just saw the floor like no one I've ever seen, 0:59:17.440 --> 0:59:19.200 you know, up there with you know that the magic 0:59:19.320 --> 0:59:21.560 Johnson and Chris Paul's as you know, being able to 0:59:21.560 --> 0:59:23.280 see the floor and make place for others always made 0:59:23.280 --> 0:59:25.880 his teammates better. Great guy on and off the court, 0:59:26.480 --> 0:59:28.160 and uh, you know, he had a hell of a 0:59:28.240 --> 0:59:31.480 round and Steve move hip to y'all think too still stute, 0:59:31.640 --> 0:59:35.959 super Yeah, he get down, Steve, Steve, get down. Paul 0:59:36.000 --> 0:59:42.479 Pierce the truth very under He's really underst like stuff 0:59:42.520 --> 0:59:44.600 out of this game, WI add it him? Paul Pierce 0:59:44.720 --> 0:59:47.959 was all around killer, the best. He has the best 0:59:47.960 --> 0:59:51.440 footwork I've ever seen in any basketball player in my life. Footwork, 0:59:51.520 --> 0:59:55.440 crazy clutched gene crazy three pointer, mere range and get 0:59:55.440 --> 0:59:58.600 there and dunk on you talk shit, played at his pace, 0:59:59.760 --> 1:00:06.959 play to his pace. Uh, Dirk man killer. I don't 1:00:08.320 --> 1:00:10.680 We had some wars, but I really think I would 1:00:10.680 --> 1:00:12.280 love to get him in and talk to him about it. 1:00:12.320 --> 1:00:14.360 I think we really made him better with the ship 1:00:14.480 --> 1:00:17.760 we did to him, and during that we believe because 1:00:17.760 --> 1:00:21.240 he was the MVP that season wins, but we for 1:00:21.240 --> 1:00:23.440 the first time, like people like me and you guarded 1:00:23.480 --> 1:00:25.120 him and we changed the game and every time he 1:00:25.440 --> 1:00:27.640 you know, he turned like so we tried to punk 1:00:27.760 --> 1:00:31.840 him out of the series and it worked. We took it, 1:00:31.920 --> 1:00:35.600 but then he came back absolute animal. So that's why 1:00:35.600 --> 1:00:37.200 I think. I really think like we were like that, 1:00:37.360 --> 1:00:39.440 like little dogs just nagging the funk out of him 1:00:39.640 --> 1:00:41.640 and kind of put them on, you know, put more 1:00:41.680 --> 1:00:43.920 toughness in him and came back with a vengeance. You 1:00:43.960 --> 1:00:46.120 had to go home. That's something after losing that first round, 1:00:46.240 --> 1:00:48.520 like the wounds, Like what did these motherfucker's due to us? 1:00:49.040 --> 1:00:52.240 The rat for everything. We just loved to these dudes, 1:00:54.680 --> 1:00:56.720 just the killer. He was one of my favorite players man, 1:00:57.000 --> 1:00:58.440 just to be able to do what he can do 1:00:58.560 --> 1:01:00.919 to like, you know, one of the original st Etch four's, 1:01:01.320 --> 1:01:03.640 the one leg fade away, like there was nothing you 1:01:03.680 --> 1:01:06.840 can do with He was just a miss mismatched nightmare. 1:01:06.920 --> 1:01:10.280 Top five all time, not top five, but he's out there. 1:01:12.280 --> 1:01:15.200 We have to see Dirk. Dirk is tough. He said, 1:01:15.200 --> 1:01:16.960 if they got thirty, got thirty plus, didn't he You 1:01:17.040 --> 1:01:18.840 got a lot of points, so he should. I think 1:01:18.880 --> 1:01:22.600 Dirk is top. If he has thirty, he has to 1:01:22.600 --> 1:01:26.240 be top five. Right, players of all time? Scores, Oh, 1:01:26.280 --> 1:01:27.840 scores of all time. Yeah, I'm not sure where he 1:01:27.880 --> 1:01:29.880 ranks on the list. I think I think he stapped five. 1:01:29.960 --> 1:01:31.280 Let us know, you know, they don't know, they know 1:01:31.320 --> 1:01:35.240 the facts. And then like he said, Kobe Bean, twenty 1:01:35.320 --> 1:01:37.080 years in the game, you get a hundred points of 1:01:37.120 --> 1:01:42.120 your way out right, five championships. One of the most 1:01:42.160 --> 1:01:45.760 mentally tough players I've ever seen. His mental approach was 1:01:45.800 --> 1:01:47.840 second enough from me, just all around great. And then 1:01:47.880 --> 1:01:50.800 like you said, like who goes out with sixty points? 1:01:50.920 --> 1:01:54.040 I mean people, people, people living in in in the 1:01:54.080 --> 1:01:56.040 in the moment, and they don't understand how great Kobe 1:01:56.080 --> 1:01:58.040 is because they said they're watching So they're watching a 1:01:58.080 --> 1:02:01.640 great player right now, Lebron. But Kobe was special man 1:02:02.360 --> 1:02:04.760 kill and then last but not least, someone who's still 1:02:05.880 --> 1:02:09.000 pushing along at twenty two years Vince carter Man shout 1:02:09.000 --> 1:02:13.680 out Vince and bro. He took the He took the 1:02:13.680 --> 1:02:15.440 world by storm when he came into the game, and 1:02:15.560 --> 1:02:17.600 in the nineties, and and what he was doing when 1:02:17.600 --> 1:02:19.920 he did for Toronto, and uh, you know, for him 1:02:19.960 --> 1:02:22.640 to be able to steal the longevity to play twenty 1:02:22.680 --> 1:02:25.360 two years in the NBA, like that's hard to do. 1:02:25.520 --> 1:02:28.000 He also put a spark back in the Olympics too, 1:02:28.200 --> 1:02:32.040 when he dunked over that. The only thing I didn't 1:02:32.040 --> 1:02:33.360 like about it he tried to grow it. And I 1:02:33.360 --> 1:02:34.960 told him that he tried to grow a ship out 1:02:35.000 --> 1:02:38.760 that years. Ship was fuck. I don't know what that was. 1:02:39.640 --> 1:02:42.680 I told him to his face, Man, cut that ship off, 1:02:42.720 --> 1:02:44.960 I told him later once we played together, but that 1:02:45.000 --> 1:02:47.960 ship was got awful. But outside of that, he was incredible, 1:02:49.000 --> 1:02:51.560 one of the most athletic skilled players that we've ever seen. 1:02:51.680 --> 1:02:56.080 So it's been a hell of a decade, you know. 1:02:56.080 --> 1:02:57.960 Like I said, the NBA is left in great hands. 1:02:58.040 --> 1:02:59.840 We gotta let a lot of young, up and coming 1:03:00.000 --> 1:03:04.400 talent with Luca and the Greek Free and Tree Young 1:03:04.640 --> 1:03:08.640 and Ben Simmons embed the list goes on. Like I 1:03:08.680 --> 1:03:11.600 said earlier, the Warriors aren't done yet. The Warriors will, 1:03:11.680 --> 1:03:13.440 you know, find a way to get back in the mix, 1:03:13.600 --> 1:03:16.000 you know, can the Lakers, can Lebron bring the Lakers 1:03:16.080 --> 1:03:19.160 back to to prominence. Can PG and Kauai bring the 1:03:19.160 --> 1:03:22.160 Clippers their first title? Uh? You know, I'm excited to 1:03:22.160 --> 1:03:25.080 see what this next. Ten holes, but I'm about to 1:03:25.080 --> 1:03:30.520 be forty. Bro. I don't look like the best days 1:03:30.520 --> 1:03:32.080 ahead of you, bro, So next time we do it 1:03:32.080 --> 1:03:34.280 will be fifty. I don't know if we do all 1:03:34.280 --> 1:03:36.800 the smoke for ten years, no, no, no, we're gonna 1:03:36.840 --> 1:03:39.600 do it. Nay now, A lot of you're not doing 1:03:39.600 --> 1:03:42.520 it for ten years anyway, Gonna graduate at some point. 1:03:42.760 --> 1:03:45.080 Thank you guys for joining us. You guys have a happy, 1:03:45.280 --> 1:03:49.640 safe New Year, and man is gonna be crazy. We 1:03:49.760 --> 1:03:57.280 got some crazy schedules and slates both hands, man check out, 1:03:57.840 --> 1:03:59.160 and we got a lot of ship coming from you guys. 1:03:59.560 --> 1:04:01.120 Thank you for to the name. We'll catch you later. 1:04:06.880 --> 1:04:33.640 Um h m h m hm m hmm.