Speaker 1: The volume.
Speaker 2: Okay, who the two seed?
Speaker 3: The one seed was? What the two seeds to the Rockets?
Speaker 3: The Rockets go. You know, I can see the Rockets
Speaker 3: making them play for k D. I can see them
Speaker 3: making the play for Yannis.
Speaker 1: Would you rather go get Yo ni KD with that team.
Speaker 4: I already told you Whereyanna is going. I don't know
Speaker 4: why we continued to bring this conversation.
Speaker 1: Say in Miami, you go in to Miami.
Speaker 2: That's what That's what said? He going to Miami?
Speaker 3: Hey, Rio up, hold on before you go, Rio, can
Speaker 3: you explain the ojo how everybody can play for Pat?
Speaker 2: Everybody can't playing in in Miami.
Speaker 5: Everybody can't play for Pat. But I can see Yannis
Speaker 5: coming to Miami. But I don't think he will. I
Speaker 5: think I think he stays in Gonnaffee, you don't keep
Speaker 5: I think he stays.
Speaker 2: And but you know they're not gonna be no help
Speaker 2: for it better because.
Speaker 5: Dave ain't gonna get somebody, oh know who, they're gonna
Speaker 5: They're gonna figure out something there.
Speaker 2: You have no draft picks. Hold on, huh?
Speaker 1: And that even hurt, That definitely hurt.
Speaker 2: You think I play till twenty six?
Speaker 1: I don't know who they're gonna get it.
Speaker 3: Maybe there's nobody that's gonna make a difference.
Speaker 2: It's still gonna be a first round exit.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that ain't gonna happen. He ain't gonna wait,
Speaker 1: No know where he goes. That ain't gonna happen. Even can
Speaker 1: go to Miami. He's not gonna win there.
Speaker 2: What if he go to What about Golden State?
Speaker 1: Are you're keeping Jimmy and you get rid of Jimmy?
Speaker 3: I think you're gonna have to get you know where
Speaker 3: you can keep him step and Jimmy and Draymond because
Speaker 3: Draymond is doing an extension because Draymond was all deep,
Speaker 3: all the first team off defense, so he's doing for
Speaker 3: a matt And yeah, if you do that, well Max
Speaker 3: is only twenty five thirty million for him, it's not
Speaker 3: over the top.
Speaker 1: But if you do that, you get rid of Jenny.
Speaker 5: That takes away all your all your offense, all what
Speaker 5: Golden State is known for, from the Slash Brothers to
Speaker 5: the Shoe And there's no more shooting there. So now
Speaker 5: what are we scared the gold States? Well, we just
Speaker 5: put everybody on steps. Hey, y'all got to shoot toos well,
Speaker 5: we're still shooting one hundred and threes again, Okay.
Speaker 2: Put everybody on.
Speaker 3: Steffen and John is putting his head down here, gonna
Speaker 3: get thirty thirteen and six or.
Speaker 1: Night and we're gonna come down shoot sixty three. Is
Speaker 1: who's gonna win?
Speaker 2: I like STEFP. I mean, look, I'm trying to Could
Speaker 2: he go to Houston? I like you?
Speaker 5: I like you with you Houston too. I definitely like Hoston.
Speaker 5: I think that'd be his best better be in Houston
Speaker 5: or I can say, Miam, I'm not gonna disagree.
Speaker 2: Yea, thank thank you.
Speaker 1: I am Benny Malla. He wrote, gotta be a hell
Speaker 1: of a team.
Speaker 2: Let me show question. Are you are you selling him? Brick?
Speaker 3: I mean, what do you trade? Brickle? You are trading
Speaker 3: South Beach? What the hell you trained for him? Because
Speaker 3: I don't want those pieces that that's not Bam and
Speaker 3: that's not Tyler.
Speaker 2: He wrote, you didn't tell me what the hell you trade?
Speaker 5: He don't want a discrenealed superstar that could reave in
Speaker 5: free agency either.
Speaker 2: How many more years Johannie's got too? Hey, what'd you say?
Speaker 2: They trained? Southeast? Something? Eating rock.
Speaker 1: The file over some part of myns gotta go.
Speaker 3: Because when you look at it real, the only two
Speaker 3: assets that that somebody really won't is Bam and Tyler.
Speaker 2: Hey, that was that was funny.
Speaker 5: Okay, that was funny, But you don't want a Disgrendel
Speaker 5: superstar I see being mad.
Speaker 3: Then Oh look I got first of all, I got
Speaker 3: this man right for the next two years. He had
Speaker 3: a player option twenty seven to twenty eight, so I
Speaker 3: got him for two years. I'm not giving him away.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Sometimes Rio, I'll be by. I want to sell something,
Speaker 3: but I'm not looking. I know the value of this car. Manin' man,
Speaker 3: you ain't even driving it. Don't worry about it. I'm
Speaker 3: driving right back in the garage. I backed it out
Speaker 3: so your punk ass can see it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: If you're not gonna give me what I want for,
Speaker 3: I'm driving right back into the garage and you get
Speaker 3: your ass out by ya.
Speaker 1: Wait, your talent. They ain't gonna be bad because they
Speaker 1: know I know health. You already got rid of his brother,
Speaker 1: Dame Hurt, Chris Middleton gone.
Speaker 2: Now he was hurt, so we weren't gonna pay him.
Speaker 2: Now he healthy. We bringing back a good luck with that.
Speaker 1: Let's see how long they last.
Speaker 3: We're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna bring it back. We're
Speaker 3: gonna bring it back. So uh uh yeah, it's just
Speaker 3: for me. I'm looking at the places where he can go.
Speaker 3: Rio that have the assets. Brooklyn has the assets. As
Speaker 3: far as draft picks, they don't have any young talent
Speaker 3: that I think, you know.
Speaker 2: Walkee would want.
Speaker 3: Okay, see got the draft picks and they got the talent,
Speaker 3: But I don't think Sam Preston's gonna want a message
Speaker 3: messag or with either one of them.
Speaker 2: Houston have the talent and the draft picks.
Speaker 3: The question is, and that's for Gianni's or k D
Speaker 3: because you got Shung Goon, who's an All NBA selection.
Speaker 3: Uh he's an All Star. I'm not getting I'm not
Speaker 3: letting and Thompson go Jabari from JR.
Speaker 2: Okay didn't here draft picks Okay.
Speaker 3: Yaht goo they got they got Smith got thoms would
Speaker 3: have let Thompson. Oh yeah, Joe Jayla gre yes, Jayalen Greed, Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 3: yes for KD or Joannis, Yes, I would package Jason.
Speaker 5: I can see that happened because you're still building around
Speaker 5: what you got a nice course and you.
Speaker 3: Still got Jannis and you still got KD. I'm keeping
Speaker 3: I gotta keep van Fleet for the civil fact. I need,
Speaker 3: I need a point guard.
Speaker 1: Now you go live. I'm KAD Young like, okay, see.
Speaker 3: I don't think. I don't think Sam. First of all,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know the relationship with Sam
Speaker 3: and k KD. What you hear is that Sam was
Speaker 3: more favorable towards Russ than KD. I don't know if
Speaker 3: there's any truth to that, but you know you hear,
Speaker 3: uh he left.
Speaker 2: And I'm not I'm not missing up my core. I'm not.
Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm not real.
Speaker 5: I think Russ back there just because as a free
Speaker 5: agency stuff. So I definitely see Russ being back at
Speaker 5: OKAYC for next year, especially just signed that.
Speaker 2: Uh, I'm talking about KD. You talking about you talking
Speaker 2: about k D.
Speaker 5: I know what I'm talking about KD. But I'm saying
Speaker 5: I definitely see Rust going back. When he brought up
Speaker 5: Rust and Sam Presley, I definitely see him going back.
Speaker 5: But if I'm KD, I will look at the OKC situation.
Speaker 5: If I'm Pressy, I don't think I would say here.
Speaker 5: If I'm KD, I'm like, yeah, I just go there
Speaker 5: be stot up shooting less shade.
Speaker 2: That's the case. Go back to Golden State.
Speaker 1: They don't have it though they don't have enough. You
Speaker 1: don't think he he is Steph. You're gonna get rid
Speaker 1: of Jimmy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would get get rid of Jimmy for KD.
Speaker 1: I'm running the back with Jimmy.
Speaker 5: Just because Jimmy brings a lot all around to the
Speaker 5: game and it makes it easier for Steph in that aspect.
Speaker 1: Kenny, you're gonna have to cry more shots for KD
Speaker 1: with his move.
Speaker 5: You don't need that many, but he don't need something.
Speaker 5: Who's gonna be who gonna be the person to create
Speaker 5: a shot? Create a shot for him?
Speaker 1: Or hen KD?
Speaker 5: Going one on one at thirty five, thirty six years old?
Speaker 2: He good?
Speaker 3: Uh, well, couse, y'all go because they still worried about Stephn.
Speaker 3: But then and Draymond, Hey, Draymond gonna be fined, they'd
Speaker 3: be good. I keep coming now now, but I don't
Speaker 3: know if you can keep kaminga because somebody don't want
Speaker 3: to coma.
Speaker 1: Don't Cominare not messing with Colonel Morning. He's so far gone.
Speaker 1: Comedian might be down here southeastball whatever.
Speaker 2: He already he already out.
Speaker 1: He packed up his lock and everything. He out of it.
Speaker 1: He ain't think about it.
Speaker 3: Was kind of like we used to do real we
Speaker 3: once we realized we weren't making the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Man last last week or so, I was living in
Speaker 2: the hotel.
Speaker 1: I packed a little by little.
Speaker 3: Then he nah, you're good. I live, I live, I
Speaker 3: live week the week in the hotel. I think that's
Speaker 3: locked me into a six extra six monthing. SA ain't
Speaker 3: one day or no, I'm cool. So if you had,
Speaker 3: if you had the handicap, where do you think, Kate?
Speaker 3: Where do you think Katie ends up? What do you
Speaker 3: what do you think Jannis ends up?
Speaker 1: Ad?
Speaker 5: I think he goes to Houston Johanna's I think Yanna
Speaker 5: stays on the East coach. I think Yanna stayed somewhere.
Speaker 5: I'm Miami, ah baby in New York.
Speaker 1: Maybe the Knicks.
Speaker 5: Brooklyn would be tough, just because they would have to
Speaker 5: rebuild everything around him. They don't really have the team.
Speaker 3: But they got the draft picks. They just don't have
Speaker 3: to play. He worked, I mean, he works out. He
Speaker 3: might stand here walking thinking about.
Speaker 1: Brooklyn, but I can see him going to the Knicks
Speaker 1: and he end up over there.
Speaker 3: Wow, what what you're gonna So you're gonna let what
Speaker 3: You're gonna let go. You're gonna let cat go. You're
Speaker 3: gonna let o g go? I mean what you letting go?
Speaker 5: Fannas, I'm glad, Oh g go Machl Bridges, Uh, Mitchell Robertson, Uh,
Speaker 5: who else?
Speaker 3: Anybody except you ain't got no draft You ain't got
Speaker 3: no draft picks because you gave up four draft picks
Speaker 3: to get Michael Bridges.
Speaker 1: That's okay.
Speaker 2: So you ain't got no draft capital, that's okay. All
Speaker 2: you got to play, that's okay.
Speaker 1: We'll give her them four players. We'll be alright, three
Speaker 1: of them, four players will get We'll be all right.
Speaker 2: Now, Yo, you you just gutted your depth.
Speaker 1: That's okay. We're trying to win.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: Well, Gianna's Gianna's Brunson a cat. That's a that's a
Speaker 5: hell of the big three. That's a that's a big
Speaker 5: line up behind Brunson. Now, you ain't gota do this.
Speaker 5: Find some shooters, some knockdown shooters. You go get a
Speaker 5: person like what is You're gonna get a person like
Speaker 5: Cam Johnson. Maybe find something, find some way, will find
Speaker 5: somebody that that's a Duncan Robinson, maybe somebody that's out
Speaker 5: there that can just help spread the floor. That's all
Speaker 5: you need when you got those three guys, because your
Speaker 5: offense gonna go through them.
Speaker 3: Well, considering that a cat would like to be at
Speaker 3: the three point line, they don't have to worry about it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, he'll be.
Speaker 5: Nice.
Speaker 2: Is gonna need that space, y'all that space to get down.
Speaker 1: In the post and then let him work work through
Speaker 1: the post.
Speaker 3: Are are you afraid? Because you know what, the Bronson
Speaker 3: has a very high usage. Yannis has a usage. Are
Speaker 3: you concerned that the uhh, Yannis needs the ball? Brunton
Speaker 3: needs the ball both or most effective when they have
Speaker 3: the ball in their hands.
Speaker 1: No, I feel like they can work that out. They
Speaker 1: can figure that out because it's just them too. There's
Speaker 1: nobody else really handing the ball. Cat don't need to
Speaker 1: handle the ball. He just need to cancer his sweet spot.
Speaker 5: So now, when when bruston taking his break, you got
Speaker 5: Giannis handling the ball. When Giannie is taking his break,
Speaker 5: he got brust And handling the ball up to the
Speaker 5: fourth quarter. The first time I got both of them,
Speaker 5: y'all is getting the redound, pushing it, brust and goes
Speaker 5: spot up, brusting get the redown. Yanna's taking down or
Speaker 5: he's in the paint. Now you got three or four
Speaker 5: people helping him. Brusse and pulling up for three. So
Speaker 5: it's ways to figure it out. It's just like le
Speaker 5: Bron and d Wayne played together. It's ways to figure
Speaker 5: out when you got two ball handlers and then just
Speaker 5: the two ball handlers.
Speaker 3: Real making sound so simple, Dune, It is simple. I
Speaker 3: tried to listen. I tried to explain. It ain't simple, Joe.
Speaker 3: It's not as simple because I saw about got too ass.
Speaker 1: All about buying you want to win. That's he just
Speaker 1: explained it to you.
Speaker 2: He just he gave you a few examples of people
Speaker 2: that have done it in the past.
Speaker 3: You know, but but you but you didn't hear what
Speaker 3: he said. He says it's all about Biden. And it's
Speaker 3: a lot easier to say it if you ought to
Speaker 3: do what I cant.
Speaker 5: Right Withers be talking about We talked about Dayalen Brust
Speaker 5: and we got talking about Gianna's two players that are
Speaker 5: going to Biden.
Speaker 3: Okay, everybody, I remember everybody. It don't matter what I
Speaker 3: do with the Olympic team. Moments we bring the gold medal.
Speaker 3: Now we've had two guys to come out and say
Speaker 3: they was upset about what they playing time, right the
Speaker 3: Biden in that you just said, buy it in.
Speaker 2: It's completely different. This is the y'all bason because there's
Speaker 2: only two players. It's only two pen with only two players.
Speaker 5: I mean one of them had read look at the
Speaker 5: five that was starting, that had a reason.
Speaker 1: Just because of the season that he had just came
Speaker 1: off of. So I understand his complaint. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, he wasn't.
Speaker 3: Better than nobody playing in front of him. Hey, he
Speaker 3: said I was better at the holiday and Derrick White
Speaker 3: that was playing in the front.
Speaker 1: You don't bring one thing brought to the game. Well
Speaker 1: needs you to score, I wouldn't need you to score.
Speaker 1: We need you gonna play the defense.
Speaker 2: I to play defense. How to play defense?
Speaker 1: I would will need you to do that.
Speaker 2: So you telling me what I'm gonna do, I'm telling
Speaker 2: you I'm trying to buy in.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna buy in. I'm buying coach, And they told
Speaker 6: you what you wouldn't do. All of them, all of them.
Speaker 3: Hey, it is, but it's a lot easier said it done.
Speaker 3: We just seen a lot of guys on your Oh man,
Speaker 3: I just want to win. No, you want to win
Speaker 3: and get your thirty. You want to win and get
Speaker 3: your eight for one fifty two touchdowns. That's the way you.
Speaker 3: Joannis has now more First Team All NBA selections than
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant. Yannis has seven, KD has six. What more
Speaker 3: does Y'aannis need to do to pass KD all time?
Speaker 1: I don't think it's possible. Really, I don't think it's possible.
Speaker 5: Just because I look at Kat's skill set and like,
Speaker 5: there's nobody gonna be a skill set as KD orhether
Speaker 5: the ball handling better to shoot the ball, better get
Speaker 5: to the spots he's gonna get to.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's.
Speaker 5: Gonna be another Greek freak either, but Giannis in the office,
Speaker 5: the game is not polishing.
Speaker 1: Enuugh like Kd's for him to be better than KD.
Speaker 2: So you just look at aesthetically.
Speaker 5: I'm just looking at that. When I look at somebody,
Speaker 5: I say who's better than somebody? I look at him
Speaker 5: in a one on one match up and see who
Speaker 5: would dominate now one on one matchup to the game
Speaker 5: to five, and I think k D would get Jannis
Speaker 5: five four or five three.
Speaker 1: Maybe I just got them figured just offensively better.
Speaker 2: Wow, what happened if Joanna gives the ball first.
Speaker 1: Same thing.
Speaker 5: I think KAT still figured out out the way. I
Speaker 5: think KDE gets to stop before one on one because
Speaker 5: Giannis is all downhill. Now we're playing three or four exactly,
Speaker 5: So k playing three or four dribbles downhill?
Speaker 2: Oh you know what I'm saying, we're playing you got
Speaker 2: a table to rule?
Speaker 1: Yeah, players play.
Speaker 5: We played one on one three or four dribbles max.
Speaker 5: So in that type of setting, I'm not taking Giannis
Speaker 5: over KD. I'm not taking too many people over KD
Speaker 5: in that type of sety okay.
Speaker 3: Joannis has five first team All Defensive four First team.
Speaker 3: KAT has none. KD has does have two finals MVP.
Speaker 3: Janni's has one.
Speaker 2: It's huh.
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, Joanna's has two regular season m vps.
Speaker 3: KD has one. That's gonna be very that's gonna be
Speaker 3: very interesting. That's gonna be interesting when their career.
Speaker 5: He's gonna have a hand of a career like that's
Speaker 5: that's the thing, but it's still you're not better than KD.
Speaker 3: I think I think, you know what, I think a
Speaker 3: lot of that has to do with aesthetically, because we
Speaker 3: like guys that can handle the ball, shoot flashy. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's nothing like really Johanna's game is really like old school,
Speaker 3: like seven, you know, just trying to get down he'll post.
Speaker 3: I mean he's still I mean, you know, three point,
Speaker 3: he doesn't shoot that well. He ain't really got no
Speaker 3: meny ranges post. It's not great. He's basically getting downhill,
Speaker 3: laying the ball up, you filing, or he's spending in
Speaker 3: dunktible that's yo, honest, it's still hard to stop because
Speaker 3: he's averaging thirty six of the damn floor.
Speaker 2: So it's still hard to say.
Speaker 7: It's just not as it's.
Speaker 2: Just not as pleasing to the I is what we
Speaker 2: watch KD do.
Speaker 4: And you're comparing two different players and two different skill
Speaker 4: sets all together, and at that point, regardless of accolades
Speaker 4: and what they accomplished on their resume, it depends on
Speaker 4: It's all on preference at that point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see that. I see that. It's uh, it's
Speaker 2: but whose impact, Who's impacted the game more. Oh ship,
Speaker 2: that's damn they're the same almost. Huh.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 2: That's tough one right there, because let me ask you this.
Speaker 2: If I take if I take KD out.
Speaker 3: And put Giannis in there with Clay Stephen Draymonds, do
Speaker 3: you still believe they win the NBA Championships.
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I don't think about the sport of the
Speaker 1: aspect for you.
Speaker 5: I still give it to him because then that way
Speaker 5: you take and you Donald doesn't have to guard Brown
Speaker 5: by himself. Now you got two or three bodies that
Speaker 5: can guard Brown, and that's gonna be a little bit different.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I still give it to go to the state.
Speaker 3: Now, if I take KD and I put him on
Speaker 3: Milwaukee the year they wanted the wire, they wanted to
Speaker 3: beat Phoenix, you think they still win the championship with
Speaker 3: k D and Joannis out.
Speaker 1: I mean, they barely got past Brooklyn. So I don't
Speaker 1: want to be there, I think so.
Speaker 5: I definitely think so Kayd if he just stept on
Speaker 5: that line, Milwaukee don't win that championship.
Speaker 3: That's that's gonna be when it's all said done, that's
Speaker 3: gonna be a very interesting conversation. That's gonna be a
Speaker 3: very very interesting conversation to have because they are so
Speaker 3: metrically different. Uhh, nothing about one's game reminds you of
Speaker 3: the other. One is as you said, Rio is one
Speaker 3: of the most skilled players, one of the five most
Speaker 3: skilled players that we've probably ever seen with this size,
Speaker 3: being seven foot tall, being able to handle the ball.
Speaker 3: He can shoot the three. He can got, he got
Speaker 3: the mini, he got the heavy.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: He can fit get to the rim, he can fit
Speaker 3: free throws. He's an eighty eight eighty nine percent free throw.
Speaker 3: So he's he's as good as skilled. Because guys that side,
Speaker 3: they normally play center. They played it back to the basket.
Speaker 3: We ain't see no guy you and Dirk can shoot
Speaker 3: the ball. Dirk was not putting it on the ball,
Speaker 3: going between his leg, going between hind his back doing
Speaker 3: what Kd's He just wasn't doing it. I mean, Dirk
Speaker 3: had that Dirk patted that that one leg step back.
Speaker 3: He's shooting it. It's gonna draw rain. But at skill you,
Speaker 3: I don't know if you're ever gonna see a guy
Speaker 3: at his size it's skilled as KD.
Speaker 2: His ability because just for his ability to shoot.
Speaker 1: The right and I show that one.
Speaker 3: Seams is predicting that Lebron Lebron's next season the NBA
Speaker 3: will be his last, which will be a poetic end
Speaker 3: to number twenty three. You're twenty three for number twenty three.
Speaker 3: They have they All Star weekend in Los Angeles. So
Speaker 3: to me, it's a very storybook if that's the way
Speaker 3: it goes. But that's a decision he's gotta make real.
Speaker 3: You just watch the man in your twenty twos make
Speaker 3: second team all the NBA. If you the made first team,
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody's mad if you put him in
Speaker 3: over Donovan. Mitchell, Donovan got in blessed. He averaged twenty four,
Speaker 3: eight and eight. He doesn't really have to do the
Speaker 3: heavy lifting anymore because of Luca, So he's He and
Speaker 3: ar are still there. So now you put him in
Speaker 3: the dunker spot, you let him play off the ball,
Speaker 3: He's still gonna be in the twenty points. How long
Speaker 3: what do you think Lebron wants to play? How long
Speaker 3: is he going to play?
Speaker 5: I'm always saying he was gonna play till Bryce got
Speaker 5: the lady. So when Brady goes to Arizona next year.
Speaker 2: That'll be your twenty three. So in order for him
Speaker 2: to play.
Speaker 5: With Bryce, he's gotta be forty twenty four, So I
Speaker 5: give him twenty four to twenty five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you get twenty four, you got a
Speaker 3: BTh you might It's like, I ain't worried about nobody
Speaker 3: getting twenty five years.
Speaker 1: And then if you get the twenty five, as we'll
Speaker 1: get thirty, nobody can hold up. So I suld say.
Speaker 2: You might want to keep twenty three.
Speaker 3: That'll be forty one, twenty four, that'll be forty two,
Speaker 3: twenty five, that'll be forty three. That's the same as
Speaker 3: Tom Brady was when he retired twenty you know, twenty
Speaker 3: five years in profession. That's that's that's legit. That's a
Speaker 3: long man. You're a dark or lawyer, you get that
Speaker 3: many time, or you're to day of Miller, right exactly.
Speaker 3: So is not only not only to play that long,
Speaker 3: but to be I'm at that long, to play at
Speaker 3: that level need be consistent.
Speaker 2: It would be one of the best. The average twenty
Speaker 2: four points a game in year twenty two.
Speaker 3: There are some guys that didn't average twenty four points
Speaker 3: for a career. There are some guys that didn't didn't
Speaker 3: I mean never had a season in which they average
Speaker 3: twenty four. This guy's in year twenty two doing that
Speaker 3: right when you look, really when you when you look
Speaker 3: at it, look been around the game, Your dad coached
Speaker 3: the game. So you've been around basketball all your life.
Speaker 3: What do you think is the most impressive thing that
Speaker 3: you let what Lebron is doing? Is it the year
Speaker 3: twenty two? Is it the ability to go out there
Speaker 3: and still give you average twenty four, to go out
Speaker 3: there and give you a game where he can give
Speaker 3: you thirty average? You know for a week, give you
Speaker 3: thirty straight, go get you forty? What do you think
Speaker 3: is the most impressive thing at this juncture?
Speaker 2: We look all all the twenty one time first Team.
Speaker 3: All NBA, twenty one times All Star with so we
Speaker 3: get all that, but I'm talking about what your witnessing now.
Speaker 3: What do you think the most impressive thing that you
Speaker 3: see it? And you you was within him for four years.
Speaker 3: You watched him every single day, come in, get shots up,
Speaker 3: run cold tub massage that you saw it all real.
Speaker 2: What do you think the most impressive thing that Lebron
Speaker 2: is doing currently?
Speaker 5: I always said that the way he takes care of
Speaker 5: his body, the way he paid attention to his treatment
Speaker 5: and stay on schedule with that. That that attests to
Speaker 5: his longevity and never really been heard or having a
Speaker 5: major injury. So just the way his body is helding up,
Speaker 5: like his skill set is gonna be a skill set.
Speaker 5: He puts the work in. You see him putting the
Speaker 5: work in after games or after practice. He's always a
Speaker 5: last one shooting or someone getting up shots or working
Speaker 5: on different moves. So the way what he puts into
Speaker 5: the game is when he gets out, and also what
Speaker 5: he puts into his body.
Speaker 1: Is when he's getting out of his body.
Speaker 5: So to me, it's just the longevity of you know,
Speaker 5: being that consensitive, no injuries, no major injuries, bouncing back
Speaker 5: and still being healthy enough to do what you do
Speaker 5: in and do every day.
Speaker 3: You was with him, Lebron got there, so you was there,
Speaker 3: You was within eleven, twelve, thirteen four. Did you have
Speaker 3: when you was there with him, did you have any
Speaker 3: idea that Lebron James would still be playing twelve years later?
Speaker 5: No, live did just because like I tell people this
Speaker 5: all the time, Bron would really get treatment if he
Speaker 5: was in the club, like he was literally half something
Speaker 5: on his knees or something on his back inside the club.
Speaker 1: So it's like when somebody's doing that, like that's real
Speaker 1: dedication just to be in the club with treatment ice
Speaker 1: stayed team or whatever.
Speaker 2: You say.
Speaker 7: Hello, real, this may got ice bag like the Simmer
Speaker 7: Shame where it's like shooting electric light or electric electricity
Speaker 7: and knees and stuff like that, just hamstrings, like lower back,
Speaker 7: like he always got something that's recovery, making his body recover.
Speaker 1: So that's the thing.
Speaker 5: It's like once you see that, like that's a different
Speaker 5: type of dedication, Like I'm not I had to take
Speaker 5: my hat to that one.
Speaker 2: Wow. Wow, all right, real, we're gonna get you out
Speaker 2: on this one.
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Speaker 2: You know, we were hungry.
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Speaker 3: After the Lakers got bounced, JJ Reddick emphasized that the
Speaker 3: team he need to be in championship shape shape. While
Speaker 3: he didn't mention names, many took the comments of the
Speaker 3: clear message to Luca.
Speaker 2: Well. Weeks later, Luca made a significant public appearance.
Speaker 1: Uh uh.
Speaker 3: Luca made his first significant public appearance by attending Real
Speaker 3: Madrid's basketball game and posted these on I.
Speaker 2: G you think that's Ai Ai? That's what There's no
Speaker 2: way hell and he lost that weight that fast? And
Speaker 2: why the hell he ain't doing it during the season.
Speaker 3: Hey, that's that's what I'm paid. I don't I don't
Speaker 3: care what he looks like right now. I'm talking about
Speaker 3: when he comes back to play. That would he look
Speaker 3: like this when he comes back to play?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 5: Hell on?
Speaker 2: Hey you think jail? You think he took that Olympic.
Speaker 3: Nah?
Speaker 2: Na, he ain't. No, don't the UK. I don't think
Speaker 2: you can take that to the NBA player. I have
Speaker 2: a question. Okay, you can't take that as an NBA player. Right?
Speaker 2: How many weeks they've been out, they've been out of season,
Speaker 2: what three two If that month ain't been that damn
Speaker 2: long for them to look like he ain't been that
Speaker 2: long for me to lose all that weight like that.
Speaker 2: He probably took that Olympic stuff. I'm telling you, man,
Speaker 2: you know what's crazy.
Speaker 3: Like I've watched him, Like when you watch him play
Speaker 3: with his national team, he always looks. Then he does
Speaker 3: then he comes back to the United States and it's
Speaker 3: like he's eating Yese rolls and positive. But the American food.
Speaker 3: I mean, you look at Europeans, they're not as big
Speaker 3: as Americans. It's up about the food. He eating a lot,
Speaker 3: you do. I mean if you go, if you go
Speaker 3: to Europe, you're not gonna see as many and you
Speaker 3: know people that that's a little heavier. You don't see
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of them is.
Speaker 2: So he's doing something. I don't know if it's now jail.
Speaker 2: You know this. Their bodies are gonna be their bodies.
Speaker 2: They're not gonna be sculpted.
Speaker 3: They're not gonna have albs, they're not gonna have caps
Speaker 3: on their shoulders, They're not gonna have that much.
Speaker 2: They all look alike. I've never seen a hero upe
Speaker 2: a player with muscles.
Speaker 3: You look at Yokic, you look at Luca, you look
Speaker 3: at Manu, you look at Zubos, you look at any
Speaker 3: international player. Tell Pep Sabonas, tell me the one you say, okay,
Speaker 3: caps on the shoulder, ripped up calves.
Speaker 2: That's why didn't look.
Speaker 3: There's only one that's Gianna's that I think is Deah.
Speaker 3: Y'all have got that Nigerian base. There's the difference. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, my base is based and it's not. So
Speaker 3: he comes from the foundation that stock right, He's a
Speaker 3: little different than what uh the Europeans what y'all Luka
Speaker 3: and jokicch and Mannu and all those guys came out
Speaker 3: of But he looks good. But like I said, I
Speaker 3: don't worry about the guy right now. He ain't got
Speaker 3: to play for another four five months. I want to
Speaker 3: see him look like that when he comes back. Well,
Speaker 3: it's strange that he would say that, now if it
Speaker 3: wasn't a lot of truth to everything we heard coming
Speaker 3: out of Dallas. Yeah, and you know when you look
Speaker 3: at him, he got kinesio tape everywhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like he's not at twenty five now, I mean,
Speaker 3: not at twenty you should have Kenesio tape. You shouldn't
Speaker 3: be hey, put together like hey, like that, like my
Speaker 3: grandma coffee table when.
Speaker 2: We're growing up.
Speaker 3: You shouldn't look like that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: We had that black electenpan tape holding up everything.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: He had Canisio tape at twenty three, twenty four, he's
Speaker 3: twenty six. Now I'm like, bro, why you need all
Speaker 3: that to hold you together? But you remember now he
Speaker 3: missed ninety one ninety two games the last two seasons. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, he's missed a lot of games at an
Speaker 3: early age. And you know it clearly, it's something behind
Speaker 3: When you let a talent like that leave at twenty
Speaker 3: five years old, it's a hell of a lot of
Speaker 3: things got to be happening behind the scenes, you know,
Speaker 3: to say, you know what, we're not even going after
Speaker 3: draft picks, you know we're not. We just want to
Speaker 3: go get you know, get get one player that basically
Speaker 3: a one for one, one for one and we and
Speaker 3: we ain't gonna have no more conversation. So that that
Speaker 3: said a lot, But you can see what Dallas trying
Speaker 3: to go with it. It's a risk he got him
Speaker 3: number one pick this year. We'll see how that turns out,
Speaker 3: you know, with the rest of the bigs. I do
Speaker 3: believe that they're gonna have to probably move some other
Speaker 3: some some pieces to bring on another piece. So you're
Speaker 3: not gonna have Kyrie to start, and hell, you probably
Speaker 3: want to have Kyrie the first half a season next year, exactly.
Speaker 3: I don't think Kyrie coming back to in January. Well,
Speaker 3: you know, he do a lot of He do a
Speaker 3: lot of meditating and a lot of you know. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean it's easy on him. He got a torn
Speaker 3: a cl and it's not like it's a big man
Speaker 3: that you got to get up and down.
Speaker 2: Kyrie is stanframed. I mean theoretically he could.
Speaker 3: I mean it could be seven months because when he
Speaker 3: teared that he towards me in what late March, Yeah, April, May, June, July,
Speaker 3: all the September, October, November, December. Yeah, I see him
Speaker 3: probably coming back late December, by the early early January jail. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he hadn't been been we think about it, he hadn't
Speaker 3: been a player that would rush back anyway. Nope, right
Speaker 3: in his career. So he's gonna make sure he's ready
Speaker 3: to go. But again, when he's right, he's one of
Speaker 3: the best old spectacular.
Speaker 2: What do you think the Lakers need to do? What
Speaker 2: if they're big?
Speaker 3: If there's somebody you think the Lakers can get or
Speaker 3: should get in order to give them a great opportunity
Speaker 3: to compete for a title, because at this point in time,
Speaker 3: I mean, that's all Lebron is.
Speaker 2: Really playing for.
Speaker 3: Here's here's my question is can the Lakers be the
Speaker 3: Lakers with Lebron having the ball in his hand at
Speaker 3: a lesser level?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Can you know, and even with Joki I mean you,
Speaker 3: I mean with Luca, Yeah, can you have a third
Speaker 3: person that can take some of the pressure off of
Speaker 3: those two?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Because the thing the problem is when those two have
Speaker 3: the ball in the head the majority of the time.
Speaker 3: And obviously Lebron is a different monster. You know, he
Speaker 3: can make things having to get downhill, but the ball
Speaker 3: does stop m hm. And so can you have somebody
Speaker 3: else that make life easier for those two?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Because Lebron is forty plus years old, right, He's not
Speaker 3: gonna be to He's not gonna be ab to carry
Speaker 3: the load like he's typically carried, even though he can
Speaker 3: still go for you know, thirty or forty, but you're
Speaker 3: gonna need you gonna need a third person that can.
Speaker 2: Really make things easier.
Speaker 3: And I'm not sure how they do it with the
Speaker 3: cat issues that they have, but we'll see. But I
Speaker 3: don't think they have enough right now. I think they're
Speaker 3: gonna be seven eighth ninety playing you know type of
Speaker 3: deal and then don't make a move. Oh, they got
Speaker 3: to make a move. I think the thing is, first
Speaker 3: of all, this is what we know. Lebron is better
Speaker 3: without the ball than Luca. Luca cannot play off the ball.
Speaker 3: Lebron can play off the ball because you're not putting
Speaker 3: Luca in the dunker spot. You're not gonna do there
Speaker 3: are certain things you're not gonna do.
Speaker 2: And prior to this.
Speaker 3: Playoffs, Austin Reeves was that guy that gave him a
Speaker 3: break because we saw Austin Reeves go get forty against
Speaker 3: Indiana and without Luca and Lebron.
Speaker 2: So I don't know what happened. The report saw that
Speaker 2: he had an injury.
Speaker 3: He got nicked at some point in time late in
Speaker 3: the season, or maybe got nicked in that playoff series,
Speaker 3: and he wasn't as as impactful as he needed to beat.
Speaker 2: I thought they had an opportunity in game what was
Speaker 2: that was that? Game three? Yeah? Game three?
Speaker 3: But he ended up playing Lebron them forty six minutes
Speaker 3: and he just wore them out. You got to get bro,
Speaker 3: you played. First of all, Lebron had already played like
Speaker 3: forty one minutes in game two, and then you turn
Speaker 3: around in burning forty six in game three. You've got Look,
Speaker 3: I don't care what forty year old he cannot. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there ain't been a forty year old created that could
Speaker 3: play four in a playoff game after coming off a
Speaker 3: forty one minute. But that's what that's so Phoenix had
Speaker 3: that idea of that third person bring being Bradley Bill.
Speaker 3: Obviously Brad Bradley Bill hadn't been healthy. But I'm talking
Speaker 3: about an impact player, you know, coming in and supposedly
Speaker 3: having that that level of impact on the team where
Speaker 3: those guys you know, helped maybe Brian be able to
Speaker 3: take a couple one nce off, right, Yeah, that impactful.
Speaker 3: I just think you know, right now, it's only downhill
Speaker 3: now because Brian is putting up so many significant numbers
Speaker 3: from perspective of just scoring having to score assists, rebound,
Speaker 3: set the table to turn the bus on, you know,
Speaker 3: feed the key.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's still twenty four eight to eight.
Speaker 3: But the problem is they need a big because you
Speaker 3: can't start Rudy at the five and le Broad at
Speaker 3: the four, or brought it to five and Rudy at
Speaker 3: the four, because you see Rudy Gobert look like Shaq
Speaker 3: twenty seven and twenty four.
Speaker 2: You can't. They're they're just too small.
Speaker 3: Jackson Hayes, you can only I mean, for whatever reason,
Speaker 3: JJ's like, hell, the hell with it, Jackson, We're not
Speaker 3: gonna even play you in game five. And he only
Speaker 3: played marginal minutes in game four. So with that being said,
Speaker 3: I thought that Mark Williams. I don't know why they
Speaker 3: they nullified the trade, but I thought he would have
Speaker 3: been a big addition for the jail because they need
Speaker 3: a big. Luca leaves a law threat. If you go
Speaker 3: back and look studying Luca, look at Luca. He's his
Speaker 3: best when he has a.
Speaker 2: Law of thread.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm gonna tell you right now, man, like
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know why the NBA is
Speaker 3: getting away from the veteran stuff.
Speaker 2: You got a guy like I didn't use Dwight Hollard.
Speaker 3: He always seemed to be in shade, you know, looking
Speaker 3: for guy to get rebounds, block shots and defending. And
Speaker 3: he did a better job against Rudy Gobert than Jackson
Speaker 3: Hayes or anybody else did.
Speaker 2: One, per right.
Speaker 3: I just think it's a bigger body, too, bigger body, right,
Speaker 3: And he's and he's a savvy veteran. He's been one
Speaker 3: of one of the best defenders you know, all the
Speaker 3: time to come down to protecting that room and rebound
Speaker 3: the basketball. But you know, again, most teams don't seem
Speaker 3: to want to go get better than players. And I'm
Speaker 3: not sure you know, the NBA needs to needs to
Speaker 3: put in a rule right now because if you want
Speaker 3: the product. When you talk about the issues with people
Speaker 3: watching the NBA and and you know, and and the
Speaker 3: you know, ratings going down, it's because you got the
Speaker 3: young lead and the young right, so you don't have
Speaker 3: you know, you don't you don't even have to have.
Speaker 2: You can take a role of a player coach role,
Speaker 2: right and take that off off the cap. You know,
Speaker 2: the NBA can do anything, right, if you get the union,
Speaker 2: they can make it work.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: People in place that helps develop, you know, and you
Speaker 3: got you look at Jackson Hayes and they had another
Speaker 3: they signed another, uh alex linn alex Lynn. Right, Yes,
Speaker 3: he should be the he should be the tallest high
Speaker 3: school or college coach next year. But this is what
Speaker 3: I'm saying, That's what I'm saying. If you have they
Speaker 3: just call it the White Hour. Just use him for example. Right, Yes,
Speaker 3: you have somebody in there mentoring this these these young
Speaker 3: boys and and and getting them and helping them understand
Speaker 3: the importance of everything they do.
Speaker 2: Or so then you in a better situation. Are you
Speaker 2: not saying you got to go pay him five million dollars?
Speaker 3: But just you know, just don't don't don't put a
Speaker 3: vetteran on on on on uh, keep him off the
Speaker 3: team because you have to pay him a little bit
Speaker 3: more because he's a veteran.
Speaker 2: Just creator or Jabil McGhee, Jabel McGee was available. That's
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. But why not? I mean, so is
Speaker 2: the NBA doing similar to what the NFL is doing?
Speaker 1: Also?
Speaker 2: On Yeah, they really going young? Yeah, going young and
Speaker 2: doing away.
Speaker 3: With all the veterans outside of quarterback, a specific quarterback
Speaker 3: that is still good opportunity to play regards of age.
Speaker 2: But like the NFL, the NFL, a NBA, Yeah, because
Speaker 2: you know the metal over a certain number of years
Speaker 2: is a million dollars.
Speaker 3: Well, you get a guy right out of college or
Speaker 3: first you're gouty paying three hundred four hundred thousand, say
Speaker 3: six what's but what's six hundred thousand when.
Speaker 2: You bring it? When you get when you're making three
Speaker 2: hundred million? Right? I get that. Well, I guess the
Speaker 2: question of basketball, I mean is you know, do you
Speaker 2: do you really want to win? I mean doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, most of most of them, you
Speaker 3: know you Basketball's not like football where you have historical
Speaker 3: you know, families that's involved with these teams, right, Basketball
Speaker 3: is not that, right. Matter the fact, the majority of
Speaker 3: the NBA now is new ownership. Right, and so from
Speaker 3: a perspective, you know, what is it that? What is
Speaker 3: the real purpose?
Speaker 2: Right? Is it?
Speaker 3: You know, invest into you know, invest into a team,
Speaker 3: let the value grow and then sometime down the road,
Speaker 3: sell it, get up off it, right, Yeah, Because that's
Speaker 3: that's the difference. Because if you look at the NFL,
Speaker 3: a lot of these a lot of these own now
Speaker 3: some of these owners now have other things. But for
Speaker 3: the longest time, uh j O and o jo, these
Speaker 3: were family runs business. These were modern pop shops. That's
Speaker 3: all they had. Now you look at guys teams, people
Speaker 3: that buy teams. Now that's not their number one business.
Speaker 3: That team is not their number one business. Yeah, the
Speaker 3: artisans that just bought the Dallas Mavericks, they're gambling, that's
Speaker 3: their number one business. You look at the guy that
Speaker 3: bought the Sacramento Kings. You look at Steve Barmer who
Speaker 3: bought the Clippers. That was not his number one business.
Speaker 3: Now that's what he does now. But he's worth a
Speaker 3: hundred billion, so he spent two So that's not what
Speaker 3: it is. Not like the NFL. It's not like the Hunts.
Speaker 3: Now the Hunts have other things, but it's a family.
Speaker 3: But for the most part, NBA is a lot now
Speaker 3: they're not family. The young these tech guys, these guys
Speaker 3: that made money investing in Silicon Valley and things like that,
Speaker 3: they're the one that's buying the team. They're not like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, I'm trying to think who's the oldest.
Speaker 3: So you're not gonna find somebody like the like the
Speaker 3: like Uh the mcclaskeys, the own the Bears. Her add
Speaker 3: Virginia mccassion, she just passed away her dad, George Tllis
Speaker 3: founded the Bears.
Speaker 2: Passed it down. You ain't gonna find that in the NBA.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna find the ruinies like the Steelers only
Speaker 3: since first nineteen thirty three. You're not gonna find that
Speaker 3: like the Marrows. When did the Giants? When did Dolan
Speaker 3: by the Kniggs? Was the Knicks down to him?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: He had I think no, I think he had his
Speaker 3: dad that yeah, that's what he made it only one
Speaker 3: but he but yeah, he might have be no, what
Speaker 3: do you call him? Jemmie Buss, Her dad was seventy
Speaker 3: I think he brought the team in seventy nine, so
Speaker 3: he might be the longest thing.
Speaker 2: That was his dad, right, Yeah, he passed it down here.
Speaker 3: Brown U Yeah, but you know Jimmy had h Yeah,
Speaker 3: no Bengals, Mike Brown, he got passed.
Speaker 1: Down to his dad.
Speaker 2: You might earth say he took him from his for
Speaker 2: his dad. So they just passed passed it down.
Speaker 3: Now, these these tech people coming in there with four
Speaker 3: five six billion dollars and it's it's gone, you know,
Speaker 3: the Waltons just brought the Broncos. I mean, he's worth
Speaker 3: a hundred billion. What's what's a hundred's what's four billion
Speaker 3: to him? We just saw Josh Harris, he just bought.
Speaker 3: He just purchased the Commanders last year over six what
Speaker 3: six and a half billion? He also owned the seventy
Speaker 3: six ers. So it's not it's it's different, it's it's
Speaker 3: a different time now. But I agree with you, Jail.
Speaker 3: I think they should have a advance on the team
Speaker 3: to help these young guys understand and navigate their way through.
Speaker 3: I think they're doing a better job the pa of
Speaker 3: both pas of having guys understand money. Like, Bro, you're
Speaker 3: not not a doctor, you're not a lawyer. You're not
Speaker 3: gonna have a twenty year career, right The average year,
Speaker 3: the average career is about three and a half years.
Speaker 2: Three and a half. So even when you factor in.
Speaker 3: Tom Brady that played twenty three and in fact that
Speaker 3: Peyton Manning that played eighteen nineteen and Drew Rees and
Speaker 3: Rogers and all these guys, a lot of guys just
Speaker 3: playing one year, a lot of guys not even playing
Speaker 3: at all. So it comes with it, whittle it whittle
Speaker 3: it down to three and a half years. Yeah, bro,
Speaker 3: you're gonna be twenty five, and that's the job that
Speaker 3: you're probably gonna have for the next twenty years. It's
Speaker 3: not gonna be in the NBA, the MLB, or or
Speaker 3: you know, whatever the case may be, whatever the profession
Speaker 3: you're starting in, there's a good chance by the time
Speaker 3: you're twenty five, you're gonna have another job, and it's
Speaker 3: not gonna be a professional athlete.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think too, man.
Speaker 3: You know, the football is obviously significantly different in basketball,
Speaker 3: right You guys draft for exact need, yes, and every
Speaker 3: pick is a value pick, right. I think sometimes right
Speaker 3: now in basketball, you know they're drafting, you know, best available,
Speaker 3: even though you might have you might draft the point
Speaker 3: guard and you got three already on the roster, right,
Speaker 3: and so you know, I think that's the difference in basketball,
Speaker 3: where you know, when you talk about those two or
Speaker 3: three years or four years, it's it's a changing of
Speaker 3: the guard happening in the NBA because you don't you
Speaker 3: don't get a lot of time, and if they send
Speaker 3: your ass down to the G League and you a
Speaker 3: lottery pick, not already telling you where you at and
Speaker 3: what do you think, dang, yep, jail, we will get
Speaker 3: you out of here on this. You're the head coach
Speaker 3: at Dynamic Prep High School in Irving, Texas. Max Prepp
Speaker 3: announced that Dynamic Prep finished number one in the final
Speaker 3: Top ten high school basketball ranking. Jao, when you were playing,
Speaker 3: did you know always knew you wanted to be a
Speaker 3: head coach? And what's that journey being like for you?
Speaker 2: Listen, brouh, I had no idea that I was coach.
Speaker 2: I was a head coach.
Speaker 3: To be honest, well, it's been, man, Honestly, it's been
Speaker 3: one of those things where to be complete, honest with you,
Speaker 3: man like I.
Speaker 2: You know, I was kind of dealing with some stuff.
Speaker 3: I was dealing my own personal issues when it came
Speaker 3: to you know, I had a little abandonment issue, you know,
Speaker 3: growing up. You know, I met my dad when I
Speaker 3: was thirty years old. He died thirteen months later. I
Speaker 3: was thirteen years into the NBA when that happens. So
Speaker 3: I've always struggled a little bit with this thing. And
Speaker 3: and then obviously after the deal happened in Detroit, I started,
Speaker 3: you know, I didn't I didn't love playing as much anymore. Okay,
Speaker 3: because of every day and so when I was done,
Speaker 3: I wanted to just go and be with kids. Okay,
Speaker 3: just give back what was given to me. I was
Speaker 3: fortunate enough when I was with a young boy at
Speaker 3: Xavier McDaniel start a little team in Columbia, South Carolina
Speaker 3: when gave back. Alex English had some cams I used
Speaker 3: to go to. So I just wanted to give, you know,
Speaker 3: give back to kids, man. And I just really put
Speaker 3: my head down and just started investing into the community
Speaker 3: that way. And it's been We've had an amazing run,
Speaker 3: you know, with the drive Nation the club. You know,
Speaker 3: we've had a bunch of lottery picks and first round
Speaker 3: picks and either second round picks over the last eight,
Speaker 3: you know, eight years, and you know, I feel like
Speaker 3: I needed to start a school, which is more of
Speaker 3: an impact because you get them five days a week
Speaker 3: versus you know, two or three days a week when
Speaker 3: it comes to club.
Speaker 2: So you know, I'm energized about it. Honestly, I don't
Speaker 2: know how long I'm a coach. I'm a coaching next.
Speaker 3: Year, but I do believe that, you know, you have
Speaker 3: to give back if you have knowledge and ability to
Speaker 3: get back to your community. Man, you gotta give give
Speaker 3: you take those tools and give back to these young kids,
Speaker 3: none of these kids, but most important, these parents that
Speaker 3: don't quite understand what it is, you know when it
Speaker 3: comes down to the business of being a pro and
Speaker 3: approach it that you got to do every day to
Speaker 3: become a pro and not skip steps. And so that's
Speaker 3: the reason why you know, I do what I do,
Speaker 3: and that's why I started doing that. Amy prep what
Speaker 3: you just gotta be honest with him. Your son not
Speaker 3: gonna be Lebron James. He's not gonna be Steph He's
Speaker 3: not gonna be Michael George. Because you know, every everybody,
Speaker 3: every every parent think they kid is that kid. But
Speaker 3: you know what I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 3: you the truth. Okay, for the first time ever, I
Speaker 3: have more parents talk about n I L than they
Speaker 3: talk about the prosal crazy. We got parents that are
Speaker 3: looking to retire off their kids going to college. And
Speaker 3: so when you look at the product, right, you get
Speaker 3: the product now and you know, when you're talking about
Speaker 3: the pros, the deterioration of it is happening at the
Speaker 3: youth level, right. And so now you got everybody in
Speaker 3: place running and go grab kids, and I got this
Speaker 3: so I can get you a deal. And so the
Speaker 3: parents are so their mind is so so so so frazzled,
Speaker 3: that can't think appropriately. So they making decisions based off
Speaker 3: the economics of what they're hearing, not knowing that that
Speaker 3: that that true, that true money percent is right two
Speaker 3: percent anyway getting the money everybody ain't getting ain't getting
Speaker 3: all right, right, yes, And so that's the thing where
Speaker 3: we try to we try to bring some some real
Speaker 3: positive information and tools and attach your day to day
Speaker 3: with what you say you're trying to get to, right,
Speaker 3: And so for us, our job is to continue to
Speaker 3: invest into the community to show people, hey, look man,
Speaker 3: this is about the work. If you do think about
Speaker 3: oh Joe oh, when you guys coming through, you wasn't
Speaker 3: worried about where you're gonna where's gonna be chosen, right
Speaker 3: because you was good. Yeah, I was already chosen, right,
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. So, yeah, we weren't about the
Speaker 3: reps and the work that we got to put in.
Speaker 3: I absolutely making no All Star game or getting picked
Speaker 3: for this or getting picked for that. So that was
Speaker 3: coming no matter what I just got to figure out
Speaker 3: can my schedule handle it?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: But right now people are willing to stop working to
Speaker 3: try to to try to talk about or try to
Speaker 3: get something they ain't invest in. No, no, no, sweat
Speaker 3: echo into from the start. And so that's what's problematic
Speaker 3: about everything. And that's why you see in the transition
Speaker 3: happened so hard, it is becoming so hard. And that's
Speaker 3: why college now coaches are saying, we only trust twenty
Speaker 3: five year olds. Yeah, you don't trust high school kids
Speaker 3: no more. Which twenty five year olds they trod by now? Yeah,
Speaker 3: if they've been and started asking that. I mean, you
Speaker 3: know people asking that. I remember hearing the question whether
Speaker 3: Blake Rifford was so good, why do you go back
Speaker 3: for it southward?
Speaker 2: See what I mean?
Speaker 3: You know, if if if a guy is good, it's
Speaker 3: like basketball. If a guy don't come out after freshman year,
Speaker 3: well man, he must not be that good. I mean,
Speaker 3: you're not gonna You're never gonna You're never gonna see
Speaker 3: another Tim Duncan. You're not gonna see a four year
Speaker 3: superstar like that.
Speaker 2: You're not. You're just not. It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 4: The volume