Speaker 1: Michael Porter Junior gave voice to something that I'm so
Speaker 1: glad that he said it out loud.
Speaker 2: Because I say this, but it's really just.
Speaker 1: A lot more credible when an NBA player says it,
Speaker 1: which is this what he said on the Nuggets pod,
Speaker 1: Harrison Wind he said, what it takes to be great
Speaker 1: dropped this from the clouds.
Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of guys.
Speaker 1: Who never become as good as they can become because
Speaker 1: once they get to the NBA they take their foot
Speaker 1: off the gas.
Speaker 3: I see that, I continue to work harder.
Speaker 1: Ooh. Basically, when you get a lot of money, you
Speaker 1: stop working. Yeah, that's pretty obvious, but people seem to
Speaker 1: think that, like these guys are robots. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: this until I'm blowing till I'm blue in the face,
Speaker 1: till the end of time. The difference between a great
Speaker 1: player and an excellent, elite, all time great, one that
Speaker 1: has more than just physical gifts is that mental maniacal.
Speaker 3: Drive to be even better even when.
Speaker 1: You're at the tippy tippy top, even when you're an
Speaker 1: All star like Ben Simmons, you add to your craft
Speaker 1: even when you're the top one percent in the world
Speaker 1: and you're rich as fuck when your body is tired,
Speaker 1: when you're injured, when it's July.
Speaker 3: And you've got max money.
Speaker 1: That's the difference between really good and really really great.
Speaker 1: And like, truthfully, that's only like ten to fifteen guys,
Speaker 1: sure at a four to fifty right.
Speaker 4: At a given time?
Speaker 3: Yeah, at a given time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, elite skill wise and elite mentally, and like can
Speaker 1: you blame them? Like there's for that extra two percent?
Speaker 1: It's like so much work. It's just so much work,
Speaker 1: so much time, so much sacrifice, so much.
Speaker 2: Giving up other things that you love.
Speaker 1: Almost you have to just kind of move away from
Speaker 1: the whole like work life balance, yolo. I want to
Speaker 1: experience and enjoy things, Like there is no enjoyment.
Speaker 3: Other than that. Like that's it.
Speaker 1: And your wife or a girlfriend or kids probably never
Speaker 1: see you because that's all you give a fuck about.
Speaker 1: Think about that, Like you're what it really normally is
Speaker 1: is you're a lottery pick. The team that chows you
Speaker 1: has a ton of incentive to make it work. You are,
Speaker 1: like you're working, you're getting yourself into the league, you're
Speaker 1: already making good money. You're feeling yourself. The folks from
Speaker 1: back home are telling you you made it. Your friends
Speaker 1: around you telling you nothing but yes, telling you nothing.
Speaker 3: But you're great.
Speaker 4: You're in party cities literally every night.
Speaker 2: Yep, you're in. You have bottle service and bitches.
Speaker 3: You're there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you get in minutes, you're getting buckets.
Speaker 1: And then if you're just okay, the team still has
Speaker 1: an incentive to pay you because they think when you
Speaker 1: get older and mature, that you're gonna put the time
Speaker 1: in and the effort in to be ultimately very great
Speaker 1: for them. And they don't want to look like idiots
Speaker 1: because they chose you at six, you know, and like
Speaker 1: they there's another four or five players that are already
Speaker 1: producing more than you, But they don't want to look
Speaker 1: like dummies, so like, pay you one hundred million and see,
Speaker 1: like what.
Speaker 3: Are they going to do?
Speaker 2: Trade you?
Speaker 1: Like no, okay, So we're firmly in Ben Simmons land.
Speaker 1: So you don't even have to be that good to
Speaker 1: get the contract. You actually have to be very very
Speaker 1: bad to get the contract.
Speaker 2: Because again teams, teams have egos as well.
Speaker 1: They don't want to admit that they fucked up and
Speaker 1: that hey, this guy is a Ferrari, but he's not
Speaker 1: like the prestige version of the Ferrari. Like, there's the
Speaker 1: premium I'm looking for cars, there's the premium, the premium plus,
Speaker 1: and the prestige. All these guys are premium, some guys
Speaker 1: are premium plus. Almost no one prestige and the team
Speaker 1: doesn't want to say listen, like, I mean, he's a premium,
Speaker 1: We'll pay him like a prestige and see maybe if
Speaker 1: he like becomes that guy. It's normally not going to happen.
Speaker 1: But that's the deal, right, Yeah, you've got life changing money.
Speaker 1: You're good enough to keep playing probably for the next
Speaker 1: fifteen years and getting paid.
Speaker 3: Will you continue to strive for greatness? Probably not?
Speaker 1: Probably not.
Speaker 2: I mean I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: That's what makes Lebron James so fucking amazing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it really does.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you think about that and put that all
Speaker 1: of that into perspective and know that it's three a days,
Speaker 1: like twenty four to seven, not just one year, not
Speaker 1: just two years, but like twenty years of that a
Speaker 1: million dollars in healthcare costs a year on your body
Speaker 1: and food and nutrition and all.
Speaker 2: Kinds of other things. That gets your mind and body right,
Speaker 2: bitches and shit.
Speaker 1: Uh, twenty years, best of the generation and never took his.
Speaker 3: Foot off the gas. Pretty nuts, pretty fucking nuts.
Speaker 1: Other guys four years in the league, just fucking chilling,
Speaker 1: just not getting better.
Speaker 3: Looking at you, mar Bley, that's you. Andrew Wiggins, Andrews.
Speaker 1: He's so good Andrew Wiggins like skill wise. And you
Speaker 1: know that's the thing about us as people. We expect
Speaker 1: that because Andrew Wiggins is so physically gifted and so
Speaker 1: genetically there.
Speaker 3: That he should want it like Braun or Kobe did.
Speaker 3: And it's like he's just like us.
Speaker 4: Right, I mean, it's so easy for people like us
Speaker 4: to say, but like when you really like dissect it, like, okay,
Speaker 4: do you give one hundred percent of your job every
Speaker 4: single day? Like are you going the extra mile at
Speaker 4: your job every single day? Like you demand like of
Speaker 4: these guys, which I mean not saying that, like we
Speaker 4: shouldn't hold high Kyleer athletes to a high standard.
Speaker 3: But where does it end? Right? Just yeah, where does
Speaker 3: it end?
Speaker 1: Like you're you become almost like that crazy person in
Speaker 1: the colisseum. It's like die for me. It's like no,
Speaker 1: like these are human beings. But you know that that's
Speaker 1: interesting that I think Michael Porter Junior peeled back the
Speaker 1: onion on that, because when when NBA players are saying, like, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my counterparts and my colleagues and they
Speaker 1: are lazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they are chilling. That's how you know it's real.
Speaker 3: That's how you know it's real.