Speaker 1: So man, how to do You did great? I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna lie to you.
Speaker 2: All due respect, I've seen the shot we did, I
Speaker 2: think all Star weekend, but I've never trained you.
Speaker 1: You got my respect, man, I'm gonna come back. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna come back. I'm old. I pulled a little something
Speaker 1: right here, you know, but I slipped on the quarter
Speaker 1: a little before. But I got to give you credit
Speaker 1: where credit is due.
Speaker 3: All my years of playing basketball on basketball, I've never
Speaker 3: had somebody talk to me about my footwork, how I
Speaker 3: went up, how I come down, how balanced I need
Speaker 3: to be. They always said to me, don't lead right
Speaker 3: or fall left or fall right. But I really appreciate it, man,
Speaker 3: and I can.
Speaker 2: Say it like I said, I'm not doing this because
Speaker 2: of the camera for fifty seven.
Speaker 1: No, No, I'm being seriously now. You look great.
Speaker 2: And the one thing I love about you, especially training you,
Speaker 2: You're really understanding. And that's why I love to train
Speaker 2: certain people that know I can't do everything perfect. When
Speaker 2: I was telling you something, you was looking at me
Speaker 2: right in my eyes. You was ready to learn, and
Speaker 2: that's why your shot got better.
Speaker 1: So I mean, two.
Speaker 2: Three more sessions, I think we might be ready for
Speaker 2: anybody want to step up.
Speaker 3: But why is it that in a world where you
Speaker 3: got cats, this is their living and the more successful
Speaker 3: you can be, the more money you can make. But
Speaker 3: they're not doing these kind of things on a regular
Speaker 3: religious basis. Why do you think that is?
Speaker 2: Well, I think some people get comfortable, you know, and
Speaker 2: that's why me and you love the greats. The greats
Speaker 2: never got comfortable with it. Like you're one of those guys.
Speaker 2: You're never comfortable with.
Speaker 1: What you do.
Speaker 2: But I feel like in today's basketball, respectfully saying this,
Speaker 2: it's a lot of the people that are playing in
Speaker 2: some of the professional sports, once they get a taste
Speaker 2: of a little bit success, they forget what got them there.
Speaker 2: And I feel like, if you want to be the best,
Speaker 2: you can never be feeling like you've arrived. You've always
Speaker 2: got to look back when you used to eat blooney
Speaker 2: sandwiches and some of their stature. So I feel like
Speaker 2: a lot of guys now they'll go away from making
Speaker 2: five hundred shots today they might just go to shoot around.
Speaker 2: You heard what Lebron said yesterday, say you go to
Speaker 2: game five hours early, and this dude forty years old,
Speaker 2: But imagine if every professional was that way, but they're
Speaker 2: not right now. But I feel like it's just showing
Speaker 2: in today's basketball. The people who can't shoot respectfully, you're
Speaker 2: not putting it in the work. And the people who
Speaker 2: are shooting, well, they're putting it.
Speaker 3: I look for the competitive fervor and one of the
Speaker 3: things that you know, you got so many people that
Speaker 3: are so sensitive to the criticism.
Speaker 1: To the critiques, et cetera.
Speaker 3: Here's how I look at it, and I want to
Speaker 3: say this in front of you in the camera. There's
Speaker 3: four hundred and fifty players in the league. For every
Speaker 3: one cat that got a spot, there's fifty who can't
Speaker 3: get in. So if you're not doing a job as
Speaker 3: a player, if you're not doing a job as a scout,
Speaker 3: if you're not doing a job as a coach or
Speaker 3: a GM, there's thirty thirty coaches in the NBA, obviously,
Speaker 3: thirty presidents of basketball operations, thirty gms, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 3: For every one person that doesn't do it, but you
Speaker 3: still got your job you deprived of fifty others are
Speaker 3: doing it. So it's not me looking at somebody and
Speaker 3: critiquing them just to be critiquing them. It's saying, wait
Speaker 3: a minute, if you in this position, in this role,
Speaker 3: this is your job description, and if you can't do it,
Speaker 3: it's supposed to be somebody else that's there. Is there
Speaker 3: anything wrong with that?
Speaker 1: I mean, I agree with it. That's how life works,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: If you're not putting out a certain type of product respectfully,
Speaker 2: you shouldn't be in that position. I feel like like
Speaker 2: I feel the same way you feel. I feel like
Speaker 2: a lot of people are getting comfortable. And if you,
Speaker 2: like I said before, if you want to be the best,
Speaker 2: you could never get comfortable. I don't care if you
Speaker 2: had forty points yesterday, you got to go to bed,
Speaker 2: wake up in the morning, work out again, try to
Speaker 2: do it again. So with a lot of guys now
Speaker 2: to me as a trainer, I'm talking as a trainer.
Speaker 2: You know, being around you know, being around this field,
Speaker 2: some people get comfortable, and those are the people that
Speaker 2: I don't train. I like to train people who are hungry.
Speaker 2: You so you turn down people respectfully. I do turn
Speaker 2: out because.
Speaker 3: Like I said, those professional athletes you have said, no,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do my thing.
Speaker 1: You do your thing well. If you're not committed to
Speaker 1: working out every single day.
Speaker 2: If you're not committed to possibly if I see your
Speaker 2: shot and I say I need two a day's if
Speaker 2: you're not committed to understanding, you might need to make
Speaker 2: a thousand shots today.
Speaker 1: I don't want nothing to do with you.
Speaker 2: I need a person that if I say, a Steven,
Speaker 2: I need you to shoot five hundred, I want you
Speaker 2: to say I want to shoot seven hundred.
Speaker 1: My man, let's go. Those are the type of guys
Speaker 1: I like to work with. How do you.
Speaker 3: Feel about the state of the NBA game today?
Speaker 2: I feel like it's great, and I think I spoke
Speaker 2: to you about that earlier. I love the way how
Speaker 2: hard everybody's playing right now, especially the Calves, the Sacramento
Speaker 2: Call everybody. These guys are playing hungry. You get what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. And I felt like like you were saying
Speaker 2: some of the players before they were getting so comfortable,
Speaker 2: you know, coming out there. I'm not trying to say
Speaker 2: you can't have friends for everybody out there laughing and
Speaker 2: playing around folk. No, we need you guys and kill mode, because,
Speaker 2: like you're saying, it's a thousand million other people.
Speaker 1: That can play.
Speaker 2: Can they play an NBA No, but understand that you
Speaker 2: are a special being. Understand that you are d Krim
Speaker 2: de la Krim, and take this serious every single day.
Speaker 2: But I feel like the NBA right now, to me,
Speaker 2: in the last few years, this is the best I've
Speaker 2: ever seen.
Speaker 1: What about college basketball, I love it, really, I love it. Literally.
Speaker 2: The only thing I don't love, Like I said so,
Speaker 2: because you saw what happened with Tony Bennett, you know.
Speaker 1: My ex coach, he just he just stepped down as well.
Speaker 2: I don't love that kids are just going to the
Speaker 2: highest bidder, right, and I think that's taking the love
Speaker 2: away from the kids in college basketball.
Speaker 1: But I think playing hard is great.
Speaker 2: But the only thing I don't love is some of
Speaker 2: the kids now are just getting so infatuated with money
Speaker 2: so fast.
Speaker 3: What I love about the superstars, whether it was Jordan
Speaker 3: to Kobe to Lebron Steph Curry. To me, the true
Speaker 3: element of greatness from superstars is those who put in
Speaker 3: the work, and you see they put in the work.
Speaker 3: You could tell they put in the work all.
Speaker 1: The time, and they compel you.
Speaker 3: To love the game because you see the love they
Speaker 3: have for the game while they're performing in the game.
Speaker 2: That's a really good example. So yesterday when I was
Speaker 2: watching Lebron, I saw I said this.
Speaker 3: Dude forty and got a triple double, his third straight
Speaker 3: triple double at the time, or this tapment and look
Speaker 3: after the game, they asks them, you know how you
Speaker 3: feel yourself?
Speaker 1: I feel great because I'm putting in the work.
Speaker 2: And the one thing you're saying is what the guys
Speaker 2: that you name me and you can watch them and
Speaker 2: feel like.
Speaker 1: We could run through the wall.
Speaker 2: And we need everybody to step it up in that way.
Speaker 2: Just like you when I'm watching you on TV. You
Speaker 2: study your notes, you study the stats, you study the names,
Speaker 2: and that's what a lot of people don't understand. That's
Speaker 2: what greatness takes. And if the NBA wants to stay
Speaker 2: in the state that is in for right now, we
Speaker 2: need guys that are gonna go hard. We don't want
Speaker 2: to know.
Speaker 1: And remember, I'm me and you not talking like the
Speaker 1: NBA player. I don't know they talking like they know.
Speaker 1: I'm just talking like we know the game. I know
Speaker 1: the game. We need guys that are gonna run the
Speaker 1: wall and play hard.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, yeah, I got to talk to you about that,
Speaker 3: mister Natesmith.
Speaker 1: Basketball Hall of Fame and talk about that for sing
Speaker 1: so God is good.
Speaker 2: I'm actually not in the Hall of Fame, but they
Speaker 2: do have an exhibit for me in the Natesmith Basketball
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. And for the NBA to I can't
Speaker 2: even talk about right now because it gets me emotional.
Speaker 2: But for them to say they want my rims and
Speaker 2: my shoes and my shorts to be in the Natesmith
Speaker 2: Basketball Hall of Fame, and that same night I got
Speaker 2: to meet Michael Jordan, right, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And I can't explain. Bro, It's priceless. Man. I never
Speaker 1: played in the NBA and to have that type of
Speaker 1: moment was insane.
Speaker 3: Let me help your conscience when it comes to being
Speaker 3: a Hall of Famer. An owner once said this to me.
Speaker 3: He said, yeah, you see them guys playing on the
Speaker 3: basketball court. I said yeah. He said, if there wasn't
Speaker 3: a basketball court to play on, if there wasn't lights
Speaker 3: that was turned on, if there wasn't twenty thousand seats
Speaker 3: in an arena, if the engineer didn't make sure everything
Speaker 3: was working right, if the producers and the editors didn't
Speaker 3: make sure everything was working right, if the construction workers
Speaker 3: and the architects didn't put this stuff together to make
Speaker 3: the make sure or this stuff was right in place,
Speaker 3: what would they be, right, he said, So, anybody that
Speaker 3: contributes to the game of basketball in any way should
Speaker 3: be appreciated. Iratulations, Thank you so much. But I got
Speaker 3: something that I wanted to say. I wanted to wait
Speaker 3: until you train me and showed me a little bit
Speaker 3: of stuff, you know, and I got more to learn.
Speaker 1: I'm coming back. I'm coming back to work out with
Speaker 1: you more.
Speaker 3: Yes, as I'm rolling up on sixty and all of
Speaker 3: that stuff, I want to roll up on sixty looking
Speaker 3: like I'm in my thirties or forties.
Speaker 1: That's what I want to do. That's what I'm out
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 3: But I just wanted to say to see you to
Speaker 3: everybody out there, I understand now, I understand it.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: Did I get that right back?
Speaker 1: Absolutely? I get that right absolutely, Yes, I understanding that. Ah,
Speaker 1: stay locked in, guys, locked in.