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Speaker 2: Perk welcome man. How are you, bro? You're good. I'm
Speaker 2: talking to you.
Speaker 3: And I'm just saying, Matt, you hit me with the
Speaker 3: corporate like, yeah, how you doing. Welcome bro, what's up?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm about what.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to set that up because I'm about
Speaker 1: to get into that side. I think you guys. You
Speaker 1: guys get to see ESPN Park. But when parkins with us,
Speaker 1: Park is a different animal. Kendrick motherfucking Perkins is what
Speaker 1: they call him on our show because him and Vernon
Speaker 1: Maxwell are tied for the most motherfuckers you could say
Speaker 1: in one episode, at like eight hundred and seventeen each
Speaker 1: in one episode.
Speaker 2: Park. Whatever, Man, how's everything? Man?
Speaker 3: I'm good man. I appreciate y'all having me, man. I
Speaker 3: appreciate It's always good when I get with you too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we want to want to plug you in and
Speaker 1: meet the Meta family and in the Thrance family, you know,
Speaker 1: briden your horizons a little bit. You know, it was
Speaker 1: a pleasure to meet. That's the boss man right there.
Speaker 1: He's a big fan of it. Yeah, that Celtic Green.
Speaker 1: First of all, congratulations. I think it was last year
Speaker 1: you signed your new ESPN deal. What has that been arts?
Speaker 2: This year? Right? Earlier this year? That last year? Last year? Okay,
Speaker 2: but how's that been going?
Speaker 3: I mean it's you know, I'm grateful. I'm gonna say
Speaker 3: that it's been a grind, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: You all over the TV.
Speaker 3: You're gonna work at eight o'clock, nine o'clock, ten o'clock,
Speaker 3: eleven clock, twelve, o'clock.
Speaker 2: So you're gonna work.
Speaker 3: But I'm blessed though, because I mean open up a
Speaker 3: lot of other doors and a lot of opportunities that
Speaker 3: you could take advantage of, right, And you know, to
Speaker 3: be honest, you know, as guys like ourselves, you staged
Speaker 3: Jalen Rose, who really opened the door for former players
Speaker 3: to come in and beat themselves. Right, and then you
Speaker 3: realize that you meet so many people and sit in
Speaker 3: so many rooms, right, and have so many relationships. I
Speaker 3: think you know, one of my biggest regrets as a player.
Speaker 3: And we all go through this when we playing basketball.
Speaker 3: When we hooping, we don't give a fuck about nothing else, right,
Speaker 3: it's just about hooping. We may pass people up, they
Speaker 3: may give us their business cars. We keep it moving,
Speaker 3: and we don't know where their business cards are. Now
Speaker 3: we're in this space, more people see us. Now those
Speaker 3: business cards actually mean something. They going in the wiled Endamn,
Speaker 3: the text message going out the next morning. It was
Speaker 3: a pleasure to meeting you. And then all of a
Speaker 3: sudden you're develop in those relationships. And I think that's
Speaker 3: the most that's the best thing that didn't happen for
Speaker 3: me being in this media space.
Speaker 1: Two part question, what is the best part about working
Speaker 1: at ESPN and what is the toughest part about working
Speaker 1: at ESPN.
Speaker 3: I think the best part about it is again the visibility.
Speaker 3: The visibility, right, the visibility comes more opportunity something I
Speaker 3: just harped on. That's the best part about it. Can't
Speaker 3: never take that part of for granted. The hard part
Speaker 3: about it is finding that balance, right because we're in
Speaker 3: the media space now where you know, so many players
Speaker 3: have platforms, right, And I catch myself at times when
Speaker 3: I'm on ESPN, I look across the desk and there's
Speaker 3: no disrespect nobody, But I'm the only motherfucking player up there.
Speaker 3: So at times when I may speak about a certain situation,
Speaker 3: or I may speak about something that if it was
Speaker 3: a player, they'd be like, I know exactly what you're
Speaker 3: talking about. But then since it's not a player and
Speaker 3: it's no knock to them, it's almost like I'm speaking
Speaker 3: a foreign language, right, And so I think that's the
Speaker 3: most difficult part at times is not being able to
Speaker 3: share and be able to tell stories and be able
Speaker 3: to tell certain things that certain people could relate to
Speaker 3: you about, right, and.
Speaker 4: In certain situations experience is the only thing that you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, that you can teach through you
Speaker 4: know in cerch Situay.
Speaker 2: So to have that experience.
Speaker 4: If you don't have it, then it's kind of hard
Speaker 4: there because experience is very you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Very people have that experience, they have that conversation with.
Speaker 3: And it's and it's crazy because we like the other day,
Speaker 3: I was talking about Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City Thunder and
Speaker 3: how young they are, and I threw out the word sacrificing,
Speaker 3: and like I overemphasized it. I'm like, people talk about
Speaker 3: sacrificing in the locker room, but that shit hardest hell
Speaker 3: to do, especially for a young team, because you know,
Speaker 3: after you win the championship, man, you think you was
Speaker 3: the reason why everybody in the locker room think you
Speaker 3: they was the reason two thousand and eight, I came
Speaker 3: back in two thousand and nine. You couldn't have told
Speaker 3: me I wasn't the reason, right, You couldn't tell me
Speaker 3: I wasn't a shit And everybody feel that way. So
Speaker 3: when you watch a young team like OKC and you
Speaker 3: watch the talent that they have, bro they never have
Speaker 3: bad body language. You don't see no one hating on nobody.
Speaker 3: We know Sga is the go to guy. And you
Speaker 3: see a guy like aj Mitchell come in while Jaylen
Speaker 3: Williams hurt. He's starting probably prove to the rest of
Speaker 3: the world that he should be a starter. JDub come in,
Speaker 3: he go to the bitch. It keeps it moving. You
Speaker 3: don't find that no where. And I like, I played
Speaker 3: on the team with James and KD and r Us
Speaker 3: and Surge. The biggest downfall of that team was the
Speaker 3: sacrifice important. So it's just like when I thought, I
Speaker 3: just like a this kind of drys like, Nah, it's
Speaker 3: kind of real.
Speaker 4: In it's different, you know what I'm saying. Teams that
Speaker 4: win everybody by in everybody on the same thing. You
Speaker 4: said something on ESPN recently, and I agree with you,
Speaker 4: but I want you to kind of explain it. You said,
Speaker 4: Shadua Sanders is the most powerful black man in America
Speaker 4: since since Barack Obama explained that.
Speaker 2: I meant it to Steve Stack.
Speaker 3: I meant that shit with every bone in my body
Speaker 3: because what I started to realize is that when he
Speaker 3: went not the game, not the second game that he
Speaker 3: was announced the start, it was the game before that.
Speaker 2: The Raider game.
Speaker 3: And so what I realized was, once your doer, this
Speaker 3: the first thing, once your doer Sanders is playing, all
Speaker 3: beef stops at that moment. Right, it's the first time
Speaker 3: that you actually could go on social media X, Instagram, TikTok.
Speaker 2: Threads, what up? Threads? Threads? Right, yeah, absolutely, threads, threads.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say it. He beat me to it,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So you go on there, right, and it's nothing but
Speaker 3: positive vibes. I can't I can't name one guy besides
Speaker 3: Acho that's you on this beef, not mine.
Speaker 1: I know, respondsperate right now.
Speaker 2: But go ahead, I know you go, I know it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: But so it's the first time that I've seen like
Speaker 3: where it's like, man, everybody in the black community is
Speaker 3: root for this guy. And when I said it, I
Speaker 3: looked at the comments and it was like, I don't
Speaker 3: ever go in the comments because you go in the comments,
Speaker 3: you might catch yourself arguing all day with certain.
Speaker 2: People, right, I got I don't mind that sometimes.
Speaker 3: And so and so it's like you see people that's
Speaker 3: like all races and that's saying I just bought my
Speaker 3: man my seventy three year old grandmother watched the door
Speaker 3: and it's like, not Eve me, a person that didn't
Speaker 3: have that type of effect on anybody.
Speaker 2: And so people don't understand.
Speaker 3: It's like people are rooting for a guy that was
Speaker 3: a fifth round pick. It's only one guy that has
Speaker 3: like on that team that's top fifty in Jersey says,
Speaker 3: that's your doer, right and so, and he kills you
Speaker 3: in his interviews because he has.
Speaker 2: That balance of.
Speaker 3: Being arrogant flashy, which I'm cool with because he put
Speaker 3: the work in you know what I mean, if you shine,
Speaker 3: put it in their face. But then he also killed
Speaker 3: him with the I want to give all praise to God,
Speaker 3: and it hurt they soul because he won't. They want
Speaker 3: him to take the bait. They throw the rod out there.
Speaker 3: He never do.
Speaker 2: He never throws coach under the bus. So when I
Speaker 2: think about it, I.
Speaker 1: Think that coach needs to be thrown off the bus.
Speaker 1: But go ahead, I think under the bus.
Speaker 3: To Ben five. Yea, but nah, But that's that's what
Speaker 3: I say. I mean, like real talk. You know y'all
Speaker 3: showed up to the game. Yeah, y'all was there, Like
Speaker 3: people showing up, bro, think about it. They just played
Speaker 3: the Cleveland brown The Cleveland Browns just played Who was
Speaker 3: that Tennessee Tennessee Titans. Tennessee Titans I believe was one
Speaker 3: in eight. The Browns was fucking three and eight and
Speaker 3: everybody in their mama was watching that game. If Shadul
Speaker 3: wasn't playing, nobody was watching that shit and it was
Speaker 3: sold out in Cleveland.
Speaker 4: You know something too, Shad's doing what we wish our
Speaker 4: president would do, bring people together. I think that's the
Speaker 4: biggest thing he's doing. Like you talk about all races,
Speaker 4: everybody's rooting for them. You know what I'm saying, because
Speaker 4: everybody see him not getting a fair shot. You know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying. Why, we don't know. But at the
Speaker 4: end of the day, he's doing something we wish everybody
Speaker 4: were doing. That's bringing people together. I love it.
Speaker 1: Jack, give give everyone a walk down memory lane of
Speaker 1: how you and perk all each other.
Speaker 2: What's your guy's history? Yeah, so real short, we grew up.
Speaker 4: Our hometowns are ten minutes from each other and put
Speaker 4: off the Beaumont we're the only two to have our
Speaker 4: high school coaches, the only high school's coach coach in
Speaker 4: Texas to have two guys go out of high.
Speaker 2: School and both be NBA champions.
Speaker 4: We both came out of high school with the same
Speaker 4: basketball coach and his wife is from my hometown. So
Speaker 4: when he was in high school, my coach asked me
Speaker 4: to come in and mentor him. And he's been like
Speaker 4: a big little brother, you know what I'm saying, for
Speaker 4: the last twenty years. So I'm so proud of him, bro,
Speaker 4: and I'm just I'm just happy you having all that success.
Speaker 3: You give it, he give me, y'all. A short version
Speaker 3: this longer. It's stack pulling up. We was tripping. I
Speaker 3: was in the tenth grade. Stack pulled up to the gym.
Speaker 3: Came in and were like this Steve Jackson, like Steve
Speaker 3: Jackson hit like, no Hollywood stuff come in. We only
Speaker 3: had a bench press in a super cat, y'all remember
Speaker 3: the super cat.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Thing we thought gave was hospital. It really just
Speaker 2: fucked up our back. Yeah. I just had that surgery
Speaker 2: that come in.
Speaker 3: He go through the whole workout, man, And ever since
Speaker 3: then we've been tied together like shoelaces. And I just
Speaker 3: remember doing that that championship run with the Spurs. We
Speaker 3: drove down there and man, they was in the heat. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we went to the game a few times. We actually
Speaker 3: went to one out here in LA. We went down
Speaker 3: to San Antonio, Man, and it's just been a it's
Speaker 3: been it's been a beautiful thing to watch Steve go
Speaker 3: through his journey because people don't know, like from the
Speaker 3: overseas part. I remember when you had your workout when
Speaker 3: we was in New Jersey. I was at the ABCD camp.
Speaker 3: I think Mike Brown worked you out at that time.
Speaker 3: Stack threw up, but he got through it. Next thing
Speaker 3: I know, he was signed. The journey was back on.
Speaker 1: It was he had to cut his night short to
Speaker 1: make that morning train with that show on.
Speaker 2: A lot of drugs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what kind of monster was perking high school?
Speaker 2: Stack?
Speaker 4: Oh well, just imagine everybody on the court of six
Speaker 4: five sixty six and half of them can't dribble a shoot,
Speaker 4: But you got a seven foot guy, two hundred and
Speaker 4: seventy pounds that could dribble, shoot, do everything. I think
Speaker 4: that that's that's why he was able to go out
Speaker 4: of high school because the things he was doing. See,
Speaker 4: people didn't see his game before he got to the NBA.
Speaker 4: He got to the NBA and did what made him
Speaker 4: a professional. What made him graacrifice? You know what I'm
Speaker 4: saying exactly, He did the things to make his teams better.
Speaker 4: But if you would have seen him in high school,
Speaker 4: he was playing point guard as the best, the biggest
Speaker 4: person on the court, bringing it up and down in
Speaker 4: the summertime. I tell you, when he got into the league,
Speaker 4: he had Kat James, all the guys on this team
Speaker 4: come down to play pick up and my brother was
Speaker 4: still alive there and he dunked on Kat that.
Speaker 2: To that day.
Speaker 4: But yeah, broa, yeah, no, he blocked Kd's dune. He
Speaker 4: blocked K's dumb Yeah. But but around that time, I
Speaker 4: was just excited to see him because it wasn't nobody
Speaker 4: that side doing what he was doing. And then pick
Speaker 4: up you will see what he really could do, you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. So I was just excited to
Speaker 4: see that. But he had everything in this game. And
Speaker 4: when you can put when you can put a lot
Speaker 4: of things and things you want to do on the
Speaker 4: quarter side for the betterment of your team, that says
Speaker 4: a lot about you. And it's not easy for me
Speaker 4: to understand that because the same way as a human being.
Speaker 1: This is a random thought forgive me, but obviously this
Speaker 1: is a basketball community in basketball threads. If you guys
Speaker 1: ever want to see some real, real basketball outside of
Speaker 1: what you see on TV, go to pick up watch
Speaker 1: pickup basketball, go to UCLA or go to some of
Speaker 1: these gyms in the summertime and see guys.
Speaker 2: You're like, oh shit, Like probably.
Speaker 1: What Jack is explaining now, how Perk was because when
Speaker 1: you get to the league, there's just a pecan order
Speaker 1: and certain guys that can do certain shit, and if
Speaker 1: you don't conform to what they make you or trying
Speaker 1: to turn you into, you're gonna be out the league.
Speaker 1: But pickupball is a whole nother monster because there's no coaches,
Speaker 1: there's no rules, and you really get to show your game.
Speaker 1: So for you real basketball fans in here in the summertime,
Speaker 1: check out pick up basketball in LA.
Speaker 2: Nothing like it, Perk.
Speaker 1: Obviously you were able to go straight to the league
Speaker 1: out of high school.
Speaker 2: They've since acts that rule.
Speaker 1: What is your thought on possibly bringing it back or
Speaker 1: do you still think the kids need one year out
Speaker 1: of college or excuse me, one year remove from high
Speaker 1: school before they go in the draft.
Speaker 2: What is the one year doing? Nothing?
Speaker 3: Like seriously, what I mean, what is the one year doing?
Speaker 3: Like real talk, what is the one year doing? I
Speaker 3: would rather guy be able to get drafted out of
Speaker 3: high school and go to the NBA and sit on
Speaker 3: the bench for a year and learn the ins and
Speaker 3: outs because those guys still have to adjust once they
Speaker 3: get to the NBA. We saw what happened with Cooper
Speaker 3: Flag Now he was asked to have a bigger role
Speaker 3: because he stepped into a situation as a number one pick.
Speaker 3: The last time we've seen that was what Tim Duncan.
Speaker 3: Where you actually because you know Dallas was considered a contender,
Speaker 3: they just didn't They wasn't healthy. But it's still taking
Speaker 3: time for him, right, It's still taking time for a
Speaker 3: lot of these guys to learn the game at the
Speaker 3: NBA level. So I'm with it, man, I just don't
Speaker 3: I don't understand it. I don't understand what is the
Speaker 3: one year doing? Like what what You're going to college
Speaker 3: for one year to say that they're developing at what?
Speaker 3: And no one can answer that question. No one can
Speaker 3: answer the question why they made the rule right? No
Speaker 3: one still to this day, it gave us any explanation
Speaker 3: on why they decided to take it take.
Speaker 2: It away in Cuba.
Speaker 1: But it's also the same body that allows twenty seven
Speaker 1: and twenty eight year olds to play with seventeen and
Speaker 1: eighteen year olds.
Speaker 2: And that's what I'm saying, Let's go to war.
Speaker 4: You can go fight for the country at eighteen, but
Speaker 4: you can't take care of your family.
Speaker 2: That's right, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So you you got, you got everything you got overseas
Speaker 3: they starting at thirteen fourteen. I mean, I just I
Speaker 3: just don't understand it. I don't understand it, and I
Speaker 3: think they need to go back to it. We see
Speaker 3: what's the kid aj De bounds to what he's doing
Speaker 3: right now. I think the kid Darrin Peterson, he'll be
Speaker 3: ready to hoop right now.
Speaker 2: Culture thing. Yeah, it's a culture thing.
Speaker 1: One of the boozer boys, Kayleb Williams.
Speaker 2: So they can make a jump right now. Yes, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't you be in getting the head starter of it.
Speaker 1: You're you were still drafted in a time where they
Speaker 1: were rookie duties.
Speaker 2: Jack got a free pass.
Speaker 1: If you guys haven't heard the story of Kenya, Martin
Speaker 1: was his guy, so Jack didn't have to do ship
Speaker 1: for the bnass but you were drafted an O three
Speaker 1: to a team with Paul Pierce, my dog, Ricky Davis,
Speaker 1: Vin Baker club shiz Nip. What was your rookie year
Speaker 1: duties like? And tell us a little bit about club
Speaker 1: shiz nick.
Speaker 3: Y'all want the honest truth, don't fields part of it?
Speaker 3: I mean, man, what do I start?
Speaker 2: I know? I know.
Speaker 3: The first thing that I had that I realized is
Speaker 3: that I before we loved to go on the trip,
Speaker 3: that I needed to keep a pack of Newports.
Speaker 2: Who's smoking cigare? I can't snitch man? You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. I can't sitch man. But I.
Speaker 3: Had to keep a pack of Newports and some some
Speaker 3: type of hind the ken of some type of beer
Speaker 3: because people see behind the scenes now. But y'all remember
Speaker 3: the game was over in the back in the locker room.
Speaker 3: While you wiser it was beer. You was drinking a
Speaker 3: bottle of beer. That's just what it was. So the
Speaker 3: craziest thing though, and it was my second year, is
Speaker 3: when we got GP Gary Payton, and man, it was
Speaker 3: so crazy because I was like, hell, yoh man, I'm
Speaker 3: finally done with these fucking rookie duties. I ain't got
Speaker 3: to do this shit no more. And he was like, oh, no,
Speaker 3: you're steal the rook. You're rook until you play your
Speaker 3: first NBA game. And I was like, I didn't know that,
Speaker 3: and he was like, you're mine. So he had two rooms.
Speaker 3: He had a few rules. The first rule was, you know,
Speaker 3: GP he always wore those damn dicky Dicky suits.
Speaker 2: He's talking about Gary Payton.
Speaker 3: He always he wore those dicky suits. He had the gray,
Speaker 3: he had the blue, he had the black, he had
Speaker 3: the white. He had all that shit, and well, I
Speaker 3: had to iron it. I had to iron it. So
Speaker 3: he would as we walking on the plane, he would
Speaker 3: hand me his bag and was like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: handle your business. He had literally called down to the
Speaker 3: front desk where I couldn't send it to the cleaner.
Speaker 3: So he made me actually iron it, so I had
Speaker 3: to put creases in there. But the craziest, the craziest
Speaker 3: thing he done. So we land in Milwaukee. We land
Speaker 3: in Milwaukee. I think I told you this story. I
Speaker 3: don't know. I probably didn't. We land in Milwaukee. It's
Speaker 3: like two o'clock in the morning. We just got through playing.
Speaker 3: I believe maybe it was in Chicago. Or one of
Speaker 3: them cities. And GP was like, uh, he used to
Speaker 3: call me ugly. I don't know why I ugly. He
Speaker 3: called you everybody ugly, but he called me that ugly.
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, what's up?
Speaker 2: Man? Man, I need a bottle of Patron.
Speaker 3: Now I'm nineteen, so I'm like, man, what the fuck
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get a bottle of patron at at two
Speaker 3: o'clock in the morn morning, right, But he did.
Speaker 2: It's serious.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, I go to the club, found the
Speaker 3: club in Milwaukee a boy that was open, and they're
Speaker 3: giving me problems because it's twenty one to get in, right,
Speaker 3: So I'm nineteen, so now I gotta pay. I gotta
Speaker 3: pay the bounce of like five hundred dollars to.
Speaker 2: Let me in. Then I got to ask him.
Speaker 3: Now I'm on my rookie deal, so everything't matter to
Speaker 3: me at this point. I'm counting all my per diem
Speaker 3: and everything. So I get I'm like, hey, man, hey bro,
Speaker 3: we have on that bro Like, they don't really know
Speaker 3: who I am because I'm not getting any playing time
Speaker 3: at this point, so I'm not you know, they don't
Speaker 3: know who the fuck I am? Just yeah, just big
Speaker 3: and black and sixteen walking in there, and so I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, bro, what the on that man? I like,
Speaker 3: so get the owner. I'm like, hey, bro, listen, I'm
Speaker 3: Kendrick Perkins. I play for the Celtics. I'm here, Gary
Speaker 3: Payton son me. I gotta get a bottle of patronk
Speaker 3: so you know the tax coming with that, right, So
Speaker 3: he like, look, I give you a bottle patrol Man
Speaker 3: and everything for eight hundred.
Speaker 2: So I'm like eight hundreds.
Speaker 3: I'm like damn. I'm like, but I gotta get it,
Speaker 3: and he let me bring it out. So I get
Speaker 3: the bottle of Patron. I get to get back to
Speaker 3: the hotel. So at this time, it ain't no lifts.
Speaker 3: It's not ubers, I mean ubers. I'm in a taxi,
Speaker 3: so I gotta wait on the taxi. First of all,
Speaker 3: I'm getting in a taxi outside the club. The club popping,
Speaker 3: I'm getting in the taxi. That's the first embarrassing moment. Okay,
Speaker 3: with the bottom of Patron. So I get back to
Speaker 3: the hotel. I go knock on this door. He opens
Speaker 3: the door and tell me appreciate you ugly and close it.
Speaker 3: No reimbursement, no tipping, no, none of that shit. Bro
Speaker 3: was so hot and he still having gave me my
Speaker 3: money or tip for that shit. If I bring it
Speaker 3: up to him to this day, you just laugh about
Speaker 3: it to be like, may you know you my guy?
Speaker 2: Good? Damn?
Speaker 1: So yeah, GP, I'm looking around the NBA. Okay, see
Speaker 1: your former ball club that did the team you came
Speaker 1: in with. What are your thoughts on just this team?
Speaker 1: I think we touched on it obviously, but can you
Speaker 1: compare and contrast kind of your young team to this
Speaker 1: younger team.
Speaker 2: I can't. Can't nothing nothing, nothing similar. I can't.
Speaker 3: I can't nothing is the same. I can't that that
Speaker 3: team play for each other. I can't compare them.
Speaker 2: To you guys. Issues.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that team right there plays for each other. They
Speaker 3: play for one another. It means something to them that
Speaker 3: each one of those guys to be successful. They want
Speaker 3: each each other to be successful. I'm looking at this team, man,
Speaker 3: and I you know, Devin Booker had like something to
Speaker 3: say like two weeks ago about this squad, right He
Speaker 3: was like, we figured out the secret sauce. This is
Speaker 3: before a last night game, and I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, last night game and they lost by forty.
Speaker 3: Fifty, and I was I was saying to myself, what
Speaker 3: the fuck is the secret sauce? So he was like
Speaker 3: all they do is this, this and this, And I'm like,
Speaker 3: they got on the floor last night and gave him
Speaker 3: a spanking.
Speaker 2: Man. I first of all, I.
Speaker 3: Believe that they're gonna beat the Warriors record that's seventy
Speaker 3: three and nine.
Speaker 2: They're gonna beat that.
Speaker 3: I just never seen a team in my lifetime that
Speaker 3: is stacked with that many two way players ye both
Speaker 3: sides of the ball, and especially at the perimeter. Now,
Speaker 3: we didn't seen some elite teams win something played on
Speaker 3: some one championship.
Speaker 2: I just don't. I haven't seen especially at the perimeter.
Speaker 3: When you look at it, it's like Louke Dorts, Alex Caruso,
Speaker 3: Caseon Wallace, Jalen Williams, the kid aj Mitchell. He's an
Speaker 3: elite defender both ways. Hell is GA even defend at
Speaker 3: the high level. And I'm like, it's no drop off, right,
Speaker 3: And so I'm looking at SGA.
Speaker 2: ISGA giving me Michael Jordan type viobs?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 3: He giving me Jordan type vibes. And when I say
Speaker 3: that is because Jordan not only would he give your
Speaker 3: ass thirty? But it was on fifty percent shooting SGA
Speaker 3: is leading the league and made two point jump shots.
Speaker 3: Ninety one percent of his shots is contested.
Speaker 2: God damn. He is shooting.
Speaker 3: Fifty six percent from the field though fifty six percent.
Speaker 3: It's big man who don't finish the season shooting fifty
Speaker 3: percent from the field and all they do is dunking layups.
Speaker 3: He is shooting fifty six percent forty five percent from three.
Speaker 3: Now I wouldn't say, I wouldn't say he's giving me
Speaker 3: Michael Jordan vibs just because it's twenty five. No, this
Speaker 3: has been the last three and a half seasons that
Speaker 3: he's averaged thirty and shot over fifty two percent from
Speaker 3: the field on step back in two point jump shots.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, man, and he's not slowing down. And
Speaker 3: I'm sitting up here saying, name me another guy that
Speaker 3: was doing it at this level at six six, not
Speaker 3: because of that letter says, I ain't comparing him to that,
Speaker 3: But I'm talking about when it comes down to getting
Speaker 3: a bucket shit.
Speaker 2: Presty a beautiful mind.
Speaker 1: What he's been able to do with this organization, the
Speaker 1: way he's been able to accumulate assets and picks and
Speaker 1: all kinds of different things. You got any cool behind
Speaker 1: the doors closed door store you could tell us about Sam?
Speaker 2: I got a few. So but yeah, sam my guy
Speaker 2: Sam Nick looks Sam. It took.
Speaker 3: The best thing that happened for st was samt for
Speaker 3: Sam was that he lost Kadi and James. But when
Speaker 3: he lost James, it made Sam change right and it
Speaker 3: made him adapt. That was the best thing that happened
Speaker 3: to Sam Preston, because remember when I got told KC
Speaker 3: it was different. It was like Sam Preston was trying
Speaker 3: to was running there the spurs way right. So like shit,
Speaker 3: I may say on Twitter at the time or social media,
Speaker 3: I was getting called in the principal office stuff like that.
Speaker 3: But he has changed with time and I think that
Speaker 3: helped him and now he got what he got. But
Speaker 3: behind the scene story, So I got in trouble. I
Speaker 3: had got in trouble outside of nightclub during my ten
Speaker 3: year class reunion in Houston. I got Yeah, I got
Speaker 3: in a fight. So, you know, a ten year class reunion,
Speaker 3: you're feeling yourself. You know, you're doing all this ship
Speaker 3: so that we're getting to fight. I don't know anything.
Speaker 3: I go to training camp.
Speaker 2: We go to Turkey that night. Huh, you wasn't there
Speaker 2: that night. Now me and Steve got we got.
Speaker 3: To come up together. So I go to Turkey. I
Speaker 3: go to Turkey. We go to Turkey for training camp.
Speaker 3: And when I get up, when we landed back in
Speaker 3: the States, the security guy named flat and she come
Speaker 3: up to me like, hey, look for you got off
Speaker 3: the plane. You got a warrant out for your arrest.
Speaker 3: And I'm like what So I didn't know the people
Speaker 3: that went press charges or whatever. Anyway, go through the
Speaker 3: whole thing, go to court case, get this miss or whatever,
Speaker 3: going into so I led. I was like top three
Speaker 3: in the league and technical files. At this point, Sam
Speaker 3: think I got a real problem. Like he really think
Speaker 3: I got a real problem.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 3: He comes to me after the season. He said, you
Speaker 3: know I care about you. Right when I said yo,
Speaker 3: he said, well, I need you to do something for me.
Speaker 3: And I was like, well, what's up. He was like,
Speaker 3: I know it's May, but in middle of June, starting
Speaker 3: in the middle of June, all the way up to
Speaker 3: the first week of September, I need you from eight
Speaker 3: to five every Monday, do Friday to be in Kansas
Speaker 3: City at this Angle Managements place.
Speaker 2: Right damn.
Speaker 3: And I was like, man, I ain't got to do
Speaker 3: that shit, you know in my mind, right, that's what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. I ain't doing that man like. And he
Speaker 3: was like, but I'm serious. And the serious part was
Speaker 3: was like, I ain't about to be tolerting your bullshit
Speaker 3: type serious, right. So I went and it was the
Speaker 3: best thing that ever happened to me in my life
Speaker 3: because it got me to a mode of one how
Speaker 3: to control myself. Not like I had angle issues, but
Speaker 3: I got a chance to meet a lot of great people.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I got a chance to meet a lot of
Speaker 3: great people. And when I say great people, I got
Speaker 3: a chance to meet doctors, anesthegiologists that were in there
Speaker 3: that were reported because you know, in the medical field,
Speaker 3: if you abuse your power, you get too many write ups.
Speaker 3: They see you there. And it was a nice facility,
Speaker 3: but it helped me out in so many ways. And
Speaker 3: I remember when I came back, I walked in the
Speaker 3: saund office and he just started crying and I was like,
Speaker 3: press you good. He was like, man, that was a
Speaker 3: test because if you wouldn't have done it. I was
Speaker 3: gonna trade your ass and I didn't really want to,
Speaker 3: and you did it. That showed me that you committed,
Speaker 3: that you really care about how I feel about you.
Speaker 2: And right there was like a real moment. That's beautiful. Sam.
Speaker 2: Sam learned from the best.
Speaker 4: He was a video guy when I was in San
Speaker 4: Antonio and I said I congratulated him on Instagram when
Speaker 4: they won the championship and he's sading me alone mentions
Speaker 4: about how a lot of people didn't respect him when
Speaker 4: he was coming up with the Spurs. But I always
Speaker 4: gave me respect and I always talked to him. So
Speaker 4: I'm happy that he having a success. He hasn't got
Speaker 4: me too. Look, people don't know people see that. You
Speaker 4: know the clean cut Sam on TV, Sam, I'm a
Speaker 4: dog now.
Speaker 2: He wanted to win.
Speaker 3: He got a competitive nature about him behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we got anything over there for hot takes
Speaker 1: from the threads thrown. Who got a hot take for us?
Speaker 1: Better not be no bullshit.
Speaker 6: Hi, I'm Latoy from Girl Talk Sports community for women
Speaker 6: who love sports. Find me on threads at.
Speaker 7: Girls Shout Out the Ladies Shout Out.
Speaker 6: Find me on threads at girl Underscore talks underscore sports.
Speaker 7: So I'm a whole.
Speaker 6: Immigrant, and my hot take is Team World is going
Speaker 6: to dominate the NBA All Star.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you take that first part. I actually
Speaker 2: agree with me too. You're right, all right?
Speaker 3: How'm like, should I actually agree with I'm like, I
Speaker 3: get to I was thinking about this the other day.
Speaker 2: I'm like, they starting vibe is Yoki, Jannis Luca Sga
Speaker 2: with me. I actually agree, And there you go. You
Speaker 2: won your hot take. Give it up for a real
Speaker 2: quick Yeah.
Speaker 8: What's up, guys, I'm Victoria a Ka baby b. My
Speaker 8: hot take is, do you I think that the league
Speaker 8: is just no longer taking pride in defense because I
Speaker 8: feel like every night someone scoring fifty, sixty, seventy and
Speaker 8: we're celebrating it.
Speaker 7: But I feel like we're forgetting a.
Speaker 8: Whole other half of the team, Like you don't see
Speaker 8: a two thousand and four Pistons vibe out here anymore,
Speaker 8: or defense in general.
Speaker 2: Well, I answered that I know what basketball I agree.
Speaker 4: I agree defense is definitely taking a step back in basketball,
Speaker 4: more guys are worried about what the game can do
Speaker 4: for him instead of actually loving the game. You see
Speaker 4: so many guys scoring thirty points and all this stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 4: these guys are very talented. But the competitive nature of
Speaker 4: stopping your guy, studying SKYT reports and knowing what your
Speaker 4: guy like to do, Like I know I wouldn't I
Speaker 4: probably wouldn't stop SHYT, but I know he wouldn't drive
Speaker 4: left and should have step back the same shot all
Speaker 4: game on me. I would force him to do something different,
Speaker 4: and he might make them but you're gonna do something different.
Speaker 4: They don't think like that, no more so you exactly right.
Speaker 4: Defense has definitely been lost in the game today.
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna say this, Adam Silvera just puts something
Speaker 3: out about like hearing the fans complaints about defense.
Speaker 2: It's a real thing. It's a real thing. And you
Speaker 2: know why.
Speaker 3: One part that people are not realizing sports betting is
Speaker 3: here and every motherfucker in the world bet on sports.
Speaker 3: Even my great auntie called me and I didn't even
Speaker 3: know her as what like to put in a property
Speaker 3: real talk. And so what I'm saying is when you
Speaker 3: betting on sports that actually make you watch the game
Speaker 3: even closer, Like right, if your money is tied in
Speaker 3: this and you waiting on one game and you locked.
Speaker 2: In and it could be. It could it's your part a.
Speaker 3: It could be the Pacers and Hawks, no disrespect, I'm
Speaker 3: just talking about this year. It could be that they're
Speaker 3: gonna watch it. So I'm with that, and I'm also
Speaker 3: with and y'all tell me how y'all feel. Man, I'm
Speaker 3: tired of all this two three zone one two two man.
Speaker 3: They should take that out of them. It should be straight.
Speaker 2: Man, the man man.
Speaker 3: And this is not what I'm not with that in
Speaker 3: the NBA. I think that is handicap and the gimmick.
Speaker 1: It's a gimmick unless people off the hook. But also
Speaker 1: think too. The one thing I do like because I'm
Speaker 1: obviously I played defense for a living.
Speaker 2: That was my thing.
Speaker 1: But I feel like in the playoffs they allow them
Speaker 1: to play a little bit more defense. So to me,
Speaker 1: that's kind of my only like. Okay, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: have completely agree. During the season is we used to
Speaker 1: call it brother in law defense. You score, I score,
Speaker 1: you let me score, I let you score. We just
Speaker 1: didn't come up in that ear so we don't understand it.
Speaker 1: But also at the same time to the credited game,
Speaker 1: the game has grown because of all the scoring and
Speaker 1: all the highlights you see, So it's kind of a
Speaker 1: double edged sword. But I mean, I think to perks point,
Speaker 1: the commissioner understands that it understands what the fans want
Speaker 1: to see the peers want to see.
Speaker 2: So hopefully we'll get some.
Speaker 1: Rule changes or allow more stuff to get us back
Speaker 1: to more of a defensive battle.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your question. My name is Swoop.
Speaker 9: Blame Swoop to the exact. So how you guys doing so,
Speaker 9: proud of you all, seriously and congratulations on everything. My
Speaker 9: high take is, so I'm from Cleveland.
Speaker 2: Ohio, born and raised.
Speaker 9: And honestly, you know, Shador coming to this city literally
Speaker 9: feels like when Bron arrived. There's a diff I mean,
Speaker 9: if you ever been to Cleveland, you know it's cold,
Speaker 9: it's gray, but the energy that's there now feels like
Speaker 9: when Bron entered the city. The economy feels different. People
Speaker 9: are building things and you know, want to bring companies there.
Speaker 9: My hot take is that the Cleveland Browns would be
Speaker 9: Super Bowl champions within five years.
Speaker 2: Not with that coaching staff.
Speaker 3: I disagree with your hot take, but I want that hope.
Speaker 3: Make sure y'all record it every single thing he just said,
Speaker 3: because for all the people that gave me shit about
Speaker 3: what I said about him being the most powerful black man,
Speaker 3: powerful athlete in sports. Right now, it's certain athletes that
Speaker 3: changed the economy. Right we saw Yannis in Milwaukee. He
Speaker 3: changed the economy.
Speaker 2: He's going to New York, by the way, any.
Speaker 3: I mean, if he stopped being a coward. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, and I respect you, honest, but man
Speaker 3: like bro, just say you want out, Bro, you want out,
Speaker 3: and it's okay. Guess what, It's okay, and no one
Speaker 3: should be mad. He's gave everything and more to that city.
Speaker 3: But just saying that's not with this roller coaster. But
Speaker 3: I disagree with the hot tape. I agree with you.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 4: I think if they get rid of the coach staff,
Speaker 4: a lot has to happen.
Speaker 2: Though a lot has to happen for them to win
Speaker 2: it in five years.
Speaker 4: They got to get rid of the coach and actually
Speaker 4: give Shadua the keys. Whay, he's not looking over his shoulder.
Speaker 4: If a couple of things like that happened, get another
Speaker 4: receiver in there, I think they can because that defense
Speaker 4: is good enough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think it's management's job to put
Speaker 1: putting the pieces around him, they already got a good defense.
Speaker 1: And again to Stax's point, he's not having the second
Speaker 1: guess himself and look a over his shoulder. I think
Speaker 1: he's it's only been three games and we're not saying
Speaker 1: he's a savior, but he's the best thing they have
Speaker 1: for sure. And to Perks point, this guy moves the needles,
Speaker 1: so we obviously wish him the best.
Speaker 3: So like this whole, this whole media thing, right, there's
Speaker 3: so many areas going in, there, so many beefs inside
Speaker 3: of this media. I gotta get youall input on this
Speaker 3: and how y'all feel about certain situations because we hain't
Speaker 3: got a chance to chop it up in a minute
Speaker 3: Like I see the k Morton dramond I'm completely on
Speaker 3: Keny on Morte side right, like real talk, because I
Speaker 3: feel where he's coming from. You know, it's certain language
Speaker 3: that shouldn't be used when you talk about guys that
Speaker 3: made it to the NBA, right, I feel like anytime
Speaker 3: you made it, you shouldn't be it shouldn't be called
Speaker 3: you shouldn't be called the underachiever or a bus or
Speaker 3: whatever that is.
Speaker 2: If you made it, you made it right. But I
Speaker 2: want to know, Like, it's so.
Speaker 3: Many beefs going on this side of the media, media
Speaker 3: people beefing with media people. Man, how y'all feel about this?
Speaker 4: Well, I'll start off for me, a lot of a
Speaker 4: lot of the stuff as well. With basketball players, that's
Speaker 4: healthy because what basketball player, I don't think he was
Speaker 4: better than others. Now, I come with receipts with mine,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, in facts, so with feelings,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So a lot of people
Speaker 4: say a lot of things, but they don't have no facts.
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, it's fun because
Speaker 4: that's just like you in the gym and the guy
Speaker 4: telling you I can beat you. I can know you can't,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, So that that that's all fun.
Speaker 4: When it gets to the point where you're disrespecting people's families,
Speaker 4: when you're making it personally and not by the by
Speaker 4: basketball and you're trying to take it elsewhere, that's when
Speaker 4: it become a problem. But I think for the most part,
Speaker 4: we have enough respect in our show and we show
Speaker 4: so much love that we don't ever have to get
Speaker 4: to that point, you know what I'm saying, Because even
Speaker 4: when Nick was saying the things about me. The first
Speaker 4: thing I said, what it ain't no beef because it's
Speaker 4: certain people that can't compete with me, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. And at the end of the day's levels
Speaker 4: to this. So but the competition to talk, the back
Speaker 4: and forth is all good. Long as the states, you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. Yeah, long as the state basketball.
Speaker 1: What you say, Yeah, Perk, I've turned over a new leaf.
Speaker 1: So I don't have no beefs. I love everybody. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and look, my am, this is my hos beef with
Speaker 1: either you know.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
Speaker 3: This is my thing with everything from the network, the
Speaker 3: platforms that I'm on, even with y'all. Like, the thing
Speaker 3: is is that we gotta start doing a better job
Speaker 3: of holding people account with.
Speaker 2: Ship that bullshit they say.
Speaker 3: It's it's bullshit, they say, But let's not turn basketball
Speaker 3: in sports into TMZ and CNN. Like I don't want
Speaker 3: to keep hearing the fucking reportings on Chauncey Billups and
Speaker 3: Damon Jones and Terror ROSEI okay, it came out cool.
Speaker 3: Bet something else happened a month later than addressing But
Speaker 3: I don't want to care. I don't give a fuck
Speaker 3: about no write ups. I don't want to hear no
Speaker 3: deep dives. Bill Simmons says something the other day that
Speaker 3: I came across with was like Bill Simmons said, like,
Speaker 3: you know the Hornets knew about the investigation, that's why
Speaker 3: they traded. How you know like that speculation like that
Speaker 3: ain't covering the game of basketball. Man, that's like if
Speaker 3: you go go do that, mego work for you know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying, crime scenes is a homicide or some shit.
Speaker 2: It's getting ridiculous. Keep it spoiled though.
Speaker 1: For man, I just think to another and I said
Speaker 1: it the other day, anonymous sources, I'm not with anonymous sources.
Speaker 2: Me.
Speaker 1: You're gonna talk some shit, put your motherfucking name on it,
Speaker 1: anonymous sources of the across the board, sports life, whatever
Speaker 1: it is, and not like if you have something to say,
Speaker 1: say it, you know, don't hide behind source anonymous sources.
Speaker 2: That bothers me. I don't pat us on the back
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 4: But I'm glad we never dove into the meaning people
Speaker 4: to make ourselves look better. That's one thing I show
Speaker 4: take pride or we give flowers, and too many people
Speaker 4: look forward today. If you demean somebody it makes you
Speaker 4: look better, That's definitely not the way success and I
Speaker 4: hope we've been an example of that again, Perk.
Speaker 1: We appreciate your time today. Man, thank you very much
Speaker 1: giving up for Perk. Let's meet the man this behind Threads.
Speaker 1: Let's welcome to the stage right now, Connor Hayes.
Speaker 2: Thanks for being here.
Speaker 1: So, Connor, you're the head of Threads and now it's
Speaker 1: been there for been doing that for about four months.
Speaker 1: How's that experience been, and take us back a little
Speaker 1: bit of how the concept of Threads came about.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was part of the team that built Threads
Speaker 5: originally and then kind of took a little detour and
Speaker 5: came back a.
Speaker 7: Few months ago.
Speaker 5: But there's always just been this big demand, like ever
Speaker 5: since the internet, you know, came out for people to
Speaker 5: take their interests online and talk about them with other
Speaker 5: people and find other people that are as big of
Speaker 5: fanatics about whatever topic it is that they might be.
Speaker 7: And so obviously there's been apps.
Speaker 5: Reddit and Twitter and things like that in the past
Speaker 5: that had done really well here, but we really saw
Speaker 5: this opening as meta to compete in that space, and
Speaker 5: so that was the early stages of Threads is how
Speaker 5: can we do this, do it in a little bit
Speaker 5: of a different way, make it feel like it came
Speaker 5: from Meta, came from Instagram. And it's been an awesome
Speaker 5: couple of years ever since since we launched it. The
Speaker 5: last four months have been great, though. The big thing
Speaker 5: for us right now is focusing on these interest based communities,
Speaker 5: basketball being a huge one of them, so that took
Speaker 5: off organically.
Speaker 7: In the very beginning.
Speaker 5: Basketball and NBA discussion was always one of the first
Speaker 5: things that people took to. I remember the weekend before
Speaker 5: we launched, we let in a bunch of partners to
Speaker 5: the app, and I had, like Mark Cuban, the Mavericks
Speaker 5: had just signed Seth Curry, and Seth Curry signed up
Speaker 5: and posted something and Mark Cuban.
Speaker 7: Replied to him and I was like, all right, we
Speaker 7: got one.
Speaker 5: This is going to be good, you know when you
Speaker 5: see people interacting like that. And for the last few
Speaker 5: months we've been just trying to do more and more.
Speaker 5: So we've added these podcast features, the NBA Threads community
Speaker 5: and there's a lot more to come.
Speaker 2: Love that.
Speaker 1: Congratulations when you look around this room and see all
Speaker 1: the threads creators in here, you're sitting up on the
Speaker 1: stage talking about it, like, what's the first thing that
Speaker 1: comes to mind for you?
Speaker 7: First thing comes to mind is like, how did this happen?
Speaker 5: Because when you guys probably have can relate to this,
Speaker 5: having built you know, your whole company. But when you
Speaker 5: start out, it's like a few people with an idea
Speaker 5: just kind of sitting around in a room with laptops
Speaker 5: and you're like, what could we do? And you throw
Speaker 5: out some big idea of you know, we could be
Speaker 5: the biggest in the space someday. But when it starts happening,
Speaker 5: and it starts happening faster than you expected to, it's
Speaker 5: kind of surreal.
Speaker 7: So appreciate you guys and everybody else we're coming out.
Speaker 2: Thank you for having us.
Speaker 1: The NBA normally dominates social media. The NFL dominates cable. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the trend is cables kind of dying out. Where do
Speaker 1: you think threads fits into how fans interact with the game.
Speaker 5: We really wanted to be this like second screen, you know,
Speaker 5: whenever you're watching games live, where you can see what's
Speaker 5: happening in real time. On the conversation about it, there's
Speaker 5: been a few moments like that for me this year
Speaker 5: where things really clicked. When we've launched the NBA Threads community.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you guys remember, it was like
Speaker 5: the first week of the season when Wemby it was
Speaker 5: like his first or second game, and everyone was like,
Speaker 5: oh my god, what is happening right now? And I
Speaker 5: had threads up and was just refreshing, refreshing, freshing, and
Speaker 5: people are throwing clips in there and commentary and you
Speaker 5: see players and ex players starting to comment on it,
Speaker 5: and his like MVP conversation kind of starts taking off.
Speaker 7: Of course, he's missed some time, but so those are
Speaker 7: the moments where we feel like it's working.
Speaker 5: And we want it to be much more like that
Speaker 5: the second screen when you're watching.
Speaker 2: Some of that.
Speaker 4: You're a big time Celtics fan, Yes, sir, the Celtics
Speaker 4: are surprising people this year.
Speaker 2: You need my microphone.
Speaker 4: The Celtics are surprising people this year. Sound like Barry
Speaker 4: White doing it. Do you think Tatum's coming back?
Speaker 5: I'm not that surprised, but because I'll tell you what,
Speaker 5: because I think Joe Mizula is just an absolute maniac.
Speaker 5: The Yeah, the third team in the East, right now
Speaker 5: I keep going around telling people that were the third
Speaker 5: team in the East, and we were ninth like five
Speaker 5: days ago, so I have to calm.
Speaker 2: Down a little bit.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean, they have a bunch of really
Speaker 5: good players, they have a good system. I don't know
Speaker 5: if they're a championship team without Jason Tatum, but we'll see.
Speaker 1: Jayden Brown's been playing really well. Obviously what he thought
Speaker 1: about his play, because there's kind of always been normally
Speaker 1: social media back and forth like is he a one
Speaker 1: A or is he a one B? I think he's
Speaker 1: obviously stepped in the role and has great numbers this year.
Speaker 1: What do you think about his play this year?
Speaker 7: It's been awesome.
Speaker 5: I Mean the thing about those guys, which I really
Speaker 5: do believe and actually curious if you have any insider
Speaker 5: information because I'm just making this up, is that they
Speaker 5: don't seem like they've ever cared about that one A
Speaker 5: one B conversation. It's just always been a partnership of like,
Speaker 5: let's go win some basketball games. So I'm you know,
Speaker 5: I think in any other situation you would you there
Speaker 5: would be a conversation of like is this threatening to
Speaker 5: Jason Tatum? But nobody's saying that because it's clear that
Speaker 5: they love playing together.
Speaker 7: But yeah, Jalen's been great. I think the big thing
Speaker 7: has just been on the defensive side of the ball too.
Speaker 5: This dude, Jordan Walsh has been like insane and it's
Speaker 5: setting up a bunch of transition that works for him.
Speaker 5: But the craziest thing that I was checking out recently
Speaker 5: is they are like one of the slowest teams in
Speaker 5: the league on pace, but one of the top for
Speaker 5: three pointers made, which just shows that they're committed to
Speaker 5: the three and they're working it into half court and
Speaker 5: so it seems.
Speaker 7: Like that's working.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts, Obviously being a Celtics fan, Jason
Speaker 1: Tatum is a head of schedule. If you were the
Speaker 1: GM or the person who made decisions over there, maybe
Speaker 1: the president, would you bring him back next year or
Speaker 1: do you think that he needs to relax and wait
Speaker 1: and wait till next season.
Speaker 5: I mean, like I want to say, get him back tomorrow.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I feel like they'll figure that out. But there was
Speaker 5: a video of him today doing one on one drills.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's different than doing a seven game playoff series,
Speaker 5: of course, but I don't know. I feel like he
Speaker 5: will come back this year. I think it's kind of
Speaker 5: pointing in that direction. My sense is that if they
Speaker 5: were five and fifteen right now, he probably wouldn't, but
Speaker 5: the fact that they're overperforming seems like he probably will.
Speaker 4: It is always they always make that decision depending on
Speaker 4: how the team is coming up after All Star Break.
Speaker 2: They're gonna make the same way with Kyrie as well.
Speaker 4: Good thing about your team, Your star player got his
Speaker 4: haircut situation together.
Speaker 2: That was kind of rough for men.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I definitely saw some He is getting crazy.
Speaker 4: Shout out Jaylen Brown, who wins this best of seven
Speaker 4: eighty six Celtics Bird McHale Parish as Dennis Johnson are
Speaker 4: the two thousand and eight Celtics KG Paul Rondo, Ray
Speaker 4: and perk.
Speaker 2: Oh Wait easy.
Speaker 7: Who's guarding Kevin Garnett on that team?
Speaker 2: Nobody? No, I agree. I don't think them were fast enough. Parish,
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 7: I guess the Chief might might give him some trouble.
Speaker 2: I think the advantage would be at point guard Rondo
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 5: Yes, Ken Kendrick Perkins one time put on threads. Uh
Speaker 5: you know, it was like, who who's your all time
Speaker 5: starting five or something like that, and my response was.
Speaker 1: Rondo, Rondo, He's a monster.
Speaker 2: What's your favorite memory of the Celtics.
Speaker 7: Fan summer twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5: I got to go to Game five when they won
Speaker 5: the championship against Dallas, which was awesome.
Speaker 7: I've never been in a sports moment.
Speaker 5: The Peyton Pritchard end of the first half, like three
Speaker 5: quarter court shot.
Speaker 7: I thought I was gonna go deaf.
Speaker 5: My wife was there with me and we were like,
Speaker 5: just I have a photo of her cheering, and the
Speaker 5: security guard is like, like, you're not supposed to do
Speaker 5: that when you're working security at the game.
Speaker 7: But the whole arena went crazy. It was great.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: I heard you have announcement, well, some new features in
Speaker 1: the basketball community.
Speaker 2: You want to Yeah, so this is so.
Speaker 5: We have the NBA Threads community. You can join and
Speaker 5: tag your posts into it. It's been going really well
Speaker 5: so far. Upcoming in the next week or so, we're
Speaker 5: going to be rolling out a couple of things to
Speaker 5: recognize people that are in those communities. One of them
Speaker 5: is actually giving people like badges and titles when they're
Speaker 5: good at starting conversations, when they're like a top contributor
Speaker 5: to the community things like that, so they can show
Speaker 5: that off. And the other, which I think is really important,
Speaker 5: is being able to add your favorite team as flair,
Speaker 5: because nothing's worth worse on the Internet than when you're
Speaker 5: like arguing with someone and they're like, Scottie Barnes is
Speaker 5: a top five player and they don't have the Raptors flair.
Speaker 7: You're like, what is their bias?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 5: So now we'll have the Raptors flare next to it
Speaker 5: and you can understand who you're dealing with.
Speaker 1: What's your biggest advice for creators on how best to
Speaker 1: utilize threads?
Speaker 5: The number one thing I always say when people are
Speaker 5: getting started is to just focus on replying and showing
Speaker 5: people that you're there. A lot of folks, you guys
Speaker 5: probably have experienced this a bit too, get on the
Speaker 5: platform and they're used to creating media content, their video
Speaker 5: content creators or their podcast content creators, and they have
Speaker 5: a keyboard in front of them and they're like, I
Speaker 5: don't know what to say, But if you scroll your
Speaker 5: feed for like, you know, five, ten, fifteen minutes, you're
Speaker 5: gonna see some things that you have an opinion on
Speaker 5: and starting to weigh on those and reply to people.
Speaker 5: We tend to show that off to folks that are
Speaker 5: in the app and so then they might not even
Speaker 5: follow you, but they're saying, you know, Kendrick Perkins asked
Speaker 5: for your top five players. If you responded with your
Speaker 5: take right now, it starts going out to everybody and
Speaker 5: you can build an audience that way.
Speaker 2: Main down a question, mj Kobe, Brawn, Rank.
Speaker 7: Them right now?
Speaker 2: Ran? Yeah? Done, Ron, right now? Rank them?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 7: I mean I think Michael Jordan is the best player.
Speaker 2: Ever, I don't.
Speaker 7: I don't even know why that's a debate.
Speaker 4: I'm proud of you, was saying, yeah.
Speaker 1: And now the next two positions are the horror positions?
Speaker 1: Who do you have behind him?
Speaker 7: Number two? Ever? Probably Bill Russell?
Speaker 2: Oh? You put Bill Russell in there? Is that some
Speaker 2: Celtics bias?
Speaker 1: Maybe, Oh, Lebron? Usually they have two Hunhs or Kobe.
Speaker 1: I mean, it just kind of just depends.
Speaker 7: I think your top five is.
Speaker 5: I'll say it in no particular order, Jordan, Russell, Lebron, Kobe.
Speaker 5: Some people have Will I wouldn't put him in there,
Speaker 5: and then I'd probably have Magic or Bird.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, it's pretty solid. Rounded out five.
Speaker 7: I have a surprise for you.
Speaker 5: This is my original two thousand and eight championship T
Speaker 5: shirt and on it they did him very dirty on there,
Speaker 5: and I want, I want everyone.
Speaker 7: Can you find him? It's hard to even know which one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: You got a strong ass face and that's slim perk
Speaker 1: right there. Oh is that what it is?
Speaker 2: You gotta come see this park?
Speaker 7: Come up, man, I don't know if I don't know
Speaker 7: if the artists signed this, but I.
Speaker 1: Mean, what are the chances that you're a huge Celtics fan?
Speaker 1: And then we just happened to grab a championship center
Speaker 1: from the eight team.
Speaker 7: The greatest franchise in sports.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 7: Thanks for coming.
Speaker 1: And again we really want to thank the whole Meta
Speaker 1: team for making this, putting this together, our team for
Speaker 1: collabing with them.
Speaker 2: Threads. We appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1: We look forward to continue to do a great business
Speaker 1: with you guys, all the Hot Take people.
Speaker 2: We appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1: And like I said, I mean creators, let's get together, man,
Speaker 1: let's work up.
Speaker 2: Let's make it