Speaker 1: Hi, I'm slow and I know basketball, says guest. Played
Speaker 1: in the league for almost the amount of time I've
Speaker 1: been a lot.
Speaker 2: His journey from.
Speaker 1: Growing up in New Jersey, going straight to the league
Speaker 1: and playing on seven different teams is a story you
Speaker 1: won't want to miss. Let's get to know Al Harrington. Okay, Al,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for being here. I'm so excited
Speaker 1: to have you on. So I am seventeen years old
Speaker 1: and I'm a junior in high school, which I know
Speaker 1: is a little different from the usual people that interview you.
Speaker 1: So don't be scared. I promise I don't fight. Seventy
Speaker 1: year girls are fierce, but this is going to be
Speaker 1: a fun episode. So I like to sort off by
Speaker 1: asking you, because you are not seventeen, what you were
Speaker 1: like when you were seventeen.
Speaker 3: When I was seventeen, I think I was a lit
Speaker 3: young man, okay young man write and I was obviously
Speaker 3: playing basketball. I was one of the best best players
Speaker 3: in the country.
Speaker 2: During that time.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be honest, I was really really focused on
Speaker 3: bass during that time. You know, I was trying to
Speaker 3: decide if I wanted to go to college or wanted
Speaker 3: to go pro, which I ended up deciding to go pro.
Speaker 3: You know, didn't have as many resources as I have
Speaker 3: once I became a pro, So you know, during that time,
Speaker 3: you know, it was just really laser focused on basketball.
Speaker 3: You know, I come from a religious family, so my
Speaker 3: mom made sure he was going to church and different
Speaker 3: things like that. So you know that that was the
Speaker 3: seventeen year old trying to figure it all out.
Speaker 2: Gotcha.
Speaker 1: So, like you said, you were one of the best
Speaker 1: players in the country. You were the gay rid player
Speaker 1: of the year. I think USA Today's national player of
Speaker 1: the year. How are you able to deal with the hype?
Speaker 3: Honestly, I think it would have been a lot different
Speaker 3: if it was now, because remember when I was a
Speaker 3: long time yeah no, nil, no social media, those things
Speaker 3: or whatever. So the hype was more like very localized.
Speaker 3: It just kind of where I was and kind of
Speaker 3: in my head, you know, But I don't think I
Speaker 3: was getting kind of the national attention that a lot
Speaker 3: of these kids deal with now. So you know, I
Speaker 3: think because of that, you know, I was able to,
Speaker 3: you know, pretty much deal with it. And for me,
Speaker 3: it happened kind of at the end of my high
Speaker 3: school career. It wasn't like I was like a Lebron
Speaker 3: James or something. I was like being hyped since I
Speaker 3: was twelve years old. And I think that's when you, like,
Speaker 3: you know, things can get to your head and stuff.
Speaker 3: I think because I was more of a late bloomer
Speaker 3: or whatever, I think I was able to handle pretty well.
Speaker 1: Were you a late bloomer just like with your game
Speaker 1: or did you just actually grow really late?
Speaker 3: So I so I had my biggest growth spurt between
Speaker 3: eighth grade and my freshman year. I finished my eighth grade, yeah,
Speaker 3: being I was five ten and in two and a
Speaker 3: half months, I was six four.
Speaker 2: Two and a half months.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I grew Like, oh, like, did.
Speaker 2: You sleep like every day for like twelve hours?
Speaker 3: I was sleeping. I was. I was in a lot
Speaker 3: of pain. I had something. I'm sure you might have
Speaker 3: had it to its being a ex athlete. I could slaughter,
Speaker 3: which is like a girl thing like in your yeees
Speaker 3: or whatever. So you know, I dealt with that. So
Speaker 3: I didn't play a lot that summer, you know.
Speaker 4: So I was in the house, yeah, in pain or whatever,
Speaker 4: drinking a lot of milk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the milk, and to McDonald's.
Speaker 2: Really that's like the key to grow.
Speaker 3: I give McDonald's a lot of credit for you know,
Speaker 3: no way.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that's funny because I feel like so
Speaker 1: many kids now are trying so hard to grow, like
Speaker 1: they'll do everything to grow.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be mean to my little.
Speaker 1: Brother, but he takes like gummies every morning to try
Speaker 1: to get taller. And I've seen people on TikTok literally
Speaker 1: putting like splints in their legs and like actually physically
Speaker 1: making their legs longer.
Speaker 3: So your little brother is just a flint stones.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm sure that that's gonna help. Yeah, okay. And
Speaker 1: McDonald's like.
Speaker 3: Said, mc McDonald's ingreements.
Speaker 4: Changed now yeah, it's now.
Speaker 2: You think when you were a kid, it was like
Speaker 2: health there.
Speaker 3: Yeah it was. It was like real beef and all
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: You know that. I feel like, yeah, I think it's fake.
Speaker 2: Do you believe in those conspiracy theories?
Speaker 3: I do that it's fake me. Yeah? Man? Have you
Speaker 3: e a but a big mac and just sating on
Speaker 3: your account for months and months and months and see.
Speaker 2: That I unfortunately haven't.
Speaker 3: You should try?
Speaker 2: I should, Okay, thanks?
Speaker 1: You know, speaking of McDonald's, I think it's really fun
Speaker 1: if you're traveling to go to different McDonald's in different countries.
Speaker 1: I was just in Japan for spring break and I
Speaker 1: went to McDonald's in Japan.
Speaker 2: It's a complete different thing in every country.
Speaker 3: And then they have like shrimp burgers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very weird things.
Speaker 1: I mean, some of that's a little crazy. I think
Speaker 1: we need to just stick with or McDonald's. So I
Speaker 1: want to touch back on something you said earlier, which
Speaker 1: was that you, as we know, didn't go to college,
Speaker 1: but while you were in high school you had to
Speaker 1: make that choice.
Speaker 2: Am I going to go to college or am I
Speaker 2: going to go pro.
Speaker 1: Let's say you how you were seventeen now in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, and IL exists, social media exists, would you
Speaker 1: have gone to college and then, well, let's say the
Speaker 1: rule didn't.
Speaker 4: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 3: I mean especially if, like, if they weren't telling me
Speaker 3: that I was going to be a guaranteed top ten
Speaker 3: pick me being that good. You know, that's that's a
Speaker 3: lot of seven million dollar in IO.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you should go and did that chat.
Speaker 3: So I would definitely go to college and take that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: for sure.
Speaker 1: If a kid was asking you your advice, should I
Speaker 1: go pro or should I go to high school? Would
Speaker 1: you be an advocate on bringing that rule back? And
Speaker 1: would you tell a kid to go straight to the leaf.
Speaker 3: So, like I said, it really just depends on, like,
Speaker 3: you know, where they are physically and mentally, because that's
Speaker 3: the biggest challenge is you know, when you get there,
Speaker 3: making sure that you can you know, handle the physicality
Speaker 3: at a game, so like the mental grind of it
Speaker 3: and being mature enough to understand that, you know, all
Speaker 3: the things you did in high school has nothing to
Speaker 3: do when you get to the to the pro ranks
Speaker 3: because completely everything's different, the lifestyle, everything that demands. You know,
Speaker 3: you're no longer the best player anymore. You know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying, How do you deal with that? How do
Speaker 3: you understand like the work ethic to get over the top.
Speaker 3: So you know, it would really all those things would
Speaker 3: be a variable. I would really sit down and kind
Speaker 3: of understand like the kids, you know, his plans, his future,
Speaker 3: his family, will, kind of infrastructure you have before I
Speaker 3: would decide, you know, or tell him give him any
Speaker 3: you know, advice. But you know, going pro, you know
Speaker 3: for me obviously worked. You know, I think that with
Speaker 3: the rule being that they have to go to college
Speaker 3: for just one year is kind of silly, and I
Speaker 3: think that that's why we see college. You know, basketball
Speaker 3: has taken a huge hit because of these rules, because
Speaker 3: now you have kids that not have not vested, you
Speaker 3: can never really you know, get behind them because in
Speaker 3: the blank of an eye, they're already gone. You know.
Speaker 3: So but you know, if my son, to your point
Speaker 3: over the seventeen year old hour, you know, the foundation
Speaker 3: and infrastructure I had as a family, I would go pro.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because you made me think about
Speaker 1: something that I think maybe only really players understand that
Speaker 1: US fans don't really see, which is whatever guys commit
Speaker 1: to a college right. People are so quick to judge, like, oh,
Speaker 1: he should have gone to this place, he should have
Speaker 1: gone to this place. But listening to you, I realized
Speaker 1: how much goes into that choice, and now that.
Speaker 2: Can really make or break your whole career, which is crazy.
Speaker 3: It can, I mean even either at the pro level, right,
Speaker 3: it all depends on like where you go, right, right team,
Speaker 3: right right coaching staff. You know, I've seen a lot
Speaker 3: of players that I feel like, you know, would have
Speaker 3: been more successful if they went to a franchise or
Speaker 3: to an organization that was you know that you know,
Speaker 3: had a better infrastructure to support yeah, you know, compared
Speaker 3: to going to like some of the terrible franchises.
Speaker 2: The right piece of.
Speaker 3: Right, but we know we know who they are, right,
Speaker 3: we know the repeat defenders that never make the stuff
Speaker 3: like that. So you want to stay far away from them,
Speaker 3: and you know, try to play on you know, these
Speaker 3: teams like the Warriors and you know my next you
Speaker 3: know that's hot right now, this comes out. We're too
Speaker 3: old this ball say we're about to sweep them boys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this is great.
Speaker 1: I literally the past two four days, I keep saying
Speaker 1: there's no way the Necks are gonna win, and they win, Like,
Speaker 1: what is happening?
Speaker 2: Give me your take on that. How is that possible?
Speaker 2: That the Knicks just won both games and.
Speaker 3: It's just time for New York to stand up? Okay, No,
Speaker 3: we've been through a lot over these games or whatever,
Speaker 3: and you know, uh, you know, we had an unbelievable
Speaker 3: first round against Detroit. You know, I think that you know,
Speaker 3: one game Detroit should have won, and that we should
Speaker 3: have actually went back to Detroit down three too. But
Speaker 3: the basketball guys are taking care of us, and obviously
Speaker 3: it's not over, you know, you know, because Boss is
Speaker 3: a very dangerous team. They've had us down twenty each game,
Speaker 3: but they haven't been able to finish. So hopefully we
Speaker 3: can keep that going. Yeah, New York, New York.
Speaker 1: My dad is from New York and he's a Knicks fan,
Speaker 1: and I feel like it's funny to see I've never
Speaker 1: seen him this happy.
Speaker 2: I think this is the happiest he's ever been.
Speaker 1: Like, if the Knicks make it to the finals, I
Speaker 1: know I'm gonna be getting a lot of gifts.
Speaker 2: He's not gonna care.
Speaker 1: I could come home and get an F on my
Speaker 1: mouth test and no one would care as long as
Speaker 1: the Knicks are doing well, Like that's money. And so
Speaker 1: I'm really hoping that the I'm next continue to win.
Speaker 1: So now I want to talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: your NBA career. I do agree from what we talked
Speaker 1: about you as a seventeen years I think you were
Speaker 1: a young man like you said and take the words
Speaker 1: out of your mouth. But now we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about your NBA career. What was your eye made it moment?
Speaker 3: My I made it moment? I don't know if I
Speaker 3: really had one per se, but I think that, you know, uh,
Speaker 3: during my my first year, there was an NBA lockout, yes,
Speaker 3: and we had a meeting in New York where all
Speaker 3: the players were kind of there to kind of get
Speaker 3: an update on like when we were going to play.
Speaker 3: And I think that when I walked in a room
Speaker 3: and I saw like Michael Jor and Charles Barkley and
Speaker 3: David Robinson and all the guys who were like my
Speaker 3: heroes going all in one room and like, I'm in
Speaker 3: business with them now, like one of this your peers. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I was just like, oh my god, I'm here. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that would probably be it.
Speaker 1: Is there any specific moment where you think you were
Speaker 1: part of a rookies I made a moment like you
Speaker 1: just totally crushed a rookie and you're like this moments
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: For them, or you don't think so, No, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Really. I mean, I'm sure you were like that for
Speaker 2: a bunch probably, you know.
Speaker 3: You know, you know, I think that we all kind
Speaker 3: of trained to kind of be cool even though we
Speaker 3: want to fan out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I'm saying for certain.
Speaker 3: People or whatever, but so, yeah, I'm sure it is
Speaker 3: because you know, I when that that you say that,
Speaker 3: it has been a couple of players that have told
Speaker 3: me I was their favorite player and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. So that probably would be
Speaker 3: that like that kind of moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: So let's go back to the next So there was
Speaker 1: a stretch on the next when you were averaging twenty
Speaker 1: a game. How did you deal with that pressure of
Speaker 1: being that guy in New York Because when you're that
Speaker 1: guy on the Knicks, that's way different than being that
Speaker 1: guy on the Hornets, Like Charlotte does not care as
Speaker 1: much as New York does, you know, So I want
Speaker 1: to hear what that was like.
Speaker 3: Well, I felt I felt the pressure. Like out of
Speaker 3: every place that I played, the Garden was the only
Speaker 3: place that before every game I had butterflies, really just
Speaker 3: because I never wanted to get booed, because the Knicks
Speaker 3: fans are something else because they will boo you, and
Speaker 3: then they'll you and then they'll boo you, you know.
Speaker 3: And I had a couple of teammates that I play
Speaker 3: with that will like get booed consistently, like even one
Speaker 3: of them that started and they will literally say his
Speaker 3: name in the starting lineup and they will boom, you know.
Speaker 3: So it was always something that I never wanted to
Speaker 3: be a part of. And I can't say that I
Speaker 3: never got booed in my two years of playing there.
Speaker 2: What was the specific reason you got food?
Speaker 3: No, I said, I did not.
Speaker 2: You didn't You never got booed. Okay, that's like you
Speaker 2: should make like a book about that. I never did.
Speaker 1: But because I swear everyone's always I'm having someone to
Speaker 1: But who was the craziest fan that you saw sitting
Speaker 1: court side at msg U?
Speaker 3: Craziest fan? So there's a there's a guy out of
Speaker 3: in Indiana that we call him the Signed guy or whatever.
Speaker 3: So he'll be there, you know, tomorrow for the playoff game.
Speaker 3: He always has like these crazy signs or whatever. So
Speaker 3: I would say he's probably the most animated fan court side.
Speaker 3: And then there's also another guy in Toronto.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm pretty sure he's like in the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 2: like he like something crazy like that.
Speaker 3: He's pretty intense on the sun line too. So those
Speaker 3: guys stick out.
Speaker 2: From any celebrities that you saw.
Speaker 1: You looked over and you were like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: they're sitting courtside watching you play.
Speaker 3: A little bit. I mean in New York all the time. Yeah, ever,
Speaker 3: you know you got all the actors and actresses. You know,
Speaker 3: obviously Spike Lee's there all the times. You know. I
Speaker 3: used to always be I be cool when like jay
Speaker 3: Z used to come watch us play and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, there's always somebody in New York.
Speaker 1: It's funny too because I feel like this is more
Speaker 1: of a teenage girl thing, I feel like, than a
Speaker 1: grown man thing. But sometimes there's like influencer drama that
Speaker 1: like happens when people come to games with their boyfriends.
Speaker 2: And like sit courts side and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Like when Kylie Jenner and Timothy Shallomey were sitting court side,
Speaker 1: I was freaking out because it's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is their hard launch whatever. And then I realized, you,
Speaker 1: no NBA player probably has any idea what a big moment.
Speaker 3: This is what you got to educate me. What is
Speaker 3: a hard one?
Speaker 1: Okay, hard line? Okay, So there's a soft launch and
Speaker 1: there's a hard launch. Because now everything goes on social media, right,
Speaker 1: so sometimes you're dating someone, right, but it's not like
Speaker 1: a thing on social media and then a soft launch
Speaker 1: is let's say you were like walking on the beach,
Speaker 1: right and you like took a picture of someone like
Speaker 1: standing out in like the ocean or something, but no
Speaker 1: one knew who it was. But this was like your
Speaker 1: soft launch, like you're showing you're in a relationship. And
Speaker 1: then a hard launch is like the first time you like,
Speaker 1: in their case, would be like going public. But then
Speaker 1: it would also be like the first time you actually
Speaker 1: post like a specific selfie, like, Okay.
Speaker 2: Now people know I'm dating them, Like it's not rumors anymore.
Speaker 2: You know. Now you know you can tell your daughter,
Speaker 2: you can be like, oh, I saw the hard line
Speaker 2: she does.
Speaker 4: I'm sure she's cool.
Speaker 2: Yes, of course. Well I feel like you're cool. So
Speaker 2: do you think you're a cool dad?
Speaker 3: I'm the coolest dad. My kids always tell me I'm
Speaker 3: the best dad, but I'm the only one they know.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 1: But do you think best in cooler lines? I don't
Speaker 1: know best in cool or like synonymous.
Speaker 3: That's true, so that I'm definitely the coolest, because I mean,
Speaker 3: look at the way I yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's true. You're a pretty cool dad. Like I
Speaker 1: feel like when you go to like even like a
Speaker 1: performance at school, Like I'm sure the other dads are
Speaker 1: like fat and have like beer bellies, and like then you.
Speaker 2: Show up and it's like that you logged them? Do
Speaker 2: you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I'm making you see, this is the thing I'm making
Speaker 1: cool and mogged is like when you're like, oh, like
Speaker 1: I'm it's basically just like being better than someone, but like.
Speaker 2: The actual way where them mogged them, them mogged them.
Speaker 1: The way it works is is like if you take
Speaker 1: a picture with someone and one person in the picture
Speaker 1: is like really cool looking at the other person's like
Speaker 1: really ugly, but that guy mogged them, so you're mogging
Speaker 1: the other day. You can also say that too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely I'm really taking credit if.
Speaker 2: You win the Coolest Dat award. I feel like I
Speaker 2: need to like get.
Speaker 3: I had to find out what a gap was.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was like.
Speaker 2: I got something in my eye. So I'm like that,
Speaker 2: how did you learn? You asked your kids?
Speaker 3: Yeah, she kept saying, I'm like, what is going on?
Speaker 3: Oh my god?
Speaker 2: You have so much to learn, so much to learn.
Speaker 2: All right, so let's get back to basketball.
Speaker 1: Al So, how often did you wear a new sneaker
Speaker 1: when you played every two games, every two games, and
Speaker 1: you were never getting like blisters or your feet weren't hurting.
Speaker 3: No, I mean I had insoles or whatever custom insuls
Speaker 3: that I was slat in and out of the shoes
Speaker 3: or whatever. But I always felt like as hard as
Speaker 3: I played, it was a two game minimum, excuse me limit.
Speaker 3: And then you know, sometimes I'll get hot in a shoe.
Speaker 2: Oh, so then you want to keep so I.
Speaker 3: Get a little super sitshes, you know, I might want
Speaker 3: to keep this one going back to back twenty five
Speaker 3: point nice, Yeah, to keep it going. So every once
Speaker 3: in a while I will weigh more, but mostly it
Speaker 3: was always too Yeah.
Speaker 1: Was there a certain shoe brand or a certain shoes
Speaker 1: style that you always loved?
Speaker 3: Of course Nike, you know, and uh, you know, whenever
Speaker 3: they would allow me to wear Jordans, because, believe it
Speaker 3: or not, in the NBA, like they don't. You know,
Speaker 3: if you have a Nike contract, they want you to
Speaker 3: wear Nike's.
Speaker 2: Not no Jordan's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is confusing, which is where you think you're
Speaker 1: pushing the same yes or not I'm saying believe it
Speaker 1: that they were.
Speaker 3: Those two companies different, you know, but you know, every
Speaker 3: once in a while they would send me some you know,
Speaker 3: exclusive Jordans and I'll just wear them and just have
Speaker 3: to worry about the consequences that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly who cares from? Like I looked fly out,
Speaker 2: Yeah that's all.
Speaker 1: It not is So you always have to guard some
Speaker 1: legends at the fore position, right, for instance, Kevin Garnett,
Speaker 1: Tim Duncan, et cetera. What was your mindset guarding players
Speaker 1: like that? And then also who was the best for that?
Speaker 2: You ever played against the.
Speaker 3: Best power for So it's funny like when I first
Speaker 3: came in the league, I actually played against like Karl Malone.
Speaker 3: You probably don't know who that is really knows everything.
Speaker 3: Come on, So I played, Yes, I played like Carmelone.
Speaker 3: Obviously I played Charles Barkley, Uh, you know KG, Tim Duncan.
Speaker 3: So out of those two, like, it was two different
Speaker 3: kind of games, right, because with Kevin it was very
Speaker 3: intense and he's like talking trash the whole time. So
Speaker 3: you know, with Tim you could just kind of focus
Speaker 3: on the game, but with Kevin you had to focus
Speaker 3: on the game and the mental aspect of him like
Speaker 3: calling you names and you got to like step up
Speaker 3: and like who you talking to? You know, and then
Speaker 3: he's really like talking to himself the whole time, and
Speaker 3: you have to learn that. So it took me probably
Speaker 3: like seven years before I realized it. Like he's not
Speaker 3: even talking to me, he's talking to himself and his
Speaker 3: last I told my daughter the other day because she,
Speaker 3: you know, when she played certain players like you know,
Speaker 3: or like she would like be up, you know, don't
Speaker 3: like him or whatever, and she likes so she'll play harder.
Speaker 3: So I told her, I said, sometimes you got to
Speaker 3: just walk up to the girl like you called me
Speaker 3: a what? Oh for real, that's what you called me,
Speaker 3: even though the little girl never said anything thing. Get yourself,
Speaker 3: don't because that's what Kevin used to do.
Speaker 2: So he was like completely delusional, just.
Speaker 3: Making like literally no one said anything to him. He like,
Speaker 3: what you say? Oh for real? You like I didn't
Speaker 3: say nothing.
Speaker 2: I would like start crying. I freak out, Like that's
Speaker 2: a crazy tactic. Oh my god, I need I'm sad.
Speaker 2: I'm not playing soccer anymore. I would definitely. I would, definitely.
Speaker 2: I always was sad.
Speaker 1: I felt like, I don't know, maybe people have different experiences,
Speaker 1: but for me, in my youth sports career, no one
Speaker 1: ever trash talked. The girls were never trash talking. And
Speaker 1: I want to give it to me like I wanted to.
Speaker 1: I wanted to, and no one ever did it, No
Speaker 1: my dad except for me. I got in a huge
Speaker 1: fight in middle school girls soccer and that was.
Speaker 2: The only time.
Speaker 1: Because here's the thing, people take it so personal. I
Speaker 1: said one thing short of crying. She told her friends
Speaker 1: she hated me, like, I'm.
Speaker 4: Like, it's not that deep.
Speaker 3: What did you say? Slow?
Speaker 1: I can't say it on you, Okay, I'll do Maybe
Speaker 1: you're done get in trouble. I like, if I was
Speaker 1: your daughter, you probably wouldn't want her to say to
Speaker 1: the world right.
Speaker 3: Well, I could hear was she. I could hear her
Speaker 3: a lot of times. She has a potty mouth. And
Speaker 3: then one day my wife put a little microphone on
Speaker 3: to hear everything. Was just like, yo, you're crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: But they talked the whole time. That's why I'm surprised,
Speaker 3: because here's the thing.
Speaker 2: As you can tell, I'm a chatter.
Speaker 1: I love to talk, and so I would actually sort
Speaker 1: of do the Kevin Garnett thing where I would talk
Speaker 1: under my breath. It wasn't to anyone, and it didn't
Speaker 1: really have to do with anyone. I was just either
Speaker 1: mad or bored, and so I would be talking myself.
Speaker 1: But then sometimes as a forward, you know, it's quite
Speaker 1: different than basketball, where it goes so quickly back and forth.
Speaker 4: I would be.
Speaker 2: Standing up there and the game would be the whole
Speaker 2: other way.
Speaker 1: And sometimes I would sing Hamilton because it was like like,
Speaker 1: you know, the Broadway musical Hamilton, because it was always
Speaker 1: stuck in my head.
Speaker 2: And then I would realize, like, oh, everyone can hear me.
Speaker 2: This is like a just me thing.
Speaker 1: So I had to work on that. But yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I definitely wish that there was more trash shocking. Maybe
Speaker 1: one day I'll get to play in the NBA Celebrity
Speaker 1: Game and I can.
Speaker 2: Really I'm an awful basketball player.
Speaker 1: I know it better than I can play, but I
Speaker 1: could use your trash shocking and we.
Speaker 3: Could teach you too.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: You know, I won't charge you.
Speaker 2: Oh it's really nice. Actually, Baron Davis tried to teach
Speaker 2: me how to dunk. It didn't go well, oh yeah.
Speaker 3: But he was yeah, yeah, that's one of.
Speaker 2: My guys, that's one of your guys. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But unfortunately I couldn't jump as high as him, so
Speaker 1: it didn't really I wasn't able.
Speaker 3: He's got a lower the rum.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. Then it's fine. And you can just be delusional.
Speaker 1: You can tell yourself it's ten feet, but it's really not.
Speaker 1: So now I want to move onto the current NBA.
Speaker 1: Are you a fan of today's current NBA or you're
Speaker 1: being boring old head.
Speaker 2: And you would just liked it when you play.
Speaker 3: I'm not a hater, Okay, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: If I was a hater, I couldn't be cool. So
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't. I love the game today. I
Speaker 3: love the talent level. I just wish they played a little.
Speaker 2: Different different in what way just you know, I wish they.
Speaker 3: Cared a little bit more on the defensive end. I
Speaker 3: wish that you know, they played know, they just played
Speaker 3: basketball right right now. I just feel like everything is
Speaker 3: just like, you know, get up to get the ball
Speaker 3: to the court and shoot at three as fast as you can. Yeah, right,
Speaker 3: And it's taking out a lot of like the thinking
Speaker 3: part of the game. But you know, outside of that,
Speaker 3: I love it. You know, I have a seven year
Speaker 3: old son who I think is you know, NBA caliber,
Speaker 3: worthy and caliber. So I gotta love the game, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I gotta get him there. I got like a twelve
Speaker 3: year you know, run to get my little man in
Speaker 3: the league.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, that's exciting. One day he'll be on
Speaker 2: slow notes.
Speaker 1: I can't waits other than nixt players because obviously you're
Speaker 1: a big Knicks fan.
Speaker 2: Who's your favorite current player in the league and why favorite.
Speaker 3: Current player in the league. I love Kyrie, Irvin, Okay,
Speaker 3: young guys. I love Shay. Who doesn't I love Joker.
Speaker 2: That's surprising to me. I hate him.
Speaker 3: Why do you hate Joking?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm a Warriors fan, and so it's just like
Speaker 1: he just obviously he's incredible, right, But like I like
Speaker 1: the guys that like you look at them and you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: like they have aura, Like I get why they're good.
Speaker 1: It's fun watch like Yoki is just it's just annoying because
Speaker 1: he's he's fat and falld no offense, and then it's.
Speaker 2: Like and then he just and then he just goes
Speaker 2: the dad bought.
Speaker 1: And then he just dropped sixty on your team and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, like I remember there was this one game,
Speaker 1: I think last season where it was a regular season game,
Speaker 1: and usually when I watch Warriors game, I'm doing my
Speaker 1: homework during it, so I'm like looking down, looking up whatever.
Speaker 2: And the Warriors were.
Speaker 1: Winning, and I think there was like one of those
Speaker 1: weird things where it's like literally one second lest so
Speaker 1: the only thing they could do was like quickly catch.
Speaker 2: It and like go.
Speaker 1: And I'm doing my homework and like oky, the Warriors won,
Speaker 1: and then I look up and I see yok its
Speaker 1: like this and I'm like, you're kidding, and he just
Speaker 1: chucks it from half court and makes it. It's just
Speaker 1: like those moments. I know, if you're a Nuggets fan,
Speaker 1: I get that you love that, but then I hate
Speaker 1: it right right?
Speaker 3: And then my new favorite play is Jalen Bruns.
Speaker 2: I know you said King Anywyork.
Speaker 3: Big body, big body, bruston special.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what are your thoughts on like NBA nicknames? Like
Speaker 1: I love calling Cat big Bodega because it's just like
Speaker 1: so stupid. I think it's funny. Do you have a
Speaker 1: favorite current nickname?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: I don't let me think. Uh, probably Joker, right, I think, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's a good one. What's another going?
Speaker 2: Well? I like this one?
Speaker 1: Brandon Pajimski people call him the Pythagorean theorem.
Speaker 4: So you know, I don't know how to spell.
Speaker 1: It's a square plus you know, a scure puss B
Speaker 1: squared equals square, which is only funny to me because
Speaker 1: that's exactly like what I'm doing in math. And then
Speaker 1: that's his nickname. Wait, Pythagorean probably pe y pi th
Speaker 1: h pi thag Okay, I'm good.
Speaker 2: Why don't you try?
Speaker 4: No, I don't want to try.
Speaker 3: I can't spell unless it's on the phone, and then.
Speaker 2: You have auto correct. That's cheating.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Stop.
Speaker 2: He wouldn't really be in a spelling be an NBA
Speaker 2: spelling b would not.
Speaker 3: Well. When I was a kid, I was in I
Speaker 3: was in every spelling bee, really, I promising squad, promise
Speaker 3: every I always lost a close to winning, but I
Speaker 3: always made it to like the final.
Speaker 4: Stage, to get at least you got there school.
Speaker 3: Yeah, every every year I made it to the stage.
Speaker 3: But like third word, I was.
Speaker 2: Just yeah, no, that's stress.
Speaker 1: They throw out the craziest word. I didn't even know
Speaker 1: these things were words.
Speaker 2: And then they're like they're like medicines and like people
Speaker 2: have this fault. It's so random.
Speaker 1: What would advice would you give to some of the
Speaker 1: young guys in today's NBA if you.
Speaker 2: Were there of that.
Speaker 3: Man, just you know, continue to perfect your craft, never
Speaker 3: get complacent. Understand that the game is continue to evolve
Speaker 3: every year, so you have to kind of evolve with it.
Speaker 3: So when you have that mindset, you know you're gonna
Speaker 3: always be looking every summer to kind of add something
Speaker 3: to your game to be a better player. Right. That's
Speaker 3: the reason why I was able to play sixteen years.
Speaker 3: You know, I always remember the young Alharentson that walked
Speaker 3: in the locker room and saw all these old guys
Speaker 3: in there, and I was like, I'm vettered in them.
Speaker 3: I wasn't. Eventually I got there very quickly two to
Speaker 3: three years, where you know, now the team is deciding that,
Speaker 3: you know, we're going to go forward with the young
Speaker 3: guys and get rid of the veteran guys. But then
Speaker 3: once I became that guy, I remembered these young guys
Speaker 3: are coming in like, oh else terrible. I'm not there.
Speaker 3: But I had to hold another day. So the way
Speaker 3: I was able to do that is I had to
Speaker 3: keep evolving my game. So it's had to keep working.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It's funny because you just mentioned how you played sixteen
Speaker 1: years in the league, and I was just thinking about,
Speaker 1: that's my whole life, right, right, like your sixteen years.
Speaker 2: If your life wasn't anything, that's my whole life.
Speaker 4: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: So much time in the NBA, Like I can't believe it,
Speaker 1: that's insane. Speaking of that advice, if someone came to
Speaker 1: you and was like, I'm a rookie right now and
Speaker 1: I want to play it as long as an NBA
Speaker 1: career as you which is not common, it really isn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the average NBA career is like
Speaker 1: four years. What advice would you get?
Speaker 3: Take care of your body, obviously, take care of your
Speaker 3: money just in case it doesn't work out. But you know,
Speaker 3: for how I look at it as professional athletes, like, yes,
Speaker 3: people judge us bout what we do in the court,
Speaker 3: But how I look at how I always perceived it
Speaker 3: was like they're paying me to be in the best
Speaker 3: shape possible, right, and if I'm in the best shape
Speaker 3: possible and I continue to work on my game, I
Speaker 3: should have longevity in the game. Yes, you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. I actually I made it. I got here,
Speaker 3: and the way that you stay here is by doing that,
Speaker 3: by taking care of yourself, working on your game, and
Speaker 3: being a good citizen, right, stay out of trouble, and
Speaker 3: you know you'll find your you know you'll find yourself
Speaker 3: in it him plus years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so obviously, like you said, it is important to
Speaker 1: stay in shape. But when you did have a cheap meal,
Speaker 1: what would your cheatmail be?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, so many things. I mean, I love,
Speaker 3: I love so during my career, I cannot go to
Speaker 3: bed without eating cereal at night.
Speaker 2: That's so weird. So breakfast for dinner, it was like your.
Speaker 3: Things, every don't miss bowl of cereal. I went through
Speaker 3: my ice cream phases. I went through my cake phases
Speaker 3: and different things. But I still have the same sweet tooth.
Speaker 3: My daughter and my soccer player daughter, and she has
Speaker 3: it just like me. So as much as I'm like complaining,
Speaker 3: like stop eating sweets, sweets are eating right, But yeah,
Speaker 3: that so all kinds of stuff, but cereal was my main, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Main.
Speaker 1: I also feel like if I was in the NBA
Speaker 1: and I was trying to stay in shape, the last
Speaker 1: team I'd want to be on was either the next
Speaker 1: or the Lakers because those cities have such good food
Speaker 1: and like there's such like big cities with so many
Speaker 1: different dessert options that I was so carried away. Like
Speaker 1: I feel like whenever, like you're in New York City,
Speaker 1: you're like walking on the street and there's some crazy
Speaker 1: Like I've been to a place in New York City
Speaker 1: where it's set up like it's an ice cream shop,
Speaker 1: but then it's cookie though all different fleetors. Like if
Speaker 1: I was on the Knicks, I'm just go there every day,
Speaker 1: and I don't think I would stay in the league
Speaker 1: for that one.
Speaker 2: So I'm impressed that you were able.
Speaker 3: To eat that and say I worked out hard.
Speaker 2: That's okay, That's what it is.
Speaker 1: So wow, the Luca Maverick Sleeker's trade obviously shocks the world.
Speaker 1: I want to hear what your opinion is on that trade.
Speaker 3: That was a ballsy trade.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 3: It was very ballsy. So Nico the general manager day
Speaker 3: is one of my best friends.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: So at the end of the day, I support him
Speaker 3: in his vision.
Speaker 2: Love that.
Speaker 3: But you know, for the city, I know it was
Speaker 3: very tough. You know, tough pill to swallow, as they say,
Speaker 3: you know, if you've really been watching Luca and stuff
Speaker 3: like that, Like my only concern would be for him
Speaker 3: long term. It's like how long is his body going
Speaker 3: to have?
Speaker 1: You don't think he's listening to your advice of staying shit.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's going to the cookie dough places. It seems
Speaker 1: that way.
Speaker 3: And you know what happens is it sucks, right because
Speaker 3: all the European players have that come to the United States, right,
Speaker 3: they ate food. It's like not processed and as good
Speaker 3: as our food. So when they get here, like I
Speaker 3: have a bunch of teammates, Like they get here and
Speaker 3: they come in, they weigh one hundred and eighty pounds
Speaker 3: and then by the time we get done the season,
Speaker 3: they're like two tens. Yeah, and it's just because they
Speaker 3: found cookies. Yeah, and they found ice cream.
Speaker 4: They didn't know that.
Speaker 1: The honest tweets, like, if you go back to his
Speaker 1: old Twitter tweets, Twitter tweets, is that how you say it?
Speaker 2: Tweets X No, it's called X time, so it's fun
Speaker 2: even tweets whatever.
Speaker 1: If you go back to his old tweets, honest is
Speaker 1: like he like has a broken English and he tweets
Speaker 1: like smoothie, what is it smoothie?
Speaker 2: Or like I just found out what oreos are?
Speaker 3: All that stuff, and when they finally they just binge
Speaker 3: and then they you know, it kind of gets out
Speaker 3: of control, yes or whatever, But yeah, I think they obviously,
Speaker 3: Like you know, with Luke, I'm a big fan. I
Speaker 3: think he's one of the greatest players ever, you know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. Like I said, my concern is always
Speaker 3: at the end of the season he kind of flames out,
Speaker 3: just because it's a long season one and if you're
Speaker 3: not taking care of yourself along the way, when it
Speaker 3: gets to the playoffs, it becomes so intense and the
Speaker 3: games are like every other day, it just becomes a
Speaker 3: different kind of demand on your body. It could be concerned,
Speaker 3: especially if you were, you know, sitting here thinking about
Speaker 3: you know, paying him four hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2: Totally. Well, now, the trades in the past, it happened.
Speaker 2: It happened.
Speaker 1: We don't have to hate on your best si go,
Speaker 1: it's fine, it's fine. I'm sure he had some thought.
Speaker 1: I'm curious, do you think Lebron should say with the Lakers.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's for forty eight years old.
Speaker 2: Fifty years No, he's like forty one.
Speaker 4: Oh that's right, okay, yeah, yeah, I mean literally older
Speaker 4: than him.
Speaker 3: But why would Lebron move like he's too old to
Speaker 3: be moving around.
Speaker 2: How many years do you think he has left?
Speaker 3: So honestly, I personally think that he could play five
Speaker 3: more years if he wanted to, because he takes care
Speaker 3: of himself. Yeah right, he has like like whatever, he
Speaker 3: has the body that can do it. But I personally
Speaker 3: think this is his last year coming up.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, yeah you think.
Speaker 3: I just think because Lebron's done so much for the game,
Speaker 3: and as we know about Lebron, Lebron loves a little
Speaker 3: bit of attention and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I had the same theory so.
Speaker 3: That he wants to do a victory tour where they like,
Speaker 3: you know, give them cars. Yeah, cool chairs for his
Speaker 3: house and all paintings and all that kind of stuff around.
Speaker 1: I literally had the exact same thought when people were
Speaker 1: saying like that was Lebron's last game, I'm like, guys,
Speaker 1: let's like remember who Lebron James. He is not going
Speaker 1: out humbling, like he wants people to be like you
Speaker 1: are the going game and be like the exactly the way,
Speaker 1: so we'll see.
Speaker 2: I'm excited to see. I feel like he's gonna he
Speaker 2: would announce it right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but maybe training camp next year.
Speaker 4: Okay, you know, maybe coming training Yeah, and say.
Speaker 3: You know somewhere with my family, this is going to
Speaker 3: be the last.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how did you decide you were going to retire?
Speaker 3: Well, my knee told me I was done. I had
Speaker 3: nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2: Okay, you wanted to just get.
Speaker 3: I wanted to play. So I was forty five too,
Speaker 3: like Lebron. Yeah, but my niece said it's time to
Speaker 3: go go home, buddy. So that's what I need. So yeah,
Speaker 3: that's what happened to me. I had to watch knee
Speaker 3: surgery that went bad, and two years later I couldn't
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 2: Okay, So let's put on the GM half for a second.
Speaker 1: If you were to propose one trade this off season,
Speaker 1: it could be any two teams involved, three teams, three
Speaker 1: team trades exist.
Speaker 2: What would the trade be?
Speaker 3: Well, obviously, the hot person right now that needs to
Speaker 3: get out of this situation is honest.
Speaker 2: Okay, does he really isn't that dire of a need
Speaker 2: for me get out?
Speaker 3: I think so?
Speaker 2: You think so?
Speaker 4: Interesting?
Speaker 3: It just doesn't feel right just look at it. He
Speaker 3: doesn't seem like he's bought in anymore. So he's going right,
Speaker 3: So I see places like the Raptors and all that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff. I think he's like, he's box office,
Speaker 3: so he got he has to figure out how to
Speaker 3: get to a big market, right. I would love to
Speaker 3: see him go.
Speaker 4: To the Knicks, just gonna say that.
Speaker 3: But what would we have to give up to get him? Right?
Speaker 1: But he's a free agent, so you don't really have
Speaker 1: to technically, I guess you don't think you have to
Speaker 1: give up?
Speaker 2: Would be salary cap, Yeah, but we.
Speaker 3: Have to make some moves just to pay him, I guess.
Speaker 2: Yeah. That's a nice thing though, not even to trade
Speaker 2: someone makes.
Speaker 3: It so much easier. Yeah, I don't. Yeah, but the
Speaker 3: honest would be the pub But I'm not sure where
Speaker 3: I was send them? Where could they? Where could they
Speaker 3: use young? They can use him in Houston?
Speaker 2: They could, they could.
Speaker 3: But I don't know what I would pack, what they
Speaker 3: would have to give up because they kind of do
Speaker 3: need those young guys. I would love to see him,
Speaker 3: you know what. I would really love to see him
Speaker 3: now that with like talking gm al Jim, get him
Speaker 3: to Oklahoma City, Wow, Because I feel like there's Shay
Speaker 3: and then there's Jay Williams. The James William j ub
Speaker 3: there's still a little bit of a fall off. He
Speaker 3: doesn't really have his.
Speaker 1: Battle Robin, So there's no no Chet Holmgren love Lou Door.
Speaker 4: We're just saying love those guys, love them.
Speaker 3: But I'm talking about if you want to see okay,
Speaker 3: you win the champions.
Speaker 2: Okay, then you think that you need to add that
Speaker 2: one extra.
Speaker 3: But somebody that's his Now, those two guys like I
Speaker 3: forgot about about check, Like Chet is like he's the
Speaker 3: white KT oh wow right, yeah, but you know he's
Speaker 3: just a little too tall to be as smooth as KT.
Speaker 1: Yes, but he just you know, someone who actually needs
Speaker 1: to start eating young food a little bit more.
Speaker 2: He's so I think his legs are smaller than mine.
Speaker 3: But I'm friends like that. You can't put you can't
Speaker 3: put weight on one for yeah, so he's always going
Speaker 3: to be like that. But they do have a lot
Speaker 3: of good players. But I would like to see like
Speaker 3: a veteran of that level go down and play with them,
Speaker 3: and then I think they really would be serious.
Speaker 1: Even though you are older than me, am I allowed
Speaker 1: to respectfully disagree with you, of course?
Speaker 2: Okay, here can I tell you why I'm respectfully disagree
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 1: Shay's a guy who he can only work, he can
Speaker 1: only win if the ball is in his hands. He's
Speaker 1: I love him. I'm not calling him selfish, right, but
Speaker 1: he's a guy that needs to take so many shots.
Speaker 1: I mean he gets to the free throw line. That's
Speaker 1: that's how they win, right. And then you put Giannis
Speaker 1: on his team, who's arguably the best player in the league,
Speaker 1: and he now has to learn how to be this
Speaker 1: like second option.
Speaker 2: He's practically the MVP. I don't think that that's how
Speaker 2: his game works.
Speaker 3: Can I respectfully disagree that you can now? So yes,
Speaker 3: I agree with what you're saying. But at the end
Speaker 3: of the day, you're going to have to share the
Speaker 3: ball anyway. Giannis does not need to be the number
Speaker 3: one option.
Speaker 4: He doesn't you think can be a number two off
Speaker 4: for sure?
Speaker 3: They play with him. And then the difference is we're
Speaker 3: talking about winning, but talking about regular season winning, we're
Speaker 3: talking about championships. What is it going to take to
Speaker 3: get him over the humps? So this playoffs is still
Speaker 3: not over yet, so we got to see what happens.
Speaker 3: We may be wrong, right, or I may be wrong.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, Shaye may win it all, you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. But I don't think that he can with
Speaker 3: that cast. I think he needs a solid veteran, certified
Speaker 3: gangster you know what.
Speaker 2: No, I know what that is, who knows everything.
Speaker 3: I keep for getting. I'm sorry, I forgot the name
Speaker 3: of the show. Please, but I think he needs something
Speaker 3: like that. But we're gonna see that because the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Well see I'm excited. Yeah, yeah, maybe like if Shae
Speaker 2: like wins.
Speaker 1: Then in his press conference, he's like, what, like drove you?
Speaker 1: He's like, well, I watched like this amazing podcast, this
Speaker 1: incredible girl and that Al Harrington was like, I don't
Speaker 1: think sha can win the chips, and then I just
Speaker 1: like it really pushed me to get there.
Speaker 3: Maybe he'll feel that it'd be cool that we're gonna
Speaker 3: go viral.
Speaker 2: That would be got what. I actually love that that happens.
Speaker 1: Okay, great, great, all right, So now we are going
Speaker 1: to play a quick little camp. Okay, so I'm going
Speaker 1: to name a couple of NBA players from the past,
Speaker 1: way before I was even alive, boring, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: tell me who their NBA current player comparison is.
Speaker 2: So are you ready?
Speaker 3: All right? Cool.
Speaker 4: Okay, I have like a time I got you can
Speaker 4: you can?
Speaker 2: You know what? You can have as much time as
Speaker 2: you want. I mean, don't take like a day.
Speaker 4: But like you know, like a couple, I say past.
Speaker 2: To yes, you can. You can do whatever you want.
Speaker 2: See slow is very chill.
Speaker 3: Do what you want. You know you are a little scary.
Speaker 2: I know, I told you I knew you.
Speaker 1: I guys, when I walked in, I said, are you scared?
Speaker 1: He was like, I'm not scared, but I could see it.
Speaker 2: I knew. I knew it. I knew it. I am scared.
Speaker 4: Okay, Chris Webber, Chris Webber?
Speaker 3: Right now see where? See where? Who is a seaweed.
Speaker 2: To singing? Help you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Making a move? I can see who plays like seat.
Speaker 2: Pass you're passing? Okay, okay Tim Duncan.
Speaker 3: Who plays like Timmy Boring just gets it done? Karl
Speaker 3: Anthony Towns, Okay, maybe mb.
Speaker 2: Enved he doesn't really get as hurt as all.
Speaker 1: Like you also have to think about that, right like
Speaker 1: he like hero you doesn't even play anymore.
Speaker 3: You didn't say availability, you just said who plays like?
Speaker 1: But I like to get like that's the point is
Speaker 1: so I like to get like deep you know what
Speaker 1: I mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I would go with ye maybe like I
Speaker 3: like the.
Speaker 1: Cat one that's funny shoot the ball? Yeah, okay, what
Speaker 1: about Carmelo Anthony.
Speaker 3: Who plays like Mellow Mellow was a special talent. You
Speaker 3: could score that ball at a high click six eight.
Speaker 3: You know what's flinning? Like the league right now? It
Speaker 3: is not a lot of those guys that is mostly
Speaker 3: like the guards that do all the scoring.
Speaker 2: Can I tell you a hawk to this exact question?
Speaker 1: You think, well, if we did this episode in two years,
Speaker 1: you could you say, Kayne Anthony see what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: because you could just say it was just like his
Speaker 1: dad and you wouln't really have to think about it.
Speaker 3: We don't have the size and oh so you.
Speaker 2: Don't want to say that.
Speaker 4: That would just be like he's not he's not his
Speaker 4: dad yet, but he could be.
Speaker 3: I'm doing a terrible jopetism. Okay, somebody else? Who else
Speaker 3: you got?
Speaker 1: Okay, let's say Kobe Nobody, nobody? Okay, that's fair, that's fair,
Speaker 1: that's fair. Uh, Monta Ellis.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be mad anybody, I'll say.
Speaker 1: That's another one to say someone really vad.
Speaker 3: Friend like, he don't play like me. Who y'all got?
Speaker 2: This is becoming a whole conversation Daron Fox.
Speaker 3: All right, they said Dean Aaron Fox.
Speaker 2: Okay, you're just gonna go with it.
Speaker 3: I like the Aaron Fox. I think Stefan Castle a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 2: M I like if you're listening to the Peanut Gallery.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I need my health.
Speaker 1: Yeah my gallery is Peanut Gallery.
Speaker 3: Who that's good? Ask me my little again?
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, So I would like me to read you
Speaker 1: this whole question to make him seem like he has
Speaker 1: elap all knowledge. So let's just pretend again to make
Speaker 1: him seem about it smart.
Speaker 2: Okay, aw let me show you my acting.
Speaker 1: Ow, if you had to tell me a current a
Speaker 1: player in the current NBA who you think plays like Carmelo.
Speaker 2: Anthony, who would it be? Oh my god, that's such
Speaker 2: a smart I did. Did you just think about them? You
Speaker 2: think about things?
Speaker 3: They have the same body, they have the same body body, Yeah,
Speaker 3: they that thing don't get Yeah?
Speaker 2: Wow, that's amazing. You have such great ball knowledge. Wow. Wow,
Speaker 2: I'm really amazed this. I should switch the name to
Speaker 2: Sloan knows way lesson alt him because you just know
Speaker 2: so much. It's amazing. Okay.
Speaker 1: Now I want you to give us your all time
Speaker 1: starting five, your best ever teammates, because in sixteen seasons
Speaker 1: you played with some incredible guys.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. At the point guard, point guard, Baron.
Speaker 4: Davis, Sloan knows alone, the two.
Speaker 3: Guard, Reggie Miller, the three, Joe Johnson, the four small
Speaker 3: Ball era, I'm gonna go, uh Steven Jackson, okay, And
Speaker 3: at the five, Jermaine.
Speaker 4: O'Neil love it.
Speaker 2: Okay. Now we're gonna move on two. When you were
Speaker 2: on the Warriors.
Speaker 1: So let's I feel like we've been talking a lot
Speaker 1: about when you were on the Knicks, and that's cool
Speaker 1: if you're an extent.
Speaker 2: But I'm a Warriors fan, so I want to talk
Speaker 2: about the Dubs.
Speaker 1: So let's go to the We Believe Warriors, and I
Speaker 1: want to do a little bit of team superlative, so,
Speaker 1: you know, like in a high school year, buto they
Speaker 1: be like who's the most likely to succeed, who's the
Speaker 1: most likely to be president.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do stuff like that with the We Believe Warriors.
Speaker 3: Okay, are you ready? Yep?
Speaker 2: Great?
Speaker 1: Who stayed out the latest or showed up the latest
Speaker 1: to practice, Stephen Jackson. Okay, if uber was a thing,
Speaker 1: then who would have had the worst uberrating?
Speaker 3: Probably this kid named Michael Petris. Okay, why just because
Speaker 3: you never knew what he was talking about?
Speaker 2: He put on, wait, actually this is an important question.
Speaker 2: This is off topic.
Speaker 1: When you go in your uber, you know you can
Speaker 1: put like preferences like the air conditioning, talking, whatever.
Speaker 2: What are your preferences?
Speaker 3: Yeah, mind, just no talking. Keep the car temperature around
Speaker 3: sixty five.
Speaker 2: Oh, you have very pritty.
Speaker 1: I don't even do like wow, A lot of who
Speaker 1: you got, I know what I like, so they say
Speaker 1: hi 'or not very I can tell your stars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I thought. I knew you were that.
Speaker 3: I had one in Vegas the other day. Old man
Speaker 3: he talked to me told I was like, he's cooked.
Speaker 2: Once you're uberating, do you know it?
Speaker 3: Mine is like four point seven eight.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's impressive. I actually have a five star.
Speaker 3: But I'm a whole four seven eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not as good as mine.
Speaker 3: Somebody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably it was me. I hacked into the uber
Speaker 2: out and I changers to be like that. Yes, because
Speaker 2: I'm just as I just decided to be a hater.
Speaker 2: I woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
Speaker 2: You're on vacation and you can bring one teammate. Who
Speaker 2: are you bringing.
Speaker 3: During that time? I probably would have brought I probably
Speaker 3: put Jay Rich Jason.
Speaker 1: Okay, now let's talk about that We Believe Warriors but nowadays? Right,
Speaker 1: so you have one phone call to save your life
Speaker 1: as forty five year old doll, you're not like young
Speaker 1: and cool anymore.
Speaker 2: Who do you call and why?
Speaker 3: On the current team?
Speaker 1: Yes, it had to be someone who's on the We
Speaker 1: Believe Warriors, but you're calling them today in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'll probably call Steven Jackson.
Speaker 2: Why do you think you would just come save you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my dog. He has he has to. He
Speaker 3: has to both owe each other a lot.
Speaker 2: Interesting here, Okay, so how I know you're a father? Right?
Speaker 2: Do you play two K with your kids?
Speaker 3: Ever? No, you don't.
Speaker 2: Do you know how two K works?
Speaker 3: And I kind of get it?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Do you know that ratings The lowest you can get
Speaker 1: is a twenty five and the highest you can get is.
Speaker 2: A ninety nine. Yeah you know that?
Speaker 3: Cool?
Speaker 1: So your only MBA two K rating was from when
Speaker 1: you were on The Warriors from two thousand and six
Speaker 1: to two thousand and seven, which is the year I
Speaker 1: was born.
Speaker 2: So exciting.
Speaker 3: It's like seventy five.
Speaker 2: Right, you're being.
Speaker 1: Too You're going too much in the future. Let's we
Speaker 1: got to, like, you know what I mean, be like chill. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you have to tell me. I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: different categories and you're gonna guess what you think your
Speaker 1: rating was? All right, cokay, I think you're gonna be
Speaker 1: happy with it. From what you just said, I think
Speaker 1: you're gonna be happy. What is your free throw rating?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Like seventy two sixty nine?
Speaker 2: Okay? What I love the gallery? Okay? What was your
Speaker 2: three point shot?
Speaker 3: Oh? That had to be like ninety three eighty nine?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, okay, string.
Speaker 3: I'm so close for sure in ninety eight.
Speaker 2: I'm shocked by this one.
Speaker 4: It's a sixty eight my strength.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm looking at you right on, like that
Speaker 2: can't be almost. I don't know what they were on,
Speaker 2: but Sting.
Speaker 1: Was weird on then who were they like like comparing
Speaker 1: you to like Hulk, Like I'm confused, Like what.
Speaker 2: Was going on there? Sixty Now? Okay, you're driving dunk.
Speaker 3: Okay, Oh that probably was low. That was like a
Speaker 3: seventy No.
Speaker 2: This is eighty five. Really, yeah, I feel like I'm confused.
Speaker 3: I never used to drive and dunk for real.
Speaker 2: Okay, what about stamina?
Speaker 3: Oh it's like eighty nine.
Speaker 1: No, that's in ninety five. They really like believe that
Speaker 1: you could just like, yeah, no sting. They're just like
Speaker 1: a really skinny.
Speaker 2: Guy who just running forever. That's what you're explaining. Okay,
Speaker 2: mid range shot, mid range.
Speaker 3: Now now I'm guessing like eighty seven.
Speaker 2: Oh I thought you were gonna get it eighty one.
Speaker 2: Damn it, you got none. You haven't gotten any of
Speaker 2: them right yet. So let's hope you get this one right.
Speaker 2: What is your speed?
Speaker 3: They? Okay, so I got stammin a no stringy for this.
Speaker 2: Made up version of yourself.
Speaker 3: Said pretty fast? Was I eighty three?
Speaker 2: Sixty nine? What the peanut gallery is so immature?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm the kid here and I'm not laughing at this,
Speaker 1: and the peanut gallery is okay?
Speaker 2: And then now, why do you think you're overall rating?
Speaker 3: What that's seventy seven?
Speaker 2: Eighty three? I'm confused, Like what they're like logic was
Speaker 2: there's a law going on.
Speaker 3: Eighty three is good.
Speaker 2: That's actually really.
Speaker 3: Good, really good. I'm not mad at that. I'll take that.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you'll talk to the two Kopour, you'll tell
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, ronnieus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ronnie TK Slow Nose alone obviously, and.
Speaker 3: If you talked to him before me, let him know.
Speaker 2: I didn't know he was on slow notes.
Speaker 4: Okay, already everyone was on here.
Speaker 3: Come on, you're lit. Yeah, I know you're really, I.
Speaker 2: Know, thank you because Slow Nose I know already know.
Speaker 3: I don't need it was the cocky name there exactly.
Speaker 3: I gotta go into this show. She doesn't know any exactly, but.
Speaker 1: Then they realize when they're on you, she knows everything. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're now gonna play our last game. This is
Speaker 1: the last segment. This is called Sloan knows your game?
Speaker 2: But do you out?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you trivia questions about yourself and let's
Speaker 1: see how well you can do.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: I know that you have made tens of millions.
Speaker 1: Of dollars in your NBA crew, which is great, But
Speaker 1: are you incentivized by some one dollar bills? If you
Speaker 1: get the question right, yes, yeah, yeah, exactly. Any money
Speaker 1: count so if you get a question right, I will
Speaker 1: give you a one dollar bill. This is my tooth
Speaker 1: fairy money.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's not okay.
Speaker 2: You were runner up in six Man of the Year
Speaker 2: voting in two thousand and three. Who won that year?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm gonna go Jamal Crawford. But I
Speaker 3: feel like I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you are wrong, Anton Jamison. Money still still up
Speaker 1: for grabs. In your final NBA season, what percentage did
Speaker 1: you shoot from the free throw line? It was like a.
Speaker 3: Seventy four percent.
Speaker 2: Seventy seven. You're so close out. This is so close,
Speaker 2: yours Washington close. You can do so with this in
Speaker 2: this economy.
Speaker 1: You averaged a career highend points with the Knicks in
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight.
Speaker 2: How many points did you average?
Speaker 3: Twenty point two?
Speaker 2: Oh, oh my god. I was so excited to give
Speaker 2: you this, but it was twenty point seven.
Speaker 1: Oh. I wish I could just like rip it in
Speaker 1: half and give you the half because I was so close.
Speaker 2: How many total points did you score in high school?
Speaker 3: You don't even know that because Sloan nose. It was
Speaker 3: like it was just it was like at a thousand,
Speaker 3: one thousand, thousand, ninety eight aoud.
Speaker 2: Two hundred and seventy eight. Actually, it's really cool.
Speaker 1: I found this number in an article written about you
Speaker 1: from nineteen ninety eight, and it's like it was an
Speaker 1: interview with you when you were seventeen.
Speaker 2: Which is like the exact idea of slow notes.
Speaker 1: So so cool, But okay, you still have to get
Speaker 1: and I feel like I was being like too confident.
Speaker 2: About your knowledge because like I brought so many one.
Speaker 5: Dollar bills you there's you know, there's two questions left,
Speaker 5: and you still didn't win any So in sixteen seasons,
Speaker 5: how many regular season games did you play?
Speaker 3: That's unbelievable, I think, was it not? Was it nine
Speaker 3: to eighty six?
Speaker 1: You keep getting so close nine hundred and eighty one, Oh,
Speaker 1: so close, so close.
Speaker 2: Okay, I actually have faith in you for this one.
Speaker 2: And this is a double one. So if you win, you.
Speaker 1: Could actually get two dollars which would now allow you
Speaker 1: to buy probably like a whole lollipop at the gas station.
Speaker 2: Okay, very excited.
Speaker 1: You were drafted twenty fifth in the nineteen ninety eight draft.
Speaker 1: Who was drafted twenty fourth and who was drafted twenty six?
Speaker 3: I have no idea.
Speaker 2: Why don't you guess.
Speaker 3: Twenty four. I have no idea. Was the due named
Speaker 3: Ronnie's Brewer up twenty four?
Speaker 2: No, I'll let you have a few guys. See, Okay, just.
Speaker 1: First give me the initials con Okay, well before that,
Speaker 1: just because I'm gonna seef you can do it with this.
Speaker 2: The team that had to pick before you was the Spurs,
Speaker 2: so they passed up on you. Awkward.
Speaker 1: And then the twenty sixth team with the Lakers.
Speaker 3: I have no idea. What's so long?
Speaker 1: Their initials f L is the one before you and
Speaker 1: the one after you is s J.
Speaker 3: F L four the Spurs. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Okay, you want me to tell you, and you get
Speaker 2: no money. I get to keep it all.
Speaker 3: Yeay I needed these two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you really needed it, I know, and you didn't
Speaker 2: get it. Sad.
Speaker 1: Hold on, Frank, Oh, I know what you can do
Speaker 1: you didn't get You can just sell your necklace and
Speaker 1: you'll probably get two dollars.
Speaker 3: Is not real, that's how you.
Speaker 2: Okay, you want to players ready. Felipe Lopez, Oh my god,
Speaker 2: do not act like you knew that you did not
Speaker 2: know that?
Speaker 3: I mean, I know, Philip, people for me.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 1: You seem like the guy who would have known everyone
Speaker 1: drafted before you do, like, yeah, yeah I was, and
Speaker 1: then right after you with Sam Jacobson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you wouldn't have known that.
Speaker 3: I know what I know when both of them went
Speaker 3: to school. Okay, Saint John's Yes, and Stanford.
Speaker 2: Minnesota, Minnesota. Thank you so much for being on Slow Notes.
Speaker 2: You got one dollar for coming on the podcast.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, you brot.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly for your two dollar chain. That just made
Speaker 2: your change. That just made your chain worth three dollars. Now,
Speaker 2: it's amazing.
Speaker 1: Okay, Al, this is my final question for I want
Speaker 1: you to nominate a Slow Nose guest.
Speaker 2: But here's the twist. You actually have to help me
Speaker 2: get them on.
Speaker 3: All right, good?
Speaker 2: Yes, and you have to help. They have to be
Speaker 2: your friend j R.
Speaker 3: Smith.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I mean that would dream you promise
Speaker 2: like to shake on it. You'll get him on. Thank
Speaker 2: you out, Thank you out so much for being on
Speaker 2: Slow Nose. I had so much fun.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening to this episode of Sloan Notes.
Speaker 1: You can get links to my socials and see behind
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Speaker 2: On Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. Remember that's Sloan with me.