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Speaker 1: Paul George playing in a pro am game. How on

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Speaker 1: League Uncut. Welcome to this League Uncut in the rule

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Speaker 1: of twenty four hour NBA News. This's you, Lou.

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Speaker 2: Chris Haynes. It's time, works time, it's so time. This

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Speaker 2: League Uncut is underway in on fire.

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Speaker 1: This should be a good one. Welcome in everyone to

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Speaker 1: an August edition a mid August edition of This League Uncut.

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Speaker 1: The Olympics are at last complete, which means, in truth,

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Speaker 1: our summer suffering has begun. We now have a very

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Speaker 1: good news, though, we probably just were treated to. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if there's been a better week of August basketball than

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Speaker 1: sure I remember it. Tuesday's quarterfinals, Thursday semifinals, the gold

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Speaker 1: medal game Saturday, just incredible basketball. And look, I know

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Speaker 1: on this edition of this League you were going to

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Speaker 1: this weekend. I'm sure you've seen some of the footage

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Speaker 1: of that than you could ever dream of on this

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Speaker 1: edition of This League Uncut. But producer Ryan Music and

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Speaker 1: I we insisted to Chris Haynes before we actually turn

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Speaker 1: the microphones on tonight and we're recording this Sunday night

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Speaker 1: League Uncut, we insisted that we were going to talk

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Speaker 1: about the Olympics first, much to Chris haynes chagrin, But

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Speaker 1: like I said, the Men's Olympic Basketball Tournament quarterfinal, semifinals, final,

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Speaker 1: mean the semi finals. People are saying game of the Ages,

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Speaker 1: tell me instant reactions, what were the gut reactions when

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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, since you put my game on

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Speaker 3: gonna add a little bit more Fresnel ties. I'm bringing

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Speaker 3: So now you gotta deal with two Fresno guys later

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Speaker 3: in this podcast. Now, as far as this Olympic goes,

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Speaker 3: incredible game, great basketball.

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Speaker 4: Steph came through with Steph.

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Speaker 3: You know he was he he did what he what

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Speaker 3: amazing earthly shots. The arch he puts on that ball

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Speaker 3: it's a shot we've never seen from anybody else before.

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Speaker 3: Of course, he's the only one that can pull that off.

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Speaker 3: And then Lebron James just was steady the whole way

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Speaker 3: You know who I thought was gonna lead this team?

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Speaker 4: Talking about MVPs, all NBA teams.

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Speaker 3: All Stars, and if you could add an Olympic medal,

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Speaker 4: So mission accomplished in that way.

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Speaker 1: And the thing I think it for us from the outside,

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Speaker 1: What do you think of that sale a dunk on Lebron?

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Speaker 1: Well look, you know how much I love my international hoops.

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Speaker 4: All right, let's get to the biggest.

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Speaker 3: The biggest basketball game on Saturday was held in Fresno, California.

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Speaker 1: Mister pond Dexter, it is great to have you on

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Speaker 5: Sometimes you gotta play your role. Jason Tatum didn't get

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Speaker 1: who of Fresno basketball, and so he had to be there.

434
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,640
Speaker 5: I had to get some run. Absolutely. He was my

435
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 5: first secure rush spot. You know, you know, I hate

436
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 5: Chris up. I was like, yo, hey, I need you

437
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 5: for this, Like he knew, he knew everything before I

438
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 5: did it.

439
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 1: And uh again, you you really weren't worried about getting

440
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 1: his yes, though, were you? I mean, I you know, I.

441
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 5: I was like, who who am I I'm just I'm

442
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 5: just a retired old dude. Now, like this is Chris

443
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 5: Hanes that's on TV every week. He has a huge following.

444
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 5: Of course he's you know, one of the greatest ever

445
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 5: uh from Fresno, California. Now because you know, but you know,

446
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:02,600
Speaker 5: he's a broadcasting he's become broadcasting legend. You can't hate

447
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 5: on it now.

448
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: He is, and he knows, he's just we're just giving

449
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: him a hard time. He knows we love to talk

450
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: about his basketball ex.

451
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 5: But let's let's not get his body is short today.

452
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 5: He's say, yes, that's fine, he's doing his body is

453
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 5: tore today.

454
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 3: I'm I'm okay to admit that I have no qualms

455
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 3: about that whatsoever. You know, nice bath with some EPs

456
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:32,440
Speaker 3: and salt this morning. I mean last night, I should

457
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 3: say I'm good, but I expect that, but it was

458
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,680
Speaker 3: it was a great sign.

459
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 4: I don't know if you saw, you know I play.

460
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 4: You know, I was guarding Paul George.

461
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 1: I don't know if he saw the sequels I've seen.

462
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 1: I've seen every clip. H.

463
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 4: I had to let him know. I don't know if

464
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 4: you've seen it, Q.

465
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 3: But in the layup dress because again I didn't know

466
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 3: what legs I was going because I knew I was

467
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 3: gonna play late in the game, but I didn't know

468
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 3: what legs I was want to have late in the game,

469
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 3: so I said, let me try my legs out.

470
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 4: During warm ups. Did you see anything any of this

471
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 4: stuff I was doing, doing warm ups. Q.

472
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 5: You know what, I think you're overqualified to be a broadcaster,

473
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 5: to to do your child. That's why he was above

474
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 5: the rim. It was hanging on that thing. It was unbelievable.

475
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 5: Who else is doing that? Now you're right, you're doing

476
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 5: that from the sidelines. No one, right there, no one.

477
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 1: There are very few scribes who can dunk a basketball.

478
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 5: Here're those guys anymore? Unless you could put the ball

479
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 5: in the basket. I don't want to hear you no more.

480
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 4: Look with your starter start. This is why being Q

481
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 4: get along. You're here to see his producer Rise.

482
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 5: Was hanging on that rim, hanging.

483
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 3: On One thing I will say, is we gottadmit. We

484
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 3: gotta acknowledge this as well. Q is going to be

485
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 3: a future head coach in college pretty soon. Might may

486
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 3: even be an NBA at some point. But right now

487
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 3: he's an assistant coach at USC. He just took that job.

488
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 4: Before that. How many years were you assisting at Washington? Q?

489
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 5: Three?

490
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 4: Three years? At Washington is alma mater.

491
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 3: And so one day he's going to you know, Fresle,

492
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 3: You know, one day Fresno State is going to call

493
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 3: one day.

494
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 5: Oh no, don't.

495
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 4: He's been through. He's been through. He's been through.

496
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 1: So you were working with Orange County legend Mike Hopkins

497
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 1: at one.

498
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 5: Point, I was working with the legend Mike Hopkins, which

499
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 5: one of the best people I've ever come across. And

500
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 5: I love Coach Hope to death. He gave me my

501
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 5: first opportunity and it was weird, man like I I

502
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 5: did it back. I Chris might tell you I can

503
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 5: still play a little bit of basketball, And even then

504
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 5: when I took the job, I could really play basketball.

505
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 5: I could still be a rotational guy and help a

506
00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 5: team win. I was at a point, you know, during

507
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 5: COVID there was there weren't many phone calls that were

508
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 5: you know, happening, and you know, I didn't know what

509
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 5: my my NBA, my NBA playing career was going to

510
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 5: be like. And so I just I just wanted to

511
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 5: go through an interview process because I knew I was

512
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 5: going to coach eventually. And I started going through that

513
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 5: with Coach Hopkins, and it was it was like four

514
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 5: to six weeks. It was a long time, and he

515
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 5: offered me the job, and I remember sitting there, I

516
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 5: was just like, Okay, I have to retire from basketball now.

517
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 5: Like they just didn't. I didn't know what was going

518
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 5: on in my head. So I was like, wow, I

519
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 5: have to I have to retire from basketball now. So

520
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 5: he gave me opportunity to start my coaching career. I knew,

521
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 5: I know, my coaching career is gonna be a lot

522
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 5: better than my playing career. But he gave me my

523
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 5: first opportunity, and I just I'm forever grateful for that.

524
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a big name from my neighborhood. We

525
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 1: were in high school together.

526
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 4: To day day.

527
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was he I mean he was. He was

528
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: the man at modern day. That's correct my good knowledge.

529
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 5: For sure.

530
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: So did you play last night as well or because

531
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 1: you were running this whole thing, did you know?

532
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:15,959
Speaker 4: I don't know.

533
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 5: I played a little bit. I don't know.

534
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 4: He was killing I might need it.

535
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 5: For MVP last night.

536
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 4: He was killing, man. I don't know. They didn't give it.

537
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,479
Speaker 4: They didn't give an MVP or correct.

538
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 5: If they did, I might have been up.

539
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 4: You would you would have got it.

540
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 3: He would have got you know from you know, from

541
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 3: the first couple of minutes, what players are out there

542
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 3: trying to really do this and win. Q said, he

543
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 3: put this team together and he had to set the

544
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 3: tone for the game. Once we saw how Q was

545
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 3: coming out attacking, we knew, Okay, that's what I knew

546
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 3: first of all, the way he came out of attacking,

547
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 3: that's what I knew. I'm playing late in the game

548
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 3: because I'm like, these brothers are serious. They trying to

549
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 3: win a set tone.

550
00:32:58,840 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: I got.

551
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 5: I got, I got lucky and got hot from three

552
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 5: and you know, maybe maybe that's why I do in

553
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 5: my life. But uh, I got lucky, man, and the

554
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 5: balls start going in, and uh, you know, man, I

555
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 5: just I prayed hard all week. Man, I've been working

556
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 5: out for like only six weeks, really hard, like myself

557
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 5: like an NBA player, and uh, I really dedicated, like

558
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 5: to fill in that type of shape, like let's see

559
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 5: what this feels like again to be an NBA player.

560
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 5: And so I really dedicated six weeks of my life

561
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 5: to it. And you know, it felt good to go

562
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 5: out there and play and compete and have fun. Man

563
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 5: Like when you when you don't play and you're retired,

564
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 5: you don't have that moment that feeling too much, and

565
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 5: so when you when you're able to recreate that moment,

566
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 5: it means the world to you and so to go

567
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 5: out there and like feel the environment, feel the crowd,

568
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 5: feel the feel everything. Like I just want to be

569
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 5: in the moment and as much as possible. And man again,

570
00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 5: I'm I'm just man, I'm happy it all came how

571
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 5: to be just how my dreams are.

572
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 1: It was Chris Haynes on your team.

573
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I told you I recruited the best team.

574
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,280
Speaker 1: And in the fourth quarter he I saw one clip

575
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 1: of him dropping a three. That was the only in

576
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: game action I saw. Okay, he was alright during the game.

577
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 4: I T.

578
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:24,760
Speaker 5: I T dimed you out for that, right.

579
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 3: I T he was looking for so, I T. But

580
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 3: I'm taking all behind the scenes. I T was trying

581
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:34,760
Speaker 3: to probe the coach. Hey, listen, get Christener, get Christ's second, second,

582
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 3: third quarter, and I'm like, the game is like going

583
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 3: back and forth, like we we didn't have much separation

584
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 3: at that perio, and so I didn't feel coughing. I'm like, man,

585
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 3: this youngsters, man, they run it like and then I

586
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 3: come in there just all tight and oh, I'm like, no,

587
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 3: I said, get some separations. So when we finally started

588
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 3: the fourth quarter, they say, all right, you getting in

589
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:54,719
Speaker 3: and then I.

590
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 4: T was in there with me, and Q was in

591
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,359
Speaker 4: there as well. I believe, Yeah, I was, I was

592
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,760
Speaker 4: I T. I knew he was gonna try to force Phoebe.

593
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 3: I knew it, and I was like, I gotta be

594
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 3: ready and would my defender left me open for the three.

595
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 4: I didn't want to shoot a three the first first

596
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:10,720
Speaker 4: first shot.

597
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 5: It was like a movie. It was like, you know

598
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 5: how that happens, and like he gets the opportunity. It's like,

599
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 5: I just want to see Shaq and Chuck and everybody

600
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 5: talk about this, Like, honestly, I want to fast forward

601
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 5: to the season so we get this is not the

602
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:28,320
Speaker 5: Filipino League anymore. We get the actual footage of NBA

603
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:33,240
Speaker 5: players playing, and he gets to show, you know, knocking

604
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 5: down the corner three defending loose but like he was

605
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 5: hooping out there. He was actually hooping, Like he got

606
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,760
Speaker 5: a couple of close finishes at the rim, like he

607
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 5: had a lob attempt that he was gonna dunk. What

608
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 5: happened there down with it? He came down with it.

609
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 4: I came down I feel I wasn't feeling it.

610
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 5: He he checked his engine light like halfway through.

611
00:35:58,800 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you why I was.

612
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,919
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you, I play at the Big Three

613
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 3: Celebrity uh game, like two or three years ago, right, Q.

614
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 3: For most of the game, I was a lead scorer.

615
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,319
Speaker 3: I was killing. I had Nelly was guarding me. You know,

616
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:20,240
Speaker 3: I was killing Kelly. But Q the last thirty seconds

617
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 3: of the game, and again, I know everybody think the

618
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 3: Big Three is half it's a half court game. Yeah,

619
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 3: it's half court, but it's not the half court you're

620
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:28,760
Speaker 3: used to playing.

621
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 4: This is an NBA.

622
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, NBA full court. As soon as you score, they

623
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 3: hurt up and check it. So I'm tired. And so

624
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:38,879
Speaker 3: the last three seconds Q of me killing the whole game,

625
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 3: I missed three consecutive layups, like in a row. Yeah, Q,

626
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 3: that's that. They saw that. The whole world saw that,

627
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:50,879
Speaker 3: because that's the clip.

628
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 5: That was in your head when you went up for

629
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 5: that LIB.

630
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 4: But I can't exactly exactly. I'm like, hold on, I

631
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 4: haven't hit my first three field goals. First of all,

632
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 4: I was three for three, styned. I ended the game

633
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 4: three for three.

634
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm not trying this right now, because ball

635
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 3: is life. They was in the building as well yesterday,

636
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,479
Speaker 3: and they're the ones, and they're the ones that put

637
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 3: that out on me.

638
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 4: On the Big Three, who drew the law? You remember who.

639
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 5: Threw the lib qu I don't remember.

640
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 4: Okay, who who? No, it wasn't Pargo, It wasn't.

641
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 5: Pargo was a constant. I don't know.

642
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 1: But I guess what what Quincy is really saying here

643
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:34,280
Speaker 1: is that you did us proud. You did this league, uncut,

644
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 1: very proud.

645
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 4: Last night. I told you I was, I was gonna

646
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:38,959
Speaker 4: be ready once.

647
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 5: You know, he should be commended for what he did

648
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 5: last He should be commended for what he did last night.

649
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 5: I'm not it's my guy. I'm not gonna hype him

650
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:53,319
Speaker 5: up too much, but he should be commended for what

651
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 5: he did last night. Man, it was. It was unbelievable.

652
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 5: It was epic and uh again.

653
00:37:57,960 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 4: That was an epic night. Man.

654
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,279
Speaker 3: Hey, Q, I appreciate you for bringing me on man

655
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 3: that I seen. You know, that's my city, that's your city,

656
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 3: and to play amongst my family, A lot of familiar

657
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 3: faces people I went to high school with my Stein,

658
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 3: my English teacher at Edison High School, miss a Coon,

659
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,760
Speaker 3: excuse me, my science teacher. When I was a sophomore

660
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 3: in high school, she came out there, came to see me,

661
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 3: I came to pit. So Man, that was a special

662
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,919
Speaker 3: moment for me. Man, So I appreciate you you're giving

663
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 3: me that opportunity. Man, that was really cool.

664
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 4: Man.

665
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:35,399
Speaker 5: Man, every two seconds, Man, I'm just so happy. Man.

666
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:38,320
Speaker 5: I have not been this happy in such a long time. Man.

667
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 5: You know, for things like that, that story about your

668
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 5: your teacher and stuff like. That's why we're doing this,

669
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 5: Like that's why we're bringing f Usne together and for

670
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 5: these opportunities, man, And you know, life is too short,

671
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 5: life's too precious, and you got to get back to

672
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 5: your community and for us to all come together and

673
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 5: to see so many familiar faces that we haven't seen

674
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,399
Speaker 5: in a while, and just the atmosphere that we were in,

675
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 5: like it was unreal. And I know, I I know

676
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 5: we're talking about it. Like you know, you guys have

677
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,839
Speaker 5: probably like seen so many other games, but like that,

678
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 5: that was probably one of the best games and best

679
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 5: days I've ever had in my life as far as basketball,

680
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 5: you know, and I played at every level. But because

681
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 5: it's my community and so you know, you guys might

682
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,240
Speaker 5: see the other NBA finals and all these other things,

683
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 5: all like that was my you know, that was one

684
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 5: of our pinnacles, Like that was one of the coolest

685
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,919
Speaker 5: things that we've ever seen. And you know, I can't

686
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 5: wait to build it next year. And you know, we

687
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:41,320
Speaker 5: get to talk trash for a whole year because we

688
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 5: got to win. But I can't wait to see what

689
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:46,280
Speaker 5: it turns out to be next year and going forward.

690
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 3: Stein I said, I tweeted it at some point that

691
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 3: this was the biggest game, biggest hype game in Fresnel

692
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 3: history since Michael Jordan used to come to the Rod

693
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:04,839
Speaker 3: Higgins Tyron Bradley camp in the early nineties. We haven't

694
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:08,919
Speaker 3: experienced anything like this and it but it was two

695
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 3: o nine back then. Yes, you're correct. This this this

696
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,240
Speaker 3: was bigger because it was a large collection of talent.

697
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 3: You know, even though Paul George, Jalen Green and A. J.

698
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 3: Johnson didn't play, they were there, they were present. President's

699
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 3: never seen anything like that. That atmosphere, like Stein it

700
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 3: was standing in the room, only it was hot.

701
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 4: It was like a real.

702
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 3: I'm never like, I've never experienced like the closest Drewlie.

703
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 3: But that atmosphere didn't compare Drewlie, did compare to this like.

704
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 5: We defeat the Due.

705
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:46,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, the atmosphere wise, like just you know, I wasn't

706
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 4: I wasn't there at the Drew League when Lebron went

707
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 4: and played.

708
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe it would have been similar, but I'm just

709
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,399
Speaker 3: telling you man. Like and it's another thing too, that's

710
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:57,879
Speaker 3: l a those fans are used to seeing.

711
00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 4: That type of talent.

712
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 3: Like it's a different app musphere when you got a

713
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 3: whole bunch of starving fans who they don't get to

714
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 3: see these type of caliber players on on a on

715
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:09,800
Speaker 3: a on a routine basis.

716
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,720
Speaker 4: So it was just different style. Like it was really

717
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,320
Speaker 4: really a special moment. Man. You know how Fresnel.

718
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 3: You know, I love my city, but you if you're

719
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,279
Speaker 3: not from Fresne, will have any times of Fresne. It's

720
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,839
Speaker 3: hard to get cats to come to your city.

721
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 5: Anywore Yeah, you know, you know it's it's hard to

722
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 5: get it because like Fresne has like one of those names.

723
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 5: It's not like, you know, sexy, So like it's like,

724
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 5: hey man, I'm calling people, Hey man, you want to

725
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 5: come to president.

726
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 3: They're like, hey, what the best hold on cut? We

727
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 3: were on the bench. I forgot who was it was?

728
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 3: It mess he was talking about, like he didn't know

729
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:48,360
Speaker 3: we had some type of restaurant we were talking about.

730
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:50,919
Speaker 5: He was like, man, I know you had wings stop. Yeah,

731
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 5: Like what kind of city? What kind of city do

732
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 5: you think this is? And so you know, again it's

733
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 5: it's all about educating. Like Isaiah Thomas casing point man,

734
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 5: Me and Isaiah went to college together, and you know

735
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 5: when we're in college together, like you're competing, like you

736
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 5: don't really get to kick it with each other. He

737
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 5: never he never came out to Fresno or anything. And

738
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 5: so I've been begging him for years. I begged him.

739
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 5: I used to have my camp every year, begged him this,

740
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 5: you know, last whatever time, and he was like he

741
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:22,839
Speaker 5: would kind of like throw it off and be like, oh,

742
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 5: it's okay. He he came to Fresno and was like,

743
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 5: I'm coming back every single year. That's dope forever. And

744
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 5: every single player says that. Quinn Cook has said that,

745
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 5: and so many other guys are like, no, no, No, Fresno's

746
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 5: is like the liddest city ever, Like you gotta come,

747
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:42,839
Speaker 5: you know, whether whether it's just you know the basketball

748
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 5: or you know, getting out or whatever it is. You know,

749
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 5: the love that you know, I helped them get or

750
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 5: or you know, make sure that people give them or

751
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 5: they just get organically. It's it's truly special. Man. It's

752
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 5: Fresno's amazing place. Man. It's not far from La it's

753
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 5: not from far from the It's unique. You know. It's

754
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 5: it's a small but big city, and you know, we

755
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:08,959
Speaker 5: have a lot to offer. Man. I love the city.

756
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 5: I always have my main house here and hopefully I

757
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 5: continue to grow. You know, we've had some great basketball

758
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 5: players that come from here, and you know, to continue

759
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 5: to grow the knowledge of you know, Fred.

760
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 1: Chris Hands can bring Edison high without me throwing in

761
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,320
Speaker 1: a Bruce Bowen mentioned.

762
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh all the time. Hey, I got a

763
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:33,400
Speaker 5: real question, Chris.

764
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 4: I'm listening.

765
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 5: I might need you to do your like top five,

766
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 5: top ten for Fresno ever tough five now, but like.

767
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:49,800
Speaker 4: What hold, let me put me on I'll go ahead,

768
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 4: I'll drop it. Now, put me on the spot.

769
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 5: Now, I'll have do I star past Bruce Bowen.

770
00:43:56,440 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 4: Surpass him? I q based off for the championships. I can't.

771
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:05,280
Speaker 4: I don't think I can. Bruce has what three.

772
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 1: Two or three and he led the league in three

773
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: point shooting.

774
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 4: I have to I think you hold on, let me

775
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:12,239
Speaker 4: let me just let me.

776
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: Just say he went to cal State Fullerton, So that

777
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: kind of seals it.

778
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 4: It's kind of heating.

779
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,800
Speaker 5: Because I I debate this to myself. I'm like, is

780
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 5: Bruce ahead of me?

781
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:26,280
Speaker 3: I'm like, is she because he played with san Antonio?

782
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 3: Is that what you're saying?

783
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 5: I didn't see that.

784
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 4: Okay, he did. He was a nice contributor. It wasn't

785
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 4: like he went along the run.

786
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 1: Also, are we talking there's a difference. Paul George is

787
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,320
Speaker 1: not from Fresno, played at Fresno State. We are talking

788
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 1: about guys who are from Fresno.

789
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 4: Is that? What? Is that what we're doing?

790
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 5: So this is the hardest thing, like about these whole things.

791
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 5: It's like, do you count their high school? Do you count?

792
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:53,239
Speaker 5: Like what are we counting for criteria?

793
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: And I think you would want to do it as

794
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,880
Speaker 1: based out of you played your high school ball in

795
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: Fresno five No.

796
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 4: But he's saying, do you consider your high school career?

797
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 5: Do you consider their whole You know, maybe maybe his

798
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 5: pro crew is better because.

799
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 4: Q's high school career is way better than.

800
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 5: My college college careers better, Like yeah, and then and

801
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 5: then impact of the city and now so like it's

802
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 5: just hard. It's hard to just.

803
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 3: Say impact of the city. Look, impact of the city.

804
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 3: That's you. You're number one. You're going to be a

805
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,319
Speaker 3: future mayor of for us all. You're number one. High

806
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 3: school career doesn't compare you. You were on the cusp

807
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:39,759
Speaker 3: of McDonald's All American. Bruce Bowen had nobody knew who

808
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:41,919
Speaker 3: he was. He had to find his way to cal State.

809
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 5: Let's let's think it. Bris Bowen is a legend.

810
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 4: No, he is.

811
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 5: He is like Brice Bowen is, Like I look up

812
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:51,799
Speaker 5: to him so much. I remember my rookie year. I

813
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 5: was like one thing I wanted to do was meet

814
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 5: Bruce Bowen and like Chris Paul and those guys are like,

815
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 5: look at me, like I was crazy, and they were

816
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 5: like I was like, no, I need to like shake

817
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 5: hands or Bruce Bowen and like really show him love,

818
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 5: like that's the guy you know.

819
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 3: And so high school college you got him.

820
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 4: NBA he hasn't.

821
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:15,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, he has that multiple All multiple All first Team defense,

822
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:19,319
Speaker 3: all NBA teams, no question, two or three championships.

823
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 1: Okay, now, where is Jalen Green Because he's I mean

824
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 1: he's from he's from Fresno, right, his high school with Resno.

825
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 3: Correct, Yes, you know his last year he went out,

826
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 3: he went out to the Sacramento area.

827
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 5: The best, the best player ever from President is Brook Lopez.

828
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:44,880
Speaker 4: You mean talent, pound for pound talent.

829
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 5: Brook Lopez has been the best player.

830
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 3: He's had, He's had the better NBA career. Correct, that's

831
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 3: what you're saying. Well, he's a McDonald's All American as well,

832
00:46:56,760 --> 00:47:01,319
Speaker 3: McDonald's All American human Robin McDonald's. You play with Brook

833
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 3: and Robin just so you know, in high school.

834
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 5: In college like lottery pick nets, all time leading score. Yeah,

835
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,320
Speaker 5: he's been the best player ever from Presdent.

836
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 4: I'll give you that.

837
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 1: I'm still but I guess maybe my vote is not

838
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: as important in this.

839
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 5: The best player from Fresno ever.

840
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,759
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay, hold on, I get you on that,

841
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 3: But let's is there another criteria for the best talent

842
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,359
Speaker 3: to ever come out of Fresno, Because then that's when

843
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 3: I think you got to.

844
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 4: Throw Deshaun Stevenson or even Jalen Green into the mix. Talent.

845
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 5: What are we tossing in like we're like it's it

846
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 5: gets dicey.

847
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 3: You know this, like we've only had three McDonald's, all

848
00:47:53,960 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 3: Americans in Fresno. Lopez No. Four actually Lopez Twins, Sean Stevenson,

849
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 3: Jalen Green. Those are the four I believe all time.

850
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:12,360
Speaker 3: So pound for pound talent, I think it has to

851
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 3: be one of those three Brook, Jalen or Dashaun.

852
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 4: Tough tough debate.

853
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 1: You were serious, right, you you think Quincy is the

854
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 1: f is a future mayor of the city of Fresno.

855
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:26,239
Speaker 3: That was real if he wants, if he if he

856
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:28,279
Speaker 3: lets go of coaching at some point. But no, I

857
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:32,000
Speaker 3: think so he's He's like how Jamal Crawford is to Seattle.

858
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:33,400
Speaker 4: That's how he is the Presno.

859
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 1: So he already is the mayor, just not officially.

860
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess you could say, man, listen, who can

861
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:40,319
Speaker 3: you guys?

862
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 5: I can't get much done now in Presno. Man, I

863
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:46,919
Speaker 5: you know, I can't even get interviewed for coaching jobs

864
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:47,400
Speaker 5: or anything.

865
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 4: See he's had a couple of seats. See this is

866
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 4: this is a petty Q right here.

867
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 5: He's had a couple of I'm the pettiest person ever,

868
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 5: Like you're just getting to know me. I'm I'm one

869
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 5: of the pettiest people ever.

870
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:00,800
Speaker 4: Like Fresne status, you'll.

871
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: Do great, You'll do great on this show because so

872
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 1: so are all of us.

873
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,359
Speaker 5: It doesn't really affect me. Like a lot of times

874
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 5: I'm just joking and people were like it's like I'm

875
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 5: being petty, and so it's like offensive, not offensive, but

876
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 5: they're like sensitive about it. But again, like I've made

877
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 5: jokes about the president state thing and they're like all

878
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:25,839
Speaker 5: sensitive about it, but like I'm I'm pretty fucking petty man.

879
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:28,319
Speaker 3: They're going to offer too in the future. It's gonna

880
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 3: be matter if he wants it or not at that time.

881
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 3: So he's going to have multiple.

882
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 5: That's what's gonna be. I remember, I, you know, when

883
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 5: the season ended, I really wanted the job, you know,

884
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,919
Speaker 5: I really wanted I'm gonna lie. My dad just kept

885
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 5: being like he thought he thought so much bigger of me.

886
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 5: He's like, you know, he thinks, I, you know, if

887
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 5: I wanted the job, go take it. But at the

888
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:54,880
Speaker 5: end of the day, like he thinks I should be

889
00:49:54,920 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 5: at a higher, you know level, and you know, it

890
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 5: just you know, it didn't work and it didn't happen,

891
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:07,759
Speaker 5: and they chose who they chose and you know, I

892
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:09,440
Speaker 5: wish them the best. I'm always going to cheer on

893
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 5: for Fresno. And but you know, maybe one day and

894
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:17,359
Speaker 5: maybe I have Chris Haynes come out there and coach

895
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 5: with me or something. But no, again, I just I'm

896
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 5: just doing my job. I'm just trying to make Presne

897
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:28,759
Speaker 5: a better place. And you know, again spread the love

898
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 5: that the city gives me.

899
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:33,400
Speaker 3: I got a couple more questions start he Chrissy just

900
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 3: threw something at me real quick. Q. You were a

901
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 3: class of twenty and ten correct going into the draft?

902
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:39,880
Speaker 4: Yes?

903
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 5: Okay, so you with all the last remaining one.

904
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:45,839
Speaker 3: Yeah that's right, the last last player in that two

905
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 3: thousand and ten drafts still playing in the NBA. My

906
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,760
Speaker 3: question was when you came out of high school, obviously

907
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 3: you were one of the top high school players in

908
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 3: the country.

909
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 4: De Fredio State. I imagine they recruited you. But how.

910
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 3: They did it. I want to give it to me, Q,

911
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:06,960
Speaker 3: give it to me. This is this league una cut

912
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 3: give it to me. Q.

913
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 5: So so this is so funny man. And again, like

914
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 5: I would meet, my dad is my best friend and we.

915
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 4: Always and.

916
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:25,840
Speaker 5: The truth is going into my that that last summer

917
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:29,359
Speaker 5: you know, my my, my ranking skyrocketing and all that,

918
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:32,239
Speaker 5: and I'm, you know, cuss top twenty five player in

919
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 5: the country, and it was crazy. I had gone on

920
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 5: a visit to Yukon, I didn't like it. I went

921
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 5: on a visit to Washington. I loved it. I loved

922
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 5: coach Romar, I loved how he was. And then I

923
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 5: went on to you know, I was just gonna wait

924
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 5: a couple of weeks and then make my decision. My

925
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 5: dad was like, you know, I feel really feel like

926
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 5: Washington is a place for you. And so I was like,

927
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 5: you know, I think, I think that's what's going to be.

928
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 5: And he was like, all right, We're gonna Present State

929
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 5: is going to set up a you know, a butcher

930
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 5: has set up a meeting with them. They had just

931
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:14,799
Speaker 5: got Steve Cleveland as a coach, and so they set

932
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:18,719
Speaker 5: up a meeting. Me and my dad, my mom, we

933
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:20,759
Speaker 5: went over there. In my head on the whole way

934
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:24,399
Speaker 5: there to Present State, which is like eight ten minutes away,

935
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 5: fifteen minutes away from my house, I'm like, I'm about

936
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:31,840
Speaker 5: to commit in this visit. I'm gonna commit in the meeting.

937
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna tell my parents or nothing like I'm

938
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:41,360
Speaker 5: about to commit and the meeting starts off. Mind you,

939
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:43,960
Speaker 5: my dad was a coach at Fresident State for a

940
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:45,840
Speaker 5: little bit. He was a you know, he worked with

941
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:49,959
Speaker 5: hard I go play pick up with those guys every day,

942
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 5: like you know, this is down the street, like I'm

943
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 5: a Fresno guy, and I was I was really really

944
00:52:57,080 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 5: you know, shy at the time. I didn't I didn't

945
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:02,719
Speaker 5: have personality. I just never wanted to leave home. And

946
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:06,080
Speaker 5: we get in the meeting and the first thing that

947
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:11,919
Speaker 5: coach Cleveland says, the opening statement, says, I haven't really

948
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 5: seen play much. I haven't seen you play at all, really,

949
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:20,240
Speaker 5: but everyone in the city says you're really really good.

950
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 5: And we know, like you know, the media would kill

951
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:25,279
Speaker 5: us if if we say we didn't do our due

952
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:26,400
Speaker 5: diligence and recruited you.

953
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:30,959
Speaker 4: Damn damn my dad.

954
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:34,359
Speaker 5: My dad stops the meeting right there and says, well,

955
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 5: I guess this is over with, Like that was his pitch,

956
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:41,440
Speaker 5: and I'm just in my heart. I just sink in

957
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 5: my chair and they were like we end up start

958
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 5: talking about like other kids on our you know, au

959
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 5: roster that he can recruit and and that that was it.

960
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 5: He had no idea like I wanted to commit during

961
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:57,279
Speaker 5: the meeting, and I was crushed. Man. I remember my

962
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 5: first flight to Seattle and my mom was like, you

963
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:06,280
Speaker 5: know when we went out there for school and I didn't.

964
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 5: I never wanted to leave Fresne. Man, I'm such a

965
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 5: presdent guy. And she was like, well, wave by to Fresno.

966
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 5: And I just start crying, like bawling, and like I'm like,

967
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 5: there's no way but to come full circle, man, Like

968
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:23,880
Speaker 5: what happened in the spring. It felt the same exact way,

969
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 5: you know when when they're you know, when you don't

970
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 5: know what you have or what you can get, and

971
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 5: you're just like, oh, we're going to pass on him.

972
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:35,880
Speaker 5: Oh that's or that's not for us, or whatever it is,

973
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:40,359
Speaker 5: or whatever their decision was. And it's like, all right,

974
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:45,239
Speaker 5: I don't need much motivation for much. Again, I'm a

975
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:48,759
Speaker 5: petty king, but you know, it puild like a few

976
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:52,640
Speaker 5: on me, man. And you know, to this day, one

977
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:54,080
Speaker 5: of the reason why I made to leave was because

978
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:56,840
Speaker 5: of that situation when I was in high school. And

979
00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:59,799
Speaker 5: one of the reasons why I feel like I'm gonna

980
00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 5: be a good coach is because of what happened this year.

981
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:07,120
Speaker 4: That's deep right there, that's deep.

982
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:08,960
Speaker 3: I didn't know that that could that could have been

983
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:12,160
Speaker 3: Paul George Quincy pond Rix.

984
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 5: So so that was betweenty ten.

985
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:17,439
Speaker 4: No, so you were this, this is crazy six.

986
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:20,840
Speaker 5: That was two thousand and six. He got eight and

987
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 5: so I stayed all four years in college. So PG

988
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:24,839
Speaker 5: got there in two thousand and eight. We used to play.

989
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:26,840
Speaker 5: I used to come back home. I played, you know,

990
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 5: in the summertime, we'll play against each other. I'm like, damn,

991
00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 5: Listen was like, he's like he's trying, He's going against me,

992
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:35,839
Speaker 5: Like but he wasn't. He wasn't six ten. Then yeah,

993
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:39,239
Speaker 5: six and seven. I come back the next summer. His

994
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 5: before it's I'm like, yo, he grew some up. I

995
00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:46,319
Speaker 5: better Like, yeah, he's a tough one, Like I'm killing him.

996
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:49,560
Speaker 5: Like it was like it's tough though, and then you

997
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:51,839
Speaker 5: know we're in the same draft class. But it's like dang,

998
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 5: Like those relationships and everything started back then. My one

999
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 5: of my best friends, Jordan Ambers, was a player on

1000
00:55:57,719 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 5: his team at Presdent State, but it beat every year

1001
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 5: I tried to transfer back to Present State. No. One

1002
00:56:09,239 --> 00:56:12,680
Speaker 5: Romar coach Romar knows that because it you know it,

1003
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:15,880
Speaker 5: some people like told him, but like I tried to

1004
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:18,319
Speaker 5: transfer back to Present State when they had you know,

1005
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 5: Dominic McGuire, Paul George dudes, and they were like, is

1006
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 5: you really that good? He's only averaging ten twelve in

1007
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 5: the PAC.

1008
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 4: Team still disrespectful, man.

1009
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:33,839
Speaker 5: Steel, disrespectful. And so then it got to my you know,

1010
00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:37,439
Speaker 5: before my senior year, and that's why I always gonna

1011
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:40,000
Speaker 5: transfer home that year. But because I knew I was

1012
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:41,799
Speaker 5: on like I was on that path like one more

1013
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 5: year at college, like you know, you're going to be

1014
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:45,960
Speaker 5: an NBA guy. Like I had a really good, you know,

1015
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:47,560
Speaker 5: junior year, but not good enough to go to the

1016
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:49,840
Speaker 5: NBA yet, And so I knew I was gonna be

1017
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 5: locked in. I told coach Romar like, don't me show

1018
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:53,520
Speaker 5: me what the NBA is talking about. I need one

1019
00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 5: more year. Like I didn't, I didn't test the waters,

1020
00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:57,959
Speaker 5: I didn't do any of that. I was like, show

1021
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,759
Speaker 5: me one more year, and I'm going, you know, I

1022
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:02,239
Speaker 5: don't want to, I don't want to waste my time

1023
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:05,080
Speaker 5: on that, Like no, I'm not playing that game. So

1024
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:07,960
Speaker 5: we did that, and he was like, what's one thing

1025
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:10,440
Speaker 5: that you want. And I was like, I want to

1026
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 5: play at home at Freston State. We begged them to

1027
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:20,760
Speaker 5: come back and play, begged him, begged him. Oh and

1028
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 5: then the word we got back. Me and my family

1029
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:26,360
Speaker 5: and my dad was furious. It was like, we don't

1030
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 5: want this to be the Quincy show. We don't want

1031
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:30,680
Speaker 5: him to come back back to fresent get forty yea

1032
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:33,680
Speaker 5: and our school was like offering, like to do whatever,

1033
00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 5: like you know, like we're you know how it goes

1034
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:39,080
Speaker 5: like we paid teams to come. They're like, we don't

1035
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 5: want no money, no nothing, like We're just going to

1036
00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 5: come and give cure game. They're like coach clintonand was

1037
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 5: like no. And after that, like you know, we lost

1038
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 5: a lot of respect for him because you know that

1039
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:52,080
Speaker 5: definitely did us.

1040
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 1: Paul didn't play last night, but just for him to

1041
00:57:57,120 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 1: be back in Fresno and the star obviously the star

1042
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:05,520
Speaker 1: level he's at that, what was that like, just Paul

1043
00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:09,400
Speaker 1: George really the star of this summer with his move

1044
00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:12,160
Speaker 1: to the Sixers in free agency. So just what was

1045
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 1: the reaction to him in Fresno being in the gym

1046
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 1: last night?

1047
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:20,280
Speaker 5: The reaction to him being in the gym last night

1048
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:24,280
Speaker 5: was just the the hype of him coming to Fresno

1049
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:27,280
Speaker 5: for the week or forever long I announced. It was

1050
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:31,000
Speaker 5: unbelievable He's coming into town. I saw so many twenty

1051
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:34,000
Speaker 5: four Paul George jerseys in the in the crowd man

1052
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 5: and people begging, you know, just to get a glimpse

1053
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 5: of him. What he did yesterday was enough for me,

1054
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 5: you know, and I always have love and respect for PG,

1055
00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:49,520
Speaker 5: for that man, and was as crazy as like, you know,

1056
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 5: we talked a lot this summer, but it had nothing

1057
00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:55,480
Speaker 5: to do with the Fresne program, you know, or you know,

1058
00:58:55,520 --> 00:59:00,400
Speaker 5: I talked to his people a lot. Was getting Joel

1059
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:03,360
Speaker 5: and b to get on the phone with them. Joel

1060
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:05,880
Speaker 5: is one of my best friends. And so how Joel

1061
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:09,400
Speaker 5: got Paul's number to start trying to pitch it to

1062
00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:10,480
Speaker 5: him was through me.

1063
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:17,400
Speaker 3: So see, see y'all, Fresne, see a Fresno. People make

1064
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 3: big things happen all around the world, continue to going.

1065
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 5: I don't even know how much the Sixers know this,

1066
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:26,840
Speaker 5: but quietly, one of the biggest I hate to say this,

1067
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:30,520
Speaker 5: one of the biggest pieces, and that was me being

1068
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 5: like yo, Pete, Joel, you gotta you gotta keep recruiting them.

1069
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:36,080
Speaker 5: You got to try to get him. You gotta get him,

1070
00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 5: You gotta talk to him, you gotta you know, whatever

1071
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:43,640
Speaker 5: it is, and even talk to you know, Joel and

1072
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:47,200
Speaker 5: talked to Paul's friends during the time. And you know,

1073
00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:49,760
Speaker 5: there was a time when Joel gave up. He was like,

1074
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:52,360
Speaker 5: there's no ways coming. There's no ways coming to Philly,

1075
00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 5: there's no there's no chance. I called peace friends and

1076
00:59:56,880 --> 01:00:01,520
Speaker 5: they were like, que trust he has a great chance.

1077
01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:04,800
Speaker 5: Like you guys are doing right. Joe was like, for real,

1078
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:09,320
Speaker 5: called him back. It's like, bro, keep recruiting. This was

1079
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 5: like ten days, eight days before free agency.

1080
01:00:13,240 --> 01:00:16,440
Speaker 1: Maybe, Chris, why didn't we have Quincy on a month ago?

1081
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:20,680
Speaker 4: I didn't notice or less.

1082
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 5: And he was like for real And I was like, bro,

1083
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:28,720
Speaker 5: he's you have a great chance. Keep going. And this

1084
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:32,160
Speaker 5: all happened. Man, Like I don't want to take I've

1085
01:00:32,200 --> 01:00:34,440
Speaker 5: never I haven't said it publicly or anything, but like

1086
01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:35,520
Speaker 5: people that know, they.

1087
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:39,880
Speaker 1: Know, I apologize for not knowing this backstory. Where did

1088
01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:43,360
Speaker 1: you and Joel Cross? How did you get close with him?

1089
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:48,200
Speaker 5: We had the same agent, you know Joel. You know

1090
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:51,760
Speaker 5: he tours and he broke his nartcular bomb, you know,

1091
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:55,360
Speaker 5: right before the draft, and that was at the same time,

1092
01:00:55,720 --> 01:00:58,520
Speaker 5: maybe like two years before that. It was twenty fifteen.

1093
01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:03,080
Speaker 5: He did that twenty thirteen. I think it was twenty fifteen.

1094
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:06,800
Speaker 5: You know, yeah, twenty thirteen. I had broke my navicular

1095
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:09,920
Speaker 5: bone and I sat out like fifty something games of

1096
01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:15,720
Speaker 5: the season. So our agents was like, Yo, you're gonna

1097
01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:17,440
Speaker 5: have to you know, talk to him through it, you know,

1098
01:01:17,520 --> 01:01:20,400
Speaker 5: be a big brother too, and all these things and

1099
01:01:20,480 --> 01:01:23,560
Speaker 5: like how to rehab process and all these things, and

1100
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:26,880
Speaker 5: you know, we talked about it, and we just he

1101
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:29,560
Speaker 5: just became a little brother all, you know, right away,

1102
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:34,320
Speaker 5: and you know, spend time with each other on and

1103
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:37,720
Speaker 5: off the floor, like just mainly off the floor. And

1104
01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 5: you know, during that two years that he was out,

1105
01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:44,560
Speaker 5: I was, you know, it didn't change me, like you know,

1106
01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 5: some people fall off and they stopped being your friend

1107
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:49,760
Speaker 5: or all that. Like, it didn't change anything for me.

1108
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:51,600
Speaker 5: I was, you know, I was still his little brother

1109
01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:54,200
Speaker 5: and his big brother, and so you know I would

1110
01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:57,840
Speaker 5: send him clips of players and do things, and our

1111
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:04,120
Speaker 5: relationship just continue to blossom. And again he's a little

1112
01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:06,600
Speaker 5: you know, he's one of the best players in the NBA,

1113
01:02:06,760 --> 01:02:08,880
Speaker 5: and I'm proud to say that he's, you know, one

1114
01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:09,720
Speaker 5: of my best friends.

1115
01:02:10,240 --> 01:02:11,880
Speaker 1: What did you think of him at the Olympics and

1116
01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:15,920
Speaker 1: that love affair he had with the French crowd. What

1117
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:18,640
Speaker 1: was that like for you as his pal to watch him?

1118
01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:23,880
Speaker 5: Man, I've had a rough summer of defending him. It's

1119
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:26,280
Speaker 5: been it's been a rough summer of defending him, but

1120
01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:30,760
Speaker 5: because I know what he's going through, you know, like

1121
01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:33,840
Speaker 5: when you're going through health things, and like he wasn't healthy,

1122
01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:37,880
Speaker 5: Like he wasn't he wasn't in shape, you know, but

1123
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:41,520
Speaker 5: he wanted to play and he put his love of

1124
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:45,960
Speaker 5: the game on the line for our country. Like but

1125
01:02:46,040 --> 01:02:49,680
Speaker 5: if you guys know the backstory of he only touched

1126
01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:53,720
Speaker 5: the basketball maybe a few days before he got out

1127
01:02:53,760 --> 01:03:00,520
Speaker 5: to Vegas for the train cap, maybe four days. And

1128
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:02,640
Speaker 5: by the end of it, I was like, you know,

1129
01:03:02,720 --> 01:03:04,160
Speaker 5: you guys are going to see what you know, what

1130
01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:07,760
Speaker 5: he is, and you know, he came through huge against

1131
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:12,840
Speaker 5: Yo Kic in Serbia and you know, you know, he's

1132
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:15,640
Speaker 5: one of the best players the game has ever seen.

1133
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:19,160
Speaker 5: At seven foot one, seven foot two, with the skill

1134
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:23,200
Speaker 5: set of you know guards, you know, he's one of

1135
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:25,840
Speaker 5: the best like this. He's just been brittled with injuries

1136
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:28,360
Speaker 5: and that he hasn't been the healthiest and that's the

1137
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:30,120
Speaker 5: only thing that's stopping him from being one of the

1138
01:03:30,120 --> 01:03:33,720
Speaker 5: greatest players of all time. But if he gets to

1139
01:03:33,760 --> 01:03:36,480
Speaker 5: that point where he is healthy consistently, and he'll be

1140
01:03:36,520 --> 01:03:37,760
Speaker 5: the one of the best players ever.

1141
01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:42,240
Speaker 4: Don we got way more than I thought.

1142
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:45,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not even supposed to.

1143
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:50,320
Speaker 3: I'm hold I got one question, real quick qu about people.

1144
01:03:50,520 --> 01:03:52,400
Speaker 1: But we've kept this man an hour.

1145
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:54,800
Speaker 4: Just so you know, total fifteen minutes.

1146
01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:57,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought it was gonna be ten to fifteen minutes. Man,

1147
01:03:57,160 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 5: I just start talking. Man, I don't know what they

1148
01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:02,439
Speaker 5: I'm never doing this again, Chris.

1149
01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:03,920
Speaker 4: I like.

1150
01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:06,080
Speaker 5: I like being the hidden guy that doesn't do this

1151
01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 5: ship like.

1152
01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:10,760
Speaker 3: I appreciate you. I one thing about Paul, ask for

1153
01:04:10,840 --> 01:04:13,440
Speaker 3: as much as you can. When did you know that

1154
01:04:13,600 --> 01:04:18,440
Speaker 3: it would be like that, Paul will start to look elsewhere?

1155
01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:22,320
Speaker 3: When did you know that was a realistic possibility?

1156
01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:26,120
Speaker 5: You know, you just hear it. It's not like I knew,

1157
01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:30,880
Speaker 5: like you know, you just hear the rumblings. I think

1158
01:04:30,960 --> 01:04:33,720
Speaker 5: you know again, I don't think he was happy with

1159
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:42,520
Speaker 5: what he was offered and sometimes man, like you you

1160
01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:45,160
Speaker 5: start to look at your career differently at some point

1161
01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:47,560
Speaker 5: in time, and you're saying, like, all right, what do

1162
01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:49,920
Speaker 5: I need now? Like, you know, how do I how

1163
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:51,840
Speaker 5: do I get that? You know that the new love

1164
01:04:51,880 --> 01:04:56,000
Speaker 5: feel of a new city, you know, feeling respected in

1165
01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:59,240
Speaker 5: a new city. How can I get to that championships?

1166
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:03,560
Speaker 5: What's missing? And you know, I think I think it's

1167
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:08,959
Speaker 5: a perfect marriage. And here in Philadelphia I would love

1168
01:05:09,760 --> 01:05:11,520
Speaker 5: I can't. I'm anxious to see how the season is

1169
01:05:11,560 --> 01:05:14,360
Speaker 5: going to go because like, you know, to have Paul

1170
01:05:14,400 --> 01:05:17,320
Speaker 5: George on the wing after all, and you know, the

1171
01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:19,600
Speaker 5: big spot and like no one could guard him, and

1172
01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:25,120
Speaker 5: you have Tyrese Maxie who's like dynamic, you know, and

1173
01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:26,880
Speaker 5: now like how do you get the pieces around them

1174
01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:29,280
Speaker 5: to win the championship? But if you're starting off with

1175
01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:32,520
Speaker 5: those three man there's there's not too many you know,

1176
01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:34,880
Speaker 5: big threes in the league, Like especially with how Maxie's

1177
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:36,880
Speaker 5: rising and how he works and how he's going to

1178
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:40,080
Speaker 5: get better, you know. So I just think it meshes

1179
01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:43,600
Speaker 5: so much better than you know, other situations that we're

1180
01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 5: out there for Pete.

1181
01:05:45,560 --> 01:05:47,560
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say this before I before I let you

1182
01:05:47,600 --> 01:05:49,680
Speaker 3: go Que, and I'm Stein. May here one last thing

1183
01:05:49,760 --> 01:05:54,080
Speaker 3: to say, but Que Stein the first time I met Q,

1184
01:05:54,360 --> 01:05:56,120
Speaker 3: he won't remember this, so I'm telling him this for

1185
01:05:56,160 --> 01:05:59,360
Speaker 3: the first time. So I'm about six years older than Q.

1186
01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:03,400
Speaker 3: So I was a senior at high school and I

1187
01:06:03,520 --> 01:06:06,640
Speaker 3: used to go to I was hearing all this stuff

1188
01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:08,840
Speaker 3: about this young pond Dexter. So at this time Q

1189
01:06:09,120 --> 01:06:12,760
Speaker 3: is probably if I'm seventeen, he's like twelve or something

1190
01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:16,440
Speaker 3: like that, twelve or thirteen whatever. I'm hearing all this

1191
01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:18,640
Speaker 3: stuff about this young pond Dexter because you know, his

1192
01:06:18,720 --> 01:06:22,880
Speaker 3: pops is his uncle, like they are like legendary basketball

1193
01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:25,960
Speaker 3: figures in Fresno. So I'm hearing about this young pondexer,

1194
01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:30,040
Speaker 3: young Quincy Cue. You remember used to go to Dan.

1195
01:06:29,880 --> 01:06:34,160
Speaker 5: Gambos every day every week?

1196
01:06:34,360 --> 01:06:35,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I used to.

1197
01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:38,640
Speaker 3: I went to Dan Gambo's probably once every month, but

1198
01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:41,600
Speaker 3: this first is one time I went. This one time

1199
01:06:41,640 --> 01:06:44,560
Speaker 3: a month I went. You were there, and he was

1200
01:06:44,600 --> 01:06:47,240
Speaker 3: this skinny kid. He was a long kid. Like so

1201
01:06:47,320 --> 01:06:53,760
Speaker 3: at thirteen twelve, he's probably six three you could correct

1202
01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:56,280
Speaker 3: me if I'm wrong, Q, but six ' four, but

1203
01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:59,400
Speaker 3: he's skinny, and I'm like, I'm gonna see if this kid.

1204
01:07:00,040 --> 01:07:01,960
Speaker 3: I'm gonna see if this kid he dies. And we

1205
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:03,880
Speaker 3: played and we played against us that we played like

1206
01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 3: we went back and forth. Those courts were small, the

1207
01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:11,120
Speaker 3: full course they were small. And he gave problems, like

1208
01:07:11,200 --> 01:07:13,240
Speaker 3: he gave problems, and I was like, man, this kid,

1209
01:07:13,360 --> 01:07:15,280
Speaker 3: like he really you knew he was gonna get taller, so.

1210
01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:17,000
Speaker 4: You know, his dad and his uncle and all that,

1211
01:07:17,040 --> 01:07:17,440
Speaker 4: and I was.

1212
01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:19,840
Speaker 3: Like, man, but that was the first time I actually

1213
01:07:19,920 --> 01:07:22,560
Speaker 3: encountered playing with you. Was at Dan Gambles, which that

1214
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:24,840
Speaker 3: gym no longer exists anymore.

1215
01:07:25,160 --> 01:07:30,000
Speaker 5: Man, My best memories of playing basketball growing up all right,

1216
01:07:30,080 --> 01:07:34,360
Speaker 5: Dan Gambles in Fresnel, Man, where you have torell I

1217
01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:37,439
Speaker 5: Day and all those guys like come back and give

1218
01:07:37,520 --> 01:07:38,280
Speaker 5: me free game?

1219
01:07:38,640 --> 01:07:39,160
Speaker 4: Why you run?

1220
01:07:39,840 --> 01:07:43,800
Speaker 5: How to really play? And uh, you know, my dad

1221
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:47,080
Speaker 5: used to sit My dad's crazy. He used to sit

1222
01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:50,240
Speaker 5: there and just like watch me get beat up by

1223
01:07:50,280 --> 01:07:53,640
Speaker 5: these grown men every every week and like getting killed,

1224
01:07:53,680 --> 01:07:57,520
Speaker 5: and and he'd be like, didn't say anything, but what

1225
01:07:57,560 --> 01:07:59,320
Speaker 5: do you want to eat after? Like I'm like, what

1226
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:03,320
Speaker 5: do you I'm like, but it was all like it

1227
01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:06,160
Speaker 5: was a diabolical plan. In the end of the day,

1228
01:08:06,200 --> 01:08:08,120
Speaker 5: and my Dad's like, I knew you're gonna make it

1229
01:08:08,120 --> 01:08:10,360
Speaker 5: because of how you responded, how you would be pissed

1230
01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:12,760
Speaker 5: off to lose the dudes that were, you know, playing

1231
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:15,520
Speaker 5: overseas or playing in the NBA or whatever it was.

1232
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:19,000
Speaker 5: You would really be pissed, like you would be you'd

1233
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:21,960
Speaker 5: be curious, and you know you wanted to like kick

1234
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:25,000
Speaker 5: their butts. And it's like that's when he knew, like

1235
01:08:25,080 --> 01:08:27,200
Speaker 5: I had something he would just love to just watch.

1236
01:08:27,479 --> 01:08:33,840
Speaker 5: He never said anything at the gym. Yeah, there was

1237
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:36,719
Speaker 5: one time that he said something after after a game,

1238
01:08:36,840 --> 01:08:38,320
Speaker 5: but I don't know if we have time for that,

1239
01:08:38,400 --> 01:08:43,880
Speaker 5: but after a pickup game. But other than that that,

1240
01:08:44,200 --> 01:08:48,360
Speaker 5: you know, those are the memories. Man, like Fresnoy, you

1241
01:08:48,479 --> 01:08:51,519
Speaker 5: had to be a good player. You knew you were

1242
01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:53,759
Speaker 5: good if you went to Dan Amil's and you moved

1243
01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:57,519
Speaker 5: and everyone came together and you stayed on the winners court.

1244
01:08:58,040 --> 01:08:59,599
Speaker 5: That that was just the game back then.

1245
01:09:00,280 --> 01:09:02,519
Speaker 4: Daran Gambles, it's no longer anymore.

1246
01:09:03,160 --> 01:09:05,439
Speaker 3: Years ago, but yeah, I've never told you that, but

1247
01:09:05,479 --> 01:09:07,680
Speaker 3: that's the that's my first encounter I had playing with you,

1248
01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:09,320
Speaker 3: you about twelve or thirteen.

1249
01:09:09,040 --> 01:09:13,960
Speaker 5: Saying I started high school at six foot like six

1250
01:09:13,960 --> 01:09:17,080
Speaker 5: foot one, six foot two, one hundred and thirty pounds,

1251
01:09:17,200 --> 01:09:20,479
Speaker 5: like one hundred and thirty five pounds, and.

1252
01:09:20,760 --> 01:09:24,280
Speaker 4: Like the skinny as hell, Yeah, you know you were.

1253
01:09:24,600 --> 01:09:27,799
Speaker 5: You know it's part of your journey. Man, I'm happy

1254
01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:30,680
Speaker 5: as hell.

1255
01:09:30,760 --> 01:09:35,559
Speaker 1: Well this was awesome because well, we kept you way

1256
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:36,040
Speaker 1: too long.

1257
01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:38,200
Speaker 5: I'm going to apologize regular.

1258
01:09:38,360 --> 01:09:44,200
Speaker 1: I'm a regular now because until today my favorite Quincy

1259
01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:47,760
Speaker 1: Pond extra story. And I've told Chris this before my

1260
01:09:47,960 --> 01:09:51,960
Speaker 1: introduction to Chris Haynes, who I did not know if,

1261
01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:54,760
Speaker 1: like I have so little trust of my memory, but

1262
01:09:54,800 --> 01:09:57,960
Speaker 1: the way I remember it was Chris was in Cleveland

1263
01:09:58,840 --> 01:10:04,519
Speaker 1: covering the Calves, but he broke news of you. I

1264
01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:06,599
Speaker 1: don't know if you signed with Memphis or you went

1265
01:10:06,600 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 1: to Newark. Like I said, I don't remember what the

1266
01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:15,439
Speaker 1: transaction was. But this guy in Cleveland broke a Quincy

1267
01:10:15,520 --> 01:10:19,880
Speaker 1: pondexter story on Twitter, and like I said, it was

1268
01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:22,040
Speaker 1: Memphis or New Orleans, it was, but it had nothing

1269
01:10:22,080 --> 01:10:25,800
Speaker 1: to do with the Calves. And I'm like, who is

1270
01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:27,880
Speaker 1: this guy and why is he beating me on a

1271
01:10:27,960 --> 01:10:32,960
Speaker 1: Quincy pondexter signing? And That's when I first saw Chris Hayes.

1272
01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:35,400
Speaker 1: I didn't know, you know, I didn't know that you

1273
01:10:35,439 --> 01:10:38,839
Speaker 1: guys were you know, I didn't know the whole Fresno connection.

1274
01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:42,920
Speaker 5: Man, Hey, we're ganging Fresno. Man, don't you don't want

1275
01:10:42,920 --> 01:10:48,360
Speaker 5: to mess with us.

1276
01:10:47,080 --> 01:10:51,280
Speaker 1: But the new favorite story is today. This was awesome.

1277
01:10:52,120 --> 01:10:55,720
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you put this game together because we

1278
01:10:55,840 --> 01:10:57,439
Speaker 1: got a lot of good We got a lot of

1279
01:10:57,439 --> 01:11:01,479
Speaker 1: good tales out of this. Now serious, all jokes aside.

1280
01:11:01,520 --> 01:11:04,559
Speaker 1: Congrat I'm sure putting together an event like that is

1281
01:11:04,600 --> 01:11:08,559
Speaker 1: a monstrous undertaking and a huge challenge. And congrats to

1282
01:11:08,640 --> 01:11:13,599
Speaker 1: you for getting all those luminaries back home to what

1283
01:11:13,640 --> 01:11:15,120
Speaker 1: they now call the five to five.

1284
01:11:15,040 --> 01:11:17,040
Speaker 5: Nine wait for all people.

1285
01:11:20,360 --> 01:11:24,479
Speaker 1: Yea, I will, okay, I will happily do it. I

1286
01:11:24,479 --> 01:11:26,439
Speaker 1: have not been back to that part of the world

1287
01:11:26,520 --> 01:11:30,799
Speaker 1: in a bazillion years. I mean when I started college,

1288
01:11:30,840 --> 01:11:33,160
Speaker 1: Presno was in our league. It was the PCA. I

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Speaker 1: mean that was a long, long, long time ago. Ron

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Speaker 1: Adams was the coach. But I will just to watch

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Speaker 1: Chris Haynes hoop it up with every big name in Fresno.

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Speaker 1: I will happily come to that game.

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Speaker 4: That done well, Q.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate you, brother, nothing beloved for you, man. Congrats

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Speaker 3: again on the gig assistant coach at USC You're gonna

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Speaker 3: kill it over there, man. I know you have greater

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Speaker 3: heights going forward. Man, and uh you're for your forever

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Speaker 3: for him man. So anytime you ever need me, or

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Speaker 3: even need Mark Stein for that matter now because now

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Speaker 3: he's an official member of the five five nine, just

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Speaker 3: just let us know.

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Speaker 4: But brother, thank you for coming on.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 4: We appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: Yes, that man, that was Quincy Pops that you want.

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Speaker 1: And that'll do it for us. See you next time.

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Speaker 1: This League on Cuttage and iHeartRadio production.

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Speaker 5: Christ Haines and Mark Stein