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Speaker 2: Special guests here, Street Hoop, Legend, TikTok Legend Now, YouTube
Speaker 2: Legend now Cofresser. Hey, let's go. Man. Glad to be
Speaker 2: here to see man. Yeah, it's crazy because I remember
Speaker 2: watching you back in the day, man, like, uh, you
Speaker 2: know when I was a kid, I loved and One's mixtapes.
Speaker 2: I remember, uh, you know, obviously rest in peace to escalade,
Speaker 2: uh big bro, skip to my lou who ended up
Speaker 2: in the league, Raypah, Austin Hot Sauce. Yeah, there was
Speaker 2: all these guys that were like celebrities bros. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: then like the and One shit influenced so much shit
Speaker 2: in culture because like without and One, there's no NBA Street,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: The baggy shorts. Yeah, the baggy shorts. Just like there
Speaker 1: was just so much that, like.
Speaker 2: You know, I feel like, uh, and then an One
Speaker 2: ended up in Walmart, you know what I'm saying, which
Speaker 2: kind of made it uncool. But yeah one, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: new ownership.
Speaker 1: I think it changed hands five times or something since
Speaker 1: I was there. Yeah, so it's in the hands of
Speaker 1: ownership now that you know. Has it been Walmart? I
Speaker 1: guess they probably they're winning a lot of fun, They're
Speaker 1: making a.
Speaker 2: Ton of money.
Speaker 1: You're seeing what Shaq did, right, So I think it's
Speaker 1: Shack and and One is like the two head sports
Speaker 1: brands of Walmart. So I'm sure they kill it from
Speaker 1: a financial standpoint.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, you were eighteen when you started
Speaker 2: doing A day and one stuff, right, Yeah, in O
Speaker 2: three oh three. So how did you initially because obviously
Speaker 2: you're very good at basketball, So at what point in
Speaker 2: time did you say, well, I don't know if I
Speaker 2: can make it to the league, but this is something,
Speaker 2: This is like an ulterior or not an ulterior, but
Speaker 2: alternative route I can go to be a professional hooper.
Speaker 1: Uh So, So initially when I came out there, I
Speaker 1: was really like a fan. It just kind of happened
Speaker 1: on accent, but always trying to make the NBA, right,
Speaker 1: But I was actually a benchwarmer at a community college,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't it wasn't gonna happen. It wasn't looking
Speaker 1: great for me at that moment. But after my freshman
Speaker 1: year year in college, I improved by like three hundred percent,
Speaker 1: Like it's crazy. I finally hit the weights. I'm playing
Speaker 1: every day with guys who were going D two and
Speaker 1: D one. I already spent all my time hooping, but
Speaker 1: now I'm doing three days, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like literally make five hundred jumpers before class. Go to
Speaker 1: class two thirties, open gym, hit the weights, come work
Speaker 1: on your game again in the evening, either at a
Speaker 1: different n stop or right there's a NonStop. So I
Speaker 1: dedicated even more time to the grind and improved. I
Speaker 1: didn't realize how fast you could improve. By the end
Speaker 1: of that spring after my freshman year, I was like
Speaker 1: the best player in the gym, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: with my with my teammates and stuff like that. But
Speaker 1: then and one came, and the year before I went
Speaker 1: to and one, the first the first nationwide tour.
Speaker 2: They had it already poppular.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they had Season one on ESPN already. I'm a fan.
Speaker 1: I'm actually wearing and one head to toe before him
Speaker 1: even on there, like culturing it.
Speaker 2: Trying the moves everywhere I go.
Speaker 1: So I go up there as a fan just to
Speaker 1: watch but I knew they had to open run because
Speaker 1: I had played the year before and I got to
Speaker 1: play one game against the players. I think I was
Speaker 1: going against like sick witted at the time, headache and
Speaker 1: those guys were up there. So hopped in the open run,
Speaker 1: got some moves off, some people were going crazy, got
Speaker 1: voted in to play against Team and one. And mind you,
Speaker 1: I'm not even thinking the route of street Ball. I
Speaker 1: actually don't even think I belonged there, to be honest,
Speaker 1: because it was such like a hood in the city.
Speaker 2: Right, you know what I'm saying, Like you're just like
Speaker 2: scrining little white eighteen year old kid. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was just talking to half Man, Half Man, Half
Speaker 1: Amazing the other day and he was telling me, you know,
Speaker 1: we were talking about the street Ball versus the NBA debate,
Speaker 1: but remember he was in the limo. He's like, Yo,
Speaker 1: we need to see that commercial member the Hood All
Speaker 1: Stars versus the NBA All Stars.
Speaker 2: I had a pair of those Vince Carters. I think
Speaker 2: they were called the half Man Half Amazing. The Vince
Speaker 2: Carters were like the and ones that were like one
Speaker 2: one half color, one way and the Taichi.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those they gave they gave Vince Carter that name
Speaker 1: from him, though from I didn't other word half man
Speaker 1: half amazing. Yeah, I think Kenny Smith took bit. He
Speaker 1: knew half Man made the street baller.
Speaker 2: But gave it to Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember he was a little upset about that.
Speaker 1: But anyway, we were talking about that the debate. But
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't think I was a Hood all
Speaker 1: I didn't think I could be in the mix with
Speaker 1: the Hood All Stars. So like I'm doing it from
Speaker 1: a fan standpoint. You know, I played next thing. I know,
Speaker 1: I'm going back and forth with Hot Sauce in the
Speaker 1: main and one game, and then they asked me to
Speaker 1: go on tour. So mine kind of happening on accident.
Speaker 1: But I did try to pursue the NBA up until
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. Played in the CBA, which was
Speaker 1: like the G League. Yeah, and then the original G League,
Speaker 1: the original G League.
Speaker 2: That's how high I got.
Speaker 1: But then, like man, the politics of the game though,
Speaker 1: I lost some good when I.
Speaker 2: Got in the game when they I think they got
Speaker 2: to me there for ticket sales. Yeah, because you were
Speaker 2: a name bro like you ended up kind of being
Speaker 2: like the like kind of the face and won for
Speaker 2: a minute, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I got there. I think it was like
Speaker 1: a ticket sale thing. But then like I got a
Speaker 1: little time, especially when the starting point guard it was
Speaker 1: actually step On Marbury's brother, he got injured for like
Speaker 1: three games. So started for three games. One of them
Speaker 1: I had over twenty points, like seven assists.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 1: The other two I had like fifteen and five or
Speaker 1: something like that. We lost one in one two. But
Speaker 1: when that dude got healthy, man, they put it right
Speaker 1: back in the lineup, even though we weren't winning a
Speaker 1: game before that. So it was like the politics of
Speaker 1: the game, you know, people looked at street ball actually
Speaker 1: in that time, it was like it actually wasn't real basketball,
Speaker 1: so it didn't fit.
Speaker 2: Do you think it like worked against you because people
Speaker 2: perceived you as a street baller and not an actual
Speaker 2: like you know, professional Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when it came to the conventional game, it was
Speaker 1: a bad thing. Skipped to my lou even you know,
Speaker 1: who played in the NBA for over ten years.
Speaker 2: It took him a while to get in though.
Speaker 1: Well he had to let go of his street ball reputation.
Speaker 1: I remember my year getting on the tour two thousand
Speaker 1: and three was the last time he even played any games.
Speaker 2: He just stopped playing on the tour. And he had
Speaker 2: a solid career too, and he had some good years
Speaker 2: with Orlando and Houston. Like, yeah, he was good.
Speaker 1: But it's cool because it's actually funny how it works
Speaker 1: because back then it was a bad thing to the
Speaker 1: NBA high ups. Now the All Star the Hall of
Speaker 1: famers of today grew up. Why want so Like when
Speaker 1: I meet you know, like Paul George or Kyrie, they're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're to watch you back inspired by you, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it. It's incredible, grew up off you.
Speaker 2: That shit's so crazy. It's it's wild too because like
Speaker 2: think about like NBA Street, they took so many of
Speaker 2: your guys's moves and put them into that game. Did
Speaker 2: they ever like tap in with y'all like or like,
Speaker 2: because they really took y'all's moves and like literally it
Speaker 2: was just, I mean, a legendary video game. But I
Speaker 2: can only imagine. It's almost like with the Fortnite dances.
Speaker 2: Some of these dancers. You can turn off Fortnite, the
Speaker 2: dancers are in the game and they getting credit, Like,
Speaker 2: did y'all get any credit for any of the NBA
Speaker 2: Street shit.
Speaker 1: Uh, people would mix it up, you know, like they'd
Speaker 1: ask us, they think it's our game. So we had
Speaker 1: two games too, so.
Speaker 2: We remember Street Hoops. They weren't great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think what happened was I remember the games.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think with Street Hoops they probably saw that and
Speaker 1: we're like, oh, we could do this better. Put the
Speaker 1: NBA stamp on its probably goal. But then we came
Speaker 1: we didn't add one Street Ball. I actually thought that
Speaker 1: was decent. With Activision, that was.
Speaker 2: A more I don't know if I played that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that one was a souped up version, but
Speaker 1: it was right around the buy out from Anywise, I
Speaker 1: don't think got the marketing boost, and I don't they
Speaker 1: were going to do a part two, but it got
Speaker 1: bought out. Yeah, So I think honestly, they just saw
Speaker 1: the wave of it and the NBA smart for them
Speaker 1: to capitalize on the street side of things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy because the tour was like I got
Speaker 2: to go to one of the tour stops and it
Speaker 2: was in an arena. It was packed the fuck out.
Speaker 2: You guys had like it was it was like what
Speaker 2: was like touring because it's almost like being on the road, right,
Speaker 2: like if you're in the league. But it's a little
Speaker 2: different because you guys are kind of like the new
Speaker 2: h Harlem Globehouders in a sense, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like it's an entertainment. There's basketball, but there's also like
Speaker 2: we have to entertain all these people. Would you guys
Speaker 2: like let each other get your shit off?
Speaker 1: No, it was always a real thing, and it was
Speaker 1: always like real defense being played playing strangers, so we
Speaker 1: didn't know them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it was tea man one versus whoever was.
Speaker 1: Best of that city in the city, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so they'd be but it was it was actually like
Speaker 1: a very high level competition game. You know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of like myths of what level the N one
Speaker 1: players were, but like it's a pro level. You know,
Speaker 1: this is above college. This is like a pro thing.
Speaker 1: So we would play dudes who played overseas, We play
Speaker 1: like street ball legends in that city, and it was real,
Speaker 1: you know, Like that was the beauty of it though,
Speaker 1: was like there was even times where it didn't go
Speaker 1: our way, but most of the time eighty ninety percent
Speaker 1: of the time we'd go crazy. And honestly, that original
Speaker 1: group was like special for the talent level was crazy.
Speaker 2: It's crazy, man, for you, you've had such a great
Speaker 2: like resurgence because I feel like, you know, I was
Speaker 2: just an NBA con and my sons. I took my
Speaker 2: kids there and they're both they both played basketball and
Speaker 2: they're both like wrapped up. And I didn't know there
Speaker 2: was like this YouTube world of basketball like YouTubers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was the first YouTube hooper on.
Speaker 2: Accident, yeah, said, I didn't know. And we met some
Speaker 2: other community.
Speaker 1: What's this white kid named jess just t Jazz t
Speaker 1: Jazz Tristan Jacks.
Speaker 2: That guy, like my kids freaked out because he's walking by,
Speaker 2: and I just I don't know who the fuck this
Speaker 2: guy is, right, So I'm just like, hey, buddy, apparently
Speaker 2: my kids know who you are. You might if they
Speaker 2: get a pick. He's like sure, sweet kid, Yes, I
Speaker 2: didn't realize this dude's lit like yeah lit yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: Like I had no idea because I'm on YouTube. I
Speaker 2: look up a channel. I'm like Jesus Christ, Like it's
Speaker 2: crazy that basketball related content is so big now and
Speaker 2: what you do is so like perfect for today's landscape.
Speaker 2: Like for you, like you've you've kind of been the
Speaker 2: only guy I've seen from the era of an one
Speaker 2: that I watched that is successfully transitioned into being extremely
Speaker 2: successful in today's climate. Like for you, like, was it
Speaker 2: on accident? Was it on purpose? Like explain to me,
Speaker 2: like kind of like the run you've been.
Speaker 1: On a little bit of both, you know, like and
Speaker 1: one ended in Uh oh wait, well you got to
Speaker 1: think I'm only twenty four or twenty five years old,
Speaker 1: So like I feel, like I said, playing career right.
Speaker 1: But I found out YouTube when it came out like
Speaker 1: four you know, like we would even go overseas and
Speaker 1: people would approach me and be like, you know, show
Speaker 1: love or whatever.
Speaker 2: Now out of habit.
Speaker 1: I'd say, hey, thanks for checking out the show me
Speaker 1: our ESPN show, and they'd be like, oh no, I
Speaker 1: saw your stuff on YouTube. So I started looking into
Speaker 1: it about four.
Speaker 2: H five because your clips are up there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So they would rip our clips from the show
Speaker 1: channels make a compilation millions every single one had millions
Speaker 1: of views. So I got a homie who was an
Speaker 1: editor who's from like, you know, my home city, and
Speaker 1: I paid them a little bit st from I'm from Kaiser, Organs,
Speaker 1: very small.
Speaker 2: Town organ man yeah.
Speaker 1: But anyway, well I live here twenty years but from
Speaker 1: Oregon originally. But anyway, I tried to flood YouTube to
Speaker 1: get bookings. You know, you used to be able to
Speaker 1: get a DM on YouTube, So I started trying to
Speaker 1: flood it like that. But then when and when ended
Speaker 1: in eight started my own channel because YouTube adsence just
Speaker 1: came out, I think eight or nine. So I started
Speaker 1: my own channel. Oh nine, you're up, you're early. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I was like knowing that I could get international
Speaker 1: bookings because while one went down in the US in
Speaker 1: popularity once I got bought out and not on ESPN overseas,
Speaker 1: it was like and social media and that, you know,
Speaker 1: before social media couldn't really keep up with the narrative
Speaker 1: of a different country, so they're thinking it's still like
Speaker 1: topped off. So I would play like and one, you know,
Speaker 1: Brazil and one Africa, and yeah, I was doing these
Speaker 1: one off games. So I built YouTube to get live
Speaker 1: show bookings.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: But then twenty thirteen I went viral and I got
Speaker 1: a million subs in like one day.
Speaker 2: What the fuck? What video was it?
Speaker 1: It was a Spider Man basketball I dressed up as
Speaker 1: Spider Man suit and I played people one on one
Speaker 1: at the park, and I think and it did it
Speaker 1: for like twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: But I made every shot.
Speaker 1: Every trick worked, So it just was perfect edited that
Speaker 1: joints us a three minute video. But you know, back
Speaker 1: then it was so it was a six million a week,
Speaker 1: but back then that was like fifty million a week,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, it was a lot harder. And then
Speaker 2: the views counted for like a lot more and the
Speaker 2: ad sense was much better back then. Yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 2: was way different.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so just for for that six million a week,
Speaker 1: I could hit it by every mediality that you know, CNN, NBC, MTV, ESPN,
Speaker 1: you know, so.
Speaker 2: For you like like that was kind of did you
Speaker 2: realize at that point in time that there was the
Speaker 2: real money was being a content creator?
Speaker 1: It started to be clear, It started to be clear. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I was just thinking such like a hooper though,
Speaker 1: you know, like back in the and one day when
Speaker 1: it ended and all that, I was just thinking, like,
Speaker 1: you know, am I still pursuing the NBA? Where am
Speaker 1: I going to hoop?
Speaker 2: Now? Going overseas on kids going to Gili?
Speaker 1: Yeah, not knowing as I'm uploading, I'm doing my job.
Speaker 1: We're good, you know, but it took a viral spike
Speaker 1: to turn it into a business like real fast.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. You're like, oh, this is
Speaker 2: this is it? This is it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I thought about it even back in the day
Speaker 1: when I first heard about YouTube, because I knew it
Speaker 1: was in a few other countries because internationally they'd recognize
Speaker 1: us from it. And I remember saying to myself, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is like TV. This is like I said, free distribution.
Speaker 1: But then when it came to fruition as a business,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, literally, it's TV, like like way higher
Speaker 1: than you know, we never thought it.
Speaker 2: Would be like today, right, it's like the go to.
Speaker 2: But what about TikTok? When did TikTok really take off
Speaker 2: for you? Because you got a shit ton of followers.
Speaker 1: Were trying to go crazy on TikTok. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1: Could you can you make money on TikTok? I know that,
Speaker 1: like you can. You can get it like when it's monetized.
Speaker 1: I've had people tell me once you monetize your TikTok,
Speaker 1: they start fucking with your algorithm. No, okay, here's the truth.
Speaker 1: You don't really make. It's like YouTube shorts, you don't really.
Speaker 2: You don't make much because the YouTube shorts you'll be
Speaker 2: like I got I got an interview clip that has
Speaker 2: like three million views and I think I made twenty
Speaker 2: nine dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah something like that. Yeah, I've done thirty million. It
Speaker 1: made like not a couple.
Speaker 2: Of like yeah, right, it's like what do we do it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, my TikTok I got three and a half
Speaker 1: billion views and I made eight thousand dollars. So it
Speaker 1: pays a little more on YouTube shorts.
Speaker 2: But yeah, but it's a commercial for your YouTube channel
Speaker 2: kind of right, yeah, and my thing commercial for your brand. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And when when I started take off on YouTube and
Speaker 1: pressing to social media, I started realizing the value like early,
Speaker 1: you should be on every platform everything.
Speaker 2: Anything that drops. I signed up for the Dame like
Speaker 2: just in case, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and when it's new, pressing and go hard because
Speaker 1: you know they're pushing everything. Like so with YouTube, I
Speaker 1: would think I was actually a year late to you
Speaker 1: to TikTok. Yeah, to be honest, but once I got
Speaker 1: on my first video, I didn't put no effort in.
Speaker 1: It got like five and a half million views. It
Speaker 1: was on Halloween. I was dressed as a Joker. My
Speaker 1: cousin was Batman. So the Joker movie song was trending.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we just did I did a little dribble
Speaker 2: as the Joker, like nothing, not.
Speaker 1: Even anything crazy. Yeah, but it just went crazy. But
Speaker 1: like five and a half million views. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: there might be something here. Yes, I should use it.
Speaker 2: You know, it's crazy because you watch like I just
Speaker 2: watched The White Men Can't Jump video, a movie with
Speaker 2: Jack Harlow, which was actually a lot better than I
Speaker 2: thought it was gonna be. Do you ever have you
Speaker 2: ever had a point in time where you were hustling
Speaker 2: people at the park?
Speaker 1: Oh, I live White Man Can't Jump today?
Speaker 2: Like still, I know you do it on this on
Speaker 2: like TikTok. Will you like show up like dressed as
Speaker 2: like a McDonald's employee or something. But I mean, like
Speaker 2: when the cameras aren't rolling, like maybe you're in a
Speaker 2: different city or you're like you know what, Oh, I
Speaker 2: see what you're saying. Now, have you ever like pulled
Speaker 2: up to the park and been like I'm gonna just
Speaker 2: it's almost like being.
Speaker 1: A pool shark, right, Well, somebody there is gonna know
Speaker 1: me now now they will. Yeah, but you've never done
Speaker 1: that in like ever old just period, just hustled somebody
Speaker 1: out of somebody at the park because they just assume
Speaker 1: you're like the geeky white dude, And well I grew
Speaker 1: up doing it. I mean I feel like I grew
Speaker 1: up doing that literally and then up until I don't know,
Speaker 1: I think as of like twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2: Though you're too famous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I only play if we're rolling for you the vlog,
Speaker 1: if we're rolling for social media, Like I won't even
Speaker 1: do open runs or nothing only because of injury risk
Speaker 1: though you know thirty nine right now hurt, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you get hurt, then you can't do your grind. It
Speaker 1: actually doesn't make any sense the older I get. It's
Speaker 1: just like the league, right, you pay too much outside
Speaker 1: these when I tell everybody, like it's really easy to
Speaker 1: watch the Big Three and be like he still got it, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he still got it for a half court game once
Speaker 1: a week, But I don't know if he's still got it.
Speaker 2: For eighty two games.
Speaker 1: It's a lot different, right, People have a lot of
Speaker 1: spin past the normal like hooping age, which you're right
Speaker 1: that eighty two games brutal, Like I just saw Jay
Speaker 1: Rich get up at Big Three and like almost hit
Speaker 1: his head on the fucking rim again.
Speaker 2: Yes, but can he sustain being healthy for a whole season?
Speaker 2: You know it's hard.
Speaker 1: But like, for like, it's hard for me to stay
Speaker 1: healthy doing YouTube.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's crazy, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: But it's been good and honestly, like that's the cool parts.
Speaker 1: My lane is kind of unexplored because once you're about
Speaker 1: thirty five playing in the league, right, it's too many
Speaker 1: miles for your body. It's gonna be hard for you
Speaker 1: to sustain unless you're like a Vince Carter or Lebron,
Speaker 1: you know, world class athlete. But for me, like I'm
Speaker 1: you Donis Haslim who you know, it's kind of like,
Speaker 1: oh he kept going, he's kind of like a coach.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, but I mean, heyde was insane athlete, right.
Speaker 2: Sane athlete? Yes, and one of the guys you did
Speaker 2: not want to throw hands within the league.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, true, sorry.
Speaker 2: Like him and Zebo growing up, Like, I don't know
Speaker 2: if you would ever want to fight either one of
Speaker 2: those guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, But you know, for me, I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm just as quick as I wasn't oh five, Like.
Speaker 2: It's crazy because you could have went like you probably
Speaker 2: could have win a few different directions, right, you might
Speaker 2: have could have went the Chris Brickley direction and like
Speaker 2: trained guys, and he's done a good job of like
Speaker 2: doing content and also like obviously training players. But kill it.
Speaker 2: I think like the YouTube wave is I mean, it's
Speaker 2: it's it's it man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love I love entertaining, like entertainment production, even acting.
Speaker 1: I've acted for twenty years. I never had like heavy
Speaker 1: prominent role.
Speaker 2: What the movies have you been?
Speaker 1: Was re saying that hustle, you know, Adam Sandler's had
Speaker 1: like cameo.
Speaker 2: What's what's the guy's name? Fucking the dude that looks
Speaker 2: like you? Kind of Oh, you're talking about the lead?
Speaker 2: Herr go what's his name? Something? Go be her Gomez. Yeah,
Speaker 2: some shot. It's no, it's not even that I'm blinking.
Speaker 2: I'm blinking.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It's goss. It's something gomes. It starts with an H.
Speaker 1: I don't know, mess goo google it held up, it's
Speaker 1: it's I know he has honcho' it's honcho or wan
Speaker 1: Sho is his name?
Speaker 2: Hearing a Gomez? Yeah, I know his last name. I
Speaker 2: don't know his first name.
Speaker 1: There is Wan Sho, Wan Show or Han Sho. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a cool cat man. I feel like he's my bro.
Speaker 2: I should know. Any Edwards is a great actor too.
Speaker 1: But they both did their Yeah, they super did their thing,
Speaker 1: and that that was really dope. Other other films I've
Speaker 1: been in, like like a When I say acting, you're
Speaker 1: doing like fifty to one hundred commercials for any brand,
Speaker 1: every bring.
Speaker 2: You can think of.
Speaker 1: But then also, uh, I first moved to la O six.
Speaker 1: I actually had a lead role in the movie. It's
Speaker 1: called Bald Don't Lie And it never got released.
Speaker 2: Damn. That's gotta be tough. Did you get paid for it?
Speaker 1: I got paid for it, yeah, but not much. You
Speaker 1: know indie film, right, But you're like, damn, I just
Speaker 1: want it for me.
Speaker 2: Can I get it on it? Do you have it
Speaker 2: on DVD or something? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I do have it, but we're trying to release it today.
Speaker 1: We're trying to get it released now. I met up
Speaker 1: with those producers for the first time in like fifteen years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why not put it on two B or something?
Speaker 1: That was our thought for the resume.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, dude, that we made the movie, like yeah,
Speaker 2: like it's gonna lose it, like unless it's like horrible
Speaker 2: and you're gonna get canceled because you shot at a No.
Speaker 1: Six and you know no, I mean, we're not gonna
Speaker 1: win no Awards. But it's not horrible. That good basketball,
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but they're making some good basketball movies recently. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot more too, because you used to only get
Speaker 1: a basket when we were every few years.
Speaker 2: I just watched this one on Disney Plus when my
Speaker 2: kids about an Asian dude trying to dunk. It's called
Speaker 2: Chang Chain Can't dunk.
Speaker 1: Or God it was actually not I didn't even hear
Speaker 1: about this on Disney Plus.
Speaker 2: It's about this Asian kid who goes viral on YouTube
Speaker 2: trying to uh document the process of him trying to
Speaker 2: dunk because he has a bet with another kid at
Speaker 2: his high school that he can dunk, huh. And then
Speaker 2: he ends up faking him dunking for the YouTube vie.
Speaker 2: But then he gets all out for and to apologize.
Speaker 2: It's actually really good. It's a Disney original. Check it out.
Speaker 2: Oh it's Disney Wow. I'm telling you, you guys, you
Speaker 2: and this other fucking guy we just talked about. You
Speaker 2: guys are making this basketball shit like popping a whole
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Speaker 1: Bro, trying to man, trying to go for it. I'm
Speaker 1: actually trying to hoop till twenty thirty four. Fifty years old, dad.
Speaker 2: That I mean you probably go till sixty because they
Speaker 2: guess what that yes, what that means? Well, that's that's
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Speaker 2: are you pretty health conscientious? Are you like obviously you're
Speaker 2: not running you know, full court runs outside of being
Speaker 2: on film. But are you like making sure that you're
Speaker 2: taking the precautions to not you know, be injured. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm training a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I try super active, So train twice a week
Speaker 1: with like functional movement training, a lot of core stuff.
Speaker 1: It's like the same kind of training.
Speaker 2: That you still look like you're fucking eighteen. By the way,
Speaker 2: humble man, they say black that hey, they say black.
Speaker 2: Don't crack, gingers, don't crack.
Speaker 1: My goodness, We're trying, man, trying, Thank you, bro. But no, Yeah,
Speaker 1: functional movement training. I live in marine. I run the
Speaker 1: water like three times a week, and then I hoop
Speaker 1: on top of that. So if we're going hooping, the
Speaker 1: functional movement training plus running, it's very active on a
Speaker 1: weekly basis. So even if don't hoop that much, still
Speaker 1: gotta stay moving, you gotta. That's one key to longevity.
Speaker 1: Is just like even if you run and you don't
Speaker 1: get a good cardio sweating, at least you moved movement.
Speaker 1: You just got to stay due. He can't take long breaks.
Speaker 2: Yeah for sure. Yeah. I was gonna say, back in
Speaker 2: the day Peak in one, was there ever any sort
Speaker 2: of like because you guys were super hot man and
Speaker 2: I always wondered how like guys in the actual league
Speaker 2: felt about Yeah, was ever any like obviously, yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: sure there was like love, but was there any like
Speaker 2: haters in the NBA that just like like, was ere
Speaker 2: any like fucking and one NBA beefs going on that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think yeah, there was a little bit. You know,
Speaker 1: it's funny. I'm shooting a video tomorrow talking about this
Speaker 1: exact subject right here, Like no, Lie, I was on
Speaker 1: kg's podcast a couple of weeks ago, yep, and we
Speaker 1: had a little snippet came out on Instagram about it,
Speaker 1: and it like I didn't Yeah, it went crazy.
Speaker 2: What was Kg's hand?
Speaker 1: He was basically saying, some of my teammates they were
Speaker 1: eating dinner somewhere at the restaurant New York, and the
Speaker 1: topic came up of them, you know, getting at the
Speaker 1: NBA players and KG he was like, man, he's like
Speaker 1: I was about that. I wanted to see what's good,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Obviously they're in the league
Speaker 1: at that time.
Speaker 3: Like some like unfilmed Super Game where like Kevin Kevin
Speaker 3: Garnett and like fucking Stephan Mowberry show up to like
Speaker 3: a park in Haarleam at three am and Battle.
Speaker 2: At Howard though.
Speaker 1: No, you know what's crazy though, when when have Amazing
Speaker 1: was gassing that up? Though back in the day, Like,
Speaker 1: think about it, we were on TV more than the NBA, right.
Speaker 2: The ESPN.
Speaker 1: Sure think if they actually did, if that game actually
Speaker 1: was for real, like that would have like we might
Speaker 1: have had to have a foot think about we sold
Speaker 1: out the garden just an and one game, right, so
Speaker 1: what would have and one versus NBA All Star game?
Speaker 1: Crazy and just a theory game, especially in like three
Speaker 1: or four. Oh my, we might need a football stadium
Speaker 1: me and have Man, we're just talking about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy to think, Like, you know, I'm just
Speaker 2: glad to see because you know, when I was a kid, man,
Speaker 2: basketball was so and it's big now. But it's just
Speaker 2: dope to see like today's generation have whatever version of
Speaker 2: like and One was to me to them, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's what I'll try to keep it going because you probably.
Speaker 2: I have such a wide range of fans. Oh super
Speaker 2: because you have like guys that are like me who
Speaker 2: is old and watch you as as when I was
Speaker 2: a kid, and then you got like my fucking nine
Speaker 2: year old knows exactly who you are. I showed him.
Speaker 2: He said, oh, you're gonna interview him. He's at basketball
Speaker 2: camp right now. Otherwise he'd probably be here. But oh,
Speaker 2: you know, it's crazy you have like such a like
Speaker 2: it's probably hard for you to go too many places
Speaker 2: without getting stopped. Yeah, oh no, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: It's a blessing though, Like if I look at my analytics,
Speaker 1: it's like twenty percent eighteen and under, twenty percent eighteen
Speaker 1: to thirty five, twenty percent, thirty.
Speaker 2: Five and up.
Speaker 1: I even got people fifty five and up. There's a
Speaker 1: ten percent you know. So yeah, it's a blessing to
Speaker 1: have a wide demographic of doing it just for a
Speaker 1: long time for you.
Speaker 2: Uh, obviously, see you want to ball to your fifty
Speaker 2: But what are other things you're trying to like do
Speaker 2: to kind of just expand like the empire. Yeah, obviously
Speaker 2: you got merch, you got stuff you're selling, but like
Speaker 2: give me kind of the breakdown on Noble Hooper dot com,
Speaker 2: Global Hooper dot com.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, uh, when you talk about expansion, I'm actually
Speaker 1: trying to produce a movie of my life story or
Speaker 1: I play myself. So I've been working on that.
Speaker 2: For a couple of years.
Speaker 1: Get that film soon, because you're the strike don't help,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Strikes fucking everything that's not helping.
Speaker 1: But except for TV, yeah maybe I think you can still.
Speaker 2: Get a TV movie off and the tag won't be mad.
Speaker 2: I'm inside. Yeah, I don't know. So if you're in SAG,
Speaker 2: you should not. You're on strike. You are on strike.
Speaker 2: I heard there like it's like gang shit, like you
Speaker 2: cannot cross the strike.
Speaker 1: It's real, it's real, it's real. So so now we
Speaker 1: respecting all that, but you know, trying to put more
Speaker 1: of a foot into the acting world. I don't think
Speaker 1: i'd ever stop my YouTube channel just because, like you've
Speaker 1: seen even a list stars a influencers also, and I've
Speaker 1: seen even like big YouTubers go mainstream or do something
Speaker 1: mainstream and then have to come back to YouTube and.
Speaker 2: It happens actually a lot.
Speaker 1: Then the Alborim's all messed up. It's not like it
Speaker 1: was before. So I don't I don't ever want to
Speaker 1: let um off the gas. Personally, I just think controlling
Speaker 1: your own narrative is a beautiful thing. You're your own
Speaker 1: boss over there. If people don't want to give you
Speaker 1: work elsewhere, you still.
Speaker 2: Got that, and it's it is TV. Like the number
Speaker 2: one used that on my TV is YouTube. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean it's number one streaming app in the world. Like
Speaker 2: I'm I don't care about Like, I don't watch Netflix
Speaker 2: most unless like some show drops, like I just watched Quarterbacks, okay,
Speaker 2: but I'm always on YouTube. My kids are on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too, me too. If I'm not if I'm
Speaker 1: not watching Netflix, it's YouTube.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so you're essentially you're like you want to
Speaker 2: just kind of dip your toe into like producing like
Speaker 2: original content or being a part of like movies on
Speaker 2: a bigger scale. Yeah, as well as still keeping your
Speaker 2: foot on.
Speaker 1: The mainly acting a little bit of producing. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: But also for me, it's funny as long as I've gone,
Speaker 1: you know, start my YouTube channel.
Speaker 2: Oh nine.
Speaker 1: The weakness of my brand has actually always been infrastructure.
Speaker 1: I didn't upload enough, and now as we get further
Speaker 1: into it, people upload way way more.
Speaker 2: Essentially, how often are you are you dropping content?
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna go four to six times a month.
Speaker 1: But I've always I've always been like kind of like
Speaker 1: mister beasts where you take a lot of time for
Speaker 1: video treated like a TV show where everything's perfect, good, sound, amazing,
Speaker 1: consopt and you're aiming to break the Internet. But we
Speaker 1: sometimes I want to get one or two of a month, right.
Speaker 1: And while that, while that was good, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: is good, Like I think there's a more, a better
Speaker 1: from a business standpoint. What's your most viewed YouTube video?
Speaker 1: Eighty three mil views?
Speaker 2: But what what what were you doing? Oh?
Speaker 1: I went to Laguna Beach and I played a trash talker.
Speaker 1: It was actually the first, my first trash talker video
Speaker 1: I came up with that that turn in the trash talk.
Speaker 2: The dude was just talking crazy. I was.
Speaker 1: I had been up there for like three hours of
Speaker 1: playing at the Laguna Courts, you know, the Laguna Beach,
Speaker 1: and this dude came up and he was just he's
Speaker 1: trying to discredit everything I did.
Speaker 2: And then he was trying to do exactly who you were.
Speaker 1: I don't think he did. So he didn't know I
Speaker 1: don't think so. Maybe maybe, but I don't think so.
Speaker 1: So then he was like giving the dude a hard
Speaker 1: time to guard me. Maybe he knew them, but he
Speaker 1: kept he kept saying after every bucket, I would get like, man,
Speaker 1: you gotta do this, doude this, and he's like, all
Speaker 1: you got to do is watch his hips, and so
Speaker 1: he's like, man, I got next, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I said something like, well, maybe we should get a
Speaker 1: ones in.
Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, let's get the ones in.
Speaker 1: So I was like all right, cool. So he finished
Speaker 1: that game and I was like all right, man, trying
Speaker 1: to do it, and then we matched up one on one.
Speaker 1: He was a little bit heavy set though, so midway
Speaker 1: through the game, a little winded, I did a move,
Speaker 1: went between his legs, snash it. I didn't even touch him.
Speaker 2: He's smack. He like smack hit the pavement.
Speaker 1: Right then, like two plays later, I did somewhere up
Speaker 1: faked between my legs between his legs, snatch it. He
Speaker 1: broke his shoulder. He like he like reached, he threw
Speaker 1: his shoulder out of the socket. So the game didn't
Speaker 1: That's why I got eight three mil views. The game
Speaker 1: didn't even end.
Speaker 2: We couldn't have.
Speaker 1: Wrote a better script.
Speaker 2: Holy shit. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So so when we edit it, we go to the edit,
Speaker 1: we told the story of how the game happened, because
Speaker 1: that was one of my critiques. We don't play good
Speaker 1: enough competition, right, It's like I play anybody in the
Speaker 1: Street Street Bowl. So we told the story of why
Speaker 1: that game went down. But then we realized, oh, like,
Speaker 1: you gotta do this every video, we gotta tell us.
Speaker 1: The story to the thumb was a zoom into the
Speaker 1: ankle breaker. So it kind of that laid the it
Speaker 1: that paved the way for how I need to do videos.
Speaker 1: And even the title I had money in the title, Yeah,
Speaker 1: to play the game for a hundred bucks or whatever
Speaker 1: it's trash talker.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, eighty three million. Yeah, I think that was twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: and that's fully monetized. Oh for sure, twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: That's sure, Yeah, that's yeah, a lifetime analytics on there. Nice.
Speaker 2: Is it safe to say you've surpassed her and one
Speaker 2: pay as a YouTuber by like ten or thirty times
Speaker 2: by now?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say somewhere around twenty ten.
Speaker 2: I mean, not to get in your pockets, but back
Speaker 2: in the day, like what was what was the pay decent?
Speaker 2: Like like, if you guys are hitting the road, it
Speaker 2: was decent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't mind. I think my first contract ever
Speaker 1: with an one eighteen years old, was like seventy K.
Speaker 1: Sixty seventy k not bad for an eighteen year old
Speaker 1: kid professionally playing hoops back then before inflation hit the
Speaker 1: fucking not bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wasn't bad. But then as we win, it
Speaker 2: went big.
Speaker 1: So we did, you know, multi multi year six figure deals,
Speaker 1: Like by the time I left, I think I signed
Speaker 1: a two fifty k a year. Yeah, two fifty k
Speaker 1: or something my last year. But then we would make
Speaker 1: money outside of an one two, so.
Speaker 2: You could go do that. Then you can go do oh,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do an appearance. I'm gonna go playing a
Speaker 2: game in China or Africa.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think my last year, I think one
Speaker 1: of the years made eight hundred K or something like that,
Speaker 1: and so that was cool.
Speaker 2: But just hooping, just hooping.
Speaker 1: I think maybe millions of dollars the whole run, the
Speaker 1: whole run, of course. But after saying like for a
Speaker 1: single year, for a single year, I was like, Also,
Speaker 1: I thought I was rich. I thought my money would
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Speaker 2: Was everyone's pay scales different? Do you know? Or like?
Speaker 2: Because obviously there's bigger names, smaller names, like because I
Speaker 2: think when I think, when I think of you, I
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Speaker 1: And you're probably different. You watched it, you know the
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Speaker 2: Yeah maybe Ao, Yeah, Ao was dope. Yeah yeah, damn
Speaker 2: that's crazy, Yeah damn Yeah.
Speaker 1: But no, it's based on marketability and skill. So like
Speaker 1: what you bring to the table on the court played
Speaker 1: a role, but then obviously your marketability. So I'm sure
Speaker 1: like hot Sauls had the biggest deal allside. Skip was
Speaker 1: already in the NBA, but like you know, I'm sure
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Speaker 1: There's one on Netflix, the one on ESPN had NBA
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Speaker 1: and one players, and uh, it wasn't a good narrative,
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Speaker 2: Why do the documentary if you're gonna bash this.
Speaker 1: I didn't get it. I didn't understand it. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but luckily most people saw the Netflix.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's crazy too because I think like back then,
Speaker 2: like there had to have been like for you guys
Speaker 2: like to hit it, Like what was was y'all did
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Speaker 1: Everybody did the halftimes like like, okay, remember we're just
Speaker 1: saying Cassidy was up here. He was going but it
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Speaker 2: I think when I saw it, it was, uh, David
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Speaker 1: Bro Oh my god, Jacks in Mississippi is home.
Speaker 2: It was wild. Listen. I always say this because I've
Speaker 2: I've always watched guys do halftime shows and they'd be like,
Speaker 2: it's a little different. People are getting up to go
Speaker 2: to like get their drinks from like listen, oh, this
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Speaker 1: Shut that shit the fuck shut it down. I ain't
Speaker 1: got up on the rim once. He's like, shat on
Speaker 1: the rim. It was crazy, but uh no, those halftimes
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Speaker 1: I remember E forty came on there and they and
Speaker 1: uh oh what was it? There was these other dudes though,
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Speaker 2: It was like them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they hit the court and everybody run the court
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Speaker 1: like super Turnto.
Speaker 2: What about. What do you think about Big Three?
Speaker 1: Oh? I think it's dope.
Speaker 2: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1: I mean I don't think like some people might call
Speaker 1: that like street I don't really view it as like
Speaker 1: street ball necessarily, but I think that, like, you guys
Speaker 1: have more spin after the league. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: You might be good in a half court till you're fifty,
Speaker 1: like you're saying so. So I think it's another it's
Speaker 1: another outlet to check out. I feel like it was funny.
Speaker 1: Ice Cube was saying he felt like the gatekeepers are
Speaker 1: kind of like stopping it from and I feel like
Speaker 1: that too, because he doing all the mainstream media. I
Speaker 1: think that it would benefit from having some headline players
Speaker 1: though that that uh maybe could turn up from a
Speaker 1: D from a highlight standpoint.
Speaker 2: That's what I think I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: Like when Iverson and Jay Will and the end of
Speaker 1: the year for year one, yeah, that was ready to
Speaker 1: go berserk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then yeah, because that made me want to watch,
Speaker 2: I was like, wait, white chocolate and Ai, which is tough. Yeah,
Speaker 2: me too.
Speaker 1: But the hard thing was like, so Jay Will, he
Speaker 1: was ready played, we got injured, right, So because he
Speaker 1: never came back after that, did he ever play at all?
Speaker 1: Maybe a game or two he blew out his knee,
Speaker 1: and then I knew a you know, I played Iverson's
Speaker 1: as game he ever played, like I played with him
Speaker 1: in China. It was a three game tours on my
Speaker 1: YouTube channel. Really yeah, it was fire, but because that
Speaker 1: was my guy. Was that twenty twelve?
Speaker 2: Wow? So his kind of fair relator in China? You
Speaker 2: were you were there?
Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty twelve and well the last time he actually
Speaker 1: took to the court and played a full game. But
Speaker 1: so I knew, but he barely wanted to do that,
Speaker 1: and then after that he never played again. So I
Speaker 1: knew in the Big Three somebody he's hooping. I was like,
Speaker 1: are you sure would like to play like that? Because
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, like you play on
Speaker 1: Iverson's level, or like those nbals are even like me
Speaker 1: talking to KG, right, they ain't trying to The stakes
Speaker 1: are too low. It feels weird, like going to play
Speaker 1: in a game at a half full arena, or like if
Speaker 1: I asked KG, would you collab on my yout he
Speaker 1: gonna be like, na, why he's already cemented that. Dude's
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: Now. It's crazy. Have you ever hooped or messed around
Speaker 2: with uh, with Jason Williams at all? With Jay Will
Speaker 2: because he's obviously kind of like the you know when
Speaker 2: you were a kid watching him and Vince and it
Speaker 2: was like that era, like a street ball in the leap.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, yeah, crazy Iverson jay Will, Like you said, Vince,
Speaker 1: that was crazy. Yeah, we're trying to make it happen.
Speaker 1: We're actually trying to make it happen. So I did
Speaker 1: a collab video with him and came to our studio downtown.
Speaker 1: I have like a half court with the LED setup.
Speaker 1: We just talked hoops. He showed me his elbow pass.
Speaker 1: I show an elbow pass.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I showed him a move I do, just
Speaker 2: got his thoughts on it. And then.
Speaker 1: We've been trying to re so I got I actually
Speaker 1: had a little injury, but we've been trying to revisit
Speaker 1: doing a hoop video and he said he was down.
Speaker 1: So like, if you guys went to the park or something,
Speaker 1: totally will break the internet.
Speaker 2: Just go break the internet real quick. Yes, it'd be crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so we trying. We're trying. Did they ever approach you
Speaker 2: to try to play in like the Big Three? Maybe
Speaker 2: by the way, they'd be smart too.
Speaker 1: They asked me to enter the draft, but I noticed
Speaker 1: that Skip was in the draft. He didn't get picked,
Speaker 1: So like I was gonna introd, well he didn't get picked.
Speaker 1: Skip was in the draft and didn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some of the guys who got I mean, listen,
Speaker 2: no disrespect to a lot of those guys. But I remember,
Speaker 2: just I'm talking, we're talking about selling tickets, putting seats
Speaker 2: and asses here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and maybe Skip it want to play.
Speaker 2: I didn't know the details, right, but I just like
Speaker 2: I remember seeing some of the guys and I'm just like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean Rashan McCants was like a fringe, like make
Speaker 2: it on a roster kind of guy. And I know
Speaker 2: he's like one of the main Big three guys, but
Speaker 2: it's like, I don't know what's coming out to sever
Speaker 2: you know Amari for a little bit. You know, they tough.
Speaker 2: You need to highlight guys. You need somebody to Yeah,
Speaker 2: you need the TikTok guys. Hey, what's the real It's
Speaker 2: gonna go crazy to promote the Big Three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they're not good enough. You know, I'm saying,
Speaker 1: you gotta play at that higher level.
Speaker 2: I don't keep it.
Speaker 1: He's trying to keep it big boy, you know, just
Speaker 1: below the NBA competition level. I didn't want to do
Speaker 1: it because, like my thing was, like they're giving other
Speaker 1: dudes deals.
Speaker 2: What do you mean to enter the draft?
Speaker 1: That's just from marketing so you can I'm in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I'm the most popular guy following wise.
Speaker 1: Here literally outside of Jawill and Iverson.
Speaker 2: That would have been one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So like I wasn't gonna do it unless someoney
Speaker 1: would sign me. But then also let me play how
Speaker 1: I play travel Chip in the the three, I feel
Speaker 1: like they could benefit a lout from some entertainment I know,
Speaker 1: even like Bone Collector and White Chocolate went and went
Speaker 1: through the combine, didn't get picked up. So they're keeping
Speaker 1: it tight. They're keeping it like real.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get what he's trying to do. He's trying
Speaker 2: to essentially set up a situation where you can extend
Speaker 2: your career. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: He's trying to say, this's a Big Boy League, you know,
Speaker 1: top level competition. Still it's just like just below the NBA.
Speaker 1: When you're done, you go here.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, which I.
Speaker 1: Respect, but yeah, I didn't want to do it. Just
Speaker 1: to me, it didn't feel right, like I'm not gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, go to a team and be on the
Speaker 1: bench the whole game or like because you know, when
Speaker 1: you get into those like the personas are like how
Speaker 1: the coach and the big three would look at it
Speaker 1: and how serious them dudes wanted championship.
Speaker 2: If I try to go Victorial legs and kick that out,
Speaker 2: they're gonna be mad, you know what I mean. It's
Speaker 2: like we got to take him out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, grit too, But I get some moves, I'll be
Speaker 1: trying to do moves.
Speaker 2: I'd be trying to turn it out. I mean, but
Speaker 2: they're trying to get the crowd.
Speaker 1: What team would would be cool with that?
Speaker 2: For sure? Maybe it's maybe, but as ice Cube cool?
Speaker 2: Who knows? I saw you did a video with Paul George, Like,
Speaker 2: how are your relationships with some of the guys in
Speaker 2: the NBA nowadays? Like obviously you're a celebrity, celebrity, like
Speaker 2: you know, outside of just being the OG and one guy.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, We're cool.
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of guys are busy, right, so,
Speaker 1: like I don't necessarily hang with NBA players, but I
Speaker 1: feel like I've met almost everybody you know, and every.
Speaker 2: It's just shows a lot of love.
Speaker 1: I show a lot of respect to those guys for
Speaker 1: doing at the highest level. But Paul George is awesome.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I never met him before that day we shot that video.
Speaker 2: That shit's crazy. So did you did you did you
Speaker 2: end up going to did you go to NBA con
Speaker 2: at all? I was out there for Summer League.
Speaker 1: I didn't go to NBA can I should have.
Speaker 2: Summer League's fucking fire. Had a great time. I love it,
Speaker 2: had a good time. I went to I went to
Speaker 2: like Summer League. One of the one of the days.
Speaker 2: It was the day after women Yanna had his his Uh,
Speaker 2: it was like a slower day because my sons were
Speaker 2: playing okay, and I just didn't do We were there
Speaker 2: all day and like, man, everybody's just walking around, like everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the players will get done playing and then walk around
Speaker 2: the arena like.
Speaker 1: I know you, I notice that, Like we left the
Speaker 1: arena and then like dudes, who just played that game
Speaker 1: right next to us?
Speaker 2: And We're like, what the It's crazy. They didn't have
Speaker 2: a VIP tunnel over here. Nah. And then they have
Speaker 2: the two games going on like simultaneously because they kind
Speaker 2: of have the two connected arenas. It's it's mine. I
Speaker 2: told my my boy. I was like, next year, we're
Speaker 2: gonna do like a week of this ship.
Speaker 1: That's what we did. I did about four days.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go out there. It's gonna be like our
Speaker 2: All Star weekend. Because I'm a funk with All Star
Speaker 2: week It's too much drama, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I'm good, let me go to fucking it's crazy. Summer League.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. We go hang out, be a basketball geek.
Speaker 1: It's turning into the summertime.
Speaker 2: NBA though, it is.
Speaker 1: It's like a way for the NBA and everybody around
Speaker 1: the NBA to exist. Yeah, for summer for a little bit.
Speaker 2: For two weeks. It's crazy, it is. It is two weeks.
Speaker 2: But it's really about that first like week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we missed the wave, like my home here, he
Speaker 1: was here, he was there, like when Winby was playing crazy.
Speaker 1: We came three days after and caught like the last weekend.
Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, it was still lit, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't. It wasn't like the first weekend.
Speaker 2: It's crazy because because a lot of those main draft picks,
Speaker 2: you know, they play a game or two and then
Speaker 2: they get sat. You know, it's like and then they
Speaker 2: got guys like what's what's the guy's named? Jabari Smith
Speaker 2: on the Rockets was hooping?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, oh huh.
Speaker 2: Shout out to my sons. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's still good basketball regardless.
Speaker 2: When you go short. Well, look, man, obviously you got
Speaker 2: a lot a lot going on. People can go follow
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Speaker 2: what's what's the handle? Everywhere? Is it? Just? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Snapchat money is good, It is good. Nobody nobody's complaining.
Speaker 2: List. We just launched a Snapchat show like two months
Speaker 2: ago and like first.
Speaker 1: Month boom it going off Snapchat to be confusing though.
Speaker 1: There's like the shows and there's the story, no idea, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I don't somebody running for you, right, yes, some
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, actually all sources that I don't
Speaker 1: even have the Apple on my phone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't have I don't have keep, I don't
Speaker 2: have Snapchat on my phone. Okay, yeah, I haven't had
Speaker 2: it on my phone for I don't even know how
Speaker 2: long they're gonna chop this up and then you know, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: let's go there it is man, the Professor. I appreciate you, buddy, Hey,
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