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Speaker 1: From my high school team. We have five guys make

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Speaker 1: the NBA. We head the county Rocket gets some mecca

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to a special quarantine edition. We got a

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Speaker 1: real special guys. What's up with your Brodie with the

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Speaker 1: told no about it. I want to all the smoke.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to a special quarantine edition of All the Smoke.

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Speaker 1: Jack's good, bro my brother? How you doing our the main? Man,

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Speaker 1: I can't call it. It's ugly out here, raining, nasty,

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Speaker 1: It's sunny out here. We just can't go in the

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Speaker 1: bit of fresh air. What's up? What's your quarantine hair? Gray?

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Speaker 1: Looking like you're looking like a slave. Nice like this?

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Speaker 1: I was Eddie, Kay, let me see take take your

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Speaker 1: hat off real quick. Oh oh yeah, you look like

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Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle when he played the comedian and nutty professor. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's time to ask I should struggle it too, if

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I thought you was on happy days

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Speaker 1: when you took that thing first off. Man, You see

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Speaker 1: how click that should be bouncing back to life though.

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Speaker 1: Yeah you got that. Yeah you got that ship down

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Speaker 1: that you you anyway? Man, we got a special guest.

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Speaker 1: So when I I've really enjoyed watching play playing against

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Speaker 1: the game. Welcome John Wall. Go what's good? What's wrong

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Speaker 1: with you? Man? Chilling man board watching all these NBA games, classics,

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Speaker 1: watching movies, TV shows, ship like that. How's the family?

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Speaker 1: How's the family holding up? They're good? You know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. You got a little one in the house,

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Speaker 1: he's just straight chilling. Talk to me about that because

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Speaker 1: we got something of the same age. I got three

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Speaker 1: of them. You got your first talk to me about

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Speaker 1: man um dis perspective, and everything I do now that's

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Speaker 1: for him, you know what I mean. Everything I see

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Speaker 1: But now everything I do it for him. Like I

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Speaker 1: don't even hang out no more like that, Mike, pick

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Speaker 1: one or two days out of every two weeks to

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Speaker 1: And now he's fifteen months so he's telling me no,

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Speaker 1: been a great blessing discouse with me. No, I know,

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Speaker 1: that's amazing. Man. Like I said, I got the same

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Speaker 1: us before that you got another one on the way. Man. Congratulations. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, another little another little boy. Yes,

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Speaker 1: when you are jack I got seven five five girls,

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Speaker 1: two boys, okay, three more? You got ahold two teams

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Speaker 1: you play. I ain't gonna. I've been operations shut down.

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Speaker 1: think you got too talented young guys man like one

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Speaker 1: John wall without Bradley Bill. Ain't no Bradley Bill without

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Speaker 1: John Waller. We make each other better, like we accompandiate

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Speaker 1: playing better without him? The ball the team's eating everybody

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Speaker 1: moving the balls moving all this well in the day. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's one reason why we're glad we got this show

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Speaker 1: because we we didn't have that platform we were playing.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying when when When I when

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Speaker 1: like y'all are I love that area? You know what

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Speaker 1: I mean? Because I feel like that's what the league

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Speaker 1: the standard fight, but you were taking your brother. Somebody

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Speaker 1: you've got so many guys that the way they called things,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's funny that you kind of caught the end,

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Speaker 1: Right now, it's like teams got eighty a half, like

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Speaker 1: I was in one game we played Scramento this year,

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Speaker 1: none of this had just been a teammate, it's bigger

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00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:10,480
Speaker 1: than who it could have been a teammate, and brother

428
00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:12,080
Speaker 1: and be like you know what, man, he are, I'm

429
00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:13,640
Speaker 1: gonna call on them leading now. He came to check

430
00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,520
Speaker 1: on me, see my mom and like that this basketball

431
00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:19,120
Speaker 1: stuff in tomorrow. We never fled again. Like that's gonna

432
00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:21,440
Speaker 1: be somebody I called my brother because he was there

433
00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:24,639
Speaker 1: in the time when I was there. So yeah, like

434
00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,480
Speaker 1: that was that was like the most difficult and still is.

435
00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:30,320
Speaker 1: And like one thing that helped me is we got

436
00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:32,439
Speaker 1: a guy to do chapel for his name passed the

437
00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:34,680
Speaker 1: battle and I want to talk to him. My mom

438
00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:38,280
Speaker 1: was real sick before she passed, and I was like, um,

439
00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:39,600
Speaker 1: how do you get through it? Like how do you

440
00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:41,800
Speaker 1: get any comfort? Like you know, you don't really feel comfort,

441
00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:44,360
Speaker 1: You're always gonna feel that pain, but like you at

442
00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:47,040
Speaker 1: peace with her leaving. And when he talked to me

443
00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:48,440
Speaker 1: like that and I want to talk to my mom

444
00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:51,000
Speaker 1: one on one before she passing, did all that I

445
00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:52,920
Speaker 1: knew she fought as much she becauld she was happy

446
00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,159
Speaker 1: and she was like I'm at peace, I'm ready to go.

447
00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:57,439
Speaker 1: That made it more easy for me to set my

448
00:18:57,480 --> 00:18:59,840
Speaker 1: mom going even though you still had those pains and

449
00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:03,439
Speaker 1: every day about it. Man, that's the that's the exact

450
00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:06,439
Speaker 1: same situation because my mom was diagnosed November one and

451
00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:08,960
Speaker 1: died November twenty seven, so within twenty six days. So

452
00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,240
Speaker 1: I was in Golden State with Jack and the rest

453
00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:13,160
Speaker 1: of the squad, and I was back and forth constantly

454
00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:16,920
Speaker 1: sacramented to the bay. And I remember the last day, Um,

455
00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:20,119
Speaker 1: we were playing the Phoenix Suns and I I had

456
00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:22,800
Speaker 1: been I had missed practice, and you know, she kind

457
00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:24,520
Speaker 1: of saw I was aunty, but I was still spending

458
00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:26,040
Speaker 1: time with her, talking to her and everything. She's like,

459
00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:29,240
Speaker 1: you know, baby, go play your game. Your team need you, um,

460
00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:30,800
Speaker 1: and then just come back after. So I was like,

461
00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:32,639
Speaker 1: all right, So man, I drove straight to the game, like,

462
00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:35,480
Speaker 1: didn't have shoot around, didn't do whatever. Everyone already knew

463
00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:38,840
Speaker 1: the deal. Played played well. I think we beat Phoenix

464
00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,080
Speaker 1: in either a single overtime or double overtime. Had a

465
00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:43,400
Speaker 1: really good game. I hit it when I got done,

466
00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:46,280
Speaker 1: like a mouth that you know, you did a good job. Um,

467
00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,280
Speaker 1: you know, get some rest, come see me in the morning.

468
00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:53,320
Speaker 1: And she died like four am that morning before I

469
00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,280
Speaker 1: got a chance to get back over there and see her.

470
00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:58,080
Speaker 1: But you know, to know that, you know, I mean,

471
00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:00,320
Speaker 1: I got to have my nights with her and talk

472
00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:02,880
Speaker 1: to her, and she was at peace. You know, she said, baby,

473
00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:04,879
Speaker 1: I'm tired, you know what I mean, she had been fighting.

474
00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:07,160
Speaker 1: She gave me the advice to you know, look over

475
00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:09,120
Speaker 1: my brother and my sister, my dad. She she gave

476
00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:11,639
Speaker 1: me all the game and then she know, I just

477
00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,200
Speaker 1: knew she was once she you know, she can kind

478
00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:15,520
Speaker 1: of let go. She was going to be in a

479
00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:17,399
Speaker 1: better place because she was so tired. She was in

480
00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:19,760
Speaker 1: so much pain and she just been handled it no more.

481
00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,480
Speaker 1: So it's funny that you said that because I had

482
00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:24,480
Speaker 1: to come with to come to peace with her being

483
00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:26,600
Speaker 1: at peace about it, which is like damn, Like she's

484
00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,240
Speaker 1: at peace with letting go. So I had I had

485
00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:31,800
Speaker 1: to be strong and do that. So it's a tough

486
00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:34,479
Speaker 1: thing to go through. Man. Yeah, that and that's the crazy,

487
00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,119
Speaker 1: like you don't think like those little talks to that

488
00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:39,399
Speaker 1: one on one and I mean so much, but for

489
00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:41,520
Speaker 1: there to be like you, I'm tired, I'm at peace,

490
00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:43,919
Speaker 1: It's like why why would I want her to suffer

491
00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:45,320
Speaker 1: and keep fighting? I mean, I'm not the one that

492
00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:47,159
Speaker 1: got to be in that body. So you kind of

493
00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:49,640
Speaker 1: accept it, but you're still like godly like my best

494
00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:52,640
Speaker 1: friend my mom gone. So for me, like I had

495
00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:55,040
Speaker 1: my dad for nine years in my life and most

496
00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:56,480
Speaker 1: of the time he was in jail most of my

497
00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:58,600
Speaker 1: life and my mom for twenty nine so it's like

498
00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:01,240
Speaker 1: I know what it like not to be on both

499
00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:03,399
Speaker 1: ends and I have either one. So like, that's my

500
00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:05,920
Speaker 1: main goal is seeting that aspect. I think quick things

501
00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:07,520
Speaker 1: to be taking away. So that's why I tried to

502
00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:10,520
Speaker 1: change as much moment as I can with my son. Right,

503
00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:14,040
Speaker 1: So absolutely it changed your focus. Then you got a

504
00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:17,520
Speaker 1: dear Mama tattoo on your back foot to honor her, right, Yeah, yeah,

505
00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 1: I got dear Mama tat my back. And then it's crazy,

506
00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:21,600
Speaker 1: I got like your Mama's boy on my chest, like

507
00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:23,400
Speaker 1: one of my first tattoos I got because I'm always

508
00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:25,800
Speaker 1: everybody always calling me a mom's boy. So then when

509
00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:27,480
Speaker 1: she was going through the cancer and I'm just seeing

510
00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:29,960
Speaker 1: her fighting and I'm like, yo, like I just like,

511
00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:31,720
Speaker 1: dear Mama was just so dope to me, and I'm like,

512
00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:33,840
Speaker 1: my mom would always had my back and always be

513
00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:35,480
Speaker 1: watching over me. So that's why I put on the

514
00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:40,320
Speaker 1: back of my neck. That's what it's dope. That's dope.

515
00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:44,520
Speaker 1: In eighteen, you started pursuing your bachelor's degree. Uh, talk

516
00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:46,639
Speaker 1: about that. You're still doing it. You still taking classes

517
00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,080
Speaker 1: while you quarantine, you know why you're rehabbing. Yeah, that

518
00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:51,680
Speaker 1: was a promise you made your mom right there. She

519
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,840
Speaker 1: was gonna go back and get get your degree. Yeah,

520
00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:55,639
Speaker 1: And that's crazy because, like before I got on a

521
00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:57,000
Speaker 1: call with you all to day, I was just talking

522
00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:00,159
Speaker 1: to my administrator from my school, like picking my my

523
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,800
Speaker 1: classes and my fall classes. So that's just crazy that

524
00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:05,359
Speaker 1: y'all even bring it up. But like I was supposed

525
00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:07,119
Speaker 1: to do exam when my mom was going through, she

526
00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:08,560
Speaker 1: went through it was about to pass. I was like, yea,

527
00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:10,520
Speaker 1: take it like a like a month off and didn't

528
00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,960
Speaker 1: find my ZAM. So I finally got through that is

529
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,239
Speaker 1: ZAM for my last semester and passed that. So now

530
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,120
Speaker 1: I'm going to get my classes for summer school. So yeah,

531
00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:20,200
Speaker 1: I'm definitely gonna do that. And like my my ultimate

532
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,280
Speaker 1: goals even pushed even further to try to take as

533
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:25,240
Speaker 1: many classes more than I came to get it quicker,

534
00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:27,960
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like when I got my

535
00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:30,240
Speaker 1: when I went into the Hall of Fame, it was dope.

536
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:31,800
Speaker 1: Because my mom was there and like when of the

537
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:33,320
Speaker 1: last time, she was very like I got to go

538
00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:35,720
Speaker 1: back to Kentucky and see me, so like, do you

539
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:37,320
Speaker 1: know I got put into all the family. You'll probably

540
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:39,399
Speaker 1: see my speech where I broke down and talked about it,

541
00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:42,359
Speaker 1: like all that all that was dope to me because

542
00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,080
Speaker 1: she got to witness that. So like to see my

543
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,680
Speaker 1: first son born, to see me going to Hall of Fame,

544
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,000
Speaker 1: and see me play eight to nine years in the league.

545
00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 1: Like and the only thing that really irks me to

546
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,640
Speaker 1: this day is you know you probably pul the same man.

547
00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,000
Speaker 1: It's like did I do enough? Like did I make

548
00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:57,959
Speaker 1: my mom happy? Like that's the only thing that'd be like, Yo,

549
00:22:58,000 --> 00:22:59,719
Speaker 1: did I have enough fun with my mom? Did I

550
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 1: do enough? And I have a dope assistance and always

551
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 1: be like, yo, you ever, don't ever question and stuff

552
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 1: and think about that because just go back and watch

553
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:10,119
Speaker 1: the pictures and seeing your mom smile and see that,

554
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,639
Speaker 1: Like I got to take my mom so that that

555
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:14,320
Speaker 1: kind of clears my mind a little bit. And then

556
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 1: like I got I put a picture uh me and

557
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:18,840
Speaker 1: my mom at the White House corresponded then like she

558
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:20,680
Speaker 1: got to meet Michelle and Brock, so like to take

559
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,119
Speaker 1: my mom and there that lets me know I did

560
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 1: something special. So like, but yeah, I'm definitely going back

561
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,400
Speaker 1: to get that degree, though I'm pushing very hard for that.

562
00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:30,960
Speaker 1: I love that, I was telling the crew before we

563
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,920
Speaker 1: got on the air today. I went back and watched

564
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,640
Speaker 1: games six of the We Believe season when we beat

565
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 1: Dallas in the clinching game and this mother fucking Jack

566
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:39,919
Speaker 1: is on fire and I hit him with one of

567
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,400
Speaker 1: his I think I hit him with like his assistant.

568
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,640
Speaker 1: He hit his six three pointer. Dallas called the time

569
00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:47,440
Speaker 1: out and somehow that the camera I had, Like I said,

570
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:48,879
Speaker 1: I had never seen the game. I was watching the

571
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,280
Speaker 1: T n T feed that can't pinned right to my

572
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,200
Speaker 1: mom and the crowd, and she was up jumping around screaming,

573
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:56,840
Speaker 1: hands above her head, and I'm like that she gave

574
00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:00,200
Speaker 1: me instant hills, like just what are the chances at

575
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 1: a twenty thousand people in the arena? Jack was the

576
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 1: motherfucker to hit the shot. I don't even hit the shot.

577
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 1: They just happened to pay on my mom and dad

578
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,160
Speaker 1: and go past them. And I'm like, damn, that ship

579
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,400
Speaker 1: is crazy. Like I was. I was his Bradley Bill.

580
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 1: I was I was his dog for real. You know,

581
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 1: Jack and I became brothers, man, Like he was there

582
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 1: every single day talking, doing whatever you need and you

583
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 1: need that. That's why you know when it when it happened,

584
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 1: I hit you, I hit you like bro, but you

585
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:27,399
Speaker 1: know whatever you need, you want to talk because I

586
00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 1: kind of found that, like you talking about it helped.

587
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,439
Speaker 1: At first, I was closed off to the world, you

588
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:33,880
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I tried to play a day

589
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 1: after I was closed off quiet, But then when I

590
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,359
Speaker 1: started opening up and talking, I really felt like I

591
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,240
Speaker 1: kind of started to heal a little bit and share

592
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 1: the good memories and the fun times. And that's what

593
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 1: Jack was there for. Man. We would just chop it up,

594
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:47,959
Speaker 1: and it really helped me have a different outlook. All

595
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,200
Speaker 1: look still hurt. It just gave me a different perspective

596
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,440
Speaker 1: on ship. Yeah, definitely gonna be always to be hurt.

597
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: But like you said, they're being able to talk about

598
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,159
Speaker 1: it has somebody can talk to and you can tell

599
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 1: it like kind of buying y'all have you know what

600
00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,360
Speaker 1: I mean? Even just by the show, but I'm seeing

601
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,200
Speaker 1: y'all before this, how y'all bond like you could tell

602
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 1: that blond ain't fake, you know what I mean. And

603
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 1: that's one thing like we're saying Jack, when when you

604
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: was fixing your scream. Man, is like certain things to

605
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: be so fake these days, man, Like people want to

606
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,199
Speaker 1: be cool with people for a certain reasons. To be

607
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,639
Speaker 1: talked about the cloud chasing, like you could tell when

608
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:17,639
Speaker 1: it's genuine loved there and that's when that's when it

609
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 1: all matters to me. It's cool to keep it moving,

610
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 1: But when it's genuine love, you're gonna know. Man, You're

611
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 1: gonna know what something you don't know, you're gonna know. Yeah,

612
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 1: we all everybody in his life, we all normal. We

613
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: all gonna go through tough times, you know what I mean.

614
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,479
Speaker 1: And tough times don't last last is long. May make

615
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,439
Speaker 1: you strong as you're gonna be so, I mean, like

616
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:37,119
Speaker 1: you said, having some people you can talk to, somebody

617
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,640
Speaker 1: around and makes it so much better. That's what's up. Yeah,

618
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 1: let's jump back to college, man, because you had the

619
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 1: motherfucking legendary career, legendary teammates, legendary coach. Tell me what

620
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,680
Speaker 1: that experience is. Because Jack went straight to the league,

621
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 1: but I went to U C. L A and it

622
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 1: was the best time in my d You want to

623
00:25:55,640 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 1: dumb as you but you never get really which I

624
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:04,440
Speaker 1: can panther themn tess, Bro, you ain't telling me nothing.

625
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 1: I don't know. I know a lot of people that

626
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 1: go over seas, but that ain't right. But that one

627
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 1: thing I would say, though, Jackie, if you ever had

628
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,880
Speaker 1: the opportunity, Bro, that would have been your best time ever.

629
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,159
Speaker 1: Man Like for me, I knew I was going for

630
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: eight months, you know what I mean. But like I'm like, yeah,

631
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 1: I'm here to win the championship. I don't win it cool,

632
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,760
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna have this most fun never and being

633
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:26,679
Speaker 1: able to go to class and get up and grind

634
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: every day. Man like we had. Bro. When I tell

635
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:30,640
Speaker 1: you coach college, when the crazy coach act, like two weeks,

636
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 1: I see you. I think I picked the one school

637
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 1: I want to transfer. She was like, she was like, boy,

638
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 1: you stay like this. Every morning we had to be

639
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: on the suicide line. We had twenty suicide and twenty

640
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 1: minutes at six am. Every day was summer school. So

641
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 1: like our first ten suicide is like the basic one

642
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 1: free throw line. Then the last ten was baseline baseline

643
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 1: other free throw line like, and I'm like, yo, did

644
00:26:55,280 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 1: I like this is not basketball? And then want yeah

645
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 1: type thing. So I'll tell you when the funny stories is.

646
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,159
Speaker 1: We run the suicide. We got like four left and

647
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: like the guards had to finish, like Biggs had to finish,

648
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 1: like thirty the markets feet caught on fire, like he said,

649
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 1: he stopped running like he really he made suicide. He

650
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: made suicide. He runs to the sideline to my quick,

651
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: man quick, like my feet burn, and I ain't doing

652
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: it the more because would be he would want to

653
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 1: be all billy. So he was like, you know what

654
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 1: if he would have finished the suicide, I didn't give

655
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 1: you all the morrow off. No, he wasn't gonna give

656
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 1: us more of just trying to use. So we got

657
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 1: suicide to this morning man the market sitting at a

658
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: half court. He ain't got a runk. You know the

659
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 1: reason why we gotta run to there. He's sitting in

660
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,679
Speaker 1: at half court, no running. We all look at him like, yo,

661
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: we gotta jump him after this because there's no way

662
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 1: we got run suicide and he ain't got a run.

663
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 1: But we don't want to beating the markets up back then.

664
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 1: But yeah, like Jack that that school man, it was

665
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 1: the most fun ever, man, just being able to prepare

666
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,199
Speaker 1: every week, having maybe two or three games, and the

667
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,920
Speaker 1: most fun with me was going on the road, Like

668
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,919
Speaker 1: you don't get you don't get that atmosphere and that

669
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 1: that coach they brought were talking trash and it's just

670
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 1: you and your your fourteen guy and you're going out

671
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: there to go to battle and go to war and

672
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 1: it's like, you gotta win a survive out here. Ain't

673
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: nobody on your side, and you know, Kentucky fans travel,

674
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 1: but it feels like, yeah, it still didn't feel like

675
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 1: a home game because the way they were treating but

676
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: it was dope. Man. You couldn't ask for nothing better.

677
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:20,919
Speaker 1: And like everyone, for me being then one pick, I

678
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: wanted to go back to school just to win the

679
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: national championship, just to get that atmosphere and that like

680
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 1: fun and high sight and it was tell me about

681
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:30,879
Speaker 1: what that team was like because you played with a

682
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 1: lot of NBA players in college, Like your team was

683
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: rock star status, you know. I mean that's when social

684
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: media just started hitting, like y'all was the ship you

685
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 1: bled bogie? Like what was that? Like? It was man,

686
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: Like we stayed in the Wildcat Lodge, and like we

687
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 1: walked outside our building where we stayed in the practice.

688
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: That's why I can't live. It's like where the players stayed,

689
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 1: but we we gotta let like teen regular students stay,

690
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: so the like you get extra benefits. It's like where

691
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 1: we stay, like having an apartment, so we had like

692
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: a game room and all that in there. But like

693
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 1: from here to like ten steps, it's like what we

694
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: practiced that, but it would be like sixty seventy cars

695
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 1: and people wave autographs every day and we couldn't get

696
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: away from them. So we're like, yo, we can't even

697
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: want the class. But I so like we started like

698
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 1: using the golf car to go to class. Football team

699
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: got mad, they told we couldn't use it no more,

700
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 1: so we had to walk. It's like so cold walking

701
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: back towards the class. But what was so fun about

702
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 1: that year was, you know, nobody like the returning players

703
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 1: that came, like Patrick Pattison and Ramone Harris and Dere's Miller.

704
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: None of these guys never played for Cows. So like

705
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: the freshmans in the in the upper classmen, it's all

706
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 1: some new for all of us. So like they didn't

707
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 1: know what coach Kyle was looking for. We didn't know

708
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 1: what coach Kyle was looking for, so we all had

709
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: to bond and come together. But we did everything together. Bro,

710
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 1: we weren't bowling together to eat together like we treated

711
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: like you do as a league team. That's great commodity

712
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: and one of those good teams because they hang out together.

713
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 1: Team just you know, like we had all the other

714
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 1: guys that kind of like, you know, like if you

715
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 1: got like me, Pat the Mark, he bled like, we

716
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,239
Speaker 1: know we're about to go, but all the other guys like, man,

717
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: they ain't gonna hang with us. They don't really rock

718
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 1: with us. But we're like, no, bro, we're all a brother.

719
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: Were all things like we're going to war to fight

720
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 1: every night I get hurt. The fifteen guy gonna hang

721
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: with it. So they half like the guys they didn't

722
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: think they were the part of our crew all to

723
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: get together. That's why our team was so funny, having

724
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 1: so much then. We were just doing whatever, man, we could.

725
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 1: Nothing was wrong for us to do in college at

726
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 1: the time. We walked in the corner stories like oh man,

727
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:30,479
Speaker 1: that go them guys again, we're here. That's us. College.

728
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 1: College was the outside of having children and being blessed

729
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: to play in the league like Collins, was the funnest

730
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: time of my life. Man, you in l A S

731
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: so I know you was having a blast. Yeah, but see,

732
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 1: I think I think different because l A is l

733
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 1: A and it's so big and there's so much other

734
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 1: ship to do, you know what I mean. So it's

735
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 1: not you went to where. Motherfucker, that's religion. I remember

736
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: the best part. Obviously going there was dope. But my

737
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: freshman year and nine was the NBA lockout, so we

738
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 1: had everybody at our game. So I'm tripping coming from

739
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: like Sacramento, Like, motherfucker. We got Shock and Kobe at

740
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: our game. We got movie stars like, we got Snoop

741
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: coming to our game, and I'm like, damn, this is

742
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: what U C. L A Is about. Like the ship

743
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: was a trip, but it was because it was the

744
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: NBA lockouts. We had Hella NBA players at our game

745
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: front and center, and I'm just like, Yeo, this ship

746
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: can't be real. Like it was just like that real

747
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: La la la in type ship And that's what I

748
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: just fell in love with. This ship, bro, ship was

749
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 1: a blast. That was my plan to go to college.

750
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: Three months I had. We had the number of recruiting

751
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 1: class that year at Arizona, Me, Mike Bibi, and Eugene Atkinson.

752
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: We had a number. Okay, yeah, y'all. I was loaded. Yeah,

753
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 1: I remember that class, and we already had with Michael Dickinson,

754
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 1: Miles Simon. We had all them guys already. So we

755
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: was gonna and they end up winning the national championship.

756
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: So it worked out how I was supposed to work out.

757
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: My start. I couldn't stay at the club. Test was

758
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: at eight. I'm leaving the club at five thirty. That

759
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: that wasn't gonna work. I ain't gonna lie man. First

760
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 1: time I took that test, man, I fell asleep him.

761
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: I don't needed to dance. All right, I'm gonna tell

762
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 1: you one thing. You're gonna be figuring something else outs

763
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: that I I got locked it out from me and

764
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: snack this second time. First time. I ain't bray, no snack,

765
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 1: no calculu. I got this. You know what I mean,

766
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: spelling names, wrong, doing all that. You better get this

767
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: right or you're gonna be hurt. Exactly I talk to

768
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 1: us about So you know, Kentucky, Uh, you're project the

769
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 1: number one pick you end up being the number one

770
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: pick to the Washington Wizards. UH in two thousand and ten.

771
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: Tell me what you remember most about that uh situation,

772
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: like going into the draft or like after I declare

773
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: just just the whole, just the process of like I

774
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: got a chance to be the number one pick in

775
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: the NBA Draft. It was crazy because like it's so

776
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: crazy because my senior year, there's like, well you're gonna

777
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: be in there one people. I'm like, yeah, y'all whatever,

778
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: y'all just talking. And then you know, like you got

779
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 1: a lot of guys from back home like, well he's

780
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: gonna be in school three four years. He ain't gonna

781
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: do what he's supposed to do whatever. So for me

782
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: to go there, like first couple of games, like my

783
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: first game game winner, I mean at missed two games

784
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: game winner. Um. Then we get to play Carolina at Kentucky.

785
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: You know, I'm excited for that game because not mean

786
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: being from North Carolina, like my dream school, not getting

787
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 1: a scholarship offered because I don't want to commit on

788
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: the spot. So like, yea, we get to play Carolina.

789
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: Boy Williams, they had Dexion Strickland and l drew the guy.

790
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 1: They're like they had picked over me to go there,

791
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 1: so I felt even a certain way to play. Even

792
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: talk to us about that Carolina situation. That's crazy. So

793
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 1: you wanted to go to North Carolina and they wanted

794
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 1: to commit on the spot and you couldn't do it.

795
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 1: So Carolina is my dreams school. Like you know, I

796
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: mean either Carolina, Duke NC stay really your main schools.

797
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 1: You've been home, and um, I love, always loved Carolina.

798
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: You know, ty Lawson was there the time. I'm like, yo,

799
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: ty Lawson killing. I love watching don't play. But then

800
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: I also got to see dear Rodes play at Memphis.

801
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, i gotta play with coach cow But

802
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: I'm like, y'all gotta stay home at the time being.

803
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: And then I went on to visit. I went on

804
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: the visit in Tyler Hansburg that they went to a

805
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 1: football game and they're like, well, we'll give you off

806
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: if you commit on the spot. I'm I'm not committing

807
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: on the spot. I still want to go watch. I mean,

808
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: I'm from where I'm from. I want to see all

809
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 1: these other schools and get to see these other states

810
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: take visits. So I'm not committing on the spot. They're like, well,

811
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:09,839
Speaker 1: we're not gonna off you, Like you know what, I'm

812
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,959
Speaker 1: never going to Carolina. I'm never going to Carolina. There

813
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: then I got to play Larry Drew, not the backtrack.

814
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,280
Speaker 1: I gotta play Larry Drew. I think committed to Carolina

815
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: at the Blacks of Smith tournament, which is owned by

816
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 1: me now my John Water tournament. So I got to

817
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 1: play him in front of Roy and all them. We

818
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,720
Speaker 1: won that game, so we get to play them in college.

819
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, we gotta kill them. And I'm telling

820
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 1: my team like, we gotta kill him. It's a big

821
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: game for me. And we beat Carolina. Did not get

822
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,760
Speaker 1: to play ukon with Kimball and Jerome Dison and Stanley

823
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 1: Robinson in the garden, and I think that was my

824
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: solidified party of being then one pick because I had

825
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: like fifteen of our last seventeen the last five minutes

826
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 1: in the game winner. So now my whole aspect is

827
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 1: like so my whole aspect and there like I'm on

828
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,319
Speaker 1: the Great Wall of Sports Illustrated. So I'm like, yeah,

829
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: I'm about to go to the league. But like I'm

830
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 1: trying to tell everybody, like just let me focus on

831
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,440
Speaker 1: this college moment because I know it's you can go

832
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: by like this if you lose early in the n

833
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 1: C Double A tournament. So I told my team, like, uh,

834
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,719
Speaker 1: coach Ky always get like his top point guard, top pick.

835
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 1: Did you ever know they gotta Slam cover with all

836
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: on them up there like that Coach Kyle and Derek

837
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 1: and Coach Cole and Tarik is supposed to be in

838
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: Coach cow And I'm like, yo, na, if you're gonna

839
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 1: put me on the cover again, I'm tired of being

840
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 1: on cover by myself. Put the markets E Blair and

841
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 1: Patrick Pattison on this couple with me. So if you

842
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 1: ever seen the Slam magazine before the tournament, they got

843
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: all four of us that they were Coach Kyle and like,

844
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 1: my teammates couldn't believe that I put him on there. Women,

845
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's the type of bond we have, Like

846
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 1: this is a commodity and love my god, y'all is

847
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:31,840
Speaker 1: my brothers. So a lot of people don't even know

848
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: that story. So in the article, it's like the cover

849
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: of the bowl letters me and yellow. But I said, yeah,

850
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: my letters bowl. But you see my other three brothers

851
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 1: up there with me and when I first got in

852
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 1: and not the back trap. When I first got to school, though,

853
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 1: Coach Y like, yeah, I know you're gonna leave. We

854
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,399
Speaker 1: all know you're gonna leave, but take four or five

855
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,319
Speaker 1: guys with you. And I'm like, Coach, I can't do that, Like,

856
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: I can't. I don't know if these guys got that dog,

857
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: are gonna want to go to the league at the

858
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: one year and we end up having five guys in

859
00:35:56,640 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: the first round. That's never been done before. So talk

860
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 1: to us that you uh injury, the hell injury that

861
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: ended uh that you need to have surgery and ended

862
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: your season. You're rehabing that. And then at the house

863
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: do you slip fall tell your achilles? Yeah, like that's

864
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 1: back to back crazy similar to crazy luck that the

865
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,399
Speaker 1: Marcus have talked to us with what your mind state

866
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:28,720
Speaker 1: was like after that? It was so crazy, was because

867
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: when I when I can tell you about before that,

868
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:32,800
Speaker 1: I had a boon spare in my knee, Like so

869
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell the story about all this was like

870
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: when all this is over, but I had a boon

871
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 1: spare on my knee like this long like a tooth

872
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: like two three inches in my knee, so I couldn't

873
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 1: been my knee. So when I was walking around it

874
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: doubt it was like you should have been unbroke your

875
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 1: knee cap, you should never been an All Star. All this,

876
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I guess I got a high pain tolerance.

877
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: So I played through that. I got that fixed. That's

878
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: gonna have my best year. Sixteen seventeen, we go to

879
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: Game seven against Boston. Then I come back like the

880
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,839
Speaker 1: next two years and like certain games my heel would hurt,

881
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: Like I'm telling about walking on my tippy toes where

882
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 1: I couldn't even go to the bathroom at night. They're

883
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 1: like somebody would just stab me with a knife in

884
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: the back of my head and just keep twisting it,

885
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: you know me. Like I feel like I have that mindset.

886
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: If it ain't bro you can play well. At the

887
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 1: same time, like I'm I'm really giving my all when

888
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: I shouldn't be right now because I'm I can mess

889
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 1: my career up. So going into like eighteen nineteen, yeah,

890
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen, I'm playing and I was like I having

891
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: games where like I'm talking about Jack and Matt, like, well,

892
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 1: I couldn't even like run down the court like anybody

893
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: could have got by me and we're playing Cleveland at

894
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 1: the worst game of my life one point and then right,

895
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 1: I should have set myself out at the beginning, but

896
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 1: I'm like, y, I can get through this. I can fight.

897
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 1: It's gonna warm up. It never warmed up, and man,

898
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: after that, I was like, ya, I gotta shut it down,

899
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: like I gotta, I gotta have surgery to get this

900
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: out there. And they're like, well, you might not come

901
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 1: the same, but people don't really know with me slipping

902
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 1: ever really and even the reason why I told my

903
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: achilles because I had a bons furt underneath my heel,

904
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: so I had to lift my achilles up already to

905
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,800
Speaker 1: take the bones for out. So when I did that,

906
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:00,399
Speaker 1: you know what, I made my achilles of a week

907
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: and I was in a walking book and stuff. So

908
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: it just so it just finally gave. But then when

909
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 1: they put my achilles back down, my bones first out.

910
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 1: But I'm like walking like this, so like they finally

911
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: just gave. But the doctors like, it's best you did

912
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: it like that because you would have came back and

913
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: rehabbing worked out. It would have just talked completely, like

914
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 1: like Caden and so mine fully rushed. You have like

915
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 1: a partial tear in minds, so I was rather bet

916
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 1: off doing that, so you know what I mean. So

917
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 1: let me tell you all the third box and then

918
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 1: I get through that. But I've been through four or

919
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 1: five surgery with that because I kept getting infections m like,

920
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 1: so like now I'm thinking, like, man, y'all might have

921
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: to cut my whole leg off. Y'all can't clear the

922
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: infection out there because it's deep down in my foot.

923
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: So now my mind said this, man, forget the killers

924
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 1: and getting that fixed right now, just please clear this

925
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 1: infection so I can be healthy, like being able to

926
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 1: walk and have my foot still, right. That's all I

927
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: was really worried about. So people didn't even know that

928
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 1: side of the stories. I'm like, you, just please get

929
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 1: the infection out. And I kept tired of getting like

930
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: open it up, cutting, closing and open and closing, and

931
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 1: so I was like, man, forget even playing basketball. Just

932
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: let me have my legs so I can walk and

933
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: be normal and play with my kids when there or whatever.

934
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: And then I finally got past it, and I finally

935
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: got past that stage where now I'm like, I can't

936
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 1: wait to prove everybody and show everybody what I got.

937
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:17,279
Speaker 1: Everybody think I'm done. That's tough. Now, you were on

938
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: assignment with the G League and I heard you was

939
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: getting back to your ship. How are you? How are you?

940
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 1: How are you feeling and during that? And where do

941
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 1: you feel like you're at right now? And so you

942
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 1: took somebody face off in practice or something. I seen

943
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:34,359
Speaker 1: y'all some private videos. But when I tell you, like

944
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,360
Speaker 1: when I tell y'all, when I tell you, I'm like,

945
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 1: you know, like you're playing. So let me tell you

946
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 1: all know my mom sat so when I'm playing, I'm

947
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:43,919
Speaker 1: not when I'm not playing on watching these guys play,

948
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 1: you know, like the young guys and they all like

949
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,720
Speaker 1: they're killing our team and they're looking at our bench

950
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 1: and stuff. I just know I got those right down

951
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 1: in my notes when I come back when they started

952
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 1: next season, because I'm like, I can't wait to show

953
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 1: them what I got, what I'm about, But I'm I'm

954
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:58,319
Speaker 1: gonna be better than what I was before. And that's

955
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 1: the scary part about it because then in my whole year, damn,

956
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:03,840
Speaker 1: they're the whole Like my five years I was an

957
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 1: all start, I played with two bones, pers in my knee,

958
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: in my hell. And people don't know that. M So

959
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 1: y'all guard. They ain't even get the best to John

960
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: Wall yet, so like they just got a clip of

961
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: him already already. Know you gotta love a lot, a

962
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: lot left for the tanking all this time you missed.

963
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna come back and kill. But speaking

964
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: of guards, if you're talking about the guards, you got,

965
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 1: what's who's your top five pgs of all time, all time,

966
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 1: all the time? Man? Magic up there? For sure? It's

967
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: just step up there for Sean. I know people like

968
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: that's too early, but step definitely up there. Uh see.

969
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,920
Speaker 1: I like see like people like down grazy Pino, like

970
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: CP because the way you do stuff. I'm not saying

971
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 1: you see, y'all played against him like people might not

972
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: like CP, but what he pray into the game like

973
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 1: as a leader, as an i Q guy dog and

974
00:40:57,440 --> 00:40:59,840
Speaker 1: don't back down for nobody. I could put him in

975
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: my top five because of that, because he don't give

976
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:02,839
Speaker 1: them who it is. He's trying to rip your head

977
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,919
Speaker 1: off and it's a love. That's what I love about

978
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,359
Speaker 1: CP man because like I like, you know what I mean,

979
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: I played to me, you know, second sales. I coach

980
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: for a little bit anyone and coach the Clippers, So

981
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm about the bust CPS. I don't get

982
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:16,839
Speaker 1: then what you say, like gonna bust show as I'm like, well,

983
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: we just got to go because you coach both of us,

984
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 1: and that's what I love. The CP. Don't give damn

985
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:24,319
Speaker 1: who you with, and that's the mindset you gotta have. Man,

986
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,439
Speaker 1: you gotta have that. You gotta have that. I got him,

987
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,959
Speaker 1: I got CP, I got magic. I gotta put John

988
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: steinning because he all time since leading, I mean, just

989
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 1: not even that. And then I go out of the times.

990
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: I love o Ziah Thomas. Zeke. Yeah, yeah, Zeke. How

991
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 1: can you not love Zeke? Speaking of us? Speaking of CP,

992
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 1: you have a you have a signature motherfucking move that

993
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: you caught me with and it's still getting shown a

994
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 1: lot more, lady, because there ain't no motherfucking basketball when

995
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:54,839
Speaker 1: you did that motherfucking three sixty spin layer, and I've

996
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,319
Speaker 1: seen your eyes getting big, and I know you wasn't

997
00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:58,800
Speaker 1: crazy enough to try to dunk on me, because you know,

998
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: I found the ship out of you, but you was

999
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 1: up like like yo, this motherfucker's eyes are getting real big.

1000
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 1: He about to pull some ship. The next thing I know,

1001
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 1: this motherfucker jumps, spins around and makes me. I knew,

1002
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: like I just saw it kind of coming. I just

1003
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 1: turned the opposite way and looked like this motherfucker didoth

1004
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:19,359
Speaker 1: three sixty lay up on me. Ever, i'mna be realistic, man,

1005
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: I was about a ducking. But when you started to spin,

1006
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: like when you move, you moved to the right where

1007
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 1: like when I lean it with my lips, I'm like,

1008
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 1: I can't do this. I'm a fault. And I know

1009
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:30,720
Speaker 1: he ain't grabbing me. He thought me straight to the ground.

1010
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 1: So in my mind set, in my mind said, I'm like, yeo,

1011
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: I gotta spin. You know that's my goal to Like,

1012
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 1: I just all playoff instincts. So once I've seen him like,

1013
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 1: I'm a spin and I did not know that was

1014
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 1: on that Yeah, that was. But the reason why I

1015
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 1: was in that mindset wasn't Matt. You probably remember man,

1016
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:51,799
Speaker 1: CP was already going there like arguing the whole day.

1017
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 1: It was a battle battle, a battle like going after

1018
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 1: and then like CPS on the bench and he had

1019
00:42:57,600 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: said something a couple of plays before that, and you

1020
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: gotta think we're that like eight team something like fun

1021
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 1: that I gotta start putting on the show. And the

1022
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:06,879
Speaker 1: night before I just chewed the legacy. I started putting

1023
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: on the show. We come back and make it a game.

1024
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 1: They Seepe come back in and winning for him. But

1025
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:12,320
Speaker 1: like that stretch was like we went on like in

1026
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 1: twelve oh one, and that's when Doc brought the Woods

1027
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: back in. That ship was tough. I remember because I

1028
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:19,839
Speaker 1: was I was. I thought for a second, you're gonna jump,

1029
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:21,799
Speaker 1: So I start coming towards you, kind of clearing the

1030
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: way like I'm gonna try to get you before you

1031
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 1: even take off. And the next thing I know that

1032
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:31,840
Speaker 1: boy just yeah, that ship was code. That was dope.

1033
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: So obviously the goal in in Washington has been to

1034
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: win the championship. You and Bill being two of the

1035
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:45,799
Speaker 1: best guards um in the league. What do you think

1036
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: are free agency draft? How do you feel like you

1037
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:51,399
Speaker 1: guys And this is no knock on the current team,

1038
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 1: you know, I mean this is just real talking and

1039
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: your goal obviously is to get to the playoffs and

1040
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 1: win the championship. What do you kind of feel like

1041
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 1: you guys need to have happened for that to have

1042
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: them well, for one, like you said that you started

1043
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 1: right there. I like, I feel like for a couple

1044
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 1: of years in the past, we just kept trying to

1045
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 1: rebuild through the draft like you do a lot of

1046
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 1: other sports. But in the league, your window is kind

1047
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:12,360
Speaker 1: of short. You don't have time for that, you know

1048
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,839
Speaker 1: what I mean. And I feel like me and Brad

1049
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: is a great cornerstone. We have Ruey's a rookie that's

1050
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,439
Speaker 1: in there. But I feel like we need We're gonna

1051
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: We're definitely gonna need us a three that's a dog,

1052
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. That's the knockdown shots and compete,

1053
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: compete and create for us. And then we also got

1054
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: to build a bit, you know, I mean, just being realistic, Like,

1055
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:29,840
Speaker 1: I love the team we have never we have some

1056
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 1: great pieces and a lot of young guys that just

1057
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: getting an opportunity to play where they probably would have

1058
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: never gotten on other teams. But like I feel like,

1059
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:37,800
Speaker 1: if you want to be one of those teams, you

1060
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: gotta have vettering guys around that's willing to understand they roll.

1061
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what we dealt with in the

1062
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 1: years past with our teams. Is nobody really understood their

1063
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 1: role and trying to get guys to understand that role.

1064
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: We never accepted it. And you know how hard that is,

1065
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 1: Jack and Matt when you got got seven to eight

1066
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 1: guys on one year deals every year, like everybody's trying

1067
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 1: to fight for the contracts. So they mindset ain't like

1068
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 1: thinking about, well, we're gonna be here for a while,

1069
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:03,239
Speaker 1: we can build this for you to get to what

1070
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 1: you want to They're like, no, I'm not with it.

1071
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:08,719
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get paid right now. And I feel

1072
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:11,439
Speaker 1: like if we get if we add some pieces where

1073
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:15,800
Speaker 1: guy's gonna buy into what's going on, then we'll be fine.

1074
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: But if guys ain't willing to buy into that, and

1075
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:19,239
Speaker 1: then we can't bring those guys a part of our

1076
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 1: team because we know men Brad is the main piece

1077
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: of the team that just back find all these pieces

1078
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 1: that fit us, and you never know what the future

1079
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 1: gis hold. Two things, we're heading down the whole stretch.

1080
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 1: Who's your favorite guy to battle? When you're like, okay,

1081
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 1: we're playing solo so tonight, like this is when I'm

1082
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:35,759
Speaker 1: gonna be on my ship my guys, Kyrie Man. For

1083
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 1: some reason, like because what makes me, because what makes

1084
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: me so frustrated is we felt like those two years

1085
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:43,839
Speaker 1: we posed have been in the the East, coming to find

1086
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 1: that when we lost to Boston and then yeah, I

1087
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 1: broke my hand against Atlanta and Jack remember that series,

1088
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 1: so Up said about that. So I feel like that's

1089
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 1: the matchup. Everybody want to see me and Kyrie to

1090
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: go at it for seven games and four gain I

1091
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 1: havev long and I never got the opportunity. So every

1092
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:00,040
Speaker 1: time we played them, and it felt like even in

1093
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 1: the rec and felt like we was in playoff more

1094
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: like even when Brian was trying to simulate that, yeah

1095
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:07,760
Speaker 1: that crazy when Brian hit that crazy favor without the glass,

1096
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 1: Like I felt like every time he played him, it's like, man, Kyrie,

1097
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:12,400
Speaker 1: just know this is what it is. Like it's a battle,

1098
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:14,439
Speaker 1: and it was at the time, it was like, who's

1099
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 1: the best point guard in the East between us, who's

1100
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:18,720
Speaker 1: even the second best player in the East behind Lebron,

1101
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:21,400
Speaker 1: And that's what my mindset wasn't has always been like

1102
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:23,840
Speaker 1: that with him. That was a four court pass to

1103
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 1: Bron Carter in the corner, turned and shot it off

1104
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: the jointing his slot in front of the three point

1105
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 1: line and once he told it was the foul him,

1106
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:35,239
Speaker 1: we let him take a dripple back behind the three

1107
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: for a line phase, so he running past me. I

1108
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 1: make I'm like, you know that was look he said, no,

1109
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 1: you don't feel I do this all the time. He

1110
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 1: always he always making shots like this. So like, I

1111
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: ain't got ship. I can say he got championships, so well,

1112
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:50,840
Speaker 1: what can I say to bron But that was the

1113
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:52,920
Speaker 1: same game where he got away. He got away with

1114
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:56,319
Speaker 1: the Traveler. Yeah, bro, each travel was so bad. I

1115
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 1: knew what movie was doing. I know what Brian want.

1116
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 1: We all know if people want to do you can't

1117
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 1: stop him. He traveled so bad and he missed his

1118
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 1: time not and missed it. I really threw the game,

1119
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 1: like yeah, and it's currently because I'm like, yo, Kevin

1120
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: Love outlets this past so perfect, Like you couldn't have

1121
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 1: nobody else better to throw that past than Kevin Love. Right,

1122
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:16,799
Speaker 1: what's a former player you wish you could get a

1123
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,359
Speaker 1: chance to go to battle against? Well, I didn't even

1124
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: gonna say go to battle. We know one player I

1125
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 1: wish that I could steal battle when I wish you

1126
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 1: never had those injuries because he was the toughest player

1127
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:28,400
Speaker 1: I ever played in my life with dead road boy

1128
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 1: because coming in my rookie year of the year he

1129
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 1: won't VP man, when I tell you it was nothing

1130
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 1: you could do, Like I don't care bash you was

1131
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,400
Speaker 1: how quick he was because he wasn't those guys that

1132
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: we never seen a guy to be that fast and

1133
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 1: the athletic, but had one of the best floaters we

1134
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 1: ever seen, like his floating bro he never missed it

1135
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 1: off two feet going right, So it was like which

1136
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: way I'm gonna force some left where he gonna dunk

1137
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 1: in my center and going right. It wasn't like he

1138
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 1: got to the room all the time. He had LAIDs,

1139
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: but he had a tough float that was tough to guard.

1140
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,399
Speaker 1: So he would be that guy. But the guy said,

1141
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,000
Speaker 1: I wish I would have like with a that would

1142
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 1: be my guy. M h ho would have been up

1143
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 1: because you bigger just as fast. That's that's scary. You

1144
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 1: got a need Kobe stories and you remember when Kobe stories. Yes, man,

1145
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,560
Speaker 1: my favorite Kobe story with my rookie year, we're going

1146
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 1: to play him in l A. You know, I mean,

1147
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 1: you know you're still like I can't be I'm about

1148
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:19,360
Speaker 1: to play the bean like there's nowhere I'm about to

1149
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: play Kobe and I got Gill on my team gear.

1150
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: Come out there, winban and no shoes, strange straps. Yeah,

1151
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 1: I'm like, so, I'm gonna play Kobe with a guy

1152
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 1: like Year that don't care about nothing Like so I

1153
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:34,719
Speaker 1: get I get Kobe and the post he guarding me.

1154
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 1: I'm guard him in the post he spends. I blocked

1155
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 1: his shot that of course, you know, not chase after

1156
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:40,359
Speaker 1: of it. I think I'm about to get the loose

1157
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: ball and they kick it to him and I run

1158
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: back over. They shooting three, and it was like that

1159
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:46,400
Speaker 1: was a good block to play. Continues. I should have

1160
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 1: never said nothing, because he ended up like scoring like

1161
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 1: twenties straight on us. And I was like, you know what,

1162
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna mind my business and not say nothing.

1163
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: No more, don't wake him up. Sometimes you can't wake

1164
00:48:56,719 --> 00:49:00,319
Speaker 1: him up. Yeah, And then my last the when I

1165
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 1: had with Kobe was one of the best ever. Like

1166
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:04,800
Speaker 1: we're battling me in Kobe, like I'm really going at it,

1167
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:07,560
Speaker 1: like Kobe scoring, I'm scoring. This fourth quarter is like

1168
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: the last seven minutes of the game. We're going back

1169
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: and forth. I'm guarding me, guarding me. They didn't not winning,

1170
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 1: But it was like the Kobe like last trip before,

1171
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 1: like he tore a killing and stuff, and that was

1172
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:18,279
Speaker 1: dope for me to be Like I can tell my

1173
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:20,359
Speaker 1: son to show my son at how on YouTube of

1174
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,960
Speaker 1: going to a battle on war with Kobe to win

1175
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 1: the clutch game. Yeah, you touched on the real quick

1176
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 1: before we we got a couple more questions. But what

1177
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 1: was it like to have Gilbert Arenas as a teammate?

1178
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,640
Speaker 1: How about it was? It was wild for me because

1179
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 1: like he was teaching me the roads, like he wasn't

1180
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:40,360
Speaker 1: trying to put me under wrap the same thing, but

1181
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:43,360
Speaker 1: just to see him but like he always grouping around

1182
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:46,200
Speaker 1: having fun, but like he still had that work as

1183
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:48,320
Speaker 1: even though he know he wasn't here. Like I would

1184
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:49,840
Speaker 1: go in there some nice to getting shots. He'd be

1185
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: already in there shooting one hand three from half court.

1186
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:55,440
Speaker 1: I'm like, what, I see why you did. I can

1187
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 1: see why you did these game winners from back in

1188
00:49:57,400 --> 00:49:59,919
Speaker 1: the day and turn around. But like gil was still

1189
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 1: like a guy that love the game. But he was

1190
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:03,240
Speaker 1: funny as hell. Man. He was one of the coolest

1191
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 1: guys to be around, and he was layal, like I

1192
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: remember my first time, like my second, third time walk

1193
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: in the locker room, and we wore the same size

1194
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:12,399
Speaker 1: and like, you know, they had those easy that Louis

1195
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 1: Vitty had made with a rail one and the gray

1196
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:17,240
Speaker 1: ones in the cream ones, and like he just dropped

1197
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 1: the whole box and shoes off in the shoe bag,

1198
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:21,760
Speaker 1: like seventy pair of shoes like this for you, young fellow.

1199
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 1: And it's when I was a Rebox you know, I

1200
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: was wearing the signer sneakers of Rebox. Won't too much

1201
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 1: I can wear. I was like, man, it's the coolest

1202
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:29,799
Speaker 1: bet ever. Man, gotta go by the Louis no nothing.

1203
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:32,480
Speaker 1: I got everything I need. So he was always doing

1204
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 1: to me and him still kicking and the like if

1205
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 1: I need basketball advice, I called him and ask him

1206
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:39,600
Speaker 1: and we just chop it up. That's for a lot

1207
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:42,319
Speaker 1: of people to understand his basketball mind and how hard

1208
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 1: he works. He's a psycho when it comes to work ethic.

1209
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 1: And it was funny because I talked to heard him

1210
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 1: telling the story about Kobe told had a conversation with

1211
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:54,880
Speaker 1: Gil about he needs to start giving back to the

1212
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:57,799
Speaker 1: game more and take stuff more serious because he's got

1213
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:00,880
Speaker 1: such an amazing basketball mind and obviously you got you

1214
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:03,320
Speaker 1: got a chance to touch on that. Yeah, he's starting

1215
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: to do that, and now he talked about it once

1216
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: Kobe facts like your Kobe, you want to be doing it,

1217
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start doing it. But like you said, Ja,

1218
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 1: y'all both y'all said before the show started, is I

1219
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:13,080
Speaker 1: wish y'all had this platform back then because people portraye

1220
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:15,000
Speaker 1: y'all who y'all are because of your image and your

1221
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:17,320
Speaker 1: mind saying the dog and home y'all half for the

1222
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: love of the game, that people would trade you in

1223
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:21,879
Speaker 1: a different way. And now like people look at Gil

1224
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 1: and be like, no, Gil ain't like that. Here Kobe

1225
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 1: talk about getting that way. People want expect that. They

1226
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,320
Speaker 1: think gillis, Oh he's always goofing, always not taking the

1227
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 1: game serious, but he puts that work in. But and

1228
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 1: then they're like, I try to tell people is and

1229
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 1: the day everybody got twenty four that day we're not

1230
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:37,320
Speaker 1: gonna be in the gym for twenty four hours. So

1231
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 1: we're still gonna live out regular lives and do other things.

1232
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:41,759
Speaker 1: But you can never knock nobody work at it. You

1233
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 1: don't know when they're putting that work in because everybody

1234
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:48,320
Speaker 1: and film everything, like everything is not supposed to be filmed.

1235
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 1: My work is my work under underground. All right, we

1236
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:55,520
Speaker 1: got these quarantine quick hitters. Last couple of questions where

1237
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 1: we get you out of your jack, go ahead and

1238
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: start him up. Who you think should be a guest

1239
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 1: on a little smoke? Who you think should be our

1240
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:06,760
Speaker 1: next guests? I feel like guests are all smoke. Should

1241
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:10,319
Speaker 1: be Bradley gild my teammates. You go, and you're gonna

1242
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:13,759
Speaker 1: at the time when you say something, you know the

1243
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 1: word is born. Appreciate that. Uh, cur What are you

1244
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:21,400
Speaker 1: currently binge watching? Like watching on TV? Yeah, yeah, you're

1245
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 1: watching anything on TV? Any shows anything? Yeah, I'm watching

1246
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:29,319
Speaker 1: I'll be watching Chicago p D Jack Ryan, and then

1247
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:32,839
Speaker 1: I'm on Ozark. I just started Ozark. Okay, see your

1248
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 1: in season one of Ozark. Yeah yeah, hey, you start

1249
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 1: a little slow, but trust me, when he gets going,

1250
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 1: brush it get going. Yeah yeah, my assistant put me

1251
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:44,399
Speaker 1: on that one. But yeah, already that going. So I'm

1252
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 1: gonna finish that up. That's dope. What's your quarantine snack?

1253
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:56,279
Speaker 1: Gold fish? You you and your son fight over those up.

1254
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:00,399
Speaker 1: I had to bottom the ones I had abody old fish.

1255
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 1: They got like they shaped like Mickey Mouse. So because

1256
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:04,359
Speaker 1: he like Mickey Mickey Mouse said, you've been thinking them

1257
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:06,880
Speaker 1: joints is real, so him cutting minds, not giving the

1258
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:12,400
Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse wars. I figured it out. They got the

1259
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:15,760
Speaker 1: tropical color. They got the tropical color through the box

1260
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 1: the fish. They got the tropical colors. I ain't trying.

1261
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:24,239
Speaker 1: I ain't been in those you put me on the phone. Yeah,

1262
00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 1: that tropical boy. Hey, so tell me this, what's your

1263
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:34,319
Speaker 1: favorite retro Jersey? Favorite retro Jersey, man, I ain't gonna lie. Man,

1264
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:41,239
Speaker 1: that Memphis Grizzy war shrieper do with the grizzly on it.

1265
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, man, Like I'll be wearing that joy every summer,

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Speaker 1: like I were at least want someone every something like

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Speaker 1: I might go outside. I just love the way that

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Speaker 1: color hit. You're the second person that color is crazy.

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Speaker 1: That's what's up. Artists or songs that's don't repeat right now,

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Speaker 1: who you're working with right now. I'm like, I'm on

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Speaker 1: NBA young boy right now, slimming, yes, sir, right now.

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Speaker 1: My favorite song about him is Lonely Child. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: love that lonely child. Yeah, I like that, But you

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Speaker 1: know nothing one that that that you that you don't

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Speaker 1: take off. Repeat this, Roddy rich Ward, Baby, I don't

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Speaker 1: take that. I'll repeat neither. Yeah. Yeah, Jack down to

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Speaker 1: the begging segment, brought to you by Bang Bang Stephen

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Speaker 1: Jackson's what do you want to what do you want

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Speaker 1: to do? The drums played Bang. I came begging for

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Speaker 1: nothing the last couple of years when he had playoff games,

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Speaker 1: he flew me down, gave me flooring seats, He took

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Speaker 1: cash Bro more than five times. I have nothing to

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Speaker 1: ask for my little bro. He always been a great

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Speaker 1: little bro to me. So I just want to give

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Speaker 1: me this problem to say thank you for always holding

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Speaker 1: me down when our call little Bro. You know I

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Speaker 1: you know I'm gonna call away when you need me.

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Speaker 1: It's nothing I gonna ask you because you've always been

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Speaker 1: trilled with me. Doc for Shure. I love me Bro,

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Speaker 1: Killer killer Man. That's some wrap. We want to thank

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Speaker 1: our special guests, John Wall. Continue blessing to you and

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Speaker 1: your family and your journey back to the court. We

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Speaker 1: can't wait to see what you say. Is is the

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Speaker 1: best job Wall yet? So we're excited about that. Sure.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you all for having me. Man, love and blessing

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Speaker 1: back to your family. Also, that's a wrap. You can

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Speaker 1: find this on Showtime Basketball, YouTube or all platforms, streaming podcasts,

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Speaker 1: all of them. Good job, my boy. It's something about

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Speaker 1: how this place forms a different kind of person. On

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Speaker 1: my high school team. We have five guys make the NBA.

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Speaker 1: We had the County Rock. You mentioned friend Shorty's County peop.

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Speaker 1: We know it's about. It's the Metha of basketball. There

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Speaker 1: are those who have come before us, upon whose shoulders

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Speaker 1: we stand here for this area, you have to have

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Speaker 1: tough scar Then Jim became the sanctuary. E g County

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Speaker 1: guys provide buckets for America's press. Georgia acts a lot

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Speaker 1: of power, a lot of character. It's nothing that you

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Speaker 1: can do to stop the competitive and we're pushing the

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Speaker 1: community and the culture forward. There's just in the water.

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Speaker 1: H This life was all I ever wanted. I'm not leaving,

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Speaker 1: not yet. I was hoping you'd say that we gotta

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Speaker 1: hit the streets, make some money. People like us. Let's

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Speaker 1: destroyed people like him to come up. Get Showtime free

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