10,000 In Magic City
This week we are joined by friend of the show and 13-Year NBA Vet Josh Smith. We discuss his unique origin to basketball, going straight to the NBA, the pros/cons of NIL deals, the real issues with AAU, the pressure of being drafted in your home city, growing up in the church, rookie responsibilities, breaking stigmas in the NBA, the importance of veterans/guidance, club budgets, 2015 Rockets vs Clippers, BMF stories and more! Follow us everywhere at @club520podcast
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2023-01-31
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Yeah, I ain't fall. When the summer, I been getting 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:10.040 fly all my life, all my life, Frank fault. When 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:13.760 the summer, I been getting back. Another amount of the 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:15.760 episode of the Club for twenty. I'm your host. My 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:18.239 name DJ Wells. To my father left, I got my 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:20.840 brother be here to the right, my dog Jeff t. 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:22.880 We got a special guests with it. You know what 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.880 I'm saying, first time visitor. I gotta go ahead. Let 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:27.479 take thought the intro out to the special man to 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:30.040 my left for sure. Got a teammate of mind a 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:34.120 Georgia legend, Atlanta legend, talk about it, slam dunk champion, 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.040 defensive player, should have been of the Year, but made 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:40.800 All Defensive Team, Oak Hill Legend, Damn list goes on 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:45.160 Atlanta legend. All that my dog Josh Smith to the pot. 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.160 Want to do my dog for sure? Thanks for having 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:49.919 me we have You know what I'm saying. I appreciate 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.000 you sliding through on us before we get into the episode. 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.000 You know what I'm saying. We gotta start off with 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:55.720 a fraud ask question. You know what I'm saying. That's 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:57.440 how you get everything going. This is where your sponsor, 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:58.920 this is where you can put your name with all 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.400 these tequila balls, a little bit of do say you 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:03.040 want to fuck with us? This is the time where 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:04.959 you can get your ship right before we get started. 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.880 But back to the question and business, honestly kind of 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:09.960 for both of you. But I'm gonna start with you 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:11.240 know what I'm saying, y'all both was in the league, 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:12.640 and y'all was in the league with the times, you know, 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.080 it's a little bit more physical than this today. If 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:16.760 it was one person in the league, you could have 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:20.759 swung on who would you have pick? Like hands free 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.720 hockey style, ain't no suspensions. Its got to the present box. 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:25.800 Who was one motherfucker? I got onto your skin? You 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:27.120 was just like I got a uper cup for him 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:31.000 out of the gate. Mh. Tough one. Yeah, that's a 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.400 tough one. Who you? Who was? I know? I know who? 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.440 I want to say For Jeff Case, I ain't want 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:42.000 to nobody. I know you wanted to push I pushed Ruby, 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:45.440 all right, Get that's my favorite Jeff clipp of all time. 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:50.680 I cool, but that was it? Man smooth what smooth? 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:55.520 Probably wanted to punch a coach and we can ask 0:01:55.560 --> 0:02:01.160 that questions. Probably everybody in the Grand coach, the town 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:09.520 Boys referees. He swinging on Towboys. Admit the hell for that, 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:13.639 bron had us off the way I may, I appreciate you. 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:15.600 You know what I'm saying. Slide through on a thirteen 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:17.200 year vet. You know what I'm saying. We gotta start 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:19.520 from the beginning, though, like what got you into even 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:21.920 playing basketball? Like what was your origin with that? Somebody 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:23.520 put the ball of your heads, you usually start working 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.880 with it, for sure. My dad, you know, he was 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.280 a he was a hood legend back in Atlanta. He 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:32.760 played for Being Hill back in the day and he 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.960 played for the men's league and me growing up watching 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:41.440 him play, admiring his game, and uh, that's what made 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.360 That's what That's where I grew to love it. And 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.640 then you know, once I was able to kind of 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:48.440 get on the court, it was it was kind of 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:50.240 like it was took off from there when I was 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:52.760 like eleven years old. How Tad was you when he 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:54.480 was eleven? Like did you catch a gross per? Later? 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:56.280 You was always you know saying, Hella more side and 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.919 everybody else maybe, Like I think my biggest gross per 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.359 was my finth grade year. Going in my ninth grade year, 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.960 I was like five teen and I went to six 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:09.239 to five. Damn. Yeah, that that summer, my knees was hurting. 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.359 Shout out to the parents who had to feed you man, 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:17.679 some shoes, everything closed. It was crazy. That's Athos. He 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:23.840 was a spurt. Yeah, that's tough. What what year did 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:28.799 you join the Celtics? When I was fourteen? Fourteen years old, 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:33.480 That's when Medwhite, Dwight Howard and Randolph Morris, that's when 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.320 we came together. So y'all was the first three to 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:40.840 get it going. That's was that was like the foundation 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:42.760 of the team. Okay, and then you know, we had 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:46.640 we had guards that that that came and left. But 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:48.920 that was that was like for the most part, that 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.040 was the team that kind of like that was the 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:53.920 foundation of the team. Yeah. I always hear about your 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:59.680 oh three team. It was you, Randolph the White, Mike Mercer, Yeah, 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:04.800 that was Mike, marand Rush. Now what would you damn 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:09.760 would you compare, well, not really compare who would you take? 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:14.040 Would you take that oh three Atlanta Celtics team or 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:20.640 that uh oh three Okaill squad because you'll have some 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:27.400 hitters who okay Rondo, Oh yeah, that's my best friend. Yeah, 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:32.400 that's my best friend. So man, that's crazy Galley. We 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:37.520 won big time. What was Adidas AU Nationals back then? Yeah, 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:41.080 that summer and then we won a national title when 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.440 I went to Okill, Okay, So who was all on 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:49.600 your Okill squad? Man? It was Casey Rivers. Yeah, went 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:55.159 to Cleon right. Yeah. Yeah, he can shoot though, but 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.240 he was our shooter. We had a guy named Brian Johnson. 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.880 He it was he had. His story was sad because 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.960 it was, you know, we played the whole season and 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:09.000 doing layup line. He go out for a dunk, tears 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:12.040 a cl and the lay up and then he kind 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.880 of had like knee problems throughout. Then got named day 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:20.160 Shane Wright. Uh, Aaron came out the bench. We had 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:23.919 we had a we had a we had a decent 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.400 We had a good team. But the OKI team was 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:31.240 probably I mean, I mean that Celtic team. Let's get 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.720 let's get to the real talk about this debate around 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:36.800 here and that we're just gonna keep it real. We 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:43.400 got a team that's legendre we got we got this. 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:48.159 It's Greg Josh McRoberts, the kan Cooked, Eric Gordon, Mike Conlin. 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.359 They said that team could beat your Celtics team. I 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.280 don't think so, damn, Because I'm gonna tell you why 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:59.480 you said Greg Olden right, who was the four brothers? 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.560 He won to smoke with you anyway, but I wouldn't 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:05.120 afford though three. So you got you gotta deal with 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.480 Dwight Howard, Greg, Greg old and gotta deal with Dwhite. 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:13.719 D White was more agile, He's more athletic. I think 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:17.279 before gregt who like, think about it, think about the 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.320 White's crazy. Think about when you think about before Greg 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.360 got hurt, what he was doing in the league, right, 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.640 and think about before the White got hurt what he 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:28.360 was doing was see what I'm saying. So it's like 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:30.839 the athleticism, you know what I'm saying. Like he was 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:35.160 killing he was killing Orlando to the finals. No, you know, 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:43.679 we know they had the So the White wins a battle? 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:45.680 Who got who you got for Randolph and John? I 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.720 don't know if he winned like that in high school. 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.599 I think Greg was different. High school he was the 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.400 White was number what they both was number one of 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.600 the class. We can wash them. So what about let's 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.360 go Josh Man Grobbers and Randolph. Josh was number one 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:02.039 in his class. He was Randolph was so hold on 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:11.360 so uh Josh and Greg? So who's the younger? Greg's younger? 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.480 Greg would have got boned. Dog would have boned him 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:20.600 a senior. The white dog. He was nasty. He was nasty. 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.600 You cussing my one good time? Dog, it's over with, 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:29.280 It's game over. He dropped step and throwing elbows, dunking, trashing, 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:35.560 blocking shots. Then, Bro, the Rando was playing kind of 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.400 like a Tim Duncan too, Like Tim Duncan is more 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:42.480 from this, more from this big you know, you know, 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.440 no disrespect you know to Josh. Were from the South. 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:51.600 Dog you know what I mean. We you know, we go, 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:57.640 we go. We're gonna dog just because he the We're going, Yeah, 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.120 we gonna try. You know what I'm saying. It is 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:01.400 like I got a friend. I got a friend that 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:06.880 just moved from Portland to to Atlanta and uh one 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.360 of my good friends. I met him when I was 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.640 playing with Houston and and he's a white dude. His 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:14.960 son is a thirteen like my son. And I'm like, 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.440 looked out like you in the South. Now, Bro, they 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.280 gonna see you, and they're gonna they're gonna like food 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:26.880 and flat, flat, flat. They don't care. They could be average, 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.640 but they gonna they gonna attack you. He's like, okay, okay, 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.160 like thinking it's just a game and talking. We get 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.880 we get out there and they man, they ad him. Everybody. 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:41.160 I'm like, come over here, and that's figure it out, 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.480 you know what I'm saying, you know, figure out the 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.280 way of life down here. You know, we can see 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:49.680 what's going on. I got I got y'all. I don't 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:53.560 I got y'all, but I swear to god, that motherfucker 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:58.520 Josh McRoberts wasn't an issue. Yeah, it was sixteen. He 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.320 was active seven. He was doing that bitch off the 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.200 glass he was putting. He was a number one player 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:08.400 Nigga with Jerald Green and that old five class. So 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:19.920 and then I mean, of course you but three. Yeah, 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:25.040 but we got we we moved because everybody can move. 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:36.360 It was damn near off. That front court is retarded easy. 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:39.559 We had like a Cliff Clint Scale. He was our 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.120 point guard from New York, but he was more so 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:44.959 like get everybody in the in the floor, floor the things. 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.360 And he was more scrappy from New York, so he 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.240 mightn't have his way with him, he would have gave 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:53.600 him fist. As far as Michael Mike defensively, he would 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.400 have probably just got got up under him. I'm not 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.480 saying like as far as like he probably would have 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.440 outscored him, because that's that wasn't his that wasn't his job. 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.240 You know what I'm saying, y'all had too much going on. 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.560 But that's what I'm saying. This is these niggas said 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:09.200 vores creating, Oh yeah, creating then I'm sorry, I would 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.840 get your name right. He was nasty. He was six 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.640 four six five. Yeah, I played against the guard b 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:20.559 they was deep. Did rind him every round with y'all? No, No, 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:23.400 we never have been cheating. It was we got Brandon 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:28.920 Rush for a couple. They was hating on this. You 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.120 can't have him played with but he was so sted 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.520 about that one. But yeah, that was good because I 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.280 didn't know. I didn't even know Mike Mercer played with y'all. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.240 I thought he always just played with the Georgia Stars 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.480 with Lou Yeah, I got him, got him like the 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.600 last year he was. He was younger than that, so 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.360 that helped him out. Though they helped him out big, 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.280 though they put him on a different stage. I think 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.439 he went he went to Georgia, Yep, he did. Yeah, 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.280 but that's he's a good he's a good dude though. 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.480 I still talk. Shout to Mike. He went to the US. 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:00.520 It's hard, yeah, man, I don't know, man, AJ would 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.160 have been tough to close game though. It would have 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.440 been a close game. Eric's going. I think we were 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.560 probably different. It was. I think we would probably probably 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.520 would have goten because you and the White It was 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.160 like we was more defensive oriented too though, So just 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.640 to see how y'all played defense in the league, I can't. Yeah, 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.559 shot real bro, Yeah, I'm gonna give it to you. 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:24.160 Ain't nobody driving on the No, No, it's a shout 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:25.920 out to the Indie Heat team though. We're gonna rep 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:32.520 that's a good team though, right yeah, ANBA players like, yeah, 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:35.920 what was you? We was going to be talking. I 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:40.199 just told you you had one though, right NA was 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:44.880 my team? Nah? Nah my year in the Heat to 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.600 the Big Time final four. But yeah, probably that's a 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:51.560 big broo. But you was killing. I was killed, That's 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.240 what I'm saying. But feel frame I was killing. We 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.920 ain't we ain't had nobody else brother. I mean, we 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.559 ain't nobody else that went to like a big time 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.760 college or not. Like then we was just a good team. 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.120 So shit, you know, how did you get to Oak Hill? 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.560 Like what's that conversation? Like how was you recruited with that? 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.280 Because I imagine what I'm saying. You're talking about your 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.640 AU team in the city, like y'all had the hitters 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:12.839 already down there? How was it for you to leave home? 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:14.360 And you know what I'm saying, because now we're old 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.040 enough to see how Oak Hill was Like then we're 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:17.800 like a mini college, Like how was that for you 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.040 mentally to get prepared to just like go on campus 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.000 a hoop? Yeah? It was. It was good. I mean, 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.920 well it was. It was kind of funny like you 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.560 know back in the day, you know, like the AU 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.240 circuit with beef with the head coaches, but the high 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.000 school teams, you know what I'm saying, Like they wouldn't 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.520 talk to each other and stuff like that. There wasn't 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.719 on the same page. And now it's different, you know 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.400 what I'm saying. But in my right so so like 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.160 so like I had like an old old white coach. 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.520 He was like an old fashioned coach when I went 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:52.120 to Mikiten High School and uh yeah, I was on 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.079 a He was like, man, you got to play on 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.400 the block. But then I had just cracked the top 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.040 five in the country in my in my in my 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.000 in my class. Yeah, so I'm like, I'm like, shit, 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.160 I can't. I'm not doing that, Like I might find 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.600 just sit my ass on the block and be like hey, 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:10.480 drop step prototypical big type shit like. And then I 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:12.960 had a point guard who was younger. He was younger, 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.280 he was like a sophomore. So he'll just if you 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.960 see pressure heat advancing the ball, you know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:20.800 you take the ship, you know what I'm saying. So 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.680 I'm taking it like you know, I'm like i might 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.079 break the playoff boom boom, but I'm scoring, you know 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.560 what I'm saying. And I had another another dude on 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.640 my team, more assaultment. He played in the league too. 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.320 He played in the league too when the Rice University. Yeah, 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.880 but he was a year ahead of me. He was 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.760 like a senior and I was a junior. And you know, 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.600 the coach is doing all kind of just jankie stuff 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.800 like like I would I would, I would like go 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.600 in the weight room. But I'd be finessing the wait 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:51.680 wait room coach like you know what I'm saying. Because 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.559 that was like the football team, so they like squats, 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.800 bitch press, maxing out dead lips, you know what I'm saying. 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.559 So like when I'm going in like so so like 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.600 early on in the in the year, like what would 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.840 be good? It was like he would pull me out 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.160 and show me like, hey man, I don't want you 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.920 shooting no more threes like you shooting me like the 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.080 three soth'ing like like you know what I'm saying, Like 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.120 this part of my game, I'm trying to like talk 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:16.920 to him about like what's going on. He's like, man. 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.560 So then like after a while, I just try to 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.720 Like i'd be like, hey man, coach Westfield want me. 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.040 Like whenever we go get doing it like the squads 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.320 and stuff like that, a coach is like, hey man, 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:31.360 coach Westfield want me. So I go in there and 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:32.880 I used to go back there to the back by 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.120 the locker room so he wouldn't be back there. So 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.360 I like be back there behind his desk and shit 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:42.040 like I put so I pulled up, so I pulled 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.040 like a little fire like a cabinet out. So it's 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:47.560 like long ass like with my like mail in there, 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:50.480 with like letters of colleges, damn with my name on it, 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:52.400 you know what I'm saying. So like he would not 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.520 you wouldn't give he wouldn't give me my man. And 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.280 it was like you can name, you can name the 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.160 college they was in there, you know what I'm saying. 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.520 So I'm like, I'm like, damn, like they already sending 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:04.160 it to my house. Somebody, Why the why the hell 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:05.600 you ain't why the hell you ain't give him a 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:08.960 damn man? You had a bad relationship, Like I mean, 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:12.480 because we didn't have a bad relationship, because the only 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.080 reason why we had a bad relationship because he wanted 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.360 me to do something that I wasn't. I wasn't I 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:21.400 wasn't gonna jeopardize my future right to make for his 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.400 his traditional needs. That's we understand what I'm saying. Like 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.160 I'm not gonna say like we had a bad relationship. 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.080 We just didn't see. We didn't see we weren't on 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.080 the same page, you know what I'm saying. So it 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.400 got to the point where like I didn't I never 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:36.360 questioned him about it. You know what I'm saying, because 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.200 I was like, like you you know I it is 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:40.760 back in the day, like when when when you saw 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:42.760 that after Like they're gonna call your parents, they're gonna 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:44.800 blow your phone up, they're gonna send they're gonna find 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:46.640 out what your address is, they gonna send you letters. 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.080 Probably even to this day they probably do the same 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:54.680 thing when it comes to recruiting. But we had a 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.560 we had a conversation one day. He was like Josh 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:00.400 him telling you if you if if you shoot one three, 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.680 I'm gonna sit you down. And we had we had 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.120 just beat Willer, Like Willer was like our competence, like 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:08.160 our main competition, and they was number one in the state. 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.920 We just upset of them, the uh powerhouse. You know 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.400 what I'm saying. Down there, yeah, down there in Atlanta, 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:16.560 they got the number one player in the nextion. I said, 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:21.520 I call you yea. So they say to this day 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:27.280 continue that tradition. So we we just beat them. So 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.560 we're playing a bad like a bad team in our 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.440 in our in our in our region, and uh, I 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.360 shoot a three pulled me out, you know what I'm saying, yea. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.040 So like I'm pissed. You know what I'm saying, Like 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.400 I'm hot dog like. So I'm just sitting on the 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:46.200 I'm sitting on the bench and uh and and and 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.640 uh he taks, takes uh more assaultment out right. So 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.880 he's like, someone's like, man, coach, you gotta put his 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:54.480 back in. You gotta put one of us back in. 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.560 You gotta put his back in. I said, I said don't. 0:16:57.600 --> 0:16:59.960 I said, don't. Don't tell him nothing. He can't coach anywhere. 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:04.960 Oh So, like he was like, so he face got 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:10.480 raised waiting that. I was like, all right, cool, you 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:12.480 know what I'm saying. So I get up sit on 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:14.760 in the bench. Know I'm sitting I'm just watching the games. 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.720 It's like they started about to lose, you know what 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:21.719 I'm saying. So he put me back in and he 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.800 was like, uh, we we end up winning. So we 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.840 get we're in, we're in the locker room. He was like, 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.359 if you ever if you ever talk to me like 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.600 that again, you'll never put on the kitchen I saw. 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:34.840 I just explode it. You know what I'm saying. It's 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.439 like that, fuck this school. I can't. I'm like, you know, 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:39.800 like back in the day, like you know when you start, man, 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:44.480 you did like you had this jersey. You know what 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:46.320 I'm saying. So I'm like, when I get out of 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.200 the locker room, my dad see me crying and shit, 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:49.639 you know what I'm saying. So my dad was like, 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.159 what that what's going on? I was like, man, I 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:55.760 saw I tell him what's going on? And uh we 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:57.520 we both dried. He drive me to the to the 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:00.359 campus and he sit there and have a conversation. I 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:02.520 don't know we I come in and then they have 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:05.160 a conversation. I leave and he have enohing. He talked 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:07.119 to him for a little bit, but then after a 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.239 while he was just like he came out. He was like, 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.119 don't say nothing else. You know what I'm saying. Just 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:15.119 finished the season, not strong, and I'm gonna find you 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:16.800 somewhere else to go, you know what I'm saying. So 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:20.320 that's all right. He called my uh you coach Resting Peace, Uh, 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:25.800 Coach Prather he called him and coach pratheror called Steve Smith. 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.040 Was like he put my dad on the phone. My 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:29.679 dad was like, hey, man, I got a player for you. 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:32.840 So uh so he was like, oh, uh, you know, 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:35.000 what's the player's name? So he told told him my name. 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:36.919 He was like, oh, I ain't never heard of him. 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:40.440 He said, you're a damn lie. You know you heard 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:44.560 Josh just like you know. It kind of checked him 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:46.919 a little bit, like, let's just bring your ass up 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.360 to Bob Gibbons, you know what I'm saying, so you'll 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.959 see him for the first time. So he, uh, he 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:53.679 came to Bob Gibbers and he was like, all right, 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:57.960 cool shit, Yeah, yea. I wanted y'all want him. So 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.679 that's that's how I got up there. But when I 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.240 got up there, we we was driving. I had missed 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:06.000 probably like two weeks of my my senior year already 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.520 because it started like in September, and in Atlanta you 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:13.040 started you started August, like early August. You started schooling August. 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:16.159 So I get up there and I'm smelling like skunk. 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:17.800 I'm driving with my dad. I'm like, man, what the 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.520 hell is that smell? Like shit? What is that smell? 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:23.679 Day like that skunk? Son from the country down there 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:28.440 in Georgia. I turn this around, turn this thing around, man, 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:30.879 get me out of here. Man. He was like, he 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:33.080 was like, nah, man, you can't. You can't go back. 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:36.399 You gotta. It's like, shit, it's over with you gotta 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:38.240 just this was school you're going too. So I was 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.199 like I just like shit, I had to get mentally focused. 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:42.480 I'm like, man, I'm gonna be up here for the 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:46.120 for like seven months without seeing my my my siblings 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:47.760 and my mom and dad and stuff like that. So 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.480 that's it was. It was good for my progression for 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:53.200 what I was doing for I had my mind set 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:55.919 out to do. And that's crazy because like obviously, if 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:57.800 you don't know where Okill is, you can tell him 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:00.840 it's nothing where Okill is. But Okaill facts the middle 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:04.320 of the middle of nowhere. Probably the the mall we 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:06.800 used to get dressed up for. It was Winston sailing 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:13.679 down there to wait for it. Our best girl on 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:15.960 Dog and go down there and dog. It's about an 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:20.200 hour and a half away, about an hour and a half, 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:22.600 Like you said, it's mouth of Wilston Virgains, the middle 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.520 of nowhere. But if you I mean, but if you 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:29.840 want to like get your child mentally focused and block 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:33.600 out all this uh, all this internet, Instagram fame stuff, 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:36.280 that's still the probably the best school to take them to. 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:38.760 Like you know, you still got even I went to 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:40.760 you know, because my kids are young, I mean the 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:42.920 older now, so I do a little. I've been troughing 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:46.080 the air stuff. And one of my younger kids play 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:48.960 football too, at a high level. He plays on the 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:53.359 Battle Circuit. So their national championship down there in Florida, 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:57.320 so they had had a tournament, and I amg and 0:20:57.359 --> 0:20:59.840 I'm like, man, it's a mega campus. But it's like 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:02.000 you can get super distracted too, you know what I'm saying. 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:04.200 I can see where it could be a distraction. So 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:06.480 I'm like, man, oh, kid, Like, if you really want 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:11.280 to lock in and and really like you know what 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:13.239 I'm saying, I'm telling you, and you want to get 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:16.280 your kids to like a mature level state of mind, 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:18.800 that that's that's a really good school, especially now that 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:20.160 you know what I'm saying. You got the nil money 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:23.280 coming in, boys getting paid you obviously coming straight out 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:24.760 of our school. We don't get to that shortly. But 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:26.960 how you feel about that? Like you know what I'm saying. 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:28.920 I'm sure you have some parks to being a top player, 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:31.720 but like now you can make seven meals as a sophomore. 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:36.359 That shit crazy. I mean, it's like I think We 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:39.000 were talking about that before the podcast, not about the 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:45.000 nil stuff about but by how people can finesse their rankings, 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:50.720 by the way they can manipulate social media, you know 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:53.879 what I'm saying. So it's like there's plenty of times 0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:57.359 where a kid or a parent or somebody I know 0:21:57.400 --> 0:21:59.840 it be like a man this kids wants to play 0:21:59.840 --> 0:22:01.280 for a team, and he sends me a couple of 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:04.640 clips of the kid making shots and then I see 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:07.080 him and he's trash. You know what I'm saying, Like, 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:09.760 no disrespect to the no disrespect to the you know 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:13.840 you know what I'm no dispect to the you know 0:22:13.880 --> 0:22:16.240 what I'm saying to the kids that I've seen, But 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:19.000 it's really the disrespect to the to the people that 0:22:19.080 --> 0:22:21.440 sent me some of those videos. Now I'm not gonna 0:22:21.480 --> 0:22:23.320 say all of them, you know what I'm saying, are 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:27.040 are not good. But it's like now I'm at a 0:22:27.080 --> 0:22:28.439 point where I like, I don't want to see no 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:30.320 more videos, you know what I'm saying, Like, I don't 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:32.280 want to see no more videos of nobody, like let 0:22:32.280 --> 0:22:33.560 me see what he looked like on the five on 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:37.960 five said yeah, and its it's like nowadays, these kids 0:22:37.960 --> 0:22:42.040 can can pump fake you and and it's like I'm 0:22:42.280 --> 0:22:44.440 I'm older now, so like I'm like, damn, I see 0:22:44.440 --> 0:22:46.720 how these gems can get fucking food. You know what 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:49.720 I'm saying, They can get tricked because I literally got 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:52.560 two kids. I mean, like I like on I got 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:55.320 I got like some I got kids and like on 0:22:55.440 --> 0:22:59.800 my teams, and it's it's some kids that can work out. 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:02.879 Like as far as the workout cones and stuff, they 0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:06.960 would kill it, kill it, kill it, make the shots 0:23:07.000 --> 0:23:08.720 and you know what I'm saying. And I got a 0:23:08.760 --> 0:23:11.080 kid that might look look like some trash and that shit. 0:23:11.640 --> 0:23:15.040 But when when they played five on five, he wears 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:17.040 they would wear that shit out. You know what I'm saying, 0:23:17.080 --> 0:23:19.920 They would wear the cone, Nigga, they would wear the 0:23:20.000 --> 0:23:23.840 cone kid out all day long. That's a good segment 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:30.520 because a segue because you for show wasn't no man, 0:23:30.880 --> 0:23:34.440 no man, look man, Josh should just kick my ass 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:37.560 in the Lena. He kicked my ass when it came 0:23:37.600 --> 0:23:40.000 to like the shooting and the man and man was 0:23:40.000 --> 0:23:43.400 going not for ten ten fen I was like six 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:49.000 foot ten seven ften like you know, but that's that 0:23:49.160 --> 0:23:51.120 was one of the main reasons why he got picked 0:23:51.119 --> 0:23:53.840 six and I got picked seventeen. But because but when 0:23:53.840 --> 0:23:56.639 we were playing two on two, I dominated it. But 0:23:56.680 --> 0:24:00.360 it was as far as like shooting and dribbling skills. 0:24:01.000 --> 0:24:05.760 I didn't have no nigga, i't had no trainers help him. 0:24:06.440 --> 0:24:08.440 Like you know, it was probably like a six month, 0:24:08.760 --> 0:24:11.359 six month thing with John Lucas. He was trying to 0:24:11.400 --> 0:24:14.159 help me a little bit, trying to see if that 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:17.600 if that fuck asks high school coach wouldn't let you cook. 0:24:18.560 --> 0:24:21.000 That's That's what I'd be saying to about like we 0:24:21.119 --> 0:24:26.160 have that problem here, bro like where kids are forced 0:24:26.440 --> 0:24:30.520 to motherfucker be alonzo morning and I feel like coaches 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:32.680 only coached for the moment. They don't coach for these 0:24:32.720 --> 0:24:35.320 kids future they want. I mean, your coach was just 0:24:35.359 --> 0:24:37.960 like he's trying to win right now boxing not thinking 0:24:38.040 --> 0:24:41.479 like this, nigga, Jay are really a small four. Let 0:24:41.520 --> 0:24:43.400 him dumple that bitch between the legs and go out 0:24:43.440 --> 0:24:45.640 of bands. It's my best player, you know what I mean. 0:24:45.760 --> 0:24:47.960 I think you gotta let kids play through mistakes because 0:24:47.960 --> 0:24:50.760 a lot of these kids motherfucker's that we know. I 0:24:50.760 --> 0:24:54.920 ain't gonna say nobody name, but my motherfucker's six four centers. Yeah, 0:24:54.960 --> 0:24:56.520 that's crazy. And then when they get to college, they 0:24:56.560 --> 0:24:59.119 get a route awakening in this a motherfucker six twelve 0:25:02.800 --> 0:25:06.679 really gotta you gotta play the one now, it's shit spooky, 0:25:06.840 --> 0:25:11.880 y'all left hand this gug now, y'all mama and them 0:25:11.960 --> 0:25:15.000 they mad they sent you to this big school when 0:25:15.040 --> 0:25:22.439 y'all ass should have went to motherfucking I just I 0:25:22.440 --> 0:25:24.760 don't know about that ship. Just be having me so 0:25:25.240 --> 0:25:27.919 mad man, when these kids get gassed, and it just 0:25:28.280 --> 0:25:29.960 goes back to what you were saying, how you can 0:25:29.960 --> 0:25:33.800 finesse with my fuck on the really mixtape board because 0:25:33.800 --> 0:25:35.680 we got some people here where I'll be like, man, 0:25:35.720 --> 0:25:38.560 he ain't like that. I ain't gonna see a lot too. 0:25:38.640 --> 0:25:44.440 I'm mean no, like, just like these these these colleges, 0:25:44.480 --> 0:25:48.280 they have all these young kids and they're losing. You 0:25:48.359 --> 0:25:51.840 got all these McDonald's all Americans, how to like, dog 0:25:51.920 --> 0:25:54.080 that shit's not supposed to happen. I don't give a 0:25:54.119 --> 0:25:56.439 damn that young enough bro talking about it, y'all are 0:25:56.560 --> 0:25:59.480 y'all are McDonald's all Americans? Bro? That's the pressure behind 0:25:59.800 --> 0:26:03.280 that having that tag on you. You got to produce 0:26:03.480 --> 0:26:05.880 at the next level, especially if you were a number 0:26:05.920 --> 0:26:08.760 one player in the nation, you're supposed to be trashing 0:26:08.800 --> 0:26:11.520 that ship because I know Kevin Durant did it. That's 0:26:11.560 --> 0:26:17.800 a fact, Michael Beasley did. They trashed college college basketball 0:26:18.760 --> 0:26:20.800 like when they came into when they came into it. 0:26:21.720 --> 0:26:25.520 This ship might have stopped Anthony Davis. But you know, 0:26:25.520 --> 0:26:27.560 you gotta thinking about Anthony Davis played with two years 0:26:27.560 --> 0:26:32.000 though right I thought he played. I'm thinking about somebody 0:26:32.040 --> 0:26:38.560 else freshman is that coming in and dominated? Zion dominated her? 0:26:39.080 --> 0:26:43.480 He did? That was both assisted. Nah, I didn't either. 0:26:43.480 --> 0:26:46.840 He shot. He shot every time he did, but twenty 0:26:46.880 --> 0:26:56.280 that's djoo get it? Why we do for it? I 0:26:56.280 --> 0:27:01.920 mean what we're talking about Pike nigga, he's supposed to bastball. 0:27:04.520 --> 0:27:06.760 You're right, though, bro, I just I don't really know 0:27:06.840 --> 0:27:09.440 what the disconnect is. I don't know if it is 0:27:09.800 --> 0:27:13.679 it because the nil M how much money you think 0:27:13.680 --> 0:27:15.960 you would have got coming out of high school, coming 0:27:16.359 --> 0:27:18.639 especially in the Hoak Hill. First of all, I want 0:27:18.800 --> 0:27:20.720 my parents are Christian, so I wouldn't even had no 0:27:20.800 --> 0:27:23.800 social media. Damn, you know what I'm saying. I probably 0:27:23.880 --> 0:27:27.439 still then get I don't know I have no idea. 0:27:27.520 --> 0:27:29.760 They probably would have had to. I probably would have 0:27:29.800 --> 0:27:32.600 had somebody running my Instagram. If my parents would have knew, 0:27:32.840 --> 0:27:35.119 I would have got a lot that much. I probably 0:27:35.160 --> 0:27:38.240 wouldn't have seen the Instagram. But as long as you 0:27:38.280 --> 0:27:40.600 see that check though, man, probably about like you said, 0:27:40.640 --> 0:27:44.359 a seven, yeah, I was three class and like y'all 0:27:44.359 --> 0:27:48.880 were so famous. Yea, I was famous. But I think 0:27:49.000 --> 0:27:51.120 Zion was the first one to crack the internet when 0:27:51.119 --> 0:27:53.480 it came to high school players being famous. Yea, yeah, 0:27:53.520 --> 0:27:56.280 because he had your followers. He said, he had the 0:27:56.280 --> 0:27:59.560 perfect marriage. He had the elite footage with the Elite 0:27:59.560 --> 0:28:01.800 game exactly. He was one of the few who had 0:28:01.880 --> 0:28:04.720 that crazy light. He was still record shit and when 0:28:04.720 --> 0:28:06.400 you've seen it, he was still doing it in real 0:28:06.440 --> 0:28:11.520 life easy, still doing it crazy. But y'all was like 0:28:11.600 --> 0:28:15.320 that though, Yeah, like the shit I seen you do, man, 0:28:15.600 --> 0:28:18.439 like they had internet like that, Man, we can't you 0:28:18.480 --> 0:28:26.240 can't even the highlight chase you you see it though, 0:28:26.320 --> 0:28:33.680 Like it's like exactly, we used to watch blurry right quality, 0:28:33.720 --> 0:28:39.360 so like you gotta see Okay mixtape, so blurry dog. 0:28:39.520 --> 0:28:43.320 I'm like, damn dog. But the shit y'all was doing 0:28:43.640 --> 0:28:45.360 if they would have had that on video like they 0:28:45.400 --> 0:28:49.680 do now. Yeah, man, I've seen one with Rondo caught one. 0:28:50.560 --> 0:28:53.040 He threw Rondo the lib he dunked it like they 0:28:53.200 --> 0:28:57.640 was well, was clowning. Okay, man, because Lou Williams shit 0:28:57.800 --> 0:29:03.520 is retarded. Georgia take yeah, the guy when he had 0:29:03.560 --> 0:29:08.200 against Manta Ellis, that was that was elude too. She 0:29:08.280 --> 0:29:11.040 would have had that on film. Man, man, come special. 0:29:11.320 --> 0:29:12.960 But you know what I'm saying, You do your thinking, Okay, 0:29:13.000 --> 0:29:14.600 obviously you know what I'm saying. It's time to start 0:29:14.640 --> 0:29:17.160 thinking about post high school. You know what I'm saying. 0:29:18.080 --> 0:29:20.040 You know it's it's a school in Indiana that you 0:29:20.040 --> 0:29:21.440 know what I'm saying. We thought you was going to see. 0:29:21.480 --> 0:29:23.800 You know what I'm saying. How did that go? You 0:29:23.800 --> 0:29:27.560 know what I'm saying, legendary? I used stories. That was 0:29:27.600 --> 0:29:33.360 the only school I visited. Damn uh uh. I think 0:29:33.400 --> 0:29:35.680 when that was. That was when I met Mike Davis. 0:29:36.960 --> 0:29:40.600 It was so like I was going to Georgia but 0:29:40.720 --> 0:29:44.480 with Jim Herritt. But then that thing happened with Cole 0:29:44.560 --> 0:29:53.120 when he when he told about the basketball, he was 0:29:53.160 --> 0:29:54.800 he was the one messing up. He was the one 0:29:54.880 --> 0:29:58.160 messing up at at school and and they was taking 0:29:58.160 --> 0:30:00.480 care of his mama's bills and a that stuff. And 0:30:00.480 --> 0:30:03.920 then and then you do that now now now now 0:30:04.560 --> 0:30:08.640 talk about Charleston before. He might have been the first 0:30:08.680 --> 0:30:14.400 one because he fucked up a lot. But I'm telling 0:30:14.400 --> 0:30:17.120 you who did He did brouh and he really he 0:30:17.200 --> 0:30:22.920 really fucked up the Georgia basketball everything ever done it. 0:30:23.040 --> 0:30:26.160 Look it's trash. Yeah, it's bad right now. It might 0:30:26.200 --> 0:30:28.400 be rebuilding hopefully with this new coach that we had, 0:30:28.440 --> 0:30:32.480 but who know, Like that's what I'm saying. But I 0:30:32.520 --> 0:30:35.920 was able to try to convince him to go there. Yeah, yeah, 0:30:35.920 --> 0:30:38.080 he was. Yeah, he was one of my one of 0:30:38.080 --> 0:30:40.880 my young kids. When I met him at the That's 0:30:40.920 --> 0:30:44.040 Hard at the top one hundred camp. You know, he 0:30:44.120 --> 0:30:45.520 was he was staying with me for like a couple 0:30:45.560 --> 0:30:49.120 of weeks, uh, senior in high school, that's all that's 0:30:49.640 --> 0:30:51.480 you know, I was mentoring for a little bit. And 0:30:51.520 --> 0:30:53.280 then you know I kind of threw that Georgia in 0:30:53.280 --> 0:30:55.640 his ear because he was committed to Florida State. Sorry 0:30:55.680 --> 0:30:59.040 Florida State fans. You know I was, you know, I 0:30:59.040 --> 0:31:01.760 wanted to be He was a trouble laser. You know 0:31:02.240 --> 0:31:04.920 when the Georgia was another one pick that's that's that's crazy. 0:31:05.040 --> 0:31:10.760 That's his man. So he's been he's been real, real one. Yeah, 0:31:10.840 --> 0:31:17.360 real man. I understood. Gotta be was crazy. I was 0:31:17.400 --> 0:31:19.200 thinking that because when I met you, all you talked 0:31:19.240 --> 0:31:24.080 about was Georgia, Georgia, football, Georgia, everything. And I'm like, hell, 0:31:24.240 --> 0:31:27.000 was he going to Indiana? Yeah? Because but then but then, 0:31:27.160 --> 0:31:29.120 you know, that's what happened. So I left it. I 0:31:29.200 --> 0:31:32.680 left it all open. So everybody started coming to my schools, 0:31:32.960 --> 0:31:36.400 I mean to my school, uh my junior year. Everybody, 0:31:36.480 --> 0:31:40.000 like all the head coaches from each school was coming. 0:31:40.200 --> 0:31:43.600 And then Mike Davis came, and I just you know 0:31:43.640 --> 0:31:45.280 what I'm saying. I was like, Okay, I'm rocking with 0:31:45.320 --> 0:31:49.520 this ar that nice bag. My dad was My dad 0:31:49.560 --> 0:31:51.560 was the bad was coming anyway. That's you know what 0:31:51.560 --> 0:31:54.520 I'm saying, So talk about it. I don't like my 0:31:54.600 --> 0:31:56.360 dad was just sitting like you can go to whatever 0:31:59.680 --> 0:32:01.959 I got recruited about. I know how they got all 0:32:02.000 --> 0:32:11.760 they get foosers shout to Cavin Simpson. No, but facts, 0:32:12.720 --> 0:32:15.480 see that's that's the only good thing about nil. You. 0:32:17.120 --> 0:32:19.760 I don't know that's the only good thing that but 0:32:19.760 --> 0:32:27.320 but but it was nothing like that. Brown paper bags 0:32:27.640 --> 0:32:29.800 have been nice too, because y'all, y'all would have had 0:32:29.960 --> 0:32:43.440 Robert BADJ, Ratliff, Bracy Right he was then who was 0:32:43.480 --> 0:32:47.720 the DJ White. I just find out recently on the 0:32:48.000 --> 0:32:50.160 Hands podcast that Bracey Right was supposed to go to 0:32:50.360 --> 0:32:52.880 Duke instead of JJ, like they was gonna they was 0:32:52.920 --> 0:32:54.760 recruiting him over like whoever committed first is gonna go. 0:32:54.840 --> 0:32:56.960 I thought she was crazy. I didn't know that. But yeah, 0:32:57.000 --> 0:32:59.440 had that squad, it was gonna be life. It was 0:32:59.480 --> 0:33:02.920 gonna change with you, bro. They needed that, see, and 0:33:02.920 --> 0:33:06.520 that's why I never I never fucked with Like I said, 0:33:06.520 --> 0:33:08.640 I've been following you for a minute though, but I 0:33:08.760 --> 0:33:13.720 never fucked fuck. Are you produe all that shit a school? 0:33:13.840 --> 0:33:16.160 I was like, damn, they about to get a nick 0:33:18.480 --> 0:33:21.680 because but my h but this this is how I 0:33:21.760 --> 0:33:26.280 went though. I called my daddy, was like January. Yeah, 0:33:26.800 --> 0:33:28.880 I remember this day like it was yesterday. I was called. 0:33:28.920 --> 0:33:30.920 I called my dad. I was super excited. I just 0:33:31.880 --> 0:33:36.400 uh past my act. So I'm calling with like super 0:33:36.400 --> 0:33:41.200 excitement Dad, man, I qualified, Man, I get to go 0:33:41.240 --> 0:33:43.800 to college. You know what I'm saying, like I'm excited, 0:33:43.840 --> 0:33:45.120 you know what I'm saying, Because I had I had 0:33:45.160 --> 0:33:49.160 took my final visits already and like November or something 0:33:49.160 --> 0:33:51.240 like it was, I had midnight madness. I had went 0:33:51.280 --> 0:33:53.520 there and we had all we was all there and 0:33:53.840 --> 0:33:57.560 Jeff Newton shout out to Jeff Newton and uh A. 0:33:57.720 --> 0:34:00.680 J Moyer was there, shout out him too. He was. 0:34:01.680 --> 0:34:05.200 They took campus, they took us around campus and stuff 0:34:05.240 --> 0:34:08.399 like that. And then I was like, man, I said. 0:34:08.440 --> 0:34:11.200 I was like, man, we uh said, said I'm going 0:34:11.280 --> 0:34:12.680 in the end. The next year, We're going in the end. 0:34:12.760 --> 0:34:16.200 He was like, man, congratulations son. You know. He was like, 0:34:16.239 --> 0:34:19.640 but you know you projected to go uh one through 0:34:19.680 --> 0:34:26.400 twenty he said, we ain't going in tell you like, 0:34:26.480 --> 0:34:28.480 so you know, get that get that mindset out of 0:34:28.480 --> 0:34:32.280 your mind, and you know, lift lift you some more weights, 0:34:32.520 --> 0:34:35.120 lift you most, lift you some more weights. Stop bullishing 0:34:35.200 --> 0:34:41.359 in the weight bro. He was like. So he was like, 0:34:41.400 --> 0:34:42.840 you know, he was like, you know, it's trying to 0:34:42.880 --> 0:34:45.239 be trying to be grown man. Shit. So I was like, 0:34:46.000 --> 0:34:50.359 I said, damn, I said, uh. I said, okay, he said, yeah, 0:34:50.360 --> 0:34:52.600 you see all them shoes you've been getting them, reboxing them, 0:34:52.960 --> 0:34:56.000 d the shoes and made them. Yeah. Yeah, they on 0:34:56.120 --> 0:34:58.160 the line. So shit, don't be bullised, don't suck it up, 0:34:58.520 --> 0:35:02.240 you know what I'm saying. So I was like, yeah, alright, alright, alright, 0:35:02.280 --> 0:35:04.239 you know what I'm saying. So I'm like like, damn, 0:35:04.360 --> 0:35:05.799 you know what I mean, because I'm like in my mind, 0:35:05.840 --> 0:35:07.680 I'm like, I get shit. I can't can't be no 0:35:07.880 --> 0:35:10.319 kid no more. I got a lock in. Yeah, So 0:35:10.360 --> 0:35:13.799 I was like, you know, I was, I was. I 0:35:13.840 --> 0:35:15.440 wanted to go you know what I'm saying. I did 0:35:15.560 --> 0:35:18.200 want it to go. Fuck, But you know, my ship, 0:35:18.360 --> 0:35:20.680 you know, we was, we didn't. It was unfortunate growing up. 0:35:20.680 --> 0:35:23.839 We didn't have no money. Man. Both my parents are 0:35:23.880 --> 0:35:31.040 in foreclosure, bankruptcy, you know what I'm saying. So all 0:35:31.080 --> 0:35:33.000 that was going on, it was nothing that they get 0:35:33.080 --> 0:35:34.919 they could get us to really get out the whole 0:35:35.000 --> 0:35:37.279 with I had to be the one, you know what 0:35:37.320 --> 0:35:40.160 I'm saying. So it's a blessing though, Yeah, absolutely, man. 0:35:40.320 --> 0:35:43.000 I mean, I thank God every day and we gonna 0:35:43.000 --> 0:35:44.360 talk about you know what, I'm see your draft process 0:35:44.400 --> 0:35:46.200 stuff is like I mean, for both of y'all know 0:35:46.200 --> 0:35:49.319 what I'm saying comfort situations to where you know you're young, 0:35:49.440 --> 0:35:52.160 you're rich, and your family looking at you like shit, 0:35:52.440 --> 0:35:54.640 what's up with it? That's a different type of pressure 0:35:54.640 --> 0:35:56.759 that people don't understand. Like people think, oh, young you 0:35:56.840 --> 0:35:59.080 this your life is great. Nah, I'm young, but I'm 0:35:59.080 --> 0:36:01.680 an opportunity. So like now everything you do is super 0:36:01.680 --> 0:36:04.080 empiphied and especially you know what I'm saying, coming straight 0:36:04.080 --> 0:36:05.600 out of high school, a lot of people don't do 0:36:05.680 --> 0:36:07.680 that shit. So you had to go through that process 0:36:07.760 --> 0:36:10.560 squeaky clean, Like how was your process? You know what 0:36:10.560 --> 0:36:12.799 I'm saying, because I know even with bro like they 0:36:12.880 --> 0:36:16.040 interview people from back crib crib like background checks at 0:36:16.080 --> 0:36:17.680 seeing what you did when you was eight years old, 0:36:17.719 --> 0:36:19.319 with you eight when you was in second grade, Like 0:36:19.880 --> 0:36:21.640 how was your process? Like all right, cool, it's a 0:36:21.640 --> 0:36:23.960 business now and now you gotta go work out against 0:36:23.960 --> 0:36:26.239 professionals every day, Like how is that mindset switching? How 0:36:26.320 --> 0:36:27.759 was your drive process? Because you know what I'm saying, 0:36:27.760 --> 0:36:28.680 you had a good you know what I'm saying, you 0:36:28.719 --> 0:36:31.600 went first round and you went to the crib, Like 0:36:31.960 --> 0:36:34.000 how was all that for you mentally prepared to be 0:36:34.280 --> 0:36:36.600 to go play at the crib. I mean a shout 0:36:36.640 --> 0:36:38.480 out to my parents. You know what I'm saying. I 0:36:38.520 --> 0:36:41.400 mean they're you know what i mean, Like now that 0:36:41.520 --> 0:36:43.680 you see and you're a part of the air. You 0:36:43.800 --> 0:36:47.239 circle now, so you see how these kids can get 0:36:46.880 --> 0:36:49.200 you can get messed up. It's their parents. Yeah, So 0:36:49.280 --> 0:36:50.920 you know, I don't care about it. I don't care 0:36:50.960 --> 0:36:53.719 about how talented the kid is. I recruit the parent, 0:36:54.160 --> 0:36:56.319 you know, I first see how talented the kid is. 0:36:56.719 --> 0:36:59.759 I see then I see the parent, and then I 0:37:00.000 --> 0:37:01.720 want to engage with the parenting. And I'm like, okay, 0:37:01.760 --> 0:37:04.440 I can I can rock with the parent. H And 0:37:04.480 --> 0:37:06.760 then you know, like most most people like to see 0:37:07.000 --> 0:37:10.439 uh stability, uh stability, you know what I'm saying. They'd 0:37:10.480 --> 0:37:13.520 like to see households with stable with with like you know, 0:37:13.640 --> 0:37:16.839 my man dad, you know what I'm saying. And and 0:37:16.840 --> 0:37:18.399 and if it's not like that, they like to see 0:37:18.440 --> 0:37:20.640 great co parenting, you know what I'm saying. So when 0:37:20.640 --> 0:37:22.640 it's not, when it's a little off balanced right there, 0:37:22.640 --> 0:37:25.400 then uh, that's where the disconnect's going to come in. 0:37:25.480 --> 0:37:28.360 When that that that that those are little things that 0:37:28.480 --> 0:37:31.400 that that why kids you know, don't make it. You 0:37:31.400 --> 0:37:33.799 know what I'm saying some some some people don't make it, 0:37:33.880 --> 0:37:37.479 you know. And uh, you know my dad taking talking 0:37:37.520 --> 0:37:40.399 to me every day about what what what was going 0:37:40.440 --> 0:37:42.319 on and what I need to get my mind ready for, 0:37:43.000 --> 0:37:45.080 uh coming into the league as a as a kid, 0:37:45.640 --> 0:37:49.040 uh playing against grown man you know man. So I 0:37:49.080 --> 0:37:51.880 mean you never know, as you never know what you're 0:37:51.920 --> 0:37:54.040 what you what you're gonna face until you get there, 0:37:54.080 --> 0:37:56.360 you know what I'm saying. Like shit, you you you 0:37:56.400 --> 0:38:00.080 know you're confident, you're ready. Uh, just like shit Like Jeff, 0:38:00.080 --> 0:38:03.520 it was like I remember yesterday we was in the 0:38:03.680 --> 0:38:06.080 playoff game or it was it might have been a 0:38:06.160 --> 0:38:09.480 year after the playoffs, and uh, this is when he 0:38:09.560 --> 0:38:12.160 was like taking a role up the starting point guard 0:38:12.840 --> 0:38:14.799 and he was cooking the ass. He was like he 0:38:14.840 --> 0:38:16.719 was cooking it in the first first half and he 0:38:16.760 --> 0:38:18.920 was talking shit like how mother fucks game fuck with me? 0:38:19.400 --> 0:38:21.400 Like you know what I'm saying. Like he like so 0:38:21.400 --> 0:38:24.319 they was like they look like who you know they 0:38:24.440 --> 0:38:26.400 look they're always looking at somebody like that when you 0:38:26.880 --> 0:38:28.439 because they wanted to check you. You You know what I'm saying. 0:38:28.440 --> 0:38:30.319 That was the Selton team that was the one that 0:38:30.400 --> 0:38:32.520 was gonna talk trash to you and look at you, 0:38:32.640 --> 0:38:35.160 look down on you. But it was what it was. 0:38:35.239 --> 0:38:36.520 You know, you had to pay how much to the 0:38:36.760 --> 0:38:39.319 to those Hall of famers. But you know, you gotta 0:38:39.360 --> 0:38:41.560 have a sense of you gotta have an attitude of 0:38:43.600 --> 0:38:46.479 a pride and confidence when you make it to that level, 0:38:46.560 --> 0:38:49.440 like because you know, once you get on that stage, 0:38:49.480 --> 0:38:52.480 and there was so many people that that had that 0:38:52.880 --> 0:38:55.359 that that played basketball. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. 0:38:55.480 --> 0:38:58.880 And gud and guy gave you the opportunity to be 0:38:58.920 --> 0:39:02.480 that challenging and then bless you with by selecting you 0:39:03.040 --> 0:39:04.880 as some of the few that that that could be 0:39:04.920 --> 0:39:07.360 able to put one of those jerseys on. And what's crazy, 0:39:07.360 --> 0:39:08.319 Like you said, you know what I'm saying, you've been 0:39:08.320 --> 0:39:10.879 a high school phenom. Nowadays, you see so many high 0:39:10.880 --> 0:39:13.719 school phenoms drink the cool like way before they ready. Yeah, 0:39:13.760 --> 0:39:15.600 and then that's what you're seeing. These kids. They're making 0:39:15.640 --> 0:39:18.120 money young, but they're fizzling out young. They ain't even 0:39:18.160 --> 0:39:20.120 getting a chance of getting the lead, getting rotation to 0:39:20.160 --> 0:39:22.160 realize all right, you know at some point you do 0:39:22.239 --> 0:39:25.240 how to play. Yeah, that's because that's because like you said, 0:39:26.080 --> 0:39:29.880 some of these kids are getting influenced in these these parents. 0:39:29.920 --> 0:39:34.080 It's like that, Uh, what's that? What's that? What you're 0:39:34.080 --> 0:39:37.080 talking about? Will? It's the little kids? What's that? What's 0:39:37.080 --> 0:39:41.720 the Garrett Cole like he started off young, the parents 0:39:41.760 --> 0:39:44.399 blew the bag, you know, he grown up and then 0:39:44.520 --> 0:39:46.520 having the money, you know what I'm saying. So that's 0:39:46.560 --> 0:39:49.160 like that's can of that? Can that can scary? Scary 0:39:49.200 --> 0:39:51.480 be the case for some of the some of these 0:39:51.520 --> 0:39:54.439 kids nowadays with these n IL deals and then they're 0:39:54.440 --> 0:39:58.160 getting these they're getting this money. And once you get 0:39:58.200 --> 0:40:00.560 the money, you get access to a lot of other things, 0:40:01.160 --> 0:40:03.200 you know what I'm saying about it. And you know that, 0:40:03.320 --> 0:40:05.919 right and you you we all know that, right. So 0:40:06.239 --> 0:40:09.200 once you get access to to to to to somebody, 0:40:09.239 --> 0:40:11.279 you know, everything opens up for you in your life. 0:40:11.280 --> 0:40:13.719 And then who's gonna tell you what to do when 0:40:13.800 --> 0:40:17.719 when when you're the one it's the bread winner. Fact, 0:40:17.800 --> 0:40:20.239 you have to kind of create, you have to kind 0:40:20.239 --> 0:40:23.600 of keep that that that mental blockage of of of 0:40:23.600 --> 0:40:25.880 having that tunnel vision on still wanting to make it 0:40:25.680 --> 0:40:29.359 to the NBA, because man, seven million is a lot 0:40:29.360 --> 0:40:32.920 of money, man, you know what I'm saying. So if 0:40:32.680 --> 0:40:36.040 a if a kid. I you know, I commended We 0:40:36.080 --> 0:40:39.160 haven't seen it yet, but I commend a kid that 0:40:39.280 --> 0:40:41.839 is that is making that type of money and and 0:40:41.960 --> 0:40:46.759 uh and still uh makes it to the NFL or NBA. Yeah, 0:40:46.840 --> 0:40:48.560 I want to see it. I want to see the event. 0:40:48.960 --> 0:40:51.680 Grab a hold of you. Once you got drafted, and 0:40:51.760 --> 0:40:54.000 you know what I'm saying, you now the bread winner 0:40:54.000 --> 0:40:56.319 of the family and shit. So it's kind of you 0:40:56.360 --> 0:41:03.240 can't take financial advice from no disrespect yea, rather seeking 0:41:03.360 --> 0:41:05.839 from somebody else who's you know what I mean, been 0:41:05.920 --> 0:41:08.240 through it, maybe a couple of years, was it? Anybody 0:41:08.280 --> 0:41:10.799 on the team. Once you got there, absolutely absolutely come here. 0:41:11.360 --> 0:41:27.879 Let me walker. That's the best to learn from. What 0:41:27.920 --> 0:41:31.080 I'm saying is I say it's the best to learn 0:41:31.120 --> 0:41:34.480 from because somebody that shiited on millions of mills of 0:41:34.480 --> 0:41:37.319 dollars and tell you what not to do, but tell 0:41:37.360 --> 0:41:38.840 you about hearing what I tell him what I do 0:41:40.280 --> 0:41:45.439 because because when I met yeah, he showed me ten 0:41:45.520 --> 0:41:48.719 thousand city. So I'm like, day, that's a lot of 0:41:48.760 --> 0:41:51.800 But I was trying to show them nigga some loves not. 0:41:52.000 --> 0:41:56.600 He a good dude though, Yeah, one of the best. Yeah, 0:41:56.840 --> 0:42:01.719 he he took me on this wing. It was funny man, 0:42:01.800 --> 0:42:05.319 because he never showed me the he The only place 0:42:05.320 --> 0:42:08.200 he took me to was was Magic City, but that 0:42:08.320 --> 0:42:12.000 was it. But it was like, uh, he never brought 0:42:12.040 --> 0:42:14.680 anything around me as far as like, no female never 0:42:14.719 --> 0:42:16.279 threw me because they knew I was young. You know 0:42:16.320 --> 0:42:18.440 what I'm saying. I was. It was people in the 0:42:18.560 --> 0:42:21.799 organization that was trying to introduce me to their daughters. Wow, 0:42:22.200 --> 0:42:23.719 you know what I'm saying. Because I was young. You 0:42:23.760 --> 0:42:25.640 know what I'm saying. I was a teenager. I was 0:42:25.680 --> 0:42:27.319 still you know what I'm saying. So they was really like, 0:42:27.440 --> 0:42:30.440 you know, you know, they were trying to turn turn 0:42:30.520 --> 0:42:38.840 them up, to turn them. But so you know, but 0:42:39.080 --> 0:42:42.120 I always kept everything professional when it came to to 0:42:42.239 --> 0:42:44.560 basketball because I ain't you know what it was. So 0:42:44.840 --> 0:42:48.120 it's so many other other ways to do things. You 0:42:48.160 --> 0:42:49.920 didn't have to. You don't have to, you know what 0:42:49.960 --> 0:42:52.160 I'm saying, Like, you didn't have to get that thirsty. 0:42:52.200 --> 0:42:53.920 You know what I'm saying. Who was the gym when 0:42:53.960 --> 0:42:56.239 you got drafted? It was Billy Knight. You want us 0:42:56.239 --> 0:42:59.640 something crazy? Billy Knight daughter went to our high school, 0:43:00.320 --> 0:43:05.640 listened with Indiana Damn probably gett out of the head 0:43:05.640 --> 0:43:14.760 bands and nikes. Yeah, so I'm pretty sure. Yeah, yeah, silly, 0:43:15.160 --> 0:43:24.240 yeah yeah, so generational wealth. Yeah, that's funny. But yeah, 0:43:24.280 --> 0:43:26.160 that was it. That was that was it. That was 0:43:26.200 --> 0:43:29.439 one of them. But he was the one who kind 0:43:29.440 --> 0:43:31.920 of changed the game of basketball too. He was the 0:43:31.920 --> 0:43:35.680 one that kept drafting six players, kept drafting six eight. 0:43:36.080 --> 0:43:39.800 But it's like, you know, he drafted, he drafted Josh Churches, 0:43:39.840 --> 0:43:44.560 then me, then he drafted, uh, Marvin Williams, then he 0:43:44.680 --> 0:43:48.080 drafted Sheldon Williams, then he drafted he drafted the shelldo 0:43:48.120 --> 0:43:51.040 Win was like six, but I was. But you know, 0:43:51.440 --> 0:43:54.040 you know, he didn't draft Chris Paul because he was 0:43:54.080 --> 0:43:56.759 like Chris Paul was, wasn't taught, wasn't bigger than his 0:43:56.800 --> 0:44:02.040 wife's real ship. So did But then he started taking though, 0:44:02.600 --> 0:44:05.000 and that's when it was on the line. So that's 0:44:05.040 --> 0:44:06.879 when he started trying to find people. He was trying 0:44:06.920 --> 0:44:10.879 to find I think he tried to he drafted a law. Yeah, 0:44:12.239 --> 0:44:17.360 he was just trying. He was trying. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, 0:44:17.520 --> 0:44:19.520 but it was too little, too late, because you like 0:44:19.600 --> 0:44:22.120 you're gonna drop, you drag the shielding and then you 0:44:22.160 --> 0:44:24.920 know what I'm saying he went went I think at that, 0:44:25.040 --> 0:44:27.640 but then they had kind of fiddle with him out 0:44:27.640 --> 0:44:31.200 and it was rick Son. Yeah. It was the right 0:44:31.239 --> 0:44:35.279 thing really though. He really had the vision for basketball today. Yeah, 0:44:35.280 --> 0:44:37.440 he do talk about it if he do. The teams 0:44:37.480 --> 0:44:40.879 that he has, he's a visionary. He's a visionary for sure, 0:44:41.120 --> 0:44:44.880 the teams that he's Yeah, because he was right, we 0:44:44.960 --> 0:44:47.719 switched everything like that's that's how he played defense. That's 0:44:47.719 --> 0:44:51.080 why they has That's why it was sucking that hated me. 0:44:51.400 --> 0:44:57.439 I was too short maybe like switch switching everything. Though 0:44:57.800 --> 0:45:00.279 I ain't hate him out, like ship, come on with it. Yeah, 0:45:00.320 --> 0:45:03.560 I used to big for a point guard. I was like, man, 0:45:03.719 --> 0:45:07.160 I was like, man, we can't get christ Paul. I 0:45:07.200 --> 0:45:09.719 love Marvin to death, but I'm like, man, I need 0:45:09.760 --> 0:45:11.879 a lot of us something, man, a little lot of two, 0:45:12.080 --> 0:45:14.680 you know, man, because I was I used to run 0:45:14.680 --> 0:45:20.000 the wing. Marvin would getting up on the break. No, 0:45:20.239 --> 0:45:22.279 you know, mar marble gon kid, you shoot do his 0:45:22.320 --> 0:45:24.440 little you know he gonna court get your little court 0:45:24.480 --> 0:45:28.040 mcgetty action. I need to get him a file, you 0:45:28.120 --> 0:45:30.399 know what I'm saying. So yeah, you know what I mean. 0:45:30.520 --> 0:45:34.520 So knock some shots down, but man, Chris, Chris Paul 0:45:34.840 --> 0:45:38.600 was ready. Man. That's a generational that's a generational player. 0:45:38.920 --> 0:45:44.880 He was ready to rondo. Yeah yeah, I was missing 0:45:45.239 --> 0:45:49.200 and I had to break players off with I would 0:45:49.200 --> 0:45:52.080 have turned your bag up to I'm telling you it 0:45:52.120 --> 0:45:54.280 would have because you would have made it so easy. 0:45:54.320 --> 0:45:58.000 It made it easy when you got baby thought but 0:45:58.040 --> 0:46:06.239 he was older. I had about defense. That was we that. 0:46:06.280 --> 0:46:09.520 He was like, hey man, goddamn baby, a little bit 0:46:10.320 --> 0:46:14.720 play a little bit of something. You know. We played cards, gambling, 0:46:15.120 --> 0:46:19.200 talking ship to each other like tint. The conversations you 0:46:19.280 --> 0:46:22.720 were like, man, damn baby, damn. You know I still 0:46:22.719 --> 0:46:28.560 talk today like like like baby baby, hey man, listen, man, 0:46:28.880 --> 0:46:30.759 they didn't bring me here to wild y'all with my 0:46:30.760 --> 0:46:33.920 motherfucking defense. They brought me here to shoot that thing. 0:46:35.160 --> 0:46:40.120 He said, Josh, get my back, Say Josh, you going 0:46:40.120 --> 0:46:44.440 around to get my back? Crying. He one of the 0:46:44.480 --> 0:46:50.080 best I ever knew. Man. He's leg leg legend nigga. 0:46:50.160 --> 0:46:54.560 Always big. Starting when he retired, he started getting big 0:46:55.480 --> 0:46:58.080 body push ups all day. He used to do the 0:46:58.160 --> 0:47:01.760 little twist perfect when they first came in from Marcial Swack, 0:47:02.760 --> 0:47:04.680 We love Mike Baby with him. I want to take 0:47:04.719 --> 0:47:07.279 it back though, definitely. So on your draft process, like 0:47:07.280 --> 0:47:09.960 how many teams did you work out for? Man? Probably 0:47:09.960 --> 0:47:13.480 like twelve, twelve thirteen. I was. I was trying to 0:47:13.520 --> 0:47:16.080 catch the fabe with everybody. Man. I was because I 0:47:16.120 --> 0:47:19.960 was younger and I just wanted to show I want 0:47:19.960 --> 0:47:21.920 to I want to work out with anybody. You know 0:47:21.960 --> 0:47:24.640 what I'm saying, anybody, I'll think that's in front of me, 0:47:24.880 --> 0:47:27.279 come on with it. But you know, lou All dang 0:47:27.640 --> 0:47:30.239 played the smart world. He he was already like a 0:47:30.280 --> 0:47:34.279 lot top eight or nine a lot. So he he 0:47:34.320 --> 0:47:36.200 was working out that dude. He was like, y'all can 0:47:36.200 --> 0:47:38.919 come catch me a dude like Tea. He was working 0:47:39.000 --> 0:47:41.160 up with nobody. Yeah, He's like, I'm not working out 0:47:41.160 --> 0:47:43.680 with nobody, y'all. Just then he only he only did 0:47:43.800 --> 0:47:48.520 one year a dude. Yeah, So he did that. And 0:47:48.520 --> 0:47:51.080 then I worked out with Josh Cheers maybe twice with 0:47:51.160 --> 0:47:54.160 the front. I wouldn't within it in Atlanta, and then DC. 0:47:54.320 --> 0:47:56.319 I caught him in DC. I worked out they had 0:47:56.320 --> 0:47:58.600 a better workout with him. DC didn't. He didn't want to. 0:47:58.719 --> 0:48:01.759 He didn't work out with me no more. And then 0:48:01.960 --> 0:48:06.560 uh I had him and Eagle Dollar in in DC, 0:48:06.960 --> 0:48:08.840 Iggy and then I was supposed to work out with 0:48:08.880 --> 0:48:13.040 Iggy in Philadelphia and he can't. They canceled, So I 0:48:13.080 --> 0:48:15.080 was I worked out with somebody else, like a second 0:48:15.120 --> 0:48:17.360 round draft pick. We know why they canceled because we 0:48:17.440 --> 0:48:18.920 know don't know who they took right there. Yeah, and 0:48:18.920 --> 0:48:22.200 then we uh yeah, then we worked out. Then we 0:48:22.239 --> 0:48:31.200 was with I think Clippers, bobcats R. Yeah, it was. 0:48:31.360 --> 0:48:34.880 It was. I worked out for a couple of teams. Yeah, Seattle, 0:48:35.080 --> 0:48:37.319 I wanted to seattle't work out, was get any guarantees, 0:48:37.440 --> 0:48:41.400 like uh, because I got a guarantee at seventeen And 0:48:41.440 --> 0:48:44.279 when they ain't called my name, I was sick. Didn't 0:48:44.280 --> 0:48:46.520 I was sick when they called my name was because 0:48:46.520 --> 0:48:48.960 I didn't get no guarantees. They was like they told me. 0:48:49.000 --> 0:48:52.960 They was like look, it was like shit. It was 0:48:53.000 --> 0:48:55.800 like between Josh Child just Low there was like Josh 0:48:55.800 --> 0:48:59.760 Shild just who they said, Josh Child, just Eagle Dollar. 0:49:00.080 --> 0:49:03.720 Me was gonna slip. So like I ain't. I hadn't 0:49:03.760 --> 0:49:07.960 worked out for like Miami them teams like past seventeen 0:49:08.040 --> 0:49:12.080 with the workout for him. Yeah. So so when I 0:49:12.120 --> 0:49:15.280 started seeing my like it was following the line. Boom 0:49:15.360 --> 0:49:18.360 the Picks was following the line. Then we called the 0:49:18.560 --> 0:49:21.520 Atlanta's like, now we ain't He's not what we're looking for. 0:49:21.560 --> 0:49:24.680 A sea So they picked Josh. Yeah. So I'm like, 0:49:24.840 --> 0:49:27.719 I'm thinking they gonna pick Eagle Dollar. Yeah. So when 0:49:27.719 --> 0:49:31.680 they picked Josh, I'm like the fuck. So I'm like, oh, man, 0:49:31.760 --> 0:49:34.400 so did my heart drop? Oh? I'm like, shit, it's me. 0:49:35.000 --> 0:49:36.759 I'm gonna beat the i'mna be the one. So I've 0:49:36.800 --> 0:49:39.200 been there, I've been there. I'm in the green room 0:49:39.239 --> 0:49:40.920 just sitting there, Joe. You know what I'm saying. You know, 0:49:41.040 --> 0:49:43.080 like you get seventeen, pick, it's a it's a long, 0:49:43.440 --> 0:49:46.120 it's a long. It's a long. Ways like you feel 0:49:46.160 --> 0:49:50.080 like you're there being for like four hours. Yeah. So 0:49:51.040 --> 0:49:55.560 I'm sitting in there and the seventeen come up. It's 0:49:55.600 --> 0:49:57.960 the Hawks. They say, they say they gonna pick me. 0:49:57.960 --> 0:49:59.640 I said, man, tell them, tell them. I don't want 0:49:59.640 --> 0:50:04.000 to go there because Miammi Miami was like Minay was like, nah, 0:50:04.040 --> 0:50:06.880 he's not going past this, He's not going past this number. 0:50:07.000 --> 0:50:09.120 We're picking him. You know what I'm saying, Like Miami 0:50:09.160 --> 0:50:12.200 Heat was saying this. It was eighteen. One of those. 0:50:12.280 --> 0:50:16.000 There was a nineteen I think nineteenth because I think 0:50:16.040 --> 0:50:20.280 New Orleans was eighteen, and they picked JR. Smith Okay 0:50:20.280 --> 0:50:24.719 Sow and I was like, I was like, uh. I 0:50:24.840 --> 0:50:28.120 was like, shit, tell no pickney, Tell no pickney because 0:50:28.120 --> 0:50:30.080 the money was saying at that point. I was like, 0:50:30.080 --> 0:50:32.799 telling no pickney. So they was like, man, they gonna 0:50:32.800 --> 0:50:35.799 pick your Josh. So if you see my if you 0:50:35.840 --> 0:50:38.000 see me, see my thing, I'm walking up there and 0:50:38.040 --> 0:50:39.759 don't find mad as hell. You know what I'm saying. 0:50:40.120 --> 0:50:43.279 I'm man, I ain't smiling nothing. I'm I'm out there. Man, 0:50:43.440 --> 0:50:47.280 I'm like, shake his hand, but will take the picture. 0:50:47.680 --> 0:50:50.800 I smiled the picture. But see you mom a nigga 0:50:50.880 --> 0:50:53.960 man nah, but it ain't like this nigga would have 0:50:54.000 --> 0:50:56.280 got drafted to the patients. He would have been jumping 0:50:56.320 --> 0:50:59.319 for fucking joy, right man. See I was. But then 0:50:59.360 --> 0:51:02.640 I had to I had to think about the the 0:51:02.680 --> 0:51:04.360 perks of it, because you got to think about it 0:51:04.400 --> 0:51:06.280 when you when you were growing up in the household, 0:51:07.760 --> 0:51:10.480 you gotta go to church three times, like you know 0:51:10.520 --> 0:51:12.759 what I'm saying. Like, you go to church every Sunday, 0:51:13.160 --> 0:51:14.920 you got a Bible study with you with your with 0:51:15.000 --> 0:51:18.680 your with your siblings and your mom and daddy. Then 0:51:18.800 --> 0:51:21.320 then your mama trying to trying to about the whoop 0:51:21.320 --> 0:51:23.279 you to go to choir. She's trying to get you 0:51:23.280 --> 0:51:25.040 to go to choir. Maria six six, I'm like, you 0:51:25.040 --> 0:51:28.560 gotta whoop me, MoMA? Ever be that thing with the 0:51:30.440 --> 0:51:36.520 six sixty six nine? Everybody, everybody, everybody but elbows. I 0:51:36.520 --> 0:51:40.799 gotta fight like I'm kiching the Holy Ghost. Stop playing 0:51:40.840 --> 0:51:43.080 with the lad I'm not playing with the little man 0:51:43.239 --> 0:51:46.439 they were playing. I would try to. I would try 0:51:46.440 --> 0:51:49.920 to see what it felt like. I ain't never feeling 0:51:50.040 --> 0:52:01.320 I have you. You know what followed off church like, 0:52:03.719 --> 0:52:08.680 oh here you go, drummer too. I think I felt 0:52:08.719 --> 0:52:14.680 it on the drums sitting I'm just thinking about you 0:52:14.719 --> 0:52:18.239 in church six now with the tambarine is crazy doing that. 0:52:18.360 --> 0:52:21.759 I'm the one sitting down laughing. Yeah, I'm the one laughing. 0:52:22.920 --> 0:52:25.719 That's hilarious. That's good. I always tell people as much 0:52:25.719 --> 0:52:28.080 of a heathen as I am today, talk about it, 0:52:28.320 --> 0:52:31.200 truck I am. I'm a true heath and my past. 0:52:31.600 --> 0:52:33.320 They try to teach me well, but I want to 0:52:33.400 --> 0:52:35.800 gainst the ground. I still love the Lord were still homeless. 0:52:35.880 --> 0:52:40.239 But I'm saying, Church, teach you structure, bro. It does it? 0:52:40.320 --> 0:52:43.520 Really does? I know that plays a lot into how 0:52:43.560 --> 0:52:48.239 you are. Yeah, facts, I mean that's funny, that's you 0:52:48.239 --> 0:52:49.440 know what I'm saying. You get it cracking in the 0:52:49.480 --> 0:52:51.640 Lanta first year, all start weekend. You know what I'm 0:52:51.640 --> 0:52:53.719 saying to your thing? How was that first experience? What 0:52:53.719 --> 0:52:55.640 I'm saying, we got to you say you all start 0:52:55.680 --> 0:52:56.840 to you know saying you was in the game. You 0:52:56.840 --> 0:52:58.040 know what I say, you did one of the hardest 0:52:58.080 --> 0:52:59.719 things to do in the dunk contest of everybody looking 0:52:59.760 --> 0:53:02.120 at you. How was that like, especially your first year 0:53:02.160 --> 0:53:04.919 in the league? Like all lives on use in the stage. Man, 0:53:06.760 --> 0:53:10.360 I was in h was in Denver. Shout out to Denver. 0:53:11.000 --> 0:53:12.640 It was a good it was. It was a good 0:53:13.320 --> 0:53:15.920 That was a good experience, man. Just overall. I was. 0:53:16.520 --> 0:53:19.840 I was nineteen, just turned nineteen. My birthday was in December, 0:53:19.920 --> 0:53:23.359 so boom, you got February right, February was all Star. 0:53:23.520 --> 0:53:28.160 So I just turned nineteen, and my my main thing 0:53:28.360 --> 0:53:30.440 was just don't fuck your dunks up, you know what 0:53:30.480 --> 0:53:33.640 I'm saying. Like I had a routine, I had four dunks. 0:53:34.239 --> 0:53:37.239 You know what I'm saying, I ain't have nothing after that. 0:53:36.320 --> 0:53:39.560 You know, I would have been doing some some bullshit 0:53:40.080 --> 0:53:41.719 if they asked me to go back up there for 0:53:41.800 --> 0:53:44.160 a time, So damn I had. I was like, I 0:53:44.200 --> 0:53:50.080 would do these four dunks. Uh the who was the 0:53:50.440 --> 0:53:53.680 strength and condition to coach Pete Rudula Vick and Wily 0:53:53.760 --> 0:53:55.600 Blaze at the time, it was the head training. They 0:53:55.600 --> 0:53:59.080 gave me the idea of the jersey which which which 0:53:59.120 --> 0:54:02.640 was a trendsetter. Kind of sick trying for for like 0:54:02.760 --> 0:54:04.960 years to come with people appearing how much to jersey 0:54:05.320 --> 0:54:14.040 people putting jerseys on taking dunks. But I made those dunks, 0:54:14.520 --> 0:54:18.640 thank god. Went Foe for Fold, a couple of guys 0:54:18.680 --> 0:54:20.800 that they had some really good dunks, they just couldn't 0:54:20.840 --> 0:54:23.080 fit it. Like Joe Smith had a really that's when 0:54:23.120 --> 0:54:24.840 he went behind the back of that was like a 0:54:24.880 --> 0:54:27.239 new dunk for the dunk contest. So he went and 0:54:27.360 --> 0:54:29.080 like so, but he didn't complete it like the first 0:54:29.080 --> 0:54:30.680 couple of times. So that kind of that kind of 0:54:30.680 --> 0:54:33.520 gave me. They gave me some room when I went 0:54:33.600 --> 0:54:36.440 so I just I was just a complete dunker with 0:54:36.480 --> 0:54:39.440 all my dunks. I flushed them all we won, and 0:54:39.480 --> 0:54:41.759 you know, I had had fun with some of some 0:54:41.840 --> 0:54:45.279 of my childhood childhood friends after that. It's hard, so 0:54:45.280 --> 0:54:48.400 I put you on the spot. Obviously you want a contest, Yeah, 0:54:48.480 --> 0:54:52.399 who a better dunker between exactly being Vince Carter Vince 0:54:52.480 --> 0:54:54.799 Carter for sure, not gonna Vince that easy. I'm gonna 0:54:54.840 --> 0:54:57.640 go with Vince because Zach is a one. He's a 0:54:57.760 --> 0:54:59.520 he only do for stuff on the free throw line. 0:54:59.520 --> 0:55:02.480 He like him and James White of the same dunkers. 0:55:02.560 --> 0:55:09.120 Damn great comparison James. As far as crazy flight, yes, 0:55:09.360 --> 0:55:14.239 but Vince Carter changed the game, man factual. He had 0:55:14.280 --> 0:55:18.600 the best dunk contest of all time. Ever, it's better 0:55:18.640 --> 0:55:24.480 than that. It's better than that first Airs act Lavin. Yeah. 0:55:26.200 --> 0:55:28.600 But the reason why it is because they gave it 0:55:28.640 --> 0:55:31.560 to the wrong person. They should have gave it to God. 0:55:32.239 --> 0:55:35.880 That was bullshit. He got cheated, like so like, yeah, 0:55:35.920 --> 0:55:39.759 like come on, that was it? Come on, bro, you 0:55:39.880 --> 0:55:42.880 want to know what? Yeah, like, they gave it to 0:55:42.920 --> 0:55:45.440 the wrong person. It was crazy. I can't believe he 0:55:45.440 --> 0:55:47.560 didn't win. He won that for show. I give him 0:55:47.600 --> 0:55:50.279 that every time. I'm like when he went, man, that 0:55:50.360 --> 0:55:52.399 was crazy. You know what I'm saying, Now, you don't 0:55:52.400 --> 0:55:53.759 say you got that out of the way. I don't know. 0:55:53.800 --> 0:55:55.680 That's still tough for me because exact Lavin shp like 0:55:55.719 --> 0:55:57.440 I under stay that one, like, but something shit was 0:55:57.480 --> 0:56:00.000 like damn Like, I think Vince obviously got the best dunk. 0:56:00.040 --> 0:56:02.200 Never the game dunk is never gonna be touched. But 0:56:02.239 --> 0:56:05.319 I just feel like that, No, I'm talking about that 0:56:05.719 --> 0:56:12.720 limpic joint Elite, the biggest nigg in the league outside 0:56:12.760 --> 0:56:18.600 of the ball with the ball that was crazy and 0:56:18.680 --> 0:56:20.640 you back here with it. You're looking down in the 0:56:20.719 --> 0:56:27.320 room you think it was John Marantz. One't like that. Paciers. 0:56:27.320 --> 0:56:29.600 Please get off the highlights. Y'all make it so tough. 0:56:29.880 --> 0:56:32.320 We're gonna top of everybody if you if you searching 0:56:32.360 --> 0:56:35.719 it right now, they are the top of it, the 0:56:35.760 --> 0:56:37.920 Pacers on every top of every highlights. I'm sick of it. 0:56:38.000 --> 0:56:41.040 Please give us something. We're tired of the ship joint 0:56:41.600 --> 0:56:46.160 different ain't nah, but any game dunk was crazy for sure. 0:56:46.600 --> 0:56:48.080 All right, see what I'm saying. We gotta talk about 0:56:48.120 --> 0:56:49.480 y'all link up. You know what I'm saying. Obviously you 0:56:49.520 --> 0:56:51.719 are vent Lena. You know they get this point guard 0:56:51.760 --> 0:56:53.960 out of white Forest. How was your first time meet 0:56:54.000 --> 0:56:55.680 and see? Like what was he y'all? Early on in 0:56:55.719 --> 0:56:57.640 the league and to see him, know I'm seeing transitioned 0:56:57.680 --> 0:57:00.759 up to being a solid player in the NBA. Man, 0:57:01.120 --> 0:57:06.440 real cheat, real quiet price still price, still frugal to 0:57:06.520 --> 0:57:12.960 this day. But he was real quiet, like just wanted 0:57:12.960 --> 0:57:17.080 to learn, you know what I'm saying. Observant Me and 0:57:17.120 --> 0:57:19.680 him used to always go in the road and get 0:57:19.720 --> 0:57:21.960 something to eat, go to the movies or something like that. 0:57:22.120 --> 0:57:24.280 Chop it up, and I try to give him. I 0:57:24.320 --> 0:57:25.960 try to give him as much knowledge as I could 0:57:26.040 --> 0:57:28.320 I could from my from my perspective of just being 0:57:28.320 --> 0:57:30.440 in the league, because I couldn't really tell him nothing 0:57:30.480 --> 0:57:34.600 from a point guard perspective, but just just life in 0:57:34.760 --> 0:57:37.160 general and everything going on. You know what I'm saying, 0:57:37.880 --> 0:57:40.360 You know, from that perspective, that's that's you know. We 0:57:40.480 --> 0:57:42.440 used to kick it like that. He used to hang 0:57:42.440 --> 0:57:46.760 out with me too. Yeah, Smooth was like the cool 0:57:47.160 --> 0:57:49.840 big brother type, like he'll pull you in like, hey, 0:57:50.080 --> 0:57:52.760 theybody gonna talk about all that shit, Come over here 0:57:52.800 --> 0:57:54.200 with me. Man, were about to go out have a 0:57:54.200 --> 0:57:57.080 good time, But like you gotta be serious though you 0:57:57.080 --> 0:57:59.040 can't get in trouble. You gotta play attention. You ain't 0:57:59.080 --> 0:58:01.000 gonna play your first year. You just gotta stay on 0:58:01.040 --> 0:58:03.840 the bench, stay focused, watch everything, and then your time 0:58:03.920 --> 0:58:06.600 gonna come. I wasn't trying to hear that ship. I'm 0:58:06.640 --> 0:58:09.720 on the bench, like baby, can't move no more. He 0:58:10.960 --> 0:58:17.000 giving the muscle moves. I'm like, yeah, yeah, sixty four. 0:58:17.600 --> 0:58:19.480 I'm like, maybe he came on no more. He like 0:58:19.880 --> 0:58:22.160 he's telling me, like, just calm down me, your time 0:58:22.280 --> 0:58:26.240 gonna come. I'm like, man, smooth man, I don't know. Man, 0:58:26.560 --> 0:58:28.360 I'm about to ask for a trade. I'm about ask 0:58:28.440 --> 0:58:34.280 for a trade, like man, nobody gonna trade for you. 0:58:34.440 --> 0:58:37.640 Shit Like bro, he was like, nobody gonna trade for you. 0:58:37.640 --> 0:58:41.200 Ain't playing. But he used to give it to me real. 0:58:41.240 --> 0:58:43.040 That's why I used to respect him. Then he like 0:58:43.040 --> 0:58:46.320 like he popcorn my car, my rookie year, talk about it. 0:58:46.520 --> 0:58:49.560 I wasn't. I told him he had a made back, 0:58:49.640 --> 0:58:51.760 maybe to color his car. The ship he was living 0:58:51.800 --> 0:58:53.600 like that, talk about it. I told him. I was like, 0:58:54.000 --> 0:59:00.240 I'm taking all your tires off. I mean, was to 0:59:00.960 --> 0:59:03.680 put him. He was about to call the police. Damn 0:59:03.720 --> 0:59:07.160 about the car. The police, I said I'll put your 0:59:07.160 --> 0:59:10.800 car on bricks. He was like, nigga, shut up. He 0:59:10.880 --> 0:59:13.960 gave me, He gave me, like five get detail. You 0:59:14.040 --> 0:59:16.640 better show up to the club tonight. And I was like, 0:59:17.280 --> 0:59:20.360 oh he pulled up. Yeah, yeah, he pulled over the dog. 0:59:21.240 --> 0:59:28.800 He shut some of the said shouted down with this nigga. 0:59:29.320 --> 0:59:31.400 We touched on this another episode we got here with 0:59:31.480 --> 0:59:32.920 since you here. You know what I'm saying, the infamous 0:59:32.960 --> 0:59:35.200 Krispy Kreme don't Nuts. You know what I'm saying. Oh, man, 0:59:35.400 --> 0:59:38.360 I heard You'll almost had COVID before COVID with his 0:59:38.760 --> 0:59:40.800 two weeks out don't nuts man. Oh yeah, man, that 0:59:40.920 --> 0:59:44.040 man try to get try to get creative on us. 0:59:44.200 --> 0:59:47.880 And see the funny thing about that whole thing, it 0:59:47.960 --> 0:59:50.120 was just a pass down tradition, you know what I'm saying, 0:59:50.160 --> 0:59:55.919 because uh see, they used to hey Josh, Josh, because 0:59:56.280 --> 0:59:58.840 Josh shut used to have the brain to uh a, man, 0:59:58.880 --> 1:00:02.120 I want I want to They wanted the newspaper, well 1:00:02.200 --> 1:00:06.120 Twine wanted the newspaper, and they wanted Krista Creek donnuts. 1:00:06.480 --> 1:00:08.240 So He'll tried to come in there with some duncan. 1:00:09.720 --> 1:00:11.440 He came in there. He came in there jump one 1:00:11.480 --> 1:00:14.200 time late. He was about to cry dout because he 1:00:14.280 --> 1:00:16.439 was a super cheap person too. They was like, man, 1:00:18.040 --> 1:00:20.760 I was like, man, I said, man, Josh fucked him. 1:00:20.760 --> 1:00:26.600 Don't get fine. You know what I'm saying, old want 1:00:26.680 --> 1:00:31.960 to fight, Man, I got your back. I ain't bringing 1:00:32.120 --> 1:00:42.560 for real. I ain't bringing for real Standford. He said, Shi, yeah, 1:00:42.960 --> 1:00:46.479 we are you doing it? Yeah? So uh he brought 1:00:46.520 --> 1:00:49.360 them things in there. Man, We taught so when he came, 1:00:50.080 --> 1:00:53.280 that was his that was his Uh, that was his job. 1:00:53.320 --> 1:00:55.640 I can't even tell you what my job was. I 1:00:55.680 --> 1:00:57.480 was so young, man, I was just a guy that 1:00:57.560 --> 1:01:01.840 had they called it nighttime night out. I'm saying I 1:01:01.920 --> 1:01:04.640 was just man, you know yeah, yeah, man, pull up 1:01:04.680 --> 1:01:06.160 and pull up, young feller. You know what I'm saying, 1:01:06.720 --> 1:01:13.920 Drop that off and get on out of here. So 1:01:15.400 --> 1:01:18.600 we just gave him the little Christma creame detailing man. 1:01:18.920 --> 1:01:21.200 He came with some doing us one time things was 1:01:21.400 --> 1:01:25.840 man white man tried Man, I'm like, man, what the 1:01:25.840 --> 1:01:29.880 hell with tee? That's what got his damn ship? And 1:01:30.040 --> 1:01:32.880 he playing around and sit the guards was funny, like 1:01:32.960 --> 1:01:36.200 fucking funny. You know what I'm saying. That he came 1:01:36.240 --> 1:01:38.720 in thirteen pick. You know what I'm saying. You can't 1:01:38.760 --> 1:01:40.360 tell him shit. You know what I'm saying. He feels 1:01:40.400 --> 1:01:43.000 like he about to be the next point guard up. 1:01:43.440 --> 1:01:46.680 He coming that thing, man, think he ll be big. 1:01:47.240 --> 1:01:49.320 Wasn't doing stuff we told him to do. But we 1:01:49.440 --> 1:01:52.120 came in. Boy, we fried him. We didn't worst than teeth. 1:01:52.240 --> 1:02:00.240 That might have this mental too, that might have everyone dropped. Man, 1:02:00.320 --> 1:02:05.760 these nis was torrial. We were wed one time. Thing 1:02:06.600 --> 1:02:08.920 you remember y'all maybe were that costume on the plane. 1:02:09.280 --> 1:02:18.280 They did do that though he came with It was 1:02:18.280 --> 1:02:26.800 a bumble walking up and down leaving Man Cleveland Bruce 1:02:27.160 --> 1:02:35.760 Bruce Lee Bruce Lee body with the young fella was real, 1:02:36.040 --> 1:02:43.280 I said, young fellas. Yeah, it was like those like 1:02:44.000 --> 1:02:46.320 teams take that for granted. Man, these I don't know 1:02:46.400 --> 1:02:49.400 who made it where vets aren't on these teams and 1:02:49.440 --> 1:02:51.880 they making these young guys figure it out. Man, it's 1:02:51.920 --> 1:02:54.840 it's it's it's it's gonna be catastrophic to their lives. 1:02:55.520 --> 1:02:59.520 And it's seriously, man, seriously like to their lives because 1:03:00.040 --> 1:03:03.640 and to the team's lines. Because you gotta understand all like, look, 1:03:04.040 --> 1:03:06.200 you gotta you gotta, you gotta you gotta vet on 1:03:06.240 --> 1:03:09.160 the team, maybe twelve thirteen years in the league, maybe seven. 1:03:09.680 --> 1:03:11.720 He don't fucked up, man, He don't sucked up a 1:03:11.800 --> 1:03:14.200 bag before. You don't got it back, Yeah, he doesn't, 1:03:14.240 --> 1:03:16.000 got he don't, he don't. He don't dealt with the 1:03:16.040 --> 1:03:18.840 wrong females. He doesn't did this. And then the third 1:03:18.840 --> 1:03:21.160 he might have might have impregnated the wrong females. Now 1:03:21.200 --> 1:03:23.040 you gotta get hit over the head with a child supports. 1:03:23.120 --> 1:03:25.560 So yeah, these are the these are these are these 1:03:25.600 --> 1:03:27.760 are the stories, and these are the things that these 1:03:28.080 --> 1:03:31.560 young kids need, these young players need to have man 1:03:31.880 --> 1:03:34.000 in order in order for them to get get through 1:03:34.040 --> 1:03:36.240 their careers in their lives, because this is a real 1:03:36.320 --> 1:03:39.400 deal thing that they're not gonna see. And everybody is 1:03:39.440 --> 1:03:42.600 at everybody is a professional at the at the level 1:03:42.640 --> 1:03:46.240 of what they're saying at whether it's these females, you 1:03:46.320 --> 1:03:48.640 know what I'm saying, these these these blue collar guys 1:03:48.640 --> 1:03:51.320 that's trying to trying to sell you dreams about you 1:03:51.360 --> 1:03:54.040 can make you can make uh if you get me 1:03:54.080 --> 1:03:56.920 two million, you can make one hundred million in seven years, 1:03:57.280 --> 1:03:59.960 shit like that, scam artists. And then you got you, 1:03:59.880 --> 1:04:02.880 you got these you got these car dealerships. That's that's 1:04:02.920 --> 1:04:05.320 in fluctuating the cars because they know you're paying extra 1:04:05.360 --> 1:04:08.680 twenty over the tab or extra fifty. You're not knowing, 1:04:09.440 --> 1:04:10.800 you know what I'm saying, because you really want a 1:04:10.840 --> 1:04:12.680 car and you don't know all these things about the 1:04:12.800 --> 1:04:15.520 jury and all this stuff about how this think, how 1:04:15.880 --> 1:04:19.000 that stuff goes. So these are things that these kids 1:04:19.120 --> 1:04:21.120 need to need to know, you know what I'm saying. 1:04:21.120 --> 1:04:24.400 It ain't It ain't that the veteran is on the 1:04:24.480 --> 1:04:28.919 bench still of money like a Udonis haslem. He seriously though, 1:04:29.000 --> 1:04:32.280 seriously though, he's a guy that's he's a guy that's 1:04:32.280 --> 1:04:36.760 that's helping with emotional distress from teammates. And he's a 1:04:36.800 --> 1:04:38.920 therapist probably like he's a he's a coach on the 1:04:39.080 --> 1:04:42.560 on the court. He's probably a big brother. And you 1:04:42.560 --> 1:04:44.320 know when they when they get out of the locker room, 1:04:44.800 --> 1:04:48.640 like these these guys like that's why that that's why 1:04:48.680 --> 1:04:50.640 they look kind of more unified. I know, they got 1:04:50.640 --> 1:04:53.040 a structure and they gotta they got a certain type 1:04:53.040 --> 1:04:55.120 of where they go about it. They got a culture. 1:04:55.200 --> 1:04:59.240 But teams need at least one you know what I'm saying, 1:04:59.320 --> 1:05:01.600 at least one my life being up my team. I 1:05:01.640 --> 1:05:06.400 was the only rookie. Everybody was damn nurse five effects. 1:05:06.400 --> 1:05:09.560 So they were showing me the ropes, like he taught 1:05:09.560 --> 1:05:12.520 me how to move. Him and Joe they were similar, 1:05:12.640 --> 1:05:17.439 but Joe Johnson, so Joe moved real quiet. Yeah, see 1:05:17.480 --> 1:05:21.040 Joe was funny. Though Joe moved like I ain't sucking 1:05:21.120 --> 1:05:24.200 none of y'all. Yeah, Which it was cool though, like 1:05:24.560 --> 1:05:26.600 because it was like, but he was fucking with us. 1:05:26.840 --> 1:05:29.040 But it was like, man, I'm just gonna like I'm 1:05:29.040 --> 1:05:32.600 gonna kick with my I'm gonna kick with my homeboys. 1:05:32.680 --> 1:05:35.880 Like yeah, like like like he only did he did 1:05:35.880 --> 1:05:38.200 it one time and I might no sensitive dude. I 1:05:38.320 --> 1:05:40.880 just take it for what it is. Like, I'm like, man, 1:05:40.880 --> 1:05:42.360 what we're doing to night? Man, we're going out, We're 1:05:42.360 --> 1:05:44.760 gonna go to compound. I'm like, okay, cool, let's go 1:05:47.360 --> 1:05:50.480 shit game over with him calling Niggatt answered you know 1:05:50.480 --> 1:05:53.840 what I'm saying, did ye do that? He don't don't ask, 1:05:55.000 --> 1:05:59.080 don't asker. So I'm like, I'm like, damn, Nigga, did answer. 1:06:00.520 --> 1:06:12.600 I pull up to the club anyway, I'm like, you 1:06:12.760 --> 1:06:20.160 just annoy me. You know you didn't play it off 1:06:20.160 --> 1:06:22.439 and shit. So I'm like, man, I ain't calling his ass. 1:06:22.720 --> 1:06:25.360 I just see his ass there he but no, I'm 1:06:25.440 --> 1:06:27.200 like if I said, you go, and he like, yeah, 1:06:27.240 --> 1:06:29.280 I just get my own station next to him. And 1:06:29.280 --> 1:06:34.760 then I was going there, yeah, he getting free the 1:06:34.800 --> 1:06:40.680 benefits going to night, I'm going to But they taught 1:06:40.680 --> 1:06:43.680 me how to like move because smooth pep. He bring 1:06:43.720 --> 1:06:46.760 his people. Yeah, you have his sisters with him. Yeah, 1:06:46.840 --> 1:06:50.560 he'll have a good time and he'll do it right, 1:06:50.720 --> 1:06:53.160 like he'll make everybody feel comfortable. Like if I'm with 1:06:53.240 --> 1:06:57.280 my home boys, man, they're they're good. Come on, everybody 1:06:57.280 --> 1:07:00.000 feel comfortable. I'm like, damn, when I get some money, 1:07:00.040 --> 1:07:03.560 I'll make sure everybody comfortable. So I learned that from him. 1:07:03.600 --> 1:07:05.720 And then Joe's saying, way he brings all his people, 1:07:05.800 --> 1:07:08.880 the whole Arkansas with him. But I'm like, damn, just 1:07:08.920 --> 1:07:11.640 do that too, But they all they ain't o D 1:07:12.080 --> 1:07:14.160 That's what I respected. But I remember he told me 1:07:14.160 --> 1:07:15.720 not to be in his but he was like, yo, 1:07:15.760 --> 1:07:18.240 I got a budget, And I was like, you got 1:07:18.240 --> 1:07:21.480 a budget, and at that time, I ain't. I ain't 1:07:21.480 --> 1:07:23.560 had no I had a budget, but my budget was 1:07:23.920 --> 1:07:26.320 very low and I'm looking at him like you said 1:07:26.360 --> 1:07:28.200 that was the things that you learned from learn from 1:07:28.200 --> 1:07:30.600 my ojez, you know, yeah. And I'm like, I'm not 1:07:30.720 --> 1:07:32.439 gonna be on thirty for thirty you know what I'm saying. 1:07:32.440 --> 1:07:35.320 That's real and that's just you know, that's just reality 1:07:35.360 --> 1:07:37.640 of it. I'm not feeling I'm like, man, I'll be damn. 1:07:37.720 --> 1:07:39.720 You know what I'm saying. If if they blessed me 1:07:39.800 --> 1:07:42.240 with all this and I do that, I'm not doing that, 1:07:42.320 --> 1:07:44.800 you know what I mean. You told me you had 1:07:44.800 --> 1:07:46.680 a budget. I'm like, damn, you got a budget. It 1:07:46.720 --> 1:07:49.560 was I was like, I can go out because I 1:07:49.560 --> 1:07:52.160 got a budget. This is in my budget. I'm like, shit, 1:07:52.240 --> 1:07:53.760 I gotta get a budget so I can go out. 1:07:54.280 --> 1:07:57.160 You know. I mean, I'm taking because the league always 1:07:57.200 --> 1:08:02.880 painted you to be just like O C. Yeah, facts like, 1:08:03.120 --> 1:08:07.000 always confrontational, so you would see basically how they was 1:08:07.040 --> 1:08:09.600 paying you. Man, Josh ain't gonna have shit in the 1:08:09.640 --> 1:08:11.240 next couple of years. You're gonna be out of the 1:08:11.320 --> 1:08:15.840 league that whole time, but playing you're sticking to it. 1:08:15.880 --> 1:08:18.240 That's why I respect you, bro, because I know you 1:08:18.520 --> 1:08:21.080 heard all that shit going on, all that smut they 1:08:21.120 --> 1:08:23.599 was putting on your name, yet you were still pushing 1:08:23.640 --> 1:08:26.360 through that shit. It's just I mean, I got into 1:08:26.360 --> 1:08:29.360 it with some coaches that had a lot of power. Yeah, 1:08:29.439 --> 1:08:31.800 you know what I'm saying. So when you do that 1:08:32.640 --> 1:08:34.880 and you have a couple of disagreements, you know what 1:08:34.880 --> 1:08:39.160 I'm saying, and you're but you're you're alpha male, they 1:08:39.240 --> 1:08:42.840 might get fearful and be like, oh, you're uncoachable, you 1:08:42.920 --> 1:08:44.760 know what I'm saying. But you're a great locker room guy. 1:08:44.800 --> 1:08:47.240 You're a great teammate, you know what I'm saying. Like, 1:08:47.880 --> 1:08:50.120 but you have these a couple of different spats with 1:08:50.200 --> 1:08:52.840 coaches like like I say, Mike Woodson, you know what 1:08:52.880 --> 1:08:55.519 I'm saying, Like the first coach you know, Indian of 1:08:55.520 --> 1:08:59.920 the coach right now and with the reason why we 1:09:00.080 --> 1:09:02.080 used to get into us because I had a father 1:09:02.120 --> 1:09:04.439 growing up, you know what I'm saying. So I'm eighteen 1:09:04.560 --> 1:09:06.840 in the league and I got veterans that's helping me 1:09:07.439 --> 1:09:10.400 maneuver through my my life and watching and I'm I'm 1:09:10.400 --> 1:09:12.080 I'm watching how they moving this. Then the third and 1:09:12.120 --> 1:09:13.559 then I got a coach that's trying to talk to 1:09:13.560 --> 1:09:16.200 me like he's my dad. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. 1:09:16.240 --> 1:09:19.360 So I'm like, man, coach me, don't talk to me 1:09:19.439 --> 1:09:20.960 like you know what I'm saying. So I see how 1:09:21.000 --> 1:09:23.519 he's talking to everybody else. He just going in on me. 1:09:24.120 --> 1:09:26.559 So I'm like, brut like start talking to me like that. 1:09:26.600 --> 1:09:29.160 But you know what I'm saying. Like, now I got like, brahma, 1:09:29.240 --> 1:09:30.680 grown man, start talking to me like that. And I 1:09:30.760 --> 1:09:33.320 had a daughter. I start then when I had a daughter, 1:09:33.360 --> 1:09:36.040 I started becoming feeling like more of a man, you 1:09:36.080 --> 1:09:38.439 know what I'm saying. And and now I'm like, bro, 1:09:38.640 --> 1:09:41.240 it's a certain way you gotta approach the situation. Because 1:09:41.280 --> 1:09:46.040 I started having success and I started seeing the importance 1:09:46.080 --> 1:09:49.519 of the team, then what I was what I started 1:09:49.560 --> 1:09:52.120 becoming as far as like for the team, you know 1:09:52.160 --> 1:09:55.080 what I'm saying, Like, I'm like man, like I just 1:09:55.200 --> 1:09:57.160 was like man, used to have a little back and 1:09:57.200 --> 1:09:58.800 forth because I'm like, bro, you can't talk to me 1:09:58.840 --> 1:10:00.519 like that. And no, mo brou like talking to me 1:10:00.560 --> 1:10:03.439 like that because I'm I'm gonna go hard for you regardless, Like, 1:10:03.520 --> 1:10:06.759 but don't use me in front of in front of everybody. 1:10:06.920 --> 1:10:08.960 Is like you're gonna be with my whooping boy, you 1:10:09.040 --> 1:10:10.880 know what I'm saying, like I'm not gonna do I'm 1:10:10.880 --> 1:10:13.559 not gonna I'm not. I wasn't. I wasn't. It wasn't 1:10:13.560 --> 1:10:16.000 about being sensitive. It was just like I'm not getting 1:10:16.000 --> 1:10:17.280 you're not gonna talk to me like that, you know 1:10:17.280 --> 1:10:18.840 what I'm saying, Like, just tell me what you want 1:10:18.840 --> 1:10:21.200 me to do. You know what I'm saying. You you 1:10:21.200 --> 1:10:23.479 you cuss at me, but tell me what you want 1:10:23.479 --> 1:10:25.560 me to do, Like, don't be cussing at me for 1:10:25.640 --> 1:10:27.519 some mind fuck type shit. You know what I'm saying, 1:10:27.560 --> 1:10:30.160 Like you're trying to fuck with my confidence and stuff 1:10:30.200 --> 1:10:32.720 like that, like don't don't do don't do that. So 1:10:32.760 --> 1:10:36.759 that that was the only kind of I think those 1:10:36.840 --> 1:10:40.000 kind of incidents because I never had any instance with 1:10:40.040 --> 1:10:42.280 my teammates as far as like be about to fight 1:10:42.439 --> 1:10:44.439 him or anything at all the time I got there, 1:10:44.720 --> 1:10:47.040 they had like a love hate relationship like Wood he 1:10:47.160 --> 1:10:49.640 loved this nigga, but he hated this nigga, and he 1:10:49.800 --> 1:10:52.519 like like I was like, why they why they do that? 1:10:52.880 --> 1:10:57.679 Like you know what, I'm like six years and I'm like, man, 1:10:57.720 --> 1:10:59.840 I don't give me the fuck. You know what I'm saying. 1:11:00.200 --> 1:11:03.200 I was just like, man, but you know, when you're young, 1:11:04.439 --> 1:11:07.080 you're younger, you don't you don't think about things. That's 1:11:07.240 --> 1:11:08.680 like that, you know what I'm saying, because you know 1:11:08.720 --> 1:11:12.800 what I'm saying, Like you're selfish. You know what I'm saying, 1:11:12.880 --> 1:11:15.960 because you're you're you're selfish because you're young, yourselfish, You 1:11:16.000 --> 1:11:17.920 got your own you got you got your money. So 1:11:18.000 --> 1:11:20.800 now you're becoming a man, and you know what I'm saying, 1:11:20.840 --> 1:11:23.640 You're starting to get get the things. You know what 1:11:23.640 --> 1:11:25.400 I'm saying, You're starting to deal with deal with certain 1:11:25.560 --> 1:11:28.479 certain females. You know what I'm saying, right, and you 1:11:28.520 --> 1:11:30.280 know you're spelling yourself a little bit. So it's like 1:11:31.000 --> 1:11:33.080 you're becoming your own man, you know what I'm saying. 1:11:33.120 --> 1:11:37.719 So it's like it's like however you want to handle 1:11:37.720 --> 1:11:39.040 it is how you gonna handle it, you know what 1:11:39.080 --> 1:11:41.840 I'm saying. So you know, some some of those some 1:11:41.920 --> 1:11:43.680 of those things, I wish I had a little bit 1:11:43.680 --> 1:11:46.920 more better temper about it, but I couldn't control that 1:11:46.960 --> 1:11:48.920 ship at that at that age. You know what I'm saying, 1:11:49.000 --> 1:11:51.320 Like I couldn't do it. And what's real is like 1:11:52.040 --> 1:11:53.960 I do media and stuff and it's so crazy, like 1:11:54.000 --> 1:11:55.760 being in like NBA practices and stuff, and like, you 1:11:55.800 --> 1:11:57.200 know what I'm saying, growing up, you hear about all 1:11:57.280 --> 1:11:59.680 altercations of people missed stuff, and then you're going to 1:11:59.680 --> 1:12:04.040 practice you'd be like, damn an asshole. Like it's like, 1:12:04.320 --> 1:12:05.760 you know what I'm saying, Like you can't talk to 1:12:05.800 --> 1:12:07.760 growing as men like this, and you'd be seeing it like, 1:12:07.800 --> 1:12:09.800 oh no, they had issues. Nah, he just don't know 1:12:09.800 --> 1:12:12.559 how to relax. And then you start seeing the business 1:12:12.600 --> 1:12:15.080 to basketball, and I start seeing it when I start, 1:12:15.120 --> 1:12:16.599 you know what I'm saying, getting the practices and being 1:12:16.600 --> 1:12:18.840 around teams and stuff, and then you're getting to see 1:12:18.920 --> 1:12:22.040 how players act going into free agency. So for you 1:12:22.120 --> 1:12:23.759 know what I'm saying, you're going through the term on Atlanta. 1:12:24.040 --> 1:12:26.280 It's all right, it's bad season time, I ain't playing 1:12:26.280 --> 1:12:28.640 with y'all. Who got this bad? How did you approach that? 1:12:28.680 --> 1:12:30.120 You know what I'm saying. End up going to Detroit? 1:12:30.600 --> 1:12:32.320 Like was there another team who could have had you 1:12:32.360 --> 1:12:34.280 by chance? Or dude was like, who got the bag 1:12:34.280 --> 1:12:36.960 from me? That's what I'm well, I'm not even seeing 1:12:36.960 --> 1:12:39.280 a lot to you. It was like like he said, 1:12:40.920 --> 1:12:43.519 don't disrecredit his bad he got a couple backs. You 1:12:43.520 --> 1:12:45.479 gotta talk about the first back. I'm talking about first 1:12:48.960 --> 1:12:51.360 back from Atlanta. Now I'm talking the first time leaving 1:12:51.360 --> 1:13:01.800 the team though you shot the man. Stupid something that 1:13:02.720 --> 1:13:07.880 I got had that ship. Talk about coming on your 1:13:08.920 --> 1:13:15.479 having wars, I just gonna look like, damn Jesus shit, 1:13:15.520 --> 1:13:19.000 I'm like, I get Someboddy boy. I'm gonna turn this 1:13:19.000 --> 1:13:23.240 motherfucker up. That was just backing the cat bro what 1:13:23.080 --> 1:13:25.000 it was not big then, No, I had my first 1:13:25.000 --> 1:13:26.640 car was a hell Cat. They already had him. I 1:13:26.720 --> 1:13:29.559 pulled up and I got on here. The whole team 1:13:29.600 --> 1:13:33.240 had him. So was that did you had him? So 1:13:33.240 --> 1:13:35.760 you always had a budget all the way through the 1:13:35.760 --> 1:13:39.800 real budget, Joe. I was never trying to compete. I'm saying, 1:13:39.800 --> 1:13:44.760 they just had bad. We got that ship and I 1:13:44.800 --> 1:13:48.679 was like, man, that's the one franchise and they gave 1:13:48.720 --> 1:13:52.360 me one twenty. I said, I can't nobody to touch him. 1:13:53.280 --> 1:13:56.679 That was like that's what you getting them type of numbers? 1:13:56.680 --> 1:13:59.000 That was. That was that was bag talk, you know 1:13:59.000 --> 1:14:02.680 what I'm saying. So damn it was from Atlanta, So 1:14:02.760 --> 1:14:08.120 you know he had that Atlanta like the Cote. It 1:14:08.120 --> 1:14:11.400 it was like that like Atlanta, and I wanted to 1:14:11.439 --> 1:14:14.760 like you know he y'all know he humble right now, 1:14:15.040 --> 1:14:17.280 but he's smooth. So he would go to the game 1:14:18.080 --> 1:14:21.160 and you see ta like smooth. What I'm like, damn 1:14:21.200 --> 1:14:27.479 he know tip you there, you'd be another person. So 1:14:27.800 --> 1:14:31.719 but like everybody knew smooth everybody, but they're already embracing 1:14:31.760 --> 1:14:35.000 you before the league. Nah, not really because they didn't 1:14:35.040 --> 1:14:36.479 know about me, you know what I'm saying, Like I 1:14:36.640 --> 1:14:40.360 was kind of like you know, I was, I was young. 1:14:40.520 --> 1:14:42.559 People aren't going to like if you was a high 1:14:42.560 --> 1:14:45.120 school fan, you was going to those games. But but 1:14:45.360 --> 1:14:48.880 if if if you wasn't then or you wasn't into 1:14:48.960 --> 1:14:52.040 like basketball, you know, like as far as like nationally 1:14:52.120 --> 1:14:54.280 ranked players and stuff like that for high school. Nah, 1:14:54.840 --> 1:14:57.000 like not like like like you said, like, it wasn't 1:14:57.000 --> 1:14:59.200 no I g So yeah, it wasn't. How they can 1:14:59.240 --> 1:15:02.439 resonate with the the kids now, Like how the rappers 1:15:02.479 --> 1:15:05.439 were seeing Zion Williams and they said, what two chains 1:15:05.479 --> 1:15:08.719 went to that girls game out there in California? Yea 1:15:08.800 --> 1:15:13.559 ju Julia? So uh so they just saw you like shit, 1:15:13.680 --> 1:15:18.280 he wanted us. Yeah, but you know then ilay years 1:15:18.640 --> 1:15:21.840 so when when we when we started playing up in 1:15:21.880 --> 1:15:24.320 the playoffs, we made the playoffs, that's when I started 1:15:24.320 --> 1:15:30.040 getting recognition and and man, Danny Ferry Dog, it was 1:15:30.080 --> 1:15:33.280 like nine years bro, and it was it Uh comes 1:15:33.280 --> 1:15:36.360 to when you said about like hearing all the chattering stuff, 1:15:36.360 --> 1:15:38.360 and I heard it, and I was I was getting 1:15:38.400 --> 1:15:40.640 mentally fatigued on that shit. I ain't saying a lot 1:15:40.680 --> 1:15:42.320 to you. And I was like, man, I gotta I 1:15:42.320 --> 1:15:44.559 want to fresh start. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like, 1:15:44.600 --> 1:15:46.160 I want to fresh start. I want to try to 1:15:46.160 --> 1:15:51.040 shake this whatever, whatever kind of narrative they got on me, 1:15:51.280 --> 1:15:53.400 however they feel about me. I want to I want 1:15:53.400 --> 1:15:56.360 to break that, you know what I'm saying. So we 1:15:56.400 --> 1:15:58.599 had to talk. He was like, man, Danny was like, man, 1:15:58.680 --> 1:16:00.639 he just please give me one more. You can just wait, 1:16:01.400 --> 1:16:03.719 because he's like he didn't tell me he was fucking 1:16:03.720 --> 1:16:07.080 getting budded. I would have just said I was gonna wait. 1:16:08.520 --> 1:16:10.760 That's what I'm saying. Also, he was like, man, just 1:16:10.840 --> 1:16:13.320 can you just sitting wait? Please? Can just please just 1:16:13.360 --> 1:16:15.640 give me one more? Like just keep just I said, no, 1:16:15.960 --> 1:16:18.880 I'm done, Damn, Like I'm done, I'm ready. I like, 1:16:18.960 --> 1:16:21.280 So he tried to trade me and uh, he tried 1:16:21.320 --> 1:16:23.320 to trade me for somebody in Milwaukee, but it didn't 1:16:23.320 --> 1:16:27.840 it didn't, it didn't go through. And then after that, 1:16:27.920 --> 1:16:32.479 I just I went to I went to Detroit. I 1:16:32.520 --> 1:16:35.960 signed with Detroit after that. But I should have stayed though, 1:16:35.960 --> 1:16:38.519 because I didn't know if Bud was that good, Like 1:16:38.560 --> 1:16:40.479 if you would have told me, like, look, brou I'm 1:16:40.520 --> 1:16:44.280 getting this good ass coach. But like you know, I 1:16:44.360 --> 1:16:46.000 still I still see him to this day. Though I 1:16:46.040 --> 1:16:51.040 still see Danny Fair to this day. Uh. His son 1:16:51.120 --> 1:16:54.360 plays at pace uh paste down down there in Atlanta, 1:16:54.800 --> 1:16:56.519 and uh, it's a it's a it's a kid that's 1:16:56.520 --> 1:16:59.960 going to Michigan. Actually a little a young kid called 1:17:00.080 --> 1:17:04.920 Chris Anderson. He's like five eleven, yeah, go five eleven. 1:17:05.000 --> 1:17:08.479 But man Dad trained him like he like like Dre 1:17:08.600 --> 1:17:11.400 was like he got gang like the real like he 1:17:11.479 --> 1:17:14.640 was him. Yeah, like the jake he was, He's the 1:17:14.640 --> 1:17:18.360 real jack shutters were damn damn like like the man 1:17:18.439 --> 1:17:20.200 get the bay, get up. Like as far as like 1:17:20.720 --> 1:17:23.439 training him, how you just trained him since he was seven. Yeah, 1:17:23.479 --> 1:17:26.600 like the man, the kid really dedicated his life to basketball. 1:17:26.680 --> 1:17:30.439 But I'll be watching him like they they got real rivals. 1:17:30.439 --> 1:17:32.920 So I watched him playing there. That's how I'll be 1:17:32.920 --> 1:17:36.360 bumping into Danny Ferry every like I bumping him. But 1:17:36.880 --> 1:17:40.679 I think Kyle Corver's kids go there. Shout to Kyle Korver. 1:17:40.880 --> 1:17:42.679 Shout out to Kyle Korver. He be hating on Kyle 1:17:42.720 --> 1:17:45.679 Korver and uh yeah, he be hating on Kyle Cover 1:17:45.760 --> 1:17:49.400 respect a star yeah he oh he was awesome. Yeah, 1:17:49.400 --> 1:17:52.960 oh yeah, you forgot you should have been All Star 1:17:53.240 --> 1:17:58.439 that one year. Man, It's like they want to snub you, 1:17:59.160 --> 1:18:02.640 but then they don't. They want to snub you, and 1:18:02.680 --> 1:18:05.439 then they don't want you to react how you want 1:18:05.439 --> 1:18:10.600 to react, like, don't say shit about they was Broyeah. 1:18:10.680 --> 1:18:15.559 So when I'm like, I'm like, man, I'm in my feelings. Yeah, 1:18:15.680 --> 1:18:17.720 so like I'm really in my feelings. Dog like they 1:18:18.000 --> 1:18:20.439 it's like they set up people's careers how they want 1:18:20.439 --> 1:18:24.400 to set them up. I'm I believe that, you know 1:18:24.439 --> 1:18:28.000 what I'm saying. But Mike Baby shout out to him 1:18:28.040 --> 1:18:30.479 once again. Man, he got my head back on right 1:18:30.520 --> 1:18:33.000 when I was kind of out. It was I still 1:18:33.000 --> 1:18:35.479 had a hit list after after the ship came out, 1:18:35.520 --> 1:18:37.479 Like I'm gonna tell these teams to fuck up. You 1:18:37.520 --> 1:18:39.760 know what I'm saying, Like any team that we're playing 1:18:39.760 --> 1:18:43.639 against him a dog. So he was like, man, fuck 1:18:43.680 --> 1:18:49.519 that all star shit. Man. So I'm like what you mean? Like, 1:18:49.600 --> 1:18:52.920 I'm like, he's like, man, fuck that shit, bro. Shit 1:18:53.320 --> 1:18:55.840 if they pay you like all star shit, who gives 1:18:55.840 --> 1:18:59.760 a fuck talking about it? So I was like, shit, 1:19:01.080 --> 1:19:03.280 from right, I'm like you right, because I'm like, damn, 1:19:03.280 --> 1:19:04.920 you didn't get one. He's like, no, no, I didn't 1:19:04.920 --> 1:19:08.280 give me one because I thought he was at least one, Yeah, 1:19:08.360 --> 1:19:11.040 at least one in secondment when he had Chris Webber 1:19:11.240 --> 1:19:15.280 and Chris didn't those guys and they had a wiggyout. Yeah, 1:19:15.320 --> 1:19:19.040 but he never gets it. Was making that over him. Yeah, 1:19:19.080 --> 1:19:22.519 but yeah. So I'm like, damn, I'm like he's like, yeah, man, 1:19:22.600 --> 1:19:25.960 this shit. I remember this year, like all right, yesterday, 1:19:26.080 --> 1:19:29.080 I remember it. They said smooth, don't shoot no threes. 1:19:29.840 --> 1:19:32.760 You remember y'all made it. They made a bet and 1:19:32.800 --> 1:19:34.600 he would I swear he had take one step in 1:19:34.720 --> 1:19:38.120 every time. I was like, I was like, he crazy. 1:19:38.280 --> 1:19:40.479 You know what's crazy? Bro? I always wondered why you 1:19:40.520 --> 1:19:43.120 shot him shots like that? It was that one year, 1:19:43.160 --> 1:19:49.360 but he was crazy cry talking about the three. I'm like, 1:19:49.520 --> 1:19:51.360 smooth and make the All Star team. And that's when 1:19:51.600 --> 1:19:53.839 Is that the year when Joe had got hurt. Yep, 1:19:53.960 --> 1:19:56.920 Joe got hurt and IL got hurt and we still 1:19:57.040 --> 1:19:59.519 was like third and I thought he was They didn't 1:19:59.520 --> 1:20:02.200 make any give it to me. Was nobody made it out, 1:20:02.400 --> 1:20:05.479 nobody made it for my team, and he was he 1:20:05.600 --> 1:20:08.160 was stepping in. I was like, damn, he gonna make 1:20:08.160 --> 1:20:09.639 it this year. I was like, I'm going with him 1:20:09.680 --> 1:20:11.960 where he go. I'm going, we're gonna be takeing. I 1:20:12.000 --> 1:20:17.840 was taking that was my own Tashwhite too though, man. 1:20:18.040 --> 1:20:24.000 And then and then somebody got hurt and I still 1:20:24.000 --> 1:20:26.680 didn't make it. They put Jared Wallace in. I was like, 1:20:26.720 --> 1:20:31.080 they don't like. I don't like. And then they doubled 1:20:31.120 --> 1:20:33.840 down the next year, and but it was it was 1:20:35.360 --> 1:20:36.920 when I when it made me kind of like, I'm 1:20:36.960 --> 1:20:39.479 like it'll be all right. When I seen Al Horford 1:20:39.520 --> 1:20:43.439 face like he was sick and he made it, was like, damn, 1:20:43.560 --> 1:20:46.840 all this shit fucked up. He's like, this shit fucked up. Bro, 1:20:46.960 --> 1:20:48.960 you shouldn't. I'm like, I'm like, it's all good, bro. 1:20:49.120 --> 1:20:50.760 As long as one of us make it. And I 1:20:50.920 --> 1:20:53.479 was truly not a hater. You know what I'm saying. 1:20:53.520 --> 1:20:55.880 I'm like, I'm just gonna take this time to God's 1:20:55.920 --> 1:20:57.920 probably telling me to rest my body. Take take this 1:20:57.960 --> 1:21:01.280 time and spence sp you know, going back with yeah, 1:21:01.520 --> 1:21:03.400 you know what I'm saying, my wife and my kids. 1:21:03.439 --> 1:21:05.880 Because he was a motherfucking villain in the NBA. That's 1:21:05.880 --> 1:21:10.000 why I felt like, man, this nigga going through the league. 1:21:10.920 --> 1:21:13.280 You know what I'm doing because it was like that 1:21:13.479 --> 1:21:16.280 era of that though, I really got to think about, 1:21:16.320 --> 1:21:19.280 like that's the that's the era came in and then 1:21:19.360 --> 1:21:21.400 I was like kind of trying to soften it up 1:21:21.439 --> 1:21:23.960 a little bit and I was still rough around edge like, 1:21:24.080 --> 1:21:27.559 but it was just like Rondo though, like Ben Rondo 1:21:28.080 --> 1:21:29.920 can't tell you why he don't like a point guard 1:21:29.960 --> 1:21:32.519 in the NBA he hates like he was. It was 1:21:32.560 --> 1:21:35.240 just like that, like fuck this nigga. I'm like, damn, 1:21:35.560 --> 1:21:39.080 why oh yeah, you cool with T. I said, Nigga, 1:21:39.080 --> 1:21:44.800 this niggas my T. I want me to do that. 1:21:47.240 --> 1:21:50.639 I was about to tell this story that's not perfect. 1:21:50.720 --> 1:21:53.800 Everybody though, this is a perfect story because we're playing 1:21:53.840 --> 1:21:58.400 the Celtics and I'm having a cool game, and Kurt 1:21:58.479 --> 1:22:02.439 had just came to the team, was like, hey, throw 1:22:02.479 --> 1:22:04.760 it back sometimes, like throw it back, like when you're 1:22:04.800 --> 1:22:07.280 driving down the lane, they staying with you, throw it back. 1:22:07.320 --> 1:22:10.080 I'm like, yeah, I ain't throw it back like two times. 1:22:10.320 --> 1:22:12.760 So nigga was like, I ain't. Motherfucker. They staying what 1:22:12.800 --> 1:22:16.160 you're talking about, So I'm kind of ignoring me. Was like, hey, 1:22:16.320 --> 1:22:18.920 so being Smooth had this kind of relationship on the 1:22:18.960 --> 1:22:23.880 court like it'll d put put Curt in man, this 1:22:23.960 --> 1:22:26.960 nigket tripping. So I'm like, I get mad as Hill 1:22:27.080 --> 1:22:29.120 you know what's talking about. I get some mad. I'm 1:22:29.160 --> 1:22:35.599 like crying looking at he like they looking at me like, man, 1:22:35.680 --> 1:22:38.840 get there like that. So I get a still and 1:22:38.880 --> 1:22:43.840 I dunk on real. Yeah, the only nigga behind me 1:22:43.920 --> 1:22:51.320 is Smooth. You smack your back like yelling at each other. 1:22:51.720 --> 1:22:54.400 I'm like that for real, Like I'm gonna get all 1:22:54.439 --> 1:22:57.240 you like just like my team now. And uh I 1:22:57.360 --> 1:23:03.519 love I thank God, my my my. My parents are 1:23:03.560 --> 1:23:06.040 cool with me, like because I get on the assy, 1:23:06.160 --> 1:23:08.760 I get on their kids ass dog when they when 1:23:08.800 --> 1:23:14.800 they mess up, even my fourth grade, Yeah, what are 1:23:14.840 --> 1:23:18.360 you doing so like they look at at me and 1:23:18.360 --> 1:23:20.599 then but then when they when they do something good, 1:23:20.800 --> 1:23:23.280 I'm praising. I'm the first one you got a little 1:23:23.360 --> 1:23:26.080 praising them. You know what I'm saying because I want 1:23:26.080 --> 1:23:27.719 to see them do good. You know what I'm saying, 1:23:28.400 --> 1:23:30.120 Like shit, I don't you know what I mean. But 1:23:30.680 --> 1:23:33.280 people don't understand that type of relationship that you gotta have. 1:23:33.320 --> 1:23:36.000 It's like a little brother Like how you seen Jordan 1:23:36.080 --> 1:23:40.120 Pool when they came in the tunnel, he threw the 1:23:42.400 --> 1:23:44.320 Him and Steph Curry hugged each other. But it's like 1:23:45.400 --> 1:23:48.080 it's so so sensitive right now, Like I don't know 1:23:48.120 --> 1:23:50.240 what's going on with I don't know what why the 1:23:50.280 --> 1:23:53.439 world is so sensitive. I don't know if because so 1:23:53.479 --> 1:23:57.599 many people have to have a voice to be opinionated. Yeah, 1:23:57.640 --> 1:23:59.479 you know what I'm saying, Like you know what I'm saying, 1:23:59.520 --> 1:24:03.880 Like is bro And I think I say whatever I want, 1:24:04.200 --> 1:24:10.280 But I know, but I understand, Like I don't believe 1:24:10.360 --> 1:24:13.639 everything should be water dawn, but I think we start, 1:24:13.880 --> 1:24:16.799 we do need to start paying attention more to people's 1:24:17.120 --> 1:24:20.479 feelings when it comes to certain ships, Like yeah, motherfucker's 1:24:20.520 --> 1:24:22.920 it soft like when it comes to the NBA. They 1:24:22.920 --> 1:24:25.559 shouldn't water it down. And that's what I say, Like, 1:24:26.240 --> 1:24:29.920 motherfucker's in my house like my stepson, Nigga's he can take. 1:24:30.439 --> 1:24:32.920 He can take it from anybody if you use his 1:24:33.000 --> 1:24:36.400 coaches saying since your motherfucking ass damn he heard that 1:24:36.479 --> 1:24:40.200 at home. Yeah, I talk. Get them mother fucking dishes done, 1:24:40.240 --> 1:24:43.960 my nigg get the trash down. It's like so with you. 1:24:44.120 --> 1:24:46.439 He feels like nig he can build that relationship as 1:24:46.479 --> 1:24:49.040 long as you love them. Yeah, that's the same thing 1:24:49.040 --> 1:24:52.840 with my kids, Like I don't I want I'm raising 1:24:52.920 --> 1:24:54.360 them like kind of tough love and I don't want 1:24:54.400 --> 1:24:57.720 them raise him. It's entitled individuals. Yeah, you know that, 1:24:57.840 --> 1:24:59.880 they know that privilege, but I want to. I'm gonna 1:25:00.160 --> 1:25:01.840 on the ass though, you know what I'm saying because 1:25:02.240 --> 1:25:04.880 and when it comes to their sports, I'm gonna be 1:25:04.920 --> 1:25:07.080 their biggest critic first because I want them to. I 1:25:07.120 --> 1:25:09.479 want them to. I don't want nobody to hurt their feelings. 1:25:09.520 --> 1:25:10.640 You know what I'm saying. I want them to be 1:25:10.680 --> 1:25:12.800 ready for it. This is what you got going on. 1:25:12.880 --> 1:25:15.080 Somebody's gonna tell you if they really care about you, 1:25:15.120 --> 1:25:17.200 They're gonna tell you what's going on? You know what 1:25:17.240 --> 1:25:21.760 I'm saying. What's crying so much? Though, when it comes 1:25:21.760 --> 1:25:25.519 to these these these NBA players are like, you know, 1:25:25.600 --> 1:25:27.680 like your feelings want to get hurt and stuff like that. 1:25:27.800 --> 1:25:31.040 Go see a therapist. Yeah, you're making millions of dollars, 1:25:31.080 --> 1:25:33.040 Go pay for you to see a therapist so you 1:25:33.040 --> 1:25:35.040 can talk about that shit in there. But when you 1:25:35.120 --> 1:25:37.800 come to this court, dog, I need a man. I 1:25:37.880 --> 1:25:40.840 need a grown ass man, bro or I need a 1:25:40.880 --> 1:25:43.560 grown ass man that's gonna understand why I'm talking to 1:25:43.600 --> 1:25:46.960 you this way when you when you're sucking up, I 1:25:46.960 --> 1:25:48.439 don't need you to be like, man, why are you 1:25:48.479 --> 1:25:51.160 talking to me like that? And you're making forty million 1:25:51.200 --> 1:25:53.479 dollars a year? Talk about it? You know what I'm saying. 1:25:53.640 --> 1:25:55.960 You get what I'm saying. It's a different time though, 1:25:56.200 --> 1:25:57.920 as long as you as long as you not, I 1:25:58.040 --> 1:26:00.080 might think you understand it is And I see it 1:26:00.120 --> 1:26:03.240 and I see it though like I see it, I 1:26:03.280 --> 1:26:09.120 see like shout out the to the head coach with Cleveland, 1:26:09.240 --> 1:26:14.679 you know what I'm saying, Like he's jb Iss, he's 1:26:14.720 --> 1:26:16.280 one of the one of the great ones in his 1:26:16.400 --> 1:26:18.920 in this game and I'm kind of mentoring him a 1:26:18.960 --> 1:26:20.840 little bit. And I've been going to Cleveland games. I've 1:26:20.840 --> 1:26:23.360 been going up to the Cleveland for like the past 1:26:23.400 --> 1:26:27.640 couple of years. Okay, and coach move you know, you know, 1:26:27.760 --> 1:26:30.519 you know, manifesting it, you know, talk about it. But 1:26:30.640 --> 1:26:33.720 at the end of the day, I'm seeing how he 1:26:33.840 --> 1:26:37.360 how he's talking to his his players, and how he 1:26:37.360 --> 1:26:39.559 gets them to relate, and how he gets the best 1:26:39.600 --> 1:26:41.680 out of him because i mean, you know, when I 1:26:41.680 --> 1:26:44.680 was in Houston, my favorite coach in the NBA was 1:26:44.800 --> 1:26:48.840 Kevin mckill. Oh you know, yeah, for sure, hands down, 1:26:49.240 --> 1:26:51.160 he wasn't That's when I made it to the Western 1:26:51.160 --> 1:26:54.600 Conference with him. West Conference Finals. Oh we got we 1:26:54.640 --> 1:26:57.160 gotta talk about that. Yeah, one of the craziest basketball 1:26:57.200 --> 1:26:59.439 series of all time. Yeah, for sure, we can get 1:26:59.520 --> 1:27:03.720 to it. But shout the coach. He was always assistant 1:27:03.800 --> 1:27:07.720 under Kevin mckill. So he was like he was a 1:27:07.920 --> 1:27:10.960 JB's more excess and those. But Kevin mckill was like 1:27:11.080 --> 1:27:14.439 super relatable to his to his players, he wasn't really 1:27:14.439 --> 1:27:16.479 excell and those. He was a players coach, okay, but 1:27:16.520 --> 1:27:19.720 so he would get the best out of you and 1:27:19.720 --> 1:27:22.280 and the JB. I guess took some of that lot 1:27:22.400 --> 1:27:25.599 knowledge with him and then mixed his his his excess 1:27:25.640 --> 1:27:28.080 and those with it. And he's a coach year today. 1:27:28.120 --> 1:27:31.040 But I'm watching him how he relation talks to this team. 1:27:31.080 --> 1:27:33.960 I'm like, okay, but it's it's kind of like I'm like, damn, 1:27:34.000 --> 1:27:37.559 it's it's crazy. Like you said, it's it's it's it's different, 1:27:37.680 --> 1:27:40.519 you know what I'm saying. But it's different because you 1:27:40.560 --> 1:27:42.880 don't have a veteran on the team to help help 1:27:42.960 --> 1:27:45.200 their young kid understand why the kid why the coach 1:27:45.280 --> 1:27:47.800 is talking to him like that, you know what I'm saying. 1:27:48.280 --> 1:27:52.840 Like my experience is working in the league. Man, you 1:27:52.880 --> 1:27:54.640 get on some of these guys, you might not have 1:27:54.680 --> 1:27:58.280 a job in the morning, being real, Like, you get 1:27:58.280 --> 1:28:00.560 on some of them guys who the star players you like, 1:28:00.720 --> 1:28:05.200 bad side the ownership, they're going with the player every 1:28:05.200 --> 1:28:08.240 team place. So I understand why it's kind of sensitive 1:28:08.280 --> 1:28:11.320 and damn damn, that's crazy. I mean, like you said, 1:28:11.840 --> 1:28:14.000 coaching matters and not even more or less X and os, 1:28:14.080 --> 1:28:15.760 But how you manage me because like in this league 1:28:15.760 --> 1:28:17.800 you've grown, ask me and most of these players on 1:28:17.840 --> 1:28:20.320 the bench make way more money than the coach. It's 1:28:20.360 --> 1:28:21.960 like you need to get the best out of these 1:28:21.960 --> 1:28:24.720 players by relating and talking not talking down. And you 1:28:24.760 --> 1:28:27.000 see it like the transition to the NBA with coaches now, 1:28:27.040 --> 1:28:28.960 like some of them older coaches, like the George Cross 1:28:29.000 --> 1:28:31.519 some situations that shit not fly on no more like 1:28:31.600 --> 1:28:33.960 it didn't even George carl though. I mean, but I 1:28:34.240 --> 1:28:42.479 mean just like the same time tis I'm saying, like, 1:28:44.439 --> 1:28:49.200 but he don't. But it's like it's like, like you said, 1:28:49.200 --> 1:28:53.240 you gotta relate though, yeah, you can't be like you 1:28:53.280 --> 1:28:56.360 can't be socially awkward with this with this new generation. Dog, 1:28:56.439 --> 1:28:59.280 you gotta be able to pop pop your ship with them. Dog, 1:28:59.560 --> 1:29:03.080 you got to broy they they're looking at it. He 1:29:03.120 --> 1:29:05.280 would have loved it. No, you know why you would 1:29:05.280 --> 1:29:07.280 have loved him. He wasn't gonna take your ass out. 1:29:07.439 --> 1:29:11.400 And you know he's playing forty. You're playing for As 1:29:11.439 --> 1:29:13.679 a player, when you in the game, you really don't 1:29:13.680 --> 1:29:15.800 want to come out, like you don't want to come 1:29:15.840 --> 1:29:18.120 out to that next morning, Like damn, I played forty. 1:29:19.160 --> 1:29:20.720 But as a player, when you in the game, like 1:29:21.200 --> 1:29:25.799 to get all my stats. Team, but I'm talking about 1:29:25.840 --> 1:29:28.200 I'm just talking about relatable though, as far as being 1:29:28.240 --> 1:29:31.080 relatable to these kids that they you can tell he getting. 1:29:31.240 --> 1:29:34.439 He coaching a whole bunch of sensitive players though, because 1:29:34.840 --> 1:29:37.040 it's like they want to they go on the wooden Street. 1:29:37.040 --> 1:29:40.639 Then they'll lose games. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, 1:29:41.040 --> 1:29:45.120 that shit matter. But look, he's not relatable to Relationships 1:29:45.160 --> 1:29:48.439 are key. I always talk about that ship like your 1:29:48.479 --> 1:29:51.080 locker room. Say everything about how y'all gonna play on 1:29:51.080 --> 1:29:54.679 the court don't matter, bro. So if your coach ain't 1:29:54.720 --> 1:29:57.800 really rocking, and it goes from the coach, that's why 1:29:57.840 --> 1:30:01.479 I'll be telling my pop to go to me. Because 1:30:01.520 --> 1:30:05.080 he got Tim Duncan. He was on Tim duncan ass 1:30:05.160 --> 1:30:07.599 so much. Everybody else had a fall in line, bro, 1:30:08.000 --> 1:30:10.720 And it's showing you how much how much more cold 1:30:10.760 --> 1:30:13.040 he is because it's like a lot of players did 1:30:13.080 --> 1:30:17.640 not like Tony Parker no at all. Yes, everybody he 1:30:17.720 --> 1:30:24.200 was smashing, smashing teammates hate wild that the championships up 1:30:24.280 --> 1:30:29.080 bows in the club, wild boy, it wasn't no budget 1:30:31.720 --> 1:30:36.720 when TPS no budget, man, that's crazy. Everybody comes out 1:30:36.720 --> 1:30:39.439 there like, yeah Tony parks like damn, but was hoping 1:30:40.280 --> 1:30:44.800 I'm winning championships, winning for it was nothing. That's crazy. Really, 1:30:44.840 --> 1:30:47.600 you ain't really hearing nobody to talk bad on the 1:30:47.680 --> 1:30:54.599 championship winning team. Like teammates like that're like you said it, bro, 1:30:55.080 --> 1:30:59.800 it's up on this right right. And I feel bad 1:30:59.840 --> 1:31:01.559 for Jacks. He's been saying it for a long time. 1:31:02.120 --> 1:31:04.880 I've been trying to say to Park, but Mary went 1:31:04.960 --> 1:31:08.040 on the coast side. That's tough. Like you say, how 1:31:08.040 --> 1:31:09.960 you treat your rookies mattering a long time because you 1:31:09.960 --> 1:31:12.439 know what I'm saying, the Paragon ship, You're gonna get better. Yeah, 1:31:12.479 --> 1:31:15.080 but you gotta give it to him though, Like that's 1:31:15.120 --> 1:31:18.960 why I say antin walk Over, I'll Harrington, you know 1:31:19.000 --> 1:31:20.920 what I'm saying, because all Harrington was there with me, 1:31:21.520 --> 1:31:23.519 but he was focusing on He was like you said 1:31:23.520 --> 1:31:28.280 he was going to his his his free agent year. 1:31:29.400 --> 1:31:32.240 Who's going to his freging year where he was trying 1:31:32.240 --> 1:31:34.360 to get the bag, you know what I'm saying, and 1:31:34.960 --> 1:31:38.200 a legend he was. He was like, fuck you, I'm 1:31:38.240 --> 1:31:40.720 trying to get this bad because you was coming to play. Yeah, 1:31:40.800 --> 1:31:46.400 He's like, you'll figure it out. That's rock. With that, 1:31:47.280 --> 1:31:50.439 mccaulla left and then I was there alone by myself 1:31:50.479 --> 1:31:52.400 like the rest of my life. When they when they 1:31:52.439 --> 1:31:54.960 traded him back to Boston, it was having that good 1:31:55.000 --> 1:32:01.000 little right he did. He wasn't there, and when they 1:32:01.040 --> 1:32:04.559 trade him back up to Boston, I forgot about halfway 1:32:04.600 --> 1:32:07.840 through my my rookie year. Damn, now it'd be like 1:32:07.880 --> 1:32:09.800 that stuff. I was just with my I was with 1:32:09.920 --> 1:32:13.280 like Royal Ivy and dart Tey Smith. Yea, damn I 1:32:13.360 --> 1:32:16.320 have in Texas legend. Yeah, talk about it. We was 1:32:16.840 --> 1:32:19.080 you know what I'm saying. We was more relatable. We 1:32:19.080 --> 1:32:21.120 was more like kind of more relatable with each other. 1:32:21.880 --> 1:32:25.840 Josh was like from Stanford, you know. So yeah he 1:32:26.240 --> 1:32:28.120 had he had that bread, you know what I'm saying. 1:32:28.160 --> 1:32:30.479 So he was just he was on his own type, 1:32:30.800 --> 1:32:32.360 you know what I mean. But we was all kind 1:32:32.400 --> 1:32:34.880 of were still all cool and stuff like that. Like 1:32:34.920 --> 1:32:36.439 I still talked to Josh to this day. You know 1:32:36.439 --> 1:32:38.559 what I'm saying, doing good in real estate up there. 1:32:39.760 --> 1:32:43.120 I wanted to ask this bro. So we already talked 1:32:43.120 --> 1:32:47.040 about the budget. I just want to know, like you 1:32:47.080 --> 1:32:49.519 know y'all was doing y'all thing, what was the best 1:32:49.520 --> 1:32:53.920 city to go out too? Like go out in like 1:32:54.000 --> 1:32:56.760 on the road, like man, like y'all were going we 1:32:56.840 --> 1:33:01.000 win tonight, it's going out. It was a story. It 1:33:01.080 --> 1:33:04.519 was a story. Man. We all went out. The baby 1:33:04.520 --> 1:33:07.320 made us all go out of Miami. Dog, you see 1:33:07.360 --> 1:33:12.400 the Toronto with about Toronto. Toronto number one for sure, 1:33:13.160 --> 1:33:17.240 but like as far as like Toronto and Miami. So 1:33:17.280 --> 1:33:21.599 you got Miami. You know, Miami's like, don't see there, 1:33:21.680 --> 1:33:24.559 don't sleep. But it was like a man he got, 1:33:24.800 --> 1:33:27.200 he got the whole team drunk that day. Dog, I 1:33:27.200 --> 1:33:33.000 think somebody got. I think Solomon Jones was you tell 1:33:33.479 --> 1:33:37.160 that was New York? That was New York. But he plane, Yeah, 1:33:38.200 --> 1:33:41.320 I cussed everybody out. I was mad. I cussed everybody 1:33:41.680 --> 1:33:45.439 all around. Man, he might be dead hang over now 1:33:45.439 --> 1:33:47.160 they tell me this. So the next year we go 1:33:47.200 --> 1:33:51.120 out in Miami. Is my rookie year. Yeah, and he like, hey, 1:33:51.240 --> 1:33:54.760 don't go out with baby. I'm like, He's like, you 1:33:54.760 --> 1:33:56.800 don't go out with baby in Miami. He was like, 1:33:56.880 --> 1:33:58.960 niggas missed the plane all type of stuff. I'm like, 1:34:00.560 --> 1:34:05.120 but I went anywhere. Everybody he because he he when 1:34:05.120 --> 1:34:08.240 I when I got my first check, he said, yeah, 1:34:08.320 --> 1:34:11.160 black congratulations. He's like shit, I ain't got to spend 1:34:11.200 --> 1:34:14.000 my money no more. He's like, I'm with you. He say, shit, 1:34:14.080 --> 1:34:15.720 you know no, you know how to go. He's like, 1:34:16.120 --> 1:34:17.880 you got the bag now, you know the best. You know, 1:34:17.920 --> 1:34:19.479 you gotta take care of the veteran. You gotta take 1:34:19.479 --> 1:34:22.679 care of me. I said, man, come home. Bro. Every time, 1:34:23.160 --> 1:34:25.559 every time I see Bro, I need to bottle of bill. 1:34:25.600 --> 1:34:31.320 But there, he said that ship. I seen nobody's bout 1:34:31.360 --> 1:34:33.360 that thing. He had, grabbed the bottle, put it right 1:34:33.360 --> 1:34:38.120 in his back pocket. Dog. Yeah, yeah, like a couple 1:34:38.120 --> 1:34:41.240 of a couple of cranberry juice and then another couple 1:34:41.280 --> 1:34:44.960 of bill, so he'll be That's exactly how he looked 1:34:45.080 --> 1:34:47.320 the whole night. He had everybody on the two cup 1:34:47.400 --> 1:34:52.759 one night, but he everybody was faded. Miami was Miami 1:34:52.840 --> 1:34:55.080 was definitely one of those one of those places, though, 1:34:55.200 --> 1:34:57.280 I gotta man, I gotta talk about it, man, one 1:34:57.280 --> 1:35:01.840 of the most I kind of okay, get your off. 1:35:02.320 --> 1:35:04.040 My man took me out of Houston the first time. 1:35:04.080 --> 1:35:06.960 I ain't never been nowhere. You know, all I've ever 1:35:07.000 --> 1:35:11.600 been was Indianapolis. Wake for us. He takes me my 1:35:11.640 --> 1:35:13.920 first time. He's like, are you coming with me? You 1:35:14.280 --> 1:35:15.640 come with me. I'm like, where are we going? He 1:35:15.760 --> 1:35:17.720 was like, just shut up, you're coming with me. We 1:35:17.840 --> 1:35:20.880 go out of Houston. I'm like, hey, I'm moving to 1:35:20.960 --> 1:35:33.960 Houston in college. That how wish I wish my bidding 1:35:34.080 --> 1:35:36.760 was just gave me everything. You know what I'm saying, Like, 1:35:37.160 --> 1:35:38.840 put it out on the table for me, Like let 1:35:38.840 --> 1:35:41.120 me see anything. You know what I'm saying. But they 1:35:41.400 --> 1:35:44.160 you know, some of these some of these players beat 1:35:44.240 --> 1:35:46.240 some of these some of these kids be fumbling the 1:35:46.240 --> 1:35:50.040 bag though, like they'll they'll put one in somebody on 1:35:50.520 --> 1:35:54.360 me it ain't the right one, and then they want 1:35:54.360 --> 1:35:58.000 to blame. You say, somebody want to blame man. I 1:35:58.080 --> 1:36:03.559 ain't tell him to do all that trying to comment. Yeah, 1:36:03.600 --> 1:36:06.880 I dry. He took me out, Man, and then he 1:36:07.000 --> 1:36:09.599 got back to the Lennen and bought me. I shot, 1:36:10.800 --> 1:36:12.599 you gotta have some of your wrists when we go out, 1:36:13.000 --> 1:36:16.479 I said, shiit was this a ti okay, Josh. He 1:36:17.680 --> 1:36:23.559 had a key of that college. But to the top, 1:36:26.160 --> 1:36:32.479 I was taking his weekend. I'm hearing about man. Man 1:36:32.680 --> 1:36:36.000 was political went on tour with the weekend for Showman. 1:36:36.840 --> 1:36:41.280 Rod went on roll I had no money, Man. He 1:36:41.400 --> 1:36:45.640 was still a real digger for taking my nigger out 1:36:44.240 --> 1:36:48.759 to man, he bought me my second thing from Louis 1:36:48.880 --> 1:36:50.680 Marvin bought me my first. He bought myself. I went 1:36:50.760 --> 1:36:53.000 with and he like, men, you ain't got a wallet. 1:36:53.080 --> 1:36:55.880 I'm like, man, you can't be out. He pulled my 1:36:56.080 --> 1:37:02.320 man out. Had Yeah, I had the high school I 1:37:02.360 --> 1:37:05.880 definitely did. They showed me a little man. They got 1:37:05.920 --> 1:37:09.920 me right man. Yeah, I think I got him a 1:37:09.960 --> 1:37:12.439 couple pair of suits. Ah, he did. That's why I like. 1:37:12.720 --> 1:37:14.400 I like when they first call, got to give him 1:37:14.439 --> 1:37:16.439 some suits. Man got shown. I had to lead dress 1:37:16.439 --> 1:37:21.559 called then too. Then y'all. Yeah, but I just yeah, yeah, 1:37:21.560 --> 1:37:25.120 we had that. We definitely had that. Damn So man, 1:37:25.160 --> 1:37:28.280 you know what I'm saying, career continues you in Houston? 1:37:28.600 --> 1:37:30.759 First of all, how was it like living in Houston 1:37:30.800 --> 1:37:33.400 and playing in Houston? Like I imagine what I'm saying, 1:37:33.400 --> 1:37:35.120 maybe a little later, your career a little bit more, 1:37:35.120 --> 1:37:36.920 you know what I'm saying, as mature, but still you 1:37:37.000 --> 1:37:38.639 in that city and that vibe. You know what I'm saying, 1:37:38.720 --> 1:37:41.360 James Hard going crazy, Like, how was that season for y'all? 1:37:41.360 --> 1:37:44.240 Because that's one of the most important NBA like series 1:37:44.280 --> 1:37:46.960 that ever happened, because that changed the franchise after that. Yeah, 1:37:47.320 --> 1:37:51.720 it was amazing, man. I mean, you know Atlanta, you 1:37:51.720 --> 1:37:53.559 know from there, born and raised. I love it. I 1:37:53.640 --> 1:37:55.559 love it to death. But the fan base was just 1:37:55.600 --> 1:37:58.640 so wishy washy was it was kind of hard to 1:37:58.720 --> 1:38:01.599 kind of get up to play for games sometimes at 1:38:01.600 --> 1:38:04.080 home because you know, you knew what type of crowd 1:38:04.120 --> 1:38:07.200 that you was gonna have to face. Lebron could be 1:38:07.240 --> 1:38:10.040 in the Knicks, you know what I'm saying. Or Chicago, 1:38:10.160 --> 1:38:13.000 You're like, like it was so many people from from 1:38:13.000 --> 1:38:15.280 New York down there that live in Atlanta, like so 1:38:15.320 --> 1:38:17.360 it's like it would be like a split, you know 1:38:17.400 --> 1:38:20.839 what I'm saying. You got the Boston, the Boston, the Lakers. 1:38:21.360 --> 1:38:24.120 So it's like, you know, we was doing so when 1:38:24.120 --> 1:38:26.719 I went to Houston, it was just nothing but Houston fans, 1:38:26.920 --> 1:38:29.439 damn like and they was like they die hard fans, 1:38:29.479 --> 1:38:32.040 you know what I'm saying. Like, so like you know 1:38:32.120 --> 1:38:35.679 we had that, you know, they had DWIGHTE and James 1:38:35.840 --> 1:38:38.519 Like it was like them they're like almost like sold 1:38:38.560 --> 1:38:41.600 out every day. And then when I came, it was 1:38:41.640 --> 1:38:43.880 like turned up even more, like they embraced me with 1:38:43.960 --> 1:38:47.880 so with so much open arms. When I got away 1:38:48.000 --> 1:38:51.600 from when I got away from Detroit with stand you 1:38:51.680 --> 1:38:56.080 know what I'm saying, st Yeah, stand the man. I 1:38:56.280 --> 1:39:00.360 laugh every time. Everything though they gave him like they 1:39:00.400 --> 1:39:03.280 gave him complete everything when they were up there. So 1:39:03.320 --> 1:39:07.240 they gave him like the GM president. Uh, every coach, 1:39:07.439 --> 1:39:10.280 he was all three and one son. When he came, 1:39:10.360 --> 1:39:13.040 he fired everybody. He was blowing up everything. You know, 1:39:13.120 --> 1:39:14.760 I knew I was about to. I knew I was 1:39:14.800 --> 1:39:18.040 going too because I didn't. I wasn't his guy. He didn't. 1:39:18.080 --> 1:39:20.439 He didn't recruit me up there. So after they fired 1:39:20.680 --> 1:39:25.160 Joe Dumars, I knew I was gone. So that didn't work. No, 1:39:25.360 --> 1:39:29.879 But Houston was amazing though. They let you be yourself. 1:39:32.280 --> 1:39:35.519 James had that. James had the organization turned. He had 1:39:35.560 --> 1:39:39.600 the organization and the fans turned like Jason Terry like 1:39:40.160 --> 1:39:45.040 that was a real nigga tine. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, 1:39:45.200 --> 1:39:49.720 the money units. We had a Corey Brewer. We used 1:39:49.760 --> 1:39:51.720 to always gamble like but they used to gamble for 1:39:51.800 --> 1:39:56.519 the big money. Terrence Jones. But they introduced me to 1:39:56.560 --> 1:40:00.200 that FIFA. I started playing FIFA because James was real 1:40:00.439 --> 1:40:03.080 heavy and at FIFA Clint Cappella was there. We had 1:40:03.200 --> 1:40:06.040 that's when Clint was super young. Couldn't gain away. He 1:40:06.160 --> 1:40:09.280 was just bouncing, dunking everything that had a whip man. 1:40:09.360 --> 1:40:13.599 We had a whip had a nice ass team. How 1:40:13.720 --> 1:40:15.160 was that serious? Though? Like you know what I'm saying, 1:40:15.400 --> 1:40:18.880 back against the wild up and downs during that series, 1:40:19.000 --> 1:40:23.799 not for real. I think we was like down obviously 1:40:24.520 --> 1:40:27.040 it was one one. It was like three one. He 1:40:27.160 --> 1:40:32.320 was down three one. Yeah, and uh Man arguing. It 1:40:32.439 --> 1:40:34.479 was like a lot of arguing in the gap there, 1:40:34.640 --> 1:40:38.040 like going back and forth. Uh Me and Dwhite got 1:40:38.040 --> 1:40:41.439 into it one time. Ship the white, I mean changing 1:40:41.520 --> 1:40:46.320 the white fucking uh Man. We was just trying to 1:40:46.360 --> 1:40:51.599 figure it out. But Jason Terry Man the glue that's hard, 1:40:51.680 --> 1:40:54.519 the glue that kept that ship going. He was super 1:40:54.560 --> 1:40:57.960 positive every day. Man. Man, we was because you, like 1:40:58.000 --> 1:41:02.080 I said, we couldn't. You know, Kevin mckill was a 1:41:02.200 --> 1:41:04.960 great you know what I'm saying, players coaching as far 1:41:05.000 --> 1:41:08.040 as X and nos, trying to like make adjustments, he wasn't. 1:41:08.479 --> 1:41:10.320 He wasn't as good at doing that, you know what 1:41:10.360 --> 1:41:12.800 I'm saying. So we would be on the planes after 1:41:12.800 --> 1:41:14.559 those games like hey man, we need to do this, 1:41:15.600 --> 1:41:17.719 like breaking this ship down, Like why are we playing 1:41:17.720 --> 1:41:20.360 cards with each other? It'll be like me Corey Brewer, 1:41:22.880 --> 1:41:25.640 Trevor Reaser be He'll be like right there watching he 1:41:26.000 --> 1:41:31.600 wasn't playing, James, and then like the white is just 1:41:31.720 --> 1:41:35.040 be sitting like he'll be sitting in the like sitting 1:41:35.120 --> 1:41:37.360 right there, just like acting like he can't listening, but 1:41:37.439 --> 1:41:41.200 he listening or not. No, no matter of fact, no, James, 1:41:41.280 --> 1:41:43.880 I mean, because he'll be in his feeling so he was. 1:41:43.960 --> 1:41:46.160 He'll always like he'll be in this. He'll be like 1:41:46.320 --> 1:41:49.000 in the back with like the stewardess and ship, but 1:41:49.400 --> 1:41:51.120 he'll be acting like his back hurt, like he needs 1:41:51.120 --> 1:41:53.800 to lay down. So he'll like be back there laying 1:41:53.840 --> 1:41:59.200 down being his grown man feeling. And we'll we're gonna 1:41:59.200 --> 1:42:01.880 get him going. Look this, look John, what you do? 1:42:02.360 --> 1:42:04.880 You know what I'm saying? He putting the play together, 1:42:05.160 --> 1:42:07.360 you know what I'm saying, So we like we putting 1:42:07.360 --> 1:42:10.720 that shit together. And then he said, they're gonna let 1:42:10.800 --> 1:42:12.080 us win this. They're gonna let us win this game 1:42:12.080 --> 1:42:13.559 because they want to try to close out at home, 1:42:13.920 --> 1:42:16.240 so they just gonna dal the ass out for this 1:42:16.360 --> 1:42:18.760 game five, and then and then and we got to 1:42:18.800 --> 1:42:21.519 figure it out game six. So we dig the ass 1:42:21.560 --> 1:42:24.479 out game five. It's like a game whatever. And then 1:42:24.520 --> 1:42:27.120 they already talking about they going to the They're going 1:42:27.160 --> 1:42:30.400 to the Western Conference Finals. It's basically over with. So 1:42:30.439 --> 1:42:33.479 they're trying to use that ship as click bait for us, 1:42:33.520 --> 1:42:35.639 like it's gonna get us geared up. And shit, I'm like, man, 1:42:37.760 --> 1:42:39.720 I'm just sitting there. I'm just sitting there stairs there 1:42:39.800 --> 1:42:42.960 practice right, We're at the Lakers facility. So they're trying 1:42:42.960 --> 1:42:44.840 to have like a Komba y'a moment, like what were 1:42:44.720 --> 1:42:46.519 we talking about? I said, man, let's just fucking just 1:42:46.560 --> 1:42:49.040 go out here and shoot. Man. Fuck, let's go like, 1:42:49.120 --> 1:42:51.000 ain't nothing to talk about it. We're gonna get our 1:42:51.040 --> 1:42:54.000 ass beat. We're gonna fucking win and go to Game 1:42:54.080 --> 1:42:58.200 seven at home. So they came out dragging that shit, 1:43:00.080 --> 1:43:05.559 gave out dragging. They came out dragging this dog. So 1:43:05.560 --> 1:43:10.120 so when they was, they came out dragging this and 1:43:10.120 --> 1:43:14.120 and like you can see kind of like James kind 1:43:14.160 --> 1:43:18.880 of been like, shit, I'm cool. I was just gonna 1:43:18.880 --> 1:43:21.040 stay here, you know what I'm say. From here? From 1:43:21.080 --> 1:43:23.680 there so he looking like shit, he cool. You know 1:43:23.720 --> 1:43:27.320 what I'm saying, Like, fuck this ship. So Kevin mckills 1:43:27.680 --> 1:43:31.160 took him out, sous people in we go on the run, 1:43:31.479 --> 1:43:33.880 you know what I'm saying, like crazy being Brewer, just 1:43:33.920 --> 1:43:40.400 going to food in the fourth coming back and see 1:43:40.439 --> 1:43:44.320 what people don't see is like the gym, Derrick Moyer 1:43:44.400 --> 1:43:47.080 and the owner like at the time, they like, put 1:43:47.160 --> 1:43:52.720 Jack's back in. Put James back in. Kevin's like, I 1:43:53.600 --> 1:43:55.960 got you one second, one second, you know what I'm saying, 1:43:57.040 --> 1:44:01.920 put back here? They hot. So you see that. I 1:44:01.960 --> 1:44:04.759 think that's what took of effect the member to member. 1:44:04.800 --> 1:44:07.719 He only twenty games until the next year season. Yeah, 1:44:07.840 --> 1:44:09.679 but I got rid of him. But it's like, man, 1:44:09.800 --> 1:44:12.000 man took out to the Western Conference finals, y'all do 1:44:12.080 --> 1:44:16.080 that one? Yeah, that shit playing. Yeah they getting they 1:44:16.080 --> 1:44:19.240 got maga put him back in. But like man, like, 1:44:19.240 --> 1:44:21.320 what are you suxpected to do with when your team 1:44:21.400 --> 1:44:24.360 going y'all on the road. Yeah that we go to 1:44:24.439 --> 1:44:27.439 Game seven, James closed it out for us. Yeah, he 1:44:27.560 --> 1:44:30.720 closed it out. That's what the normal fan doesn't understand, though, 1:44:30.760 --> 1:44:34.439 what you said, like a stance, we're not knowing that 1:44:34.560 --> 1:44:39.760 Kevin mckill is getting you know, push, trying to use him. 1:44:39.800 --> 1:44:41.640 They're supposed to be telling him at my name just 1:44:41.680 --> 1:44:46.720 coach after the game, right man nay and that day 1:44:46.720 --> 1:44:49.720 and then they was like and the reason why I 1:44:49.720 --> 1:44:51.639 didn't know because I'm so locked in in the game. 1:44:51.720 --> 1:44:54.559 You know, you got people in the stands. Yea, they like, man, 1:44:54.680 --> 1:44:58.479 the man neighborhood. They're going crazy. I'm like, what what 1:44:58.520 --> 1:45:01.519 was that feeling like though, Like when you got that wrong, because, 1:45:01.560 --> 1:45:04.680 like like you said, from high school, people telling you 1:45:04.720 --> 1:45:07.840 not to shoot jump yeah, yeah, it was. It was 1:45:07.840 --> 1:45:09.920 one of the best feelings in the world because you know, 1:45:10.000 --> 1:45:12.840 you gotta you gotta coaches like I don't care about 1:45:12.840 --> 1:45:15.919 your shooting jump shot. I just shoot more in practice, 1:45:16.400 --> 1:45:18.120 like you know, that's what he was saying, like, Man, 1:45:18.120 --> 1:45:19.800 I want you to shoot threes. I want you, but 1:45:19.920 --> 1:45:22.920 you know, but you know, shoot make make you two 1:45:23.000 --> 1:45:26.240 hundred after practice. Yeah, so I started to make three hundred, 1:45:26.320 --> 1:45:28.000 you know what I'm saying. Like, So I'm watching how 1:45:28.560 --> 1:45:31.519 James hard and working. He working extra time over over time. 1:45:31.600 --> 1:45:34.639 So I'm I'm just you know, I'm like, Okay, I'm 1:45:34.680 --> 1:45:36.800 see he's younger than me, but I'm getting I'm getting 1:45:36.800 --> 1:45:39.720 I'm like, Okay, young nigger working hard. Yeah, so I'm like, shit, 1:45:40.000 --> 1:45:41.720 I gotta go pick my shit up, you know what 1:45:41.760 --> 1:45:44.240 I'm saying. So now I'm like and then and then 1:45:44.640 --> 1:45:47.360 we was all everybody was staying after like Trevor Rees, 1:45:48.080 --> 1:45:51.559 Jason Terry old older than all of us staying. So 1:45:51.600 --> 1:45:54.000 it was like a camaraderie that we had built amongst 1:45:54.000 --> 1:45:57.280 each other by and we bought into what we had 1:45:57.320 --> 1:45:59.240 going on, you know what I'm saying, Like we we 1:45:59.600 --> 1:46:02.280 just all bought in, like we just we just had 1:46:03.080 --> 1:46:07.479 a young like I think like Patrick Beverley was was hurt, 1:46:09.360 --> 1:46:11.800 but I don't think he would have stopped Steph Curry Man. 1:46:11.800 --> 1:46:17.200 We but we had like we had Pablo, Oh, Pablo 1:46:17.760 --> 1:46:19.960 shout out to Pablo and uh and we had a 1:46:20.680 --> 1:46:25.720 h Jason the jet Man, Jason Tirey. Those were point 1:46:25.760 --> 1:46:28.840 guards for the Western Coppers. Finally, Yea was in trouble. Yeah, 1:46:30.000 --> 1:46:34.599 step it was hard. Yeah, it was hard to win. 1:46:34.680 --> 1:46:36.920 It was hard to win out there. That's hard, man. 1:46:36.960 --> 1:46:38.880 But before we got here, do a couple of rapper 1:46:38.920 --> 1:46:41.120 fire questions. Know what I'm saying, It's called something or nothing. 1:46:41.160 --> 1:46:43.760 Basically if you're something, You fucking with it? If you're nothing, Yeah, 1:46:46.040 --> 1:46:48.880 Lebron James the best basketball player of all time? You're something? 1:46:48.960 --> 1:46:53.519 Or you nothing? I'm nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. I'm not 1:46:53.960 --> 1:47:02.280 Michael Jordan. Yeah you nothing? Yeah? If he what's up? You? 1:47:02.080 --> 1:47:05.160 You mind me with something? You're nothing? You know? I 1:47:05.200 --> 1:47:07.360 want to keep this going. I like this like this. 1:47:07.800 --> 1:47:10.120 Let's say I'm gonna say Jordan. You're gonna say Jordan. 1:47:11.560 --> 1:47:14.599 I'm rolling with Jordan too. But I think if Lebron 1:47:14.880 --> 1:47:16.840 get another ring and he got that scoring title, we 1:47:16.840 --> 1:47:19.240 gotta talk about it. He's not getting another ring, you 1:47:19.280 --> 1:47:23.400 don't think so? He too infactuated with playing with his son. Damn. 1:47:24.120 --> 1:47:29.439 So that's hard though. Which is gonna be historic? It's 1:47:29.439 --> 1:47:33.240 gonna be historic, you know what I'm saying. But depending 1:47:33.240 --> 1:47:35.880 on what team is just son go to it? How good? 1:47:36.439 --> 1:47:37.880 How good are they're gonna be? It ain't gonna be 1:47:37.880 --> 1:47:39.760 lost as Lakers. You're right, this name has just been 1:47:39.760 --> 1:47:43.920 playing basketball y'all for so long. You've been killing you 1:47:44.000 --> 1:47:46.120 got a kind of hard saying Jordan is better than 1:47:46.120 --> 1:47:47.920 what you got to think about? What if? What if 1:47:48.000 --> 1:47:51.479 Jordan's then just stop playing to play baseball? Whose dude, 1:47:51.520 --> 1:47:54.840 does the man just said, Hey, man, I'm just let 1:47:54.880 --> 1:47:56.600 me go, let me go ahead, and let me go 1:47:56.640 --> 1:47:59.200 ahead and just fulfill my fantasy or playing the basket 1:47:59.200 --> 1:48:02.200 being a baseball playing doing what me and my dad 1:48:02.280 --> 1:48:06.920 talked about. But in his prime, my only pushback pushback 1:48:07.040 --> 1:48:12.479 to you smooth talk to me on nasty. Look which 1:48:13.640 --> 1:48:16.519 this nigga brin, Bro, he didn't change the name of 1:48:16.520 --> 1:48:21.000 the game though twenty years Bro, he damned his stats. 1:48:21.080 --> 1:48:23.559 Damn there got better. This nigga is a better shooter 1:48:23.800 --> 1:48:28.639 now earlier. But I'm just saying, yeah, but he changed. 1:48:29.000 --> 1:48:32.800 He also changed the game. Bro. Do you think do 1:48:32.840 --> 1:48:35.840 you think long term contracts is short term contracts is 1:48:35.840 --> 1:48:38.840 good for the game short term? So you think of man, 1:48:38.920 --> 1:48:41.400 you think you think a player wouldn't won a five 1:48:41.479 --> 1:48:44.160 year deal over three or two year deal? No? Not 1:48:44.200 --> 1:48:47.120 actually smart that muf How we how we structuring that 1:48:47.160 --> 1:48:50.519 bitch though? Is it? Do I got a two year 1:48:50.680 --> 1:48:58.400 fifty like Brinn? No? No, So what I'm saying though, 1:48:58.680 --> 1:49:04.040 maybe like, okay, give me something. I'm with you, give 1:49:04.040 --> 1:49:10.599 me something years hundred million, Okay, what you can say 1:49:10.640 --> 1:49:18.759 five years one twenty right? Yeah, like two years sixty million, 1:49:19.920 --> 1:49:22.840 to me. No, I want the fire to me, I 1:49:22.880 --> 1:49:26.280 mean the fire if you do the two years, that 1:49:26.400 --> 1:49:28.639 mean if you if you're a max player, your max 1:49:28.760 --> 1:49:32.080 gonna be higher. Yeah, so that's I want. I want 1:49:32.120 --> 1:49:36.360 the one twenty. That's because you want the stability you want. Yeah. Yeah, 1:49:36.400 --> 1:49:38.760 but if you're a max player, like oh yeah, like 1:49:38.840 --> 1:49:40.720 if we bron yeah, get it out of the way. 1:49:41.479 --> 1:49:46.519 Another one two years three. Now you know he the 1:49:46.600 --> 1:49:50.160 one who changed the contracts of the NBA. Yeah right, 1:49:51.040 --> 1:49:53.000 I just I don't know. But like I said, if 1:49:53.000 --> 1:49:55.080 we're doing some bron ship, now, if you get me, 1:49:55.200 --> 1:50:02.479 god damn it, two years twenty four. Paul stretched me 1:50:02.520 --> 1:50:10.479 out for the for the five year whatever. But I 1:50:10.520 --> 1:50:12.519 don't know, bro, that shit just in you in this. 1:50:14.120 --> 1:50:16.439 I'm glad we're talking about this because I don't really 1:50:16.479 --> 1:50:19.760 like players that bet on theirselfs too much, you know 1:50:19.760 --> 1:50:24.679 what I'm saying, Because I want, yeah, secure the bag bro. Yeah. 1:50:24.920 --> 1:50:31.920 And it's like, I mean, okay, granted a player wants 1:50:32.040 --> 1:50:35.559 to two three year deals, right, but like a I mean, 1:50:35.600 --> 1:50:40.360 even though it is a business, teams would probably want 1:50:40.400 --> 1:50:42.960 to see like more loyalty out of a player than like, 1:50:44.200 --> 1:50:45.840 let me get this two years. But let me get 1:50:45.840 --> 1:50:48.880 a player option my second year. That's tough, you know 1:50:48.920 --> 1:50:54.200 what I mean. But you signed that five year one twenty. 1:50:54.600 --> 1:50:57.120 Like Jeremy Grant in this situation right now, he just 1:50:57.120 --> 1:51:01.040 got offered five years like one fourteen. You gotta take that. 1:51:01.120 --> 1:51:04.080 I mean, four years one fourteen. He turned it down though, 1:51:04.120 --> 1:51:06.439 but he got tripping. Now he got the he got 1:51:06.439 --> 1:51:08.439 the option. They can offer him and forget. They can 1:51:08.520 --> 1:51:11.120 offer him five years up to two sixty. He's not 1:51:11.240 --> 1:51:13.320 getting that. I'm not saying you, but think about it. 1:51:13.360 --> 1:51:15.160 You can go in the free agency to get five 1:51:15.240 --> 1:51:21.080 years one seventy. Yeah, but listen though, right, okay, fourteen, Okay, 1:51:21.120 --> 1:51:23.599 that's a good question. Right, that's that's good. That's good. 1:51:23.920 --> 1:51:26.920 But I want to know what the percentages are when 1:51:27.080 --> 1:51:31.280 people turn their ship down and get spy and the 1:51:31.360 --> 1:51:34.400 ship gets spooky for him, or they turn it down 1:51:34.439 --> 1:51:36.479 and it works in their favor. I don't want to 1:51:36.479 --> 1:51:39.519 know what the percentages are. Like with with John Collins, 1:51:39.520 --> 1:51:42.280 we turned that ninety down, but they went to the 1:51:42.280 --> 1:51:45.080 Eastern Conference finals, that's what That's how he was able 1:51:45.120 --> 1:51:49.599 to get that one twenty. So oh yeah, but Portland. 1:51:49.680 --> 1:51:52.120 Portland is not a Portland. I need. I'm gonna take 1:51:52.120 --> 1:51:54.040 that one fourteen because I'm looking like, man, we're not 1:51:54.080 --> 1:51:57.720 gonna We're not like no championship type of team. We 1:51:57.800 --> 1:52:00.559 gotta we gotta. I gotta show something in the playoffs 1:52:00.560 --> 1:52:02.680 before for me to get this two sixty. But they 1:52:02.720 --> 1:52:06.240 already offer you one fourteen, but they don't get players. 1:52:07.160 --> 1:52:10.120 That's true. They already kind of like, damn, we need 1:52:10.200 --> 1:52:12.000 him to stay. That's true. Now you kind of got 1:52:12.080 --> 1:52:15.479 him like I'm a gambling nigga, five one thirteen, and 1:52:15.560 --> 1:52:18.400 what Jeffrey just said, I could get to sixty, you're 1:52:18.400 --> 1:52:22.760 gonna try to sixty. I don't even want to six. 1:52:23.080 --> 1:52:26.880 Never if I get the five one seventy five eight, 1:52:28.520 --> 1:52:31.719 you said, ain't gonna lie the ninety to one twenty 1:52:32.640 --> 1:52:40.559 the ninety. But for every told you they off me. 1:52:40.920 --> 1:52:48.080 I'm not sweating, going to be sweat but will under pressure. 1:52:48.439 --> 1:52:51.759 They lets you know, John Collins works will under pressure 1:52:51.800 --> 1:52:55.000 because think about it, but he bullishit. He's been bullishitt 1:52:55.320 --> 1:52:57.839 They say we're gonna trade you away. That nigga been cooking. 1:52:58.640 --> 1:53:08.200 Understand me, that been cooking three fishing nig but the 1:53:09.120 --> 1:53:12.800 he worked well for every John Collins, you get another's No, 1:53:12.840 --> 1:53:16.439 will you get Isaiah Thomas? See what I'm saying, how 1:53:16.479 --> 1:53:19.320 sick is nerveless? No? Will how si t bro? I 1:53:20.520 --> 1:53:23.559 know he's sick. Bro. What I turned down though the 1:53:23.560 --> 1:53:25.800 mas like sixty though? No, No, it was like a 1:53:25.840 --> 1:53:28.320 small band. It was a small band. It was a 1:53:28.439 --> 1:53:31.840 Hunter guaranteed he would have signed that too. Was him 1:53:31.880 --> 1:53:35.080 getting hurt? Yeah? I thought it was Lisa Hunter. I 1:53:35.280 --> 1:53:37.400 don't even know if he got offered the extension, but 1:53:39.320 --> 1:53:41.080 because he was, it was like it was like a 1:53:41.160 --> 1:53:44.120 small window. It wasn't like your boy though. No, ner 1:53:45.680 --> 1:53:52.040 seventy stroulder, You got Victor Shoulder trying to stroulder vic 1:53:52.439 --> 1:53:58.439 vic stroller from Indian So what do you do? He 1:53:58.520 --> 1:54:02.559 turned down that that good three year that's stability you 1:54:02.600 --> 1:54:05.280 wanted to get in Miami. I feel you look at 1:54:05.320 --> 1:54:10.120 it in Miami looked differently. You can't got hurt. It's 1:54:10.160 --> 1:54:15.880 hard bout that'd be people be fooling, you know, Like, man, listen, 1:54:16.160 --> 1:54:20.280 I can live in Indiana, man, ship man that bottle 1:54:20.360 --> 1:54:22.600 right there, one hundred dollars in the club. You know 1:54:22.600 --> 1:54:25.840 what I'm saying, Come on, man, keep come on, A 1:54:25.960 --> 1:54:28.439 thousand dollars six hund dollars in Atlanta. Man, this is 1:54:28.439 --> 1:54:31.559 one hundred dollars. Man, I can't beat that shit. Man. 1:54:33.040 --> 1:54:36.800 You my really hanging out often? Am I really hanging 1:54:36.800 --> 1:54:39.440 out for I'm gonna be in the house you see 1:54:39.440 --> 1:54:42.000 where I live? Hold on saying how much that is 1:54:42.040 --> 1:54:45.600 in Atlanta? Man? About seven eight hundred dollars? Here that 1:54:46.160 --> 1:54:49.960 with hook and see what I'm man? You the man 1:54:50.080 --> 1:54:53.560 out here. Man, You're the man. You are the man. 1:54:54.040 --> 1:54:57.520 You see what I'm saying? So like you got to 1:54:57.520 --> 1:55:00.040 think about that type of ship, all that bushit. I 1:55:00.040 --> 1:55:03.600 want no state taxes. It's no state tax, property taxes 1:55:03.760 --> 1:55:07.760 where they're gonna smack you all. You go down to 1:55:07.800 --> 1:55:14.600 the South Beach. You paid a hundred thousands. Yeah, oh man, yeah, 1:55:15.640 --> 1:55:17.920 smoth man. We appreciate you sliding on us. Man, so 1:55:18.000 --> 1:55:20.800 many more sorts. You gotta have you back again. Appreciate 1:55:20.840 --> 1:55:24.760 your rocking wet of course, of course, Jeff, did you 1:55:24.800 --> 1:55:27.000 ever go out when bio meth was in the linta? Yes, 1:55:27.120 --> 1:55:32.640 I did see that. That's when it was so funny, dog, 1:55:33.040 --> 1:55:35.960 because you said, like when when they beat me for 1:55:36.040 --> 1:55:39.120 the threes and step in, So it was like all right, well, 1:55:39.120 --> 1:55:40.520 I ain't gonna go here, but I'm gonna go here. 1:55:40.560 --> 1:55:44.400 You know what. I had went to Man City a 1:55:44.440 --> 1:55:48.800 couple of times, and uh, this ship was funny, dog. 1:55:49.480 --> 1:55:51.800 So I'm in it. Like the first time I'm going there. Dog, 1:55:51.960 --> 1:55:54.640 it's like a deer in headlights. So like the next 1:55:54.720 --> 1:55:59.760 time we're in pressing like Twine were going back, we're 1:55:59.760 --> 1:56:01.560 going back. Like I'm just like, you know what I'm saying. 1:56:01.720 --> 1:56:03.400 He like, he took me there a couple more times 1:56:03.440 --> 1:56:07.240 and then everybody was out of practice. He's like, coach, 1:56:07.320 --> 1:56:09.520 like me, how let you real quick? Well, Mike, Mike, 1:56:09.600 --> 1:56:13.840 what's just locked room? When he was like a man, uh, 1:56:14.520 --> 1:56:16.280 how you doing? I'm good. I'm good. He's like, man, 1:56:16.400 --> 1:56:18.040 you've been he've been all right. I said, I'm good. 1:56:18.040 --> 1:56:22.000 He's like, hey, man, stapp stap him, stab them titty bars. Man. 1:56:22.560 --> 1:56:25.080 So I'm like, what you're talking about? You know what 1:56:25.120 --> 1:56:28.080 I'm saying? Stupid? You know what You're like, I don't 1:56:28.080 --> 1:56:30.200 know what you're talking about. Like, I ain't. I ain't 1:56:30.240 --> 1:56:32.360 been in no strip club. I think I went one time, 1:56:32.400 --> 1:56:35.840 but I ain't. He like, listen, man, the chief police 1:56:35.840 --> 1:56:38.360 said he's seen you. Man. He said, ain't gonna shut down. 1:56:38.760 --> 1:56:40.600 So I'm like, this is not like damn okay, I'm 1:56:40.800 --> 1:56:43.240 it shit getting real for me. Like so I'm like, 1:56:44.640 --> 1:56:49.560 I'm like, uh, dropped my head. I said all right, man, 1:56:50.640 --> 1:56:52.560 I said all right, I ain't all right. I ain't 1:56:52.560 --> 1:56:54.400 gonna go no more. I ain't go no more. So 1:56:54.480 --> 1:56:58.000 I was like, shit, So this when I started meeting 1:56:58.320 --> 1:57:00.680 with a meeting shamane, do you know what I'm saying, 1:57:00.720 --> 1:57:04.640 start being cold jamindu print stuff, and uh he was 1:57:04.720 --> 1:57:07.040 taking me out, you know what I'm saying. So shit, 1:57:07.120 --> 1:57:09.520 I was like, okay. That was another little suss of like, Okay, 1:57:09.520 --> 1:57:13.360 I can get in these clubs. Right. So I remember 1:57:13.400 --> 1:57:15.040 were in the back, were in the back of Visions 1:57:15.120 --> 1:57:20.600 one day and uh, I'm about to get out because 1:57:20.600 --> 1:57:22.440 I'm thirsty. You know, I'm young, I'm thirsty. I'm ready 1:57:22.440 --> 1:57:24.560 to see what going on in there because I had 1:57:24.640 --> 1:57:27.160 just got kicked out the month before. You know what 1:57:27.160 --> 1:57:30.920 I'm saying, like I had, I had slid up, slid 1:57:31.200 --> 1:57:34.200 up the security guy like a couple of hundred you 1:57:34.240 --> 1:57:42.320 know what I'm saying, motherfucker, So big love alex Ago. 1:57:42.760 --> 1:57:46.360 So once I get that mother motherfucking two seconds, it's 1:57:46.440 --> 1:57:48.240 dude like come in, like, come on me, like let me. 1:57:48.400 --> 1:57:49.840 I was like, oh, I'm thinking that they're gonna take 1:57:49.840 --> 1:57:51.720 me to the to the section. You know what, the section. 1:57:52.120 --> 1:57:54.360 He's like, come come on. So like me and Josh 1:57:54.480 --> 1:57:59.160 Chills were walking me, Josh d. Smith were walking. Man, man, 1:57:59.280 --> 1:58:00.800 open the door. Man. It took me to the bed 1:58:00.920 --> 1:58:09.640 like outside, like I was like, yeah, hold up. It 1:58:09.760 --> 1:58:11.600 was like a picture out like nigga, don't let this 1:58:11.680 --> 1:58:14.280 little nigga in. You know what I'm saying. They put 1:58:14.320 --> 1:58:19.760 the head out. Niggas' coming head up. You know what 1:58:19.800 --> 1:58:23.480 I'm saying. You know what I'm so. I was like 1:58:24.880 --> 1:58:28.160 it was funny as hell. So uh, I like boom, damn, 1:58:28.240 --> 1:58:30.120 I'm getting this bitch. I can't. It was like one 1:58:30.240 --> 1:58:33.760 twelve across the street. So I'm like, shit, I go, 1:58:33.920 --> 1:58:35.920 I get I like I'm with you made the priest, 1:58:35.960 --> 1:58:38.440 So sho, I'm about to get out the car. He like, 1:58:38.760 --> 1:58:40.200 hold on, hold on, hold on your fell hold on. 1:58:40.760 --> 1:58:43.000 So like, man, why what's up? Why you know what 1:58:43.040 --> 1:58:46.560 I'm saying? He like, shit, let the let the go 1:58:46.640 --> 1:58:49.680 in here. Look to the right. But it's like sixty people. 1:58:50.400 --> 1:58:52.640 So I'm like, what the fuck you know what I'm saying, Like, 1:58:52.680 --> 1:58:55.600 what the hell going now? I'm just like thirty niggas, 1:58:55.720 --> 1:58:59.480 thirty thirty girls, like no exaggeration, you know what I'm saying, 1:58:59.480 --> 1:59:03.960 all these big ass pieces medallion pieces and shit, bingmf 1:59:04.080 --> 1:59:07.080 then but it's like all kind of crazy pieces. Yeah, 1:59:07.560 --> 1:59:10.040 So I'm like, the fuck. So we're going there, I 1:59:10.160 --> 1:59:12.880 going there. We're going there like nearly and so once 1:59:12.920 --> 1:59:15.280 they they get in, they they let them in, no 1:59:15.480 --> 1:59:18.480 pat down, none of that shit. So like the vibes normally, 1:59:18.600 --> 1:59:22.440 like I'm guessing like JD probably wasn't tripping at that moment, 1:59:22.480 --> 1:59:25.800 but he was like, man, ain't nobody y'all checking out 1:59:25.840 --> 1:59:27.600 of my niggas? You know what I'm feeling, like, we 1:59:27.680 --> 1:59:30.120 hate no showing our did none of that ship. So 1:59:30.200 --> 1:59:31.880 he would he would buck because he's like, there, ain't 1:59:31.880 --> 1:59:33.680 gonna let the niggas. They let all these niggas here 1:59:33.720 --> 1:59:35.760 with dope. So he like, shit, fuck this shit, I'm 1:59:35.760 --> 1:59:39.480 gonna go him. So should we get in now? I'm like, 1:59:39.560 --> 1:59:41.800 I'm really in this bitch. So we got there, We're 1:59:41.800 --> 1:59:44.480 going to We're going to section now, I'm in there. Section. 1:59:44.560 --> 1:59:47.120 I'm sitting down. Yeah, I ain't I ain't I want 1:59:47.200 --> 1:59:49.440 one of them niggas. Like you see me, watch me, 1:59:49.560 --> 1:59:51.440 you know what I'm saying. I'm like, I'm sitting down 1:59:51.600 --> 1:59:54.560 like trying to like see what's going on, see the hall, 1:59:54.640 --> 1:59:56.520 you know what I'm saying. Like, you know what I'm saying. 1:59:56.560 --> 2:00:00.720 So I look across, I look across the uh the thing, 2:00:00.800 --> 2:00:03.240 and they got the whole It's like it's like bruh, 2:00:03.280 --> 2:00:06.920 it's like a big ass section over there, like but 2:00:07.000 --> 2:00:10.320 it's like different sections. They had the whole spot over 2:00:10.400 --> 2:00:13.440 there though. It was like probably like eight sections over 2:00:13.520 --> 2:00:15.800 the mother, you know what I'm saying. And they just 2:00:16.000 --> 2:00:20.280 over there be I'm like, I'm like damn, Like okay, 2:00:20.360 --> 2:00:23.200 these big niggas. I'm like shit, because it's like you 2:00:23.280 --> 2:00:26.400 gotta like understand like when we used to have them, 2:00:26.480 --> 2:00:29.520 when we used had the meetings, you know, we had 2:00:29.560 --> 2:00:32.600 the meetings every every year with the NBA security and 2:00:32.600 --> 2:00:34.360 all that stuff. They had it on that shit like 2:00:34.480 --> 2:00:37.520 look man, like you see they see these people, man 2:00:38.480 --> 2:00:40.120 go the other way, you know what I'm saying. Like, 2:00:40.240 --> 2:00:43.480 so they putting fear in your heart already, you know 2:00:43.520 --> 2:00:45.080 what I'm saying. Like, so you're like, what the fuck 2:00:45.160 --> 2:00:48.560 going on. So, man, you see the unmarked black cars 2:00:48.600 --> 2:00:50.640 and shit like that. Man being like, you know what 2:00:50.680 --> 2:00:53.840 I'm saying, Like this, when I was young and single. 2:00:53.920 --> 2:00:56.320 You know what I'm saying. I pulled up. I used 2:00:56.360 --> 2:00:59.720 to like I was young, so like I wasn't dealing 2:00:59.760 --> 2:01:01.680 with the girls my age. You know what I'm saying, 2:01:01.720 --> 2:01:06.320 Like I'm eighteen, they like twenty six, nobody my age. 2:01:07.080 --> 2:01:08.680 So I pull up to her. How she likes to 2:01:08.720 --> 2:01:10.320 live on the east Side. I pull up and I 2:01:10.400 --> 2:01:13.560 see a little black Corvette in the driveway, So I 2:01:13.720 --> 2:01:17.400 put pull the cold of six. Ain't man, who the 2:01:17.480 --> 2:01:20.280 hell you know? Saying who the hell? Who? As I 2:01:20.560 --> 2:01:24.640 my sister and friend, I said, okay, shit, I'm gonna 2:01:24.640 --> 2:01:32.800 get what you later on. Yeah, I heard what I heard. 2:01:32.840 --> 2:01:39.960 What ship? It was the Cross Pass? Shit, I was pipe, bro, 2:01:41.760 --> 2:01:45.640 you know what I'm saying. You know what I mean? Said, 2:01:45.720 --> 2:01:48.920 no go yeah, but I've seen the eight Days. They 2:01:49.000 --> 2:01:51.960 had a they had a food last run boy, not 2:01:52.400 --> 2:01:55.560 fishing Atlanta. I mean, I'm watching the series now and 2:01:55.680 --> 2:01:58.360 I'm like, I wanted to see how it started because 2:01:58.960 --> 2:02:03.120 when it was like three oh, like that era. Man, 2:02:03.480 --> 2:02:07.280 that that year them years they had a Lando, and 2:02:07.400 --> 2:02:10.040 they had a land on and the chokehod. It really 2:02:10.160 --> 2:02:13.240 was about to like Jesus was about to help them, 2:02:13.680 --> 2:02:15.800 you know what I'm saying, Yeah, get on, but he 2:02:15.920 --> 2:02:20.120 just didn't. It was happening too slow. Yeah, yeah, that's crast. 2:02:20.160 --> 2:02:22.040 They probably had a bigger father. Every sports team in 2:02:22.320 --> 2:02:24.720 at the same time, the Falcons, the Hogs being bigger. 2:02:24.840 --> 2:02:28.880 They had billboards and ship man. Yeah it was I think, Uh, 2:02:29.600 --> 2:02:32.720 they weren't bigger than Vig. Nobody was bigger than might be, 2:02:32.920 --> 2:02:35.160 absolutely not. No, No, he was bigger. It might be. 2:02:35.480 --> 2:02:39.960 He was the man. He was the fucking man. Whenever 2:02:40.080 --> 2:02:42.800 that dog fight it was it was after being meth though, Yeah, 2:02:42.840 --> 2:02:45.160 that might be. Yeah, yeah, it was like a little 2:02:45.160 --> 2:02:47.840 after being man. It was like being math boomed. Then 2:02:47.920 --> 2:02:52.440 it was the ship right after that ship had remember 2:02:54.560 --> 2:02:58.440 come on the hot time, come on. He was the 2:02:58.520 --> 2:03:02.839 island and Irish and of football in like in Atlanta, 2:03:04.360 --> 2:03:06.640 like like I re Memb when I was younger and man, 2:03:06.840 --> 2:03:08.560 I used to see him. Man I used to be 2:03:08.680 --> 2:03:12.360 in the nosebleed brouh it'd be sold out. People used 2:03:12.360 --> 2:03:15.280 to love to see that man. Legend, legend and Mike Vig. 2:03:15.920 --> 2:03:20.800 He had Atlanto smash for sure. That's crazy. Great way 2:03:20.800 --> 2:03:22.760 to the end of great story, great guests. App cha, 2:03:22.880 --> 2:03:25.600 you're rocking with us like shit. Subscribe all that cool shit. 2:03:25.840 --> 2:03:28.360 Catch y'all next time. So yeah, sir,
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