Latest / Club 520 Podcast / 520 THROWBACK: James Johnson on hooping with Jeff Teague at Wake & Derrick Rose in Chicago
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- 0:43Speaker 2: All right, man, we back another episode of Club five
- 0:45Speaker 2: to twenty podcasts on your Home Life is DJ Wells
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- 0:53Speaker 2: with the family, James, I know we were around the
- 0:55Speaker 2: same age group.
- 0:55Speaker 4: We had a Bootmobile trap phone back in the day.
- 0:57Speaker 5: Bro Oh, you know I definitely had a boost.
- 0:59Speaker 2: Mo come on, man, legendary hit me on my next tail,
- 1:03Speaker 2: chirping on the ViOS man tapping with the film hard
- 1:06Speaker 2: rock beat my dog be hearing?
- 1:08Speaker 6: How you what? Man?
- 1:08Speaker 4: Playoff time with the lads looking light.
- 1:11Speaker 3: It's been wicked. I got I gotta call Adam Silber.
- 1:15Speaker 3: But we were hanging on. Man, for sure, you gotta
- 1:17Speaker 3: call it commissioner. I know I'm gonna get a call
- 1:19Speaker 3: about our real Yeah, I didn't know. Y'all clue that.
- 1:23Speaker 3: I said, Adam, you gotta get this ship together going
- 1:26Speaker 3: on now.
- 1:27Speaker 2: When I said the pacers got cheated to fire, everybody said,
- 1:30Speaker 2: I'm called a commissioner.
- 1:31Speaker 4: You missed one. Lena, you're going straight to the top.
- 1:34Speaker 3: Well we'll talk. We're gonna talk cool, we'll get into it.
- 1:37Speaker 3: I don't want to get turned onto.
- 1:40Speaker 6: Bro.
- 1:40Speaker 4: Obviously a league of long time you have.
- 1:42Speaker 2: Anybody hit you a lot about the parlay was like, Dave,
- 1:44Speaker 2: you sold on to me today?
- 1:45Speaker 6: Man, Nah, that's what if you listened.
- 1:55Speaker 4: In fact, you discern it the right way.
- 1:59Speaker 2: Man, shout out the horror for sure, last with certain
- 2:01Speaker 2: at least man shout out family over there at stock
- 2:03Speaker 2: X Man, we got family in the building and a
- 2:05Speaker 2: guess we got family as usual, introducing blast Man to
- 2:08Speaker 2: my far left.
- 2:09Speaker 4: We got my dog Bi should be here out how
- 2:11Speaker 4: you what, nasty?
- 2:12Speaker 6: What's happening?
- 2:13Speaker 5: Nasty?
- 2:13Speaker 3: I'm excited about this one. This one here a real one.
- 2:16Speaker 3: Bro like this nigga lifted the building off my car.
- 2:19Speaker 6: Man. Yeah, yeah, it's a real one.
- 2:26Speaker 7: Man.
- 2:26Speaker 4: Yeah, Man, listen before you get through intro.
- 2:29Speaker 6: We got it. It's only right we do the stories
- 2:31Speaker 6: all man. Listen.
- 2:31Speaker 2: Man. The first time we had this episode playing, it
- 2:33Speaker 2: was one of the craziest stories we have ever had
- 2:35Speaker 2: in this city. Shout out to the old building. Man,
- 2:38Speaker 2: it definitely fail. Everybody car man, Bro pulled up in
- 2:41Speaker 2: the new truck.
- 2:42Speaker 4: Rab that bit straight into the wall. Everybody pull that
- 2:44Speaker 4: car out.
- 2:46Speaker 6: It's raining outside. Ray, I'm like, this is nigga, James,
- 2:49Speaker 6: Why this is a true story, y'all?
- 2:57Speaker 5: I ain't get to see it.
- 3:02Speaker 6: Way worse than Bro.
- 3:05Speaker 2: You know what's crazy about that in the building you
- 3:08Speaker 2: oh god, we had to get it off through you're
- 3:13Speaker 2: parking the wrong the whole building.
- 3:17Speaker 6: That's true story. They just fight with Your ship can
- 3:19Speaker 6: get trampled.
- 3:22Speaker 2: Shake, hey, man, you know everything doing good Maxuse everybody
- 3:24Speaker 2: can new cars up there?
- 3:25Speaker 6: Man, God is good for sure. Man.
- 3:27Speaker 4: Still to my right, my dog young, not your young teag.
- 3:29Speaker 6: You what good bro?
- 3:30Speaker 4: We got family in the building, my brother. I can't wait.
- 3:33Speaker 1: This is the episode everybody's been waiting on talking about
- 3:36Speaker 1: this finally happened.
- 3:37Speaker 4: Its about to be a goodie. Come on, man, the
- 3:39Speaker 4: real work for us.
- 3:40Speaker 6: Man.
- 3:40Speaker 2: We got sixteen year event man, pacers, legend, our family
- 3:43Speaker 2: to build a man, mister James Johnson, Man, big dog,
- 3:45Speaker 2: We appreciate you again.
- 3:46Speaker 4: Brother be man.
- 3:48Speaker 6: What for sure, bro, legend.
- 3:52Speaker 2: Man, we had to do it for sure? Man, that tea. Man,
- 3:55Speaker 2: just tell us how y'all linked up?
- 3:56Speaker 1: Man? Obviously I go way back. We go way back.
- 3:59Speaker 1: But the first time I seen James, he was walking
- 4:01Speaker 1: through the airport. I was leaving my wake for his visit.
- 4:05Speaker 1: He was coming onto his wake for his visit, and
- 4:07Speaker 1: they was picking him up dropping me off, and I'm
- 4:09Speaker 1: like he walking about.
- 4:11Speaker 6: I was like this. He was like what up?
- 4:13Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, I'm gonna go to wait.
- 4:17Speaker 1: I just knew, like that be my Partnert like what up?
- 4:20Speaker 1: And then they told me James just committed. Man, We're
- 4:21Speaker 1: gonna have James. I'm like, dude, I've.
- 4:23Speaker 4: Seen the airport right.
- 4:24Speaker 6: He's like yeah.
- 4:24Speaker 1: I was like, Coach battle was like he cold, man,
- 4:28Speaker 1: he cold, And I was like he cold.
- 4:30Speaker 4: He was like, he ain't gonna be with us very long?
- 4:34Speaker 6: What you mean by that? He was like, he's gonna
- 4:35Speaker 6: go to the NBA. Damn. It was right. It was
- 4:40Speaker 6: got a coach battles man. He was right about a
- 4:42Speaker 6: lot of things. Coach b what made you choose White?
- 4:47Speaker 8: Like?
- 4:47Speaker 6: What made you commit? I went on my visit them
- 4:52Speaker 6: niggas was weak and was I tell the tru it
- 5:03Speaker 6: was a weak And I said, oh no, I'm gonna
- 5:05Speaker 6: play here right away, Okay.
- 5:11Speaker 4: Right away.
- 5:12Speaker 6: This is before you know what I mean. I ain't
- 5:14Speaker 6: knowing him like that. Now I know h l d
- 5:17Speaker 6: even camp before he left, You know what I mean?
- 5:20Speaker 6: It was It was definitely a business decision, more than
- 5:25Speaker 6: more than anything else. Shout out Pat Kelsey as well,
- 5:28Speaker 6: you know, making turn the Louisville around too, But sir,
- 5:31Speaker 6: he came around, made sure make sure that uh wake
- 5:36Speaker 6: force was the top priority for me too as well.
- 5:38Speaker 5: So hell of a scout, hell of a coach.
- 5:41Speaker 6: Yeah, a cool dude, man, come.
- 5:44Speaker 4: On, man, getting the bill back right.
- 5:45Speaker 2: For sure, y'all had a crazy introduction to college though
- 5:48Speaker 2: for both of y'all obviously what happened at RP coach processing,
- 5:51Speaker 2: But what was that, like I'm saying, linking up getting
- 5:53Speaker 2: on campus and then dealing with that before you even
- 5:55Speaker 2: get into school or school even start for real, Yo,
- 5:59Speaker 2: that I was.
- 6:00Speaker 6: One of the most like overwhelming I thought. I think
- 6:06Speaker 6: that college ever was at that time. Bro, Like after
- 6:10Speaker 6: that happened, I'm like, there's nothing else really that can
- 6:12Speaker 6: go on, that can like yeah, so even even even
- 6:19Speaker 6: that alone was like playing pressure free because we knew,
- 6:22Speaker 6: like deep down our loyalty. I mean that we deserved
- 6:26Speaker 6: this for our loyalty because anybody you could have just left,
- 6:30Speaker 6: you see what I'm saying, with no penalty or the
- 6:33Speaker 6: portal and all this shit they got going on. Now
- 6:36Speaker 6: it's like you leave now it's good money, but you
- 6:39Speaker 6: you you leave back then, you said now the year
- 6:43Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. But that wasn't the case
- 6:45Speaker 6: for us, Like we got to go to choosing any
- 6:47Speaker 6: school we wanted to and uh, with no no penalties
- 6:51Speaker 6: of trading schools or whatever. So I think it was
- 6:55Speaker 6: our loyalty. And like I said, after something like that happened,
- 6:58Speaker 6: I don't think nothing really can shake you in college.
- 7:02Speaker 1: I remember the day you remember he took us to McDonald's.
- 7:06Speaker 1: That nigga drunk out my shape, no disrespect r I P.
- 7:12Speaker 1: He drunk out my shake. I was sitting in the front.
- 7:14Speaker 1: He was like, my point guard. Got to be in
- 7:15Speaker 1: the front, you know what I mean. So JJ, he
- 7:18Speaker 1: was in the back and he drunk out my shape.
- 7:20Speaker 4: I remember. I was like, and he drunk my shake
- 7:22Speaker 4: and JJ was like that's his shake. Now. After that
- 7:27Speaker 4: he passed away.
- 7:28Speaker 6: I was like, I don't want no more shakes, like that's.
- 7:30Speaker 3: Crazy no and not just yeah how long?
- 7:40Speaker 6: Like oh, Ship, he didn't We had went there.
- 7:42Speaker 1: He dropped us off. We went up to uh study tables.
- 7:47Speaker 1: He went to his office and they was like he
- 7:49Speaker 1: was running on the track.
- 7:50Speaker 4: He was been there for an hour. They came and
- 7:52Speaker 4: got us.
- 7:53Speaker 6: Damn bro. I never considered transferring.
- 7:59Speaker 1: I did because I only knew coach battle Yeah and
- 8:02Speaker 1: coach Prosser. I never met coach Kelson now and I'm like, Ship,
- 8:09Speaker 1: who's gonna.
- 8:10Speaker 6: Be the coach?
- 8:10Speaker 4: They like Coach Gattio almost.
- 8:14Speaker 6: And there was bulches out there. What happened? Like I'm
- 8:16Speaker 6: getting text message from other coaches like yo, come here
- 8:20Speaker 6: and come to our school, you'll play this. I'm like, damn,
- 8:23Speaker 6: they ain't even checking all y'all or nothing like to
- 8:27Speaker 6: pull up said for sure, but I was.
- 8:31Speaker 4: I ain't no coach Gattio at all. But we all
- 8:34Speaker 4: thug it up.
- 8:34Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 8:34Speaker 5: Me, I was with Pat Kelsey the whole time and everything.
- 8:39Speaker 5: I ain't know. I ain't no gaudio. What was next up?
- 8:42Speaker 1: I remember they just had us a coach p house
- 8:45Speaker 1: for like five hours. They didn't tell us nothing, you remember, right,
- 8:49Speaker 1: they were just down there eating pizza Krispy krean all
- 8:53Speaker 1: type of ship.
- 8:53Speaker 6: You know.
- 8:54Speaker 1: I'm a kid at the time, eighteen, Yeah, like this
- 8:57Speaker 1: ship cool like telling us. So we just think we
- 9:01Speaker 1: having a good ass time of coach pls. And they
- 9:04Speaker 1: finally told us like, damn.
- 9:06Speaker 2: That's nuts, bro man, that's crazy to start your college
- 9:09Speaker 2: screw off like that before I even get into like
- 9:11Speaker 2: real campus life and shi like that.
- 9:12Speaker 6: Yeah, it was crazy. Damn did you funk with the
- 9:16Speaker 6: new coach at first?
- 9:19Speaker 5: It was always cool with me him.
- 9:33Speaker 4: That's get a long game. I know this will what's
- 9:37Speaker 4: he going to doing this?
- 9:38Speaker 6: It was like I.
- 9:41Speaker 4: Ain't fucking got.
- 9:42Speaker 5: No, but he was. He was so good though.
- 9:45Speaker 6: Jeff was so good, like it was undeniably like he
- 9:48Speaker 6: was supposed to be starting. I'm knocking nobody, like they
- 9:51Speaker 6: know how we feel. It's all about yeah. But now,
- 9:54Speaker 6: Jeff was always always better than everybody real, like he
- 9:59Speaker 6: do moves what they used to call you by any
- 10:02Speaker 6: means necessary.
- 10:04Speaker 9: They used to call means necessary. I don't know Jeff
- 10:14Speaker 9: like that.
- 10:18Speaker 6: But he used to get a bucket any way on
- 10:22Speaker 6: five on one, you know what I mean. So it
- 10:24Speaker 6: was like people looked up to Jeff, but Jeff was
- 10:27Speaker 6: always silent, like you had to really know Jeff. I
- 10:29Speaker 6: think the person who got the best Jeff for real
- 10:32Speaker 6: is uh, it's Gary Clark, his roommate, another fellow fresh
- 10:39Speaker 6: like him and g like shared a different bond, but
- 10:42Speaker 6: me and him, we shared the were the best player
- 10:44Speaker 6: on the team bond.
- 10:49Speaker 5: And this is how we carried it this year.
- 10:53Speaker 6: It was like it was like it was like me
- 10:57Speaker 6: and him pushed each other in that sense, and then
- 11:00Speaker 6: we upstairs late night playing one on one the gym
- 11:03Speaker 6: only ones, and that we being there Saturdays, Fridays till
- 11:05Speaker 6: three in the morning to in the morning playing once
- 11:08Speaker 6: you know what I mean. So it was always mutual.
- 11:10Speaker 6: But like I said, L. D. Williams was was was
- 11:13Speaker 6: great for us. Is Smith obviously an NBA legend as well,
- 11:17Speaker 6: in my heart changed the game with his speed and
- 11:22Speaker 6: all that. He's a student of the game, all that.
- 11:25Speaker 6: Chase al Faruk, obviously Al Fruit came in. When Al
- 11:28Speaker 6: Fruit came in, all right, there was there was no
- 11:30Speaker 6: longer two best players came into that. Now we had
- 11:38Speaker 6: three best players. Were different. We carried a different board too.
- 11:44Speaker 6: Like I remember when Al Fruit came on his visit.
- 11:48Speaker 6: He came on his visit and I was what they
- 11:51Speaker 6: called chaperone. He was the guy to.
- 11:55Speaker 5: His guide or whatever man. He probably stand.
- 12:00Speaker 6: Wake Forest was giving it up like that at the time.
- 12:02Speaker 6: But right when he got there, I think he saw
- 12:04Speaker 6: a football football fight, two girls fighting the hallway. I mean,
- 12:10Speaker 6: I ain't gonna say who picked that up? That's you
- 12:16Speaker 6: got it back. It was crazy, it was. He was
- 12:24Speaker 6: not ready to go out.
- 12:25Speaker 5: He was like yo, coming away.
- 12:27Speaker 4: We knew he was Remember a white dude.
- 12:29Speaker 1: Ryan Kelly came through and we had all them fights yeah, going.
- 12:34Speaker 1: We had like ten fights, bro. He ended up going
- 12:36Speaker 1: to Duke though we started.
- 12:39Speaker 6: Yeah, Ryan Kelly, you scared of the ship out, But
- 12:43Speaker 6: it wasn't much. It was wake force, Like I never
- 12:45Speaker 6: said that about you know, was it wasn't just basketball? Yeah,
- 12:52Speaker 6: football niggas. What all from Florida? Uh yeah, I mean
- 12:56Speaker 6: all from Florida, my niggas. It was wild enough about
- 13:01Speaker 6: all the fights.
- 13:02Speaker 1: It was Hello fights. It was Hello fight. We were
- 13:06Speaker 1: just talking about what downstairs, but it was hell yeah.
- 13:09Speaker 6: It was fights. Mutual respect and uh, how was your
- 13:13Speaker 6: relationship with the football team? Niggas was cool?
- 13:17Speaker 5: I mean me and Jeffly.
- 13:19Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna go to the story first because
- 13:21Speaker 1: he made us cool with the football team because they
- 13:25Speaker 1: kept calling me Mike Conley when I first got there,
- 13:27Speaker 1: Oh lord, And I was like, y'all stop calling my time.
- 13:30Speaker 1: I don't like that ship and uh, me and j
- 13:34Speaker 1: J and G we was all just starting to get cool,
- 13:36Speaker 1: like we're just starting to figure each other out. And
- 13:39Speaker 1: dude called me Mike Conley again, and I got shitty
- 13:41Speaker 1: and j J was like, Hey, my nigga, if you
- 13:43Speaker 1: call me Mike Conley again, I gonna beat your ass
- 13:45Speaker 1: and football nigga Like what nigga and the LD was like, noh,
- 13:51Speaker 1: he'll beat yours. He's like, here, beat your ass, dude,
- 14:03Speaker 1: kind of chill that. That's how we got cool with
- 14:05Speaker 1: the football players.
- 14:06Speaker 6: Okay, okay, but then all of.
- 14:08Speaker 5: Them turned out young in turn.
- 14:11Speaker 6: But good guys, good character, a lot of chip bond
- 14:14Speaker 6: that's my brother, Aaron Curry, Yeah, a c ac even Fawns.
- 14:20Speaker 5: Man.
- 14:20Speaker 6: I know a lot of people go, I'm gonna get
- 14:22Speaker 6: backlashing that with the basketball.
- 14:24Speaker 4: But.
- 14:26Speaker 6: Smith was cool, great human oh man.
- 14:36Speaker 2: Obviously your freshman yeary'll get in there. You know what
- 14:38Speaker 2: I'm saying, y'all get active. I have a little bit
- 14:40Speaker 2: of success. But let's talk about going into that second
- 14:42Speaker 2: year where it got real. Y'all was nasty. What was
- 14:46Speaker 2: that feeling?
- 14:46Speaker 6: Like? Man? Shit, Jeff made us feel untouchable for real,
- 14:51Speaker 6: No bullshit. I mean, like, keep it a being like
- 14:55Speaker 6: we went to Cali. I think we went to California
- 14:57Speaker 6: right that seventy six classical Anaheim Classic or whatever. Jeff
- 15:05Speaker 6: went crazy. Yo. One of the dudes were watching my
- 15:07Speaker 6: film this nigga jumping out the gym. What do you
- 15:10Speaker 6: play for bulletin college.
- 15:12Speaker 1: Yeah, I forget the brother's name, but some was bouncy.
- 15:19Speaker 6: So Jeff get a still. I think you get a still.
- 15:21Speaker 6: Some rebound, he take off, Jeff take off on Bro
- 15:24Speaker 6: punch him. I think after that, everybody knew he was
- 15:27Speaker 6: gonna win that tournament. Like, yeah, there was mad teams
- 15:31Speaker 6: there too, we did, but like I said, Jeff led
- 15:34Speaker 6: the way with that and h our sophomore year, he
- 15:38Speaker 6: was a killer man. All them accolades, everything that that
- 15:40Speaker 6: shit was well deserved, especially like our team.
- 15:43Speaker 5: You know what I mean, we were stacked.
- 15:45Speaker 6: Y'all start off no more.
- 15:47Speaker 1: Nah, we start off like twenty five. Damn we got
- 15:50Speaker 1: to one though. That's because of them though they was.
- 15:53Speaker 1: They was special.
- 15:54Speaker 6: Bro.
- 15:54Speaker 1: Like our practices, we all was assholes in our own right, right.
- 15:59Speaker 1: We always like assholes. Like one thing about j J.
- 16:03Speaker 1: He always practiced hard. It was give give me a
- 16:07Speaker 1: day or two. I'm like, you know it.
- 16:12Speaker 6: Always there's no practice alls doing day. You can't be
- 16:17Speaker 6: a practice all American Jay.
- 16:20Speaker 1: He always practiced hard and he rolls the level of
- 16:23Speaker 1: practice every day. But he you see his energy. He
- 16:26Speaker 1: always talking. He always was like the vibes and our
- 16:29Speaker 1: freshman year, he was like that. So now I know
- 16:31Speaker 1: him as a sophomore. So they always just roll like
- 16:34Speaker 1: they made me better player. They did that, Like I
- 16:37Speaker 1: knew they was going to the NBA. He came back.
- 16:40Speaker 1: He was supposed to go his freshman year. He did
- 16:42Speaker 1: me a favor, you.
- 16:43Speaker 6: Know what I mean.
- 16:44Speaker 4: I begged it Paul's but I begged this nigga.
- 16:46Speaker 6: Out to leave.
- 16:46Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, if I'm a first round pick, I'm like, yeah,
- 16:51Speaker 1: but win this chick. Yeah, yeah, you gotta come back. Bro,
- 16:53Speaker 1: We're gonna be good again and we're gonna be nasty.
- 16:57Speaker 1: Like I can't do it, bron. He called me, like
- 17:01Speaker 1: I'm gonna come back. I'm like, for like you ship
- 17:06Speaker 1: if you don't want to me asking what was that?
- 17:08Speaker 1: What was that decision making process for you? Like obviously
- 17:10Speaker 1: could have went to the league as before, and what
- 17:12Speaker 1: made you come back?
- 17:15Speaker 6: You know, when you're young, you're naive, you know what
- 17:17Speaker 6: I mean, Like I was naive to the fact that
- 17:20Speaker 6: like we really win this mall, you know what saying,
- 17:25Speaker 6: Like I've always been that way, like anything with anything,
- 17:29Speaker 6: Like I really believe we could have won that motherfucker.
- 17:32Speaker 6: And that's why I came back, Like about that, like
- 17:36Speaker 6: and winning with my brothers too, Like the fellow fresh
- 17:38Speaker 6: was something fist that that's what Jeff, Gary myself, that's
- 17:42Speaker 6: what that's what we called each other whatever. But man,
- 17:46Speaker 6: we was fishy, know, like yeah, and we thought and
- 17:50Speaker 6: we thought.
- 17:50Speaker 5: Gary was gonna play more.
- 17:53Speaker 4: He had a burner.
- 17:54Speaker 6: Burner.
- 17:54Speaker 5: Gary had a burner, one of the best.
- 17:56Speaker 6: Like he's one of them dudes that Like I said,
- 17:58Speaker 6: if Jeff and I was playing one on one side
- 18:00Speaker 6: of the court, he on the other side of the
- 18:01Speaker 6: court with the chair going around the chair and getting
- 18:05Speaker 6: looks up, I'm like, damn, this nigga dedicated. Why didn't
- 18:09Speaker 6: he play?
- 18:09Speaker 4: What was what was the issue with politics?
- 18:13Speaker 6: I don't know, he just never. I think they liked
- 18:17Speaker 6: Harvey Hell better honestly, and he was older. Yeah, but.
- 18:24Speaker 5: Harvey Hell shouldn't have been playing over the respectfully.
- 18:37Speaker 6: I think that's.
- 18:39Speaker 2: Just say respect How would have been if it was
- 18:42Speaker 2: in il air, wow, because y'all all would have been
- 18:45Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying.
- 18:46Speaker 1: His sophomore year, he probably insane. He probably getting seven
- 18:50Speaker 1: million dollars bro No after your.
- 18:54Speaker 6: Probably I probably would have been in trouble summertime for years.
- 19:03Speaker 6: I mean that like these kids nowadays, they got they
- 19:06Speaker 6: learn about this, you know what I mean, Like we
- 19:08Speaker 6: didn't learn about that ship coming up or even or.
- 19:11Speaker 5: Even while we were there.
- 19:12Speaker 6: In fact, like now they're getting this so poor, so
- 19:15Speaker 6: so so fast that they're prepared. Their parents are preparing
- 19:19Speaker 6: them for it, they got managers preparing them for it.
- 19:21Speaker 5: So you know what I mean, shout out to them.
- 19:24Speaker 6: Obviously they should be getting this bread, but but they're
- 19:27Speaker 6: more prepared. I think they're far more advanced. And what
- 19:30Speaker 6: we were in social media this era. They're light years
- 19:34Speaker 6: ahead of us at that age, you know what I mean.
- 19:37Speaker 2: In fact, they getting paid the highchoal about something the
- 19:39Speaker 2: college they didn't a millionaire yawn there, but rightfully. So
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- 21:25Speaker 4: You would have definitely got seven million of y'all would
- 21:27Speaker 4: have had to have a UK pay roll.
- 21:28Speaker 8: Bro.
- 21:29Speaker 4: We probably i'ma be honest, he probably wouldn't have been
- 21:31Speaker 4: that way for.
- 21:31Speaker 5: Us, nah because wake Forest pays you with education.
- 21:34Speaker 4: Yeah he probably. He probably.
- 21:39Speaker 6: People to go.
- 21:40Speaker 3: There and get that edge that they ain't got chaw
- 21:42Speaker 3: and it's criming shots to the horn air. But I
- 21:44Speaker 3: think y'all would have been like at that time, and
- 21:48Speaker 3: if they got like this knowledge, now, y'all nigga would
- 21:50Speaker 3: have been gazillionaires.
- 21:51Speaker 6: Bro, he don't got to keep them. Bro, how are
- 21:53Speaker 6: you gonna know? James Johnson ain't no jift, ain't no
- 21:56Speaker 6: alpha ro walking through?
- 21:57Speaker 4: How I know?
- 21:58Speaker 1: I didn't even keep James Johnson YU or tell you
- 22:01Speaker 1: th don't look like look the track would have been different.
- 22:05Speaker 6: Oh yeah, he was like looking at the n I
- 22:07Speaker 6: l like, well, your rookie deal would have been there.
- 22:09Speaker 6: That's why you would have been straight with coming out.
- 22:12Speaker 1: Facts the number two three picks they get six, six years,
- 22:16Speaker 1: they get way more, a little bit different it.
- 22:18Speaker 6: Was before I did eight years, eight hard years for
- 22:26Speaker 6: sixty years.
- 22:27Speaker 1: Oh god, I crossed some niggas can run, but I
- 22:32Speaker 1: don't know.
- 22:32Speaker 6: I think they would have made that shake.
- 22:33Speaker 1: Bro.
- 22:34Speaker 6: Yeah, but every school in Carolina would have pulled together,
- 22:36Speaker 6: keep going.
- 22:37Speaker 2: Say yeah, they're like, hey brother, North Carolina, my brother,
- 22:41Speaker 2: we got six milks.
- 22:42Speaker 4: They changed the Jursday for US boys would have left.
- 22:45Speaker 5: But that back of my jersey bureau.
- 22:59Speaker 2: So that the college it was, man, but I will
- 23:01Speaker 2: talking about your sophomore legendary was like what was that?
- 23:04Speaker 6: Like?
- 23:04Speaker 2: We always tked Jeff, but it was like that day
- 23:06Speaker 2: that Yalla beat North Carolina, man, because that was a
- 23:08Speaker 2: crazy game. Man, that ship was standard. I felt like
- 23:14Speaker 2: we was the better team. And I mean I don't
- 23:17Speaker 2: I don't believe better coach, but were a better team.
- 23:21Speaker 6: Facts. That was It was like even when.
- 23:25Speaker 5: We beat dope.
- 23:25Speaker 6: Jeff didn't want nobody running on the court, like he
- 23:28Speaker 6: felt like I felt like that ship was normal, Like
- 23:32Speaker 6: you know what I mean. We were supposed to do
- 23:33Speaker 6: that in the court.
- 23:36Speaker 4: That was our freshman year though rushman year were supposed
- 23:41Speaker 4: to be.
- 23:42Speaker 6: Yeah, no, not the first second year. Like whatich'll wrong
- 23:45Speaker 6: on the court for? That was offensive?
- 23:48Speaker 5: Facts?
- 23:49Speaker 6: Who was the harder team?
- 23:50Speaker 4: He was number one in the country, that's a fact.
- 23:52Speaker 6: Carolina harder than do at that time.
- 23:56Speaker 5: Carolina was.
- 23:59Speaker 6: Like, how all the Dukes spoke or whatever they say
- 24:02Speaker 6: with the then that I don't think that's that should
- 24:05Speaker 6: bother you.
- 24:06Speaker 4: Nah, they was beating our ass there.
- 24:10Speaker 7: Yeah, still like thirty. We came back though, but we
- 24:15Speaker 7: was getting thirty. Yeah, it got rocking in that mom.
- 24:21Speaker 7: I don't remember we started. We came back, but it
- 24:24Speaker 7: was too late. Yeah, it's just too late.
- 24:26Speaker 4: We came back.
- 24:27Speaker 6: Cameron the doorboy man, I wanted.
- 24:29Speaker 1: To talk to you about school, like being asked school
- 24:32Speaker 1: before we get out of the college part. Like I
- 24:34Speaker 1: told the story one here one day about us going
- 24:37Speaker 1: to mind class. People thought, and I wanted you to
- 24:41Speaker 1: tell because he was in my class.
- 24:43Speaker 4: M They put James Rico. I ain't know.
- 24:46Speaker 6: This is the truth. He was in my class, yo,
- 24:49Speaker 6: So you had to you had to put a mask
- 24:51Speaker 6: on and then you become the character, you know what
- 24:53Speaker 6: I'm saying. So like you like lose yourself to this
- 24:56Speaker 6: world or whatever. We had to do mine, like my honey,
- 25:00Speaker 6: I don't know what they call it.
- 25:01Speaker 5: Money. Yeah he didn't sound about right. Yeah, fuck you
- 25:05Speaker 5: in the chair.
- 25:08Speaker 6: Okay, anyway, long story short, my mess. It was his
- 25:12Speaker 6: it was his turn to go up. Whatever you yeah,
- 25:15Speaker 6: my man, it was it was his turn to go up.
- 25:20Speaker 6: So he get up there, and I'm telling you what
- 25:24Speaker 6: the bigga.
- 25:26Speaker 9: He was killing this thigga said.
- 25:33Speaker 8: Her niggas believe me, the little step day like you mean,
- 25:47Speaker 8: he was a man, you know what he was.
- 25:51Speaker 6: He was getting that easy trad right over there, don't
- 26:00Speaker 6: like and then you know how they forget about it
- 26:02Speaker 6: and then he got oh yo, I was like that
- 26:07Speaker 6: was like himself, like you know, Jeff to himself. Yeah
- 26:12Speaker 6: too cool is a great one too, nah, but he's
- 26:18Speaker 6: always to himself. So watch him get out of himself
- 26:20Speaker 6: to do that. Manig I was in that joint like.
- 26:24Speaker 1: Yeah, we had hip hop dance class again.
- 26:29Speaker 5: Oh yeah. Hip hop.
- 26:31Speaker 6: Yes, like seven in the morning. Hip hop was crazy.
- 26:47Speaker 6: The routine was crazy. Oh man, that's hilarious.
- 26:51Speaker 2: Bro, Hey man, I know Jeawaukee's underground hilarious shouts of
- 26:57Speaker 2: white Man.
- 26:57Speaker 5: I made a d man Milwaukee. Ye hey, I'm not
- 27:09Speaker 5: as good as that.
- 27:11Speaker 4: All right, man, we need some drinks.
- 27:12Speaker 2: Wore We keep going, man, Barbie, where you're at, Where
- 27:13Speaker 2: you're at, shout out to what will be?
- 27:18Speaker 4: How you living? So sat what we got today?
- 27:22Speaker 5: Enforcer?
- 27:23Speaker 6: The enforcer?
- 27:25Speaker 1: Okay, okay, it's the five twenty some word cups. Shout
- 27:29Speaker 1: out to the merch for sure.
- 27:31Speaker 6: Salute man.
- 27:32Speaker 2: Yeah man, Yeah, y'all wait, I told you all the time,
- 27:35Speaker 2: y'all Waite team needed thirty for thirty bro, especially all
- 27:37Speaker 2: the like the success all y'all had, like you're talking
- 27:40Speaker 2: about y'all talking about is talking about all y'all went
- 27:42Speaker 2: to the league? Man, what was that moment like for
- 27:45Speaker 2: y'all was like, all right, we're up out of here.
- 27:47Speaker 2: Did y'all know, like collectively or did I just find out?
- 27:49Speaker 2: I let him tell you first, what's funny shit?
- 27:53Speaker 6: As soon as that fourth quarter second half? No, right,
- 28:01Speaker 6: I'm saying, fay.
- 28:09Speaker 1: What I walked up the next morning, Bro me and Gary.
- 28:15Speaker 1: Gary like, man, we got We're talking about class and ship.
- 28:18Speaker 1: I'm like, man, damn, everybody where Jane's ship calling j
- 28:24Speaker 1: j where you at? He said, I'm in Cali. Brother,
- 28:28Speaker 1: you can have all the ship in my room. He's like, yeah,
- 28:32Speaker 1: I left the keys in the drawer on my truck.
- 28:35Speaker 1: The luck to you, boy, I said, day, I wouldn't
- 28:39Speaker 1: have got that truck that.
- 28:40Speaker 6: Was rolling up.
- 28:41Speaker 5: I was about to get that one more time. Jay
- 28:45Speaker 5: win it keep everything.
- 28:50Speaker 6: I never.
- 28:53Speaker 4: Keep very sor to guy Bro.
- 28:55Speaker 1: He said, tell for rook man, they can have them
- 28:57Speaker 1: shoes and ship. Jordan's in there, like they just go
- 29:01Speaker 1: to his room. He just got the door open. The
- 29:03Speaker 1: doorroom just wide up.
- 29:05Speaker 8: Damn.
- 29:05Speaker 4: They're grabbing all the jays and ship.
- 29:08Speaker 6: My damn. You was considering coming back.
- 29:11Speaker 1: Yeah, I was thinking about coming back because I didn't know,
- 29:13Speaker 1: like they was first round pick. They was guaranteed. I
- 29:16Speaker 1: wasn't at first then uh remember he was, he was
- 29:20Speaker 1: going already. I had that call with the the coach
- 29:23Speaker 1: and stuff, and he sucked up.
- 29:24Speaker 6: Letting me hear that.
- 29:25Speaker 4: Yeah, they all gonna get picked in the first round.
- 29:27Speaker 6: Said I'm going lord. I was hyping with my boy
- 29:33Speaker 6: told me coming. I was like, oh, Paul is that
- 29:36Speaker 6: I was repeat, you know, I was hype when I
- 29:45Speaker 6: got that phone call. He was going to go to
- 29:48Speaker 6: the league with me and all that so and we
- 29:50Speaker 6: did it. I always loved telling that story, like we
- 29:53Speaker 6: came to wait for us together, we left together.
- 29:56Speaker 4: Bro Hell, yeah, man, that happened for sure. Man had
- 29:58Speaker 4: campus rocking.
- 29:59Speaker 6: What was that like for you? Man?
- 30:00Speaker 2: That process to get drafted and actually, you know what
- 30:02Speaker 2: I'm saying, beneficial ANBA player man walking across that stage.
- 30:06Speaker 6: That ship was hard as how I'm talking about. I
- 30:09Speaker 6: think I had like ten eleven workouts some I repeated,
- 30:15Speaker 6: like I went back to the same team twice. We
- 30:18Speaker 6: work out workout. Those workouts was tough Phoenix.
- 30:22Speaker 1: And uh.
- 30:25Speaker 5: Toronto.
- 30:26Speaker 4: Oh I heard that Toronto workout brutal, too nasty work.
- 30:29Speaker 4: I heard it was brutal.
- 30:31Speaker 5: Man.
- 30:33Speaker 6: I'm talking about back and forth layoups right hand, left hand.
- 30:38Speaker 4: Damn he is like a drill crazy Really you do
- 30:41Speaker 4: damn full court layups?
- 30:43Speaker 6: Yeah that sounded and ship.
- 30:46Speaker 5: End of the story. I ain't going to Toronto.
- 30:53Speaker 6: It was harder ship to get in that motherfucker anyway.
- 30:55Speaker 6: I was like, man, where you had your best workout?
- 30:58Speaker 5: No, I love Toronto.
- 30:59Speaker 3: Who'd you best workout of ast you feel during that time?
- 31:04Speaker 3: And damn I could probably come here.
- 31:06Speaker 5: Ship. I had a couple Charlotte, I thought I did.
- 31:09Speaker 6: I thought I did well in Charlotte. Yeah. I thought
- 31:12Speaker 6: I was going to Charlotte for sure. Coach run, Yeah,
- 31:18Speaker 6: he was doing more teaching. That's why I loved his
- 31:22Speaker 6: His whole workout was he was teaching us. He wasn't
- 31:24Speaker 6: even were It wasn't even about the the athleticism or
- 31:29Speaker 6: the talent for real. He wanted to see if you
- 31:30Speaker 6: could pay attention and lock in with that kind of
- 31:35Speaker 6: you know what I mean. I thought I was going there.
- 31:39Speaker 6: I didn't have to show too much. But I ended
- 31:43Speaker 6: up going to the bulls and actually was a blessing
- 31:45Speaker 6: sixteen pick.
- 31:47Speaker 5: I take it every time.
- 31:49Speaker 2: Yeah, being a bull about you got one of the
- 31:50Speaker 2: best rat class of all time, especially top to bottom.
- 31:53Speaker 2: Look at all the Hall of Famers, all the success people. Yeah,
- 31:56Speaker 2: I legendary class boys still getting to it.
- 31:58Speaker 1: Man, I remember when you got drafted. I called, I
- 32:01Speaker 1: called you. I was like, he got drafted. I was
- 32:05Speaker 1: still waiting. I called him.
- 32:06Speaker 6: I was like, damn, nigga, you got Draft sixteen hyped.
- 32:09Speaker 4: He was like, you up next, nigga.
- 32:11Speaker 1: You know you got You're about to get hype when
- 32:14Speaker 1: they call your name because going to Philly Drew, he
- 32:18Speaker 1: was like, damn, he's like about that ship. Dn't you
- 32:32Speaker 1: about your time coming in? I'm gonna call you when
- 32:34Speaker 1: they call your name. I was like, oh ship, I
- 32:36Speaker 1: got nervous as fun. Then they called me my name
- 32:39Speaker 1: at nineteen. He called me back like I told you
- 32:41Speaker 1: were in this log I was. I just thought he
- 32:44Speaker 1: might going back to back. It's about to be tough,
- 32:46Speaker 1: he said.
- 32:46Speaker 6: Damn.
- 32:48Speaker 5: I already knew it though.
- 32:49Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 32:51Speaker 5: That season, that sophomore season was that ship was an
- 32:55Speaker 5: epic ground for you.
- 32:56Speaker 4: Brother, nah man appreciate it, man, yeah, Man, I was
- 32:59Speaker 4: really hooping for you.
- 32:59Speaker 2: I know Ann harpart too much, but y'all was really
- 33:01Speaker 2: like whooping ship like the way that y'all was doing it.
- 33:03Speaker 2: Bro fel like it's like a real nigga you team.
- 33:05Speaker 2: That's why everybody was rocking with. In fact, that's what
- 33:08Speaker 2: b why you trying to say, oh ship. They put
- 33:11Speaker 2: that ship on wax too. It was on the papers.
- 33:14Speaker 6: They were like, yo, do nothing, but and one player
- 33:17Speaker 6: they don't got no stability is crazy.
- 33:23Speaker 1: Wow.
- 33:23Speaker 6: While we was putting the belt on them, the fan section, everybody,
- 33:28Speaker 6: yeah want that they have to stop the game and
- 33:30Speaker 6: all that. Like the coach. Their coach came out like, yo,
- 33:33Speaker 6: let the boys play. Hey, I ain't never went to
- 33:37Speaker 6: a gym.
- 33:37Speaker 4: It was all white people with white shirts on.
- 33:41Speaker 6: Oh that looked crazy in there. Look crazy. They looked
- 33:44Speaker 6: crazy there.
- 33:45Speaker 5: That's a fact.
- 33:47Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 33:48Speaker 6: He was like we walked in there, we all was
- 33:51Speaker 6: just looking like that.
- 33:52Speaker 5: Said was different.
- 33:53Speaker 6: Did he play? Did he play?
- 33:54Speaker 1: Good?
- 33:54Speaker 6: Againt y'all knowing?
- 33:56Speaker 5: But before that, I ain't never seen no one do
- 33:58Speaker 5: like a T shirt day college?
- 34:00Speaker 6: They had all T shirts on. It was crazy. He
- 34:03Speaker 6: like good though.
- 34:03Speaker 4: He probably had like twenty five Yeah.
- 34:05Speaker 6: Yeah he was valid that night. Damn. But was that
- 34:09Speaker 6: your most environment? Hard color guess?
- 34:12Speaker 4: Yeah, why you ain't have none for y'all. All that
- 34:15Speaker 4: environment The worst for me was probably in C State.
- 34:19Speaker 6: M hm.
- 34:20Speaker 5: He state that was crazy.
- 34:22Speaker 6: That was crazy. What they had postals niggas and J J.
- 34:25Speaker 5: Hicks that's what.
- 34:28Speaker 1: He was.
- 34:33Speaker 6: It was nasty.
- 34:36Speaker 4: But he stated that was ruthless.
- 34:38Speaker 2: Broee, what murderous runoff for real. For if you look
- 34:41Speaker 2: at that time, perre Bro, you had all the heavy
- 34:43Speaker 2: hitters out there.
- 34:43Speaker 1: Yeah, Maryland was bad too. Maryland was the fans was
- 34:49Speaker 1: crazy too, grievous, went crazy. What it was like, man,
- 34:53Speaker 1: with some of your best known you didn't want of
- 34:55Speaker 1: your business.
- 34:56Speaker 6: That's what.
- 34:58Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you all about the game. While we
- 34:59Speaker 4: in college.
- 35:00Speaker 1: I remember my boy, we remember you punched on Trevor Booker, right,
- 35:07Speaker 1: Lola was crazy. It was a wild team, bro. I
- 35:11Speaker 1: love this nigga crazy once a Clemson.
- 35:15Speaker 6: Yeah, that nigga's crazy, man, all love. We had one
- 35:23Speaker 6: of the cooldest today.
- 35:26Speaker 4: Yeah, it was the coolest to remember that Trevor Booker.
- 35:29Speaker 6: I did clem after all. Brooklyn too.
- 35:35Speaker 2: Yeah, Now you was killing that game up. You had
- 35:38Speaker 2: thirty fifty rip oh yeah, was out fifteen.
- 35:44Speaker 1: Shooting at the trying to get the rebound. You had
- 35:46Speaker 1: four sisters team. Yeah, he was efficient. It was too
- 35:53Speaker 1: that's official.
- 35:54Speaker 4: He was cooking.
- 35:55Speaker 6: I started within the system.
- 35:57Speaker 4: That's number twenty three. The boy a tough or what
- 36:02Speaker 4: y'all was getting to it?
- 36:03Speaker 6: Man? What's a rookie year like? Man? How many points
- 36:06Speaker 6: I had that game.
- 36:07Speaker 1: He got fifteen rebounds and he was getting on that
- 36:12Speaker 1: glass espec, especially what you call that give you up fifteen,
- 36:19Speaker 1: I'm about to stay.
- 36:25Speaker 6: I don't get looking at Yeah, I fed a double
- 36:31Speaker 6: chick from my old copy.
- 36:34Speaker 1: Fifty monster game. Yeah, it was kind of nice. Now
- 36:38Speaker 1: y'all chasing before y'all was hooping. Bro, y'all had a
- 36:42Speaker 1: squad nigga for real? Man, Yeah, what was rookie like?
- 36:45Speaker 1: You're like, man, you got a chance to play one
- 36:47Speaker 1: of our favorite players, I mean everybody like Derrick Rose
- 36:50Speaker 1: and he was cold.
- 36:51Speaker 4: I remember you talking to me about Derrick Rose your
- 36:54Speaker 4: rookie year, You like, bro cool as hell?
- 36:57Speaker 6: He cold?
- 36:57Speaker 4: I was like, damn he cold? You're like cold, bro?
- 37:00Speaker 6: He cool as fuck? Though.
- 37:01Speaker 4: Yeah, he kept saying that, like me a cool nigga,
- 37:04Speaker 4: And I was like, damn, for real, what was your
- 37:05Speaker 4: rookie year?
- 37:06Speaker 6: Like, bro, Man, rookie year, I have Annie Dell Negro
- 37:11Speaker 6: and I swear he ain't playing me because he went
- 37:13Speaker 6: to NC State. You know what I mean?
- 37:18Speaker 5: Bro, That's what I felt.
- 37:21Speaker 6: But it started off with it like I'm playing Summer
- 37:25Speaker 6: League first, I feel like I'm one of the best players. Obviously,
- 37:29Speaker 6: summer league and regular season. Even summer the league in
- 37:32Speaker 6: preseason is two different level for sure, you know what
- 37:35Speaker 6: I'm saying. Even then preseason came, I felt like I
- 37:38Speaker 6: was still one of the best. And you know, every
- 37:41Speaker 6: team I've ever been on, I've been that nigga or
- 37:44Speaker 6: one of them that niggas, you know what I'm saying.
- 37:48Speaker 6: And so I get I get there, I get to
- 37:49Speaker 6: Chicago and I feel I still feel like that. You know,
- 37:52Speaker 6: my confidence, I really feel like it's through the roof.
- 37:55Speaker 6: It mean, my work atic all that.
- 37:57Speaker 5: So I get there.
- 38:01Speaker 6: First thirty forty games, I don't even play. I was
- 38:04Speaker 6: right with you, brother, at all, I don't play, and
- 38:08Speaker 6: I got a great guess too. Like Brad Miller, Kurt Heyinrich,
- 38:12Speaker 6: Derek always was like, keep me.
- 38:14Speaker 5: Humble with it, like, bro, look where you at.
- 38:17Speaker 6: You know before before Derek was the philosopher that these
- 38:21Speaker 6: guys know, like I know, the young just second in
- 38:24Speaker 6: the league, Derek, you know what I'm saying, still was
- 38:26Speaker 6: kicking knowledge even that young.
- 38:28Speaker 5: I feel like that's why Lou said what he said.
- 38:31Speaker 6: Joe Kim said, well, he said a bottom about even
- 38:34Speaker 6: though he was younger, that they still listened to him
- 38:36Speaker 6: when he was older. It felt like he was older
- 38:38Speaker 6: the way he spoke, you know what I'm saying. So
- 38:40Speaker 6: but anyway, I'm with him, keeping he keeping me humble
- 38:43Speaker 6: with it. But at the end of the day, I'm young.
- 38:47Speaker 6: I got more money than I ever had in my life.
- 38:50Speaker 5: You feel me, and.
- 38:53Speaker 6: I'm going out, Yeah, I'm going outside like for real.
- 39:00Speaker 6: And you know you you young, like I said, naive,
- 39:02Speaker 6: so you feel like you damn you're punishing them. You're
- 39:05Speaker 6: not playing you and not not giving you this opportunity
- 39:08Speaker 6: and all that not knowing you, sabotaging yourself and your
- 39:11Speaker 6: self worth.
- 39:12Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. You know they say the
- 39:15Speaker 5: less you've seen the more, the more money you get
- 39:17Speaker 5: paid for your appearance.
- 39:19Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. I was the opposite. I'm
- 39:22Speaker 6: going going to the spots for free, you know what
- 39:24Speaker 6: I'm saying. And that shit was really the start of
- 39:28Speaker 6: a of a bad side of the league where you
- 39:32Speaker 6: don't want to be in. You knowee what I'm saying
- 39:34Speaker 6: right where they start getting opinions and and shit starts
- 39:39Speaker 6: getting fabricated and you can't stop. It's a snowball fact.
- 39:42Speaker 6: But long story short, that shit came with it, and
- 39:45Speaker 6: then Lou gets hurt, wal Dane gets hurt. I get
- 39:49Speaker 6: my opportunity, I start playing. I'm playing well, but I'm
- 39:55Speaker 6: still young and dumb. Yo, you get what I'm saying.
- 39:57Speaker 6: I'm still outside, I'm still wilding and I'm playing at
- 40:00Speaker 6: this point. So it's like, Yo, all I gotta do
- 40:02Speaker 6: at this point is do everything I love to do
- 40:04Speaker 6: is who you know what I mean, work out, go inside,
- 40:09Speaker 6: repeat you gee what I'm saying. And uh, wait, so
- 40:13Speaker 6: you're still going outside every night? Man? You got that tig.
- 40:18Speaker 5: Man, I'm outside everything.
- 40:22Speaker 6: To keep night. Okay, I'm outside every night. I'm getting
- 40:26Speaker 6: I'm getting real, you know what I'm saying, No funny
- 40:28Speaker 6: shit like real. So so I'm doing that while I'm while,
- 40:33Speaker 6: I'm getting the minutes now that I want it. But
- 40:35Speaker 6: now I'm coming back and uh the next day shooting arounds.
- 40:40Speaker 5: I'm smelling. Wow, you know what I mean. Like, you
- 40:42Speaker 5: can't brust that ship off.
- 40:43Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, You can't shower that ship
- 40:45Speaker 6: off soon as you start sweating outside.
- 40:48Speaker 5: I mean yeah, yeah, so I don't know this, you
- 40:52Speaker 5: know what I mean.
- 40:53Speaker 6: I'm not aware of this and then you know, the
- 40:55Speaker 6: older guys is telling me, oh, Jay, like you gotta
- 40:57Speaker 6: stay away from coaches. You gotta do this they're doing.
- 40:59Speaker 6: They do diligence as far as like being great vets
- 41:03Speaker 6: like it had nothing to do with them doing this
- 41:05Speaker 6: shit to myself. You know what I'm saying, thinking I'm
- 41:08Speaker 6: hurting some that really, nigga, all they do is just
- 41:12Speaker 6: get another asset. You know what I'm saying, I'm not
- 41:15Speaker 6: realizing that. I'm thinking the NBA need James Johnson. No, nigga,
- 41:20Speaker 6: James Johnson need the lead. And so that ship, that
- 41:25Speaker 6: ship right there was It was an eye open especially
- 41:28Speaker 6: after your first year. You know, back in the g
- 41:30Speaker 6: like you signed two years, two years guaranteed and the
- 41:33Speaker 6: other one is a team option.
- 41:35Speaker 5: But after your first year, that's where they decide if
- 41:37Speaker 5: they're gonna keep your option. Yea, yeah exactly.
- 41:40Speaker 6: So I'm going into the team meeting, They're like, yo,
- 41:42Speaker 6: we don't want to do this, but you work hard.
- 41:44Speaker 6: You know the normal like threatening, get your shit together,
- 41:49Speaker 6: we want you and all that. But by that time,
- 41:53Speaker 6: it was too far gone down. Vinnie Negro's gone, Thibodeaux comes,
- 41:57Speaker 6: you know what I mean, Thibodau's coming on fresh off
- 41:59Speaker 6: of championship, so he knows from defense head coach Championship.
- 42:03Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying with Doc, like it has
- 42:04Speaker 6: pedigree on him. So it's like he knows what he's
- 42:07Speaker 6: talking about this net on first day of practice, some
- 42:11Speaker 6: put me on the Penny team back then, there is
- 42:14Speaker 6: no two ways and nothing like that. Penny team is
- 42:16Speaker 6: the niggas that's trying to make a team, trying to
- 42:18Speaker 6: make that last spot, you know what I'm saying. And
- 42:20Speaker 6: I'm guarantee at this time, So I'm like, Yo, he
- 42:23Speaker 6: don't know me from nothing. This is before I knew TIBs.
- 42:26Speaker 6: Like as a man, well, I respect Tips with everything.
- 42:29Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, Like Tips is a great
- 42:31Speaker 6: coach and a great human to me, like I have
- 42:33Speaker 6: Dorel with TIBs. But at that time, like he's trying
- 42:38Speaker 6: to raise the nigga that was already raised by something
- 42:40Speaker 6: far more worse than him. You know what I'm saying, my.
- 42:44Speaker 5: Father far more worse than you.
- 42:46Speaker 6: So them intimidation ship that don't scare me, you gee
- 42:48Speaker 6: what I'm saying, But anyway, get traded from there, go
- 42:52Speaker 6: to Toronto I'm in Toronto. I'm in Toronto loving it.
- 42:59Speaker 6: I'm getting her in a chance for My first game
- 43:03Speaker 6: with Toronto was against the Bulls. Let's start, we get
- 43:08Speaker 6: that dub, you know what I mean? Coach coach Treill
- 43:11Speaker 6: J Traill j T. He was like, uh yeah, yeah,
- 43:15Speaker 6: I love that guy. He's the one who really gave
- 43:18Speaker 6: me my first chance to like go get a bucket,
- 43:20Speaker 6: go hoop, Like, don't look at me when you make
- 43:22Speaker 6: mistakes and ship, because you know this this game will
- 43:25Speaker 6: cause anxiety and niggas. Like if you let it break you.
- 43:29Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, You let that ship break
- 43:31Speaker 6: you every time you grab the ball like your ey
- 43:33Speaker 6: is gonna get wild. You just want to make the
- 43:34Speaker 6: right play. You don't want to fuck up all that ship.
- 43:37Speaker 6: So it's like if you let it break you. They're
- 43:42Speaker 6: psychiatrists in the buildings for ship like that.
- 43:44Speaker 5: God know what I'm saying.
- 43:46Speaker 2: Now, that's the interesting you say that because they always
- 43:47Speaker 2: talk about people who transit the league. Oh he was
- 43:49Speaker 2: so good in college here all this stuff. Why is
- 43:51Speaker 2: he only doing this particular role. It's just like dog,
- 43:54Speaker 2: he doing this wrong because he's trying to feed his family.
- 43:56Speaker 2: But he's trying to make sure he make this next time. Yeah,
- 43:58Speaker 2: he can do all that ship to do this and
- 44:00Speaker 2: not mess up, and that can just kind of limit
- 44:02Speaker 2: your game.
- 44:03Speaker 5: He's trying to do that at a high level and
- 44:04Speaker 5: then still mixing.
- 44:05Speaker 6: Yeah, you know how it is. But that shit is taxing,
- 44:08Speaker 6: especially on your mind frame. But like I said, if
- 44:12Speaker 6: you let it break you in the psychiatrists for ship
- 44:16Speaker 6: like that, I fucked. I fuck with the journey because
- 44:19Speaker 6: I would say me and you close.
- 44:20Speaker 1: I knew it, and I remember, I remember when things
- 44:24Speaker 1: been a little different and you came to the Hawks,
- 44:27Speaker 1: remember and we was talking, you was trying. I was like, damn,
- 44:30Speaker 1: JJ gonna be on the Hawks on me because he
- 44:32Speaker 1: made he was on the team. But my nigga is
- 44:34Speaker 1: so competitive, he was about to make the team so
- 44:37Speaker 1: competitive they love him be him talking to me like JJ, man,
- 44:40Speaker 1: this is what we was missing.
- 44:41Speaker 4: It's the perfect piece.
- 44:43Speaker 1: But we go play baseball and this dude we call
- 44:47Speaker 1: him good at everything, like we call him we say,
- 44:49Speaker 1: he's he's great at life, like he does everything well.
- 44:52Speaker 1: So I didn't know this need to play baseball, right,
- 44:55Speaker 1: So we playing baseball. I'm okay, Kyle KRP is real good.
- 44:59Speaker 1: All these guys.
- 45:00Speaker 6: It's a pop fly ball, boom outfield. JJ. Coach Budd
- 45:05Speaker 6: about to get it. He loved baseball. This is primary sport. JJ.
- 45:10Speaker 6: Let me get that. Coach Bud like he can't play here.
- 45:16Speaker 6: What he was he was sight this was for out three.
- 45:25Speaker 6: I'm not sure his old as even so I'm a
- 45:31Speaker 6: better on myself. I'm gona mean, he should have sold
- 45:35Speaker 6: the aspect on that side. The spectrums was.
- 45:39Speaker 4: But even wrong.
- 45:41Speaker 6: But you're wrong.
- 45:44Speaker 1: But I remember the day I know we I'm fast
- 45:46Speaker 1: forward in your career because I want to talk about
- 45:48Speaker 1: the Memphis part when you went to Memphis, because it
- 45:50Speaker 1: really turned up. But I remember when we played Miami.
- 45:53Speaker 1: He was in Miami and you hooping, he running the
- 45:57Speaker 1: pick and roll seventy seven, doing his ship, and I
- 46:00Speaker 1: remember coming to the bench.
- 46:01Speaker 6: You know, I was. I asked.
- 46:01Speaker 1: I was like, god, damn, we could have had that
- 46:03Speaker 1: ship and said fucked up, funked up, fund up, that's up.
- 46:11Speaker 1: And you might have said something to you and came
- 46:14Speaker 1: up to me because he was just like, He's like,
- 46:16Speaker 1: you're such a good player. These are the players that
- 46:18Speaker 1: you need. He's going to change the game. It was
- 46:21Speaker 1: him and Draymond. He was like, they're like point guards
- 46:23Speaker 1: that played the foe position.
- 46:24Speaker 6: You can put them on.
- 46:25Speaker 4: Anybody can. And he was just giving Ja so much praise,
- 46:29Speaker 4: and that was just like a whole.
- 46:31Speaker 6: NBA is bro.
- 46:33Speaker 3: And that's that's why I said. That's why I because
- 46:35Speaker 3: niggas wouldn't know. That's why niggas don't be in certain places,
- 46:40Speaker 3: like Nigga, I'm way better than you at baseball.
- 46:43Speaker 6: Don't make this about me being on this fucking team.
- 46:46Speaker 2: I'm he knows, nigga. Every bank was yeah, he got
- 46:54Speaker 2: need more pig for a catch, you need to be
- 47:01Speaker 2: behind the bad he got for real. Everybody, like the
- 47:06Speaker 2: whole coaching staff was hype about I was hyped.
- 47:11Speaker 6: Especially after training camp. I'm like, yo, I got my
- 47:14Speaker 6: guard back playing for getting out. Yeah, so we got
- 47:19Speaker 6: charge for that.
- 47:21Speaker 1: But to me, it's a great thing because I think
- 47:25Speaker 1: you went to a place really find your your skill
- 47:28Speaker 1: set and showed you what you do really well.
- 47:31Speaker 4: He went to Miami turned.
- 47:33Speaker 6: Up, Yeah.
- 47:33Speaker 5: But now after Atlanta, I went to Memphis.
- 47:36Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's what I really turned up for a
- 47:38Speaker 4: little you put on a show in Memphis.
- 47:41Speaker 1: Was having a ball in Memphis, and they let you cook,
- 47:44Speaker 1: they let you play your right right some of them highlights, bros.
- 47:48Speaker 6: Crazy. How was that going there? Though? They embrace you
- 47:51Speaker 6: right away? Yeah, most definitely. Like I said, like you
- 47:55Speaker 6: can carry baggage with you, right, Yeah, it's good. All
- 47:59Speaker 6: of my I was pretty much bad. It was like,
- 48:01Speaker 6: you know what I mean, I'm at the end of
- 48:03Speaker 6: my end. I just went to Atlanta, tried out for
- 48:05Speaker 6: the team, got cut, hear me, so like I'm in
- 48:09Speaker 6: the G League playing and then Memphis ten day when
- 48:13Speaker 6: I went there, it was like more like they wasn't
- 48:15Speaker 6: judging me. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. It was
- 48:19Speaker 6: more like, you know, how bad can this nigga be?
- 48:21Speaker 1: Man?
- 48:22Speaker 6: We got We got Zach Randolph and Tony Allen, and
- 48:28Speaker 6: I think I jailed with I jailed with the team.
- 48:30Speaker 6: I jailed with the management just off the strength of that.
- 48:33Speaker 5: Like you know what I'm saying.
- 48:34Speaker 6: They didn't look at me like the the person everybody
- 48:37Speaker 6: else or the other gems might have passed on or whatever.
- 48:39Speaker 6: It was more like, no, that's what their culture is
- 48:42Speaker 6: about over there.
- 48:43Speaker 5: You know what I mean.
- 48:44Speaker 6: But they do teach you how to be a professional. Obviously,
- 48:47Speaker 6: you know what I mean. They got ways around that
- 48:50Speaker 6: for sure.
- 48:51Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just around too much. We talked about Miami heat, sure,
- 48:56Speaker 2: heat culture. A lot of that is old to you,
- 49:00Speaker 2: if you know, you know for sure, what was that
- 49:02Speaker 2: moment like making the South Beach you know what I'm saying,
- 49:03Speaker 2: having some real successful years down there, man.
- 49:06Speaker 6: Man, nah it was.
- 49:07Speaker 1: You know.
- 49:08Speaker 6: I give a lot. I give a lot of credit
- 49:10Speaker 6: to you, Dannis. I always I always have because he
- 49:14Speaker 6: held a standard. You know what I mean. He wouldn't
- 49:16Speaker 6: let you saddle over there. I'm talking about with anything
- 49:21Speaker 6: for the single niggas, you know what I'm talking about.
- 49:24Speaker 6: He helped y'all out the club for real a lot
- 49:26Speaker 6: of times. That's real though.
- 49:30Speaker 4: Championships, respect.
- 49:32Speaker 6: And beyond that obviously, But he's the one who really
- 49:36Speaker 6: like showed like how to be tight knit and trust
- 49:39Speaker 6: each other because you know, the league is all about Yeah, yeah,
- 49:41Speaker 6: I trust you, but I want your minutes. Yeah yeah,
- 49:45Speaker 6: I trust you, but I want you to fuck up.
- 49:48Speaker 6: You feel what I'm saying. And I feel like he
- 49:50Speaker 6: was already above that by winning the championship and understanding
- 49:53Speaker 6: what it took to be a champion.
- 49:56Speaker 5: So I think off rip.
- 49:58Speaker 6: Obviously everybody in the gym, everybody on the team had
- 50:01Speaker 6: ma respect for him, but being able to to play basketball.
- 50:09Speaker 6: And even this is like even during the like the
- 50:12Speaker 6: pickup days, you know, the pickup days before the pre
- 50:15Speaker 6: year starts and even all that shit starts, so like
- 50:17Speaker 6: it's pickup days, and coach out there like, YEO, whoever
- 50:23Speaker 6: the best players, that's who's going to play. You fee
- 50:25Speaker 6: what I'm saying, Like, you know, we came in and
- 50:28Speaker 6: O nine, It wasn't always the best player was going
- 50:30Speaker 6: to play with the nigga who was getting the most
- 50:32Speaker 6: money exactly, Like you could be ten times better than
- 50:36Speaker 6: the person making at this time fifteen fifteen million dollars
- 50:39Speaker 6: for three years, four years.
- 50:40Speaker 5: That was big chicken.
- 50:41Speaker 6: Yeah, great money back then, and so and so you
- 50:47Speaker 6: finally get to the heat where they're like, yo, you
- 50:49Speaker 6: get to play your brand of basketball and if you're
- 50:52Speaker 6: the best player, I hear you going to play now.
- 50:54Speaker 6: I think everybody felt a way about that where it
- 50:57Speaker 6: just brought out the best and everybody on top of
- 51:00Speaker 6: ud obviously harping on like we built champions here, we
- 51:04Speaker 6: champions around here. Nig I wanted to win one of
- 51:07Speaker 6: them so bad, so bad over there, especially especially for you,
- 51:12Speaker 6: Donna's like, I feel like for u, d I think
- 51:16Speaker 6: he wanted.
- 51:16Speaker 5: Us to win it more for us, more than we
- 51:18Speaker 5: wanted to win it. More for us, you know what
- 51:20Speaker 5: I'm saying.
- 51:20Speaker 6: So that should show you, like the humility he has
- 51:23Speaker 6: and a given kind of person is gonna at the time,
- 51:26Speaker 6: he was thirty six too, like thirty six, thirty seven,
- 51:29Speaker 6: oh yeah, like twenty sixteen, sixteen, twenty seventeen. Yeah, oh,
- 51:34Speaker 6: but that's not that to me, that's not like old
- 51:37Speaker 6: the hoop, you know what I'm saying. Like to me,
- 51:39Speaker 6: like I signed with the team and I'm thirty six seven,
- 51:41Speaker 6: I think if I have a good training camp, I
- 51:43Speaker 6: give myself a chance. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
- 51:47Speaker 6: you played. He was forty two, boy, damn yeah, because
- 51:50Speaker 6: he got second running seventy sevens with dragons, a lot
- 51:55Speaker 6: of the white Side and uh, picking rolls and handing
- 51:58Speaker 6: the ball off Dwayne Ellington, Tyler Johnson.
- 52:00Speaker 5: Of course, that's my beds.
- 52:02Speaker 6: That's my man's man's Like, I mean, the Johnson name
- 52:05Speaker 6: says says enough, But that's my man. That's not Whiteside
- 52:08Speaker 6: was crazy. He was man, he was nasty, bro He's
- 52:13Speaker 6: really the one who changed the whole. Like body fat
- 52:15Speaker 6: ship that nigga came in in humane. He was like
- 52:21Speaker 6: seven foot tall two fifty four four or five percent
- 52:25Speaker 6: body fat. Niggas was like, yo, dunk, he's a dunk
- 52:30Speaker 6: everything then Also everybody ship had had to get down
- 52:33Speaker 6: past that.
- 52:33Speaker 5: It was like you used to be alright with seven.
- 52:35Speaker 5: That don't need you ass six.
- 52:37Speaker 6: Yeah that ship really like that, man, what you didn't
- 52:41Speaker 6: believe it? I mean I believe it, but I'm talking
- 52:44Speaker 6: about well, I'm so fucked up. Even if I look
- 52:47Speaker 6: at the scale. I know I pictured Miami heat.
- 52:52Speaker 5: Locker room.
- 52:55Speaker 6: You know me, You don't me, j C.
- 53:00Speaker 5: My should have always been bad.
- 53:01Speaker 1: You know.
- 53:02Speaker 6: I can't go a week without without working out or something.
- 53:04Speaker 6: Ship that's that. I'm like a half something so I
- 53:07Speaker 6: think like that part of me that should get big
- 53:10Speaker 6: quick for sure, too quick. So like I always had
- 53:14Speaker 6: a thing about that. But that that ship is when
- 53:17Speaker 6: you got there. Though, they're finding you. They're losing bread,
- 53:22Speaker 6: damn bro because you're eating crazy. It's crazy broke. Cut
- 53:32Speaker 6: their on what I'm saying about what I'm saying. They
- 53:38Speaker 6: hold you to a standard though, that that even yourself
- 53:42Speaker 6: didn't didn't know you was capable of.
- 53:44Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, And that's one thing I
- 53:46Speaker 5: will say about it.
- 53:47Speaker 6: That's why I feel genuinely that's why they can get
- 53:50Speaker 6: second round picks and no, no, not not drafted at
- 53:54Speaker 6: all and then make gym. Yeah. Yeah, it's definitely evident
- 53:59Speaker 6: as well.
- 54:00Speaker 2: Like you said, a lot of people who go to
- 54:01Speaker 2: Miami where they was getting that shit off a matter
- 54:02Speaker 2: where he was, you're gonna hoop, youre gonna get on
- 54:04Speaker 2: this court, right.
- 54:05Speaker 4: He did not discriminate at all.
- 54:07Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying.
- 54:08Speaker 6: They give everybody a shot, so I naturally feel like
- 54:10Speaker 6: that brings the best out of you, naturally because you
- 54:13Speaker 6: have a shot to play, not off off of anything
- 54:16Speaker 6: else that goes on around the bubble of the league. Strictly.
- 54:20Speaker 5: Am I a better basketball player than this guy on
- 54:23Speaker 5: my team?
- 54:24Speaker 6: Yeah?
- 54:26Speaker 4: You know, we move around a little bit. What was
- 54:27Speaker 4: one of your favorite season to play?
- 54:30Speaker 6: I'm always gonna love Toronto Chicago obviously, you know what
- 54:34Speaker 6: I mean. You get drafted in Chicago, I feel like
- 54:36Speaker 6: you're a kid you grow up watching Jordan's so yeah,
- 54:40Speaker 6: you get there.
- 54:41Speaker 5: You see all the the trophies is Jersey.
- 54:44Speaker 6: You think the banners and just automatically feel like this
- 54:48Speaker 6: is what you're supposed to be, you know, I mean
- 54:50Speaker 6: you dreamed about shit like that. So I think the
- 54:52Speaker 6: bulls for sure of Miami. Obviously still love Miami. I
- 54:57Speaker 6: still live in Miami, beautiful city.
- 55:02Speaker 5: In Memphis. The time I had in Memphis, dope, yeah, dope.
- 55:08Speaker 2: Highlighted said you go through okay, lod of my oh
- 55:11Speaker 2: got here, James Man, I want to question.
- 55:13Speaker 6: Yeah, well my favorite highs you bro, Yeah, drumming my
- 55:21Speaker 6: man's now, but smoke drum my Man's now. But yes,
- 55:31Speaker 6: he did me bogus over here. Boy, I almost had
- 55:33Speaker 6: to bring a nigga out. I buried you. Yeah, they
- 55:40Speaker 6: came back. Yeah he was wilder right here. Look at
- 55:42Speaker 6: my god, you mean look I get up calmly. I
- 55:48Speaker 6: don't want to commentate this because you know, like I said,
- 55:52Speaker 6: but yeah, that was that's my first I understand why
- 55:57Speaker 6: he did it. I didn't understand why you think it
- 55:58Speaker 6: was all right? That's found.
- 56:09Speaker 4: Up tardie base line slipper. I was like, damn boy,
- 56:12Speaker 4: he was a brave boy.
- 56:15Speaker 1: You know.
- 56:16Speaker 5: I respect that though, respect that way more.
- 56:20Speaker 6: Them type of players right there. Yeah, like we men. Yeah,
- 56:25Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying.
- 56:26Speaker 5: We men, you're making a play, You're making a player.
- 56:29Speaker 5: It's more of a raw ray.
- 56:32Speaker 6: Your team up while we're scared of this team, while
- 56:33Speaker 6: we getting thug bullied by this team. So like as
- 56:36Speaker 6: a basketball player, I understand. Like I said, when we
- 56:41Speaker 6: cleared up other.
- 56:42Speaker 5: Ship, I figured out. I got a texted him, unifier.
- 56:53Speaker 6: It's crazy.
- 56:58Speaker 4: I love this man, I want to talk about it. Listen, man,
- 57:01Speaker 4: I'll never forget.
- 57:02Speaker 6: Man.
- 57:02Speaker 2: We played the Milwaukee Bucks man and shit got real tricky, man,
- 57:06Speaker 2: and they played in our face. Man, and then it
- 57:08Speaker 2: was only right, man. They had to go get the
- 57:10Speaker 2: legend for our team. Man.
- 57:11Speaker 4: When you pulled up to that, man, all things been
- 57:13Speaker 4: great ever since.
- 57:14Speaker 6: Man.
- 57:14Speaker 4: It wasn't like we got the call to pull up
- 57:15Speaker 4: in the city.
- 57:16Speaker 5: Man, ship.
- 57:19Speaker 6: I was.
- 57:19Speaker 5: I was extounded. Like I said, Bro, I've seen the
- 57:22Speaker 5: build up. I seen the first year we was here.
- 57:24Speaker 6: Yeah, we didn't go to the off.
- 57:26Speaker 5: And then the second year we were like, yo, were
- 57:29Speaker 5: in this ship.
- 57:30Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying.
- 57:31Speaker 1: You thought, y'all, I'll be we wanted you to win
- 57:37Speaker 1: just for the city. But did you'll think y'all gonna
- 57:39Speaker 1: really want that game? Steven Terry Singer hurt. Yo, how
- 57:43Speaker 1: do you not think that that was hope?
- 57:45Speaker 6: Man? He was hoping, Yo, Bro run and his stories. Bro,
- 57:49Speaker 6: I feel like if it wasn't winning it, that was
- 57:51Speaker 6: the only other way. Yeah, Bro, there was only two outcomes.
- 57:55Speaker 6: He was gonna win a chip or that was gonna happen.
- 57:58Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
- 57:59Speaker 6: Hot, Okay, see, great players, great team all that. Like
- 58:04Speaker 6: the way he was, the way he was, the way
- 58:06Speaker 6: he wanted to start the game, like you know, normally
- 58:09Speaker 6: you know his game. Normally he's gonna get involved, get
- 58:11Speaker 6: people involved. He might give you you give me the
- 58:14Speaker 6: open three, I'm gonna take it and be honest, then
- 58:16Speaker 6: I'm gonna spray.
- 58:17Speaker 5: I'm throwing it up.
- 58:18Speaker 2: Exactly, aggress exactly. We've seen this before. Anytimes came out
- 58:24Speaker 2: that aggressive, we was getting the dub. History shows every
- 58:27Speaker 2: time he came out that aggressive way.
- 58:29Speaker 5: The numbers keep it real.
- 58:31Speaker 4: But out saw that unfortunately happened. That was I talked
- 58:33Speaker 4: to you all the time.
- 58:34Speaker 6: Man.
- 58:34Speaker 2: Obviously we ain't got a ship, but that is one
- 58:36Speaker 2: of the crazy playoff runs that I ever got to witness,
- 58:38Speaker 2: especially as a fan like you been around there, what
- 58:41Speaker 2: was a vibe like, man, because I was just whooping everybody, Bro.
- 58:44Speaker 5: I'm telling you it was normal.
- 58:48Speaker 6: Especially Andrew like he like does a great job of
- 58:51Speaker 6: like he don't get too high too low because they
- 58:53Speaker 6: even killed killer. You know what I'm saying.
- 58:56Speaker 5: Past obviously you know his vibe. So like TYREEVESE, he
- 59:00Speaker 5: was the more.
- 59:01Speaker 6: Of the one that was just like, yo, we got
- 59:03Speaker 6: this many more, this many, you know what i mean.
- 59:05Speaker 6: But we've seen this ship over and over again even
- 59:08Speaker 6: before this. This crazy run. What he did, what he
- 59:12Speaker 6: did in the Spurs in Paris, that's sixteen old, thirteen
- 59:15Speaker 6: old run by himself.
- 59:16Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
- 59:21Speaker 4: I mean, DJ talks about it.
- 59:23Speaker 6: Y'all.
- 59:23Speaker 1: Niggas had a chance, he did, We had a chance player.
- 59:27Speaker 1: I think they control they probably bro, no way, you
- 59:31Speaker 1: know what.
- 59:32Speaker 6: I'm saying, y'all. I'm saying, y'all could have walked if
- 59:33Speaker 6: he didn't get hurt. That ship he's turning. All I'm
- 59:38Speaker 6: saying is just look at look at the end of
- 59:41Speaker 6: the half, look at after he got injured, and see
- 59:44Speaker 6: what the score is going into halftime.
- 59:47Speaker 3: No I'm saying what I'm saying, think about these niggas.
- 59:51Speaker 3: Someone y'all could witness motherfucker for real. Like we wanted
- 59:55Speaker 3: to win for the city for our show, we had
- 59:58Speaker 3: to do like we ain't nona give me he a niggas,
- 1:00:00Speaker 3: but we had to create some ship for the show
- 1:00:03Speaker 3: just because DJ is such a we hate on each
- 1:00:06Speaker 3: other notious too.
- 1:00:07Speaker 6: Yeah, we was pined every night.
- 1:00:09Speaker 4: He breaking, he blowing, He's blowing on the show.
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: Wow.
- 1:00:18Speaker 6: The other thing, that's another thing. It was like, yo,
- 1:00:20Speaker 6: everybody was bringing they best for Martine. Yeah, that ship
- 1:00:25Speaker 6: that ship Double A did Aaron Nath did Bro in
- 1:00:29Speaker 6: the garden.
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: It was impressive. It was kind of like you watched
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: the game the other day Nicks and the Cats. Absolutely,
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: so what y'all did is basically what the Niggs did
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: to the Cat said.
- 1:00:40Speaker 6: But the only thing is what how man? How many
- 1:00:42Speaker 6: minutes they had left?
- 1:00:43Speaker 5: Like seven? We had two?
- 1:00:45Speaker 2: Yeah, y'all did that ship in like a crazy man Like, Yeah,
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: Bro eliminated that lead Bro in like sixty five seconds.
- 1:00:52Speaker 6: Bro off on some dream shot. Every story Double know
- 1:01:00Speaker 6: JT No, Double put in pain. I'm talking after every
- 1:01:04Speaker 6: practice he put in pain too. So like to see
- 1:01:06Speaker 6: them shits going. Like I'm telling you, we're around each other,
- 1:01:09Speaker 6: Like we genuinely all fucked with each other. So it
- 1:01:12Speaker 6: was more like we get to see your work at
- 1:01:15Speaker 6: it on a daily BASI. Yeah, I wish I would
- 1:01:19Speaker 6: have I wish ty Resent get hurt. I would like
- 1:01:21Speaker 6: to see how that fourth quarter played out. Yeah, that
- 1:01:23Speaker 6: was a That was a hell of a series for
- 1:01:25Speaker 6: real basketball hit. It might not have been the most
- 1:01:27Speaker 6: attractive series because of the fans because they Yeah, but
- 1:01:32Speaker 6: with basketball, that was a good series.
- 1:01:34Speaker 8: Man.
- 1:01:34Speaker 5: That was I was great, basket amazing. Like we even
- 1:01:39Speaker 5: said it.
- 1:01:39Speaker 6: We was like, yo, whoever gets the first stand like
- 1:01:43Speaker 6: you know how like you get the first role win,
- 1:01:44Speaker 6: you want likely to win this ship. It was more like, yo,
- 1:01:49Speaker 6: whoever gets the first two games? Like you got to
- 1:01:51Speaker 6: win two in a row to be able to win
- 1:01:52Speaker 6: this ship. Yea fact, you know what I'm saying, Like
- 1:01:54Speaker 6: we would have got one in two. I felt like
- 1:01:56Speaker 6: we would have won that ship. Yeah, with confidence was crazy.
- 1:02:00Speaker 6: I was hoping bron these niggas really got the city on.
- 1:02:06Speaker 6: It's gonna be tough to recreate that. Yeah. I was
- 1:02:08Speaker 6: bringing people together that will never come together. That's what
- 1:02:11Speaker 6: you don't know. Nigga hoods and my town.
- 1:02:15Speaker 1: Was niggas was celebrated the nigga I was together, Bro,
- 1:02:19Speaker 1: I most hated nigga in my city.
- 1:02:22Speaker 6: Yes, he's from here.
- 1:02:24Speaker 4: I was the most hated nigga every.
- 1:02:26Speaker 6: Side of town.
- 1:02:27Speaker 1: As nigga niggas kill each other all that ship from
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: different hoods. Everybody was against this nigga.
- 1:02:33Speaker 6: Trust me, don't God tell me anything about Indiana. No,
- 1:02:46Speaker 6: I'm talking about loves where they're from. So I heard
- 1:02:51Speaker 6: every story. I I knew way before he even you
- 1:02:56Speaker 6: what I'm telling, all the stories like proud to be
- 1:03:00Speaker 6: where he's from. You stay nigga like they have your
- 1:03:04Speaker 6: opinion on nothing out here.
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: This nigga.
- 1:03:06Speaker 6: I'm like I had he nigga from my what's up
- 1:03:09Speaker 6: with your man? That's some ship.
- 1:03:13Speaker 2: You the.
- 1:03:15Speaker 6: Niggas was telling me James and get on his and.
- 1:03:21Speaker 4: Right there, wo have to chill like because DJ cover
- 1:03:26Speaker 4: here on a while.
- 1:03:26Speaker 6: And we potted nigga every night, y'all. Y'all ship, y'all
- 1:03:32Speaker 6: kept the lights on the ye you guys kept the lights. Now,
- 1:03:37Speaker 6: we did what I'm saying, y'all kept the content for sure.
- 1:03:41Speaker 6: But that was lit.
- 1:03:42Speaker 5: I'm gonna let them niggas know and I see it.
- 1:03:54Speaker 6: So so good times for sure.
- 1:03:56Speaker 8: Man.
- 1:03:56Speaker 2: But while we're here, man s J looking like he
- 1:03:58Speaker 2: didn't were about to get another one. Man, you saw
- 1:04:01Speaker 2: cluster personal obviously. You know what I'm saying a little
- 1:04:03Speaker 2: bit different, Like is that is.
- 1:04:05Speaker 5: That short for winby?
- 1:04:10Speaker 4: You got in the winning at all?
- 1:04:12Speaker 5: Absolutely?
- 1:04:13Speaker 6: Yeah?
- 1:04:13Speaker 2: He cold, Bro, Look that was early because me and
- 1:04:15Speaker 2: Mook said, winn't be the greatest we ever seen.
- 1:04:17Speaker 6: Bro.
- 1:04:18Speaker 4: I ain't never seen nothing like that, Bro, I've never
- 1:04:20Speaker 4: seen it either though. Yeah, that's all moving like that.
- 1:04:25Speaker 6: But don't surprise you when you see the ship that
- 1:04:27Speaker 6: they even allowed to be seen, like the yoga all
- 1:04:31Speaker 6: his little work ethics is, uh, what's those stretches and
- 1:04:35Speaker 6: all that the band works all that before?
- 1:04:38Speaker 4: Yeah, we weren't doing all that at all.
- 1:04:40Speaker 5: I hated phone roller still do.
- 1:04:42Speaker 6: Damn.
- 1:04:42Speaker 5: I think phone roll. If you phone roll like, you're
- 1:04:45Speaker 5: really fucked up a little bit.
- 1:04:46Speaker 6: See what I'm saying. That ship every time before you Yeah,
- 1:04:52Speaker 6: be crazy.
- 1:04:53Speaker 4: Man was with the monks in the summer, Bro, he said,
- 1:04:55Speaker 4: I'm locked the funking.
- 1:04:56Speaker 6: You know, he was about to be sick.
- 1:04:57Speaker 3: You gotta stay healthy though, Bro, I don't think he's
- 1:05:00Speaker 3: gonna get forty one.
- 1:05:02Speaker 6: Now. But in the Navy Seals, you trained with either
- 1:05:05Speaker 6: one of those groups. Yeah, it's different, break.
- 1:05:11Speaker 4: You trained you man. People don't know.
- 1:05:15Speaker 1: When you got to Wake Forest, you had to pick
- 1:05:18Speaker 1: between kickboxing or hooping. I know because nigga, he was
- 1:05:23Speaker 1: about kick I'm about get some money.
- 1:05:25Speaker 6: But people don't know. Man, you you really liked that.
- 1:05:28Speaker 6: Your whole family like that. Yeah, I got soft that weight.
- 1:05:31Speaker 6: You know you're chasing that broad. Yeah you can't pop
- 1:05:34Speaker 6: off like this is before the grams and all that faithball.
- 1:05:41Speaker 6: But niggas wanted the posting Facebook like that, you know
- 1:05:44Speaker 6: what I mean, she would use for other things.
- 1:05:47Speaker 4: My niggas about to get to it.
- 1:05:50Speaker 6: Yeah, growing up, training fighting always always allowed me to
- 1:05:54Speaker 6: be myself and hold my head high everywhere I go,
- 1:05:58Speaker 6: Like it always taught me like stay in the moment,
- 1:06:02Speaker 6: like enjoy the moment, enjoy that space. And I think
- 1:06:08Speaker 6: that ship helped a lot. Tight in a lot too,
- 1:06:09Speaker 6: Like everything I do period in life, Like I don't
- 1:06:13Speaker 6: care if it's skateboarding. I want to be better than
- 1:06:15Speaker 6: Tony High, you know what I mean? Being mex bike,
- 1:06:18Speaker 6: and I want to be better than Nigel. You know
- 1:06:20Speaker 6: what I'm saying. It is like I have a problem.
- 1:06:23Speaker 6: I don't care like I have a problem with wanting
- 1:06:25Speaker 6: to be the best or be better than everybody I
- 1:06:27Speaker 6: hang out with, you know what I'm saying.
- 1:06:30Speaker 5: So it's like.
- 1:06:33Speaker 1: That's how he is too, though, gotta be wired like
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: that though, Yeah, have some different kind of niggas for sure.
- 1:06:39Speaker 6: For sure y'all overly competitive for facts.
- 1:06:43Speaker 1: You should have seen it, bro We argue about everything.
- 1:06:48Speaker 1: We used to argue, like when they put us on
- 1:06:50Speaker 1: different teams in practice, like he was gonna beat me
- 1:06:53Speaker 1: up one day. We was talking about it earlier about
- 1:06:55Speaker 1: with my ass like that.
- 1:06:58Speaker 6: In a gut screen, I said a good Strea, I
- 1:07:05Speaker 6: was gonna have to resort to violence around me, grabb My,
- 1:07:13Speaker 6: you know, like I don't know if you guys, but
- 1:07:15Speaker 6: when you're chasing you know what I'm saying, you can
- 1:07:17Speaker 6: use the big that sent the screen to like get around, right,
- 1:07:21Speaker 6: And he, like grabb got around and like got low
- 1:07:23Speaker 6: obviously posed like going around.
- 1:07:25Speaker 5: He grabbed my knee.
- 1:07:27Speaker 6: I'm like, damn nigga trying to rip my knee out
- 1:07:28Speaker 6: of you? Yo, I forget who what it might have
- 1:07:31Speaker 6: been a walk on. He got a bucket. Anyway, coach
- 1:07:33Speaker 6: got coach got fired up and all that and was
- 1:07:36Speaker 6: like the bitch as nigga like you talking. Took my
- 1:07:41Speaker 6: knee out, like yo, fuck your mom, fuck.
- 1:07:45Speaker 4: Your gang.
- 1:07:52Speaker 6: A gun screen. It was.
- 1:07:56Speaker 5: I don't let him get around that motherfucker.
- 1:07:59Speaker 6: It was all that. I said. Oh yeah, you said
- 1:08:04Speaker 6: you looked at he said, after practice see me. And
- 1:08:09Speaker 6: this is this is during the holiday time, like Christmas time,
- 1:08:13Speaker 6: so niggas is not in the dorm, he said, hotel
- 1:08:16Speaker 6: rooms at this point, they put you in these hotels
- 1:08:17Speaker 6: because no one's loutstanding on the campus. Whatever. Man, they
- 1:08:23Speaker 6: almost got waking up.
- 1:08:25Speaker 5: I dreaded go and knock on that.
- 1:08:26Speaker 6: Door like I was like fighting myself back a woman.
- 1:08:32Speaker 4: They let it go.
- 1:08:35Speaker 6: Jay your mind.
- 1:08:39Speaker 4: I ain't never let that pass.
- 1:08:41Speaker 6: I never let that.
- 1:08:45Speaker 4: Listen, Bron.
- 1:08:48Speaker 1: Got you.
- 1:08:49Speaker 6: You don't throw no regular punks. I don't.
- 1:08:55Speaker 1: Story, Bro, we get in, we get out of this.
- 1:09:00Speaker 1: So I'm acting like I'm still mad. Gary like, hey, nigga,
- 1:09:03Speaker 1: when the practice open, nigga, go here and run to
- 1:09:05Speaker 1: the locker room.
- 1:09:06Speaker 6: I'm holding back.
- 1:09:07Speaker 1: You know you're scared, like I ain't scared talking about niggas.
- 1:09:10Speaker 1: You better be that nigga. Man, we practice, biggas be
- 1:09:20Speaker 1: shooting around.
- 1:09:20Speaker 6: I'm out right J like.
- 1:09:24Speaker 4: Like I get my ship la poor like you know,
- 1:09:28Speaker 4: nigga look poor, you like.
- 1:09:29Speaker 1: I wanna take you back to the hotel, bro, Man
- 1:09:31Speaker 1: take the hotel JJ like Gary call me like, J
- 1:09:35Speaker 1: gonna get way of your room.
- 1:09:36Speaker 6: Bro, like a ship? What was you so mad for
- 1:09:39Speaker 6: the room. That's how I'm trying. Yeah, I'm telling you.
- 1:09:44Speaker 6: And you know, like when the walk ons is getting busy,
- 1:09:47Speaker 6: like rebound or they niggas gott to run for that.
- 1:09:50Speaker 1: Oh.
- 1:09:51Speaker 6: Speaking of running, that's when I found out Jeff was
- 1:09:53Speaker 6: really crazy, like crazy. We we were in practice, after practice,
- 1:09:59Speaker 6: we got so aside boom, everybody make the first one,
- 1:10:03Speaker 6: everybody make the second one. One of these niggas on
- 1:10:06Speaker 6: the team, I don't want to say. His name is
- 1:10:08Speaker 6: Jamie Skin. Yeah, but we had one left. One left.
- 1:10:17Speaker 6: This nigga was not making it. I seen yo, remember
- 1:10:21Speaker 6: that the nigga black I'm talking about shirt off rate
- 1:10:25Speaker 6: of boxing thing nigga I'm talking about. We didn't have
- 1:10:29Speaker 6: to hop you Jamie Steen, he wasn't he knows that.
- 1:10:36Speaker 6: You know, man, you ain't rapped. Oh god, Ja was
- 1:10:39Speaker 6: crazy to shout, guy.
- 1:10:42Speaker 1: He was.
- 1:10:44Speaker 6: I was mad as though I was mad and he
- 1:10:48Speaker 6: was winded to That's why.
- 1:10:54Speaker 4: You remember when we run the mile like eight days
- 1:10:56Speaker 4: the scheme.
- 1:10:57Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying.
- 1:10:58Speaker 6: He was running back Nigga, Like, Nigga, we ran out
- 1:11:04Speaker 6: all that. Jeff never said nothing nobody before that day.
- 1:11:07Speaker 6: That's crazy.
- 1:11:08Speaker 1: You gotta think he with you, like two fifty back
- 1:11:11Speaker 1: then two forty five, two forty five, six, two forty five. Right,
- 1:11:16Speaker 1: this nigga ran the mound with five forty five or
- 1:11:18Speaker 1: something like that.
- 1:11:19Speaker 5: Where is up there?
- 1:11:20Speaker 1: Yeah, so I had to run it at five fifteen.
- 1:11:22Speaker 1: I think he ran five forty five skiing. Had to
- 1:11:24Speaker 1: make it in six minutes, right, this nigga skeme I
- 1:11:27Speaker 1: love skiing, Bro. He wasn't making that bitch at all. Nigga,
- 1:11:30Speaker 1: we had to run this ship like eight times couse
- 1:11:32Speaker 1: of skin. But we ain't realize that we ran the
- 1:11:34Speaker 1: mile backwards because Nigga, we all.
- 1:11:36Speaker 6: Was like, come on, skin, come on, skin, you don't
- 1:11:39Speaker 6: make it.
- 1:11:40Speaker 4: Nigga, we all run this bitch backwards in six minutes.
- 1:11:43Speaker 1: He finally making he die over the line, making like
- 1:11:45Speaker 1: five fifty nine everybody hype or whatever.
- 1:11:47Speaker 4: And then Coach was like, you, motherfucker's just running mile backwards.
- 1:11:51Speaker 6: That's we like, and we in some shape real fuck yo, Yo.
- 1:11:55Speaker 6: Remember when Harvey crossed the line. Hey, yo, Harvey, we
- 1:12:02Speaker 6: running the mile right, I think it's seeing yeah for him, Yo.
- 1:12:06Speaker 6: When he get to the last two hundred, he had
- 1:12:08Speaker 6: one hundrey yards left, get to going like forty thirty. Yo.
- 1:12:13Speaker 6: About the time he got the twenty, this nigga whole
- 1:12:15Speaker 6: body cramp, rap, got a whole body cramp. My man
- 1:12:18Speaker 6: hit the floor. He even crossed the one. He couldn't
- 1:12:22Speaker 6: even do him that favorite like this niggas.
- 1:12:25Speaker 8: Rock.
- 1:12:27Speaker 1: Yeah, I do remember that ship boy had to go
- 1:12:29Speaker 1: get the and this is how this is how I
- 1:12:31Speaker 1: knew Geary was a little wired different too.
- 1:12:32Speaker 6: He's like that fucking even make it ready, make it
- 1:12:43Speaker 6: like this crazy.
- 1:12:46Speaker 4: Man, y'all had one of the funnest stay ever.
- 1:12:49Speaker 1: That's the funns hell manna for sure. Dan definitely appreciate
- 1:12:53Speaker 1: you for pulling up on for sure.
- 1:12:54Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 1:12:54Speaker 4: For we are here man telling people where they could
- 1:12:56Speaker 4: find a new pard Bro, the new.
- 1:13:00Speaker 6: It's still in the works. Oh, you're still in the works,
- 1:13:03Speaker 6: but that means stay tuned. Wait too, wait for that
- 1:13:06Speaker 6: nothing silent man. Be on the lookout for that on
- 1:13:08Speaker 6: the way man, I don't know what.
- 1:13:09Speaker 9: Guy.
- 1:13:10Speaker 4: Man on the way for a short tap in before
- 1:13:11Speaker 4: we get here.
- 1:13:12Speaker 2: Be here.
- 1:13:12Speaker 4: Tell people that can grasp some march.
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