Club 520 Podcast - Club 520 - Michael Beasley on growing up with Kevin Durant, playing with LeBron, hooping on Knicks

Episode Date: September 24, 2024

We’re back with Season 2, Episode 104 of Club 520, where Jeff Teague and the guys are joined by Michael Beasley. The guys discuss Beasley growing up with Kevin Durant in Maryland, going to Kansas St...ate and becoming one of the best one-and-done players in college basketball history, playing alongside LeBron James on the Miami Heat, hooping on the New York Knicks, winning the Big 3 MVP, and much more! #volume #clubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:50 My name is DJ Wells. We got a special, special guest in the fucking building today. We're going to introduce my man's last to my far left. We got my dog, Bishop B. Hitting out the prillies. How you doing, Nasty? Cool and nasty. Let's get to it, baby.
Starting point is 00:01:01 I'm excited for this one. Now, listen, you let my mans down Cause you know you supposed You ain't been showing up To work in your uniform And of all days You didn't have on the fit Respect He let me down
Starting point is 00:01:11 I got word You know what Just introduce Introduce the other niggas So we can go on So I can tell my story For sure To my right
Starting point is 00:01:19 My dog Young Nacho Young T How you what Man I'm chilling bro Got a family in the building bro 07 class High school class I'm hype I've been wanting him on family in the building, bro. 07 class, high school class.
Starting point is 00:01:25 I'm hype. I've been wanting him on the show this whole time. One of my favorite players to watch and play against. I remember my K-State, but we're going to get all of that. For sure, man. If y'all know who this is, man, one of the coaches to touch a basketball. When you talk about getting buckets, it's two people that come to mind. Jordan Crawford and this man.
Starting point is 00:01:42 One of the coaches. Why you say that first? Nah, because you last. You got to introduce you last. You know what I'm saying? Respect, of course But not when you talking about buckets Mike Beasley first How about that?
Starting point is 00:01:51 Love Like he said Mike Beasley This nigga crazy I'm just saying That's a little disrespectful No disrespect You know
Starting point is 00:02:04 I respect But shout out to what's happening, man I'm done saying That's a little disrespectful No disrespect You know I respect But y'all was having it man I'm done We in the show Shout out to my I didn't want to mess it up Shout out to my DJ Crawford man
Starting point is 00:02:12 I'm handsome I can't say that You know what I'm saying But you get your shit on I ain't gonna feel a way You can tell the people I'm handsome Yeah it ain't June no more
Starting point is 00:02:20 Huh Something wrong with him Something wrong But you was a power four. We got Mike Beasley on the show. Mike Beasley. Who's that? So, yes, nigga, get back.
Starting point is 00:02:32 I just wanted to introduce you. Go ahead. Go ahead. This is light-skinned Mike Beasley. Yeah. 16 lefty. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's get that light-skinned shit out of here.
Starting point is 00:02:41 Me? Cameraman. Okay. Don Maker. Right? He's some black man. Don Maker. Pat Beveler. Pat Beveler. Right? Pat Beveler. You put us in a room together.
Starting point is 00:02:58 You ain't gonna, right? You can't tear this apart. All dogs. No, no. I'm dark, nigga. I'm light skinned. I'm not light skinned. I'm dark skinned. Check me out. Check me out.
Starting point is 00:03:08 Pull your phone out real quick. My phone out? Yeah, pull your phone out. Turn your flash light on. Turn your flash light on. Put it close. Put it close. Those tattoos.
Starting point is 00:03:17 I know. I'm like Lance Stevenson. You can't see him. I ain't hold no. Don't call me. Anyway. Don't call me Lance Steven't call me Like that Anyway I'm not
Starting point is 00:03:27 I'm like Lance Houser I was about to see Some other tattoo Population shit Nah You ain't no Lance Had tattoos to you
Starting point is 00:03:36 He's his teammate I know you didn't I didn't You stupid Shout out to Shout out to bro I ain't no Thawne Baker Had them too
Starting point is 00:03:46 But that's crazy But show Thawne Nah I'm the first 5'10 Par 4 bro In the country Where? Indianapolis, Indiana
Starting point is 00:03:55 Yachting had to be tried He played with George Hill He played with George Hill Before I turned my meniscus bro I was one of them bro A meniscus is only a two-week injury. No, it's not, bro. Not with my lineage, bro.
Starting point is 00:04:09 You see how I'm built? I've been built like this since a kid, bro. I've been out of shape. It's double-double machine, though. Double-double machine? Yeah, I taught Glenn Baby how to get down. You hear me? You know, I'm one of them.
Starting point is 00:04:22 That's not a good name. On the court You was on G We are crazy Let's talk around Let's talk Yeah Shout out to CJ But now you gotta
Starting point is 00:04:37 Bring up the story You know what I'm saying About the forces man Yeah man T told me that you You know You tuned into the show Yeah I be watching
Starting point is 00:04:44 All this shit funny. He funny. You a black force. You. What? You don't fuck with the show? I fuck with the show. I fuck with, like, he's funny. He's professional. What am I? He black forces.
Starting point is 00:05:00 You black forces. Respect. You ain't fuck with the black, with the white license? You fucked me up with the white laces. I ain't going to hold you. That's something, though. But you a black Air Force rider, though. Yeah, yeah. Because, you know, my introduction is usually interruption.
Starting point is 00:05:16 You know? So I'm a black Air Force. You the first person on the show, bro, that ever gave some love to the black forces. So I appreciate that. I mean, I was going with him today but my, you know, somebody told me not to. Oh, man.
Starting point is 00:05:29 Respect. Good call. Good call. Good call. He don't fuck with the Black Forces. Nah, I don't. How you don't fuck with the Black Forces?
Starting point is 00:05:34 Because of him. He started wearing them shits and I be seeing people around the city with white laces and they Black Forces. Oh, he start,
Starting point is 00:05:42 he start. Oh, this shit. We get tagging out every day. Oh, this shit is a thing. I can fuck with that part i can fuck you starting to move man it was really accidental though because when we first start potting they like now how you accidentally white laces let me tell you my story they don't even come with i know i'm a trendsetter hold on when we first started to get no i've been out to a way to get an extra pair of laces.
Starting point is 00:06:05 No, I didn't. No, I've been doing that. We started pieing two times a week. The first time, you had to go out your way. No, I didn't, bro. They don't come with white laces. Easily. Not the extra laces either.
Starting point is 00:06:17 They be black. Walmart is up the street. A 54 inch shoe string. So you had to go out your way. You bought the laces. It was part of the grocery order. Not in Walmart. Correct?
Starting point is 00:06:26 Respect. Yes. That didn't come with black uh white license correct correct so something sparked in your head to say let me go to walmart switch the style up that's all right switch it up so what year was this this was 2001 how old are you 36 36 you been on that? I was doing this in middle school but anyway it started because
Starting point is 00:06:49 this is why I said it's an accident we started pying twice a week and I told them I wasn't about to be buying an outfit to pie with a bunch
Starting point is 00:06:55 of niggas every day so I just wore all black every day and just kept my shoes on and now you're buying outfits no I'm not buying anything
Starting point is 00:07:02 he be buying oh yeah he look kind of weird he look kind of weird to say he look kind of weird to say I'm not buying outfits. He be buying outfits. Oh, yeah. He look kind of weird. He look kind of weird to say. He look kind of weird to say.
Starting point is 00:07:08 I'm glad you said that. He got a chain. I got another one. This is about Beasley, dog. This ain't about me.
Starting point is 00:07:20 This is about Beasley. Let's dive back. Yeah, man. We got to get back to it man we all be so basically
Starting point is 00:07:26 oh wait you didn't respect the part at first what you mean you said you was gonna wear the same outfit every day
Starting point is 00:07:31 we all do we all do nah it was a it was a mutual it was like all black I wear black every day
Starting point is 00:07:37 anyway yeah it was a mutual thing what you got in your head little ginger real never seen that before. Shout out to the sponsors. Hey, but we got to talk about the first time y'all met, man.
Starting point is 00:07:53 I didn't know. I just heard some stories. You see how they always make you shoot up all that shit. He always makes sure I wouldn't shit. Ain't that a motherfucker? So I'm going to tell you how I met you. Well, I didn't meet you.
Starting point is 00:08:07 And how I found out who you were. So we playing in Little Rock on the Hill in Arkansas. And we make it to the final four. We end up making it to the final four. You was on the side court. Yeah. I remember that. Yeah, you should.
Starting point is 00:08:20 You beat us by 60. So we come on the court. We got a little reversible jersey. We just starting to get our foot in the door. We indie heat, but we ain't really indie heat. And you came on the court and you was like, who the fuck we about to play? What the fuck is this? I'm like, who is that?
Starting point is 00:08:37 They like, ask Coach Conley. Coach Conley put me to the side. That's Mike Beasley. He's the best player in the country. I was like, man, fuck him. Coach Conley was like, no, it's going to be fuck you. He can play. And he's real good.
Starting point is 00:08:49 We got to be locked in. I bring the group in. He's the best. You got to be locked in, man. You're the first player to get. You go through the lane, dunk that bitch. It's over. I'm like, oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:57 This shit done. Fast forward. I meet him at ABCD camp. We on a plane. No bush. I never forget it. Paul, you got some big ass feet But Nolan Smith feet
Starting point is 00:09:08 Bigger than yours It was It was So We sit on a plane And we all flying Back somewhere And I look at
Starting point is 00:09:15 I'm like this nigga feet Big as hell And you heard me You like Yeah that nigga got some Big ass feet Look at him look Dumb ass
Starting point is 00:09:21 Big ass feet I'm like I'm like yo This nigga crazy. I ain't gonna lie. Those people had like an 18, bro. This shit look crazy. He like my height, bro.
Starting point is 00:09:32 I was like, he could never be fresh, bro, with them big ass feet. Hell nah. The size of 18s is not as long. One of them is big as shit, bro. Hey, some Adidas was big as hell. That's a no, man. No one like six months with them. I swear to God. I Adidas was big as hell. Man, shout out to Nova. Nova like six months ago. I swear to God.
Starting point is 00:09:49 I can't make this shit up. That's crazy. All right, man. That's funny. My bad, though. I ain't know y'all was trash. I was just. It was just our jerseys.
Starting point is 00:10:02 We just had a bad day, bro. We were trash. We had a bad day. Nah, yo, it was just our jerseys. You know what I'm saying? I ain't going to lie. We just had a bad day We went trash We had a bad day Nah yo It was just y'all jerseys You know what I'm saying I ain't gonna lie Like Like we
Starting point is 00:10:10 Like We was that team Nah y'all was We was jerseys right Yeah Like But then you know We started winning a little bit
Starting point is 00:10:17 A little Dita started fucking with us And then You know Probably got to my head a little bit Cause then when I seen y'all With the fucked up jerseys That shit was trash
Starting point is 00:10:26 I remember that shit too Cause I remember We was It was some big ass bleachers Yeah Yeah That shit Yup
Starting point is 00:10:33 Yeah My bad Nah it's all good But it worked out for you though It did It quite It didn't quite work out Right there
Starting point is 00:10:40 But Hey Speece had When Speece had Ind when Speeds had, Indy Speeds had, was that the first time playing against them?
Starting point is 00:10:48 Yeah. Now, this was some bullshit. We bring fucking Anthony McClain. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:57 Seven footer. So, we like, all right, shit, we about to play Greg Olin. It's Greg Olin, fucking Daquan Cook.
Starting point is 00:11:07 Mike Conley. Dirt. Dirtic i think mike conley might have left no michael was there joshua grovers was there too listen listen we bring anthony mclean to like just just to scare um great great you know what i'm saying and this is working like we play them in pool play. Nigga, they fucked us over with this one. But we play him in pool play. Nigga, first play of the game, nigga. Our point guard, Ray Brewer, go to the fucking... First two plays, he go lay that motherfucker up. Greg Oden smacked that bitch on the backboard so hard.
Starting point is 00:11:42 Like, the ball almost went flat. And, you know started to break it went boom boom so I went to Ray I said Ray if you lay that bro you gotta go in there
Starting point is 00:11:53 and throw that motherfucker high bro that ain't gonna get that shit right flex alright did that shit very next play
Starting point is 00:12:00 nigga he smacked that shit on the backboard again boom and this time it bounced down like right before half like right after half court yeah right and i'll seven footer down you know what i'm saying like i'll seven foot up like bro so it it bounced i said I said, I'm putting on it. Nigga. Daquan Cook grabbed this ball from half court and he bounced that shit one time. I said, I'm putting it.
Starting point is 00:12:30 Sitting there, both hands up. Man, he dunked on that nigga. Three-point line. Had that nigga. Like, arms all wrapped around that nigga. Boom, nigga. And we lost by like 40. Nigga, that was the first time I was like. Pool was different for nigga. Boom, nigga. And we lost by like 40. That was the first time I was like,
Starting point is 00:12:47 who was different for sure? Nah, nigga. Who was different? That nigga. They, sure they. But nigga, I'm glad we did that to y'all. Full circle moment.
Starting point is 00:13:00 That was your get back. That nigga took it out on us. I would even up that team. I didn't get a bite from that. So that was your get back. That nigga took it out on us. I don't even know that team. I didn't get a bite from that. So that was your sophomore year? When I played Greg Oden, it was my sophomore year. Sophomore, yeah. My sophomore, my junior year when I first played Greg Oden.
Starting point is 00:13:17 That's when I first realized what a man was on the basketball court. He was a monster. He was different, bro. All the way up until the NBA. Before he got into the NBA, I remember game planning him when he was in the heat and him and Joe Pritzbiller.
Starting point is 00:13:31 It's like, nigga, whenever Greg Oden catch that motherfucker on the block, nigga. Oh, I say nigga too much. Don't I? Nah. I say nigga too much.
Starting point is 00:13:40 Nah, bro. This is... Nah, bro. This is not habitual. This is not habitual, bro. Whenever Greg Oden catch that shit on the block, man, it was a is. Nah, bro. We got stuff. We got stuff. We just signed it. Whenever Greg Oden cuts that shit on the block, man,
Starting point is 00:13:47 it was a monster. But, I'm glad that shit happened like that. Yeah. I don't know how to pause, by the way, so y'all go on.
Starting point is 00:13:54 We talking, bro. We talking about that how crazy that 07 class is, especially Indianapolis. Man, and you was at the top of that class. We always regard that
Starting point is 00:14:04 as like one of the best high school league like that's one of the best that class don't get no respect because all of us didn't pan out
Starting point is 00:14:13 in the NBA how we was supposed to you know what I'm saying kinda did though cause if you look at it like James James MVP
Starting point is 00:14:24 D Rose MVP B's talking about like Because if you look at it, like James, MVP, D-Rose, MVP. But you got to think, B's talking about like Bill Walker. Had a crazy name. Bill was crazy. You know what I mean? Coming up, Bill was one of the ones. Look at that class for what we know it for. Yeah, that makes sense. Um, 18 year old,
Starting point is 00:14:46 19 year old, a 25 year old. Couldn't get that same feeling. Looking at that same list. You know what I'm saying? No, I get what you're saying. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:54 You know what I'm saying? Just cause, just cause we didn't really, you know, it was most of our faults, you know, but OJ may all stuff. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:04 Exactly. Exactly. Right. Mayall yeah exactly exactly right O.J. was like he dunked in the 7th grade nah we from Indiana he was living in Kentucky yeah we all
Starting point is 00:15:13 all about that that 7th grade mixtape been waking up on TV he was the best thing he was like O.J. was the best motherfucker I ever seen with a basketball
Starting point is 00:15:21 like I remember I remember my first time going out of town, we went to Memphis, me and KD, and we watching. I ain't, like, I ain't know nothing from nothing. Like, I'm, like, I'm for real
Starting point is 00:15:33 a hood nigga that just grew when they told me to come to the gym. You know what I'm saying? So, me and KD first started playing together. Like, like, he always studied the game. Who he was watching, who he, you know what I'm saying? So, I remember the first time studied the game, who he was watching, who he, you understand?
Starting point is 00:15:46 So I remember the first time we in the gym and he just watching fucking OJ and I'm just, I'm, I'm just,
Starting point is 00:15:54 I just didn't want to be there at the time, you know what I'm saying? I remember I just paid attention, they jump ball. Wow, this motherfucker, man,
Starting point is 00:16:01 that nigga was nice. Yeah, he just, whatever he wanted to do, pull up up left, right, dunk and spin. Bro, and then he had Bill, nigga. Killing. Oh, man. Crazy teammate, bro.
Starting point is 00:16:15 But, yeah, that 07 class, it was. Yeah. I see what you're saying. Because Johnny Flynn and y'all class. Johnny Flynn. Oh, my God, Johnny Flynn. But I feel like if you make it to the league, I know it's like you're supposed to. Yeah, like we made it.
Starting point is 00:16:28 Yeah, we made it, bro. 100%. That's a huge accomplishment. He said y'all ain't supposed to have that extendo career. Everybody that was at the top supposed to have that extendo career. We was supposed to have at least five of us, eight of us still playing right now. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:16:42 Like, that's what that class was. And it was partly, like, a lot of us, a lot of us came up in the wrong era. Like, we came up in an era to where
Starting point is 00:16:52 it was tight. Like, when I came in the league, stretch four was Udonis Haslam. Yeah. Yeah. 15-footer.
Starting point is 00:17:01 Yeah, facts. And it's like, like, we really needed space to work. You know what I'm saying? We wasn't really on, it wasn't no fast break game. 15 footer yeah and it's like like we really needed space to work you know what I'm saying we wasn't really on it wasn't no fast break game
Starting point is 00:17:09 it was a half court game 85 point 90 point games and like you know what I'm saying that was 140 130 like you know
Starting point is 00:17:18 he was ahead of your time for sure so a lot of us came up in the wrong era and a lot of us didn't have the coach like like it wasn't a lot of player coaches you know a lot of not player coaches it wasn't not a new school player no it was old school old school coaches so system you know so like, like, my problem was, my problem, like, the same attitude I had with Spoh my first two years is the same reasons I congratulate him and the same reasons I call him one of the best coaches.
Starting point is 00:17:52 It's because that bubble year, if he didn't let them young guys go, you understand? Yeah. But we just came up in that era where, and Spoh was a rookie, he was a rookie coach still listening to Pac-Man. Yeah. where, and Spoh, Spoh was a rookie, he was a rookie coach still listening to Pac-Man. So, a lot of us came up in that era to where it was the coach's way, you know, and we just wasn't able to, like, we was one
Starting point is 00:18:14 and done. And at that time, it really meant something, like, that we was young, we was 19, we was, you know, still just babies. Yeah. Speaking about coaches, how was it playing for Huggs? I never played for Huggs. I mean, not Huggs.
Starting point is 00:18:28 What's your Kansas State coach? Frank Martin. Yeah, Frank Martin. Frank like Huggs, Tom Stanton. Damn. Frank kicked. Man, I remember, I ain't going to say his name because I don't want to embarrass him. But it was our point guard at the time.
Starting point is 00:18:44 Jacob. Pulling. No point guard at the time. Jacob. Pulling. No, I'm just saying. But I'm thinking. Damn, y'all had a weird thing. No, but Jake. Clint still was our starting point guard. Jake was coming off the bench for us.
Starting point is 00:19:00 But I remember Christmas. Christmas, Jake had his family in the stands. So he was trying to sauce it up and shit. Yeah. Frank told him one time, like, man, we ain't doing that dipsy-doo shit, man. I don't care if you're family or not, man. It's part of the play. So he went on 10 minutes later to do some shit again.
Starting point is 00:19:23 But I told you, man, you trying to impress your family. You got one more time. 20 minutes later, bro. Thanks, bro. You know what? All right. You want to do this? You and your fucking mother.
Starting point is 00:19:35 And get the fuck out of my gym. I'm just going to kick the whole family out. Nigga, I was sitting there like, damn. You know what I'm saying? Do that dipsy dude shit in the parking lot. I was like, God damn. He wild. Hey, Coach Wild. I say, yeah, Coach Wild. What made you pick Kansas State?
Starting point is 00:20:02 Delonta Hill. Okay. So when I first started playing with DCS Salt, I didn't get in the game. Like, at all. At all.
Starting point is 00:20:11 I was playing my Jeff Green. Damn. You know. You was playing up like a motherfucker. Yeah, I was playing up. I never played, you know.
Starting point is 00:20:21 Yeah. But I was playing up, but I was playing by some, you know, That's a notable name, nigga. Dante C you know. Yeah. But I was playing up, but I was playing behind some, you know, That's a notable name, nigga. Dante Cunningham. Yeah. I was playing behind some.
Starting point is 00:20:32 Prospects, for sure. Yeah. Yeah. So, I just watched them niggas the whole summer. And D-Hill was just on the bench with me, always working out with me, always getting my exercise and all that. And I just told him, like, wherever you go to college i'm that's where i'm gonna go you know just because we built the relationship he he got the job first at unc charlotte and
Starting point is 00:20:55 i ain't gonna lie by the time he got the job i was all i wanted to think about college because like in like like 18 months later i was number one in the country it was nba yeah so i was i wanted to think about college but by the time he got the job every i'm talking about my mother used to hate the letters coming to my house and i used to hate them because the first one i opened first one i opened i think is billy donovan sent me a letter and that's just saying um joe king noah And that shit said, Joe King Noah averaged like.5 points his freshman year or some shit like that. And that was the number one pick. Oh, wow. And I looked at that letter and I said, I'm not going to college.
Starting point is 00:21:43 Joe King Noah is crazy you know I mean he was at Florida so Florida Joe King Noah ain't really play his
Starting point is 00:21:50 he ain't play his freshman year but now he the best player in the country you think I'm coming in to not play man
Starting point is 00:21:58 so I ain't even want to do the recruitment thing so I just I just committed to UNC Charlotte which was a low D1 school. Yeah, I remember that. That's crazy.
Starting point is 00:22:12 I was like, he getting paid crazy. Nah, I ain't get paid. I just ain't want to deal with the. Yeah, I mean, now. You understand? Like, them niggas, you know, the only motherfucker that was real, for real, was Huggs. Huggs still. That's why I knew that was your man
Starting point is 00:22:26 that's why I made my Huggs still a part of my family to this day like everybody you know what I'm saying like you know he sent files my mom funeral
Starting point is 00:22:34 all that type of shit but like all the rest of them niggas was just fake you know and I ain't I just ain't wanna do that shit
Starting point is 00:22:42 so I committed there and I was just gonna go straight to the league. But then they changed the rule in 05. So then I had to really think about it. And before I can even think about it, Huggs got say to K-State, so I just went there.
Starting point is 00:22:57 And I just ain't want to, like, it wasn't no, like, picking. I was really going to go to Memphis because I found out like when Hugs left I wasn't going to go to West Virginia I just knew that because I'm from D.C. I'm from West Virginia you know what I'm saying
Starting point is 00:23:13 so I just knew I wasn't going to go and I didn't want to be close to home so when Hugs left I was going to go to Memphis because I was just it was the hoop summit I was just down there and it just turned into
Starting point is 00:23:23 an unofficial visit and you and D. Rose at Memphis. I was just down there, and it just turned into an unofficial visit. And you and D Rose at Memphis? Yeah. So I was going to go to Memphis, and I ain't going to lie. I swear to God, I was committing that night. But Frank Martin walked in the motherfucking gangster shit. Sat me down, talked to me in the lobby in front of all the coaches. Like, I'm like, yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:47 By the time he was leaving, I was like, fuck that, nigga. I'm trying to go to jail. He let you rock, too, boy. What? Yeah. You, you, I ain't even saying it because you're here. Because I always put, like, Mello, my favorite college player ever. But, like, bro, you was really dynamic, bro.
Starting point is 00:24:03 That shit was Frank. College, bro. It was Frank. I mean, it was me. That was you College bro It was Frank I mean it was me That was you Cause I Like I do what I do now
Starting point is 00:24:09 Like my favorite quote The quote I live by is That what you do most Is what you do best Yeah You know what I'm saying So Like I sharpen my shit up
Starting point is 00:24:17 Every day But The older I get The more I realize It's the coach It's up to the coach To put you in position You know what I'm saying It's up to the coach to put you in position. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:30 It's up for the coach to let the players know, like, when you're going to shoot, basically. Yeah. If I'm out there and the play's for him and we want to play for him but I see a shot, I better make that fucking shot. Yeah. You got two niggas over there setting it down for you. You got them, you know what I'm saying? You got them up on the ball.
Starting point is 00:24:43 Right. You know what I'm saying? So, if I don't make that shot, who we got rebounding? Who we got, you understand? So Kansas State, man, I got there, Frank, my first meeting with Frank, he said, bro, we gonna have practice at three o'clock. He said, so you wanna do whatever want to do at night, do it. Sleep in, go to class.
Starting point is 00:25:09 But you stay out my way, I'm gonna stay out your way. Real. That's how it went. You know, he told me what to do on the court, like whether I was rebounding or whether I wasn't getting no blocks or whether I wasn't scoring. Every time out, like bro, you ain't doing this, you ain't doing that. And just go out there and do it you know and that's the respect I wanted in the NBA like no coach like no coach told me what to do you said it's like I'm the best scorer you ever seen but it's like all you're gonna tell me is play defense like that shit pissed me off at one point like
Starting point is 00:25:39 my fourth fifth year in the league I ain't gonna play no more to me when I seen you in college because you probably don't remember this, though, I went to school in Winston. Y'all played Winston-Salem State. Oh, we, our dogs, our niggas. Nah, I didn't go there. Our dogs. You dogs, them niggas.
Starting point is 00:25:56 I remember this. I remember. You had 40 and 20. Nah, I remember. Why though? Yeah, why? at 20 I remember why though yeah why uh the the first half I had like
Starting point is 00:26:08 like maybe like nine points yeah and going into the half one of the one of the players blocked my shot
Starting point is 00:26:19 and right like right before he passed out locker room he's talking about Beasley ooh that nigga trash.
Starting point is 00:26:26 And I ain't hear it. But my coach came in there and was like, you know, he was like, Brent Underwood, he white, but he ain't white. You know what I'm saying? So he came in and told me exactly what he said. He's like, man, he said, ah, he didn't say the word. But he said, ah, I got something for the word, but he said, ah, woo, woo, woo. But I was, all right, I got something for you.
Starting point is 00:26:47 You know, so I just went out there. And I just didn't like that nigga. I can't even remember his name, like Jamal or something. I don't know. I can't remember his name. But I remember he said Beasley who, and I was like, all right. We were at Wake Forest, so when some state game was on, we just watching it. We all in the locker room, we watching it.
Starting point is 00:27:04 And, you know, it's me, just watching it We all in the locker room We watching it And you know It's me James Johnson We all Freshman's like him We like I'm like nah Bro this nigga
Starting point is 00:27:11 Different bro Like he playing Like March Madness For real This ain't real bro For real The reason I was So good in college
Starting point is 00:27:20 Cause I lived Through so many ways Bro he was a monster, bro. I worked on my game, but nigga, my weight coach, Scott Greenwald,
Starting point is 00:27:32 bro, he had me, like, my max in college was like 400. Like, smooth shit. Bro,
Starting point is 00:27:38 you was trying to be a wrestler, nigga? Nah, like, he was, like, he was,
Starting point is 00:27:43 he used to train for the world's strongest man in the world. Ah, he's out of pocket. Bro, if you see him walk, like he he was like he was he used to train for the world's strongest man in war he's out of pocket bro if you see him walk like he he worked out every day until he earled three times like the sickest shit you ever see like he don't stop working out every day every day until he earled three times bro he broke his neck and didn't know it you know i'm saying for a week like he in there working out one day so next day we can't put this through the workout and he just got a quick in his neck you know just
Starting point is 00:28:09 walking around all day with a quick but he put us through the workout spotless and all that you know just got a quickness man before the game he asked our uh trainer to rub it out for him like yo just see what you mean I'm saying you can rub it out yeah man he Like, yo, just see what you can do. You know what I'm saying? You can rub it out. Man, he go rub this side, then go rub this side, then go rub this side. And he like, bro, where your collarbone at? You know, nigga,
Starting point is 00:28:30 broke his collar. Like, bro, nigga, strong. You know what I'm saying? And I'm talking about, bro, he had, like, he, like, I think that's the difference between a great player and a good player.
Starting point is 00:28:41 That's the difference between LeBron and Paul Jules. That's the difference between GianBron and Paul Jules. That's the difference between Giannis and fucking, I don't want to disrespect nobody, but, you know, that's the difference between a good seven-footer and Giannis. You know what I'm saying? Giannis, I seen Giannis every day. He going to put 250 on there.
Starting point is 00:29:04 He going to get his hip bridges in. Young guy. I seen that. I vouch for that. I vouch for that. Hey, I'm talking about he be putting weight
Starting point is 00:29:13 that you ain't supposed to be lifting and he going to get his shit in. He like, and just the older I got, you know, I think that's why
Starting point is 00:29:20 I'm so good now because I take it serious. Like, I got to the NBA, I didn't take lifting weights and taking my body as serious as we should. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I agree.
Starting point is 00:29:32 I didn't either. Like, and now that I see, like, I'm older, like, bro, if I don't, like, lift right or stretch right, bro, my back be hurting now. You know what I'm saying? I feel that. Like, that's the difference between what I was doing in college and what everybody else was doing in college.
Starting point is 00:29:49 We was like, our game days we had lived. You know what I'm saying? This show, you was a double-double machine. I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun?
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Starting point is 00:32:29 KD Y'all neck and neck We We looked it up I would say outside of Melo I gotta give it to Melo We don't count Melo Yeah
Starting point is 00:32:37 The reason Like Melo did what he did Right? And This is why I think The argument needs to be categorized because mellow had a great team yeah you know what i'm saying mcnamara magnum or warwick um you know
Starting point is 00:32:55 me and kd like they had a young team they was young though they had a young team and individually like we was just out there giving y'all you know what I'm saying like me with me it wasn't even a scoring
Starting point is 00:33:12 like you go back and look at that yeah I like I rebounded more than I scored you know what I'm saying most of my my points came off
Starting point is 00:33:20 offensive rebounds yeah pullbacks with offensive rebounds and facebacks with offensive rebounds and face-up jump shacks. You know what I'm saying? KD? KD was him.
Starting point is 00:33:31 But he had DJ. Even still to this day, I don't think I score that well. I think I can put the ball... No, no, no, no, no, no. Let me explain. Let me explain. We just had a whole
Starting point is 00:33:42 pool of about you. Let me explain. Let me explain. Let me explain. Let me explain. Let me explain. You just had a whole pool of about you. Let me explain. Let me explain. Let me explain. I've been being nice now. I can score a lot. A lot and well.
Starting point is 00:33:55 You understand? Different. We just played. We had one doing a big three. He said, I'm staying in front of him. You said, stay between him and the basket. No, no, no. So what happened with that then?
Starting point is 00:34:05 What's your excuse for that? No, I don't know. What'd you score on? Let me get what I'm saying. Stay between him and the basket. Make him make tough shots. He said he hitting every shot. When I watch me play basketball, I don't think it look cool.
Starting point is 00:34:18 I do. When I watch KD, I think he look really cool. You know, one of my favorites, one of my favorites, Jordan Crawford. When I watch him play basketball, like, that's one of the reasons I be working out like I work out. Like, how you get your legs to move that way while your body is moving? He be throwing shit that I be like. Yeah. Bruh, if I can do that, bruh.
Starting point is 00:34:41 But you so aggressive, bro, And your wingspan is so long. And you a lefty. And it's like you go both ways. Y'all don't even know why I'm so good. Y'all don't even know why I'm so good. That's why we got you here, though. But I'm saying, though. Because I pay attention to my footwork.
Starting point is 00:34:57 Footwork. It's footwork. It's all about footwork. But you a three-level scorer, though. What is that? But he been scoring. Middy is crazy. He's been scoring on a high level since
Starting point is 00:35:08 I just told you. My game ain't like nothing pretty to watch. That's why people don't watch. I got a smooth professional game. I'm going to shoot the jump shot in your face. One dribble to the counter.
Starting point is 00:35:23 Nah, you lying because I just watched they just had a video of your Knicks highlights. It was crazy. I'm shouting in your face. One dribble to the counter. One dribble to the... Nah, you lying because I just watched your... They just had a video of your Knicks highlights. And it was crazy. See, Knicks... See, look, bro. Knicks...
Starting point is 00:35:32 Nah, Knicks... Look, look, bro. They just had a video of you. I told you we can't see you, bro. Let me tell you about that. Let me tell you about that, see. So, I started the season off averaging four points, right?
Starting point is 00:35:44 Like, four minutes. Like, four points, right? Like four minutes, like four points in like five minutes. Tim Hardaway got hurt and then I was like, like maybe nine minutes and I was like, bro,
Starting point is 00:35:54 I swear, bro, I'm going hard in practice getting my extra shots and you know, I went to Kurt Rambers, one of them, shout out to Kurt Rambers,
Starting point is 00:36:00 that's like one of the, like one of the only coaches that like resonated with who I am, right? I went to, I went to him coaches that like resonated with who I am, right? I went to, I went to him one game and I say,
Starting point is 00:36:09 I say, bro, what is it, man? Like, like, and I, I curse him out.
Starting point is 00:36:12 I say, bro, man, like, that's your nigga, bro. Like, fuck,
Starting point is 00:36:14 man, I'm going to beat both of y'all up. Like, you know what I'm saying? But he know I was, he know I was, but he like,
Starting point is 00:36:18 but he's like, at this point, bro, just make, make him look bad for not putting you in. So, I just remember in New York
Starting point is 00:36:25 I just remember like I I'm just every time I go out there I'm just gonna throw my whole bag out there like I treat New York
Starting point is 00:36:33 like the summertime nah I treat it like like pick up the highlights showed that like it's one of the highlights it's like
Starting point is 00:36:41 oh Beezus coming in you know Bucky's like Wall Frazier he's like yep it's a quick 12
Starting point is 00:36:45 about to come up. I was like, damn. Yeah, so, and then, but it ain't work. That shit would piss me off.
Starting point is 00:36:51 Like, bro, that shit ain't give me no more minutes. I could like, like smooth shit. Like, with Paul Zengas
Starting point is 00:36:58 and, and Tim Hardaway and Courtney Lee, I could have, I could have made that a playoff team. I was playing out of position. If they had played me two-guard fronted with – if I were a two-guard fronted with Jerry Jack, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:37:12 Everybody played me as a four because of college. But I've been playing out of position my whole career. You play me at the one, two, three. I'm bigger. I'm better on defense. Now I got somebody to play pick and roll with. I could have fucked a pick and roll with I could've I could've fucked
Starting point is 00:37:25 a pick and roll game up with Kylo Quinn and um um Christoph Porzingis but Jeff
Starting point is 00:37:32 Jeff Hornacek was on the hot seat and Porzingis didn't really know how to play good basketball like winning basketball so that shit was trash but yeah
Starting point is 00:37:40 like that shit in New York I just treat that shit like the fucking summertime I just thought you was a pure par four. That's why I said you was a three-level scorer, because watching you hoop now, it's like, nah, he really a perimeter player that can do both. Yeah, so that's why I didn't play in Miami my first two years, because Spoh wanted me to be Carlos Boozer. Damn.
Starting point is 00:38:01 I don't even see you as no booze. Bro, every— like, nigga. You was ahead of your time, though. Every practice, I used to watch for an hour, two hours, Carlos Boozer and fucking Karl Malone. Like, and I used to tell them, like, bro, even if I get that much weight, like, my shoulder's not even that wide. Like, I can't be that big. You're that Dwight Howard dog. Yeah, it's like, bro. No, he don't. No, he don't. No, my shoulder's not even that wide. Like, I can't be that big. You're saying that Dwight Howard died. Yeah, it's like, bro.
Starting point is 00:38:27 No, he don't. No, he don't. No, somebody else don't. Nah, hold on, y'all. Wait, wait, wait. What are you just saying? What are you just saying? What are you just saying?
Starting point is 00:38:33 What are you just saying? What did I miss? What did you say? No, I said you gotta, they wanted you to be built like Dwight Howard. Nah, what did you say, y'all? That Dwight Howard died.
Starting point is 00:38:42 Yeah, you don't want that. You don't want that. I'm talking about what you're he talking about Karl Malone. Karl Malone was the biggest motherfucking NBA nigga. Nah, nah, nah. He done played nobody like Karl Malone. When I went back to the Heat with LeBron, I got on LeBron, dog. Shit, what was that?
Starting point is 00:38:58 Bruh. I ain't going to say what, but I don't eat three times a day. I'm on one time, two times a day. I skip breakfast. I fast a lot. But that season, I was eating three times a day. I was like 250. I'm talking about body fat, 5%.
Starting point is 00:39:17 I was like, go back and look at them pictures when I was next to them. How did you feel on the court, though? Bro, like a brick wall. Did'd you feel on the court though? Bro Like a brick wall Like Did you feel like it worked though? Yeah I ain't like
Starting point is 00:39:30 I ain't feelin' saucy You know what I'm sayin' My jump shot ain't feel Feelin' as fluent Yeah But No I ain't never get hurt
Starting point is 00:39:39 Like That's all that matters You know But Like I'm trying to get your MVP So I'm trying to be MVP next year
Starting point is 00:39:48 You got to call Lonzo Ball Lonzo got a new knee You got to tap in I need new Oh you need a new knee Yeah What happens to your knee I need microfracture surgery
Starting point is 00:39:57 But I ain't gonna never get that So He don't want to sit down For a couple months Yeah That's why I quit playing It's like It's some ways
Starting point is 00:40:04 You can heal your knees. I feel cool now. I train now. The way I I broke my foot in September and I can tell people now because I ain't want nobody to know
Starting point is 00:40:18 because I ain't really get back on the court until maybe six weeks before this big three season. So you're always stunting on niggas. Oh for real. So you ain't even trained so now you MVP at this train. No no no I was trained.
Starting point is 00:40:32 We got some we got some more next year. Nah I was rehabbing like bro like right before the season last year I was about to go to China. And you know I was out LA playing and I stepped on KD's foot. Oh, okay. You know, I don't know why, bro.
Starting point is 00:40:51 Like, I mean, we was playing, and the play before, I contested him. And when I was contesting him, I was saying to myself, like, I've never been here before. You know, like, I've never been this close on defense before. Like, I remember saying that to myself, like, like, I've never been here before, you know? Like, I've never been this close on defense before. Like, I was, I remember saying that to myself, like, you know? Like, cause I don't, like, bro, I ain't no hard defensive nigga, you know? So I just
Starting point is 00:41:13 remember, you know, like, dog, I just don't, you know, I just felt like I was up there for five seconds while he was shooting the jump shot. Hit it in my face and I was like, so I'm just like, whatever. Next play, the same thing. And I just came down, bro. Pop, pop.
Starting point is 00:41:30 My shit shattered. Lord Dirk was in the gym. I was crying. Like, it was the first time I meet Lord Dirk. He see me. I'm trying, like, I always thought it was going to be a gangster situation when I meet him. You know what I'm saying? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:41:43 Yeah. Some gangster shit. Maybe in my hood. He was shooting a video or you know i don't know yeah some gangster shit you know maybe in my hood here's a shooting a video or something like i don't know just not crying i gotta bring out a 16 for you dirt like man i was crying that shit was embarrassing but like dog I thought it was over so like the rehab behind that
Starting point is 00:42:07 it was supposed to be a three four month because I ain't need surgery but I end up being like five six seven month rehab because my dorsiflex wouldn't come back
Starting point is 00:42:17 oh yeah you know so like dog I would I really like just like just do what I do every day. That's why I was laughing downstairs.
Starting point is 00:42:29 And I hope this come out after the game tomorrow. Because, like, literally, like, I've literally been doing the same move all season long. Like, the same move. I be laughing. I told my man before the season, I said, bro, I'm going to burn these niggas up with the same move. I was like, I be laughing. I told my man before the season, I said, bro, I'm going to burn these niggas up with this same move all season long. And they ain't even
Starting point is 00:42:49 going to realize it. And nobody realized it. Besides me. If you go get to the clip, I locked him up and I told him, when we was guarding, I said,
Starting point is 00:42:57 this is what I've been fucking waiting for. Only reason I've been Hey, bro, I caught him at that free throw line. I ain't won none of them. Nah, you ain't scored me.
Starting point is 00:43:04 Nah, nah. You got me on the block, but the free throw line, I caught you. You ain't line. I ain't won none of them. Nah, you ain't scored me. Nah, nah. You got me on the block, but the free throw line, I caught you. You ain't scored? Run the clip. Y'all don't know. He wrote a clip.
Starting point is 00:43:10 He didn't score. I said, this is why I don't play. You ain't going anymore. You dunked on the name. I had 30 points. I would have fouled the shit out of him.
Starting point is 00:43:17 He ain't going to dunk me. I would have fouled him. I've seen the box score. Oh, he killed. Yeah, he got one of them. We won, though. Yeah, Trey O. Y'all wasn't supposed to win that one.
Starting point is 00:43:25 We won. Y'all won. Y'all ain't win. We lost. I ain't never heard that. We lost. I heard you was going off on your teammates after that one. Oh, nah.
Starting point is 00:43:36 Too many hook sidesteps. I told you, nigga. Hook that first sidestep, right? Yeah. I said, man, I ain't going to hit that all night. Man, he can hit that two times in a row. He like that. He hit that motherfucker five times.
Starting point is 00:43:49 Nah, he like that. That's his move. He did that to bring the fire. Yeah. I'm like, oh, man, fuck that nigga. He hit that five times. That's his go-to move, bro. That's his go-to move.
Starting point is 00:43:59 That's his go-to move. I said, oh, he came to play tonight. Yeah, but I got to stop on B's. If his body wasn't so fucked up, they would have had a better year. Why his body fucked up? He don't do drugs. I didn't know he was a hood nigga. I thought he was a professional.
Starting point is 00:44:18 You thought he was a square? I thought he was a square. I ain't never meet him in person. You know what I'm saying? And he quiet. So I just, you know, I ain't never meet him in person. You know what I'm saying? Walking by. You know what I'm saying? And he quiet. So I just, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:44:31 I'm from the west side of the net. And he's still professional, though. He cut it off, though. Yeah. A little Braxton in there. Man, I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton.
Starting point is 00:44:38 I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton.
Starting point is 00:44:39 I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton.
Starting point is 00:44:39 I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton.
Starting point is 00:44:39 I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I ain't no Braxton. I'm a VP and my boy My boy know how to get You'll see I'm drinking My boy know how to get
Starting point is 00:44:46 To that chicken though Nah He surprised me He surprised me I didn't know he was that cool Especially since I stopped Watching the podcast Yeah
Starting point is 00:44:51 Come on this shit Nah The show man Like we said One of the coaches That ever scored basketball Who are some of your Favorite scorers
Starting point is 00:44:58 Obviously you know We see KD for sure Do they gotta be famous Nah hell nah They can be people Back from Yeah anybody DC bro Uh You wanna show some love too Kurt Smith Do they got to be famous? Nah, hell nah. They can be people back from... Yeah, anybody. D.C., bro.
Starting point is 00:45:07 But you want to show some love, too. Kurt Smith. One of D.C., like... One of the best I ever do. Like, mid-range killer. Like, what? Shit, who? KD, of course.
Starting point is 00:45:25 I remember, like... I remember when me and KD was in practice. I was probably 10, 11. Talk about how you met him, too. What did you want to know? I met him? Yeah, both lives. We wanted to hear the origin from how you and KD. We went to the gym.
Starting point is 00:45:44 I met him at practice one day. Yeah. Like, the pizza story is true. Oh, okay. But it's not that true. So, I took half the box. Oh, okay. But the people I took it from, they had their slice too.
Starting point is 00:46:05 Respect. So that's why the whole pizza was gone. Okay. But I remember I got the idea. I thought they forgot about it. You know what I'm saying? But I took the pizza. Like, my mother got a rule.
Starting point is 00:46:17 She said, don't come home or don't come in the car if you ain't got, you know what I'm saying, for everybody. I got four or five brothers and sisters. I mean, if I came in came to college one slice of pizza so I had to come with half the joint and my mom I still got pop
Starting point is 00:46:31 because I had the pizza in my hand like this like a bankroll and he out of pocket that's some that's some really shit I heard
Starting point is 00:46:42 I had to get you on the devil killed it that's shit I heard. I really had to fuck over KD because I didn't want to whoop him. When I was 11, that's when everything came to pass. That's where the pizza come from, bro. When me and KD met, bro, we what everything at the time that's where the pizza come from but
Starting point is 00:47:05 when me and KD met bruh we was attached at the hip like like I told this I said this before
Starting point is 00:47:13 like KD was the first time I ever brought my Xbox out the house like KD was my man like I was his nigga like
Starting point is 00:47:20 like my mom used to pick us up from school his mom used to drop us off like like if I ain't got us up from school his mom used to drop us off like like if i ain't got a ride i'm catching the bus to his house even his brother tony man man tony we used to kick it like no that you know we just grew up like that like if i'm doing something messed up his mother gonna pop me and you know same you know and it was just it was never basketball with us. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:48 You know, like, on the court, like, when I first started playing with KD, I was trash at basketball. Like, I was trash. He was always the one? Yeah, I can just rebound. Like, every game, I had 30, 40 rebounds. And look, wherever Kevin was at, dog, I'm talking about 20 offensive rebounds, I'm throwing that back, you know. Same way he play now, since he was 9, dog, I'm talking about 20 offensive rebounds, I'm throwing that back. Same way he play now.
Starting point is 00:48:07 Since he was 9, 10 years old, I'm talking about half court, letting that joint fly. That's just how we, it used to be fun. We win games, we go home, play video games, we break somebody's window. I remember, bro, we was in Florida, and I ain't gonna say but the coach me, KD and coach was wrestling and
Starting point is 00:48:28 I jumped on I jumped on KD back KD flung me back man and I flew through the goddamn window and I still
Starting point is 00:48:38 I still got the gas I still got the scar on my face and damn KD was my bro that's I mean but like it was just never basketball with us got the scar on my face. Damn. I mean, but like,
Starting point is 00:48:49 it was just never basketball with us. He was just my nigga. Like, I hold him down. He hold me down. We in the gym. All like, like,
Starting point is 00:48:54 nigga, that's my nigga. And we just happened to be good at basketball. Nigga, y'all both just happened to be tall as fuck. Like,
Starting point is 00:49:01 how the, like, but he said he started off rebounding though. I know, but just think about it. Like, my nigga is field.
Starting point is 00:49:07 My nigga is 5'11". Yeah, like, I don't, like, they split me and KD up by the time we got, like,
Starting point is 00:49:17 13. By the time we got to the eighth grade, that's when he went to the Blue Devils. I went to assault. Assault, yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:22 Like, you know what I'm saying? I was going to ask you why y'all split up. It was, at the time, me and KD was kids. We ain't know.
Starting point is 00:49:29 We just did what our parents always do, you know? Yeah. Hindsight is clear, you know? And whoever got to whoever mom first, whatever,
Starting point is 00:49:40 like, bro, we ain't had shoes. We was poor. Me and KD, we ain't grow no money no shoes
Starting point is 00:49:47 cars none of that shit so you know whoever had the best shoes for us or had a better situation for us
Starting point is 00:49:53 and you know and I can't speak for his situation you know I just know my situation personally when I met Curtis Malone
Starting point is 00:50:02 I was wearing the same pair of shoes for two years and it was too small and that nigga showed up I was wearing the same pair of shoes for two years. And it was too small. And that nigga showed up to my house with five pair of shoes. I said, oh, yeah, I'm going to be at practice tomorrow. He a legend.
Starting point is 00:50:13 He a legend. It was simple as that. That's my legend. Dropped like $20 on me. It was the first time I seen a $20 bill. And, yeah. They had a doc on him. He showed a lot of love. love yeah he did some good things
Starting point is 00:50:27 he did some bad things and that's enough for me to judge but he kept all that away from y'all though he's still a good person yeah he did he really took a liking to y'all and loved on y'all like y'all was his nah we ain't gonna to go that far.
Starting point is 00:50:47 You don't think so? You got kids? Yeah. How? 15, 10, and 5. When they get older, right, when they grow up, how much money are they going to have to pay you? None. No?
Starting point is 00:51:04 I got you. It's that last. Yeah, I hear you. No? I got you. Yeah, I hear you. No, I hear you. If what I'm doing for you is not what I'm doing for you... Nah, genuinely, 100%. If I can remember every time... If he can remember every time
Starting point is 00:51:18 he got a stop when I got 30 points, that man ain't get a lot of time. Shit, if you only want a one time. Hey, if you only want time, one time. We on the same page.
Starting point is 00:51:31 You gonna remember everything you did for me when I was growing up? Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Hey, bro, I'm gonna take, like, you're gonna take.
Starting point is 00:51:36 But, you know, it's crazy. Dog, you talk about it. You want MVP, I'm doing the same. How has the season been
Starting point is 00:51:42 so far in the big three, man? Y'all obviously, you know what I'm saying, contending right now. You want to be real with you? Hell yeah. Can I be real? You're going to say it's easy?
Starting point is 00:51:55 Oh, the basketball part is easy. Yeah. I'm not talking about that part. Basketball is easy, though. I'm going to tell y'all when y'all can get as good as me at basketball. Okay, tell me. When? Because I locked you up. So let me tell you.
Starting point is 00:52:09 All right. All right. Tell me. All right. How many times you kicked your toe on the dresser at home? Right? Thousands of times. Okay.
Starting point is 00:52:18 How many times you, you turn around and blamed your pinky toe? That dresser been sitting there for years and every time, you're like, you're a goddamn dresser. Yeah, yeah. And you trust your steps so much that, you understand?
Starting point is 00:52:31 Mm-hmm. Nigga, that's how much I work on my game. Like. Ah, that's a hard analogy, but I stopped you. So, what that mean? I'm, did I move the dresser?
Starting point is 00:52:41 That just means, that just means that I don't worry about the cord. I just keep walking. So, I was the dressing? That just means that I don't worry about the cord. I just keep walking. So I was the cord. I was the cord. Yo, do you feel that, motherfucker? I'm like, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:52:54 My trip's a little bit. I ain't crazy, man. That was the fucking cord. That was the fucking cord. All right, man. That was the fucking core, man. That was the fucking core, man. All right, man. I'm just saying,
Starting point is 00:53:08 like, that's, that's just high shit, like, you know. We made shit for every once
Starting point is 00:53:13 in a while, but you ain't ever turn around to blame your fuck. Congrats on the MVP, though,
Starting point is 00:53:17 bro. Yeah, congrats, bro. I ain't won it. I really thought, I really thought Corey,
Starting point is 00:53:22 Corey, Corey deserved it. Like, I really didn't want, like, I didn't... I'm not into individual awards. I just came to bust ass. You be killing, bro.
Starting point is 00:53:32 For real, Q made a comment on Shaq Podcast. He brought up, yo, B's killing. Yeah, but they ain't winning. That's the only thing that was on my mind. Oh, you just wanted to win the chip. Yeah, just winning games. So the energy about the only thing that was on my mind. Oh, you just wanted to win the chip. Yeah. Just win the games.
Starting point is 00:53:46 So, the energy about to be different tomorrow for sure. Uh, nah. I'm saying you going, you going, I mean you, when you played us, you was trying to kill too.
Starting point is 00:53:54 No, I wasn't though. That's the thing. No, I'm saying, I shouldn't say trying. You was just doing what you do. Yeah, like, you know, birds fly, fish swim. Yeah, you was killing.
Starting point is 00:54:02 I told him to let me guard you the whole game. I ain't even lying, bro. I can guard him, bro. I told him to let me guard you the whole game. I ain't even lying, bro. I can guard him, bro. I know what to do. What was you going to do? Send him right? Nah, he drive good going right and pull up good going right.
Starting point is 00:54:14 So what was you going to do? I was going to send him left, right? That's going to be hard. No, no, no. That's why I drive good going right because everybody take off my left. Everybody be cutting my left. He's like Moscow report on B's
Starting point is 00:54:26 I'm going to tell y'all So Corey Brewer If you're getting some sleep tonight I'm going to tell you Stop This not going to drop This ain't going to drop It ain't going to drop
Starting point is 00:54:36 But you can't send him right Because his pull up going right Is too good Like if y'all watch B's He pull up going right He rarely miss going right bro Because his shot'all watch bees he pull up going right he rarely missed going right bro because his shot he get to a shot super easy going right going left he got shit but he finished super good going left he can get to all the way to the basketball his right he get the heads in
Starting point is 00:54:56 he get to doing he gotta dance with him but he get to his shot way better going to right i figured it out i watched him i guard him that's why i could guard him in a post he get left his shot way better going to the right. I figured it out. I watched him. I guard him. That's why I could guard him in a post. I'm like, he get left, I ain't got nothing to do with him. Like, he's going to go to the basket. But if I force him right, he got too much shit. Because he got Hezzy, pull up, and he can get to the basket. You got help? You know I got help.
Starting point is 00:55:18 You know the skin. The help is in. Oh, yeah, I heard you in the show. Yeah, see the face. Wait, so is Neck Bone Tuesday a thing? A real thing? Where the fuck is Neck? What animal is that coming from?
Starting point is 00:55:33 You answer too many questions. If you want a plate, I got you. Not if I don't know where the fuck it's coming from. Now, y'all niggas is athletes. I'm here to kill you, not heal you. It's different. Y'all got to go to them motherfuckers That make them meal plans And salmon
Starting point is 00:55:46 Oh yeah I don't do all that season You do all that seasoning And shit Flavor You cook for the flavor For the flavor I don't like that
Starting point is 00:55:52 Yeah Y'all eat to live Which is fine Ain't nothing wrong with that But yeah It's different The only flavor The only flavor of food
Starting point is 00:56:01 I get is like candy Like Candy Like That's your crib tonight? Me and him. We're inside Mamba's. Inside Mamba's, you should cry.
Starting point is 00:56:11 It's like, if I don't see it, I'm cool. Yeah. But if I see it, bro, I got to buy LR. I got to buy all of them in the store. And then it ain't going to last me but tonight. Like, I eat everyone in front of my face. So B's at the gas station, what you grabbing? Too much.
Starting point is 00:56:29 Mambas. Sour mambas. Skittles. Like, the tropical, the purple ones. Gunsmoke. Yeah. Anything but the red. You tripping, nigga.
Starting point is 00:56:42 Oh, Jesus, the best. To me, tripping. That purple bag is so good. When they change the flavor, the green one from lime to green apple. Oh, man. Good. Yes. Oh, nigga.
Starting point is 00:56:53 We should drop this. Yeah. Yeah. It's right here. Yeah. You tripping. What's up? I like nerves.
Starting point is 00:57:05 No, mans my favorite candy no no my favorite candy all time my favorite candy all time and this is like recent
Starting point is 00:57:12 I went to China and discovered this lemon hot chews hot chews are elite oh my I see some hot chews hot chews are elite
Starting point is 00:57:22 you tried the lemon ones the sour lemon ones it's familiar I got to tell you bro I ordered a box of these on Amazon I see some hot shoes. Hot shoes are elite. You tried the lemon ones? The sour lemon ones? It's familiar. I got to tell you. Bro, I ordered a box of these on Amazon. Like, I thought it was going to last me like six months, but they were the sour ones.
Starting point is 00:57:35 I accidentally ordered the sour ones. I thought it was going to last me like six months. Bro, they weren't in my house for three weeks. Like, crack. Damn. Like, bro. Oh, man. Hey, we need to clip it up.
Starting point is 00:57:45 We got to get you that hot shoe deal. We got to lock it in. Bro, bruh, oh, man. We need to clip it up. We got to get you the hot chew deal. We got to lock it in. Bro, give me a hot chew deal. But don't say nothing about them sour lemons to me, short. I don't like nothing. I like the grape because I can mix them with the sour lemons. We got to get you a deal. You got to say you like all of them. Then we get some secret after. So we just like hot chews. Are you setting up this?
Starting point is 00:58:00 Alright, bro. Hot chews, bro. There we go. Come with me. Hot chews, Tap in for sure Hey, man, but listen You about to get up Out of here, B's We appreciate your side
Starting point is 00:58:11 Notice, man How long have we been talking? We was just vibing out, man You know what you like You like We don't really We don't call it a podcast with you We just call it like
Starting point is 00:58:20 Talking to family Like we just chopping it up with family Like, you know Some people do a podcast And they It's like an interview How long these shits usually go? About an hour
Starting point is 00:58:29 About an hour But we just chopping it up We appreciate your time too bro Cause we know you don't really Do these like this So thank you bro Yeah I don't Yeah thank you bro
Starting point is 00:58:36 I for real I for real be thinking This shit wack Yeah Damn Nah but that's why I fuck with y'all Cause y'all is not
Starting point is 00:58:41 I appreciate that That means a lot Thank you bro I'll be watching Your brother join, too. Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? I just think that shit fly. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:58:49 You and your niggas just kicking and kicking the shit. You know what I'm saying? Y'all ain't monitoring what y'all talking about. I know y'all ain't talking about everything, y'all. You know what I'm saying? But... Yeah, clearly. Like, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:58:58 You almost got me... Till he is. Bro, you could get neck bones, man. You could get neck bones. He said, is that what you call it? on a random tuesday in 2022 in march like That's what I said a few years ago. I said it a few years ago. He was trying to give you a thousand. He was like, and you knew. Yeah, he just knew. You knew who neckballed me. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:59:29 Hey, he just won. He threw me off. Hey, bro, we're getting the wrap up because I go to sleep. Nah, man, but... Nah, I appreciate you. Hey, what's your name called?
Starting point is 00:59:41 Mike. We call him Freaky Mike. That's Freaky Mike. Yeah, that's my first name. Why they call you Freaky Mike? We didn't tell you off camera. Yeah, I signed it. Nah, they got to tell me off camera.
Starting point is 00:59:48 Watch him clip that. His old job. He used to be a shipper or something. Yo. He ain't his old job. He used to be a shipper. He used to be a big one. He was the man. He was the man. He was the man. He was the man. He was the man. He was the man. He was the man. He was the man. He was the man. He was the man. He was the man. He was the man. He was the man. He was the man. He was the man. He was the man. He was the man. He was the man. He was the man. He was the man. He was the man. He was the man. He was the man. Oh, you was popping out
Starting point is 01:00:05 and you was the man with the cake. He was popping out. Dude's big enough. Bro. No, no, no. I can tell you how big it is. I can tell you how big it is.
Starting point is 01:00:21 It's a merch. Where's Spitt? WeTheOnes.com. WeTheOnes. Yes, sir. Oh, yeah. Tap in. And the 520 Podcast, too. Yeah. Respect. WeTheOnes.com. WeTheOnes. Yes, sir. Oh, yeah. Tap in. And the 520 Podcast, too.
Starting point is 01:00:28 Yeah. You can fuck with them niggas. You understand? WeTheOnes.com. We need to shop, too. No, I'm going to send y'all some shit. I'm going to send y'all some shit. I appreciate you.
Starting point is 01:00:35 I'm the one that got to stop. I'm the one. I'm the one that got to stop. You did that to that nigga. 20 years ago. He been holding that to you. Oh, God. What did I say when you got the ball? I'm the one that got to stop DJ DJ Oh god What'd I say when you got the ball What'd I say when you got the ball When you got the ball
Starting point is 01:00:54 I said y'all been waiting for this shit I ain't gonna lie I'm like god I poked him I poked him in the eye one time He still hit a shot Yeah He said he poked nigga in the eye One time he still hit a shot Yeah Yeah
Starting point is 01:01:05 Nigga He said he poked me in the eye I said I poked you in the eye Watch Go watch that shit Y'all gonna see it man I said if I fall And he hit the shot
Starting point is 01:01:13 He poked me in my eye Y'all some cool niggas though Yeah Appreciate you bro Appreciate you bro Appreciate you bro I got a podcast too Oh hell yeah
Starting point is 01:01:21 You got a podcast Oh yeah Oh you do I'm gonna have one It's on the works That's it I can't wait Are we serious about that merch bro We gonna talk about whatever yeah oh hell yeah oh you got a podcast oh yeah oh you do I'm gonna have one alright so the merch is it um I can't wait are we serious about that merch bro
Starting point is 01:01:28 we gonna talk about way cooler shit than this though alright damn alright we thought we was the one we thought we was the one that caught
Starting point is 01:01:37 we got to get to the jams nah I'm about I had fun I had fun nah I appreciate you sure come on that's how you get your own now love
Starting point is 01:01:43 we out the volume I had fun. I had fun. I appreciate you. Sure. Come on. I love we out. The volume. This is an I heart podcast.

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