Million Dollaz Worth Of Game - AL HARRINGTON: MILLION DOLLAZ WORTH OF GAME EPISODE 232

Episode Date: August 6, 2023

Al Harrington's journey from being a standout NBA player to a savvy entrepreneur is nothing short of inspirational. Tune in as he shares the pivotal moments that led him to transition from a basketball court to the world of business, becoming a trailblazer in the cannabis industry with his company, Viola Brands. Al Harrington's story transcends basketball and entrepreneurship – it's a testament to the power of resilience, determination, and the pursuit of one's passions. Whether you're a sports enthusiast, a budding entrepreneur, or simply someone seeking motivation, this episode promises to leave you inspired and empowered.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mworthofgame

Hey, million dollars worth of game listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen, ad free on Amazon music. Right. You now, I'm tuned into me, me, me, me, me, me, million dollars worth a game. Listen, man, we got my man, aisle up here, man. I just smoked him on pool, man, back in the day. A lot of you young cats don't know.

I was playing, you know, when Pennsylvania used to play Jersey. This is before I tore my ACL. I was an All-American. I was a top player in Pennsylvania, and me and him used to go out. it, man, it was just different. You know, the game was different. The energy was different. The toughness was different.

This back when, you know, I was supposed to be number one in the, you know, coming out of, you know, high school before a lot of people, but around the time, Kobe was doing this thing, rest of peace of Kobe. Just Philly, you know, it was just wild, you know. He's lying, man. I say, what year was this again? He's lying like a motherfucker.

Oh, yeah, my fault. Only thing he ever was, well, he was the captain of the wrestling team in jail. Yeah, all right. They called him a macho man, Candy, Seth. It's, yeah. Listen, man. He was in there, look. Ooh, brother.

Oh, yeah, brother. Tell the truth, big. He was macho man, Candy, Savage, and jail. Listen, man, we got my man, Al, Haring to him, man. Big Al, listen, man, you know, the game is different now. The ball game is different. You know, a lot of these kids, you know, we're living in a time now where you got social media, so everybody wanted to be the star.

How was it for you coming up? but it was just raw you had to go to the gym you had to just go in there like play with the old heads around the neighborhood play with the dudes that was never going to the league around neighborhood how was it for you all then how was that and how was it for you just getting into the game just starting to play

how was it? I mean so shit we want to start my story like when I was a young guy I was horrible at who I actually was like fat and uncoordinated until I got until I became a freshman in high school I was like 5, 10 fat and that summer I grew six inches

So I ended up being 6-4, and I moved to Roselle, New Jersey. So when I got there, everybody see the 6-4 freshmen, they think I got some type of hoop background, but I ain't had nothing. You know what I'm saying? Turn him up, this a little bit. So you made it to the league, not even, you know, just young, just off the height. Bro, out of high school, like, I didn't make it to the league off a height. You know what I'm saying?

I got put on the freshman basketball team because of height. I even had to really try out, you know what I'm saying? But I started hooping, started to love the game. You know, for me, like, you know, coming in as, like, an unranked, unknown freshman and shit like that, you know, I ain't really have hoop dreams, you know what I'm saying? Like, all I did was, like, move around the country, playing in some tournaments and seeing, like, players that was told to be, like, the top ranked in the country and just saying to myself, like, damn, I could do some of that shit.

Right. You know what I'm saying? Like, that shit that they're doing is not, like, something that's, like, you know, out of my capabilities, you know? I'm saying, what I did was, man, for real, for real, I just lived in the gym. you know what I'm saying And to your point Of like, you know

Now this era with kids Like you said With social media And they all have trainers And they got all this different shit You know When we was coming up And you know

In the 80s And 90s or whatever You know You just had to go to the park And just go hope You got some run And you'll be lucky If you've seen

You know An old nigga in the park That you know Give you some game Right Yeah yo fella You need to work on your left hand Don't keep going right

All the time You know what I'm saying You hear like just Little simple things like that That like If somebody older That played At some certain level

didn't tell you that, you wouldn't know that. You just ain't going one way the whole time is going to get it done. But pretty much, man, I got hooked up with this dude named Sandy Pionan. He coached the AAU team called the Roadrunners. And he coached a bunch of players that had went pro before me, right?

And like some old dudes, you know, a lot of us wouldn't know the names of sometimes. It was like Anthony Avent. Another guy, man, I just can't, I'm drawing the blank on his name right now. But he had a couple guys or whatever. But pretty much he took me on this wing, bro. The nigga told me how to, like,

dribble the ball and chew guns. he told me how to dribble the ball chew gum and then shoot like he had to break the game down to me like in as simple as form like you would think I might have been slow right you know what I'm saying at the end of the day you know what I what I learned in the long run it was he was setting the foundation right when was it when was it did you came into your game what year I would say it was going into my junior year because it saves to say as a freshman you wasn't that confident yeah I wasn't that guy was trash I was I was on a freshman team I was six as far as the biggest play on the team and I played the least you know what I'm saying

I got it mostly in garbage minutes oh I'm saying what I'm saying and like I said the reason why the air you do Sandy I'm telling you about you know even found out about me unranked freshman nobody knows what year was this this was 94 damn 94 they just think about this