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All right, you guys, before we jump into this week's episode,
I do want to send some love and hope to DeMar Hamlin and his family
during this very difficult time.
From myself, Omaha, ESPN, and our Courtside Club family,
we are keeping DeMar in our thoughts and praying for a full recovery.
What's up, you guys? I'm Rachel Demita, and welcome to the Courtside Club.
I hope that you guys had an awesome holiday and a great start to the new year.
I honestly can't believe that we are already over halfway through season one of Courtside Club.
33 episodes down and so many more to go.
I want to thank all of you guys who have supported the show and tuned in every single week.
Honestly, it means the world to me because I've had so much fun on this show,
and we have so much more for you guys.
And for today's episode, we are taking a trip down memory lane
with some of our best moments from the season so far.
I hope you guys enjoy it because this one was super fun to put together.
So who are your starting five NBA players of all time?
Positionless. Positionless. Positionless, yeah.
No doubt. So Magic and Isaiah.
This is your fab five. Yes, exactly.
So it's got to be, it's got, here's the team.
Are we getting him in trouble for a third time?
So Magic, Isaiah, Jordan, Bird, Fifth, El Capitan, Kareem.
That's my all-time five.
It's a unique list, I have to say.
And by the way, you can hate me and or hate my list,
but when you really break down the history of the game,
all of them is top 12 of all time.
And pretty much tore everything in his knee.
Yeah. So it's basically the meniscus that's messed up.
But regardless, like he told me before I came on the show today,
and I hadn't even known this yet, that they are,
they're going to have to amputate the leg completely.
Very interesting. That would be tough.
It's not, it's not ideal news,
but I think he's going to continue to wrestle in the WWE.
He told me he was going to be going under a new,
he was going to, he told me he was going to evolve to a pseudonym.
I think it was Captain Jack IHOP or something like that.
It was going to be, it's like a pirate base pseudonym.
You guys heard it here first.
So he wanted me to share that with you guys before anyone else.
So this is a courtside exclusive.
Like no one has this info.
Captain, what's that?
Captain Jack IHOP.
Captain Jack IHOP.
After the amputation, we'll be adding a wooden peg.
Correct. Yes, a peg leg. Correct.
Which is going to make his frog splashes a little bit more difficult.
Or more dangerous.
Yeah, I think he'll be able to pull it off.
I'm going to ask you though.
I was always nervous until I got to warmups and I saw everybody else.
And then I was like, oh wait, I'm good.
Is that how you felt?
No, I was still nervous.
I have freaking Tiffany Haddish.
No, no, nothing against her.
She's an awesome, like freaking awesome person.
But you know, that's not her field.
That squad's not her field.
And I was still nervous.
You know, I was just doing some warmups with her and stuff like that.
And she was, you know, playing defense.
And I'm still over here like, wow.
This is like, I'm really about to play this game.
I think I saw that clip of her guarding you.
And with her little defensive hands.
Yeah, I was still nervous though.
It was just like, it's just a different, it's a different world.
It's a different audience.
It's the lights, camera, action is just completely different.
I mean, I've played in front of 20,000 people.
It's more of a performance than it is of like, it was just different.
I don't know how to explain it.
It's just, you know, it's just different.
There's a lot of ego too.
I went into halftime and I was vlogging it.
And I was just like, coach, I don't understand why you're not putting me in the game.
Because I was in like two minutes.
Who was your coach?
I don't know his name.
What was my coach?
He was like an NBA guy, no?
I was with Dominique, Dominique, Dominique.
Dominique Wilkins?
He's not playing you a lot because you didn't even know his name.
Don't tell everybody that.
Bill Walton and Dominique Wilkins.
Dominique Wilkins.
That's what I was trying to tell you it was.
I told you that it was Dominique Wilkins.
I just wasn't listening.
That's really bad.
I was like, I was like, I'm over here trying to communicate right now.
You're just not listening to me.
Commercial break dude.
No, I'm just kidding.
Um, no, that's awesome.
Well, NBA legend coaching you.
But, oh, this is why Krista is not in the NBA yet.
I'm just kidding.
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Oh, I feel like that sometimes, you know?
But you're almost like, gosh, for me.
You're practicing too much to pay attention to like what's going on on television.
You know what I mean?
I actually have a story about him though.
So the last game that I played in in Atlanta, so the Final Four Celebrity, you should play
in it by the way.
I'll tell the guys.
Like, you should do that one.
It would be so much fun.
She's coming next time.
Shaq is always my coach and I've played in it like six years and then it's either like
Dominique Wilkins or Charles Barkley so last year it was Dominique Wilkins oh he didn't put you in
the game he was the other coach okay so I'm in the game and I get the ball and it's in front of his
bench and he said oh let her shoot he said let her shoot let her shoot say less I was like I've never
heard that ever in my life every time I get the ball it's like shooter shooter right right and I
talked to him after because I said hold on I have a bone to pick with you I've never once heard
anybody ever say let me shoot he was like oh I knew I saw you warming up because I was trying
to get in your head oh it worked dang I remember being so rattled I was like are you kidding me
did you just say that yeah so I guess we both have a bone to pick with Dominique yeah yeah
to pull that card oh you're my secret weapon I said secret weapon to win oh we're in the second
half win you are somebody who obviously your life with Jared is such a big part of your life but at
the same time you've had you've created your own career and you have so much success and in your
own right and it's not like you're on social media shoving it in everybody's face exactly about your
fiance you know so it's funny I so when I was shooting sports illustrated this last year I was
and there was this video of me that went viral The Lions had their first win and yeah that comment
section the whole thing was like if she really was a fan she would have been at the game and
it's like dude I can't win because if I was at the game they'd be saying you're a gold digger
is falling onto like following your boyfriend around so you really can't win if you're at the
game you're too invested that's your whole life if you're not there you're not supportive so as
women it's like it's impossible to win because they're always going to say something you're doing
so is this the the last reality stunt for you um i think i have like one season of like being the
bachelor and then i'm good for it really you want to be the best wait aren't are you not in a
relationship yeah yeah once this is over i wasn't gonna ask about dating and then he brings up the
bachelor no i'm just kidding we're never gonna break up yeah yeah unless the bachelor wants
to be okay she'll understand she can just wait honestly that makes for a great story as you're
leaving you know they always have some sort of scandal like somebody had a girlfriend or boyfriend
yeah actually got a wife and kids and a mortgage and i mean i wouldn't go that far but like you
know russell westbrook is one of the best players in the league okay i will say that he had a bad
season and by bad season i mean 18 8 and 8 or whatever that was no i'm a big fan of russell
like the thing i don't understand about
him is like you can hate him again if you go back to just like i guess what some would consider
cocky but to me that's like sports so it's weird to like be turned off by that but russell even if
he is missing every single shot he gives a hundred percent on the court like literally every minute
when he is in and i don't think you could say that about any other player in the nba who literally
at all times leaves everything on the court absolutely and he also has the only time that
he's ever been disrespectful
to to media or whatnot is when somebody is disrespectful to him towards him first yeah so
it's kind of weird to me like you can maybe say oh i don't like his style of play or it's whatever
but to hate him when he really is like giving all he's got is is bizarre to me i think and even from
the media standpoint as well i think it was a media hit job on him it feels like that it really
feels like conspiracy it really feels that way
the catchphrase let's get right that is your phrase yeah i mean i don't even know if i can say
it without getting well you can't and no i'm just kidding okay so what what uh what happened was
back in the 82 83 84 when i started the ring announcers were in they were all like sort of
like pals with the commissioners you had a guy in california a guy in new york and
and they were all part of the local commission so they would introduce the entire boxing commission
that this you know for the state now just imagine going to an nfl game and before the game
somebody introduces the entire front office of the nfl you know you just killed the crowd right
so in boxing we're in that electronic era where the fighters come with the music and it's exciting
and it's the main event and everybody the fans are that's what they've been waiting for
and then the ring announcer introduces this ballot sanctioned by the new jersey state
control board boxing commissioner chairman four board members but oh my god i mean you're just
three doctors four doctors and timekeeper three judges you see where i'm going you've wiped out
all that atmosphere so i want this is between the walkout and them fighters come into the ring
the music stops and yeah i can't even imagine what that'd be like if you just kills the crowd
yeah so i wanted that
that that feeling you get at the indy 500 when that little old lady that i actually i did the
opening introduction for the indy 500 once and then for the that line gentlemen start your
engines where everybody goes that's that's the line that's the moment yeah but they have um
at that time was like uh oh i guess she's probably my age now but a little old lady came out and she
actually had it written down gentlemen start your engines and gentlemen start your engine but still
everybody went crazy because it's what they want to hear it means the race is going to start
so i wanted gentlemen start your engines that that type of catchphrase yeah and i tried uh and
now ladies and gentlemen fasten your seatbelts nothing's happening man your battle's tonight
that wasn't gonna work and the greatest of all times the greatest of all times muhammad ali
and you can see this on youtube and everything where before the fight or weigh in and he would
just say i'm so pretty i'm running up and down mountaintop
i'm chopping wood yeah let's get you know i'm ready to rumble rumble young man rumble
so i started saying let's get ready to rumble and it wasn't anything like you hear today it was you
know i would say let's get ready to rumble 10 rounds of boxing and i just because i i wasn't
actually i wasn't trying to bring attention to myself but i was trying to do something to let
people know where we're gonna it's the main event yeah and i stayed with it and i i think that was
originally my role in the series so i i did one episode with you where we first met
or whatever episode nine by the way y'all go go check that you were in i did two episodes with
you i think it's the first one i was with my friends remember playing ball and we met and
you were not spider-man you were in your parker in your peter parker outfit and we were at the
park it was windy or whatever and i was shooting so then the second episode is where you saved me
as spider-man right yeah and then but then you broke up with me and i was like oh my god i'm
right yeah we broke up okay this all happened the same yeah so i think it's spider-man basketball
episode nine and then you're on the very last one yes like 11 yes i think we went to 11 okay
but i have a bone to pick with you because i was supposed to die off
oh do you remember you told me i was gonna die oh we said potentially i don't think we went that
route like sorry you didn't get that that's what i'm saying i wanted to you i was like man this is
my like acting debut i get to die as gwen stacy i get to get dunked on and it just takes me out
we did talk about that i got cut from the spider-man series no basically what happened was
the video stopped doing as good but i think also we kind of like got we deep dove into story and
it's really like it was all about hooping you know i mean so like we deep dove listen i'm joking i
wouldn't have had you on the court side club if i was really that pissed but i feel like that would
have been dope so maybe there's just like this side like three minute episode maybe they want
us to bring it back you know what i mean so we might have to consider it right i don't know
we'll consider it magic was the first and only person that ever owned a starbucks
multiple so when i was like maybe 10 11 years old my dad went to magic and said
um we'd love for you to be our partner and build a series of starbucks in low-income areas in south
central los angeles watts inglewood so i think he did like 8 10 12 something like that and they're
to this day like some of the most successful starbucks because basically no companies would
go into starbucks and they're not going to go into starbucks and they're not going to go into
these neighborhoods no retail stores and when starbucks went in it set the table and all of
them went especially because magic endorsed it right and they were they've been enormously
successful and actually that's a shack story too did you ever hear that one no you didn't you we
started there then we backtracked this is your pod i'm taking over here yeah go for it at least i'm
not being interviewed well i can flip it no please don't so so shack uh before magic or simultaneously
my pop went to shack and asked him the exact same question and he was prime shack because this is
2000 this is like amidst their three-peat yeah and he's in la and he wanted to do the same thing
in south central la and shack was like black people don't drink coffee because where he was from
that's he had never seen it and that's literally what he told my dad he was like i'm not i never
seen i never seen anybody of color drink coffee uh the answer is no and so every time he sees me
now he's like i i hate myself i could have been one of the greats you know like magic like shack
howard he's and he's always like i hate myself i hate myself i hate myself i hate myself i hate myself
because he's such a businessman shack he didn't he didn't he only he didn't buy into it right so
he couldn't support it right he is a businessman right so i'm saying now he's kicking himself
because he's like oh it would have been substantial it would have been massive yeah
whenever i'm drinking a starbucks around him he's just like what what got away what could have been
vince carter was instagram living all the time and that's my hero pretty much and he was like oh
he saw me like in there he was like chuck what's up man
he was like jump on and he like jumped on the live and he was like telling people he's like you
know this is the goat right here people call me the goat but this is the goat and i was like
vince carter's calling me the goat right now that's so cool and i'm like trying to screen
recording yeah didn't get it but i was like man did you even know that he knew who you were no
that's cool i had no idea that's so cool yeah i was like the i was just like man and i remember
i like called my brother i was like vince carter just called me don't go to whatever
and that's so cool now i'm supposed to play golf with him and i lied to him and told him i was good
in trouble oh my god
how long do you have before you're gonna play golf with him no actually no actually i'm getting
kind of good now because this was during covid he was like yeah man i gotta make it down to naples
there's a course down there i'm trying to play man if he sees this my bad man it was just he was
like well he's like we'll have some dulce and play some golf i was like what are you supposed
to say if vince carter asked you to play golf you're like obviously immediately i was like yeah
i'll you know i'll kill you man i've been practicing like six hours a day i literally
during covid i was going to the range like five days a week
and then it was just so funny because he's it was the same live and he was like yeah he was like
we'll drink some dulce and do the and play golf and i was like yeah i love that and in my head
i was like hate dulce hate golf but now i'm like now i'm playing and stuff i'm just waiting for
the day ronda rousey is another mother in wwe we can respect her for that but but we can't
we can't how have you um
felt about her performances lately after transitioning back the last couple years
from ufc back to wwe um i think she doesn't respect it as much as she should i mean she's
gone off on tangents um disrespecting the sport that i've given my life to that i love that i
obsess about and both of us have come back from um having a child and one has come back better
than ever and one has not
i am the one who's come back better than ever and i think that you need that respect for this
business that obsession for this business um to be able to do that i don't i don't think that she
um puts as much work in she doesn't put as much work in as i do do and and it shows
what is the craziest thing that coach k did whether it be in practice that a story that
we haven't maybe heard yet he did a lot of crazy stuff um you know he was
he he would there were times he would come into the locker room and have um have something set up
for us um before a game we played my freshman year we were playing louisville and back then
louisville they were their nickname was the doctors of dunk and they went to the final four
that year and played in that iconic game with with by sound uh slamma jamma in the in the final four
and you know we had had some ups and downs during the course of the early season and uh all of a
sudden we're we're waiting for his pre-game speech and the lights went out and we're like what else
is going to go wrong like now we have no power and uh i mean we immediately went to the negative
to you know we we took a trip to negative town and all of a sudden we see this flickering light
coming down the hallway and and he's got a candle in front of his face so all you could see was his
face in this pitch darkness and all he said was i came not to praise louisville but to bury them
and blew the candle out and all the guys started jumping up and you know screaming and then we ran
out on the court and we had a great first half and then they kicked our the second half
so we lost the game and i don't that was the last time we saw the floating head candle thing
i need to know what athlete you think has the best acting chops that you've worked with
yo the sickest as i mentioned before but we can't yeah but i don't really look at dwayne like an
athlete i mean he is obviously so when i was especially played football he's a wrestler i
look at dwayne it's like a global brand you know i mean like i have a hard time going like
he's an athlete but um alvin kamara was the craziest thing is that we were there
me alvin omar benson miller getting ready to shoot the scene and i was like yo does somebody
have many sides for alvin and he was like no i don't need him and i was like he's like i'm off
book like and i thought he was kidding i thought he was kidding and i was like he's like man i
don't show up on a sunday for a game without knowing the truth and i was like i don't know
the playbook and he knew every line and he crushed it what is the most wild moment or
thing that has been said that we didn't get to see in that final cut
you gotta let us under the hood a little bit you mean in that episode or just in the in the show in
general i know that there's something because i have also been around shack for many of years
yeah and we hear him on the sideline um he says some wild stuff yeah i
a lot of times when uh the feed is bad or when his headphones aren't working or his microphone
isn't working he has some uh some funny things to say to the producer and uh
we we we are on the second season and he just i mean we shoot this show every week
he's just now getting a producer's name right he called them his name is donzel
shack been calling him dot trail denzel uh don't tell uh everything montel everything
but donzel which is his name so it is it is hilarious how did you and jalen meet
how did this show
that has now been going for over 10 years how did it come about great question actually two
different answers to one question we met in the bathroom of strokers a gentleman's club in atlanta
and um it was one of my first foyers into the um atlanta gentleman's club experience
it's very different it is very much a hang it's very much a code situation a lot of
and uh i was there with my friend and uh wasn't the most diverse crowd
and uh dave chapelle was there and at some point like the guy the dj was like dave chapelle's in
the building like everybody cheers and gets all excited and this is a long time ago like this is
2004 and uh and dave chapelle was there and they gave dave chapelle the mic and i think they
expected him to like like do like a hey i'm dave chapelle this is amazing love strokers like they
expected him to like be nice he gets on the mic he goes where are my wangs
i guess his wing order was like delayed so he did like he did like two minutes just roasting
the establishment on how long their wings take to get to his table in classic dave chapelle like
like a mode and then one trip to the bathroom jalen was there and like you know you can't like
talk to another person while you're at the urinal or whatever so like we were like washing our hands
and i just had to like introduce myself and say what's up and then you know eight years later um
he proposed doing a podcast for grantland um to bill simmons who was running grantland
myself who was in charge of audio and video at grantland and um we had a call meeting about it
and um i was like so jalen like we'll do a pilot because you always want to do a pilot you don't
want to give someone a podcast that you can't take back podcast producers listen and i was like we're
gonna do a pilot like is there someone that you played with or like someone you grew up with that
you want to do it with like who do you want to do this with and like it was quiet for a second he
goes what you don't want to do it and then he proposed that he wanted to do with me and uh i
and we eventually replaced me with that spot and now we're 11 years later and that spot was never
replaced here you are sitting in the studio now that's dope here i am steeler nation is different
because it's a generational thing like go to walmart or target you know you from you from you
you know how it is you're gonna see a baby to an 85 year old lady to some dude that looks like a
substitute teacher all wearing steeler jerseys yeah and throughout the city and pittsburgh on
friday maybe thursday the city is dripped in black and gold and it just is what it is so you're it's
i say i i say it all the time being a steeler is like being a part of a religion it's it's
definitely like a call it's like not even a question like i remember one time i was on ir
and i think we had like an afternoon game it was like a 425 game i had went to the one o'clock
service and literally the service is like going on and i can't the padre was like a it's close to
wrap it up to the congregation and everybody was like amen out the door and i was just like
looking around like so good and it was straight like that like if he was just out of there
everybody was on board everybody like this one lady was like yeah i got my greens on girl i said
we gotta go watch the steelers and i remember watching this one dude was like yeah i gotta
get to the grill like it's it's a day man and on thursday you would see rvs and trailers people
be slammed with people and i'd be like oh is a concert coming to town i was like no i remember
one dude was like you are the concert we drove he's like we drove from kentucky we're gonna
we're gonna spend our weekends here and so like the beatles in pittsburgh but at all times even
a little trove like training camp people only like on their time their vacations like oh we
go to a trove of vacation for three days watch steelers we don't get back in the rv and we
don't go home that's that that's people's vacation time so it's wild
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joe borough will be a good move for you yeah i think joe borough is gonna be fun you know he's
not gonna johnny manzelli
he's gonna come through he will not this up like johnny manzelli i'm so upset about browns man
he had it he had it all he did he was gonna be the one um i think you'll have a moment i think
shaq's son is going to do same thing that his dad did sheree sheree where he's gonna brand himself
the right way and he's gonna do that because his dad has done it better than anyone else
minus snoop dog for some reason snoop dog's branding people but did you hear snoop on uh
impulsive i think it was when he was saying that he's trying to get to the level of shaq
because he thinks shaq is the only one who's done it better than him it's wild it's neck and neck
it's like super wild but like shaq has figured out a way to do it and i think he's gonna not
only make sheree do it but he's gonna show him the way i found the clown mask by the way really
the clown mask is over there on the couch
oh my gosh man he's gonna grab it for me you guys i have to show you this comment this became
and did you ever put it on on the show like after i know obviously you took the hostage but did you
ever put did you ever bring it back because i wore it during one of my um your outfits of the day so
guys this how i know this one was mine look at my makeup like this is my lip this was my mask i
might take this as a souvenir if there's like any room in my suitcase but look at how terrifying
this is please like it's terrifying i think we should have worn when i said
i meant on the show like on the stage oh yeah i think we should have done it on the stage
it's so good anyway uh yeah we pranked the contestants one night i i did with some of
the other face staff members and it was really fun what needs to be done to make the contest better
the dunk contest yes what is the solution i think the young kids need to prepare a little bit better
because think about it if those young guys would have made the first dunks that they were throwing
down it would have been a whole different it would have been a great dunk contest am i wrong no
you're right yeah the dunks were the dunks were great they just weren't prepared to hit them on
the first try or there was nerves or there was something else you ready for this okay yo what if
nobody chooses their dunks they show up blind they have no idea what's going to happen and the
nba chooses the dunks for each round do you think they're good enough all players have to do the
same dunk and are judged on that dunk that would be kind of fire like okay you have your four
dunkers and the nba shows a dunk maybe they show a dunk that someone's already done or maybe some
they show a dunk or say a dunk and everyone has to do it and you get judged by who does the dunk
the best so but maybe it's something a little bit more baseline where it's it's maybe an east bay
that they show and then you can add your own player like oh i can do between the legs dunk
easy i'm gonna add it between legs 360 and go for it do you know what i'm saying yes because
okay it couldn't be something that was like too hard that that right so i actually execute it but
i think that part of it would ensure the excitement because the nba is going to choose a dunk that
everyone can do true but then everyone's going to do it really really good you get what i'm saying
so let's and then the final round is your own is dunker's choice that one there it is there it is
we just figured it out i'm not
gonna lie that actually would be fire i'm not gonna lie that would be fire this is why you've
been hired for a fifth time to cover and be an all-star for ideas like this adam silver if you're
listening hey just let us know we'll help you we'll help you coordinate it we'll get chuck on
board you can train the guys we'll be ready to go when i was prepping for this interview yeah
i came across something so interesting okay that i thought was amazing it was you dancing at
oh no but here's the kicker i was like why
does this look so familiar yeah i was at that game you were at that game i was at that game oh my god
so for our courtside listeners can you break it down yes what went on during that halftime
performance i would so it was for this tv show game on which was like a cbs like sports game show
it was me gronk uh venus williams uh and james corden just four of the greatest athletes of all
time and one of our challenges was to learn from from the laker girls how to do like a a halftime
laker girls dance so venus picked it up really quick for i mean she's oh she was great she's
so sharp she's she's brilliant she's so smart so athletic gronk and i worked with a dance
instructor for four hours behind the scenes trying to like nail all these dance moves a day of
it was the it was the day of
day of okay she came to the studio and then we went to at the time staples center uh and up until
the very last second we were working on these dance moves james corden walks in because he's
a broadway guy learned the entire thing in like 10 minutes and then was having like a perrier in
the corner it was one of the most humiliating things in my life and then i kept asking the
producers over i'm so glad i get to set the record straight over and over again i was like is there
any way i cannot wear laker gear is there any way i can have like a blazer shirt underneath this
where i pull off the laker shirt and at the end there's like a blazer shirt underneath this shirt
pinwheel there right no they were like you can't do it you absolutely can't do it at no point
can you do it so i do want people to know i had a blazers t-shirt on underneath underneath the
laker gear closer to my heart okay not for everybody in the crowd to see not for rachel
to me to see but close to my heart where the blazers live 24 7 have there been any nba nba
guys that you've seen who maybe like when they first came to you naturally weren't the best or
but because of their hard work you've seen them take off yeah i mean a ton of them um but i mean
like let's use joel and b i mean he's a guy that's seven foot one 280 pounds and um each year is
added to his game like right now you know he's doing crossovers between the legs and he's playing
like a guard and i remember his rookie season everybody was like you know oh you're a center
you need to go like just like get as close to the basket as you can and just duck in and you know on
on screen and roll roll to the rim and he was like oh you're a center you need to go like just like
like no like i i know that i can be better than that i know i can be more versatile than that and
so he's an example uh zach levine zach levine didn't play at ucla he was projected 29th in the
draft i'll never forget he was projected 29th because i got the screenshots of all these
analysts saying i don't know why zach levine thinks he's ready for the nba when he's not even
ready for college you know he's gonna look great in a main red claws which is a g league team jersey
next season and now zach's a you know back-to-back all-star and we knew how good he could be but it
in the right work over time and eventually he proved everybody how how special he truly is as a
player so how did the the guinness world record come about that was what year was that a year and
a half ago okay so how did that come about which world record do you hold i hold the world record
for being the fastest man on two hands what is the distance what's the 20 meters and um
four points 4.7 seconds 4.7
seconds yeah like how did you even know to i'm like okay this is a this is a record i want to
break i was i was just filming content at redondo beach at this high school football field with
the real deal squad and craig and all the homies and uh i was like i asked the video i was like yo
man i want to record this video of me running because i was like working on sprints like you
know conditioning stuff and he was like yeah so like he sprinted right next to me as i took off
we got hit up by guinness that was dope yeah they're like hold on a sec can we come and film
you and time you yeah pretty much and then next you know i'm in i did i'm at my i'm in massillon
ohio uh inside the indoor football facility breaking a world record i get it he wanted to
go watch it it's one of those things that you know what you are a kicker you could probably
get away with it but it's just like being at work during the week probably not the best idea you
know it's i always tell kickers you know you're not the best you're not the best you're not the
when they get bored during the week at work just hide don't be don't let guys see you
laying around on a couch or playing a video game when we're going from meeting to meeting you know
it's just best to lay low so i think his best option would have been to lay low in that situation
or at least if he wanted to watch it hide one of those little field suites where nobody would
have seen him right or get like the mascot's head or something yeah something you got you got to lay
low well that is the fight and i know you're going to have a lot of fun and i know you're going to
you've heard it so much from the media from the fans everybody wants to see it you guys are both
you know at the top of your game is it sometimes frustrating for you to hear the media put so much
pressure on you to make this fight happen like it's your job yeah it was at one point you know
it kind of was frustrating because i felt like everybody was pointing the blame at me when
you know it takes more than just one side to make a fight and i felt like i was the only
guy pushing and trying to make a fight happen but now i really don't care like they can say
whatever they want they can you know they can scream till they blew in the face like it doesn't
affect me like it's cool i just block you now you don't got no type of access to me like people
literally wake up every morning thinking about terrence crawford you know errol spence and
thinking about coming on
my social media platform to you know try to bash me or say uh all these things about me and you
know now like where i used to be like it's not me like i want to prove that it wasn't me like
now i just you know laugh at them because you know they stressing themselves out you know they
beating themselves up for something that they're not getting paid for something that they have no
it's kind of funny to me now i just be looking at them laugh like look at these people like
you know they they crazy you're living in their mind rent free oh definitely
what has been done in this past year to where you feel like optimistic with how
the league is trending and just how women's basketball is trending exposure
exposure is the name of the game and like just to briefly touch on what you say a lot of times
people speak on the wmba without fully immersing themselves
in it because if you immerse yourself in it a lot of times the energy that
we receive on social media or just through people's thoughts about it that's not the
same energy we get in person and that's the same energy when i walked on the street like oh
wow you you were tall you play basketball oh you're a sparks player oh i see you on espn like
it's all great positive energy and why can't we keep that the same um where we have platforms
whether big or small so i would say that like the trend is that our
game is growing sports women in sport like it's it's the place that has opportunity to grow which
is really exciting who is the goat of soccer yeah are you i mean it could be pele maradona
messy ronaldo i think is kind of the the four that people will go between but i i think messy
yeah i mean he's just like this little magician and he's just so unassuming but just so brilliant
and you know he he glides around the field with
and poise and this incredibly humble guy off the field and just carries the amount of pressure that
he does at all times and i would love nothing more this is probably going to be messy's last
world cup and this winner messy's last world cup and ronaldo's and messy has never won a world cup
he's been in a final and lost and i just think like it could be his year and if he lifts that
world cup like just crown him the goat like unanimously there's not there's not even a debate
at that point so we had basketball camp before
we started filming and it was like two weeks or something and i was like two weeks like i need
more than that um but yeah we had basketball camp and i was like yeah definitely going to that
and so we would just like work on like form shots and then afterwards like we would work on like
plays that were going on in the script yeah and uh yeah i mean after that did you do okay
as a basketball player basketball camps did you have any conditioning did you have any
like or was it strictly like okay let's stick to the script what's going to be in the script
and do that no no no we would do conditioning too like we were going like so you ran line drills
what's a line drill or like suicides why does it sound really familiar well because i did play
basketball but like so when you run you're from the baseline to foul line and then back to baseline
then half court line back to baseline free throw line on the opposite end back to baseline and then
full court is you're touching all you're running right yeah you're touching always with your feet
and your hand okay okay and then back so we would do like from baseline to half and then to the next
baseline but it wasn't like like slowly increasing we're just like run if that makes sense like we're
just yeah yeah so down and back yeah just down and back okay got it yeah no it's good that you
skipped that part because like many of my years were spent doing suicides oh my gosh because i
remember i used to do that actually
for like when i actually played like middle school and it was hell so yeah the fact that you do this
for years of props to you what's the best card you own you know i have some high grade uh direct
shooter rookies some some yana stuff some really fun tickets but my best items period i have george
washington acknowledging that he was in debt in his mid-20s the only other examples in the
smithsonian i have wait what is it it's a handwritten document by washington it's a receipt
for a bond so how do you get that i bought it in auction
yeah so the context on george this is like not my world but it's so interesting yeah so george
washington was buying land in his mid-20s before he got more involved in politics and he bought
more land than he could afford so he had to sell bonds to friends to cover his debts and what i
have is the full receipt of a bond that he was selling a friend for 16 shillings i don't know
how that factors into inflation but it was a lot of money that's so funny and i have um i have the
highest graded abraham lincoln signature in the world on a 16 shillings and i have a 16 shillings
document appointing the postmaster general i have lincoln approving uh you know war movements
during the civil war yeah i love that stuff and then the other thing that's tough is like i'm also
six foot tall and blonde so when i go to like nba games and i try to sneak in a camera or events
i get spotted really easy i see so many guys that i know that are like shorter and they're
like a little more discreet and they they sneak in more camera equipment than i do
but if i'm trying to sneak in it's like oh no this like tall girl like she's not supposed to
be here right you stand out yeah so wait what's the secret of sneaking in a camera i need to know
this oh yeah that's that's top secret no i mean like you're allowed to bring cameras in you just
have to figure out like what lenses lenses you can bring in and stuff but there's like certain
areas where you're not supposed to sit at and maybe i end up sneaking somewhere um not just
nba games like events in general i'm pretty good about sneaking around but i do get caught a lot
easier best nba dunker of all time lord vince lord vince the carter without vince none of these
none of these new guys but no matter of fact matter of fact matter of fact bro matter of
fact bro they say they say vince carter hands down one foot god don't do this don't do this
not right now not at the club not at the course i club his name is vincent carter yeah i'm just
gonna throw vincent it might not i used to watch the top 100 vince carter dunk before
who are you gonna put above him if it's not like what dominique or it's vince carter why do you say
vince is the best because of influence or act like real talk because of influence or are we speaking
on the actual dunks they can do because we're speaking about actual dunks they can do just
point blank period dunks alone jay rich is better than vince in the dunk contest dunks alone and you
won't lie to me and sit there and say he's not okay okay no no what dunks only what did you say
i'm saying jay rich said i hit that j i hit that dunk under tweet and i tried it and i never hit
that again consistency he's not consistent on his own jay rich east bay we're just listening bro
vince carter you've never seen vince carter do another between the legs in his life after that
until he was 40 he was doing it when he was young with the ass that's wild by the way but he never
did it again like you said he never did it again until he got older he was like i gotta see if i
still got it which is fine but if we want to say we're going off
hold on if we're going off of dudes dunking in their old age dr j dumped every day every birthday
until he was 70. so let's talk about that how tall is he to me to me bro are we talking about
influence or just dunking
like literally jay rich said
only closer in-game dunker would be sean kemp
but i see you know it's this this country club that you have to dress a certain way look a
certain way there's a lot of even unspoken rules about yes definitely so do you do you like that
element of it or do you see it to where you know live golf came into play and they're like okay
you can wear shorts yeah right so how do you feel um i've always kind of been on the more
i guess like live side of golf like i don't think i'm going to be on the live side of golf
i think that there should be a specific way you have to dress i mean i understand like when you
play a lot of sports there is like an unspoken thing of like what you wear when you go do your
sport like you're not going to go running in heels like i get that you know but um as someone who's
always kind of been not accepted into the like stuck up world of golf i've kind of from that
aspect kind of been like an outsider looking in um because when i go to country clubs even just
as a girl you know in a sport like that um there are certain country clubs where women are still
not allowed to play there's certain ones where even if they are you're kind of looked down on
yeah um so even from just being a girl you kind of see that which is which is tough yeah um but
i definitely think there's a elitist sort of way of thinking um when it comes to clothing you know
if they see you dressed in a way they that's not typical golf you're kind of looked down on
um doesn't matter what you do or where you're from right i think it's just like a
it's like the culture of the game of golf that's kind of been the same for
hundreds of years you know and they just don't know how to change it right
and you look at players like luca who followed a similar trajectory playing pro since he was 16
years old and just to be real i mean as american hoopers we feel like we've had this stronghold
you know ever since the dream team in 92 but that stuff has started to dwindle i just watched the
redeemed team doc on netflix and it's hard to even remember imagine a time when you know america
wasn't this top dog in the scope of international basketball and you look around the league now
and who the team is and who the team is and who the team is and who the team is and who the team is
top players in the league are and it's a heavy heavy international influence so i think the rest
of the world has put us all on notice that we got to get our stuff right get back in the gym put the
work that needs to be put in because you know we've got a ton of homegrown american talent
that's performing well in the nba but nowadays you look at the mb's the jokers the lucas the
yannis all these these names like it's definitely you know i think yannis did an interview the other
day assembled kind of his international team versus the american team and you know there's
a good chance that american team gets cooked so
somebody who's been in the news the most obviously is antonio brown because we've we've seen a
character arc of his that is confusing for some would when you see him in the media and see what
he's been getting into lately do you see that as being a cut and dry cte case no no absolutely not
and and one of the interesting things is that we
see a number of former professional football players and as we go through early on in that
program we thought this was all going to be about concussion and post-concussion and what we found
is that this is transition in mental health you have these guys who are paid to run in and hit
someone get up 15 30 seconds later do it all over again and they're not going to be able to do it
all over again and they go and they hit someone and if they're disrespected during the week or
someone gives them a hard time or something like that they've got practice and they've got the game
that's coming up to be able to take out uh some of these emotions that they have and now all of a
sudden they're out they're no longer uh playing the game they have you know generally you know
you don't leave the internet you don't leave the internet you don't leave the internet you don't
leave the internet you don't leave the internet you don't leave the video the nfl the nfl leaves you
so most of these people don't retire on their own they just are cut and they don't make a team
and now they're having to transition into a world that they really haven't prepared for
because they've been playing football since high school so now they have to figure out
how to do these things so their whole world changes uh in a moment often they've got a life
they've got a family they have everything else so all of that comes into reality and we should
be very conscious of that-that African American women that we were going to see they have worked
very seriously as a second generation um they have created a very swinging human sciences
comes into play with how they react. And these guys have potentially had problems before they
got into football. So, you know, you've got your childhood experiences that you're bringing in.
So we're all unique individuals. And I don't think that you can go and say, oh, someone's
acting up. They said something ugly. They got mad. Oh, it's because they hit their head all the time.
It could be. But I don't think you can jump to that conclusion as an automatic.
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