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Another episode of Club 520 Podcast. I'm the host.
My name is DJ Wells. Same gang with me to my left.
We got my dog, Bishop B. Heading out the prayer lease.
How you what, Nasty? What's happening, Nasty? Let's get to it, baby. For sure.
All right, man. You know it's officially getting warm outside.
Be here. Is that the first short set for the season? I don't know.
I've been in shorts and shit. You know, this fat nigga season.
Anytime I'm here, 48 and above. You know what I mean? In my city, I'm in shorts, baby.
All right. Yeah, 48 and above.
I'm done. I am a sinner.

The remix is much better now.

I am a sinner.

I'm going to quit shouting him out because I don't know,

buddy,

but that was true.

It was hard.

Nah,

shout out to the Slash,

but shout out to my right,

my dog,

Young Nacho,

Young Teague.

How you what?

I'm good.

Y'all know why I'm here.

Nah.

It's March Madness.

Oh.

Okay.

We got the bracket pulled up.

Also known as BBL Madness. These games will not be on CBS.
This will be on your nearest OnlyFans. Hopefully it makes it to Revolt.
At 1.16, we have... Oh, we going straight to it? Oh, let's go.
We pod today. For us to see Sparks in this episode.
I know DJ got some serious shit to talk about. No, we don't.
Let's have some fun today, baby. Listen, if we start like that, we might as well start drinking.
Come on, man. You know what time it is.
It's Barbie. I am a sinner who probably gonna sin again.
Yeah, this Lord forgive me. This bracket is pretty.
I gonna enjoy this. Lord forgive me.
What's going on, Barbie? What's in here? What we got today? What's in here? Which one? Don't got the perk in it. We got...
It's got tequila in it. Okay, what's in here again? Strawberry, well, the strawberry black and white we're greeted.

Okay.

Strawberry,

black and white

and white.

Like that,

um,

what's that boy's name?

Tracy Morgan.

Let me show you.

He's good.

Hey, did you see

his selfie in the bed today?

He's like,

I'm good,

y'all just had food poisoning.

There is no way

that they put you

in the hospital

with all them tags

for food poisoning. Oh, if he had food poisoning,

that's funny as hell. Yeah, it was food poisoning.

That's why I said it. Okay, cool.
It wasn't that serious,

man. The imagery behind that is terrible

as I'm drinking this drink, so I'm going to have to sit it down. What's the name of this drink,

though?

It's the Elite. Okay.

I respect. Shout out to the Elite Eight.

We got a bracket today.

Let's see who makes it to the Elite Eight.

This ain't basketball. It's off-the-court activities.

Barby, you guys. Barby can sit in on this first round.

It's the BBL bracket.

Okay, so for 116, we have Young Miami versus Janice Hart, guys. Who is Janice Hart? Some black woman.
No, no, I literally didn't know. Be careful searching that.
Some black woman. Who is Janice Hart? Oh, okay.
She looks like a porn star. We going to go with young Miami.
Okay, keep it safe. The porn star is at the private trees.
You supposed to be doing based on ass, not by the fact that you're in. Well, all of this matters.
What looks good? This is who do you love. Here you go.
Oh, no. Yeah, young Miami.
Our ass is crazy, though, but you have no idea. Us being the selection community.
The booty being that much under the pocket is crazy. I ain't got enough wood for that either.
Jordan Woods, the 9-8 matchup. Jordan Woods versus Summer Walker.
That's a wild matchup. That's a wild matchup.
I'm not going to disrespect nobody, girl, that I know. So I'm just going to go with Summer Walker just because.
Okay. Shout out to Summer Walker.

Them cakes is weak, but.

Oh, this is a good one. This is that 12-5 matchup.
Your favorite.

Jada, Waita,

and Sweetie. Oh, that's a

good one. That's a

bar burner.

Now we're going to ask, you know,

ladies first. And this is just

overall. It's not about the BVS.

Who are you picking

first? Yes.

We'll be right back. Now we're going to ask ladies first.
And this is just overall. It's not about the BVS.
Who are you picking first? We got to mark them down though. Young Miami moved on.
Is Summer Walker moving on? Yes. But I'm taking Jordan Woods.
Mike got to take the break. Mike got to do the icebreaker.
No, Jordan Woods or something longer. I'm taking Jordan Woods.
Jordan Woods moves on. Oh, wow.
DJ is a ball. Respect.
Sweetie is five. Jada Waiter is 12, y'all.
What would you go? I don't be looking at these women like that, but if I had to pick... Shout out to Sweetie.
Okay, we're going with Sweetie. I'm going with whoever DJ picked.
Sweetie's getting an eye. What? As long as she don't get to sing, I'm cool.
My boy DJ got a good eye. I'm a damn.
She going with Jada Waiter. All right, so Jada got to move on.
She bought the cookbook Respect

So sweetie got to move on

Cause there's five of us

Who you going with

Mike

Mike

Mel

Jada won with sweetie

Mel gonna make it sticky

Oh yo

Mel please don't make it sticky

Jada won with her and sweetie

There we go

There we go

Sweetie moves on Thank you. There we go

There we go

Sweetie moves on

It's about everything

It's a controversial

Alright so I know this 13-4

13 is always you know

At the bottom

Bernice Burgos verse

Jocelyn Hernandez

Bernice moves on That's a wild matchup. Who's the 14 and out? No, the 13 is Jocelyn.
Oh, 13, okay. I'm going with Bernice.
Now, this one. Kim Kardashian versus Drea.
You got to call the number out. 13 and four.
I mean, three and 14. I can't believe Drea was a 14 seed.
Drea. Drea, That is disrespectful.
Very disrespectful. Generational icon.
But I know why, though. I know why.
Because she got a lot of smut on her name. It's not going off loose.
Upset City. Upset City, DJ? Yes, bro.
I'm going with the phenomenal one. A Kim Cart action.

Who you taking, Mike?

Y'all know who I'm taking.

The audience doesn't.

They know who I'm taking. Who you got, Barb?

Leave me alone.

Okay, so Drebble's on.

Oh, y'all got Kim fucked up.

Kim wins them all.

14 being three.

That's a

March Madness

Yeah okay

Cardi B and Lotto

Is your 11 and 6 matchup

Nah

Nah

Nah

I'm rocking with Barbie

I'm taking Lotto

I'm picking this one

Lotto

Who you got

Nigga Cardi B

It's quiet

Cardi got the slappers Her Her tattoo goes crazy on her ass. You got Cardi too? I'm just for sure.
I was rolling with Barbie. So who you got? I said Lotto.
Yeah, I'm going with Lotto. Okay, we going to go with Big Lotto.
I'm going with Cardi B. No, Lotto.
Lotto moves on. No, Lotto moves on.
Lotto moves on. Who you got? He took Lotto.
Lotto Lotto moves on No, Lotto moves on Lotto I said Lotto I'll pocket you both Who you got? He took Lotto Lotto I didn't take nobody I just wrote Lotto Who you got? That's who was going in Who you got? I just wrote Lotto She wrote it You was picking Lotto Alright You said Lotto Mel, who you got? Cardi B It's 3-3 It's 3-3 Cardi B He like older women We gotta come back to that Your 7-10 matchup is SZA versus Ari Ari That's an unfair matchup See I feel like SZA got a Louisville ranking That's not a correct ranking Let DJ speak his piece Let DJ speak his piece, yes. That's disrespectful.
Cisors should not be a 10 seed. No, Ari was a 10.
Ari is a 10. The committee, they need to be fine, bro.
Because Ramsey in the 14th seed is already out of pocket. Ari was a 2 seed, bro.
I don't know what he was doing with it. The selection committee got it wrong.
All right, now this one is this is your 15-2 This is your Mississippi Valley State

Versus Kansas

Yo we are

We are stupid

This is JT from City Girls

And Nicki Minaj

I'm gonna be very interested

To hear how this goes

You know who I'm going with

Nicki moves on Alright Nicky moves on. It's high school.
Nicky moves on. Yeah.
Give me Nicky. Nicky moves on.
Okay, we back at the top of the bracket. This is Young Miami versus Jordan Woods.
Young Miami moves on. Yeah.
Give me just a second. Mike Doors thing.
I need DJ's take on who he wants to watch the next movie. I'm going with Young Miami.
I'm going with Young Miami. Young Miami moves on.
Okay, y'all. This is...
This is a 4-5 matchup. This is a Bernice Burgos and Sweetie.
Bernice for me. Not easy.
It wasn't an easy call. It was definitely a good game was definitely a good game.
It's easy. It went down to the wire.

It was a barn burner.

It's tough.

Same for you, Deej.

I mean, she's brown, bro.

She's been in the league for 25 years, bro.

She's committed.

Okay.

This is Drea versus Lotto.

I don't agree with this one.

I thought Kim should be here.

Well, hey.

You get what you get. Drea.
This is sweet. Drea versus Lotto.
I'm taking Lotto. Ooh.
What you got, Mel? That's two. Mike.
Do what you're supposed to do, Mike. There you go.
DJ is Drea. Barbie, you are going to break the ice with this one.
Okay, so Drea moves on. Shout out to Drea.
I don't like speaking with dudes, girls, man. Let's go.
Ari. Nicki Minaj.
It hurts me to say this. It hurts me.
That's a fire 10-2 matchup. No, it's not.
It hurts me. That's a Michigan stand.
I would let y'all go first. Yeah.
Yeah. The video with Moneybagg throwing the video down and they in the living room, bro, that's one of the best.
It's like excellence. That's black excellence.
Everybody's here, or. Malcott, or.
No need to vote to vote I had Nikki but it's all good Now are we in our Elite 8 Elite 8 is on the way We in the final four So who is our final four Young Miami and Bernice Rhea and Orin Oh my god This is, is what they call. Should we wait and take a vote on this? All the real top seeds made it.
Should we wait for this next week and have all the people guessing? I think we leave it in the championship. Okay, we leave the championship.
Okay. Or do we let the final four simmer a little? We got to let that to the final four.
We got to let that just ride for a second. All for a second.
Miami, Bernice, and we got Drea and Ari. That is a fantastic Final Four.
It's some one seed that went down early that shouldn't take it up with the selection committee. The seeding of this was out of my head.
So now we're not gonna choose, but who would y'all like to see win the championship? I'm not choosing. We'll find out in the next episode of Dragon Ball Z.
I think it's going to be fucked up because y'all raggedy. Gotta catch more Pokemon.
But I ain't going to lie, I'm going with the sleeper. I'm picking Bernice Burgos to take a home.
She ain't a sleeper. She can pick the one seed and we go.
She was more. She was du she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was she was bro sometimes neutral course matter bro and your matters.
None of them got their video downloaded. We did background checks.
All right, man. Y'all let us know who y'all got picking in the final four, man.
Thank you, Barbie. Shout out to the Elite for sure, man.
My dog, Barbie, appreciate you. For the Love of Barbie is on the way, y'all.
We really working on that. For the love of Barbie.
They are clowning on Twitter with these rules man. What's the rules? Somebody said how much it cost to cut the line? For the love of Barbie on the way.
For sure man. While we're here talking about the NCAA tournament.
I pulled up a list of some of the worst first round losses in NCAA history. I'm going to go through.
Yeah, it got ugly. In 2024, number 14, Oakland beat Kentucky.
I don't remember much about that game, but shout-out to Kentucky taking that L. In 23, 16-1 upset.
Fairleigh Dickinson beat Purdue. That was crazy.
Wow. I remember that.
Shout-out to them. We never thought that there was ever going to be a 16-seeded beat a one-seeded, and this happened twice since then.
then. Yeah, that was a crazy game, though.
That's a different type of disappointment. 23, I believe, yeah, Braden was there.
That's a different type of disappointment. Yeah, they had a great team.
They was whooping ass, too. That's when they was playing them, and he was at the factory.
Yeah, that was when the boys thought they could win shit. Yeah.
For sure. In 2018, you got number 16 UMBC to beat Virginia the first time it ever happened.
That shit was crazy. Considering all the NBA players that was on that Virginia team going forth after that, that's a hell of a loss to take.
Definitely was. Another one? Number 15, 2013, Florida Gulf Coast when they beat Georgetown.
They made a a whole school name after that. They was Dunk U after that shit.
Yeah, that shit was fun, though. That was one of the more exciting teams.
Yeah. That's the fire part about, like, the tournament.
You have two good games, and you can turn your whole university up. Nah, for sure.
That's what George Mason did, too. Yeah, they went to the fucking Final Four.
Yeah, I know. They had them football players in there on their team.
They had a buddy that went to rebuff on their team. Yeah, he was starting point guard.
Oh, wow. No shit? His name was George.
I can't remember his name. I think it was George.
He went to rebuff though. He was starting point guard out of throw.
Yep. George Mason.
Yep. Damn, respect.
Shout him out. Yeah, I can't remember his name, bro.
In 2012, Lehigh beating Duke. We all remember that game.

CJ McCullough went crazy.

Coming out party for sure.

Somebody else,

I know that one wasn't the first round, but

Mercer.

Shout out to A. White.

Shout out to Anthony White, man.

It took care of Duke, too. 2012 as well.

215 match at Northrop State

beat Missouri. That's how my boy Kyle Quinn got drafted he went crazy that's crazy 93 Santa Clara beat Arizona number 2 Steve Nash that's crazy what's y'all favorite college like March Madness moment moment or? Or, you know, just a run.
Mine would be... My favorite run is probably...
Kimba? No, my favorite run is Florida Gulf Coast. Just because how fun it was.
Like, they was just having fun. Don't you? It was wilding.
Or even when my man's from... What's his name? Coach at Seaton Hall now.
Shaheen? Yeah, that little run they went on, that was dope too. For sure.
Damn, one of my favorite runs in college basketball. The Kemba stuff is too obvious, even though that was super crazy as well.
I'm biased. I gotta go with that Louisville championship, bro.
That was crazy. To have my team win a championship in my lifetime, that shit don't be happening, bro.
We got to dub. And that Kevin Weir shit was crazy.
That's some of the craziest shit that ever happened in college basketball. So for us to win that shit that year, that was crazy.
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Here with my latest fresh take on the 2025 NCAA tournament. Brought to you by Wendy's, the official hamburger of March Madness.
What a weekend. Easily my two favorite games from the Elite Eight were Duke beating Alabama, Florida beating Texas Tech.
Duke beating Alabama with their defense, being able to attack in transition, and getting out on the open floor and finding Cooper flag and all their talented players. And Florida beating Texas Tech.
What a win by them. Coming up big in the end.
Now with my final four is set, I like Florida beating Auburn because of the way they play. They got a closer in Clayton Jr.
And I got Duke playing Houston. And I got Houston being my championship in a 2025 NCAA tournament.
It should be a good game. Should be an exciting weekend.
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Yeah, I'm going to take Mellow, and of course I'm taking my boy Shelton. I've never ever seen a team like that running it back-to-back with two different squads.
I'm going to ask you this question. Which one was crazier, the first one or the second one? First one.
Even crazier than the second one? Because of Gordon's last shot. It still gets played today, bro.
Yeah, I thought he hit that shit. Like, real shit.
You know, we was in the building. Oh, yeah.
I was at the game. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
We was there, bro. So, that's, for me, I think that run.
And then I fuck with it because that run helped him. He was not a lottery pick at the beginning of that year.
Hell no. And that pushed him all the way into whatever.
What do you go, 9 or 11 or something like that? Mm-hmm. So, that's my number one.
I mean, Miller was a dog out the gate, but they had, they started off bad too, but yeah, that brother run. Gordon Hayward, yeah, bro, it's number one.
That shot is crazy still, bro. That's the greatest miss ever in college basketball.
And it's crazy because that screen that Matt Howard said was illegal as fuck. He didn't really tackle, buddy, but I was fucking with it.
I was at that game. I popped my tickets to that game.
I was still in rolling that bullet at the time.

And like, nobody from Duke around us said shit to that buzzer went off.

That was one of the crazier games. Kyle Singler were crazy

too. I mean, yeah, you will soon.

You will soon, Kyle Singler, but that...

Please. He's amazing,

bro. He's amazing, bro.

Most memorable

shot for me is when

dude from Villanova hit that shot. That one of the coldest Moments ever in NCAA history After the Marcus 3 Man what To pull up for 3 What's his name Chris Jenkins Yeah here we go I think Dante hit a big shot too I think Dante hit a big shot too But that game Ta about it hit a game winner.
That was a big shot, though, bro. Hell yeah, bro.
That was a big shot. Especially after the shot that was already hit to top.
This is crazy. Yeah.
For game, nigga. Bow.
That's crazy. A walk-off three for the national championship is fucking crazy, bro.
Nah, but I fuck with that. That was cold, but Mario Chalmers too.
You know what's crazy? People love D-Rose so much that we don't talk about that clip because that's one of the coldest, March Madness moments and we don't give a fuck because it was against Derrick Rose. Mario Chalmers did his thing, but that was a big, big shock.
Speaking of Rose, while he pulling up that clip, you talk about that melee year, people don't talk about this enough. What D-Wade did to Marquette in the tournament is absolutely insane, too.
Oh, yeah. D-Wade went crazy.
Triple dug. Bro, he was balling in the tournament.
He became a household name after that. D-Wade wanted to know.
Yeah. This is crazy.
Smack that bitch. That shot, too.
I was pissed. Everybody was mad.
I don't know why I was pissed Everybody was mad

I don't know why I was pissed

I was in college that time

I think I was just pissed

Because Kansas had

Like Kansas is Kansas

Yeah

But Darryl and Arthur was raw

25

Yeah but I'm saying like Memphis

I just felt like they was for the people

Like they was hood

They was us

CDR Shout out to my dog. Niggas was, we weren't Kansas.
We was Memphis, bro. I was in college, so I wasn't none of these niggas.
But I just didn't, like I was just so used to it. You could relate more though.
But I was just so used to like seeing Kansas, like my whole life. Oh, you see Kansas, hear about Danny Manning and all these people.
Kirk Heinrich and Nick Collison. Yeah, Kentucky.
I never heard of Memphis, right? That's true. I hated Kansas.
I did fuck with Keith Langford, though, because he always wore heat. He got buckets, but I never liked Kansas.
One of the coldest lefties to do it, for sure. He's definitely the freshest hooper.
Him and P.J. Tucker.
In college, he was fresher than P.J. Daniel Ewing, too.
Ooh. He was fresher than P.J.
in college. Keith Lankford.
Keith Lankford had that shit. He had that shit.
He was the freshest. And he was Aggie, too.
And he changed his shoes at halftime, so he wore two heaters every game. Yeah, Jermaine Nelson was up there, too.
Yeah. They still made it work.
They had the red and white, though. They had red and white.
Black and red, red and

white.

I remember they came out there in them Barclays, boy.

Man, that's... You couldn't tell me I wasn't going

to school and hooping in them Barclays.

They was too influential, bro, and to go

to St. Joe's, like, it's crazy

how people influence you.

I really was influenced by them.

I wore a t-shirt. I wore my socks

like Melo. I wore a big t-shirt because of them and Celine Stoudemire.
It was crazy how college people used to influence you. It's not like that now.
It's because they're too accessible. Yeah, I don't think kids look at college players and like, damn, I want to be like that or wear that number.
That's a good question. I've never heard a kid, they go straight to the league.
Straight league. I've never heard, in this generation, never heard a youngster say they want to be Adam Morrison or somebody.
Yeah, or... I don't even know.
You saying Keith Langford and Delonte West, you know what I mean? I don't know if Keith Langford made it to the league, but Delonte West wasn't no big, big name. Yeah.
He just fucked with the swag and he was cold. I don't know no cold college player that ain't really making a run in the NBA that kids are just locking in with.
No, even now, it don't even sound like there's, like, the same excitement around this. Like, our age group and up love March Madness, all the alumni shit.
But, like, kids, they don't give a fuck about that. They tapped in with OTE.
They go about she's like, oh, it's in a heartbeat. Don't give a damn about that 215 upset.
Because I feel like Jeremiah Fear is supposed to have fans. He probably do got fans because he was a young high schooler that people probably watched.
But I'm just saying how I fell in love with... They don't got no game either.
They don't have no video game either. We had March Madness.
It's on the way back. Yeah, we had March Madness.
They're working on to bring it back. They got into the last round.
That'd be hard, but... I was just too much of a fan of college athletes.
Like, even Iverson before he got to the league. Come on, bro.
And the I could just keep going on and on. I was more of a college fan than I was an NBA fan.
I had one NBA jersey that was Penny Hardaway. Which one? I had the blue one, whatever.
Yeah. I watched both.
I just love college basketball because just the game too, bro. You could build your own school.
Yeah. You know what I mean? Cheating, taking Alabama and M all the way to the championship.
But, like, I could just keep going on and on about players. Like, even when I was younger, I wasn't a fat five dude.
Like, I didn't watch it. That's too old.
Yeah, I didn't watch then. But, like, right after, like, Iverson came, then I used to watch Ed Coda, and then I was like, damn, I'm going to go to Carolina.
I used to watch, I can't remember his name, and I met him. Vince Carter, Antoine Jamison.
I used to play with them on March Madness. Who was the fat point guard from UConn? Oh, it was Khalid El-Amin.
Khalid El-Amin. I used to look at us.
This guy's raw. Ben Gordon.
Ben Gordon used to hoop in the 19s. I used to be like, damn.
Yeah, Rudy Gay. I fucked with Rudy Gay.
Legend. Like, all them dudes.
I used to be watching the McDonald's game. My buddy going up.
Damn. Yeah.
Like, when Steve Francis was at Maryland on March Madness, he was the coldest. Bro, what? Elite.
My dad loved college basketball. He used to, like, love Ohio State.
So, like, Michael Rage and Scootie Pinn. I remember watching him, like watching him like kill.
Like people wouldn't know who Scootie Penn was. That nigga was a dog.
Yeah, he was. And Michael Rhea was one of the underrated players in the NBA too.
Steve Francis was so nasty at Maryland. Like I used to watch him.
I used to even watch, like you said, Nick Collison, Kirk Heinrich. Yeah, Juan Dixon too.
What was the Juan Dixon was nice. What was the crash out? Hold on.
What's my boy? I met him in L.A. No, no, no.
The white boy. Steve Blake.
Steve Blake. Yeah.
But they had a white dude. Hey, can you go to the Maryland team back when they had Steve Blake and Juan Dixon? They had a white dude.
I think he was like number 33. He was cool, too.
He damn near was a lefty. So, 2000, 2001, maybe.
Yeah, he damn near was a lefty. He ain't make it to the league, but I used to fuck with him on the game, too.
Like, he was cool. When his name pop up, I'm going to be hyped because I used to fuck with him on the game.
I used to fuck with a boy from NC State, too, the lefty wing. Shit, I can't think of it.
CJ Leslie? Nope. Nah, they too young.
Too younger than me. Damn, I can't remember his name.
You talking about Julius Hodge? Julius Hodge. Julius Hodge, for sure.
You said he was white? Yeah. Benny Miller? Nah, just name someone white.
Everybody else is black. Nah, maybe it's a little bit after that.
Matt Slank. Nah, maybe he a couple years later then.
Terrence Morris. Nah, he's like a couple years later.
He might have just played with him. Laron Cephas.
Yeah. Uh-uh.
These are all niggas. These are all niggas.
I think his name started with an M. It's like 2000? Yeah, go like 2003.
That's crazy, man. How that in Southampton still stayed with us, man.
We looked forward to that shit. People made a name off that time period.
Even if you didn't, make it nowhere, you were still somebody because you killed in a tournament. Yo, kids don't know about like that.
Nah, hell no. Y'all going through the list is fucking...
Will Bowers. 0-5.
Shit. 0-5.
I'm trying to think of some UK players. Joe Crawford.
Joe Crawford was my... Jody Meeks.
Jody was my year. He made All-American team.
Yeah, Jody Meeks was a fucking bucket. These are the same what? Dave Neal? Man,

hell no, I dunked on him.

Damn, 05. I was going to say

everybody on this team. Man, go to

the 2000. Hope you doing well, Dave.

You caught a shirt. Is that your favorite highlight? You can do 2000?

That's 2000, 2001. Let's do the 02.

I'm going to find him. Don't worry about it.
Because that's a crazy

highlight when I dunked on Dave Neal.

You know why? So, I don't like

that. I don't care.
But the whole game, he was talking shit. It was a senior night.
So he's talking crazy. Like, you know, it was one of the better teams in the country at that time.
But they had, like, our number a little bit. Like, we never played good against Maryland.
So to start the game, he was playing good. It was senior night.
He was having a moment. I ain't going to lie.
He was playing good as fuck. And he was having a moment I ain't gonna lie he was playing good as fuck and he was like a fat chubby no offense he just wasn't a hoop like you don't think of him as a hooper so he was having a good night and he was taking charges the whole game you know what I mean he step in he take a charge and we like man he undercutting us and shit so when I ripped baseline and went and I punched on him,

I'm like, yeah, bitch.

And I started going crazy and shit.

And his game was fucked up after that. When I tell you he was having a moment on senior night,

I'm telling you he probably had 12 in the first six, eight minutes.

He was balling.

And I punched on him.

It was a wrap.

You dunking on him on his senior night is crazy.

Yeah, fucked up his senior night.

Fuck Maryland. The universe, it's crazy.
Yeah, fucked up his senior night. Fuck Maryland.

The university,

not the state,

but...

That's...

Even though they in

the Big Ten now.

What's up, man?

Even though I like

y'all young freshmen

on that team.

Yeah, he nice,

but still fuck y'all.

My boy Jeff Green

was cold too at Georgetown.

What? He was like... Jeff Green was a nasty wing.
Antonio Freeman? Yeah. I can't tell you.
You talking about Austin Freeman? Austin Freeman. Austin Freeman is from, I think Austin Freeman from that D.C.
area. Austin Freeman was a rookie.
Yeah, he played on D.C. itself.
Yeah. He was raw.
Speaking of college basketball, I got a new head coach, West Virginia, Darian DeVries,

wherever that is.

He's from the Midwest.

You know what I'm saying?

One of your boys just wrote me, bro.

So hopefully, you know,

hopefully you come in

and do what you're supposed to.

You know what I'm saying?

Good luck to you.

Hopefully not get well soon

because that's typical happens.

Is IU job too, like,

are they asking for too much

from their coaches?

Money.

All that money involved now.

So shit Somebody gotta go

Damn

That's what it is

For real bro

It wasn't Matt Hahn

Was it

No

Don't worry bro

I'm looking at

As you're looking

I'm looking

He's just trying to fight his name

Who is that

He didn't play there

From 1998 to 2007

He done went through

Every team

Since Prohibition

To try to fight

This player to see

Man I swear to God,

when I see him...

Why he doing that?

A boy just put his name in the portal.

Who?

Look, Indiana

is like a job that you...

It's a really good job

with harsh critics.

I mean, that's any job, but like

nobody... I shouldn't say nobody.
They can get players, but it's not an exciting place to play. You don't get your name on the back of your jersey.
The crowd's going to be good. The school's lit.
But it's just not, it haven't caught up with the times. It's still like nostalgia.
Everything about the Hoosiers is like nostalgia. Like, Bobby Knight, we still wear candy canes.
We still, Indiana on your chest, fuck the name on the back. Well, these kids don't give a damn about that.
At all. I want to get paid, and I want my name on the back.
I want to be lit. And you have to have a coach that's with the Toms.
Yeah. But they never, they never speed up with the Tom's.
Indiana,

they still stuck in Hoosiers.

It's tradition over everything there.

Like,

they canceled,

they fear God jerseys this year.

Nah,

we're not wearing that shit.

that's ass,

bro.

And they have one of the best

like Adidas programs

and they can't even like

fully use it

because they're traditional.

Like,

we not gonna sauce it up.

I thought Woody was getting

a blend of that though.

I guess not.

Nah,

they don't sauce it up enough.

They're like,

y'all gonna give money

but y'all don't sauce it.

Y'all don't make it appealing

for kids that want to go

Thank you. a blend of that though.
I guess not. Nah, they don't sauce it up enough.
They're like, y'all can give money, but y'all don't sauce it. Y'all don't make it appealing for kids to want to go there.
Even when I was getting recruited, I didn't want to go to IU. Like, it was, Kelvin Sampson was dope.
Yeah. But still, like, when I went to the school, the school fun as hell.
Oh, boy, you didn't enjoy this. You know you didn't enjoy this.
Yeah, the school fun is hell. But Kevin Simpson made it cool.
I ain't going to lie. I shout out to A to Z.
I ain't going to lie. I ain't going to lie.
I ain't going to lie. Because of Kevin.
Let's keep the room. Shout out to Keroys on Tuesday.
Nah, nah. All that shit in the girls, groups.
Shout out to the group hoes. Only because of Kevin Simpson, bro.
Kevin Simpson made it. Little five.
Kevin Simpson made it appealing, bro. He brought an attitude and a vibe to it where you like, look at Houston.
Who the fuck was going to Houston until Kelvin Sampson got there? They wasn't lit since five Slimma Gemma. Who was going to Houston before Kelvin Sampson got there? It may not have been no top, but Houston had something to give.

But it was a place for a lot of transfers.

It had nothing to give.

It was a transfer school.

I'm in Houston.

Now, you going to IU, them kids like, damn, this is Bloomington, Indiana?

Nah, but I'm saying, like, before Kelvin Simpson getting there,

they got a top 10 recruit going to Houston.

Yeah.

You want no top 10 recruit.

It was all I sit the bench at some school when I transfer to Houston. You know what I mean? But you got top five dudes going top 10.
No, I see what you're saying. I'm just saying.
McDonald's, I'm going to Houston. Off the Ripper? Yeah.
I'm trying to think about another school like IU. Go.
Maybe like St. John's or something.
But I don't know. That's...
Shout out to Kevin Samson. What year are you, man? 2-0-1-2.
He's going to try to find his players. It's hilarious.
I'm going to find him. And what's so crazy about the Indiana schools and I in particular, like, we have some of the best talent as far as high school basketball in the world and they can barely win Indiana.
I think that that's crazy. Yeah.
If Indiana was a Nike school, more kids would go there from here. Oh, facts.
But that's the fucked up part about it. But it's just the way they, the vanity behind it is just lost.
It ain't even never was a Nike school. It's just the way they present shit.
Like you said, they had a fire fear of God set up and they don't use the fear of God. You know what I mean? Like,'t y'all want that collaboration? Miami shit was fire.
Heat. It's just different.
I don't know. Shout out to them.
Well, listen, man. This fan base is not going to give you no favors.
There you go. His name is Nick Caner Medley.
That's him right there. Nick Caner Medley.
N-I-K? Yeah. Yeah.
That motherfucker was nice. What about him? He was a shooter? I don't know what the fuck.
I just remember him from Maryland. You fucked with him? Yeah, I fucked with him.
Okay, respect. Nick Caner Medley.
What year was he there? This was... Show him a little love.
2003, 2004. Okay, my freshman.
And I was was decent, bro. I remember it.
March Madness. Fuck.
That was definitely solid. For sure.
We got another request on Twitter about you. There's a video of you pointing at Blake Griffin in the playoffs when he stepped over Giannis.
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I'm going to tell you, listen, I'm a very humble person and I'm very nice. If y'all meet me in person, I'm very nice.
But if you like push me and like make me mad, I'm very evil. You sound like a Marvel character.
I am, bro. I'm like, bro.
He'll turn to you when you play basketball? Yeah, bro. When it comes to basketball, anything else in life, I don't care.
I think everything else is a joke. Now, that's not...
It's Nets in Milwaukee. It's a playoff game.
He stepped on Brianna's. If you see me in person and you come talk shit to me, I'll probably start laughing.
I'll be like, yo, he really want

to fight. That's crazy.

But if you touch me, I'm probably going to go

crazy. But I'm just saying, like, you really

was like, yo, you a bitch. I'll probably be like, yo, he really

think I'm a bitch. That's crazy.

Like, that nigga's hilarious. So that's what Blake

Griffin did? I don't know. But on the court,

he probably said something

or did something I ain't like. And I love

Blake Griffin. I swear to God, Blake Griffin, one of the coolest dudes.
you can ever meet. He's a super cool dude.
But he probably just did something I ain't like. Yeah, he just stepped over Yannis.
I probably was on that. You was looking at him crazy.
And then you pointed at him and walked away. It was fucking hilarious.
Shout out to him. I probably had Yannis.
Because Because nigga Blake used to be that nigga

You know

You not fucking with him

Stop

Like

Especially when you was on the Nets

Nigga

Your knees was like mine

Yeah

And your knees is

You got a little bit

Yeah

What are you doing

Yeah you wildin

Yeah

And he just

He just found out the game too So I fucked with it Yeah Fuck it. Get your money's worth, Blake.
I ain't got it. That's T.A.
Oh. Oh, wait, what? You stepped over T.A.? I rolled for my nigga T.A.
T.A., come do the show, man. I rolled for you.
I didn't even know you was on that. Yeah, T.A.
look like he died. Somebody shot T.A.
He ain't way to get up because he saw Blake. Because why you on the ground? What did you do to be on the ground? But nah, you ain't have to do all that.
Matter of fact, I do remember that play. He wilded out on T.A.
But I remember that play. He wilded out on T.A.
He was bugging. Damn.
But if you're my teammate, the one thing I'm going to do, if I'm in the room, we became teammates, basically. So if something happened to y'all, I'm going to go crazy.
Like, we somewhere and a nigga push, I'm like, yo, So, I'm in the room, like, yeah, we became teammates, basically. So if something happened to y'all, I'm gonna go crazy.
Like, we somewhere, and a nigga push y'all, I'm like, yo, I'm gonna turn the fuck up. And I have been around him for four or five weeks now.
And, like, that was unnecessary. Like, you know what I mean? What you doing? Damn.
Like, why we doing that? got I got turned up That was Damn Blake Was Blake good On Brooklyn He was playing hard So now you talking to KD Oh you went past it I don't know There you go Blake was good on With him That's funny I remember what KD said. He said, what you doing, T? You ain't even on that.
I already said that. Look.
That boy Blake. I know why he was crashing out.
It had nothing to the tunnel I was like man You ain't supposed to shake his hand After that game Draymond just Dre Maiders gave y'all a life for game. Y'all supposed to say, fuck you.

But like, where my niggas at?

Look out at me. I heard double.

This nigga 6'10". Lil Packhouse said,

fuck you.

Damn.

Shout out to Joe Harris, man.

Like, what? I'm about to hear

T.A., you owe me one. Matter of fact, I need my

20. That was a $5,000 check

because I had one earlier. Matter of fact, I need my money back.
Oh, that That was a $5,000 check because I had one earlier.

I need my money back.

Oh, that's tough.

$5,000 for that.

KD made me laugh, though.

He was like, y'all losing.

What you going on?

Y'all down 30.

You in the game.

I was like, damn.

I am in the game.

Who am I doing?

You know how many technical fights you had in the NBA? I had 30, 35. They just said 11.
Oh, damn. That's a big gap, nigga.
Now what? That you working with them people? 11? I had some injections, though. Who do you got the most sex with? Timberwolves.
That nigga got 10 different fans. For sure, Timberwolves.
He got his record, Spongebob. First week, he's a sick wife.
I didn't have that many with Atlanta. I had a lot with the Timberwolves.
Oh, no, no, no, I lied. You had four with Atlanta.
You had four with Atlanta, three with the Timberwolves. Do they cost the same every time? Mm-mm.
They go up the year, the more you get in the year. So if your first one is like $25,000 in a second, it'll go up.
That made me think of Rasheed Wallace. Nah, them niggas have lost a lot of money.
My boy gave back. Him, Dwight Howard.
I remember when Dwight got suspended for Texas. Draymond.
Draymond. Luka.
Damn, Luka be getting them like that. Luka was going crazy a couple years ago.
Wow. My first tech ever in the NBA was with Sebastian Telfer.
We was beating their ass. And I subbed in the game as a rookie.
I'm guarding him. He was playing in Minnesota.
He made a move. I guard him well.
You know how a nigga, y'all don't know, y'all don't know. But when you a rookie, niggas just try you for no reason.
Like, nigga, fuck out of here. Nig.
You ain't good, nigga. He like, when I locked him up, we get to the bottom of the, under the rim.
He just pushed me. Nigga, I was like, what the fuck? What the fuck is you doing? He like, nigga, I'll fuck you up, nigga.
You can't walk in New York, nigga. I was like, nigga, you're done.
I'm like, yeah, you're out of here. Nobody even believe you, nigga.
I liked you when you was in high school like you know what I mean now we just talking like I'll fuck you up nigga and Josh Smith like no that nigga really crazy when I go to the bench he's like no that nigga crazy he was like you ain't no ho though but that nigga crazy then you know I'm thinking I'm not even know you lose money so when I get to the bench. Jamal Crawford like, man, you talking to that nigga? We beating him by 30.
He just lost 2,500. Nigga, what? Like, that nigga, what? He like, yeah, they find you when you get texts.
I'm like, oh, hell no. Damn.
Like, this nigga? We beating y'all about 30. Why you fucking with me? Damn.

It's all good, though.

That 2,500.

That's a sick-ass fine.

Yeah, I was pissed, nigga.

They hit different back then.

I was on my rookie deal, nigga.

That's a 2,500, nigga.

He just took away my trip to Magic City.

They even know you in the comments.

They're like, we tired of the team talking about his rookie year. Like, he was working at the factory.

It was. They said, your rookie year, your pay scale was more enough for you to not eat at the comments.
He's like, we tired of the team talking about his rookie year like he was working at the factory. It was.

I said,

your rookie year,

your pay scale

was more enough

for you to not eat

at the mall.

It wasn't though

because you got a thing,

you got a budget

and you coming from a,

I was coming from

an environment

where we ain't

had no money like that.

So,

somebody saying,

yo,

you got $3,000 a month to do what you want. That shit sound like a lot to you on a road every day and you going somewhere.
You a gazillionaire. Yeah, $3,000.
You use that so fast. That's a trip to the store.
Go to the store and buy some food. Yeah, $3,000 a month.
That is tough in your lifestyle. Nigga, what? Like, it was crazy.
But you to be able to manage that, though, is... Because that was what I needed.
You know, me and my parents, we like, yo, you don't need much. That wasn't, like, including my bills and shit.
So it was like, yo, just for you to spend. Like, $3,000.
Every month, you just go out, get some, you know, buy some shoes, you wanna do I'm like alright for sure that shit started like hold on I'd be eight yeah because because you was in Atlanta nah if you was in Utah you probably been different luckily my rookie year I had great vets so I never had to pay for nothing like if I went out out to the club, if I wanted clothes. Yeah.
They gave me their per diem. So it wasn't nothing for me to buy shoes.
And I wore Nike shit all the time. Like they bought me suits and shit when I needed to do.
So it was like cool. But nigga, I thought $3,000 was a lot to the middle of the season.
I'm like, damn, one table is $1,500. That's half of my month.
Which is crazy. And that's a comfortable city.
You wasn't in New York. You wasn't in LA.
Nah. $1,500 table.
$15,000. And then as you get up, Mike, why are you watching, man? I'm watching all the time you got ejected.

I swear.

If that Ricky Rubio video has a billion views, I gave it a billion.

That's one of my favorite videos of all time, bro.

I swear.

Every time I got ejected, I was like hooping.

Like I was having great-ass games.

Yeah, 25 points a game.

Y'all know I was hooping.

It was a third quarter.

Why was you crashing out? I don't know, bro. I told y'all just had these moments where I just...
What happened to this game? I don't even know this one. That ain't me.
What's that? They just got the title. Oh, you're going to say, damn.
I don't know. I just had moments where I just...
That is funny, but... Fuck everything.
No. Can you remember a teammate that you had that had a lot of tics that you played with? You just play, damn.
Ivan Johnson had a lot of tics. My dog.
Yeah, he had a lot of tics. I can believe that.
Josh Smith had a lot of tics. I guess Smooth won't talk crazy to a ref for sure.
Yeah. I can see that.
He had a lot of tics. Shout out to J Smooth, man.
Did you see Morris Swinn? He went on the podcast talking about Dora Morey.

Basically, he was just like, I can't trust Dora Morey

because this man is using

AI to make decisions about basketball.

Damn, for real? Yeah.

He basically said like...

He used JGBT to construct this roster

based on analytics and shit.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of people.

That's the game, though. Nah, that happened with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Literally, they used analytics for everything. I told you I got...
The reason I got traded is because I shot a mid-range jumper. I remember.
Yeah. I remember when you talking about that.
So I remember I came in the locker room. We're down at...
We're going into half. And I had to shoot it.
The shot clock was going on. And I shot a mid-range jump shot and I actually made it.
I'm having a decent game. Going to the locker room.
You kind of can hear people yelling. We down.
You can hear people yelling back and forth. He was like, he just don't want to fucking buy in.
I'm going to get his ass out of here. I'm like, what the fuck is this? Who the fuck? What happened? I'm thinking of coaches.
I'm like, what the fuck? As we walk out, coach tells me, come on, Jeff, man. You just have to buy in.
I'm like, the fucking what? Like, we don't play defense. We're the worst defense team in the fucking league.
What the fuck are we talking about defense for? He was like, man, you shooting those floaters and these mid-range shots, like, step behind the line and shoot the three. And I didn't shoot a bunch of threes.
I wasn't like a volume three-point shooter. That's what hurt me a little bit.
As I got older, I started shooting more threes. When I got to Boston, I shot threes.
But if I would have shot 10 threes a game in Minnesota, they would have been happy. That just wasn't me at that time.
I came in the league at a different time. I just didn't transition to that yet.
They was just like, yeah, we got to get you the fuck out of here. You're not part of where we want to go.
And I used to just think, I hope Minnesota lose every fucking game. I forgot the dude that was a GM name.
He came from Houston. He came from Darryl Morey and all that.
Oh, the coaching tree. Yeah, so he came from that whole GM thing.
That's what they thought. Analytics, more threes, layups, and free throws.
So when I left, every time Minnesota lost, I just went out and had a great time. I did.
I used to be like... That fucked the game up, though.
It did, bro. And it eliminated a lot of people's positions that were good basketball players.
Yeah. Like, we talked about, damn, once the Duke,

he's playing for the Madness right now.

Jaleigh Okafer.

Yeah.

Analytics killed his game because he could have been

able to get skilled.

He could still contribute.

That was bad, bad time.

But he didn't shoot,

so it was like, fuck it.

My lord, that was bad time.

Analytics murdered people game.

It took,

that was,

analytics took me out.

Not really.

And you can shoot though.

That's a crazy part.

My knees took me out.

Yeah.

But, but analytics kind of, it kind of made the game weird. not really and you can shoot that's a crazy part my knees took me off but

but analytics

kind of

it kind of made the game

weird

like

cause it's like

Chris Paul is one of the best

mid range point guards

ever

and you see him

when people who don't

go off of analytics

like when OKC

just started letting Chris Paul

be Chris Paul again

and he's shooting

them mid range shots

and he being great and they team win 12, 15 more games because of him, it's like, y'all analytics is off. Yeah.
Like, it might be a better shot or whatever, but he just won 15 more games doing what he do. Yeah.
It's just like, my eyes tell me the truth. Here we go.
Like, my eyes tell me the truth. Like, analytics is cool.
I watch Charlotte. I shoot a hella threes.
I watch it, and it's bad. But then you watch Boston.
They shoot 63s, and it's like. But then you watch OKC.
You watch Shea. You watch DeMar DeRozan, who is different.
Now, I was going to ask you that being here. If SGA didn't average starting, he averaged 16, would they feel differently about him taking as many mid-range shots as he does? Of course they would.
Okay. Yeah, because he'd be fucking the game up.
But then you watch Boston, and they winning these games, shooting 63s. And it's like, they getting more threes up than us.
How can we beat a team? Because if they get hot and they go 38 for 60, you don't have a fucking chance. You're cooked.
Because what if they shot 70 when we did playback? It was great. It hit 20 and didn't give a fuck.
And it's just like analytics tell you that that's a better shot. But when my eyes tell me, it's like Jason Tatum can get to the basket.
Like you're 16. You can take this little dude to the basket.
And that's where my eyes tell me and that's when the playoffs start. My eyes gonna tell me a lot.
That's why I'm scared what the Lakers can possibly do because Bron don't play analytics. He shoots more threes than he ever did now.
Yeah. Most definitely.
But that's with age too. But when it's like time to get to it, Bron will take your ass to the basket.
Yeah. And that's where it's gonna get interesting in the playoffs.
I don't know, man, because Boston, that's... Bro, we watched Drew Holiday have wide open lips and could have done it.
He said no. Three balls.
He looked like Terry Rozier out there. He was doing shit.
He did the Ben Simmons one time. Yeah.
Kicked it out. He did do that.
He did do that. He like, shoot the leg up.
He kicked it out for a three. So is Ben a pioneer in analytics? Or did he freeze up in the moment? No, he freezed up in the moment.
No, we got to put some respect to Ben. You 16.
You had a lot of pros. He was just earlier in the way.
Y'all wouldn't tap in yet. But he kicked it to another nigga to shoot free throws.
Yeah. If he would have kicked it for a three, I'd be like, you might be on to something.
That nigga kicked it to another nigga to shoot the free throws. Well, he could have just dunked it, but.
I can't wait to see the type of year he have next year. Why do y'all keep saying that? He's not in there right now.
He's dead, bro. He ain't right now.
Where's Barbie at, man? He's in the Clippers. I'm having a really good time, man.
He's not. My drink is empty.
He's not Barbie. Barbie Barbie, it's the first time I like your drink.
Second time. She's gone? Yeah, we only pay Barbie.
She's gone? We pay Barbie by the minutes. She? The crazy part is, she literally texted me and was like, should I stay for the next episode? Are they going to drink a little? Yeah, you get paid enough? I was like, I don't know.
I think you'd be okay. Yeah, we pay her her by the minute.
Yeah, let's shave that in, boys. She's literally like outside.
Man, tell her. Is that right here? She's outside.
Tell her to bring her ass back in. For sure.
We'd pay her by the minutes. Interesting.
I know you feel this to Jabari. Listen, I want to hear more from Jabari Parker.
I know he's still hooping, but whenever he gets down to want to talk, I would love to hear more from him. I would love to speak to Jabari Parker.
Most definitely. And I played, he was a teammate of mine before.
Oh, for real? In Atlanta. My second time when I was double zero.
Oh, okay. He returned.
He the realest. You know why he the realest? When I first walked in the locker room, he laughed.
You know, I'm a clown. He's like, T, I fuck with you.
I knew you since you. I was a kid.
I was like, damn, for real. You know what I mean? He's like, you from Indiana.
I'm like, damn, appreciate that. He was like, you came to a fucked up team.
And I love why you say that. He's like, oh, you know why me and Evan don't play? I'm like, why y'all don't play? They told us we could only play 14 minutes.
He was like, that's it. I'm like, damn, they told you that? He was like, yeah.
He was like, you about to have that meet? Just watch. These dudes just lifting weights.
Evan was big as hell. Evan was like a wrestler, bro.
I'm like, damn, E.T., you big as fuck. He like, nigga, all I do is lift weights every day, nigga.
I don't even got to go to the games. This nigga didn't even have to go to the games.
Chandler Parsons on the team. I never even seen this nigga.
Wow. He was on the team.
They like, Chandler Parsons got a car wreck.

He don't come to the games.

He don't do nothing.

I'm like,

damn,

he on the team?

ET's like,

he's never coming.

Jabari Parker,

all he did was lift,

shoot shots.

ET just lift weights.

Jabari like,

he about to talk to you.

No lie.

He LP,

he was like,

yo,

I can't holler at you,

T.

Jabari shoot.

He's like,

I told you.

I go upstairs, tell me, you got 19 minutes. That's it.
You won't go over. You won't go you won't be under.
It's going to be exactly 19. That's what you got every game.
I'm like, 19? I'm like, so if I'm killing, I got 30. He's like, you get 30 in 19 minutes, you a bad motherfucker.
And you would not play over that. Literally, that was it.
You averaged 18.2 minutes. I was lying.
I am not fucking lying, bro. Jabari Parker averaged 13.8 minutes.
I'm not lying, bro. Y'all think I make this shit up? I don't make it up, bro.
They literally told me, he was like, you won't go under? You gonna be right there? I said. I was like, so I could just be having a night.
He was like, brother. I wonder why that is, though.
But you know what? Because they was developing the young dudes. But don't take my moment away.
Let me keep my average. But if I'm killing loose, let me kill, bro.
I'm wearing doubles. Let me maximize this.
I already can't get my number back. I got to let me cook my game.
And I'm already top 20 in scoring. Let me try to get to at least 18.
My boys should have been top 15. They was hating.
They wouldn't let you hoop. And I understood it.
I got it. They were trying to develop the young guys.
At the time, it was Trey, Cam, DeAndre, Kevin Herter, John Collins. They had all these young dudes.
I'm like, cool. Shout out to Chilling Parsons.
He got a check never came to the gym. Legend.
He is a legend. I seen Jabari.
I ain't believe him at first. I'm like, nah, they're like, you about to sign back here? So when I first got there, Atlanta offered me an extension.
As soon as I got there, like, yo, we're going to send you for the next year. You want to do it? So I'm like, you know, talking.
Yeah, I really fucked my money up. Jabari, Evan, all them.
Because I could have just signed the next, you know, the one-year deal. Yeah.
And I've been locked in. It was like $6 million.
Five to $6 million or something. Damn, bro.
And so when I was there I'm like yeah you know me and Jerry

I was like we just waited out

we didn't know COVID

was about to happen

so we like

ah you

cause I was killing

and I was having a good

games in Minnesota

off the bench

I was averaging like 13, 14

so they like

that's quality

like off the pond

boy

nah you gonna get more than that

and then he was like

going to Atlanta

really gonna hurt you

you gonna be a good six man

so

I should have signed it

yeah you should have Thank you. Nah you gonna get more than that And then he was like Going to Atlanta Really gonna hurt you You gonna be a good six man

So

I shoulda signed it

Yeah you shoulda

Yeah but they like

Yeah

They are like man

You probably get

You know

We ain't know COVID was gonna happen

But anyway

They was like

You don't wanna come back to this shit

And when I was playing 19 minutes

I ain't wanna come back to that shit

That is crazy bro

I was like

Nigga

It ain't nothing you can do To get on the court. That's crazy.
They literally looked at you and was like, no. And I remember, shout out to my nigga ET.
His last game, like, he ain't played in months. They want to trade him, right? ET, you're dressing tonight.
ET, he's so big. He put his jersey on, this nigga looks crazy he looks like I'm like damn nigga he got his jersey I'm fucking crying he like and he hoops he has a good gang right he's traded the next morning what number was ET on I think he was one I need that jersey one in double zero I think he was one I think he was one I think Evan was one it was a that jersey.
One in double zero. I think he was one.
I think Evan was one. I think Evan was one.
It was a Boston game. We played Boston.
And E.T. actually played good.
Wow. I think I passed it to him.
He hit a shot at like the end of the quarter one time. And I was like, damn.
And that's when we got super cool right there, that moment right there. Then I went to Boston and we just became.
Oh, y'all locked in in the A. Yeah.
Oh, I thought y'all locked in in Boston. Nah, we got super cool.
I mean, we knew each other from high school, but we got super cool in Atlanta because it was just like that three weeks I got with him. Before he got traded, he was just being real.
And then we got into Boston. It was just easy.
For sure, man. Jabari had came out and basically said, like, people look at him like a sad story because of injuries.
He's like, my life ain't no failure. He's like, I went to the NBA.
I made millions of dollars. I took my family out the hood.
I changed generations. I changed my lineage.
I'm living great. I play basketball for a living.
I ain't no sad story. Yeah, I got hurt.
But I did something that a lot of people don't do. And all the people who criticize me can never accomplish the things I got.
That's a fact. If he don't get hurt, he gets $100 million.
Come on, bro. He was averaging 20 points for a tour taste.
He got cheated. They got Giannis to be his complimentary piece.
People forget that. Jabari Parker was one of them, for sure.
Still is called, for sure. He definitely got cheated out of his career.
He don't tear his ACL. He's $100 million.
Man, the Bucks are a totally different franchise because they're going to keep him and Jabbar. Facts.

Well said, man.

Shout out to Jabbar.

I need you on the pod for sure.

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Go ahead, keep telling. Hey, before we get out of here, I'll talk about the whole night.
Nah, nigga. Oh, no, never mind.
Fuck that outro. I'll tell the whole night.
What? Malcolm was dancing, in fact, girl? No, no, no, no. Oh! Whoa! I'll say what happened when I walked in in that motherfucker walked to the section and greeted me

y'all had a section

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alright

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on that note

we'll be back

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