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You'll have to confirm this.

Adrian had played no Texas home and they came to a charity poker tournament that I am seen.

They didn't even sit down.

And then I find out like two years later, Adrian is playing at Canterbury.

I thought maybe I guess a little bit of credit for you playing poker.

You do, you do.

He's like, you know what?

Let me really get into it and, you know,

make it a hobby of mine.

They told me he was playing three, four days a week.

Yeah, I was playing a lot.

So when he's out there there

putting him on blast right now in minnesota

all right guys we got ap here he just made a deep run in the tournament fifth place yeah man um

i feel like i did pretty good all day um caught some bad hands um towards the end um

but overall i feel like i kind of played solid um you know unfortunately it just didn't go my way um my last hand i ended up having King Seven of Spades, and

I was in half of my chips, and I'm just like, you know what?

This might be an opportunity for me to kind of triple up, and it just didn't go my way.

They threw over their hands, and they both had pairs.

Sheesh.

Nines and tens.

I'm just like, ah.

But even with that, I had opportunity.

I could hit spades.

Could hit a king, you know, running sevens.

So I said opportunity.

Just unfortunately, it didn't work out this time

who knocked you out was it bryce um

i don't think it was bryce i don't i don't i can't remember his name honestly um

and the young lady that's all flexible oh selfie

uh she was one of the she was she had the the bigger stack out of the three and uh she ended up having a pocket tens and ended up knocking me out oh damn but yeah well shout out to her you play a lot of poker though yeah i play a lot of poker i play a lot of poker i play on a lot um down in houston texas poker stars Joker Stars.

That's where I spend a lot of my time playing.

I normally play Omaha.

You know, I like the full court game.

But I like to switch it up with what I started with.

I learned in high school how to play Omaha.

And, you know, once I, you know, went to the pros and then

decided to get my residence in Houston.

Started going to the Poker.

Perker Poker halls there and learned about PLO.

And I've been locked into that since.

But every now and then I get around and kind of slow it down to play Omaha.

Yeah, so play hold them.

Okay.

So you were playing while you were playing and then I fell too?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, not as much.

It was a place in Minnesota called Canterbury that was not too far from Eden Perry.

They actually go there and play a lot.

I spent a lot of hours there playing hold them and

matter of fact, that's really all I played when I was there, you know,

until I kind of like

moved down to Houston, Houston, got my place in Houston, and learned about PLO and started playing that.

So, yeah, I've played a lot.

I played a lot.

Is it the money part that attracts you to it, or what, what, what about poker do you think draws you to it?

Um, I think it's both, you know, it's the uh the competition part, you know, um, because

you never know the type of individuals you're going against.

You know, you might go against someone that's aggressive, that's kind of you know,

it might be, you know, they play slow, that, you know,

they're passive.

It's so many different personalities.

Somebody that's sporadic, that you never know what they're going to do.

I think that's kind of how I play

in a more controlled sense.

But it's just that competitiveness, you know, like, you know, you got a good hand.

Just suspense of, you know, what's going to happen.

on the turn, what's going to happen on the river, man, it's just, it gives you that thrill and that excitement to just kind of challenge people, challenge yourself.

Because it's a game that you have to be smart and you have to, you know, have decent hand, decent hands, and you got to play with some type of strategy.

So, for me, you know, even more so when

it comes to hold them, you know, PLO, that's a total different ballgame.

Yeah, it's a whole nother game.

Oh, different.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What else you playing outside of poker?

Any sports these days?

Packleball.

Yeah.

You know what?

Dang, you reading my mind.

It's funny because

I'm actually in the process of finishing

this paint job.

So I end up getting all the measurements and everything

for my pickleball court that I painted on my basketball court outside.

At the crib, let's go.

At the crib, at the crib.

So you got all the dimensions, you know, and I got it all laid out

and

painted up.

You know, my kitchen is like, my kitchen area is red.

I got the black,

you know, kind of sprayed around on both sides.

And then, I don't know what they call the outside of that.

But all that's black.

And I paint everything else black.

And then I have to finish the

perimeter of it, which is going to be, it's going to be white.

So it's going to look pretty dope once I'm done with it, but it's looking pretty good.

So I'm picking up the pickleball

just to...

get my body active.

My boys like it as well.

So I enjoy it.

Pickleball's taking over, man.

I go to lifetime out here and they replaced the basketball courts with pickleball okay

there's more people playing that than hoops are you live right now yes i am all right here we go there he is is this a podcast or are we live yeah we're not live okay all right i'm popping in then yeah you want to join us how you doing man i'm good man we got adrian just here a few minutes i know i know i'm telling you

this may be true i'll have to confirm this adrian had played no texas hobo really now he comes him and larry fitzgerald come to this charity event and what was that the minnesota one the starkey foundation yep starkey foundation they come and neither one of them played poker and they came to a charity poker tournament that i emceed okay

and

they didn't even sit down and then i find out like two years later that adrian is playing at at canterbury in minnesota all he just mentioned that and they love him they love him like adrian is the best we love him and so i mean so i thought i thought maybe i guess you a little bit of credit for you playing poker you do you do that definitely turned me on to it's more i was was just like you know what they me let me really get into it and you know make it a hobby of mine you know so i love it i spent a lot of time and it was it was close too it was like 15 20 minutes away from my from my house so i mean they told me he was playing three four days a week yeah i was playing a lot

yeah so when he's out there

putting him on on blast right now in minnesota well yeah i mean come on what's wrong with playing poker you know facts i mean but yeah no i mean like he didn't do anything wrong he's playing poker yeah it was great and i think that then you get, then you play with the same people, you get a whole social thing going on.

Have you guys played against each other yet?

We have not, but I know this.

Like, when I watched him out there, I'm like, all right, see, he's moving.

Like, you can know what a guy is a poker player, right?

He moves the chips.

He told a nice joke.

He was talking about slow rolling.

If you, like, the people at home don't even know what happened, right?

Because it's a bunch of amateurs watching.

And I'm like, no, he, so I'm like, here's a poker player.

There we go.

Coming from the moment.

And we'll have to get Adrian, you know,

you should come to the Warriors charity tournament.

I'm down, man.

I'm down.

I got to get your number before I head out.

Yeah, yeah.

We'll make sure.

I'll make sure that Blake Wynn gets us hooked up.

But the Warriors have had so much fun.

Ninja was scheduled to come with me last time.

Yeah.

And then our coach died.

Our assistant coach died.

And Ninja and I had a whole weekend planned.

He was going to come out.

We're going to sit on the floor of the Warriors game.

He was going to be my guest.

Then the charity poker tournament.

And the owners wanted to have it, and they wanted to give $500,000 of the money to the family of the coach.

Wow.

But the players, who could blame them?

They were just like, we can't do this.

Yeah.

It was supposed to be four or five days later.

And then

I think I had somebody else come instead of Ninja.

He couldn't make it, but he was scheduled to come out with me.

Maybe we do something like that.

I'll get Adrian to come out.

Sit on the floor of the Warriors game with me.

Yeah.

Meet the players.

I play poker with Draymond Green all the time.

Okay.

Great guy.

I'm all in for that.

Yeah.

And then play in our private game, maybe, too.

Oh, hey, I'm down for that too.

That's fun.

100, 200, Nolan.

What's the buy-in?

5,000.

I can't make it happen.

I can't make it.

Yeah, but I mean, you know, maybe coach up a little bit.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Damn.

I had Mr.

Beast.

I had Mr.

No, I had Mr.

Beast come and play.

Hear from him, coach you up.

You got to be like, okay,

let me know.

He's one of the ghosts.

Yeah, exactly.

I had Mr.

Beast come and play with us.

And like, Jimmy just, you know, Jimmy's.

He goes all in every other hand.

Yeah, I mean, Jimmy's also very, you know.

Yeah.

I mean, his company's raising at, what, six billion or something?

You got money like that.

It's Mr.

Beast, you know?

I love Jimmy.

He's just a great human being.

Absolutely.

All right, I'm jumping your interview.

Thanks for popping in.

Good to see you.

All right.

I'm out of here.

All right.

All right.

Bring it in, my man.

I will.

Appreciate it, bro.

You know, I hug Draymond Green like eight times a night.

Nobody ever says anything to us, and I always say this.

You know why?

Because we're alpha males.

Wow.

Mic drop.

That's my line.

Yeah.

You replaced the basketball hoop.

So are you still hooping?

Every now and then.

I hoop every now.

Yeah, so I used to play.

Yeah, I was down on the court yesterday teaching my boy some post moves.

Yeah.

And,

you know, in this

last three games,

so he was so scared to play basketball because he never played.

He's a football player, baseball and track.

And I told him, let's get out there and try it, man.

You never know

what you can do unless you try it.

So he actually tried it this year and um the previous three games he he didn't score any points but he hustles play really good defense get rebounds eight ten rebounds again

I said listen that right there alone this is what I was telling before they decided 18 B team I said that alone is gonna get you on the on the 18 you know because you you're a defensive guru yeah I said but in the meantime we'll work on your game you know so he's got taller kids so they got him paying like in a post so actually

last night last night i'm out there messing with the the you know the the court and

for about 20 25 minutes you know i taught him some post moves i was like hey this is what you knew if you're on the box you know have the hand up and you know like you're asking for the ball then you can you can go to the you can go to the left or you can go to the right if you go to the left bam you can lay it off the back you know off the glass right here on the line or just you know but you just got to feel it or if you want he's a right-handed kid you can go in but just know that guy's gonna have like a little advantage because his hand is right there.

But on the on the right side, the left side of the goal, when you post up, you'll have more room to kind of get that shot off, you know, because the guy's playing with his left hand.

Yeah.

I can't wait to have kids and teach them sports, man.

Yeah, but

he scored 10 points tonight.

Oh, let's go.

Yeah, 10 points.

Quick learner.

Really quick, really quick.

So I'm impressed with what he did.

You know, the effort he put in.

Yeah.

Who wins one-on-one basketball?

Me or you?

Me or you?

Yeah.

Oh, me hands down.

Nah, I would win.

Without a doubt, you would.

No, I would win easily.

Yeah.

Without a doubt.

We're playing.

We need to.

You come and you would get gassed.

So I'm going to tell you this.

Say, you think I'm going to get gassed?

They call me all day for a reason.

First off, my defense,

three years in a row, defensive MVP.

In basketball?

In basketball.

That was in high school, though.

Yeah, in high school.

But I've played recreation and all that in college and all that.

Don't get it twisted now the defense is still there you know when you when you're athletic and you're agile you can make it happen and then i got a nice little shot and i'm physical so even if i have to if i gotta take advantage of you and i'm just like i can just bring them down and you wouldn't be able to back me down

i'm 6'6 200.

you wouldn't be able to back me down even if you did i would just block it i'm just saying i've bet i've backed down guys you know a lot bigger than you before

and you know i'm just saying father time and dunk on guys You're not dunking on me.

You don't think so?

You're not dunking on me.

You know what?

I like the mentality.

I love it.

We'll play.

We'll play to the other.

We definitely got to play, because I promise you you will not beat me.

I will beat you.

Okay.

Yeah.

You don't know me.

I don't know you, but I know me.

So I'm telling you, I would not lose to you.

All right.

That's no disrespect.

Like, are you a trap on that?

You know, you can't shoot or whatever, whatever.

But I'm going to lock you up.

You're going to be frustrated.

You know, I'm that guy that you'd be like, damn.

I don't know, man.

I'm shooting 70% in the league right now.

Yeah, 70%?

Yeah.

Who's holding you, though?

Decent players.

Yeah, not me, though.

All right, we'll see.

We'll see.

We're going to test it out.

Next time you're in Vegas, man.

What else are you doing this trip?

You leaving after this?

Yeah, yeah, I'm heading back to the house.

My son, my youngest son, Axel, he has a championship game coming up.

So he got to practice tomorrow.

Make sure he's, you know, doing what he has to do.

And then I'm going to,

you know, Texas football is just really huge so the high school my boys are zoned to have a sophomore who's who's playing as well they have a playoff game against North Shore I think North Shore is ranked like number two in the state of Texas holy crap they're like 11 11 and oh and Ridge Point High School they're 10 and one so they have a big game on Friday so getting back for practice tomorrow and then the big game on Friday and then get a little break on Saturday and then the championship game for my son and his little league on Sunday.

Man, your kids are active.

Oh yeah.

That's cool that you go to all the games and stuff too.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

At that point, that's the best part, yeah.

You know, it's really important and that's the best part about, you know, you know, I miss the game of football every single day, you know, but,

you know, I think about it from this perspective.

If I was still in the league, I wouldn't be seeing that game on Sunday.

I wouldn't be able to be there with my boys on Friday, you know, going to the game and teaching them things that I know going to his game on Wednesday, like I wasn't able to make it today because, you know, the poker tournament, but like the practices and things of that such.

So just being able to spend more time with him and be hands-on is really critical.

You know, and that's something that I've realized, and that kind of smoothed things over from being out

of the league.

So you felt like you could have kept playing, though?

Yeah.

Yeah, because you were still putting up good numbers in your later years.

Yeah, yeah, I feel like I could have still played.

Unfortunately,

the last portion of my career was, you know, not unfortunately, they was in Seattle, but in Seattle, I had an injury that I sustained, which I had the sciatica.

So I ended up having a pinched nerve, and it took me like 15, 16 months to fully heal from that.

I tried everything I could try to bounce back from it.

And they recommended surgery.

And I just didn't want to go under the knife again.

So I said, you know what?

I got plenty of those yeah so i said you know what let me just let it heal naturally and go through that process but it was probably the most difficult thing i had to deal with because for over a year and a half i couldn't jog holy literally couldn't jog where was the pinch nerve in your leg yeah yeah so it was my left leg and if i if i move

Two or three if I if I if I was standing straight up and I took a step two to three feet in front of me My leg was shut down.

Whoa Yeah, so jogging or any type of sprinting or anything, it was probably the scariest thing I've dealt with because I never experienced that, you know.

Yeah, I've never been able to run or jump or, you know, just doing just normal things I was used to doing.

But, you know, God's willing, I was able to

be around some good people as far as rehab and, you know,

doing like all the right things, yoga and different things that allowed me to to bounce back.

It took a while, but, you know, now I'm back running full speed doing the things that I was, you know,

originally able to do so nice yeah 16 a month is crazy and you recovered from some of the worst injuries yeah before that ACL right yep ACL 2012 yeah they say that's the worst one right yeah I would say ACL

and Achilles I think those are probably the worst injuries to try to bounce back from yeah I remember when you recovered from the ACL one people didn't know if you'd ever be the same like that was being floated around yeah it was being floated around but you know the type of mentality that I have and just my belief system, you know, I never doubted that I would come back and be better than I was before, you know.

So for me, mentally, I believe that, and I've always been a firm believer in, you know, you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you, you know, and

I know he has a final say-so,

you know, like, I know that.

Yeah.

You know, like, really know that.

So for me, Going through that process, it was easy.

I just knew that I had to have the right game plan,

the right people around me, and then,

you know, put in the work because faith without works is void, right?

So, you know, I never forget

when that injury happened, going to the sideline.

My dad was actually at the game in Washington and in a locker room, and he came to the locker room.

And, you know, I already knew what it was because they diagnosed it on the sideline, but just getting in there and them going over it again, yes, ACL, and it feels like the menace could be torn as well.

and i remember telling him um

you know what it was christmas eve too damn i remember telling hey i'm gonna come back i'm gonna be i'm gonna be better than i was before wow and that wasn't me just talking that wasn't me understanding that you know what this is where i'm at this is the situation what you're gonna do about it going forward you know what i'm saying yeah so it's about Putting in the action putting in your getting your game plan together make it known write it down make it known and then then put the work in.

And I put the work in, man.

It was hard.

It was tough.

It was a lot of things I had to do.

It was a lot of times I had to get up

and work when I didn't want to, when I wanted to lay down because I was hurting.

The painful

process of getting my full extension back, trying to get my 90-degree back.

All that, man.

Like, when I was able to look back towards the end of that season and be like, man, you know what?

You know, it is what it is.

God is the real deal, it is the real deal.

You know, that belief is powerful, and I think your mentality really helps because a lot of people, that injury would destroy them mentally and they just never fully recover.

Yep, yep.

A lot of it's 90% of it's mentally.

You got to be, you have to believe and understand that, hey, you can do it.

You just got to believe that you can do it.

Absolutely.

You've been following the NFL this season?

Yeah, I've been following a little bit.

Who you got winning the NFC, and who do you have winning the AFC?

Man, that's a really good one.

The Vikings, obviously, have been looking really, really good in the NFC.

So I'm going to rock with them.

You biased, though?

I wouldn't say necessarily unbiased.

They've been playing some really, really good ball.

You know, defensively, they run the ball well.

The quarterback is playing really, really well.

So I think they really have a chance.

Let me see who else in NFC that's really kind of stands out.

Okay, Detroit.

I got to give Detroit.

Yeah, they're good.

Yeah.

You know, Detroit, I think Detroit is the team to go through without a shadow of a doubt.

NFC-wise, AFC,

you can't go without seeing Patrick Mahomes and what they're able to do.

The Texans are playing really, really good ball, even though the last couple of weeks they've kind of, you know, and I think a lot of it has to do with Stefan Diggs going down.

You know,

it's just different when you got a couple guys that you have to game plan for, you know.

But they've been playing really well.

A team that's up on the rise that I really like is Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh has been playing some really, really good football.

So

I think the FC is kind of wide open right now.

I feel that.

Now that you're retired and you have so much knowledge of the game, I'm sure you've been tempted to sports bet.

I have.

I have.

And I've yet to do it.

But

actually on my way down here, I was thinking about it.

I'm like, you know what?

I need to go ahead and do like a sports bet, even if it's something simple, like $1,000 or a parlay or something.

I mean, you have a huge edge, you know?

Yeah, you know, uh, it was this guy that I played poker with, this Asian guy, old Asian guy, and he always used to pick my brain, you know, the past couple of years.

Hey, what team do you think are going to win?

And I would talk to him, yeah, because this, that, and other.

And, you know, different offensive lines match up with different defensive lines.

You never, it's just different depending on the team that you're playing and that player, right?

And that's real.

That's what it is.

And he used to come back and he used to come back week after week and ask ask and ask and ask.

And he was winning.

So I'm just like, you know what?

I think I need to go ahead and try my luck on it.

He needs to break you off on those, too.

For real.

Giving him the sauce.

Yeah.

Well, what's next for you, man?

You know, I don't know.

It's a lot that I can get into.

I got the gym down in Houston, O Athletic, in the Heights area, Houston, Texas.

You know,

I don't know.

I've thought about getting into broadcasting, but.

Big money there.

It's a lot of money there.

it's a lot of money there it's just for me it's more so like of the time and that that investment in in into it so you know i wouldn't want to do anything that would keep me away from seeing my kids play and this and another so that's kind of like a balance of a thing i'm trying to balance out or whatnot but uh i don't know you know i'm an entrepreneur i dibble and dabble a lot you know i'm into stocks i'm into a lot of different stuff too so you into crypto uh i no my brother is really big in crypto i i really i should have got into it i think what Bitcoin is up 97K.

97K today.

Your brother probably got in at like...

Yeah, he got in when it was a little, when it was probably about 15,

15, 20.

So he's winning right now.

7X.

Yeah.

See, my thing is, too, with that, like, even 15 and 20,

you still make some good money.

I like it when it's like.

$7

or, you know, like when you get it, when you're really getting it.

Yeah, you know, because I've had some opportunities where I got into some crude oil where it was like, like it was fluctuated.

It was $3, $2, $2.40 some cents.

This was like before COVID.

And

I ended up kind of doing my research and I found

a competitor of it.

You know, I can go to peers when you look up whatever.

And they kind of had the same trend where they was like $3, $2, or whatever, whatever.

And then

when I seen them, they had dropped down.

It happened right after

COVID happened.

Because they were consistent, $2, $3, whatever, whatever.

And they were down.

One of them was like 39 cents.

Whoa.

And one of them was like 40-some cents for oil.

Wow.

Yeah, cruel.

Yeah.

So I bought into it, right?

And

I put 50 in both of them.

I mean, like $2.3 million.

Holy crap.

Here's the crazy thing, though.

I waited.

I took some out before, but I waited after a full year because of tax purposes and all that.

But I made like

2-1.

Damn.

Like, it was stupid return because they shot back up four dollars, two dollars.

Wow, that was a no-brainer.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was, it was, I was like, you know what?

I think I like penny stocks more.

You know, it makes more sense.

Yeah, these days, you're not going to make a lot of Bitcoin.

Maybe a couple X multiple, but nothing like that.

Yeah, unless you, you know, you're a multi-millionaire and you can just go in there and buy, you know, a billion or whatever and buy so many shares and it double like that.

But I would encourage people to really look into the penny stocks where you're paying a couple dollars or 50 cents or whatever, whatever.

Within five or six months, you'll see your that money will flip so fast, you'll be like, what?

Especially with Trump and off, I feel like the stocks are going to be pumping.

Yeah, so I mean, I mean, I'm in my eyes open on that end as well.

But so, you know, I dibble and dabble in a lot of different things.

So we'll see.

We'll see what happens.

I love it.

Well, we'll link your gym below and your social media.

Thanks for coming on, man.

No problem.

Thanks for having me, bro.

Peace, guys.