BLAKE GRIFFIN | GOAT Debate, Donald Sterling, Retirement

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Speaker 31 Could have maybe dunked on Dr. J.
It's fun to think about it. Did you ever feel bad after a poster? No.
You never felt bad one time? Never. What if a guy's like wife was there?

Speaker 31 Shouldn't have been there. What if his mom just died or something? Well, that's sad.
Yeah. But I don't feel bad for the dunk.
I feel bad that he just lost the matriarch of his family.

Speaker 31 What if he cried?

Speaker 31 Has someone ever cried? I don't know, but Kendrick Bergens deleted his his Twitter after I dunked on him. That's like what I think that should be on my resume.
Yeah, somehow he's still

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He's back. Carry on.
Carry the hell on. Carry the hell on.
Well, look.

Speaker 32 Good evening, everybody. Welcome back to the Adam Friedland Show.
I'm Adam Friedland.

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Speaker 32 My guest this week is none other than former Los Angeles Clipper NBA superstar Blake Griffin. Now, folks, it should come as no surprise that I've never taken it to the rack.

Speaker 32 I've never caught a body at the rim. So, you know, it would be easy to focus on the things that differentiate myself from a guy like Blake.

Speaker 32 But in my research, I was taken aback by just how much we had in common. So without further ado, this.

Speaker 32 If you're a newer fan of the Adam Friedland Show, you know me as a public intellectual. But what you may not know is that at one time, I was a nightclub comedian.

Speaker 32 I used to spend my weekends on the road going town to town peddling jokes for adoring fans. But life on the road was lonely, and before long I turned to alcohol, drugs, even plus-size models.

Speaker 32 I was on a highway to hell. But then, one event woke me up.

Speaker 32 The second election of Donald John Trump. A tragedy that even my my substance-riddled brain found hard to comprehend.

Speaker 32 When I looked around at my peers, it seemed like more and more of them were bending the knee to fascism. As a lifelong Democrat, I no longer had a home in the world of comedy.
So I walked away.

Speaker 32 It's been eight months now.

Speaker 29 I got sober.

Speaker 32 I quit having sex. My new vice is the Adam Friedland Show, and celebrity interviews keep me high 40 hours a week.

Speaker 32 This week, my guest was Blake Griffin, who is both a world-class athlete and also a world-class comedian. While I'd be fine being dominated mono-e-mano by Mr.

Speaker 32 Griffin on the b-ball court, it would be an utter humiliation to get posterized by him in the sport of comedy.

Speaker 32 Preparing for an interview is a lot like preparing for a world championship game of hoops, so in order to get back in shape, I needed to get back in the gym.

Speaker 32 It was time for me to dust off the old microphone. In the biz, we call it a drop-in.
A famous comedian visits an open mic unannounced to test out new material.

Speaker 32 It had been a while since I'd been in an environment like this, and admittedly, self-doubt started to creep in. In my early years as a comedian, open mics were a second home for me.

Speaker 13 But maybe I've changed.

Speaker 32 Maybe I've become so comfortable around celebrities that I lost the ability to exist amongst nobodies and amateurs. I needed some liquid courage.

Speaker 32 So I relapsed on alcohol and had a handful of Long Island iced teas. Before I knew it, it was my time to grace the stage and show six-time NBA all-star Blake Griffin.
And I've still got it.

Speaker 35 We're going to have a little comedy, everybody. Let's get things started.
Can we get, let's get the comedy stylings of Adam Friedland, everybody.

Speaker 34 Give it up for Adam Friedland. Thanks, Fanny, me.
Woo!

Speaker 35 Guys, what a night.

Speaker 33 Give it up for everyone you've seen tonight.

Speaker 12 So Blake Griffin is on the Amazon NBA news show.

Speaker 33 Wouldn't it be funny to ask him if he thinks the workers should be paid a living wage? Do you think that would be good?

Speaker 31 I take it.

Speaker 5 Do you think the Clippers owner Steve

Speaker 33 Balmer ever made Blake Griffin use the Microsoft Surface Pro?

Speaker 34 Do you, sir?

Speaker 31 Okay, all right.

Speaker 15 I thank her for making me feel good.

Speaker 31 Lawyer, lawyer, sir, the question was, is this your handwriting?

Speaker 32 Another crush, like riding a bike. I only have one joke left, my big closer.
A joke I've been working on for years.

Speaker 32 And if I could get this joke to work, this would truly be one of the greatest stand-up comedy sets in all of history.

Speaker 33 All right, so I'm trying to come up with a title for my new book.

Speaker 33 I'm thinking my year of rest and and penaxation

Speaker 33 or my year of penis and relaxation

Speaker 33 or my penis of penis and

Speaker 10 penaxation.

Speaker 33 My round of applause, which one

Speaker 32 of those do you think is the best?

Speaker 32 My first bomb. I was destroyed.
Years of my life down the drain. I'm trying to come up with a title for my new book.
I'm thinking, Year of Rest and P-naxation. But then I realized something.

Speaker 32 There were probably days in Blake Griffin's career that he shot the basketball and it didn't go in. But he kept shooting and shooting and shooting.

Speaker 32 And that sort of tenacity led him to almost win the second round of the NBA playoffs multiple times. So if he never stopped shooting, neither would I.

Speaker 35 And thank you for talking about the twin flame.

Speaker 36 I don't know if you had your twin flame experience, but you'll be lucky to survive because that motherfucker will ride till the wheels fall off.

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Speaker 20 Fantastic.

Speaker 35 You know, you can have a backing track too.

Speaker 36 You can have a somber by the fireside vibe track if you want.

Speaker 35 All right, we're going to have some more comedy. Can we get Adam Friedland back up, everybody? Give it up for Adam Friedland again.
Give it up for Adam Friedland, everybody.

Speaker 33 You know, Delby.

Speaker 31 You remember more Corey?

Speaker 33 He's a you don't know me.

Speaker 31 So, anyway, guys, I'm thinking of a title for my new book.

Speaker 33 I'm thinking my year of rest and penaxation

Speaker 33 or my year of penis and relaxation

Speaker 33 or my penis of penis and penaxation.

Speaker 29 Ball game.

Speaker 12 That's how it's done, son.

Speaker 31 Mamba out.

Speaker 32 I was ready to interview Blake Griffin. After celebrating my victory with the fans, I headed off stage.
And I went home and attempted to have the best sex of my entire life.

Speaker 32 This is Adam Friedland signing off.

Speaker 31 Ladies and gentlemen, we have a very special host for the Adam Friedland Show this week. It's none other than Adam Friedland.
He stands 6'9, weighing 117 pounds from the University of Hogwarts.

Speaker 31 Power forward, Adam.

Speaker 31 You don't know me!

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Speaker 31 You don't know me!

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Speaker 31 Catch me outside! Yeah, how about that? How about duh?

Speaker 31 So that was a fun comedy bit. Blake came today.
You wanted to do some comedy bits. Yeah.

Speaker 31 I prepared one for you today. What do you think about this? Okay.
Jerry Maguire.

Speaker 31 No. Okay.
All right.

Speaker 31 Thanks for coming on the show. Yeah, thanks for having me.

Speaker 31 It's kind of weird. Like,

Speaker 31 it's just, it's strange for me because it's like, I don't know. It took,

Speaker 31 I guess we have to maximize the time that we have left. Like, it just took so long for us to find each other.
But, like, you never really find a twin flame.

Speaker 31 Like, you know, like, sometimes people go throughout life without finding like... Type shit.
Yeah, yeah, type shit. And it's like,

Speaker 31 I love this guy. We're like,

Speaker 31 we immediately bought it. We had a general meeting once, and my managers told me to pitch you on doing a sports podcast together.

Speaker 31 And I was like, you know, I could get Blue Chew.

Speaker 31 I could get like,

Speaker 31 I could get him.

Speaker 31 You know, this podcast thing is going big. And then I was like, career earnings, $261 million.

Speaker 31 And I was like,

Speaker 31 what gave me the right to even think that I was capable of doing that?

Speaker 31 Oh,

Speaker 31 I think you were well within your rights. Yeah.
Are we going to do it? This could be the pilot episode. Yeah, this could be.
I mean, I just introduced you. I know.
It kind of went okay.

Speaker 31 Are you sitting up all the way? I want to.

Speaker 31 Okay.

Speaker 31 It just feels like I'm.

Speaker 31 So, yeah. All right.

Speaker 31 So you're here for the Amazon upfronts? Yes.

Speaker 31 You're joining the studio crew of Amazon? I am. I'll be in studio and an in-studio analyst.
Uh-huh. And you have a crazy, wacky crew? Because you got to think about the comedy.

Speaker 31 Like, you have to, like, if you guys are coming for that number one spot right now, I know inside the NBA or go to ESPN. Is that correct? That's correct.

Speaker 31 So, like, you know, you guys have to see what sets you guys apart or something.

Speaker 31 I think, you know, chemistry,

Speaker 31 actual analysis.

Speaker 31 That's what people love, is the actual analysis on Inside the NBA. They're those guys.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 31 It's the best sports show on TV, I think. It's the best show on TV.

Speaker 31 I think it's the funniest show on TV. Marvelous Miss Mazel.
Marvelous Miss Mazel, shout out to Amazon, shout out to Bezos. The other shows on Amazon.
Yeah, yeah. The Boys.
The Boys. Yeah.

Speaker 31 Marvelous, did I say Marvelous Miss Masil? Miss Mazel, yeah.

Speaker 31 The Washington Post, of course, don't get me started on that. Another Bezos property.
Do you? Yeah, go ahead. Do I say one more? Yeah, yeah.
Mr. and Mrs.
Smith. Mr.
and Mrs. Smith.
Is that Amazon?

Speaker 31 Yeah, with Donald Glover. Donald Glover.
Yeah, childish. Yeah.
Gambino, yeah. I'd say he's a grown-up Gambino.

Speaker 31 That's really good. Weird.
We'll be right back. His hands are so big.
It's crazy. I feel like a lady.

Speaker 31 I have a question for you. Do you think that the people that work at Amazon factories should be paid a higher

Speaker 31 I don't know

Speaker 31 All right, so wait, so you were you were a younger brother? I am a younger brother. Yeah, Taylor was your brother.
Yeah, yeah, and he was a hooper too. He was a hooper.
He played you hard.

Speaker 31 Do you think that like got you league ready, kind of? Yeah. You think so? Having an older brother.
You just know all the terms. He's just really league ready?

Speaker 31 Yeah, I have high basketball IQ. League him.
Yeah, league him.

Speaker 31 League him. League him.
Yeah. Yeah, what's his name? Jimmer Fredett's older brothers used to make him go to the prison in their town to play.
Did you think Utah?

Speaker 31 No, I think he was from upstate New York, actually. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah.
But he played at BYU. Right.
They got him to play convicts. And yeah, I mean, like,

Speaker 31 it's so funny to imagine a Mormon kid where guys are like, hold my pocket.

Speaker 31 I imagine

Speaker 31 it's like

Speaker 31 there's zero pressure because it's, no, the most pressure because you want to miss every shot when you're playing against convicts. You don't want to go torch convicts.

Speaker 31 No, no, after what they did, I think that that's the least I could do. Is that they owe society a debt?

Speaker 31 You got to play this little white kid.

Speaker 31 And by the way, if he loses, you're in here forever. I can imagine

Speaker 31 no one's calling fouls.

Speaker 31 No, I don't think there are fouls in prison.

Speaker 31 Do you think there's a guy in the league that plays prison style? Pat Bev, kind of.

Speaker 31 Yeah, there's a very obvious one you're forgetting. Draymond.
There you go.

Speaker 31 Draymond. Yeah.
Draymond played prison style.

Speaker 31 I think now guys in prison are like, all right, guys, we're playing Draymond style.

Speaker 31 They're not like prison rules. They're like, we're playing Draymond rules.
There was a year where it was a little too much penis. If you remember.
He was just going penis every time. Oh, okay, yeah.

Speaker 31 Yeah, sorry.

Speaker 31 Yeah, well, he also. Well, his penis also should.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. His penis also could, yeah.
Which had happened? It was like his year of penis. That's crazy.
My year of rest and penis.

Speaker 31 My year of penis and relax. Okay, whatever.

Speaker 31 Wait.

Speaker 31 I went to WNBA semifinals with my girlfriend and her mom. How was that? At Barclays.
I got to say, energy-wise,

Speaker 31 Nets games can you play for the Nets, they can tend to be a little bit of the traveling fans sometimes. Yeah.

Speaker 31 Yeah, which is like a little bit, I'm sure as a player on the team, maybe annoying or frustrating. Yeah, we play the Knicks and it was like the quarter of the arena was Knicks fans.

Speaker 31 I went for a Lakers game there once, and it was just all Lakers fans. Lakers, Knicks, like Bulls travel pretty well.
They just haven't been like as good.

Speaker 31 Boston fan, actually Boston fans travel really well. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 31 Yeah, they love, I mean, they they love words, certain words.

Speaker 31 They love basketball.

Speaker 31 They like saying the word basketball. What else? Yeah.
Do you want to say them?

Speaker 31 Yeah.

Speaker 31 Bum ass.

Speaker 31 Bum ass. Bum.

Speaker 31 Bam. But when I went,

Speaker 31 my girlfriend and her mom, I guess they found this really not funny at all. But

Speaker 31 I was thinking for the dancers,

Speaker 31 they should have like just sexy guys. Oh, male dancers.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Just like huge like

Speaker 31 eggplant print. Yeah.
Yeah. And then they said, uh...
Gray sweatpants? They said, that's not funny, Adam. Like, and please stop.

Speaker 31 And I said, well, no one is, no one's made a shot in eight minutes, so my mind.

Speaker 31 I've had a lot of time to think.

Speaker 31 My mind has wandered.

Speaker 31 There's been a... I mean, but I will say, energy-wise, them gals were.

Speaker 31 People were really

Speaker 31 going for the liberty. Yeah, them gals, them gals.

Speaker 31 Them gals, yeah. We them gals.
We them gals, yeah. But they didn't like the sexy guy's idea.
I would kind of like, in another life,

Speaker 31 I mean, obviously, I'd like to be an NBA player, but like. I could see you being a WNBA husband.
Husband, yeah. That's what, like, just dress like a, get a BBL.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 31 Wear fashion Nova. Yeah.
Just be an absolute slut, course.

Speaker 31 Fashion Nova. Huge glasses.
My, yeah, my wife Griner. Yeah.

Speaker 31 Yeah. Be taking BG.
Yeah.

Speaker 31 I could see you being like the one where like there's a little scrap on the court and you stand up. Yeah, yeah.
Come on. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Get her.
Get her. Get her.

Speaker 14 Expose her.

Speaker 31 You're taking off fake earrings.

Speaker 31 Don't make me get it.

Speaker 31 Hold my baby. Hold my baby.

Speaker 31 I get pregnant.

Speaker 31 I get pregnant. I'm like a male seahorse.
I'm a WNBA basketball husband.

Speaker 31 I'm a seahorse.

Speaker 31 I don't know. It seems like it could fit you.
Yeah. I mean,

Speaker 31 what was your...

Speaker 31 are you, like, officially the best NBA rookie of all time? Do you think you hold that title? Maybe. Maybe, maybe.
Maybe.

Speaker 31 I think so. I think maybe the last unanimous rookie of the year.
Yeah. It was an all-star my rookie year.

Speaker 31 And previous to that, it was Yao Ming and Tim Duncan. Yao Ming, fan vote, China, a lot of people.
We're actually transitioning pro-CCP on this show. Oh, really?

Speaker 31 Yeah, I think you got to read the tea leaves. And what exactly do you have to do to transition to that? I just think that what they're doing over there is fire.

Speaker 31 I saw when I show Speed went over there.

Speaker 31 He was having a lot of fun. Type shit.
They have flying cars. Type shit.
You know, we got this guy over here type shit. Type shit.
This type shit guy over here. That's my new favorite type shit.

Speaker 31 Type shit. You know what I'm saying? Type shit.
You're trying to get back in the league. You're trying to chill with those 19-year-olds.
Yeah, you know. You want to hang with the Thompson twins.
Yeah.

Speaker 31 Yeah. Yeah, type shit.
Amen. Amon.
And Osser. Them boys can play.
Man, them boys. Them boys can play.
Them boys. Them gals play.
The

Speaker 31 Asura, he had like that game again, the Brunson game,

Speaker 31 that entire fourth quarter he had like, he had the straps. Clamps.
The clamps. He had him on an island.
He was Derrell Regis. Yeah.
And then like Brunson getting him right at the end,

Speaker 31 it was such a moment.

Speaker 31 Brunson's so good. He's so good.

Speaker 31 He's so good. He's a coach's son? He is a coach's son.
Your dad played ball? My dad played, yeah, college basketball. And your mom went to Hokie too?

Speaker 31 I don't know what hokey is. What is a hokey? Hokey? Virginia Tech hokies?

Speaker 31 What are you guys called? Sooners? Sooners, yeah. Because it's all Greek to me.
In 1889, there was a land run for the territory that became known as Oklahoma. All right.
And the people. Sorry.

Speaker 31 Sorry, fast. We don't have much faster.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 31 So the Sooners were the people who just, they went early. They cheated.
Oh, they went early. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 31 But hokies are cool. Okay.

Speaker 31 Sorry. Sorry, I didn't mean to call you hokeies.
I don't know what the freaking nicknames are. Read the cards.
How many Republicans are in the NBA? All of them, 17. 17.
17? Yeah.

Speaker 31 Who's Jimmy Buckets? Probably. Probably.
I don't know. I kind of feel like he's got a little Republican

Speaker 31 pub vibes. He's a little bit like pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
I was an orphan. Yeah.
Yeah. Has the demographic changed in the NBA? Like, did you notice that? Still mostly black.

Speaker 31 It's got chops, actually. No, like,

Speaker 31 I remember when Kobe was like a rookie, there was an understanding that he was a little bit of a pariah because he grew up like upper middle class, you know. And

Speaker 31 nowadays, it seems like it's kind of like a very much a middle-class, upper-middle-class league.

Speaker 31 Is that fair? Maybe. There's a lot of, like, there, I mean, think about it.
There's a lot of guys that are former NBA players, like, sons. Sons of NBA players.
It's like Hollywood. Yeah.

Speaker 31 It's like Nepos. There's a lot of nepotism.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 31 But does AAU cost a lot of money? Is that right? Not really, no. And

Speaker 31 you get free stuff. They pay for travel.

Speaker 31 They give you shoes.

Speaker 31 How much stuff did you get before you went to the league?

Speaker 31 I don't think I bought a... I haven't bought a pair of basketball shoes.
Sorry, it's a little bit of a brag. I haven't bought a pair of basketball shoes since I was probably like 13.

Speaker 31 I'll get you to get that. That's not a good flex, dude.
What's the word? Well, you were just asking about before

Speaker 31 when you had

Speaker 31 pre-NIL. Pre-NIL.
Oh, you were just getting like free stuff like just shoes and gear and stuff LeBron had an escalate in high school yeah well I wasn't LeBron

Speaker 31 still not

Speaker 31 why you would

Speaker 31 sorry about that no it's fine he was your was he your goat growing up I loved LeBron like I mean he he got into the league what 04 so I was like I was in high school still yeah he's still playing as of

Speaker 31 I was in high school when he came in I went to college I played for 14 years I retired and he's still playing why can't we

Speaker 31 Why aren't people like appreciating it more? I think people are. People constantly are talking about what he's doing at age 40.
People are talking about,

Speaker 31 and I think this is like segueing back to you being now an NBA of media, right? But like, it seems like it's gotten a little wacky this year. Like,

Speaker 31 like, Stephen A is threatening to have, he's threatening to fight LeBron. Like, it's like a little bit like, can we just, he's 24, 8 and 8, and he's 40.
He's 22 years at the lead.

Speaker 31 What he's doing at age 40 is insane. There's no reason for him to actually retire at this point.

Speaker 31 I think the problem is that, like, when it's like a guy that's up for like the goat debate, it's like you really like you want him to like contend for championships every year.

Speaker 31 The Lakers or Australia just wasn't, they weren't good enough. They truly weren't good enough.
He's 40. I know, but I'm just saying the goat debate, that's the burden that he has to carry.

Speaker 31 They had three guys on the team. They had Rui.
I guess Rui. They had four.

Speaker 31 Austin Reeves.

Speaker 31 Lil Bro. Lil Bruh.
Lil

Speaker 31 Hokey. Or Sooner.
Sooner.

Speaker 31 You got annoyed when I asked you about Austin.

Speaker 31 I was like, do you like look out for him as the Sooners?

Speaker 31 And you were like, he was a transfer, dude. What am I supposed to fucking do? He was there for one year.
It's like,

Speaker 31 look out for yourself, dude. I got a lot of shit to worry about.
Who is your baby bro? Did you have baby bros? Baby bruh. In the league.
Yeah, I got my young boys. Who are you? Like, who are you?

Speaker 31 Who's the fan? Do you like call them and stuff and say, like, yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah get your head right yeah hey hey lock in lock in yeah type shit yeah type shit lock in type shit lock in type

Speaker 31 keep killing type shit stay healthy fam type who are who are your baby boys my baby bruhs for life um you know my young guys like bruce brown i played with in detroit that's like that's my guy peyton critchard grant williams you know it's like the guys the young guys that you play with uh as an older player you just become like you become uh you become og and stuff and then you see a little something in them yeah you see some yeah yeah and they've all they've all like kind of thrived yeah i mean mostly because of my you know from what you told them yeah what did you tell them like you took them on a drive or something yeah i said hey get in get in and we just i would just go somewhere yeah yeah

Speaker 31 what kind of car like a 57 chef you kind of like like kind of like a distant dad yeah like after the divorce but you come back and you have a cool car so that people are like dad's is awesome like the car that denzel washington drove in um uh training Day.

Speaker 31 Mm-hmm. Exactly.

Speaker 31 Yeah. And I would usually get away from that.
And then you make them get way.

Speaker 31 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 31 You make them get away.

Speaker 31 King Kong.

Speaker 31 Shit on me.

Speaker 31 Jake. Yeah.
They're like, what are you doing? That's good.

Speaker 31 Thanks. I've been working on impressions.

Speaker 31 You should watch season four of Eastbound to get in the mindset of NBA being a sports pundit media. Season four of Eastbound and Down? Yeah.
Because that's when he joins the show, and then

Speaker 31 he gets his juice. Yeah.
He gets his his salt. He gets his juice back.

Speaker 31 He gets his type shit.

Speaker 31 I would love if we could just splice together all the type shits.

Speaker 31 He could get his type shit.

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Speaker 31 is there been a guy that just like right before a game has has to say a big one right crap right yeah for sure and then they don't wipe properly like like a pat bev style defender and like can you imagine like how annoying it would be if pat bev just like smelled he like smelled like poop i can imagine can you imagine it would it would be equally like uh as insane yeah it's tough sometimes like got you know like somebody somebody's got a little odor to them you know and and and guarding especially in the post one time i'm not gonna say who but a guy had dreadlocks and I'm guarding him in the post and he kind of banged and the dreadlocks just just engulfed my face yeah it smelled like marijuana came back now worse than that it smelled like what I imagined Willie Nelson's braid smell like without it smell like it's so you smell like a hobo and it's yeah it just was it was we actually don't say that we say unhomed unhoused unhoused well unhomed unhomed yeah yeah yeah yeah

Speaker 31 homeless homeless yeah less less than a home have you

Speaker 31 like uh who is it? It's not DJ. That's your boy.
No, I'm not going to. I just said I'm not going to say that.
It was Kenneth Freed. It was Kenneth Freed.

Speaker 31 Was it Kenneth Marie?

Speaker 31 Was it Kenneth Marie? Wow.

Speaker 31 Shout out Kenneth Freed, though. The Manimal.
Shout out the Manimal. There's seems to be friction between the eras right now.
I think it's because

Speaker 31 this

Speaker 31 Stephen A thing is kind of ushered in.

Speaker 31 Like to me, it's like if you look at the, just the,

Speaker 31 it's 22 years in. Like, it's, it's like, it's kind of hard to to say anyone's better at basketball than LeBron James is, ever.

Speaker 31 I think, for me, a little bit. Like, and I think that also when I've, I've been watching basketball my whole life.
Like, it just seems like they're so good. They're so fucking good right now.

Speaker 31 And it's just like, instead of like debating eras, just be like, like, why can't people just appreciate just how good people are at basketball now? I agree.

Speaker 31 say that a lot. I think sometimes we get too into the weeds and like debating like this guy, this guy, trying to break them down.
When it's like, just appreciate how good he is and what he's doing.

Speaker 31 When somebody's done playing, then you can sort of like step back and analyze their whole career. My whole thing with the GOAT debate is

Speaker 31 athletes get judged off winning, right? Like Michael Jordan won better than anybody. I don't judge them off winning.
You know what I mean? I don't judge anyone.

Speaker 31 If they don't go to the finals, I think they're still a good guy. Yeah, I mean, I never won, but

Speaker 31 I know, but it's fun.

Speaker 31 No, but you're still nice at ball.

Speaker 31 Type shit. Type shit.
See? Thanks. So do you think he's the best player of all time?

Speaker 31 Okay, I'm a Laker fan, but to be honest with you, I'm a Kobe fan, right?

Speaker 31 And I will say, when we won in the bubble, I thought it was...

Speaker 31 I looked inside my soul. I was like, it does feel a little bit different.
But I still think he's the best basketball player of all time.

Speaker 31 I think that it might be... Do you think that maybe a little bit

Speaker 31 Michael Jordan might just be a little bit bored? And maybe they took the team away. Maybe he's a little bit...

Speaker 31 and then uh he's just he's just a little bit what has he been saying things i don't i think that it maybe through stephen a it seems like maybe he's just been torturing this guy that's his puppet i think he's i think a little bit like he's been torturing this guy for 22 years

Speaker 31 no well jordan jordan he won't talk to him he wore 23 that's so mean

Speaker 31 it's really mean he does talk to him no he's they don't have a like a relationship that doesn't mean they don't they've never spoken Michael Jordan was an owner for the majority of LeBron's crew.

Speaker 31 Hell of an owner, too. Oh,

Speaker 31 one of the best. Should we buy a team? That'd be great.
How much money do you have?

Speaker 31 WNBA money, maybe? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 31 We should buy a WNBA team. Yeah.
Then we can implement the mint.

Speaker 31 Then we have

Speaker 31 the big dicks.

Speaker 31 Your words, not mine.

Speaker 31 The gray sweatpants. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Gray Sweatpant Boy.

Speaker 31 I'm dressed like a hoe.

Speaker 31 All the girls are my girlfriend. That would drive female viewership and attendance.
Which is

Speaker 31 one of the most important things for the WNBA, female support.

Speaker 31 What has

Speaker 31 not playing basketball been like?

Speaker 31 Just kind of, you know.

Speaker 31 It's been nice to have a, you know, transition to a different part of my life. You did one thing so much, right? You did it.
And

Speaker 31 to get to the level you were at, I mean, it was, you it was your entire life at a certain point.

Speaker 31 Yeah, it was, but I also had things to step into. I had I had like other projects going on outside of basketball that I just kind of like stepped right into that.
And that helps.

Speaker 31 That helps that transition.

Speaker 31 When you haven't figured out what you want to do after basketball and you retire, I've kind of seen it. And guys are kind of, it's a little bit shell-shocked, right? They're like, well, what now?

Speaker 31 Do you guys get depressed?

Speaker 31 I would imagine, yeah, some have that.

Speaker 31 Their entire identity, like you said, for your whole life, whole life,

Speaker 31 is like, it's no longer there. It's no longer taken away.
But it also helps when you retire on your own terms. Like, some guys get phased out.
Some guys, like, they want to still play.

Speaker 31 And then they keep trying to get 10-day contracts and stuff. Mellow kind of got that treatment.

Speaker 31 A little bit, yeah, but he still got onto teams. He had that fun Portland situation.
I mean, he was Oklahoma City,

Speaker 31 Houston,

Speaker 31 Lakers, Portland. Is he the coolest guy? Mill is awesome.
Who's the coolest guy?

Speaker 31 Jamal.

Speaker 31 Well, first of all,

Speaker 31 as a Christian man, God. God.
God won. God won Jesus two.
Martin Luther King. Abraham III, Martin Luther King four.
Gandhi. Gandhi seven.

Speaker 31 Gandhi's not in my top five.

Speaker 31 And that might be controversial. Abraham Lincoln, JFK,

Speaker 31 Obama. Obama, type shit.
I mean, listen. Tell us a little bit about this.
Muhammad Ali.

Speaker 31 Tell us a little bit about this. What do all these men have in common? Tell us about, yeah.
So you made this shirt. I didn't make that shirt.
Why would you make this shirt?

Speaker 31 It's a little bit cringe, Lord. A little bit, no?

Speaker 31 You know,

Speaker 31 I just wanted people to know what type of stuff I'm doing. When you walked in for that meeting, did you laugh?

Speaker 31 I definitely saw this shirt and I I was like what the fuck are they doing was that Wallmer did that

Speaker 31 that was like my free agency meeting 2017 he's like we're gonna make this shirt here's a free surface pro

Speaker 31 yeah

Speaker 31 here's a surface cool he's like I'm sweating I actually threw my shirt I photoshopped that on the surface pro you yeah I made this on a surface pro

Speaker 31 what was that transition of ownership like because you guys were like a really good team right yeah we were and then you had this drama and normally the drama is like they want to make narratives in the locker room, but the drama was out.

Speaker 31 I mean, the drama actually.

Speaker 31 Was the drama also in the.

Speaker 31 In the locker room? Well,

Speaker 31 didn't it come out that he was like bringing like other weird, like gargoyle rich people in to look at the beautiful, the beautiful bodies?

Speaker 31 Yeah, he would come in with like his crew of, you know, it'd be like 10, 12 people with him, and they'd come to the locker room. Like, we'd all have like towels on.

Speaker 31 One time after a game, he

Speaker 31 came up and he was like,

Speaker 31 I'm going to towel. He comes over and grabs my arm and he's got all his people in there and he goes, let's hear it for our number one star, hip hip.

Speaker 31 And he raised my arm and everybody, all his people go, hooray. And I'm standing there like holding a towel going like,

Speaker 31 hip hip, hooray. He did it three times.
Hip hip, hooray. And I was like,

Speaker 31 and they're all like 75 years old.

Speaker 31 I mean, some of the like, uh, I mean, did you meet the V? Oh, yeah. V Stiv? V.
V-stivian. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I know V.

Speaker 31 Apparently you called her your silly rabbit? Yeah my silly little rabbit. He called her

Speaker 31 wabbit. My wascal wabbit.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 31 It was like,

Speaker 31 how are you guys responding to that in the locker room? Was that stressful or was it like... You just kind of like laugh it off.
You're like, that was nuts. Yeah.

Speaker 31 They're like, we got this Sneak old guy that owns the team.

Speaker 31 Yeah. He keeps calling me his precious.

Speaker 31 He's like, welcome to the locker room. This is Deborah Jewish.
This is Maurice Trimendal.

Speaker 31 We're going to have one of them. we're going to have a freak off with DeAndre Jordan.

Speaker 31 This is the point God, Chris Paul.

Speaker 31 Yeah, he would, one time at one of his white parties I had to go to, like right when I got drafted, he would walk.

Speaker 31 They let you win. Yeah, oh, sorry.
We used to dress white, white clothes, yeah.

Speaker 31 And he kept saying, like, his mom, no, his mom's white, his mom's white.

Speaker 31 His mom's white. That's fine.
And he would like, he would have people like, he was like,

Speaker 31 feel his stomach, feel his abs, feel his arms.

Speaker 31 That's hard.

Speaker 31 That was like 19 years ago. You were at work.
Yeah. I mean, that's your boss.
Yeah. That's boss, man.
That's your boss. My boss.
That was your boss.

Speaker 31 And your boss was making like a...

Speaker 31 My boss was touching me. Your boss? You got touched by your boss? My boss was touching me.
That's not, that's bad behavior. He was like grabbing my arm.

Speaker 31 He's like, if Matt Lawa gets away with it, so can I.

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Speaker 31 You wanted to do a comedy bit

Speaker 31 today on the show, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
So I wrote a little script. Okay.

Speaker 31 Cool.

Speaker 31 Your

Speaker 31 role is lawyer. Okay.
Okay.

Speaker 31 So we'll do a little table read. Okay.
Great.

Speaker 31 Great. You're playing the defendant? I'm the defendant.
Okay.

Speaker 31 The, I mean, character note, I'm like, really cool. I'm one of the coolest coolest guys.
Yeah, super rich. Well, I fool around sometimes.
I do.

Speaker 31 When a girl seduces me and tells me all of these hot stories and dirty things and tells me how she wants to suck on me and takes my shoes off and licks me

Speaker 31 and licks on my feet and touches me when I'm in all, when I'm in a limousine, she takes off all her clothes and the limo driver said, what is going on?

Speaker 31 And she started sucking on me on her way to mr coon's house and i thank her i thank her for making me feel good sir the question was is this your handwriting all right that's seen guys that's seen

Speaker 31 thank you did you watch the show they made about it i tried to i watched like 15 minutes and who'd they get to play you channing tatum would be good yeah they didn't get channing tatum he was technically unavailable you were kind of a channing tatum type a little bit thanks man a little bit of 6ix9ine channing tatum so thanks yeah

Speaker 31 I don't know the guy's name, but he was.

Speaker 31 It seemed like he did his audition, and they were like, well, I mean, I guess we could just dye his hair red. Yeah.

Speaker 31 And that was like, that was it for the audition process. If you had to have a guy play you in a movie in a movie, have you ever thought about who you'd want?

Speaker 31 Yeah, probably Alec Baldwin. Yeah.

Speaker 31 Makes sense. You do have a bald.
I got bald. I have like Baldwin.
Baldwin energy. Vibes, yeah, energy.
Boom, boom. Yeah.

Speaker 31 No, sorry.

Speaker 31 The shooter.

Speaker 31 Shane Tatum, that'd be awesome, man. Thanks for saying that.

Speaker 31 You kind of did it. Am I wrong? No, you can't.
I would love to see him step up to the streets, this guy. Yeah, step up too.

Speaker 31 We got, actually, both Camro Ops and our boy Thomas in there, you're all L.A. boys?

Speaker 31 Nice. Yeah.
What parts? Should we talk about it? Huh? Ventura. Oh, Ventura.
Ventucky. Ventucky.
Ever heard of Santa Monica? Santa Monica. Oh, Santa Monica.
Yeah.

Speaker 31 Marina Del Rey.

Speaker 31 Nice.

Speaker 31 Cali Boys.

Speaker 31 Lacomston. Lakersfit.
Lakers. Lakers, yeah.
Lakers. Everybody's a Lakers fan.

Speaker 31 Could you, I mean, I think it's been a long time coming. Like, would you apologize to Powell for like...

Speaker 31 All those offensive fouls? That's the whole thing. It was an offensive foul.

Speaker 31 First of all, all, the tip dunk was not an offensive foul. That one was the other one.
That one was rude.

Speaker 31 I kind of got a forearm to the face.

Speaker 31 That was rude. It wasn't rude.
I'm a rude one. You know, he's a doctor in Spain.
You know that. Wow, I didn't know that.
I think so. Dr.
Gasol? I think I made that up. Like a podiatrist?

Speaker 31 Oh, he loved feet. He loved feet.
That boy loved feet. I love pal.

Speaker 31 Who was your mentor in the league?

Speaker 31 Who looked out for you? Who looked out for me?

Speaker 31 Did you talk to Kobe ever? Oh yeah. Yeah,

Speaker 31 Kobe was awesome. So

Speaker 31 my first year, I was hurt my whole first year. Yeah.
And I was doing rehab with this PT, this really great PT, and that was like Kobe's lady. Her name was Judy Sato.
And I would be in there every day.

Speaker 31 And I remember the first day that I really truly met Kobe and sat and talked to him for a while.

Speaker 31 I'm in the PT clinic sitting there and I'm, you know, you got heat and ice on your knee to start and do all this stuff.

Speaker 31 And I'm sitting there and I kind of like look up and like the place got like eerily quiet. I was like, what's going on? And I look over and Kobe was like standing at the entrance.
I was like, oh.

Speaker 31 In LA, or just in the world, but in LA especially, Kobe was like a lit, like when you saw him, it was like people, it got quiet.

Speaker 31 He's our favorite guy ever.

Speaker 31 Bob Dylan Kobe is

Speaker 31 Woody, maybe.

Speaker 31 Harrelson?

Speaker 31 Oh, Woody from Toy Story.

Speaker 31 Woody Allen. Oh, Woody Allen.
Take this seriously, dude. I am.
He meant a lot to us and the whole city and the Filipino community. Woody Allen?

Speaker 31 Woody Allen.

Speaker 31 He meant a lot to the... In China, they go crazy.
Yeah, they go crazy. The Mexicans, they love him.

Speaker 31 They love Kobe.

Speaker 31 Lakers. Lakers.
The Lakers. The Lakers play the Doyers later.
They play the Doyers. Yeah.

Speaker 31 They play those Doyers. Yeah.

Speaker 31 The hot dog guys, those guys, those are chillers. The hot dogs? The guys that sell the hot the bacon wrap hot dogs.
Oh, I see. I usually would pull into Staples Center.
Oh, you go first class?

Speaker 31 You ever been to a game and balleted?

Speaker 31 Yeah, I did.

Speaker 31 Yeah, for the girls. Oh, you did? Yeah, yeah.
Did you ballet when you went to the Liberty game? Yeah, they paid me to go. Nice.

Speaker 31 They put you up on the Jumbotron? Yeah,

Speaker 31 all I had to do was, I don't know, Brittany Griner put a rag on my face, I passed out.

Speaker 31 All I had to do was just go to Russia and be in jail for a while. And

Speaker 31 in your life,

Speaker 31 they traded that arms dealer for Britney. The merchant of death.

Speaker 31 Yeah, the merchant, yeah, the guy from The Lord of War. Yeah, The Lord of War.
Have you seen that movie? Nick Cage? Yeah.

Speaker 31 You want a transition acting? You should.

Speaker 31 Maybe a little bit here and there. Yeah? Yeah, I dabble.

Speaker 31 I can write a movie for you.

Speaker 31 What's the premise?

Speaker 31 You play a referee? Ooh. Yeah.
That's the twist. It gets caught up in a game.
So we have to get guys that are like seven, eight, so you look short, right? Who's your least favorite?

Speaker 31 My least favorite ref. Yeah, Tony Brothers?

Speaker 31 No, Tony, we have a love-hate relationship. Tony's great.
Scott hates

Speaker 31 Chris, right?

Speaker 31 I don't know. There's something going on, I guess, there.

Speaker 31 I actually like Chris.

Speaker 31 You like Scott? Yeah, he's not a bad guy. He gave you a couple tips.
Yeah, he's like, a couple picks. Shoot it, I won't call it.

Speaker 31 People all speculate about that since Tim Donaghy, right?

Speaker 31 Like,

Speaker 31 what was your impression about being on the court? Like, is this like, because sometimes it feels so arbitrary, right? There are makeup calls, obviously. There's makeup calls.

Speaker 31 I will say this, like, refinging an NBA game has to be incredibly difficult. Like, we're moving at a very fast pace, and it's like, you're having to decide between, okay, was that contact enough?

Speaker 31 Which is so, like, it's so subjective. They could beat you up, too.
Yeah. They're the jocks.
They're the jocks. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 31 And, like, bigger guys don't get as many foul calls as, like, the thinner, smaller guys. Were there any refs that like just wanted to, like, you had to be like, yeah, we'll chill later.

Speaker 31 Like, the Nick Kroll skid. Yeah, like, you can come to fucking one oak with me.

Speaker 31 I got table service, dog. What are we doing tonight? Uh, I don't know, probably hanging with Bezos or something.
Can we do like a. I really wanted to just...

Speaker 31 My favorite picture of anything ever taken ever is just Jaw in

Speaker 31 that VIP where he's just like

Speaker 31 this by himself. There's bands everywhere.
Yeah. And he's getting a solitary lap dance.
I like to imagine there was no music playing.

Speaker 31 I like to imagine it was silent.

Speaker 31 So what are your goals? What are your dreams? What are your aspirations? Yeah, have you ever met Drake before?

Speaker 31 I went to Magic City. I was at a wedding in Atlanta.
I went to Magic City, and I was like, I was wasted. I was being so obnoxious.
I was like, have you met Future?

Speaker 31 They're like, yeah, he's really nice. I was like, that's awesome.
Yeah, all those guys.

Speaker 31 I've actually never been to Magic City. It was a dream.

Speaker 31 I kept saying to my friend Jason, I was like, this is everything we've ever dreamed of.

Speaker 31 It surpassed your expectations. The first six songs had the words Magic City in them.
Yeah. It's a tiny place, right? It's tiny.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 31 I got the Lou Will Wings. Yeah, the Lou Will.
Lemon Pepper Luz. The Lemon Pepper Lou's.

Speaker 31 I heard for a while, like, that, like, Magic City, like, if rapper, local rappers got their song played at Magic City, like, that's how they took off. It was like so much more than just a show.

Speaker 31 They would go from the studio to Magic and see if the girls danced. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 31 That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool.
Yeah. That is pretty cool.
It's a culture shifter. Should we just skip Amazon up fronts and just fly to Atlanta? Just bang Lou's line.
Ask him where he is.

Speaker 31 I,

Speaker 31 what is what is having $261 million in like what is that?

Speaker 31 It's so much money. You have so much money.

Speaker 31 Thanks, man. I didn't know we were going to talk about this.

Speaker 31 Do you think about it? Like, it's so much money. From time to time, yeah.

Speaker 31 What do you do even with it?

Speaker 31 Well, first of all, 10% goes to the Lord. That's tithing.
Tithing, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 31 10% Israel. You invest in the community.
Community? Yeah. What did you buy? Boys and girls? Club? Club? Yeah.
Club?

Speaker 31 You can't say that and not put the club part. I like to pause.
Yeah, boys and girls. Pause.
Club. Club.

Speaker 31 Yeah, you know,

Speaker 31 you try to be a good steward of money.

Speaker 31 You have an organization for the kids? I do have one for the kids. What's it called? It's called Team Griffin.
Team Griffin? Yeah. What do you do with it?

Speaker 31 Team Griffin Foundation goes to support at-risk youth

Speaker 31 in Oklahoma, I did it in LA, I did it in Detroit.

Speaker 31 Wherever I played, I tried to invest in the community. But you use it as a scouting kind of thing?

Speaker 31 Yeah, it's all just like scouting to see who's, you know, who's got that next like league him type stuff. I was talking to my agent.

Speaker 31 He said that the sports department has been thrown into chaos with this NIL thing. Yeah, NIL is crazy.
Because he said that being a sports agent used to be this glamorous position.

Speaker 31 Like you'd go down to Bama. You'd be like, you know, you'd be hooking up with sorority girls.
You'd be like chilling with like the number one running back in the draft. Yeah.

Speaker 31 And he said now that they're like in like Iowa paying off like a corrupt uncle like of an 11-year-old. Yeah.
He said they're like professional pedophiles now. They're boy hunters now.

Speaker 31 I had this thought that like the scouts are like the only it's the only profession that you can go watch children exercise and it's completely okay. I have all these tapes of boys.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 31 I have a whole document and I just describe the boys and how they move and how they play. Did your mom know Skip?

Speaker 31 Skip? She didn't know him. College? No, high school.
They went to the same high school, but she didn't really know him. Was he a dickhead too? I don't know.

Speaker 31 I mean, she didn't really go to the JV basketball games.

Speaker 31 Come on now. Come on now.

Speaker 31 Skip. You know what I'm saying? Skip.
One of my favorite things ever is Shannon Sharp going from having Skip Bayless as a co-host to Stephen A. Smith, and he can't say either of their names correctly.

Speaker 31 Come on, Skip. Come on, Skip.
Come on, Skip. This has been my time on this show, and now I'm going to be with Stephen A.
Smith. Sucker with Sucker Tash.

Speaker 31 With Skip.

Speaker 31 I say this, Skip.

Speaker 31 Have you reached out to Unc? I think he's having a rough time right now. I have heard that, but I haven't talked to him, you know.
I don't think I've ever even met him. Really? Never mind.

Speaker 31 We have to chill with Unk. I mean, Thandon Thorpe is.

Speaker 31 We have to chill with Thorpe. Come on, Skip.
Come on, Skip. His name is also Thandon Thorpe.
Yeah. He can't even say his own damn name.

Speaker 31 I switched over from Foxport to EFPN, so I went from Skip to Thanning.

Speaker 31 The weirdest part of that, like when he leaked the first scandal, was when he leaked on live noises of his sex. Yeah, that was crazy.

Speaker 31 But the under-reported part was at the beginning, you hear him whisper in the girl's ear,

Speaker 31 what was her name?

Speaker 31 Jessica? Was it my Jessica?

Speaker 31 Yeah, yeah. But he goes, You think this again?

Speaker 31 He's unknown. I mean, he's unknown Club Sheche? Club Shea T.
I have to go on Club Sheche one day. You will.
I have to go on Club Sheche and tell them about all the free coughs at Sterlings.

Speaker 31 My friend said that they said he picked Larae for him in the locker room. He's my best friend.
From the horse's mouth. He was in a towel.

Speaker 31 And Deborah Jewish was looking at his ass.

Speaker 31 Mordecai. Deborah, Mordecai met, yeah, Heshy Teschewitz.
I'm Heshi Teshewitz. I'm friends with Donald.

Speaker 31 I think you had a great game. He made a game.
Oh, I'm proud to be in here.

Speaker 31 What was like

Speaker 31 that, those Clippers teams, like, you guys had, like, what was your rough as L?

Speaker 31 Probably when we were up by 20 on Houston. We were also up 3-2 in the series.
And that was without Hardin, right? Harden was out?

Speaker 31 Well, no, he played that game and then he checked out with like two minutes, I think, in the third quarter. And Josh Smith and Corey Brewer went ballistic.
And he went to Magic?

Speaker 31 Yeah,

Speaker 31 I think he stayed through it. He went straight to Magic.
Yeah.

Speaker 31 Yeah, that was tough.

Speaker 31 You hit that crazy shot in that one, too. A little spinny? Yeah.

Speaker 31 Yeah. That's kind of what it turned.

Speaker 31 You kind of angered God a little bit, no? Yeah, the best. I think that was the end of the third quarter, you did that insane circuit shot.
So you're trying to put all of the blame on me.

Speaker 31 just, I was just talking about the biggest L, the worst L of my life, and you just, you basically. I'm talking about God, the basketball God, who's in my, who's the, you know.

Speaker 31 Oh, we're talking about, I thought you were talking about the basketball goddamn. Yeah, we're talking about the basketball god, not.
That was game six, right? That was game six at home, yeah.

Speaker 31 And then we lost that game, and then we went to Houston, lost game seven. What do you feel like after it?

Speaker 31 Awful. It feels terrible.
Yeah, terrible. Really? But then you still have one game.
You're like, all right, we go win it on the road. Didn't win it on the road.

Speaker 31 How do you like, you have to just, well, I I guess you had another game that you had to get ready for yeah what's like what's like

Speaker 31 like a playoff exit though like does that linger yeah it's it's also crazy because like you the whole season right and then the playoffs so you're used to like every single day you have practice you have games you have this this this you lose in the playoffs and it's just like

Speaker 31 well yeah you're just done no no more practice nothing do you go in for exit interviews the next day and then you just go home and you're like

Speaker 31 okay

Speaker 31 stand up.

Speaker 31 What did we learn? What did we learn this year?

Speaker 31 It's tough. It's tough.
It's fun. Yeah.

Speaker 31 What team do you think was the best team

Speaker 31 you ever played on?

Speaker 31 Probably that team or Brooklyn, my first year, Katie, Kyrie, James. Yeah.
To me, that was like...

Speaker 31 I really wanted... Because I think I read somewhere that

Speaker 31 Kyrie is the best at making

Speaker 31 things look incredibly hard and like like doing things that look incredibly hard and KD is the best at making things that making everything look incredibly easy right

Speaker 31 they're like the two sides of like basketball genius I would say that Kyrie makes really hard things look

Speaker 31 like impossible things possible right yeah I wouldn't say he makes it look hard KD makes the it's so I mean he's just so unaffected by defense

Speaker 31 is that the toe that was the Brooklyn that was the I was at the blowout at i was at the blowout game game one was that game one yeah game one i was there

Speaker 31 yeah yeah i had a i had a yeah i was like you look great

Speaker 31 you look great you're wearing your basket your basket jerseys

Speaker 31 that was um

Speaker 31 that playoffs was like the first time fans came back in the arena they were doing the countdown on on yanni too yeah it's just free those in the nba came out and said the arenas aren't allowed to do that

Speaker 31 It's bullshit.

Speaker 31 We're not allowed to count. Yeah.
My favorite thing in the world is to count.

Speaker 31 I love to count. Do you think the count from Sesame Street was Jewish-coated?

Speaker 31 Yeah.

Speaker 31 Probably.

Speaker 31 Thank you.

Speaker 31 I mean, in evaluating what you do with the rest of your life,

Speaker 31 like, you know,

Speaker 31 You were a competitor at the highest level, right? So the element of competition being present in your life, does does that feel like something, like, feel like something that you like miss?

Speaker 31 Like, do guys gamble a lot after the league? Or like, do what, like, how do guys replace that in their lives?

Speaker 31 I started playing golf. Yeah.
That helps. Kind of get that like.
It's a very frustrating.

Speaker 31 Yeah, it's frustrating, too. Yeah, it's frustrating, but it's fun.
It's a lot of fun. Are you nice? I'm not nice, but I'm like, okay.

Speaker 31 You probably, you probably fuck John Daly. Oh, yeah.
You probably grip it or rip it. Yeah, I grip and rip.
That's what they call me. Really? Grip and rip? Yeah, grip and rip grip.

Speaker 31 You're banging Diet Cokes. Smoking sick.
Barbara Light. The Hooters before and after.
Hooters? That guy's a man. We got to get on a banana boat with him.

Speaker 31 We got a banana with him. Just seeing his long, flowy hair, the beard.
I put a team together, okay,

Speaker 31 at their prime, every single one of these players.

Speaker 31 Blake Griffin, Bill Walton,

Speaker 31 Delante West.

Speaker 31 you have

Speaker 31 Dante DiVincenzo, Matt Bonner. So all redheads.

Speaker 31 But like at their prime. How could the carpets and the drapes do?

Speaker 31 How would they do?

Speaker 31 We could win some games. Second round exit, I'm thinking.
Oh man. I mean we'd have to make the we were assuming we just made the playoffs.
Is the goat red debate? It's you and Bill probably.

Speaker 31 Yeah.

Speaker 31 I don't know. Bill's like

Speaker 31 Bill,

Speaker 31 I mean, a great player. What's his like resume? How many MBCs? He was on that John Wooden UCLA.
Right, right, right. I mean, he was playing against fucking plumbers.

Speaker 31 Yeah, I mean, see, this thing, that thing also, but there's a thing called evolution. Like, the players back then were still really good because

Speaker 31 that was the peak of basketball still. And the game keeps moving.

Speaker 31 I mean,

Speaker 31 it's the peak of basketball. Like, come on.
Bob Koozie was dribbling like this.

Speaker 31 I don't want to talk shit, and you can't do this because now you're part of the lamestream media. You're type shit of the lamestream.
You're type shit of the lamestream media now. Lamestream.

Speaker 31 But like, I like, I like watch the 1980 Game Six Finals. 1980? 80.
Yeah. And that's like the best story ever, right? Because it's like Kareem's hurt.
They're on the road.

Speaker 31 He's in LA trying to get healthy. Then there's a rookie, Magic.
He plays all five positions. They beat Dr.
J. They beat the

Speaker 31 pretty juggernaut sixers team.

Speaker 31 And

Speaker 31 that's your... That's...

Speaker 31 Come on. Yeah.
So, wait, so now we're back being like the old school era is great?

Speaker 31 They were not.

Speaker 31 It didn't look as dope as just that elevator pitch to me. Yeah.
I think two guys on that court could have probably leagued.

Speaker 31 I think probably Michael Cooper could have been a 3 and D, and Magic was like a 6-8 guard. Worthy? Worthy was on that team? No, Worthy.
Oh, Worthy.

Speaker 31 Yeah, he was.

Speaker 31 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 31 I mean, it was just like, yeah, Dr. J was nifty finish.

Speaker 31 He was Mr.

Speaker 31 That was like his game. He was pretty good.
You could have lobbed cities all over, though.

Speaker 31 I could have lost the ball.

Speaker 31 You could have lobbed a... You could have lobbed.
I could have maybe dunked on Dr. J.
It's fun to think about it. Did you ever feel bad after a poster? No.
You never felt bad one time? Never.

Speaker 31 What if a guy's wife was there? So? Shouldn't have been there. What if if his mom just died or something? Well, that's sad.
Yeah. But I don't feel bad for the dunk.

Speaker 31 I feel bad that he just lost the matriarch of his family.

Speaker 31 What if he cried? Hypothetically. Has someone ever cried? I don't know, but Kendrick Perkins deleted his Twitter after I dunked on him.
That's like what I think that should be on my resume.

Speaker 31 Yeah, somehow he's still

Speaker 31 annoying and all of that. He's back.
He's back. Carry on.
Carry the hell on. Carry the hell on.
Well, look,

Speaker 31 in the NBA playoffs what's that there's that clip of JJ

Speaker 31 have you seen that clip I think where he's like when he's breathing in his ear he's like what the hell is that in my ear he's like Kurt why are you breathing he's like he's like I am the hell breathing Stephen A Smith is like you sound like you got sleepy happy yeah do you have sleep happiness

Speaker 31 I will say this

Speaker 31 If you put hands on me, I will have no choice but to swing.

Speaker 31 Me and you?

Speaker 31 Stephen A, as a journalist, I mean, like, LeBron didn't put hands on him, though. He just checked him.
It's that thing was a little bit insane because your mom's ex,

Speaker 31 Skip,

Speaker 31 during that entire beef earlier this year,

Speaker 31 it got it's kept stepping up one, like another level. So first, LeBron is like saying, I'm not best friends with Brian Windhorse, which is like

Speaker 31 peculiar. This is like some guy that, I guess he's like, they went to the same high school at a different time, but like Wendy was like his guy for like 20 years.

Speaker 31 You know, he's also been so positive about LeBron. He's been like

Speaker 31 right, and then LeBron's like, yeah, like he's like going, like, he's going, like, he's like, don't tell, don't tell me what to say. I'm going to spill all the tea in it.

Speaker 31 I'm not best friends with Brian Windhorse. He called him a weird little man that follows him around.
That is so mean. That's right.
That's so tough.

Speaker 31 And then Stephen A comes in and escalates it and says, I will fight.

Speaker 31 And it's LeBron James.

Speaker 31 But then the best detail was that Skip, for three days was tweeting out into a void where he was like another pathetic buzzer beater from LeBron. I wouldn't even call it a layup, more of just a tip,

Speaker 31 and no one was engaging with him. I know it's like Skip's been hating on LeBron so hard for so long, and he did, he's not even

Speaker 31 get like the recognition that he hates on him from LeBron. He's literally just has a boombox outside his window.
Like, you suck, you suck.

Speaker 31 I guess

Speaker 31 I guess I'd close by like just saying like,

Speaker 31 you know, this is an open forum. Just like

Speaker 31 if

Speaker 31 Chris Paul's watching,

Speaker 31 probably, yeah, he's probably watching. Like,

Speaker 31 you just share what's in your heart.

Speaker 31 You know, I was talking with J.J. Reddick actually about this the other day.

Speaker 31 Yeah, oh, you know him? Yeah.

Speaker 31 I look back on those games. Like, I see, like, film.
I see clips and stuff. And I'm like, man, I wish I had just been a little bit better.
You know? For him? Yeah, for everybody. For everybody.

Speaker 31 For fans, for God.

Speaker 31 You had Billy Crystal at that game. I know.
You had Frankie Muniz there?

Speaker 31 Frankie had moved to Phoenix, so he wasn't in attendance for a lot of home games, but when we played in Phoenix, he would come to the game. You had Vince Staples was there?

Speaker 31 Vince, yeah, Vince was probably there. Who are the Clippers guys? Who's the Clippers Jack?

Speaker 31 Billy Crystal, I think, is the Clippers Jack. Clipper Daryl.

Speaker 31 Clipper Daryl is... Is he? I don't think he's still around.
He's dead?

Speaker 31 I don't know about that. Sterling body count 666, Illuminati?

Speaker 31 I just don't know if he goes to games now at the new arena. Didn't they kick him out? They did kick him out one time.
Did you lobby to get a Clipper Jack? I wasn't a part of that.

Speaker 31 Daryl, you know I love you, dog.

Speaker 31 Shout out to Daryl. Super fan type shit.
Blake,

Speaker 31 I just want to thank you for coming on the show.

Speaker 31 Thanks for having me. Anything else on the cards as you scroll through? I guess like, has there ever been like when a guy

Speaker 31 has a guy ever just had too big of a dick?

Speaker 31 Thanks so much, guys. Appreciate it.

Speaker 31 Have you ever like, because you got to be in the shower with the people? Yeah, yeah, all the time.

Speaker 31 Okay, here, just give me one more chance. Okay.

Speaker 31 Listen, you... You're looking back on your career, you had a tremendous amount of accomplishments.
Thanks.

Speaker 31 You're one of the best bigs I've ever watched. Thanks, man.
One of the most athletic, springy dunkers ever. And people want to say to you now, because people

Speaker 31 have this fetishization for rings.

Speaker 31 You know, that that's something that's missing. But

Speaker 31 when are you going to get the one ring

Speaker 31 that actually does matter?

Speaker 31 The promise ring? Or God?

Speaker 31 No. Oh.
You know what I'm saying? Championship ring? No. Wedding?

Speaker 31 Hopefully soon. Really? Yeah.
Hopefully soon. And what's his name?

Speaker 31 Type shit.

Speaker 31 That's pretty good. Way Griffin, everyone.

Speaker 31 And what is his name?

Speaker 31 Oh, God. That was fun, beautiful.

Speaker 31 I love this song.

Speaker 31 I want to be with you.

Speaker 31 I want to be with you.

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What? I finally found a home.

Speaker 32 Oh, you moved out of the Waymo?

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