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What's up, everybody? Welcome to the Draymond

0:53

Green Show Championship Edition

0:56

That's My Daughter Podcast. We

0:59

are in the press room, still

1:01

here at TV Guarden, a couple of hours after

1:03

the game. Full time

1:06

champions up here as you see, got

1:08

my man, Killer, Clay Dre,

1:11

the Vet, the O G the guy

1:13

who guided us through all of this. Honored

1:16

to be here. Man, they said

1:18

we could not do it again. Talk to me,

1:20

Killer. How does this one feel as

1:22

a and in comparison to the other three,

1:25

how does this one feel? I

1:28

can't sugarcoat it. Bro us the sweetest one,

1:31

just uh you know from

1:33

the fifty season when

1:35

Steph not on the bench, we had to watch

1:38

you out there just anchoring

1:41

bucks and struggle.

1:43

Then the next year having to watch again and

1:46

the insert myself in this line up and then just

1:48

uh see the whole thing come together. Bro.

1:50

It's it's like the sweetest experience

1:52

I've ever been a part of, man, and it makes

1:54

a journey that much sweeter just knowing what we all had to

1:56

go through. So I just it's an honor

1:58

to be up here for real. This is

2:01

this is such a special moment, not because

2:03

we just won the championship, but because

2:06

it took us a championship to get Clay Thompson

2:08

on the podcast. So

2:13

that is such an honor. But a

2:16

long is journey and which

2:18

has been three years now. Um,

2:22

was there ever any doubt for you, a that

2:25

you would be able to come back to player that you

2:28

have come back and be that we

2:30

we would be able to do this again once you came

2:32

back. Oh yeah, I doubted,

2:35

man every day. I remember guarding

2:37

LB September and I could

2:39

not stay in front of this man, even

2:41

will She he who never

2:44

played in the league. I was getting busted by him.

2:46

Everybody. I was just the weak

2:48

link out there, and I'm just like man, I swear I used

2:50

to be a great defender. I swear I used to be

2:52

a great shooter. And

2:54

then Rick celebrity will tell me every day, like Clay,

2:57

it's gonna be up and down. But once you we

2:59

just need Clay for playoffs and that's

3:01

all it's gonna take. And I was like, Okay, Rick, whatever

3:03

you say. So I had so many

3:05

doubts. But once we

3:07

got closer to the real thing though, and

3:10

we actually didn't even get to play with each other until

3:12

the first playoff game. Well, once

3:15

I saw a YouTube on the floor with Steph and the

3:17

town we had around us, I knew it

3:19

was a rap, like no one can mence with us. One

3:22

more question before we get Clay out of here, because

3:24

I promised him this will be three questions and

3:26

it is a miracle that we got

3:28

him here. But for

3:31

you moving forward, do

3:35

we have Clay Thompson finishing

3:38

his career with the Golden State Warriors.

3:41

I need to notice for my own person to say,

3:43

Man, I did tell Steve Kerr at the

3:46

u NBA TV Little

3:48

Podium. I told him, you know, I'm going

3:50

full Michael Jordan' I'm inlining myself with Steve.

3:53

I ain't playing for anybody but Steve, so that's

3:55

the plan, and I don't

3:57

it would be weird to be in another UNI, you know. So

4:00

I'm just grateful to be up here and to

4:02

be mentioned with the Lakers and Celtics and the Bulls.

4:04

Now we're there, and it's it's I never sure

4:07

when you got drafted here, Andre signed on, you

4:09

never would envision this. Maybe one but four

4:13

and we ain't done. That's a beautiful thing about it. We

4:15

got these young bucks behind us and we got it same

4:17

squad coming back. It's scary for the NBA.

4:20

It is very scary, my brother. I appreciate

4:22

you coming on, of course, thank you much. We'll

4:25

get a full podcast. We will. Drake

4:27

come talk to us, Brother, come talk

4:30

to us. And

4:36

here we have a return guest,

4:38

um, a guy who came on the podcast

4:41

before. Like it was easy to

4:43

get guests, and not that it's easy now, but

4:46

once you build a reputable show, you

4:48

know, then it's a lot easier to come on. I'm

4:51

very thankful to this man for coming

4:53

on when it was just trying to start

4:55

a podcast. And guy

4:57

who's taught me so much talking of

5:00

us so much, How does this one feel?

5:02

This one? This one's on

5:06

my loss of words because I

5:09

think, then then they let us get this

5:11

one and we're gonna get off. We're gonna get

5:13

all, we're gonna get all, you know what off. They

5:16

made a mistake. Let us get this one

5:18

off. No,

5:21

but I was saying, because there's

5:23

only so many you talk

5:25

about any sport, there's only but so many

5:27

that put a strangle hold on that

5:29

entire league. But this long, like you

5:31

talk about Brady, talk about forty niners,

5:34

you know, you talk about you know, the Bulls,

5:37

the Spurs had it stretched out, and

5:40

you talk about the Lakers and Celtics obviously,

5:42

but you know this is seventy the

5:44

NBA seventy five years when

5:47

we do like two hundred a year, Like

5:50

it's it's just like we should really

5:52

get our ship off absolutely, family

5:55

for mother talk so much cash,

5:57

like, oh, you

5:59

know the funked up right? You know that's

6:06

incredible, man. And honestly,

6:09

I told you all, don't let us win a fucking

6:11

championship, and y'all the fucked

6:14

up and let us win a championship.

6:16

Hey, but check this

6:18

though we

6:22

were going to run five straight

6:24

finals. Um,

6:26

and then Bob Myers coming to you and

6:28

he said, yo, Kevin Leaves

6:32

and he said, Yo, we're gonna trade

6:34

you. What was that like for

6:36

you? You know, it's funny because I

6:39

saw it. You know how you and

6:41

I are like we we see before

6:43

like things happened. So I knew in my contract

6:46

I had an extension date, so the last year my contract

6:49

I can get cut, and that that salary

6:51

we spread it over three years. So

6:54

something had told me called

6:56

Bob and asked him wins my cut date?

6:59

I was like, by with my cut eight and

7:01

we've built such a great lay ship with Bob. Bob

7:04

was like, come talk to me, Come

7:06

in here, man. Yeah. Yeah.

7:09

So Bob was like, come talk to

7:11

me. So I went to Bob's office and

7:13

he was like, we might trade you. And he kept

7:15

it real just because we have a great report. And

7:19

that's when I knew. So I wasn't surprised and

7:22

you're killing our contact, young fellow,

7:24

all right, but I knew, you know,

7:27

there might be an opportunity on the back end.

7:29

So you know, I was talking about it with the NBA media

7:32

earlier that things happened

7:34

for a reason, and me going to Miami and experience

7:36

in the Miami Heat culture that really

7:38

helped me come back and then accept the role I had,

7:40

because like, I had really good days this year, but

7:42

the body just wouldn't hold up. But I knew that

7:45

I can still be impactful and I still

7:47

knew that we could, Like you know how

7:49

it is, you can't let the year get by,

7:51

and you know you let one slip away, like we've been here too

7:53

many times, so I just like, let me just

7:55

do what I need to do. And it's just been incredible.

7:57

It has been incredible. Speaking of the body

7:59

now holding up, because

8:01

it's actually something I was gonna ask before

8:03

you just said that. But I

8:06

didn't think it would be possible as

8:12

an NBA Finals MVP that

8:16

we probably felt your impact this year

8:20

more than any year, that you were

8:22

competing and playing and dominating

8:24

and clamping and selling

8:27

our offense down and getting us into the position.

8:30

I didn't think that would be possible. I

8:33

am one certain we don't do

8:35

this without you and your leadership and showing

8:38

us the way, But

8:40

for you as a competitor, that

8:43

still gotta be tough. Knowing that

8:46

ultimately I am a basketball player, I'm not a

8:48

coach like I played basketball. I'm on

8:50

this team and yet your body

8:52

not allowing you to give what

8:55

you know you could give on the court. How was how

8:57

was getting through that and just ultimately saying

8:59

I'm working hard to get back and be

9:02

available for the finals, but ultimately knowing

9:04

like I may not play much. How was that

9:06

for you? It was tough because I would

9:08

have like good workouts, like I had to work out

9:11

before or right after Game three,

9:15

and we had practice and I didn't I didn't

9:17

miss a shot like I look like step I did a step

9:19

thing where I started the painting, went all the way back to half

9:21

court and made like none straight shots. I'm

9:23

like, I'm really ready, and Steve

9:26

was just kind of like I might

9:28

have to go another direction, and like,

9:31

to be honest, that hurt you. We're all human. It's like,

9:33

bro, I can help, like let me help. But

9:35

at the same time, it's like, listen,

9:38

man, I'm believe in these guys. Like I know if

9:40

Wiggs can do what he's able to do for us,

9:43

we're good. I know of g P does

9:45

what he needs to do for us, We're good. I know of Otto.

9:48

It's is told White, We're good Belly

9:50

was. Belly was huge for us, you know what I mean, Like

9:53

Belly went out there and helped us win the championship, you know what

9:55

I mean. We talked about like Nick Young came and helped us in the Houston

9:57

series a couple of years ago, and then just Jordans

10:00

who and just being trying

10:03

to be that role model. And it's like Mike Bright

10:05

Brown said, I need to put you in for one minute in

10:08

game five when Loon got four quick

10:10

files because I forgot what rep is calling on the

10:12

files on him and he was like going for

10:14

a woman. I said, damn you up with me for a woman and g like

10:17

that. But at the same time, it's like,

10:19

yo, man up, bro like man up, because commed

10:21

is here. You know, he's very impressionable

10:24

and you know he does whatever we say,

10:26

but you gotta show him the way too, because in the

10:28

eight years it might come into effect, like eight

10:30

years from now. Commede is like man Andre went in he

10:33

finals MVP. He went in for uh seventy

10:35

seven seconds and play good

10:37

minutes, you know what I mean. So like that

10:39

those things coming to mind, you know, like that stuff comes

10:41

back ten folk for sure, and I think what

10:45

people don't understand is how how fast

10:47

something could swing. And although that

10:50

that seventies seven seconds, you

10:52

know it wasn't a bunch of points or it wasn't

10:55

a bunch of this. All it takes is seventy

10:57

and seventy seven seconds to swing

10:59

again. And so all it takes is for coach

11:02

to put a guy in that he doesn't necessarily

11:04

trust um and they have one

11:06

turnover and that changed the entire game. And I

11:08

think that's what people don't understand

11:10

about this entire process, is like that's

11:14

seventy seven seconds. All of

11:16

us were comfortable because regardless

11:18

of what you were, what what

11:21

you didn't do, we

11:23

knew what you were gonna do. And that's not make a

11:25

single mistake. And it was such

11:27

a beautiful thing. Man. And I

11:29

can go on and on with this interview, as you know,

11:31

but I really I want to say

11:33

thank you, Um. You you came back

11:36

here. You didn't have to come back here,

11:38

um, and to come back

11:40

here and show us the way again, you know,

11:42

no matter no matter what

11:46

next year holds for you, Like I

11:48

mean, I'm I'm pretty certain that you you probably

11:50

want to be done because you you know, for

11:52

those that don't know. I'm not even

11:54

sure if I can say this. Can I say this? Well?

11:57

Andre is doing um

11:59

yeah at the public starting

12:01

to a venture capitalist fund. Like that's

12:04

that's our o G. You know, that's that's

12:07

who. That's who has shown us

12:09

the way you know and like I

12:11

know, you have bigger and better

12:13

things that waits for you, awaits you, and

12:17

whether you decide to come back or not, the

12:20

impact that you had on our lives and

12:22

our careers and what we can continue

12:25

to move on. Obviously, this brotherhood doesn't end,

12:27

this is forever. But I

12:29

can't thank you enough, brother, for your leadership,

12:32

for your guidance and being

12:34

a true definition and showing me what

12:36

it meant to be a vet to someone else. I

12:38

thank you, brother. I love you four

12:41

times brother that they never take that appreciate

12:43

you. I love you

12:46

absolutely not my dog

12:48

finals MVP Andre

12:50

God Media. We

12:53

own y'all ass yes,

12:57

sir, brother, such

12:59

such such an incredible journey and

13:01

within our our little audience

13:03

that we have here at the Draymond

13:05

Green Show, we have a guy

13:08

who we

13:10

have a guy who playing

13:14

on four NBA teams, five

13:18

G League teams, which is even more

13:20

impressive than the four NBA teams, five

13:22

G League teams, and you

13:25

know, it's a very interesting thing. When I was

13:27

when I was um and we've had the

13:29

pleasure in the honor

13:31

of having his pops

13:34

on and

13:36

I remember asking them just like you

13:38

know, I knowing all these interviews, they asked

13:40

you about defense

13:43

and being the club and all of these things. But

13:45

but tell me about being a father and

13:50

as someone who went back and forth with

13:53

do I name do

13:56

I name my

13:58

son? And Jr? Not because then they have

14:00

to live up to that and blah blah

14:03

blah. And this

14:05

guy is that way

14:07

before DJ And

14:09

to get it out the mud. People

14:11

don't realize sometimes having the same name

14:14

as as an NBA legend, it

14:17

works the opposite way, you know. I know most

14:19

people think like, oh, it's nepotism.

14:21

No, no no, no, it actually works against you in

14:23

a lot of cases. And to see

14:25

him get it out the mud to be the

14:28

fifteen guy

14:31

to make the roster, this

14:34

this is a full circle moment for us

14:36

because I remember his

14:39

ten day ended, and

14:41

you know where that ten day ended, that that

14:44

ten day ended here in Boston, and

14:47

he's tapping all of us up, like yo, man,

14:49

it's been great. I appreciate you all. I'm like, what

14:51

are you talking about? Like, oh my ten day up? I'm like, dude,

14:54

you be here, see you later. And

14:56

then I called Bob. Stuff called Bob

14:58

and we're like, yo, yeah, you can't get rid of GP, like

15:01

you gotta bring him back. You see what he's doing for you. Gotta

15:03

bring him back. And that was the start

15:06

of all of this. And so I'm honored

15:08

to welcome the next

15:10

guest, the champ Gary

15:13

paid the second GP to my

15:15

brother. Welcome to the Trademond

15:18

Green Show. Um,

15:31

how does it feel? Um?

15:34

First and foremost just from

15:36

for me to you, just I appreciate you

15:39

and you know everything you did, you

15:41

know, just went for back for me, you

15:44

know, through the summer and you

15:46

know my first ten days and to day whatever. Uh

15:49

you thirty, you know, having my back

15:51

up and give me this opportunity and believing

15:53

to me, that's just that alone,

15:55

just you know, means the world. That's

15:58

why I went to back for you just whole year. You know.

16:01

Um, I ain't Jewish and me or whatever.

16:03

I just for y'all and your legacy. Your legacy

16:05

is bigger than you know, my career whatever.

16:08

So forth, it's just I'm

16:10

proud of you and you know everything you've

16:12

been through and how you got it out. You

16:14

know, you feel me and you

16:16

know I appreciate you. I appreciate you rather

16:18

than honestly, the beautiful

16:21

thing about all of this is you're

16:23

now a part of that legacy, you know, and

16:27

the journey. The most beautiful thing

16:29

about this is the journey, you know,

16:31

like holding the trophy like I

16:33

didn't hold the trophy on stage one time, like

16:36

I didn't even want to get near it. Because

16:39

it's the journey that you appreciate. It's the

16:41

people that you go through it with. That's

16:43

why you appreciate it, you know, that's the beauty

16:45

and this it's like you go through people,

16:48

you go through this with with the people that you've

16:50

been in the trenches with over and over and over

16:52

again, and that is the beauty

16:55

and it's that's why you do this. And so for

16:57

me, the thing that I've enjoyed

17:00

most about each championship

17:03

outside of the first one, we're

17:05

seeing the guys who's winning it for the first time,

17:08

because that reaction that it's

17:10

almost like the innocence

17:13

of a child like that does

17:15

not know what it feels like.

17:18

And so for me, that's what I get the most joy

17:20

out of seeing you win a championship,

17:23

Seeing Jordan Poole win a championship,

17:25

Seeing Otto, who a guy who

17:27

signed a hundred million dollars contract

17:30

when it was nearly impossible to get a hundred

17:32

million dollar contract and didn't go through the injuries,

17:34

see him get a championship. Uh,

17:37

Belly, you know who's Belly's

17:40

thirty three years old and come over to the NBA

17:42

until I think he was seven or

17:44

something like that. To see Belly

17:46

get a chance, That's that's

17:48

the beauty in it. And so you

17:50

know, I want to say congratulations,

17:54

Um, you've

17:56

earned your key. You

18:00

belong here and you've shown

18:02

that too. To be the man

18:04

on the roster and

18:08

become a vital part of that roster.

18:11

It's a heard of. It doesn't happen

18:14

you play one preseason

18:17

game due to the injury.

18:20

You're going through the preseason and you're

18:23

unable to get out there and you know

18:26

what's riding on this and you need

18:28

to make this team. What's going through your mind through that

18:30

preseason and and just trying to rehab

18:32

from an injury. Um, just

18:34

trying to get ready as fastest, you

18:36

know, fast way I can stay ready,

18:39

keep my mental right, and

18:41

you know, just know that, you know you're working

18:43

towards you know that moment, at one moment that

18:46

might change you know, your career, your life. And

18:49

they said I would have that moment, you

18:51

know, keep working, stay the course and

18:54

you know, keep doing my rehab. So I just

18:56

kept keep they stay ready basically,

18:58

uh kept my rehab up. And

19:00

you know when that when that time was ready where they let

19:03

me go, I had to leaven a no doubt,

19:05

you know, for bothering them to make that decision,

19:07

you know, and keeping such

19:10

an amazing thing. Um, like

19:13

I said, just only

19:15

playing one game and you beat

19:17

out Avery Bradley, who at that point

19:19

it's like you need a defensive, a

19:21

wing defender, and you beat out

19:23

Avery Bradley, who has been an incredible defender

19:27

in this league for a long time. And

19:29

I thought that was absolutely amazing. I

19:33

have a tell and

19:36

this is what I could be thinking. And you may think

19:38

otherwise, and you can tell me if you think I'm wrong

19:41

or what you think it is. But I was having a

19:43

conversation with with a young fella a

19:45

couple of weeks ago um and he finished

19:48

the season with with an

19:50

organization and he was back

19:53

working out wherever he works out

19:55

in the summer. Do you see any

19:57

significance in a guy

19:59

who was in your position or in

20:01

a position similar to yours sticking

20:05

with that team throughout

20:07

the summer that they

20:09

ended with and training with that team

20:11

and being around those coaches and being

20:13

around those young guys. Do you see the

20:15

benefit in that as opposed to all

20:18

right, I ended with this team, I'm gonna go back to l

20:20

A and training, I'm gonna go to Vegas and training.

20:22

I'm gonna go to Miami and train. Now what is this significance

20:25

and sticking with that team and training

20:27

with them and going through their all season red. Yeah,

20:30

that was That was probably the biggest decision

20:32

I made because all the other times I got cut,

20:34

I went back home. That's what I did. I went back to Vegas

20:37

and I got back in the gym and whatnot. But

20:40

with this team and what I felt on my

20:42

first ten day, you know, and going

20:44

into the off season like this

20:47

is this is the group. This is the

20:49

formula for me like I

20:51

could be, you know, a big piece in and

20:53

helping you know, everything goes smooth and than what

20:56

it was. So I made that decision

20:58

when I got cut. Why I asked to be

21:00

in the video room is to be around

21:02

you'll, like I was still be in practice,

21:04

still show you know, Bob and everybody

21:06

that you know I can still play. I can not I

21:09

can play in his lead. So that was

21:11

my mindset on, you know, asking for that job.

21:14

And when I decided to stay here this

21:16

whole summer regardless, I said, I told myself, I

21:18

said, I'm not going nowhere like I'm

21:20

gonna show them that I can play basketball

21:22

right way and I can work in the system with y'all.

21:25

So that was my mindset, and I wasn't gonna

21:28

let nobody or anything, you know, tell me other way.

21:30

It's amazing, brother. Before we get out

21:32

of here, your pops,

21:35

it's no longer the only one

21:37

in the house with a ring. What you got

21:39

to say to the oh, I got it?

21:41

I got I think I got it. Sooner you

21:43

feel me and and I'm and

21:45

I'm one for one. You can't say nothing

21:47

about a cent. That's so

21:50

you want to talk to me? You

21:52

you know where I live. O G.

21:57

I'm so happy for him. Four time Champ Um,

22:00

I couldn't have done it without this man. He led

22:02

us throughout the year. He's

22:04

had so much on his back and he's did

22:06

so much for us, done so much for us,

22:08

and it's for the organization, and I I

22:10

can't do nothing. Thank you rather than congrats, phold

22:12

time champ and you already know I

22:16

appreciate, thank

22:18

you for coming on. We're

22:20

gonna have to do a full episode

22:23

and just really get into your

22:25

background and how you grew up and the

22:29

the things that I want to talk about. The struggles

22:32

are going. I've grown up with a father in the

22:34

NBA. You know, I think you know the

22:36

thing that people don't realize it is like as beautiful

22:38

as that is, and like as dope as that is, you're

22:41

not home. You know, you're on the road

22:43

and he's not home. I'm not home all

22:45

the time. And and your

22:48

rock, your mom and how she held it down.

22:50

And so we're gonna get into all that. Man have to

22:52

have to bring you on the shop. Thank

22:55

you, appreciate

22:59

sir. The young gloves

23:03

too, my dog man.

23:07

Um, I

23:09

am exhausted to say the

23:11

least. Um our audience

23:14

in here is starting to dwindle down.

23:16

But but my beautiful wife

23:19

Hazel is still sitting there and it's

23:21

absolutely incredible to be

23:23

on this journey with you. My love, my

23:26

dog Stills and still sitting

23:28

there. Director

23:31

of Sports Marketing at Converse.

23:35

And then my brother Torreon man

23:38

Man Harris, who showed me the way we

23:40

got Jackson behind the camera. We

23:43

got Faves in here. Faves is the man

23:45

behind the Draymond Show Instagram

23:48

giving you all the content. And

23:51

then we have me yours truly

23:54

the new media, the champ.

23:57

Four times, I tell you what. Both

24:00

times, I'll tell you what, Man. I

24:03

got a lot of respect for that group over there,

24:05

uh led by Email Yudoka. UM

24:08

incredible, incredible coach

24:11

and it's ironic to go up

24:13

against him. I I think

24:15

back to one of my tweets UM and

24:19

their series during their series against

24:22

Milwaukee and Emay,

24:25

they had just winning one game six on

24:28

the road and

24:31

I was watching Sports Center

24:34

and and they they showed this feature

24:37

on Buddenholzer. Just Budenholzer

24:40

is a great coach, champion coach, don't

24:42

take nothing away from him, but they

24:44

showed this feature on him after

24:46

they just had loss. And then they

24:48

showed like JB talking J

24:51

Jayson Tatum talking like Boodenhols

24:54

are talking and they didn't show email

24:56

Udoka talking and so I and

24:59

when I say talking mean like the press

25:01

conference um given quotes, And

25:04

I tweeted, I said this email, do does

25:07

he do press conferences? Because some situations

25:09

people don't like to talk and they you

25:11

know, they get over they hand that over to the system,

25:14

maybe the assistant coach just to talk. So I

25:16

said this email you dooka, does

25:18

he do press conferences? Because

25:21

it's baffling to me that there's a feature

25:23

on the losing coach. Then

25:27

there's words from the losing coach, but

25:30

nothing from the winning coaches. If he didn't

25:32

make any adjustments to go on the road

25:34

and win Game six, And I

25:36

thought that was strange and I didn't like it.

25:39

And that's why I tweeted it because this

25:44

is a much different team than than they've

25:47

had here. So what's

25:49

the difference. The

25:51

difference is that a coach

25:54

came in and required

25:56

something different, tapped into something different.

25:58

When everyone said Jalen and Jayson Tatum

26:00

can't play together, and

26:03

they were foolish for signing Marcus Smart

26:05

to a max deal, and they were stupid

26:08

for bringing out horrorback and

26:10

all of those things. And you gotta get Brad Stevens'

26:12

credit and some of those moves that he made. But

26:16

the thing that changed was email Eudoka came

26:18

in and he required something

26:21

different from those guys. He required

26:23

j T to play defense. He

26:26

required JT to move

26:28

the ball and he averaged seven

26:30

or eight assists in this series. He required

26:33

JB to take that next step.

26:37

He required um

26:39

Robert Williams to take that next step.

26:41

He required Smart to go back to his Oklahoma

26:44

state days and be the point guards that this team

26:46

needed. Aaron Miles,

26:49

who was on that bench, who was with us

26:51

last year. That's

26:54

the difference. The difference is

26:56

those guys that came in, Damon Stodhomyre

26:58

will Cherry, they

27:01

commanded a different respect and

27:04

you have to give him a lot of credit.

27:06

That team ain't going nowhere. That team will be back.

27:08

You better believe that team will be back. Give

27:11

a lot of credit to Robert Williams. Most

27:14

guys, especially this day and age, most

27:16

guys sitting out on that knee got

27:18

a knee injury. Most guys, and they're not continuing

27:21

to go for what We're

27:24

in the finals. I'm banged up.

27:26

I got my money. No

27:28

what nobody would have complained if

27:30

Robert Williams decided to sit out. He

27:33

didn't. He was a game

27:35

changer in this This entire series

27:38

cost fits. You

27:40

gotta give a lot of credit to that young man with

27:44

his whole entire future, A had his whole

27:46

entire future ahead of him. He left

27:48

it all out there on the line. You respect

27:50

guys like that. There's so many

27:52

guys in this league that would never do that. You

27:56

respect guys like that the utmost

27:59

respect for me. That's a group,

28:02

that's a young group over there. Grant Williams,

28:04

who was all in my grill, in my face

28:06

the entire series. We

28:08

had our words back and forth. I got respect

28:11

for that young man. Them

28:13

guys gonna be together, and

28:18

they'd be crazy if they don't keep those

28:20

guys together. But it wouldn't

28:23

surprise me if we see

28:25

this team sometime in the near future

28:27

when we're done win

28:29

the championship. They

28:32

got it. They're not weak,

28:34

they're not soft. They got scoring,

28:37

they got the defense, they got the bigsday.

28:40

If there's one place that they can improve, it's probably

28:42

their depth. You know, if you look at this series,

28:45

I feel like they just ran out of gas, like

28:48

and and that was it for us. We're like, yo,

28:51

they are only really playing seven

28:53

guys. Sometimes

28:55

it's only six. Let's just keep

28:57

running these guys. Keep it by

29:00

in front of these guys. Let's try to wear them down.

29:03

But the thing about it is championship

29:06

teams they got their guys and then they fill out

29:09

with great minimums. And

29:11

when you're a great team like that, you

29:13

start to get the great minimums. And

29:16

so you're going into next year, your bench

29:18

looked totally different. You're able to rely

29:21

on that bench. And so those are some of

29:23

the things that I think we'll see from them. And

29:26

I don't think this is our last

29:28

time hearing from the Boston Celtics. That's

29:30

a great group. They got a great

29:32

young core and they're gonna continue

29:35

to get better before

29:37

we get out of here because

29:40

I have to go join this party.

29:44

Let's talk about some of these naysayers. Before

29:49

this series started, I saw ESPN power

29:52

indexes. Something gave us a chance

29:54

and win. Why who makes

29:56

those things? What

29:59

is their job? Secure? Aready liked because

30:01

you're lying to people? So

30:05

that is anyone held accountable these days?

30:09

Anybody hell the company these days. I

30:12

even saw it was like to

30:15

the two and they're like, seventy

30:20

are you crazy? You know who you're

30:22

dealing with? Sass to

30:25

count us out like that. It's just it's

30:27

crazy to me. Where do y'all get these

30:30

numbers from? Like are

30:32

they coming from the people that sit up there and don't

30:34

know what they're talking about? That's

30:37

how I gotta be calculated,

30:41

because it's just those numbers just don't

30:43

make sense to me. They didn't make sense, and they for damn

30:45

sure don't make sense. Now Nick

30:50

Wright comes out and say, uh, Steph

30:54

Currys, that's it. He

30:56

would never see the finals again. And

31:00

Andrew Wiggins three years ninety five million

31:02

dollars left on his deal, why

31:04

would they go do that worst trade? And blah

31:06

blah blah. I hope you will understand

31:08

on that word. Brother, stand

31:11

on that and tell us why you thought

31:13

that. Tell

31:15

us why you thought that? Tell us why

31:18

this whole series you've been yapping, yapping,

31:20

and then all of a sudden you want to switch to the doves.

31:22

Tell us why, Because

31:24

what's in question is your basketball knowledge.

31:28

Some of these asking on asked statements y'all

31:31

be making. That's why I speak of the new media. For

31:33

those of you that don't know what the new media is,

31:35

let me explain to you what the new media is. The

31:38

new media is not athletes

31:40

doing media. Been doing that. A

31:43

lot of them turned into coons and

31:46

start acting like the old media once they

31:48

become media. But

31:51

let me explain to you what the new media is.

31:54

The new media is a stand

31:58

on your word. We don't

32:00

apologize for our world. We don't flip

32:02

and go. You stand on your word, good

32:05

battering different. We stand on that

32:08

be. We're not trying to create controversy.

32:11

I'm not trying to align myself

32:14

with a guy or two so I can feel some

32:16

TV slots on the daily and

32:19

create controversy. Basketball is a beautiful

32:21

game. If you know the

32:23

game of basketball, basketball will give you

32:25

enough to talk about the problem

32:28

is all of these people talking about

32:30

basketball that don't know basketball, and

32:33

so what do you do You chase

32:36

controversy. The new media

32:38

we don't do that. That's why you see

32:40

J. J. Reddick flourishing. That's

32:42

why you see C. J. McCullum flourishing.

32:45

That's why you see me flourishing.

32:48

So we don't do that. We simply talk

32:51

the game that we know and

32:54

embrace it. Teach. That's

32:57

what these spots are about. How do you

32:59

teach the game? How

33:01

do you teach the fans the game? These people

33:04

that think they know the game of basketball but don't

33:06

really know. How does JJ ready

33:08

go up there and teach the game? That's

33:11

the new media. We give flowers

33:13

when flowers are due. We don't have to

33:15

try to build a guy up for a week to tear them down

33:17

next week. So I got something to talk about. That's

33:21

the new media. Respect

33:26

integrity, respecting

33:28

integrity on the job, about the job.

33:31

I remember days when you

33:34

didn't go on a on a TV show

33:36

and cheer for another team. You go

33:38

on and give analysis. Nobody give a damn who

33:40

you're sharing for. You got foods

33:42

like Kendrick Perkins, come dressing like

33:45

a clown, come

33:48

up hearing a jail suit, and

33:50

then you lead a game early tonight. Stand

33:52

on your word, brother, you gotta

33:55

stand on that. One thing is for certain. I'm gonna

33:57

stand on my full time champ. I'm out. Vivid

34:03

and livid, liver,

34:06

livid, liver and liver,

34:10

livid, livid, liver and liver,

34:15

livid, liver and livid, li