Klay ghosting Steph Curry, Jordan Poole Bullies Draymond, Guarding Jokic | BEST OF w/ Baron Davis

I warn you, be careful of thinking you can knuck up with the young fellas, man. It ain't the same like it used to be. I learned that the hard way.

I ain't trying to get in no trouble. I don't want no static with nobody. All I'm saying is, if it go there, it go there.

You know what I'm saying?

I'm not going out there. You don't need to go there.

Nope. Nope, you don't want it to go there, brother. I'm telling you, I learned this the hard way. I thought, I thought when, I thought things could go there and I learned the hard way and I spent last night's game getting bullied because of it. So I'm just telling you, we played the Wizards last night and I spent the whole game getting bullied.

Hey bro, you was getting bullied.

I was getting bullied.

Bro, they was picking on my dog.

I didn't like that.

But you did trigger them. You did trigger them.

No, no, first off, the two young fellas, Terry, Bub, and Keyshawn Jordan, they start talking to me. I'm literally sitting there asking them like, "Yo, y'all talk?" They like, "Yeah, that's what we on." I said, "Oh, cool, we can talk then. All right, let's go." I was excited as hell. So we talking.

Nah, you gotta—

Nah, but they wasn't bullied. I was getting bullied.

You gotta hit with TMZ angle though, Draymond.

You know what I'm saying?

It would've happened behind closed doors.

You might've been all right.

Yeah, that's crazy. You got hit. TMZ. They cooked me. You got hit with the eye in the sky, dog.

That's crazy.

It's crazy.

They got you red-handed, dog.

That was all they needed. They crushed me. They crushed me. I spent last night getting bullied because of it, man. And I went into that game just thinking I'm going to play a basketball game, man. Dude came out there wanting to bully me, man. I don't want no problems. Yeah, you got it. I don't want no issues. Come on, yo.

Chill on it. Hey, yo, young dog, y'all gotta chill on the OGs, bro.

I don't want no issues, man. I had a good time last night. It was fun.

I mean, but you did trigger, you did set it off with the pointing. You know what you did.

Well, no. Well, all right, so.

Well, yeah. Hey, bro. Hey, come on, Fred. You in the game, somebody hit a 3, and the dude just, Why he pointing at me?

Like, bro, why you keep pointing at me? All right, so here's the issue. All right, so here's the problem. So the first time I catch the ball on the post, and George smashed up on me, he overzealously is like, "Ooh, ooh!" And they call a foul. And I could feel that it was like more to the pushes. He like, "Ooh, yeah, ooh!" And I could feel. And so they called a foul. And I just tapped him on the chest like, "Hey, it's cool, bro. Like, that was cool. It's cool." Like, tap on the chest, bro. Like, we going. So then as the game keep going on, you know how you could see a look in somebody eye when you like on, he like, and so, and he's like talking to me, like he's saying little stuff to me. And so I ain't paying it no mind. Yeah, we can ask him. I ain't paying it no mind. You know what I'm saying? I'm just chilling. I'm like, "Oh, he on that type of time." That's crazy because last year he ain't say a word. So I'm thinking to myself like, we ain't, I ain't coming in the game.

Oh yeah, he ain't gonna say nothing, it's gonna be cool.

He ain't say nothing. Like last year he ain't say nothing, moving on. And you know, he was talking. And so I was like, oh, that's interesting. So then fast forward to the play, they run the, that's called Horns Twist. They run the guard-ball screen, he go off the flare, Our man get whacked with the flare. Me being the defensive guy that I am, I'm gonna make a last-ditch effort and try to get a contest. You know what I'm saying? I make the last-ditch effort to get a contest. He pointed at me and I'm like, my manager's pointed at me like I was guarding him, bro. I just tried to get a late contest. Like—

Oh, he pointed at you first.

Yeah, he pointed at me after he hit the shot as if like he broke me off and like hit the shot, bro. I'm getting a late contest. Ain't even my man. I'm doing more, by the way, on Stackhouse grading defensive grades. I'm gonna get an extra point for that late contest that wasn't even supposed to be my contest. So you know what I'm saying? I go for the late contest. He point at me like, like, like he just dropped me off. So you know, everybody on my Twitter like, Draymond point, Steph hits a 3. Well, it's actually the same exact thing because then he went and got a contest. That wasn't his contest. And he got his eye bang and I pointed back at him. And so now I'm like, oh, that was interesting coming outta halftime. This is gonna be fun. You know what I'm saying? And it went from there. He bullied me the rest of the night. Like he was bullying me the whole first half. But it was cool.

I had fun. Did you say anything when you pointed? You should have pointed and said, see, that could have been you. That, that, that'd have done him off.

He had had 4 in the second half. Bro, listen, man. I'll tell you what. I got nothing against that brother. I was not trying to talk trash to him. I was just pointing back 'cause he pointed at me. And for all the dummies on Twitter and Instagram that's like, "Well, that ain't the same thing because Draymond didn't make the shot." It's the same exact thing because we both contested a shot on a man that wasn't on the court.

All in the spirit of the game, baby.

Exactly. So take that, you dummies that can't identify what's actually happened in the game and can only see what proves my point and what I always say. What can you see? You can see who made the shot and who missed the shot. That is about the level of your basketball intelligence. Don't write me on Instagram and Twitter trying to explain a basketball game. You stupid. You all want me to die. You look dumb and you just lose respect. I'm sitting here, I'm sitting here last night with Moses Moody, And I start— Trav starts talking about the play, and Moses right out the blue goes, well, the situations weren't the same. Of course they were, Moses, but these dummies on my Instagram don't know this.

You know, so yeah.

I'm off them. Y'all done got them started now, man.

Look at that.

Man, he done got—

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Draymond Green.

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Let's get into this 4-1 road trip y'all just finished. That was a good one. Big win in OKC. I don't like to say which win was the best, but which win was like, which one was like, "Ooh, you know, we got this one." Boston. Absolutely.

And it has to be Boston because, you know, we beat them in a championship on that floor. When you walk into these arenas that you won a championship at, you automatically go back to that vibe. Oh man, it's this place. Like, ah, I feel good in this place. You know what I'm saying? And so going into that place, you know, they playing, they're playing great. You know, one loss, they got us coming in, you know, and it's, it's the, the setup is there. It's cracking. You know what I'm saying? And we start the road trip off 2-0 and then headed into Boston. Everybody like, oh, they start the road trip off 2-0, but now the road trip get tough. And then we go in there and like, we pretty much controlled that game the whole game.

The whole game.

You know, and to go in there and do that, and obviously they're without JB, you know, and KP, but you can only play who they put on the floor. Yeah, for real. And so to go in and send that message, like, we still here. And I'm gonna tell you, it's even a little more emphasis on it, and here's why. Last year we did the whole shooting thing with, with Draymond Green and I felt like we kind of let the wrath off of them. Like we, we, I feel like we propelled them a bit when we did that. The confidence of that team after that just went through the roof, you know? And so to then come back and go back in that place that we did that and lock up like we did and play the game we did.

Yep.

That, that, that made that one feel Like it was the one, you know, and then going to the OJC.

Yeah, that was, and that's the one to get, you know what I mean? It's like you looking at 5 games, you like, damn dude, that Boston game, if we can be 2-0 going into Boston, woo, we got a chance. We got a chance. Right, and the way y'all came out, the way y'all came out, it was like, y'all just been focused, man. Y'all just been so focused, you know what I mean? Like the Boston game was great. There was a moment where, you know, Kerr and Steph kind of got into it.

Yeah.

You know what I mean? Like we starting to see, you know, kind of like the nostalgia of, I wouldn't say I didn't care in the past, but it was like, it was so much other shit that now like the intensity is on the game. Talk about like that moment with Steph and Kerr and like, How, you know, when shit like that happened, like how do you guys, or for the fans, like talk about reacting, you know, the reaction to that?

So for us, I always, you know, like I pay attention to all that stuff. And so for us, when I saw it, I just go to Steph and reassure him like, "Yo, we good. Like fuck that. Like let's move on." Like just to make sure his head stay in the right place. You know what I'm saying? 'Cause people respond to things differently. You know what I'm saying? And you never know what response you're gonna get. And so I immediately go to him like, "Man, fuck that, we good. Like, let's keep it pushing." And now again, and I always try to tell guys, when you are one of the top dogs on the team, the job goes far beyond just going out there and playing a good basketball game. Yeah, yeah, 100%. So as you know, there are so many more things that you have to deal with.

Yep.

You know, when you going through this stuff. And so I'm immediately watching that and I see it and I'm watching Steph's reaction and how he respond to it. Because if he respond negatively, and when I say negatively, I don't mean arguing, I mean respond negatively.

State of desire.

Like it's play, you know what I'm saying?

It's demeanor.

If he responds negatively, I'm already, I've already told myself like, I need to go talk to coach and make sure coach understand the reaction. You know what I'm saying? To make sure coach understand, hey, Steph ain't respond great to you yelling at him like that.

Yeah.

Let's just keep an eye on that. So I'm, that's already my mindset because again, you have to keep an eye on all of these things. You have to know. For sure. What make your guys tick and what makes them not. You know what I'm saying? And so I'm watching that like a hawk. In turn, I'm then watching the post-game press conferences and Steph like, "Nah, I wanna be coached like everybody else." That statement lines up with the way you continue to play after you and Steve had your moment.

Yeah.

So cool. I wash my hands.

Yeah.

And I'm onto the next thing, you know? But it's those types of things.

Yep.

That when you trying to compete at a high level, when you trying to win championships, it's those types of things you can let slide by and you look up later on down the road and you like, man, where did I—

And that's a problem.

Like, where did we go wrong? And you don't pay attention to those types of moments. You know what I'm saying?

Right.

And so I pay attention to all of that little stuff because when you trying to do something special, Those little things add up.

It's the little things that matter.

You know what I'm saying? And so that moment was huge because what it also did was, and no one has a problem with that on this team, but again, when you see Steph Curry get cussed out like that and he just like, man, like, Like, but no real reaction. Just like, like, and then Steve come at you, you, you gotta shut the hell up.

For sure.

Like you have no choice but to shut the hell up. And it, and it, and it sends a message to everyone. And, and, and more importantly, who, who else it sends a message to, which I think is even more important than sending a message to players. It sends a message to the rest of the coaches. Coach. Coach.

Yep. Get it up. Get your coaching up.

Like Stack, hey man, I'm telling you, man. Stackhouse to this—

Hey man, y'all got Stackhouse Stouts over there. He an offensive mastermind.

Yeah.

Hey bro, y'all got some dogs over there.

The additions that they've made, this coaching staff, Stotts, like you said, he's an offensive mastermind and it's his offense. As you know, I live on that defensive side of the ball and what Stack has done with his defense.

Oh man, it's been crazy.

Hey, and what he has done with his defense make me say that ain't Draymond Green's defense. That's Stack's defense. And I'm gonna be a part of Stack's defense.

Yeah.

What he has done there, the point of emphasis he's put on that side of the floor, the mentality that he's made us have on that side of the floor. —what he come, he come every day locked in and he like, "Oh, we watched the field." Steph said something yesterday. He was like, "Oh, Stack, you know, well right there I was thinking this, so I had to do this." Stack was like, "Oh, tell me. Next time tell me that 'cause I definitely dinged your ass on them grades for that. I dinged you." Yeah. So next time make sure you just share that with me that that's what you was thinking and that's what happened because I for sure dinged your ass." And Steph like, "Yeah, I saw it at this time on my sheet." I love that, dude. But it's just a different accountability level. Like, man, I get them grades, we get a notification, we work on this app with our team, and we get these notification grades out, man. As soon as I get that notification, I need to see my grade. And last night my grade was high as hell, huh?

It had to be.

I think, I need to go back and check the grades, but I'm almost certain it was the highest grade of any one of the OGs.

Come on, hey Stack, I need to get one of these grade sheets. Add me to the list, Stack. Put me on the text notification. I need to see that. It is so great to hear, I mean, you see the results, but when you buy in to a defensive philosophy and you got a coach that's back there engineering it, and then also you got a Draymond Green like that, we live on goals. You know what I mean? Like we live on success. We are— Yeah. We are fighting and chasing perfection every time we come on that court. And so to have that accountability, that structure, but also that trust, right?

Mm-hmm.

You know, like you were saying with Steph and wanting to be coached and coaches wanting to coach is really, you know, it's that trust, right? It's being able to nip all the little things that could be deterrents. Right? And though every time it's nipped or every time it's fixed and solved, it builds greater trust. You know what I mean?

For sure.

And that's, you know, that's why I like on the defensive end, like you guys are gritty, you smart, you know, and you're not worried about if there is a misassignment, like who did something. You know what I mean? Like a lot of times like, oh shit, damn, I'm switched out on the wrong person. Y'all don't look at it like that. Everybody takes the challenge, everybody has support, and that's what you need, you know, to really be a winning team. Oh, 100%. 'Cause like the deflections, like y'all not tall, y'all not super athletic, you know what I mean? It's like the deflections, the, you know, the over the back calls from boxing out, right? Just all the little things that, the block shots, right? The steals, all those things. Measure up, right? And if those are held at high esteem, I remember it used to be deflections, or for me, like when I led the league in steals, my coach told me how, taught me how to do it. He said, just pick the dude up like right before half court. Soon as they get to half court, jump they ass, 'cause they can't go back.

Yeah.

So I was getting all kind of turnovers and steals, 'cause as soon as somebody come across half court, first thing they do, they, Relax, get ready to call a play. And then I was on 'em, you know what I mean? And so like them little goals or like them little bitty things getting fixed, like that creates that trust. You know what I mean? Talk about y'all trust, you know, when y'all out there.

I think the trust is coming from, you know, the coaching staff is being willing to, earn that trust. You know what I'm saying? They ain't walking in like, "All right, we the coaches and y'all do X." Yeah. You know what I'm saying? They walking in trying to earn that trust. Like, you know what I'm saying? Stack, again, I keep going back to Stack in the defense. Every time something start going wrong and we like, "Yo, we need to get out this cover," Stack like, "This is what we doing. This is who we are." Do this. And so you stand on something like that, everyone else has no choice but to believe and trust in it. That's right. Because you standing on it so tough. You know what I'm saying? And like, I think Stack's also doing a good job of like standing so tough on it initially, but now starting to be like, "All right, cool. Y'all seeing this change? Well, let's change this. Let's tweak this thing." You know what I'm saying? Whereas initially he like, "Nah, this is what we doing." and then just do it. And I actually like that mentality because what it showed is like, I believe in this. I think this is what's gonna give us the best chance to win. So let's try to be great at this thing. Now we can start to make adjustments, right? You like 11 games into the season, you're starting to figure out and build an identity. You can start to adjust some things when you need to, when you see fit.

Totally.

But first you have to build a base. And I think, you know, the coaching staff has been willing to build that base.

Yeah.

And in turn, when you see guys who've been through it, who know what it looks like, trusting in it and doing all of that, it creates for a different opportunity and for a different situation. And I feel like that's where we at right now.

You know, you talked about the league, you talked about isos, like, You know, I like to throw in these icebreakers, you know, Norm, you know, before we move to the next, you know, this is about you, but I gotta talk about defensive players and my boy Draymond Green's play against Rudy Gobert.

Mm-hmm.

Walked him down Norman Powell style. You feel what I'm saying? Cub dunk. Then the Monday night night-night celebration. I was just telling him before that, man, where that come from? Went back to the founding youth. Ain't seen that in a minute.

Hey, you know, I don't dunk anymore, man. If I have the opportunity, I just lay the ball up, go and get the 2 points and run back, man. But I knew, I don't know, man. I turned that corner. I knew I had to turn that on.

I had to turn that on. The funny part is it was a perfect setup because it was against Rudy too.

Like all the stuff going on. It was against him.

He backing up too. I knew what time it was.

I was like, oh, he about to go at him. Hey man, he started throwing elbow. He kept throwing elbows at me, bro.

I was chilling.

I wasn't trying to cause no issues. And he kept throwing elbows at me, bro. Even the one where he flopped with like the, ah, like, ah. Fat man flop. Like before he took off, bro, he threw this crazy elbow at me. I'm like, man, y'all keep letting bruh throw elbows at me. This is crazy.

They don't know, man. Rudy sneak dirty, man. Rudy sneak dirty.

It's crazy, it's crazy, bro. Dude just be throwing elbows. But—

Hey, hey, hey, Dre, hold on. That was fire. I wanna know, I know you gotta walk, you gotta walk us through the setup. What made you, you know what I mean? Like what, you saw Rudy go bare, you know what I mean? So— I know Norm know as an ISO dude, oh my God, this the dude I have problems with on the island. 'Cause you went between the legs. You had a bobble about yourself.

Nah, so I'm gonna take you through the whole thing. So we go to timeout and Seth Cooper tells me like, "Yo, you should get it and go." And like, "You gonna have Rudy on you." And so I'm like, "All right." I was like, "All right." But I ain't about to say that to Steve. Like, "Yo, Steve, give me the ball." So I'm like, All right, sure enough, he come from behind the bench and he tells Steve like, yo, you should give Draymond, like, get the ball to Draymond. He gonna have Rudy on him. He can just set the offense. Everybody else, Jaden McDaniels, all them, they gonna be pressuring everybody. He's like, so get the ball to Draymond. He can set the offense. And so I go into, I start going to tween tween. Now what I'm initially thinking is, He dropping, I'm gonna hand this ball back to Steph. But once he started dropping and Steph started coming up, I just took the rub, rub screen. Steph set a great screen. And I turned that mug over. And then I hit him with the night-night. And it's crazy because I really started doing the night-night because I thought they called the foul 'cause Jaden McDaniels pushed the shit outta me.

Right.

So I thought they called it and-one, but I couldn't hear it. So I started doing the night-night and then I realized we needed to run back. And it's crazy. KD texted me last night. The first text I saw was K saying, yo, you a fool for running down the court full speed doing night-night. I didn't know till I watched it, bro. I had blacked out. I didn't know till I watched the video. All the way down court.

Yeah, bro. That was hilarious, man.

They got this man going crazy.

I did that all the way down the court, bro.

Somebody sleepwalking.

It was a big step down the court too, man.

That shit was hilarious, dog.

It was like a Draymond Green mixed with a Shaq comeback down the court. I appreciate, I appreciate the big fella and Steph for letting me do a rendition of what they do, man. I appreciate it.

Norm, can you imagine, you know what I mean, going to school —now with NIL.

Crazy. Like, it was funny because, you know, I talked to the— I say young dudes now because I'm on year 10. It was crazy. But like talking to Kobe and Jordan and Trenton and Cam, the young guys we got on the team, you know, they already got designer on and everything. I'm like, man, y'all don't even understand the struggle that I went through, man. Like my first— my first—

Right.

For me, like, when I got to the league, I thought I was gonna be living, you know what I mean? And like, my first check was less than what I got in college. And what I got in college was $5,000, you know what I'm saying, for Pell Grant. And I'm like, man, y'all just sitting around here with a Hellcat, man, y'all got Prada shoes on and LV bag, Goyard this, that, and the other. I'm like, man, I can't even imagine what it was like if I could do that. 'Cause when we was like, when we was in the league, in college, NCAA had the dumbest rules. Like you get, you can get bagel, but you can't get cream cheese. You know what I mean? Like, it's an extra benefit to get cream cheese on a bagel.

It's crazy.

Right.

Right. That's a fact.

They don't understand the struggle, man. I always say when I, when I first came into the league, Man, I was one day, I was one day away from taking a loan from one of my homeboys, Jarell Worthen. He was about to look out for me. He had just got drafted in the second round to the Green Bay Packers. And you know, they get a signing bonus. They get money right away. I ain't got no money from college and I don't get paid till November 15th. And I ain't know when I was gonna like, you know, second round pick like yourself. So they ain't sign me till later in the summer. Didn't wait on the advance. I ain't have no money. And, uh, man, I, I had a— I had— I ain't have enough money to get a car, so I had to rent a car from Enterprise.

That's crazy.

But because they, because they would let me— because Enterprise would let me, um, rent, and like the Warriors at the time was able to take care of it because it's like just some rules with rookies. I end up with like a $20-some thousand bill on Enterprise rental. I could have put that towards a car, but I couldn't afford to get a car. And so I had the bill. And then Jerry Jack and, uh, Jerry Jack had a lease, a leased Range Rover, 2010 Range Rover. And he had like 9,000 miles on it. So he was about to turn his lease back in. Jack let me take over the lease. Mm-hmm. It was only like $37,000 left to pay on the truck, or $47,000 left on an incredible supercharged 2010 Range Rover. I'm like, man, Jack, I'll take that over. And I didn't have enough money to put on a down payment to get a car. So that's how I got my first car in the NBA. Like, it was, it was rough, man. I ain't, I like, for a while I ain't had no furniture. Then I got the advance, I was able to get some furniture. It was rough.

Bro, that sound just like, just like me, man. I had, from pre-draft to draft to when I had to go to Toronto, I had to get a rental car just like yourself. And it was, I remember it was a Chevy Impala from Enterprise. And I had that for the whole summer, man. And I had to take out a line of credit just to be able to pay the rental fee off. And then just to have some money for, I could be able to move and get my stuff to Toronto and everything like that, man. It was crazy. I'm like, bro, this cannot be what the league is like. There's No way. I got drafted and I still have no money in my pocket. And then the first check, like, like I, man, that first check, man, was less than what I got in college, man. I like, you know, second round pick. I'm like, there's no way, but I'm getting taxed in Canada and Cali. So like, like I got nothing. Nothing.

Wow.

It was crazy. The only bonus I had was that in Canada, the conversion rate. So like we getting paid in American. And so, you know, you got money coming into a Canadian account. And that money is double at the time, you know what I'm saying? So like I opened up my Canadian account and I'm like, oh man, I got money now. I can, I got breathing room, man. But it was crazy.

That's funny. Y'all never understand.

Well, y'all ain't gotta complain now 'cause y'all both paid.

Yeah, we doing, we doing, we doing well.

Y'all doing quite well. You live to play another day. And then speaking of, Living to play another day. I got this picture, man, and I need you to describe how is it like, what is it like guarding Wimby? You know, that's my son's favorite player. 7'6". Hey, Doc, and to see this picture of the great Draymond Green. This dude, this dude don't even look like he not even paying attention to you. Hey. Crazy. He can't even see you, bro.

He don't see me. And you know what? I can't say what I was gonna say, but I saw this picture. I'm like, yo, the top of my head at bro nipple. I know Tim's about to say good correction. The top of my head is at bro nipple. Now I am, starting to get in a defensive stance because I can tell you what I'm checking out here on this picture. What I'm looking at is they are getting ready to— I'm, I'm— he's in the corner and he coming and he get this pin down now.

Yeah.

So I'm looking because I know this pin down is coming. So I gotta get ready to— I'm trying to see what angle is this guy gonna come set this screen at because If I trail him and he get a half a step, he's 7'6". It's over. Like, I can't contest the shot. So I'm trying to see what angle I can take to try to throw this screen off. And then also I can't just ride him up over the top like you talk because he's a little frail.

He's nice.

And so if I ride him over the top, And I don't mean frail in a negative way. Wimby is 7'6", 230, 240.

Yeah, you can't, like if you push him—

And it's gonna move his body. If you trail. Right, like if I push him.

If you trail and you late, he ain't, he don't even need a dribble to get to the front of the rim.

Right, so I'm looking at it, I'm looking, trying to figure out what angle is this screen about to come from. Because if I ride him over the top and I bump him at all, his arm gonna flare like that.

He gonna fly.

And they gonna call the foul. They was calling it the whole fourth quarter. So I'm looking like, all right, let me navigate this screen. But then I saw this picture and I'm like, bruh, number one, bro looking like he unbothered by me. Don't do that. Now I gotta get at you.

Super unbothered.

Now I gotta get at you, Ray.

Hey, bro.

Now I gotta get at you. But no, honestly, I'm like, bro, look at this. Like my, the top of my head, Is that my man?

Is that his number? Is that his Spurs jersey?

It does not cross, it's at the bottom of the Spurs logo. I was like, it's crazy. But shout out to Wimby, man. That man, that brother right there, he is going to be so good. He already good, but he gonna be such a problem. But like I said, shout out to Wimby. Wimby last year signed a jersey, his jersey for my son DJ, so. Yeah, I appreciate Wemby. I got a lot of love for him. That kid gonna be, he is going to be special.

He is something special. I mean, he, I mean, you don't, you don't see nothing. Yeah, like I've never seen, you know, anything like Wemby. Handle, shot, and love to play.

Facts.

You know what I mean? He has a certain joy about him. You know, that makes him fun to watch.

100%.

And he wants to be in the big moment. He wants to live in the big moment. And you know, his confidence is through the roof.

Yes, it is.

You know what I mean? Just like this picture says it all. This picture says it all. You got the great Draymond Green, intense, looking for the screen. And he like, man, just— Just bring the screen already. Yeah. Just throw the ball.

Just bring the screen already. Give me the ball. Nah, yeah, nah, I got— Hey, but I tell you what, So our great producer Charles also found a picture of BD versus someone who's 7'6". Sean Bradley. Sean Bradley. So we got the picture of BD.

Sean Bradley, 7'6".

Did he block this shot?

No way.

People out there, what Charles wanna do is he wanna say BD also played against somebody 7'6". It ain't just y'all who play against somebody 7'6". But I'm here to let you all know, and I think Wimby 7'5". But I'm here to let you all know, it's a big difference. It's a big difference. Like the way Wimby moved, the ground he covered, the love for basketball he had, the skill that Wimby has, it's a difference. So don't do that, Charles. That's bullshit. Don't do that. Come on, Charles, don't do that.

You can't compare Sean, bro. You compare him in height. —But definitely you can't compare him in game or even defensively.

That was as bad as Shaq comparing, and y'all know I love Shaq, my favorite player of all time. That's the big homie. Shout out to the OG. Shaq compared Wimby to Bobo, man.

Shaq compared Wimby to Bobo. Hey, bro, Shaq stood on that. Hey, bro, Shaq was standing, Shaq was standing on that, dude. He had me yelling at the TV that night like, yo. Come on, Big Fella.

I'm always riding with Diesel.

I get it.

I'm just letting y'all know, I'm always riding with Big Diesel.

I understand what you trying to say. That's like you got, hey bro, I understand what you trying to say. I get it. I'm rocking with you, baby.

I get it.

Always.

We rocking with you. But come on. We just can't agree to everything.

Talk to me, 5. You got 5 on it today? Who your 5 today?

Man, I got 5. I got 5 on it. First and foremost, LaMelo Ball, 50-44 piece. I think he lost both games, but that's not— They team trash. Numero uno, LaMelo Ball. Number 2, gotta rock with De'Aaron Fox. Fox, come on. Man, just in love with his game. You know, how he, just how he play and how he finish games for them is just, I mean, De'Aaron Fox and he my son, one of my son's favorite players. Coming in at number 3, Jalen Williams.

Ah, from OKC.

From OKC.

Yes, sir.

Because I just think that the dude is the point guard. On their team, right? We know Shay is dynamic superstar combo guard, scoring guard, but I like to give him some credit because really he's like the glue.

Yeah.

And I wanna see him playing more point guard for that team 'cause he's a great playmaker.

He's also the attitude for that team.

Boom. He has the great attitude for that team.

He's the attitude. Sure.

He has an amazing, he has an amazing attitude for that team. Yeah, for sure. All right, where we at? We at number 4. Number 4, I am going with Jrue Holiday. Bruin love. Gotta have a Bruin in there, but most importantly, When I watch this dude play, you know what I mean? He just, he just, he just, that's my get down. Drew Holiday is my get down. I'm gonna lock you up. I'm gonna make shots on you. I'm gonna post you up. I'm gonna take you to the hole. He's just like, he's just, he's just, he's the fix. Okay. You feel what I'm saying? Like he's a fixer.

Absolutely.

Like he's a point guard fixer. So that's, that's 4. And then I wanna, since we didn't do it last week, 5, I gotta go with Chris Paul. Chris Paul going into, what is it, passing 12,000 assists all time in his career.

Yes, sir.

Come on, man. CP3, basketball god. You know, we gotta celebrate these dudes while they still hooping. You know, to see him do it and to do it at a high level, you know, I wanna salute Chris Paul because he definitely, definitely, definitely deserves to be in the top 5. Honorable mention, Dame Lillard. You know, I'm starting to apologize to the Bucks and Doc Rivers. Get your mind right, Doc. Get 'em right, Doc. Come on. Halliburton came back for me. You know, Trae Young, the normal— Just the normal. Yes, sir.

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Game time. There has been a lot, a lot of talk about Bron, the shooting slump that he's been in as of late. He scored just 10 points against the Timberwolves, but he did have 27 and 14 against the Jazz. However, the 27 and 14, he still had a rough shooting night, not hitting any threes. People have been on it. Him not hitting threes as of late. I think the last I seen, he was 0 for his last 19. And so of course, all the Father Time conversations have started up. Not yet, not yet. Everybody wants to know, is Father Time catching up with Bron? The answer's yes.

Absolutely.

And the reason the answer's yes, It's because every year we get older in this league, like every year you get older, there's a point where you come in this league and every year you get older, you get better because you get more experience. You're coming more into your prime, you're getting stronger. And then every— it gets to a point to where every year you get older, you have to address and adjust. And because now,— you're kind of over the hill of the more experience you get, the better it is for you. You're kind of over that hill now. And so is Father Time catching up to him? Absolutely. Because Father Time catches up to everyone.

To everyone.

However, what— where I disagree is people are saying, oh, we just saw it. He's done now. We've been waiting on it. Now he's done. No, no, no. I disagree with that. Quite frankly, what it looks like to me right now is he's a little tired. But you also have to remember, and I know all y'all have forgot because you forget things so fast, but what you have to remember is, you know, they played into the playoffs last year. They fought an uphill battle to actually make it there and get to the playoffs.

Mm-hmm.

And then he comes in and he does the Olympics. Yep. And that is a 2-month, a 2-month requirement. No time off, FYI. No time off. And so what I think right now is I think Bron has just hit a little bit of a wall right now. When you hit walls, you eventually get through the wall.

Bingo.

But right now I think he's a little tired, has hit a wall. Does that mean Father Time is catching up to him?

Hell yeah.

The way y'all are saying it, no.

No.

So still the same Bron. Obviously not the same. Of course, again, he is getting older, but what the way people are trying to throw it out there, like Father Time has caught him and, and, and it's here in our face and we're just about to watch this decline happen. No shit. But what's your thoughts, BD?

Bro, there is no decline. Usually when you get older, right, you do a lot what? Less.

Absolutely.

Right? As you get older, you become a much better shooter. You usually are getting shots created for you by someone else who's young, talented, got, you know, the most talent and used to be you. Look at Ray Allen. People only remember Ray Allen from Miami, but before that, Ray Allen used to do everything. You know what I mean? Mm-hmm.

Jesus, Jesus.

LeBron James, bro, is still playing the same way. He is creating the opportunities still for his teammates. Ain't nobody getting LeBron no open looks. Ain't nobody getting LeBron no easy buckets. Like he's still creating all of the, like he has to create all the energy and the chaos and take it on his shoulders. You know what I mean? Because there like, there hasn't been the young dude that has come along that compliment and say, you know what, OG man, fall back. Let me get this triple double. You go give me some threes and do what you gotta do. He don't have that luxury. No. And he's on a team with the Lakers where he's still, you know, the best all-around player.

100%.

The most, you know what I mean? Outside of AD, he is the most needed person because they gotta glue up around him. And so slump, yes. Tired, yes. Father time, yes. All of those things play into everybody's career every year in the season, whether you're a rookie, second year, like everybody hits a little snag. Where it's just like, hey man, it's cold. You know what I mean? It's cold in these arenas. I ain't getting the shots. You know what I mean? I ain't getting my rhythm. But you best believe when the Lakers play again, he gonna get over that slump. I'm not even worried about it. You know what I mean?

No wonder.

So, you know, I remember playing against Mike, bro, when he played for the Wizards. And you know, he came into Charlotte and it was like, that was the craziest shit I'd ever seen. There was no camera phones, but it was all kind of camera flashes. Flashing and felt like everybody was recording with a camera phone. That's how many cameras was flashing when he went to the free throw line. And I was sitting there like, damn, man, you know, I had 32 that night. And in my mind I was like, damn, bro, like, I'm Michael Jordan tonight.

You know what I mean?

I am your captain now. And I was just looking at him like, Yeah, okay. Just, you know, sizing him up like, man, you brought all this attention for me. I'm out here, I'm Michael Jordan tonight. You feel me? I brought all this. I bet you didn't say that to MJ. No, I didn't say nothing. No way. No way, I would never. I would never say nothing. I was just giving him that look like, like, bro, you brought all this for me? Cool, okay.

Draymond Green too.

Yeah, yeah. They gonna be worrying about me tonight. And then we go on the road and we're playing the Washington Wizards and we got, you know, we got Washington. They wasn't that good either. We like, man, we about to go in here. We about to pop them again. I'm about to give me another, you know, I'm about to give me another 25-12. I'm gonna do it different on the road. And I watched this dude in the first quarter score 17 points.

Oh, he went off.

Draymond, I watched. I was not participating, bro. I was so mesmerized. I was guarding T-Lou. Hey, if you watch the clips, you'll see me never help. Never help. And the Cubs call a timeout. He like, yo, what the hell y'all doing? Y'all just gonna let this man get cooked? It was Lee Nagle and I said, "Damn, bro, my bad. I was just watching." I got your help. I was like, "Man, I got your help. Let me get him." So I guard him the first time. I know he going to the fade. So boom, he go to the fade and I'm on top of the fade. He go to fade, I'm like, "Man, get that shit." And he leaned back, Dre. Like another inch and shoot the ball. Wham! Okay. All right. Man, I got this fool. He go to the post again. Boom boom, I know this shit coming. You about to turn to the middle. Boom boom, turn to the middle. Oh, up and under, layup. Hey, somebody else get this fool. I'm going back over here with T. Lou. I'm about to watch. I'm cool. This is not cool. Hey dude, that's what, and, and, You know, you see somebody like Mike like that and LeBron, like it's the same thing. It's like, be careful 'cause they gonna remember. But that Mike story was like, damn dude, like I'm just watching him. I'm like, damn dude, what kind of cologne you got? Like what kind of cologne? This nigga smell good as shit out here. You know what I'm like? Yeah.

Like, bro, you called off He had that weak-ass Michael Jordan cologne.

All that bullshit Michael Jordan cologne. Tracy Penny went out and picked it up. Yeah, but whatever it was, whatever it was, Michael Jordan was so, he was like an enigma, dude. He was like a, it was just like, oh shit.

It's MJ.

You fucked. Soon as you do that, you fucked. You can't like, but you gonna do that. Oh damn, this is Michael Jordan. You like, "Hi, Michael Jordan." Like, "Fuck you." You know, Mike talk shit to everybody.

Asshole.

But dog, imagine like your favorite player, the dude you idolize, like, you know what I mean, dude? You watch on TV and you like, "Yo, I'm in the league. Like, what's up, Michael Jordan?" He like, "Shut the fuck up." Nah, I feel that.

That's what happened to me with Kobe. That same thing happened to me with Kobe.

Kobe, did you like that?

Same thing happened to me with Kobe, bro. I'll never forget it. I got subbed in. Number one, I watched this whole workout and missed everything that I was supposed to do. I was like, damn. I got subbed in, I needed to get the stop. And I got the stop on the game-winning shot. I got the stop, he missed the fadeaway. And I was like, hell yeah. That ain't had nothing to do with you, young fella. I just missed.

Man. Man.

Yeah, it had something to do with me.

You just missed.

Trust me, I get it. So I know, I know exactly how that feel. So a lot, a lot of people talking about this one. It's from your era. Although I did play against D2. Number one, first I wanna say congratulations to D-Wade on the statue, man.

Hey, congratulations to Flash, my dog. That's my dog.

Yes sir. I think like to get a statue, man, like that, Ah, come on, man. To get your jersey retired is one thing. Like, that's incredible. It's great. To get a statue, like you—

That's on a whole nother level, bro.

That's a totally different level. You immortalized. You feel me? Absolutely. And so, number one, like I said, congrats to him. But we must have a science. What was your first thoughts? When you saw the statue, people are, you know, people are making a lot about it. D-Wade said, "Who is that guy?" And what—

Man, man.

What's your thoughts, man?

Man, man, all right. First of all, first of all, I wanna echo what you said. You feel what I'm saying? Flash, Hall of Famer, Olympian. You know what I mean? NBA champ, you know, to have your jersey retired, to be immortalized in a statue, you know, incredible. You know what I mean? Probably emotional day. All the people out there, and shout out to the Miami Heat organization 'cause they just always, you know, do it right.

Mm-hmm. Until—

They do. Until they picked the person to design the statue, bro. Well, all right, I got, I got some jokes 'cause I, I felt, I felt you was gonna ask me this. I said, why did they give D-Wade a Timu statue? When he said, yeah, when he said, who is that? I was like, man, who is that? You know? Hey bro, who is that? Who, who, who, who is that? Hey, I, I would like to make an announcement right now to anybody retiring or anybody picking another statue. Please consult with Baron Davis Enterprises on how to, How to approve and design a statue. Come on, dude. I mean, come on, dog. So check this out. Hey, dog, they did, look how they did Iverson in Philly.

It was like this big. I couldn't believe AI statue was like this big.

Hey, dog, they had, they gave AI an Oscar trophy.

Yo, so check this out. Check this out. I saw pictures of D-Wade D-Wade viewing the statue face. It's actually, I think it was on Rachel Nichols' page, if I'm not mistaken, of D-Wade viewing the statue. And I must say the mockup of his face looks absolutely nothing like the statue turned out. So everybody's like, oh, D-Wade saw it first. Like he, no, he saw, he approved it. But the mockup of his face before the turn up, it looked like D-Wade. Afterwards, it looked like Tim Thomas. And—

Hey bro.

I don't quite understand how it ended up that way.

That's sick.

But my thing is, like, don't they show the statue to maybe someone like Pat Riley? Like— when it's complete before they just unveil it and everybody like, "Oh yo, like who is that guy?" Damn, dude. I just, and then another one is the, then the guy who made the statue comes out today with a statement saying it is not for all humans to understand. It's not for all human activity or something of that nature. And I'm just like, yo, You can't come out and defend that.

Chill homie.

You know what? One person that came out and agree with your statue face, bro.

You can't do that. You got, come on, dawg. You got, this is what I think. I think they were like, yo, D-Wade, we need you to pose for this statue. And you know how busy he is. He like, man, I ain't got all day. And this shit was taking all day. So he called his cousin and said, hey man, So you think it's not D-Wade? It could be his cousin. So he was like, man, I'm tired of this shit. Hey cousin, stand in for me. And the artist didn't know if it was D-Wade or the cousin.

Yeah. Draymond Wade.

Damn, man. Shout out to D-Wade, man.

We love you, bro. We love you, bro.

It's just— Nothing but love.

I actually saw D-Wade last week, man. It's always a pleasure to see D-Wade, to be in his presence. Yeah. But D, you got, can they like redo the face? Man, that's what I was gonna say, dog.

How does that work?

We gotta do something, dude. We gotta do something. We gotta do something. 'Cause like, think about like 20 years from now, you know what I mean? Like he gonna be like, yo, like here's my statue. You know what I mean? And your grandkids gonna be like, hey man, Knock it off.

He look 20 years older in the statue right now.

Damn. Hey, hey, hire me to find the artist to create art for statues to represent these legends.

Lauren Halsey.

Lauren Halsey. I'm not dissing the artist. She'd be great at it. I'm not dissing the artist or nothing 'cause I understand art, I understand artistry. But when you do sculptures of people, you know what I mean? You're gonna face the most backlash because we know what D-Wade look like, you know what I mean? And so we wanna see, we wanna see a D-Wade statue. You know what I mean? Yeah.

That's a fact. I agree. I hope they can like twist the head off and like change it out or something. Because—

Or paint like a hologram on the face. You know what I mean? Like maybe—

Something. Use some AI, a 3D printer, something. We got too many things today. This must be corrected. This must be corrected. D-Wade, these are jokes, man. We love you, dog.

Hey, D-Wade. D-Wade is, hey, that's my boy, man.