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Speaker 1: Welcome a point Game with John Wall and CJ Toldonno presented by Draft Kings. Don't forget DraftKings is your home for all the action across the NBA and gets you closer to the game.
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Speaker 2: We all love.
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Speaker 1: Their crown is yours. On today's episode, we are doing something a little different. We are answering your fan questions that you sent to us via our social So remember, if we use your question on the show, we will be sending you some point game swag. So stay tuned, watch the whole episode, see if we asked a question and dm us and we'll get that swag out to you immediately. Next week we will be back with a very special guest, So stay locked in, follow us on social, give us those five stars and write review with a question for John and we might answer that and more swag will be sent your way. First up, John answers a question from Ryan Joseph about how important the game versus North Carolina was to him when he played at Kentucky.
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Speaker 3: It mean everything to me, you know, of me just growing up being a Carolina fan and getting the opportunity to play them, and I just wanted to I just wanted to kill the whole game, like I just wanted to beat them so bad, and like the night before, I couldn't sleep. I mean, I'm up, just didn't sleep. And then I was really mad because we got off to a great start. We was kicking ass. And then the first play the second half, I take a drip and my whole body locks up in cramps, like my whole body.
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Speaker 2: I'm just standing there like this.
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Speaker 3: I couldn't move and they had to take me to the back and they trying to give me IVS and coach cal.
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Speaker 2: Was like, what is he at? Where is he at?
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Speaker 3: Cause they was making a run like Carolina's coming back, and I just I'm like I'm trying, like I'm trying to get IV like but I just was so dehydrated. And it's crazy because all I was doing was drink a lot of water, drink like Gatorator. But I realized then I had to eat bananas the halftime and bananas for the game. Then I had to get Lectra lights in my drink, so like a drip drop, I got drip dropped of my water. So like I try to drink one of two of these every day to stay hydrated. But I finally came back in the game and we won the game, and it was big.
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Speaker 2: Time for me.
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Speaker 3: And then I remember John Hinson telling me I got a one, a big time man one. I winked at Roy Williams and he was like a halftime, He's like, you fucking winked at me. You fucking winked at me. So yeah, that was a big time game for me. I'm glad we got that win. And you know, just being on CBS, man, just hap an opportunity as a kid growing up to be on CBS and play at school that you dreamed of going to and seeing play a lot like that was special to me. I'm gonna tell you the funny part I loved about it is I got a dope and when I crossed up like this and on my left and I'm yelling like this, and I still got a picture on my phone. You can see my mom and sister in the crowd right there, and I was like, I'm a bad motherfucker.
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Speaker 1: Question from Giovanni Teddy B ninety two, they asked, what is your favorite post workout meal?
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Speaker 3: Our favorite post workout meal for me is some shrimp and steak fried rice. I like extra shrimp extra steak ectuly shrimp actually egg. I love that like I'm love some fried right so I'm definitely getting there.
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Speaker 1: You got like a like a chef that's ready for you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I got it. Shout out my Sheff, Brian Lee. Shout out Sheff Brian Lee. Uh he making some burning chicken right now, probably some white rice and some uh some stream rings, you know what I mean. So great little dinner meal right there.
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right.
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Speaker 1: Next one, mong Walla asks who was your favorite person to play defense against from a competitive standpoint.
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Speaker 2: My favorite person played even against Kyrieerby.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I said, just uh being able to just catch and shoot shoot out the dribble threes, mid range post up floaters. Uh, it's changing face's handles, just makes making it difficult, really make you lock into another level. I would say, kyrierver cool.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: This is from my buddy, huge Wizards fan, huge fan of yours, Broccoli House. He asks what is your favorite all time basketball shoot to play in? And I have a fallow up to this too. Hey, shout out to h.
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Speaker 2: Shout out for one.
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Speaker 3: Mine's gonna be for myself because I had my own Shoeshout out to John wall Ones with the DDA sign Those are my favorite shoes right there, you see the cherry blossoms. But for me, I probably would say the hyper Rise dunks. I got to picture of them. I think when I played that Carolina, those might have been the most lightest shoes I ever played in, most comfortable shoes, and I really really missed those shoes. I wish I could still wear those. I wish I could find some because those were the most lightest shoes I ever wore.
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Speaker 1: Well, can I ask, so you had a signature shoe, which is like, you know a lot of players don't get to do that. Did you get to like have a saying designing your shoe?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: I had a lot of say so. Like I remember my first one Reebok. I didn't have to say so. The second one I did. You can see I had like the eleven on the side of them with Kentucky on it.
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Speaker 2: Then I had a Kolie Ram's pair.
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Speaker 3: I had a lot of say so on a lot of like the John wall ones you see right there, those are the cherry blossoms. For DC, I had the what I had the the Grinch Stole Christmas, the green ones. Then I had the Halloween Halloween ones. Uh yeah, I had a lot of SATs on a lot of stuff I did, so it was definitely dope and fun while I had that time doing it.
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Speaker 1: It's an underrated classic. Okay. Next question, Tyreek J two six to one asked your favorite Bradley Beal moment. So, your longtime teammate Bradley Beal, do you have any funny stories or like, you know, moments that you really look back on with Brad.
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Speaker 2: That's a good one, man. I have a lot of a lot of dope moments.
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Speaker 1: Anything you guys might have said to each other, like in the heat of the battle, you know.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Well, we always challenging each other, like I mean, no matter what, we always change other. But I think I say my dopest moment is a twenty fourteen win our first playoff series and it was Game five going back to Chicago. We was up three to zero, lost Game four and going back and just putting the smile on our faces for us being young guys, our first time ever in a play off, winning a series like that on the road and being that type of environment.
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Speaker 2: I think, like that's a that's a special moment. For me right there, So winning that one there? Cool? All right?
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Speaker 1: Last fan question Jeremy Fishbaine asks, you're an NBA GM, Say you're in an NBA GM right now, who do you take in this year's draft? Between Reed Shepherd or Rob Dillingham.
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Speaker 2: Well, hopefully one day I would be an NBA GM, that's my goal.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, But for me, it depends on what I needed that time being for the team.
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
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Speaker 3: I think if I need a true point guard to run my team, taking read Shepherd. If I need a mic awave, somebody can come get me a bucket insta office anytime. And I need a clutch moment, you can go either one with clutch moment. But if I need a bucket and I need a microwave out the bench like a Lou Wood, Jamal Crawford or those type of guys, I'm taking a Rob Dillingham dope.
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Speaker 1: Let's do okay. This is from Instagram Umbrella Stories. So John, what was your first welcome to the NBA moment?
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Speaker 2: My first welcome to the NBA moment?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I told you, I think I forgot the stretch. I don't want to say the wrong order or anything like that, But my stretch I played d Rose, Darren Williams, Russell Westbrook, Rondo.
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Speaker 2: Steve Nash like a five game stretch, that's correct. And this is when like point.
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Speaker 3: Guards is real point guards, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, he was really going to get it. Those guys was all gifted in different ways. This is when you I had to guard the point guard. I couldn't guard no other position. And Steve Nash had went like I think ten for ten or eleven eleven against me, and I was like, man, what the fuck? Like I do I stop this guy? But this is when he's running pick over. Marce started of mind and he always keep his dribble under the basket. Like he was very difficult, you know. I mean this was my rookie year, was d Roe's MVP year. Yeah, you know what I mean. I always tell him like he's the hardest guy that had the guard at that time. You know me in my career for sure?
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Speaker 1: Did you think about that, like you had mentioned we were talking about it before that you decided to play for coach cal because you saw what he did with de Rose at Memphis, So what was like sort of your mindset before that first matchup and then did you have to like learn how to guard him over those years?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got tippy.
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Speaker 3: Like when I was watching d Rose play he was I think it was playing Oklahoma in the guard I'm not mistaken.
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Speaker 2: And just the way Kyle let him who he was free.
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Speaker 3: I was fast, athletic like him, and I was like, Damn, that's the school I'm going to. Like, I already had it in my mind, you know, I mean, but at the same time, I have to meet coach Kyle. I have to go visit the school, see how it is, to make sure that is the right decision.
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Speaker 2: I mean.
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Speaker 3: But from where I looked, from the point of view of minds of watching from the TV, it's perfect. And yeah, I think over the years I figured out ways to guard him a little better. But also I think the injuries kind of changed his game a little bit.
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Speaker 2: For them. It was like, damn, what do you do?
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Speaker 3: Like the same thing you kind of would do with me, is like, hopefully he's not making jump shots that night, you know what I mean. But even when he was, and he still was religious of getting to the basket.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 3: He had a master master float off two feet, so he was just a difficult gard to deal with. And then the team he had was so perfect. I mean, those guys defended at a high level and they knew their offense flew when he flew, so he was getting shots up, he was making the right place, He's making movement. So a lot of people didn't want to see d Rose at that time. A lot of people was missing games and acting like they were sick and when he came in town, but he was special.
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Speaker 1: Well is that real? People? You really heard people acting like they were sick or sat out because d Rose.
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Speaker 3: Oh, a lot of people would like the time he was on Bro Like a lot of people didn't want to see d Rose.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know a lot of people didn't want to see d Rose.
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Speaker 1: That was a sneaky, like incredible team.
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Speaker 2: Like that's what That's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: Like they had the right pieces, you know what I mean that Noah, they had Boozer, they had lou All dain a right that Keith Bogans was there at one point. Then they had Jimmy Butler come in so like they had Kurt Heinrich. That one of my greatest vets of all time, Kurt Todds Gibson was there off the bench, like they had the right pieces. Uh, they just they was the right there and like it was trying to get past that Miami team at that time, and I mean that was the one team they was trying to get past, and I think like they was getting to the verge of that.
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Speaker 1: Dope. Okay, next question, this is from Kale Broach on Instagram. What's the biggest piece of advice you could give to the new generation of Hoopers.
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Speaker 2: Uh, My biggest advice would be.
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Speaker 3: Continue to work on your game for sure, but also play a little bit, play some pickup, like you know what I mean, Like just playing all the just working out all the time. I think that helps give you the fundamentals and the massive things. But you can play pick up a little bit here and that you don't have to play too much, I think. And now, back in the day, that's all we did was play pick up or anywhere anytime we wanted to au We played probably three games a day, four games a day. But just don't get caught up until like now, you can make money in high school, you can make money in college.
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Speaker 2: Don't let that take you over the head.
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Speaker 3: Stay grounded, make sure you listen to your parents, get your education, and just work man like. Just don't do things for highlights on YouTube. Just don't try to make the best mixtape, try to do this for highlights every play. Just play the right way, play fundamental, and do the little things that get you where you want, and they prepare yourself for college because it's a different beast than what you think it is.
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Speaker 1: That's I mean, do you think your career would have been different if you were playing in this day and age of social media like early on we're talking like those later years in high school and college.
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Speaker 2: No, I think my crew is to be the same.
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Speaker 3: I mean, like without the injuries, I think I still I think I still had the heck of a career so far without my injuries. And they just better be lucky that I did have injuries. I mean I was at the point of twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, at the peak of my career, like getting to where I really was who I wanted to be and getting better and better. So I mean, some you can't control what God plan is and having injuries and things like that, But no, I think my career will still would have been the same. I just think you would have seen me more on TV. You put it out nil deals and things like that. But other than that, I wouldn't take anything back from where I came up and where I played and the era I came into because I enjoyed it. I loved it and it made me who I am.
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Speaker 1: Dupe Okay, all right? Staying on Instagram here this is from same old g. What would you say is your best single game performance in the NBA. It's been a lot of them.
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Speaker 3: I would say my best would be Game six. I would say Game six for me for sure, Game six, close out game in Atlanta. I just feel like I think I was playing well. We went up big that game. I think I had like twenty five, twenty two, twenty three or twenty five going into the four if I'm not mistaken, And I just wanted to revenge against them because the year we had Paul Pierce. I had broke my hand first half of that game. They didn't know it. A lot of people don't know. I finished the whole game and I had five fractions in the middle of my finger, middle of my hand, and I feel like that was a year to go to the Eastern Commas finals. You know what, I mean, but we ended up losing in six, and Dennis Schroeder had posted a picture when he was looking to smelled at me at the game five after I blocked this shot and I horfor got off his rebound the score and they went back to Game six at home in DC and they closed our season and I was mad, so like me, I'm gonna get revenge, like I have to get revenge.
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Speaker 2: And I came in.
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Speaker 3: I think I had like twenty something in the fourth, but I was just unbelievable, man like Mi range after mill range, big defensive stops. My teammates said, great screens, they making big shots for me and just telling them I said I'll be back. I mean, just saying I'd be back. And I closed that series out and then we go to Boston after that. So I would say that would be my best performance for me because it was in the playoffs moment and then to score almost twenty something in the fourth and then the close out of team that I felt like we should have beat before, it meant special to me.
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Speaker 1: Nice. Okay, did someone say was that shrouder who said, like your hand, your hand was hurt, so kind of attack that hand?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, which is, which is you supposed to do? Like I have nothing but the utmost respect for him. Like we always had our battles where we try to talk a lot, and uh, that's just the competiti nature both of us, Like we both want to compete at a high level.
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Speaker 2: I was who I was. He was becoming who he was in Atlanta.
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Speaker 3: I remember earlier he was coming out the bench and end up getting to start and rolling being a great piece of that team and lead those gods to the playoffs. But yeah, he was like, smack his in every chance you get, smack his hand, smack his inn. And like I would say the same thing for our team if we were playing and against somebody has to hurt hand anything like that. But I mean my toughness, it didn't bother me. Like I was like, I'm doing whatever. I'm just trying to get back our hand.
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Speaker 1: Who cool And this is from at Kurt Neil. What was your favorite wizard's jersey you ever wore? So like design wise, Yeah, you had the what that like the mj Ones and you came in and then those like stripe ones. Which ones are your favorite?
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Speaker 3: I don't really know, to be honest, Like everybody love the old school ones doing the m and them had. If I had to pick, I would say the gold one, but I don't think we ever got the weardose. But the gold on the gold silk one probably would have been the firest one, but we never got the opportunity to wear those.
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Speaker 1: Do you think, Like I remember you had posted about when you got your your mitchellin Nest throwback. How big of a moment was that?
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Speaker 2: It was special for me.
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Speaker 3: Man let me just to be a kid that loved wearing jerseys growing up, that still love wearing jerseys.
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Speaker 2: I have almost all the.
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Speaker 3: Michelin That's throwbacks in my closet, so I wear in my life in the summer. You let me being in Miami shirt off. Let me just shirtless with all my tats out. I got there and I was like, damn, like I really have a Hall of Fame type jersey. I mean, like a Mitchell of netow back, Like kids are wearing that. People are wearing it, and it was dope to me. So when I first got an award, I was super excited.
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Speaker 1: I love that you still you say still rock jerseys because I feel like a lot of NBA players wou'd be like I'm not wearing another you know, players jerseys.
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Speaker 3: So if I'm not competing against the guy, I don't mind, you know what I mean, Like it's just a difference for me.
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Speaker 2: Like I can be wearing.
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Speaker 3: Kyrie's, Paul George's, Lebron's, Kd's, I could wear their shoes, but when I play against him, I can't wear them, you know what I mean? Like you feel like that, Like why am I wearing them? I'm competing against them. I can wear them any other game, but this game I have to switch them up.
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Speaker 1: What was your favorite signature shoe aside from yours, Aside from yours and aside from Jordan's.
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Speaker 3: Uh, Kobe's man, Kobe's is special. I mean, like Kyrie had great shoes. I never wore his shoes, none against Ki. John Ray has a nice shoe now, I mean, I just would never wear another point guard.
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Speaker 2: Shoot, that's just my nature of it. KD has nice shoes, But I was the Kobe for me.
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Speaker 3: Bro like the most comfortables for me, Like when I started with them in sixteen seventeen season, Like Kobe's is what it was for me.
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Speaker 1: Favorite Kobe model.
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Speaker 2: The Grenches.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like that's what everyone's hooping in right now, and it's like it's been that way.
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Speaker 2: Those those are the.
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Speaker 3: Is those I think those those are the sixties, right, Yeah, sixties fives and fours I think are my face.
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Speaker 1: G's been wearing the fours a lot lately.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the sixties and fours are my favorite.
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Speaker 1: Kobe's just shout out to to with Vanessa and like Nike are doing. Is what I like about the Kobe's now is like they're retroing them, but they're like updating them for performance, like they call him protros and it's like that's kind of like I wish Jordan's did that right, And I know you've you've rocked like the twelves, the French Blues, I think a few times I remember seeing that, and I was always like, man, with your game, did it ever feel weird to be hooping in retros that may have not been like updated.
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Speaker 2: No, I was just hooping.
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Speaker 3: I ain't care for real, like me, I just wanted to hoop and I was free to be able to wear whatever.
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Speaker 2: So I wore Jordan Tuo's I wore the thirteens.
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Speaker 3: I mean what he got games like you always wearing shoes that people like, why, probably I shouldn't have, but you know what I mean, Like I'm wear enjoy as I'm moving.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's do one more here. What's up? This is from its chance? What music do you listen to? And who's your favorite artist? Let's say, like right.
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Speaker 3: Now, Little Dirk's my favorite artist right now, that's my brother shout out smirk yo for me all time.
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Speaker 2: My favorite artist is a little Wayne.
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Speaker 3: I mean, everybody knows that you was riding in my car back in high school. It was the car of three. That's all you heard. I ain't listening to nothing else but listen to you know what I mean. Definitely got to listen in the future right now, money back Yo has he ees tg uh want to be fat baby, drill hun Jo, Hunchjo got the fire. Right now, I'm listening too. I'm listening to rolawadogas. You definitely got to put a little baby on there. So I just listen to a lot, Like I got a lot of music on my playlist. I listen to a lot of music, so I'm kicked into that dope.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: Welcome a point Game with John Wall and CJ Toldonno presented by Draft Kings. Don't forget DraftKings is your home for all the action across the NBA and gets you closer to the game.
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Speaker 2: We all love.
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Speaker 1: Their crown is yours. On today's episode, we are doing something a little different. We are answering your fan questions that you sent to us via our social So remember, if we use your question on the show, we will be sending you some point game swag. So stay tuned, watch the whole episode, see if we asked a question and dm us and we'll get that swag out to you immediately. Next week we will be back with a very special guest, So stay locked in, follow us on social, give us those five stars and write review with a question for John and we might answer that and more swag will be sent your way. First up, John answers a question from Ryan Joseph about how important the game versus North Carolina was to him when he played at Kentucky.
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Speaker 3: It mean everything to me, you know, of me just growing up being a Carolina fan and getting the opportunity to play them, and I just wanted to I just wanted to kill the whole game, like I just wanted to beat them so bad, and like the night before, I couldn't sleep. I mean, I'm up, just didn't sleep. And then I was really mad because we got off to a great start. We was kicking ass. And then the first play the second half, I take a drip and my whole body locks up in cramps, like my whole body.
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Speaker 2: I'm just standing there like this.
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Speaker 3: I couldn't move and they had to take me to the back and they trying to give me IVS and coach cal.
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Speaker 2: Was like, what is he at? Where is he at?
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Speaker 3: Cause they was making a run like Carolina's coming back, and I just I'm like I'm trying, like I'm trying to get IV like but I just was so dehydrated. And it's crazy because all I was doing was drink a lot of water, drink like Gatorator. But I realized then I had to eat bananas the halftime and bananas for the game. Then I had to get Lectra lights in my drink, so like a drip drop, I got drip dropped of my water. So like I try to drink one of two of these every day to stay hydrated. But I finally came back in the game and we won the game, and it was big.
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Speaker 2: Time for me.
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Speaker 3: And then I remember John Hinson telling me I got a one, a big time man one. I winked at Roy Williams and he was like a halftime, He's like, you fucking winked at me. You fucking winked at me. So yeah, that was a big time game for me. I'm glad we got that win. And you know, just being on CBS, man, just hap an opportunity as a kid growing up to be on CBS and play at school that you dreamed of going to and seeing play a lot like that was special to me. I'm gonna tell you the funny part I loved about it is I got a dope and when I crossed up like this and on my left and I'm yelling like this, and I still got a picture on my phone. You can see my mom and sister in the crowd right there, and I was like, I'm a bad motherfucker.
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Speaker 1: Question from Giovanni Teddy B ninety two, they asked, what is your favorite post workout meal?
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Speaker 3: Our favorite post workout meal for me is some shrimp and steak fried rice. I like extra shrimp extra steak ectuly shrimp actually egg. I love that like I'm love some fried right so I'm definitely getting there.
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Speaker 1: You got like a like a chef that's ready for you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I got it. Shout out my Sheff, Brian Lee. Shout out Sheff Brian Lee. Uh he making some burning chicken right now, probably some white rice and some uh some stream rings, you know what I mean. So great little dinner meal right there.
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right.
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Speaker 1: Next one, mong Walla asks who was your favorite person to play defense against from a competitive standpoint.
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Speaker 2: My favorite person played even against Kyrieerby.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I said, just uh being able to just catch and shoot shoot out the dribble threes, mid range post up floaters. Uh, it's changing face's handles, just makes making it difficult, really make you lock into another level. I would say, kyrierver cool.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: This is from my buddy, huge Wizards fan, huge fan of yours, Broccoli House. He asks what is your favorite all time basketball shoot to play in? And I have a fallow up to this too. Hey, shout out to h.
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Speaker 2: Shout out for one.
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Speaker 3: Mine's gonna be for myself because I had my own Shoeshout out to John wall Ones with the DDA sign Those are my favorite shoes right there, you see the cherry blossoms. But for me, I probably would say the hyper Rise dunks. I got to picture of them. I think when I played that Carolina, those might have been the most lightest shoes I ever played in, most comfortable shoes, and I really really missed those shoes. I wish I could still wear those. I wish I could find some because those were the most lightest shoes I ever wore.
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Speaker 1: Well, can I ask, so you had a signature shoe, which is like, you know a lot of players don't get to do that. Did you get to like have a saying designing your shoe?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: I had a lot of say so. Like I remember my first one Reebok. I didn't have to say so. The second one I did. You can see I had like the eleven on the side of them with Kentucky on it.
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Speaker 2: Then I had a Kolie Ram's pair.
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Speaker 3: I had a lot of say so on a lot of like the John wall ones you see right there, those are the cherry blossoms. For DC, I had the what I had the the Grinch Stole Christmas, the green ones. Then I had the Halloween Halloween ones. Uh yeah, I had a lot of SATs on a lot of stuff I did, so it was definitely dope and fun while I had that time doing it.
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Speaker 1: It's an underrated classic. Okay. Next question, Tyreek J two six to one asked your favorite Bradley Beal moment. So, your longtime teammate Bradley Beal, do you have any funny stories or like, you know, moments that you really look back on with Brad.
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Speaker 2: That's a good one, man. I have a lot of a lot of dope moments.
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Speaker 1: Anything you guys might have said to each other, like in the heat of the battle, you know.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Well, we always challenging each other, like I mean, no matter what, we always change other. But I think I say my dopest moment is a twenty fourteen win our first playoff series and it was Game five going back to Chicago. We was up three to zero, lost Game four and going back and just putting the smile on our faces for us being young guys, our first time ever in a play off, winning a series like that on the road and being that type of environment.
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Speaker 2: I think, like that's a that's a special moment. For me right there, So winning that one there? Cool? All right?
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Speaker 1: Last fan question Jeremy Fishbaine asks, you're an NBA GM, Say you're in an NBA GM right now, who do you take in this year's draft? Between Reed Shepherd or Rob Dillingham.
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Speaker 2: Well, hopefully one day I would be an NBA GM, that's my goal.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, But for me, it depends on what I needed that time being for the team.
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
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Speaker 3: I think if I need a true point guard to run my team, taking read Shepherd. If I need a mic awave, somebody can come get me a bucket insta office anytime. And I need a clutch moment, you can go either one with clutch moment. But if I need a bucket and I need a microwave out the bench like a Lou Wood, Jamal Crawford or those type of guys, I'm taking a Rob Dillingham dope.
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Speaker 1: Let's do okay. This is from Instagram Umbrella Stories. So John, what was your first welcome to the NBA moment?
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Speaker 2: My first welcome to the NBA moment?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I told you, I think I forgot the stretch. I don't want to say the wrong order or anything like that, But my stretch I played d Rose, Darren Williams, Russell Westbrook, Rondo.
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Speaker 2: Steve Nash like a five game stretch, that's correct. And this is when like point.
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Speaker 3: Guards is real point guards, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, he was really going to get it. Those guys was all gifted in different ways. This is when you I had to guard the point guard. I couldn't guard no other position. And Steve Nash had went like I think ten for ten or eleven eleven against me, and I was like, man, what the fuck? Like I do I stop this guy? But this is when he's running pick over. Marce started of mind and he always keep his dribble under the basket. Like he was very difficult, you know. I mean this was my rookie year, was d Roe's MVP year. Yeah, you know what I mean. I always tell him like he's the hardest guy that had the guard at that time. You know me in my career for sure?
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Speaker 1: Did you think about that, like you had mentioned we were talking about it before that you decided to play for coach cal because you saw what he did with de Rose at Memphis, So what was like sort of your mindset before that first matchup and then did you have to like learn how to guard him over those years?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got tippy.
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Speaker 3: Like when I was watching d Rose play he was I think it was playing Oklahoma in the guard I'm not mistaken.
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Speaker 2: And just the way Kyle let him who he was free.
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Speaker 3: I was fast, athletic like him, and I was like, Damn, that's the school I'm going to. Like, I already had it in my mind, you know, I mean, but at the same time, I have to meet coach Kyle. I have to go visit the school, see how it is, to make sure that is the right decision.
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Speaker 2: I mean.
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Speaker 3: But from where I looked, from the point of view of minds of watching from the TV, it's perfect. And yeah, I think over the years I figured out ways to guard him a little better. But also I think the injuries kind of changed his game a little bit.
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Speaker 2: For them. It was like, damn, what do you do?
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Speaker 3: Like the same thing you kind of would do with me, is like, hopefully he's not making jump shots that night, you know what I mean. But even when he was, and he still was religious of getting to the basket.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 3: He had a master master float off two feet, so he was just a difficult gard to deal with. And then the team he had was so perfect. I mean, those guys defended at a high level and they knew their offense flew when he flew, so he was getting shots up, he was making the right place, He's making movement. So a lot of people didn't want to see d Rose at that time. A lot of people was missing games and acting like they were sick and when he came in town, but he was special.
00:09:38
Speaker 1: Well is that real? People? You really heard people acting like they were sick or sat out because d Rose.
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Speaker 3: Oh, a lot of people would like the time he was on Bro Like a lot of people didn't want to see d Rose.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know a lot of people didn't want to see d Rose.
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Speaker 1: That was a sneaky, like incredible team.
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Speaker 2: Like that's what That's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: Like they had the right pieces, you know what I mean that Noah, they had Boozer, they had lou All dain a right that Keith Bogans was there at one point. Then they had Jimmy Butler come in so like they had Kurt Heinrich. That one of my greatest vets of all time, Kurt Todds Gibson was there off the bench, like they had the right pieces. Uh, they just they was the right there and like it was trying to get past that Miami team at that time, and I mean that was the one team they was trying to get past, and I think like they was getting to the verge of that.
00:10:28
Speaker 1: Dope. Okay, next question, this is from Kale Broach on Instagram. What's the biggest piece of advice you could give to the new generation of Hoopers.
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Speaker 2: Uh, My biggest advice would be.
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Speaker 3: Continue to work on your game for sure, but also play a little bit, play some pickup, like you know what I mean, Like just playing all the just working out all the time. I think that helps give you the fundamentals and the massive things. But you can play pick up a little bit here and that you don't have to play too much, I think. And now, back in the day, that's all we did was play pick up or anywhere anytime we wanted to au We played probably three games a day, four games a day. But just don't get caught up until like now, you can make money in high school, you can make money in college.
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Speaker 2: Don't let that take you over the head.
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Speaker 3: Stay grounded, make sure you listen to your parents, get your education, and just work man like. Just don't do things for highlights on YouTube. Just don't try to make the best mixtape, try to do this for highlights every play. Just play the right way, play fundamental, and do the little things that get you where you want, and they prepare yourself for college because it's a different beast than what you think it is.
00:11:35
Speaker 1: That's I mean, do you think your career would have been different if you were playing in this day and age of social media like early on we're talking like those later years in high school and college.
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Speaker 2: No, I think my crew is to be the same.
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Speaker 3: I mean, like without the injuries, I think I still I think I still had the heck of a career so far without my injuries. And they just better be lucky that I did have injuries. I mean I was at the point of twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, at the peak of my career, like getting to where I really was who I wanted to be and getting better and better. So I mean, some you can't control what God plan is and having injuries and things like that, But no, I think my career will still would have been the same. I just think you would have seen me more on TV. You put it out nil deals and things like that. But other than that, I wouldn't take anything back from where I came up and where I played and the era I came into because I enjoyed it. I loved it and it made me who I am.
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Speaker 1: Dupe Okay, all right? Staying on Instagram here this is from same old g. What would you say is your best single game performance in the NBA. It's been a lot of them.
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Speaker 3: I would say my best would be Game six. I would say Game six for me for sure, Game six, close out game in Atlanta. I just feel like I think I was playing well. We went up big that game. I think I had like twenty five, twenty two, twenty three or twenty five going into the four if I'm not mistaken, And I just wanted to revenge against them because the year we had Paul Pierce. I had broke my hand first half of that game. They didn't know it. A lot of people don't know. I finished the whole game and I had five fractions in the middle of my finger, middle of my hand, and I feel like that was a year to go to the Eastern Commas finals. You know what, I mean, but we ended up losing in six, and Dennis Schroeder had posted a picture when he was looking to smelled at me at the game five after I blocked this shot and I horfor got off his rebound the score and they went back to Game six at home in DC and they closed our season and I was mad, so like me, I'm gonna get revenge, like I have to get revenge.
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Speaker 2: And I came in.
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Speaker 3: I think I had like twenty something in the fourth, but I was just unbelievable, man like Mi range after mill range, big defensive stops. My teammates said, great screens, they making big shots for me and just telling them I said I'll be back. I mean, just saying I'd be back. And I closed that series out and then we go to Boston after that. So I would say that would be my best performance for me because it was in the playoffs moment and then to score almost twenty something in the fourth and then the close out of team that I felt like we should have beat before, it meant special to me.
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Speaker 1: Nice. Okay, did someone say was that shrouder who said, like your hand, your hand was hurt, so kind of attack that hand?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, which is, which is you supposed to do? Like I have nothing but the utmost respect for him. Like we always had our battles where we try to talk a lot, and uh, that's just the competiti nature both of us, Like we both want to compete at a high level.
00:14:29
Speaker 2: I was who I was. He was becoming who he was in Atlanta.
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Speaker 3: I remember earlier he was coming out the bench and end up getting to start and rolling being a great piece of that team and lead those gods to the playoffs. But yeah, he was like, smack his in every chance you get, smack his hand, smack his inn. And like I would say the same thing for our team if we were playing and against somebody has to hurt hand anything like that. But I mean my toughness, it didn't bother me. Like I was like, I'm doing whatever. I'm just trying to get back our hand.
00:14:52
Speaker 1: Who cool And this is from at Kurt Neil. What was your favorite wizard's jersey you ever wore? So like design wise, Yeah, you had the what that like the mj Ones and you came in and then those like stripe ones. Which ones are your favorite?
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Speaker 3: I don't really know, to be honest, Like everybody love the old school ones doing the m and them had. If I had to pick, I would say the gold one, but I don't think we ever got the weardose. But the gold on the gold silk one probably would have been the firest one, but we never got the opportunity to wear those.
00:15:26
Speaker 1: Do you think, Like I remember you had posted about when you got your your mitchellin Nest throwback. How big of a moment was that?
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Speaker 2: It was special for me.
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Speaker 3: Man let me just to be a kid that loved wearing jerseys growing up, that still love wearing jerseys.
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Speaker 2: I have almost all the.
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Speaker 3: Michelin That's throwbacks in my closet, so I wear in my life in the summer. You let me being in Miami shirt off. Let me just shirtless with all my tats out. I got there and I was like, damn, like I really have a Hall of Fame type jersey. I mean, like a Mitchell of netow back, Like kids are wearing that. People are wearing it, and it was dope to me. So when I first got an award, I was super excited.
00:16:08
Speaker 1: I love that you still you say still rock jerseys because I feel like a lot of NBA players wou'd be like I'm not wearing another you know, players jerseys.
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Speaker 3: So if I'm not competing against the guy, I don't mind, you know what I mean, Like it's just a difference for me.
00:16:20
Speaker 2: Like I can be wearing.
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Speaker 3: Kyrie's, Paul George's, Lebron's, Kd's, I could wear their shoes, but when I play against him, I can't wear them, you know what I mean? Like you feel like that, Like why am I wearing them? I'm competing against them. I can wear them any other game, but this game I have to switch them up.
00:16:38
Speaker 1: What was your favorite signature shoe aside from yours, Aside from yours and aside from Jordan's.
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Speaker 3: Uh, Kobe's man, Kobe's is special. I mean, like Kyrie had great shoes. I never wore his shoes, none against Ki. John Ray has a nice shoe now, I mean, I just would never wear another point guard.
00:16:54
Speaker 2: Shoot, that's just my nature of it. KD has nice shoes, But I was the Kobe for me.
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Speaker 3: Bro like the most comfortables for me, Like when I started with them in sixteen seventeen season, Like Kobe's is what it was for me.
00:17:09
Speaker 1: Favorite Kobe model.
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Speaker 2: The Grenches.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like that's what everyone's hooping in right now, and it's like it's been that way.
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Speaker 2: Those those are the.
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Speaker 3: Is those I think those those are the sixties, right, Yeah, sixties fives and fours I think are my face.
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Speaker 1: G's been wearing the fours a lot lately.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the sixties and fours are my favorite.
00:17:33
Speaker 1: Kobe's just shout out to to with Vanessa and like Nike are doing. Is what I like about the Kobe's now is like they're retroing them, but they're like updating them for performance, like they call him protros and it's like that's kind of like I wish Jordan's did that right, And I know you've you've rocked like the twelves, the French Blues, I think a few times I remember seeing that, and I was always like, man, with your game, did it ever feel weird to be hooping in retros that may have not been like updated.
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Speaker 2: No, I was just hooping.
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Speaker 3: I ain't care for real, like me, I just wanted to hoop and I was free to be able to wear whatever.
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Speaker 2: So I wore Jordan Tuo's I wore the thirteens.
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Speaker 3: I mean what he got games like you always wearing shoes that people like, why, probably I shouldn't have, but you know what I mean, Like I'm wear enjoy as I'm moving.
00:18:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's do one more here. What's up? This is from its chance? What music do you listen to? And who's your favorite artist? Let's say, like right.
00:18:34
Speaker 3: Now, Little Dirk's my favorite artist right now, that's my brother shout out smirk yo for me all time.
00:18:42
Speaker 2: My favorite artist is a little Wayne.
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Speaker 3: I mean, everybody knows that you was riding in my car back in high school. It was the car of three. That's all you heard. I ain't listening to nothing else but listen to you know what I mean. Definitely got to listen in the future right now, money back Yo has he ees tg uh want to be fat baby, drill hun Jo, Hunchjo got the fire. Right now, I'm listening too. I'm listening to rolawadogas. You definitely got to put a little baby on there. So I just listen to a lot, Like I got a lot of music on my playlist. I listen to a lot of music, so I'm kicked into that dope.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: This has been fan questions. Remember if you read one of your questions and John answered it. Hit us up in the DMS. We'll get you some hoodies and some hats. Sent me away.
