We’re back with Season 3, Episode 45 of Club 520, and Jeff Teague and the guys are joined by Spencer Dinwiddie of the Dallas Mavericks to discuss Spencer’s NBA journey. Spencer talks about when he heard Luka Doncic was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis, trying to get his contract paid in Bitcoin, playing alongside LeBron James on the Lakers, being teammates with Kyrie Irving, and guarding the likes of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Darius Garland.
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Man. You know Colorado.
How's it feel being alumni in Colorado and y'all turned up for football like that?
Man? Oh no, that it was hard. Yeah, it brought life to the city.
We didn't expect it because when I was there they won like two games in a year like awful damn.
For a long time. What year you come out of there or go Thered you go.
Went there in twenty eleven. Okay, left for fourteen, so oh yeah they was cool. Yeah they was they won two games. Hell right before then I got the.
Lin was a little bit dirty.
So but I couldn't imagine you was killing on campus and that was come the same time. That's the hell of the type of recruitment to pull up there.
No, we was, uh we were the team like on campus and stuff.
So like when I was there, it was basketball schools crazy?
What made you choose Colorado?
I mean basically like I want to go to Pac twelve because I really want to go to USC, but they ain't offered me, so U c.
L A was kind of like I would just take you.
And uh yeah, I didn't want to go to Harvard because of basketball.
So okay, what happened? Who else was recruiting you from LA? Right?
You're like we talk about high school, I like historic high school place the killers in high school?
Yeah, of course, I mean Larry Drew went to my high school, McDonald's Americans, Larry Drew. I mean obviously you played all the guys Drew, Tomorrow, BJ, Brandon, Jenny's Sorry's Brandon.
How would be j But you take a high school b J high school.
J was nice, nice, okay, yeah, respect. I don't know, Hey, I think you tell you what the killer that.
I know I was talking about earlier to them.
I don't believe DeAndre Daniels. Oh yeah, yeah I was.
I couldn't remember his name, but I'm like, I remember.
He was Brice Jones went to the Pelicans.
Yeah, bro in high school, like he went crazy in au Bro. I think he was like a top ten player in the country something like that.
Yeah, I know what that is. On our team, the three of us, he was the best one, no.
For sure, because he was like what six five he was bigger than that, like six nine. Yeah, I remember that he was cold.
Yeah, especially in high school. He playing a big three last year. I don't know. Maybe I'm maybe I'm bro Beindre Dan. It's like a Christian Wood kind of you know. I got I got looking at would man.
I just remember he used to go on the au circuit. He was he made a name for himself. I'm gonna look for show for sure.
For sure.
Man, having that much out of high school, it's crazy. So yeah, y'all was definitely getting the looks. But he said you wanted to stay in the Pac twelve.
Oh yeah, not like so, I had like most of the Pack twelve offers, most of the California school offers, but I really want to go to USC. That's like when my mom my brother went and all that, and they only wanted to offer me.
It's crazy.
It is crazy how it works. Because they were asked to good that was a good one. I get off from the good school and not off from the basketball. That don't make no sense. Oh, they probably just taking it because what year was tomorrow? It was gone, you know what I'm saying, It is gone.
But I'm just thinking like the guys that came after that, and I can't think of nobody.
Yeah, yeah, that's tough. Yeah, because was going. Yeah, that's tough. That's tough.
I mean, who else was cold at that time?
Though?
In high school too? Was anybody else getting recruited.
Over Marcus is cold? Shout to move your Marcus class level like one fiftieth in their class.
So yeah, and Davis gil Chris Marcus, Austin Rivers.
That's the hell. That's one of the best. Under saying who who else is out west? That was all that's on our side.
Sorry, Carson was out West. He went state right, Yeah, Arizona, Jabari Brown, Oregon?
Okay, uh why didn't you go to Oregon?
They what you basically? Organ? Yeah, dude, it's nice play for Oaken Soldiers.
I know you're talking about. I had Brad Bill in that class. I go to autumn A games. Who'd you play you for?
Pumping run pumping roun?
Yeah, program when they had Lopez twins.
Yeah, who is the school? Yeah?
Two?
Damn for the tickets or whatever, like oh wow, damn eight years ago.
Some of that say, thirty game still chilling. The game is the game. It's a wicked game. Got it?
Since we talk about college, you know, coming out of l a kid, what you think your n I L would have been going to next school?
What do you think you would have got?
Uh my, I don't think my n I L would have been crazy going to Colorado sophomore in Colorada though, Yeah, it would have been stupid.
Do you think the freshman year?
Do you think you would have transferred after your freshman year because you had a good freshman year?
Yeah, it depends on the bag that nigga would have went to USC Like, so I was like runner up to Tony Rowden coach. Yeah, he had much better so he deserved it. But uh yeah, I mean they were selling my jersey. They were selling like mustache gigs. I had to go to you at the time, that little kid and they said the mustache you're in the student store all types shit, So like, oh, yeah, you know, it would have been.
Stupid, dumb seeing the kid with aj Debnta getting seven million dollars.
That's crazy.
How would that affect you? Like, you know, because you you you different than most of us, but you you tapped in cryptocarents all that. I'm just gonna get to that.
But how would that affect you as a you know, a student athlete. If they would have liked to offer you seven million dollars, would that affect your mind going to the league or you'd have been like, shiit seven million, I'm cool. I think because I wanted to go to the league, yeah, I'd have been still driven. I think like that might have changed how I approached like post injury type vibe.
Okay, I might have got hurt, been like you know.
What, Yeah, before that thought had been like nah, like I still want to go to the league, Like it's a dream of mine, like you know how the kid like even when you get some hype or whatever, like you sold laser focused like yo, like I still want to go to the league, so like all that shit don't really matter, so you know, but once you get hurt, it ain't really working out or whatever. Like my first two years in the league, just sitting on the bench watching I might have been like I got ten of it.
Yeah I'm still broke.
Well yeah, yeah, I mean that's real. That's the fact. Real.
Hey, people don't know. We were just before you came here. We was talking about your rookie year. Yeah, broke you And now they tell me my budget was three thousand a.
Month mine, it's probably close to like ten damn no, no, we're talking about we're not including.
Bills for you just to have probably something like that.
Yeah yeah, I was like, damn was in Detroit. But it may have been with money you got renting other stuff you gotta do. Yeah, we were oh no, like that's just like you know, and buy some extra clothes, eat what everyone. Yeah iddress. I was wearing Team Geared in I was running bands then, so it.
Might've been a little bit less than three to be honest, like I was putting, I was thinking about like you know, RNT car like any other little stuff do like.
But yeah, when I got in the league, my minim.
Was five hundred thousand, so like I was back before inflation and Lebron James got a new TV so that's getting no money?
Was that your parents are more so you like giving you the game on how to treat your bread?
I mean both.
I mean my parents stressed like saving and stuff, and you know you don't have like real money like that you don't know, so I don't know if they necessarily knew, but like you know, it's just about like don't blow it. Yeah, so I was real basic. I mean, this is I've been the whole time. That's how I'm wrong with that. They know who you are. You ain't got shure. That's how I always feel.
But that's true. That's true. Shit.
Obviously, did you think Corado Nigga injured? How's that draft process? Like you talked about the mental a little bit. How was that whole entire process and then actually getting to the EBA Compson your dream?
Uh?
Yeah, so I got hurt with junior or junior year and like all the other stuff. Oh yeah, So basically the draft was just a whole lot of like meetings and watching.
You don't do nothing because I couldn't work out.
So yeah, I met with all the teams, like did medical had like five thousand MRIs, all the same questions, all the same stuff, And I knew I probably wasn't going in the first round because it like got hurt so because I was like edging into the lottery when I was playing. Yeah, so I just sat there at home and waited there my name called. First piece of adversity was I thought I had a kind a promise a little bit before I ended up getting picked in the second round.
So I felt a couple of spots, but it wasn't nothing crazy.
But like what made you go to the like cause I had a similar thing happening, not to your extreme. I didn't turn my a CL, but I had a grade three MCL spring in the draft process, so like my dad freaked out, like, yo, you got to go back to school. But what made you like, yo, I'm going to the league anyway.
So I didn't know nothing about the league, right, and I ain't nobody had went before, so I didn't know how much like connections mattered and work. I was just like, I'm nice, I'm done with school. They're gonna draft me somewhere. I'm an hel up. I'm gonna be whoever's in front of me, and we'll just figure it out. I'm not really thinking like, oh, because you a second rounder, they ain't investing you, They're not gonna play you. I'm not knowing nothing about the business. I'm just like, yeah, I'm ready. I'm not doing this again because I wanted to leave my software in. My dad told me to go back because you know, I had like.
That's when I heard of your sophomore Yeah, I had like USA team lined up and like all this stuff, and they're like.
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Oh, you're like maybe lottery late first round pick up, but you'll be like full blown like lottery maybe even squeak to a round ten type vibes if you go back. So again that's not knowing nothing. He's like, go back, I'm all right whatever. So I go back, get hurt and so fall. But in my mind, I'm like, I just play all these dudes Nations. I just played them all like I'm not thinking I'm not gonna come back whatever. I'm gonna be good, Like I'm gonna go to the team. I'm a b weapons in front of me and I'm gonna play. I think he's like merit based.
Yeah, no, no, no, it's not like business, not at all.
But I've seen you at Adidas Nations. It was just crazy because I used to I was with a Dida Sit. I used to go there, see so I've seen him. I seen the Dame Lillards, I seen them. I've seen all these guys. So it's just it's kind of crazy when I seen you go to the league and I'm fast forward it because you went to obviously you went to Detroit first. But when Kenny Akason, you got with Kenny, Kenny's my Kenny was my guy.
Yeah, that was my guy guy. So when you got.
Never mind, just go ahead because because Kenny was my guy guy. So he called me and was like when you were playing for Kenny you were having he had a great year, and he was just like, I told him what you told me?
And I was like, what's that.
He was like, I'm comfortable with thirty two I don't, nigga, my life's going to be straight if I get thirty two million. And he was like, I don't. I was like, I don't need a max deal, Like I'm fine. Like if I can't make my life straight with thirty two million, I'm doing something wrong. He was like I told him that. I don't know if he told you that, but that's what he told me.
Yeah, that was That was when I was up for like that, because after leaving Detroit, I signed like the slave deal for sure, the non guarantee like a bunch of triggered that one, and so you're only up for like the second rounds.
I like three for thirty or four forty whatever it was.
It times it is now, and I didn't want the four for forty because of like layering your years and your contract.
You know.
I was given the three for thirty with a player option, and that's kind of where that conversation came from. But yeah, not Kenny without without my D League coach Nate Lendser and Kenny Atkinson like none of this happens.
Yeah, I didn't want to.
I'm my bad and fast forward because I know you went through the Detroit phase and that's like a big part of your journey to me.
Oh for sure, Yeah, for sure.
Like with the Detroit stuff, it was like it taught me the hardest version of the NBA.
So stamming Guny is like a Miami heat disciple for sure.
So you got the three hour practices everything, tape tape shoot arounds, all that other stuff. Rookies got to be there two hours before with newspapers and donuts and you you practice all the time. You got I had these things called ninety nine ninety nins after practice where they just put that on a jumbo try and just ran it. And I just worked out against coaches full court one on one, just like crazy stuff, Like it's more a test to your will than it is like me playing one on one against you know, ball boys and coaches, Like it's not for real, you know.
What I'm saying.
Like, so you know it was all that stuff at the time Vetscott treatment rookies didn't. So you know, I'm fresh off acl doing all this work, not really getting treatment like that.
Things like that. Not a bad way, it's just like the culture of what it was.
But that's what set people back because that's why I loved about Leonna.
They didn't they didn't do that. Yeah, So Detroit was like that.
So I learned like the absolute hardest iteration, at least in my mind at the NBA.
So when I got to Brooklyn with Kenny, it was love.
And then also just from a coaching standpoint, he had told me same like kind of my daily coach. They were like, look, bro, like you're gonna make mistakes, Like, don't worry about it, because when you're in the other system and you're thinking, like I gotta get the ball to this guy, I gotta be just. I gotta just run the play. That was you know, told to me like I gotta not mess up. You can't play imperfect game trying not to mess up. You know what I'm saying, You just you fail every time. So with those two, they were like, yo, like we believe in you play, like do your thing.
And then that's when it was kind of a rap.
Is that when you got comfortable in the league though.
Oh for sure, I think.
I think in my mind it takes about a year and a half of being able to just play to get comfortable in the NBA. I think when you first get in the league or when you first start playing the game.
My first two years, like you can kind of just leap on the side.
But let's say year three, I was getting out there, like I gotta get to it, like.
Just trying to like hoop as best I could.
Halfway through probably my fourth years when it kind of like slowed down your anticipating reads, anticipating coverages, you learn what other teams like to do, all that stuff. So I think it takes that time period of like actually stacking games. So let's say maybe like one hundred games under your belt, like really playing you're like, okay, like this is the NBA style.
So what VIC gave you the game?
Though?
Yeah, in terms of taking care of my body, Joe Anthony, he was a great vet. In terms of just like keeping my head up and stuff like that, I would say Karen Butler, Jody Mixing, Greg Moro. Where the guys, oh Moose, my dog's my big thirteen really yeaha respect, So those are the guys that were like because we do stuff like one on ones and things like that. I see in practice and I'd be killing it right never playing though, And so they were just like look bro or look young fella, like you're.
Gonna be all right, it's gonna work out.
We see what you're doing in practice, like you can play at this level, like it's gonna something's gonna happen. Something's gonna happen. And I don't even think I really believe him at the time. I'm just sitting there like Loki soaking. I'm killing in practicing, like like no minutes. I think one year I played twelve games and those are all like thirty seconds a piece, like I wouldn't like playing it.
Oh, you talk about when you.
Had an NBA moment like but you're like, damn, I'm here now, I'm ready to really get.
To a moment for my confidence or like just.
For your confidence, and when you felt like, Okay, I'm about to really start giving trying to give niggas twenty at night.
That was.
That was probably some time in Brooklyn when I when I started feeling like that, but you chucking that motherfucking Brooklyn. Yeah up. That was That was sometime in Brooklyn. I mean, but when I felt like, okay, you'll be all right. Was I had my first start against d Rose, I had like twelve and like ten or something like that. And then I had a game probably like a week later against John Wall at the Wizard had like twenty. It was like my first twin point game. I was like okay, like because those were people you look up to. You you know what I'm saying. So it wasn't just like you know, the backups were playing or you went in there and it wasn't a real game or something like you know real games and you know, so play well against them. They gave me confidences like Okay, you can do it. And then in Brooklyn, I mean I had to run. Had to be probably year four where I was like hitting like game winners and stuff, and I was like all right with everybody talking about it's on now.
Yeah, that was probably it yere four.
Like when we get when you first get to the league, obviously it's a it's a it's a difference, like you start seeing like damn, I was nice in college, but these dudes are crazy, and so you kind of embraced that moment. But like when they start picking on you, and they do the rookie hayes and they all the little ship that come with being a rookie. Did you have a rookie hayes? And did you your car popcorn? Did you get you know, I had to bring donuts all that stuff.
Yeah, I had donuts.
Uh.
Uh the newspaper and then.
They like that's the old as team, that's the newspapers.
They like, uh like, try to tie it to a chair, throw me in the ice up goddamn.
Because I was like I had that level of like, look, I respect.
All y'all, but I'm not hearing it if you can't guard me. Bro, Like stop talking to me crazy, Like I don't want to hear that. So there was a level of that, like they say something like.
Bro, who got you want to get newspapers?
The person who was born boy papers and uh a notebook with a pen because he wanted to like occasionally write raps.
And it was like, bro, man, my boy had bars. We celebrate on here. I don't even remember celebrate.
One like old school black and white composition joints. Bro like not wrapping for real? Why of bars? The leak celebrate.
Ass come from the lineage to like Joe Smith. That's my best was Joe Smith. Eric Damn period time. I had some old head, so they my car because I wasn't going for nothing.
Bro, That's what I'm saying. I'm in here. I'm not going like I bring the donuts, but like Bro relax.
I brung donuts and they never ate them. And I kept on my locker and I just kept puting them. The box up there, and finally Josh Smith had a drunk night and the donuts were green.
He opened them up. He said, Man, what the fu car was popped? My car was popped cords so Karan never spit that for you, Bro, Bro crazy, that's crazy. Wow.
I see trying to get deals and keep it clean here and when I it's gonna be, you gotta pick a side.
What like.
Up for it? It's crazy, Bro.
Split up and Spitial games talking ship. That ain't nothing bo Hello interview.
That's the best thing about the show as fun it is, it's very challeish, Man. We gotta talk about it, man, That's what I realized. I was like, Spencer is a real hustler because you're trying to get that deal in Bigcoin. I said, my boy is a real finessor please talk about how you got to that situation, man, all.
Right, son.
The funny part about that is, like it may headline because of the bitcoin aspect, because like the league threatened to kick me out. That's crazych was a whole other thing. But really it was a play on blockchain technology. So you the thirty second. Blockchain technology is about like micro transactions, being able to send stuff peer to peer, like adding liquidity to whatever system it is. So I was trying to decentralize sports contracts, all this betting that we see and everything that's going on now, trying to do that ship back in what was it twenty seventeen or something like that. So it was a play opening up like the sports contract world, and they were like Champ, m hm, it's through, We're gonna kick.
You out the league.
So that I had to like redo it in a bunch of different ways to like be complying with the NBA because you know, I love my job, Thank you guys, shout out in the NBA, shout out to the NBA facts whatnot. But uh yeah, I mean that that's really what it was about. And so it became far more bitcoin centric because.
That's kind of what they were going to.
Allow versus the overall business of what I was trying to do, because I mean, as you see with gambling and the parlays and everything going on with fan doing draftings and all that, right now, I wanted to, you know, slide my little business idea in there. They get bought out, they make ten band dolls, I make one, and I'm like, man, it's all good.
I'm partnering with the league. And they were like, that was what they were saying, right, No, they wasn't.
When he said when he when I read about it, I said, he a mad genius. I said, I was on his way out.
I where I said, he is a mad genius.
I said he bareter lead him alone because he thinking, he thinking ten steps ahead.
And they don't. I bet he knows. Don't worry about it, you know. Yeah, he was a mad genius. He was about to be junior Bridgeman.
Yeah, I said he was a mad genius. They would have They wasn't allowing him to be a mad genius. Like it's the n B A I still love the NBA.
Listen.
I can't wait to go to J Cole's party and uh, what's it called Dreamville, I'll be there shout out to the NBA.
I was like, he's NBA. I'm going to the NBA.
I just wanted to espersonally bought the Lord gonna bless you one day.
But I think like, because that's the moment when I was like, Yo, he's different. Because me, I was just like, I've know that I got the bread. For him to think like that, I was like, he's different. He probably gonna do something. So even that, and for you making your own shoe, I remember seeing you on the court, and I'm like, this nigga really got his own shoes, Like he really got his own shoes. And now to see that, like to do that. And then I see guys like Jaylen Brown, you know sexy.
Yeah, so that's that's something that I guess in the history books, I probably won't get much credit for it, but like now it's sexy.
I'm happy Jameson Brown is doing.
Now I'm gonna give you your You're not gonna pass him, no, I mean yeah, he said, he said sexy.
You ain't getting no pass on this.
I was like, because they kind of looked like Kobe's a little bit and I was like, I was like, he like Kobe, like when I first see it, but you probably remember I for some of them.
I said, Yo, can't get some of them? Yeah?
Actually I did. I was like, you can't get some of his shoes Brooklyn ball boys. I was like, YO, tell a dude, I want some shoes. They was like, yeah, he don't give them out.
I was like, damn.
I was like, he's stingy with I don't know why. They said not, he don't be giving them out. I was like, for real, I was like, this ship's weak bought.
Yah, I bought the laws of I never got them. My boy, I'm still away from my triple B. I spent five. But then I seen you. I'm like, bro, he really you?
And again yeah, got his own shoes and I'm like that's hard. I'm like, I want some of his shoes. They like, yeah, don't give them out.
What made you do that?
Though?
So basically again like kind of entrepreneur mindset, like I'm again second round, pick all that stuff, Like you want to give me like a fifty merch deal.
I was just like, but no, not few thousand dollars, just a little merch.
If you know anything about that your family fly through that thing before you can get it.
Yeah, I might as well not even have it.
It's in there, Like, yeah, what it'd be like, you know what I'm saying, had my own shoes blah blah, and like I used to draw shoes kids, So it was like, you know, crime Butther doing his wraps, I'm drawing shoes, just killing time, and I was like, let.
Me try it.
And so it's both harder and not as hard as you think if you have like a template to build off of, which was a Kobe and so coach is my favorite player. I wore Kobe's all the time, and so that's kind of how my shoe was constructed. And then it turned to a business basically, which then three sixty one, which is basically almost I mean you got probably like three major brands in China's leaning into the three sixty one, and so then they brought me out. My signature went up under them, and so you know, now I've had a signature with them for three years and going forward with that. So it ended up working because you know that path took me to them. Not only did I make a little bit of money doing my own shoe, but then you know, when you're shown you can do it, they buy you out and all other stuff, become partners everything, they pay you for all that. So it turned to a whole different type of deal then obviously, like you know, you know how it is with like Nike, and I'm like, ain't nobody getting up real money off of Nike unless you are that that one two three, Yeah, you gotta be Brian, you know, KD, Kyrie, those guys other than that, like you're not making no real.
Money off them.
But three sixty one they got I got some players on that. Oh yeah, definitely, because we just got Yokis.
Yeah, was like when Yo came over. Yeah, it's little I think Aaron first, Yeah.
Then it was me. Then now they got Yokas. It's probably gonna it's gonna be a thing.
Is it just on the course or off the course?
I mean say off the court too, But I'm not really off the court.
I really think the only I think the only baskets shoot you can get away with off the court probably James bro Like nobody's really wearing Kobe's or Bronze or anything.
Like, don't wear the club.
Let's be real, Like I know they say you can and like you know, maybe bron did some promo for that or hardened some promo for that, but like nobody doing that. There's Jays, you got designers, Chucks fans. Like in terms of American culture off the court, that's sixty months off the court of y'all. Come just call me, y'all know.
Yeahway, I realized shoes pulling on that right there?
That's so yeah, that's last year. Those are the twos okay DVD too.
I'm wearing it. I think it drops in like I think it's supposed to.
Can we get some thirties manes Man on the show.
And I'm hoping on mar fact, I hope all the time. Still there we go. I hoped, and I hoped. The answers I hope in some hard nozs.
That's nons, right, some hard nons. Shout to the family. Shouts to the family. I hooped in the deer and fox shout to the family under arm.
Get all right, yeah, I got some ship you all right, cools, it just give me a law to its crazy.
Funny bro the left. That's hard though, that is to matter. I want that colorway, look that apple green is fine all right, what's shop off camera? For sure?
The next episode, I got you listen, man, here, You've been around for a lot of different stuff. I got to ask you most recently. We're gonna fast forward a little bit. Where were you at when you found out that Luca Dodgers was no longer your teammate?
That's so let me let me tell you, Like, I don't think anybody would disagree with this going into the season, you would have thought he was untouchable, right, So we m b and and Edwards and Proac, Tatum and l and you know those type guys.
It was.
It was just crazy because you know, we had an early game against Cleveland the next day, so I went to sleep early. You know how like on a normal game that you might be up twelve to one whatever, gonna be up to eight or nine, so you're still getting your six, seven, eight hours whatever.
But we had to be up early. We were playing at like two or something like that. So I probably went to bedter like eleven or maybe a little bit earlier than that.
So when I woke up, I knew it was a problem, or not a problem, but I knew it was someone on because I had like other NBA player miscalls like like Zach Lavine d Lo, like people like something open on my phone, Like why I got like three miscalls from d Lo?
Why I got like a couple miss calls from Zach, Like hell going on?
Like I saw my agent, but like whatever he called for, whatever you called for, and then I went to my messages and that's when you know what I'm saying, it's set in.
So yeah, I mean everybody was just shock.
Bro, Like, I don't think there's any way to put it, Like, you know, both A D my friends, so it's kind of like, yeah, you know, it sucks that they're also acting like a D ain't probably a top five power for it all time, so like talking about the bag of chips.
Or something, which is crazy.
But I just think anybody that said they could have I thought it was gonna happen or predicted it or that that's a lot like everybody was.
Everybody was shocked.
Yeah, that's one of the moments that everybody remembers where they were when that should happened.
That was like a monumental NBA moment.
That's going down to NBA here is one of the most shocked in moments in NBA history for sure. It's it's not like I know, everybody got hurt this year. I mean, y'all everybody. Yeah, it's crazy. Were almost forfeit the game or something like that. That's what the report said. I don't know the rules, but that's what they said. Yeah, we're almost forfeited.
It's crazy. Everybody got hurt.
But when you look back at that trade, it's not as Luca is great man, he's amazing, but it's not as bad as That's what.
I said, like ad a top five powerful, top seventy five for sure, what I'm saying, top seventy five. And if you look at what he was able to do in conjunction with like Gaff and stuff in the Rocket skin. One game they played, they played the first half. I think the Rockets scored thirty eight points. It was in the rock time, what second in the West something like that. They hooping, they're doing well, like and that trio of PJ. A. D And Gaff it was just nowhere to go. So you know, that was that was exciting to see.
I got I understood what was going on. I mean, it still was a shocking trailer. I understood it, but it wasn't like, like, damn, they ain't getting nothing back.
Yeah, that's that was the thing.
Like and like I said, they both my friends and l to me is probably the best offensive player in the NBA right now, you know what I'm saying. And but Ad might be the best two way play probably him, honest right, Like, So it's not like sir, you know, it's it's it's a tough position to be in. Like I said, the only thing that that sucks is that they acting like a boom. That's that's the crazy part. Like you can feel like you feel about the trade, win lose, better for now, better for future, whatever it may be.
But like, we gotta stop backing like a d ain't a d we got, we gotta that's just that we got. We gotta stop that.
Well, we're talking about good guards now. Now, now we're talking about language. Yeah, you said Luca the best offensive guard. Yeah you think Luca bag is deeper than say or Edwards.
You guarded you guard all these Yeah, and you a bigger guard, and you one of the best isolation guards in the league.
Yes, And I know that, I know that, I know.
Listen, listen, can I tell you this all the time. I think this year right now like top fifteen, but every yeah, I've been.
Like top ten. Yeah, I know I've been like I don't I know, I know every years were like and I'll be catching.
Hell and heat on like social media and ship because they'll look at like the rankings and they'll be like k D Jimmy Spence and.
Then like the other guys will be like Tatum like how the hell he in there? Why he in there? Like that between the hesitation, He's going, I know it, I'm there in I know, I know it.
But now I would say back between those three, uh you guard all three? Who the toughest cover? Toughest cover for me?
No? No, So here's the deal. I think I think styles make fights back.
Like, for example, somebody I hate Garden that won't be in that list, Darius Garland.
He just so much is jittery ship that I'm like, bro, relax the end of my career. Like yeah, like I'm like, bro, like stop stop moving.
So Shae likes to get to that like big shoulder bump to the MIDI, which for me is a little bit easier than like like I said, there's gone and something like that because I can kind of pause if necessarily absorb that contact and like still kind of play them. I like the guy, but he got a crazy whistle though, so like you're fucking around foul out to Superstars Superstar ever.
Got post game? But right now with the way he's shooting the three and it's explosive as he is, Like, that's tough cover.
So you're going to sleep early for that.
Yeah, they all nice, though it's tough, like to be honest, like Shae's bag with pivots and stuff like that. In terms of what we think of his guards, it's probably a little bit deeper than theirs, and it's got the exposiveness. And once you add the post game, it changes that conversation with L because you know, you put a small guy on L, like he's really walking you to the block Christmas, Like she's.
Bumped fade off the block.
It's that's more like ice so two man game, like you can really bury you, like you'll just walk you.
Down, walk you down and walk you down.
Push them, you know what I'm saying, Like they all to covers, they all to me are elite guards and obviously they're all in the MVP conversation every year whatever they've been in these last couple of years. But I know you and like seeing you compete against them, and you were a bigger guard to me six five sixty six.
I'm six to one. I used to be like this mo fucker tall at ship. You are like taller ship.
So I remember I was on the Pacers and you were playing for Brooklyn and the point guard was Isaiah Whitehead started broh, yes, I swear, and people that know me, I talk ship all day. So I'm talking ship to Kenny. I'm like, you gotta get this motherfucker out of here. He can't play.
I'm like, you can't play, and Kenny like shut and then you supped. Then and Kenny, I'm yeah, shooting a free throw. I walked this. I'm like, yo, he can't play. He was like this motherfucker can and I'm like, I'm like what, he ain't even playing. He was like he's gonna be starting from here on out. I'll tell you that.
Watch I'm telling you six six and me and him are having a conversation in the middle of the game, and then I've seen it fast forward.
I'm like, damn, this mother fuck about to get paid. Kenny seen something.
Yeah, you came off the bench and it was just brook Low pez shooting threes and all this ship and you came and you started starting.
You had your run.
But Kenny called that ship out. I remember that game Isaiah Whitehall was starting. You came in and he called that ship you a bucket. I appreciate you can't man like Kenny real for sure, man the blueprints real with him. Look at this we talk about how Drum right now, like his impact on.
Guards has proven for even like d Low he got with Kenny, it was just for sure.
I think like the other thing too, is like when when Kenny was younger, he used to hoop with you, usually be in a like so you felt like he had your back in the sense like he's gonna do the work out with you type of vibe. Like sometimes it was crazy and he got hurt doing it towards Quad one time doing that ship but damn oh yeah, I was to isolate, uh, Jared Allen. We was all kids, basically Brooklyn towards.
Trying to really like Kobe clear out.
Like Kenny, I used to play, but he used to play with no shoes from no He used to play barefoot excuse me, I America. He played overseas long time.
He went to Richmond, but he used to play barefoot, Like I come in, he will be barefoot where that came from, and then you do your drills. He guards you the whole Yeah. Yeah, but he used to play barefoot three on three with us.
He got the limit pepper step, but out there hoot a.
Real grips a lie. I was right, I was right here. I was just I was just making it in the league. I was starting. I got with Kenny. They all start saying, Kenny Levet Star cruising.
In the NBA one on one on a Hordwood floor, barefoot from.
My right handed guy. Y'all ever meet Kenny, Ask me he used to play with those shoes. I know that I didn't, but yeah, even in the fire solition.
I PEO don't understand how much like situation coaches believe all that stuff like it matters because there's only so many people that can go to the front office and be like, oh nah, this is what we're gonna do.
I don't care what the coach says, like blah blah.
If you're under that superstar teer bro and the coach says like, Nah, we're gonna play this way, then that's the way you playing well. That's to your strength, whether it's not. You might be out there looking ass even though you got a specific strength. But if you tell you to do what you gotta try to do it.
So that's why I'm happy for what they're doing in Cleveland. You haveing a hell of a year and you see all them guys thriving, even the guys come off the bench have moments.
I'm a big advocate for Kenny Atkinson. That's one of my favorite coaches I ever played for you coming up under Kenny.
Could you see yourself coaching one day or taking one of them type of roles in the league, hoping against the young niggas barefoot.
I mean for Suf, not that for me.
I mean I can see if like because Dad's got a real good, like family kind of atmosphere. I think, you know, Cuban really tried to or mc sorry, he tried to establish that. I think it's carrying over obviously with a lot of former players like Tyson Chandler, Sei.
Mary and like still employed by Finley.
Yeah, Mike Finley, Like if it was a situation where I was like almost a practice player, but getting like a just a small assistant coach out nothing crazy, but like practice player. I come in on your home games, but I don't got to travel like all that, Like I could do that. But pashion of really being like a head coach and all that so serious and sham got over there with you. Yeah, but Shaman real coach though, like he travels you doing all this stuff like in I'm like, I want to come in Tyson Chandler right now, he's at every home game, all.
The home practice.
He don't travel like I could do that, like practice with the players, stay in shape, be a o g give wisdom. But then like y'all leave, and yeah, I'm not going any what coming game you.
Are right now?
I feel put up to that crazy, Yeah, I feel. But I was one thing I'll say about the mask to be here, could have test. Hey, they take care of their people. Boy, listen, we went last year.
I ain't gonna bring that up. Man, the hospitality, bro, we can't. That food for the first family was piff. Yeah it was not what the papers.
Now y'all eat, y'all eat good. You know what I'm saying are being is he just he chose to get a White Goo hot dog. Yeah, he traveled, he high dog contests all that type of ship.
A glizzy monster. He's a glisy monster. They said they had they had lobster steak, shrimp.
He went to the White Goo station and got a he got it glizzy.
Mike Fricky, Mike Mahan got a glizzy add lobster state and shrimp.
You know, it's different when you eat with white people. They said, you try to glizer run there. Who wow, they said, wow, is crazy us on the way in.
Shout to the bass first class organization for sure, for sure, for sure. All been listen obviously it's been an upper down year for y'all. But I want to ask you. I know you are tapping into the social media's but your laker tacher, I don't want to talk about too much about it, but how was that like playing for that organization and then like being on the internet at the same time.
Oh uh, I mean, just because I'm from LA, you kind of understand going there what it's going to be. So I didn't go in there expecting like for it to be something different, like okay, because the.
Way I got there obviously with the whole like.
Brooklyn thing and all the shit they went on that way, and then picking a team in the bio market. Uh, you know for Das, they had Dason Las kind of had a similar year, Like nobody knew that was gonna take off, like the PJ and Gaff additions like like change the whole trajectory and the way they jail and all that stuff. So you know, credit to them making the finals with the Lakers, Like I knew, Okay, Delos there ar's there, uh bron ad. So it's not like I'm gonna come there in average twenty like you know that one in there. And for the fan base, like you know, it's when or you ask, there's there's no in between. Like certain fan base are like, oh you tried hard. You know what I'm saying. They're like whenter you suck. So when I went there knowing that, so it wasn't as bad as like for me for some people, I was mad at you man, We're not going to Dallas.
I said, gotta go to Dallas because you just had a phenomenal Yeah, you just showed. I'm like, he know them, Yeah, he just killed there. He gotta go back there and when you went to l A. I said, you gotta go to Dallas. You said it on here too, I said, he supposed to go to Dallas.
NA hindsight, Yeah, I mean obviously with the finals run and and the back here this year and all that stuff, like for sure would have been great.
And it's hard to turn down l A B. Yeah, you know you from there and like all that stuff.
Like it's and like I said, at the time, both teams were kind of in like the middle, lower end, lower end of the playoff race of the Western Conference, like nobody knew.
I think they went like.
Eighteen and two at one point, like nobody they when the when the switch clicked or how do you want to say it, like that took off, you know what I'm saying.
So I don't regret it. But obviously, like you know, who wouldn't want to go to the finals. That's after already being at the conference finals. So you know, it is what it is.
It's definitely I gotta ask, man, some of the practice you've probably seen. You got two of the most skilled basketball players ever between Luke and Kyrie. What's it like just to see them up close? Every Obviously we know you cold, but just to see them like just hoop on the consistent basis. What's this is the like motivating does everybody buy inteck? You see like everybody teams is like, I really fuck with basketball, bro, you don't see that?
I think?
Uh, I think the difference with like Kyrie and any other like player that I've been around, Like the again made pause if needed, but like the way he moves is like it's like artistic in a sense, you know what I'm saying. So it's just it's a very different like eye test, right, Like some people are explosive, some people are you know this or that dominant can shoot it well whatever, Like been around a lot of greats, like even the Kd's Lucas bron even like.
It's just the way he does it is more appealing to look at, if that makes sense. Yeah, Lucas is dominant.
Like you know, he can run off ten threes, he can post you up, he can get to the Dirk fade in the MIDI he got everything, and then his passing is sensational two. So you know, I mean there's nothing you can't say about about ill, right, but I just think like the eye test from just like a like how it looks. Probably him and Paul George probably got the most appealing games to look at.
No, Paul George.
You talk about audiosters, they always say who I want to play like Paul George.
When I played, Like when I used to watch him in practice when we played in Indiana, I used to just be like.
He cold. Yeah, you said, I like Cold Bro. That's crossover snash back bro.
Only game I seen that was better than him, And practice was there, like when you seen d Rose, it was just like, man, what the hell is something right? How are you moving this fade? And Toya you Din did it? People saying you're sad you didn't fell and you still just doing ship. That's unbelievable. But I couldn't imagine Kyrie, you know, guard him. At one point in my career, I guarded Kyrie more than.
Anybody in NBA. Really, that's a fact, fact, which is crazy. And I have I guarded more than anybody else.
So I've experienced them as an islands yea, And like his shot making ability was always the thing for me. Like I remember one game we played Indiana, I guarded. I literally guarded for eighteen seconds. I remember watching the clip when I came back and I was guarding my ass off. And to know, Kyrie, he can go left and do all that shit, but he prefers to go right right, that's his preferred hand. He can go left, we know that. But I was forcing him left and I was on this ship and somebody got back to that right anyway, and he had a fallout fade away.
Nobody helped me, mind you.
He went from the left side of the court all the way to the right side of course, shot of fade away.
And hit it. I never got any help.
After the game, I watched the clip and I was just like, what the fuck am I supposed to do? And mind you, that game he had thirty seven points, but all his shots were just like in my face, and I was like, I can't guard no better, so I might alas just stopped.
I'm not lying, bro yo, what the are you doing on the stack? We on our shore. He just serve he gave me, he did.
I'm not gonna lie. I guard him the most like ship. He was averaging twenty eight.
Oh yeah, so he had. He had a lot many times he get forwarded up.
Okay, damn, hold on.
That's when he first went to Brooklyn. I know that game. Yeah, I wouldn't clip. Yeah, we fail to try to made it. I don't know what he got against me. I don't know why he was like that on me.
Bro so thirst to be an into athlete.
You know what we're gonna go through. I don't think Kyrie today, I'm not. He's never had twenty time. Yeah, I like him up play. That's a d NV put that he had twenty every year. Every them putting the zero point on you was crazy. We had twenty four every day. I think you can't even guard me on the bitch. Yeah. I locked him up. That guy.
I remember he's a rookie. After the down said you're gonna be lo let me. I tell her, you're gonna be a good player.
Kid. You're like I did, He's gonna be We beat the ship out.
We probably beat him by thirty, so I'm like, you're gonna be He knew he was on real then, but I called you Yeah, oh god, he did.
We got a conversation.
I said, he's gonna be the best. He's one of the hardest players I regard play. Yeah, but I said're gonna be good, kid, Keep working next thing. You know, he ain't scoring twenty You your memory is amazing, bro story. I don't know appreciate that what I do, Mike, I didn't play a lot. We're going them out only fourteen. I didn't play how many minutes? How many minutes?
That's what I didn't get the fourth quarter?
Let's half a game.
What game was that he had to be with Lebron? Yeah?
Yeah, it was a toy many motherfucker playing forty four minutes?
That's the whole game, y'all say, boy, you did not slept at all? You playing for team niggas. I don't know what game that was because I never played forty four He and a good night, he shopping more than me.
Clearly, did I ever have a good game?
I have a good game against Okay, okay, let's like talk, okay, cool in a game winner.
A matter of fact, I hit the game winner now on Trusty, Yeah it is okay cool. What's the actually what's your high? Forty? I would say? Yeah?
He who?
Uh the spurs? John say and d White? Wow, pull it up? What the fuck? What year was that? Old on? Load up the drake? You gave us thirty six? Where was I at.
I am, so you gave forty de John say, yeah.
That's that's a tough g. What do you on the Spurs because the white wi my guy? Yeah, Colorado okay, but getting what are you on the Spurs? It's crazy.
That I just went to rock too.
Oh. I mean we weren't together, you know what I'm saying. But that's that crazy. Sure, the type of players are, that's crazy. But I can believe he gave us thirty six. I remember a couple of games.
You had really good games on us, and I just used to laugh because I just remember Kenny, Oh Ship, Yeah, I can't give a fuck.
Was I playing? Oh it was dark? Was your first year nineteen? No? He was? I was? That was that before that zero overturn? Yeah? I was out there. I probably was like killing probably killing the ball go crazy.
Yeah, he had a game. Boy, that's a good game. That's yeah, Ship, Yeah, six eight and five up. Ship, shout out to my boy.
Matter of fact, brot the clips when YouTube that could get help for real?
Make sure I was just no, no, no, just do a Kyrie compilation for.
Feature and Spence sold on. Give me forty I got you. Hey, listen, go ahead and kick off man. I appreciate that. I take it for.
Thirty six spence forty Kyrie Nah's I never saw the defensive player. I never want to boys that we go make clip up the other flacker Foles, I don't know.
While I thought he was small though, I didn't know he was six.
Bro.
This was hen he got on some fans guitar for real? This is really yeah, I'm six now listen.
We started off this episode talking about how you saving my opposite. You know you're financially intelligent, but when you first got the bag, you was real comfortable with what was a crazy purchase.
Well wait till the end of my rookie year and I got a tested Okay, so I was at the very end basically going into my second year.
That was it other than that you keep it simm Yeah. I mean, bro, I didn't have no money. I had no money for real. Were you living in l a St Or Yeah, But like.
My first year, I went back to my parents' house second year, and like actually I went back to my parents second year. In my third year, I think I had like one of the apartments in Beverly Hills, but it wasn't like one of them crazy pouses.
It wasn't none of that. It was like real regular. I moved with my parents myfe year. You moved in and moved out, well, moved in with oh, but you went back here though, right moved right on. It was a different. Yeah, that's a different that's a different situation.
He's trying to have. He's still trying to live like Michael or you can tell him, why.
Did you took my house? Basically when I moved back, Oh, they read out their house.
Yeah, I was a guessing my home and they literally took up my bedroom and they like I came in there with my teeth.
Everything was different. My bed was in the basement. I just I worked it out for the year. How was that living at home with your parents? Though?
Bro in the league, did you have to come in the house before a certain time?
I ain't gonna lie to you at that time, because you remember, like what twenty one something like that, something like oh, they're like, hey, could you know check in?
Yeah?
No, they were like that because my parents are like old school stacks, yeah that stuff.
So they were saying all that, and yeah, I would have went right back to Detroit. I remember.
I came and stayed in my house my rookie year, my mom and dad house. I came home for my birthday weekend. I came home at four. My mom was like whoa, Like, we're not doing that, na.
I said, I'm going back because I'm doing that. You don't know my life living in Atlanta start tow. Yeah you had it broke. Yeah, I'm Detroit, Bro. I mean Detroit because you're thinking Detroit Detroit. I was out in Auburn Hills.
Who was different at the Auburn House? Yeah, that was well what we used to be at Birmingham.
Yeah, it was. It was just like nerdy man drive bro. Yeah, okay, respect, I just I.
Don't know, just you be in the league and your daddy saying, hey, my nigga, you wild.
Like they kept it cool though. I mean it was subtle. It wasn't like nah, you can't do It was like, you know, like taping and you chill like let us know. And I was just for his parents. Yeah.
Plus, like I said, Bro, I was broke. I didn't even get the first round like million. No, it was like five hundred thousand, bro. So like after taxis two fifty after you spend your monthly. You got maybe one hundred grand, like fifty grand somebody whatever. It was like, Bro, you're not in a rush to be like, oh, I'm gonna spend five six thousand on the apartment for a couple of months and that hunting turn into eighty.
But when you got that that bag from Brooklyn, everybody gets sunk. I mean I like watches. Yeah, turn to look for me, because that's what these niggers do. I got. I got a couple of things like I got, like the the Panther and the Spider Man, like the aps. Look at him, look at him? He a watch. Guy. I ain't ever bought nothing.
Oh really, I bought house. He did, That's all I didn't. I didn't buy my my crib in l A to to my second deal. That's when I got that one.
No, you did it smart. I housed up immediately. I was ready to be a m P. It was worth it. I was. I was already having going.
I was.
The house. I was to get the content, bro, before the facts. Fact. I was like, I was ready the party going crazy. Yeah, I was lit.
But that ain't about nothing. I still they brought none. I still need to buy a watch.
You gotta do that. Yeah, I'm free. I haven't bought a watch. I'm surprised by that.
Yeah, I gotta do something. You got coppy roll off the straps, for sure. They do my wife's my wife's wedding ring. They might like me frost enough for sure. Listen, man, we know you got plenty of things to do.
Man, we appreciate you, sliding man telling people that can grab the kicksad Man to support baby.
I think it's three sixty one thinks.
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Listen, they're the best part has ever if I just don't know the exact website because it's like three different websites.
Watch that's what I'm saying.
Got three different websites. Dot come and shout out the spence Man. We spent a great time, man, I ain't gonna lie now.
We put them on it. We're gonna need our shoes.
Yeah I got because we're gonna treat you like the three Big Company bro lamar balling them.
We're gonna treat you like them. Shoes goa come. We definitely gonna shout it out triple. It's efficiently right there, bro. It's not even in my control. Well, talk about people, y'all.
To niggas say talking about people, y'all, I'm talking about what okay, okay, yeah, like a.
Mission in the club, y'all. Like for sure, man, thank you, don't appreciate.
We'll be out next time, like share scrap that good stuff will be back.
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