Hey, Club Sha listeners, We'll be back soon with weekly episodes featuring brand new interviews with exciting roster guests. Until then, enjoyed this special rewind episode with one of my favorite moments from Club Sha shake so far, all my life, grinding all my life, sack fights, hustle, back, price, one slice, got the swap all my life. I've been grinding all my life. Hey, I you had it. You did it all you mister basketball, mister football at at Newport. Right you're from Newport, Yeah, you're from Newport Newport. Yeah, my Michael Vick sweepee. Uh part of that winners all y'all from down that area. Uh. Let me ask you this, had you not chosen basketball, do you think you could have been as good as an NFL player as you were an NBA player? Shannon and and and this is like a this is a fucking list moment for me because Shannon Shaw is asking me a question about so like that. You know, I'm already when when I go home and and and I see the guys I grew up with. You know, I'm a brag about this situation right here asking me about but not being cocky, not being arrogant. I think, No, I know that I would have been a better player in football than I than I was at ball. And that's not disrespecting basketball, guys, that's not disrespecting the game that that that's done so much for me. I mean, I'm a household name, I'm a Hall of famer in that in that sport. But football was my first love. And at the same time, Shannon, you know, if I would have had to get on the grid, then I wouldn't never stopped lifting ways after high school, you know what I mean, you would have seen an old totally different physique. I might be looking like you or something. Hey, but I would have I would have had too. I would have had you would have had a short, short career, you know what I mean. Basketball. I just didn't like Waits because I it was too heavy. Football, I know I would have had to I would have had to live. And then you can you can you can ask anybody from Virginia and and and they would tell you Shannon that you know, hands down I was I would have been better in football. So that was my first love. So you would have been Russell Wilson, Kyler, Murray, Lamar Jackson, Michael Vick. You you was Michael Vick before Michael Vick. All you gotta do is ask Mike and then and then what's what's what's wild about what you're saying? And that that that lets me know about definitely what I've been know about your your sports i Q. But you know that's how I was as a basketball player, you know what I mean. I wanted to add some of Michael Jordan game, add some of magic, be fast like Isaiah, rebound like Bark, be dominant like Shaq, you know what I mean, do it all on the court like you know, you know the guys that do everything, not just one particular thing on the basketball. I didn't want to have no weaknesses out on the court, so I tried to implicate all of those guys game in the minds. And that's what I would have did in football, you know what I mean. I would have wanted to be accurate like Aaron Rodgers and have the arm like Aaron Rodgers. But I definitely would want to run like Russell. I definitely would want to run like Lamar Jackson or Mike Vick. You know what I mean. I just wanted, you know, in basketball, I didn't want the opponent to feel like they could do just one thing to shut me down. I wanted to have variety that I could counteract with, you know what I mean when they try to take something away from me. And it would have been the same thing in football, like I mean, just the way you change the game at tight end. You know, tight end is not playing the game, Nope, Like you know you played the game, you know what I mean. It was like a wide receiver playing tight end, you know what I mean. And that's how you change the game. And that's what I would have tried to add to my my football game was different parts of grades and try to put it in one game. And the I don't know how many points because there a lot of people say if the heat average forty, head having fifty average sixty, how many points do you think Jordan could average in today's NBA? What's the most you have averaged? Thirty seven? Thirty seven one? All right, so forty easy, forty easy, forty forty easy, Yeah, forty easy, Like like forty easy forty would be easy for black Jesus because Harden I think hardened hardened a couple of years ago. Average thirty six. So you go, so so you figured Jordan could average forty with no problem. I'm man sharing it like it's when I talk about him him, it's different, man, and a lot of closes. A lot of times it's by because I love him so much. Like if if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have had the vision. I wouldn't be the Allen Iverson the basketball player today if it wasn't for him, you know what I mean. So I feel and plus he was, he was, he was the best to me, you know what I mean. I think, I think, I definitely think he was the best. And and I don't put Lebron in the conversation because I love him so much as a as a person and as a and as a basketball player. You know what I mean. It's real, real personal When being Michael Jordan don't have the personal relationship like me and Lebron Lebron. But those three Lebron, Mike and Kobe. I never seen nothing better. I never seen I never seen him player better than those three. I might ask both of you guys. And you add to that when he had when he averaged thirty seven, he was doing it with twols and even though they weren't. They weren't shooting three pointers like how they shooting now. You know what I'm saying, was just just imagine if Michael like decided to shoot six seven threes a game like they do now like forty would have been. Hey, everybody knows what you did on the court. But you also changed the rule because you had everybody coming. If they wearing one hundred and fifty pounds, they were wearing a T shirt that was fit shot, they was wearing jeans that would foot calm alone. You started that, You started the car rolls. Nobody was had corn rolls, nobody was tapping. My teammates hated me for that. They would going to big and Small and I would get there before them and buy up all of the stuff so they understand all the big beause I would buy all the stuff them from from big and tall. And I was just I didn't never think that I was doing nothing wrong. I was dressing like the guys from my neighborhood, right, It was just it was just at some point it turned from Levi's to Jabos and yes, and you know what, being because I could afford it, right, you know what I mean? And and I was getting beat down a lot. And I think it's kind of bitter sweet because if you look at today's game in every sport, you know, you see guys dressing and and and looking the way they want to look. You know, some people can disrespect it and it might not be there. Look, but people comfortable, they supposed to be able to come to work comfortable, right and and like for me, I never went to the basketball court when I was growing up in a suit. You know what I'm saying, I wear them down because because you know, my my my lady, like when I wear seats. But back then for me, I was I didn't mean anything by it or anything like that. I was being met and I felt like that what's wrong with being you? Everybody else taken up? So when when? So when when the commissioner? When the commissioner changed the rule even though he didn't say it was the Allen Iverson rule. You gotta work through you cold and things of that. No oversized T shirt, no football jeans size fifty with your size thirty two? What way through your gods may rest in peace? I love him to death because we became real, We became real good friends towards the end of my career, and I just remember going in there to meet him about that dress code situation. Shannon Man and I had on all baseball and baseball game, you know what I mean, And he said something I think I had on the Indian stuff and he was like, what's you know, what's over this major league baseball stuff you got on? And I'm like, man, it's just clothes, you know what I mean? And I said in a meet meeting, and I thought I may have been in there thirty minutes, and it seemed like I was in there getting chastise for hours. And I really felt like they changed that rule because you know, once everybody seen that I was dressing like that, guys were like, we damn, that's how you know I want to dress how I feel? Yeah, where was we going afterwards? After afterward, Shannon, you know, we'll go from the champ go right to the club, right after those soups to the club. So you you were that bridge because everybody saw Michael Jordan flooded and mooded, he had a shot, he had a food all, he had the towel, the nice gate of the nice shoes. Okay, Michael Jordan. And then Ai comes along in ninety six and he got on four EGX T shirt in food Boo and he tag it up. They're like, well, hold on, I want to be like this. This is more comfortable than being like that. It's not that. It's it's not the it's not the it's not the clothes, right you know, just like when a guy when when some guys, you know, you have ever seen reservoir dogs, ye, when they robbed the jewelry store or anybody go robs and banks, they don't never have on sweat fans and and and Jane and they come in there with soups on you. It's the stereotype. It don't matter. It's it's it's inside the clothes. Right there, you go, you know what I mean? Do you understand it's the but you started you started to sleeve. Was nobody wearing no sleeves? You starting the sleeve? I'm like, why you got that? Or I'm like, what's what's wrong? White? That was was the sleeve? Was it just a fashion statement or did you actually need to sleeve? It was a it was a it was an injury and I had just got surgery on my elbow. It was an injury and I have. I don't know if the remember the cloth that they used to have the training rout, but yeah, they put it over there. They cut it and put it over unique to keep down swelling the things. Yeah, there you go. And then I just said, okay, won't y'all just make me want? And then it started to get so popular and I love it now, like I love seeing guys in different sports, you know, have them on and whatever. Some guys women don't even be injured. Right. One time I was watching the R. Kelly video and the man had it on individuo man. I said, I Kelly must to fell off the stage and hurt itself. It's something the man got to sleep on in the video, think a fashion and I was really hurt. Then I had to wear end up turning to sleep into a fashion man. And I today, when I look back on it, it's so cool. You see high school players, college players wearing it, even you know, dudes playing rec league football. I just think it's I just think it's so cool and it's a blessing. Man. You know what to do. Hit the subscribe button and become an official member of Club Shah, where we do something before tune something

Hey, Club Sha listeners, We'll be back soon with weekly episodes featuring brand new interviews with exciting roster guests. Until then, enjoyed this special rewind episode with one of my favorite moments from Club Sha shake so far, all my life, grinding all my life, sack fights, hustle, back, price, one slice, got the swap all my life. I've been grinding all my life. Hey, I you had it. You did it all you mister basketball, mister football at at Newport. Right you're from Newport, Yeah, you're from Newport Newport. Yeah, my Michael Vick sweepee. Uh part of that winners all y'all from down that area. Uh. Let me ask you this, had you not chosen basketball, do you think you could have been as good as an NFL player as you were an NBA player? Shannon and and and this is like a this is a fucking list moment for me because Shannon Shaw is asking me a question about so like that. You know, I'm already when when I go home and and and I see the guys I grew up with. You know, I'm a brag about this situation right here asking me about but not being cocky, not being arrogant. I think, No, I know that I would have been a better player in football than I than I was at ball. And that's not disrespecting basketball, guys, that's not disrespecting the game that that that's done so much for me. I mean, I'm a household name, I'm a Hall of famer in that in that sport. But football was my first love. And at the same time, Shannon, you know, if I would have had to get on the grid, then I wouldn't never stopped lifting ways after high school, you know what I mean, you would have seen an old totally different physique. I might be looking like you or something. Hey, but I would have I would have had too. I would have had you would have had a short, short career, you know what I mean. Basketball. I just didn't like Waits because I it was too heavy. Football, I know I would have had to I would have had to live. And then you can you can you can ask anybody from Virginia and and and they would tell you Shannon that you know, hands down I was I would have been better in football. So that was my first love. So you would have been Russell Wilson, Kyler, Murray, Lamar Jackson, Michael Vick. You you was Michael Vick before Michael Vick. All you gotta do is ask Mike and then and then what's what's what's wild about what you're saying? And that that that lets me know about definitely what I've been know about your your sports i Q. But you know that's how I was as a basketball player, you know what I mean. I wanted to add some of Michael Jordan game, add some of magic, be fast like Isaiah, rebound like Bark, be dominant like Shaq, you know what I mean, do it all on the court like you know, you know the guys that do everything, not just one particular thing on the basketball. I didn't want to have no weaknesses out on the court, so I tried to implicate all of those guys game in the minds. And that's what I would have did in football, you know what I mean. I would have wanted to be accurate like Aaron Rodgers and have the arm like Aaron Rodgers. But I definitely would want to run like Russell. I definitely would want to run like Lamar Jackson or Mike Vick. You know what I mean. I just wanted, you know, in basketball, I didn't want the opponent to feel like they could do just one thing to shut me down. I wanted to have variety that I could counteract with, you know what I mean when they try to take something away from me. And it would have been the same thing in football, like I mean, just the way you change the game at tight end. You know, tight end is not playing the game, Nope, Like you know you played the game, you know what I mean. It was like a wide receiver playing tight end, you know what I mean. And that's how you change the game. And that's what I would have tried to add to my my football game was different parts of grades and try to put it in one game. And the I don't know how many points because there a lot of people say if the heat average forty, head having fifty average sixty, how many points do you think Jordan could average in today's NBA? What's the most you have averaged? Thirty seven? Thirty seven one? All right, so forty easy, forty easy, forty forty easy, Yeah, forty easy, Like like forty easy forty would be easy for black Jesus because Harden I think hardened hardened a couple of years ago. Average thirty six. So you go, so so you figured Jordan could average forty with no problem. I'm man sharing it like it's when I talk about him him, it's different, man, and a lot of closes. A lot of times it's by because I love him so much. Like if if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have had the vision. I wouldn't be the Allen Iverson the basketball player today if it wasn't for him, you know what I mean. So I feel and plus he was, he was, he was the best to me, you know what I mean. I think, I think, I definitely think he was the best. And and I don't put Lebron in the conversation because I love him so much as a as a person and as a and as a basketball player. You know what I mean. It's real, real personal When being Michael Jordan don't have the personal relationship like me and Lebron Lebron. But those three Lebron, Mike and Kobe. I never seen nothing better. I never seen I never seen him player better than those three. I might ask both of you guys. And you add to that when he had when he averaged thirty seven, he was doing it with twols and even though they weren't. They weren't shooting three pointers like how they shooting now. You know what I'm saying, was just just imagine if Michael like decided to shoot six seven threes a game like they do now like forty would have been. Hey, everybody knows what you did on the court. But you also changed the rule because you had everybody coming. If they wearing one hundred and fifty pounds, they were wearing a T shirt that was fit shot, they was wearing jeans that would foot calm alone. You started that, You started the car rolls. Nobody was had corn rolls, nobody was tapping. My teammates hated me for that. They would going to big and Small and I would get there before them and buy up all of the stuff so they understand all the big beause I would buy all the stuff them from from big and tall. And I was just I didn't never think that I was doing nothing wrong. I was dressing like the guys from my neighborhood, right, It was just it was just at some point it turned from Levi's to Jabos and yes, and you know what, being because I could afford it, right, you know what I mean? And and I was getting beat down a lot. And I think it's kind of bitter sweet because if you look at today's game in every sport, you know, you see guys dressing and and and looking the way they want to look. You know, some people can disrespect it and it might not be there. Look, but people comfortable, they supposed to be able to come to work comfortable, right and and like for me, I never went to the basketball court when I was growing up in a suit. You know what I'm saying, I wear them down because because you know, my my my lady, like when I wear seats. But back then for me, I was I didn't mean anything by it or anything like that. I was being met and I felt like that what's wrong with being you? Everybody else taken up? So when when? So when when the commissioner? When the commissioner changed the rule even though he didn't say it was the Allen Iverson rule. You gotta work through you cold and things of that. No oversized T shirt, no football jeans size fifty with your size thirty two? What way through your gods may rest in peace? I love him to death because we became real, We became real good friends towards the end of my career, and I just remember going in there to meet him about that dress code situation. Shannon Man and I had on all baseball and baseball game, you know what I mean, And he said something I think I had on the Indian stuff and he was like, what's you know, what's over this major league baseball stuff you got on? And I'm like, man, it's just clothes, you know what I mean? And I said in a meet meeting, and I thought I may have been in there thirty minutes, and it seemed like I was in there getting chastise for hours. And I really felt like they changed that rule because you know, once everybody seen that I was dressing like that, guys were like, we damn, that's how you know I want to dress how I feel? Yeah, where was we going afterwards? After afterward, Shannon, you know, we'll go from the champ go right to the club, right after those soups to the club. So you you were that bridge because everybody saw Michael Jordan flooded and mooded, he had a shot, he had a food all, he had the towel, the nice gate of the nice shoes. Okay, Michael Jordan. And then Ai comes along in ninety six and he got on four EGX T shirt in food Boo and he tag it up. They're like, well, hold on, I want to be like this. This is more comfortable than being like that. It's not that. It's it's not the it's not the it's not the clothes, right you know, just like when a guy when when some guys, you know, you have ever seen reservoir dogs, ye, when they robbed the jewelry store or anybody go robs and banks, they don't never have on sweat fans and and and Jane and they come in there with soups on you. It's the stereotype. It don't matter. It's it's it's inside the clothes. Right there, you go, you know what I mean? Do you understand it's the but you started you started to sleeve. Was nobody wearing no sleeves? You starting the sleeve? I'm like, why you got that? Or I'm like, what's what's wrong? White? That was was the sleeve? Was it just a fashion statement or did you actually need to sleeve? It was a it was a it was an injury and I had just got surgery on my elbow. It was an injury and I have. I don't know if the remember the cloth that they used to have the training rout, but yeah, they put it over there. They cut it and put it over unique to keep down swelling the things. Yeah, there you go. And then I just said, okay, won't y'all just make me want? And then it started to get so popular and I love it now, like I love seeing guys in different sports, you know, have them on and whatever. Some guys women don't even be injured. Right. One time I was watching the R. Kelly video and the man had it on individuo man. I said, I Kelly must to fell off the stage and hurt itself. It's something the man got to sleep on in the video, think a fashion and I was really hurt. Then I had to wear end up turning to sleep into a fashion man. And I today, when I look back on it, it's so cool. You see high school players, college players wearing it, even you know, dudes playing rec league football. I just think it's I just think it's so cool and it's a blessing. Man. You know what to do. Hit the subscribe button and become an official member of Club Shah, where we do something before tune something