Brook Lopez

And so how does that work?

Take me through the earliest forms of this.

Like when you're the little brother growing up, how does that, I mean, you're a minute younger.

You're not really the little brother.

What did the fights look like growing up?

How old are you?

You were on actual leashes because she had to control the amount of adrenaline and hyperactivity that was going on.

But not a lot of terrible fights.

Me and my brother, there's a story of me chasing my brother.

He pulled a knife on me.

I chased him across the street in my underwear.

I was, you know, you guys have to have some family memorable story.

At least in part because that's not how the little brother, I mean, I don't know whether you winced when he said meek when he described you as meek.

And so he's surprised that you're hitting him in the face just because that's not something that you had ever summoned.

It's not just not how you play.

It's also not your dynamic that you're the one punching him in the face, correct?

I would assume that you guys fought playing basketball.

I would assume that one-on-one, things would get competitive enough that something would rise up emotionally.

But even as pros, you guys would play one-on-one in the off-season, correct?

Oh, yeah.