Dwyane Wade
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Well, first of all, thanks for the four verys. The VVVVVIP. I appreciate that. No, I have my own. It's like seeing someone else's kid and thinking you need another kid. I have my own. I have three of them.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Yeah, I've raised three of them already.
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Okay. All right. That's my favorite one. Yeah, that was a good one.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Protect the product, baby. Protect the product.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Yeah. Oh, I was probably annoying as hell to my friends. Right after the championship in 06, LeBron had a bike-a-thon in Cleveland, and I was there. You don't go to Cleveland for a bike-a-thon after you win a championship. You go somewhere else. I was like, no, I want to show up. And I knew Mello was going to be there. I knew my guys were going to be there.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
I wanted them to see that I was a champion. And they didn't have a championship yet. We were obviously all young. But yeah, getting that first one out of the way, I was 24 years old. I came in a little bit unheralded.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
compared to the class that I was in and to be able to get that chip that chip very early yeah I was like okay all right now I got that out the way now I can focus on like my individual self a little bit yeah I can get a little selfish yeah go out to some awards and um but then after a couple years I was like okay this sucks
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Yeah, because now I've actually felt what it feels like to host that trophy over my head. And so now it actually made it worse for my whole career because now I'm chasing that. Right. That feeling because nothing else feels like that no matter what I do.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
So jealous.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
No.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
I mean, I wish you could have gotten in touch with me and let me know.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
No, no, so I practice dumb shots all the time. I'm a firm believer in like, the moments where you're just in the gym by yourself is like really, really use your imagination. Like this is the time to just do all the dumb stuff because you never know when you're gonna need it. And so I personally used to, like I would fall a lot.
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And so I would go in the gym and just like, I'll find angles on a backboard. You might hear this in like Kyrie and guys who are very good at it. I always was like, yo, if I'm getting in a point where I'm like in trouble, I need to be able to find a crack on a backboard that gives it an opportunity. And so I always used to play with going to gym and just play with shots.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
And so when I have those moments and I'm falling, I just look at that little spot on the backboard like, oh, that's familiar. Let me put it there. Yeah. Yeah. And it works out sometimes.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Yeah, I think he gave it to me in 05, the first year. We won in our second year together, but 05, he gave it to me. And it was cool because at that time, if you didn't have a nickname, you was not cool. Everybody had a nickname who was a really good player, and I didn't have one. Dwyane Wade was not cool enough. Well, D-Wade is cool. Well, I worked hard to make D-Wade one name.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
It was like you had to have one name, like Magic, Shaq, Kobe. Michael or MJ, whatever. You needed one name. So D-Way became my one name. But I also needed that alter ego. Yeah. Right? And Shaq kind of helped develop Superman and Flash.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
No, absolutely not.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
You see how big, you see how huge that is?
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Well, we didn't have that problem.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Shaq already had. I got the easier part of Shaq. He already had a win through. He was one of the biggest stars in the world. He had three championships. He was so accomplished and secure by the time he got to Miami. And all he wanted to do was win him another ring. And so he knew that I was one of the ones that can help him get to that. And so he was amazing with me, man.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
He really pumped a lot of juice into me, was telling me things that I didn't even know was true. He told me I was going to be one of the greatest two guards to ever play the game. And I'm sitting here looking at him like, OK, if you think so, then I know you play with Penny. I know you play with Kobe. And so if you say that, then I believe it. So Shaq was incredible with me, man.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Well, it's still popping.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Where? Where is it popping? Listen, I got on Way of Wade shoes right now.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
It's Way of Wade. It was wild.
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It was branding, it was branding. Yeah, Way of Wade is my brand. And in Leaning, I have my own brand called Way of Wade. Actually, I'm wearing D'Angelo Russell shoes. We just launched these. And so Way of Wade is still a thing.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
I was trying to make wow a thing, though. I was trying to have people call me wow, which is way of way, W-O-W. Wow is a good name. Yeah.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Oh, man. I think Shaq tells a lot of stories now, so it was really cool to be able to get behind the scenes. But watching him trying to get around those, like he'll put baby oil on his whole body, right? He'll come in just oiled up. I don't even know. This is the wrong temperature in the world to use baby oil.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Shaq would come in so you could not like grab the fat like it was too slim right so you couldn't like just grab it all right like the pinchers the skin calipers yeah you'll see guys in like uh like Antoine walking the guys would be in the state now I'm young so I didn't have these issues at that time I didn't know I didn't understand it but now once I got older I did but you see the veteran guys finding all these ways around the weight and body fat guys would be in the steam room right before they got to do the weight and body fat
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doing all these things. But yeah, I've saw guys get suspended for games because they did not make weight and body fat. Pat didn't play those games at all. That's crazy.
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It wasn't every day. It was like once a week. It was once a week you'd come in, you had to get weight and body fat. So if you build a good relationship with Bill Ferran, who was our strength and conditioning coach, you'd be like, yo, Bill, get me on Wednesday. Yeah. Let me... Let me get myself tight for a couple days. But it was something serious.
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And I think, you know, Pat just have these pillars, you know, that the organization, you know, lives by. And you guys probably have heard it, best condition, most professional, hardest work, all these things. And this is a part of it. And he felt that if you were at a certain body fat, he had it for guards, you know, and forwards and centers, that you were in –
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
great shape and if you're in great shape then you can give me your best on the court right and i you know i don't think i believed early on until it was times where i was not at that body fat space and i wasn't in great shape and you feel it in moments on the court you feel it in no moment you can't make that extra effort fourth quarter you're a little bit you know you're a little bit more tired and so it was a method to the madness but i think as players you're like nah just give me the ball i can hoop i'm a hooper just let me play
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
I did not say it was the cookies that was the final straw.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Everybody took that from it.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
You touch someone's cookies, that's fighting. I just said that was the first time that I was like, Houston, we have a problem.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Well, sometimes, but the plane will have cookies as well.
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Well, sometimes, he brings it, but this is after a game. This is on the road after a game. They make the cookies. Got it. You can bring it when you're at home and you're about to go on a road. But when you're on a plane on a road trip, they make the cookies on a plane. And so, you know, you kind of, you have to have your comforts when you, this is a long season. So we all have our vices.
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We all have the things that makes, you know, that makes us feel comfortable, especially when you're not at home with your comfort, you got to have those things. Well, cookies, I'm one of those guys. I love me some warm chocolate chip cookies. And that was one of Brian vices as well.
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And so I told the story about the moment we were, you know, we all would get in front of a plane and we all would play cards, you know, gambling and playing cards, boo-ray and It's poker and all these things is a big part of like comradery on a plane when you're flying. And that was one of the moments when they said someone took the cookies off the plane.
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I got a lot of text messages from that by the way. A lot of people was hitting me telling me their version of the story and I'm like, I was actually there. This is my version. I just saw it in Brian. Like, he became like a five-year-old kid when them cookies wasn't on that plane. He got real quiet, pushed them cards away. And I was like, oh, this is, that's not good. Yeah.
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You know, it's the nitpicking. Yeah, right. It's the nitpicking of things. Like, we were one of the greatest teams. We went to four finals in a row. Don't take my cookies away from me. Right, right. I need something.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Well, listen. Pat Riley, it's Pat Riley's show. I don't care who took the cookies.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
In my eyes, everything comes from Pat. It doesn't matter. Pat, he's the beginning and the end. And so you're goddamn right. It comes from the beginning and the end in my eyes. And so that was just the first moment. LeBron didn't leave the heat because he didn't get warm chocolate chip cookies. But it's the things that when it comes to the nitpicking,
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And like the Wild, when you're around each other for so long, and you've accomplished the things you came to accomplish, and you're around each other for so long, everything is not as funny as it used to be. Everyone is not as cool as they once was. And so once you start having these little things that start adding up and start building up, you start seeing it on a player.
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You start seeing it wear on them. And I just saw him and I was like, oh boy.
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Not really. It ain't like he wore it on his sleeve. LeBron keeps them cards close to his chest. I didn't really feel that my guy was leaving until we were in Vegas before he left. We all went to Vegas. He hosted his Nike camp, big camp. We all went to Vegas to go hang out and be guys. I could tell that he had a lot on his mind and there was some things he wanted to say that he was not saying.
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But I just waited for him to tell me. I wasn't gonna go to him like, bro, you out? I could tell, I'm sure it was a hard decision for him and I'm sure it was hard to tell me and other guys. And so I just waited. I waited for him to have that conversation with me. Um, you know, but ultimately we'd had to have the conversation just like we did to team up. We had a conversation.
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Well I think the one thing is is Chris Bosh was, Chris Bosh is in Toronto, right? And so once Chris Bosh got a chance to come out here and get, you know, everybody was like throwing flowers at his feet, he wavered a couple times on, like we didn't know if he was gonna be a part of, you know, the opportunity for us to play together.
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And I think that he did a great job of keeping, once again, their cards close to their chest because we knew going into that summer that each team that was in position can get two star players, that everyone wanted two star players. And then the heat came out of nowhere. It was like, hey, we can get three. And so I think it changed something for us.
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We all had a conversation about it and we realized we would like to play together, but at the same time, but go off and do what you need to do. Go have these interviews with these teams. And if something changes, then let's come back to the table. So it wasn't a hundred percent, but it was a conversation that we had going into a free agency.
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Like, hey, we will all love to play together and this and that. And then, but also too, you gotta go off and you gotta see what's best for you. But ultimately, we would love to play together.
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And it was times where like, you know, me and Brian get on the phone like, I think Chris, I don't know if Chris gonna, I don't know if he gonna, the Knicks telling him everything, the Bulls telling him everything he wanna hear, I don't know if he gonna, if he's gonna play in Miami. And also too with Brian too, I didn't know, because I'm not in his meetings, right?
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And with me, when I came to Chicago and I got a chance to go in there and grab that Chicago Bulls jersey, I was back at home in the mirror like,
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
and now you know what i mean like i went back to that kid from chicago so i think it was a moment where all of us was like we probably wavered and i thought of like man this looks good for me um even though we had the conversation about playing together and that was and that people think it was like two years before it was not it was like three years yeah it was not it wouldn't we don't give us that much credit how how long for real was it like it was free agency time
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Well, I mean, once people started getting a little inside that we were thinking about playing together, we got a couple calls. So we would get calls from Amari was a free agent. Boozer was a free agent. And so we had to look and see if those personalities and those talents, if it obviously worked with us.
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Because I think it was, Brown and I were both committed to playing together, once we committed to playing together. And it was really important who that third person was. And we knew all along that if we were gonna do this, that Chris Bosh was, the choice. He wasn't like another, it wasn't another option from the standpoint of this is our first option just because of our talents already together.
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It was hard vision how we're both gonna be successful at the same time because we're both ball dominant guys. And you need somebody else to kind of like relieve that. And Chris Boss was the reliever in that for us. More than like Omari or more than even Boozer.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
I don't know. Brian talked to Boozer. They had already played together in Cleveland.
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Yeah, and I talked to Amari because me and Amari, we had a cool relationship. So I actually was trying to get Amari there the year before. I was trying to get Amari to the Heat before. And I didn't think – this was the, what, 2009 All-Star weekend. I was trying to get us to trade for Amari. I'm like, listen, let's do it now.
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And the Heat was like, no, we're trying to be patient. And so I'm like, all right, well, patient going to get me out the door. you know what I mean, type thing. And so it didn't work, but Amari, Brown and I would have been dominant, but at the same time, it's a totally different game than Chris Bosh.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
But tell me about how that came to be. You know, the crazy thing about life is it is a photo with the Banana Boat and Carmelo Anthony is not on the photo. People can look at the photo and still don't care and still say that we all are Banana Boat. I don't know how that name came about with all of us because we all was not on the Banana Boat. My wife was on the Banana Boat with us.
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And so we were actually all on vacation. We were always going on vacation together. We would take, you know, we got together and we was like, hey, man, we want to start taking these little yacht trips together. We would put all our monies together. We'd take our wives, significant others, and we would go on vacations together. And so Mellow wasn't there yet.
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They were actually on their way, like literally like heading to us. And we were just, you know, getting in the water, having fun. And My wife wanted to go on a banana boat. So Chris Paul, Brian, I, we all got on the banana boat. Now we're in the middle of nowhere. No one's supposed to know this, but us. And someone took a photo from who God knows where. I'm so happy they did.
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No one's supposed to have seen us on a banana boat. First of all, like if I knew they were saying we'd have looked a little cooler.
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Yeah, but if he had been there. Would he have got on the banana boat? Would he have been on the banana boat? I don't know of all four. I don't know.
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I don't know if all of us would. I don't know if Mello would have got on the banana boat. I don't think Mello would have. Mello's too cool.
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Right, and I want to kick my wife off the banana boat. That's right.
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Chris Paul?
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So I don't think it would have been the banana boat. I think Chris Paul.
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It was one person who said that. Everybody was saying that. It was one person who said not three, not four, not five.
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He tripping. I was like, slow down, bro.
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Well, first of all, that was one of the things that is supposed to be internal. That's an internal conversation.
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Yeah, but it wasn't supposed to go out to everybody. That's one of those moments that is not supposed to go out to everybody. What you say in the house, stay in the house, suppose. That's what it would have been just for us. Now, if we go back, run a clip, look at me when he's saying it. I'll put my head down like, whoo-wee. Because I had won a championship before.
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I knew how hard it was to obviously win the championship. So it's no way. Like, yes, we thought we were going to be a problem. Yes, we thought we was about to run the table. But we also knew the league is very, very good. And it's not that damn easy. So when he was doing a 9-1, 9-2, we in the moment. We feeling ourselves. And it became something that people took and made it like factuals.
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Like we signed a contract and said we're going to win seven championships.
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It's jokes. It ain't nothing but jokes.
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Well, I mean, the senatorial spurs is out there first. I mean, I don't think, you can't just run through this league. I don't care who you are. You gon' earn it. And so, you know, there's teams out there that could compete versus us no matter what team we put together. And also, too, when you put three guys like that together, it's very hard to build a roster, a full roster.
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You know, we had to get guys to take so many pay cuts to be able to be on the team. And so, you know, you don't think about all that. You're just, you're in the moment. You're thinking about this dynamic. Who's gonna stop this dynamic? We amongst our fans. We feeling ourselves. And then Brian got a little loose on the mic and just, he started counting a little extra. You know what I mean?
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And so once he started going, I was like, okay, well, you the young boy. I guess if you said that we rolling with you, because you the one going, it's about seven, I'm going to be a little old. Because it ain't going to be seven in a row.
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Yeah, I put my head down. I'm like, oh, he don't know.
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Yeah. Mike ain't spending none of that money. No, he did say he didn't play cards. Mike Miller ain't spending none of that money since he got to the NBA.
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This is what we here for, everybody. If you ain't signing up for this, then don't sign up here. At this point, once you're just playing in the NBA and you're playing games and you're going home, first round or regular season, I wanna feel something. I wanna be a part of something that's just really bigger than me. And that's what we signed up for.
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And so if you signed up to play with the Miami Heat, you signed up for pressure. That's where you feel alive. We want it to feel alive. And so we welcome the pressure. You want to see how you respond and how you can you succeed in the midst of this pressure. And so I loved it. I didn't mind. And you can see the ones who will weed themselves out when it came to the pressure moments.
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But Mike was a gamer. Mike didn't have no thumbs. Mike didn't have no toes. He was injured all the time when he played with us. I felt bad for him, man, because Mike can play. That was one of the guys that Brian really wanted to play with. Like Brian wanted Mike, I wanted UD. These are the guys who was like, hey, this don't work without this guy and that guy.
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And so we made sure, and they also made sure by taking the pay cuts that they were there.
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He played 20. Yeah, he played 20 years with the Heat.
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Well, he's the culture carrier. You know what I mean, he's the voice. And when UD say something, everybody listen. I don't care what stature, I don't care if you're averaging 30, 40 points a game, when UD stand up and say something, you gonna listen. And also too, he ran Miami, so. You couldn't go nowhere without people tapping on your shoulder and you know it's UD, UD got eyes on you.
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You know what I'm saying? But it's just certain people that just have your respect. And it ain't about what they're accomplishing this, it's about what they do every day. He's an everyday guy. And you respect the guy that come and give everything they have to get every ounce out of their ability every day. And don't bitch and moan about it. Just go about his business, put his hard head on.
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And so he's the guy and we all respect him, man. Brian, respect him just as much as I did. Pat Rowley respected him just as much as anybody. And so, you know, on the outside, when people say, you know, anything about UD, you know, on the inside, you understand that he's one of the most important voices the Miami Heat has ever had in the organization. Yeah. Yeah.
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And if I ever become a coach, which I won't be, he'd be on my staff. Yeah. Go get him. You never want to coach? I mean, do you see these contracts? I don't know. Listen, never know.
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It's all it takes. You've got a good podcast. If you think so.
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Fire me. Yeah. Give me that five years and then let me go out to two.
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No, it's a miserable job though.
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Is he going to come back down? No, we didn't want that.
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I mean, you know, I was I was I was a star player when Spol got his first head coaching job. And so, you know, I was there alone, the bumps and the bruises of a first time coach. Right. But by the time Brown and them came to Miami, I think he was about two, three years on the job, you saw the big improvement as a coach.
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He had his strengths right away, and his strengths was you're going to be prepared. Right. His preparation is incredible. His work ethic is off the chart. But there's a lot of other things that goes into coaching besides that. And then by the time Brown came, he was a little bit better at it. And then, you know, after we lost in that finals, he went on to start reinventing himself.
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You know, Spohr is one of those guys that will go into football locker rooms and other sports to see some of the other great coaches, what they're doing, how they're involving players. And you start seeing his, he started evolving every year as a coach. And I mean, obviously he's one of the greatest now. But when he first got the job, I was like, what are we doing? Who is this?
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And I had a great relationship with Spoh. He was the guy who helped me with my game early on. He was my workout guy. He was in the video room and he had come up and helped me work out after practice. So we had a great relationship, but then he got handed the head coaching job and I'm like, wait, wait, what we doing?
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And then, but to see his work ethic, to see the staff that was put around him, shout out to David Fisdell, Keith Askins, these tough guys, Ronnie Rothstein, they put a good staff around him and allow him to grow, make mistakes. You have to have that. You cannot bring a young coach in and fire him within the first three years.
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You have to give them space and time to learn how to be a coach, especially in the professional league. And so Spoh has that, and he had that with Pat. And so he wasn't going anywhere. Pat let everybody know that you will get out of here before he leaves. Well, now he got time to become a great coach because he is comfortable sitting in his seat, but he works his tail off.
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Nobody works harder than Spoh Strum.
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Yeah, man, it was so tough. It's so easy to say words. I think we all know that. It's easy to say something. You know, I'm all in, coach. Okay, what does all in mean? Are you really all in? Do you understand what it's going to take? I think – When I look at that first year, think about we all coming from competing versus each other to be the very best in this game.
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We were still competing versus each other, even though we were teammates. Not in a bad way. Just like, all right, Brian, you didn't score six straight. Now I'm about to score six straight. All right, D, you didn't do that. Chris, let me get in the mix. So we were still, we still had that competitiveness amongst each other, trying to learn how to play together and be teammates, right? Yeah.
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And then after we lost in the finals, that's humbling. We all got some humble pie very quickly, and we realized if this was going to work, then we had to do this a little different. And so you saw in that second year, you saw us come back a total different team with a total different mindset, that we actually started believing the stuff that we said we was going to do. But it takes time.
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This doesn't just happen when you snap your fingers and say, I want it to happen. It took a little time. It took us one year to lose and to get humbled in front of the world and everybody to be If it was podcast all of the time, we would have been the number one topic.
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It was a very nasty thing said about us at that time. But outside of that, man, we had a goal. We sacrificed a lot to be able to play together. And so we had to accomplish that. It was no other answer. We have to accomplish this goal. And our goal was to win, not just to get there. And so we came back in year two.
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And we started actually believing the things that we said, the mottos that we would say, the things that we would say to the media, the things we would say to each other. We started believing it because you start seeing sacrifice amongst guys. We weren't sacrificing at first.
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We were hooping and we were very good at it, but it takes sacrifice to especially have that much talent and to be able to have all that work together, right? You gotta give up shots. You gotta give up your body. You gotta give up minutes. You gotta do all these things that you don't wanna do. And it's easy to say it and it's harder to do.
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And so we had to allow coach to coach us a little bit, right? We had to allow ourselves to, like Brian had to allow me to coach him. I had to allow him to coach me. It was a lot that we had to learn about each other from that first year to that second year. But ultimately we needed to win and we wanted to win and we were going to figure it out. And so we did.
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I mean, right away. Go to the first game. We figured it out. Like coming back, we had a, think about it. It was an, we had a long off season. Think about losing the championship and then having a, we had an NBA lockout. That sucked because all you want to do is get right back to it. But we had a long off season to think about this. And so first game was in Christmas day in Dallas.
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We came, I think we won by like 40 on that day. We came in with the mentality right away in training camp. The first year in training camp, we were still against each other, right? We still was trying to show that we all some bad boys. We came back in that second year and we were trying to become a team. We were trying to show that we could play together.
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And, you know, I think we all felt it right away. And, you know, give credit to LeBron. You know, LeBron came back a different player than he was. I mean, what we start seeing LeBron in those next couple of years, was one of the greatest runs we've ever seen when it comes to professional athlete.
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And so he came back an even better player that put all of us in our roles and our positions a little bit.
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We didn't, we didn't deal with none of that in Miami. Okay. So you spread his angry tattoos that we go.
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Not in Miami.
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No.
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Not in Miami.
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Not in Miami. I'm focused on the years. Not in Miami. Cleveland, I was a shell of myself. That don't even count.
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So that's pretty good. Every time I watch a Cav game and I hear them say D. Wade, it's crazy to me.
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Yeah, no, it's crazy. I laugh every time that it's another D-Wade and he's so different from me. Yes, very different. Yeah, different complexion for sure. But I think it's kind of cool too when I watch him. I'm like, oh, it's still a D-Wade in the game.
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No, we didn't have those conversations. You guys don't sit around? We was talking about him being the GOAT in seven, eight years into the league. Arguably, he's put together a career that will make sports conversations talk forever about who's the GOAT. It's not many people that can have that conversation to say that you will argue about who's the GOAT forever. I can't have that conversation.
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What I did is I didn't get a chance to see Michael Jordan play. I was inspired by Michael Jordan. I grew up in Chicago. I played the game of basketball because I saw Michael Jordan play the game of basketball. And so my vision of it is so different. But I got a chance to watch that guy, LeBron James, up close and personal. And I've never seen a better basketball player in my life.
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And so I think the GOAT conversation is, what does that even mean to you?
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Everyone talks about it, not just in media. Like everybody on the street come up to you and they be like, hey, who's the GOAT? You're like, bro, you seven. Like why does this matter to you? Who's the GOAT? What do you tell them? What do you say? They ask me? Seven-year-old, seven-year-old. I ask them, well, who's your GOAT? It doesn't matter who's my GOAT. I'm 43 years old.
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I grew up in Michael Jordan era. I played with LeBron James. I can pick anyone I want. It doesn't matter. My vision of playing a game of basketball came from Michael Jordan. The silhouette, the thing about when it comes to, I think when it comes to the GOAT is like you got to have the perfect height. You got to have the perfect form. It's all these things that go on.
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The GOAT is not just the stats that you put on the court and the championships you win when people talk about the GOAT. It's the stories that people tell about you. It's all these things when it comes to being the GOAT. And so that's the era I grew up in. But LeBron James is arguably a GOAT. He's a GOAT. He's a GOAT to generations.
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But the generation before him, it's very hard for people before him to call him their GOAT, right? It's going to be hard. But the generation after that, he's the GOAT to them. And so I'm not going to have an argument with somebody that comes to me and say LeBron James is their GOAT. Duh, he's a GOAT. It's multiple GOATs in this game.
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You should start having those arguments. They're kind of fun. Those arguments are dumb.
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That makes him your GOAT. Titles. And I respect that. And it's over. Conversation over. Thank you for your respect. Michael Jordan. Okay, there we go. That was a great conversation. Yeah, that was good. Seven-year-old. My basketball goal is Michael Jordan.
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I've seen a lot of books in his hand.
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You know what I love? I love when someone can make fun of themselves. Yeah. I love the fact that LeBron and his team has now marketed him as someone who reads the first page. The first page. That is to me, if you can make fun of yourself, people really can, they love you. If you can't and you take yourself too serious, then everyone else is going to take it too serious.
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And so I love the fact that LeBron has now made millions of dollars off everybody talking about him reading one page. I never sat down and watched how many pages he reads. I don't care about that. I care about what he does on the court. But I definitely have seen a lot of books in his hand. I would just carry around the back of the book. Most people don't even make it past the back jacket.
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Listen, I'm one of them people. I start reading a book and I'm going to sleep fast. I got to listen to my book. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry. I ain't going to make it. I read the reviews, and I'm like, that's a great book. I can write a whole essay off of what I just read on the back of the book.
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Wait a minute.
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Oh yeah, who made, somebody did make that.
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It was a fake one. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. Wait, that's what everyone does. I'm in on the jokes. A lot of people say I talk a lot of shit about me. I wouldn't be who I am today if I really took it seriously.
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No, it's cool. It came out of nowhere. It was crazy. It definitely was a crazy take, you know, and people ran with it. I was like, okay. It's a funny quote. Fake or not, it's a funny quote. It's funny. Listen, I like to laugh. It was funny. It was a little crazy. But you know what? Ha, ha, ha. My wife decided to do it. Then she decided to do it. Leave what we do inside our private home private.
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What do you mean what happens inside? What happens inside? We don't know. We're on the outside. You just have a great time.
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Is there live music? okay it's some of the coolest people in the world yeah we see the pictures and then we don't you have a dinner it's a fundraiser okay um every because each seat is paid for by brands and individuals um it's uh you walk through depending on the theme of the thing of the year you walk through the gallery right any tvs no tv the game's on No games on it. So you're at a table.
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That sounds terrible.
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Yeah.
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No emcee. Okay.
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It's some, the conversation is the band that's playing through dinner. It's everybody, these are all these people, like most of these people I only get to see once a year. Yeah. Right? And I mean, these not, I don't got these people in my Rolodex. Like we not like kicking it like that, right? Not everybody in there. So it's the soundtrack is of everybody playing
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happy and excited to be in the cool kids room right together and everyone looking fly as hell and you know and and you know that's just the sound that's the soundtrack of the room when do they pass around the illuminati robes and the baby blood is that dessert course let's let's talk about the food tell me what you ate Well, this year it was fire. Every year is different.
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Every year is different. Obviously, they reach out to a different chef or different restaurant to upset the plate. And some years it's maybe something you fancy, and some years it's something you may not fancy. This year was actually really, really good. One of my wife and I actually favored a favorite restaurant. So we had some soul in our food this year. Okay.
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It was about black culture this year, baby. You know we're going to have some seasoning on this shit. So it was good. It was really, really good.
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I don't remember the age, but, you know, me and fish has had a real. It was just on site. I stay over here relationship. You know what I mean? I grew up in the inner city. Fish wasn't a part of what I was able to eat. And then when I got older, people started throwing fish. And it was like the first one was salmon. And I was like, that smells like the sea.
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I don't want that. And so me and Fish had a you stay over there, I stay over here relationship for a long time. And now I just actually ate Brasino before I came over here.
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I'm having lunch fish now with a salad.
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No, David Fisdell, shout out to David Fisdell, one of our coaches, he told me one time, he was like, you know what? He's like, I'm pissed off at my parents. I grew up, my mom always told me that I had to eat healthy. I had to do all these things to be, if I wanted to be an athlete one day, he said, you don't do none of those things. And you're one of the greatest athletes that I've ever seen.
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I mean, I was terrible in my prime. That's why my prime didn't last that long because I didn't have the, the things I needed, the nutrients for my body, for my body to continue to perform the way it needed to perform. I was a sugar baby. Give me sugar. Give me sweets. Give me burgers. Give me fried chicken. I grew up that way, and that's the way I ate through the league for a long time.
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Give me hot dogs before a game. Yeah.
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Yeah, it was too late. It was? Father Time was already at the door. Shit.
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Like try to – Are you talking about everybody talking about Luka's diet?
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Luka's going to figure out what he needs to do.
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Right. I mean, Jokic looks like you and he's got three MVPs, right? Yeah. Three or four.
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He still looks like you. But his talent and his skills, everybody don't need to look chiseled. That is a misconception right there. It's not about how you look. It's about what kind of conditioning you're in to be able to obviously play both ends of the floor the way you need to. And so it's not about how you look. That's a little overrated right there. It's a little bit about how you look.
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Everybody don't need abs.
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And no one said nothing about how Jokic looks when he's winning MVP titles. True. Nope. True. His body is no different than Luka's. If you want to talk about the style of like, we don't see muscles. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? It's more so of, are you in peak condition or are you not in peak condition from what people expect from a superstar player? Yeah. And that's the biggest conversation.
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Got some finals. It's a lot of fat guys that's saying it, right? Whatever fat is to you. It's a lot of guys who don't have abs that's saying it. I think Luka looks good.
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He looks okay. If Luka walked in here right now, I'm sure his body would look way different than you think by watching him on a basketball court out there with jerseys on and all the pads and everything.
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I bet. No, bro, Luka's so good.
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He wouldn't know what hit him. I think, you know what's crazy? You know how you see, I think we just saw a video go out of Robinson in New York of him playing in the summer and he was going between the legs, hitting step backs. If somebody's not in the NBA and they just doing whatever they want to do, everybody's cold.
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And then when you got to get in the NBA, you got to play a certain role. You forget all the things that you were working on in the summer. You just got to pick and you just got to roll. Just do that. And then you forget.
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Well, that's called bright lights. That's called popcorn popping. That's called fans in the arena. Everything changes. I've seen players in practice that was way better than me. And we get in the game, and I'm like, bro, you going to help me? It's a whole different beast when you got 20,000 out there.
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I love Mario. Mario is one of the toughest. Mario don't get credit the way he should. Mario is one of the toughest players I ever played with. One of the biggest shot makers I've ever played with. Mario, to me, I feel like he got more out of what looks like his ability. When you look at Mario, you don't see Him doing it, you're like, I don't think this guy's going to be that good, right?
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Because he's not chiseled. He's not hella tall. He's not fast. He don't jump high. Mario still today plays the game of basketball. Mario is still hoop. I give Mario a lot of credit. He was one of the guys I love playing with. And if I was to start a team again and you asked me to pick 12 guys, I would pick Mario on my team because he's a fucking winner.
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But for what? Favorite teammate for what? Because you got favorite teammates for different reasons.
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Favorite teammate to play with, and I can't pick a guy that I actually like playing with.
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No, my answer is always the same. My answer is always the same. What is it? It doesn't change. Shadonis has them. Okay. All time favorite teammate.
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And then what about to hang out with him as well? To hang out with? No, that's always the guys that don't really get no time on the court. Yeah.
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Demo is always the guy that, you know, is not one of the star guys, the guys you can kind of get away with, you know, get away and just kind of like, you know, be someone else. You don't got to be that star guy. You don't got to be cool. You can just be who you are. You know what I'm saying? So I've had many favorite teammates that you will never know their names. Yeah. I know their names.
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I mean, my favorite teammates go back to college, man. Like, you know, I got guys in college that, you know, you won't know their names. They're my favorite teammates. I still talk to them to this day, you know, in our final four run, guys that you will not remember.
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I never thought that far ahead. I'm an everyday person. It was just to me, I was always about getting better every day. Now I knew I could compete with anybody because I wasn't afraid of anyone. Once you take away getting dunked on, shooting an air ball and getting crossed over, what else is it? After that, it ain't nothing else embarrassing in the game of basketball.
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Everyone's gonna score on you. So once I was realizing, okay, these are the only things that really people are embarrassed about. All right, well, take that away. Then let's just hoop. And so I was never, it's basketball. I'm not afraid of you. Now you can score on me. Okay. Like my brothers can score on me. My dad can score on me. So like, I just kind of simplified the game of basketball.
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So I knew I could compete with anyone. It was just about getting the opportunity for me. And once I got my opportunity, I showed up every time. And that's all.
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No, but I knew I was going to be great. It goes back to I got a high school yearbook quote when I was 17 years old. And they asked me, you know, in 20 years, you know, what would you be? And I said, I'm going to retire as one of the greatest ever played a game of basketball. I said it at 17 and I actually retired at 37 years old. I retired 20 years later. That's pretty cool.
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That's actually pretty damn cool. Yeah. I retired as one of the greatest to play the game of basketball. Now, whatever number that's.
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But thank you very much. So I did retire as one of the greatest. So at 17 years old, I had the outlook. I just didn't know how I was going to get there. Yeah. But I got there by my work every day. And also to just by the people, man, you really got to you got to find people along this journey. You got to you got to connect to them. You got to hold on tight to the people that's there for you.
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God puts people in your path. You have to recognize who these people are. I recognize those people throughout my journey and I stay connected to them to help me get to that next level.
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And so I knew that I wanted to be that, but it was the work every day and it was the recognizing of, and being honest and looking in the mirror of myself when I wasn't that good, when I wasn't doing the things that I was supposed to do, really holding myself accountable to that, to being one of the greatest ever played a game in 20 years.
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I have a statue.
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That is a statue. I wasn't thinking like you guys were thinking. I wasn't thinking like the photo that went out and everybody liked to say. I wasn't thinking about that, guys. Come on, man.
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Yeah, yeah. Listen, I get it. Give me all the jokes. Actually, some of them were fucking hilarious, by the way. Some of them, I saved them in my phone. I was like, I got to come back and laugh at this one later. But no, I wasn't thinking about that. Once again, my mind goes beyond that. My mind goes to my kids. My mind goes to small kids from the inner city of Chicago. I go to all that.
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Now, you guys have a job to do. You got a job to do. You got a job to do. Your job to do is to make sure that you get as many clicks as possible. My statue became something that you guys can talk about that will get you clicks. Yes. Have at it.
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No, they're tough. Yeah, they're tough. I keep telling people is I was there alone like the whole process, right? It was an incredible process. But from clay to bronze, it's two totally different things. Mm-hmm. It's two totally different statues from clay to bronze. And so in clay, I was like, oh, yeah, this is going to go down in history as one of the greatest statues ever.
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In bronze, it looks way different. Everything is hardened. Right. So it's very different in clay. Yeah. than it is in bronze.
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It's real intense. Yeah. So it was very strong, like jaw structures. And you know what I mean? And then too, like everyone gets to look up at me with my mouth open and yelling with these strong, like, I trust me, I understand. But in clay, it's soft. It looks a little different. I look a little bit more like me. And then you put it in bronze. And then obviously, and I was trying to educate people.
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I said, also, you put it in bronze and it has to stand strong in Miami forever. That is an extra dip in bronze. That is an extra this, extra that. It's even harder. It's even darker. And so I think that my first reaction, once I got to reaction was, damn, it's darker than I thought it was going to be. Because every statue has different complexions of bronze complexion.
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But because mine needs to weather the storm, Mine had to be a little bit more. It had to get a little bit more care on it in a sense. And so it was definitely darker than I wanted it to be. But like the expression that I wanted it to have, it had the expression. It just hit a little, my cheekbones a little stronger.
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Yeah. I mean, you could put everybody that plays sports in one room to have a statue. Yeah. You can't fill this room up. No. So it's an elite class. Yeah. And listen, I think as long as people are making bronze statues, it's going to be hard to capture it to look the way that everybody's going to want it to look. Someone is going to figure it out where it's going to look exact one day.
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But it is a really tough process. And it didn't hurt me that everyone was talking jokes. I just, the people who worked so hard on it, man. The families. That to me, I was just like, but also too, once you put your work out there, it's open for interpretation, for people to say what they wanted to say. And people said a lot that they wanted to say. But ultimately,
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What I wanted, and it's still happening, I still get at it every day of a family, a kid, an individual, they go and they take a photo at the statue. I was actually there one night. Here's the story about it. I was there one night when I was in Miami, late night, to go see the statue for myself away from everyone, just me and my crew.
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and it's this it was like three in the morning and it was a guy who walked up to see the statue now mind you i'm behind the statue i'm looking at all the details he's not even at the statue yet he's walking up and he's like oh man they fucked my man up and so i come around the statue i said bro did you even look at the statue or are you going off of everything you heard like come here let's take a let's take a look at this statue for a minute
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But he just automatically walked up with his own.
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Yeah, I'm like, hey, come get a better look. Matter of fact, how about you look from up top? Everybody looking from down here, right? But no, he took a couple steps back and was like. Oh man, I didn't, no, you did. You said it, I heard you. I heard you when you weren't here. But it's all good. Like, I just want to, if I lived in Miami, I'd just pop up at the statue any time. Like, say something.
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Me and UD are sitting there like, say something. But it's all love, man.
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One of our best accomplishments. Yeah.
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So... Yes, at some point. I remember being a kid watching the Top 50. It was in Cleveland when they did it. They had the leather jackets. They had the leather jackets. I remember being a kid and watching some of my favorite players all be on the Top 50. And I thought, one of the coolest moments in the NBA to be in that list. And I didn't know when they would ever do another list.
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And so I didn't know if it would be 100 years or whatever. But when they said they was going to do the Top 75... Of course I want to be in that. Now you got to understand it's 25 years go by and they only could put 25 more players and it's not 25 new players because some guys got left off of the original 50 list.
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So let's say it's about 15 to 18 spots of new players in 25 years and you're one of them. I mean, to me individually, that was one of the most, that was one of the dopest moments of my individual life. Like I didn't go out to play as an individual. And I didn't go off all the individual awards. Like I wish I would have grabbed a couple on the way. But that was one that I tattooed on my chest.
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Now, but you really didn't understand what it really, really meant. You just knew that you was getting this honor until we all got to All-Star Weekend in Cleveland. And we all walked in the room. And when you walked in the room, you saw the gods of the game.
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You don't see the gods of the game. You may see somebody all-star weekend. You don't see everybody together. And so you walk in, you're like, Kareem, Oscar, Bird, Magic. You're looking at the gods of the game. You're like, oh, I'm one of them? Oh, this is really cool. Now you see everybody like, all of us up there smiling ear to ear now because now we in this room.
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And so we in this room, we all get to take the photo together. Everyone's not there. 75 players are not there. It was 76 because it was a tie too. I don't know if everybody know that. 76 players on the top 75. I didn't know that.
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No.
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But it's 76. I don't know. I don't know. That little smirk, man, you think I knew? No, I was thinking, I don't know neither. But Jordan wasn't in that room, okay? Jordan, he was actually, Jordan flew in. We didn't know MJ was coming. We didn't know who was going to be there when we took that photo in that room. But that room right there let you know that you was one of them boys.
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Yeah, can't nobody tell me nothing after being in that room, right? Because when the 100 one come around, I'm going to be back in that room.
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But we all are waiting to go out. To go out and wave our little hand and get our love. And that's when MJ walked in. And you've heard multiple stories about MJ coming in and how he snuck in like the black cat and just kind of snuck up on everybody and started talking shit immediately. Right away. Right at Magic. And once again, you can go back and look at the clip. You can see my face.
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I was like... Oh, this is happening. Michael and Magic is talking shit. Like what? I'm privy to this conversation. I'm a kid who grew up watching these guys and obviously these are some of the greatest of a play. And I'm now a part of this. I get to be behind the scenes of this. And Mike come in and he right at him. And it was serious. It was no games with Michael.
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He really was like, get your sneaks, lace them up. Right now. And Magic looked around and saw them cameras like, well, you lucky these cameras here. I tell you something, right? It was just one of those moments where he's like, two of the greatest ever is talking shit. Oh, that's incredible. It was incredible, man. But obviously, they're obviously best of friends. But that was the moment for me.
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And I said it. I'm going to recognize. That was the moment for me. I was like, oh, I made it. Yeah. I'm in heaven. I would say so. I don't know if I'm going to heaven in regular life, but I know in basketball life, I'm in heaven. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty surreal. It's pretty insane.
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Some analyst talk. Yeah, some analyst talk.
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That makes it analyst talk because I can tell you who I think is going to win the final.
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Get real granular.
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I'm going to start there.
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You got to give it to us. I'm just telling you the truth because no one knows. But I will say if I had to pick right now because y'all are forcing me to pick. Forcing, yeah. I think the best team is OKC. I think. But it's not about the best team. We beat Dallas in a year where they were the best team and we won the championship.
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If I had to pick right now, I would say Minnesota Timberwolves were one of the finest. Right now. It's the aura of Ant. Yeah, and Julius Randle. Well, it's the way that the aura of that young man, the way that you see it filters into everyone that he's playing with. That right there, when you get to that finals, you need that. You need to believe in somebody wholeheartedly like that.
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And I'm not saying these other guys don't. I mean, listen.
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any one of these teams can obviously win there's four teams and they all can win it's going to be historic whoever wins but from what I've experienced by being in the finals if they can keep this up what that young man the way that he can the way he puts his his ant man on the game no one else does that no one else goes to that level like him when he goes to that level and these guys are very good I mean you got Brunson who is
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Fourth quarter, clutch time, money. Shea, MVP, right? You got these guys who are at that level, but when you talk about who got it, who got that sauce, Ant-Man just got that sauce. Now, they got to keep it up because we all know those first eight games mean nothing. The first eight wins mean nothing. You got to get to eight more of them. And so who knows if he's going to get there.
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But right now, if you ask me, I'm going to say he got the sauce that you need to get to that final.
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No, no, no. Something changed about him, right? No, he grew up a little bit. I mean, it's only one year difference, but it's a big difference. He got to experience it. He was in the Western Conference Finals last year. He played against the guys who went to the finals. That's a different summer than someone who lost in the second round or the first round when you lose in that space.
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And so you see someone, you see a mature player. He had the sauce. He's had the sauce his whole life. I'm sure he had let you know when he was five he had the sauce. But once you lose in the way that he lost, you watch the team that you lost to go off to the finals and all those things, it's a different mentality that you come back with. Ant-Man has come back and put his spirit into the guys.
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And you can see it when they're playing, right? And he's a leader of that team. And so if I'm choosing, Maybe a little biased because I see a little, you know, maybe I see a little reflection sometimes. That's what I thought, yeah. Yeah, maybe a little biased. Yeah. You know what I mean? As a young guy, I mean, I want mine at 24. He's 23. You know, I want to see somebody come and take it.
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But I think he got what is needed when you get to that stage. As you understand, you heard Shea say the other day, game seven, he was like, I was nervous. Yeah. You could feel it in the first quarter. You supposed to be. You have never felt these emotions before. Yeah. That is the second round seven game. you gotta keep going. You gotta get to these, it gets hot.
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Listen, you get more nervous as it goes on. And so I think someone like Ant is just, I think he's ready for that step and for that stage. And that stage, them lights get even brighter. That popcorn, it smells even better in that. It gets even richer in that arena. That crowd get even louder. And so to win, the ability to be able to pump that confidence in those other guys is what it's going to be.
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And OKC has what I think is the best team overall from top to bottom in this. But it's not just about that when you get to this place that they're hopefully going. Their defense is so good.
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You have to love it.
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Yeah, you have to love it. At this time of year, you got to love playing on the road more than you love playing at home. It's easy to play at home. You're not saying you're going to win everyone, but you're going to get more help. The role players. You're going to get more help. On the road, you're not going to get as much help, bro. And you know what? So what? This is your responsibility.
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Everybody looking at you. You the man. You the one with all the commercials. You the one with all the attention. They all looking at you, and you got to love that. And so I personally love that. I love playing on the road. I love going to win on the road. We won our first finals on the road in game six. I had 36. I love that.
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Put me in a position that is the most uncomfortable and watch me come out smelling like roses. And so if you don't have that mentality, you're not winning that championship. I don't care how close you don't give you go up to. Oh, right. You got to love winning on the road. It's not going to happen.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
It's Folgers Crystal in the morning. It's the sweet smell of coffee in the morning.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Oh, it's incredible. It's nothing better than that. It's nothing better than when you walk out and you got the opposing fans looking at you. They just respect you. They end up cheering for you. It's nothing better than turning them into a fan of yours. And that's the kind of aura that Ant has. He has that aura where you hate him, but when he get done, you're going to love him.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Because you can do nothing but respect it along the way. And so, yeah, it's nothing better than that.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Yeah, I see people flying all the time.
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Yeah, because they didn't want me to touch the ball.
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Well, yeah, because here's the thing. If I'm not a three-point shooter and you play off me, when I get the ball, I'm coming at you downhill. You cannot stop me. So your goal is to make sure that I don't touch the ball. And so it was a stat when I played in my prime years where I think I was up there like with Ray Allen and those guys when it came to –
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
the defense trying not to allow me to get the ball at the three point line. I was up there with the top three point shooters and I was the worst by far three point shooter. But some guys you just do not want them to get the ball in their hands because that's the rhythm for them. And it wasn't my job to shoot threes. You know what I mean?
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Like you're Michael Jordan, he had a quote where he talked about, he's like, I don't wanna be a great three point shooter because it takes away what I'm great at and what I love about my game and the game. Because it makes me stay on a perimeter searching for threes. No, I am downhill. I am trying to put you in the basket. I have to get in the paint so I can get my teammates shots. That is my job.
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My job ain't to sit out there like, woo, woo, woo. That wasn't my responsibility. But I did find respect. I did look at the respect that I got amongst my peers that knew I'm not making this shot but 29% of the time, but you guarding me like I'm Ray Allen, one of the greatest three-point shooters ever. That's respect right there. So now I'm going to back cut your ass.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Did you say you have the best pump fake? I stole it from Sam Cassell. Oh, Sam Cassell. I stole it from Sam Cassell. I just added my own little mix to it, but I got it from Sam Cassell.
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Well, I watched him do it and I was like, he's coming up the court hella slow. It's the slowest pump fake ever and everyone's jumping. and going for it. So because I wasn't a three point shooter, and because I will come downhill at a player, the defense natural reaction is to stop you from scoring. The closer you get to the basket, the more you wanna stop someone from scoring.
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Now I'm really gonna pump fake you the closer I get in. And so everyone's job is to jump, close out, jump. If I create space and I get you a step off, your job is to recover. How do you recover? And so for me, it's just, it's the law. I understand the body. I understand like, all right, you gotta, you're gonna come back and I'm gonna do this and you have to contest my shot.
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You don't want me to score. So I'm gonna give you this. You're gonna jump. I'm gonna act like you did something to me and I'm gonna go to the free throw line. So to me, it was like, it's all about, you gotta have patience. You know, I talked about this, and I talk about this all the time. A lot of players, when they get closer to the rim, they lose patience.
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That's when you got to have your most patience, the closer you get. Because the defense has less patience. Right. When you are in scoring, and when you're in scoring position, the defense gets a little erratic, and they want to strip you or block your shot. That's when I'm really going to hit you with these slow-ass pump fakes. Yeah. Totally different speed. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Me. Me?
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How do you say that, though?
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
I don't think he even played pro. That's like the gold conversation. Whoever you think is who it is.
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Would you ever see?
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Oh, yeah. Listen, it was game plans. You would hear the whole coaching staff on the opposite team say, do not jump for his pump fake. And I'd be like, you know you're going to jump for my next pump fake. Uh-huh.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
because it's in your mind now yeah right is now they have they have made it worse for you because they're now telling you don't jump for my pump fake it's coming you don't know when but i'm about to hit you with these three jumpers in your face and you're not gonna like that so what you're gonna do eventually you're gonna try to stop me that mean you gotta jump because if you don't jump i'm just dotting your eye so eventually you're gonna jump and i'm gonna get you i used to tell people all the time i'm gonna get you you know that right because if you don't that's a bucket
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Oh, I got you.
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Okay.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Oh yeah. Uh, he's, one of the most important people in my development. In my development as the player that you guys got a chance to see, Tom Crean. Tom Crean was on my ass to a level of tears coming down a lot of times. Because I didn't understand why he was on me so hard, but he obviously saw something in me that I didn't know was there.
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But I was talking about one of the things Tom Crean taught me, and which made me a very good basketball player. And it was my ability to get so low on pick and rolls. And we drilled this over and over. We drilled anytime I touched a paint, you better dunk it. Like this was my summer workouts with Tom Cream.
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to the point where like, you know, I was young, I was leave, get kicked out of practice or throw the ball and walk out of practice and he would come right down and get your ass back up here. Like he was on me and I was young, I was going through a lot of things in my family life when I went to college.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
and I wasn't mature enough yet, not a lot of things going on, but he would not allow me to be less than what he thought that I was gonna be. He thought I was gonna be great. The year before I entered the draft, I told everybody I was leaving and entering the draft because I didn't wanna work. We were running lines and all this shit, and I was like, I'm out, I'm going to the NBA.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
He flew in at like 3 o'clock in the morning, called me down to the office and scared the living shit out of me. But what he pretty much told me is that you didn't come here to be average. I'm not allowing you to go to the NBA to be in the second round or to be late first round. You came here to be great. And great has been in the lottery.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
So you ain't there, you ain't going nowhere type, you know, like father figure. He was a father figure for me at that time. And I respected him. Obviously, you know, I stayed one more year and I went number five. Right. And so he was just somebody who was on me and he saw something in me that I didn't even know was inside.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
He pulled things out of me that I didn't even know could be pulled out of you. You know what I mean? And so, you know, I sit here and I see him not coaching and I see and I and I and I look at that and I see so many kids who not get an opportunity because they're not getting coached by him to get to get greatness pulled out of them. And that's the thing.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Just because you have it in you don't mean that you're going to be able to showcase it to the world. You got to know how to do that. You got to have somebody that can see that in you and can pull it out of you. Tom Crean pulled all of my greatness out and then you guys got a chance to experience it. But it happened at Marquette in as small as Jim in Milwaukee.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
And I give him and our coaching staff a lot of credit for not allowing me just to be good. And they forced me to be great.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
He is the best.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Yeah. And he coached Ant. He coached Ant. He coached Victor Oladipo. He coached some dynamic guards, obviously other guys as well. But when Ant goes back, you go back to Ant Mann's press conference when he decided to go to Georgia. And they asked him, why do you go to Georgia? He said, because Tom Crean coached Victor Oladipo and Dwyane Wade. That's why I'm going to Georgia.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Because he's going to get the best out of me. right? Just like he got the best out of, you know, two of the best two guards to play. You know, when Vic was healthy, Vic was a bad boy. And so, give him credit, man. Give Coach Green credit for having some of the greatest players to play the game. And a great guy, too. Yeah. Amazing guy.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
It's all good, man.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Is that memes? Yeah, memes. I'm so used to it at this point. At the end of the day, Dwyane Wade is getting attention. Even if it's the one before the A or the one with the Y, it depends.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
D-Wade. Just screw that up. I worked hard for D-Wade, so just call me D-Wade.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
I'm going to get cremated. But when I do leave this earth, I'm going to make sure that both Dwaynes is represented on my way out. It ain't going to just be the Y before the A. It's going to be the A before the Y, too. He had a great run, too.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
No. Let him have his own brand. Hey, don't call him D-Wade neither. Y'all stop that now. Don't get my nickname. I done worked hard for that. Definitely not. Call him Dean. Yeah.
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Appreciate you guys taking a moment, man.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Yeah.
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Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Let go.
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Thank you.
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Today, Explained
Why young people are getting cancer
To find out, obviously at 41 years old, pretty healthy guy that I did have cancer. So I have one kidney and I have another kidney that is 60%. They took 40% of my kidney to make sure that they can get all the cancer off of it.