Gilbert Arenas
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135 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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I'm just going off of that's real, though. That's what happened, right? I was a big Charles Barkley fan. I was the guy that wore the Suns. Back then, in the black community, we used to put words and logos in our head for some reason. And I had Phoenix Suns, where I can go back and forth, up and down, and it still spells Suns. So I was a big Barkley fan. So I remember his career. Yeah.
listening to him now talking about, you know, going at Kevin Durant, you're not a leader. And then, oh, you guys are just quitting and you guys are not out of shape and you guys don't play defense. I'm like, wait a minute. Do you not remember who you were when you played? You're talking as if you're not Charles Barkley. I'm not a role model. Like, what are we doing here?
So I always like nitpick at some of the things he says because it doesn't match who he was.
Ah, they got me. But because it's Charles, I can't take it back.
This is my thing. I'm a LeBron fan, but I'm a LeBron fan because of the greatness that I see. Like Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Magic. I love just pure greatness. It intrigues me, right? So... When I see, I was in a league when LeBron came. I know what they said. I see what they said when they turned on him.
I've had to do scouting reports in the playoffs against this kid when he was a kid. Watching him now, I'm like, yeah, he is that dude, has been that dude from the beginning. Listening to the narratives that's been said about a guy who if I said, all right, name one year, one full year, he disappointed you as a fan. You're not going to be able to name one full year.
You can name a series, a couple games here and there. But when you're talking about did he – Give you your money's worth. You have to say yes for 22 years. When you sit here, compare his 20th year, 21st year, 22nd year to a young Kobe's career or Michael Jordan in his prime, it's like, wait a minute. You didn't even put... Michael Jordan wizard years to Michael Jordan Bulls years.
You just let the wizard Michael Jordan just run around the league smoking cigars, drinking before games, having fun. That's what 40-year-old men did, right? We're just happy to see a drunk Jordan out there running around giving people 20. It was amazing.
Yeah. Is that what you called yourself? Oh, I'm a glazer. Oh, now, you know, I'm a Laker glazer, and now I'm a Luka glazer. Oh, you are? Do you think he's out of shape? No. What? What?
Okay. But the notion of saying, okay, let's just try it this way. Let's say you guarded him and he gave you 71%. Are you really going to just use the phrase he's out of shape and he just gave you 71? No, he's going to be in the best shape of his life if he put those type of numbers on you.
When you're saying someone is out of shape and then you look at 37 and seven, it kind of makes the people who are in shape different. not look too good. Like if you're Anthony Edwards and you're in shape and then the fat man over here led the series in scoring and assists, I don't know if I'm sitting here at the podium like, yeah.
Yeah, he's in – okay, him, Jokic, right? I don't even remember Carmelo. He is in Luka shape, right? Right? He's in the shape that he knows that he's in. That's just like a lot of NBA players, right? You think what you're doing is, yeah, I'm in shape, until you go to a team where someone does something more than you. Right. So – In Dallas, what he did is all he knows, right?
I've never seen anybody on that team that I said, okay, that's a different condition guy, right? If he played with a Rip Hamilton, if he played with a Westbrook, now he's with a LeBron, right? With a Steve Nash, guys who do that extra cardio, who really actually get to that top tier level of in shape, right? He's never played with that guy to even know what that looks like.
And sometimes we can go our whole career and don't know there's these extra levels. Unless you're in a locker room with Kobe, you don't know there's an extra level to working out.
That guy. OK. I I didn't come in as that guy. Right. You know, we have practice at 11 o'clock. Our team as a whole unit got there, you know, 1045. We had some players that got there at 11.45, right? They had to golf first, right? So they had to play their golf and then come to practice. So that's what I was, you know, looking at.
And then, you know, Chris Mullen basically taught me how to work out, added that with Mark Jackson. Then when I started hearing stories of Kobe, when Luke Walton got there and he said, yo, if you think you work out, cold three times a day. This is how they do it on game day. He's there at three o'clock. I'm like, bullshit. He's not there at three o'clock.
And I said, when we come to LA, I'm going to go to the, the, the Staples center and I'm going to beat her at three o'clock to see if he's there. Three o'clock. He was there. And what I seen was incredible. He was doing, um, elbow shots, 500 makes, um, The intensity of it was insane, right? Like, he's doing a pump fake shot.
The trainer had to be, like, he had to jump and foul him and give him the contact. Full, full playoff game seven mode before the game. And when I seen it with my own eyes, It clicked in and that's why my game really improved because I witnessed something that I didn't see the first part of my first year in the NBA. And now I see like what the next level look like.
And I, every trip we went to LA, I was at the gym at three o'clock to watch Kobe.
Like, I think it's this fine balance. The same thing with Jokic. The weight helps them in their style of play, right? They need their body with the contact, right? They're very great reactors. And sometimes they need to carry a little bit more weight, right, to do a lot of things that they do, hold people off. I looked at Luka's rookie year. You know, that's going to be, you know what I mean?
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