Joakim Noah (guest brief mention)
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Great development system out there.
Big Cat, you're asking all the right questions. All the right questions. All the right questions. And you know what? I think it's time to start asking those questions.
Because you can tell. People around the world, they're leveling up right now. And I grew up playing in France until I was 12, and then I moved to New York City. So I played in two grassroots systems. The French grassroots system is interesting because the pro teams have, 10-year-old teams, 12-year-old teams, 14-year-old teams, 16-year-old teams. And then on Saturday, you can go see the pros play.
So every single time you play a game, the next level is playing right after you. So you get to see what it takes to play at the next level. And if you're good enough, the 10-year-old might play on the 12. You play up. You play up. And another thing that they do really well is... they coach it as a team sport. It's not the superstar thing.
And if you have a shot to be an NBA prospect, well, you have like the top French general managers coming to your house and coming to talk to the parents about what the expectations are. So they're ready now. And when we when we first got to the league, there was two or three French players playing in that sit.
And what Tony Parker did was was huge because it allowed the kids to be inspired and dream and And now we got Wenbin Yama.
Well, we're definitely in a in a in a transition period where something something different is going on, where these kids are getting paid a lot of money. So players have a lot of power right now. You know, you have a 16 year old kid who's making three, $4 million. What the fuck is a coach going to say?
And I'm not hating on kids getting paid because you know what? This is what it is. At the end of the day, you can't be playing in on national TV with billions of dollars on the line with television revenues out the going crazy and the kids don't get shit. So, okay, I think that the marketing is a good step, but this is a business. It's a big business.
And we were getting bamboozled the whole time. So now at least kids are getting paid and they deserve it. That being said, for the development of the game, there needs to be a change.
If I had $2 million in the bank?
Everybody's attitude changes when they got $2 million.
Look, to be a champion... to be called champ, you have to sacrifice. It's not all about you, you know? And I think that we understood that as a team in college and we loved playing with each other so much that we ended up coming back to school. And it's something that I'm really, there was no money involved. And I say that with, you know, that's the truth. There was no money, it was legit.
one through five, I think I averaged 13 points. Al averaged like 13.2. Lee Humphrey averaged 12.7. We were all averaging the same amount of points. He takes one thing away, all right, he's the hot man, he's getting the rock. And it was just second nature for us to be able to play ball the right way. And you realize after playing in the NBA for 14 years,
That's rare where you have that kind of chemistry. We were always talking about stats and this, but nobody ever talks about chemistry on the court. I think that's a really interesting thing.
I mean, if Horphy left, I would have definitely left. So he was kind of the linchpin in that? I wouldn't say Horphy. I would say Corey. Yeah. Corey, you know, I think that Al was in a situation where he didn't have to worry too much about his family. You know, his dad was an NBA player. Torian, same thing. Dad was an NBA player. For me, you know, money was not an issue.
You know, I didn't have to worry about, you know, making sure mom had food in the fridge. Right. For Corey, it was a little bit different. When he was like, okay, when I went to Corey's hometown and I saw where he was from and for him to say, we're coming back to school, like I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it because he's the one who had the real decision to make.
If he would have left, we would all left. That's how fragile this thing is. And, you know, Coach Donovan is just so good at, you know, just getting us hype. He knew what he was doing.
He got us in the locker room and he was just like, guys, let's let's fucking do this shit again. And it was like it was the same week that we had won the championship. And and honestly, it's it's something that I would never tell a kid to do what we did.
Because kids come up, they ask me, like, oh, I think I want to come back to school. They have these allegiances to these schools. But that being said, I'm really proud that we did that.
Have you met him? I haven't met him. I would love to see him play one-on-one against you.
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