Raja Bell

I wound up being a basketball player.

It was my passion.

The common thread in every single one of those and in everything I ever did was competition, pure competition, learning how to fight and scrap.

And if you could go win a game, the best feelings I ever had were winning games I wasn't supposed to win.

Those are the best, some of my best memories were going into people's buildings, having no chance to win a game, being the complete underdog and figuring out a way to win that.

When you start meddling in that and fixing games, if you will, because that's what it, I mean, that's what you're doing.

Like you're, you fixed the fucking game.

Like you fixed, I mean, why people get their FBI raids.

I saw some former college basketball players.

They're indicted right now for fixing fucking games.

for changing the outcome of the game.

You're midstream in a Utah Jazz game, and we got a chance to win, and this spread's getting covered, and you, as the Jazz, say, sit in all three players.

That's not fixing the fucking game.

Look, I don't want to get clipped and go viral.

I really don't want to do that.

Don't meddle with that, man.

Whatever you need to do to make this about competition and clean up the optics of that to the younger generations and to the people that aspire to be in your league one day, please do that.

I don't have the answer.

I'm...

I am a true lover of sport and a true lover of what sport can mean to young people in terms of teaching them life lessons and what type of thickness of skin and stick-to-itiveness and general competition can mean to them in their world, transcending sport, whether that's the business sector or the fine arts or what have you.