Raja Bell

He's brilliant with the ball.

They're a better offensive team with him out there and having the ball.

What the fuck?

You know who they had on in 1972?

Yeah, that's a really, really good observation.

I wish I had given that a little bit more thought.

pre-season when I was talking about, because he has done that.

He has done that on Olympic teams.

It didn't even register in my brain.

It was a good one.

Yeah, I had two.

It's interesting listening to you guys talk about it because I think you used the word that I was going to use is the ones you grow up with.

So I had a number of players that I grew up with as a fan.

that um their retirements were hard for me to to kind of you know cope with but then i had another life as a player and you grow up with another group of of of nba players as professionals like my professional life the guys i grew up with in the nba that were like my era the the really good ones it was tough to watch those guys retire um some before me because it

you know, it highlights mortality.

Like when I had to shut it down and then seeing the, you know, those guys that hung on longer than me.

And when they shut it down, like Vince, you know, not, not comparing myself to them as players, but like in that window of time, when you played, you know, those, those, those hit you.

Right.

Cause like, that's a generation of,

of of player that was obviously i i was out there with and playing against on a night-to-night basis and seeing them shut it down um it's tough uh yeah steph lebron kd you know all of those dudes every generation's just big guns and marquee matchups and christmas games you know all those those guys that drive the league those are always hard but for me i had two sets of players that i grew up with and each time one of those sets retired it was a little different