Richard Jefferson
speaker
169 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 25 Jun
Richard Jefferson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now, the question is, does he want to just train and get ready for his future NFL career?
Or does he want to go to Canada or the UFL or somewhere that deploys his talents and pays him some nominal fee where he's risking an injury?
What if you go play in one of these injuries and suffer a significant injury?
Is that worth it?
Six-man teammate.
Thank you, man. I've been very, very blessed, been very, very fortunate. When you say it, that does feel weird, like as a little kid watching basketball and all of a sudden to be like, bro, you're one of the voices of the game of basketball. Like that's trippy. Thank you for bringing that to my top of my brain at 9 a.m. this morning.
You know what? I had gotten to know Draymond. I knew a little bit about from college, but I know Tom Izzo guy. So he gets there and I'm year, I think I'm year 12 or 13. My back is fucked up. So I'm in full, like I'm in full, I'm just going to be a veteran role. I got young Clay. I got Steph who was, hadn't quite graduated. grown and established himself to be that guy yet.
He was still dealing with the ankle surgeries and stuff, but it's Harrison Barnes, Kent Baysmore. I had this young group of talented guys that I was like, fuck it. If this is how I go out mentoring these guys for a year, cool. So I get to know Draymond a little bit and first shot he hits, he's screaming and yelling, gets a technical and I, he gets technical, whatever.
But he was like, no, I got to, I'm like, no, Dray, this is who you have to be, bro. I'm like, I know enough about this game. You got to be a mean, like not dirty, but a mean motherfucker. That's who you have to be. If you do that and play with that intensity, now you got to control it. then you're going to be in this league. Because he's a second round pick just trying to make it.
If you out here not like instilling fear or people being like, oh, here comes this guy. Think Pat Bev. Pat Bev is like, I'm trying to prove that I belong here, even though I know I belong. So Draymond, now he's gotten a little outside of the realm at times. And that's where I feel like every once in a while I'll text him or I can put a message out via social like Dray.
You know, I'm the person that's saying this is who you have to be. But with that power, you also have to regulate it. I would say better than he has at some times. But most of the time they've won four championships with them, you know.
I obviously I didn't know. No one knows. Like I had Jokic at the end of my career. Also, I did not see three out of four MVPs and possible five straight MVPs. Like I didn't see that, but I saw something special. Like you're different than the other group. Now, how they build around you, how they maximize you, if they decide that you're the guy that they're going to maximize, right?
Because Steph, that third to fourth year, they were still trying to figure out. He took the same type of deal that Ty Lawson got. Let's put it in perspective. Ty Lawson and Steph signed about the same number. When you look at like, like salary around that space, I think it was four years, whatever that year, Steph breaks the three point record. Now that year, Steph is healthy.
And now they start to build and being like, okay, we can build around this guy. And then they started to add the pieces to maximize them. And then he just kept blossoming and growing to like what on earth, um, I think with Steph, there's a joy that he plays with. And I'm not I'm not around Steph very often, but we did interview him. I just did the game six.
Houston Rockets, Golden State Warriors just did that game. And Steph, gracious enough, because not a lot of superstars do or ever have. He greets us with me, Mike Doris, our producer, Tim Corrigan. He comes and sits down. Like I'm talking about, we're sitting in the hallway in chairs to be respectful. He walks in, sits and talks with us for five minutes, walks out.
To break up a superstar is kind of routine in those moments. So for us, it's always, how can we be as accommodating as possible to be gracious and say, thank you. Whatever it works around your schedule, we're cool with that. Whether it's three minutes or eight minutes, we'll take it. Steph walks in. ask a bunch of questions. He is still a funny, funny little shit.
Like the joy in which he just has always had makes it special. I'll tell you a story. So I believe he was up for the community, like the teammate of the year award. Are you familiar with this? Did he win it? I'm not sure, but he was up for it. My brain starts telling the story about it, about do you know the story about the guy, blah, blah. And I'm sitting over here next to Seth
I'm sitting next to Steph and he's like, yeah, do you know more story? And I have no idea the story about the teammate of the year award. And I have no idea. Steph is such, we'll keep it, such a little smart ass. Brain's here, Steph's here. We're both looking at him and he goes, Richard has no idea about the story. And everyone just starts laughing because I had no idea.
He's like, Richard's going to need some follow up questions. Just we're sitting here before a big game and he can just laugh and joke and like mess with people. That's where he's a special, special person and definitely a next level superstar because not every superstar has that type of charisma and just gravity.
Do you know the story? Do you know the story? I don't believe that I do. There you go. And you are a basketball savant. And you don't know the story. Who is it named after? Well, I have it in front of me now. So it's Twyman Stokes. Okay. Do you know the Twyman Stokes story?
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