Zach Randolph

I'm from the Midwest, so, you know, I grew up listening to everything.

Twister, all of them, Do or Die.

Like I grew up, that was my era, you know what I mean?

I grew up listening to that, you know what I mean?

Man, you know what?

It was all the OGs from Buzzy Wells to Damon Stoudemire to Rashidi Wallace.

All them guys took me under their wing some way or somehow.

And I learned something from every one of them guys.

You know, as a young man coming into the NBA, trying to find my way.

And looking up, and them guys looking up to the receipts and watching how they, Scottie Pippen, how they conduct being a professional, you know, showing up, being a person at practice, you know, in the weight room, doing things like this.

So I learned a bit.

I learned something from all them guys, man.

Man, that was tough, man.

Like you said, coming in, you know, 18-year-old, 19-year-old rookie.

looking up to them guys, you know what I mean?

She was one of my favorite players coming, you know, growing up, you know what I mean?

And so just getting to compete against him, you know, the bigs, Arvidas Sabonis, one of the best passing bigs to ever play the game.

And so just competing against them guys every day, you know, coming in, I didn't play my first couple of years in a league, but I got so much better.

in practice, going at the boys, talking shit, going at she, she talking, you know, shit to me and all the other guys, but that making me compete harder.

You know, our practices, it was, man, it was, it was, it was on like guys literally get to fighting and cussing each other out.