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Kristopher London: How a Career-Ending Injury Created a YouTube Legend | DSH #1577
19 Oct 2025
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Chapter 1: How did Kristopher London overcome his career-ending injury?
no dude i haven't played fortnite in years i'm on mlb the show right now that's why i like it because i'm like yo this is a challenge and then now you got to compete with cheaters with rigged controllers and stuff that's really why i don't game anymore it's just there's too many cheaters i'm very competitive so in the eyes of playing online i want it to be fair so i just all right i'll be an offline player plus i'm an old head now so i've just accepted my fate yeah
All right, guys, got someone taller than me today. Hello. Yeah, it's only happened, I think, five times on the show. You know, I'm always that guy. Yeah. Just, you know, be the taller person for the day. And some people need it, you know, just to kind of. Someone to look up to for once. I'm sure it's the most common question you get asked, how tall you are. I'm 6'10".
But, you know, I've been gaming for about a decade now, so I'm probably like 6'9", to be honest. You do shrink as you age. You know, because especially sitting in a chair a lot of times, you know, you kind of shrink and I got bad posture.
Chapter 2: What inspired Kris to start his YouTube channel?
Fortnite? No, dude, I haven't played Fortnite in years. I'm on MLB The Show right now.
Chapter 3: How has social media changed the landscape of sports?
I was a 2K guy, but, you know, now I'm playing baseball. Damn. That sounds like a hard game to get good at.
Chapter 4: What is the significance of personal branding for athletes?
No, it is actually very hard, but that's why I like it, because I'm like, yo, this is a challenge. And now I'm actually hitting the ball on rookies. Okay, okay.
Chapter 5: How does Kris view the pressure faced by today's youth in sports?
I'm getting there. Were you nice at 2K? Were you playing ranked and everything? You know, I like to say I was an entertainer on the 2K stakes. I wasn't competitive. That makes sense. Those guys that compete are insane. They don't miss. They're like glitches, man.
Chapter 6: What challenges do college athletes face regarding monetization?
And then now you got to compete with cheaters with rigged controllers and stuff, so I'm good. Is that a thing now? That's really why I don't game anymore. It's just there's too many cheaters. I'm very competitive, so... In the eyes of playing online, I want it to be fair, and a lot of companies just don't have good anti-cheat, so I just, all right, I'll be an offline player.
Plus, I'm an old head now, so I've just accepted my fate.
Chapter 7: How does Kris perceive the future of the BIG3 league?
That's crazy that people are cheating on controller now, because I've been a PC gamer my whole life, and people always cheated, but never on controllers growing up. Yeah, it's crazy. I mean, with the technology now, too, I don't know if it's just a thing to, you know, hard to keep up with or what. But yeah, there's definitely guys. I think it's called a Zen. I don't know what it is in 2025.
But yeah, for the last few years, man, guys have been just Zenning on 2K. And you can notice it if they're using it. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
you you'll know what are they doing like how do you know so it's like you get a perfect release from like half court consistently like one okay but like three dude like it's just it's and they don't even hide it because they know like they're not going to get banned or whatever so once i've seen that and again i haven't played 25 so i don't know if they actually did get patched but 24 23 like yeah it was good what's the best 2k in your opinion
ooh great question as an og man i was really like i gotta say 16 and 17 were my favorite warriors um yeah 2k 16 17 i think it was katie on the cover and paul george paul george might have been 18 i don't know whatever paul george was on the cover that was probably my favorite Wow. PG was on the cover? Yeah, he was like 17. Was that him on the Thunder? I think it was Pacers. Oh, Pacers. Okay.
Yeah, right before he started getting traded.
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Chapter 8: What insights does Kris share about the GOAT debate in basketball?
The injuries. Yeah, what a career he could have had, right? You know, yeah, man, he could have been. I feel like he was on his way to be MVP, honestly. I wouldn't be surprised. He was competing with Braun. Yeah, there was one year, and I think it was recently, with the Clippers. He was in top three running, and then the injuries just...
he's just battling injuries constantly and you can relate to that issue i can i can that's pretty much my story man on how i even got here in the first place like if it wasn't for injuries i probably wouldn't be sitting here honestly injuries and concussions concussions yes um i've had my history with those um not even basketball related crazy enough everyone kind of assumes like oh how do you get you know concussion in basketball well didn't start in basketball i was just in
Two bad car accidents in high school that kind of followed into my basketball career because I was more receptive to having a concussion with any kind of blow to the head. And I got elbowed a couple of times and like right in between the eyes. And then I was getting concussions in games and then I lost everything. My scholarships, you know, just kind of talking about that.
Yeah, there was a I think it was going into my junior year when the accident happened, the car accident. And I had about 10 D1 offers. And then I missed that whole summer because I just couldn't play without it. I actually tried to play. I went to an AAU circuit here in Vegas. Oh, yeah? And I just couldn't do it. Like the lights, I remember just I could not play with my lights.
That was a bad accident. Yeah, it was really bad. How fast were they going? I'll be honest, I don't, it was like a country road. It's kind of like a traumatic story a little bit just because a lot, like the people involved, like, There's so many things that I wasn't aware of because, like, my dad, like, sued, like, the girl, like, everything. And I'm not trying to bring that back up.
And I don't know, you know, what they're doing. Like, I have no idea who these people are anymore because it was, like, in high school, you know, 10, 12 years ago. Jeez. And... Yeah, long story short, basically, like, my dad, I think he made a lawsuit from it because of all the scholarships that I, like, lost. So that's money that I lost. And then I think we got some back.
And because of that, and I had no idea. So then the guy that I was in the car with, that was his girl at the time. And, yeah, we, like, swerved off the road. It was raining heavily. And it was some crazy shit. You would not believe how that even transpired because it's like, why would she take the keys out of the car, fuck with it while you're driving? What's funny about that?
I saw a TikTok the other day where they were making a skit of how a girl would grab the wheel and swerve it just to be funny. And that's literally what happened. She was just trying to be funny by touching the wheel, grabbing it, making him kind of steer it. Because there's no one there. It's like a back country road.
And then it just started raining, and I'm like, I just remember telling her, like, hey, guys, like, this isn't funny. Like, what the fuck are we doing? And we're on the way to a basketball game. I'm going to my high school basketball game. And before you know it, you can get control, hit a stop sign at a tree, rolled over. Like, it's crazy. Like, that's the last thing I remember how I woke up.
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