#228: That's Clearly A Travel (@JosephVecsey)

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🗓️ 21 July 2015

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Joe Vecsey met me at the basketball courts in Stuytown for a talk about the And 1 Mixtape years of streetball. Joe grew up playing with all of them as a kid in New York. We talk all about Rucker Park, and the great rivalries in the big tournaments, what life was like on those courts, the smoothest players, everything. Meet us at the playground.

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0:00.0	For instance, there was a guy again,
0:02.0	Reston Pisa guy named John Strickland.
0:04.0	They called him the franchise, one of the best street ball players in New York.
0:07.0	He played on Fat Joe's team every summer.
0:10.0	Fat Joe, I assume, was paying him money because that's how it worked.
0:14.0	Jay-Z then finally put in a team at Rucker one year.
0:17.0	He said, I'm going to put a team in one time.
0:19.0	That's it, one year with a championship.
0:21.0	That's all I'm going to do.
0:22.0	I'm going to do that one time.
0:23.0	And, well, I'll tell you in a second,
0:25.0	but he wanted John Strickland.
0:26.0	He, because he knew John Strickland.
0:28.0	So he said, I'll give you, I guess, Fat Joe's, what is he giving you?
0:31.0	20 grand, 25.
0:32.0	Really?
0:33.0	And Strickland went.
0:34.0	And I remember a lot of people gave him shit for that too, even in the crowd.
0:37.0	They were like, no.
0:38.0	They were like, no.
0:39.0	I don't know how many loyalty.
0:40.0	Yeah, no loyalty.
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