On show, flashback, flashback, flashback. Chicago basketball legend, Antoine Walker. I have a very unique opportunity as a young kid to be a ballboy for the Chicago Summer Leagues. The pro summer leagues they used to have at Chicago State, at De LaSalle, at Kennedy King College. So I got a chance to see some of our Chicago legends. I want to go back to Michael Jordan when he was playing in Chicago State. You had Terry Commons, Kenny Norman, Tim Hardaway. Those guys I looked up to Isaiah Thomas, they guys have played pickup ball. So as a little kid, I used to be like, man, I want to be on this court one day playing against them. So that was my motivation because I had an opportunity to be on that court to be a ball boy and watch these guys play. And that's why I kind of picked it up from. But Chicago's about a ton of lectures. You just mentioned it, guys that some guys have made it and some guys didn't make it. But Chicago's covered, I think one thing that makes us a unique city, there's probably a couple of other cities, New York. Philly, we cover Chicago sports from maybe elementary school.

You know, as crazy as it sound, but when you get to high school, you know, it's big spreads from the Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune and, you know, you cover so good and they push you,

it's kind of a way out.

So everybody gets involved and gets into it.

And I think that's what makes Chicago great.

That's why we talk about so many legends.

A really wonderful conversation yesterday with Antoine Walker.

I highly recommend you go to the Scores YouTube page and check it out the Odyssey app because we're still under, right, the 24-hour.

Like, what time was Antoine on? I, we're right at the end of it.

Go to the YouTube page and watch the video.

It was really, really good, and it was great.

And the thing is, is that Russ and I, Russ is in for Speaks today.

We were talking about All-Star Games, and we were talking about how the 2020 All-Star game hit such the right note because

it was a celebration of basketball. It wasn't just about the NBA. It was about basketball.

And there was a history lesson that went on. And Russ, you brought up the idea of like,

we're losing recipes yeah when it comes to

some of this stuff so it kind of birthed this thing where on the show we're like why don't we invite

people on to talk about ball like not necessarily like the NBA or the bulls but about ball and

we have a lot of friends who who grew up in Chicago basketball and what

that's like. And having Twan on the show yesterday was great. There are other people that we're

reaching out to to kind of talk about the love letter to basketball. And one of those people

is Cam Smith, who happens to be the Bulls pre and post game host over at CHSN.

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