DeAndre Jordan

Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles

The Players' Tribune

Comedy, Arts, Sports

5 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Ahead of the 2023 season, we got a world champ in the building! Clippers legend and now Nuggets big man, DeAndre Jordan, joins Q and D on Knuckleheads. One of the greatest in-game dunkers looks back on growing up in Texas, what it was like forming Lob City with Blake Griffin and CP3, and how he was surprised when he became All-NBA First Team. DeAndre looks back on some of his biggest dunks and chops it up about finally winning a championship with Denver last season. World champ for the Nuggets but a Clipper for life — tune in!

Surprisingly not making McDonald’s All-American and choosing Texas A&M (7:27)
Having to wait to the 2nd round on draft night and going to the Clippers (12:45)
Chris Paul coming to L.A. and the creation of Lob City (20:35)
Doc Rivers’ impact on the Clippers and DeAndre’s career (24:25)
The free agency saga, deciding to go back to the Clippers instead of the Mavs (34:58)
Playing with KD and Kyrie in Brooklyn (45:44)
The Nuggets, winning a chip and playing with Nikola Jokic (49:10)

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NBA veterans Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles are lifelong friends and bona fide truth-tellers. Listen as they invite special guests, high-profile athletes, musicians and entertainers to get brutally honest about everything from current events to untold stories from the golden era of sports and culture. Named for the on-court celebration they made wildly popular, this unfiltered, hilarious and surprising podcast is like playing NBA 2K with no fouls.

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0:00.0	First all we appreciate you coming on man world champ
0:03.4	You know that's what good
0:05.4	world champ
0:06.0	We're gonna say respect all the same
0:10.1	We all the same man.
0:11.6	We watched your whole career man man, and man, love what you do, man.
0:15.3	You always was highly talked about as a good teammate, man.
0:19.9	Always being fan how you dunked it. Appreciate you coming on the show.
0:25.0	Thank you, man.
0:26.0	When you first got to the league and you first
0:28.0	start getting playing time, who was the first person to bust your ass?
0:31.0	Ooh.
0:32.0	All right, so coming into the league extremely aggressive, I'm trying to find my way on the
0:38.9	court so I'm like, okay, if I block shots and rebound, like that's what the energy they
0:42.0	go keep me out there so
0:43.7	I mean I don't know if I can swear on this show but like you swear all you
0:47.6	want to go like this I'm jumping you know at 19 at 19th so
0:51.9	Chris Bosch like at 19. Everything. At everything.
0:53.0	Chris Bosch, like, you know, he had elbow, pump fake, you know, he had all of it, you know what I mean?
1:00.3	He was in Toronto at the time and Mike Dunley be like,
1:03.0	DJ, go out there, get him, I'm like, cool, bet, let's go.
1:05.6	You know, I go out there.
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