If you put your effort and concentration and to play into your potential to be the best that you can be, I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game. In my book, we're going to be winners. The talent for so many players today, the talent and the spotlight, it's taking them to heights that their character's not strong enough to support. I'm one of those set goals and chief ones. I talked about faith, passion

and obviously the drive

with the guys that I've been around

and the guys that surround me

every single day. If I want to be one of the best, I've got to play with and against the best. So that which gets praised gets repeated. You're listening to the Hardwood Hustle, brought you by PGC Basketball. Thank you're tuning in. You're listening to The Hardwood Hustle. Brought you by GFC Basketball. I think we're tuning in. You're listening to the Hardwood Hustle. I'm your host, Adam Bradley, alongside T.J. Roseen, broadcasting here in Atlanta, Georgia. Got a special NBA shoot-around episode for you. But before we do, let's catch up with some of our friends. Hey, changing the game via analytics. So much to learn from analytics. if you're not into analytics you're missing out

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will then jump into Magic Johnson and the Lakers. Have some interesting thoughts there. After the halftime break, let's talk a little bit about the playoffs and some of the top storylines. And then also we spent some time recently in Minnesota. And they came out with some really cool and unique uniforms.

But maybe not everyone's a fan of the new style of NBA uniforms that are coming out on

occasion.

We'll certainly talk about that.

But let's start with the recent retirement and official retirements because of the fact

that they did not make the playoffs of Dirk and Whiskey and Dwayne Wade.

We've talked about this on the past episode, T.J., this tribute videos and the rollout

parading of a retired player, and Dwayne Wade's was just as big as Kobe's was.

I mean, this was a spectacle city by city.

And I almost feel like the cities felt pressure, right?

When Duane Wade came into their arena that they had to outperform another city.

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