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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Grant Hill and a Life in Basketball

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Bakari Sellers is joined by NBA Hall of Famer Grant Hill to discuss the inspiration behind writing the book ‘Game: An Autobiography’ (6:15), unpack the hate for Duke basketball (9:54), and describe what it was like competing with MJ, Kobe, and LeBron (22:12). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Grant Hill Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

0:07.0

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

0:15.0

Welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.

0:18.0

Today we got somebody I've grown to know over the past few years.

0:21.0

He was one of my heroes when he went to Duke you know I've had

0:24.8

Antoine Jamison and Vince Carter own together but they don't stand nothing on this

0:28.6

man right here none other than Grant Hill what's happening brother brother? How are you? Hey man, you know, I've always been a fan of yours, but now that I know that you were a duke, I'm even a bigger fan. That's always, man, always. I got it, we start our show off the same way but before we get into that I got to ask

0:46.4

you what you think about the comment that Gilbert arenas made about you that man said

0:50.8

you had no jump shot I don't know if you heard this but Gilbert said that you

0:54.8

were the prototype number one when you came into the league and old heads could

0:58.9

not guard you. Said you had the best crossover and could get to the basket whenever you wanted to.

1:04.4

But he could tell old heads couldn't guard anybody in the league today because they couldn't guard Grant Hill.

1:09.2

Have you not heard this?

1:10.4

I have not heard that, but I'm not surprised coming from Gilbert. And Gilbert said, it was a compliment, kinda, and then Gilbert just said you couldn't shoot. Well, you know, like I wasn't a great shooter when I came in the league I think you know by year

1:28.3

four or five you know the mid-range game was with something where was able to really, you know, really thrive in. And the game was different. You know, you didn't have as much three-point shooting back then. Yeah. As you do now, but look, you know, Gilbert likes to say outlandish things

1:45.8

Jimmy Butler who you know has been in the league

1:48.9

and you know he's dominated particularly in his last post season and he's

1:54.4

shooting five feet from the basket all the time all the time I mean he's not

1:58.0

shooting jump shots he's getting into the pain getting to the free throw line so So, you know, I think, you know, you know, what do you say to Gilwood?

2:06.2

I mean, he said you were the pro, he said you were the best thing to come into the league.

2:10.1

He said you got to the basket when you wanted to you just couldn't shoot a lick and

2:13.2

O heads couldn't guard you so they couldn't guard anybody in today's league so

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