Hour 2: King Me!
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4.0 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | that Kevin Durant is a basketball savant. He is a brilliant basketball mind who does not spend enough time educating people on the game of basketball. |
| 0:08.5 | He's usually whining about other people's positions as opposed to elaborating and educating the way he is |
| 0:15.0 | fully capable of doing. |
| 0:17.4 | That's the issue. |
| 0:18.4 | Okay, this was a point of contention earlier in the show. |
| 0:21.7 | JJ, you were essentially saying, you didn't know when it became players' jobs. a I'm saying that if you're somebody that's going to you know complain about the |
| 0:36.5 | positions that other people take then educate them about what your position |
| 0:41.1 | is that's all. |
| 0:42.7 | You know, when people sit up there and they talk, |
| 0:44.4 | whatever it is that they may say about somebody like me, |
| 0:47.8 | for example, I respond to those I choose to respond to. |
| 0:52.0 | You know, and I make sure that they know what my |
| 0:54.2 | position is and they could feel whatever way about it but I make sure that my |
| 0:57.2 | position is clear and then I move forward. That's all of this but I didn't say |
| 1:00.4 | it was his job. I'm saying that when you're talking when you're covering the sport of basketball |
| 1:05.6 | and you and you're talking to people who really really know you may come up to them you may |
| 1:11.0 | ask them questions you might probe a little bit more and they say whatever it is that they say. |
| 1:18.0 | There have been times where it could be any of the names that I mentioned before and they really |
| 1:23.3 | really elaborate on what their positions may be and then you walk away saying |
| 1:26.8 | damn I didn't look at it that way that's a damn good point I got it I |
| 1:30.1 | understand and you move forward and you cultivate those relationships again there's nobody's |
| 1:35.2 | obligation to do it but it does help it does help elevate a level of understanding |
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