Welcome welcome to another episode of the Evesra podcast today we have a very prestigious guest my first basketball player that's gonna that's gonna come on the

podcast so Ben Simmons if you're watching I apologize I know I told you

that you're gonna be the first but it's your fault. Gosh Hart number three from the Lakers. Thanks man,

thanks for stopping by man. Thanks for having me man. Yeah I'm psyched dude when they told me that you were in town I'm like and you were obviously

partnered with Turtle Beach I'm like that's a connect right there bring them through we're gonna play some video

games but more importantly we're gonna do the podcast yeah no I'm more people gonna do this

first so we're gonna have a good conversation for a little.

Oh yeah dude I have a ton of questions man. I hope I'm ready for him.

No you will be. I'm sure you are. I've watched a couple of your interviews and you're good to thank you for the autographed

Laker's Jersey number three I appreciate you do you have access I mean obviously your

header on Twitter it's you magic Johnson who's to me like my the second best in the world

and I don't want to you know I'm not gonna ask you to you know who you think the best ever is because you know I don't want you to say anything besides

Michael Jordan right but but more importantly it's you know Magic Johnson to me like

those those were like the the glory days of of NBA becoming like this sort of cultural phenomena that happened you know like if it wasn't for the

the flashiness of of the magic showtime yeah we wouldn't be we wouldn, basketball wouldn't be as cool as it is,

probably the coolest sport in the world.

Maybe not be the most popular one,

when I used to soccer is and they don't, you know, whatever,

but there's nothing cooler than

the NBA there's nothing cooler and it's because of the hip-hop culture and I'm a hip-hop

head I grew up in the 90s yeah I was a graffiti writer. I had the five of the you know the whole thing. I know hip-hop to me like is everything.

So when hip-hop sort of married the NBA it became like this incredible like culture phenomena.

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