KH Classic: Larry Johnson
Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles
The Players' Tribune
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🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re throwing it back to one of our favorite episodes, when we rocked out with “Grandmama” aka Larry Johnson. The UNLV legend sat down and covered everything from winning a national championship against Duke, to the iconic commercial that coined his nickname, to his time on the Hornets and Knicks. Grandmama was a straight-up bucket! Tune in!
- Winning an NCAA championship against Duke (13:05)
- Tupac, Snoop Dogg and UNLV’s impact on the culture (17:45)
- Signing with Converse — Grandmama commercials and favorite shoes (24:13)
- Going to New York, playing for the Knicks (49:32)
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| 0:00.0 | Live on location with another knuckleheads classic this week. |
| 0:15.0 | Yo Bla, who we got? |
| 0:16.0 | We looking back on the episode with Grandma, aka Larry Johnson, |
| 0:20.0 | man, it was a good one. |
| 0:21.0 | This was my all-time favorite. I mean when everybody used to wear the UNLV clothing when they came out and they was killing. They beat Duke in the championship man like man talk about his nickname just like all the commercials he used to do |
| 0:35.1 | but that's the reason I used to wear the part up the middle bro |
| 0:37.7 | that I ain't gonna hold you now that the Larry Johnson LJ part up the middle |
| 0:41.6 | I even when I had some hair in my head that I was trying to do that. |
| 0:45.0 | He was the first guy with the gold teeth in the league, right? |
| 0:48.6 | Hey man, listen, the dope thing for me was like you said, man, just being able to go talk to a dude that we |
| 0:54.3 | looked up to in a certain way you know what I'm saying on the low you know I was a |
| 0:58.0 | short forward I used to try and kind of do some of the things to LJD |
| 1:01.3 | are nowhere near as explosive, |
| 1:03.0 | but you know what I'm saying? |
| 1:04.4 | Like this was a dope one too because I felt like, |
| 1:06.7 | you know, people don't really talk a lot about LJ, |
| 1:09.8 | he don't get a lot of love, |
| 1:11.0 | like I know how we in the NBA attorney feel about a lot of |
| 1:14.3 | players man was watching him man a lot of them early 90 players was watching him |
| 1:18.1 | do his thing man for sure him and you starting off with you and LV with, Grant, you know, Greg Anthony and all. |
| 1:25.0 | And Stacy Yawg went, but they did and then how he took it to Charlotte and kept going through |
| 1:28.9 | the league all the way to the LJ symbol for the three at the Knicks, man. |
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