KH Classic: Tim Thomas
Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles
The Players' Tribune
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🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
We rockin’ with another classic this week, with the OG tall-guy point forward, Tim Thomas. The New Jersey legend looks back on being ranked No. 1 in the country over Kobe during their senior year of high school, choosing to go to Villanova before the league, and how he became good friends with 50 Cent. Truly one of the greatest high school hoopers of all time and a certified bucket — Tap in!
- Relationship with Kobe at an early age (10:15)
- 1996 McDonald’s All-American Game (13:03)
- Going to Villanova instead of straight to the league (16:36)
- Playing for the Knicks and playing for his favorite team (24:29)
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, yo, we live on location with another knuckleheads classic for this episode. |
| 0:17.0 | Hey man, it's all these miles man, you got your brother from another mother. |
| 0:22.0 | You the blackest one, he the blackest one he the blackest one what's |
| 0:24.3 | going on who is it man we got temp time is black on black |
| 0:28.1 | ten time is one of the best high school players I ever seen in my life. |
| 0:33.0 | Alpha, man, one of the coldest dudes I ever seen in high school, man, he was doing everything. |
| 0:39.0 | And he's one of my favorite hoops at all time, man. |
| 0:42.0 | Philly boy, you know, represent, man. |
| 0:45.0 | Tim Thomas, man, just, the episode was just crazy, |
| 0:49.0 | just to talk to Tim Thomas and have these conversations with Tim |
| 0:52.8 | times, the relationships you have, |
| 0:54.3 | and how he like me, like him black on black. |
| 0:57.2 | Yeah, man, it was dope to him, like he was one of them guys |
| 0:59.9 | that really got to play against a young Kobe |
| 1:02.2 | and came up in that era. He's from Jersey man he he |
| 1:05.5 | represent now back move back to Jersey got a academy got schools got a program there |
| 1:11.6 | doing this thing man Tim I had the fortunate got a |
| 1:13.8 | program there doing this thing man. |
| 1:12.8 | Tim I had the fortune to being his teammate in New York |
| 1:16.6 | got a chance to know him a little bit better with man like you said |
| 1:19.8 | one of the absolute coldest high school players I've ever seen |
| 1:23.8 | like how people say like this dude is a you like he was six nine |
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