LaMarcus Aldridge | Ep 212 | ALL THE SMOKE Full Episode | SHOWTIME BASKETBALL
All The Smoke
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4.7 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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16-year NBA vet and 7x all-star, LaMarcus Aldridge, chops it up with Matt & Stak on the latest episode of ALL THE SMOKE. Aldridge talks about his long career, including his time playing with Brandon Roy & Greg Oden in Portland, his run with Kawhi in San Antonio, and his stint in Brooklyn. He opens up about his scary heart condition that almost ended his career, explains why Kawhi left the Spurs, talks current day NBA and much more!
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| 0:26.3 | Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. The Welcome back all the smoke day to Las Vegas in season tournament. Yesterday we had a good day. |
| 1:00.0 | Today we started off with a good one we was just talking before camera like |
| 1:04.7 | I was thinking like where the fuck this dude go like he was oopin for |
| 1:08.7 | years yeah like you got a goog like where's my market just all there you somewhere picking |
| 1:15.1 | pop in the negative difference but I mean you know bear your resume man seven time |
| 1:19.2 | all-star five-time all-MBA over 20,000 career points, number three score in |
| 1:23.3 | blazer, number one rebounder, and then again you kind of could just step away but |
| 1:27.0 | I also learned you're doing some ambassador to work with the NBA, taking trips |
| 1:30.6 | around the world and getting to speak and host camps but also enjoy the process. |
| 1:34.1 | So what's life after basketball been like for you? |
| 1:36.8 | Y'all know like your first year, it's like you confused on like what's next? |
| 1:42.1 | I want to still hope. You know what I'm saying like you |
| 1:43.7 | wake up like I'm lost a little bit so I think for me it was more like shit let's figure this |
| 1:48.6 | out let's kind of like move around nba hit me up and I was just like, man, I don't want to do that. |
| 1:54.0 | Like my personality is more like, I want, you know, I'm more chill. |
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