Mateen Cleaves Talks “Flintstones", 2002 Lakers vs Kings WCF, LeBron’s Rookie Year | ALL THE SMOKE
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🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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On the latest episode of ALL THE SMOKE, 6-year NBA vet and 2000 NCAA champion, Mateen Cleaves, joins Matt & Stak for an energy filled sit down. Cleaves looks back on his high school and college days as a highly touted prospect, including playing in the 1996 McDonald’s All-American game with Kobe and winning the National Title over Florida in 2000. Plus, he explains what it was like playing under Tom Izzo and what makes him such a special coach.
Also, he reflects on his NBA career, including being drafted by his hometown Detroit Pistons, being traded to Sacramento, and facing Kobe & Shaq in the highly controversial 2002 Western Conference Finals. Cleaves also speaks on the impact Suns majority owner, Mat Ishbia, has had on his life post-NBA and why players should be flocking to Phoenix.
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| 0:00.0 | And the All the smoke day two man pump gallon 2024 jack yesterday was dope yeah he was able to sit down with Tim Hardaway the big old |
| 0:32.2 | Dominique Wilkins then we got a chance to go to the to the |
| 0:35.6 | 21 21 21 21. What was the shit called? The reception, or we got to |
| 0:39.7 | fellowship a little bit. Yeah, we did out there. We shine. Grab some food. |
| 0:43.0 | Grab some dinner after. |
| 0:44.1 | The fan heads, whatever they call them, sitts. |
| 0:45.8 | Some shitts is dope. |
| 0:46.5 | Yeah, that shit. I never had one of them shits in there. |
| 0:48.5 | Me neither. |
| 0:49.0 | He got more chicks than I did last night. |
| 0:51.5 | They were gonna have a hitched there. I got like four pictures and people taking pictures and people taking |
| 0:54.7 | their tongue out I'm like the real one over here. Now they off him. Yeah they |
| 0:59.2 | off him. Yeah they're off him like he violent but man today we get to start day two off on the right foot man. I saw I saw bro down stairs in the lobby when I went to go get somebody |
| 1:08.2 | So I hadn't seen him in a minute. We chopped it up a little bit. I was like bro, you free tomorrow? |
| 1:12.0 | He's like yeah, man,, you're free to all my chance. |
| 1:12.5 | He's like, yeah, man, whatever you need. |
| 1:14.0 | So one of my real brothers, man. |
| 1:15.4 | It was a surprise for you. |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah, I was a great surprise. |
| 1:17.6 | Somebody I really love, man. |
| 1:19.2 | That's my real brother, man. |
| 1:21.2 | Man, my classmate, somebody that a lot of people |
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