Michael Porter, Jr. Throws Shade at Fellow NBAers
Heat Check with Trysta Krick
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🗓️ 1 September 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Trysta breaks down MPJ's comments about NBA players mailing it in once they get paid. Then expounds on why it happens.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | Michael Porter, Jr. gave voice to something that I'm so glad that he said it out loud. |
| 0:13.1 | Because I say this, but it's really just a lot more credible when an NBA player says it, |
| 0:18.9 | which is this what he said on the Nuggets |
| 0:21.0 | pod, Harrison Wind. He said, what it takes to be great, dropped this from the clouds. |
| 0:26.6 | You know, there's a lot of guys who never become as good as they can become because once |
| 0:32.3 | they get to the NBA, they take their foot off the gas. I see that. I continue to work harder. |
| 0:37.5 | Ooh. |
| 0:38.7 | Basically, when you get a lot of money, you stop working. |
| 0:42.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.2 | That's pretty obvious, but people seem to think that, like, these guys are robots. |
| 0:47.4 | I'm going to say this until I'm blue in the face until the end of time. |
| 0:51.2 | The difference between a great player and an excellent elite, all-time great, |
| 0:59.5 | one that has more than just physical gifts is that mental drive, maniacal drive to be even better, |
| 1:08.4 | even when you're at the tippy, tippy top, even when you're an all-star like Ben Simmons, you add to your craft. |
| 1:14.3 | Even when you're the top 1% in the world and you're rich as fuck, when your body is tired, |
| 1:19.9 | when you're injured, when it's July, and you've got max money, that's the difference |
| 1:26.3 | between really good and really, really great. |
| 1:29.6 | And, like, truthfully, that's only like 10 to 15 guys. |
| 1:32.3 | Sure. |
| 1:32.6 | At a 450, right? |
| 1:33.7 | At a given time. |
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