Hey, million dollars worth of game listeners.

You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad free on Amazon Music. Right. You know, playing in that playground, that shit. Yeah, like they going, like going there every day. It's like, you know, you know how it is when you're young, you're the shorty. And for somebody to pick you, you know, I got shorty.

Yeah.

That's like, and it's something that builds you up and you never forget about growing up and you playing with the old heads, and you just in there, you're watching the old heads play, you're waiting to get on that court one day, hoping they pick you, then they finally pick you. you and now you hear all the time and it's just like it's something like it seemed like when I'm watching the game I can see people that was in

that playground and it's style and it's the feel of it and it'd be like they're carrying something

there's certain regions of the country that bring that out and it's like in my neighborhood

if you couldn't hoop or like play football or any sport like you couldn't couldn't fit in with nobody. So it was just like, you had to learn how to hoop. We was all met up at the court. We all like, at recess, we all met up at the gym. Like, so everybody hooped. So it was the ones that actually took it serious. But it was actually some good motherfuckers as natural hoopers that didn't take it serious that you know dudes that could be people they just get up there, drink a 40 and still nice. Smoker Jay. You know what I'm saying? Just go in and just snap out. But that's the culture from where I come from. And that breed, nothing but like competitive nature everywhere you go. So I'm going across the street to another neighborhood that hoop. All them niggas, all them niggas nice. You go over to 20 minutes down the road, like, damn, that's a nigga. Here's tall as me that can shoot just like me. And they got another point guard better than my point guard. I ain't going to say it, but he better than, right? It's like, You see that all around your town, your city, it's just like,

I grew up at PG County

where like,

right outside of D.C.,

the game of basketball when James Naismith created the shit, man who was right next to him, he bought it back to our town first. You know what I'm saying? So basketball was just in our DNA. Right. So everybody can hoop.

You know what I mean?

So when you got,

you in that competitive nature every single day,

on top of my mom's like, nigga, you better, you're working out. Oh, you got to do extra today. So you have a bad game. Mom on your top. What? Oh, you had 25. What? Come on. She held him to a standard, yo. Exactly how she was. What I told you about having 25? Exactly. My nigger. Wait. You need the motherfucker's that sheet. I had the motherfucker working day. I couldn't make it to the game. This nigga had 25 and four rebounds. Nigger, you're 7 foot 11. You have four motherfucking rebounds. Listen.

You know how the black mom is.

Exactly.

She had loud this in the gym.

Take his ass out.

He ain't playing it?

Get his ass out again?

I'm talking about.

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