NBA Legend Spencer Haywood on Today’s Stars and Life After Basketball

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8 • 966 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Bakari Sellers is joined by NBA Hall of Famer Spencer Haywood to discuss the 1971 Supreme Court decision on NBA draft eligibility (4:15), his and former Lakers’ opinions on the HBO show ‘Winning Time’ (11:47), and competing with and beating the greats of the 1980s (18:45). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Spencer Haywood Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.
0:07.0	I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.
0:15.0	Welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.
0:18.0	Today we have a living legend.
0:20.0	I mean, somebody, and this is Apro Pro that we're having this conversation during this time
0:24.5	where we are watching the NBA playoffs shout out to Trey Young but we have none other than
0:29.9	Spencer Haywood joining us today how How you doing today, man?
0:33.5	I'm doing great. How are you?
0:35.1	It's a pleasure.
0:36.1	It's a real pleasure to meet you and be on your show.
0:39.2	I don't want my Laker gear from.
0:45.2	No, we had a, we just had a great reunion in Hawaii.
0:50.7	Magic Johnson set it up here in Pat Riley and Jenny Bus all of them so we so I thought
0:59.3	I'll just be appropriately wearing a shield. the shield. I love it.
1:03.0	I love all those jerseys you have behind you as well.
1:06.0	Oh, okay.
1:08.0	So my show is unique because we start each one of our episodes by having our guests walk us through the arc of their career. And for folks... our
1:15.0	episodes by having our guests walk us through the arc of their career and for folks who don't know you,
1:16.7	your NBA Hall of Fame or NBA champion and 14 year NBA veteran,
1:21.0	but talk to us about your life after basketball.
1:24.1	What have you been up to post basketball?
1:26.2	Post basketball, I first started a program with the SpencerHewood Foundation in Detroit where we were trying to eradicate some of the drug use and also do pre-apprenticeship construction trade in the city of Detroit where we were going in and building homes and renovating homes, giving our elderly a ramp in which to come out of their homes.
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