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PTFO - Why JJ Redick Rejected the NBA to Coach 9-Year-Olds Instead

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

He could be drawing up plays for superstars, after interviewing with the Boston Celtics, Toronto Raptors, and more. But the ESPN commentator and "Old Man & the Three" podcaster has been leading a group of middle-schoolers in Brooklyn, with the same passion and perfectionism that he brought to Duke and then 15 seasons in the pros. If you thought you hated JJ Redick, just wait 'til you get inside the greatest mind in the history of fourth-grade basketball. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5m4OQBOhfOM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what

0:05.0

this sound is. And all I said to the referee was, are you seriously not going to call

0:10.0

that a travel? And he teed me up and I said did you seriously just give me a

0:16.0

technical and he threw me out of the game right after this ad

0:20.0

you're listening to Draft Kings Network. J. I want to be clear about something I've learned in our friendship, which is that...

0:37.0

J.J. I want to be clear about something I've learned in our friendship, which is that you're a sicko.

0:47.7

Yeah, like unfortunately.

0:50.5

You present very polished, you're well quaffed, you are a professional, and you're f

0:59.2

f I think a little crazy is fine a little crazy is fine you know it's funny what

1:09.4

has served me well in life and sometimes it hasn't worked out but what has served me well in life

1:17.2

is this like balance of being even killed but also being a psycho.

1:25.0

Sometimes that balance gets out of whack,

1:29.0

and I've dealt with some consequences because of that.

1:31.0

Okay. consequences because of that? Okay, so J.J. Reddick, if you did not know, was one of the greatest and most hated college basketball

1:39.7

players of all time.

1:41.7

He was the National Player of the Year at Duke, he was an Al-American, he was all of that.

1:46.3

And then he got drafted 11th overall in 2006 and he played for 15 seasons in the NBA. And he works for ESPN where he debates Stephen A Smith and he

1:56.4

calls games and he podcasts for his own company and he still pays attention to every single detail.

2:05.0

The obsession, right?

2:09.0

The obsession, the perfectionism, we were talking on the way in here about the perfectionism it served me well

2:14.5

my wife and I talk about this all the time I'm like I can't change at this point

2:18.6

because I've got a few decades now of like it's worked.

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