Rex Chapman
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🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Hoops Adjacent
Rex Chapman joins David Aldridge and Marcus Thompson to talk about his best selling book :It's Hard for Me to Live with Me, detailing his life in basketball, his battle with drug addiction during and after his career, and his calling to help others dealing with addiction.
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| 0:00.0 | And it's another edition of Hoops adjacent on the athletic NBA show |
| 0:11.9 | David Aldrich here in D.C. |
| 0:13.2 | We're the Wizards Marcus, the Wizards of 1-2 straight. |
| 0:15.9 | Woo! |
| 0:18.0 | The parade started, baby. |
| 0:19.3 | Let's go. |
| 0:19.9 | You know what I'm saying? |
| 0:21.2 | What you got to say about doing now, huh? |
| 0:25.7 | The catalyst. |
| 0:27.5 | And joining us, you know these next few words, make my heart sing. |
| 0:31.6 | New York Times bestselling author Rex Chapman. |
| 0:35.5 | That's crazy. That's crazy. I love it, man. That's so crazy. What's up, D.A.? What's up, Marcus? You guys good? Man, we are good. I mean, we're not as good as you right now. New York-July. We're all right. I just heard about that. I just heard about that two-game win streak. We used to have some of those two-game win-streaks with the bullets back in the day. That's right. Back in the day. Rarely a three gamer. Didn't get three. But we got one and two a lot. Exactly. That's right. Three is a bit ambitious, Rex. But one or two, y'all, y'all hit that on the record. Yes, we did. Yes, we did. |
| 1:16.6 | I cut my eye teeth, Rex, when Rex, covering Rex when he was with the bullets. Man, when I was, I was green. Yeah, beat right. Be right. Be right, right? I mean, traveling around. Yeah, every day. |
| 1:28.2 | Yeah, every day. |
| 1:29.7 | All of them. |
| 1:30.8 | But we had a fun team, Harvey Purvis. |
| 1:33.7 | They were fun. |
| 1:34.4 | Harvey, Grant, Purvis Ellison, Michael Adams, Googs, Chris Weber, Skiles, |
| 1:41.1 | Joanne, Calvert, Cheney. |
| 1:43.6 | Right. |
| 1:45.0 | We were all this young. We were all this young. But y'all put up a score now. Joanne, Calvert, Cheney. We were all this young. We were all 30 to 128, but y'all put up some numbers now. |
| 1:48.0 | Yep. |
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