Ronnie Fields Reflects On Career-Changing Car Accident, Playing w/ KG, MJ Runs | ALL THE SMOKE
All The Smoke
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4.7 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
One of the greatest 'what ifs' in basketball history, legendary Chicago high school star Ronnie Fields joins Matt & Stak on the latest episode of ALL THE SMOKE. Fields opens up about the devastating car accident that changed his career, discusses playing with KG at Farragut High School, and talks about secret hoops runs he had with MJ. Plus, he reflects on the epic never-before-seen 1995 Nike High School dunk contest, the state of AAU, and talks current day NBA.
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| 0:00.0 | Parents, if you've ever experienced bedtime battles with the kids, I'm going to let you into a little secret. |
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| 0:25.0 | Listen to Kowalamoon on the I Heart Radio app on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Oh, Welcome back all the smoke Chicago Jack we've been we were waiting on this one for a minute man I'm gonna give you the honors because this is another part we might have |
| 1:04.1 | the biggest the podcast with the most class of 96 motherfuckers on it ever yeah man and |
| 1:09.4 | this is also one of the most name-dropped individuals on our show. For me this is special man because it's somebody when I always talk about COB is somebody that I admire just like I admire COB growing up. Growing up in Texas, you know, I wasn't seen as much as these other guys, but I knew all the guys in my class who I was coming up with and I had a chance to meet them growing up. And a lot of guys who are idolized as a youngster, I still idolized to this day. |
| 1:34.0 | And the guy that's on our show today is somebody who I can sit on my brother, |
| 1:38.0 | somebody who was a big part of motivating all of us in our class to be great, |
| 1:42.0 | somebody who led our class and somebody who still deserves his flowers today |
| 1:46.0 | and that's why I wanted him on the show |
| 1:48.0 | so we can give him his flowers so we can let the world know and him know |
| 1:51.0 | how much we love and respect him and honor to have him on a show today |
| 1:55.2 | baby Jordan the original baby Jordan |
| 1:58.6 | Ronnie Fields my mother |
| 2:00.4 | my brother real love |
| 2:02.3 | I see him there, |
| 2:04.0 | That probably was my best introduction. |
| 2:06.0 | That was a good one. |
| 2:07.0 | That was somebody on the show too. |
| 2:08.0 | So we got two lacrosse bobcats on the show. |
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