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First Things First

Storytime with Wildes | 3 Reasons Why: We Need More Ring Culture, Not Less

First Things First

Fox Sports

Basketball, Football, Sports

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Watch clips on YouTube! Subscribe to the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FIRST THINGS FIRST YOUTUBE CHANNEL⁠⁠⁠⁠ Kevin Wildes breaks down the three reasons why he believes there needs to be more ring culture in sports, following LeBron’s comments on ring culture in the NBA. He cites real life examples and gets into the business side of the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Game seven talking about ring culture, thunder pacer's for all the marbles.

0:06.6

Ring culture was in the news.

0:08.3

I just want to say, I understand what LeBron is saying.

0:12.8

An easy way to get clicks is to just disagree with LeBron on anything.

0:17.3

People, okay, because a certain amount of people, no matter what LeBron says,

0:21.0

LeBron can say like, hey, ketchup is red and made out of tomatoes. Like, no, it's not. You don't

0:25.7

know how much high fructose corn syrup is in ketchup. And I'm like, okay, I'm just trying to,

0:30.4

like, LeBron is right. You're wrong. It's not what I understand what LeBron is saying about ring culture. This is my take not LeBron. It's going to be

0:38.1

pretty obvious. A lot like pool noodles. Supposed to be used for celebrations and fun,

0:44.9

occasionally used to hurt people. Okay. Hey, float on it. Great. Use it as a high jump.

0:57.9

That's wonderful. One person's in the pool. Other person jump over the pool noodle. You can hook it up to the filter and it will shoot out like a little fountain. Wow,

1:02.2

look at this. And the Bellagio in my in-law's house. And then occasionally, more often than we would

1:09.4

like, you get smacked in the head with it. That's just the tip end of a pool

1:15.5

noodle, whatever material, pool noodle material. You know that chart you had in chemistry? It was like

1:22.0

iron, gold, the periodic table, oxygen, and it was like pool noodle material.

1:28.1

That hits you right in the face.

1:29.9

No matter what, I've been getting hit in the face with pool noodles since my children

1:34.4

were probably eight months, still has hurt the same.

1:38.8

13 hits me like, it's still, yeah, you've been able to do this since it still hurts.

1:43.5

So I understand LeBron's point.

1:45.0

The rings are supposed to be used for celebration and fun.

1:50.0

Occasionally, they are used to hurt people.

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