The Flagship Special: Former Longhorn and member of the 'Bad Boy' Detroit Pistons Lance Blanks discusses The Last Dance and gives his thoughts on the all-time greatest basketball player

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4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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As a special edition of The Flagship Podcast, former Texas Longhorn and member of the 'Bad Boy' Detroit Pistons Lance Blanks joins the show for an exclusive interview to discuss The Last Dance, his now infamous hand-shake snub of Michael Jordan, his thoughts on the direction of Texas basketball and who's the greatest basketball player of all time. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to a special edition of the Horns 24-7 flagship podcast.
0:05.8	Lance Blanks was a basketball player at Virginia who transferred to Texas.
0:10.8	When he left with 2,133 points, it was the most point total by a two-year player in Texas basketball history. He became a first-round
0:22.9	draft pick of the Detroit Pistons and was a rookie on the bad boys team that lost to the Chicago
0:29.4	Bulls and walked out of the arena with eight seconds left. We'll talk to him about that. And then
0:35.3	he went on to become a scouting director for the San
0:38.1	Antonio Spurs, the assistant GM of the Cleveland Cavaliers when LeBron James was there. Lance
0:45.1	Blanks was instrumental in getting Boobie Gibson, Daniel Gibson, Texas Longhorn on the Cavaliers
0:51.7	with LeBron James. And then he became the GM of the Phoenix Sons.
0:58.2	So we hit a lot of topics coming up here with Lance Blanks.
1:03.4	Joined here now by Lance Blanks, who was a rookie member of the Detroit Pistons during the last dance and, you know, episode encounter between the Pistons and the Bulls when Michael Jordan and the Bulls finally ascended in the Eastern Conference Finals and took down those bad boy Pistons.
1:24.6	Lance, you were a rookie member of that team, of course, a star at
1:28.5	Virginia, and then you transferred to Texas. And what's interesting is, I didn't know this about you,
1:35.0	and I've known you for years. You were friends with Michael Jordan before you became a member of the
1:41.8	bad boy pistons. Is that right? Yeah, I actually was friends with Michael.
1:49.5	I was fortunate to get to meet him after high school, or shortly after high school, a good friend
1:54.3	of mine, Fred Whitfield, who is arguably probably Michael's best friend. I'd got to know Fred in Houston when I was being recruited by Virginia.
2:05.8	And Fred invited me to his camp when I got there.
2:10.0	And Fred and another guy, B.J. Johnson, who also works in NBA, took me up
2:14.4	because they knew how much I looked up to Michael coming up in high school,
2:19.0	and they literally took me up to meet him before we played. And it was just phenomenal,
2:25.6	getting to meet him. And he acted like we'd known each other for years and tease me about
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