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🗓️ 12 July 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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0:00.0 | Jeremy Shab, hello. Hello, Pablo. |
0:03.6 | You're here to tell us a story that I am struggling already to encapsulate in a sentence. |
0:10.3 | So, so where are we starting this, Jeremy? Where does the story begin? |
0:15.4 | So, Pablo, I guess we start in 1979 at the NBA All-Star game. |
0:22.9 | This, this, uh, ear in which he had Moses Belone and Julius Irving and Cremab Doolge Bar |
0:33.2 | and there's young player taking place in his first All-Star game, |
0:37.1 | Otis Bird song from the Kansas City Kings. |
0:42.2 | Ladies and gentlemen, let us now meet the Western Conference All-Star, making his first All-Star |
0:48.8 | game a second year pro from the Kansas City Kings, six four Otis Bird song. |
0:55.2 | And he described the atmosphere to me as really electric. |
1:00.3 | It was just unbelievable. The atmosphere, sell out crowd. A terrific environment for this game. |
1:06.9 | I was second year into the league, still young and excited to be around all those great players. |
1:13.2 | I mean, I've Doolge Bar and Moses Belone will shout it out. I was the only Kansas City Kings player |
1:20.8 | selected to participate in the NBA All-Star game that year. |
1:27.2 | And at half time Otis Bird song finds himself in the locker room. He finds himself alone |
1:36.3 | in the locker room. Just happened to be the last guy walking out for the warm-ups before the |
1:42.4 | second half. And suddenly the door to one of the bathroom stalls opens. |
1:49.4 | This guy comes out of the bathroom stall and he has on the Kansas City Kings warm-ups. |
1:58.3 | I mean, here's what's interesting. It wasn't someone he knew. It was someone he did not know |
2:03.3 | wearing a Kansas City Kings warm-ups. Someone he had never seen before in his life. And remember, |
2:09.6 | you know, it's hard to imagine a world, right? 1979, not like today. You couldn't just go on |
2:16.1 | Amazon and order a Kansas City Kings warm-ups suit. You couldn't go by one at the team store. |
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