All right, all right, all right.

We got another hoops adjacent on the athletic NBA show, David Alder here in D.C.

Marcus in the Bay, our special guests, my man, Rod Strickland, the head coach at L.I.U. Brooklyn. What's up, Ron? Yes, sir. I'm good. How are you doing, my guy? Man, man, it's so good to see you, man. It's been for, it's been a minute. It's been a minute. Always good to see you. See, I told, I was telling Marcus, see, you know what I love, I love having you on?

Because, Rod, you always been cool with the media, man.

You never were, like, crazy with us or nothing.

I was, I was telling him, gee, how was your man?

You know, like, guys are you.

You know, Ron, my break into my profession, my first internship was Gary Howard at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Oh, wow. My man's cussed me out my first day in the newsroom. You had a hell of an experience. Yes. You know what I was that? Cuss me out of newsroom. That's my guy right there, man. You got the lung dart in there. Mark, has you had the lung dart in there?

First thing you did was show me a picture of him next to Jordan on the bitch.

Oh, that's it.

But let me just tell you, though.

One thing about Gary, growing up watching him, watching the older guys hooping the gym,

Gary shoot every shot, every shot,

every shot, not bad school. So he may think he might have joined. He shot every shot.

Every shot. He don't know what the word passed mean, do you?

Yes. Oh, man. So, Rob, man, I wanted to have you on. I'm so glad you're able to join us. I wanted to have you on because, man, unless some meteor hits is going to be Boston and Dallas in the finals. So, you know, man, you, I think most people who would listen to this podcast know that your Kyrie's godfather.

I would imagine most people know that by now.

But in case there's people that don't know that, man, you must be like, well, shit, I don't want to talk for you.

Watching him hooped the way he's been hooping in these playoffs, what does it do for you?

I mean, this is what he's been doing since he's been in the league.

Everybody starts getting into other things and kind of, you know, kind of missing action.

Yeah.

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