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Pablo Torre Finds Out

The Whistleblower: Smush Parker Tells His Truth

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre

News, Government, Sports, Sports News

4.72.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

You may remember Smush Parker from his very public, lopsided beef with the late Kobe Bryant, but there is so much more to the arc of Smush's life story — from being a toddler raised inside "The Cage," in New York City, to bringing up the ball right before "The Malice at the Palace" began. And now, it turns out, Smush Parker is committed to another shocking quest: become the fourth former NBA player, ever, to become an NBA referee.


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tore finds out i am pablo tore and today we're going to find out what this sound is.

0:38.6

And I'm like, yo, that was a terrible call. And then the light bulb goes off, bing. And I'm like,

0:46.6

I should become a referee. Right after this ad.

0:51.8

You're listening to Draft King's Network.

1:07.0

So I want to fact-checked your Wikipedia page.

1:09.8

Because the explanation for why your name Smush has to do with you playing basketball,

1:16.2

and you would smush people's faces after they stole the ball, and you would be that guy.

1:21.4

I don't know. Wikipedia is wrong in that fact.

1:24.1

Yes. Violence was the origin that Wikipedia alleges for your name, but your name is smush

1:29.2

because why? My mother named me smush when I was a baby. And it's a name that stuck. I was introduced

1:36.3

as a baby as baby smush, and I grew up into just being smush. Well, the name smush, the way it was meant by your mom, there's a cutesy aspect to that

1:49.7

then, the opposite of being real physical in a game.

1:54.0

Yes, yes, it was a term of endearment given to my dad.

1:59.7

And, you know, when I was born, I just, again, I became baby smush.

2:03.5

I am actually William Henry Parker III.

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