Vin Baker
Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles
The Players' Tribune
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🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
It’s all about Vin Baker this week! The best-kept secret out of Connecticut joins the pod to talk about his journey from University of Hartford to 4x NBA All-Star to Milwaukee Bucks assistant coach. Vin looks back on his years facing off against some of the NBA’s greatest centers, being an original member of Jordan Brand, winning a championship as a coach, the power of vulnerability and overcoming addiction. Tune in for the full story!
- Old Saybrook, summer hoops in Florida, UConn camp
- University of Hartford, ‘America’s Best-Kept Secret’ article, NBA draft experience
- Playing against Pat Ewing, Zo, Olajuwan, etc.
- Glenn Robinson’s $100 mil, Jordan Brand, Seattle Supersonics
- Gary Payton, NY Knicks, taking mental health seriously
- Getting hired by the Bucks, Giannis and Dame, winning a championship
- 2000 Olympics and Vince Carter’s dunk
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| 0:00.0 | First of all bro, we appreciate you coming on the show out Jordan bread brother. You know, just thank you for giving us the time with you bro. |
| 0:09.0 | Thanks for having me. I appreciate your having me here man. I'm honored to be honor. When you first got to the league who was the first person to bust your |
| 0:15.7 | ass? It was a few people. I would say Carl Malone was my first real |
| 0:21.9 | introduction but the thing about Carl I would say Carl Malone was my first real introduction. |
| 0:23.8 | But the thing about Carl was, |
| 0:26.4 | like it was a side screen of role in the cross, |
| 0:29.7 | the cross screen action. |
| 0:31.8 | So he got 40 and you never really you felt like what just |
| 0:36.2 | happened? It was 40 and 15 I'm looking at the statute like he just had 40 and |
| 0:41.1 | 15. Utah they run down the 40 and 15. Utah. |
| 0:43.0 | They run down the court and cross every single time. |
| 0:47.0 | Right. |
| 0:48.0 | Then John Stock and sitting them strong little picks on y'all right, |
| 0:52.0 | and its arms is like. Yeah, and he holding the |
| 0:56.2 | screen too, it's not like the screens said today he really hitting you. |
| 1:00.1 | So it was called and I say my first introduction before a call was Sean Kemp. |
| 1:06.4 | Kemp got me in the preseason. |
| 1:08.6 | It was, it was terrifying. |
| 1:10.5 | It was everything that I imagined was gonna be. It was in Milwaukee but the rain was, he came, he brought it. So, yeah. |
| 1:17.0 | Raymond. |
| 1:21.0 | Yo, yo, we live on location. We here in Orlando, City Beautiful. I got the blackest one and we're coming to you live on location with a special special guest man we got some of that 90s real real |
| 1:36.4 | o g basketball in the building we got the original team member from the Jordan brand |
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