Walk that Talk
The Athletic NBA Daily
The Athletic
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🗓️ 22 February 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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In honor of Black History Month: Allen Iverson || Meadowlark Lemon || Mitch Richmond || Bernard King || Moses Malone || James Worthy || Spencer Haywood || Adrian Dantley || George McGinnis || Mannie Jackson share their stories on playing the game of basketball and getting to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Produced and Edited by Jade Hoye
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| 0:00.0 | Would you ask Pop that question? |
| 0:01.8 | Let's do it. |
| 0:02.7 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show. |
| 0:04.5 | One day through on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:07.9 | In honor of Black History Month. |
| 0:10.8 | A incident happened in high school and all that was taken away. |
| 0:15.6 | No other teams, no other schools or recruit me anymore. |
| 0:24.6 | My mom, Wendy Georgetown Georgetown and begged him. You give me a chance. |
| 0:26.6 | And he did. |
| 0:32.6 | Think that you're the best football player in the world, |
| 0:38.1 | which I did, |
| 0:40.0 | and to be sitting up here as a Hall of Famer in basketball. |
| 0:46.3 | You tell me God ain't good. |
| 0:52.0 | After I left Georgetown, I was a high basketball player. |
| 0:56.5 | I had a, I had talent. |
| 1:00.5 | But once I started to listen to Larry Brown, I learned that, uh, how much of a great, great coach that he is. |
| 1:13.1 | That's when I became an MVP. |
| 1:15.4 | That's when I became an all-star. |
| 1:18.1 | That's when I made the first team all-N-B-A. |
| 1:21.0 | Once I got the message from him, and I followed his lead all the way. |
| 1:26.5 | Man, Dr. Jay. |
| 1:28.3 | Oh, shit. Jay. Those shoes, big shoes, literally. |
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