Jadakiss On Knicks Finals Mania, Joe and Jada & Why Jalen Brunson Reminds Him of Himself

Jadakiss discusses Knicks Finals mania, Jalen Brunson's impact, and shares insights on basketball and New York culture on Double Coverage Podcast.

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Key Takeaways

The Knicks' Finals run has created unprecedented excitement and unity in New York City.
Jalen Brunson is seen as a leader and a player who embodies toughness and respect on the court.
The Knicks alumni and fanbase show strong support, creating a unique basketball brotherhood.
Defense and strategic gameplay are critical in the series, especially against star players like Wembanyama.
Jadakiss balances his career and personal life while staying deeply connected to New York sports culture.

What the video covers

Jadakiss and host Zach discuss the Knicks' surprising 2-0 lead over the Spurs in the NBA Finals and the city's electrifying atmosphere.
They highlight Jalen Brunson as a tough competitor and potential greatest Knick ever if he wins the championship.
The conversation covers Knicks alumni support and the unique brotherhood around the team.
Jadakiss praises the Knicks' defense, especially OG Anunoby, and analyzes the Spurs' strengths and weaknesses.
They discuss the challenges posed by players like Victor Wembanyama and Karl-Anthony Towns.
Jadakiss shares personal excitement about attending game three and the high demand for tickets.
The podcast touches on Jadakiss' life balance, podcast success, and his connection to New York basketball culture.
They reflect on historic Knicks players like Willis Reed and the deep-rooted Knicks fan love.
The episode includes light commentary on other sports figures and moments, blending sports and culture.
Jadakiss emphasizes the importance of respect, competition, and community in sports.

Chapters

Why does Jadakiss compare Jalen Brunson to himself?

Jadakiss sees Jalen Brunson as a tough competitor and winner who commands respect on the court, similar to how Jadakiss views his own approach to challenges.

What makes the Knicks' current Finals run so special according to Jadakiss?

Jadakiss highlights the unprecedented excitement and unity in New York City, with fans from all walks of life showing immense support and the strong presence of Knicks alumni at games.

How does Jadakiss describe the Knicks' defense against the Spurs?

He praises players like OG Anunoby for top-notch defense and notes the importance of strategic plays to counter star players like Victor Wembanyama and Karl-Anthony Towns.

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[singing and music] [music] [music] What's up, guys? It's Mr. Zach here. Welcome back to episode 20 of Double Coverage. Today, we're in for a very special edition. The Kiss and the Mystery Union, my guy, my brother, the Don of Yonkers, Jadakiss.

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Zach, what's up, baby? What's up? My brother, how you been? I'm good. Are you over the moon right now?

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Uh uh, um, um, I'm trying to stay composed, but you know what I mean, before I really go extra insane, but two zip, man.

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They steal two on the road in San Antonio. That's big. Who could have predicted that?

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That's heavy, man. That is heavy. Of course, we all wanted that to happen, but nobody, uh, I got to give one guy credit. Stephen A.

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Smith's nephew, Josh Smith. He came on my pod and he said the Knicks were going to beat the Spurs in the finals. Then, when the finals came, he said, "Knicks in four." I said, "This guy's out of his mind." But he's been

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right every step of the way. Paul. He got a little bit of you in him, Paul.

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He, he, he, uh, uh, uh. Okay, he can predict, he can predict, he got that predict. He had the crystal ball.

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My guy, though. He's ill. He's on, he's on the come up, um, that's ill, 'cause I, I said Knicks in four last last series. Remember that? When I came out. But I was a little scared.

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I thought it would have been a gentleman's sweep. You know what I mean? Still room for that, but hopefully, let's get them out of here, man.

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Yeah, oh my God, again, San Monday. Monday's going to be crazy. Or the game three, excuse me.

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Game three, the people in New York, just the electricity, they're burning fires in the street, they're dancing, they're doing hula hoops, they is—you could come to New York and not even make it in the garden. If you can just

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make it two or three blocks close to the garden, you're going to feel like you're inside.

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That's how, that's how crazy that out the spill out is. Biggest New York sports moment since when?

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Have you ever seen the city like this? No. Never, right? No. Not even when—Not even when if the Giants win or the Yankees or whatever, it's never the morale is never this broad, you know what I mean? It's crazy. It seemed like

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out of nowhere, just everybody. You see grandmas pushing shopping carts with Knicks apparel, and you see little babies, you see cab drivers, conductors, is the whole city is Knicks'd out, and that, that's always that boosts the morale, and that makes

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it feel, it makes the feeling incredible. They got a guy leads the way. He reminds me of someone.

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Mr. Jalen Brunson. What? You. He does? He does. He's, he's a winner, he's a tough competitor, and his peers respect him to the point where they don't want to go against him on the big stage.

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No. You don't want to see Brunson one-on-one. With the—you don't want him. You don't want the smoke with him on this kind of stage.

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He's going to show out. That's a fact. Period. And he does it nonchalantly. Like a gentleman.

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You know what I mean? Not too much talking. Just goes out there, leaves it all on the court, and does it and does it and does it over and over again. Shout out to the gentle giant.

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The gentle giant. He's like a few games, a couple games away from being the greatest Knick ever.

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I actually was staying out of that debate because they were saying if he wins the chip he can possibly arguably be the greatest Knick ever.

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And if he, if he wins the four, oh my God. Is I, he might just hands down, he's out of here.

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Yeah, you can't—I don't know. It's a tough, tough argument but when it, nobody did that.

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And who, I mean of course Melo, you know, hands down and Ewing. Those, those, those the other, the other Rushmores of the garden are, they can't be replaced with that.

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And then you can go way throwback like my grandpa would be like Willis Reed.

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Yeah. He would always tell me about Willis Reed. Yeah, big. All of them guys is forever Godfather them.

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Yeah. But the Knick love is so strong. They won, they, they are rooting for him, Brunson.

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You know what I mean? So it's like there's a brotherhood. You know what I mean? You see the alumni in them games they up, they, they got more fluidity than I ever seen them in life. More than when

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they played. They clapping, they jamming, they, they all look Steph is like the at the helm of the, the Knicks alumni get it wilded up and get it lit. You know what I mean? So that, that, that

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You don't see no other teams like that. You don't see that much players going back to the games as—No. No, I've never seen a storm like this.

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Even, even against right now with the Spurs they got couple dudes there Ginobili, Duncan and but it's we got dudes mad. Your guy was crashing the set.

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Crack, yeah. Shout out to crack. You already know what it is. He was up there going crazy.

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He, he, he goes to San Antonio and comes back. That's crazy. Yeah. So, that's a real fan.

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That's Nick. That shows you that, that Nick fan love is incredible. Are you going to be in attendance for game three?

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Most certainly. You know that. I wouldn't miss it for the world. The most hyped you've been ever for a sporting event?

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I'd say so. This is, this adds up to the, the cream of the crop of anything you can go to.

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No, it does. It's, they said it's a quarter million a seat on celebrity row.

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They said it's half a mil if you want a pair of—If you want a pair of them, yeah.

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If you want to sit by Spike Lee, you got to give up half a mil.

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Thank, thank it. Thank God for to have good friends and to know people in high places to be in attendance.

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You know? It's going to be beautiful. No, this is, um, I, I had to get you on the pod 'cause I came here last night. Um, I'm winning some awards tonight for the show.

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Fire. American Business Awards. Fire. Let's make some awards. Fire. Best sports podcast, but I mean Knicks mania, I needed a real New Yorker, a real authentic one, a real basketball fan to give me the spill.

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Is it, it's still scary though 'cause you're going against the 7-foot-5 French guy with the handle and a shot, right?

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Game is still every game. Like, you know, you, you can't, even though we up, we ahead in the series, we still can't. It's not over till it's over. You can't play around with that with the alien.

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Yeah, the alien. Yeah. He's a literal alien. And Karl-Anthony Towns, I think that's the biggest surprise of the series is how well he's been defending him, right? He's going right at him. They've called him soft forever.

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And he said, "I'm soft? I'll show you. I'm from, I'm New York." "Dog, I'm going to go right at him." That's facts.

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Nothing like Chet. Nothing. I mean, is it, it, it comes down to numbers and these numbers after happen to be weight numbers.

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Um, Chet was a little light. Chet is my guy, but I think Wemby was stronger. He's taller and a little bit stronger than Chet.

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If you're the Knicks, what's your game plan heading into game three? What did you see out of game two? They, they came all the way back, the Spurs. It was 14-0 run. The Knicks had to, of course, Jalen Brunson, you know, came through at

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the end there, but if you're Coach Mike Brown, what are you telling the Knicks right now?

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Slow down Dillon Harper. I mean, make Wemby shoot the threes. Let him keep, keep shooting threes.

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You got to rebound. Josh got to keep shooting as long as they leave him open. They got to be honest. They got to defend honest. If he, if he at least looks at it and then Lord forbid if he make a couple, then they're

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in a, it's going to be crazy at that point, but, um, OG's playing that top-notch defense and he's, and he's getting buckets.

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Uh, he's elite. Uh, Mikal came out all of it, all of that too many picks and they did bad. He showed, he's showing right now. When they need him, he's doing exactly what they need him to do. So

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The illest commentary call I've heard in a long time was, "It's two on one, but the one is Wemby." And, and then they, they reset. He stopped both of them. They had to reset the whole thing.

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Two on one ain't safe with Wemby. It's crazy. The one is Wemby. And you knew what he meant, right, when he said it.

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That's crazy, though. Now, everyone watches it on TV, but i

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He He's going to run the NBA. Yeah, all the more reason the Knicks got to close this out.

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Yeah. He stays healthy and get his get his foundation strong, he'll have a good future. Just not this year.

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No, not this year, but I think, yeah, if he stays healthy, to me is the greatest athlete ever. I don't think he'll transcend basketball, cuz we've never seen someone with these type of physical traits with his work ethic

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and demeanor and he's just got the whole I don't They say the draft lottery is rigged. I believe it, cuz what How did the Spurs get him?

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And Castle and Harper, like No, the Spurs do one of the best They one of the best organization at molding players and I think they knew that, especially the European.

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They go through the years of Parker and Ginobili And they know after sitting them years and getting them players, they develop They'd be right back in the mix again, just like that.

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And I think Harper is dealing off of super tough. He's an all-NBA guy, like soon.

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He's tough. He's super He's so athletic. And he's got the like mindset where he's picking them up full court. He's He's lefty, though, too. Killer. He's a dog.

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Yeah. That quick. Herky-jerky. Lefty. And then Castle was the Shay Sharpe of last series. They got on a crazy crop, but the Knicks got to close it out, for sure.

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We got to get this. You know what I mean? We got to stay stay composed, which is hard to do for New Yorkers, cuz they just they over-celebrate.

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Yeah. Let's wait till it's time to over-celebrate to over-celebrate, but let's let's rejoice and then get right back to business.

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our Knicks fans, the ones we you know you just got to Yeah. you know, crack and everyone. We got a little hype, but Orange and blue skies, baby. You know what it is.

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you got an alien out there. Um talk to me about a day in the life of Jadakiss today. What's your day-to-day?

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Obviously, you're a family man. You're killing it with the podcast. Seems like you're in a great spot, but what's life like for you right now?

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Yeah, you you you said it mostly, you know. I'm I'm I'm father. I'm doing these shows. Um artist.

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Back in the studio. Uh with them, myself and The LOX. Um We got the documentary coming out. We We got in uh Tribeca Film Festival.

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So, we're going to be airing a LOX documentary in the Tribeca Film Festival. Beautiful.

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Um Yeah, so a day with me is like wake up, go to the gym.

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After that, if I got a film, go film. After filming, go to studio. If there's no studio, go to a Knicks game.

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Um You know what I mean? I might go to bingo with my mom. Might go by the office and talk some business with my dad.

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Might go to a basketball game with the twins like today. They had back-to-backs. They got blown out.

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Aw. Aw. Uh it was beautiful though. It was fun. Um Oh, man. Just things like that. You know what I mean? I'm real easy these days. I ain't You know? I take it easy.

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I'm in a I'm in a blessed place to be able to take it easy.

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Yeah. Chill. Yeah, not too much. I play Pac-Man a lot. Miss Pac-Man, excuse me.

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You have a at the at the spot you guys in the crib. The man cave. You know what I mean? I'm watching sports.

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All kind of sports. You know the World Cup is coming, so the city is going to be You going to go to LA for that?

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I might catch one in LA. I'll catch one when it comes here. I'll catch one in Jersey or one of the stadiums here.

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Um Yeah, I just want to see the excitement of the World Cup. You know what I mean?

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Being in the Nah, they say it's I mean it's 10x the Super Bowl. Word.

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Yeah, it's it's a billion viewers instead of 100 million. Wow. They got their own cult lovers and then just if you from that nationality or whatever team is playing people watching.

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That's going to be insane. Yo, who's going to get the performance up on that stage? It's 10x the Super Bowl.

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I say it got to be one of them. It got to be They going to call Bad Bunny or one of them.

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Yeah. J Balvin. Streams are going to go fwoosh. It's going to be a lot of performances, I think.

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Yeah, I think so. I think for sure Snoop somewhere. Snoop is Oh, Snoop Snoop is somewhere.

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Yo, there's two guys that find a way to get to the bag no matter what. Snoop and Shaq.

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Facts. They're everywhere. Facts. Ernie Ernie Johnson might be I think Ernie going to have something to do with the World Cup, too. Ernie sneaks in there too.

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Legend. We got We We got to get Shaq out there. EJ. Um no, that is going to be legendary.

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World Cup in the US. And then we got the Olympics shortly after that. You know, our staff and KD and Bron, are any of them going to be in it or they out?

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Can the young guys step up and get gold? Wow. Cuz you got the alien.

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He's a guard. And you got Gobert with him. You got You got um 8-ft wingspan guys next to each other.

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Him and go to. Gobert. Yeah. I mean, I don't know how you score on that.

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That's crazy. But We got some good We got some young dogs. We got Ant leading the way.

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And then Brunson, of course. It'll be tight, though. Yeah. It was tight with Steph and all them.

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Yeah. It was. They needed Steph to pull a rabbit out the hat, hit the craziest shots I've ever seen. I've never seen that.

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That's number one performance I've ever seen in basketball. When Steph was hitting those shots, it was France.

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He got in a He got an out-of-body experience. He was out of He was just He was like you were in the versus battle. It was He was out of his body. You couldn't stop him.

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There was no one on that state. They interviewed Fournier after for France. He's like, "Anyone else in the world would have missed those shots. But it was Steph Curry." I was watching it going crazy. Like, this guy's nuts. He's out of his mind.

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He can't He couldn't miss. Couldn't miss. And how they Kobe had a great story where he was at Disney with his kids and he saw a guy in a KG jersey. This was right after the finals and everything and he's thinking the

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guy's going to come up to him and and say something to him. And he goes He walks up to him. He's like ready to, you know, pounce on him.

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He goes, "Bring it home for us." Kobe's like, "Damn. The Olympics unites everyone." Mhm.

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That's ill. Everything goes out the window when it's USA. You know, it's a different level.

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And then that's going to be the feeling for the World Cup times a hundred.

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That's crazy. If it's your country, if you're from Argentina or Spain or Germany or whatever, you're flying there to watch your team, oh my god.

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That's the cra- That's the illest thing ever, right? You can't talk about economy from the World Cup and must going to be incredible insane.

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I just bought a pair of World Cup AF1s. I think I got the Brazil I got I got the Mexico.

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Man, I bought Mexico's. Where? I got to catch them. They out, huh? Yeah, they out.

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I got to get You got to get a cop the Mexico's. Yeah. How do they look?

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They're pretty fire, you know? They got the colors and everything. Shout out to Mexico.

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Yeah. Shout out. for you. Hopefully they're I haven't I got to get the lay of the land.

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the nice teams are the nice teams. This is a lot of people's heart is in the World Cup because it's where they're from.

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I mean, so they But you got to do your homework. a $2 dash. I I love this place, my second home. He was like, "Haiti's going to take it all." And then I checked it was 200 It was

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plus 200,000. [laughter] Yeah. God. That sounds a little bit It don't sound like they taking it all with those odds.

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like they were taking it all. Shout out to Haiti, though. I was like, "Oh, are they really good?" I checked They were the second lowest. I was like, "Ooh." Plus 200,000.

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Geez. I I don't ever think I ever seen I don't ever think I ever seen that kind of odds.

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Wait, I thought so. Plus 200,000 is Just for the Just Just if Just is Just for the sake of for the sake of the sake.

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Cuz Jesus Christ, plus 200,000. Vegas said, "Oh, yeah, all right." That's insane. Plus 200,000.

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I've never seen that, either. I mean, I've seen like crazy like uh all the highest ones I've seen like the boxing matches, you know, where like the best of all those tune-ups, but basketball, football, you never get that. Especially football, everyone's

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pretty Yeah. Pretty in the same bracket. Yeah. Plus 200 Maybe not this year though.

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Plus 200,000 is insanely crazy. Yeah, I never I was like, yo, hopefully Haiti takes it all though. I don't I hope all my I hope all of the matches are good. I know that I know when Haiti plays

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the energy is going to be in Especially in Florida. I want to go to like a Haitian bar and watch them.

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Call me crazy. Everything crazy. The last World Cup final 2022, France-Argentina, the greatest top five sporting event I've ever seen.

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Messi versus Mbappé, they both had hat tricks, it went into penalty shootout. Everything on the line. It was Messi's legacy, like he had never won a World Cup. That was his knock, like years with LeBron, you know, he didn't have a chip,

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it was like He cemented himself. He became the goat when he hit that kick.

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Yeah. That's crazy. crazy. And then I went to Argentina the next year. Everyone's phone screensaver is Messi.

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You did No one and every single stand is just a Messi phone cases, t-shirts, murals hats.

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He's like Michael Jackson like in his prime, but it's an it's the craziest you've ever seen.

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I got to get over there. You got to get over What if they repeat? What if they go back-to-back?

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That would be crazy. Buenos Aires might like might break. It'd be crazier than this with the Knicks.

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Almost as crazy. Nothing's going to be crazier Shout out to my Argentinians. Yeah, that was Nothing's going to be crazier than the Knicks winning it.

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This is going to be No, the Knicks are a different level. I don't even think I realized the the level the Knicks are at until this year's playoffs.

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We don't see them in these positions usually, you know. Yeah. That's why everybody's so in a uproar because it it's never been seen.

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They've just been wait They're just so hungry. Cuz the Yankees been doing it, the Giants did it twice.

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We haven't did it since 1971, I think I believe. Yeah, no, it's like some 73, right?

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It's like similar to like if the Jets made it to the Super Bowl. I think they were 69 with Joe Namath.

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One thing about you people might not know, you talked about just watching sports in the in the basement, you know, we've done that before, is that you're a fan of all sports. We just talked soccer. You love the NFL just like you

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love the NBA. The Rams. Just Aaron Donald, the best player in the NFL. And and hold on though, is Donald is he hitting that coming back?

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48% chance. On the line. out is workout ethic and method and is crazy. Him and got my Miles Garrett is oh my lord.

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I never I I Have we ever seen a team like that? If they go out and they have the the reigning MVP. So you got the reigning MVP, the reigning defensive player of the year, and the goat.

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That's a NFL super team. With Puka and Davante Adams, they just traded for Mcduffie. They're the dream team. Super team.

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Super dream NFL regime. And then the Mavericks got the number one pick. Somehow. The NBA gets real weird.

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Tell me about it. They They said that when the Knicks got Ewing, like he's a New York guy, they had the number one pick. Cleveland, LeBron. Derrick Rose, Chicago.

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It's real weird. Every time it's like whatever the perfect scenario is, like the hometown or the it works.

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Yeah, it's a crazy coincidence. Like six of them. That's ill. Never thought of that.

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And then the Lakers find a way to just get a superstar whenever they want one or whenever they need one. Yeah, nobody's off limits.

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They do that. The Lakers is It must be something Dr. Jerry Buss must have said.

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We required to have always one or two or three superstars. Always. And we need them quick.

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They don't They don't really wait years. They don't They buy. They buy and build. They don't wait.

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They don't really do pick and rebuild. We going to draft and rebuild. No, it was like a weird 3 years between Kobe and LeBron.

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Yeah. Then they flipped all those guys for AD somehow. That's a fact. Lonzo, Ingram, Randall All of them.

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Shipped them. And AD wouldn't play anywhere else. Like he NBA, you can just like Harden does it every year. You can just I only want that team and then you got to make a deal where it's crazy. But

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apparently the Garrett wanted to play for the Rams, so they only negotiated with the Rams.

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They didn't like try to go to cuz they probably could have gotten like four first round picks from another team, you know.

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It's called leverage. Yeah. When you got that you in power. And how do the Rams pay for all these guys?

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No, that I don't They got to be over They got to They They got to Something got to be We need like a mathematician or finance guy to break that down.

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On like an Instagram reel. Like how like the loopholes they're using to get around the fact that they're paying like 20 dudes at once.

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So, does it Is it like anything Is Cleveland is not still paying Miles Garrett?

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Somehow he might have to. No, like it did like you can structure it different ways, but I think the Rams took it all on.

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Oh. But you can choose to absorb some of it or His contract got to kick back in whatever it I think it'd be I think it'd be a new one.

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A new one. I think he signed like a one-year $10 million or something. Yeah, so It's a ring chase.

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Let's do Matthew Stafford just read up what he did in one or two years he did.

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60 million a year what? So But they haven't paid Puka yet, but they're paying Demarcus And they got you see And they got made Mcduffie from Kansas City.

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We need an accountant. We need an accountant. There needs to be a guy like that like with glasses though.

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So it's he needs the right look and he's got to break down the Break that down.

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the math of it. When you win and take his all of that other stuff.

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No, it does. They they got one so now they get the grace. When you win one then then they let you do whatever you want.

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you open the books up. Yeah, then you could open the books. Then the fans are chill and they they see you out. But they would have lost that Super Bowl like one thing goes wrong Burrow completes that pass then none of

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this happens. When you win they redo the whole That's facts. Yeah. And then they also always say like oh when you you go all in like you your future is is bad you can't do it again and then they they're doing it again.

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It's not true. They've been competing the whole time. They doing it again. There's no excuse if you if you're a fan of a team who doesn't make moves you they have no excuses.

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Facts. Yeah. Cuz they make moves. Big ones. And it doesn't affect anything in the future.

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Nothing. Good GMs that's good GMs. They got to build a shrine of of Les Snead.

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Right? If they win it again? Definitely. They need to and Sean McVay too. Definitely shout out to coach Sean McVay he's tough. He's tough.

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He's tough and he's young still. He's a dog. On and off the field he's a dog.

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He's a dog. Yeah, his wife's a but Sean McVay, the Rams, they're they're killing it.

Speaker A

Another thing people don't know, we obviously had our show Kissing the Miss. Kissing the Miss, man. One of the best.

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The one of the originals. Originals. You look at today the the landscape of shows where they combine sports and hip hop. We did a little bit differently. We had the sports picker with the rapper, but like now it's kind of everyone's

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formula to kind of mix it up. You know, of course um some guys doing it great.

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But uh yeah, we were one of the first and we would also hang out offset.

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Yeah. Go out, go to the games, hang out here on the block. Yeah. We still we we family. Kissing the Miss, man. There's no There'll never be another.

Speaker A

I don't care what they do. They can never duplicate what we did. No. And one day I'll never forget, we're both in Miami, but uh you you called me and you were like, "Yo, Miss, where you at? We're at

Speaker A

the Fontainebleau. We're about to head out." And no one had told me I was supposed to meet up with you. I guess someone was supposed to, but they didn't get to me and I didn't want to get anyone in

Speaker A

trouble. So I was like, "Oh, sorry I'm late. I'm on the way right now." Yeah.

Speaker A

So I happen to be in Brickell. I get in Uber. I pull up to the Fontainebleau. We get in like an armored truck.

Speaker A

We're on the way and we end up at like a giant warehouse. And there's mad dudes with like crazy I'm like, "Where are we?" It's me, you, and K. Shout out to K.

Speaker A

And we're walking in. I'm like, "Where are we at?" And I see tons of film crew and like ATVs, I think.

Speaker A

And then we're walking a little bit further and it's Killa's there. Cam. Oh yeah.

Speaker A

And you introduced me. You're like, this is my podcast partner, Zach the Miss. And his eyes lit up. He was like, podcast?

Speaker A

And then we went a little bit further and in the corner he was rapping to himself.

Speaker A

He was like ethereal though, like he had like a glow over him. It was Mase.

Speaker A

Oh, dope. I Mase wasn't even popping out at that point that much, you know, obviously we had Pastor Mase then he dropped the Oracle disstracks, but I was like, that's Mase. I was like, oh my god, it's Mason Betha. And you guys shot a music

Speaker A

video on the rooftop, but I had no idea where we were going or where we were at.

Speaker A

I remember like, where the hell can we possibly be going? Yeah, well, see, that's what you never know what's going to happen when we link up, huh?

Speaker A

What you going to see, what we going to be doing. No, I didn't want to get him in trouble.

Speaker A

I was like, I'm sorry, I'm lit. I'm I'm heading there. And then a week later, uh my guy Shannon Briggs hit me and was like, Cameron just told me he wants to do like a sports podcast with me. And I was like, I

Speaker A

wonder where he got that idea. Didn't end up happening, they ended up doing it with Mase. Now they got one of the biggest shows in the whole world, one of the best shows ever. It is what it is.

Speaker A

what it is. Cam got a whole network. And and Talk with Flea, they just did the Cole interview and went nuclear.

Speaker A

He promotes himself like better than the people who do it for a living. Crazy, there's a certain people I can hit the media and they're just as good in media as they were at the skill that got them to that position of

Speaker A

influence. Like Cam with the podcasting and then like Rampage Jackson, you seen his streams?

Speaker A

Like this guy is a champion fighter and he's a world class stream. Two different different types of animals out there who can conquer multiple fields, but I'll never forget that day like on the way there.

Speaker A

And I'll never forget when we were at the Heat game on the wood. Pause. And then and then we go to the back the the locker room kind of area the back room and it's AB, Antonio Brown who we shot a

Speaker A

podcast with that day, and Floyd Mayweather. Yeah. I where [laughter] am I at? And he's got the pinky ring on, Antonio Brown, and Floyd's telling these kids about how he went 50 and 0.

Speaker A

And we flicked up and we talked it up. I was like, this is like I ain't with me, man.

Speaker A

Yeah, it was It's always lit. It's always a thing. It's always a thing. It's always a thing.

Speaker A

No, AB found you in the on the court like he had heat seekers on.

Speaker A

That game was fire. I remember we went to the Yeah, that was fire. They had us up on the Jumbotron yeah.

Speaker A

That was lit. I don't know Yeah, and then I went Um you had a show, it was your birthday, but you had to go to the show. We were supposed to go to the Heat-Celtics.

Speaker A

Mhm. And then I was on the hard floor and uh 21 Savage was next to me.

Speaker A

Fire Savage. And he's a mega Celtics fan. I didn't know that. He's a die hard. I'm a Heat fan. He was talking to me the entire game.

Speaker A

The entire game. I was with Fuzz, by the way. Oh, [ __ ] Which made it way funnier.

Speaker A

Yeah. And I would stand up and he'd be like, sit down. I'm like, what?

Speaker A

And he had his security with him. I'm like, all right, I'll sit down, Savage.

Speaker A

[laughter] And then like we'd miss the shot, he'd look at me 21 is my guy.

Speaker A

And then he said that. He was I was like, yeah, I was supposed to do a kiss whatever is odd, you know, it's my guy.

Speaker A

And then man, we lost at the very last second. Strus's foot was on the line. It was devastating and he was like, I told you. I was like, You did tell me, you're right.

Speaker A

Miami Miami got to do some rebuilding. Oh, well, I mean, sleepy Pat, that's what they call him. He's been Sleepy Pat is a sick one.

Speaker A

Sleepy Pat hasn't been making moves. Yeah, I think he going to try he going to do something.

Speaker A

So, with Giannis? Something's going to happen. They're favored to get Giannis. What? They're number one.

Speaker A

Oh, he want to go to Miami? He wants to play on the East Coast and he loves Bam.

Speaker A

They're tight. That's a crazy duo, too. Yeah, that's fire. They might could do something out of the East.

Speaker A

Yeah. Cuz defensively, it's you know, you got two all-NBA first team guys. They definitely could do something.

Speaker A

And Bam scored 83, so clearly he's got some crazy bag. Tyler Herro got to get healthy, too.

Speaker A

I think Herro would get shipped out. Yeah. He's from Milwaukee. Yeah. That makes sense. Send him back home.

Speaker A

Send him back home. He's never healthy anyways. But they said LeBron to the Warriors?

Speaker A

Are you buying that? You think he stays in LA? You think he goes home?

Speaker A

I As long as he's on the West Coast, I think it's not anything is not out of the question, especially joining team and over Steph.

Speaker A

You know what I mean? I think that that's a possibility. Or staying where he's at and re- renegotiating his contract for 1 year with a player option, something crazy.

Speaker A

If you went to the Warriors, would you go to San Francisco for a few games?

Speaker A

Yeah, I'd go check out a game. You know that LeBron and Steph together? They could lose every game and they'd be sold out. Like they like if they was about to break the Bulls record of 72 and 10.

Speaker A

Golden State matched it and then lost the chip, right? Right here. They lost the chip?

Speaker A

What was their record? 72 and 10? 73 and 9. 70 Yeah, they beat it.

Speaker A

They beat it. Yeah, yeah. They beat it the same night Kobe scored 60, so no one watched them beat it.

Speaker A

Everyone's eyes were on Kobe. thing, yeah. That's crazy. Kobe was the only player big enough to overshadow that.

Speaker A

That's crazy. All right, Peter LaMelo No one else would have had that pull. The Mambo.

Speaker A

There wasn't one person who wasn't watching Kobe. The Mambo. Mambo out. That's That'll never happen again.

Speaker A

Mambo out. No, that's This is top This might be the biggest moment since then.

Speaker A

It's right up there. History is being made no matter what. No matter what happens, it's history. So it's a Spike Lee movie no matter what.

Speaker A

That's a fact. That's a fact. Let's just make it the right ending. We need a fairy tale ending.

Speaker A

A fairy tale ending. So far, so good. To wrap up, anything else you want to throw out there? Kiss Cafe Coffee, go buy that. Link's going to be in the bio.

Speaker A

Kiss Cafe Coffee, man. Go watch Joe and Rule. Joe and Ja Rule, man. I'm rocking the Terror Squad kicks.

Speaker A

Yeah, got the Terror Squad ups on. You know what it is. to Crack. Yep.

Speaker A

Be on the lookout. Everything going on. You're narrating a documentary, right? Yeah. For 50?

Speaker A

Yeah, yeah. DMX. DMX dog docu-series. Narrating that. You know what I mean? We doing things.

Speaker A

Just follow me, man. @jadakiss Yes, sir. My guy, my brother. Yes, sir. Before we head out, as Kiss and the miss tradition goes, Always.

Speaker A

we got to do one thing Always. And that's the drip check. Always. See what it is today, baby? The Nike Spiridon's.

Speaker A

Fresh out the box. Brand new for the nice day today. Uh Fresh pair of socks.

Speaker A

Always. From uh Target. These are the uh It's these socks with the with these things on.

Speaker A

They usually come with a B on the back, but I didn't get the ones with the B.

Speaker A

These are the plain They fit nice and cozy. On the ensemble, I got that rough play on.

Speaker A

Shout out to my brothers rocking Speedy and the whole fam. This is This is black-owned. Straight out of Y.O.

Speaker A

Shout out. Rough play on. All All the gear's fire. You know what I'm saying? Simple pockets.

Speaker A

Side to the crack. You see the shirt to stretch a little bit on the side. Got that IWC. SP bought me this for my birthday.

Speaker A

You know what I'm saying? Nice black joint. Beautiful. IWC. Got a little Cuban on from Vladi Diamonds.

Speaker A

You know what I'm saying? Got the locks. This is almost like a New York Yankee one of the staples of the Basically.

Speaker A

what I'm saying? I was over there. I was watching uh ESPN or something. They was doing the fans outside of San Antoni- San Antonio and the a random guy had my had the locks out on. I felt good about it.

Speaker A

So, that's what I got on right on today. That sums it up for kids. Rough play, Nike Spiridon's, the IWC, the two-tone bust down Vladi calm joint that you keep when you just being calm, and the locks, the locks crown right here. Godspeed.

Speaker A

You know what it is, baby? What you doing over there? You got that thing on on.

Speaker A

Yeah, I got the masterpiece. Masterpiece is that thing. That's one of my first purchases I bought when when I started getting money.

Speaker A

It's a classic. It's in the central. Got the bracelet, Superman tee on. Feeling super. Then I got the the Cuban.

Speaker A

Yeah, the Cuban. Bossy. Shout out to Mystic Mark. Came through for my birthday. Got the G-Star jeans. And then the the Terror Squad AF1s.

Speaker A

Terror Squad ups, man. Show them the Show them the Show them the details. This is for the family only. Shout out to RIP Raul. Shout out to Crack.

Speaker A

Yeah, rest in peace, Raul. Shout out to Chris Jones, all my guys. I can't wait for game three, man.

Speaker A

Let's go, New York. What?

Topics:JadakissKnicks FinalsJalen BrunsonNBA Finals 2024New York KnicksDouble Coverage PodcastBasketball cultureVictor WembanyamaSports podcastKnicks alumni

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