Former Hawks great Jeff Teague comes home to join DC Young Fly on the latest episode of Hawks And Friends. Jeff & DC reminisce about the historic 2015 team, that time the team bus left the arena without him, and how he became a comedy star on his podcast.
0:00 Intro
1:15 Favorite memory as a Hawk
2:20 The special 2014-15 squad
3:50 Playing in different eras of the NBA
4:30 How Damien Wilkins saved his career
6:07 The bus leaves without Jeff and his pizza
7:20 How he got into podcasting
8:37 His hard foul on LeBron
9:04 Favorite ATL restaurants
10:05 Excitement about Trae & Jalen
11:39 Speed round
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I just think about how many people wanted to kill
me when I pushed Lebron.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I remember that I thought the Fens was gonna with me.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I was like standing no Hawks, feeling like nah, that's
the key.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Oh oh, oh oh.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
America.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Welcome to a brand new episode of Hawks and Friends.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Man, you know what this feels like the backyard. It
feels like my.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Homeboy came back. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
It feels like the one who went to college that
came back to the high school just to make sure
the team is still good. We got an icon in
the building. We got an ATLS legend in the building. Up,
NBA Champ, NBA All Star, one of at L's own jail.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
T appreciate you having me on the show.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Oh man, man, this is only my god. Welcome back
to the city.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I'm hype. You know. Every time I come back to Atlanta,
it's always like home.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I had these some JR crickets when I first got
back fast Yeah, probably some American deal.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
We go to the Blue Flame yet Okay, okay, wait,
you on your way.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
No man, So little man, what was your favorite memory
of playing with atl Hawks?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Getting drafted here, I got drafted here twenty years old,
getting drafted, living out your dream to come to Atlanta,
one of the greatest cities in the world, and then
like being able to play with the Hawks and some
of my favorite players growing up, like a Mike Bibbie,
Joe Johnson, those guys.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It was just dope.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
So speaking of that moment, like that draft day when
the Hawks called your name, like give us, give us
that that that rundown.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, I was at home.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I hadn't I didn't work out for the Hawks, so
I knew I didn't know anything about Atlanta. I'm from Indianapolis, Indiana,
and I really didn't travel like that. I went to
North Carolina, Wake Forest to North Carolina and that's really
was my furthest I ever been. So then when I
get called by the Hawks, I knew nothing about Atlanta
and my brother was like, little John, that's all I
kept saying, yeah, yeah, little John, you have to be
(02:03):
a little John.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And I was like, that's crazy. That's the first person
he calls. I swear a little John. You better be
with a little John. Did you see him? I ain't
never meet job. Oh God, say no.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Man, you know what you was a part of a
unique squad. Man that twoenty fourteen fifteen squad, Like, it's
hard to build momentum, it's hard to actually build a
team that you can trust.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Like, tell us about that squad.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
It was an unbelievable group. We played together. We enjoyed
playing with one another. We just wanted to win, right,
and we thought we had a team to win a championship.
I think we had a really good season. I mean,
we went up against Lebron, y'all did. It's gonna be
tough to be Lebron. But that group we played good together.
We enjoyed playing for one another. We wanted to win,
and we ain't care who got the glory, right. We were
(02:49):
just like, man, we win, we all gonna win. And
that's what it was.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
What did you miss most about that twenty fourteen fifteen series?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
What miss I just miss to guys, like seeing him today, right,
and like being around Kyle and Paul, even though we
don't talk every day, but when we get around each other, man,
it's like old times. We were just reminiscing about all
the good stuff that we did, just riding the bus ride,
talking crazy on the court. Me and Kyle used to
do a shooting game every day. Obviously he was a
way better shooter than me, but I beat him a
(03:18):
couple of times, and I made sure to let him
know when I won, And we were just talking about
some of those moments.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
You don't play it in a couple a couple of eras. Man,
you know what I'm saying, Like now to be in
the game with how.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Y'all saying like after seven to eight years.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
You are now like a super veteran. Yeah, people don't
really last that long. So explain how the game changed
from when you first started out.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
When I first started, h it was like a slow game.
You threw the ball in the post. And then you
had Joe Johnson. I was on tune with Joe, so
he got the chance to play IO a lot. The
nasty years went on, it was way more three point shots.
Like you didn't shoot fast break threes when I first
got in the league.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You know what I'm saying all this, Nah, you ain't
doing that.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Now you get kicked out of the game.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, but now you gotta shoot him.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
So like watching that, just that whole transition is crazy,
But it was just how cool to be able to
be a part of both of those eras, so I
get to hear the old heads talk crazy about how
bad the game is. But then I was also part
of the era where you got to shoot a bunch
of thirty so it's cool.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
So so give us a teammate who had like the
biggest impact on your career, because it's a lot of
ends and out when it comes to the game and
when it comes to the business, Like who was that
big bro for you?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Man?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
It was it was a guy Damian Wilkins, Dominique's nephew.
He was on the team with this one year and uh,
that was my second year in the league. He just
pulled me to the side because I loved Atlanta. And
when I say I loved Atlanta, I was outside. I
was outside.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So he just.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Pulled me in and like, let me know, you can
do both, but you got to keep the main thing
the main thing. And uh, it kind of really saved
my career because I was on a path of this.
I was gonna be out of there. Know, you don't
play long. It's only four years. It's like the average career.
I was in year two and I wasn't playing that much.
So he pulled me to the side and he helped
me out.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
So speaking of not playing that much and knowing your
potential and knowing like I watched you, I watched you
grow here, and I watched you become a starter. I
watched you go and go to the other team you
played for him and become a champion. I know, I
know it hurts, but just talk that elevation and the
transition in the game. When you gotta wait your turn
(05:30):
and when it's time for you to shine, that's when
you got to go.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Out there and give y'all.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, at that time, when I came to the league,
you had to learn, like not too many people just
started right away.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
You had to be like the.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Top ten pick, top five pick, and you got your
chance to start. It's a little different now, but I
had to wait my turn. We had Mike Dibbi here.
Mike was a VET, a good player. He was he
was nice. So I had to wait my turn and
he got traded. Kurt Kurt Hied came here, he was starting,
then he got hurt, and it was just my opportunity
(06:00):
to play. And I just tried to make the most
the most of it, and I rent off with it
and I tried not to look back.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Pop it now.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Now we're gonna We're gonna pivot a little bit because
I seen the pit. Everybody's seen the pit. You know
the pick I'm talking about. Come on, pull it up,
pull it up on the APPI this one.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Not when I got left by the bus.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Damn, that was it with you holding the pizza.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, they left me, man, and that's why you holding
the pieza? Bro. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
So my sister had came to the game in Detroit
and she hadn't seen me play before.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
So I was out after the game. You get to
go talk to your family.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I was talking to her and we just chopping it up,
and I started looking around the ring and I'm like,
ain't nobody else I heard, like, got no act? The
only one with some family in Detroit. Then I go
to the back and the dudes on the Detroit the
ball boys, was like.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Damn, they left you.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
They left you, bro, But don't do a roll call.
They forgot I guess I ain't get the call. So
I start calling all the.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Phones and I'm like, hey, y'all left me.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Come back and they like ten minutes out, they come
back and I get on the bus. You know, if
y'all don't know me. I talk crazy all time about hey,
y'all gonna leave me. I'm just I'm playing right.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
And coaches like shit yr and he got me up fatter,
he was hot.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Damn how you mad at me and you.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Left me? But it's all good. It's all good.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
But I know a phone call you you did get
and that was to tap into this media space. Yeah, yeah,
like you gotta you got a podcast podcast Club five
twenty you did, like what made you start getting to
the media, into the media world.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Man, my homeboys I do the podcast with they were
already doing a podcast when I was just like, went
on that show one day and I had fun and
I was like, man, I.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Can do that. I can do that.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But I was like, I'm really kind of crazy. I'm
like I'm a little raw, right, Like that's what we like,
We're gonna keep it real. And once we started doing
it just started flowing and it was cool. Now.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Now, speaking of WROW, you you got like the best story,
like I be tuned th in, you got some of
the best stories.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Give us a real like dope.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Behind the scene NBA story that you ain't exclusive Hawks
of Friends, exclusive NBA story.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, I can't thinking of right now. I gotta I
gotta be put in a moment. So that's the thing
about our podcast. We don't just tell stories, right, it
be organic, like something that happened, and I'll be like, man.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I remember since when since when the Hawks? Because like
you came on the show.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I remember we were talking and we was talking talking
about it got real. I was like, day am I
supposed to say that? Okay? But when the Hawk? What
happened here that you could think of every time you
come in you think about.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
It, you like, I just think about how many people
wanted to kill me when I pushed Lebron.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Remember that I thought I thought the fans was gonna
wrong with me. I was like standing there Hawks feeling
like that's the key.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
So so when you die here in a like, I
know you bust a couple of old you know what
I'm saying, corners and some of your old favorite spots
that used to hit, Like what's what's the JFT favorite
restaurant when he in at Year.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Well, I used to eat us Cafe a lot then.
I don't know if that stuff, but j R Crickets
was my spot. American Daily obviously it was my spot too.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
H got cracking man when.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I was when I was younger, when I first got here,
I used to like Mary Max. I don't know what
it's hitting on now. It's downtown, it's.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Here from the west side, lady named miss married.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yeah, but that was really it. Obviously, you know, lou
Lou know what a good chicken.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
You already what you brought, Louis I already all I
saw was.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Okay, Okay, that's crazy because I need this card right here.
Look at the dollar fell him a lap. So look
this is speed round right here. Gay, we got to
go back out here and see these Hawks, you know
before we getting the speed round? Because you talk, I can't.
I let you get out of here. Did you hit
my mind like a light board like thing?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Could you wrong? I want you to tell the truth.
How do you feel about our Hawks right now?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I'm a fan of the team. I know we went
through some tough injuries. Jaylen Johnson, I think he's an
all star.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
He's a super beast.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, I think he called obviously Trey is who he
is all star cold. I think when you got those
two as your foundation going forward, they in good hands.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Did you do you like our trades? Do you do
you think we won?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
George, that's my he was my rookie. When I got
traded from here to the Indiana, George was on the
team with me. He was my rookie. So that's my guy. Okay, yeah,
that's my dog. I'm hype here because I know what
Atlanta is like. I know he loved to say. We
already talked about it. He loved here already. So good
to see him here playing with coach Q. Already with Quinn.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
They played in Utah to get he coached him in Utah,
So I.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Know that's gonna be a good blend. I like karrisel Vert,
he can hold, and I like Gross Yeah, te Man,
good too, everybody. We got the traders though, Okay, uh,
D Hunt was my guy. So when I got traded
back here, when D Hunt so seeing D Hunt leave
and he was having a heck of it.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
He was having I had, so, I mean, they gotta
do what they gotta do. I know, man, it's business,
but you know.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I understand the business side. So the Hunt was having
a heck of a year. But shout out to him.
I love I like the guys.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
We got them.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I do too, all right, Okay, here we go. We
got the speed round.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Can we gotta go see the guys play because you
know they're former lane trying to build energy and we
gotta make sure we see play by play. Okay, favorite
Hawks jersey, the pac Man okay, okay, Toughest defender you ever.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Had to go up against.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Toughest defender, uh tabo?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Okay, okay, best trash talker you ever played with against?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Kevin Garnett. Yeah, he talking, he heavy.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
First NBA jersey you ever own?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Penny Hardaway, Penny Hardaway.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Okay, hey man, there you have an ATL listen.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Man, y'all y'all really called this exclusive like they really
was calling in sending an emails like you gotta get
Jeft as soon as we had Joe on here. I
don't know how many more NBA players were gonna have,
but y'all are more than welcome.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Broun.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
We appreciate yourss.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Areppreciate doing your thing definitely, and make sure y'all stay
tuned America and make sure you watch Jeff t Podcast
Club five twenty as well.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
You did Hawks and Friends out
I just think about how many people wanted to kill
me when I pushed Lebron.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I remember that I thought the Fens was gonna with me.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I was like standing no Hawks, feeling like nah, that's
the key.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Oh oh, oh oh.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
America.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Welcome to a brand new episode of Hawks and Friends.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Man, you know what this feels like the backyard. It
feels like my.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Homeboy came back. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
It feels like the one who went to college that
came back to the high school just to make sure
the team is still good. We got an icon in
the building. We got an ATLS legend in the building. Up,
NBA Champ, NBA All Star, one of at L's own jail.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
T appreciate you having me on the show.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Oh man, man, this is only my god. Welcome back
to the city.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I'm hype. You know. Every time I come back to Atlanta,
it's always like home.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I had these some JR crickets when I first got
back fast Yeah, probably some American deal.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
We go to the Blue Flame yet Okay, okay, wait,
you on your way.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
No man, So little man, what was your favorite memory
of playing with atl Hawks?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Getting drafted here, I got drafted here twenty years old,
getting drafted, living out your dream to come to Atlanta,
one of the greatest cities in the world, and then
like being able to play with the Hawks and some
of my favorite players growing up, like a Mike Bibbie,
Joe Johnson, those guys.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It was just dope.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
So speaking of that moment, like that draft day when
the Hawks called your name, like give us, give us
that that that rundown.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, I was at home.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I hadn't I didn't work out for the Hawks, so
I knew I didn't know anything about Atlanta. I'm from Indianapolis, Indiana,
and I really didn't travel like that. I went to
North Carolina, Wake Forest to North Carolina and that's really
was my furthest I ever been. So then when I
get called by the Hawks, I knew nothing about Atlanta
and my brother was like, little John, that's all I
kept saying, yeah, yeah, little John, you have to be
(02:03):
a little John.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And I was like, that's crazy. That's the first person
he calls. I swear a little John. You better be
with a little John. Did you see him? I ain't
never meet job. Oh God, say no.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Man, you know what you was a part of a
unique squad. Man that twoenty fourteen fifteen squad, Like, it's
hard to build momentum, it's hard to actually build a
team that you can trust.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Like, tell us about that squad.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
It was an unbelievable group. We played together. We enjoyed
playing with one another. We just wanted to win, right,
and we thought we had a team to win a championship.
I think we had a really good season. I mean,
we went up against Lebron, y'all did. It's gonna be
tough to be Lebron. But that group we played good together.
We enjoyed playing for one another. We wanted to win,
and we ain't care who got the glory, right. We were
(02:49):
just like, man, we win, we all gonna win. And
that's what it was.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
What did you miss most about that twenty fourteen fifteen series?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
What miss I just miss to guys, like seeing him today, right,
and like being around Kyle and Paul, even though we
don't talk every day, but when we get around each other, man,
it's like old times. We were just reminiscing about all
the good stuff that we did, just riding the bus ride,
talking crazy on the court. Me and Kyle used to
do a shooting game every day. Obviously he was a
way better shooter than me, but I beat him a
(03:18):
couple of times, and I made sure to let him
know when I won, And we were just talking about
some of those moments.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
You don't play it in a couple a couple of eras. Man,
you know what I'm saying, Like now to be in
the game with how.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Y'all saying like after seven to eight years.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
You are now like a super veteran. Yeah, people don't
really last that long. So explain how the game changed
from when you first started out.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
When I first started, h it was like a slow game.
You threw the ball in the post. And then you
had Joe Johnson. I was on tune with Joe, so
he got the chance to play IO a lot. The
nasty years went on, it was way more three point shots.
Like you didn't shoot fast break threes when I first
got in the league.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You know what I'm saying all this, Nah, you ain't
doing that.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Now you get kicked out of the game.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, but now you gotta shoot him.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
So like watching that, just that whole transition is crazy,
But it was just how cool to be able to
be a part of both of those eras, so I
get to hear the old heads talk crazy about how
bad the game is. But then I was also part
of the era where you got to shoot a bunch
of thirty so it's cool.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
So so give us a teammate who had like the
biggest impact on your career, because it's a lot of
ends and out when it comes to the game and
when it comes to the business, Like who was that
big bro for you?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Man?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
It was it was a guy Damian Wilkins, Dominique's nephew.
He was on the team with this one year and uh,
that was my second year in the league. He just
pulled me to the side because I loved Atlanta. And
when I say I loved Atlanta, I was outside. I
was outside.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So he just.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Pulled me in and like, let me know, you can
do both, but you got to keep the main thing
the main thing. And uh, it kind of really saved
my career because I was on a path of this.
I was gonna be out of there. Know, you don't
play long. It's only four years. It's like the average career.
I was in year two and I wasn't playing that much.
So he pulled me to the side and he helped
me out.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
So speaking of not playing that much and knowing your
potential and knowing like I watched you, I watched you
grow here, and I watched you become a starter. I
watched you go and go to the other team you
played for him and become a champion. I know, I
know it hurts, but just talk that elevation and the
transition in the game. When you gotta wait your turn
(05:30):
and when it's time for you to shine, that's when
you got to go.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Out there and give y'all.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, at that time, when I came to the league,
you had to learn, like not too many people just
started right away.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
You had to be like the.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Top ten pick, top five pick, and you got your
chance to start. It's a little different now, but I
had to wait my turn. We had Mike Dibbi here.
Mike was a VET, a good player. He was he
was nice. So I had to wait my turn and
he got traded. Kurt Kurt Hied came here, he was starting,
then he got hurt, and it was just my opportunity
(06:00):
to play. And I just tried to make the most
the most of it, and I rent off with it
and I tried not to look back.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Pop it now.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Now we're gonna We're gonna pivot a little bit because
I seen the pit. Everybody's seen the pit. You know
the pick I'm talking about. Come on, pull it up,
pull it up on the APPI this one.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Not when I got left by the bus.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Damn, that was it with you holding the pizza.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, they left me, man, and that's why you holding
the pieza? Bro. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
So my sister had came to the game in Detroit
and she hadn't seen me play before.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
So I was out after the game. You get to
go talk to your family.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I was talking to her and we just chopping it up,
and I started looking around the ring and I'm like,
ain't nobody else I heard, like, got no act? The
only one with some family in Detroit. Then I go
to the back and the dudes on the Detroit the
ball boys, was like.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Damn, they left you.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
They left you, bro, But don't do a roll call.
They forgot I guess I ain't get the call. So
I start calling all the.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Phones and I'm like, hey, y'all left me.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Come back and they like ten minutes out, they come
back and I get on the bus. You know, if
y'all don't know me. I talk crazy all time about hey,
y'all gonna leave me. I'm just I'm playing right.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
And coaches like shit yr and he got me up fatter,
he was hot.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Damn how you mad at me and you.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Left me? But it's all good. It's all good.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
But I know a phone call you you did get
and that was to tap into this media space. Yeah, yeah,
like you gotta you got a podcast podcast Club five
twenty you did, like what made you start getting to
the media, into the media world.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Man, my homeboys I do the podcast with they were
already doing a podcast when I was just like, went
on that show one day and I had fun and
I was like, man, I.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Can do that. I can do that.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But I was like, I'm really kind of crazy. I'm
like I'm a little raw, right, Like that's what we like,
We're gonna keep it real. And once we started doing
it just started flowing and it was cool. Now.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Now, speaking of WROW, you you got like the best story,
like I be tuned th in, you got some of
the best stories.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Give us a real like dope.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Behind the scene NBA story that you ain't exclusive Hawks
of Friends, exclusive NBA story.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, I can't thinking of right now. I gotta I
gotta be put in a moment. So that's the thing
about our podcast. We don't just tell stories, right, it
be organic, like something that happened, and I'll be like, man.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I remember since when since when the Hawks? Because like
you came on the show.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I remember we were talking and we was talking talking
about it got real. I was like, day am I
supposed to say that? Okay? But when the Hawk? What
happened here that you could think of every time you
come in you think about.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
It, you like, I just think about how many people
wanted to kill me when I pushed Lebron.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Remember that I thought I thought the fans was gonna
wrong with me. I was like standing there Hawks feeling
like that's the key.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
So so when you die here in a like, I
know you bust a couple of old you know what
I'm saying, corners and some of your old favorite spots
that used to hit, Like what's what's the JFT favorite
restaurant when he in at Year.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Well, I used to eat us Cafe a lot then.
I don't know if that stuff, but j R Crickets
was my spot. American Daily obviously it was my spot too.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
H got cracking man when.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I was when I was younger, when I first got here,
I used to like Mary Max. I don't know what
it's hitting on now. It's downtown, it's.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Here from the west side, lady named miss married.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yeah, but that was really it. Obviously, you know, lou
Lou know what a good chicken.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
You already what you brought, Louis I already all I
saw was.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Okay, Okay, that's crazy because I need this card right here.
Look at the dollar fell him a lap. So look
this is speed round right here. Gay, we got to
go back out here and see these Hawks, you know
before we getting the speed round? Because you talk, I can't.
I let you get out of here. Did you hit
my mind like a light board like thing?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Could you wrong? I want you to tell the truth.
How do you feel about our Hawks right now?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I'm a fan of the team. I know we went
through some tough injuries. Jaylen Johnson, I think he's an
all star.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
He's a super beast.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, I think he called obviously Trey is who he
is all star cold. I think when you got those
two as your foundation going forward, they in good hands.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Did you do you like our trades? Do you do
you think we won?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
George, that's my he was my rookie. When I got
traded from here to the Indiana, George was on the
team with me. He was my rookie. So that's my guy. Okay, yeah,
that's my dog. I'm hype here because I know what
Atlanta is like. I know he loved to say. We
already talked about it. He loved here already. So good
to see him here playing with coach Q. Already with Quinn.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
They played in Utah to get he coached him in Utah,
So I.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Know that's gonna be a good blend. I like karrisel Vert,
he can hold, and I like Gross Yeah, te Man,
good too, everybody. We got the traders though, Okay, uh,
D Hunt was my guy. So when I got traded
back here, when D Hunt so seeing D Hunt leave
and he was having a heck of it.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
He was having I had, so, I mean, they gotta
do what they gotta do. I know, man, it's business,
but you know.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I understand the business side. So the Hunt was having
a heck of a year. But shout out to him.
I love I like the guys.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
We got them.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I do too, all right, Okay, here we go. We
got the speed round.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Can we gotta go see the guys play because you
know they're former lane trying to build energy and we
gotta make sure we see play by play. Okay, favorite
Hawks jersey, the pac Man okay, okay, Toughest defender you ever.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Had to go up against.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Toughest defender, uh tabo?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Okay, okay, best trash talker you ever played with against?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Kevin Garnett. Yeah, he talking, he heavy.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
First NBA jersey you ever own?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Penny Hardaway, Penny Hardaway.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Okay, hey man, there you have an ATL listen.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Man, y'all y'all really called this exclusive like they really
was calling in sending an emails like you gotta get
Jeft as soon as we had Joe on here. I
don't know how many more NBA players were gonna have,
but y'all are more than welcome.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Broun.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
We appreciate yourss.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Areppreciate doing your thing definitely, and make sure y'all stay
tuned America and make sure you watch Jeff t Podcast
Club five twenty as well.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
You did Hawks and Friends out
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