May 28, 2024 • 19 mins
John answers questions from fans... about his legendary game vs North Carolina, his favorite meal, guarding Kyrie, favorite hoop shoes, best moments with Bradley Beal, Rob Dillingham vs Reed Shepard, playing Derrick Rose, his advice to young hoopers, his greatest game ever, his favorite sneakers, music and throwback jerseys.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome a point Game with John Wall and CJ Toldonno
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
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question for John and we might answer that and more
swag will be sent your way. First up, John answers
a question from Ryan Joseph about how important the game
versus North Carolina was to him when he played at Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
It mean everything to me, you know, of me just
growing up being a Carolina fan and getting the opportunity
to play them, and I just wanted to I just
wanted to kill the whole game, like I just wanted
to beat them so bad, and like the night before,
I couldn't sleep. I mean, I'm up, just didn't sleep.
And then I was really mad because we got off
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to a great start. We was kicking ass. And then
the first play the second half, I take a drip
and my whole body locks up in cramps, like my
whole body.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I'm just standing there like this.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I couldn't move and they had to take me to
the back and they trying to give me IVS and
coach cal.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Was like, what is he at? Where is he at?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Cause they was making a run like Carolina's coming back,
and I just I'm like I'm trying, like I'm trying
to get IV like but I just was so dehydrated.
And it's crazy because all I was doing was drink
a lot of water, drink like Gatorator. But I realized
then I had to eat bananas the halftime and bananas
for the game. Then I had to get Lectra lights
in my drink, so like a drip drop, I got
drip dropped of my water. So like I try to
drink one of two of these every day to stay hydrated.
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But I finally came back in the game and we
won the game, and it was big.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Time for me.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
And then I remember John Hinson telling me I got
a one, a big time man one. I winked at
Roy Williams and he was like a halftime, He's like,
you fucking winked at me. You fucking winked at me.
So yeah, that was a big time game for me.
I'm glad we got that win. And you know, just
being on CBS, man, just hap an opportunity as a
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kid growing up to be on CBS and play at
school that you dreamed of going to and seeing play
a lot like that was special to me. I'm gonna
tell you the funny part I loved about it is
I got a dope and when I crossed up like
this and on my left and I'm yelling like this,
and I still got a picture on my phone. You
can see my mom and sister in the crowd right there,
and I was like, I'm a bad motherfucker.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Question from Giovanni Teddy B ninety two, they asked, what
is your favorite post workout meal?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Our favorite post workout meal for me is some shrimp
and steak fried rice. I like extra shrimp extra steak
ectuly shrimp actually egg. I love that like I'm love
some fried right so I'm definitely getting there.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You got like a like a chef that's ready for you.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yeah, I got it. Shout out my Sheff, Brian Lee.
Shout out Sheff Brian Lee. Uh he making some burning
chicken right now, probably some white rice and some uh
some stream rings, you know what I mean. So great
little dinner meal right there.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Next one, mong Walla asks who was your favorite person
to play defense against from a competitive standpoint.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
My favorite person played even against Kyrieerby.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I mean, I said, just uh being able to just
catch and shoot shoot out the dribble threes, mid range
post up floaters. Uh, it's changing face's handles, just makes
making it difficult, really make you lock into another level.
I would say, kyrierver cool.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
All right.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
This is from my buddy, huge Wizards fan, huge fan
of yours, Broccoli House. He asks what is your favorite
all time basketball shoot to play in? And I have
a fallow up to this too. Hey, shout out to h.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Shout out for one.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Mine's gonna be for myself because I had my own
Shoeshout out to John wall Ones with the DDA sign
Those are my favorite shoes right there, you see the
cherry blossoms. But for me, I probably would say the
hyper Rise dunks. I got to picture of them. I
think when I played that Carolina, those might have been
the most lightest shoes I ever played in, most comfortable shoes,
and I really really missed those shoes. I wish I
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could still wear those. I wish I could find some
because those were the most lightest shoes I ever wore.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well, can I ask, so you had a signature shoe,
which is like, you know a lot of players don't
get to do that. Did you get to like have
a saying designing your shoe?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I had a lot of say so. Like I remember
my first one Reebok. I didn't have to say so.
The second one I did. You can see I had
like the eleven on the side of them with Kentucky
on it.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Then I had a Kolie Ram's pair.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I had a lot of say so on a lot
of like the John wall ones you see right there,
those are the cherry blossoms. For DC, I had the
what I had the the Grinch Stole Christmas, the green ones.
Then I had the Halloween Halloween ones. Uh yeah, I
had a lot of SATs on a lot of stuff
I did, so it was definitely dope and fun while
I had that time doing it.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
It's an underrated classic. Okay. Next question, Tyreek J two
six to one asked your favorite Bradley Beal moment. So,
your longtime teammate Bradley Beal, do you have any funny
stories or like, you know, moments that you really look
back on with Brad.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That's a good one, man. I have a lot of
a lot of dope moments.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Anything you guys might have said to each other, like
in the heat of the battle, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Oh yeah, Well, we always challenging each other, like I mean,
no matter what, we always change other. But I think
I say my dopest moment is a twenty fourteen win
our first playoff series and it was Game five going
back to Chicago. We was up three to zero, lost
Game four and going back and just putting the smile
on our faces for us being young guys, our first
time ever in a play off, winning a series like
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that on the road and being that type of environment.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I think, like that's a that's a special moment. For
me right there, So winning that one there? Cool? All right?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Last fan question Jeremy Fishbaine asks, you're an NBA GM,
Say you're in an NBA GM right now, who do
you take in this year's draft? Between Reed Shepherd or
Rob Dillingham.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Well, hopefully one day I would be an NBA GM,
that's my goal.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, But for me, it depends on what I needed
that time being for the team.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I think if I need a true point guard to
run my team, taking read Shepherd. If I need a
mic awave, somebody can come get me a bucket insta
office anytime. And I need a clutch moment, you can
go either one with clutch moment. But if I need
a bucket and I need a microwave out the bench
like a Lou Wood, Jamal Crawford or those type of guys,
I'm taking a Rob Dillingham dope.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Let's do okay. This is from Instagram Umbrella Stories. So John,
what was your first welcome to the NBA moment?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
My first welcome to the NBA moment?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, I told you, I think I forgot the stretch.
I don't want to say the wrong order or anything
like that, But my stretch I played d Rose, Darren Williams,
Russell Westbrook, Rondo.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Steve Nash like a five game stretch, that's correct. And
this is when like point.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Guards is real point guards, you know what I mean? Like, yeah,
he was really going to get it. Those guys was
all gifted in different ways. This is when you I
had to guard the point guard. I couldn't guard no
other position. And Steve Nash had went like I think
ten for ten or eleven eleven against me, and I
was like, man, what the fuck? Like I do I
stop this guy? But this is when he's running pick over.
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Marce started of mind and he always keep his dribble
under the basket. Like he was very difficult, you know.
I mean this was my rookie year, was d Roe's
MVP year. Yeah, you know what I mean. I always
tell him like he's the hardest guy that had the
guard at that time. You know me in my career
for sure?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Did you think about that, like you had mentioned we
were talking about it before that you decided to play
for coach cal because you saw what he did with
de Rose at Memphis, So what was like sort of
your mindset before that first matchup and then did you
have to like learn how to guard him over those years?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, I got tippy.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Like when I was watching d Rose play he was
I think it was playing Oklahoma in the guard I'm
not mistaken.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And just the way Kyle let him who he was free.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I was fast, athletic like him, and I was like, Damn,
that's the school I'm going to. Like, I already had
it in my mind, you know, I mean, but at
the same time, I have to meet coach Kyle. I
have to go visit the school, see how it is,
to make sure that is the right decision.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
But from where I looked, from the point of view
of minds of watching from the TV, it's perfect. And yeah,
I think over the years I figured out ways to
guard him a little better. But also I think the
injuries kind of changed his game a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
For them. It was like, damn, what do you do?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Like the same thing you kind of would do with me,
is like, hopefully he's not making jump shots that night,
you know what I mean. But even when he was,
and he still was religious of getting to the basket.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
He had a master master float off two feet, so
he was just a difficult gard to deal with. And
then the team he had was so perfect. I mean,
those guys defended at a high level and they knew
their offense flew when he flew, so he was getting
shots up, he was making the right place, He's making movement.
So a lot of people didn't want to see d
Rose at that time. A lot of people was missing
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games and acting like they were sick and when he
came in town, but he was special.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Well is that real? People? You really heard people acting
like they were sick or sat out because d Rose.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Oh, a lot of people would like the time he
was on Bro Like a lot of people didn't want
to see d Rose.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, you know a lot of people didn't want to
see d Rose.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
That was a sneaky, like incredible team.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Like that's what That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Like they had the right pieces, you know what I
mean that Noah, they had Boozer, they had lou All
dain a right that Keith Bogans was there at one point.
Then they had Jimmy Butler come in so like they
had Kurt Heinrich. That one of my greatest vets of
all time, Kurt Todds Gibson was there off the bench,
like they had the right pieces. Uh, they just they
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was the right there and like it was trying to
get past that Miami team at that time, and I
mean that was the one team they was trying to
get past, and I think like they was getting to
the verge of that.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Dope. Okay, next question, this is from Kale Broach on Instagram.
What's the biggest piece of advice you could give to
the new generation of Hoopers.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Uh, My biggest advice would be.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Continue to work on your game for sure, but also
play a little bit, play some pickup, like you know
what I mean, Like just playing all the just working
out all the time. I think that helps give you
the fundamentals and the massive things. But you can play
pick up a little bit here and that you don't
have to play too much, I think. And now, back
in the day, that's all we did was play pick
up or anywhere anytime we wanted to au We played
(11:03):
probably three games a day, four games a day. But
just don't get caught up until like now, you can
make money in high school, you can make money in college.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Don't let that take you over the head.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Stay grounded, make sure you listen to your parents, get
your education, and just work man like. Just don't do
things for highlights on YouTube. Just don't try to make
the best mixtape, try to do this for highlights every play.
Just play the right way, play fundamental, and do the
little things that get you where you want, and they
prepare yourself for college because it's a different beast than
what you think it is.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
That's I mean, do you think your career would have
been different if you were playing in this day and
age of social media like early on we're talking like
those later years in high school and college.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
No, I think my crew is to be the same.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I mean, like without the injuries, I think I still
I think I still had the heck of a career
so far without my injuries. And they just better be
lucky that I did have injuries. I mean I was
at the point of twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, at the
peak of my career, like getting to where I really
was who I wanted to be and getting better and better.
So I mean, some you can't control what God plan
is and having injuries and things like that, But no,
(12:12):
I think my career will still would have been the same.
I just think you would have seen me more on TV.
You put it out nil deals and things like that.
But other than that, I wouldn't take anything back from
where I came up and where I played and the
era I came into because I enjoyed it. I loved
it and it made me who I am.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Dupe Okay, all right? Staying on Instagram here this is
from same old g. What would you say is your
best single game performance in the NBA. It's been a
lot of them.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I would say my best would be Game six. I
would say Game six for me for sure, Game six,
close out game in Atlanta. I just feel like I
think I was playing well. We went up big that game.
I think I had like twenty five, twenty two, twenty
three or twenty five going into the four if I'm
not mistaken, And I just wanted to revenge against them
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because the year we had Paul Pierce. I had broke
my hand first half of that game. They didn't know it.
A lot of people don't know. I finished the whole
game and I had five fractions in the middle of
my finger, middle of my hand, and I feel like
that was a year to go to the Eastern Commas finals.
You know what, I mean, but we ended up losing
in six, and Dennis Schroeder had posted a picture when
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he was looking to smelled at me at the game
five after I blocked this shot and I horfor got
off his rebound the score and they went back to
Game six at home in DC and they closed our
season and I was mad, so like me, I'm gonna
get revenge, like I have to get revenge.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
And I came in.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I think I had like twenty something in the fourth,
but I was just unbelievable, man like Mi range after
mill range, big defensive stops. My teammates said, great screens,
they making big shots for me and just telling them
I said I'll be back. I mean, just saying I'd
be back. And I closed that series out and then
we go to Boston after that. So I would say
that would be my best performance for me because it
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was in the playoffs moment and then to score almost
twenty something in the fourth and then the close out
of team that I felt like we should have beat before,
it meant special to me.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Nice. Okay, did someone say was that shrouder who said,
like your hand, your hand was hurt, so kind of
attack that hand?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yeah, which is, which is you supposed to do? Like
I have nothing but the utmost respect for him. Like
we always had our battles where we try to talk
a lot, and uh, that's just the competiti nature both
of us, Like we both want to compete at a
high level.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I was who I was. He was becoming who he
was in Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I remember earlier he was coming out the bench and
end up getting to start and rolling being a great
piece of that team and lead those gods to the playoffs.
But yeah, he was like, smack his in every chance
you get, smack his hand, smack his inn. And like
I would say the same thing for our team if
we were playing and against somebody has to hurt hand
anything like that. But I mean my toughness, it didn't
bother me. Like I was like, I'm doing whatever. I'm
just trying to get back our hand.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Who cool And this is from at Kurt Neil. What
was your favorite wizard's jersey you ever wore? So like
design wise, Yeah, you had the what that like the
mj Ones and you came in and then those like
stripe ones. Which ones are your favorite?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I don't really know, to be honest, Like everybody love
the old school ones doing the m and them had.
If I had to pick, I would say the gold one,
but I don't think we ever got the weardose. But
the gold on the gold silk one probably would have
been the firest one, but we never got the opportunity
to wear those.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Do you think, Like I remember you had posted about
when you got your your mitchellin Nest throwback. How big
of a moment was that?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
It was special for me.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Man let me just to be a kid that loved
wearing jerseys growing up, that still love wearing jerseys.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I have almost all the.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Michelin That's throwbacks in my closet, so I wear in
my life in the summer. You let me being in
Miami shirt off. Let me just shirtless with all my
tats out. I got there and I was like, damn,
like I really have a Hall of Fame type jersey.
I mean, like a Mitchell of netow back, Like kids
are wearing that. People are wearing it, and it was
dope to me. So when I first got an award,
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I was super excited.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I love that you still you say still rock jerseys
because I feel like a lot of NBA players wou'd
be like I'm not wearing another you know, players jerseys.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
So if I'm not competing against the guy, I don't mind,
you know what I mean, Like it's just a difference
for me.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Like I can be wearing.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Kyrie's, Paul George's, Lebron's, Kd's, I could wear their shoes,
but when I play against him, I can't wear them,
you know what I mean? Like you feel like that,
Like why am I wearing them? I'm competing against them.
I can wear them any other game, but this game
I have to switch them up.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
What was your favorite signature shoe aside from yours, Aside
from yours and aside from Jordan's.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Uh, Kobe's man, Kobe's is special. I mean, like Kyrie
had great shoes. I never wore his shoes, none against Ki.
John Ray has a nice shoe now, I mean, I
just would never wear another point guard.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Shoot, that's just my nature of it. KD has nice shoes,
But I was the Kobe for me.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Bro like the most comfortables for me, Like when I
started with them in sixteen seventeen season, Like Kobe's is
what it was for me.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Favorite Kobe model.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
The Grenches.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, I feel like that's what everyone's hooping in right now,
and it's like it's been that way.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Those those are the.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Is those I think those those are the sixties, right, Yeah,
sixties fives and fours I think are my face.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
G's been wearing the fours a lot lately.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yeah, I think the sixties and fours are my favorite.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Kobe's just shout out to to with Vanessa and like
Nike are doing. Is what I like about the Kobe's
now is like they're retroing them, but they're like updating
them for performance, like they call him protros and it's
like that's kind of like I wish Jordan's did that right,
And I know you've you've rocked like the twelves, the
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French Blues, I think a few times I remember seeing that,
and I was always like, man, with your game, did
it ever feel weird to be hooping in retros that
may have not been like updated.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
No, I was just hooping.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I ain't care for real, like me, I just wanted
to hoop and I was free to be able to
wear whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
So I wore Jordan Tuo's I wore the thirteens.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I mean what he got games like you always wearing
shoes that people like, why, probably I shouldn't have, but
you know what I mean, Like I'm wear enjoy as
I'm moving.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, all right, let's do one more here. What's up?
This is from its chance? What music do you listen to?
And who's your favorite artist? Let's say, like right.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Now, Little Dirk's my favorite artist right now, that's my
brother shout out smirk yo for me all time.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
My favorite artist is a little Wayne.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I mean, everybody knows that you was riding in my
car back in high school. It was the car of three.
That's all you heard. I ain't listening to nothing else
but listen to you know what I mean. Definitely got
to listen in the future right now, money back Yo
has he ees tg uh want to be fat baby,
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drill hun Jo, Hunchjo got the fire. Right now, I'm
listening too. I'm listening to rolawadogas. You definitely got to
put a little baby on there. So I just listen
to a lot, Like I got a lot of music
on my playlist. I listen to a lot of music,
so I'm kicked into that dope.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
All right.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
We all love.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Their crown is yours. On today's episode, we are doing
something a little different. We are answering your fan questions
that you sent to us via our social So remember,
if we use your question on the show, we will
be sending you some point game swag. So stay tuned,
watch the whole episode, see if we asked a question
and dm us and we'll get that swag out to
you immediately. Next week we will be back with a
(00:37):
very special guest, So stay locked in, follow us on social,
give us those five stars and write review with a
question for John and we might answer that and more
swag will be sent your way. First up, John answers
a question from Ryan Joseph about how important the game
versus North Carolina was to him when he played at Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
It mean everything to me, you know, of me just
growing up being a Carolina fan and getting the opportunity
to play them, and I just wanted to I just
wanted to kill the whole game, like I just wanted
to beat them so bad, and like the night before,
I couldn't sleep. I mean, I'm up, just didn't sleep.
And then I was really mad because we got off
(01:20):
to a great start. We was kicking ass. And then
the first play the second half, I take a drip
and my whole body locks up in cramps, like my
whole body.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I'm just standing there like this.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I couldn't move and they had to take me to
the back and they trying to give me IVS and
coach cal.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Was like, what is he at? Where is he at?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Cause they was making a run like Carolina's coming back,
and I just I'm like I'm trying, like I'm trying
to get IV like but I just was so dehydrated.
And it's crazy because all I was doing was drink
a lot of water, drink like Gatorator. But I realized
then I had to eat bananas the halftime and bananas
for the game. Then I had to get Lectra lights
in my drink, so like a drip drop, I got
drip dropped of my water. So like I try to
drink one of two of these every day to stay hydrated.
(01:56):
But I finally came back in the game and we
won the game, and it was big.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Time for me.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
And then I remember John Hinson telling me I got
a one, a big time man one. I winked at
Roy Williams and he was like a halftime, He's like,
you fucking winked at me. You fucking winked at me.
So yeah, that was a big time game for me.
I'm glad we got that win. And you know, just
being on CBS, man, just hap an opportunity as a
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kid growing up to be on CBS and play at
school that you dreamed of going to and seeing play
a lot like that was special to me. I'm gonna
tell you the funny part I loved about it is
I got a dope and when I crossed up like
this and on my left and I'm yelling like this,
and I still got a picture on my phone. You
can see my mom and sister in the crowd right there,
and I was like, I'm a bad motherfucker.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Question from Giovanni Teddy B ninety two, they asked, what
is your favorite post workout meal?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Our favorite post workout meal for me is some shrimp
and steak fried rice. I like extra shrimp extra steak
ectuly shrimp actually egg. I love that like I'm love
some fried right so I'm definitely getting there.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You got like a like a chef that's ready for you.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yeah, I got it. Shout out my Sheff, Brian Lee.
Shout out Sheff Brian Lee. Uh he making some burning
chicken right now, probably some white rice and some uh
some stream rings, you know what I mean. So great
little dinner meal right there.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Next one, mong Walla asks who was your favorite person
to play defense against from a competitive standpoint.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
My favorite person played even against Kyrieerby.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I mean, I said, just uh being able to just
catch and shoot shoot out the dribble threes, mid range
post up floaters. Uh, it's changing face's handles, just makes
making it difficult, really make you lock into another level.
I would say, kyrierver cool.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
All right.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
This is from my buddy, huge Wizards fan, huge fan
of yours, Broccoli House. He asks what is your favorite
all time basketball shoot to play in? And I have
a fallow up to this too. Hey, shout out to h.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Shout out for one.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Mine's gonna be for myself because I had my own
Shoeshout out to John wall Ones with the DDA sign
Those are my favorite shoes right there, you see the
cherry blossoms. But for me, I probably would say the
hyper Rise dunks. I got to picture of them. I
think when I played that Carolina, those might have been
the most lightest shoes I ever played in, most comfortable shoes,
and I really really missed those shoes. I wish I
(04:23):
could still wear those. I wish I could find some
because those were the most lightest shoes I ever wore.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well, can I ask, so you had a signature shoe,
which is like, you know a lot of players don't
get to do that. Did you get to like have
a saying designing your shoe?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I had a lot of say so. Like I remember
my first one Reebok. I didn't have to say so.
The second one I did. You can see I had
like the eleven on the side of them with Kentucky
on it.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Then I had a Kolie Ram's pair.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I had a lot of say so on a lot
of like the John wall ones you see right there,
those are the cherry blossoms. For DC, I had the
what I had the the Grinch Stole Christmas, the green ones.
Then I had the Halloween Halloween ones. Uh yeah, I
had a lot of SATs on a lot of stuff
I did, so it was definitely dope and fun while
I had that time doing it.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
It's an underrated classic. Okay. Next question, Tyreek J two
six to one asked your favorite Bradley Beal moment. So,
your longtime teammate Bradley Beal, do you have any funny
stories or like, you know, moments that you really look
back on with Brad.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That's a good one, man. I have a lot of
a lot of dope moments.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Anything you guys might have said to each other, like
in the heat of the battle, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Oh yeah, Well, we always challenging each other, like I mean,
no matter what, we always change other. But I think
I say my dopest moment is a twenty fourteen win
our first playoff series and it was Game five going
back to Chicago. We was up three to zero, lost
Game four and going back and just putting the smile
on our faces for us being young guys, our first
time ever in a play off, winning a series like
(06:01):
that on the road and being that type of environment.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I think, like that's a that's a special moment. For
me right there, So winning that one there? Cool? All right?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Last fan question Jeremy Fishbaine asks, you're an NBA GM,
Say you're in an NBA GM right now, who do
you take in this year's draft? Between Reed Shepherd or
Rob Dillingham.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Well, hopefully one day I would be an NBA GM,
that's my goal.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, But for me, it depends on what I needed
that time being for the team.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I think if I need a true point guard to
run my team, taking read Shepherd. If I need a
mic awave, somebody can come get me a bucket insta
office anytime. And I need a clutch moment, you can
go either one with clutch moment. But if I need
a bucket and I need a microwave out the bench
like a Lou Wood, Jamal Crawford or those type of guys,
I'm taking a Rob Dillingham dope.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Let's do okay. This is from Instagram Umbrella Stories. So John,
what was your first welcome to the NBA moment?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
My first welcome to the NBA moment?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, I told you, I think I forgot the stretch.
I don't want to say the wrong order or anything
like that, But my stretch I played d Rose, Darren Williams,
Russell Westbrook, Rondo.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Steve Nash like a five game stretch, that's correct. And
this is when like point.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Guards is real point guards, you know what I mean? Like, yeah,
he was really going to get it. Those guys was
all gifted in different ways. This is when you I
had to guard the point guard. I couldn't guard no
other position. And Steve Nash had went like I think
ten for ten or eleven eleven against me, and I
was like, man, what the fuck? Like I do I
stop this guy? But this is when he's running pick over.
(07:47):
Marce started of mind and he always keep his dribble
under the basket. Like he was very difficult, you know.
I mean this was my rookie year, was d Roe's
MVP year. Yeah, you know what I mean. I always
tell him like he's the hardest guy that had the
guard at that time. You know me in my career
for sure?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Did you think about that, like you had mentioned we
were talking about it before that you decided to play
for coach cal because you saw what he did with
de Rose at Memphis, So what was like sort of
your mindset before that first matchup and then did you
have to like learn how to guard him over those years?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, I got tippy.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Like when I was watching d Rose play he was
I think it was playing Oklahoma in the guard I'm
not mistaken.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And just the way Kyle let him who he was free.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I was fast, athletic like him, and I was like, Damn,
that's the school I'm going to. Like, I already had
it in my mind, you know, I mean, but at
the same time, I have to meet coach Kyle. I
have to go visit the school, see how it is,
to make sure that is the right decision.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
But from where I looked, from the point of view
of minds of watching from the TV, it's perfect. And yeah,
I think over the years I figured out ways to
guard him a little better. But also I think the
injuries kind of changed his game a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
For them. It was like, damn, what do you do?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Like the same thing you kind of would do with me,
is like, hopefully he's not making jump shots that night,
you know what I mean. But even when he was,
and he still was religious of getting to the basket.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
He had a master master float off two feet, so
he was just a difficult gard to deal with. And
then the team he had was so perfect. I mean,
those guys defended at a high level and they knew
their offense flew when he flew, so he was getting
shots up, he was making the right place, He's making movement.
So a lot of people didn't want to see d
Rose at that time. A lot of people was missing
(09:33):
games and acting like they were sick and when he
came in town, but he was special.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Well is that real? People? You really heard people acting
like they were sick or sat out because d Rose.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Oh, a lot of people would like the time he
was on Bro Like a lot of people didn't want
to see d Rose.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, you know a lot of people didn't want to
see d Rose.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
That was a sneaky, like incredible team.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Like that's what That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Like they had the right pieces, you know what I
mean that Noah, they had Boozer, they had lou All
dain a right that Keith Bogans was there at one point.
Then they had Jimmy Butler come in so like they
had Kurt Heinrich. That one of my greatest vets of
all time, Kurt Todds Gibson was there off the bench,
like they had the right pieces. Uh, they just they
(10:17):
was the right there and like it was trying to
get past that Miami team at that time, and I
mean that was the one team they was trying to
get past, and I think like they was getting to
the verge of that.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Dope. Okay, next question, this is from Kale Broach on Instagram.
What's the biggest piece of advice you could give to
the new generation of Hoopers.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Uh, My biggest advice would be.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Continue to work on your game for sure, but also
play a little bit, play some pickup, like you know
what I mean, Like just playing all the just working
out all the time. I think that helps give you
the fundamentals and the massive things. But you can play
pick up a little bit here and that you don't
have to play too much, I think. And now, back
in the day, that's all we did was play pick
up or anywhere anytime we wanted to au We played
(11:03):
probably three games a day, four games a day. But
just don't get caught up until like now, you can
make money in high school, you can make money in college.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Don't let that take you over the head.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Stay grounded, make sure you listen to your parents, get
your education, and just work man like. Just don't do
things for highlights on YouTube. Just don't try to make
the best mixtape, try to do this for highlights every play.
Just play the right way, play fundamental, and do the
little things that get you where you want, and they
prepare yourself for college because it's a different beast than
what you think it is.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
That's I mean, do you think your career would have
been different if you were playing in this day and
age of social media like early on we're talking like
those later years in high school and college.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
No, I think my crew is to be the same.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I mean, like without the injuries, I think I still
I think I still had the heck of a career
so far without my injuries. And they just better be
lucky that I did have injuries. I mean I was
at the point of twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, at the
peak of my career, like getting to where I really
was who I wanted to be and getting better and better.
So I mean, some you can't control what God plan
is and having injuries and things like that, But no,
(12:12):
I think my career will still would have been the same.
I just think you would have seen me more on TV.
You put it out nil deals and things like that.
But other than that, I wouldn't take anything back from
where I came up and where I played and the
era I came into because I enjoyed it. I loved
it and it made me who I am.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Dupe Okay, all right? Staying on Instagram here this is
from same old g. What would you say is your
best single game performance in the NBA. It's been a
lot of them.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I would say my best would be Game six. I
would say Game six for me for sure, Game six,
close out game in Atlanta. I just feel like I
think I was playing well. We went up big that game.
I think I had like twenty five, twenty two, twenty
three or twenty five going into the four if I'm
not mistaken, And I just wanted to revenge against them
(13:03):
because the year we had Paul Pierce. I had broke
my hand first half of that game. They didn't know it.
A lot of people don't know. I finished the whole
game and I had five fractions in the middle of
my finger, middle of my hand, and I feel like
that was a year to go to the Eastern Commas finals.
You know what, I mean, but we ended up losing
in six, and Dennis Schroeder had posted a picture when
(13:24):
he was looking to smelled at me at the game
five after I blocked this shot and I horfor got
off his rebound the score and they went back to
Game six at home in DC and they closed our
season and I was mad, so like me, I'm gonna
get revenge, like I have to get revenge.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
And I came in.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I think I had like twenty something in the fourth,
but I was just unbelievable, man like Mi range after
mill range, big defensive stops. My teammates said, great screens,
they making big shots for me and just telling them
I said I'll be back. I mean, just saying I'd
be back. And I closed that series out and then
we go to Boston after that. So I would say
that would be my best performance for me because it
(13:59):
was in the playoffs moment and then to score almost
twenty something in the fourth and then the close out
of team that I felt like we should have beat before,
it meant special to me.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Nice. Okay, did someone say was that shrouder who said,
like your hand, your hand was hurt, so kind of
attack that hand?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yeah, which is, which is you supposed to do? Like
I have nothing but the utmost respect for him. Like
we always had our battles where we try to talk
a lot, and uh, that's just the competiti nature both
of us, Like we both want to compete at a
high level.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I was who I was. He was becoming who he
was in Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I remember earlier he was coming out the bench and
end up getting to start and rolling being a great
piece of that team and lead those gods to the playoffs.
But yeah, he was like, smack his in every chance
you get, smack his hand, smack his inn. And like
I would say the same thing for our team if
we were playing and against somebody has to hurt hand
anything like that. But I mean my toughness, it didn't
bother me. Like I was like, I'm doing whatever. I'm
just trying to get back our hand.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Who cool And this is from at Kurt Neil. What
was your favorite wizard's jersey you ever wore? So like
design wise, Yeah, you had the what that like the
mj Ones and you came in and then those like
stripe ones. Which ones are your favorite?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I don't really know, to be honest, Like everybody love
the old school ones doing the m and them had.
If I had to pick, I would say the gold one,
but I don't think we ever got the weardose. But
the gold on the gold silk one probably would have
been the firest one, but we never got the opportunity
to wear those.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Do you think, Like I remember you had posted about
when you got your your mitchellin Nest throwback. How big
of a moment was that?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
It was special for me.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Man let me just to be a kid that loved
wearing jerseys growing up, that still love wearing jerseys.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I have almost all the.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Michelin That's throwbacks in my closet, so I wear in
my life in the summer. You let me being in
Miami shirt off. Let me just shirtless with all my
tats out. I got there and I was like, damn,
like I really have a Hall of Fame type jersey.
I mean, like a Mitchell of netow back, Like kids
are wearing that. People are wearing it, and it was
dope to me. So when I first got an award,
(16:06):
I was super excited.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I love that you still you say still rock jerseys
because I feel like a lot of NBA players wou'd
be like I'm not wearing another you know, players jerseys.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
So if I'm not competing against the guy, I don't mind,
you know what I mean, Like it's just a difference
for me.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Like I can be wearing.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Kyrie's, Paul George's, Lebron's, Kd's, I could wear their shoes,
but when I play against him, I can't wear them,
you know what I mean? Like you feel like that,
Like why am I wearing them? I'm competing against them.
I can wear them any other game, but this game
I have to switch them up.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
What was your favorite signature shoe aside from yours, Aside
from yours and aside from Jordan's.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Uh, Kobe's man, Kobe's is special. I mean, like Kyrie
had great shoes. I never wore his shoes, none against Ki.
John Ray has a nice shoe now, I mean, I
just would never wear another point guard.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Shoot, that's just my nature of it. KD has nice shoes,
But I was the Kobe for me.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Bro like the most comfortables for me, Like when I
started with them in sixteen seventeen season, Like Kobe's is
what it was for me.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Favorite Kobe model.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
The Grenches.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, I feel like that's what everyone's hooping in right now,
and it's like it's been that way.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Those those are the.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Is those I think those those are the sixties, right, Yeah,
sixties fives and fours I think are my face.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
G's been wearing the fours a lot lately.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yeah, I think the sixties and fours are my favorite.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Kobe's just shout out to to with Vanessa and like
Nike are doing. Is what I like about the Kobe's
now is like they're retroing them, but they're like updating
them for performance, like they call him protros and it's
like that's kind of like I wish Jordan's did that right,
And I know you've you've rocked like the twelves, the
(17:54):
French Blues, I think a few times I remember seeing that,
and I was always like, man, with your game, did
it ever feel weird to be hooping in retros that
may have not been like updated.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
No, I was just hooping.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I ain't care for real, like me, I just wanted
to hoop and I was free to be able to
wear whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
So I wore Jordan Tuo's I wore the thirteens.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I mean what he got games like you always wearing
shoes that people like, why, probably I shouldn't have, but
you know what I mean, Like I'm wear enjoy as
I'm moving.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, all right, let's do one more here. What's up?
This is from its chance? What music do you listen to?
And who's your favorite artist? Let's say, like right.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Now, Little Dirk's my favorite artist right now, that's my
brother shout out smirk yo for me all time.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
My favorite artist is a little Wayne.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I mean, everybody knows that you was riding in my
car back in high school. It was the car of three.
That's all you heard. I ain't listening to nothing else
but listen to you know what I mean. Definitely got
to listen in the future right now, money back Yo
has he ees tg uh want to be fat baby,
(19:04):
drill hun Jo, Hunchjo got the fire. Right now, I'm
listening too. I'm listening to rolawadogas. You definitely got to
put a little baby on there. So I just listen
to a lot, Like I got a lot of music
on my playlist. I listen to a lot of music,
so I'm kicked into that dope.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
All right.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
This has been fan questions. Remember if you read one
of your questions and John answered it. Hit us up
in the DMS. We'll get you some hoodies and some hats.
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