January 1, 2025 • 44 mins
Former NBA star and three-time NBA Finals champ Danny Green sits down to be interviewed on this episode of the Sloane Knows! Podcast. Danny discusses his college basketball career at UNC, which included winning the NCAA Tournament, winning an NBA Finals in 2020 alongside LeBron James with the Los Angeles Lakers from inside the COVID-19 bubble, playing for the San Antonio Spurs, and much more from throughout his 15-year pro career. #Volume #Draymond
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
What's up? Everyone? Welcome to episode thirty of Slow Notes,
which feels insane to be saying out loud, and today
we have a very exciting guest, Danny Green. Danny, thank
you so much for coming on.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Thanks for having me. Of course, it's an honor, it's
a true pleasure.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Thank you. So I'm seventeen, and I know you're not
seventeen anymore, but you once were, Danny, believe it or not.
So I want to hear about you as a seventeen
year old. What was your game?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Like, I'll tell you I wasn't as informed as you
kids are today, Like I was not that smart. To
be able to run a podcast is impressive.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
My game, I would say I was good at a
lot of things, but not great at anything. And that
was my kind of thing throughout most of my life.
I was a late bloomer where I didn't get recruited
highly until my senior year. Like, I could pass the
ball pretty well, like a rebound, well like a blockheit
I could play defense. I could shoot decently. I could
back then, I could handle the ball decently. Now I
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haven't dribbled. I don't dribble as a pro. I didn't
dribble much at all, but I could do a little
bit of everything pretty well. But it wasn't great at anything.
It wasn't until I got to even after college. It
wasn't until I got to the pros where I kind
of honed in on one specific thing and tried to
be great at it, and I started getting better at
shooting and I focus on certain things. But when I
was younger, my game was do a little bit of everything.
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I played pretty much all five positions.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
So as a late bloomer, when did it hit you, like, wait,
I think I can make it to the leate.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
It was always a goal and I never thought it
was achievable. It kind of came and gone multiple times
throughout my life. So seventeen no, I think when I
got McDonald's, I got selected to being a McDonald's game,
it was like, Okay, I might have a chance. And
then I went to college. Then it was like coming
off the bench start all over again. I had to
do all four years. I wasn't starting that. I didn't
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start till my senior year, so it was like I
might get a chance unity to make it to the NBA.
Then it was like after my junior year, I played well.
I still came off the bench, but it was like,
I might have a shot at making to the NBA.
Senior year we won a national title. Was lucky enough
to do that. Then it was like, all right, this
might be an opportunity not only make the league, but
be able to.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Like beat in the league and play.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Then once I got there, it was like, uh, you know,
I got cut a couple of times, had to find
a rotation. I'm like, I don't know if I'll be
a rotational player in this league. So it was kind
of up and down. But the first time that I
thought I had a shot at doing it was when
I made the McDonald's All American Game.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I see. Okay, So you mentioned UNC, which is where
you went to college, and like you said, where you
won a national championship, which is amazing. How and why
did you choose UNC over other offers you had, like Georgetown, Yukon.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
It was it was easy. It was easy for me.
I grew up a Carolina fan, so I mean I
was a kid as a kid because you grew up
in New York. I grew up in New York.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
My father was a fan of certain back as I
learned as I got older. He was a fan of
the good teams and a great kind of kind of
you know, we weren't New York sports fans. We weren't
a bit except for the Yankees were in big jets.
He does like them now, but I didn't grow up watch.
I grew up watching like Michael Jordan and the Bulls,
like certain players, and then you know, Michael Jordan I
was went to Carolina and Jerry Stackhouse or Sheep Wallace
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and all those guys. Some of the greatest players have
come from that school. And it was back then a
big time school, and if you were able to go there,
it was like you had a really good shot at
making it to the NBA. So I grew up as
a fan as a kid because of my dad. He's
a fan of the game, and all my family were
fans of other not just Carolina, but other players and
other teams and pros and certain colleges, but Carolina was
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it was.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Once they started recruiting. It was easy decision for me.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Three or four years. What was your favorite memory at UNC.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Man, It's hard just because I had a lot of
great battles with my teammates, my brothers became an adult
in college. They say the best years of your life
for a reason, because you know you never have that
experience again.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
And the pros.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
It's tough because freeg and see everybody, like trades, move changes,
you don't keep the same group together for a long
period of time. But every I have a lot of memories.
I woul see national title was number one, but beating
Duke and Duke every time we played there is pretty
special memories. Like we beat them a good amount of times.
I was lucky enough to go undefeated. And Cameron and
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every even the losses, every loss that we had in
the tournament, every time we went to the tournament, AC
tournament and the NCAA tournament. Every time we went to
the tournament, we went further each year and even though
we didn't you know, we weren't successful or as successful
as we wanted to be, it was a learning experience.
And those were the best memories, even the losses, because
we went to battle and our brothers, they showed how
much we cared and loved you know, the game, and
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how much you know, blood, sweat and tears we put
into it. So it was it was those were special
memories as well.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, so speaking of Duke, I want to know, like,
are the camera crazy? Is really that crazy?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I mean I think the world is different now than
how it was then. There's a lot of things. Yeah,
you can't say certain things now, you can't do certain
things now. But yeah, I always thought they held like
classes because they had certain like chance that they would do.
They'd be on like in sync, they would be you know,
have certain signs, even certain even in Maryland and Clemson,
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they had some great arenas where student section and fans
would say things will have great signs, would be funny.
And back then they had the speedo guy. I don't
know if you guys ever looked that up before. I
think he was banned after all, he wasn't allowed at
a certain point. But that was a funny thing. But
they had some great crazy I was like, if you're
a fan of Duke, they had some you know, some
great like things that they did, you know, to try
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to distract players that came in. And you know, it
was always fun for us, especially if you win, it's
always funny after, but if you lose, it's a it's
a pain and ass and yeah, but yeah, we enjoyed
the moments of going into other teams buildings and obviously
winning some games with seeing with how creative the fans were.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, no, that's cool for sure. It seems like you
had an incredible experience at UNC, and like you guys know,
I'm seventeen, so I'm just.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, I know you're du Yeah, we can we can
over you know, chap Hill was a little better than Duke.
I would say so, not pitching it fully.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
But I do want to you're a pitch. That's what
was nast you pitched me.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I think it's better than Duke, And obviously not because
which is better overall? Okay, but I think there's a
more like the diversity is there. Yeah, it's better. We
have a it's a great little bubble. But you know,
they love their sports, they love their people. They're very hospitable.
Everything is Carolina blue, from you know, the fire hydrants
to the fire trucks. Wow, that's yeahs sky blue everywhere.
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It's the best blue in the world. But you know,
it's a it's a it's a great fraternity and a
great alum.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah. I think you enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
It's a good pitch. I'm not going to consider it,
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So earlier you said that your dad wasn't really a
New York sports fan other than the Yankees, which didn't
really give you any reason to be a York fan either.
So growing up you weren't a Knicks fan. Did you
ever go to games at the Garden or that special?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
No, I mean so we never a Knicks fan, mind you.
I mean it wasn't a I wouldn'tay, it wasn't a thing.
I wasn't. No, I wasn't They had some times. I
wasn't poor, but I wasn't like one of those kids
that can just buy a bunch of tickets to go places.
And we were so stuck in basketball. We just played.
We didn't have time for anything else to like go
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attend a bunch of stuff. So like back then we
played three and four games a day. Now, you know,
kids are there's load managed LOLd management in every level
now from high school to college. You know, we play
a lot of football. I played, I played a lot
of basketball. We played a lot of sports, but we
just wasn't at the time when it was time. We
didn't are fortunate enough to go and be in great seats.
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But I was not a Knicks fan. I was not
a Mets fan or Giants. He is a fan of
some of those teams now as he've gotten older. But
I said, I was always a fan of certain players,
even though we came to football. It was like, you
know Peyton Manning, it said, Michael Jordan will come to NBA.
Even you know certain other teams, certain players. But it
was not the New York sports fan. And I'm not
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saying I disliked them, but I just never grew up
in that of being a New York like New York.
I was in New York, but not a New York
sports fan.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I see.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So when I was researching for this episode, I read
something pretty cool about you that in your freshman year
of high school you were actually the quarterback on your
schools football team.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I did.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I did play football up until my sophomore year and
then I transferred school.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
But yeah, what was that like? Having to balance basketball,
football and academic workload?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
That wasn't easy.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
The hardest part for me was actually making the decision
to choose which one I wanted to play like full time.
That was the hard part, But trying to balance academics
high school. I feel like I wouldn't say super easy,
but it's easier. I went to public school until I transferred. Yeah,
so public school is not as challenging as private school
where you have like academic detention and stuff like that
you have to wear a uniform every day. Once I transferred,
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I realized it was a lot harder and different. So
trying to do all those sports and carry the academic
load it would have been tougher. And in college doing
the same carrying that load with the credits you're trying
to keep with eight am classes and stuff like that.
So for me, the hard part was said it was
giving up football because I loved it a lot as
a kid, and it was like choosing which one I
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wanted to do and like focus on that and try
to like make myself into that and go to school
for free for playing that sport. But yeah, doing academics
wasn't wasn't easy either. With playing a bunch of sports,
it was. It was challenging.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I want to hear what your uniform looked like.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
It's some of them at school for us, I mean
we just had like a blue navy blazer, like khaki pants,
like like beige pants, white button, white button up and tie.
You had to wear a suit. You couldn't wear you
had to like you get to shave. You couldn't wear jewelry.
You can wear earrings, you couldn't wear a lot of things.
You have to make sure your tie, pants were buckled
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up and up on your waist. Because your kids used
to wear pants sag and a little bit, make sure
you I think they still do. Yeah, I'm sure there's
things have changed, but I'm sure it's similar. But yeah,
we just had a blazer, button up tie and and
some khaki pants, and I think it changed, like if
freshman sophomore had to wear different colored pants something like that.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You already. Yeah, uniforms are crazy. I only had one
in elementary school, and I actually now I realize I
liked it because now I have to wake up every
morning and it makes it easy where yeah, you just
have to roll out of you on the thing.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
You appreciate more things as an adult, you realize, like
like even now, like we appreciate appreciate learning things new
every day, but when you're in school, you like you
don't care to learn certain things. Yeah, back then, it's
like I wanted to wear outfits. But it's like it
made things easy for me. I didn't have to choose
outfit every day. You know, I just iron the same clothes,
clean what I need to clean, make sure I have
like five of the same button ups, a blazer, and
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some khaki pants, same uniform every day.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
So it made it very easy. But I didn't appreciate
it till I got older.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah, no, agreed. Okay, So now I want to move
on to about your NBA career. We heard about you
when you were seventeen, but now we're going to talk
real hoops. Okay, So I want to start off with
the twenty thirteen title against the Heat and Brown. Looking back,
what stands out to you most about that?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Twenty thirteen was not a great standout year. For the
thing that I remember most is losing.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah, well, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
We had a great fun series. I played well, had
a chance to win, and I've been lucky. I've won three,
so you know, by any means, not trying to be greedy,
but it would be nice to have gotten that other
one too, and I had a chance of being like
finals MVP. Everybody talks about that, had a great series.
But the memory that says out the most is just
how much fun it was getting there and playing there,
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but just ultimately we did lose and lost in seven
game series and it really took a turn in game
six for us. So that ray Allen shot always comes
to mind when everybody brings up twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, so you talked about how you've won three rings,
which is an incredible accomplishment, and later on in the
interview of Action asking you a trivia question about that.
So I had to get excited, get.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Get start thinking brain rolling exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But I want to know obviously all of them were
extremely important to you in different ways. Is they're one
that stood out the most?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
You know, people ask that all the time, like which
one was the like the most important? Yeah, it's like,
I don't know. You guys might have kids here. Every
time somebody I give them analogy, like if you have
multiple kids, which you can't choose your favorite, which one
which experience was If I'm sure they appreciate one they
parent you differently, and I probably appreciate one that's less maintenance,
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low maintenance than the others. But each birth experience, I'm
sure they enjoyed love and they like them for different reasons.
You know, your first is your first. So San Antonio
was probably the most special. The most fun I had
during the year was probably in Toronto, and then the
most difficult one was probably in the Bubble. Mentally, emotionally
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was tough. But they're all special to me in different ways.
I can't say I love one more than the other
because you know, they're all your kids. They're all your kids,
you know, So that's what I'd like to give people
that analogy.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
But they're all with special but said in different ways.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
What do you say to the haters that say, oh,
the Bubble Ring wasn't real.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
The ring is real. You know, I still I got
the hardware. To anybody else wanted, they'd still be I
think it's just mostly because there's the Lakers, Yes, that too.
People either love or hate the Lakers, and people will
love or hate Lebron, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
There's Lebron haters and there's.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
You know, Lakers theaters, so you know, and a lot
of those people that don't like the Disney Mickey Mouse
ring or somebody else that won, they'd give them full credit.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You know, it happens.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
You know, nobody can take that away from you, regardless
of what the stipulations were or the conditions were, a
lot of teams have won because of injuries, or because
somebody wasn't somewhere, or because of you know, uh, a
lockout year. You know, they don't say they don't put asteris.
Oh you won because of lockout, It doesn't matter. You
want somebody has to win. And you know, we were
fortunate enough to get that done, be that team to
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be the last one standing.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Yeah. And I know during the locko you played in Slovenia, right,
I did like that. I did quite different from the NBA.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Very humbling, yes, very different. I did not know where
it was. I'm not great at geography. Even as I've
gotten older, I'm still not great at geography on the.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Map, and that's like one of my best things.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Yeah, and I never heard of the country until my
AE brought it to my attention. So I didn't know
where it was. I never heard of it. I didn't
know what the language was. They spoke there. Luckily they
did speak English, most of them did. It was a
nice city, it was cool, it was clean. But yeah,
that lifestyle is very different, you know, travel, the way
you travel is different, the way you play is different.
The way you practice different twice a day, the weather
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is different, the way you get paid is different. So
it was very humbling and it made me appreciate the
NBA very much, so much more. And once I was
able to get back, I was like, you know, I
want to make sure that I'd stay here as long
as I can, and I'm gonna work to to not
ever leave this place if I.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
If I don't have to.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
But you know, knocked over overseas, it's a great opportunity
to play and make money. I even thought about going
back at some point before I retired, but you know,
I have a family now, so things are different. You
have to make decisions not only for yourself but for
the people that are you know, attached, you know, attached
to you. So yeah, but overseas, that experience was humbling.
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There's different places that are different, so, you know, because
how do.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
You choose Slovenia over China or Spain or that was
just the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
It's usually the opportunities that present to you. You get
a chance to choose. Sometimes a lot of times you don't,
even just like an NBA like, sometimes very few people
get to choose where they want to go when they
want to go, and how they want to get paid.
And that's just anything in life you get was presented
to you. Weigh the options and see what's the best opportunity,
and it's like, you know, this is something I could
make good money, stay in shape, play and play well,
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and then also you know, explore some of Europe.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
So yeah, totally. Obviously I was just a little baby
when you when you were on the Spurs, So though
I don't remember much of it, I've obviously seen really
cool YouTube clips and everything like that from that Spurs era.
And I'm curious, what's the best quote coach Pop ever
said to your team?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Ooh, there's so many.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
There's so many gems that I've learned from Pop just
as a man, uh not not you know, I would
say as a player, yeah, but as an adult. You know,
he put a lot of things perspective for us of like,
you know, don't take it for granted. The NBA is
Christmas every day. There's real world problems going on, and
he give us examples, you know, every couple of days
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to be you know, thorough countries are going through this.
There's a world going over here, there's people getting bombed
over here, like and you're waking up. Just play basketball
game to work and make a lot of money to
take care of yourself and your family. So those things
always put things like they always, you know, gave us
a good perspective on life.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
But I do.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Hold a certain amount of things that pertain to your
character that he said close And one of the things
is why Timmy is so great of.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Who he is and why he.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Was and Pop is they never allowed the game to
or let themselves feel bigger than the game or bigger
than anyone else. So you know, the biggest company he
ever gave Timmy was you know, he's the same gentleman
that walked through that door when he was rookie that
he is now when he's finished playing. And Pop is
the same guy I'm sure that he is now that
he when he was when he first got that.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
He's never changed.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
So you know his always that would say kind of
stay even keel, never let it get too high, gatu lo,
but never allow any of these things to change you
as a person, or let let it go to your
head and think you're bigger than anything because you're good
at a basketball game.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
You can see that in all the aspects of Tim Duncan,
like from his outfits to the way he plays his
outfits are was there a specific outfit of Tim's ever
that he walked in?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I love them all?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Are you wearing?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I love them all?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Because he allowed us because usually you follow the superstars
lead when it comes to anything.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
And if so, you were gonna start wearing Burkinstone.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I'm just it just made it easy for us because
there was no like certain teams have like a uniform,
not a uniform, but they have like a dress code.
It's like before we get on the plane, make sure
you wear team sweats or you know, certain in Carolina
we had to wear suits and ties, like for certain
pregame meals with Timmy because he was so las a
fair with everything, it was like, yeah, you know, we
don't have to have a dress code, don't have to
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do this, would have to It's like, you know, you
could be comfortable. You know, even when we went to dinners,
like yeah, we have this thing with team dinner. You know,
certain superstars like yeah, make sure you're dressed up or
do this with fact like and even on certain teams,
you just feel you have to keep up, which ultimately
means you probably have to spend more money to like
wear fashionable things. With Timmy was like, you don't have
to impress anybody. You don't have to keep up, and
you don't have to like there's not many restrictions or
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rules when it comes to doing those type of things
outside of basketball.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yeah. So there's another superstar that you played with that
is quite different from Tim Duncan. Yeah, that's Kawhi letter
you want two chips, Yes, Kawai right, And we all
see Kawhi being this guy that doesn't laugh, is very serious,
you know, a little quirky. But you have had such
a deeper relationship with him. I'm wondering what does Kawi
look like behind the scenes.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Actually, him and Timmy aren't that much different. And Timmy
seemed seemed like a Kawi I got most people too.
You know a lot of people thought Timmy didn't talk.
Timmy talked a lot. Actually, he was a very good leader.
He was encouraging not only with his words but his actions,
and Kawhi saying as he got older he became more
of a leader.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
But behind close doors, he's a funny guy and he
cracks jokes. It's just funnier when it comes from him
because you just don't expect it. But uh, yeah, him
and Timmy are very much to themselves. They're quiet, they
don't but they lead when they need to. He loves
to compete, you know. He gets to the gym, really
leaves late, you know, takes care of his body, does
the things he's supposed to. It sucks to see him
go through the injuries he's gone through. But I said,
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him and Timmy are very similar in the fact that
they do work. They do say themselves, but they do
talk and make jokes and like to do certain things
when they have the time to.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, I think it's funny that you called him duncan Timmy.
I haven't really heard that. I like that, So I'm
just calling that. What's the best Timmy dunk?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
You'd on his friends and call him that. No, Timmy
is great man, So the best Timmy dunk? Tim dunk?
Tim's story so the best story of him, just like
off the off the court, I don't know. I mean,
I'm sure you've seen more of it now that he's
done playing like he does the UFC or the taekwondo
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like he does some fighting and stuff that I imagine
him as one of those guys is ready for the
end of the world, Like if it was a zombie apocalypse,
He's the guy I'm running to or his house because
I'm sure he has like a safe house, a bunker
and all the weapons you need. I just remember we
did paintball with him and he's six eleven, but somehow
he's very stealthy.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You know, you can't hit him.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
He's finding you, he's hitting you all over the play
and we had a rule don't hit guys too close,
but he was smoking everybody in this paintball action that
we had.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
And he's very good.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
So so if there's a zombie apocalypse, I think he's
very prepared and he's probably a really good shot. So he's,
you know, good at a lot of things, you know,
off the court that more than you would expect.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
He was a swim or too. Growing up.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I learned that the hard like I think guys learned
that the hard way, because they would come in and
bet that they could race him in a swimming and
they'd always lose. Only one person I think got him,
and I think that was Aaron Bains. Bains was really good.
If I'm not mistaken. But they both swim like a
fish man, those big big boils dolphins in the water,
and they take up a lot of space and they
move very fast in the water.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
That's so cool. I love to hear that. So I
want to talk, you know, earlier we talked a little
bit about the Lakers ring being in the bubble for fans.
What was life like in the bubble? Not really basketball.
I can't even found them what to be like for
basically the whole NBA to be staying in one yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I mean, you know, some guys pointed out to be terrible,
some guys painted out to be like, you know, it
was lovely because of the resort.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I think it was nice.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
It was a nice stay like this is a beautiful
place that we're in, right, But no matter how beautiful
the place is, if you're stay in this place for
one hundred days, it could make you feel you know, enclosed,
or like feel like you're captured or not in you know,
you're mentally it'll wear on you. So they did the
best they could and did a great job of making
sure everybody stayed clean, no one got sick. Testing people.
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We had the first month or two without families they
came in later.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
That was tough.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
You know, you're in your own small space. You're just
with the seeing the same people every day, eating the
same foods, walk on the same campus. But they brought
in good food. They brought us some chefs, some like chefs.
They brought in some food from out side for us
at times. So that was great. But even when you're
eating great meals, if you're eating the same meals every day,
it's like you get tired of it. You know, I
want some canes or some taco bell that you don't
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get those access to all those things. So that made
it challenging. But ultimately I said, it was a really
nice space. They did a great job. It just was
mentally emotionally draining because you're in that space for so
like we were there for almost one hundred days.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I would say, yeah, that sounds crazy. I'm glad I
didn't have to be a part of that. So a
classic podcast question, just interview question, is you know what's
your all time starting five? But you know Slow Noses
a show where as a teenage girl, I like to
mix it up a little bit, So I'm going to
ask you some all time starting fives, but with some
certain categories to shake it up a little bit. So
your last name Green is quite the common last name NBA.
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What is your all time starting five of NBA players
with the last name Green?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Oh, all right, all right, let me see. I'm gonna
put Raymond in there at the four. I'm gonna put
myself at the two. I think I'm gonna put Gerald
Green at the three. Willie Green, Yeah, Gerald, Yeah, second
or third? One of those we found out in high school.
That's another funny story. I want to say Willy Green.
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He's coaching for no Orland still right. I think I
would put him at the one and at the five.
I'm trying to think who would that's that's a That's
a tough one. I'd have to probably go to small
because I don't think there's any centers.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
That's a five. A C. Green, Jamichael Green, Jamichael Jamichael Green,
a C. Green.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yeah, those guys. I'm there's a lot of Greens, but
either J. Michael probably a C. Green probably he is
more of a legendary.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
No respect to J. Mike, he's a great teammate. But
a C. Green. I think it's a legendary dude. For sure.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yeah. The next starting five is you've played with some
incredible teammates. What's your starting five of your all time teammates.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah, that's always tough for me. I'm gonna go with.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
The five position is the hardest. H At the one,
I'm gonna go. This one's tough too because it's between
Kyle Ir and Tony Parker, and it's like.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
You can't go wrong with I'm off the bat that's fine.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, yeah, so I'm gonna put those two together. But
before at the one, it's those are my best point
guards that I got a chance to play with. At
the two, Manu probably probably for sure, Manu at the three,
Kawhi at the four, Timmy actually an the four bron.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yeah, I was about to say, you're leaving out someone.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Okay, this is gonna be crazy because I'm gonna have
to leave somebody out because I actually got a chance
to play with Shaq. So I'm gonna put Shack at
the five, Tommy at the four, Bron at the three,
Kawhi at the two, just to throw it out there
and I'll put I have to put a spur in this.
I'm gonna put Tony at the one. I like k
Low at the one as well. I left off Kawhi,
which is unbelievably hard. Said, yes, KAUI at the two,
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but I left who do I leave off at the two?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Manu? I left Manow he can be the sixth minutes.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah, so yeah, that is a good I got Timmy
in there. So I got Timmy, Shaq, Bron Kawhi and
then Tony at the one. But I mean I would
that could be k Low as well. So I've had
some really great teammates. I left off a D Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yeah, I mean it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
And Dwight. I've played with Dwight. I played with a D.
I played with Rondo. You know, I could have threw Ron.
I know that chance to play Rondo in his prime,
and I always wish I could have done that. But yeah,
I played with a lot of great players.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yeah you did. Okay, the last starting five, I'm gonna
ask you about this. Before the interview started, Danny and
I were talking a lot about fast food and crumble
cookies and taco bell and canes and all that good stuff.
And I want to know if you had to make
a starting five a fast food rest, oh Man, what
it would be but I also want you to be strategic, right. Yeah,
It's like in my head, right, you could be like, oh, no,
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Taco is a point guard, Like I don't see Taco
bell as the center. You know, you really got to
think about it that way to really make sure that
team's going eighty two and up.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Yes, So my fast food preferences have changed over time
when I was younger, definitely heavy on some other things.
I'm definitely gonna put Chipotle.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
In there, obviously at a position.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Probably at the two. I'm gonna probably put Canes at
the three, at the four.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Five guys.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It's interesting that you don't think five guys should be
at the five, right, That would be yeah, classic.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Because I feel like you need like the best fast
like your best fast food place, probably at the center.
I think may maybe Chick fil at the five. Can
put Chick fil at the five at the point guard position? Man,
I'm trying to think, like, that's tough. I'm trying to
think of what else that I haven't cut out because
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there's a lot of things I used to eat that
I don't eat.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I mean, it could be a classic like a McDonald's
or like your least I.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Can't put McDonald's in there. That would be really bad. Yeah, Okay,
I used to eat McDonald's way back.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
No, in and out, I'll put in and out the way.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Because you're an LA guy, I'll put in and out
of one.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
You know what I'm gonna put because I'm a l
A guy. But I lived in Texas for a really
long time and water Burger. I'm gonna put Waterburger at the.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
One time I just had Waterburger for the first time.
It's good.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
It's good, and I feel like it's more of a
locational thing, like if you live in that atmosphere, it's
just a late night you know, everybody has a munchy
spot Northeast people with like White Castle, that was the
thing back in the day. Yeah, water Burger is like
the spot that's like it hits especially late night sometimes
I think it used to be open twenty four hours.
But it's like a cultural thing and you become like
people here, people like, oh they come to visit, Like
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in and out is not that great, but if you
are part of it, you live here, it's a cultural thing.
It's like it's a late night great munchy spot or
whenever you're in the mood for it.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I'm so glad you said that because I actually sort
of agree that in and out is like I love it,
I love going in some of my friends whatever, but
like it's really not it's someone blindfolded me Burger.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
I'd be like, yeah, same with Waterburger, like your first time, like, oh,
people really hype this up, but over time it gets better.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Like you, it's sort of like sink into it. That's
I'm don't have to have it a second time not
to like understand really what it's about. So three your career,
you sort of bounce back and forth between the NBA
and what used to be called the D League the
NBA Development League.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah, which is now the G League.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Exactly, which is now the G League. What do you
say to guys in a similar situation who are bouncing
back and forth between the NBA and the league. What
advice do you have for them on how to sort
of hand handle that?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Meant?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
You know, I see a lot of the young guys
today now, and they're going through some different things because
the expectation with social media becomes like more expectations. Take
for instance, like LEBRONI right, Everybody's like he's got a
four year deal, he's supposed to be this that maybe
he's not ready, and maybe in his mind he's thinking like, oh,
I'm not ready, I'm not good enough. News flash, kid,
none of us were good enough, Like we weren't good
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at the time. A lot of us when we first
came in, we were not great. So don't get discouraged,
you know, like, enjoy the time, embrace the process of
getting better, you know, work on your game, and eventually
you will be confident you'll be good enough. The G
League was a great tool for me to not only
get better, but gain confidence in myself and what i'll
you know, what I was doing, and be the player
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that I you know, be a rotational NBA player. So
guys that are watching or take advice, you know, just
don't look down upon it. Don't think it's a like demotion,
you know, just have fun, enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Get better. We've all been there.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
We've all, even the greatest of great have started out
as not a great, but like come off the bench
or not. Kobe Bryant came out to the bench from point,
you know, like Reggie Miller, all these guys. You don't
realize that until you're like, oh, you know, damn, I
thought he came in was a star right away. None
of these guys were stars right away like some of them. Yes,
but very few guys come in and be great or
stars right away. Ninety percent of us, like have to
go through that. So you know, just to enjoy it,
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embrace it in and don't get discouraged. You know you can.
If you don't think you're good enough right now or
an NBA player right now, doesn't mean you can't be
very soon.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah, that's great advice and I feel like it can
apply to really life as well.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
For sure, with anything you do.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
I mean, you're only going to get better at but
if you have consistent repetition of it.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
So now you're a couple months into your retirement, do
you even watch basketball anymore?
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I do because I have to, it's my job. But yes,
with a little one, I don't watch as much TV.
Even when I played. You know, people talking about the
ratings are down, but I didn't watch it as much.
I watched what I had to because of teams that
I played, or scouted or players. But I didn't want
to burn myself out. I was such a big fan
as a kid, and I watched it so much of
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my life. As I got older, It's like, you know what,
I don't want to I want to step away from it.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
When I'm home.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
I want to watch TV series and movies and be
fresh for like, all right, I'm not burnt out. When
I come into the gym and watch film. It's like,
all right, it's fresh for me. So I do watch
it now, not as much as I did when I
was younger. I's still am a big movie above TV
series guy, and because I a little wanted to watch
a lot of TV. But yes, I do have to watch.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Burn my job moving into the rapid fire a little bit.
Because you said you like movies and TV shows. What's
the best movie you've ever seen?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
There's a million I can't get.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I can't eve give wait, okay, what about this? Starting
five best movies?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I mean, I have to give like one from each category.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Right, there's like a drama, it's like a comedy, a
rom com. There's too many movies to choose from. But
like growing up, like the movies that I love to watch,
and I have tattoos of them on my body, like
the Teenage Mutant, Ninja Turtles, Godzilla movies, not like Marvel movies.
Those were some of my favorite movies to watch as
(31:31):
a youngster, and even as an adult, you know, it
still brings me back to childhood. But now I'm a
big murder mystery guy.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Like I like that anything with murder I can't do.
It freaks me out.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I think you'll grow out it, like once you understand
certain I didn't like scary movies when I was younger,
but now watching it and I try to predict things
or see how things are made, and you can see
when the sounds are coming in there trying to scare
you jump, So not scared anymore. When I was a
young kid, I didn't like scary movies. But now I
appreciate all aspects of film, so that may be some
that I want to tap into later on in life.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
We need to see in a movie, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
I wouldn't be a post but yeah, maybe one day
I wouldn't mind being behind the scenes and see how
it works. And like writing because I feel like a
lot of movies are predictable, and the ones that that
I guess capture my attention to the ones that are
unpredictable and have like different twists and turns. That's why
murder mysteries are like, all right, trying to solve or
figure out who was the killer?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Right, Okay, so now we're gonna be in our rapid
fire section. All right, So what's your favorite clothing brand?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
All right, rapid fire favorite clothing brand is Puma as
it stands right now, I'm a Puma athlete. I was
a poor athlete currently not yet, but Puma is my
favor my probably my best sponsor that I've ever had
in my career.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Gotcha, what's your favorite food?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Before you get to these questions, I don't have a
favorite anything because its hard for me to choose one
thing over everything and say I like it that much more.
But to play along, I'm gonna give you like my
biggest preferences. I'm gonna go with Italian probably, Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
If you could go to dinner with anyone that or alive,
who would it be?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
People? Acts?
Speaker 3 (33:01):
But there's a lot of celebrities that I would love
to And when you ask kids this question, it's always
like family members. So I would love to have a
mix of certain celebrities that passed that I never got
a chance to see, like the Michael Jackson's of the world,
or like the Robin william Like certain actors and actresses,
some of them I had get a chance to meet,
but also like certain fan members that didn't get a
(33:22):
chance to meet my my little like my grandmother. Yeah,
my son, like I would love to have dinner when
he's older, to like know her and her you know,
be there.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
So yeah, I love that. Okay, So if you could
make the Olympics for one sport that isn't basketball, what
would it be?
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Ooh, I'm not really great at many other things. You
are sport what other sports would like would it be?
It wouldn't be tracked. I wasn't. It took me a
while to get fast or like to learn to run.
Swimming people A lot of guys say swim because I
think that I was a good swimmer at one point.
I didn't swim a lot as I got older, or
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I just wasn't a big ocean guy because I don't
like what's out there. Fair, But it was another sport,
like I used to play football, but I don't think
I would be Yeah, it's an Olympic sport.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
But there's random things like curling or like breakdowns.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Yeah, I was thinking like maybe maybe volleyball or something
like that, saying volleyball or something like that.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
I don't know. I'm trying to like, it wouldn't be badminton.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
It's pretty rare trying to think of something I did
like ping pong a lot, you know, ping pong, you
know it if I took that serious and like, I
would love to be like Forrest Gump, you know.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Just yeah, all right. So now, if you walk into
an ice cream shop right, literally every single flavor is
out there, What flavor are you getting? And then what
topics are you putting on it? And then are you
going cup or con because that really says a lot
about a person.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Cup golt Man uh around, she looked a little crazy.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
I'm gonna go cup.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
I'm gonna go vanilla, chocolate cookie dough and all ice
cream is one of the top preferences.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Sounds so good, right, And when I do.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Put toppings on any if it was just vanilla ice cream,
I would do like some rainbow sprinkles or like chocolate chips.
Those would be toppings that I would if I just
regular vanilla ice cream.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Yes, if you get the whatever chocolate chip situation in
the ice cream. You can't put like rainbow sprinkles can
mix that.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
So if I'm going to do toppings, I have to
do regular vanilla. But if I'm doing chocolate chip cookie
dough with an ice cream, I don't really put many
of the toppings on that.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Yeah, sometimes I go like crazy vellin ice creams em
and ms yes, yeah, sprinkles, you know Reese's cups.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
So, yeah, it's embarrassing. But sometimes I get like cotton
candy ice cream with like chocolate chips. It's just like
I'm just hungry and I want to try all the things,
and I just put it all together and it's just crazy.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
That sounds like a wild It's very like.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
I feel like eventually, like my ice cream paste will
mature as I get older, you know, and whole palate changes. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Younger, we didn't like vegetables. No Brussels sprouts and asparagus
is good for you and it's not.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
I'll grow out of it. Then. Do you have a
favorite candy?
Speaker 3 (36:00):
No, They're all from me, especially when I was when
I used to go to movies, so I was a
big move off and I'll go to movies. I would
get different candies, it depends on the move. Sometimes sweet
and sour, either like Skittles or Sour Patch Kids. Sometimes
just chocolate. You get some snow caps or Reese's cups.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Sometimes you get candy in your popcorn.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
No, we wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
What no to do that?
Speaker 3 (36:23):
I would do sometimes the ice cream bars, like a
Snickers ice cream bar, like those things. It depends on
the move. But yes, ultimately they're they're all. It depends
on the move.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Yeah, but that's fair. I'm an all candy type of
girl too.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
I just cut back a lot though since I've been
an adult.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
So now that you're in retirement, though, you have to
really go for it, just eat a lot of candy.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
I've taken some time off of being like I wouldn't
say on a diet, but like, hey, but yeah, so
in a couple of months of just eating some bs
and not working out as much. But once the new
year hits, we're back on to being a real adult
and taking care of your body because you want to
live longer for your kids.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Right totally?
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Who does your celebrity look alike Lionel Richie? Hmmm, yeah,
when you don't pet like it's side by side little
picture there.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
That's the first person that comes to mind. But there's
a lot of other you know, they say light skin
people all look alike. There's a lot of different light
skin guys out there that I look like. I don't
know if you've ever seen Power No Snowfall, Snowfall, you've
ever seen Snowfall. There's a character his name is Melvin
Grag they call man Boy and the show. I get
him a lot. But Lionel Richie was of course a lot.
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And there's a bunch of other guys. But any light
skin guy I.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
See Lionel Richie. Yeah, what's your favorite podcast? Because you
a podcast? I have a podcast.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Inside the green Room with Danny. I gotta put Danny.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
I really set you up here.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
You guys are a close second.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Okay, close, I appreciate it. You know, first is the worst, second.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Is the best. That's just the way I used to
say that all the time.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
No, that's my go to Okay, So, now, like I
said earlier, remember I was telling you to get the
brain movement for these slow nose trivia. So basically I'm
gonna ask you trivia about yourself. Okay, and Danny, I
feel like you're definitely like a very memory, like you
definitely pay attention to the little details. I tried to,
but I don't know if you're gonna remember this stuff.
I'm excited to say. Okay, during your career, in seasons
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where you played at least twenty games, how many times
did you shoot above forty percent? From three?
Speaker 3 (38:13):
I played in technically fifteen seasons, which is like fourteen,
and I think out of the fourteen, I think I.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Was below maybe three times.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
So I would say eleven to be safe, being a
little cocky is a less than there is more than that.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
It's a little less. It's a lot less.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Wait, so out of fourteen or I think of fifteen,
so is it ten? It's not ten, it's less than that.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
It's a lot less than that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Really, wow, above forty how many seasons? So eight it's
lower than that? No way?
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Six? Six is still incredible. Oh wow, it's still incredible.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Six out of fourteen?
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Hm? Okay, So I'm thinking I guess the first couple
of years I didn't play much above twenty games.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Above twenty games, Yeah, exactly, there you go. That's why.
That's why I'm sure if you played six seasons.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Still, it's like, damn, no, it's amazing. I guess so
depends on.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
You're asking, so humble, I'm telling you it is amazing.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
How damn I thought I was good?
Speaker 1 (39:15):
See that's the one islanos. I really got to see
what you know? Okay, how many games did you play
at u NC.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Ooh?
Speaker 3 (39:21):
I did four years. I think I hold the record
for the most games played still I did at one point.
I don't know if that's still true, because there's guys
that played five you it's like fifty.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Or six years. Singles now, amando big different. R J
has been there for a while.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Four years, we've average about almost forty games, So like
thirty seven thirty eight is so, say four times four
one hundred and sixty, right, would be? So about one
hundred and fifty games?
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Oh wow, okay, you're really close one hundred and forty five. Okay,
this is unbelievably impressive. Like when I read it, I
was like, wow, that's that's crazy. How many of those
one hundred and forty five games you win?
Speaker 3 (40:01):
I had at one point held the record for the
most wins there. I don't know if that still stands true.
Was it one hundred and ten?
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Okay this one? Now you're being too humble to one
hundred twenty three, okay, which is amazing. Okay, Okay, So
you were in high school in two thousand and five.
You're the class of two thousand and five. Then I
was just like a thought in my parents, not even
probably I thought of my parents, but anyway, I just
wanted to remind you the old Yeah exactly, in the
class of twenty twenty, not twenty twenty five, two thousand
and five.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
What were you ranked in high school? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (40:32):
I actually just looked this up recently because I'd argue
with somebody. Somebody thought I was like top twenty five,
and I'm like, bro, I was not top twenty close.
I think I was top fifty, yes, but I think
I was in like the thirty.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Of forties, yes, thirties, getting closer.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Like thirty seven, thirty one okay, okay, yeah, pretty good.
Only is why I was close, because I say, I
looked it up and I was like he people had this,
you know, like people formed this image of people in brains, like, yo,
you were amazing and high. Yeah, the one was not
that good, Like I was good, but I was not
that good, and like you were top ten.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
I'm like, there was no way you needed.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
To make it clear that it was like an underdogs.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
I was a late balloon.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
So I bumped up to thirty one, but like before
my senior year, I was probably below, like out of
the top.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Fifty for sure.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Yeah. Okay, so let's see how good your memory really
is and how much you really focus on these small details. Okay, Danny,
you were drafted forty six. Who was drafted forty fifth?
And can you tell me where he went to college?
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Ooh, I don't know. Forty five forty five? Can you
tell me the team.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
That was weal, that's part of the question. But okay,
he was to Florida.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Oh, the team that drafted Timberwolves. Okay.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Actually, interestingly enough, the Timberwolves had to pick before you
and the pick after you, so they pretty much passed
up on you twice.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
Yeah, everybody passed up with me twice, and forty six,
I think I had passed twice by everybody. The forty
fifth pick went to Minnesota and he went to school
in Florida, US.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Yeah, I have no clue.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
I'm gonna say, yeah, I have no honest Nick oh,
nicklethus he was, he was a big time in Greece,
Nick Coleathas and.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
I remember that. Wow, yeah, I remember our draft class.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
I remember a lot of people that went before me.
I don't remember exact picks. I think wait an nine.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
A few slow nos A Line Blake was number.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
One, right, has Sheen was number two, James Harden number three, four,
I forget.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
I know Ricky Rubio was up there.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
I know Brandon Jennings was up there, Drew Holliday was
up there, Demarto Rosan was up there, TODJ.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Gibson was in the first round. Like, there's a lot
of guys the first round.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Remember you know when we had Draymond on this podcast,
he closed his eyes and listed every single person in
the draft. It was crazy.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Yeah, he I was so far behind. It was a point.
It was a time where everybody but I was. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
All right, Danny, this is my last question for you.
It's a good one, Okay. Can you nominate the next
Sloan Nose guest?
Speaker 2 (43:06):
Nominate?
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Do we can? We pick a region or an area,
a person.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
You know what I'm saying, Like, like, are we when's
the next pot is it in California?
Speaker 1 (43:16):
This is I appreciate how you're so devoted.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Yes, we're based here, okay in California. I'm trying to
think who's local, who's easy locally, who's been doing some
good stuff, who's been on like.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
One of your boys you can like, you.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
Know, somebody I know.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
I'm trying to think of, like who's recently also retire,
Like a lot of guys retired, yeah, and are in
the podcast in the worlds Now, who's also done? Who's
doing the podcast game Heavy Now, that's a friend of mine.
So I don't have many of those. A lot of
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people like me. You already said r j P. The
ESPN down Who would be a great guest.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
Like somebody that's like I'm thinking of, like the ESPN
guys that.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
I work with all the cacoing.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
Yeah, so there's some guys that I work with on Turner,
I work with guys A Fandle Chandler Parsons is another one,
like Lou will Chandler Parsons slow notes.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
But Lou Williams, let's okay, that's can I just.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
You can shoot come on, slow, come on, Lou's got
great stories, he's done his own pot. He's been doing
great with that, even on stuff with with Turner.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
I have a bunch of random guys another great guests.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
Why don't I just send you like my list of
like dream and then get him. You'll just get him all.
That's what it's like a deal. I'll just like postmate
your canes or something gift and then like that's pretty
much thought. Yeah, he once a month's time, I will
send you exactly.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Sounds like a plan.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
Great, sounds like thanks Sanny, it's so much fun.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
Thank you everyone,
What's up? Everyone? Welcome to episode thirty of Slow Notes,
which feels insane to be saying out loud, and today
we have a very exciting guest, Danny Green. Danny, thank
you so much for coming on.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Thanks for having me. Of course, it's an honor, it's
a true pleasure.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Thank you. So I'm seventeen, and I know you're not
seventeen anymore, but you once were, Danny, believe it or not.
So I want to hear about you as a seventeen
year old. What was your game?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Like, I'll tell you I wasn't as informed as you
kids are today, Like I was not that smart. To
be able to run a podcast is impressive.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
My game, I would say I was good at a
lot of things, but not great at anything. And that
was my kind of thing throughout most of my life.
I was a late bloomer where I didn't get recruited
highly until my senior year. Like, I could pass the
ball pretty well, like a rebound, well like a blockheit
I could play defense. I could shoot decently. I could
back then, I could handle the ball decently. Now I
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haven't dribbled. I don't dribble as a pro. I didn't
dribble much at all, but I could do a little
bit of everything pretty well. But it wasn't great at anything.
It wasn't until I got to even after college. It
wasn't until I got to the pros where I kind
of honed in on one specific thing and tried to
be great at it, and I started getting better at
shooting and I focus on certain things. But when I
was younger, my game was do a little bit of everything.
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I played pretty much all five positions.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
So as a late bloomer, when did it hit you, like, wait,
I think I can make it to the leate.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
It was always a goal and I never thought it
was achievable. It kind of came and gone multiple times
throughout my life. So seventeen no, I think when I
got McDonald's, I got selected to being a McDonald's game,
it was like, Okay, I might have a chance. And
then I went to college. Then it was like coming
off the bench start all over again. I had to
do all four years. I wasn't starting that. I didn't
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start till my senior year, so it was like I
might get a chance unity to make it to the NBA.
Then it was like after my junior year, I played well.
I still came off the bench, but it was like,
I might have a shot at making to the NBA.
Senior year we won a national title. Was lucky enough
to do that. Then it was like, all right, this
might be an opportunity not only make the league, but
be able to.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Like beat in the league and play.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Then once I got there, it was like, uh, you know,
I got cut a couple of times, had to find
a rotation. I'm like, I don't know if I'll be
a rotational player in this league. So it was kind
of up and down. But the first time that I
thought I had a shot at doing it was when
I made the McDonald's All American Game.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I see. Okay, So you mentioned UNC, which is where
you went to college, and like you said, where you
won a national championship, which is amazing. How and why
did you choose UNC over other offers you had, like Georgetown, Yukon.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
It was it was easy. It was easy for me.
I grew up a Carolina fan, so I mean I
was a kid as a kid because you grew up
in New York. I grew up in New York.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
My father was a fan of certain back as I
learned as I got older. He was a fan of
the good teams and a great kind of kind of
you know, we weren't New York sports fans. We weren't
a bit except for the Yankees were in big jets.
He does like them now, but I didn't grow up watch.
I grew up watching like Michael Jordan and the Bulls,
like certain players, and then you know, Michael Jordan I
was went to Carolina and Jerry Stackhouse or Sheep Wallace
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and all those guys. Some of the greatest players have
come from that school. And it was back then a
big time school, and if you were able to go there,
it was like you had a really good shot at
making it to the NBA. So I grew up as
a fan as a kid because of my dad. He's
a fan of the game, and all my family were
fans of other not just Carolina, but other players and
other teams and pros and certain colleges, but Carolina was
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it was.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Once they started recruiting. It was easy decision for me.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Three or four years. What was your favorite memory at UNC.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Man, It's hard just because I had a lot of
great battles with my teammates, my brothers became an adult
in college. They say the best years of your life
for a reason, because you know you never have that
experience again.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
And the pros.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
It's tough because freeg and see everybody, like trades, move changes,
you don't keep the same group together for a long
period of time. But every I have a lot of memories.
I woul see national title was number one, but beating
Duke and Duke every time we played there is pretty
special memories. Like we beat them a good amount of times.
I was lucky enough to go undefeated. And Cameron and
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every even the losses, every loss that we had in
the tournament, every time we went to the tournament, AC
tournament and the NCAA tournament. Every time we went to
the tournament, we went further each year and even though
we didn't you know, we weren't successful or as successful
as we wanted to be, it was a learning experience.
And those were the best memories, even the losses, because
we went to battle and our brothers, they showed how
much we cared and loved you know, the game, and
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how much you know, blood, sweat and tears we put
into it. So it was it was those were special
memories as well.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, so speaking of Duke, I want to know, like,
are the camera crazy? Is really that crazy?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I mean I think the world is different now than
how it was then. There's a lot of things. Yeah,
you can't say certain things now, you can't do certain
things now. But yeah, I always thought they held like
classes because they had certain like chance that they would do.
They'd be on like in sync, they would be you know,
have certain signs, even certain even in Maryland and Clemson,
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they had some great arenas where student section and fans
would say things will have great signs, would be funny.
And back then they had the speedo guy. I don't
know if you guys ever looked that up before. I
think he was banned after all, he wasn't allowed at
a certain point. But that was a funny thing. But
they had some great crazy I was like, if you're
a fan of Duke, they had some you know, some
great like things that they did, you know, to try
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to distract players that came in. And you know, it
was always fun for us, especially if you win, it's
always funny after, but if you lose, it's a it's
a pain and ass and yeah, but yeah, we enjoyed
the moments of going into other teams buildings and obviously
winning some games with seeing with how creative the fans were.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, no, that's cool for sure. It seems like you
had an incredible experience at UNC, and like you guys know,
I'm seventeen, so I'm just.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, I know you're du Yeah, we can we can
over you know, chap Hill was a little better than Duke.
I would say so, not pitching it fully.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
But I do want to you're a pitch. That's what
was nast you pitched me.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I think it's better than Duke, And obviously not because
which is better overall? Okay, but I think there's a
more like the diversity is there. Yeah, it's better. We
have a it's a great little bubble. But you know,
they love their sports, they love their people. They're very hospitable.
Everything is Carolina blue, from you know, the fire hydrants
to the fire trucks. Wow, that's yeahs sky blue everywhere.
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It's the best blue in the world. But you know,
it's a it's a it's a great fraternity and a
great alum.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah. I think you enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
It's a good pitch. I'm not going to consider it,
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So earlier you said that your dad wasn't really a
New York sports fan other than the Yankees, which didn't
really give you any reason to be a York fan either.
So growing up you weren't a Knicks fan. Did you
ever go to games at the Garden or that special?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
No, I mean so we never a Knicks fan, mind you.
I mean it wasn't a I wouldn'tay, it wasn't a thing.
I wasn't. No, I wasn't They had some times. I
wasn't poor, but I wasn't like one of those kids
that can just buy a bunch of tickets to go places.
And we were so stuck in basketball. We just played.
We didn't have time for anything else to like go
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attend a bunch of stuff. So like back then we
played three and four games a day. Now, you know,
kids are there's load managed LOLd management in every level
now from high school to college. You know, we play
a lot of football. I played, I played a lot
of basketball. We played a lot of sports, but we
just wasn't at the time when it was time. We
didn't are fortunate enough to go and be in great seats.
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But I was not a Knicks fan. I was not
a Mets fan or Giants. He is a fan of
some of those teams now as he've gotten older. But
I said, I was always a fan of certain players,
even though we came to football. It was like, you
know Peyton Manning, it said, Michael Jordan will come to NBA.
Even you know certain other teams, certain players. But it
was not the New York sports fan. And I'm not
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saying I disliked them, but I just never grew up
in that of being a New York like New York.
I was in New York, but not a New York
sports fan.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I see.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So when I was researching for this episode, I read
something pretty cool about you that in your freshman year
of high school you were actually the quarterback on your
schools football team.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I did.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I did play football up until my sophomore year and
then I transferred school.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
But yeah, what was that like? Having to balance basketball,
football and academic workload?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
That wasn't easy.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
The hardest part for me was actually making the decision
to choose which one I wanted to play like full time.
That was the hard part, But trying to balance academics
high school. I feel like I wouldn't say super easy,
but it's easier. I went to public school until I transferred. Yeah,
so public school is not as challenging as private school
where you have like academic detention and stuff like that
you have to wear a uniform every day. Once I transferred,
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I realized it was a lot harder and different. So
trying to do all those sports and carry the academic
load it would have been tougher. And in college doing
the same carrying that load with the credits you're trying
to keep with eight am classes and stuff like that.
So for me, the hard part was said it was
giving up football because I loved it a lot as
a kid, and it was like choosing which one I
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wanted to do and like focus on that and try
to like make myself into that and go to school
for free for playing that sport. But yeah, doing academics
wasn't wasn't easy either. With playing a bunch of sports,
it was. It was challenging.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I want to hear what your uniform looked like.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
It's some of them at school for us, I mean
we just had like a blue navy blazer, like khaki pants,
like like beige pants, white button, white button up and tie.
You had to wear a suit. You couldn't wear you
had to like you get to shave. You couldn't wear jewelry.
You can wear earrings, you couldn't wear a lot of things.
You have to make sure your tie, pants were buckled
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up and up on your waist. Because your kids used
to wear pants sag and a little bit, make sure
you I think they still do. Yeah, I'm sure there's
things have changed, but I'm sure it's similar. But yeah,
we just had a blazer, button up tie and and
some khaki pants, and I think it changed, like if
freshman sophomore had to wear different colored pants something like that.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You already. Yeah, uniforms are crazy. I only had one
in elementary school, and I actually now I realize I
liked it because now I have to wake up every
morning and it makes it easy where yeah, you just
have to roll out of you on the thing.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
You appreciate more things as an adult, you realize, like
like even now, like we appreciate appreciate learning things new
every day, but when you're in school, you like you
don't care to learn certain things. Yeah, back then, it's
like I wanted to wear outfits. But it's like it
made things easy for me. I didn't have to choose
outfit every day. You know, I just iron the same clothes,
clean what I need to clean, make sure I have
like five of the same button ups, a blazer, and
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some khaki pants, same uniform every day.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
So it made it very easy. But I didn't appreciate
it till I got older.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah, no, agreed. Okay, So now I want to move
on to about your NBA career. We heard about you
when you were seventeen, but now we're going to talk
real hoops. Okay, So I want to start off with
the twenty thirteen title against the Heat and Brown. Looking back,
what stands out to you most about that?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Twenty thirteen was not a great standout year. For the
thing that I remember most is losing.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah, well, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
We had a great fun series. I played well, had
a chance to win, and I've been lucky. I've won three,
so you know, by any means, not trying to be greedy,
but it would be nice to have gotten that other
one too, and I had a chance of being like
finals MVP. Everybody talks about that, had a great series.
But the memory that says out the most is just
how much fun it was getting there and playing there,
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but just ultimately we did lose and lost in seven
game series and it really took a turn in game
six for us. So that ray Allen shot always comes
to mind when everybody brings up twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, so you talked about how you've won three rings,
which is an incredible accomplishment, and later on in the
interview of Action asking you a trivia question about that.
So I had to get excited, get.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Get start thinking brain rolling exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But I want to know obviously all of them were
extremely important to you in different ways. Is they're one
that stood out the most?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
You know, people ask that all the time, like which
one was the like the most important? Yeah, it's like,
I don't know. You guys might have kids here. Every
time somebody I give them analogy, like if you have
multiple kids, which you can't choose your favorite, which one
which experience was If I'm sure they appreciate one they
parent you differently, and I probably appreciate one that's less maintenance,
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low maintenance than the others. But each birth experience, I'm
sure they enjoyed love and they like them for different reasons.
You know, your first is your first. So San Antonio
was probably the most special. The most fun I had
during the year was probably in Toronto, and then the
most difficult one was probably in the Bubble. Mentally, emotionally
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was tough. But they're all special to me in different ways.
I can't say I love one more than the other
because you know, they're all your kids. They're all your kids,
you know, So that's what I'd like to give people
that analogy.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
But they're all with special but said in different ways.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
What do you say to the haters that say, oh,
the Bubble Ring wasn't real.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
The ring is real. You know, I still I got
the hardware. To anybody else wanted, they'd still be I
think it's just mostly because there's the Lakers, Yes, that too.
People either love or hate the Lakers, and people will
love or hate Lebron, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
There's Lebron haters and there's.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
You know, Lakers theaters, so you know, and a lot
of those people that don't like the Disney Mickey Mouse
ring or somebody else that won, they'd give them full credit.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You know, it happens.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
You know, nobody can take that away from you, regardless
of what the stipulations were or the conditions were, a
lot of teams have won because of injuries, or because
somebody wasn't somewhere, or because of you know, uh, a
lockout year. You know, they don't say they don't put asteris.
Oh you won because of lockout, It doesn't matter. You
want somebody has to win. And you know, we were
fortunate enough to get that done, be that team to
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be the last one standing.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Yeah. And I know during the locko you played in Slovenia, right,
I did like that. I did quite different from the NBA.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Very humbling, yes, very different. I did not know where
it was. I'm not great at geography. Even as I've
gotten older, I'm still not great at geography on the.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Map, and that's like one of my best things.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Yeah, and I never heard of the country until my
AE brought it to my attention. So I didn't know
where it was. I never heard of it. I didn't
know what the language was. They spoke there. Luckily they
did speak English, most of them did. It was a
nice city, it was cool, it was clean. But yeah,
that lifestyle is very different, you know, travel, the way
you travel is different, the way you play is different.
The way you practice different twice a day, the weather
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is different, the way you get paid is different. So
it was very humbling and it made me appreciate the
NBA very much, so much more. And once I was
able to get back, I was like, you know, I
want to make sure that I'd stay here as long
as I can, and I'm gonna work to to not
ever leave this place if I.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
If I don't have to.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
But you know, knocked over overseas, it's a great opportunity
to play and make money. I even thought about going
back at some point before I retired, but you know,
I have a family now, so things are different. You
have to make decisions not only for yourself but for
the people that are you know, attached, you know, attached
to you. So yeah, but overseas, that experience was humbling.
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There's different places that are different, so, you know, because
how do.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
You choose Slovenia over China or Spain or that was
just the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
It's usually the opportunities that present to you. You get
a chance to choose. Sometimes a lot of times you don't,
even just like an NBA like, sometimes very few people
get to choose where they want to go when they
want to go, and how they want to get paid.
And that's just anything in life you get was presented
to you. Weigh the options and see what's the best opportunity,
and it's like, you know, this is something I could
make good money, stay in shape, play and play well,
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and then also you know, explore some of Europe.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
So yeah, totally. Obviously I was just a little baby
when you when you were on the Spurs, So though
I don't remember much of it, I've obviously seen really
cool YouTube clips and everything like that from that Spurs era.
And I'm curious, what's the best quote coach Pop ever
said to your team?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Ooh, there's so many.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
There's so many gems that I've learned from Pop just
as a man, uh not not you know, I would
say as a player, yeah, but as an adult. You know,
he put a lot of things perspective for us of like,
you know, don't take it for granted. The NBA is
Christmas every day. There's real world problems going on, and
he give us examples, you know, every couple of days
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to be you know, thorough countries are going through this.
There's a world going over here, there's people getting bombed
over here, like and you're waking up. Just play basketball
game to work and make a lot of money to
take care of yourself and your family. So those things
always put things like they always, you know, gave us
a good perspective on life.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
But I do.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Hold a certain amount of things that pertain to your
character that he said close And one of the things
is why Timmy is so great of.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Who he is and why he.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Was and Pop is they never allowed the game to
or let themselves feel bigger than the game or bigger
than anyone else. So you know, the biggest company he
ever gave Timmy was you know, he's the same gentleman
that walked through that door when he was rookie that
he is now when he's finished playing. And Pop is
the same guy I'm sure that he is now that
he when he was when he first got that.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
He's never changed.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
So you know his always that would say kind of
stay even keel, never let it get too high, gatu lo,
but never allow any of these things to change you
as a person, or let let it go to your
head and think you're bigger than anything because you're good
at a basketball game.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
You can see that in all the aspects of Tim Duncan,
like from his outfits to the way he plays his
outfits are was there a specific outfit of Tim's ever
that he walked in?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I love them all?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Are you wearing?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I love them all?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Because he allowed us because usually you follow the superstars
lead when it comes to anything.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
And if so, you were gonna start wearing Burkinstone.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I'm just it just made it easy for us because
there was no like certain teams have like a uniform,
not a uniform, but they have like a dress code.
It's like before we get on the plane, make sure
you wear team sweats or you know, certain in Carolina
we had to wear suits and ties, like for certain
pregame meals with Timmy because he was so las a
fair with everything, it was like, yeah, you know, we
don't have to have a dress code, don't have to
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do this, would have to It's like, you know, you
could be comfortable. You know, even when we went to dinners,
like yeah, we have this thing with team dinner. You know,
certain superstars like yeah, make sure you're dressed up or
do this with fact like and even on certain teams,
you just feel you have to keep up, which ultimately
means you probably have to spend more money to like
wear fashionable things. With Timmy was like, you don't have
to impress anybody. You don't have to keep up, and
you don't have to like there's not many restrictions or
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rules when it comes to doing those type of things
outside of basketball.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yeah. So there's another superstar that you played with that
is quite different from Tim Duncan. Yeah, that's Kawhi letter
you want two chips, Yes, Kawai right, And we all
see Kawhi being this guy that doesn't laugh, is very serious,
you know, a little quirky. But you have had such
a deeper relationship with him. I'm wondering what does Kawi
look like behind the scenes.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Actually, him and Timmy aren't that much different. And Timmy
seemed seemed like a Kawi I got most people too.
You know a lot of people thought Timmy didn't talk.
Timmy talked a lot. Actually, he was a very good leader.
He was encouraging not only with his words but his actions,
and Kawhi saying as he got older he became more
of a leader.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
But behind close doors, he's a funny guy and he
cracks jokes. It's just funnier when it comes from him
because you just don't expect it. But uh, yeah, him
and Timmy are very much to themselves. They're quiet, they
don't but they lead when they need to. He loves
to compete, you know. He gets to the gym, really
leaves late, you know, takes care of his body, does
the things he's supposed to. It sucks to see him
go through the injuries he's gone through. But I said,
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him and Timmy are very similar in the fact that
they do work. They do say themselves, but they do
talk and make jokes and like to do certain things
when they have the time to.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, I think it's funny that you called him duncan Timmy.
I haven't really heard that. I like that, So I'm
just calling that. What's the best Timmy dunk?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
You'd on his friends and call him that. No, Timmy
is great man, So the best Timmy dunk? Tim dunk?
Tim's story so the best story of him, just like
off the off the court, I don't know. I mean,
I'm sure you've seen more of it now that he's
done playing like he does the UFC or the taekwondo
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like he does some fighting and stuff that I imagine
him as one of those guys is ready for the
end of the world, Like if it was a zombie apocalypse,
He's the guy I'm running to or his house because
I'm sure he has like a safe house, a bunker
and all the weapons you need. I just remember we
did paintball with him and he's six eleven, but somehow
he's very stealthy.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You know, you can't hit him.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
He's finding you, he's hitting you all over the play
and we had a rule don't hit guys too close,
but he was smoking everybody in this paintball action that
we had.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
And he's very good.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
So so if there's a zombie apocalypse, I think he's
very prepared and he's probably a really good shot. So he's,
you know, good at a lot of things, you know,
off the court that more than you would expect.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
He was a swim or too. Growing up.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I learned that the hard like I think guys learned
that the hard way, because they would come in and
bet that they could race him in a swimming and
they'd always lose. Only one person I think got him,
and I think that was Aaron Bains. Bains was really good.
If I'm not mistaken. But they both swim like a
fish man, those big big boils dolphins in the water,
and they take up a lot of space and they
move very fast in the water.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
That's so cool. I love to hear that. So I
want to talk, you know, earlier we talked a little
bit about the Lakers ring being in the bubble for fans.
What was life like in the bubble? Not really basketball.
I can't even found them what to be like for
basically the whole NBA to be staying in one yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I mean, you know, some guys pointed out to be terrible,
some guys painted out to be like, you know, it
was lovely because of the resort.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I think it was nice.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
It was a nice stay like this is a beautiful
place that we're in, right, But no matter how beautiful
the place is, if you're stay in this place for
one hundred days, it could make you feel you know, enclosed,
or like feel like you're captured or not in you know,
you're mentally it'll wear on you. So they did the
best they could and did a great job of making
sure everybody stayed clean, no one got sick. Testing people.
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We had the first month or two without families they
came in later.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
That was tough.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
You know, you're in your own small space. You're just
with the seeing the same people every day, eating the
same foods, walk on the same campus. But they brought
in good food. They brought us some chefs, some like chefs.
They brought in some food from out side for us
at times. So that was great. But even when you're
eating great meals, if you're eating the same meals every day,
it's like you get tired of it. You know, I
want some canes or some taco bell that you don't
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get those access to all those things. So that made
it challenging. But ultimately I said, it was a really
nice space. They did a great job. It just was
mentally emotionally draining because you're in that space for so
like we were there for almost one hundred days.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I would say, yeah, that sounds crazy. I'm glad I
didn't have to be a part of that. So a
classic podcast question, just interview question, is you know what's
your all time starting five? But you know Slow Noses
a show where as a teenage girl, I like to
mix it up a little bit, So I'm going to
ask you some all time starting fives, but with some
certain categories to shake it up a little bit. So
your last name Green is quite the common last name NBA.
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What is your all time starting five of NBA players
with the last name Green?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Oh, all right, all right, let me see. I'm gonna
put Raymond in there at the four. I'm gonna put
myself at the two. I think I'm gonna put Gerald
Green at the three. Willie Green, Yeah, Gerald, Yeah, second
or third? One of those we found out in high school.
That's another funny story. I want to say Willy Green.
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He's coaching for no Orland still right. I think I
would put him at the one and at the five.
I'm trying to think who would that's that's a That's
a tough one. I'd have to probably go to small
because I don't think there's any centers.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
That's a five. A C. Green, Jamichael Green, Jamichael Jamichael Green,
a C. Green.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yeah, those guys. I'm there's a lot of Greens, but
either J. Michael probably a C. Green probably he is
more of a legendary.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
No respect to J. Mike, he's a great teammate. But
a C. Green. I think it's a legendary dude. For sure.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yeah. The next starting five is you've played with some
incredible teammates. What's your starting five of your all time teammates.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah, that's always tough for me. I'm gonna go with.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
The five position is the hardest. H At the one,
I'm gonna go. This one's tough too because it's between
Kyle Ir and Tony Parker, and it's like.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
You can't go wrong with I'm off the bat that's fine.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, yeah, so I'm gonna put those two together. But
before at the one, it's those are my best point
guards that I got a chance to play with. At
the two, Manu probably probably for sure, Manu at the three,
Kawhi at the four, Timmy actually an the four bron.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yeah, I was about to say, you're leaving out someone.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Okay, this is gonna be crazy because I'm gonna have
to leave somebody out because I actually got a chance
to play with Shaq. So I'm gonna put Shack at
the five, Tommy at the four, Bron at the three,
Kawhi at the two, just to throw it out there
and I'll put I have to put a spur in this.
I'm gonna put Tony at the one. I like k
Low at the one as well. I left off Kawhi,
which is unbelievably hard. Said, yes, KAUI at the two,
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but I left who do I leave off at the two?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Manu? I left Manow he can be the sixth minutes.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah, so yeah, that is a good I got Timmy
in there. So I got Timmy, Shaq, Bron Kawhi and
then Tony at the one. But I mean I would
that could be k Low as well. So I've had
some really great teammates. I left off a D Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yeah, I mean it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
And Dwight. I've played with Dwight. I played with a D.
I played with Rondo. You know, I could have threw Ron.
I know that chance to play Rondo in his prime,
and I always wish I could have done that. But yeah,
I played with a lot of great players.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yeah you did. Okay, the last starting five, I'm gonna
ask you about this. Before the interview started, Danny and
I were talking a lot about fast food and crumble
cookies and taco bell and canes and all that good stuff.
And I want to know if you had to make
a starting five a fast food rest, oh Man, what
it would be but I also want you to be strategic, right. Yeah,
It's like in my head, right, you could be like, oh, no,
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Taco is a point guard, Like I don't see Taco
bell as the center. You know, you really got to
think about it that way to really make sure that
team's going eighty two and up.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Yes, So my fast food preferences have changed over time
when I was younger, definitely heavy on some other things.
I'm definitely gonna put Chipotle.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
In there, obviously at a position.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Probably at the two. I'm gonna probably put Canes at
the three, at the four.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Five guys.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It's interesting that you don't think five guys should be
at the five, right, That would be yeah, classic.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Because I feel like you need like the best fast
like your best fast food place, probably at the center.
I think may maybe Chick fil at the five. Can
put Chick fil at the five at the point guard position? Man,
I'm trying to think, like, that's tough. I'm trying to
think of what else that I haven't cut out because
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there's a lot of things I used to eat that
I don't eat.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I mean, it could be a classic like a McDonald's
or like your least I.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Can't put McDonald's in there. That would be really bad. Yeah, Okay,
I used to eat McDonald's way back.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
No, in and out, I'll put in and out the way.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Because you're an LA guy, I'll put in and out
of one.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
You know what I'm gonna put because I'm a l
A guy. But I lived in Texas for a really
long time and water Burger. I'm gonna put Waterburger at the.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
One time I just had Waterburger for the first time.
It's good.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
It's good, and I feel like it's more of a
locational thing, like if you live in that atmosphere, it's
just a late night you know, everybody has a munchy
spot Northeast people with like White Castle, that was the
thing back in the day. Yeah, water Burger is like
the spot that's like it hits especially late night sometimes
I think it used to be open twenty four hours.
But it's like a cultural thing and you become like
people here, people like, oh they come to visit, Like
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in and out is not that great, but if you
are part of it, you live here, it's a cultural thing.
It's like it's a late night great munchy spot or
whenever you're in the mood for it.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I'm so glad you said that because I actually sort
of agree that in and out is like I love it,
I love going in some of my friends whatever, but
like it's really not it's someone blindfolded me Burger.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
I'd be like, yeah, same with Waterburger, like your first time, like, oh,
people really hype this up, but over time it gets better.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Like you, it's sort of like sink into it. That's
I'm don't have to have it a second time not
to like understand really what it's about. So three your career,
you sort of bounce back and forth between the NBA
and what used to be called the D League the
NBA Development League.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah, which is now the G League.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Exactly, which is now the G League. What do you
say to guys in a similar situation who are bouncing
back and forth between the NBA and the league. What
advice do you have for them on how to sort
of hand handle that?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Meant?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
You know, I see a lot of the young guys
today now, and they're going through some different things because
the expectation with social media becomes like more expectations. Take
for instance, like LEBRONI right, Everybody's like he's got a
four year deal, he's supposed to be this that maybe
he's not ready, and maybe in his mind he's thinking like, oh,
I'm not ready, I'm not good enough. News flash, kid,
none of us were good enough, Like we weren't good
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at the time. A lot of us when we first
came in, we were not great. So don't get discouraged,
you know, like, enjoy the time, embrace the process of
getting better, you know, work on your game, and eventually
you will be confident you'll be good enough. The G
League was a great tool for me to not only
get better, but gain confidence in myself and what i'll
you know, what I was doing, and be the player
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that I you know, be a rotational NBA player. So
guys that are watching or take advice, you know, just
don't look down upon it. Don't think it's a like demotion,
you know, just have fun, enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Get better. We've all been there.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
We've all, even the greatest of great have started out
as not a great, but like come off the bench
or not. Kobe Bryant came out to the bench from point,
you know, like Reggie Miller, all these guys. You don't
realize that until you're like, oh, you know, damn, I
thought he came in was a star right away. None
of these guys were stars right away like some of them. Yes,
but very few guys come in and be great or
stars right away. Ninety percent of us, like have to
go through that. So you know, just to enjoy it,
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embrace it in and don't get discouraged. You know you can.
If you don't think you're good enough right now or
an NBA player right now, doesn't mean you can't be
very soon.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah, that's great advice and I feel like it can
apply to really life as well.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
For sure, with anything you do.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
I mean, you're only going to get better at but
if you have consistent repetition of it.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
So now you're a couple months into your retirement, do
you even watch basketball anymore?
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I do because I have to, it's my job. But yes,
with a little one, I don't watch as much TV.
Even when I played. You know, people talking about the
ratings are down, but I didn't watch it as much.
I watched what I had to because of teams that
I played, or scouted or players. But I didn't want
to burn myself out. I was such a big fan
as a kid, and I watched it so much of
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my life. As I got older, It's like, you know what,
I don't want to I want to step away from it.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
When I'm home.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
I want to watch TV series and movies and be
fresh for like, all right, I'm not burnt out. When
I come into the gym and watch film. It's like,
all right, it's fresh for me. So I do watch
it now, not as much as I did when I
was younger. I's still am a big movie above TV
series guy, and because I a little wanted to watch
a lot of TV. But yes, I do have to watch.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Burn my job moving into the rapid fire a little bit.
Because you said you like movies and TV shows. What's
the best movie you've ever seen?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
There's a million I can't get.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I can't eve give wait, okay, what about this? Starting
five best movies?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I mean, I have to give like one from each category.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Right, there's like a drama, it's like a comedy, a
rom com. There's too many movies to choose from. But
like growing up, like the movies that I love to watch,
and I have tattoos of them on my body, like
the Teenage Mutant, Ninja Turtles, Godzilla movies, not like Marvel movies.
Those were some of my favorite movies to watch as
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a youngster, and even as an adult, you know, it
still brings me back to childhood. But now I'm a
big murder mystery guy.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Like I like that anything with murder I can't do.
It freaks me out.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I think you'll grow out it, like once you understand
certain I didn't like scary movies when I was younger,
but now watching it and I try to predict things
or see how things are made, and you can see
when the sounds are coming in there trying to scare
you jump, So not scared anymore. When I was a
young kid, I didn't like scary movies. But now I
appreciate all aspects of film, so that may be some
that I want to tap into later on in life.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
We need to see in a movie, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
I wouldn't be a post but yeah, maybe one day
I wouldn't mind being behind the scenes and see how
it works. And like writing because I feel like a
lot of movies are predictable, and the ones that that
I guess capture my attention to the ones that are
unpredictable and have like different twists and turns. That's why
murder mysteries are like, all right, trying to solve or
figure out who was the killer?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Right, Okay, so now we're gonna be in our rapid
fire section. All right, So what's your favorite clothing brand?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
All right, rapid fire favorite clothing brand is Puma as
it stands right now, I'm a Puma athlete. I was
a poor athlete currently not yet, but Puma is my
favor my probably my best sponsor that I've ever had
in my career.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Gotcha, what's your favorite food?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Before you get to these questions, I don't have a
favorite anything because its hard for me to choose one
thing over everything and say I like it that much more.
But to play along, I'm gonna give you like my
biggest preferences. I'm gonna go with Italian probably, Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
If you could go to dinner with anyone that or alive,
who would it be?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
People? Acts?
Speaker 3 (33:01):
But there's a lot of celebrities that I would love
to And when you ask kids this question, it's always
like family members. So I would love to have a
mix of certain celebrities that passed that I never got
a chance to see, like the Michael Jackson's of the world,
or like the Robin william Like certain actors and actresses,
some of them I had get a chance to meet,
but also like certain fan members that didn't get a
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chance to meet my my little like my grandmother. Yeah,
my son, like I would love to have dinner when
he's older, to like know her and her you know,
be there.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
So yeah, I love that. Okay, So if you could
make the Olympics for one sport that isn't basketball, what
would it be?
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Ooh, I'm not really great at many other things. You
are sport what other sports would like would it be?
It wouldn't be tracked. I wasn't. It took me a
while to get fast or like to learn to run.
Swimming people A lot of guys say swim because I
think that I was a good swimmer at one point.
I didn't swim a lot as I got older, or
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I just wasn't a big ocean guy because I don't
like what's out there. Fair, But it was another sport,
like I used to play football, but I don't think
I would be Yeah, it's an Olympic sport.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
But there's random things like curling or like breakdowns.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Yeah, I was thinking like maybe maybe volleyball or something
like that, saying volleyball or something like that.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
I don't know. I'm trying to like, it wouldn't be badminton.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
It's pretty rare trying to think of something I did
like ping pong a lot, you know, ping pong, you
know it if I took that serious and like, I
would love to be like Forrest Gump, you know.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Just yeah, all right. So now, if you walk into
an ice cream shop right, literally every single flavor is
out there, What flavor are you getting? And then what
topics are you putting on it? And then are you
going cup or con because that really says a lot
about a person.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Cup golt Man uh around, she looked a little crazy.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
I'm gonna go cup.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
I'm gonna go vanilla, chocolate cookie dough and all ice
cream is one of the top preferences.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Sounds so good, right, And when I do.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Put toppings on any if it was just vanilla ice cream,
I would do like some rainbow sprinkles or like chocolate chips.
Those would be toppings that I would if I just
regular vanilla ice cream.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Yes, if you get the whatever chocolate chip situation in
the ice cream. You can't put like rainbow sprinkles can
mix that.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
So if I'm going to do toppings, I have to
do regular vanilla. But if I'm doing chocolate chip cookie
dough with an ice cream, I don't really put many
of the toppings on that.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Yeah, sometimes I go like crazy vellin ice creams em
and ms yes, yeah, sprinkles, you know Reese's cups.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
So, yeah, it's embarrassing. But sometimes I get like cotton
candy ice cream with like chocolate chips. It's just like
I'm just hungry and I want to try all the things,
and I just put it all together and it's just crazy.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
That sounds like a wild It's very like.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
I feel like eventually, like my ice cream paste will
mature as I get older, you know, and whole palate changes. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Younger, we didn't like vegetables. No Brussels sprouts and asparagus
is good for you and it's not.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
I'll grow out of it. Then. Do you have a
favorite candy?
Speaker 3 (36:00):
No, They're all from me, especially when I was when
I used to go to movies, so I was a
big move off and I'll go to movies. I would
get different candies, it depends on the move. Sometimes sweet
and sour, either like Skittles or Sour Patch Kids. Sometimes
just chocolate. You get some snow caps or Reese's cups.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Sometimes you get candy in your popcorn.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
No, we wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
What no to do that?
Speaker 3 (36:23):
I would do sometimes the ice cream bars, like a
Snickers ice cream bar, like those things. It depends on
the move. But yes, ultimately they're they're all. It depends
on the move.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Yeah, but that's fair. I'm an all candy type of
girl too.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
I just cut back a lot though since I've been
an adult.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
So now that you're in retirement, though, you have to
really go for it, just eat a lot of candy.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
I've taken some time off of being like I wouldn't
say on a diet, but like, hey, but yeah, so
in a couple of months of just eating some bs
and not working out as much. But once the new
year hits, we're back on to being a real adult
and taking care of your body because you want to
live longer for your kids.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Right totally?
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Who does your celebrity look alike Lionel Richie? Hmmm, yeah,
when you don't pet like it's side by side little
picture there.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
That's the first person that comes to mind. But there's
a lot of other you know, they say light skin
people all look alike. There's a lot of different light
skin guys out there that I look like. I don't
know if you've ever seen Power No Snowfall, Snowfall, you've
ever seen Snowfall. There's a character his name is Melvin
Grag they call man Boy and the show. I get
him a lot. But Lionel Richie was of course a lot.
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And there's a bunch of other guys. But any light
skin guy I.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
See Lionel Richie. Yeah, what's your favorite podcast? Because you
a podcast? I have a podcast.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Inside the green Room with Danny. I gotta put Danny.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
I really set you up here.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
You guys are a close second.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Okay, close, I appreciate it. You know, first is the worst, second.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Is the best. That's just the way I used to
say that all the time.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
No, that's my go to Okay, So, now, like I
said earlier, remember I was telling you to get the
brain movement for these slow nose trivia. So basically I'm
gonna ask you trivia about yourself. Okay, and Danny, I
feel like you're definitely like a very memory, like you
definitely pay attention to the little details. I tried to,
but I don't know if you're gonna remember this stuff.
I'm excited to say. Okay, during your career, in seasons
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where you played at least twenty games, how many times
did you shoot above forty percent? From three?
Speaker 3 (38:13):
I played in technically fifteen seasons, which is like fourteen,
and I think out of the fourteen, I think I.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Was below maybe three times.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
So I would say eleven to be safe, being a
little cocky is a less than there is more than that.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
It's a little less. It's a lot less.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Wait, so out of fourteen or I think of fifteen,
so is it ten? It's not ten, it's less than that.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
It's a lot less than that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Really, wow, above forty how many seasons? So eight it's
lower than that? No way?
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Six? Six is still incredible. Oh wow, it's still incredible.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Six out of fourteen?
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Hm? Okay, So I'm thinking I guess the first couple
of years I didn't play much above twenty games.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Above twenty games, Yeah, exactly, there you go. That's why.
That's why I'm sure if you played six seasons.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Still, it's like, damn, no, it's amazing. I guess so
depends on.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
You're asking, so humble, I'm telling you it is amazing.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
How damn I thought I was good?
Speaker 1 (39:15):
See that's the one islanos. I really got to see
what you know? Okay, how many games did you play
at u NC.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Ooh?
Speaker 3 (39:21):
I did four years. I think I hold the record
for the most games played still I did at one point.
I don't know if that's still true, because there's guys
that played five you it's like fifty.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Or six years. Singles now, amando big different. R J
has been there for a while.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Four years, we've average about almost forty games, So like
thirty seven thirty eight is so, say four times four
one hundred and sixty, right, would be? So about one
hundred and fifty games?
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Oh wow, okay, you're really close one hundred and forty five. Okay,
this is unbelievably impressive. Like when I read it, I
was like, wow, that's that's crazy. How many of those
one hundred and forty five games you win?
Speaker 3 (40:01):
I had at one point held the record for the
most wins there. I don't know if that still stands true.
Was it one hundred and ten?
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Okay this one? Now you're being too humble to one
hundred twenty three, okay, which is amazing. Okay, Okay, So
you were in high school in two thousand and five.
You're the class of two thousand and five. Then I
was just like a thought in my parents, not even
probably I thought of my parents, but anyway, I just
wanted to remind you the old Yeah exactly, in the
class of twenty twenty, not twenty twenty five, two thousand
and five.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
What were you ranked in high school? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (40:32):
I actually just looked this up recently because I'd argue
with somebody. Somebody thought I was like top twenty five,
and I'm like, bro, I was not top twenty close.
I think I was top fifty, yes, but I think
I was in like the thirty.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Of forties, yes, thirties, getting closer.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Like thirty seven, thirty one okay, okay, yeah, pretty good.
Only is why I was close, because I say, I
looked it up and I was like he people had this,
you know, like people formed this image of people in brains, like, yo,
you were amazing and high. Yeah, the one was not
that good, Like I was good, but I was not
that good, and like you were top ten.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
I'm like, there was no way you needed.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
To make it clear that it was like an underdogs.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
I was a late balloon.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
So I bumped up to thirty one, but like before
my senior year, I was probably below, like out of
the top.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Fifty for sure.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Yeah. Okay, so let's see how good your memory really
is and how much you really focus on these small details. Okay, Danny,
you were drafted forty six. Who was drafted forty fifth?
And can you tell me where he went to college?
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Ooh, I don't know. Forty five forty five? Can you
tell me the team.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
That was weal, that's part of the question. But okay,
he was to Florida.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Oh, the team that drafted Timberwolves. Okay.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Actually, interestingly enough, the Timberwolves had to pick before you
and the pick after you, so they pretty much passed
up on you twice.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
Yeah, everybody passed up with me twice, and forty six,
I think I had passed twice by everybody. The forty
fifth pick went to Minnesota and he went to school
in Florida, US.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Yeah, I have no clue.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
I'm gonna say, yeah, I have no honest Nick oh,
nicklethus he was, he was a big time in Greece,
Nick Coleathas and.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
I remember that. Wow, yeah, I remember our draft class.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
I remember a lot of people that went before me.
I don't remember exact picks. I think wait an nine.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
A few slow nos A Line Blake was number.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
One, right, has Sheen was number two, James Harden number three, four,
I forget.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
I know Ricky Rubio was up there.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
I know Brandon Jennings was up there, Drew Holliday was
up there, Demarto Rosan was up there, TODJ.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Gibson was in the first round. Like, there's a lot
of guys the first round.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Remember you know when we had Draymond on this podcast,
he closed his eyes and listed every single person in
the draft. It was crazy.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Yeah, he I was so far behind. It was a point.
It was a time where everybody but I was. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
All right, Danny, this is my last question for you.
It's a good one, Okay. Can you nominate the next
Sloan Nose guest?
Speaker 2 (43:06):
Nominate?
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Do we can? We pick a region or an area,
a person.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
You know what I'm saying, Like, like, are we when's
the next pot is it in California?
Speaker 1 (43:16):
This is I appreciate how you're so devoted.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Yes, we're based here, okay in California. I'm trying to
think who's local, who's easy locally, who's been doing some
good stuff, who's been on like.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
One of your boys you can like, you.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
Know, somebody I know.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
I'm trying to think of, like who's recently also retire,
Like a lot of guys retired, yeah, and are in
the podcast in the worlds Now, who's also done? Who's
doing the podcast game Heavy Now, that's a friend of mine.
So I don't have many of those. A lot of
(43:54):
people like me. You already said r j P. The
ESPN down Who would be a great guest.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
Like somebody that's like I'm thinking of, like the ESPN
guys that.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
I work with all the cacoing.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
Yeah, so there's some guys that I work with on Turner,
I work with guys A Fandle Chandler Parsons is another one,
like Lou will Chandler Parsons slow notes.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
But Lou Williams, let's okay, that's can I just.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
You can shoot come on, slow, come on, Lou's got
great stories, he's done his own pot. He's been doing
great with that, even on stuff with with Turner.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
I have a bunch of random guys another great guests.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
Why don't I just send you like my list of
like dream and then get him. You'll just get him all.
That's what it's like a deal. I'll just like postmate
your canes or something gift and then like that's pretty
much thought. Yeah, he once a month's time, I will
send you exactly.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Sounds like a plan.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
Great, sounds like thanks Sanny, it's so much fun.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
Thank you everyone,
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