Junior's Sports Talk

NBA great Willis Reed passed away at age 80.  Steve had some great things to say about the legend.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time now for Junior and sports talk. What
you got Junior, Thank you, Jesus, Sports Talk, thank you, Jesus.
Just want to make sure we put it on here. Amen.
Uh Man, Tommy Willis Reid passed away. Didn't know if
you saw that up at the age of eighty, man,

(00:20):
I mean a story ten ten year career. Uh, I
never got to see what is read play. I never
did see that. That's how young I am. But he
was a two time NBA champion, seven time NBA All
Star Basketball Hall of Fame. He was the nb NBA
MVP in nineteen sixty nine to nineteen seventy. He was

(00:42):
a two time Finals MVP, and the man graduated from
Grambling University. Uh this year. This is uh you know?
Was he was? He? That dominant up? Was he that
Willis Reid was For his greatest moment, man, was when
he went off the floor with the subvit your injury
and one of the game's final games when the New

(01:04):
York Knicks was that they highted. It was New York
Knicks had Earl Laphil Monroe, Walf Frasier, Dave Bushell who
was basted. I had all New York knicks. Here one
that blew it with the orange basketball. And after halftime

(01:25):
he came out limping severely, took his sweat off and
winning that wore the ass out. Willis Reed is one
of the great video tapes out And I think that's
also what people don't understand. Who would not around then,
how the game was so different. The game was a

(01:46):
different game. It was hand checking, it was it was
boxing out under the board real it was a rugged game.
You had to have a big man to defend the
middle because they was coming and you to be have
a big man. You could dump it down in the
wheel and get your two points. That game is gone.
And if these a lot of these young people had

(02:08):
to play back in that day, they wouldn't have made it.
They would not have made it. Jordan jumped a lot
of stuff off. But Magic, man, they're not giving Magic
his due. Magic changed the game of basketball. The first
big man that was that fluid with about I mean,
his handles was crazy, but his passing and so that

(02:29):
arrow basketball is what I keep seeing And when they
make the comparison to today, that's why I just keep
you didn't see it, man, So y'all really don't know.
I saw a funny video on Instagram the other day.
Latino Guy was in the foot locker and a guy
came up to him and said, who is the greatest
basketball player of all time? Lebron or Jordan? He say,

(02:50):
you see anybody in here with some Lebron's on? Love
Lebron or whatever. Thank you, Junior. Coming up. A woman
on social media needs your advice. She says her family
is gonna trip out about her male roommate. We'll talk

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about it right after this. You're listening to the Stave
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