How the Hornets Made the NBA COOLER Than MJ 😳+ Knicks vs Pacers LIVE
Welcome to Goat James Kingdom, where basketball lives forever. Here in Goat James Kingdom, we attack the GOAT debate head on where we challenge all Michael Jordan fans and all LeBron detractors to who is the goat of basketball. You can catch us every Sunday noon Eastern time right here on the Goat James Kingdom channel for the Goat James Kingdom show with B and A. Johnny. Also, we go live Friday nights with the Friday Night Exposure with the Exposer, where you catch special shows and content as a Goat James Kingdom follower and subscriber. Also, check out the Goat James Kingdom membership where you can get exclusive content. [Music] [Music] This episode of Forgot About Him Fridays, we have none other than Baron Davis. I’m telling y’all, BD was so cold with it. Bro said, “I got a little birdie.” Where you going? Gave Reggie a smooth in-n-out burger out to that cup. Oh my god. You know the Hezi was on Hall of Fame. Eric Snow and A. I can’t believe it. Somebody get a Kleenex. We got teardrop. Imagine your point guard back dooring to do this [Â __Â ] right here. I knew KG was going to be a good businessman when he decided not to jump with him. He already knew what it was. You couldn’t keep BD off that rim when he was in Charlotte. The In-N-Out cross had him punch drunk lay me. God damn it. Somebody called facilities. We got a slip and fall accident at this time. BD was damn near a top three point guard in the league. Man, give me that. Ain’t have not one offensive weakness. Godamn Baron, chill out. Should have shot it all good though. Hit him with the Rondo dying. Bro was too quick, too big, and too strong. And if bro got to his launch pad, it was over. God damn. Sorry T-Mac ain’t nothing over there and you better not jump. Told Charlie Ward the hosman cool but I got a jumper. Mike Bby Baron Davis mono emano. Don’t get it wrong. By was tough but Baron was different. Bro let him go. Like I don’t even want no problem. They was so scared they had to hug him. Welcome to James Kingdom. Welcome. I am a Johnny the exposer and y’all have now been exposed by the exposer. I appreciate it. [Music] Enjoy. Enjoy. I am called the Hey, Johnny the Exposer. You guys are being exposed today. It’s just your opinion, I guess. Move on from it. It was the ‘9s. That’s it, bro. Move on from that. You don’t know history. You don’t know basketball. You just told me I’m stupid. But look how stupid you look because you know I know basketball. You don’t know history. You don’t know jamming. You don’t know. You don’t know coaching. You don’t know scouting. You don’t know drafting. who don’t know nothing from that Michael Jordan because the media said do that and told you to say that. I know that disappointed and you are officially being exposed by the exposer and you going to sit there like a man and check this just like did two weeks ago. [Music] Peace and blessings y’all. Welcome to the Friday night exposure with the exposer. I’m your host, A Johnny the Exposer, coming live and direct off the Goat James Kingdom channel. You guys already know what to do. Hit that like button, hit that subscribe button. Don’t be afraid to check out the Goat James Kingdom membership. As you see, our content is growing and our following is growing. So, we want to give a shout out to everybody who’s already a GJK members as we got some of y’all in the building. Peace and blessings to Zero. Indeed. Indeed. Shout out to you. Thank you for joining us here again. And it is the Friday night exposure with the exposer. I’m your host, a Johnny the Exposer. I come every Friday night right here on the Goat James Kingdom channel to be able to open up a platform for all basketball fans, right? And obviously you guys know I’m making a name for myself as a LeBron fan. People are are are are truly truly enamored with LeBron. Whether you love him or you hate him, you’re still enamored with the guy. He’s one of the greatest things we ever seen, right? So, with that being said, tonight’s show I felt like I had to address a few things. Um, because for one, it’s my birthday weekend. And I turned I turned 44. 44 this weekend, ladies and gentlemen. I turned 44 years old. Yes, I was born in 1981. I was born in the 1900s. And the reason I bring this up is because recently we we we just heard uh Zesty Fitness and Rants, you know, claim that I just started watching basketball in 2010. And I find it weird that everybody could try to come at me about how how you supposed to be a basketball fan or not. It doesn’t make sense to me because, you know, I talk about it with Cheltown all the time. If you’re a basketball fan, for one, you should have a basketball team that you root for. Two, there should be a player that you like that you also root for. And we all know in today’s content creating world, there is nothing but hateful content about either one basketball teams or the players. All right? And I’m and I’m and I’m here to address some of this because I’m a basketball fan. I’ve been a basketball fan for quite some time. And the reason I even thought about this show was because with the OKC Thunder, right, being the type of team that they are. Um, and again, shout out to everybody on FYF Sports Debate who was watching us because we are live there as well. Shout out to everybody who’s watching us on Instagram. We are running live on Instagram. Make sure you follow us on Instagram. Like I said, we are on all platforms. We’re not only on YouTube and Instagram. We’re also on Facebook. We’re also on Tik Tok. We’re on Twitter. We’re on Discord. We’re all over the place. Again, ladies and gentlemen, hit that like button. hit that subscribe button. Also, hit that ring notification so that you know when we drop new videos and content. But I was thinking about this OKC Thunder team and how people are not really willing to give them their flowers. Even I wasn’t ready to give them their flowers. Now, I thought that they would lose to Denver. That was my my my playoff prediction. I knew they would get past the first round and I knew they would face Denver in the second round because I had Denver beating the Clippers and I had the the Denver beating the OKC Thunder, but obviously the Denver Nuggets didn’t do it. I can make excuses about injuries, this, that, and the third. But either way, the Denver Nuggets didn’t do it. Once they did that, I had to give my flowers to the OKC Thunder because I knew they would make the NBA Finals and basically be the NBA champion championship team. I I I had hopes for Minnesota to make the NBA Finals, but in reality, it it it was the OKC Thunder. And I thought about how the OKC Thunder doesn’t have a large fan base because of the quoteunquote small market and how the NBA always has this uh tag about small market teams. So I I wanted to, you know, address some of the stuff that we hear about with these small market teams and things of that nature. And I wanted to talk about my fandom because what made me a fan of the NBA was small market team, which was the Charlotte Hornets. I became a basketball fan as a kid watching the Charlotte Hornets. That’s how I I came in love with the game of basketball through the NBA. Shout out to you, King Rose speech. Appreciate that, brother. I see you in the comments, right? I see you in the comments though. I see y’all in the comments. You talking about plumbers? I listen. Plumbers. Well, how Baron Davis is a plumber. Baron Davis is a 2000’s player for sure. He’s a 2000s player for sure. Um, but I wanted to discuss this, bro. You know what I’m saying? Shout out to Juan Boy, a DJK member. Peace and blessings, brother. Thank you for joining me. Asante’s in the building. Peace and blessings. Thank you for joining me. You know what I’m saying? Um, yes, an emergency date. You know what I’m saying? So, I wanted to talk about um Oh, Mike is in the building. Shout out to Mike. Challenge me. I better cook today. I’m gonna cook today, Mike, cuz I know you wasn’t born in the 1900s, Mike. If I’m correct, Mike, the way you be talking, you wasn’t born in the 1900s, Mike. But shout out to you, man. Thank you for joining me here on a Friday night. Oh, we got Dookie in the building, ladies and gentlemen. Dookie is in the building. Why you come popping up over here, Dookie? What do you think you gonna find? Your exposure for show. Shout out to you. Peace and blessings, brother. Thank you. Thank you for that one. Peace and blessings. Thank you for that one. Dookie, you still out here commenting. Dookie, I smoke. Ha. You haven’t responded. Go back and come back to me when you respond to any of the things that we dropped in Goat James Kingdom. You haven’t responded to nothing we said here at Goat James Kingdom. Sir, I knew you would pop your zesty Jeffrey head up in here, bro. You don’t scare nobody. You still there? I don’t know. It seems like you’re trying to speak. Dookie is trying to speak. But again, you’re safe in the comments, young man. You are safe in the comments. Shout out to you, Deshawn. Peace and blessings, brother. Thank you for joining me. All right. Yeah. Yeah. No. No. Dookie, the link will be up for you very shortly, Dookie. The link will be up for you very shortly cuz you got exposed very easily, brother. You got exposed very easily. So much so that the zesty Jeffrey uh Zesty Fitness and Rants came to your defense. He couldn’t he couldn’t stand it. That man’s been ignoring us for years after we exposed him. I’m glad to see you though here. Peace and blessings, Dookie. Thank you for joining another Friday Night Exposure with the Exposed. So, back to it. Dookie. Again, Dookie is probably another one that wasn’t born in the 1900s. And I’m not talking basketball, too. Again, my oldest daughter is 25 years old. She’s married. She got a career. She got a child. I’m a grandfather. I’m I’m officially status, ladies and gentlemen. I’m 44 years old. I’m status. Arguing with you young dudes is unnecessary for me anymore. But I’m going to bring back to what we were what we were talking about here. What we were tailoring the conversation about the conversation was about small market teams and how the Charlotte Hornets was the team that that basically turned me into an NBA fan. Okay. And if you don’t know, the Charlotte Hornets inaugural season was 1988 NBA season. Them and the Miami Heat together were a part of the four new teams of the NBA to start off the the the9s. And the new found NBA got a new contract with NBC. they were they were going to turn up. Uh TNT and and TBS, I believe TNT at the time and TBS were showing games with definitely TNT. Cable was on the rise and obviously NBC was about to take the NBA to a new heights with Michael Jordan, the Chicago Bulls and all of that, right? So that’s what we know about that time. Shout out to you Asante’s in the building. Has his own echo chain. Yeah, of course he had to come check on me. That’s fine. You know what? Shout out to Dookie for getting his channel back cuz I was told you lost your channel but you got your channel back. You built up your other channel. So you do a good job as a content creator. The Zesty Jeff love you but you are another one that got exposed by the exposer. Sir, you’re not the first. You’re not the last. I told you I’m ready for a 20 v one versus all you Zesty Jeff. But none of you come up and ready prepared for the Hey Johnny the Exposer. Hey bro type of [Â __Â ] stand on Benny [Â __Â ] One man arm against 50. [Â __Â ] Benny, bring me everyone. What do you mean everyone? Everyone. Go get them. Go get every last Zesty Jeffrey y’all know. Line them up. Let’s do this 20 v one. The Zesty Jeff love me. They love me now in the building. Right. So, so since we talking so much about the Cesty Jeff, I think I kind of know where my first idea of where Michael Jordan wasn’t so great came from, right? And um and and and and and you know, like I said, back to the whole OKC Thunder thing, people not giving them praise. I’m going to give them praise. I don’t think anybody can beat them, whether it’s the Knicks or the Pacers. Um so, I I think the OKC Thunder is about to win an NBA championship. They’re about to have a phenomenal season, not only as a team, but the individual play of SGA alone is another historical factor about this OKC team. But this is a small market team. And if the Pacers make the NBA finals and you have the Pacers and the the OKC Thunder, these are two small market teams who are playing brilliant basketball, right? They play team basketball. No matter what y’all say, SGA plays team basketball. They play great team basketball in OKC. They play great team basketball in Indiana. They’re both great on the on on both sides of the ball, right? They got they got dogs on both sides of the ball. So, we’re going to see a great NBA Finals. If we see the the two small market teams, we all know if the New York Knicks make the NBA Finals, it’s apocalypse. It’s apocalypse. We already know that. That’s an apocalyptic scenario, right? All right. But back to my my, you know, my stance and and and I and and let me let me bring back your comment here. Um, uh, Zero, shout out to you, Zero. Yes. At 25 years old, I got a 25 year old daughter. She was born at the end of 1999. So, she’s going to turn 26 at the end of this year. If you were not born before the Twin Towers drop, before the 2000s, I’m not going to argue basketball with you, bro. And I’m going to explain it to you guys very simply and plain because like I said, I’m about to turn 44 years old, man. And I’m I’m I’m, you know, I’ve been there, done that. I’ I’ve experienced a lot. I’ve seen a lot. And one of the one of the most fondest memories of of my basketball time and my basketball era was the Chicago Bulls losing the 1990 Eastern Conference Finals. And the reason I remember that is because I have an older brother. He’s a few years older than me. And I always looked up to my older brother, right? He was a big- time Michael Jordan guy, right? Cuz he was born in the late 70s, mid70s. So anybody born in that in that point in time, Michael Jordan was the guy. That’s who you saw, right? So my my brother was a big time Jordan guy and I also had uncles who love basketball and they love Michael Jordan as well. And I remember them upset very upset that the Bulls lost that game seven versus the Indiana I mean versus the uh Detroit Pistons in that Eastern Conference Finals game. And I remember them talking even bad about Scotty Pippen saying Scotty Pippen didn’t show up. Scottie Pippen man they could. And the reason they were really upset because again ladies and gentlemen, this was the third time, the third time the Chicago Bulls lost and this is a game seven. Everybody was thinking this is the time. This is when the Bulls are going to ascend. This is Michael Jordan’s time to to take the Bulls and they didn’t do it. And in fact, I got actual evidence of why. And we could I’m not evidence why, but I got actual just to just y’all can understand the sentiments of what’s going on. This is 1990. I’m about 9 years old. So, this is a very this is this is my fondest memory. My oldest memory, not my fondest, but my oldest memory of anything basketball related when it comes to the NBA. This is the only thing I can remember as a child. And I was about 9 years old. This is 1990, ladies and gentlemen. Eastern Conference Finals. They just [Music] couldn’t brings it back outside. Now the volume is real low, but you can see the bulls are getting blown [Applause] out. And they the Detroit Pistons will meet the Portland Trailblazers in the best of seven beginning Tuesday night on CBS. Now mind you, that’s that’s who the Bulls have to go face, the Blazers. So that means if Michael Jordan wins this game, he gets to face Clyde Drexler in NBA Finals. And as you can see here, guys are walking off the court. Some guys are shaking hands. Um, and this is the weirdest part. Why is Michael Jordan getting the the actual praise right here? Look at this. This Isaiah Thomas walking up the mic. Mike didn’t walk up to Isaiah. Remember that. Isaiah walked up the mic. But Mike is getting the the postgame interview. He lost. All you can do is wish them good luck. I mean, you know, we fought hard. You know, they were the better team. We went to a game a seven game series. What more could we ask for? You know, we want to be where they are, but we still got to wait our turn. We’re still trying to improve our team. They were the better team and they played better today. What’s your emotion now, Michael? Sadness? Uh, frustration? No. Sadly, I’m disappointed, you know, because I wanted to go further, but I got to accept the season that we played. We had a good season. We got this far. We got to look forward to next season. That’s the only thing we can do. Gave it a hell of a run. Thank you, Bren. Davey did 31 points. What is this? Why are they interviewing Mike? No wonder why Isaiah don’t like this man. This They interviewed Mike. Mike didn’t even win. I don’t understand this. How did Mike get interviewed? Look at this. This is deplorable. This is horrible. The player of the game was Isaiah. Didn’t interview Isaiah. The player of the game was Isaiah Thomas, but they didn’t interview Isaiah. But that was my earliest memory of basketball. That’s my earliest memory of basketball. I remember my uncles being upset and my cousins, my brother, because they all like the Chicago Bulls, not the Chicago Bulls necessarily, but Michael Jordan. And they thought this was Michael Jordan’s ascension. This was his time. It was a game seven. He had lost to Detroit two years prior to this. This is his time. He was lighting up the NBA. Like I told y’all, Michael Jordan was lighting it up in the playoffs. And this was his time. And he choked. Like I told you, he choked. Even in there, if you listen to the commentary again and there, you’ll hear the guy say, “Michael Jordan had one less point than his average in that game, the series average in that game. Michael Jordan didn’t step up in a game seven. They going to blame Scotty Pippen.” But that’s my fondest, not fondest, but my earliest memory of the NBA. And that’s my earliest memory of saying to myself, why why y’all all going crazy over this dude Mike then? He must not be that dude, right? Because that that’s what I was thinking in my mind. And I in reality back then, I was kind of like a football fan. I liked I liked the Hurricanes. That was when the Hurricanes was one of the top teams in college football. They had the swag. I had just moved down here to Miami from New York. So, I wasn’t young, but I was a kid at this. So, I can’t even give y’all any experience of this. I’m 19 years old. What the hell do I know? I didn’t even have pubic hair. I didn’t even have pubic hair. But that is my oldest, fondest memory of basketball as far as being a fan. And then later on, obviously, as I grow, I go to play outside, right? Because when I live in New York, we barely went outside New York. I don’t know how people do it. You live, you know, there two, three months out the year, five months out the year, you can’t go outside. It’s too cold. South Florida, it’s it’s all great weather. There’s grass. We couldn’t believe it. I was running around playing football, basketball. There was a park right down the street from the house, so we could just play basketball. We used to run to the basketball court, play football on the side, play basketball. So, I I fell in love with basketball. I didn’t have a team, but again, remember we talked about the Miami Heat and the Charlotte Hornets came in 1989. Well, what made me a real basketball fan as far as an NBA fan was Larry Johnson and the Charlotte Hornets. And the Charlotte Hornets were a very very exciting team for some reason in the ‘9s. And they just they just had this aura about them and and there was something about them that that that just fit with most people and it fit with me as a child and I and I love it. And what what basically what what basically happened was the Charlotte Hornets became an NBA franchise. They had an expansion draft. They pick up a Mugsy Bogues. They pick up a Dale Curry in this draft. Their first ever draft was Rex Chapman. Their first ever pick overall in the first round. They pick a Rex Chapman. I believe that’s the 1990 uh uh uh uh uh draft. And in 1991, they draft Larry Johnson. And Larry Johnson’s coming from UNLV. There’s a big hype team. Everybody was talking about how great UNLV was. He was the top player there. So, he gets drafted to there. And then you get the the you know you get the slam dunk contest of 1992, right? And this guy was marketed well. And this is why I I wanted to bring this up about the small market teams, right? Because as as garbage as the Charlotte Hornets was, the way they marketed Larry Johnson to us, you would think they’re on the rise. They’re a great team. Everything’s going to everything’s going to go well with this team. And nobody was talking about anybody being trash. There was no nobody was called trash back then. So, it’s very easy as me as a child to to to gravitate to an NBA player like a Larry Johnson or to gravitate to what other NBA player because they never really trashed NBA players of that era. They never did it. They never did it. So, I fell in love with Larry Johnson because I saw Larry Johnson in the slam dunk contest. That changed my mind. That was the the whole big thing. It was it was all about what he did in the slam dunk contest. And it’s so crazy because I’m going to show you what he did in the slam dunk contest. And mind you, ladies and gentlemen, we’re talking about 1992. I was 11 years old, 10 years old at this time, right? So, this is Larry Johnson in the slam dunk contest, which I think he got robbed of. And I don’t even remember watching where I watched this at cuz I don’t even know if we had cable cuz this was on TNT. But I do remember watching this specific 92 slam dunk contest because Cedric Sabalis won it with the blindfold. And I remember sitting around with a bunch of people talking about it like he’s really gonna dunk with a blindfold. And we all thought that it was like real, but I guess it was fake. Who knows what it is now? But he went on some on a bogus dunk. But this was LJ and this is what LJ was doing. This is what made me say, “Yo, I want to be I want to I want to be like LJ.” Let’s see if it’ll raise the level of competition. Now Larry Johnson, he’s a power dunker. See, nobody’s talked about Larry Johnson tonight. I mean, this guy had the best score in the first round because he’s done everything with power and quickness. [Music] There we go. They love it over here. Larry Johnson. But the thing about Larry, the problem with Larry is is that he’s so quick. See, he does the dump so quick that you don’t get to really uh appreciate what he’s doing. He’s a watching. He comes on the right side, gets up with power, and he going to go on the other side. Bam. Oh, that’s beautiful. That’s beautiful. Grace for a big man. They haven’t seen a big man with that much grace and that much quickness in this league in a long time. And that’s the highest score of the night. 48.6 for Larry Johnson. So these judges were able to see through the quickness and the power. So that was what Larry Johnson was doing back in 1992. And that was a phenom. Now mind y’all y’all we’re talking about dunking the basketball, not taking shots, not shooting the ball. Why was dunking popular? Because of Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan was always dunking. He was great in transition. He was great at attacking the basket, dunking over big defenders, rim protectors, things of that nature. So that’s why Larry Johnson was very popular, very easily uh to be marketed, right? And they were and they were promoting him. He had he had Converse sneakers, right? He had the he had the jail shoes. Everybody loved it. In fact, I I I begged my mother to get me some jail shoes and couldn’t afford it. Could never get me some Levy Johnson’s. But Duncan was the big thing. And I always said to myself, why did I become a Charlotte Hornet fan instead of a Miami Heat fan at the time? Was because the Heat didn’t have nobody at that time. They were running around here with Glenn Rice who was shooting three-pointers. They really didn’t have no uh above the rim highf flyers. They run around with Bimbo Koh, Grant Long, Ronnie Cycley. You see what I’m saying? Like they didn’t have the team that the Hornets had. The Hornets had the three-point shooter and Dale Curry. They had the the underdog and and and Mugsy Bes, which I always love the underdog story. So, I love the idea of Mugsy Bolts. They were picking up guys like Kendall Gil. You see what I’m saying? They had guys like Johnny Newman. They had guys like David Windgate. You know what I’m saying? They eventually picked up Hershey Hawkins. And they they’ve drafted Alonzo Morning. And I I just I just got enamored with Larry Johnson know because Larry Johnson was a freak of nature. He was a power forward that was ahead of his time. He could play inside outside game. He had a lot going to him and he he was the rise of the NBA at the time. The NBA was promoting a lot of stars. So there was a lot of hype around the Charlotte Hornets and all of that because of the idea of dunking the basketball, not shooting the basketball. And that was around that. And then and we really want to get to we we’ll get to to the idea like I said about the whole Charlotte Haunted as well. the whole hype around the Charlotte Hornets. But let me address another GJK member first. Peace and blessings Davis. Thank you, brother. It’s always a blessing to have you here on a Friday Night Exposure with the Exposer. Again, ladies and gentlemen, this is the Friday Night Exposure with the Exposer. I’m a Johnny the Exposer. We are live on Goat James Kingdom channel, but we’re also multireaming on the Goat James Kingdom page on Instagram. Plus, Lamont is our homeboy and we are in collaboration with FYF Sports Debate. So, we’re also live on FYF Sports Debate. So, if you’re joining us from over there, peace and blessings. Thank you for having fun with me. We’re here to have some fun. If you’re under 25, you can’t talk basketball. You just got to shut up and listen. Shout out to G, another DJ. Thank you for joining me. Let’s see here. He say, uh, I shook uh Levy Johnson’s hand. His hand swallowed my whole hand. I could only imagine. Again, he he he had the athleticism. He had all of that. He had everything going. And again, they he was it was a buzz. The NBA wanted to promote these smaller teams, especially these new franchises like the Heat, like the the Hornets, like the Timberwolves, like the Orlando Magics, and these guys were getting all the top picks early in the in the draft, right? in around that time. So much so that the NBA when they did the the expansion in 1995 for the for the Grizzlies and the the Raptors that those teams were not allowed to have the number one pick overall to like two or three years after they were established because all those teams that came in from the from the late 80s into the 90s, those four teams we’re talking about, the Heat, the Hornets, the the Timberwolves, and the Magics were getting all the top picks and they were racking up players. Alonzo Morning, Shaquille O’Neal, Larry Johnson, Kevin Garnett, right? Glenn Rice. They were picking all these top players cuz they were always one of the worst teams in the league. This why we’re talking about how the expansion of the NBA watered down the 90s because again, we talked about the the Hornets picking up Dale Curry and Mugsy Boges who were bench players on the teams that that that put them on the expansion draft, but they become starters, right, on the Charlotte Hornets. But if there was no Charlotte Hornets, they would just be riding the pine on on the Washington Bullets or whatever other team that Dale Curry was on. But the Charlotte Hornets were on a rise. And as an as a as a kid, 9 10 years old, I was enamored with the Charlotte Hornets. Make way. Here comes a bunch of young guns. Johnson Allen shot is blocked by Hornets. The Charlotte Hornets were the thing. You were not at a Charlotte Hornets game, you were missing out on something. It’s a three-pointer. The Hornets win. It’s over. We had Rex Chapman, Kendall Gill, Phil Curry. It was different personalities top to bottom. Of course, Larry Johnson, the grand mama, Alonzo Morning, Mugsy B. Um, we had natural appeal, but it was something unique about the purple and teal. It was in to be a Hornet fan. That team really changed everything for small market teams. North Carolina is probably better known for stock cars and college basketball. But today, pro basketball takes center stage as Charlotte enters a new era. And so, Charlotte and Miami will join the NBA Frey for the 1988 season. Honestly, I did not know where Charlotte was. Where is that? Is that West Virginia? Is that Charlotteville or No, it’s it’s North Carolina. Oh, okay. North Carolinians knew uh basketball, but they didn’t really know the NBA. Indeed. Indeed. Listen, you heard that David Stern, the commissioner, was like, “Chocolate? Where is Charlotte at?” That shows you how how small of a market Charlotte was. Again, this is this is 30 something years ago, ladies and gentlemen. This is a long time ago. We talk about development and and and and uh in in this country as far as the infrastructure. We’re talking 1987,886 when they’re trying to get an NBA team. We’re talking about 40 years ago in reality when we’re talking about that. Um, it’s definitely crazy. Yes. He didn’t know where the Charlotte Horn is. He didn’t know what it was. You know what I’m saying? We’re talking about big time stars. Talking about big time stars. Well, Re, if you’re older than me, son, then you able to talk basketball. But like my boy says right here, my boy Table Pawn says, “If you’re 25 or younger, you got to shut up.” You feel me? Mugsy B and Spud Web, you are right. They wouldn’t make today’s NBA 100%. Shout out to Wild Boy Larry Johnson. gave us back out for the Knicks, man. Stop messing with the Knicks, man. They trying to pull a game seven off right now. They trying to come back 3-1 right now. Oh my god, you guys are the best. Yes. Yes. Peace and blessings, brother. Thank you for that one. I I appreciate that. I I thank you. Okay, but you can see the hype. This is the hype with the Charlotte Hornets, right? Um Charlotte Charlotte’s pushing one million people today. Just today. So So how many people how what was the population of Charlotte in 1980s, right? So, um, hey, Johnny, do you remember that team in 1991? Yeah, but they had Kenny Gats and they had Oh, yes, I remember that team. Again, now I can’t say I remember that specific team because again, I told you I became a fan of the Charlotte Hornets because of Larry Johnson. So, when they drafted Larry Johnson and the All-Star game, that was the game because I remember after the All-Star game that next day, we took milk crates. If you guys don’t know what milk crates are, these are plastic square cube milk crates where it would put uh gallons of milk and it would hold four gallons of milk or or or eight half uh uh gallons of milk, right? But they used to hold four gallons of milk and it was a square crate and we used to burn the bottom out of the of the crates so that we had a hole and then we used to actually tie it up. Not tie it up. Well, sometimes we used to tie it up, but if we found somebody who can help us, we would nail it to a tree and we would use that as a basketball goal. That was our goal. I know. I know y’all know what I’m talking about back in the days. So, we did that the next day so that we could dunk the basketball because we wanted to dunk it. It was always a thing about dunking. When I was a kid, I remember dunking was the big thing. Nobody cared about shooting the basketball. They all cared about dunking. Who could dunk the best? So, the next day we all went outside and we were all trying to replicate the the slam dunk contest dunks. And I was out there trying to replicate Larry Johnson, thinking I was Larry Johnson. He had the gold tooth. I was I was from Miami. Gold teeth is a thing down here from the south. If you know about gold teeth, it was a big thing. So, for me, I’m I’m a kid. I’m looking up to the older kids, the the the the teenagers, the the high schoolers. They got gold teeth in their mouth. They got the, you know, the the they got all the fresh fades with all the designs in it. I was into that as a kid. I’m n 10 years old, 11 years old. But, see, I didn’t have no one telling me, “Oh, Larry Johnson’s a bum ass [Â __Â ] You shouldn’t be liking Larry Johnson.” What that [Â __Â ] ever did, then he choking in the college game. We didn’t have people talking like that. We had people saying Rex Chapman was a bum when they were drafting Rex Chapman. They had nobody saying Mugsy Bog was too small. I mean, they were saying he was too small, but nobody was talking about these dudes like they were bums. And they have no Everybody allowed me to be that. I was, everybody was like Larry Johnson this, John Starks this, Sean Kemp that, cuz Sean Kemp was also in that slam dunk contest as well. He went off in that slam dunk contest. That’s why we, you know, a lot of people felt Cedric Sabala shouldn’t have won it. But either way, that was what I was going through. And like I said, I was a big time Larry Johnson fan. He was a big time dude. He was it, man. You guys don’t understand how big Larry Johnson was. Let me give some more shout outs to some TJK members. Um, shout out to you, Marcus. Peace and blessings, brother. I always see in the comments. Ain’t going to lie, man. I was somewhat of a fan of of those Hornets as well. Kendall Gil had um some cold moments. I actually met Kendall Gil, if you could say. Met Kendall Gil. I used to work at an airport very young in my life. And obviously working at the airport, you get to run across people all the time. And I ran across him. He just walked past me and I was like, “Oh [Â __Â ] Kendall Gear.” He was like, “Yeah, what’s good, brother?” And he just kept walking. But he wasn’t trying to communicate um about that. Um but you know that that that you know that’s what it was though back then. You again players were a you were able to appreciate players. NBC was talking great about the players because remember ESPN at the time was only giving you the highlights. They didn’t have time to break down why a player was choking. They just went down to the highlights and whatever you did great that’s what you got pre presented every night, every day. everything was the way it was going. So yeah. Yeah, brother. I’m taking everybody down memory lane because again, I’m 44. And again, I’m enjoying myself. I’m having a great time today. You know what I’m saying? This is what this is where this is where I have to address some of these SDE cuz they think I’m I think I’m like 30 or something like that. They think I was born in 2000 or something like that. I don’t know. Again, I know I look fresh and clean. This young man look good. But damn. Damn. I do got a gray hair though. I do got a gray hair right here coming out of my mustache. I really do. I I am getting old, ladies and gentlemen. I’m folded four. Folded four. Let me take you back to memory lane and show you why I fell in love with my boy Larry Johnson. They the number one pick. So, here’s the best player on this great team. Uh great college career. Uh tremendous amount of hoopla coming in. And it has been the Larry Johnson show. We laid the foundation. you know, myself, Mugsdale, Johnny Newman, but you you had to get allstar caliber players and and LJ was our first all-star caliber player. What are you going to do for the Charlotte Hornets? Well, I’m going to go in I’m I’m going to basically offer the Charlotte Hornets that I offered, uh, you know, the previous teams I played on, you know, hard work. Um, I’m going in doing whatever the coach asked me to do, whatever my teammates need me to do, and, you know, just try to win. You what a play by Larry Chess. Best player I’ve ever played with, high school, college, or pro. I saw Larry Johnson just take every big man to school. And here’s Larry Johnson. A guy who was 250 lb, 6’7, had the grace of a ballerina. He could shoot it, had the strength of Shaquille O’Neal, and he knew when to use it. This is where it’s done. This is the gym. Barkman. Then you take that and you add his personality to it. No pain, no gain. I’m alone. I got to work on the guns, right? So, so that man, that man, listen, man. Larry Johnson was that dude. He had the Grandma Ma personality working for himself. He was he was marketable. He he was that dude. He was a star. He he he won rookie of the year 1992. He was all rookie uh team in 1992. I think he was the first team. He also made an all-star the next year, 1993. And in 1994, he was averaging 20 and 10. um for the first part of his career, he was a monster, right? He was a monster. But the thing again, like I’m saying is is that the the growth of the NBA of the time and the idea of these small market teams like the like the Charlotte Hornets, like the Minnesota Timberwolves, like sort of like Orlando, which was growing as a city as well, right? Because of Disney, these things was what the NBA wanted to market. They set new rules up, right? Because remember there was the collective bargain agreement going into the 199uh2 season which is in the 1991 off seasonason. They corrected all of that stuff. They got a lot of stuff together. They made sure that these small market teams could hold their stars like a Larry Johnson. That guys like like the Miami Heat could hold the Glenn Ric’s. Guys like the the uh you know um uh the Orlando Magics could hold the Shaquille O’Neals and do all these things. These were these were the NBA promoting small market teams which allowed us to have a broader perspective of fans in the NBA at that time. It wasn’t just it wasn’t just enamored with Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. There were fans like me who was enamored with the Charlotte Hornets and Larry Johnson. There was other fans for other teams and other stars that were coming in the league. So, this is how I became an NBA fan. I didn’t become an NBA fan being enamored with Michael Jordan in the Chicago Bulls because like I told you, my first experience of an NBA uh uh game or any NBA fandom was watching Jordan fans cry because Jordan choked in the Eastern Conference Finals versus Detroit again. So, in my mind, I wasn’t really thinking about Michael Jordan. I was just thinking about just being a kid, enjoying life, and here comes the Charlotte Hornets. Here comes Larry Johnson. And I’m like, “Yeah, that’s it.” And that’s when I started paying attention to basketball. That’s when I became a big-time basketball fan. And those are all facts, ladies and gentlemen. Like, that’s just me. That’s who I am. Again, I turned 44 today. If you were born in the 2000s, you cannot talk basketball with me. Let me let me let me Anthony and see what he got to say. Larry Johnson at UNLV was national sensations. That led to his popularity. Larry was the man on the great team. But didn’t they choke in college? Cuz I wasn’t really a fan. Then they didn’t they didn’t win a championship, right? Because I remember the UNLV team, they had Stacy Augman, they had Greg Anthony, right? They had us they had they that was before the Fat Five, if I’m correct. The Fat Five took it to another level because they changed the fashion of basketball. But I think that was right before then. But if I’m correct, they lost to Duke because I was a Duke fan. I like Gl Grant Hill, Bobby Hurley and Christian Leighton and them. I liked it that that that uh Duke team from the early 90s cuz I remember cuz see this is another thing you guys don’t remember. Video games was different back then as well. the NBA didn’t didn’t license the the the the players and teams to to video games. So like the early basketball games I remember like playing was an NCAA game on the Super Nintendo and I used to like playing with Duke and they didn’t even have the players names. The first basketball games didn’t have players name. I think the first basketball game that had actual NBA teams and names was uh Bull not Bulls I’m sorry uh Lakers versus Celtics which was a EA sports game back in the day. This is we’re talking about a long time ago ladies and we’re talking about over 30 years ago. This is what we here to have fun. We talking about almost 30 years ago. They they win in 1990. Okay, so they did win a championship. Okay, so I was wrong there. They won a championship in 1990. Okay, so I apologize. I I wasn’t wrong there. So I was wrong on that. Again, I’m 9 years old. I don’t remember that. I wasn’t watching basketball at 9 years old, let alone college basketball. I do remember, like I said, my fondest memory of my f not my fondest memory, but my earliest memory was Jordan losing to the Detroit Pistons. Then I remember the 1992 slam dunk contest. That’s, and I’m going to break it down for you guys. So, I actually got uh Oh, yeah. Jordan verse Bird was on NES as well, but it was Jordan verse Bird. There was no NBA teams. It was a one-on-one thing. And the funny thing about it was the Celtics and the the the Lakers game had the Bulls and all the NBA teams, but they didn’t have Michael Jordan in it. Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley were like the two players that were never in any basketball game back in those days, but they still had them in the game. They just didn’t put their names. They still had the same likeness, the same like the same look, right? I mean, I listen, if I if I if I showed y’all some games, that would be crazy. Okay, they lost in 91 to Duke. See, I remember that. I remember that Duke game. I remember the the the Duke winning and and winning a championship versus them. I don’t remember 1990. So, that shows you again my fandom. I’m I’m I’m I’m there, bro. I’m out there. You see what I’m saying? It It was It would say, “Yeah, player.” The name was Player. It would say Player. Exactly. The name would say Player. That’s all it would say. I can see my boy Goat Cass is old school. He was born in the 1900s. Yes, Bulls versus the Blazers were another game that came out. It was Lakers versus Celtics, Bulls vers Lakers, Bulls verse Blazers. These were the early NBA basketball games on Nintendo uh uh uh Super Nintendo and and Sega Genesis. These were 16bit. I believe it was 16bit. Um damn 16 bits. That’s crazy. Shout out to you, Gocast. That boy said he fed F just like me. We fed voting folk. But I got something special for you, Zesty Jeff. If you if if like I always say you guys, everything we do in Goat James Kingdom is recorded. And if there’s any moment in time you want to have something on a Johnny, this is the moment right here. I’m going to give it to you. It’ll be up here for several minutes because we gonna have some fun. I’mma actually put the link up for y’all and we going to have some fun. But remember, I told y’all I was a big time Charlotte Hornets fan. I This is This is my thing. So, this is why I wanted to bring up tonight’s show about the whole small market team is is that the Charlotte Hornets actually save small markets. If there was any blueprint or any design to help a team understand as a small market team, how do you market yourself for a national appeal? It was the Charlotte Hornets. They had a national appeal. They were a big time team. People remember the Charlotte Hornets. So much so that the Charlotte Hornets, they remember back in those days, and they still have it to this day. Back in those days, there was a company called Starter, Starter Cap. But Starter used to make these jackets. And the most popular starter jacket was the Dallas Cowboys starter jacket and the Charlotte Hornets. Imagine that. Not the Chicago Bulls, not the New York Knicks, not no other franchise, not the Giants. The number two uh uh the the the two top selling starter jackets of the ‘9s was the Dallas Cowboys starter jacket and the Charlotte Hornets jacket. And ladies and gentlemen, I’m going to give you Zesty Jeffrey something that you can run with. Hit the record button. This is taking you back to the 90s. I’m bringing it back, ladies and gentlemen. I got something special for you. I’m going to show you how long I’ve been a Charlotte Hornet fan. Ladies and gentlemen, that is me to the right in the sixth grade. That is Yes, ladies and gentlemen. That is me to the right in the sixth grade. In the sixth grade. And I had one of those starter jackets. I had one of those Charlotte Hornet charger. In fact, you can look right there and see clearly see that I’m wearing a Charlotte Hornet shirt. This is me in the sixth grade. This is me in the sixth grade, ladies and gentlemen. [Â __Â ] all y’all laughing in the comments. God damn it. [Â __Â ] every single last one of y’all. Every last one of y’all. [Â __Â ] y’all for laughing in the comments. [Â __Â ] you, Ashante. [Â __Â ] you. See, you know what? That’s what I was going to say, Malcolm. I knew I had the white one. There was a white version of this one, right? I had the white one of this one. I had the white one of this one. I really did. I really, really did. Listen, man. Stop laughing at me. Eventually, I got that taken care of. But this is I’m like 12, 13 years old. This is I’m in my This is sixth grade right here. Yeah. Shout out to you. [Â __Â ] you, too, [Â __Â ] you, too, All right. [Â __Â ] you, too. All right? Because you [Â __Â ] love to make fun of [Â __Â ] But you see, y’all not man enough to do this. This is what I’m trying to explain to y’all. I’m man enough to put myself out on the public like this. You feel me? Because I I’m a real basketball fan. I’m a real basketball fan. [Â __Â ] you, too, Asante. [Â __Â ] you. Forget every every last one of y’all. Every last one of y’all. All right. My mama took care of that. Shout out to my mama. She paid for it. I got taken care of. They used to call me Bucky. That was my name. I got the name called Bucky. If anybody’s old enough to to know what I’m talking about, there’s a show called Captain Bucky O’Hare. And that was what I was named in my neighborhood. And I was called that as a ridicule. And it stuck with me because again, I don’t I don’t take things funny. [Â __Â ] you, too, Dante. [Â __Â ] you, [Â __Â ] All right. [Â __Â ] every single last one of y’all. But that is me, bro. That’s That is honestly Somebody sent me this the other day and I actually I don’t know I don’t know how he he found this but he must have it. So that whoever has this damn yearbook from my sixth grade year has this picture of me. This is crazy. Ladies and gentlemen, this is me again. This is me back in 1993 94. As you can see I got a Charlotte Hornet shirt on. That’s my sixth grade picture. I was a big time Charlotte Hornet fan. big time Charlotte Haunted fan. I really was. I was a big time Charlotte Haunted fan. I really was. [Â __Â ] all of y’all laughing in the comments. I really don’t care. [Â __Â ] y’all, man. I really don’t care about y’all. You You remember that show Go Cash? You got me. You remember that show? But again, ladies and gentlemen, this is this is who I am. This is what I’m about, man. I’ve been doing this for a long, long time. I I’ I’ve played basketball. Um I’m a basketball fan. That’s just what it is. is what it is. I’m from Miami and basketball has always been a part of my life since the beginning. Um, you say looking like a young Bruce Lee, right? For real though, man. For real though, man. Um, yeah. Yeah. Well, again, like I said, Zesty Jeff, if you want if you need some ammo, this is the ammo. If you want to make fun of a 12-year-old kid, go ahead. Have fun at it. You ain’t man enough to handle this. You ain’t man enough to handle cuz see this is how I look now. You see the You see the You see the You see the prettiness. You see the gorgeousness. You see the handsomeness. You see God in reflection right in front of your face. This is what you see. This is all you see right here. This is what you see. But I’ve been a big time fan. But again, that’s the young me. Okay? That’s the young me. That’s me 30 something years ago enjoying life, right? That’s just that’s the young me. I’ve grown. I’ve matured. Like I said, I got a 25 year old daughter. I got a five-year-old grandson. Shout out to my daughter. Shout out to my baby boy. Um, and again, shout out to everybody who support what I do. I gave you guys something. He say, “Who is that?” He said, “Who is that?” [Â __Â ] you, too. Peter Bag Juice, you don’t got your membership badge. You did it for a month. [Â __Â ] you, too. Okay. [Â __Â ] you, too. But at the end of the day, ladies and gentlemen, that’s who I was. cuz I was a big time Charlotte Haunted fan. So, I’m going to recap to you my NBA fandom because I’m a grown man now. I’m 44 years old. I’ve seen it all. I’ve witnessed a lot of things in my life. And one of the things I’ve witnessed is obviously, like I told you, starting from 1990, the Chicago Bulls lose again. Why? Because Michael Jordan can’t get the Bulls into the NBA finals, right? They He just couldn’t do it. They choked for the third straight year versus the Detroit Pistons, right? Then you have the 1991, right, season. Now, my fondest memory of of that is obviously the finals. Michael Jordan steps up. The Bulls finally win their first NBA championship. Magic Johnson retires after the NBA finals due to uh uh catching HIV, which was a big thing back then. It was almost a death sentence. You catch HIV, you’re going to get AIDS, you die. That was what it was back in the early 90s, late 80s. Magic Johnson was one of the biggest stories. I I I remember as a child, I remember my uncles and them crying about Magic Johnson because Magic Johnson was he was loved. He was beloved. All right. Even even him doing what he did. I imagine we talking about the the the downfall and the cancel culture of the 2000s, right? Could you imagine how Magic would have been uh portrayed if he would have been caught doing what he got caught in 1991? But that was also a fond memory of mine. Like I told you, 1992, the All-Star slam dunk contest. That’s when I saw Larry Johnson. I I I I I fell in love with NBA basketball. But then from there on out, then I remember 1994. I don’t really remember Michael Jordan retiring too much because I really didn’t care about the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan. I really didn’t care too much about the Bulls. They they won three championships in a row. I do remember the 93 finals with Charles Barkley. It was a great finals, but the Bulls were threetime champions. Everybody knew they would dominate. It was Jordan’s time and that is what it is. He retired in 1994. The NBA finals was live. You had the New York Knicks. And the reason that I had a good memory of the New York Knicks in 1994 was because I had New York Knick fans in my family. My my my godfather and uncle was a big-time New York Knick fan. Other uncles in my family were big-time New York Knick fans. We watched the fi finals in our living room. Again, you only had one big TV in the house at that time. More than likely, it was in your living room. Everybody sat there and watched it. Um, TV was so limited at the time that during the NBA finals, they cut out of the NBA finals to talk about OJ Simpson, who was in a car chase. They were trying to they were trying to arrest OJ Simpson and he went on a car chase. They cut out of the NBA finals in the middle of the NBA finals for us to watch OJ on the highway. And that was a crazy scene back in the days. Again, ladies and gentlemen, the ‘9s was a spectacular era. There’s so much things that happened in the 90s. Then you have 1995. This is when Michael Jordan returns. I remember Michael Jordan return. Everybody going crazy. They couldn’t wait to see Michael Jordan. His sneakers was at its height. He had just dropped uh I think it was the 11s this year or the or the 10ens. And then you had Shaq who was also supremely popular. I remember Shaq was a big- time uh star. He was doing movies. He had his sneakers coming out. Shaq was a star of all stars in 1995. Shaq really made a name for himself. So I do remember Shaq. in 96. I remember the finals, but I remember it being something about Rodman because Rodman was just doing things in the finals that nobody saw. He was out here rebounding, doing all kind of weird stuff. He wasn’t spectacular, but it was just he was just talked about the most in those finals, right? Um, so I do remember that. Then we also have the the last shot in 1998. Now, between 1996 and 1998, ladies and gentlemen, I won a Boys and Girls Club championship in Broward County, Florida. We were the NBA champions, the Davy Boys and Girls Club. I was the best rebounder on our team. So in 1997, I remember that I was a champion. All right? None of you Jesse Jeffies could say that, right? But I also remember playing a game called In the Zone 2 and they had a game called In the Zone 2 that was one of the most I would say the most revolutionary games in basketball because they they had NBA Live, but NBA Live was a weird game. the guys used to slide and fly like Luigi and Mario 2, right? NBA uh in the zone changed everything. They used to really make players like that was the game where players could dunk from the free throw line. It was an incredible game. I remember if you don’t remember a basketball game, go look it up. It was called in the zone 2. It was from Konami uh uh sports. Um but between that time, I also remember Michael Jordan’s last shot in 1998. We all know Michael Jordan was phenomenal with with with what he did in in the NBA finals in 1998. It was supposedly the last run for the Bulls. And Michael Jordan won it with the last shot. I do remember that and me saying to myself at that time as a fan, there’s no reason to hate on Michael Jordan. This is the greatest player to ever play the game of basketball. I remember saying that in 1998. I’ve never seen nobody greater than Michael Jordan. He just kept winning and he kept he kept shocking people. Everybody wanted him to lose, but he just kept winning. Then I remember the 1999 finals for the same reason the 94 finals. My New York Nick family. Yo, I’m not going to lie, Tway G. I’m not going to lie. NBA Live 2000 uh uh 1996 NBA Live was an incredible basketball game. That was an incredible basketball game. But that was my fondest memories of the 90s. But going into the 2000s, I remember the Portland Trailblazers and the Lakers. I remember that the the the Portland Trailblazers on the verge of making the NBA finals and coughing up a game versus the Lakers and losing that series. But the key moment for me as an NBA fan was going to my first NBA game and that was in the 2001 2002 season. At the end of the season, the Heat were a scrub team. My homeboy and I got some tickets to go to a game. We went to a game and I fell in love with basketball for real because I got to see the players play live in my face, not on television. And I saw something different. I saw basketball. I saw some real dudes balling like balling. I was like, “Yo, this is incredible.” And it’s and it was Miami versus Orlando. Two scrub teams, but the game was fun. The atmosphere was great. And I fell in love with the NBA for real at that time. And now mind you, I’m 20, 21 years old at the time. Um, so I’m old enough to remember this specifically. And at the same time, that was the last year for the Charlotte Hornets because at the at that time, the Charlotte Hornets moved to New Orleans. They became the New Orleans Hornets. And I wasn’t interested in in changing teams because I went to go watch the Miami Heat play and I fell in love with basketball. Then I said, you know what? I’m going to start rooting for the Heat because I can go to Heat games. At the time, the Heat was not a good team. They had just drafted Karan Butler in the in the first round early first round pick lottery pick in 2020 uh 2002 and from there I remember being a basketball fan. Um they drafted Dwayne Wade in 2003 right and they and they also added Lamar Odum in 2003. So I was joining the Miami Heat at a good good time. And I even remember going to go see Michael Jordan’s last game in Miami. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I saw Michael Jordan play when he was a Washington Wizard. I don’t know if any Zesty Jeff can say that. So the Miami Heat team became the team that I fell in love with. I fell in love with Eddie Jones, Karan Butler. Then they got rid of Eddie Jones. They added Lamar Odum, Dwayne Wade. Then I lucked up and got Shaquille O’Neal in 2004 because of Kobe Bryant and his enamorous to score and to be a stat patter. They got rid of Shaquille in LA and we were able to luckily get him. And the reason why I bring up the Lamar ODM situation is because if the Miami Heat don’t sign Lamar ODM in 2003, they don’t have the actual pieces to trade for Shaquille O’Neal in 2004. And then we end up winning a championship in 2006 because of Shaquille O’Neal. Then at the end of my greatness, as for y’all to understand, y’all would know everything after 2010. Y’all already know the history. 2010, LeBron James joins my Miami Heat. And that’s how I become that’s how I became a Miami Heat fan starting in 2002 season. So that’s that’s my history as an NBA fan. That’s where I come from. That’s my background. That’s what I do. I mean I I y’all see the history. I’ve been there, done that. So if you’re not if you’re not over 25 years old, you can’t come in here telling me anything about the game of basketball cuz you’re not old enough. That’s just the fact you’re just not old enough. You’re just not old enough. So, I’m going to put the um I’mma put the link up for anybody who wants to join me and we can have a conversation. You can tell me about your basketball era or we can talk about whatever you want to talk about because I’m here to have fun. Like I said, I’m celebrating my 44th birthday to uh this weekend. Um I’m a Gemini and this is this is a time of celebration for me. I usually celebrate my birthday weekends in style. So, I’m going to have me some fun, man. I see y’all in the comments. Like I said, I bring y’all back into history. Like I told you, I brought y’all back to my fondest my fondest memories of basketball, my earliest memories of basketball. And it it really starts off with Michael Jordan losing in the Eastern Conference Finals uh versus the Detroit Pistons. The shot clock down to one. Mark brings it back outside. Well, Phil Jackson said yes. This will be considered a successful season for the Bulls. They went one game farther for the Pistons. Nothing but another world championship will do. And they, the Detroit Pistons, will meet the Portland Trailblazers in the best of seven beginning Tuesday night on [Music] CBS. Ladies and [Music] gentlemen, Chicago. This stifling Detroit Piston defense holds the Chicago Bulls to 28 of 90 31% but Michael Jordan they have 31 and he’s with Matt O’Brien right Michael Jordan here in the midst of the celebration. What are you saying to the other players Michael? All you can do is wish him good luck. I mean uh you know we fought hard. You know they were the better team. We went to a game a seven game series. What more could we ask for? You know we want to be where they are but we still got to wait our turn. We still trying to improve our team. They were the better team and they played better today. What’s your emotion now, Michael? Sadness? Uh, frustration? You know, sadly, I’m disappointed, you know, because I wanted to go further, but I got to accept the season that we played. We had a good season. We got this far. We got to look forward to next season. That’s the only thing we can do. Gave it a hell of a run. Thank you, friend. Dy did 31 points to lead the Bulls. That’s just one below his series average. And in the locker room, Mark Aguire, Bill Lambir, and our Miller Light player of the game, Isaiah Thomas tonight. Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, Isaiah Thomas beat Michael Jordan. I see some of y’all in the background. I’m going bring y’all up shortly. Let’s continue this so y’all can see about my fandom, ladies and gentlemen. Yes, I was a big time Charlotte Hornet fan. That’s why I started liking basketball. And again, it started with the hype of the Charlotte Hornets back in the days. a small market team just trying to build their franchise up just like the OKC Thunder is uh doing right now to be the greatest team that we’ve probably seen uh uh in in the last several years because they are they’re probably one of the best teams we’ve seen since the 2020 Lakers if not the the the Warriors, but I became a fan watching this Charlotte Hornet team. Make way. Here comes a bunch of young guns. Johnson Allen shot is blocked by Morning. The Charlotte Hornets were the thing you were not at a Charlotte Hornets game, you were missing out on something. It’s a three-pointer. The Hornets win. It’s over. We had Rex Chapman, Kendall Gil, Curry. It was different personalities top to bottom. Of course, Larry Johnson, Grandma, Alonzo Morning, Mugsy Bogs. Um, we had Nashville Appeal, but it was something unique about the Purple and Teal. It was in to be a Hornet fan. That team really changed everything for small market team. North Carolina is probably better known for stock cars and college basketball. But today, pro basketball takes center stage as Charlotte enters a new era. And so Charlotte and Miami will join the NBA Frey for the 1988 season. Honestly, I did not know where Charlotte was. Where is that? Is that West Virginia? Is that Charlotteville or No, it’s it’s North Carolina. Oh, okay. North Carolinians knew uh basketball, but they didn’t really know the NBA. Oh yeah, they Yeah, the the NBA was new to a lot of people. It was new to me as well. I didn’t know nothing about the NBA at the time. I was a I was just a kid. Look at me. Just a small kid from from I would even consider myself from Miami then, but I was just a kid in Miami appreciating life, just having fun. And I couldn’t wait to be like Larry Johnson cuz Larry Johnson was that dude. They the number one pick, so he’s the best player on this great team. Uh great college career. uh a tremendous amount of hoopla coming in and it has been the Larry Johnson show. We laid the foundation, you know, myself, Mugs, Dell, Johnny Newman, but you you had to get allstar caliber players and then LJ was our first all-star caliber player. What are you going to do for the Charlotte Hornets? Well, I’m going to go in I’m I’m going basically offer the Charlotte Hornets that I offered uh you know, the previous teams I played on. You know, hard work. Um, I’m going in doing whatever the coach asked me to do, whatever my teammates need me to do, and you know, just try to win. All you What a play by Larry Johnson. Best player I’ve ever played with, high school, college, or pro. I saw Larry Johnson just take every big man to school. And here’s Larry Johnson. a guy who was 250 lb, 6’7, had the grace of a ballerina, could shoot it, had the strength of Shaquille O’Neal, and he knew when to use it. This is where it’s done. This is the gym. Barkman. Then you take that and you add his personality to it. No pain, no gain. Malone better work on the guns, right? Yeah, man. That’s how it was, man. Shout out to King Rose speech who’s in the building. Peace, brother. It’s good, baby. Go ahead. And and happy birthday, by the way. Happy uh early. Appreciate that, man. Thank you. Thank you, sir. I love that you doing this show because you you you rolling up and I and I see I see why you doing it. You know what I mean? You didn’t start watching in 2010, right? You didn’t start watching, you know. No, real talk. You’re give indirectly you’re giving MJ your props, right? And look, look, M you saw MJ in that interview. He didn’t throw his team under the bus. He took accountability and he called the Pistons the better team. Now, now, yes, that was CBS interviewing him because that was their last chance to interview him because as you know, the the the the Packers going over to NBC the next year and then NBC did all of that with So, that was their last chance to I guess interview Jordan. They knew the Pistons were going to the finals. They would get Isaiah in anyway. You understand what I’m saying? So, but the league and see this the thing for everybody that talks about how expansion watered down the league. Remember the Heat the Heat Magic, the Timberwolves in a Charlotte all came in in those two years and within a few years all those like remember as I said ‘ 91 92 the last piece they needed was Zo and then they became a legit playoff team for about three four years. You understand what I’m saying? So they all slowly built up the Heat had Ronnie Cyclley, Sherman Douglas, they got Glenn Rice. He said Sherman Douglas. I remember Sherman Douglas. Sherman Douglas was so underrated, bro. He was just so steady. My little one in the background, but he was so steady, bro. Sherman Douglas was so a steady point guard. Oh my god, that’s hilarious. Uh Matt Guyger. Oh, Matt Ger up uh rolling around. said Matt Guyger. Oh my god. Walker Kesler’s uncle, Alec Kesler. RIP to him. He was Leave it up to you, King. Leave it up to you, King Speech, bro. That’s why when y’all talk about these teams, I knew these teams. I knew I knew the players on the team and I knew how the teams attack. You know, that’s why I can talk 90s basketball. Some of these cats don’t. But but at the end of the day, the fact that again, Badic Bird and Jordan, the league was now blowing up. It was expanding. It was it was you could put basketball in new markets. That was healthy for the league. So when y’all use the expansion watered down era, that’s not that’s not a But the problem is No, but the problem is is that like you said, when you got the teams like the Charlotte Hornets, the Orlando Magics, and the the the Timberwolves, and all these teams getting all these top early picks, the teams like the Detroit Pistons, the Lakers, the Boston Celtics that were running at the throughout the 90s, the Philadelphia 76ers. Now the teams that are are good teams are no longer eligible to get these star players anymore. But the league started making sure it it made it hard to to stack talent. You see what I’m saying? It that was the remember I’ll say this though. Remember why the Lakers in a the Lakers in a Have you ever thought to yourself why did the Lakers have the first pick three times in the in the in the in between like Magic then they had Worthy in 82 cuz they was they were joking teams like remember in 76 how they got Magic they traded they traded to the New Orleans Jets. But they didn’t do lottery protected or you know top five protected or they just you get we’re trading your first round pick. So when the Lakers traded Gail Guridge to New Orleans in 76 that pick turned into 79 Magic Johnson. Exactly. All kind of crazy stuff. They they got worthy off the same thing. They got worthy off the same thing. Same thing. So exactly hour back and or it was West and the other guy that was running the Lakers. They were killing everybody like cuz these smaller market teams like New Orleans and uh whoever got you know uh and go remember remember our Hourback beat up Golden State he got Parish and Male the year after the bird won the championship they had the the Celtics had the first pick they traded back to the third pick because Joe Barry Carol was the big star coming out right they traded back and got Paris and male for Joe Barry Carol. Now, at the time, Joe Barry Carroll was the man, right? Everybody thought from Purdue he was going to be like he was Ralph Samson before Ralph Samson. Problem was he was late. He was talented, but he was lazy. Now, Male, I mean, Parish was in New Or was in Golden State for like four years. He had the reputation of being lazy, too. But then you add in Male, who nobody knew, the third pick, and he came as a sixman. And now next thing you know Boston got a squad with Bird Paris Muel the best front quarter of all time. Yeah. Yeah. That’s the 80s. That’s 80s basketball. That’s what I’m saying. That’s what I’m saying. Trying to slow down these dynasties cuz again Red Hourback was so much smarter than everybody. Gary West was so much and what was running the Lakers was so much smarter than everybody. They were joking these teams so they could stack a worthy on top of a Magic and and Kareem and B. Then they got Byron Scott the same way. He was the like the fourth pick in the draft. So they was killing it through the draft and these other teams didn’t know that, hey, we got to keep our draft pick so we can get No, it’s not only that. They can’t. No, because they couldn’t afford it. Again, the league didn’t have the money. That’s the thing. So So, so, so now, so now there was no revenue. So now you get a new revenue from NBC, which allows these small market teams to be able to pay guys like Alonzo Morning to pay guys like Larry Johnson. And still to a certain degree they they still couldn’t afford them, but it still helped the league market and and promote the players. So that was the whole point of all of this was to show how these small market teams that the NBA was bringing into the league that were already existing in the league, they were if you want to know how teams were, if you need a blueprint, like I said, the Charlotte Hornets was it because somehow the Charlotte Hornets became that that national sensation. People didn’t care if they weren’t making the playoffs or not. If they matter of fact, I remember when they won their first playoff series, I think they beat Boston in the playoffs. It was a big thing. It was a big big big big thing. So again, nobody was out here knocking players. They were they were appreciating the errors and stuff like that. Before I let you go, King Roll, I want I want to bring up some other stuff here that some people were talking about here. Somebody’s asking here, “What do I know about these starter jackets?” I know a lot about these starter jackets. These starter jackets, they were there, bro. If you were a ’90s kid, you know about these starter jackets, man. Even to the point to my boy Young Africa. Shout out to Young Africa in the building. He’s saying that look he it was in Africa Young Africa is from Northeast Africa and he was like they had these jackets over there so we knew about all of that. Um yeah Zesty Jeff they got an age limit. If you if you’re under 25 you can’t argue with me to say you ain’t got nothing to say with you man. Shout out to you. Shout out to you Marcus again. I see all you guys in the comment. Thank you for the happy birthday wishes. Appreciate that. Thank you so much. Yeah and the Hornets. They had a mascot that that was when mascots became big. That was another big thing about that. We got you had the Hornets mascot. And again, yeah, I’m again I got nothing but respect for players. I just don’t got no respect for Zesty Jeff. Those are just the facts. Those are just the facts. But I I had me one of them jackets though. But King, I’mma put you in the background. I’m going bring up a GJK member and I got a couple of folks in the background. I’mma bring you guys up one by one. I appreciate you, King Speech, man. Take care, little man in the background. Let me bring up my boy Juan Boy. What up, Juan Boy. Peace and blessings, brother. What’s going on, man? Happy birthday. Thank you. Thank you, brother. What’s good, brother? Start I started not I started not to click the link, but then the urge to to kill all of that 90s talk he was just doing just just was like, “Yo, you know what? Hit the link, man. Time to destroy that.” Know what I mean? But in all due respect to the ‘9s, man, it was what has us, you know, practically talking about basketball because we invested lots of time into continuing to watch 30 something years later. what you know and some of us were able to you know absorb it absorb the game of basketball without any narratives without any bias towards players because you know you was just a fan of the game that’s how I that’s how I take it and you know now that we comparing errors you know it go it’s not because of what the 90s brought to the table cuz it’s nothing that I have seen since I began watching in 1991 that has been better than 2000 up until now. You know, I I agree with you. I agree with you. And you know, like from seeing, we go from seeing guys like Shawn Kemp to go and seeing guy like Amari Stamite come out of high school, be the first player out of high school to win rookie of the year before LeBron does it. You know what I’m saying? And then two, three seasons later, he’s a top five scorer for for for the top team in the West. Sean Kemp never did no [Â __Â ] like that. H you know what I’m saying? And you want to talk about Murray Stardom, you got to remember he was in the West. So he’s going up in series against Duncan. He’s going up against series against Dirk. He’s playing against Kevin Garnett. He’s going up against Palasaw, Andrew Bayham, and and Lamar Odin. And Phoenix didn’t have no backup other than him. And he scorched them all off of micro microcoscopic knee surgery. Hey, hold on. Hold on. We go one boy. He said, he said, “What was so crazy about the 2000s?” Man, you must be out of your mind, bro. And y’all keep smoking crack. Let me let me show you what was happening in the 2000s. This episode of Forgot About Him Fridays, we have none other than Baron Davis. I’m telling y’all, BD was so cold with it. Bro said, “I got a little birdie.” Where you going? Gave Reggie a smooth in-n-out burger out to that cup. Oh my god. You know the hesy was on Hall of Fame. Eric Snow and A. I can’t believe it. Somebody get a Kleenex. We got teardrop. Imagine your point guard back dooring to do this [Â __Â ] right here. I knew KG was going to be a good businessman when he decided not to jump with him. He already knew what it was. You couldn’t keep BD off that rim when he was in Charlotte. The In-N-Out cross had him punch drunk lay me. God damn it. Somebody call facilities. We got a slip and fall accident at this time. BD was damn near a top three point guard in the league. Man, give me that. Ain’t half not one offensive weakness. Godamn Baron, chill out. Should have shot it all good though. Hit him with the Rondo dime. Bro is too quick, too big, and too strong. And if bro got to his launch pad, it was over. God damn. Sorry, T-Mac. Ain’t nothing over there. Hey, and you better not jump. Told Charlie Ward the Heisman cool, but I got a jumper. Mike, bibby, Baron, Davis, Mano, Emano. Don’t get it wrong, BBY was tough, but Baron was different, bro. Let him go. Like, I don’t even want no problem. They were so scared they had to hug him. Oh, man. That was That was what was going on in the 2000s, brother. That was what’s going on in the 2000s. That was just the start the 2000s. That That was so upset. I was so upset when they let when they let the Charlotte Hornets go. I really was. But but how about we also had Steve Francis, too. That’s what I’m saying. The 2000s were different in the 90s. The 2000s were different in the 90s. Point guards getting the ball with the handles and all that. Yeah, man. Yeah, man. So, again, this is this is again, I’m here having fun. Shout out to all y’all here. Like I said, this is my birthday weekend, so nothing you Jeff could do that could bother me. I’m just having fun, man. Shout out to you, Naj. Thank you so much. I’m here having fun, man. I’m having fun. I’m going to leave you here cuz you are a Goat James Kingdom member boy. But let me bring up Olo cuz Olo is always a supporter of the channel. Shout out to you Olo. What’s your brother? What you got for me today? As you can see, we here talking old school basketball. And first of all, Olo, are you are you old enough to talk basketball with me? Uh, what’s the age limit? 25. Damn. Three years under that, man. Oh my god. Go ahead, brother. What you got for me? What you got for me? What you got for me? All right. So, I want to start off by saying happy birthday. I know. I know. I know. I’m a baby to the gang. I’m a baby to the gang. But, uh, what about what was the topic? I’m hearing that we talking about 2000s 90s. What’s the rap about? You got you joined late. See, so that that means you’re not a Goat James Kingdom subscriber. That means you weren’t watching the show from 900 p.m. You started watching the show when Lamont promoted his on his channel, which about a half an hour 45 minutes late of the show. The show is about me and my fandom because I I was told that I started watching basketball 2010. And not only that, the idea that the OKC Thunder are not getting their love and respect cuz they’re small market team. A lot of people don’t want to give them the props for what they are. They’re about to be they’re about to do something that we’ve never seen before. They’re about to be historic. And I became a basketball fan predicated on small market teams. I became a basketball fan watching the old Charlotte Hornets play. You saw the clips that I played of the Charlotte Hornets, right? Yeah. Okay. So, that’s how I became an NBA fan, bro. Like, that that’s where my fandom started at. That’s where, you know what I’m saying? Like, I didn’t have nobody telling me Larry Johnson was a bump. I didn’t have nobody telling me none of this nonsense. So, I was able to smile in my in my in my yearbook picture with a Charlotte Hornet jersey, even though they sucked because I didn’t care that, you know what I’m saying? Like, because nobody was running around here trying to tell me I can’t be a happy basketball fan. I can’t like the Charlotte Hornets. I didn’t have to be a Michael Jordan, uh, Zesty Jeffrey. I could just be somebody who think Larry Johnson is the dude. You see what I’m saying? So, I grew up watching basketball in a in a good era where people were allowed to be basketball fans. Today, you people are making fun of Nick fans. Why are you making fun of Nick fans? they they’re enjoying their basketball team. You’re not here. I wish my was here. You know what I’m saying? But go ahead. It’s the same. It’s the same. And I got and uh thank you for bringing up the OKC topic. I got a lot to say about that one. I was going to say it on my channel, but I want to start with what you were saying about the Knicks fan thing. It’s the same thing with the Cowboys fan. Um I was just having a conversation with one of my relatives about it uh while we was watching the Knicks game. Shout out to the Knicks for pulling out for the win. Um, it’s a thing where like like when you watch the game and you see the camera going to Spike Lee on the sideline and you see him with all this New York gear, Nicks this and Nicks that and he’s always in talking trash like back in the day when we talking trash to Reggie Miller, things like that. And you know, if you grew up in the hood, you know, a lot of black, especially a lot of black oldheads, they like cowboys. A lot of cowboy fans that’s 45, 40 and up. And obviously, they became they became fans from those Emit Smith days, the Michael Irvvin days. So, you can’t tell them nothing. They ain’t won [Â __Â ] in over 30 years. You can’t tell them nothing. They still they still going to talk about the Cowboys like they just won 10 straight chips. You know what I’m saying? So that’s what that’s what you’re going to get from them. And that’s the same energy that we getting from the Knicks fans today. You see it all over the internet. Trey Young and S. You know what? And they all that the energy that they have. I mean, you can’t knock them for because you got a lot of people now that’s jump from team to team and the fact that we got 20 20 year olds, 21 year olds that’s like, man, they they die hard Nick Knicks fans and they ain’t want nothing. They ain’t even been to the finals in over in in about what 25 years 99. Yeah. Yeah. But they love their Knicks. But they love you tell them you can’t tell them no otherwise and you shouldn’t because they enjoying it. Like they said I seen a video where Buddy was saying, bro, he was he was naming all like the horrible times of the Knicks throughout the last 20 years. He was like, “If you didn’t go back, let us be where we are.” And I like it. I I’m not a Knicks fan. I hate the Knicks, but if that’s what it takes to be a fan, I’m all for it, bro. I really I really appreciate that. I don’t care. You know, you got to be a fan of the game, bro. You got to be a fan. You got to appreciate. Here we go. Peter, why you out here lying? I run eight games of full court, hit the club to But you ain’t even talk about showing up at 8. Wake up at 8:00 the next day and do it again. Now, I we used to play we used to play basketball all the time as a younger when I was younger, but that that was crazy. BM says here, uh, because of no social media and internet, a Johnny, if you placed those mediums in the ‘9s, it would have been bad as well with toxic online. No, I agree with you. That that’s that’s the thing. Back then, like I said, if you if you didn’t have cable television, you couldn’t see the games. And if not, you was watching them on the weekends. And then if you were if you were trying to find out about the games, you had to go to ESPN. And ESPN did not show you nothing bad. They didn’t talk bad about players. They gave you highlights. They showed you all the great plays whether you won or lost the game. We just showed you them showing Michael Jordan lose and him being the post interviewer guy. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine that? Can you imagine them going to Anthony Edwards after losing a series instead of going to SGA? Who’s the winner? Kill them. They were killing. That’s like So that that shows you how the the idea of how they how they perceive players was just different back then. So, I was able to do that. I was able to see Larry Johnson, see the Scrub Hornets, and still think I was a part of something special, even though they weren’t winning [Â __Â ] They weren’t winning [Â __Â ] And that’s how it always goes. But let me put you in the background for a little bit. Although, I got another DJK member in the building. Let me bring him up and then we can have a conversation. I’ll bring you all y’all up shortly. We’ll have fun. I’m not going nowhere. Again, this is the Friday Night Exposure with the Exposer. I’m here doing the best thing. If you a GJK member, come join me. We’ll have fun. I’m celebrating my 44th birthday and celebrating the fact that I no longer have to talk to Zesty Jeff under 25. But I do have an elder statesman, someone who is older than me that could also remember the same things that I was just talking about. I just gave you guys a rundown of my fondest memories as a basketball fan. And I got my boy Anthony Davis in the building. What’s good, Anthony? Thank you for joining. How you doing? Happy birthday. Thank you. Thank you, man. I appreciate it, brother. What’s good? Oh, good, man. I enjoyed the show. I enjoyed how you gave the rundown of your fandom. I mean, that’s what it’s all about, right? You know, being a kid, loving your team, and you came up in a time where it there was no criticism, loving your team, right? And that’s all changed, man. I’m like I’m born in 1971. I’m in I’m in New York City. So, I grew up idolizing Bernard Kane back in 1983 84. I’m 12, 13 years old, you know, wearing number 30 Nick jerseys. And Arc King was that dude. He was he was from Brooklyn. He was from New York. And for a lot of New Yorkers, being from New York is a big deal, right? It’s like Willie Randolph played for the Yankees. He was from Brooklyn. He was from New York. It was like a big deal when somebody from your from your hood can represent your professional sports team. So, a guy like Bernard King was the guy that I was into. And I think in the 84 playoffs against Detroit, dude had like I don’t know three, fourpoint games, like some crazy thing. And then he played against I think Boston uh I think in the semi-finals. And I think Boston said, “Oh, you’re not going to get any more 40point games.” And I think Bernard in that series had two more 40point games. He was just outrageous. I remember I remember I actually I remember seeing something about that talking about that. Now that you say that that they were saying and he put up 40 against him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now that you say that, I saw something similar recently about Bernard King because I’ve been, you know, doubletapping Nick’s content recently. And back back in those Bernard King days, uh, when Michael Jordan came into the league, one of the biggest attractions was Michael Jordan versus Bernard King. Like because Bernard was such an amazing one-on-one player, amazing scorer, and to see that matchup, right? I think early in Michael Jordan rookie year people wanted to see that right so like Bernard King was the guy that really brought me in uh to the game of course and you know so when I’m like 15 16 86 87 I thought it now going to the game and going to the garden back in those games it was nowhere near as defensive as it is today there’s no no way like a average person can go to a regular Nick game now cuz I think now the court size seat a potential game seven is like $250,000. I don’t know how people got that kind of money to just spend on one night of of enjoying the corporate people, man. If you go to the games now, it’s real corporate. I’ve been I’ve managed to go to games through various ways, you know, because I’m connected with people, but um it’s expensive. So, one of the reasons why the Knicks have been stuck in mediocrity for so long is Dolan owned the team. We saw the Isaiah Thomas years, the Phil Jackson years, and we we see, you know, that for a long time, they weren’t really concerned about putting a good product on on the court, right? And and but Nick fans are going to come anyway. They’re going to they’re still going to charge crazy tickets. They’re still going to sell out. Facts. So, they they didn’t need to necessarily put anybody there. And so, you saw how they treated Charles Oakley, you know, you saw that, right? um how they treated Spike Lee not long after that. You know, how they treated Patrick Ewing. Yeah. You know, he’s coaching Georgetown. So, um so the energy that you see from New York now is we’ve gotten past a lot of those bad times and a lot of the energy is not the not Dallas Cowboy liked. I I refute that. It’s just more 25, 30 years of being stuck in mediocrity and now you got a team that you can actually get with and a guy like Jaylen Brunson embodies so much of what the city’s about. You know what I’m saying? So, he’s become the face of New York sports. You know what I’m saying? Oh, I I I love it, bro. I like I like Brunson. I like I said, I like the way New York is is rallying around. I saw a video the other day where the dude was like, “Yo, people are outside in front of bodeas all of a sudden.” because he was saying cuz after the pandemic New York kind of changed and he was like man people are outside watching the game together it’s a different feel in New York now and again if they pull this off tomorrow night and they go to a game seven I can only imagine the type of that’s going to happen I just want to say that that to all the people who watch listen I’m 10 years older than you right yes the accuracy by which you cover the game is crazy and I’m only here really to just attest to your witness that you you you comprehensively cover the game with accuracy. I never feel like you you do your homework, you do your research. I never feel your facts are wrong. I always feel you always got it. And I always know that if you may not know something as well, by the next time or whatever, you you’ve mastered that thing. So that’s why you be killing these dudes out here, man. And I love it. you guys. So, I’m just like I said, I just came really to be a witness to give a little bit of my experience, right, as a fan. Um, it hasn’t been great as a Nick fan and also to be like, yo, man, I that’s why I love the show. I’m a member because you and B, you guys really do your work. Um, and even though you may be 10 years younger, I feel that you understand the era I came up of because you did you did the work. I appreciate that, man. Before you go though, can you please tell everybody what was the sentiments cuz you were you was about 19 in 1990, right? So you was 19, right? So you could can you please tell people what was the sentiments when Michael Jordan lost that game seven and the Bulls lost again to the Detroit Pistons and what they were talking about with Michael Jordan in terms of like what was it a big deal if he lost? Not a big deal. But what what was just the narrative? What was the talk? What was the what? Because again in my household it was they lost again. They were upset and I don’t remember the media coverage because again I’m I’m nine ten I was nine t years old bro I didn’t I don’t only thing I remember was my brother being I’m g say it like this I mean this is this is from my perspective right you got to understand from 87 88 89 90 right it was the Boston Celtics LA Lakers um Detroit whatever were dominating um my view of it no one really cared if Michael Jordan won or not that that wasn’t the sentiment back then. Um, so when he lost in 88, no one really cared. When he lost in ‘ 89, I remember Dick Stockton saying like kind of giving excuses when he when he lost at game six and Michael was terrible in that game six, five out of 12 from the foul line, disappeared the last two, three minutes of the game. Um, 1990, I saw the interview that you put up, you know, at the end of the game. Um, I didn’t get the feeling. This is my opinion. Look, I’m like you said, I’m about 19, right? I didn’t get the feeling like people were killing Michael Jordan back in those days. It’s like, okay, well, maybe he’ll get a chance. But it was like people were still allowed, as you said, allowed to be fans. You were still allowed to to like your team and there wasn’t none of this uh uh you know, vitriol, right? So, um, I just like the criticism and the incessant 24-hour ESPN stuff and the breaking down the game and the way Skip Balis did with LeBron from age 21. That never happened to Michael Jordan. That never that that constant critique didn’t happen. So, in terms of sentiment, if I understand your question, that’s what I felt like. I just never felt that him losing meant that much to people. All right. No, I got you. Like I said, I was only 19 years old. I I like like uh uh like Wally would say, I wasn’t off the porch type of fella. Anyways, brother, enjoy your evening, man. Thank you for joining me. Thank you for your support as usual. You know how to reach out to me as a Goat James Kingdom member and Brandon and I. So, uh thank you so much, brother. Enjoy. One more time. Happy birthday, bro. Enjoy. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Yeah, man. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So, I got the rest of you guys up here as well. Let me let me address some of these comment. Where is FYF? You’re on FYF. If you didn’t know, this is like the 40th something episode on FYF on a Friday night. The only thing that happens on a Friday night on FYF Sports Debate is the Friday Night Exposure with the Exposer. Welcome. I’m a Johnny the Exposer. All I do is expose Zestie Jeffrey lies and Zestie Jeff in particular. Welcome to another great show where I’m showing guys how I’m a real basketball fan. The rest of y’all really ain’t. Y’all just up here upset that y’all can’t really praise LeBron. But I’m gonna give you a reason how to praise LeBron because I done showed y’all why LeBron’s the goat. So, welcome to GOAT James Kingdom. Welcome to the Friday Night Exposure. I’m a Johnny the Exposer. You’re concigier. Is that how they say it? I’m here to introduce you to all the greatness about basketball. If you don’t like that, you can go run to Meltdown Sports because I hear somebody over here talking about Meltdown Sports. Let me let me go to his comment right here. Uh Meltdown Sports. That’s fine. He’s probably live talking about LeBron James. The biggest the biggest LeBron sexuals are all of these SD Jeffrey channels. The Meltdown Sports, right? The Creepers Pro, right? The Hungry Man, right? The Unsmart Hoops, right? The Dookie Rated R Sports channel. Oh, not my bad. It’s rated X Sports cuz he got exposed by the Exposer just like the rest of the Zesty Jeff. The Zesty Fitness and Rants. You go down their channel, all you’re going to see is LeBron, LeBron, LeBron, LeBron this, LeBron that, LeBron, LeBron, LeBron. And then they got a nerve to call me a LeBron sexual when they run around here talking about LeBron James more than I could ever talk about LeBron James. LeBron James. LeBron James. LeBron James. LeBron. But I’m here with guys who support me. Thank you you gentlemen. Thank you Juan Boy for being a member. Thank you Ro for doing what you want. In fact, I mean doing what you do. Ro, go ahead and plug your channel for people right now. Please go ahead and plug your channel please. All right. Yeah. So um y So I’m with Go Cast who right? Go cash just the way uh FYF you you and FYF um partner up. He gives me the platform to do the the 10 toes down podcast on his show and he does the gocast you know gocast. So me and me and my man um CW from gocast gocast hoops do a show and I do my I try I’m g start doing two shows a week. I did two shows this week Tuesday and Thursday and you know I’ve been doing some live streams with with 93 again. He’s a LeBron critic. You know what I’m saying? But you know, we out we out here doing it, man. I look, you guys, I don’t always agree with y’all. I agree with I see the crazy part is I agree with y’all some of the times. But, you know, I but but at the end of the day, you know, it’s all good. This is this like us doing it on YouTube. I think we do it a little bit better. I think we do this this this little sports debate thing. We do a little bit better than they do on TV because a lot a lot of us are giving a fan perspective. So, that’s a good thing, man. and and there’s room out here for all of us. But yeah, I do the 10 Toes Down podcast. I try to do it Thursday nights and Tuesday nights. Tuesdays and and Thursday nights and out around 9:30 Eastern, you know. Y’all make sure to check out King Speech, right? Y’all make sure to check him out. King Speech, I apologize with the 10 Toes Down podcast. That’s a dope name. Y’all definitely check out his channel. Olo, go ahead and plug in your channel, brother. Uh, can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you. Go ahead and plug in your channel and what you do on your channel, brother. Go ahead. Um, I’m starting a a channel right now on YouTube. Um, the first of the first and um, it’s shorts. I got a couple of shorts on there if you want to check me out. It is Olo Hoops on YouTube. Um, if you want to follow me on Instagram, it is 386_olo OL Sports. Indeed. Indeed. Shout out to you, young man. Now, listen, ladies and gentlemen, Olo is a young man. If you want to know how young Olo is, all I got to do is show you my my basketball timeline. Olo was born around the time Dwayne Wade was being drafted. [Applause] So that Huh? I got I got old soul though. I got old soul. I’ve been around my life. That’s true. That’s true. You you are a wise young man. You sit here and listen to us as as older gentlemen. I see you listen to FYF and I see you. You show up. You you stay quiet. You patient. You wait till your turns to speak and you you know and you absorb all the information. Unlike these ZD Jeffries who just comment to just comment and they think that they comments mean something. They really think that by commenting they doing something. So we got some dude named Randy Clips in here. So let me So So let the [Â __Â ] go. You got cooked. If not, you would have kept replying in the comments. Why do you guys think that having an actual conversation in the comments is a debate. It’s not a debate. Hit the link. Hit the link. I put the link up for you. Hit the link. You you Zesty Jeffies are safe in the comments so you could pretend that we didn’t have a conversation. Nobody’s reading your comments. We got well over 300 people watching today’s show right now and you don’t want to show up with over 300 people doing stuff. He said, “You’re not talking about me.” Well, who are you talking to? Oh, Random Cliff’s talking to me cuz he come on my show now. I gave him the link to my show, too. And he and he didn’t want to come up either. Like, so again, he wants to convince you in the comments and that’s how he do. That’s how he do it. So he’s a Jordan critic and I don’t understand what his argument is, but you know, it is what it is. He he probably coming at me. They they they safe in the comments. Like I always say, these dudes be safe in the comments, man. Come on, man. 10. Yeah. Like I don’t got time to be reading y’all comments, man, and be remembering everything you last Zesty Jeffrey say. Like, come on, bro. Like, nobody got time for y’all. If you really want to have a conversation, come on live cuz y’all know y’all going to say something real stupid and you going to end up getting clipped. And once you get clipped, it’s a wrap. It’s on Goat James Kingdom Forever. Just like Zestie Fitness and Rants now telling everybody, “Yeah, oh, we saw those guys like over a year ago.” And and uh and I cooked those guys. Yeah, right. We got footage of it. We got footage of all of it. And all you doing is lying. You guys don’t got no footage of me getting cooked. I’m waiting for somebody to go pull up the dookie live. You know why you can’t go get the dookie live of me and get cook on dookie live? Because he didn’t even show you the whole live. He didn’t show you the beginning of the live when I was cooking him and he didn’t show you the end of the live when I was still going off on him. In fact, I don’t even think the crash out is on his YouTube when I when I basically told his homeboy come get his money and blood since he think I owe him money cuz supposedly I owed him Zesty Jeff money. But they ain’t they they never gonna get the money. They never gonna come get the money. We saw Zestie Jeff was out here. I mean, we saw Dookie was on the comments earlier. We ain’t We’re not scared of none of you Zesty Jeff. I’m a real basketball fan. I gave y’all tippets. If you didn’t if you missed it, that’s your problem. I showed y’all something that y’all can go run with. Y’all can go make fun of a 12, 13 year old. Shout out to Mitsu. Happy birthday. Thank you. Thank you again. I am celebrating my 44th birthday this year. I wanted to have Chilltown on today’s show. Shout out Shout out to Mike the Champ, man. What’s the topic right now? Right now, the topic is whatever y’all want it to be because I already explained to y’all my fandom, where I come from, my background. I showed you guys how I became an NBA fan. I would love to hear y’all stories. Why don’t y’all come up here and tell me what was what was it? What was the moment that said, “Hey, I’m an NBA fan. This is it. I’m going to watch this. I like it. That’s right. Come get it in blood. I ain’t seen a [Â __Â ] since. I ain’t seen the [Â __Â ] since.” And the and the you know the the crazy part like I always told y’all is the crazy part is like I told you remember I told you I grew up in a neighborhood where we made fun of each other all the time. Could you imagine me going to school looking like this every day? Could you imagine the type of the type of uh uh uh how much I was probably bullied in my lifetime because I was walking around looking like this. And I ain’t even like I ain’t even like getting haircuts. Y’all can see I ain’t even got a line up. I ain’t got nothing working for me. I ain’t got nothing working for me. I don’t know how I came up in life looking like this. I don’t know what was going on in life for me, man. Shout out to my mother. Shout out to my mother. You can see I do have braces on. So they I was getting my teeth fixed, but I was known as Bucky. They used to call me Bucky from Captain Bucky O’Hare. That’s what I was. And I and I used to walk around school with one of those jackets. Now in South Florida, you only need one jacket. You don’t need more than one jacket in South Florida cuz we only get winter for three weeks out the year. So, that was good enough. And most of I had like three homeboys. We all had this same jacket. I had the white version. I don’t remember. I don’t I couldn’t find the white version on the internet, but I did have the white version. So, that’s what tonight’s topic is about. Mike, you come up here. Mike, how old are you, Mike? Because I know you be out here talking all the time and you was out here arguing for Akim Elijah, but I’m I’m I’m quite sure you was born in the 2000s as well, Mike. So, let’s start with you, W boy. What is your fondest memory of a of a basketball fan, Juan Boy? What is your earliest memory for you? What was the earliest thing that made you say, “Yo, damn, this is crazy. This is anything in revolving the NBA.” Now, being there, all right, I I started playing basketball when I was around 8 years old. So about 9 10 years old, you know, growing up in growing up in Brooklyn, you know, that was more of a, you know, like a a guard oriented style of play cuz in New York City, what was everybody basically known for? Ball handling skills. So when I was we coming up in the early 90s, you know, it’s left side, left hand. You know, if you on the left side of the court, you dribbling a left-handed. If you go into the layup line, you lay up with your left hand. So, as you growing and seeing other guys with the same skills that you were raised on on have athleticism and l and some and better shooting mechanics to go with that, that’s when you see the guys like the Kobes, the Ray Allens, you know what I’m saying? The more skilled bigs, the Kevin Garnett, Lamar ODM, you know what I’m saying? Like I grew up down the block from Eric Barkley who went to school, the Christ the King High School with Speedy Claxton and Omar ODM. So, and Shmika Holto and Tina Charles and Sue Burns and that that’s how deep the New York uh circuit of basketball go. And I ain’t even getting deeper into that, but growing up seeing that in the late 90s and early 2000s, that’s why, you know what I’m saying? I’m so I’m so proud on pumping what the 2000s up till now put out because we see what how the game elevated so fast within a couple years cuz you remember Chris Weber and all of them you know what I mean Penny Hardway does the Grant Hill Jason kid the guys that can handle the ball you know a little bit more athleticism more strength more skill that’s when the NBA you know started to take a turn for the better that’s that’s how I feel the trickle going into the into the into the 2000s. And there’s nothing wrong with that. You know what I’m saying? But they hope but that’s what I hope that’s what I hope did because that’s when I say like, “Oh, damn. This [Â __Â ] D giving Garnett this work.” You know what I’m saying? It’s not like I’m watching Patrick Euan cook somebody like Dale Davis or Arani Cycl or or Steve Vlad. I don’t nobody want to talk about Vlad Diva and Victor Alexander. Those are starting senders for the Lakers and the and the Warriors. We don’t want we don’t remember that. We didn’t see that. So, you know what I’m saying? I don’t think that it’s worth the talk about it to the extent. And cuz you mentioning all these players, y’all talk about these players more than the guys who were the actual stars in the 90s. the stars in the 90s should be the only ones you guys should be really talking about because we got role players in this era from the 2000 yard that was better than the guys that y’all keep talking about from the 90s. See, that’s why I disagree with you, Juan Boy. And again, you from you from like the same streets I’m from and you’re a little bit younger. We talk first of all, you we you skip over the role plays Mutumbo. You don’t realize Jordan couldn’t dump on Mutumbo for like eight years. So last almost last year before he retired from the Bulls. Mutumbo was that much of a of a patroller that even Jordan couldn’t dump on him. You understand what I’m saying? It was a big deal when he finally did it. Like you talk about role players. Okay. You skipped past Alonzo Morning. You went morning had battles. You went in um you know you went in morning with the heat had battles for four straight years. Like so to sit there and say you was cooking and Ronnie psychic was no bum. See, see again. Hold on. Ry was a goddamn bum. Don’t start that row. Don’t start that rope. Come on. You a He f. See, but now I know you didn’t pick up the heat to No, I No. Yeah, exactly. I I told people I I didn’t pick up the heat till the Charlotte Hornets left. I was a big time Hornet fan. As a kid, as a grown man, I can make a decision. Right. I was 21 at the time I made the decision. I was able to drink. Okay. Right. So, I was able to make that decision. Huh. Yeah. But there was no Hornets team. But but there was no Hornets team at the time. Remember that the Charlotte Hornets didn’t exist. So that was that I had I that was kind of like my freeway to go to another team. If the team don’t exist anymore, how can I be a fan of I got you. I got you. I got you. But I’m saying the years that were in Charlotte, it was kind of nice. And then you was playing B. No, I was. That’s why I was showing you Baron Davis cuz I was a big time Baron Davis fan. Yeah. I used to love Glenn Rice. I used to love Eddie Jones. And I used to love I wasn’t again I didn’t become a Heat fan until I went to a Heat game in 2002. That was the first time that I experienced an NBA game in person. So, I was like, “Wow.” Like, “This is this is dope.” Like, you know what I’m saying? Like, this is different from watching it in the actual television. Like, I actually was watching them play. I remember it was like Rafa Austin on the team. They had uh Brian Grant. Uh, and I, you know, you know what my most memorable part of that game going to that game was? I saw Serena Williams in person. Yo, Serena Williams is bad. She was a bad woman, son. This I’m talking about bad. This woman was bad. And young I believe I sat next to Pat Riley’s daughter. If I’m correct, Pat Riley’s daughter played for the WNBA and and I I I believe I sat next to her in that game cuz I remember seeing two tall two tall chicks and one of them was a white girl and she was telling me her dad was Pat Ry. I think that’s what she was saying at the time. I don’t remember. I was drunk. I was having a good time. Again, the arena was half empty cuz the heat sucked at that time and I was like, “Oh, nobody can tell me anything cuz I’m a Heat fan now.” Because at the end of the day, they they suck. The Charlotte Hornets don’t exist. And I can go to He games back then. I can go to He Game for like 15 bucks. He said, “Hey, Johnny was ready to risk it all. He man.” Nah, my you talking about You talking about Oh, wait. Y’all want to talk about risk it all? The My homeboy, the one that I was with, he was ready to risk it all just to get next to Sabrina. Uh uh Serena Williams, he kept screaming her name the whole game. He was trying to get her attention. She was courtside and we were behind the basket and he was trying to get her attention the whole game. He was screaming her name the whole game. I was like, “Yo, bro, you going to get us arrested. You need to leave her alone.” He was like, “Nah, bro. When’s the next time we ever going to see Serena Williams?” And I was like, “You know what? You right. Go ahead, bro. Go ahead. Do your thing. Go ahead. Do your thing.” But like I said, those are my fond memories as a basketball fan. You know what I’m saying? I remember going to see Jordan. I was there when the Heat retired Jordan’s jersey in Miami. I was at that game. That’s nice. That’s real nice. I mean, like I said, it was good. It was again, the league had actually y’all forget in the 70s the league was almost going to fold. [Â __Â ] was on tape delay. So, we needed we needed every pe every little uh advancement to get where we are now. So, it’s like I don’t hate on none of it. You know what I’m saying? like one of the guy one of these guys was said was born during when Wade was drafted, right? But the thing about it is there’s Google now, right? So you could you could go research just what the if you if you if you interested about it, of course what you watch now, you know what I’m saying? Like I always say from just like you what we see now, we seen then and we see now. So we can compare a little bit. It’s not a bad thing. And I’m not again there’s a lot about today’s game I love. There’s some things I don’t I want to see these guys learn to box out. But by the same year, but bro, let me ask you. Hold on. Hold on. Let me ask you this. So, since you say you older than W boy, Wan Boy, are you in your your 30s or your 40s? I just turned 42 last month. All right, man. Shout out to you, brother. Peace and all you surviving out here. You know the rules of crack, baby. He said before crack baby. Crack baby. All right. So, you older than us, bro. So, are when did you start liking the Knicks? When did the Knicks become what what Nick team did you become a fan to to to make you start like in basketball? I became a Nick fan the moment I was watching Knicks versus Celtics. This is 1990. They bird was slowing down. Oh, wait. 1990. Hold on. Wait. So, how old are you, bro? I’m 46. All right. So, you’re two years older than me. All right. So, in 1990, you was about 11. No, you can’t be 11. Yeah. I bought a 79. Okay. So, you Okay, you’re right. I’m right. cuz I was nine in 1990. Okay, I’m wrong. Okay, so you became a fan watching the late 90s Nicks. The late ‘ 80s. The late ‘ 80s. I mean, I’m sorry. Yeah, the late ‘ 80s Nicks. That’s That’s when Patrick cuz you know that that 89 Patrick was was a beast. That’s when y’all drafted uh y’all drafted Strickland and y’all drafted Mark Jackson. We w up traded both of them by 92. Okay. So, go ahead. Go ahead, brother. We We messed up all along the way. All right. So, go ahead. Tell me. So tell me about that 1990. You’re 11 years old. The the the 1990 I remember the announcer on CBS saying Patrick Euan was a once in every 20 year player like he’s come around once every 20 years and and I was like okay. So the Knicks got that guy that’s New York and they battling with Larry Bird in them, right? And again the Knicks went down 200 and then you know again this is Patrick mind. We weren’t even playing Ros Strickland like that. We should have been, but we weren’t. And you know, it’s Mark Jackson, Oakley, Gerald Wilkins, and like between between Newman and um and Kenny Walker, you know what I’m saying? And we going up against the the Celtics. Yeah, I remember Kale DJ. Four Hall of Fame right there. Yeah, cuz Bird was hurt that year. Yeah, he was. No, but he was still like he was still giving you 20 in 2010 and five. I don’t care what you say. Bird, they keep saying Bird was hurt, but okay. He’s still battling Paris and Male. And came back had a big almost a triple double. He hit that corner three and the Knicks, you know, then we lost to the Bulls the next round. Okay. No, no, not the Bulls. We lost to the Pistons. Yeah. You didn’t play the Bulls in 90. You didn’t play Yeah. You didn’t play the Bulls in 90 to the Pistons. I’m sorry. We lost to the Bulls 89. Then we lost to the Bulls in 91 in the first round. You know what I’m saying? So, I remember all of that. We had hired uh Stu Jackson. Rick Patino went back to college for whatever. I don’t I remember what happened. and all that. I wasn’t old enough to Yeah, he was a coach for the Knicks. I remember that, too. Now, I remember him being a coach. I mean, I don’t remember that personally, but I do remember that story. Him being a coach for the Knicks in the late 80s. Yeah. So, it was like you went in them battles. Okay. By 92, the Bulls was already on top, but the Knicks said, “Oh, no, no, no, no. Y’all not going to go run through the league.” And we took them to a hot seven game series. We had ex Xavier. That’s when I became a diehard Nick fan. Now, my first my first memory was watching the Lakers on TV about 88 87. And I remember the the seeing Jack Nicholson courtside and all that and the I love LA chance and I was like okay this basketball [Â __Â ] because I was a baseball guy. I only watch baseball before that 86 87 88 Dock and Doc and Daryl the mess with my team. Doc Doc Gooden was boy K Fever bro Good Gooden was you couldn’t hit him. And then Daryl Daryl Strawberry he had a weird last name like me. So, of course, I used to model everything after after them two dudes, but then basketball became my sport as I grew taller and everything else. So, that’s what after that I just started loving everything. So, I’m an NBA fan first and then the Knicks became my team, my die hard team. That’s the team I’m gonna rock with. But I like players around the league. You know what I’m saying? Yeah. Like like like Frank Burcowski. It wasn’t Frank Noiski. Frank Bowski. It was Frank Burcowski. Yeah, bro. It was It was Frank Bowski. Yeah, it was Frank Bowski that that King was out here trying to tell us was a was a solid center from the ’90s. Tell the truth. Let me tell you how I learned the league, too. Basketball cards. This is starter tops, right? You had the starter cards, the Tops cards. No, no. What I would do is I would I didn’t collect my card. I would throw all the cards on the floor and I would just start memorizing stats and facts and stuff like that. So that’s how I kind and then I would see these guys on TV kind of match up the numbers to their game. That’s how I kind of learned how these guys play. So again, Frank Mowsky was a role player. We get it. He was starting that one year. He was he was a bruiser. Yeah, he wasn’t. But again, he was a guy that that’s what he was. You saw what they did when he was with the Sonics. That’s what they brought him in there for to start fights. They still start with Ramen and they realize that Robin getting tech ramen already going to get a technical foul on his own. We can’t have this white boy come in and take him out the game. That’s a star coming off TV. And the referee said, “Oh no, we going to eject this dude.” Yeah, you exact. Of course going to eject it. He throwing elbows out here to people’s throats. What you think he gonna have? And they’re arguing. They’re arguing with a ref to fight with Derek Harper in 94. That game three Derek fell for it like a dummy. Dojo England played 55 games. What the hell is he doing in a must-win game three? Wait a minute. Hold on. Hold on. Wait. Hold on. Wait. Hold on. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Wait a minute. Stop. Yo, Naj. Naji, are we serious? Serena Williams got a O of OF. I need to go find out or something. I need to go find I need to go find something out, bro. I need to find something. Shout out to you, uh uh uh VM. He said he’s going to turn 53 in August. That’s a couple of months from now. Shout out to you, man. Peace and blessings, man. Let me address some of these other comments before we let Olo tell us about his experience. Um he said he said he would Mike, we none of them dude you talking about compete with that dude. Like Rody Goar is a beast, son. Um there’s another comment here that I wanted to address. No, he wasn’t talking about Dirk Ninsky. He was talking about Frank Bowski. And the crazy thing about they brought him up when they brought up the with the go get the footage. It was him being the first player of the highlight was him going into the hoop losing the ball. I think he either kicked somebody in the stomach or kneed somebody in the stomach. They felt ran over to then the rest of the clip he just getting into that man’s. You brought that man for us to see that and I named their game. Yo guys were a little bit nah you cap. You a capp you were capping. You a cap. You got a C minus. Listen Carson Carson Carson says here he says now we praising hackers. Yes. Back then hackers were important. Guys like a Charles Ogi, like you said, those bruisers, they were important because back then just being seven foot or being tall was good enough cuz there wasn’t there wasn’t really good enough guards to cause a problem. So for guards to really be an advantage, they had to be able to attack the basket. Well, guess what? If I had a bruiser that you had to face to go to the basket, then guess what? I I got a player. So a lot of guys had basically contract because they were just they were big. They were they were physical and they can and they can they can last a 82 game season. Again, the NBA was grueling back then. Matter of fact, talking about Yeah. Talking about those finals or those those Eastern Conference finals, bro, they used to play backto-back playoff games. Forget back-to-back regular season games. The the the Chicago Bulls played a game three versus Detroit Pistons. The next night they were playing game four. Like that’s how the NBA was back then. It was a different league. It was so different. So having those bruisers was effective. That’s why guys were just shooting jumpers if they if they they weren’t going to the paint. That’s why you had to have effective jump shooters in a mid-range game cuz you were not going to be able to do nothing as a small guy cuz you had a bunch of Frank Bowskis out here elbowing the [Â __Â ] out of you. That’s just the facts. That’s just the facts. Hold on. No, not yet. No, Ro. Not yet, Ro. I know, Ro. I know you older than me, but you’re only two years older than me. So you gonna have to sit back, [Â __Â ] I’m 44. You gonna have to sit back and let me No, wait. We gonna let We gonna let a young man speak because I want to hear Olo’s experience because Olo’s Olo’s younger. He He was He was around for a more developed NBA, a more mature uh broadcast of the NBA in the 2000s. So, Olo, you was you was about 10, 11 years old. What year now? Um 2013, 2014. Wow. So, Okay. Wow. So you so you missed the Kobe era, the Shaq era, the Duncan era in particular. You missed that. I came late later in Kobe’s year. That’s when I started watching kind of watch. Okay. So So let’s let’s talk about that, brother. The mic is yours. What got you to like basketball around 10, you know, 11, 12 years old? Well, as you know, I’m a Florida kid. Um, born and raised the central Florida area. Um, I’m from the same area where Vince Carter’s from. My the town that I’m from is like literally 15 minutes away from there. But y’all be chasing y’all chasing rabbits and [Â __Â ] and raccoon hunting. Something like that. Something like that. Go ahead, brother. Yeah. Uh, so when I was growing up, it was Dwight Howard. Dwight Howard was all LeBron. Like we had everywhere we went, it was a it was uh Orlando Magic magazine somewhere. It was something with Orlando Magic on it. Somebody’s car had the stickers on it. It was just Dwight. All the commercials, Dwight, Adidas commercials, all that. So that that was the era that I came up in. And um so after that, then I became a LeBron fan. Once I got to middle school around 2015 or 16, I became a LeBron fan. What made me really become a LeBron fan was the I think right before the 3-1 comeback because I because I had a cousin that played football and he was a big Kyrie Irving fan like in like when Kyrie came into the league he was a Kyrie fan. He was born in 96 so he was in high school and Kyrie was balling and as he said I’m like Kyrie’s really that good. I was watching highlights of him and then I started watching LeBron more and then all of a sudden I became a became a LeBron fan. I did hear about LeBron a lot in school like in elementary school when he was in Miami but I didn’t really I wasn’t really like watching Miami games like that. It was all every it was Orlando. My auntie rest her soul. She was a Magic fan. Hard Magic fan. So every every night it was Orlando. Orlando. That’s all we were watching on TV was Orlando Magic. It wasn’t no Kobe and the Lakers, no Carmelo, the Knicks, none of that. It was just Orlando. At that time, it was what, Dwight Howard. But they they traded Dwight Howard. They dwight Howard in 2007. So by the time you was in high school, like you said, a middle school. Who was on Orlando then? Oh, that Oh, that was when we were Sorry. I was going to the games then. That was the Tobias Harris, Alfred Payton. I was a big Alfred Payton fan. That was the Vic Depot. Um DOT was on that team. Um Bism Biombo was there for a little while. Um that’s when we was trading for I think we had traded for uh Sergi Vaka. He played for a little stint there. Wow. Okay. All right. So you miss so you missed the the the the whole 2000s with like everything that happened with the the the Lakers, the uh the Spurs, the Heat winning a championship, Shaq’s uh dominance. Yeah, I was even even LeBron’s dominance in Miami. You really wasn’t old enough to to see or understand. You might have remembered it cuz and lucky lucky for you Oloc, you were able to see a lot more basketball games if you wanted to. I didn’t have that access. us like King Row speed me king speech row and and womboy we didn’t have access to games at 10:12 like that like you did at 1012. Um so that’s that’s definitely a difference there. So what what is your team? Are you an Orlando Magic fan still? Um you know I root for the Lakers cuz LeBron wherever LeBron goes that’s what that’s who I root for. But that’s my boy. Shout out to you young man. Good job young man. Yeah, I’ve been following LeBron since 2015 and I ain’t never I ain’t never gonna switch up. Well, it’s kind of too late for that, but um he not he not he not going nowhere anyways. What are you gonna do when he retires? What are you going to do when he retires? Well, I’m my my favorite positions in basketball and the positions that I wanted to play growing up was point guard or or big. So, I like bigs. I like bigs more than guards. The big man and point guard, center and point guard are my favorite positions in basketball, period. So, um, a lot of people that know me, they know I’m a big Jokic, Giannis, and Bead fan. I always praise the bigs. So, um, I’m going to follow the bigs. Singon, all all of those guys, all of the bigs, all of the starting bigs in the league. That’s who I’m going to follow. All right. I got you on that, man. Shout out to you, man. I’m glad that she came and you got a chance to see LeBron James and you wasn’t too diluted by these SD Jeff. Um, talking about Zesty Jeffrey. Shout out to Hollywood Herman in the building. You know, I listen I we lost a couple of uh uh GJK members, man. I don’t see you guys’ logo, man. What happened? What we got to do to keep you guys as members? Let us know so we can keep you guys happy as members to support what we do here. I don’t know what collaboration you talking about. We about to collab you. You out here just doing stuff without me here negotiating contracts with me. What’s going on, Herm? Let me put this link up for all you Zestie Jeff man. You guys out here just putting my name in stuff all the time, bro. This don’t make no sense. This don’t make no sense. All right, so King Speech, uh, Kings Beach Road, you said you had a a story for us. What’s What’s your New York Nick story? You know, we were talking about bruises, right? And we talk, of course, the Knicks ain’t win a championship in 52 years, right? Look, we had so many near misses and again, bro, but because there’s a lot of young Nick fans like my man over there, right? Mhm. Um, and they ain’t never they ain’t never see the New York get lit, bro. Back and you move I know you moved to Florida. You you was born in New York. You moved to Florida like right in your in your in your early teens, right? Like nine 10 years old, right? Yeah. I moved moved to Florida 889 around that time. Okay. Wow. So you Yeah. You was out you was out early. All right. Yeah. So back in the 90s, man, when the Knicks got in the playoffs and we again, we was we was we was the one trying to foil Michael Jordan’s assent, right? As again, that’s why I became a Dar Nick fan because we said we’re not going to let Michael Jordan just run the league like this. Now, there’s somebody in his way. We gonna be the villain. We gonna be the new bad boys. So back in the 90s, man, you would have like, you know, New York, we outside of New York, right? Y’all, you see this? Yes. Yes. New York, the city that doesn’t sleep. playoff be playing a playoff game against the Pacers on Sunday. Nobody would come outside until that game was over. Soon as the game was over, everybody come out. There’s no internet back then. There’s no I mean, you know, ain’t no goo. I mean, there’s internet, but ain’t nobody on it. Nobody had We had dial up if anybody had the internet. So now, everybody come to the court. You see that game, you see that game, blah blah. Most a lot of times the Knicks lost, sometimes the Knicks won, right? But that’s a lot of these guys don’t understand the the the the young guys don’t understand the the the excitement, bro. We had the Nets. Hold on. We had the Nets, right? Kyrie and all of them. Kyrie and all of them. Kevin, when Carett was there that one year, it was no buzz. Nobody came out the Brooklyn Nets in New York. It’s all Knicks. But this one, 97, me Knicks versus Heat. I remember in the paper Pat Riley was challenging PJ Brown. He said, “Yo, Mason, no, we didn’t have Mason. We had LJ. LJ was on the Knicks. Oakley. That’s the year y’all lost to the Heat. That’s the year y’all lost to the Heat.” No, we lost to the Heat. Trump was getting how we did it. PJ Brown was getting knocked around. We even had John Wallace knocking this dude around. John Wallace was a rookie that year, right? And they he challenged PJ Brown to get tougher like that. You know what I’m saying? Like you had if you played the four or the five, you had to be able to take some elbows. You had the, you know, Oakley, you know how Oakley was. Everybody know how Oakley is. LeBron know how Oakley is. He a Cleveland dude, right? So, at the end of the day, it was like PJ Brown waited till the Knicks I think the N they were winning. So, the Knicks put all the starters on the bench. Oakland was on the bench and we had we trying to play out the game. Charlie Ward gave you know Charlie Ward is a football player. He won the Heisman Trophy. But Charlie Boy gave him a lowbridgeidge box out and what out of all that knocking around PJ Brown got who did he decide I’mma take my frustration out on 61 Charlie Ward who was a football player cuz he was out of place. You’re not supposed to be doing this. You That’s what I’m trying to tell you. Use the guard. PJ flipped him with one arm with one arm. Get out of here with that [Â __Â ] You some puny ass [Â __Â ] What’s wrong with you? But you want to pick on the guard? All I start is on the bench. Because why you out here trying to box me out? What are you doing? Get out of here. What are you doing? Doing this dude much more dirtier than Charlie Ward was. He’s not going to flip Oakley. He going to box out Oakley. He going to use he going they going to elbow. That’s what I’m saying. It was a big man’s game. You was a little [Â __Â ] Get out of here, little [Â __Â ] What’s wrong with you, [Â __Â ] You a little [Â __Â ] We don’t respect you little [Â __Â ] One of the best rebounding guards in the league. Charlie was like that. He wasn’t He was a little [Â __Â ] He wasn’t like that. He got on. He was a little [Â __Â ] man. Get out of here, man. He slipped that [Â __Â ] that [Â __Â ] into the SPJ was having as you know Johnny that turned the series. Yes. Cuz guys got suspended. That changed rules. got suspended and then after that fight and didn’t after that game after that game the NBA established a rule that if there is a fighter altercation on the floor nobody from the bench is allowed to leave the bench that’s the Greg Anthony rule it’s funny Greg Anthony call calls games now right that’s the Greg Anthony rule back in 93 Greg Anthony came off the bench and yolked up KJ KJ got into it with closed. So Stern said, “Oh yeah, anybody that leaves the bench area was automatically.” But bro, Patrick, you only took one step off the bed. He was just trying to see what the hell was going on. His point guard was flipped over into the goddamn crowd. But the see this is but the point I’m making, the major point I’m making is if you were a big man, you had to eat a couple of elbows cuz that’s how they got down. If you if you couldn’t take a B and again PJ Brown waited to all like he couldn’t do that with Oakman there on the court and see now Oakman you know Oakman Oakman don’t give a Oakman first off PJ Brown got hands PJ Brown didn’t give a damn about Oaks with PJ Brown they had some tough they had some tough guy I remember this I remember one of the dudes and he was laid back but he told Charlie W what it was [Â __Â ] Why did Pat say you got to I remember reading the article in a paper. No, I listen I No, because because because again, the Knicks were a tough team. It was a It was a tough series. It was a lot. It was a lot going on in the NBA at that time. Like I said, a lot of guys didn’t have the skills, so you had to show your toughness. But the NBA had to get rid of that. The NBA had to get rid of that. See what Andrew Leg did to Patrick Euan. The next year in 98, he went up for a dunk. He clipped him out of the air. fell and broke his wrist was out until the playoffs. You know what I’m saying? This is what the Knicks had to go. Then then he went then he went towards the killing 99 we final without him. Yeah. But but but if I but if I’m a great defender and I’m a great rim protector, why do I have to flip you and break your wrist to stop you? Bro, that’s not that. And having to take What would you rather? If you’re coaching a basketball team, what you want? A guy that could take some elbows of some guys with some talent, skill, and athleticism. Oh my god. Friday Night Exposure. Hold on. Wait. Hold on. Wait. Friday Night Exposure turned to a a corner on Flatbush with [Â __Â ] King Row and [Â __Â ] and [Â __Â ] War. Let Let me address this comment right quick. Joe, this is uh this is a way jersey, my friend. This is a jersey that I got recently when I went to uh I went to the the statue unveiling and they were selling his jerseys. I had I had a bunch of jerseys, man. I had I had a 2006 Dwayne Wade championship jersey that I that was I’m so upset that I I don’t know what happened to that jersey. I lost that one. So that’s what this one is. Again, this is a Dwayne Wade Miami jersey. I got it recently. Um it’s a dope jersey. It’s a dope back Michelin back when Mitchell Nesses was dope. So again, Dwayne Wade was one of my favorite players of all time. I did an episode about that. I think I think the the players that I had, we we did our uh our uh I asked everybody who was a Goat James Kingdom member to come up with their top five or their starting five uh favorite players of all time. And I remember having uh Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosch, uh Larry Johnson, Baron Davis on the team. That was that was, you know, those are the guys that I loved as a kid, man. I love those guys. Um so we had fun making that roster. Um let me see here. Let me see what else y’all got talking about here. Right here. He said, “There’s Olo. Wasn’t you agreeing that Sturdy saying Akee was top 10?” You have You have top 10. Uh you have uh you have Akim in the top 10 Olo without championships. Without championships? No, I was the one giving uh what was his name? I think it was Young Africa. I was the one giving I was the one giving him push back for that. Without championships, he stopped 10. No, me and Lamont was the one clicking him for that. Yeah, that’s crazy. because we me and Lamont kept asking him he’s like okay so you’re saying that without 94 95 with those six or seven or eight career first round exits he will still be top 10 all time he said yeah well he it took him like two hours to answer the question but I think he said yes I mean Ake is the greatest Nigerian athlete of all time I mean you know you know African gonna definitely speak up for a bro a loan I I mean I got him top 15. I ain’t going to lie. No, but the most the most popular and the most uh the most influential African basketball player is Mat from the back then they called it Zire. Now he’s from the Congo, but Nigeria that’s a Keem. You know what I’m saying? But yeah, you right. You’re right. You know, it’s different countries and all that. But yeah, I mean, like I said, I think aim is one of the greatest players ever played. Like I said, I got him 11th on my list all time. Like I said, I flip-flop with him and Shaq. I never really call him 12. So, more than likely, he’s always 11. Again, he has over, I believe, correct, he has over 27,000 points, like 13 or 14,000 rebounds. He has 3,000 blocks, 2,000 steals. I think he has 3,000 steals. No, he has 2,000 steals. He’s one of the best players to ever play the game of basketball, bro. I mean, he has he has all NBA selections, all defensive selections, defensive player of the year, MVPs, NBA championships. um an illustrious career. Play played a mad mad years in the NBA. Um he’s definitely one of the greatest players to ever play the game. Um without a doubt. So yeah, I got him. Like I said, I got him in my top 15 and um some people have him in the top 10. I don’t see how some people be trying to put him top five. I don’t see how you can have him high in your top 10, but I you know, you got him eight n seven eight nine. I don’t that’s not a problem. If you have him above Kobe, that’s a problem. But yeah, Johnny, I want to correct myself. It was Ace30 that that was up there saying yeah Ace30 was the one that was saying that it beyond the championships because he was trying to make a case and Lamont kept telling them no it’s all about the championships you don’t count the championships then nobody’s talking about Akim Luan top 10 and he was trying to say even if you take the championships away he’s still top 10 off of his I guess his skill set I don’t know and he used to travel a [Laughter] Hence why they compare a lot. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Now, Johnny, who did LeBron go to when he needed to learn how to get his footwork in the post? Oh, here it is, Johnny. No, he went he went he went to Kean like Gilbert Arena said you was a waste of 50 grand. You know why? Because LeBron ain’t learn. You know what? Let me take that. I said that’s what Gilbert Arena said. And like I said, that’s what Gilbert Arena said. LeBron spending 50k. Who knows what LeBron learned, right? But the stuff that he was showing LeBron was a damn trap. Nah, that when you Oh, how is it a travel and and they don’t even call travel no more? Cuz he was he was he was he was lifting his pivot foot before he put the ball down, trying to teach him that move that he was trying to do, which is fine. Again, if they don’t call it, they don’t call it. It looks nice. I used to I used to try that same move. I used to try that same move on the basketball court. If you didn’t call it, I I I would just rip right under you, dribble once, and go right over you with the hook shot. Especially if I was on the left block. You better not let me do that. Don’t let me turn my left shoulder on you. I mean, my right shoulder indirectly. This is why Ramen ran on wind up on the Bulls because Akelmore Cook Robinson so bad that Ramen after that series said, “Yo, Dennis, you soft. Dennis, you soft.” I mean, know Robin, I mean, Robin, you know, David Robinson, you soft, you soft. And they couldn’t have that. They so they chose between obviously he gonna choose Ramen Robinson over Ramen and Papa say we got to get up out of here like I know we we love what you do ramen but you can’t be coming at the star like that. So that’s why they became available and the Bulls gave them Will Purdue. He said I’ll take Will Purdue for Dennis Rodman and Ron wind up on the Bulls for the next three. You know what I’m saying? Because they needed a power forward obviously you know but yeah hooked Robin and Robinson was this is MVP Robinson. River Robinson won the scoring title with 29 points a game in 95. Hold up, hold up, hold up. Look at the look at his comment though. Marcus, shout out to Marcus 7 jersey. Had to let it go before 2010s because too many burnt ho got too drunk with black and miles burnt ho jersey man. World be free. Shout out to Browners. I I had I had a LeBron James Cavalier jersey, but it was like a 3X. That’s when you used to wear big clothes back in the days. I had got rid of it. But I remember I had a Shack jersey and I remember I had an Alonzo Morning jersey and I had one of those Alonzo Morning jersey that was one of those colorways. It was a bright gold or yellowish jersey. Um so I had one of those. I lost that one. Um, I had one of the Shaq old Shaq jerseys, like I said, from the Heat. Um, yeah, man. I had a lot of jerseys back in the days, but you know, it is what it is now. Now I got Now I got Jimmy Butler. Now, I didn’t have Timmy. I wasn’t I wasn’t a Heat fan then. I wasn’t a Heat fan. Okay. So, and I never and I never had no Charlotte Hornet jerseys. Like I said, I only had, like I said, I give you guys the tip. If you Jesse Jeff didn’t get it earlier, you can get it now. I had this Charlotte uh shirt, though. I had this Charlotte Hornet shirt and you can tell that shirt big as hell. I could have worn that shirt for another three, four years. I could have wore that shirt till I was like, huh? Let me see here. What you got here? Uh oh. Oh, you got the number six. Damn. That Eddie? No, that’s not that’s LeBron. Eddie Jones. Hell no. Man, Eddie Jones was crazy. Yo, I should kick you off the damn show for that, bro. I really should. I should kick you off the damn show for confusing a LeBron James jersey. No Eddie Jones jersey, man. Oh my god. Charlotte, you can’t you can’t get a LeBron James Heat jersey. You can’t put You can’t put James on a number six on a Miami Heat jersey. So, unless you got unless you got an old one, you’re not gonna get one unless the Heat create a new one. Unless they do one next year for him, you can’t do it. So, I’m not going to be able to have a LeBron James Heat jersey. Maybe I might be able to put Goat James. Maybe they they’ll let me put Goat James on on number six. I should try that. I mean, they did make a King James jersey that he wore in 2014. Yeah, man. What you mean? I’ve been wore a Michael Jordan jersey. Y’all never see me with my Michael Jordan uh Washington Wizards jersey. Y’all never seen me wear I got an episode where I’m wearing a Washington Bullets throwback Michael Jordan jersey. I I got it. I got it. I got Matter of fact, you know what? Let’s Let’s do some Let’s have some fun right quick. I want to have some fun. Y’all want to have some fun with me? Let’s have some fun. Let me show y’all Let me show y’all wearing a Michael Let me show y’all being a Michael Jordan fan. I know about me a Michael Jordan fan because I was born in the 1900s. You [Â __Â ] was born in the 2000s talking about you Michael Jordan fans. Tired of you SD Jeff. Get on my goddamn nerves. And let me show y’all me representing Michael Jordan to the fullest. I I have Michael Jordan jerseys. I still got it, too. It’s one of my favorite jerseys as well. Um, let me see. Jordan was the real one, man. He played for free. He donated his salary. They had to give him a salary. He donated the whole thing, man. Y’all got to But you know, you know that was a tax write off [Â __Â ] You know that was a tax write off. Stop it. Look. No. Okay. All right. So, when he was president, he got a $2 million salary. He gave one million and he gave other million to the late great West Unell for being the most underpaid uh team uh uh GM in the league. So, George said, “Let me give you that million. Let me give you a million dollars of my own salary. Give it to him. I don’t need money to do this job. I’m, you know, I’m selling I’m selling kicks left and right. Come on now, George. Real one. No. Yeah. Selling mad kicks. Yeah, of I would agree with you cuz he was making millions, tens of millions selling selling sneakers. I agree with you. So, he can give up his little 10 15 million. What were they making? Like 105 million group. But even he made 30. He made 30 before he broke out. But when when I say when he took the the the the wizard president job, you know, he didn’t want a salary, but he said, “I’m gonna give, you know, just give uh unsell that raise and I’m do the job for free.” Like, I’m just here. You know, Jordan was there to get that ownership that he knew he was getting it on the back end. So Jordan wasn’t hurting for no money and he wanted to make sure that West Unell because remember Unell didn’t make all that much money in the 70s and Unell was a real one too, man. I love him. Shout out to late great Russ Unell, man. He was he was one of them guys, man. He was a straight pick setter. That’s why he won finals MVP. Just setting cats up, man. Just setting cats up. Oh my god, you are crazy. All right, so let me let me bring up something right quick for y’all since y’all were asking me. We’re bringing back some old stuff about me being a fan right quick. Let me bring up let me let me do something. Let’s have some fun before we get up out of here. Let me see here. All right, so y’all can see the screen. Y’all can see Goat James Kingdom channel. Y’all can see the channel. Y’all see it? Y’all see the channel, right? Y’all see the channel, right? All right. So, let let’s let’s let’s go. Let’s go to me show. That’s me wearing the Washington Bullets. That’s a Jordan jersey right there. Hold on. Let me I’m a Michael Jordan fan. Of course, I think the ’90s is the greatest era ever, even though I was born in 1996. I’m a Michael Jordan fan. Of course, I don’t recognize Bill Russ’s 11 championships. I’m a Michael Jordan fan. Of course I don’t recognize that six MVPs. Oh, y’all can’t. What? Let me see that jump of water. I’m a Michael Jordan fan. Of course I don’t recognize Brook Chamberlain’s career as points per game. [Music] I’m a Michael Jordan fan. Of course I think fouling is defense. Hey man, ain’t no [Â __Â ] defense. That’s a foul, bro. I’m a Michael Jordan fan. Of course, six championships is the most won by any player in NBA history. I’m a Michael Jordan fan. Of course, I think six championships are more than 11. Oh man. I’m a Michael Jordan fan. Of course, I think the ’90s is the greatest era ever. Even I’m a Michael Jordan fan. Of course, two three beats is better than eight. I’m a Michael Jordan fan. Of course, I think 6 and0 is the best finals record ever. Of course, I’m a Michael Jordan. Of course, today’s NBA fan. Of course, I stopped watching in the early 2000s. when Olo was born. If I do watch today’s NBA, it’s to watch LeBron James. Eyes closed. I’m a Michael Jordan fan. Well, really, I’m a Kobe Bryant fan cuz I never watched Michael Jordan play basketball. [Applause] I told you I got a whole Jordan jersey. I’m a Michael Jordan fan. Of course I don’t recognize that he had two backto-back losing seasons and was the HC. I’m a Michael Jordan fan. Of course I recognize Michael Jordan as quick. I’m a Michael Jordan fan. Of course he made Phil Jackson. Oh, look at the old man. I wasn’t old then. It was like two, three years ago. Two years ago. The fade away. Come on, man. Y’all could not guard me. I will whoop the [Â __Â ] out of y’all in basketball. I’m a Michael Jordan fan. Of course. I’m a Michael Jordan fan. That was me having some fun, man. So, as y’all can see, I do have a Michael Jordan jersey. I’m not I’m not Zesty Jeff. I’m not doing none of that. Oh my god, man. Shout out to y’all, man. He said a airball. Where did you see a airball? Where did Ro go? Oh, when your when your eyes was closed. When my eyes was closed like LeBron. Oh man. Yep. That’s a That’s a old school free throw. Trust me, I tried. It always goes off to the right. You heard the Swiss. Don’t be disrespectful towards the guy. Come on now, man. Sound effects. Yeah, that sound effects. [Applause] Oh man, this is crazy. And this is why again, like I said, Jesse Jeff don’t stand me. They can’t stand me, man. I’m a real basketball fan. So even if they try to make fun of me for liking LeBron, all they doing is making fun of themselves cuz I’m a basketball fan. I like the game of basketball. I talk the game of basketball. And the only reason I do what I do here in Goat James Kingdom is because um I can talk it. I would never join Goat James Kingdom or create some show just to sit here and talk about random things. Like I’m not going to sit here just tell you any nonsense just to tell you what just cuz just cuz to troll. Like I I was told I’ll just be trolling because I said the Heat overachieved that LeBron didn’t choke in 2011. That’s not me trolling. Lad ladies and gentlemen, those are facts. I got evidence and stuff to prove the things that I say. I’m not just saying it just to say it. But you guys are the ones who have an agenda and don’t need no facts. All you want is other people to agree with you. I don’t need nobody to agree with you. That’s why I do this every Friday night cuz I’m by myself. I ain’t worrying about nobody. I ain’t got Brandon to help me. I ain’t got Lamont to help me. It’s just you and I and I put the link up and use Jeffrey’s scared like I always say and that’s just the truth. So, you know, and we like I said, I’m going to continue to to expose the Zesty Jeffrey lies because the game of basketball is beautiful and we’ve never seen the game like we’ve seen the NBA today. This is the best NBA we’ve ever seen in our lives. You’ve never seen none of this. Those are just the facts. I will. Yeah, he retires next year. That’s it. LeBron retires next year is his last year. That’s it. He just retires. That’s just really big 23. He not gonna wait for uh Bryce. Bryce got to play the one year. No, he good. He good. He not See that? See, that’s the lucky thing. See, when you that first child, the the parents experiment with you. They do all kind of weird stuff because you’re the first child. The second child come around, you say to yourself, “Nah, I’m not going to do all that stuff.” So, Bryce is going to be all right. Bryce gonna be able to join the NBA without worrying about his dad or nothing like that. Nobody’s gonna be talking about him. So yeah, he he he’s kind of good on that. So um but before we get up out of here because we gonna end today’s show because we don’t got no Zesty Jeff and we done all we done reminisce. We done went down memory lane. I done showed y’all who I’m about and I I’ll rehash some of it before we get up out of here. But let me uh let me get uh Rose, get your last word in. Make sure you plug in your channel as well, brother. What’s your last what’s your last take, brother? Yeah, no doubt. Um yeah, no, man. Look, basketball history is beautiful, man. Basketball this game is a beautiful game, bro. It had to grow. It had to, you know, everything that’s added to the game is great. Sometimes we want to see a little bit of what we used to saw that they kind of went away from. But I mean, one thing I love about basketball, man, is that you could play many, many styles and still win. You know, I’m looking right now, we us Nick fans, we lit because, you know, again, this is my ninth Knicks pacing series, right? So, we, you know, we we’re here. It’s it’s just good to be alive, man. It’s better than not making the playoffs. better than you know what I’m saying it’s better than mother count lottery balls. So at the end of the day this is a good this is a good time. This the playoffs has been good. Y’all been exposed to stuff like Tyler Halleberttons of the world and all that. The Pacers play a beautiful brand of basketball and the Celtics play a beautiful brand of basketball and the Knicks play like we all like there’s many many styles and like I said that’s what I like to talk about on my channel. So uh we do the 10 toes down podcast. Like I said I I make a I make a take I stand on it. You understand what I’m saying? Sometimes I’m right, sometimes I’m wrong. I’m right more than I’m wrong. So yeah, you know, catch me on catch me on at King Speech Row. Um that you know, you see me on NY u NYK for life. That’s probably why I’mma keep that because I’mma let y’all know I’m a Nick fan right off so you can hold it against me. Whatever. But I’m a Nick fan forever to the day I die everything. No doubt. Shout out to you, man. Appreciate that, man. Shout out to you, brother. Appreciate that. So, oh no, you got any last words, man? Go ahead and plug in your channel as well before you get up out of here. Legos at five. Leg. You already talking 2026. That’s how young you is. I can’t even look forward to 2026. I’m going to be 45 then. I enjoy 44. I got to enjoy 44, man. Appreciate you there. Uh Olo, man. I’ll see you around, brother. I see you on FYF and all these other crazy uh YouTube streets, brother. Peace and blessings, brother. Um, let’s let’s get you in, wboy, man. Thank you again, brother. Any last words? Let them know where they can find you. I already know where I can find you. Right here on Goat James Kingdom as a Goat James Kingdom member and also on all the other Goat James Kingdom platforms. But go ahead, brother. Any last words, W boy? Yeah, man. You can just find me anywhere they talk real basketball, man. I’m just a basketball fan. It’s my real take on what I see and what I know. And I love, as much as I love the game, I’m never going to let it be narrative driven or try to make it seem like some players are not are better than what they were or not give the great players the credit that they deserve. Fact, fact. I appreciate that, W boy. Thank you so much, man. So again, that is one boy, a Goat James Kingdom member. Much listen, much appreciation, brother, cuz you are always doing your thing in the GJK community. And again, if you want to keep supporting what we do here in Goat James Kingdom, all you got to do is go to our channel, hit that join tab, you’ll see all the different perks for that. Um, but before we get to all of that, again, ladies and gentlemen, this is the Friday Night Exposure with the Exposer. I’m your host, a Johnny the Exposer, the the biggest LeBron fan on social media. This is the Goat James Kingdom platform. I do this every Friday night. Tonight I was basically opening up to you guys about my earliest and fondest memories as a basketball fan. So if we go back to the earliest times of me being a basketball fan, you can see I was a big-time basketball fan. Started early in the 90s. I remember Joy losing to the to the uh to the Pistons. I remember him winning versus the Lakers. I remember Magic’s retirement. I remember Larry Johnson in the slam dunk contest and that’s when I truly became a fan of basketball. I remember the 94 finals because of the Knicks were in the finals and Akim Alajuan and Patrick Huing were facing each other. Not to mention the OJ trial and all the things that happened around that time and the OJ chase that cut off uh the NBA finals. I remember Jordan’s return. I remember Shaq’s ascension into the league, the the the 96 finals with Rodman and all of his popularity. I remember Jordan’s last shot. I witnessed it all. Big house full of Jordan fans in my household. Um, I remember in the 99 finals again because of the Knicks and they they went on a a spectacular run to make the NBA finals in 1999 in a short season. Tim Duncan ascended to being one of the great players of all time starting in 99. Then the 2000s, you know, I I I went from being a Charlotte fan to a Heat fan. I became I bec I be I went from being a a a young boy to a young man at the same time. Um, I watched the Lakers, you know, ascend to the championship with Shaquille O’Neal. I I went to my first basketball game. Uh I I I watched the Miami Heat draft uh uh Karan Butler, Dwayne Wade, trade for Shaq, win a championship, eventually get LeBron James, and eventually what you see now, which is me here um as a part of the Goat James Kingdom platform. So again, if you if you guys are true fans of the game, like I’ve been a fan of the game, then you can do nothing but appreciate what we do here in Goat James Kingdom. 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Who’s the alltime leader of all seasons? The answer’s broad. [Music] [Music] I’m a witness advocate. The Bible ain’t tell us. King James was from all time leader and coins ain’t nothing average. M drop Luca cuz they terrible management. Boy was a gambling. Your go is 40 out here playing like a screw. 40 still dropping triple d. And I don’t want to talk about nobody’s son. Unless it’s glorious, but they call him the chosen one. Steven ain’t trolling. We seen that boxing video. That uppercut bogus hammer over everything. You better zoom. LeBron’s trash. Trash trash. LeBron Ramon James Senior, born December 30th, 1984 at approximately 4:04 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The greatest human being blessed among us mortals. Four rings, four MVPs, the league scoring record, and he got more records than MJ and Kobe combined. Loving husband and devoted father of three. Don’t you ever disrespect my basketball daddy. You understand me? You know what? Log off. uninstall the game and tell your mama to ground you cuz your mouth is reckless. Go disrespect LeBron James. I cannot believe you. I hope you break your ankles next pickup game, little [Â __Â ] Lakers in five, baby. He disresect the road
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If you don’t know Grand MA Ma you don’t know basketball he literally is Zion Williamson for the 90s
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Just so everyone knows while Jordan gave them 31 pippen gave them a whopping 2 points on 10% from the field