now why do we have this graphic on the screen 3-point field
goal leaders all time well we haven't had Reggie Miller on
the show yet we have had Steph Curry on the show very recently
and that leaves the one named it's our next guest Ray Allen
the number one 3-point shooter of all time in NBA history
that's saying a lot because the 3-point shot has become such
a weapon in the league everybody's do it all the kids
are all the cool kids art write it down and Ray Ray I don't
want
to stop talking with you about 3 point shooting and we'll get
into a lot of other topics that are very important first of all
thanks for being on the show and I would say Ray from
the 3-point shot with your career stats in the most you
ever attempted in a season was
Steph Curry number two on the list has attempted 803 he's at
least three times in his career and then on the fourth time he
was close to his clothes 800 like 790 why do you think why
do you think the 3-point shot has exploded like this
and do you wish you could have been tempted seven or eight
hundred three in your career
well well thanks for having on the show it's always great to
you no talk about the game I'll certainly past and present as
I came into the lady game you know the three ball was would
really it was a specialty shop maybe one or two guys
on the team could shoot it out for me as a young person it was
coaches yelled at you when you shot at 3 so it was always
something that you did in certain situations where that
it was set up that way now the game is of
all and I think I remember when I did break Reggie 3 point
record
I remember I was sitting on the foul line like a game later
we're playing and I think New Orleans or somebody and Birdman
was on the free throw line is playing on the team and he's
like man that was that was awesome congratulations and
I was
thinking to myself these guys actually watch that game you
know what you don't realize you know why I missed a season
other teams and watch you play and it was a thing it became
something that people watch followed and for young people
wanting to leave in
high school and college
it said a bar for them you know gave them something to to
ascertain the Bee or aspire to be like and that's something
that you know when you said something into motion it
creates a window for people to kind of you know what's
happened with myself with Reggie you throw Kyle Korver in
their you throw Vince Carter in there guys in my area that shot
the three ball well you know young people grew up in 1 and
1/2 be like that so it has a tube also analytically GMC
that Nest, the direction they've gone it
are you surprised at what Steph has been able to do with it
I mean he just he's shooting it not just on that not simply
behind the line sometimes it's 2 or 3ft behind the light is so
now it's causing defense is just to be very
uncomfortable at all times and you surprised that he's been
able to to shoot it at such a high level from sometimes 27 28
ft
well thank you back 2001 there are a lot of mention about my
team with the Bucs and the time and everybody was assuming that
we couldn't win NBA championship that way because
we really didn't have a score on the Block he was this
traditional way of
playing basketball so we didn't have a guy that can get you
know 15 and 12 on the daily basis on the post so they
thought assume we couldn't wait to cherish it that way that was
just kind of the Old Guard the old way of thinking
and Italy play we made it to these account finds a year than
you know a couple Seattle team to have when we we push
the ball and we played pretty fast western conference is typically
it always been in that that debt that mold so to speak
and so now you see teams you know what what what's so great
about Steph is Steph
he'll always say that he's an Elaine Amazon because when you
talk about shooting guards he's a point guard so he has a ball
in his hands majority of the time and you know that's you
know it gives him such a such a great opportunity to score
to fill the ball to get Compton with the ball and to create it
and for myself out there clay in there in a lot of the two
guards even present day to even going back to Tutta back in
the day you're coming off screens if you
had pick-and-roll Talent you had pick-and-rolls but you
you're catching shoot for the most part so it was different
for us to do nothing was Steffi he's he's starting the set of
pathway for young people to see that the point guard spot is
played a little bit
differently than it has been over fast
I'm I'm going to I'm going to guess I'm going to tell your
basketball story that you may not have heard before and
that's saying something not right I don't know if I could
do that that's a big claim you tell me if you heard this or
not but not let's go back to the 2008 NBA Finals Celtics
versus Lakers before the series starts Danny Ainge general
manager of the Celtics sits down with Lakers assistant
assistant coach text winter and says okay what concerns you
about us and text winter told him he
said not Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce I'm concerned I want to
see how Kobe's going to respond to Ray Allen cuz I think Ray
Allen's going to give Kobe a hard time with his office
I don't know if you heard that before but in that in
that series you a great you really could have been
the finals MVP you made half of your shots your field-goal
attempts you you shot grape from 3-point range and that's
significant because
what was going on and he had what you found out in the NBA
Finals you find out get a phone call from your lovely wife
Shannon she tells you about your son Walker and it take
the story from there I think the the Boston Globe did
a feature when they're measuring up each position and
what position have the advantage and I don't quite
remember who they said had the band between myself and Kobe
I know it's easier to say Kobe you know haven't had scored
more points than me up in that
at that time but we've always had some great battles over
the years and you know based on the way I clean the way he plays
I know that I was going to put him in a position where it was
going to have to stress him a
little bit more defensively on defense that he would have
liked and that helps me why they put pressure on me to
guard me to chase me all screens to give Kobe more more
rest on defense so he can do what he needs to do in Austin
that's Siri did change our lives a lot we found out
the data are now 14 year old at the time you 17 month old was
diagnosed with diabetes type one and we were actually in LA
on the day before game 5 and he
he decide to take him to the hospital and the doctor in
the hospital told us to to make sure we got his blood checked
because it you know they're saying the flu goes around and
lots of doctors will say that and we took them I was
actually going to a meeting when she called me and she told
me she had just come back for she was at the hospital
actually in the doctor told her that he had diabetes and it
just kind of floored me because I I knew what diabetes was
but I don't know at the time I didn't know the inner workings
of the disease when you know what it did to us so from that
moment for to change our lives we could have lost them and we
never took him in weeks we knew that
there was something wrong with him and the nurse that was on
said it was just the flu the flu is going around and we my
wife insisted that she could have blood check and if we
didn't do that you know he would have
lay down I never open his eyes again and for us with diabetes
with we just been so thankful now because we've partnered
with David because over the last twelve or so years we know
checking walking blood sugar in middle of night making sure
that he his
numbers are between the range of 80 and 20 which is normal
between for any any individual you know he has to somewhere be
3 400 or could be down to 20 or 30 and now that you know we
parted with his company Avid they come up
with the freestyle Libre to and what is the loudest to do is
now by our phones we could check with his blood sugar is
like I can look at my phone now and see what his blood sugar is
why you got school while he's sleeping and
so we get immediate numbers and kind of know which direction is
heading in so we don't have to constantly check his fingers
you know but most children with diabetes they're always poking
their fingers in for Walker when he gets out of simple to
get out of
shower his hands you can just see all the holes in its like
the saddest thing I'd do anything to take it away from
him so you can walk or is able to just take his his monitor
and just hold it next to his arm and it
gives him a reading immediately so you don't have to check
anymore so it certainly has been a lifesaver for all of us
but that that's fantastic as I said to you before we got
started here today at 10 thank God for technology really like
some of the things that you could even thought of in 2008
that are part of his life now and I know from following you
on Instagram no he's got a very normal vibrant life for
a fourteen-year-old am in all of your kids seem to be into
Athletics and I like watching your videos where your coaching
them a basketball or whatever they're doing so I trusted he's
doing well
and he's very used to the setup and and and the technology that
we're talkin about
yeah well it was when you think about it he was 17 months old
so now this is kind of common place for him in his life he's
become so used to getting up in the morning and you don't care
in his bag with him and making
sure the checks is what a season with his number is and
you know what he eats you know being responsible for what it
is that he's eating and he just your other kids see it and all
the kids when I asked him if they know he's
dealing with a lot of times when the other kids are dealing
with something sells I always point back to the Walker
because I want them to realize that Walker's been dealing with
this most of his life and for as long as you guys are known
him
and you never hear him complain he just know this is what he
has to do to survive to make it and you know it just makes him
so much more sharp you know as a young man and he just kind of
plows through his day knowing
that he has certain things that he has to do to he can't come
compromise with and so it just as a dad that teaches me a lot
too because you see you know the result see that he has and
you know little things that bother you
or us or the family you just got to say you know we got to
talk that one up and keep it moving come back anytime and
you don't even have to you don't even call ahead just drop
on through