- 2,500 push ups
and 1,000 suicides.
- Pause.
Yo,
2,500 push ups
and 1000 suicides
before you could play
on a high school basketball team.
If my high school coach would have told me
that Jaylen Brown would have never made it
to the NBA. I'd tell you that right now,
he would have never been there.
[laughs]
Hey GQ, I'm Jaylen Brown.
And this is the breakdown.
[upbeat music]
[static TV noise] First up, He Got Game.
- You to big state, right? Right there.
- High school player, dealing with pressure
of choosing the college,
you know, highly talented.
I felt like I was in the similar position.
Not as dramatic of course,
but I know what it feels like to have a lot of pressure
and making decisions and having all that stuff happening
around you as a kid.
Spike Lee did a great job of embodying that.
I think there's definitely more pressure,
probably picking a college because that is such
a determinance of your future.
Once you get drafted, you got pressure.
Cause you might not know where you're going.
But for me it was like,
it was just like a monkey off my back.
I've been thinking about working towards and dreaming about
the day that I was going to be drafted all my life.
So when it finally happened,
It wasn't celebratory. It sounds weird.
But it was almost like, finally it's over.
Like now I can move on and focus on what's next.
- Can I take them shines off that go?
- You gonna take that low jack off?
- Don't come off, son.
[static TV noise]
- Jake's knee braces. He could have selected some,
a little bit familiar.
I don't know what he got on man.
And he got on the old Manny versus, but great movie, man.
I just want to watch the whole thing.
[static TV noise]
[upbeat music]
- Game time. [static TV noise]
- You look like you can actually hoop.
Sometimes you watch movies and they got actors
playing basketball and you could tell right off
the bat like, nah, buddy, no, this is not your deal.
Denzel could actually play.
[static TV noise]
- I didn't teach her that though. Did I?
That's something I didn't teach you.
- That something you got to learn on your own.
- Pause.
That's, what's dope about basketball.
You can talk trash and that's just a part of the game.
Now it's so sensitive on the floor.
You can't really say anything to anybody.
You might get attacked,
you might get a fine, I appreciate it.
You know,
those moments that I had growing up in the neighborhood
that I grew up in playing against, you know, family members,
friends, and family members and all that stuff.
You get to talk trash. It's done more fun than that.
[static TV noise]
[upbeat music]
- Pause That's an offensive foul,
like in any league, in any country or any court,
but you call it a foul and you saw that's something
to talk about because it'd be awkward situations,
but you start to play and it get intense,
Like nobody wants to call foul.
Cause If you call a foul, it's like,
you don't want to be that guy. but dude,
obviously you got fouled man. At a certain point,
it just turn into football.
And then that's when I got to go.
That's when it's time for me to leave. Because you know,
at that point, we ain't about to play.
We about to fight. You playing on the street,
Like, you gotta be prepared for that.
You gotta be ready for that.
[static TV noise]
[basketball rim swishes]
- Game time.
- To me, it's a big difference between college
and the NBA. College is cool.
I feel like, to help develop you mentally to get ready
for the rigors of the NBA.
Like emotionally, socially,
spiritually, all that type stuff.
But to be honest, on the basketball side,
I was ready to play in the NBA.
When I came out of high school,
I'm not saying you don't develop in college,
but you develop the most in the NBA.
When it's your job to play basketball and you playing
against the best, it's going to force you to get better.
The rules have just changed in terms of athletes being able
to get paid on their likeness.
But when I was in college,
no, you will not be compensated for,
for anything other than your tuition.
And if you left like me, you didn't leave on good terms.
They wouldn't pay for you if you wanted to come back.
But luckily I left on good terms.
At some point I'm coming back.
You know, I better pay for my stuff. I ain't playing.
[static TV noise] He Got Game,
classic. Legendary movie.
Spike Lee did his thing.
I'm hearing, He Got Game 2, It's coming out.
If you're looking for, you know,
somebody to play a lead role or somebody to come
and audition, look no further, man.
I'm right here.
[static TV noise]
Next up, is Coach Carter.
- Before you can play on this team, you owe me.
2,500 push ups
and 1000 suicide - Pause.
Yo,
2,500 push ups
and 1000 suicides
before you could play on the high school basketball team.
My high school coach would've told me that,
Jaylen Brown would've never made it to the NBA.
I tell you that right now.
He would have never been there.
[laughs]
I think the worst punishment I was
I think in high school, definitely,
we are conditioning before the season started,
we would have to run a mile and then run an Indian mile.
The whole team is running together in a straight line.
And the last person has to get to the front of the line.
You got to keep going until you finish four laps
around the track.
I remember when I was doing it, our coach, he was,
he was kinda halfway paying attention.
I suggested when we hit the curve, everybody slow down.
He can't see the curve. So we did it as a team.
We finished the mile.
So the coach, we think we bout to,
you know, break it down and get outta here.
The coach said,
"Which one of y'all mother f***ers decided to slow down
on the, on the curve?"
[laughs]
I think everybody was going to snitch on him. He was like,
"Y'all want it. Y'all want to say nothing.
Alright. Y'all got to do it again."
People was mad at me, but nobody snitched on me.
I got some real day ones from the crew.
[static TV noise] - What is your deepest fear,
Mr Cruz? - [exhales]
- That you're inadequate?
Give up Mr. Cruz.
Go home.
[static TV noise] - You got to respect
it though. How many kids, you know,
possibly including myself would have just been like,
you know what?
This may not be for me or I need to transfer schools.
I need to go somewhere else.
The fact that Cruz stuck it out, I salute Cruz for that.
And the fact that coach Carter,
you know, did what he did to bring the best,
you know, out of his players was great.
I've been able to, you know, spend time in Richmond,
which is in the Bay Area, where the movie was taking place.
So I've gotten to meet some of the actual people
that was in his movie, which was dope.
[static TV noise]
Pause.
See,
I believe in all of that.
I think that was no...
And now everybody looks at this movie and be like,
That was noble of him and Dalala.
He waited till this man did 1,000 push ups
and 1,000 suicides by himself,
where you could have helped me from the jump.
Like, why are you [chuckles],
why are you wait all the way till his moment?
Till I'm dead tired. My feet hurt, my back hurt.
I ain't got nothing, nothing left.
And now you want to be known. I would have been hot.
I would have been upset, but you know,
everybody's seen them in a moment. This movie.
Everybody overlooked that.
But I agree.
The teamwork If one person's struggle,
we all struggle.
One person down, we all down.
I believe in that.
And that just applied to basketball at a part of life,
at a part of any group effort,
any business.
We in this together.
[static TV noise]
next up, White Man Can't Jump.
[static TV noise] - There's one more bucket
[indistinct]you putting $1700. You know what I'm saying.
- That's a bucket you will never see.
- Yeah, yeah. You tried the hustles,
white boy complaining.
Still ain't good enough. - Yo, man What are we
going to, chit chatter play? now D-up man.
[static TV noise] - Game on the line
- That's when, that's when the trash talking
get to, get to its peak.
When all the pressure on,
That's when you're going to see
what somebody is about.
Especially on the streets. That's what makes the game fun.
That's what you like to see
It's different playing out there
and then playing in the NBA.
Cause you never know what might happen after a game
on the street. And then about to happen
in NBA. [static TV noise]
- Thought he was gonna pass the ball man.
- Of course, he ain't - [Fan 1] Here we go
- [Fan 2] Here we go, baby - [Fan 3] One more,
we got him. - D-up man.
- [Fan 4] You don't know what D is.
[static TV noise] - When somebody say D-up,
I mean, it's a crucial point in the game
and you got to get a stop.
You got to play some good defense right there.
[static TV noise] Look clean to me.
I didn't see no travels, you know.
No, double dribbles, everything looks solid.
[static TV noise] - If you just jump.
- I'm off of y'all. [basketball rim swishes]
- Yes. - Fall for y'all.
- Yes - Both of y'all.
Go back to sea world
- [Together] 1,700 [static TV noise]
- You got to stay down on shot face, that's crucial.
He jumped on the bed on the shot fake.
Defender, he obviously either was trying
to get you off your feet or trying to give foul.
You got to stay down [static TV noise]
- Hey, you just jumped.
When you bite on the side fake,
that is like, a piece of you dies on the inside.
[laughs]
When the defender gets you up on the shot fake. I hate that.
Like I hate that more than anything.
To lose, like he just did on that. I know that stunt.
I know he's sick right now.
[static TV noise]
Next up, Space Jam.
[static TV noise] - You're doing it.
- You're becoming mighty. - Come on guys.
- I don't hear it. [static TV noise]
- First, I'm digging the warmup aerobics. You know.
That's a great way to get going. That's all I wanted to say.
Keep going. [static TV noise]
- Guys, look, who's finally ready to play.
- Michael Jordan for sure has been an innovator
in the sneaker space.
He's definitely set trends and, and made waves culturally,
that is still relevant to today.
So, you got to tip your hat
and give respect where respect is due.
I'm a firm believer that if you look good,
you will play good.
So sneakers are very essential.
I think that is a culture behind sneakers, especially,
you know, growing up. The craziest sneakers,
the better you better play. I think there's an emphasis
on sneaker culture and basketball. No question.
I've seen some guys like having a bad game switch.
their shoes at half time.
I've seen a lot of different things.
Guys, they have a good game in a pair of shoes,
they wear them.
And another big game comes up.
I think that people believe in the magic,
especially when it comes to the sneaker game.
[static TV noise] Oh, my God you're [indistinct]
[indistinct] - I wanna start again.
I just wanted to point out everybody in the NBA probably
can agree with this.
Everybody knows a guy like that.
Just affectionate for no reason, lots of love and hugs.
You gotta appreciate them.
[static TV noise] [upbeat music]
[static TV noise] Space Jam is a classic
for sure. [static TV noise]
Next up, Semi-Pro. [static TV noise]
- He makes the star here. In fact,
it looks like he's running the office.
- Imma pause it right there
before we even get started.
Why is Will Ferrell in a basketball Jersey?
It's some foolery going on here.
Will Ferrell should not be in the basketball Jersey,
in any shape or form. [static TV noise]
[upbeat music]
[static TV noise] Describing Alley-oop.
It's when a player with the ball throws the ball
to his teammate in proximity of the rim
and his teammate catches it while in mid air and scores it.
Sometimes you make eye contact. Sometimes you don't.
Sometimes it's just the read, it just all goes
into the flow of the game.
[static TV noise] - Foul. No two fouls.
- Foul? I didn't touch anybody.
I'll burn your house down.
- Hold on, hold on. [static TV noise]
- I played on some teams with some interesting guys.
who talk a lot worse to the refs.
I think the most disrespectful,
I think, player, that I've ever played with, for sure.
Isaiah Thomas.
What was so absurd about it,
he was the littlest dude on the court.
And he talking crazy to everybody.
That was Isaiah.
He backed it up. So I got to got to salute him for that.
This is one of my favorite movies.
This is a great movie. [static TV noise]
Next up, Love & Basketball
[static TV noise] - One game, one-on-one.
- For what? [static TV noise]
- I know what she about to say.
All right, I know what she about to say.
I did probably seen this movie at least 500 times.
I know everywhere. I can go word for word.
You want me to do that?
I can go work for her for the whole rest of the day.
[static TV noise] - First attempt.
- Five.
- You scared?
- I got better things to do.
- Check. [static TV noise]
- There's a lot of rules in one-on-one,
depending on you know, where you play at.
But most people who I know, they played three dribbles
on one-on-one or they play like five seconds
and nobody got time to be guarding somebody
for a whole shot clock or letting them dribble
55 times.
One-on-one, those, it helps with the real game.
But a lot of times, if you don't have the responsibility
or the trust on your team to be able
to do stuff you're doing, one-on-one,
it's totally different.
Your role on the court might be different from one-on-one.
Where its you and a defender. [static TV noise]
[basketball bounces]
- Pause.
I love watching women's basketball.
I think the only difference is maybe, you know,
athleticism and strength, but skill level
and all that stuff
It's there. It's dope.
You watch the game, you learn different tactics.
I've trained,
I've worked out with female basketball players.
Teresa Weatherspoon. Spoon.
You know, when I first got into the league,
she was one of the first people to put the battery
in my back.
Defensively, She gets after it like no other there.
Everybody knows that.
I would say she's probably one of the people that
I've always turned to or appreciate it
because I got to work out with her in Worcester
and she, her passion for the game,
that I always appreciate it.
So shout out to spoon [static TV noise]
[upbeat slow music]
[static TV noise] You gotta finish.
You gotta make that. It's a layup.
You had him.
So now, now, now he can't go out like that.
- Play. [static TV noise]
[basketball rim swishes]
- I don't hear you talking.
- Pause.
Damn.
He did her like that. [static TV noise]
- Hey. [upbeat slow music]
- Pause. [shouts happily].
He said double or nothing.
[shouts happily]
Alright, yeah. That's one of my
favorite, yeah,
That's one of my favorite fights.
All right. Let me get myself together.
[static TV noise] [basketball bounces]
[static TV noise] I think having dominant
lead female roles is important,
especially within sports.
I think there's a lot of misogyny in our, in our society.
And I think future is female.
So having visual representations of strong female lead roles
in sports and music and any other shape or form
in any other type of, you know,
business or et cetera, is important.
I think just being able to have that visual representation.
And I think there's always been like there a lack thereof
in Hollywood and in film and, and other stuff.
So this was a great movie with a female lead role,
and a Cal graduate. Did her thing.
So shout out to her for paving the way
for a lot of female roles and a lot of athletes,
female athletes, who probably, this is
their favorite movie too.
[static TV noise] Thank you guys for watching
these clips with me.
Hope you enjoy these movies.
And as much as I did growing up,
I'll tuned in with you guys next time.
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