all right when i first got in the league
it was a lot of tough guys at least from
my perspective because i once again i
considered myself the lowest on the
totem pole and i had to learn you know
so i looked at every experience as a
learning experience
um physically it was a much more
physical game than
than what it is today you know
you couldn't walk across the lane
without getting checked you know or the
screens you know illegal screens holding
you always had to pay a price
you know be it if you were aggressive
and you were a gun whole guy and you go
in you go in with the understanding that
i'm gonna get hit i'm gonna pay the
price
but you know that's part of the game you
know i'm not going to be afraid to go
inside those are types of things that
these kids don't even have a clue of how
we had to grow up or how we had to play
the people that influenced my basketball
skills when i was growing up as i was
watching nba
walter davis
dr j
david thompson dr j style
it was
something that i absolutely love because
of the way he can handle the basketball
with his one hand he can move the ball
you know i had big hands
so in terms of being able to control the
ball and uh be creative with the ball
with with your hands to me that was uh
that was intriguing because very few
people have big hands
are there rules to talking trash
i only talk trash to people that i knew
my friends patrick young bird magic
those type of guys but
i never talk trash to
people that i didn't know or people i'm
just meeting
and if they did
my game always did my talk and i never
say anything so this can be something
you probably probably could print you
know i'm playing in my uh
my camp again to o.j mayo he was a top
high school kid coming out and
i didn't i never met him first time in
front of my camp
he starts this thing about
uh you can't guard me you can't do this
you know i got my campers here so
obviously i can't really go where i want
to go because of my camp
so i stop the camp
send the kids to bed we go back to
playing
and he starts this whole thing you know
that you can't guard me you can't do
this and then
finally i just then i said look dude you
you may be the best high school player
but i'm the best player in the world so
from this point on it's a lesson and
from that point on it was a lesson he
never won the game i post him up i did
everything if i can ever show you that
film if you can ever ask him that
ask him about the thing that happened at
my camp i don't consider that trash i
consider that fact
you call it trash
you got to be very competitive you know
i think a lot of my defenses because of
my competitive nature is that i don't
want you to outscore me
you know or i don't want you to score a
certain number of points on me gary
payton and i had an interesting
competitor
you know he's supposed to be the club
and the media made a little bit of a
splash and then the next thing you know
we're playing against him in 95 96 for
the playoffs and the whole thing was
joining against the glove
i mean he was good at defending you know
me to get the ball but once i got the
ball i felt like i always had the
advantage so you know it wasn't really a
problem to me he's a hall of famer now i
think he's very deserving of it but we
did have our battles
if i was in my prime who would i want to
play one on one
that list is very long
start off with jerry west
elgin baylor
kobe bryant and his prime
lebron and his prime d-wade and his
prime
melo
that's a good start yeah i don't think i
lose
other than kobe bryant because he steals
all my moves
i know i'm not a twitterer i'm not a
twerker i'm not a facebooker i am a
you know nothing i'm old school
what is twerking by the way