I don’t allow nobody around me who try to be cool with me In Private
You can’t speak up publicly cause you done talked crazy about me behind closed doors
Everybody's arguing about youth sports right now, whether it's too expensive, whether pay-to-play is killing our development. I can't speak on soccer, don't know that world. But I know hoops. Lived it as a player, lived it as a dad, and I run a program too.
And here's what I know. The "it's too expensive to develop talent" argument doesn't hold up the way people think, at least not in hoop.
Yeah, most parents are getting bled dry on team fees and tournament costs and hotels. No doubt. But the kids who actually make it? The real 1%? They're not paying a dime. A lot of them, in fact, are getting paid, under the table or over it.
Many of the great ones get ID'd early and everything flips. The sneaker brands come. The grassroots circuit takes care of them. Wealthy folks who just love hoops want them at their prep school, their AAU team, their college. The bill disappears.
So yeah. The 99% are getting killed out here. But the 1%, the ones who actually land as DI starters and NBA players, never see that bill.
Maybe that's good, maybe it's bad. I'm just telling you what I've seen.
Jaylen Brown on his live stream:
"Boston, they packed me up. Boston they packed me up, my boy... I went up to the facility, and my key card got rejected. Damn, I just wanted to see if it was real, packed me up, bro.”
“Brad Stevens is probably getting a lot of the criticism. I wasn’t thrilled with the way he facilitated some of the conversations but I definitely think there’s more to it. I just wish the more to it could have been explained to me. I thought I earned the respect to get that information. Hey, obviously I was wrong."
"We gotta stop with these damn anonymous sources, like, anonymous executive, Colin Cowherd, Bobby Marks, Stephen A. Smith, anonymous sources says this, I think y'all are the sources. And if not, you shouldn't say it if it's something so ridiculous. This is part of the reason I started streaming."
"This is my life. Keep it basketball and nobody has a problem. People think I have a problem with people critiquing my performance. Critique it all you want but the line gets crossed and they want to act like the line didn't get crossed."
“For the past 10 years, I’ve been programmed to hate Philadelphia. I’ve been programmed to be like f**k the process. But now I have to reverse engineer, that’s the part that’s going to take some time.”
“The process is back the f**k on. The process has been over but now the process is back motherf****r.”
"They are going to turn me into the villain, and I'm going to just embrace it. So this season, let's get it. The villain is emerged that's what y'all want me to be. Let's get it."
JB on reports claiming he thinks "he's the smartest person in the room": "No offense to everybody in sports, but the bar is f**** low."
Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown still had a “really good work relationship”, per @ScoopB
“The things that they do on and off the court don’t necessarily align, but there is surely a mutual respect. On the court, in the gym, day to day shit, they’re best work buddies. Off the court they’re just not.”
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