Allen Iverson says he was so unstoppable one-on-one the NBA rewrote the rulebook to stop him and erased his signature move for good
“I remember telling my teammates, how are they gonna stop me in the NBA? Can’t run no 2-3 zone, no 1-3-1, no box-and-one, they got to play me straight up, one-on-one”
“Now, four scoring titles later, I don’t understand how a zone came back into the NBA. In the history of the NBA they never had zones”
“You got this 6-foot dude winning scoring title after scoring title. Like, all right, now let’s implement a zone. They took the hop-step out the game too because I was hopping over double teams, they can’t stop me”
Jaylen Brown & Kyrie Irving have a sit-down & reveal almost getting into a SERIOUS FIGHT during practice while they were teammates on the Boston Celtics 😳
JB: “What’s crazy is, we almost FOUGHT one time”
Kyrie: “I know” 👀
JB: “I haven’t heard from Kyrie, i didn’t know what was going on, we was in Boston, I haven’t heard his voice in like 2 weeks”
Kyrie: “I definitely used to go silent, I didn’t know how to express myself”
JB: “You decided you needed to have a heart to heart with everybody”
JB: “You confronted me, I was standing under the basket & you pointed at my face & was like ‘I know who YOU ARE! ”. 🫵🏽
Also JB: “I’m like, that’s GREAT! I know who I am too, Kyrie’s like, No you don’t! ”.
Kyrie: “It was an overflow of emotion that I was dealing with, bro I told you I lost my Grandfather that year, I was supposed to Sign back for 5 years(w/ Celtics), I announced it, then my Grandfather passed a week later. After I left the team to go to his funeral, I didn’t take ANY time off & went straight into the game.
“It was ME, as a man I came at yall CRAZY,” -Kyrie taking accountability & blames himself for his outburst on JB in practice
JB speaks on respecting his intense practice battles w/ Kyrie because it proves Kyrie is real. He prefers this raw honesty over the hidden agendas and politics of the NBA.
JB on relating to Kyrie:
“People in Boston said I dont smile, they say I’m so intense, yeah & I wonder why?”
Kyrie says: “I remember that, I had to deal with that Stigma” on his stint in Boston
Just two brilliant minds, mutual respect, no scripts, one honest conversation. DOPE.
@Money23Green I see some things just don’t change. lol. You was on sucka shit four years ago when you swung on Jordan Poole and you on sucka shit now. I usually don’t engage but since you went so far left to get my attention here it is!!!
If you think your big 32 year old, 3 or 4 rings at the time having ass swinging on a 23 year old Jordan Poole at the time is the same then you are even more delusional that I thought.
First of all Bam is 28. Tyler is 26. Neither one of them got it all figured out yet. Maybe I was giving you too much credit at the time cause I thought you did so that’s why I commented. 2nd, anyone who knows bam knows he’s strong as baby bear. If he would’ve unloaded on Tyler 100% it’s over. You fired off on that young boy like it was a club punch and you never met him before in your life. 3rd yeah I did go at Jimmy. You damn right. The shit you pull in golden state and that shit he pulled in Chicago talking crazy to Hoiberg and disrespecting teammates in practice in Minnesota ain’t gon fly in the 305. So yeah. I checked his ass.
Call it heat culture or what ever you want but before I let one player disrespect Spo in front of the squad, cut his legs out and disrupt what 15 other guys tryin to get accomplished, I’ll kick his ass. I owe that to ZO and Tim and Glen and the rest of my OGs.
Ion really vibe you and I think you know that so unless it’s me on prime talking hoops I won’t mention you at all. You brought me into this and I am retired and out the way. I suggest you keep it pushing cause I ain’t giving out no more hall passes bra!
AJ Brown got CALLED OUT by his own childhood hero💀
Tom Brady via @newheightshow:
“One game you’re going to catch 11 balls, another game you’re going to get 3… I can’t have you the happiest guy ever when you catch 11, and the most miserable guy on the team when you catch 3.”
“If you have that volatile emotional output, it takes a lot of energy from a lot of people to get that player stable.”
If AB was doing this for another young nigga he could turn a nigga into a champion fr. Deen ok but he not no boxer fr he’s a personality who boxes. Ab get with a nigga who eat sleep shit the sport with his boxing knowledge he could create a beast fr
Jaylen Brown says players should be able to own equity in teams because they help increase the value of NBA franchises
“Players should be able to invest alongside ownership groups and business opportunities. I don't understand why that’s ever been a thing. It's like you’re an athlete and they make it seem like they can control how much wealth or growth that you could actually accumulate. I think that's wrong”
“I also think that any other major corporation, if you work for Apple, Nike or anywhere, if you're a CEO, if you're someone who has been on a board for a large amount of time, you get equity in a company at some point. You are part of it”
“I think athletes should be looked at in the same way. You played for the Celtics for 20 years, you should get a piece of equity because you helped accumulate the growth. That's the part that gets lost in translation. The sweat equity you put in. You get compensated for doing your job, but you don't get compensated for the growth. At major corporations and companies you do, or at least some of the big ones”
Jaylen Brown says he had his first NBA paycheck mailed to him so he could hold it in his hands: $182,000
“I told them to mail it to me so I could just feel it and touch it. I wanted to see my first check. I wanted to feel it in my hand”
“The first check that I got was $182,000. I remember seeing that as an 18-year-old coming from a single parent household. I just saw $182,000 hit on the first check and I was like, ‘Alright, welcome to the NBA’”