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One of the coldest business moguls. He's one of a kind. His name might be Ice, but he's not letting shit slide. A three-dimensional performer from the mic to the tube. The man is far from a square. That's why they call him the Cube. From the movies to the Grammys, his business sense is nice too. From the mind that bought you the big three. Welcome to the show, Ice Cube. Welcome, my friend. Way to be here, my guy. Absolute legend.

He cold. He cold, Ice. He cold, Cube. He cold.

They put it together. Now, I had these tucked away.

I battled this other rapper named Head Ice one time. So I I had all the ice shit fucking tucked away. You know what I mean? I have all the ice bar just there, just sitting, you know what I mean? Like an ice loosh. But dude, you are literally everywhere.

Iconic.

Iconic, not even just as far as being in the movies and being involved with sports, and obviously your extensive music career. But the fact that every time I turn on YouTube, every time I turn on my TV, you are doing more more press, more interviews than anybody. How do you find the time in the day and how do you find the drive within yourself to be such a force in everything you do?

Well, I think Once I learned that you have to be the spearhead and not a figurehead, then I knew how to move out here. If you got something cool and you want to share with people, you want people to on board, you got to show the passion and you got to show that you care, that you are into it. Whenever I do a record or a movie or now with basketball, I want to talk to everybody. I want to let the world know that they should check it out. It's cool, it's dope. They'll thank me later. You know what I mean? I just take that approach and I just I just feel like if I'm trying to sell something to the world, I got to be a salesman. I got to be out there passionate about what I got. If I'm not passionate, how could they be passionate?

Right. So let's lean a little bit on that in the big three. So shout out to the big three. Personally, I feel like what you've done for the big three was a gap bridger from guys who still want to play, might not have that opportunity in the NBA than anymore. I don't know, due to, I don't know, age, due to background, due to history. A NBA guy who just literally was the final's MVP played in the big three. Could you talk about Jalen Brown and how that came into operation?

Yeah. I just want to add to what you said about the guys that play. Sometimes it's a numbers game. It's only Well, there's 15 spots, 12 to 15 spots on the roster. So sometimes it's a numbers game, too. Having a player like Jalen Brown play last year was huge. It broke barriers. And the barriers are usually in people's minds. People think just because an athlete is not in the NBA, that he can't play at a high level. And we all know that's not true. To have him come play with our guys in the All-Star Game, it was competitive. He did great. He didn't dominate our guys. Our guys didn't dominate him. It was just a great game. I think it showed a lot of people the level that the big three is playing on. It was a lot for him to do that. Hopefully, it induced more current players to come out and play with us in the summer. I think we got a beautiful game. I think we played a game the right way. You're definitely going to get a little tougher playing with the big three. We dream one day it's an option for current NBA players to come play with us in the summer.

I think that's realistic. I think that the market has responded to what you've created, especially when we look at the Olympics. I mean, the Olympics, they're going three on three in the Olympics. And I wonder how much you puff your chest out, pop your own collar and say, Hey, I'm responsible for this success at some level.

Well, they've been doing it for a long time, fever. But I think we do two different versions. You know what I'm saying? I'm really proud that the three on three game is on people's mind. People respect the game. But looking at what the Olympics produce compared to what we do with the big three is apples and oranges. That's amateur. We're professional. I love that they're putting the three-on-three game on everybody's mind, but I would love that they either use our athlete so we can bring a gold home or they just adjusted their style of play. But hey, we're going to be watching this summer. Hopefully, the US will do something in the big three. We're here playing a different level to me at a three on three.

When I watched the big three, and I watched it from the first year that you started it until now, I mean, how far it came so fast, man. Like, so fast. I remember started off real small, real intimate. You always have the practice facilities, always have the gym. But now it's like people are looking forward to now. Like the fans, especially in the summertime, too, especially the fans. Fans are coming out, guys are coming out, other pros are coming out. You get a chance to see basketball year round because you just discussed the scheduling of it. Obviously, you don't want to have it during the NBA season, but what positive do you get from having it in the summertime?

It's just a perfect time. It was like a void in the industry because everybody after the finals has a basketball hangover. You want more basketball. It's just you can't believe it's over. I used to hibernate until the start of the NFL season because it was like 10, 11 weeks of nothing. To have a league that It's 10 weeks long, every game means something. I think it's fun for fans to get into a league that's going to start and end right before the NFL kicks in. And so it's just a sweet spot for the league. And I'm glad it was sitting there waiting for us to fill that void.

Dude, my all-time favorite, Big Three player. I don't even know if you could guess who it is, and I don't know if he's the fan favorite, but Muhammad Abdul Ralph, when he came in and was like... He was older than everybody else in the game, but his game was so well tailored for a big three. It's almost like he had this shooting touch. And if he had been 20 years younger, he would have had a whole different NBA career because he has such a silky smooth game. But But I'm curious as to the guys who have come through who you really enjoyed watching and blossom under your format.

Great player in the NBA. He got black ball for his beliefs, and he was able to show everybody what we missed when he came and played in the big three for us. But to me, players that I guess, being there from day one, I look at a James Flight White, who been there from 2017. He's won three championships with the big three, still in the league. Just an amazing player when it comes to the three-on-three game. What you'll notice is you either have these skills to play this type of basketball or you don't. Three on three is very mano a mano. You can't just be a specialist. You got to be able to pass, dribble, shoot, and defend, or you will be exposed. Certain guys are just built for this type of basketball.

I started off, Ron, I don't know if you notice, I started off with the three on three. They used to call call it the hoop it up. They used to have it in St. Louis. They used to have it in Chicago. Had a coach from my neighborhood. Used to take all the guys, the kids in the neighborhood. It was a certain age group, and we used to play three on three. And you're talking about a entirely different game. If you can't guard, we literally go just go one on one with you all day long. So I like the concept behind the big three. But one thing I also like was how you were able to inform fans about players who they didn't know anything about. You got guys like James Spike-White who... I mean, you're talking about our group, you're probably one of the best dunkers to ever grace the game of basketball. And I say that with NBA guys overseas, he's probably one of the best- From Cincinnati. I give them top 10 dunkers of all time. So the way you're able to educate other fans, younger generations of players in the past, and then you can go on YouTube and you can check them out, I think that brings a ton of life to it also.

We're dedicated to promoting the guys that are great at the three on three game. They can show other aspects of their game that they might not have been able to show in the NBA. I didn't know Richard Lewis was so mean in the post. When he played, he's the coach now for Three Headed Monsters. But when he played, he dominated in the post. I just always thought Richard Lewis was a three-point guy. You hit him and he hit the shot. To see him bring out other aspects of a game that we didn't get a chance to even see in the NBA is cool, too. But you're right, it's a different style. And some guys are just made for this game better than five on five, and then some guys are just built for the five on five game better than the three on three style.

During this, since the college women's basketball ended, I'm aware of two offers that Kaitlyn Clarke got. One was from Dave Portnoy from Barstool Sports, who offered her $10 million to play on the- But Qs was first.

It was the first deal she ever got. I'm not going to say she ever got. That We knew about.

First offer. So it was Dave offering and then Cube offering. What did you see in her game where you were like, Oh, this would be good for our product. And is it a publicity thing, or how do you think she would have actually stacked up in a three-on-three game?

Well, some people who've played in the league said she wouldn't be able to play in the big three. But who am I to say? We've seen small guards like Mahmoud Abdul Raouf, Nathan Robinson, Hezzy guy, come in and have success. Who am I to say that she couldn't play? So it wasn't a publicity stunt, but we did look at her impact. What impact would she have on the league? What interest would we have to see if she was ready to take that challenge? We thought a lot of bridges could be broken, and not just on the court, but in people's minds. We knew her coming into the league would unlock a lot of sponsor dollars, a lot of media dollars, so we wasn't naive to that. She We took a big swing. We think we made a generous offer that we believe has helped the future of women basketball when it comes to compensation. We believe people will value the players a lot more because of the offer we made. And so, like I said, we took a big swing. It didn't work. We're more than happy with the players we have. Wish her luck, and we're going to have a great season.

Yeah, I like the swing you all took. It might not have hit the ball right now, but I really believe that has generated the conversation. And if you can have a conversation about money and wealth and dealing with women's sports, I think that moves the needle just as much. So I think that was the precedent of like, damn, I A woman can get that much that no one ever knew about. So I'm curious to see how it goes because I think you might have a little trouble on your hands. You might have to start a big three for women's now.

Wmba players, they're starting one that's supposed to jump off in January. So we wish him luck. It's definitely a tall task. It's a big hill to climb. So we wish him luck, and we'll help him in any way we can.

I want to ask you about how you see the NBA in general as far as the audience. We look at this year's NBA Finals, and the NBA Finals is on the low, as as far as how many people watched it since 2010. But the contracts that the NBA is getting with media companies are going through the roof. Amazon and, you know, NBC and ESPN are all paying billions of dollars to put basketball on television, and thus the salary cap and the salaries of the players are going up. Why do you think that the NBA Finals is getting less popular, but at the same time as as a business person, why do you think that the product is getting more expensive?

Livesports is, right now, the only place where you have people gathering. To watch television in a mass numbers when it comes to different events. So that's valuable to sponsors. That's valuable to sponsors, that's valuable to advertisers, people who want to sell things. The potential of having a big viewing audience. The numbers are low, but it's still not chopped liver. It's still 9, 10 million people checking it out. Of course, they want that to be up to 17 to 20 million. I think they just got to figure out the business model. It changed a little bit losing the RSNs. The NBA was really built on those RSNs, those regional sports networks that would show the local games and pay big money to the league. But also, they have to shift to a new model of going to fans where they are. I believe they're doing a good job at it. Also, I believe it's to play on the court. We want a little more defensive It's a little more mano a mano, not so much a free-flowing basketball. The fans have asked for that. I believe that's what the big three is delivering, and people love their style.

They want to see the competition. You don't necessarily want to see friends play basketball. You want to see one jersey versus the other, one team versus the other, and both teams are convinced that they're trying to win. Not just a game, but a championship. I I mean, tanking has hurt. The process and all this stuff has hurt. Low management has hurt. Sometimes you don't know if players really care about winning the Championship. These things they have to fix.

Yeah, I like the way you're putting that shit together.

Even like the, I mean, RSNs and shit like that. This dude is a businessman, dude.

This guy is saying I mean, in order to get to where he's got to, you have to have a lot of sense in this shit. You got to, or you will get your ass swept up. Simple as that. I got a side question, though, because I'm a huge Friday type of guy, obviously. Chris Tucker.

Yeah.

The first Friday he was on, the second one he wasn't. Was that a him decision? That was a- Of course. Okay.

I figured that. We all Chris a lot of money, especially for the time in his career. In 1999, we offered him a lot money, and he just didn't want to do the movie. But we were able to find Mike Epps.

Did Mike Epps get the same offer, though? Did Mike Epps get the same bag?

No, because Mike wasn't at the same. He wasn't at the same level at the time. Chris, at the time, was a bona fide movie star that people wanted to see in more movies, and he would have paid that money back and put in the asses in the seats. Mike wasn't there at that time. That's really how that game worked. If you got a name that's going to bring people to the theater, you're going to be worth more money than just a name or a good actor.

I don't think you get a lot of credit for your ability to put people on. For why I'm from, that's how you get the ultimate respect. From the start of straight out of Compton, to your son acting in it, to producing, directing Friday, writing it, to introducing Chris Tucker. Okay, damn, we had Chris Tucker. Fuck it. Bring in Mike Epps. When we go to Mike Epps, put on Mike Epps. Make him great. Not saying that you put him on, but just that That platform put him on. And to have him and to have Kat Williams. And for Kat Williams to have a platform to get even bigger. You got to give yourself a lot of credit, bro. And I don't know if people do or not, but you put a lot of people on, especially black people. And that's big time. That's big time. Like, motherfuckers wouldn't even know who Felicia was until movies. I'm serious, though. It's funny, but it's serious. The way you I had a vision, and I wouldn't even say small people, the way you were able to see people as not as big now and how big they are now is a testament to all your hard work.

So I just wanted to let you, man, keep the culture needs it. The culture needs it. We appreciate you. Real shit.

And I appreciate that. Just paying it forward. Somebody put me on. Dr. Dre didn't have to start working with me. When I was young, 14, 15 years old, and John Singleton, rest in peace, he didn't have to put me in that movie, Boys on the hood. He could have found a straight established actor, but he saw something in me and he knew I could do it. That's what I see another, whether it's Mike or Chris or Bernie Mac or Terry Cruise. I You're just like, I know this part right here. I know this person right here to kill it. You give them the stage to do their thing. You give them enough room to shine. You make sure they can show the world what they got. You don't harness that. You don't hold it back. In a comedy or a Friday I don't care if I'm the funiest. You're not even looking for me to be the funiest in the movie when you got all these greats. You got to let them do their thing.

I want to keep it in the Friday universe right now. Two-part question. So who in those movies made you break the most? When you're doing a comedic scene, or they're cut, we have to do that shit again. And then what line from any of those movies get shouted out to you the most or people quote to you the most? That is their favorite line.

John Witherspoon by far.

Wow.

It's hard to keep it together with John Witherspoon and Mike Epps. These dudes are really like that. They're funny and crazy, and everything they say is funny, whether they're trying to be funny or not. I really just enjoy working with John Witherspoon, and I always have fun working with Mike Epps. He's a pure comedian. It's all funny, everything that come out. All right.

And then what about the lines that people are just like, they'll see you on the street and they'll yell at whatever it may be like, What a baby Joker. Bye, Felicia.

I told you. I I knew it. That's the real thing.

You ain't got to lie, Craig. You hit me with that a lot.

Is it any more Fridays in the near future that we can be looking forward to?

I hope so. I got hope. I think there's new people at Warner Brothers. Mike DeLuca is there. And I work with Mike DeLuca in the past on the first Friday, Players Club, all about the Benjamin. So never know. Hopefully, we can get it done.

When you see the hiring, because now that you're on a basketball front line out, when you see the hiring and firing of different coaches, does that resonate with the big three, or is that just part of the business. Is that something that you look at and then a model of like, Okay, cool. We might have to get some new faces in here as coaching staff, or this team isn't good. I might have to go another route. Is that something that you control of the big three? Is that something that's a brand thing?

No, it's hard when it's time to move on. Of course, we're always looking at... We want the biggest names It's out there, of course, but only if they bring their game. We want your game over your name. So we're looking for guys who still got the chip on their shoulder and still want a ball. But when it's time to move on, to another player or a different chemistry, it's rough. That's the roughest part of the sport is to say, Hey, we got in another direction to try to make sure this team can win. I feel for coaches who... Not only coaches, but players, staff, people that are let go. It's the nature of the game. That's the hardest part of being CEO of the big three is when it's time to move on so a team or the lead can get better.

When the league started, a lot of people don't understand this. When the league started in this first couple of years with the big three, you've had female head coaches.

Yeah.

And it was funny because soon after that is when you see NBA come around with female of the assistant coaches, and you see big names, head coaches of WNBA. It's like the fans in the game and also people of the NBA, they take the coaching very, very seriously. They look at the blueprints you have and take it very seriously in hiring and firing coaches.

Yeah, well, to the NBA's credit, they had assistant coaches. Nancy Lieberman was the assistant coach before we pulled her in Sacramento, I think with the Pelicans. But they still haven't promoted them to head coach. And we immediately saw that Nancy knows the game better than anybody on the planet or just as good. Making her a head coach, and we made her a head coach, she won Coach of the Year year, which was voted by the other coaches, and she won the Championship. The next year in 2019, we made Lisa Leslie a head coach. She won Coach of the Year, voted by the coaches, and she won the Championship. In two years, we proved that women can coach men to a Championship, and it should be done in the NBA sooner than later.

I love it. You need more women around. It's essential. When your career started out, you were a very anti-establishment voice in art. Fuck the Police, America's Most Wanted, with the KKK and the title, you know what I mean? And then in your different stages of your career, you've had to work with the establishment, whether that be making movies in Hollywood or finding funding to start a league or something like that. How do you reconcile the two stages of your career and how have things changed within your view of what the establishment is?

Well, just breaking it down, anti-establishment is pretty broad. Anti-oppression, anti-bullshit, anti-unfairness. That's really what we were and still are. We still don't like those things. But if the police treated us fair, you wouldn't have a song like Fuck the Police. So it's only when the establishment becomes more of an oppressive force is when you get pushback. I've given pushback in the music industry, movie industry, and in basketball and sports industry. If the establishment treats you fair, then most people won't have a problem with it. I That's really what I've been fighting my whole career, and that hasn't stopped. We see it on all levels, and we won't be stopped by it. We would only be delayed. That's been my attitude towards the establishment. I'm not anti-establishment. I'm only anti-unfairness, and will continue to be for the rest of my life.

It's an interesting distinction. Another rapper I want to ask you about, Andre 3000, recently was talking about his voice as a rapper in this stage of his career? And he's like, Man, what the fuck am I going to rap about at this point in my life? And he has pivoted to a different artistic outlet for himself. What do you think about his his purview as far as thinking that he has less to rap about or people will have less of a tolerance for his voice? And with that, how important do you think it is to have something else artistically to pivot to? Because that seems like something you haven't had a problem with.

Well, I think an artist got to do what he feel. That's the only way the best art comes out. I disagree with him as far as people not want to hear his voice because people have been begging for albums for years. So he has millions of fans who want to hear him rap. When he goes and does a show, people want him to rap. Now, to me, you could do the flute, too, but I think you need to give people the hits as well. But an artist can do what they feel. Me, I think a rapper, if you're just speaking about yourself and for yourself, yeah, you can run out of stuff to rap about. But if you're rapping for the people and for the situations that's going on in the world and you're rapping about what you see as documenting the era and the time, then there's a trillion things to rap about. Out every day.

Rapper is just a different game now, I ain't going to lie. He and you all rapped back in the day and he and I rap now, and I'm 35, 36, so I'm at that age where I got jiggy with you all shit, and I can get jiggy with the current shit. There's two different rap errors, man. Just two different rap errors, man. The struggles ain't the same struggles no more, but it's the same shit, but it's just real different now, man. Just real different. So we definitely appreciate you all paving away for the rap game, too, because without I got you all voice and confidence to have a voice, I don't think a lot of rappers have it right now. They have to be controlled by all the labels, for sure.

I think the best thing for him to do if he wanted to get back in the rap is to do a rap album he love. Try to sound like Future, whatever is new. No, it's something you like. And put that out. I think the people love it, too.

So we do a new Amsterdam. We got new Amsterdam as one of the sponsors for the pod. So we do a new Amsterdam starting five. And it's only right that we got to ask you Ice Cube, your New Amsterdam starting five, best rappers, dead or alive. You can't include yourself.

Wow. Melly Mel, Chuck D, Rakem, Karis One, Ice T.

He said, No one from this, none of these children. He said, Adults only.

The real rapper.

You got to go back to the blueprints. These rappers changed the game in more ways than one. Everyone unnamed. You know how somebody come in? They come in with a different... Allen Iverson, Tim Hardaway had the killer crossover, but Iverson, So you get outside the box. And so you change the game a little bit. So everybody changed the game. You got to give them a little extra love.

How plugged in are you on the... I see the Magic Johnson over your shoulder over there. How plugged in on the Lakers are you? You a big Lakers guy. What do you think of JJ Reddick edition up there?

We'll see. Being on this side of sports, I don't want to criticize no front offices and what they doing. I'm a big time Laker fan, and whatever it takes to get the team to win. Monty Williams is out there right now, too, so just never know. Whatever it takes to get the team to win.

Monty Williams is going to pay 78 million to do nothing now, bro. Monty Williams has it made.

I trust Jenny Buss. Her and her family have been amazing owners when it comes to the Lakers. So I'm pretty sure she'll do what's best for the team.

She's great. She's When I played for the Lakers, she was great. She was great. Top of the bottom. She was phenomenal.

Yeah. Amazing stuff. Dude, well, thank you so much for being here. Ice Cube, man.

Never in a million years would I go from watching fucking TV, man, to having this man on the pod. This is unbelievable for me, Q. Unbelievable for me, bro.

When you finish in the NBA, man, we got to judge with You got to put your name on it, man. If you want to keep it going, baby.

Hey, man, you're a kind man. You're a kind man. I appreciate that, man. Kind man. I appreciate that.

Absolutely legend, bro.

Love, love, Ice. Thank you, brother. Thank you, brother.

Anything else, go watch the Big 3, tune in. Go watch the Big Three. Go watch the Big Three. Tune in.

Tune the fuck in, man. Buy merch. Buy it all. Qube. Thank you, man. Thank you for your time, brother.

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You know? That'd be a problem Roan, Roan, Roan is under the weather. Roan is sick. Roan is... You all pray for Roan. Roan hasn't been feeling very well. First off, congratulations, JJ Reddit. That's fire as fuck. I think he opened a ton of doors. Podcast or head coach. In this league, right? In this league, in an NBA, it's hard as hell to be a player in an NBA, right? It's hard as hell to be a player. But to coach the NBA, to me, in my opinion, it's even harder. You got guys that know how to play in an NBA that don't play. You might have missed it. So it's hard as hell to be a player in the NBA. Hear what I'm saying? You got guys who can play basketball in the NBA who don't play. It's hard as hell to be a player, but it's even harder to coach. The dynamic of coaching young teams who aren't that good. You might... Your Xs and O's might be better than a lot of motherfuckers out there, but your team is not built on winning every night, right? Managing egos, managing contracts, that's always hard. One thing JJ Reddick has had a privilege of having is good coaching.

I don't really know his high school coaches, but probably phenomenal, based off his foundation of basketball work. Obviously, Coach K. Van Gundee. Van Gundee. Jj Reddick had Van Gundee when he was in Orlando. Obviously, he had Doc when he was with the Clippers. And I believe he had... Jj also had Brett Brown when he was in Philly, and he had Alvin Gentry when he was in New Orleans. And I'm not even naming all those assistants. I believe Chris Fentz, who was the head coach, the T-Wools, I don't know if he was there at the time, but I know he spent some time with Alvin's entry. So we're not even going through all the assistance, all the... Also great coaches. But people don't understand J. J. Redick has done it right. To me, from retiring from the NBA up until this point, J. J. Redick has done everything right. And this is the thing that people can't really grasp to. Retiring from basketball, having pot. Not for likes, not for views, just for educational purposes. Have some good guests, have some wild guests, but just mostly all educational purposes. It's not bashing anybody, not putting anybody, naming in and dirt, not hurting anybody, always uplifting the voice and the manner he speaks with his tone on his pot.

It's welcoming. So we got a chance to hear audio. We got a chance to see the visual of it. It was built under our own eyes, and it became huge. So doing that, then going into ESPN, Doing that and then going into ESPN. I mean, always clean-cut, wasn't on ESPN, doing the clown shit for likes, always had great facts. Always when he spoke with with Steven A. Smith, against Steven A. Smith. It wasn't a battle for the throne. He spoke what his knowledge was. He laid all his answers, all facts. He didn't back down. He does that, leaves that, merges with you doing games. His voice is great. It's a connection that he has while he does games as a player point of view, but he's not... His tone is great. His voice is great. So the timely things he say, understanding how to maneuver me being an announcement as a player, the gap bridged by the language that the players speak in a professional manner on a podium and doing this broadcast. I mean, he's done everything great. He's been great. And that's the thing that people don't see. Clean-cut, handsome as hell. I mean, he did everything great.

When it comes to coaching, everyone knows he doesn't have a ton of experience, but he's a competitor. He's been around great programs. He's been around great coaching. Everything's hard. It's a part of life. It's going to be ups, it's going to be downs. But I'm really excited. I'm really happy. Everyone, I haven't been around him. He was never my teammate, so I can only go off as a player. But from what I'm hearing, his basketball mind, his genius level. But now it's important for him to have some great assistance around him because NBA is built off coaches that has seen basketball over and over and over and over and over I'm excited. I didn't know if he was going to do the pod. I've seen announcement. I think they said he's not going to do the pod anymore, right? That's a different beast in his own. I used the pod to release, so how is he going to release? Now, you're going to have a lot on his plate. I don't think he's scared of calling Bron out, AD out. Austin Reeves out. I I don't think he's scared of doing that. And when you become a head coach, if I've seen first-year guys, some guys don't want to step on people's toes, or some guys trying to implement their system in, and Sometimes it's hard to cross every T and dot every I, especially your first year, because you're focused on trying to win a ton of games.

So I think it's going to be good. I think it's good for the league. He's a fellow NBA player. He hasn't played in a ton of big games. So during crunch times, you got to lean on his coaching staff a lot. Got to lean on the players a lot. So I'm happy for it. I think it's great. I think it's great. I think I see success. I don't know if that's going to be in the beginning, because plain and simple, the Lakers are in a tough-ass conference, regardless of who to who coach in that team. That's a tough fucking conference, man. I don't think people understand how tough the Western conference is. It's motherfuckers winning 40-something games and not even making the playoffs, not even making a play-in. So the West is tough. So that's always the obvious. But when it comes to preparation, when it comes to attitude, when it comes to... I don't know who his assistant coaches are going to be yet, but when it comes to discipline and the traits that you needed, he had all great coaches to install those things in him. Anything new is going to be tough.

But I think at the end of it, when it's all said and done, I think he's going to be a great coach. Easy, great coach. And no offense, JJ. I know you ain't podcast no more. So yeah, I don't know if you could do it or not send all them subscribers this way. We need them. Subscribe to the pod. Congratulations JJ. Congrats, bro. I just got back from Vegas. So Vegas is great, right? So me and wife, we go to Vegas. My wife, we got this hair convention for her, down in Beverly Hills for a brand. So that was Saturday, Sunday, Monday, right? It was about 25,000 women there from 12:00 to 4:00. So every day, 12:00 to 4:00, I go hang with Wifey. I go promote brand, try to sell some shit. I met two lovely ladies from Arkansas, the women that had to be like 70 years old. They were dope. Shout out to them. They did. They watched the pod. But yeah, I was selling hair products. Yeah, I was selling hair products. I think I made about eight or nine sales. I did really good. The business mogul was great. You all could check it out on the gram, too.

I recorded a little bit. So that was great. Good vibes. I get to Vegas. I want to go to the bank. Why if you say, let's wait till we get to Vegas, then you go to the bank. Okay, cool. We get to the win. Shout out to the win, too, man. Always great. Always great stand at the win. We get to the win, and I say, fuck it. Before check-in, let's see what's going on, baby. She got to grab a thousand off her. I lose a thousand, and I don't know. Seven seconds. Right. Check in. Okay, cool. Now I got to go to the bank. I don't feel right. You feel me? I took a thousand off. I got to go to the bank. I go to the bank. Make a withdrawal at the bank. Come back. Now I It's time to gamble. It's time to gamble now. Yeah, I lost $10,000 in 31 minutes. I thought Vegas had me again. Wifey saves the day. First off, imagine I'm the guy who goes to Vegas. I'm only taking this to Vegas so I can spend to Vegas. So I'm down. I'm down to my motherfucking socks.

Listen, moms flew in Mom flew in with the fam. Everybody's there on the last day, on the last couple of days. She flies down there. Mom is married to a great man, Mr. Reggie. He's great. Great soul, great man, handsome Great man. Me and Mr. Reggie, I go with, I don't know, $1,200, right? I asked Mr. Reggie, Hey, Mr. Reggie, come on, man. Come gamble with me. Let's tax him. Let's beat the shit out this man. Let's rob this man blind. We're in Vegas. Let's do this. Mr. Reggie is trying to be nice. He doesn't want to play. Now, your world, your world. I lose, I don't know, 11 seconds, everything, right? I think it was 2,400. Now I'm down. I got 1,900 in my pocket from the original 11. I'm down. I'm down a lot. I'm down. I sub him out. I take them back nicely to the cabana where the kids is and shit. They're watching TV with everything. Yeah, thanks, Mr. Reggie. Man, it was cool. We had a good time in this hotel. Nice thing. It's nice. Yeah, get your ass on, Man. Hey, Mom, check it out. Let's work. Are you ready?

She, Hell, yeah, I'm ready. That's why I came to Vegas. That's dope. So me and Mom goes to the table. Me and Mom catch a vibe at the table, right? It's not really opening tables to ourselves. So we had a table with two other guys. There's two other guys in the middle. Mom at the end, I get all the last cards, right? Go on the roll. Me and Mom, we there 11 minutes. We win everything I lost back with her husband, Mr. Reggie. So mom's like, You want to back everything that my husband lost? She's like, Yeah, all right. She's like, Okay, cool. We're cool now. We're up and lead, right? So now I'm only down maybe 8,000 now, right? I'm not that much down. I'm down, but I'm only down like, I don't feel that bad. Okay, cool. Mom's got good energy. I go back down, back around later on that night. I remember the shit like it was yesterday. The lady goes, Patrick, the way you play, you should just go in the VIP room, the high limits, all you spend a ton of money at, the way you play. I go, Okay, cool.

I lose everything.

I got $2,000 to my name only. Wifey comes. Shout out to her, too, because what she did, unbelievable. Wifey comes. I got $2,000. I'm like, Man, I got three more days in Vegas. I got 2,000. I'm not going back to the bank. It's all I'm, Fuck it, I lose this. I'm done, Gamma. Why if you come? She give me a thousand, baby. Let's go to Roulette. Roulette? What the fuck do you want to go to roulette for? Wait, man. I got that in my mouth. Okay, here. Okay, cool. Let me be a good guy. Let me go ahead. My girl wants to go to roulette. Let me go and entertain roulette. I'm pissed off these people beating the shit out of me. I'm talking about Leather Club. I'm talking about Belt Ass. You hear me? Belt Ass. I can't keep them off me. They beating the shit out of me. So we go to roulette. I said, How you going? How you want it, baby? She gave me a thousand. I give her a thousand. I'm going to put it all on red. Okay, whatever. She puts it all on red. She takes two of them off, puts one on one number.

I don't even remember the number. Puts another one like, Black 22. God spends ball all around. It land black. I got, damn, lost. But it land black 22, right? So I lose the 800 that's on the red. And I don't know the odds because I don't even play. It's crazy. I don't know the odds because I don't even play it. So he takes the 800, but he tells her she wins, right? And she's like, Yeah, everybody at the table excited. I'm looking like... Because he's only grabbing four or $500 chips. I'm like, What the fuck? Everybody happy for this. I just lost $800 on red. She just won $500, $600. I turned back around. He mixed some of them yellow chips in a $35 to $100. $100 got me $3,500. Okay, now, wifey really got me back in the game. Now, back Yeah, wifey, we back, we back. So I take the I 500. She goes, From now on, I'm playing. You just bet what I bet. All right, cool, babe. Your show, your show, your show. We go back to Baccarat. She going player, but she bets, I don't know, $100, maybe $50. I put 600 on that.

Banker hit. I mean, player hit. She bet 200 player. I put 800 on there. Player hit. We hit back around for 5,000. So now we up like 8,500. So I'm in a way and we're going back and forth. We should see us. We're going from table to table. We're keeping all the loose change, all the tools and views the 150s, the 300. We're keeping that on the side. We go cash and everything else with the tools and views. We're going to reinvest in it ourselves again, really her again. Okay, cool. We got an odd, I don't know, $300, $350. I'm cashed up. Stuffing everything in a purse. Everything I wear, I'm stuffing in a motherfucking purse. I want to get to the hotel room. I want to empty cash like this when I get home. Fucking American dream. So we take the odd 300. We go back to Roulette. She put $25 on the number of hits again. $900. Now it's her night. I mean, baby, what next? We go back to Baccarat, hit Baccarat for another $4,000. I can't make this shit up. It's even. Me and Vegas, it's even. Yeah, me and Vegas, we even.

Me and Vegas is even. One, one. I'm back summer league to Vegas, so I'm looking for you. One, one. Me and Vegas is even, man. Shout out to Las Vegas, it's even, man.. Shout out to everybody that I met in Vegas. Everybody subscribed to the pod that was in Vegas. But yeah, me and Vegas are even. That's all I'm going to say. I ain't going to tell you what I'm left with. Just know we even.