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He's 6'3". Damn, what are you talking about? 6'3", bro. That man is 6'2 1⁄2". No, I'm not. He got long ass arms. Uh-uh, bro. And I'm 6'6 1⁄2". And I rebounded. I ain't 6'2". I'm not 6'2". And you 6'8". And all you did was shoot. You should have gave me your ***. I had two more inches. The problem is a white guy 6'6", you just shoot, but it doesn't last long, coach. You gotta be a little taller. You possibly a killer. I don't know. I take a white guy that can shoot on my team seven days a week and twice on Sunday. We gotta talk about a lot of this stuff because you guys came in the league together. Different routes. We're both fifth pick in the draft. What's up, bro? Hey, man. Good to see you. What pick were you, dog? Yeah. You see what I'm saying? Dang. That's why we go. That's what I be talking about. Hey, you drafted. Hey. But listen. How many years you play? 20 years. Say that. No matter what you did to get there. I got a lot of homeboys that got drafted. You know what I'm saying? Hey, but for real, give me something because y'all come in together. That's like. The man had 35 cavities. Which is going to ask me to tell you a story. The first time we met, we spent the whole day in the dentist. Yeah, that's when we bonded. That's when we. I sat in the waiting room for this. Like he was my wife having a baby. That's how long I was waiting on this at the dentist's office. Listen, I come from the hood, man. That's right. We ain't had no dental. So, when I got a chance to get some insurance, I was like. So, y'all going to do this? I'm just going to get all this fixed today. Y'all going to do this today? I'm going to get everything fixed today. Right now? I said, God damn. Boy, what you been eating? I got about four root canals. Oh, God. Yeah. I went through it all. Hey, I love all dentists. But that's the worst place in America to go, though. Did D-Wade y'all see now? That ain't the D-Wade I bet. Nah, bro. My grill was jacked. The man was eating chicken and spaghetti. I said, what the. Wait, first of all, that's a. What do you mean? They're still eating chicken and spaghetti in Chicago. That don't go together. No, no, no. Fish and grits. Blue. No, shrimp and grits. They still go together. I didn't eat that growing up. Grits was for breakfast. Toast and eggs and sausages. Jimmy Dean's at that. Jimmy Dean's. Fire, by the way. Fire. Golden sausages ever. By the way. I mean, we spent the whole summer together. The whole summer. Obviously going through the training. And just hanging out, man. He was real quiet. I wasn't quiet. I was like, let's go. Let's hang out. Coral Gables. Yeah, we was in a mutiny. You told me in the beginning we was in a mutiny together. We was in a mutiny. That's when they used to have the comedy show right across the street. So we used to go to the comedy show and hang out. I used to know everybody at the comedy show from the hood. Hey, that's my dog D-Wade. He out here chilling. I didn't go. I didn't go nowhere. I didn't know nobody. Only person I knew was UD. And he was from here. So I would go with him. But I always tell people my first time getting the chance to like get reintroduced to this man over here was in practice. Because, you know, I was fit pig like you. So I was able to show up. I was able to show up a little late, you know, like a day or two. Now that we got that out of the way. So they let me show up like a day or two late. So they already in the training camp getting ready for the summer league that was in Orlando at that time. And so I come in. I'm on the sideline. I'm watching the practice and stuff. And I see like see this one guy that I don't know. You know what I mean? He got braids. And I just see him flying. I see the braids in the back just flying up. But he's just doing the things that I'm from. I'm from Chicago. I'm from the crib. And so the way we play the game, we just give it our all. We don't think about like people told me my whole career. You keep falling. You ain't going to be able to play long. We think about that later. Yeah. Right now we got to get to it. So I was watching this dude just get at it. And then I was like, man, who is that? And he was like, that's Udonis Haslam. And the last time I seen UD, he looked a little different. You think? Yeah. He went off. Because I remember him not getting drafted. And then I didn't hear anything. Coach, I dropped him off at the airport. I picked him up. I passed him like three times. I passed him three times. UD said, you going to pick me up? I said, I'm at the airport. He goes, I'm staying out in my bag. I said, there ain't no fat. My man was like, Fat Albert, what are you doing? I got to tell you a funny ass story. Hey, listen. Now y'all know my rule. I know. I got three jokes. There's one. Y'all got one. Each of y'all got one. We got one. All right, so we still got some action. So we're on the 300, whatever, that 30 and 30 at Florida. Oh, yeah, the suicide. 30 suicides in 30 minutes. 30 seconds. Yeah, 30 minutes. 10 and 10. 10 suicides in 10 minutes. You run 30 seconds, you got 30 seconds rest. So you start again. So you run a suicide. So we're doing it. And he on like 16. And in Florida, the old place, and it's not this new place that he built. It's an old place. It had a cage around it. Go grab that cage. I'm like, kill it. Come on, man. You only got four of them. He looked at me. I swear to God. I was like, oh, he had to hold that cage. I said, it's over for him. He said, I ain't moving. I said, damn. I gave it my all. That's it. I ain't have nothing else. Yeah, I'm going to give you everything I got. Now, once we get to that point, that's it. Yeah, I ain't got it. Anything out there, it's going to be a misunderstanding. One thing we can both say, we'll go to war with that all day. That's both of you guys. That was unbelievable. Every day. I almost had to go to war with him when I first met him. Uh-oh. You talking about OJ? Whatever. Oh, man. God rest his soul, man. Oh, man. Not OJ. Yeah, God rest his soul, man. God bless OJ, man. I got to hear this. OJ. OJ, girl, try to hit on this man. No. Uh-uh. No. I don't remember that part. Man. Listen here, man. We living in the mutiny, man. Now, this is around the time, like. I don't remember that part. He got off, but we already know he did. Now, we assume. But, so she talking to him in the lobby. He just being nice and friendly, but he quiet. I mean, you're a nice guy. There's nothing wrong with that. The day before, I done seen her on the elevator with the juice. That's the juice woman. He being a little too friendly. Now, the conversation had went on by seven minutes. Now, I should have stopped that, too. So, now when she walk away. A lot to talk about. Yeah. I don't know what the hell they were talking about. When she walk away, I say, listen, man. That's the juice old lady. He say, the juice. I say, yeah, man. OJ. I say, the killer. I say. I say, I'm a boy. Yeah, listen. No, I say, listen. I ain't going to tell you. This is what he said, though. I say, listen. I ain't going to tell you what to do or what not to do. I just want to say. Just understand that. We going to have to ride on this. Beat. Beat that out. We going to have to ride on the juice. This is what I'm going to tell you. So, now. That happened. The next day come around. She come down. Me and D-Way. D-Way is here. He go the other way. That's my dog. We with that. But the juice lady was trying to holler at D-Way in the Mutiny Hotel. We don't know how that would have ended up. Yeah, I remember that. And then we seen the juice coming. And we seen the juice coming in drunk one night. Yes, we did. Dog, let me tell you. First of all. Before the night came. When we saw the juice coming in drunk. So, the next day. I'm about to get on the elevator. So, this is after the night when you told me. Like, that's the juice woman. Not too much conversation. So, the next day I'm about to get on the elevator. And the elevator open. One person in the elevator. It's the juice. Oh. You know, I forgot something in my room. Fast as hell. I get on the elevator. I went back to my room. Oh, God. Oh, I left my keys. Listen. I did not get on the elevator. I mean, the stories that we have. We can go on and on. But this is how our friendship became what it was. You know what I'm saying? Just random **** like that. Sitting in the dentist for five hours waiting on them. Goddamn OJ juice trying to holler at them. And we sitting down there. And I'm like, yeah, we don't want them. Going to local bars. Watching the hurricane games. And like, we did all that little stuff. Like, he took me out to like go and like be with the fans in Miami. Yeah, I ain't know nothing. I came from Marquette. We didn't have a football team. You know what I'm saying? So, I ain't have that college experience. So, we were kind of like living it a little bit. 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