Ex-NBA Star Al Harrington Says Athletes Shouldn't 'Shut Up and Dribble' | TMZ DC

You were out here at the Ken Paxton rally in Fort Worth. How come you wanted to come here tonight? Man, I'm just, you know, learning more about politics and stuff like that. Just, you know, trying to hear what's going on so that I can have better opinions about different things or whatever. But I have met Ken before, and he was a great gentleman. You know what I'm saying? Obviously, when you look at a lot of these campaigns and stuff, you see all these ads and stuff like that. Yeah. But, you know, getting a chance to go to dinner with him and everything, I actually met him in a different light. And, you know, he was super cool. You know what I'm saying? and especially, I live here in Texas now, so definitely always want to find out kind of what's in the horizon and, you know, things that he's trying to do for the state should be good. Well, good on you for getting political. Was there a reason that you weren't drawn to Tallarico? Not really. I don't know Tallarico. Okay. You know what I'm saying? So I was afforded an opportunity to meet Ken. And like I said, you know, I wanted to talk to him about a couple of things that I had going on, especially I'm in the cannabis space. Okay. You know what I'm saying? So obviously, you know, there's a bunch of bans and all these different things that's happening here. Nice. just trying to figure out you know what's the future of it all you know what i'm saying obviously there's like a federal ban looming in december december 11th you know around yeah definitely so i'm just trying to figure out what the powers that be you know i'm saying kind of what's the future of it because you know i've been invested in the space since 2011 so definitely just trying to you know see you know what's the future okay gotcha you know a lot of people remember that old lebron thing like shut up and dribble yep like what do you make of that now like you know should athletes or should people like with a platform should they use the platform to like talk about what they want politically or should they shut up and dribble i don't know man i'm not gonna say that man definitely should not shut up and dribble you know what i'm saying like we all human beings we have our opinions on different things and we should be able to be comfortable enough to speak on it right because it's the freedom of the country of freedom of speech you know what i'm saying but on the political side you know i would say that you You know, the way I grew up and stuff like that, you know, I would consider myself that I was a Democrat or I am a Democrat or whatever. But, you know, I'm on the era. Oh, you were back then? I'm just, not to say that I was, I'm just on the era of, like, on the side of right and what's good for people. Do you feel like you're more Republican these days? I'm not. I'm in between. You're almost independent. I'm independent. Hey, did you see what Matthew McConaughey said? No, I didn't see what he said. He was, like, saying that there should be more independents. He doesn't like that there are two parties, red and blue. Yeah, he wants more people voting for independence. What do you make of that? I just think that look we should go for what's right You know what I'm saying? And what right is what's right period. You know what I mean? And that's kind of where I am with it. I don't care who's in the White House Okay, who's in a position of power? I just want what's right for human beings in general