Kenyon Martin Reveals The Real Reason He Didn't Play For The Heat

You go to, it's not Brooklyn, it's New Jersey. New Jersey, bruh. DraftKnight, did you know you were going one when you walked in the building? It wasn't 100%. I didn't hear that it was 100%. It ain't like now where everybody know and all that. It was, people were debating if they was going to take D-Mile. All because of the injury? Yeah, that's it. Young Phenom and, you know, I was like, More power to him if y'all want to take him. I was trying to go, you went. Orlando? You went to go to Orlando? Once. Really? Especially that next year. Hell yeah. Wow, with T-Mac? But you had a pretty good god damn team though, now. We did, no, that was the next year. Not my rookie year. Right, the next year, that's when y'all got Kittles and Jace Kidd. We won 26 games my rookie year. Next year, y'all got Jace Kidd and Kittles and all that. Kerry got healthy. I was going into my second year. They traded for J-Kidd. They drafted RJ. Keith Van Horn was still. Yes, I remember. Van Horn was good as ****. Van Horn was nice. Keith Van Horn was nice. They was trying to make room for RJ. And the crazy thing about Keith Van Horn, he'd have been perfect next to you too. Yeah, no, he worked out because he would guard the fours because he was too slow and I would guard the threes. Yeah, so he was a space guy. You know what I'm saying? So, no, it worked. But I just, yeah, I think they was trying to make room for RJ because RJ played well his rookie year. And they were trying to make room for him, so they moved Keith. If I'm not mistaken, one of those years, y'all was one of the top teams in the East. They went to the Finals twice. Yeah. Two years in a row, bro. Yeah, went to the Finals twice. Oh, the first year, your J-Kidd got there. Yeah. Yeah, we doubled our win total. Hey, talk about that **** going to the Finals. How was that? Unexpected. The Lakers and the Spurs, right? Unexpected. The first year was especially unexpected, man. We didn't make the playoffs the year before, and you don't go from. Yeah, that **** don't happen. Not making the playoffs to the Finals. Not making the playoffs to the Finals? It don't happen. That **** don't happen. My second year, 23 years old. Look, I got here. I get here, right? Just playing basketball, don't know nothing else, just hooping. NBA's still fairly fresh. It's fresh, for sure. I'm older because I got four years of college experience, all that ****, but still, the NBA, it don't matter. So we get past Indiana in the first round. This one, the first round was still five games, right? Isn't that crazy? So we battled Indiana. We think we got them. Reggie hit a **** shot at the buzzer, which we all think was late. Tie it up. We're going to double overtime, and we beat Indiana in the first round, man. It was like, okay, go to the second round. I don't know. It's like 4-2 the second round. Okay, we get to the East Coast Finals. We beat a good Boston team. It's like, all right. Up next. What's that? Oh, Lord. Shaq. The diesel truck coming. Shaq, right? That man, listen, dog. I'll be trying to explain to people, man. If you didn't experience playing against 2000, 2001, 2002 Shaquille O'Neal. I'm so glad you touched on this because I was so sick at the end of my career, or end of Shaq's career when I was still playing, and people were like, I'm like, okay. Y'all seen that mother****** eight years ago? They don't understand. But honestly, like in a different way, you had the same healthy feel when mother****** had to play against you. It was the same thing. Like these mother****** would dominate you and embarrass you and dunk on your ass and push you down and knock you down. Everybody couldn't get in the ring with these boys. You know what I'm saying? And listen, there weren't too many people that got me worked up. When I had it, I was like, man, I got to bring my ****. Are we going to get it? If I don't, he coming with it. I can't be out drinking and all that bull**** because I got to be, I got to be. And the thing is, I probably was. The craziest thing is, my ass is probably out the night before. I know what this is going to be. Listen, I remember one day, I remember one game, I was playing so goddamn hard, I scratched the **** out you. You remember that ****? Long game. I scratched the **** out of him. I'm like, hey, young fella, you got to cut your goddamn nails. That's what he told me. He said, hey, young fella, you got to cut your nails. I said, my bad. I cut them right after the game. He told me, I went in the next time I saw him, I said, hey, man, yeah, I like you. And I worked so goddamn hard that night, killer. First of all, I'm trying not to even let you catch it. Because if I let you catch it, then I'm at your mercy. I know how good you are. My defense starts when you cross half court. Absolutely, bro. I said yesterday on the podcast, we were talking about yesterday, I said on the show, listen, it starts, yeah, man. But I knew it. So the thing is, when you play a certain way and certain guys play a certain way, we never get into it. Yeah, that's true. We never get into it. We always get into it with the people who want to play. We know this is not how you play, dog. Stop. Yeah. All right? Cut the bull, man. Like, we're not going to do this tonight with you, dog. Because you know, if I turn it up, then it's going to stop. Exactly. Me, you, Z-Bo, we always kept it here. We're going to battle. And it's going to be that love, that respect always. Because it's mutual respect, man. It's love on respect, and each possession means something. Yes, yes. Right? If more people were more, the product would be a lot better. These kids are very skilled, good, all that. But if they played the game like we know each possession, man, that means something. Man, I ain't going to lie. I think you was there. Was you that year when Raleigh came in and put it? No. Shaq was there. We're in the locker room. We're waiting for Riles to come in. We're getting ready for a game. I think it's actually – I think it was the finals when we played against Dallas. And we got – we lost the first two games on the road. We come back home and we got three games straight before we leave. This mother come in the locker room with a bucket of water. Mother stick his – a bucket of ice water. Stick his head in the ice water. We looked around like what the – About 30 seconds go by. Now we at like 40 seconds. He took his head out of the ice water, face red as – You got to want this game like you want your last breath. Oh. Damn, Pat. Yo, like on that kind of – like that. You know what I'm saying? But like you said, like every possession was like the last possession. I know that was a little extreme. But to his point, like – See, I ain't wrapped too tight. I ain't wrapped too tight. I would have been like, damn, Pat, go back in. Let me see how bad you really want it. Hey, listen. Hey. That mother – about 40 seconds. He went as long as he can. Bad mother – give me another 20. Listen. Face was red as hell. Like you got to want this – Win like you want your last breath. Now we thought that mother – was crazy, but we understood the message. Yo. We understood the message, dog. So, y'all, so the year after the lockout, you know, I was supposed to come down and – Yeah, I remember that. I remember hearing rumblings about that. I came on the – I was on the road. I came down there and – Unbelievable. I remember that. I had been – man, my body had been through so much. He talking about all that mother – and all that – I was doing. I was like, yeah, I ain't going to make that. Because I wasn't going to be – see, I'm not – I remember that. I'm not going to let you put me in that situation. Right? I know me. And I didn't want to bump heads. Like, y'all got a great – y'all got a great group of guys here, man. I'm not going to – if I don't feel – if my body ain't going to let me do it today, I'm not going to let you force me to do it. And I'm going to tell you that. Right? So, I'm like, yeah, them dudes – I went to the Clippers. I was like, yeah, them boys good. They play hard. But I can't do that part. I remember that. I ain't going to lie. I was looking forward to that. Yeah, no. Then I – you know, it wasn't certain. I was like, man, I need to be on the floor to be productive. Right? Yeah. So, I was like, yeah, I just need to listen around 25 minutes a night. He was like, I don't know if we can promise you that. I'm like, I respect it, man. But for me to be effective to be here, I can't do it sitting on the bench. You would have been a heat guy for sure. Oh, yeah. No, I would have. Yeah, you would have fit right in. So, I tell my son that all the time. Like, you built like that. 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