00:00Peggy 3
00:11When I first got in the league, there was a lot of tough guys, at least from my perspective
00:14because, once again, I considered myself the lowest on the totem pole and I had to learn.
00:19So I looked at every experience as a learning experience.
00:23Physically, it was a much more physical game than what it is today.
00:27You know, you couldn't walk across the lane without getting checked.
00:30You know, or the screens, you know, illegal screens, holding.
00:34You always had to pay a price.
00:36You know, be it if you were aggressive and you were a gun-ho guy and you go in,
00:40you go in with the understanding that, I'm going to get hit.
00:43I'm going to pay the price, but, you know, that's part of the game.
00:47You know, I'm not going to be afraid to go inside.
00:49Those are the types of things that, you know, these kids don't even have a clue
00:53of how we had to grow up or how we had to play.
00:57The people that influenced my basketball skills when I was growing up as I was watching the NBA,
01:03Walter Davis, Dr. J, David Thompson.
01:08Dr. J style was something that I absolutely loved because of the way he can handle the basketball with his
01:15one hand.
01:16He can move the ball.
01:17You know, I had big hands.
01:19So in terms of being able to control the ball and be creative with the ball with the hands,
01:24to me that was intriguing because very few people have big hands.
01:29Are there rules to talking trash?
01:32I only talk trash to people that I knew, my friends.
01:35Patrick Ewing, Bird, Magic, those type of guys.
01:38But I never talk trash to people that I didn't know or people I'm just meeting.
01:44And if they did, my game always did, my talking, I never say anything.
01:48So this can be something you probably could print.
01:51You know, I'm playing in my camp against O.J. Mayo.
01:55He was a top high school kid coming out.
01:57And I never met him the first time.
02:00In front of my camp, he starts this thing about,
02:04you can't guard me, you can't do this.
02:06You know, I got my campers here, so obviously I can't really go where I want to go because of
02:10my camp.
02:11So I stop the camp, send the kids to bed.
02:15We go back to playing.
02:16And he starts this whole thing, you know, that you can't guard me, you can't do this.
02:20And then finally I just said, look, you may be the best high school player,
02:26but I'm the best player in the world.
02:28So from this point on, it's a lesson.
02:30And from that point on, it was a lesson.
02:32He never won a game, I posted him up, I did everything.
02:35If I can ever show you that film, if you can ever ask him that,
02:38ask him about the thing that happened at my camp.
02:41I don't consider that trash, I consider that fact.
02:44You call it trash.
02:49You got to be very competitive.
02:51You know, I think a lot of my defense is because of my competitive nature,
02:54is that I don't want you to outscore me.
02:56You know, or I don't want you to score a certain number of points on me.
03:00Gary Payton and I had an interesting competitor.
03:03You know, he's supposed to be the glove.
03:05And the media made a little bit of a splash.
03:08And then the next thing you know, we're playing against him in 95-96 for the playoffs.
03:11And the whole thing was Jordan against the glove.
03:15I mean, he was good at defending, you know, me to get the ball.
03:17But once I got the ball, I felt like I always had the advantage.
03:20So, you know, it wasn't really a problem to me.
03:22He's a Hall of Famer now.
03:23I think he's very deserving of it.
03:25But we did have our battles.
03:29If I was in my prime, who would I want to play one-on-one with?
03:34That list is very long.
03:36I start off with Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Kobe Bryant in his prime.
03:41Bryant in his prime, D-Wade in his prime.
03:45Melo.
03:46That's a good start.
03:47Yeah.
03:47I don't think I lose.
03:49Other than Kobe Bryant because he steals all my moves.
03:57No.
03:58I'm not a Twitterer.
03:59I'm not a twerker.
04:00I'm not a Facebooker.
04:01I am a nothing.
04:03I'm old school.
04:06What is twerking, by the way?
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