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The Herd with Colin Cowherd
Joe and Jada - Karl-Anthony Towns on Knicks offseason, Wolves & NBA journey, Dominican pride
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Daniel Jeremiah
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Carl Anthony Towns
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Carl Anthony Towns
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Carl Anthony Towns
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Carl Anthony Towns
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Carl Anthony Towns
When I was younger, it was always a chase of like every young artist you bring up, the bag, the money falling out. Like I'm not fulfilled by that. In New York, I always talk about it as the greatest currency you can get in new disrespect.
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Bucky Brooks
It's Jose Antonio Caltagena.
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Joe
It's your boy Jada, man. You know who it is. The Joe and Jada Show. Every show legendary, every show iconic. You never know who's gonna come sit on the blue couch. You know, I'm basketball to the death. So is my brother. Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for New York Knicks own New Jersey's own call. Anthony Towns.
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Bucky Brooks
Make some noise. Dominicanos special greet. That's the special greeting, right? You know my godfather was Dominican? No, sir. What do you want me to do?
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Joe
I gotta get a porta potty back here. I can't even make it to the bathroom.
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Bucky Brooks
Now this, though, my godfather's a great man. My father was a great man, rest in peace. But my godfather, he filled in wherever my father didn't. Took me places and Yankee games and did shit. Took me to museums and he lived in Dyckman. And that's how I became real tight with the Dominican culture. Only thing I hated, they used to make me eat the red, the beets, what they call that in Spanish?
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Joe
The.
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Bucky Brooks
His even funniest man is the beet salad. Dominicans eat the beet salad. The red.
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Carl Anthony Towns
I ain't never had that.
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Joe
Beets is good for you.
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Bucky Brooks
That like poison, man.
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Joe
Sp. Talk to him and beets is good.
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Bucky Brooks
Beets, it's fed mare some shit, man. Yo, that man used to force me. I used to damn near cry to eat that shit. He's a great man. So I always love Dominicans, man. Oh, Carl Anthony Town.
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Joe
Yes, Sirsky. We had your brother on recently. We just interviewed you. Big Blue Nation brother. John Wall.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Yes, sir.
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Joe
It was a great interview. Check that out. You know, I love ball, so I gotta. I love basketball. No flags. I love. I'm basketball to the heart. I'm gonna ask you. You could tell me to stop anytime. I'm just gonna ask you, man. Shit.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Nah, nah.
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Joe
38 and 1 were the final four parents. I know one season at Kentucky. How was your experience? How was Coach Cowell? How was the royalty? What was going on on campus? Let me know some of these things that.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Nah, it's special. That place is special. It's. It's crazy. I haven't had that kind of experience with the fans appreciating a game of basketball that way until really I got here. And Minnesota was great, but just the energy the city has for the game. You know, I grew up here and just noticing all that stuff. And I said it before, you know, playing and you work with the gauchos gym and everything and always being around, playing at Rucker park too, and everything. It was crazy to be able to kind of relive that kind of energy basketball again. And I haven't had that kind of experience until I got here.
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Joe
John Wall also said he brought to our attention a college basketball had when dormant a little, it lost his fluidity a little To Kentucky. Yeah, Cal started rolling. Y' all out. Like y' all were celebrities. Like y' all was real. People was running home. Yeah, catch the games. You don't want to miss no games, no tournaments. He made y'.
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Bucky Brooks
All.
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Joe
It's like he evolutionized what was going on with the Fab Five and them.
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Bucky Brooks
They.
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Joe
They kind of paved the way. But when y' all got this, y' all was celestial. Y' all was like an NBA team in college. I would. What is that like?
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Carl Anthony Towns
I mean, we felt like rock stars there. You know, everywhere we went, you know, people noticed who we were. Then I was the number one guy on the team, or he was at the end of the bench. Everyone was rock stars. And, you know, the crazy stories, being there and just seeing how the fans. Fan interactions went, you know, March Midnight Madness was something like a movie. So it was.
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Joe
It was.
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Carl Anthony Towns
It was crazy to have those kind of moments, and especially with a team like that, you know, such a historical team. Cal always told us, make sure we enjoy these moments, because you'll never have that much talent in one room for basketball ever again.
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Bucky Brooks
That's crazy, because your man John Wall said that Cal told him, yo, make sure you take some guys.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah, it was different for us. I mean, we had nine draft picks. You know, at the end, we had two.
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Joe
They had five.
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Bucky Brooks
Yeah, five.
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Carl Anthony Towns
First round.
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Joe
They had five first rounds.
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Bucky Brooks
Nine. He was like, yo, make sure you take some guys with.
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Carl Anthony Towns
And the people who didn't even go to the NBA on our team that year ended up going to the NBA the next year. So really amazing.
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Bucky Brooks
That's a great thing, man. That's a story. That's a dream come true.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah. I mean, it's special. I mean, like he said, it's true. That was. That. That was a key lesson for me, like, in life and even for last year, too, with our team. Just stay in the present. Enjoy this moment. You know, don't worry about the future. Don't worry about everything that could come with this situation. Just enjoy being in the present, because you're never going to get these moments back. You may never be in the same room again with these guys playing.
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Bucky Brooks
You was young. Did you understand exactly what he did?
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Carl Anthony Towns
Because I did.
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Bucky Brooks
I was young. I didn't understand that.
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Carl Anthony Towns
You know what? I was fortunate. I had experiences that had already told me to experience, to enjoy life in the present with, you know, my uncle passing away, and little things in life that, you know, they just teach you. You know, it humbles you, it gives you experience, and it makes you understand certain things. When you were younger, you think you know everything, and obviously you get older and you're like, what the hell was I thinking? You know? So I had those moments already in life where appreciating the present was a big key for me, you know?
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Bucky Brooks
It's even like that now, right? Like, I got a friend of mine who doesn't need my advice, who's got more money than me, more success than everything. But I felt like I had to tell him something.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah.
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Bucky Brooks
And that, that's really, really hard. Even with the young kids, right? With the young rappers, people be like, yo, why don't you pull a young. I'm like, yo, bro, you got a young kid. That was the odds was one out of every 20 million. He's rich now. He made it happen. How the hell I'm gonna tell him anything, what to do? Let alone another legend?
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Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah.
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Bucky Brooks
But I felt like I wasn't keeping it real if I didn't sit down and tell him, yo, look, I'm gonna tell you something. I want you to get mad at me. I want this to mess up our relationship. But if you don't see what I'm telling you now, in five years, you'll understand. Cause it happened to me. People try to tell me stuff. I'm like, yo, what they talking about? And five years later, I'm sitting on the couch somewhere and I said, damn. They tried to put me on. And I was in the way of myself. So it's just so hard to be in the moment and be present. Because sometimes when you overcome so many odds, like, you know, you fucking, you know, you cat, like, who's gonna be able to tell you something?
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Carl Anthony Towns
Nah, you know, you gotta listen to the legends, man. For y' all in hip hop and culture, y', all, y' all paved the way for these, you know, the new guys to be able to rap that way, to be able to move that way, to be able to wear the clothes they wear and stuff. So it's like, you gotta always listen to the legends. And for me, in basketball, you know, you know, KG was my vet.
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Joe
We gonna get into that.
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Carl Anthony Towns
KG was my vet. So I, I, I came into the NBA with, already have, playing with Al Horford on the Dominican team, the Dominican national team and stuff. But then now you're going with kg.
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Bucky Brooks
You had that bond ahead of time.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah, I had more of the old school mentality of approaching work, you know, like, you'd be the first one in the gym, last one to leave. But in that time, it's about the quality. It's not not about just being able to say that, you know, people, you know, you can be the first one to the gym to do nothing. Then after practice leave. So you know, like actually utilizing that time, enjoying weightlifting, enjoying, you know, understanding diet, understanding like how to move as a professional, how to communicate with people, you know, never. One of the things with KG was like calling everyone by their name, understanding the refs names, you know, like, you know, treating men like men, you know, not acting like you better than anybody and stuff like that. He taught me a lot.
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Joe
2015, he drafted number one overall. We're going to take it back a little bit to the Miami sound.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Crazy now, man. That sounds crazy.
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Bucky Brooks
10 years ago.
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Carl Anthony Towns
10 years ago, a decade. I'm blessed. Yeah, I'm blessed. He told me too. He's like, you're going to blink. Five years going to go by, you're going to blink again, you're going to be 10 years, blink again. You're going to be like, why the hell am I still doing that? So that's what they said and that's what he told me.
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Joe
He told me about that. They failed. You got drafted, you had to go. This is what I always wanted to know. You got to go. Next morning you gotta go to Minnesota.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah, next morning. Drafted, you drafted number one. Whatever. I had had the after party for the draft at the Knickerbocker and then next morning I was out. We're about from. Was it Farmingdale? Left from Farmingdale, straight to Minnesota.
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Bucky Brooks
Yo, it's cold as fucking Minnesota. You wouldn't know, but no, no, no, no. It's no fluidity in Minnesota, boy.
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Carl Anthony Towns
It's cold as fucking -27 some days.
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Bucky Brooks
This guy, Stephon Marbury used to cry out there. He wanted to get twitch. Steph probably could have won chips out there. Yeah, he just got out of there. He couldn't. He even was going to quit the league or, you know, he didn't want to be in Minnesota. Minnesota got great people and great fans. He wasn't used to it. Sometimes they drive underground. Sometimes it's so cold or something.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Oh, like in Minnesota, like for instance, downtown they got like skyways so you don't actually have to walk outside or like for downtown the streets under it is. Under the concrete is hot water circulating to help with the ice.
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Bucky Brooks
Not happy.
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Joe
What do you have to do when you first get there? Is it basically to meet see the facility right when you land?
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Carl Anthony Towns
When I landed there, got in the car, went straight down to Target center, but it was Lowe's and had your Press conference, introducing yourself to the fans. It was. It's immediate. It's.
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Bucky Brooks
Right away, I had a bad run in with that. They. They had me introduce Kemba and the other guy scored two points. And the Knicks was like, we want you to introduce. Welcome them to the Knicks. I welcome them. They do. We want you to introduce them. Yo, we got Kimber Walker. We got. Who was it? Fournier. Something the both of them ain't do. I'm sitting there like, yo, we so happy they here.
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Joe
Kimber, I love you, man.
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Bucky Brooks
Yo, Kimber, y' all don't do that. Don't do that. We just have Bronx. You supposed to rap his s. Kemba walk. I did, though.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Both of them could score the ball too, though. They really scored.
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Bucky Brooks
He just was trying to stay. Well, they was a little. He was banged up. Kemba Walker.
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Joe
Paul injury. Yes. Yeah.
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Bucky Brooks
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yo, we gotta make some shirts. Yo, yo, yo. Kimball was hurt.
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Joe
Yeah, yeah. He got. He had some injuries. He had some bedroom.
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Carl Anthony Towns
There's nothing.
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Bucky Brooks
There's nothing better than him.
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Carl Anthony Towns
There's nothing better than watching him in UConn on the big East.
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Joe
Man, kill. He killed.
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Bucky Brooks
He killed college.
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Carl Anthony Towns
I remember.
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Bucky Brooks
You remember that?
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Carl Anthony Towns
Oh, my God. Against Pittsburgh, too.
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Joe
That was that old run, though. Yeah.
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Bucky Brooks
Last year, that three point. You said. Whoa, whoa. I said, what the. I got a classic pick. I put up with you and Spike right after that.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Oh, yes, yes, yes. It's in my house.
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Bucky Brooks
All right. I'm trying to relax.
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Carl Anthony Towns
It's in my house. It's in my house right now.
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Joe
You can tweak.
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Carl Anthony Towns
I do, I do.
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Bucky Brooks
That was a legendary pick.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah, I definitely. It's so funny because I feel like re. Watching that and you see me, like, in that mode, just aggression and just. I was talking. I was talking.
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Bucky Brooks
That was like. You had a spring on ball, folks. You just. You burn that back. You threw that shit. You dish. You ran to the fucking bench. You was like, yeah, I was like, oh, my God. Like, I was losing my. My marble.
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Carl Anthony Towns
I laugh. I laugh because I told. When it's basketball, I laugh because I was talking about it, actually, before I just came to the podcast, I was saying how. What the hell was I thinking? Because before that was the turnaround fade away going out of bounds, and I said, you take one bad shot to go compound it with a worst shot. But for me, in that moment, those felt like I was wide open.
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Bucky Brooks
So basket was this big.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah, I was. I felt that I had a good.
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Joe
A good look at.
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Bucky Brooks
You had to do that that was that kind of.
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Carl Anthony Towns
I mean, we, we. We needed to win, man. We needed to win. I was. I was planning. I was never planning to lose that game. That was so. I was not going to allow that to happen.
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Joe
Now, you played all 82 games the 2015, 2016 season, averaging 18.3 points, 10 and a half rebound.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Not a bad rookie year.
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Joe
Yeah, that's great.
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Bucky Brooks
That's just.
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Joe
That's damn great numbers as a rookie.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah.
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Joe
What was it. What was it like? And what was kd? What kind of crazy shit was kg?
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Carl Anthony Towns
KG was going crazy, man. He's. He. That was. I was with him on. On the team when he did the. When he called Eric Gordon Trash. I was with. I was with. I was on the team on that one.
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Bucky Brooks
KG don't give a fuck.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Nah, I love that we don't bring.
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Bucky Brooks
Him up enough as one of the tough guys in the NBA. KG was tough.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah.
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Bucky Brooks
I mean, like, he didn't give a.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Nah, you know what's cool about him, too?
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Bucky Brooks
It was like punch a rap in the face. No, I'm telling you, who. Who he went at it with. I think. I think they almost fought. He was. Told him some crazy shit. KG told kg.
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Joe
KG eats his own.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah.
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Bucky Brooks
Bottle Patrol, right? You. He said he. He ain't even. He know what I'm talking about. He said before you even remember, he just owned Bottle Patron. Don't even go down that road. Don't let your mind remind you. That was an ugly one, right? Oh, my God.
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Carl Anthony Towns
KG's different, man. He's different. And, you know, I was appreciating. It's like his energy, you know, it went through the whole locker room. Just like the way he approached the game, the way he, you know, he played with so much passion. And it was cool to be able to have someone like that.
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Bucky Brooks
Who's that on the Knicks now? Who's that on the Knicks now? That got. Well last year. I don't think y' all got him this year. Last year I seen, you know, our coach at the Rucker, you know, takes special qualification.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Hey, I want everyone on camera to understand. Everyone behind the camera said, yeah, yo.
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Bucky Brooks
Listen, it's hard to win them chips at the Rucker, but it takes a special. It's almost a spiritual to wake everybody up and get everybody to win a championship. It takes. I seen PJ Tucker trying that last year on the bench, like, let's go. You know, he was. Who's the guy on. On the Knicks now currently that will amp up. Like, let's go.
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Carl Anthony Towns
And I feel like PJ was great for us last year. And like you said, you saw him contribute to us. You know, he. I think he's, like, at 20 years in NBA, you know, I'm hoping that we get to see him in the NBA this year as well, you know? You know, we. Us as a team haven't got a chance to get together. Yeah. So I'm.
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Bucky Brooks
Yeah.
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Carl Anthony Towns
You know what I'm trying to say to see where the vibes are at. So I think that right now, you know, everyone's working on their game to bring their best version to the table so that we could.
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Bucky Brooks
I like getting African guy that just got from Philly.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Oh, Gershon.
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Joe
African guy. He's not African.
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Bucky Brooks
He is African. Listen.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Hell, I'll throw the flag.
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Bucky Brooks
Oh, let me tell you something.
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Carl Anthony Towns
We either pick a flag, just both of them.
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Bucky Brooks
Listen, he's from Africa.
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Joe
We gotta get you a list.
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Bucky Brooks
Can you Google where he really from? Is he from Nigeria? Ladies and gentlemen, I just told you, I love the guy. I'm a fucking huge fan.
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Joe
Can't love him. Even know where he's from.
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Bucky Brooks
He's not. All right. Can you. Can you. Oh, he's Dominican. No, not the big African.
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Joe
You know that. All flags for that.
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Bucky Brooks
From the France. He's Dominican. You got another Dominican on the team? Did you know that shit?
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Joe
No, he didn't.
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Bucky Brooks
You got the wrong guy.
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Joe
No, he.
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Bucky Brooks
Yo, Kershaw, he's Dominican.
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Joe
No, we gotta get him a list.
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Bucky Brooks
Play that again.
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Joe
Keeps describing people by the.
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Bucky Brooks
We got. You know what I expected, man?
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Carl Anthony Towns
What?
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Bucky Brooks
From you. I could tell you right now what you need to do.
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Joe
I need all of these.
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Bucky Brooks
I think. I think you. I'm not telling you what to do with your money, right? But you should have, like, a foundation to some. A bunch of Dominicans every game, and they playing the music up on the stairs and they just going crazy. It should be the call at least. Home gays at the Knicks. I expected that. I swear to God. Like, just me being a fan, you know, I grew up Washington night, so I know how you get down. So I thought you was going to have, like, they was going to have a section up there, like, yo, just go.
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Joe
All our families immigrated from the con.
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Bucky Brooks
He's from the Congo. Oh, he's Dominican. Played song. Yo, they say he was Dominican. Going with the joke there. I know the guys from Africa, bro. Why y' all trying to fake me out like that, man?
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Joe
Everybody from Africa.
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Bucky Brooks
Yes. I kiss. You know, I'm Chops. This thing is crazy with this. Well, I love this.
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Carl Anthony Towns
This is. This is a great podc.
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Bucky Brooks
How does Clarkson.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah.
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Joe
Oh, you asked him. He just told you. They didn't see each other yet. They working.
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Bucky Brooks
What are you thinking in your mind? But like. Like. Because scoring. Thinking he's just gonna pure score.
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Carl Anthony Towns
I mean for sure.
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Joe
But they say he needs some off the bench, though.
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Carl Anthony Towns
You always need firepower and to expect. I think as. As fans it's gonna be. It's an as players just. You have to understand you need firepower because you never know what's going to happen in the year. You know, you never know who's going to be healthy. You never know what's going to happen. But if always you got a backup plan and you got people who are just as willing to start as anybody. I think that's what's going to make us special. You know, you got it. You got to be able to have those people. Like if you look at championship teams, you know, it's some. Most of the. Some of the times it's the ones that win you the championship are not the starting five. It's that guy on the bench. Sean Livingston's the Swain.
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Bucky Brooks
You got a hell of a team over there. You got a hell of a team in Minnesota. Yeah.
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Joe
Come on.
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Bucky Brooks
There's room is.
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Joe
Hold on. Let me get. Cause you.
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Bucky Brooks
Yo, let me tweak out.
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Joe
You take the damn. Listen to this. Let's cut the. You got long history with Tips from Minnesota.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah.
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Joe
All the way over here. What's going on?
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Carl Anthony Towns
I love when people ask me that. And I said, boy, I only been here six months. What you want me to say. But I just talked to Tips. He's good.
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Bucky Brooks
We. We just.
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Carl Anthony Towns
We had dinner and everything else is politics.
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Joe
And they always seem to think that play. No because in the.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah.
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Joe
In the. In the music industry.
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Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah.
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Joe
If something happens with the executive. I don't have no idea what's going on upstairs.
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Carl Anthony Towns
I've been here. I was here six months. I have no. I was with my man and Tim's is my man's too.
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Joe
Each his own bottle patrol. And then next.
- [22:28]
Bucky Brooks
That's the answer. He's just on bottom patron with no one really. It's like Pete and we knew your fans.
- [22:34]
Joe
Listen, we just want to know. We very concerned. You see us at.
- [22:37]
Bucky Brooks
But. Nah.
- [22:38]
Carl Anthony Towns
But shout out to him though. You know, like obviously I was in Minnesota before I got here but like watching him just.
- [22:43]
Bucky Brooks
I know Timbs do so many bro. What you mean? I met him before.
- [22:45]
Joe
Why are we. Why are we doing This.
- [22:46]
Bucky Brooks
I definitely bring him up here.
- [22:49]
Joe
Hello.
- [22:50]
Bucky Brooks
Yeah, that's a good one. Tims was in my house before I was in my house.
- [22:55]
Joe
Huh?
- [22:56]
Bucky Brooks
You see, I'm building.
- [23:01]
Joe
Tim, you said?
- [23:01]
Bucky Brooks
Yeah. What you mean by that?
- [23:07]
Joe
Before you was in your house?
- [23:08]
Bucky Brooks
What?
- [23:09]
Joe
The poltergeist is going on there?
- [23:12]
Bucky Brooks
World Wide west lives across the street from my house. As I was building my house, I wasn't. I didn't even live there yet. Fucking Wes gave Timbs a tour of my house. Yo, Joe's gonna put the marble bar here. He's gonna just. Tibbs say, yo, you better watch your neighbors. This man done took me in your house.
- [23:31]
Joe
Showed him the blueprints.
- [23:32]
Bucky Brooks
Showed him the blueprints. Yo, this. This is where we're gonna have pool parties. Nah, I mean, man. Yeah. Let me tell you, Coach Tibbs, amazing job. Amazing job with the Knicks.
- [23:44]
Carl Anthony Towns
Tibbs came to New York, changed the.
- [23:46]
Joe
Culture, changed the whole.
- [23:48]
Carl Anthony Towns
Brought New York back to winning, to winning culture. Y' all got to the Eastern Conference finals last year. And that's not just the players. That's a testament to the coaching staff, the work they put in, and you got to give credit all around to that. Those guys, you know, they put the work in and they got us in the position and gave us a chance to succeed. So Tibbs is special. I think anyone who knows basketball knows he's special. I got nothing but love for Tibbs. Shout out to Tibbs, man.
- [24:13]
Bucky Brooks
I'm definitely smile with nobody. I got pictures smiling with him.
- [24:16]
Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah.
- [24:16]
Bucky Brooks
Nah, with the coach.
- [24:17]
Carl Anthony Towns
Nah.
- [24:18]
Bucky Brooks
I'm happy.
- [24:19]
Joe
I used to love sitting and watch.
- [24:21]
Bucky Brooks
Him sit there and flip talking.
- [24:23]
Carl Anthony Towns
Just go crazy, right?
- [24:24]
Bucky Brooks
Yeah, yeah. He walking back and forth, cursing himself out in the side like, yo, crazy, man.
- [24:32]
Carl Anthony Towns
I love. I love tips, man. And, you know, like, you have any.
- [24:35]
Bucky Brooks
Experience with Coach Brown or. Not yet. We ain't starting.
- [24:38]
Carl Anthony Towns
We haven't. Not yet. Not yet, so. But I'm excited to get to work. You know, basketball's fun. You know, it's. I know I say work and I say job, but it really. It's when you having fun and you passionate. I think both of y' all know as legends, y' all having fun and passionate writing and making music and touring and stuff.
- [24:54]
Joe
It.
- [24:55]
Carl Anthony Towns
It doesn't feel like work. It feels like a blessing.
- [24:57]
Bucky Brooks
You know what? He's almost like a fucking Cinderella season for y' all now.
- [25:02]
Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah.
- [25:02]
Bucky Brooks
You know, and no. And. And with no disrespect, a lot of major guys. So you got Halliburton injured, the star of Indiana, Tatum, you Got Tatum injured, the star of Boston injured and traded. Boston done turned. I've never seen no shit like this. They don't want to trade it. The whole team.
- [25:21]
Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah.
- [25:25]
Joe
In Atlanta, Zingis, Horford is out.
- [25:28]
Carl Anthony Towns
Drew Hoffman, Horford out. No, Horford. No, Horford's there. He's still there.
- [25:32]
Joe
They kept him.
- [25:33]
Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah, Horford's still there. Drew Holiday.
- [25:38]
Joe
And they got rid of the big guy, a Brazilian.
- [25:40]
Carl Anthony Towns
Atlanta.
- [25:41]
Joe
No, the other thing.
- [25:42]
Carl Anthony Towns
Oh, Cornette.
- [25:43]
Joe
Yeah. They sent Cornette to this, Right?
- [25:46]
Bucky Brooks
Where?
- [25:46]
Joe
They sent Cornet to the spurs or somewhere.
- [25:49]
Bucky Brooks
So.
- [25:51]
Carl Anthony Towns
When that happened. I know, I know, but I didn't know if they signed him back.
- [25:54]
Bucky Brooks
Yo, you already. Four days ago, you call an African guy. Dominican, New York, right now.
- [26:01]
Joe
He's going to this. He's going to the Golden State.
- [26:04]
Carl Anthony Towns
He going to Golden State.
- [26:05]
Bucky Brooks
That's a major pick.
- [26:06]
Joe
I told y', all, Dominican, man.
- [26:08]
Carl Anthony Towns
Keeping in the NBA is hard to.
- [26:11]
Bucky Brooks
Do next in NBA. You know, I never understood why, like, young players don't abuse the older guys.
- [26:21]
Joe
Like, what?
- [26:25]
Bucky Brooks
Pause again.
- [26:27]
Joe
We didn't even have to show that.
- [26:28]
Bucky Brooks
Y' all know. I mean, like, to me, I can't move like I moved when I was 20 years old. I don't care how talented an older player is. You're roll step. You gotta stop. I can't move like I moved 20 years ago. So, like, a guy like you, with no disrespect.
- [26:49]
Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah.
- [26:50]
Bucky Brooks
Like I would think you should just go to the rack on Al Hoffet all day. That's just impossible.
- [26:56]
Joe
I gotta.
- [26:56]
Bucky Brooks
Genetically. Huh?
- [26:58]
Joe
I gotta step in because I can't get fined in none of that. They was you. The playoffs. They was fouling the hell out of you, dog.
- [27:09]
Carl Anthony Towns
I'm not. I'm used to it.
- [27:10]
Joe
Yo, yo. This last whole season, I don't know. Was they.
- [27:15]
Bucky Brooks
Was.
- [27:15]
Joe
It was. They was mad because you came to the city and you had the whole city, but you got. They missed a lot of you was getting pushed off your. You know what I mean? You're a large human being, so you could take a regular bath. He's extraordinary. He's an NBA player. The cereal glycerinator.
- [27:42]
Bucky Brooks
What? Listen.
- [27:43]
Joe
He jerked him on.
- [27:44]
Bucky Brooks
Matt Paul's left. Yo, Y. Yo, yo.
- [27:53]
Joe
Don't steal my. Yo, yo, yo, yo.
- [27:56]
Bucky Brooks
Listen.
- [27:57]
Joe
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Carl Anthony Towns
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Daniel Jeremiah
What'S up everybody? Daniel Jeremiah here and I'm Bucky Brooks. On Move the Sticks we take you inside the game. From scouting reports and player development to team building philosophies, coaching trends and how front office is construct winning rosters Every week we study the tape, talk to decision makers and share the insights you won't find anywhere else. Is the kind of conversation that connects the dots. From college football prospects to the NFL stars of tomorrow, we break down the draft, analyze matchups and evaluate how teams put it all together on game day. Plus, we dig into coaching strategies, roster construction and the trends that shape the.
- [31:53]
Carl Anthony Towns
League year after year.
- [31:54]
Daniel Jeremiah
Whether you're a die hard fan or just love understanding the game on a deeper level, we give you the full picture.
- [32:00]
Carl Anthony Towns
If you want insight that goes beyond the box score, this podcast is for you.
- [32:04]
Daniel Jeremiah
Don't miss it. Listen to the Move the Six podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Hunter
I'm Hunter, host of Hunting for Answers on the Black Effect Podcast Network. Join me every weekday as I share bite sized stories of missing and murdered Black women, women and girls in America. There are several ways we can all do better at protecting black women. My contribution is shining a light on our missing sisters and amplifying their disregarded stories. Stories like Tameka Anderson. As she drove toward Galvez, she was in contact with several people talking on the phone as she made her way to what should have been a routine transaction. But Tameka never bought the car and and she never returned home that day. One Podcast, One Mission. Save Our Girls. Join the search as we explore the chilling cases of missing and murdered Black women and girls. Listen to Hunting for Answers every weekday on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
- [33:16]
Daniel Jeremiah
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Bucky Brooks
Uh huh.
- [33:34]
Daniel Jeremiah
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- [34:19]
Bucky Brooks
I was gonna ask you a question. Right. And then he cut me off because he was sticking to the script. Then he lost his mind, too.
- [34:25]
Carl Anthony Towns
Right.
- [34:26]
Bucky Brooks
The question is, you in Minnesota.
- [34:29]
Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah.
- [34:30]
Bucky Brooks
I was already hearing rumors that you coming to the Knicks. So was I back when Donovan Mitchell was coming to the Knicks. I already heard Carl Anthony tell, Right?
- [34:40]
Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah.
- [34:41]
Bucky Brooks
And so you in Minnesota and this is home. Right. At any point you saying to yourself, holy shit, I might be coming to the Knicks, and you seeing what they're doing. Are you saying like, yo, I fit in. This be crazy.
- [35:01]
Carl Anthony Towns
I would be lying if I said I didn't see the rumors and know that there could be truth to them. So the idea of coming back home, playing for. It's well documented. My favorite team growing up to watch. My dad had a quick and early stint with the organization back in the Patrick Ewing days.
- [35:24]
Joe
Fire.
- [35:24]
Carl Anthony Towns
So it was kind of like, he dad's the coolest. He sits. Oh, man, he loves y'.
- [35:30]
Bucky Brooks
All.
- [35:30]
Joe
Show him so much love.
- [35:31]
Carl Anthony Towns
Especially when he's y' all the time.
- [35:32]
Bucky Brooks
Oh, he be there like, yo, I already know.
- [35:35]
Carl Anthony Towns
He gonna be so happy. Happy with this podcast coming.
- [35:37]
Bucky Brooks
No, that's. We should have brought him here.
- [35:40]
Carl Anthony Towns
His dad was. His birthday was yesterday. Oh, so it's gonna be fun.
- [35:44]
Bucky Brooks
Your dad's birthday was yesterday. Rich player's birthday was yesterday, too. Your girlfriend?
- [35:51]
Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah.
- [35:51]
Bucky Brooks
Very classy young lady. It's Fashion Week, and she posted that she got a clothing line stepping on the building.
- [36:00]
Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [36:01]
Bucky Brooks
This shit is crazy.
- [36:02]
Joe
Came through like Snoop and crushing.
- [36:04]
Bucky Brooks
Like Snoop crushing the buildings. That's what I was. That's what I came home to. That's what my daughter. You know, they doing this Fashion Week shit.
- [36:13]
Joe
Speaking of fashion, he be having. He throw that shit on, too. He said ca is the most fashionable NBA player ever. How could he say that? He ain't get fresh, but he. You made him Effy. He made him of all time.
- [36:29]
Carl Anthony Towns
Who do you think is the Most fashionable?
- [36:31]
Joe
Like Dr. J. Dr. J come through with that shit. On with cashmere with his shit.
- [36:37]
Bucky Brooks
Most iconic picture I've ever sports through with is. Was that Joe Namath with that fur?
- [36:42]
Carl Anthony Towns
I ain't gonna lie to y'.
- [36:43]
Bucky Brooks
All.
- [36:44]
Carl Anthony Towns
I think for me, basketball wise or fashion wise, I think one of the most iconic photos is seeing Allen Iverson's mom doing his cornrows on the bench. That's fire.
- [36:54]
Joe
That was it.
- [36:54]
Bucky Brooks
That's cold. We was there for all that magic.
- [36:57]
Joe
Did it before Broadway Joe with he. With Michael Jackson and all Them. And what about that flick Magic Crazy.
- [37:04]
Bucky Brooks
That flick with them Joe name And Bo.
- [37:05]
Joe
All this for Max?
- [37:06]
Bucky Brooks
He might have. Might have. He definitely did. Flag in the back. Hey, pass me the flag, man. What you think, man? Come on. I remember we. We did four podcasts in three days, and we've been.
- [37:22]
Joe
There you go.
- [37:23]
Carl Anthony Towns
The biggest work.
- [37:25]
Bucky Brooks
Your wife. We've been. Because, you know, I'm very competitive.
- [37:30]
Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah.
- [37:30]
Bucky Brooks
So if I get it, I got into the podcast world to be number one.
- [37:33]
Carl Anthony Towns
You want to be number one. You want to be the best. That's the best. I mean, but that's. But that's how y' all became legends.
- [37:38]
Bucky Brooks
That's what y' all do.
- [37:39]
Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah. I didn't stop at being good. It was like, I wanna be great. I wanna be all time.
- [37:43]
Bucky Brooks
You know, that's. And we got a new job. It's called podcasting. And, boy, we giving them hell. We've been having a good time up here, bro.
- [37:52]
Carl Anthony Towns
And now y'.
- [37:53]
Bucky Brooks
All.
- [37:53]
Carl Anthony Towns
Y' all gotta take it over the podcast world. So shout out to y'. All. But, y', all, I expect nothing less from y'.
- [37:58]
Bucky Brooks
All.
- [37:58]
Joe
Let's keep it on the court.
- [38:00]
Carl Anthony Towns
You.
- [38:00]
Joe
You consider yourself the best big man. Three point shooter. You won the. You won. You actually won the three point.
- [38:07]
Bucky Brooks
Do you.
- [38:08]
Carl Anthony Towns
Yes. No, for sure. Without a doubt.
- [38:10]
Bucky Brooks
You know, I went on Melo's show.
- [38:12]
Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah.
- [38:13]
Bucky Brooks
And said, you're the greatest offensive big man in the. In the league of this time. And I caught a lot of, like, I'm. I was like arguing with the whole set.
- [38:22]
Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah.
- [38:23]
Bucky Brooks
And you know, Joker's dead nice.
- [38:25]
Carl Anthony Towns
He's real.
- [38:26]
Bucky Brooks
What do you think about the Joker? Like, when you look at his style of play, what makes him great and different?
- [38:34]
Carl Anthony Towns
Hall of Fame touch around the basket. Being able to write. Right hand hook, left hand hook off the backboard.
- [38:41]
Joe
Slows the game, slows the game down.
- [38:43]
Carl Anthony Towns
You know, he play. You know, I feel like not no basketball. So, like, you know, his ability to control pace. He controls the team's pace. You know, John Wall, what made him great when he became an all Star was his ability to change pace. When he stopped going 140, 50 miles per hour and he was able to go 150 to go to 20, miles to go to 120 to go to 8. You know what I'm trying. So changing a pace. Joker just. He got a Hall of Fame touch. He's extremely smart. His IQ's through the roof. He's able to pass. He's able to control the pace. The Offensive scheme works with his greatest strengths, and he has teammates that believe in him. He has a coaching staff that believes in the organization that believes in him. They put him in a position to succeed. And. And he deserves that kind of respect because he put the work in. He's shown the world that he could do this on a nightly basis. Man, shout out to Joker, man. I mean, he's rightfully got those MVPs. He deserves them.
- [39:39]
Bucky Brooks
Facts. You know what you. I went to one game and I watched you. At least.
- [39:46]
Joe
At least.
- [39:48]
Bucky Brooks
Don't want to exaggerate, but I think the numbers I counted was like 10 different moves. This, that, three, the fade this to that, this. You got somebody like, what's my man? Don Juvinch. He do the same. He's great at it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he got that one move right. Melo had that one fade away, right? He had that step, but Mellow had a triple threat.
- [40:14]
Carl Anthony Towns
Guy was one of the best ever.
- [40:16]
Bucky Brooks
No, no, no, no. But he really had that step. Kian is getting. No, it's lethal. That's what I'm saying. But I watched this, man. The reason why I made that statement on Melo is I've been watching basketball a long time. I never seen nobody have that variety of offense as a big man as you.
- [40:36]
Carl Anthony Towns
I appreciate that.
- [40:37]
Bucky Brooks
So I'm sitting on the sideline with Tracy Morgan. You know, he's a bug out.
- [40:41]
Carl Anthony Towns
He's a. Tracy been talking to me about the Knicks for how long?
- [40:44]
Bucky Brooks
No, that boy's a tweaker.
- [40:45]
Joe
We need Tracy forever.
- [40:47]
Bucky Brooks
We need Tracy Morgan on here because the man said what Irish Spears said. He looked like a Yo, yo, yo, each his own.
- [40:55]
Joe
Each his own bottom patron.
- [40:57]
Bucky Brooks
Yo, he says so. But I seen you bust so many moves that I was just like, yo, this guy's like, really is unstoppable because people always got one move, maybe two moves. Yeah, you got so many different bags.
- [41:10]
Joe
You got a bag.
- [41:11]
Carl Anthony Towns
I'm a reactive player. I mean, I grew up in Jersey playing in the parks. Like I said, coming to New York, playing in a Rucker park gauchos. You play with older kids, you're. You're always like, you're 15, you're playing U17. You know, you're playing. I was even younger than that. I was playing U16, U17. You know, my dad and I always believed, you know, if you want to be the best, you got to go against the best. And when I was younger, never accept being good like, y' all always want to chase greatness. So, you know, I wanted the best competition I could find in Tri State. And I wanted to test my skills every single weekend.
- [41:42]
Bucky Brooks
That who you saw play. You ever watched like a Kobe game or something like that where you, like me? We used to watch wrestling. And after wrestling with clotheslines.
- [41:50]
Joe
Yeah.
- [41:51]
Carl Anthony Towns
Nah, for sure.
- [41:51]
Bucky Brooks
I grew up in that area.
- [41:53]
Carl Anthony Towns
Attitude era and all. Yeah.
- [41:54]
Bucky Brooks
Was you doing that, like going out in the snow, Kobe fade away? Like, who was a player that you was?
- [42:02]
Carl Anthony Towns
You know, I say, you know, people. I was having this conversation the other day, too. I love that I get to talk about my life a little bit. But I was having this conversation funny enough with my girl. And I was saying, you know, sometimes in life you get lucky. Sometimes it's God given and sometimes you just work so hard that you just garner that skill. And some, for some fortunate people, they get all three and they be able to have that mindset, God and luck on their side. And I was telling her, I said, for me, I think I really had, in a way, all three coincided with my career. But I really believe that it was really two things. The two that I got really, that I had in my possession was luck. And I worked so hard to be this good and find a way to be great at my craft that I just had no option other than to plan A is plan A, go for being an NBA player. But my luck came from my father, because my father was a high school coach. And one of the hardest things to do when you're young and you're broke is to have a gym. And my dad being a high school coach, I had keys to a hardwood floor that was great. Not like a hardwood floor that was like, okay, I'm talking about a really good hardwood floor playing basketball. So I had somewhere to work on my craft. And I had a father that also was athletic and agile enough and talented enough, like I said, where he was able to rebound for me and also understand what I truly needed to do. And for me, with the work aspect, I had to show up as a young kid, too. I had to dedicate my childhood, my. My whole childhood. Like all the things other kids got to do and stuff and experience, I ain't get that chance. Cause I was in the gym and I was working sacrifice, you know, and I was willing to do that. And at an early age, I remember even thinking about that, like, you know, maybe I want to go to that, you know, that party, obviously younger, like, party at whatever, maybe traffic, cheese. I want to go to the park more, hang out with my friends. I was, you know, I was in the generation, and still you didn't know someone was home unless the bike was in front, you know, So I was still in that generation. So I dedicated my childhood to being great at sports and basketball and baseball is my love of basketball. And to have a hardwood court, I feel that that gave me a huge advantage on the competition and it allowed me to work on all these moves. And I was riding bike to the library, looking at, getting the vhs, putting it, the VHS in and watching, you know, the great play. Hakeem Olajuwon. Getting to see kg, getting to see Sam Perkins. For me, you know, I was looking back in the day, Eddie Jones and Gary Payton and Pistol P. And I like just Magic Johnson, of course. So it was like one of those things where I dedicate my childhood to studying the game, you know, being part of the culture.
- [44:59]
Bucky Brooks
I'm very similar. I'm not trying to put myself on your level, but, like, this guy was born a rapper. Like, I don't think if you ain't rap, what you was gonna do.
- [45:07]
Carl Anthony Towns
I mean, one of the best lyricists you've ever heard.
- [45:10]
Bucky Brooks
What are you gonna do for him? Eminem, Jay Z, Pun. Yeah, these guys was born with this. Yeah, right.
- [45:17]
Carl Anthony Towns
I had to shout out to Pun, too.
- [45:20]
Bucky Brooks
I would have been in pharmaceuticals recipes, but I had to practice. And then it was a time where we was the hottest dudes in the world. I mean, the hottest dudes.
- [45:30]
Carl Anthony Towns
I mean, I was here, I was the one. My mom would tell me, go get the radio.
- [45:32]
Bucky Brooks
Put the radio on and you see what I'm saying? And we and Puns, who I signed, he was my student. I. I brought him in the game.
- [45:39]
Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah.
- [45:40]
Bucky Brooks
He taught me how to rap better. And it's summertime and they pulling up in the Benzes in the trucks, and they're like, yo, it's popping, B. Yo, over here. This, this, that. Pum be like that. We got it right? Yeah, you gotta work on your shit. And it's summertime. 90 something degrees and they pulling up. Yo, it's all we gonna pull up. Orchard beach, yo, it's on out there. This and that shit ringing number one on the radio. Pum was like, nah, fuck that. We gonna stay here. You gotta get better, bro. You gotta get nice. You gotta get this and this and that. And that was a big yo. So many summons I sacrificed, you know, instead of going outside and join. Like, when you get a hit, right? This is the difference between maybe basketball and rap. Like, when you get a hit, everybody's praying for hit. Yeah, you get a hit, you go get the bag. You're either promoting that hit till it becomes a hit. And then once it's a hit, you go get the bag. You can't stand in your neighborhood, you can't go to Dycan and be like, lean back and watch the crowd. It don't work like that. You busy going to get the check, performing all over. We don't get same with you facts. You don't get that rush. You don't get to stand there. You can't go to Yonkers and be like, yeah, you too busy running around the world. You know what I'm saying?
- [46:58]
Carl Anthony Towns
I was talking to my girl yesterday about this because shout out to her again. She had her New York Fashion Week event here in New York at the Knickerbocker.
- [47:06]
Bucky Brooks
That photo shoot was flying.
- [47:07]
Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah, nah, she. I'm super proud of her all the time. And I was telling her I'm proud of her and I told her she had her event early in the day. I went to work, I took care of business, went to the event and I told her, I said, I want you to enjoy today. Enjoy the wins. Because the winds are short lived and the losses, they last for a long time. And I was telling her and she was like, what you mean? I was like, let's put it just an example for me in my life. We beat Boston. New York's going crazy.
- [47:34]
Bucky Brooks
The excitement, the entrance through the roof.
- [47:36]
Carl Anthony Towns
Never been like that in 25 years.
- [47:39]
Bucky Brooks
And police was letting them climb. The police, man.
- [47:42]
Carl Anthony Towns
Police was trying to do their job.
- [47:43]
Bucky Brooks
They said, don't let what's jumping people to fans too celebrate. And they not wrong. New York's not wrong.
- [47:50]
Carl Anthony Towns
25 years you supposed to have these celebrations. You supposed to, you know, yearn for these moments. Hell no. No, hell, go, go have fun.
- [47:58]
Bucky Brooks
This is the moment.
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Carl Anthony Towns
This is what we work for. We work so the fans can have these moments.
- [48:03]
Bucky Brooks
That shit was like a dream come true.
- [48:04]
Joe
But literally everybody, it's the world against New York. So they was.
- [48:08]
Carl Anthony Towns
So let New York have a moment of celebration then. They deserve it, man. And I was what I'm going back to the point was saying that when we won, you know, of course it was late night when we won, obviously. So you have that night, you know, the team got together, documented, we went out and celebrated as a team with each other. But you know, you got four hours. We celebrate. Great job. But tomorrow is back to work. The win is four hours lived.
- [48:36]
Bucky Brooks
Tomorrow's the crazy part of the playoff.
- [48:38]
Carl Anthony Towns
You get what I'm trying to say. So it's four hours.
- [48:41]
Bucky Brooks
I was in Dubai when y' all lost. That shit was days.
- [48:44]
Carl Anthony Towns
So here we go, get to that point. Four hours. We got to celebrate that win. We right back to work tomorrow. Indiana playbook book. You know, Tibbs is a, you know, he studies, you know, he's like that. So we get these books, these. They write this tall, they talk about, yo, you got, you know, this play that play, this play that play. We getting quizzed and stuff. So it's four hours. You right back to the next, to the next, to the next job. I said, but when we lost in Indiana, drag it six months now we wait until September 22nd to go get back together to try to remedy the mistake, you know. So I was telling her, enjoy these moments and these wins. Cause the wins are short lived and the losses last a long time. I mean, we the New York Knicks. Everyone remembers.
- [49:28]
Bucky Brooks
Everybody is. Every game's a championship. Especially if you playing at the Garden.
- [49:32]
Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah.
- [49:33]
Bucky Brooks
Cause everybody, we just. John Wall, everybody. You know, how many, you know how many NBA players. I went to their house and they got the post up when they dropped 46 against the Knicks. I'm like, yo, you and showed the. Against Kobe. Yeah, bro, why gotta be the Knicks that you score 50 on and this.
- [49:49]
Joe
And this and that's.
- [49:50]
Carl Anthony Towns
The Garden brings a different energy.
- [49:51]
Joe
We're the most famous arena.
- [49:52]
Bucky Brooks
Literally, you walking in there, even if it's a game, you walking in Madison Square G. What that feel like? Walking?
- [50:00]
Carl Anthony Towns
Man, you, you. There ain't no, ain't no games in the NBA. Everyone's. You need every win, you know.
- [50:07]
Bucky Brooks
No, I agree, but I'm just saying what it feel like to you. Do you ever go there extra early and just look up all the time.
- [50:13]
Carl Anthony Towns
And be like, y', all, I'm there early every game. I'm there games at 7:30, I'm there 4 o', clock, I'm lifting, I'm on the court. I remember I was there so early in the playoffs. You was doing sound check, you remember? I came out, I was listening. I just sat there just to see the performance. Yeah, I was like, in the game, I'm too locked in. I'm not even going to be wanting to hear nothing else but basketball. So like every day I show up at the Garden, I know there probably is gonna be one kid, at least one kid, one family, one adult that spent the last money they got for themselves to go to a Knicks game. And they wanna see their favorite players play. I wanna show up Every night and play, you know? Cause I know that there's someone there that put extra hours at their job in to spend their hard work money to go and watch us play, watch me play and. And there could be nothing more disappointing than me not playing.
- [51:09]
Joe
I see you doing a lot in the community, a lot of business ventures. How important is it to give back?
- [51:16]
Carl Anthony Towns
It's very important. I mean, this is like you said, God gave me the gift. And as soon as I discredit the gift, it'll take it away. So I gotta pay forward. And the Dominican Republic doing a bunch of great work over there for the.
- [51:30]
Bucky Brooks
Kids and everyone getting down with the arod. You been to that joint?
- [51:35]
Carl Anthony Towns
No, I have not. No, I have not. What is that?
- [51:42]
Bucky Brooks
Yo, I don't want to blow it up. Hey, yeah, yeah. It's a vacation spot in Santo Domingo.
- [51:48]
Carl Anthony Towns
I know about that.
- [51:48]
Bucky Brooks
That look like Fiji Island.
- [51:50]
Carl Anthony Towns
I went there for Christmas with my family.
- [51:53]
Bucky Brooks
It is beyond beautiful. Like, it's like. It's no way you thought on this side of the earth there's something that beautiful. And I'm talking about Turks, this, that what, what you name them. There's nothing that looks like that. Everybody goes to something. The men go on the other side. Or your man award. I think he invested like 10 billion or something. Yeah, to make some cribs over there or something. That what happened. No, I'm ch.
- [52:20]
Joe
No.
- [52:22]
Bucky Brooks
How much did he. How much Google? Google. Two times.
- [52:26]
Joe
Damn.
- [52:27]
Bucky Brooks
The guy taking notes is two time felon, yo. A rod. How much money invested in Santo Domingo, the new resort? A billion dollars.
- [52:37]
Joe
Not enough?
- [52:38]
Bucky Brooks
No, it's Fat Joe, dude. It's fat Joe, right? 10 billion. 1 billion. What's the difference? 10 billion. 1 billion. What you want me to do? Like. But I'm painting the picture. You need to get with that. I promise you that's going to be a success out there. I need.
- [52:56]
Carl Anthony Towns
I mean, I got. You don't even worry about that.
- [52:58]
Joe
He telling you what you just like.
- [53:03]
Bucky Brooks
You'Re saying that he's investing.
- [53:05]
Carl Anthony Towns
Nah, yeah.
- [53:06]
Bucky Brooks
I'm telling you what's going to win. That is going to win. Yeah, that is going to win. The place is.
- [53:13]
Carl Anthony Towns
It's unbelievable.
- [53:13]
Bucky Brooks
Believable. Phenomenal.
- [53:15]
Carl Anthony Towns
Come on. Yeah.
- [53:17]
Bucky Brooks
Three hours away. When you go there, you're going to be like, yo, this shit is great, but they cost money to go in there.
- [53:22]
Carl Anthony Towns
What I will say though is for me, me, I'm not looking to make money in Dr. I'm looking to give money to Dr. Okay. You know, don't slow them I'm trying to nurture the soil that's there. I don't want to take anything from the growing. I want to take anything from our people. I want to give to our people. I want to give them the chance to have the resources.
- [53:39]
Bucky Brooks
People in the world, there's nothing like Dominicans. The most fun, amazing, most giving. Can we get the best food? My mail and my mail. And my neighbor, you know, I got an Italian friend, Stevie Matarano, one of the best chefs in the world. He always goes, yo, cuz, who don't want to be Italian? I'm ready to say, yo, yo, papitos, who don't want to be Dominicano.
- [54:03]
Carl Anthony Towns
I just, I just for me, God has given me the chance. And I always say, like, I appreciate the gift of this game and the game of basketball and the life and the luck I talked about earlier that I had. But money's not fulfilling to me anymore. When I was younger, it was always the chase of like, like every young artist, you bring up the bag, the money falling out, like, I'm not fulfilled by that. You know, I don't need that anymore. I'm fulfilled by. In New York, I always talk about it, it's the greatest currency you could get in New York. It's respect. And that's all I look for these days is just respect. That's all I need. And that's, that's, that's, you know, when.
- [54:41]
Bucky Brooks
That plane come back to New York, because, you know, I live in Miami and New York, when I go to Miami, I'm like, come on, everybody, once you do that, come gun. That's how, that's what I'm thinking. When that plane going down. When I come in here and the shit coming down, I'm hearing there's a wall going on outside. Nobody's safe from you looking at it. Just feel like the whole New York's a project building. You looking out the plane, that shit going down. You like. It's a different type of Teflon you gotta have. But when you big. When the kids got your post in Coney island in Bay Ridge, that's respect. Yonkers come on in the Bron in Harlem and the Lower east side in Staten island and they all screaming your name. This is. Yeah, if you want to get popping, this is where you want to Mac up. Come on.
- [55:32]
Carl Anthony Towns
Think about kids like you said, family making ends meet. You know, people in a 200 square foot apartment, 500 square foot apartment, and they willing to dedicate some of their wall space to have you on the wall.
- [55:45]
Bucky Brooks
The love is.
- [55:46]
Carl Anthony Towns
That's respect.
- [55:46]
Bucky Brooks
The love is unreal. And I argue with everybody. Shout out to my man first. I argue with all the barbers, everybody.
- [55:53]
Carl Anthony Towns
And Christmas games.
- [55:54]
Bucky Brooks
I was arguing for you. Yeah, Rich. Where's Rich? Player? His barber was dumb type. They traded Randall. I was like, yo, call Anthony B. And I love Randle. Yeah, tough guy. Love him. His family salute them. But I was super excited. And I start arguing with the whole barber shop. And I'm like, yo, bro. And then when it. When we went to the finals, I facetimed. I was like, what's up, yo? You kind of was right. This, this that. I told you I was right. What do we gotta do? Are we gonna see a championship in New York City called that's the Plan?
- [56:28]
Joe
We hope so.
- [56:29]
Bucky Brooks
That's the plan. Yeah.
- [56:30]
Carl Anthony Towns
I ain't come here.
- [56:31]
Joe
That's the coming to be good.
- [56:33]
Carl Anthony Towns
It can't be great all time. You gotta. You gotta be, you know, striving for greatness every day.
- [56:38]
Bucky Brooks
There's a lot of guys try to get to close with no cigar. A lot of guys is cool with being number two. A lot of guys. You telling me that the DNA and the mindset of the New York Knicks, when they behind the scenes and y' all together, is saying, yo, we gonna win this championship.
- [56:54]
Carl Anthony Towns
You mean did not last year not prove that?
- [56:56]
Bucky Brooks
No, no.
- [56:56]
Carl Anthony Towns
You know what I'm trying to say? Down 20 both times. Game one and game two in Boston slowed on. You know what I'm trying to say? We never thought the game was over. I know everyone was ready at the house, turning their TV to other channels, watching other games. I don't know what they was watching.
- [57:10]
Bucky Brooks
The game was going.
- [57:12]
Carl Anthony Towns
So, you know, I try to say.
- [57:13]
Bucky Brooks
Yeah, we are the Kane is coming, baby. The Train, the first podcast I came in playing that shit from. What was that? That movie? Money Train. The train is coming, baby. He was like, yo, what's that? I was like, yo, the train's coming.
- [57:27]
Carl Anthony Towns
Yeah, I just. You just.
- [57:28]
Bucky Brooks
You.
- [57:29]
Carl Anthony Towns
You can't let anything cloud your mind of the vision you got. And there ain't been a time where you ain't walk in there where. Of having championship standards, you know, and obviously last year, we didn't. We. We came up short. Coming back 25 years in the making just to get to that point. And now, you know, you gotta work even harder to get to the next step.
- [57:52]
Joe
What day is the Cleveland?
- [57:53]
Carl Anthony Towns
What is September 22nd? No, no, no, no.
- [57:56]
Joe
October. October 22nd. With that being said, ladies and gentlemen, this ain't that and that ain't this is cracking Kiss make some noise for our guests. Anthony call Anthony. I appreciate it. Thank you.
- [58:10]
Carl Anthony Towns
Thank you.
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Joe
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