 Oh very cool, very smooth nine seasons and the NBA currently with the Pelicans joining us now Larry Nance Jr. Larry I want to get right to it because I know you had the privilege of playing with our very own Lou Will at the Lakers. What do we need to know? What was it like playing with him? The privilege is right. First of all I appreciate you guys having me. Lou honestly Lou is like one of my favorite vets ever. One of the coolest teammates set me up for a lot of my dunks early on. Just don't, hey look if you want the ball you got to make him go right off the screen because if you go left you shoot, you shoot. The vet thing, I'm glad you brought it up because you made it very known to us today Lou. Vets should have taken care of some of the problems that happened on the court last night but Yanis had the 64. We don't know whether he got the actual game ball or a different game ball. Nobody knows what's going on but if you were on the Pacers A would you have been insulted that they were seemingly running up the score and B what do you make of all this whole ball fiasco? I thought they were running to stop him. If you're mad about it stop him. Second I mean if it's true that it was a rookie's first point I got to be honest with you I do that for every rookie that's on our team. Every rookie that I play with I try to grab the basketball for the first point. We had Hawkins do it this year EJ Liddell and both of them got the first ball. It's just a special moment you know. I like that. I like that you had it. I told you it's a big deal. The confusion was he scored a he made a free he scored a it didn't count. That was the 83rd game which is technically that didn't count which I think was where the confusion came yeah we are very confused by that by the way you guys are not points in the NCC tournament don't count the championship because it's the 83rd game see that's stupid okay if player don't know that that was his first point in season nobody knew anything about the rules with so many rules we're learning we're still learning all right is this true did you you guys are in the nation's capital did you buy 70 tickets for this game yeah 7 now nausea had 70 and that hawk had a few as well but again that's another thing you supposed to do for your rookie they play when they play their first you know game at home so one of the older guys on teams was to take care of so we taught you well man that's awesome we taught you well now you guys taught me well you be bass big Roy I had some good vets they didn't teach you nothing but you know y'all have never done anything nice for anybody here it's good to know thank you thank you Larry you've been out with a right rib fracture how are you when can we expect to see you back on the floor I'm good I'm good I'm a I'm a physical player so playing with a with a broken rib is a bit tough but I'm coming along yes it's healing and probably we can have two weeks yeah I tried to play through it at first and not setting screens and fighting through screens and boxing I just wasn't going too well Larry your squad right now is at 1411 9th in the Western conference what were expectations coming into this season and have they changed at all up to this point I mean expectations we we expect ourselves to be in the playoffs we expect to be a to be a home court team you know the last time this team was healthy we was last year and we were first in the West obviously Zee is a monster and BI BI is a monster and CJ's you know average 20 for 11 straight years so we got guys that can really do it at the highest level our biggest issue is health and you know so right now it's it's only me out but you know hopefully the next two weeks I'll get back and then we can start picking it up but it's expectations have not changed at all we expect to be in the playoffs so Zion obviously takes a ton of heat whether it's his physical being whether it's his work ethic he seems to be getting a lot of it especially this week what's it like to be his teammate does it affect him do you guys say anything how does it all happen in the locker room when you guys keep hearing these things um it's it's tough because obviously like you can't control the national media says right and they're just going to take stories and run with it that's their job and and and anything Zee does anything a star does is always whether he you know whether he goes to Chipotle after practice that's a story that someone's going to run with so like now honestly we don't see it affected too much you know with this past week like with everybody talking about it you could see energy change a little bit but that's natural we're only human and everybody's got social media so you see it all but I gotta be honest he's been he's been great he's he's been great I love having as a teammate he's a real cool dude we spent a lot of time together on the road that's that's that's my dog your coach willy green said that he thinks bi and Zion are the best duo in the NBA agree on that oof that's the best freaking duo yeah yeah yeah that's right now look look when you when you see every day with these guys do a practice obviously there's some ridiculous duos right Damian Giannis probably more proven you know Bronnan ad probably more proven Yoko Jamuri just came off a championship like there are some you know there's some freak duos but these two really have a chance to be one of those one of those two they just have to they just have to embrace it and be be ready for it you know can't run from greatness and speaking and speaking of duos your teammates well trade Murphy the third said he and Jordan Hawkins are the best shooting duo outside of one in the NBA now Lance don't cap me Larry don't cap me down now do you agree with this look I'm on one team what do you want me to say I will say look trade trade is one of the better shooters I've ever gotten the pleasure to be around genuinely the E like he's got it like that hard I don't shoot with all get practice so I don't really seem a practice but all I know is for a rookie to come in and did what he did I think he set set records three point shooting so like in trades 23 I mean if they're if they're not the best they will be a year year and a half see those perfect those thank you for that for the for the insight because I ain't rolling lose trying to get you're not rolling hold on hold on if you are not rolling who's better than no I'm not rolling because it's to me it's a body of work like it's not based on potentially what you can do is not based on a few nice games like this has to be a body of work it took years for us to recognize Steph and Clay as the splash brothers and so for me both statement very confident statement not saying that it can't come into fruition but I think it's a little early to put best in front of your name or anything right now small sample size no thanks Chandler glad Chandler in there with that you know when you started things out with the Lakers and you played with Kobe Bryant when you sort of look back and take stock of your career where do you hold those memories what was that like for you oh man it's it's it's hard to top that obviously being drafted to the Lakers he's hard it's hard to top it itself right incredible franchise and you know getting to play with Kobe obviously even before everything happened it was like you know I pinched myself sometimes realizing like I'm really on the court with this man and then I don't know what it would take honestly I don't know what it would take I probably have to or 60 myself to top his 60 point game you know in terms of like moments in my career that was that was special that was special but those are moments and lessons that I'll never forget never take a brand and look I know Loof is the same way like playing playing with that guy was was just special special if I'd have known how everything panned out with the unfortunate passing and the timing of that he actually asked us to play in the last game and I said no I told him no I said I want to watch just like everybody else cuz he was telling us all week in practice he was like I'm going for 60 like I'm gonna shoot the ball 60 times he was he kept telling us he's like I'm shooting the ball 60 times I'm going for 60 in my last game I'm a go for and he was like come on man y'all play hell no we want to watch just like everybody else it's in hindsight I wish I would have took that opportunity to court with him that last time no that's that's pretty crazy um Larry you obviously you you played in his last game 60-point game to close out what do you remember most from that night I mean we got this story I've never heard this story from Lou but like what is there anything else memorable that stood out to you I mean all the illegal screens that me and Julius was saying we was running around edge blocking we man I'll tell you what they them refs were not called they were not gonna call those files but now it was crazy like honestly the biggest thing is just the fact that like every practice every game that he would play it he in the middle of it after it he would be wrapped head to toe from ice with ice like ankles knees hips whatever joint you got he's got ice wrapped around it and so the fact that like in 20 years of newest career he just reached down somewhere found 60 just 60 cold ones I don't know that takes it that takes a special kind of competitor it really does is it true he told you one time just dunk everything that was the first thing you told me funny like we was playing the Hawks and you know like I'm an athletic dude I came in athletic dude and so like I always thought like I knew I was athletic but it's the NBA these guys are bigger faster stronger more athletic so I tried to like finish around out or for one time and miss finish try to finish around Paul Mills at one time and miss and we came to the time out he just grabbed my jersey hey AMF you I've seen you practice dunk everything I don't care who's there they can't touch you dunk everything so the very funny like one of the very next possessions I caught in the post rip middle and just right on top of them both and it just like that just spurred my career forward it was now it was a really cool moment cuz like I don't know why I needed to be told like hey you can do the same thing you did in college here but it I don't know him having belief in me was was all I needed to just really go do it and you also had the opportunity to play with LeBron in his last season in Cleveland what was the difference like between playing with Bron and playing with Kobe what what are some of the glaring differences you thought you saw with between those two guys so it's tough right like I caught Bron smack dad middle of his prime at a 2018 playoff run might have been the best we've ever seen him look and so then we caught Cody Kobe at 20 years in you know his last year in the league and so just just the level of preparation and the level of work put in was different obviously it was kind of a farewell tour for Cove and so he was he was treating it as such but with Bron the biggest the biggest difference is the fact that like no joke I was on my first contract so I was getting to the gym every single day early on like on time just being you know being a young guy doing what young guys do never beat Bron of the gym not once well not once the man was in there and I don't know if I ever saw him touch a weight he was always working with the exercise bands and and the core the exercise ball and like these the Eric's pads for his balance and stuff like that it was all like straight bodywork it wasn't a whole lot of weights the dudes a machine the dudes a machine but obviously like for me I grew up and I grew up in Akron, Ohio so playing with Bron in the finals was like again unless I unless I score 60 myself or win a ring myself it's between Kobe and Bron I don't know what to tell you those two are pretty hard to knock off my I've said I've said that publicly as well like I wish I would have played with Kobe at a different time in his career because we didn't really get that right experience he was dealing with so many so many injuries he was in and out of the lineup it was his last season it was a farewell tour like we kind of got cheated out of that different yeah that experience with with Cove so I understand it like exactly what you're saying no Larry got you got to see the 51 point game in a finals what is that when you're watching that unfold I mean what what are you thinking you saw that again 151 8 I think it was ridiculous you don't want to mention my double-double those you want to mention a separate set of questions just about that don't worry about game one there's plenty to ask now it was dope obviously like you know in or it was still in Oracle so Oracle arena was a place that these young guys I hate for them that they don't get to experience because that place was Oracle's rockin they're rocking rocking every time and and you know him going out there 51 8 mate and then obviously against the Warriors for the third straight year in the finals like the storylines behind it was crazy and then just the way the game ended yeah can you remind it can you remind us of Trissy got thrown out you know we had we missed the free throw you know just just a lot of things happen you missed a lot you know I missed a few things but my memories a little blurry probably miss one of the funniest I mean the funniest one is funny dispute the JR Smith has some funny stories but it depends on what side it depends on what side yeah that's true how about now that can you laugh yet I can laugh but at the same time I can laugh but like the hurt in that locker room the hurt the sheer hurt we all felt and it was not not look it was not just JR was not G Hill it was not I mean I missed a free throw that game like it wasn't it was all of us but it was just at the everybody but brown but it was like just the locker room afterwards was just oh man is it silence is it just weird silence not because you remember there was a there was a controversial block charge called brawn took a charge I think on Katie or Katie took a charge on brawn and we thought he was in the earth some happen we're like so we thought he was in the lane or not in the lane or around the charge circle and it was that was what the focus conversation look around it was just after that game one it was that was that that's awkward earlier that you you're also runner-up in the slam dunk competition to Donovan Mitchell Larry do you feel like you should have won that you are you still upset do you harbor any feelings for that the only you know what I harbor feelings for I feel like Donovan I feel like if a minimum there should have been a dunk all but the fact that I lost didn't bother me because like I know how the NBA works you know like it's down to Mitchell like he you want to promote this guy over that I'm cool with that but the only thing I'm mad about is for the history of the dunk contest we have had dunkers as judges Lisa Leslie Candace Parker Dr. J. Spudwet with history of dunkers you know who I got in my dunk contest to tell me how good of a dunker I was who DJ Khaled Chris Rock Mark Wahlberg what is DJ Khaled know about so like no I'm not mad that I lost but that's not right it's a fair boy judge and dunks like I'm sick about it I really am sick I did not realize that and your dad wanted you know it snub me and your dad won a dunk contest so I gotta ask who's the better dunker in that prime your pops he won a contest so like the obvious answer he would be him but I'll I'll tell you I'll tell you what right now though he's about three inches taller than I am I'll see he's 6'11 and I'm 6'8 so like I'm telling you though I if we was playing and we was playing I saw him in the lane I'm not thinking twice I'm going right over I'm going right over you've had so many bodies so many posters do you have like a favorite victim that every time you see you're going at him or you do you have a favorite dunk you've ever had I think my favorite so it's funny I got a funny story about this my favorite don't was probably in Brooklyn early in my career on Brooke Lopez mm-hmm one of my favorites just cuz like I feel like where I took off from it was solid right big got a kid funny oh thanks this was because Brooke Lopez big miles go off I forgot all about a little cross so we signed miles and dang yeah be on the court with me now was out here for that but I think he was there for that that was a meta that was meta Lou yeah I think he was there for that cuz yeah there's the contracts big contracts big contracts but it's funny cuz that next summer in LA Brooke Lopez signed as a free agent and so like oh we're sitting there in the gym in the summer time and he walks in hey guys nice to meet you on brook that's exactly one of my favorite teammates ever but not like he goes good to me everybody's introduced themselves you know deal introduce himself Anthony brown is do some self Julius and I walked up to him you know stuck my hand out a brook Larry good to meet you welcome to LA he just goes oh no I know I met you last year in the air in the air yeah we met we met in the air last year that's really good that's funny that's a good way to get out in front of it make a joke cuz I was definitely about to come I was definitely about to be making jokes you took it you also got KD when he was on the Warriors that's that's got to be up there as one of the tops right yeah I mean a lot of people love this dunk and it this one really didn't do a whole lot for me there wasn't a whole there wasn't a whole lot of contact I like contact when I don't like I want I want I want I want I want I don't know I want contact you won't chest the chest yeah you want exactly what I want you I mean like I want to know that I dunked on you not around you I feel like I don't around for sure like okay that's fair that's fine but that was that was the 79 73 and 9 Warriors so like that helps it a little bit I think that's yeah I think that's a big one this story was one of my favorite so I never really gotten to ask you about it but when when you were traded Josh Hart was traded to the Blazers it was a swap and then they said that you guys swapped houses or at least I temporarily how does that work because I kind of love it yeah no it was a good idea great idea I say idea it was a good idea it wasn't it wasn't great in execution it wasn't great execution like is he messy I don't I just I just don't like I don't have a lot of stuff right I like I don't have a lot of stuff like I'm married I have I have a two young two and a half year old girl and and Josh at that point was just just had his wife and so like just very different points in our lives right and so like I had I had to have room for like a you know for the crib and the nursery and this and this and this and he did not and my man my man my man stacks things he's a hoarder anything from yes just things I'm telling you like 17 pairs of gaming headsets stacked on in a wall on a wall like three gaming chairs he had a full-blown plug-in sauna where we were supposed to put the nursery at this sounds great now he just had stuff he just had stuff and so like I really didn't even end up living there until the next year when he could get all his things out I love the idea though yeah it's a great it was a great concept it was a great business I don't think he's doing again I'm not doing it again it was it was it saved us some money but I'll tell you what it was a hassle yeah it was a hassle lesson learned Larry this by some of you become a part owner of soccer team leads United what has that been like how have you enjoyed being involved in something other than you know pro basketball team no man it's funny I tell anybody that asked like I I play basketball but I love football soccer whatever you want to call it I love it and always have and so I was looking for the opportunities to get involved in the ownership status of soccer just because I can't play anymore and Lord knows I'm not gonna coach so you know the opportunity came up to to get involved with the sleeping giant in Leeds United this summer and I went over there twice watched two matches you know that's that's that's gonna become home away from home for me and this it's genuinely one of the more one of the things I'm proudest of throughout my career I love this this trend of owning little bits of international soccer this is awesome it also gives us a really lazy excuse to bring up an own goal and then tie it back to basketball which we get to do with you Larry I love editing we did not have to do that you're talking about the Christmas game here we go that's it happens that's sick great tip it look at my face yeah Lou you're there like that look at look at look at your face look at my face I got no beard yeah I'm right oh man it's kind of a good but that's at least that's talented though right yeah there you go good touch we'll give it that if you if it look if you but what's crazy is like early that was rookie year and early on like I swear I swore up and down like oh that's it I'm done my career is over for sure I can't recover from this but it's just like it's just as a rookie everything so magnified and in LA everything is magnified you make a shot you are like the next great superstar if you miss a shot you should have never ever picked up a basketball in your life like it is everything so magnified in LA so I really like I thought I was done nope yep nope you know thank you thank you for bringing it we're just it's a good lesson for the kids watching Larry we appreciate the time thank you so much up best of luck rest away happy holidays now of course appreciate you guys good to see y'all