 Get on my level. Get on my level. I'm too flat. Quentin Richardson loving everything about this. Got it up and it's stuck. Get on my level. That's right. Right there. 13 seasons in the league. 2005 three point contest winner and love the podcast. Knuckleheads podcast with Darius Miles Quentin Richardson joining us right now. Good morning sir. And we're just going to jump right in because we had a big debut last night. James Harden new uniform. What did you think about his first day out with the Clippers? You know they struggled man. It was just one game. You know I hear a lot of people jump at the conclusions and you know the knee jerk reactions. But I think those guys have figured it out. I think you know all of them have done all the making money in different things. All that's left to do is win now. Lou's been on it since day one. He said keep the starting lineup as is just insert him. Do you like that move? Do you think that will stick at all? Yeah. You know all of those guys are the type of guys that you know you got to start them if you can. And I think it fits and I mean I think like I said I think they'll work it out. You know Kawai being strong enough to guard some of the fours and things like that. They got a lot of length. It's going to be a lot of versatility out there once they you know start hitting a stride together. And I know we just talked about the Lakers game as well so I might as well ask you the last play. How many times we've asked should LeBron have taken the shot or should he have passed it? Would you think the pass to Reddish good? I mean it's always I mean when he makes these plays it's never a question is it a good or bad play. I mean he made the right you know a good basketball play but I mean him being who he is and people want to see him go in and make the basket or get fouled and things like that. But I mean I think you know LeBron is who he is. He's done it the way he's done it. You know last night it didn't really work out for him because you know Reddish missed the shot but I think it was still a great play at the end of the game. Hugh this question is for me and all my boys in Orlando that grew up playing AU basketball doing this after every single bucket. How did that come about? What made you guys do that? Man it's crazy. So the story behind that is you know we played there in LA and we was you know Darius was 18 I was 19 we fresh out of high school and we still was you know into high school basketball so at the time Westchester high school was like the top team in the city or whatever so that was coincidentally right up the street from where we practiced at LA Southwest Junior College so we we started to go to their games and they had Trevor Reza sign Adams Bobby Brown they had a whole bunch of guys over there man that you know ended up making it and doing well but that was actually their celebration and they were you know they were doing it in their games and you know we started to go to their practices and practice with them and stuff and they asked like oh man y'all need to do rep our stuff in the game one time so you know we did it we had only did it really one game but after we did it that one game the fans was like the next game they was like what y'all should they they was all doing it so you know it kind of became a thing and took off from there but it's crazy that definitely you know started out that was the Westchester high school that was that was their celebration you know they they asked us to do it and then you know the rest is basically history that is like the that's the original influencing like that's what an influencer right gentlemen so I hope kids are watching so on the on the podcast you said before the season started that Wemby was not your pick for rookie of the year but then sounds like you're maybe coming around to some things on women Yama what what have you seen that has been maybe the most eye-opening for you from him. I like his aggressiveness man I like I didn't think he would come out and and in shot hunting like look for the look for the ball and be as aggressive as he's been offensively I mean I knew he was going to be special and have a chance to you know block shots and change shots and do some crazy things defensively at the rim but I didn't know he was going to come out this aggressive offensively and really be looking to go to work like that. Q what's good bro. So I gotta I gotta how you so I gotta ask man the defending champion nuggets have started the season 71 Celtic suffered their first loss they fall to 5-1 which one of those teams you like better. Man listen I jay Tate on my young fella that's my guy so I'm pulling for him to you know him in the Celtic to go ahead and get over the hump but man I be lying about if I said that I'm not seeing what I'm seeing out there and Denver they they are back and they ready to defend their title and I feel like they haven't missed the beat I feel like Coach Michael Malone like he said he's got them in the mind space where last year is over with they not having some hangover like some teams have when they come back and start slow he got them right out the gates they hitting on all cylinders so I mean you gotta you gotta you gotta respect them and today today give you some reason not to so I mean right now Denver is still my favorite but I mean I I'm definitely pulling hard for the Celtic. You know the the west is interesting we we expect big things from the Suns we haven't gotten their big three yet we haven't been able to see that but if you have a game on the line and you got to pick Katie or Booker which one gets the ball. Katie every time not even a real it's not even a real question and he's done it he's done it enough times in the biggest moments on the biggest stages finals everything else he he's proven it so I would I would say Katie. You played one season for coach Spoe and his second year of coaching who did you see did you see what he was going to become that you knew he could possibly become one of the best coach in the NBA. I felt he was one of the best coaches I had played for at that time and I played for some great coaches you know I'm saying I played for coach Larry Brown you know coach d'Antoni coach Gentry a lot of guys a lot of guys it was great coaches I felt like me and Spoe got a crazy relationship because I feel like I played with them for like five years but I only played with them the one season and you know obviously we hit it off I had a chance to join the staff but I was doing other things and couldn't do that but yeah man I think I think I respected about Spoe was that that even in his second year he didn't back down he didn't care who you were like Jermaine O'Neill was it was a strong personality obviously you had D-Way he had you Don and she had a lot of guys on that team you know strong personalities but Spoe he didn't he didn't back down he he he would engage with you he would you know all of that like you seen on the court on the game when he got to with Jimmy like Spoe's not backing down and in any situation and I think that's that's how we got to be what he is because when it came to D-Way he did the hard things he when they had to go head to head I watched him and he did that and that's how you gain in respect to the whole team and the whole organization and when you when you challenge the guy to set the top that you know everybody's kind of afraid to challenge and he wasn't afraid to do that and I think you know that was a big part of him becoming what he is but I think everything else X's and O's Spoe works so damn hard and he's so overprepared it was no way he was gonna fail at that but I think the biggest challenges was the personalities and the egos and and he took it straight on man so you know that I think that was a big part of him getting over that hump and becoming what he is that's awesome I like hearing about that back in the day you and Paul Pierce were trash talking the art form trash you got ejected first trash talking which by the way in and of itself is special what so what was that is that a real feud is it just fun fun trash talk like take us through that man he does talk a lot so we had Paul on the show and we talked about it you know that started way back in day and it was a UCLA or it might have been like when we're high school when the runs were there instead of UCLA when you know just two dudes in there did neither one of them ain't gonna back down both of them gonna say what they gotta say and if it go further we could do that too but you know we we just was competitive and I think from that that that day back then we kind of marked each other that whenever I see you is gonna be on site and that's what it really was like it was it was it was like that several I mean the funny thing it was several games like people was thinking like the child when y'all mess with each other's girl or something like it was never nothing like that it was just I we go that's just what it is and that's what it was the whole time I love that I miss some of that from from today's game Julius Randall okay so you may might have better insight than most Julius Randall we know about his struggles last night he had a hell of a game and there's a lot of frustration here in New York from the fans towards Julius how hard do you first of all as a Nick do you hear the mumbling do you hear the talking are you able to put it out like what's he going through when he's struggling here first of all when I was there you you heard everything you knew what was going on somehow somewhere you knew and it to me and and in this generation there's no way with the with the social media and with the phones and with everybody having a voice there's no way but I mean in New York on man it's it's the garden those fans gonna come right down behind the bench and say whatever they want to say to you and they gonna say it loud and in demonstrative or whatever and it's like to play I've said it a million times man to be a Nick to play in New York to to be a giant Yankee any of that stuff like you gotta have a you gotta have a different type of toughness like a mental toughness about you because I've watched teammates literally get taken out of it and like like quit like damn this get me out of here like I'm I don't want I don't want any parts of this like I like enjoying my life and things like that and sometimes if you in New York and you're on the wrong end of it you might not enjoy yourself and if you're not the you know the the the right type of person mentally and you don't got that mental makeup it could it could affect you big time I've definitely seen that keeping it with the next Q when you were on the next Kobe job 61 at MSG. Yes. What do you remember? What do you remember about that game? Anything in particular? I remember it being Spike Lee's fault because Spike Lee's out there on the damn sideline talking crazy to Kobe Bryant while they got Wilson out of our rookie guarding him and he and he was going crazy. It was I think Kobe said that too. Kobe said it was it was yeah it was I was looking like yo he's talking to him and like Wilson is out here getting put through the through the business because of it. He was he was doing everything that night bro. He was pump faking spending stepping through. I was like love like like great. Gladfully that you know Wilson was a Wilson had the mental makeup you need to have because you know a little bit of challenge. Some dudes don't recover from a night like that when it's really just almost all on you. It was crazy but you know Wilson was a different type of dude. He didn't really trip in care. He got back to it right away but it was like yeah we all looked at it that night like that was that was on spike. I mean you played him a bunch in your career as did I. I never had so what was your game plan going against so what's the scouting report on Kobe. Man for me whenever I played him you know I'ma try and be physical and everything and try and use that type of stuff against me. It wasn't really like man you know how it was with Kobe though when he made up his mind that he was gonna go crazy it wasn't nothing nobody could do. That was that was it like you had to you know make things as difficult as possible and then you know hope he having some type of off night which didn't happen is you know hoping it all but I mean that was definitely you know we doubling we doing different things but ultimately you just want to try and make everything as difficult as possible for him knowing that he still could get 30 40 with it being you know your best effort and all of that stuff. Yesterday we were talking a little bit about the in season tournament because it's obviously it started on Friday. Most of us are still a little bit confused but we do understand money and Lou was right in saying that 500 grand is incentive I don't care who you are. Do you agree. I mean it's 500 out like who cares right it's the in season tournament is that good enough to to make you try a little harder. Absolutely I think absolutely I mean people would be lying if they say they don't I think some of the dudes with the biggest contract still looking at that 500,000 like yeah we need that I mean that's the nature of the competitor man like we'd rather get it than see somebody else get it and say they got it like that's that's how you know the competitive dudes are they just want to win if it's a chance to win something else like this is the first ever tournament of this kind so I know you know some of those dudes who who are competitive like that like a Yannis or something he want to go win like I don't know nobody that's at this level that you know there's a championship out there they just gonna say they don't care nah that's not true they want to go win it and be known as that champion or whatever and if it's a MVP or something to be one that they want to win that too that's why we here. Absolutely Q we shared a lot of stories when I came on the Knuckle heads podcast with you and D Miles and you guys have known each other since kids you got to give me a great D Miles story. Oh bruh I give you a D Miles man it's too many I the best story I could give you about D Miles is when I first met him right so D Miles came to play he's from East St. Louis I'm from Chicago but he came to play AAU with us the Illinois Warriors because Larry Butler was our coach so he came to us when he was in I want to say eighth grade so when he first got there we we had already went on a couple tournaments and play now we going to Nike camp right so he the week before Nike camp he crashed his mama car he like broke his arm something he got his arm in the sling and he had this one D Miles before like he started getting content he had the glasses on so we go to Nike camp he basically got ranked just because he was with us and we was calling him KG because he you know he was tall he was tall dark and skinny superman but like that was literally like he got because you know how it is when you young you play on the older team and that older team is killing everybody we were smacking everybody up the warriors beating all of the top teams and stuff and he was there all D Miles had to do was get a dump like catch a live get a black shot and it was like next thing you know he was the number one player in America he he took to form like by playing with us like once we went on like he took over over like next time I come see him he getting quadruple doubles like all of that with blocks rebound like he was he was going crazy like when you go see him in high school it was legit a one man show he out there six nine and nobody else bigger than six four and he played one through five doing everything it was crazy okay so pranks either you've been a part of one or you witness one what is the best one that you can remember oh man so when I was with the nicks we had we had Nate Robinson we had Nate Robinson Eddie Curry Jared Jeffries and Matt Barnes these dudes were children literally were children like it was like you know at this time we had to wear suits to everything that we did we had to wear a force flare suit so one game you come out we come out of the game and we get dressed and Matt goes I want to say it was Matt Matt goes to put his dress shoes on and like Nate had put like cream cheese under the soul so as soon as he stepped down like the cream cheese came all up so then the next game after that you come we were in Boston I remember this we were in Boston and Nate we come out of the game we get you know the game is over you better get dressed Jared had Jared had no Jared and Matt had took Nate's suit and cut all of his buttons off of his furthest suit and then they like twisted it and you know how you get the ice wrap when you get the little wrap go around the ice bags they had took his suit and like twisted it and wrapped it all the way up in the whole thing then when he unwrapped he noticed he had no buttons to button anything one of them all was when Nate Nate literally this is the sense how the wings that Nate would go to do a prank he was late for the plane number one he was late for a plane took that little $500 fine so but he was late because he went to the he stopped at the store to get XLACS the man put XLACS and Nate I mean and Eddie's cereal and they would bring like 10 boxes of cereal on the plane they would eat cereal when you going to travel XLACS and Eddie's cereal no and then obviously Eddie had the runs Eddie ended up missing the game the next day because it is because he was so he got to be hydrated and all type of stuff like these I'm telling you listen I'll tell you talk about a book that New York next team was unreal bro it was unreal it was always something I love messing with bodily fluids is the ultimate prank and I have the utmost respect for Nate Robinson that is no it's nasty Quentin we appreciate the time so much thank you love love the podcast I hope we have you back on appreciate it thanks for having me and keep doing our thing