How you sir I am great and you I know you are you how you doing brother good to see you good to see you there always good to see you I appreciate you look at this room you got all the this is the goat convention you
Know what I’m saying you got magic over there dirt the whiskey dream look at this the dream look at all look at this this is incredible I can’t even believe I’m in this room welc to the it’s an unbelievable presence to be in I mean you know this this is the
History of the league Bob petted is here 90 years old then we got the Young Bucks here so we got a great representation of multiple Generations I know it’s crazy this is crazy everybody’s mingling around and you just think about man I’m about to walk up to Elvin Hayes man I’m about to
Walk up to Jerry West Kareem Oscar Robinson George Garin I’m walking up to them guys who I idolize and we having conversations and then they act like they really know you and he you we a family and they really do I’m a kid out the candies to all these
Legends I’m up I’m 49 but I can remember watching most of these guys play awesome it’s the original big fell right there the most depend most dependable guy ever play with in the world he kicked my butt for a lot of years a lot of years I’m
Going put it like this we kicked each other’s butt how about that I’m not in this room if it’s not for this man he raised me when I was was a little kid at UCLA and it’s the life life lessons that he taught me all those years man you
Think like what it went by so fast sure did they were great no they were great they were fantastic it’s amazing to see all this talented athletes in one place a lot of them inspired me and I guess there’s one or two maybe that I Inspire we saw you last night on the
Screen I forgot you were a done contest guy too and when they showed that on the screen everybody’s like yeah we just started talking and before you know one of these crazy stories from the past would come up your whole life kind of flashes before you hey So it’s just those moments that you cherish here’s the funny thing there were nights that we played the front line us three all played across the front line This Is A brotherhood is fellowship it’s it’s like a small fraternity and uh and we I think we all
Realize how lucky we are when we get here and we see each other we we realize this is a once in a-lifetime kind of experience one of the best moments I’m standing there talking with Kareem and Kareem talks to me like I’m one of his peers it’s like wow so then I whispered
To Dwayne I said man I’m I’m just having this moment where Kareem is talking to me and I’m kind of messed up right now but I got to get together and so Dwayne looked at me and he goes yeah I know how you feel cuz it’s like you talking to me
And I’m trying to get myself together so that’s how the whole room was that whole night being in that room was incredibly emotional you could feel that sense of togetherness the amount of respect they had for each other and also just a special sense of camaraderie and Brotherhood that they felt part of
Something truly unique and it was clear how meaningful it was to all of them eyes right here everyone that’s great here we go James Harden can you go to your left good last one everybody like this here we go 75 congratulations tremendous
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