![]() If I played with him 6 years, I’d probably swap him with Reggie. Where’s that leave Ray Allen? Right behind Reggie. That’s why we were 0-4 against them maybe. At 42, you wouldn’t have said those type of things, but we were dumb and young and trying to beat ‘em, and that’s why we never got lucky. That was probably the thing that as I look back at, that was the thing that crossed the line. What’s the worst thing you’ve said that I can print? It’s the comments that were said in the Fab Five documentary, that we used to call Duke players Uncle Toms. You don’t want to be bumpin’ your gums to the wrong people at the wrong place on the wrong day. But you might say the wrong thing to the wrong person who isn’t focused on going to high school and getting a college degree-not trying to play college basketball-that’s where the term “ pop the trunk” comes from. So growing up, playing basketball on the Northwest side of Detroit, you could talk all the trash you want. Pay attention to not only what you’re saying or doing, but who you’re saying and doing it with. It’s another thing to date Matt Barnes’ ex-wife. It’s one thing to date one of your ex wives. You have a specific example of when your trash-talking led to unfortunate consequences? I’ll give a current events example. Number five is: be prepared for the consequences. You give a five-point primer in your book on trash-talking. But it wouldn’t be because I’m doing what I’m doing for a living.īack to trash-talk. You’d have quite the following I’d imagine. What would have happened if Twitter had existed when the Fab Five was in school? The only time I’d be on ABC would be breaking news, and it wouldn’t be positive. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Namely, a crash course in trash-talk, insight into whether or not MJ can still ball, and the question that hovers over him constantly, a black cloud shading everything: will the Fab Five ever reconcile-that is to say, will he and Chris Webber ever be friends again? So we called him and asked if he could give us what we wanted. That and more is all there in his new book Got To Give The People What They Want. ("That was the best basketball I been a part of.") And it's what makes him one of the most loved analysts on ESPN, where he's more open and honest than most professional athletes about a life we can only dream about. (And one of the most scandalized off of it-Michigan does not recognize them and erased all their wins Chris Webber has distanced himself from the other four.) It's what carried him through a 16-year, six-team NBA career, where he faced off against MJ's Three-Peat Bulls and Shaq and Kobe's Three-Peat Lakers. He had it when he joined Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson at Michigan, five freshmen who Voltroned to become the "Fab Five", the coolest team to ever step on hardwood. Because it's that big personality-outsized even for his long, 6'8" frame-that's always imbued Jalen with a certain magnetic swagger, an irrefutable cool. He's talking about the '90s, but really, he could be talking about any time in the life of Jalen Rose. We were two chains, two bracelets, one watch," Jalen Rose tells me. But yeah, Kobe should be above this sort of thing."It was the bling-bling era. ![]() He also says Bryant is retaliating now after Smush trashed Kobe in this 2009 interview.Īs much as I’d like to get on Kobe’s case for being so petty and taking so much delight in bashing his former teammates, I really can’t find it right now. That my accolades under my belt weren’t deserving enough for me to talk to him.” Parker told TMZ that Kobe “told me out of his own mouth that I couldn’t talk to him. Smush Parker wasn’t just going to sit back and let Kobe destroy the fine name he made for himself as a guard in the NBA for five years he responded. Kobe brings his trash talk as strong as he drives the ball to the hoop. ![]() “They want to lock us out, but they’ll pay him $7 million.” “I don’t know how he convinced Philadelphia to cough up $7 million a year,” said Bryant. What was I supposed to do, pass the ball in to Chris Mihm? Chris Mihm?”īean also ridiculed the Philadelphia 76ers for signing Kwame Brown to a two-year $6 million deal in the offseason. “Smush Parker, with Tierre Brown as the backup,” said Bryant, laughing. We let him walk on.”īryant was then asked about the criticism he faced for ballhogging during those seasons. “He shouldn’t have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard. “Smush Parker was the worst,” Bryant said.
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