Following Curtis, Alan Sepinwall, the chief TV critic for Rolling Stone joins the podcast to share some television recommendations for listeners. Sepinwall also shares his thoughts on this week's Golden Globe Awards and gives us his personal picks for some of the categories. Lastly, Sepinwall, who wrote the book, The Sopranos Sessions, talks about how many people watched the smash HBO show for the first time during the pandemic. You can listen to the podcast below or download it on Apple , Spotify or Stitcher.
New Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor must be excited for the upcoming release of Coming to America 2 , because he wore Prince Akeem's jacket to camp Thursday. Nothing needs to be said about this tweet. Just enjoy it. I'm not sure what message J. Watt is sending with this tweet, but this is an accurate take. You can also follow Jimmy on Twitter and Instagram. Follow along as the two heated neighbors meet in a key World Cup qualifier on the road to Qatar The Chelsea star will be coming off the bench for the United States on Friday night.
He wanted my perspective. We remained friends after that. But when it came to Tracy and those guys, they didn't really reach out. Darius Miles was the one besides Kobe that I actually sat down with. I could see a lot of myself in him. He had already made up his mind of what he wanted to do and wanted some advice. We had similar paths. He was from East St. Louis, so we kind of messed on some Midwest-type ish. But he was a student.
I saw a lot of myself. Garnett: He was coming out of high school and was a big fan of mine. They were gonna put him on the cover, and they thought it would be an inspirational piece. I thought it was pretty cool that someone was looking up to me.
That was all new to me, being a role model. These were all early relationships that I started to establish with these guys that later on I was able to call them friends. How do you view that looking back? Garnett: The owners had an agenda in which they wanted to acquire more value out of their respective franchises. They didn't have the makeup or the structure set to where it is now, with all these new dollars coming in, so they put the targets on the players. The league did a really good job of changing the narrative and making that the pivotal piece of the lockout.
I looked at it like I was just one of the players that was the next up. But that taught me a lot about the business of the league. Before I got that contract, the referees were very friendly with me. I had a very cool, back-and-forth relationship with the refs.
And then after I signed this contract, it felt like the play changed. When I would play people, I could feel the extra Referees were talking to me different, and I was being painted like this aggressive guy, something that wasn't me. And then I was second to Rasheed [Wallace] in techs. All this stuff that I had never experienced before, but now that I'm the top player and get paid the most money, these things are starting to come into account now.
I started to see things a little differently after that. I started educating myself on more financial stuff, and I started participating more in some of the lockout conversations. Some of the players association meetings, I started being more of a part of it and educating myself and encouraging other players to step up and know the business of the game. I don't think that was the case before. Michael Jordan and all those guys weren't in there.
They didn't think of it as a whole cohesive group. For the most part, I felt like that was the wave. And in the parts where it worked, it worked, and where it fell apart, it fell apart.
I can see where some of the nuances were and where the standard was set for contracts. And it comes back around in cycles, so here we are today with great money and opportunities for these players. Locker rooms are not the same. Practice facilities are not the same. Rules are not the same. Some things that we were getting hit over the head for—Kinesio tape that you see everywhere now, we were getting fined for that. We didn't have rest days.
We didn't have load management. You couldn't just take the f--king day off if you wanted to. The ups and downs, aches and pains that you go through, you've got to know that you're the real beneficiaries of yesteryear.
It's good to see these guys having these opportunities that we worked hard for and stood on. Do you have young players now reaching out to you for advice about those options? Garnett: Believe it or not, I have a bunch of young athletes, not just in basketball, reaching out for solutions.
Part of me doing this documentary was just for that. There's only one of me, and a million people ask me a million different questions, so I wanted to either do a book or put something out there that people can use as a script. I try to make myself available and be as transparent as I can be. I see kids with all these different opportunities. They now have a dilemma of how to do something, as opposed to which option to take.
I try to individualize every situation. Parents can only help so much when it comes to this decision. I've been throwing an idea to the league of a kind of big-brother program, where young kids can actually reach out to the OGs and get some solutions or get some advice, so they can make the best decisions for themselves as opposed to going into a situation that isn't necessarily the best fit for them.
I'm seeing the business of it. I see the NBA going to a baseball kind of structure where you have a minor league where you can not have so much on you to begin with. The G League is kind of a perfect portal if you're coming out of high school and don't want to jump right into the league, you have something like the G League that pays decent money to these guys starting off. I'm not saying the G League is the league, but to have that kind of secondary league where you can go prep yourself before you get to the league, I'm glad these kids have that option.
Garnett: We had that. You might go into it looking like it's a waste of time, but it hits you with a lot of stuff about the lifestyle of the NBA that your mother and father can't teach you.
You need to have someone who's been through it give you the ins and outs of it and tell you about the pitfalls. Garnett: I would have gone to the Celtics a little earlier. I told Paul [Pierce] that, and he kind of got mad at me. We could have got two or three. The players were mirror images: one on the court with a full complement of teammates, the other out of bounds, alone.
Two men engaged in a bizarre basketball tango. That will hurt us. Somehow in we were going around and everyone was having arm wrestling contests and Glen Big Baby Davis was crushing everybody … and one by one whoever took on Big Baby Davis, they lost.
Until we got on the plane, 35, feet up in the air. And on the go, no one moves. About a minute and 30 goes by. KG in "Coffee and Gatorade.
It's a hell of a mix. If you're ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think. Note the time and score.
On maintaining chemistry via our Paul Flannery :. The more you practice, the more you get familiar with each other. There's no hit the fast forward button here. You got Comcast.
Some shows you can't fast forward through, you got to let it go through and watch the silly-ass commercials and be pissed, right? This is what this is. Did I just take a shot at Comcast? Fuck it, I did. So what. I'm a Direct-TV guy anyway. Anyway look, this is what this. I'm not helping myself am I? Fuck it, anyway that's what's this is. We totally messed that up, right? But this is one them things where it just takes its course and you can't speed anything up.
Next question. On cooking also via Flannery :. For those who can cook, y'all know what I'm talking about. If y'all don't know what I'm talking about and can't cook, then this doesn't concern you. It's fun". On Caesar salad If I was a Cobb salad, my wife is the lettuce…no, sorry, my daughter is the lettuce. My wife is the bacon strips. My friend Steve is the avocado. Cassell and Ty Lue are each a grape tomato.
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