David West

Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles

The Players' Tribune

Arts, Comedy, Sports

5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 133 minutes

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This week on Knuckleheads we got a true enforcer and pick-and-pop master, David West, on the show. D West looks back on almost dropping out of high school, setting records at Xavier, and his introduction to the league, especially playing the 4. He talks about those Hornets teams, what it was like having to move to OKC, and his game alongside a young CP3. D West touches on moving over to Indiana, battling the Big 3 in Miami, and what it was like to finally win a championship years later with Golden State. D West a real one, Tune in! Dominating at Xavier, starting every game in his four years there (16:02) Getting drafted by the New Orleans Hornets (29:50) Hornets drafting CP3, having great success with him (45:51) Hurricane Katrina, having to relocate to Oklahoma City (52:13) D West’s first All Star selection (1:00:10) Hornets’ 2008 playoff run, almost taking down San Antonio (1:10:01) Going to Indiana, Heat-Pacers playoff rivalry (1:13:05) Winning the NBA Finals with the Warriors (1:45:10) About Our Hosts: NBA veterans Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles are lifelong friends and bona fide truth-tellers. Listen as they invite special guests, high-profile athletes, musicians and entertainers to get brutally honest about everything from current events to untold stories from the golden era of sports and culture. Named for the on-court celebration they made wildly popular, this unfiltered, hilarious and surprising podcast is like playing NBA 2K with no fouls. Other places to find Knuckleheads: Subscribe on Youtube Follow on Instagram Follow on Facebook

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0:00.0	First of, bro, man, we appreciate you coming on the show with us.
0:04.3	Memon of them days in Portland, man, using New Orleans, man, enforcing, kicking our ass
0:09.8	in Portland, man.
0:10.8	Me and Zibo, he's talking about your ass all the time, but man, we appreciate you coming
0:14.5	on the show rocking with us, bro.
0:16.0	Yes, sir, for me.
0:17.0	Yeah, sir.
0:18.0	For sure, man.
0:19.0	Thank y'all for having. When you first got to the league, who was the first person to bust your ass?
0:24.3	Oh.
0:28.6	Yeah, it depends, man, if we're talking about practice or a game.
0:34.1	Because I, I mean, I had a couple experiences.
0:35.8	When I came in the league, I came to the oldest team in the NBA so everybody was in the early 30s mid 30s late
0:43.3	season grown-ass dude so um I probably probably was match like we was playing pick up before
0:50.8	um yeah we played like three day three or four, and I didn't get a chance to guard
0:57.0	them because, you know, we didn't switch.
0:59.0	Like, it wasn't no switching.
1:00.0	So like George Lynch and Stacey Augman, when we played pickup, they guarded mad straight
1:04.0	up.
1:05.0	That was it.
1:06.0	There was no switching in none of there.
1:07.0	So we planned, and the following week, like I hadn't guarded them all week. The following week, the matchups got funky.
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