John Wall
Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles
The Players' Tribune
5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This week we got a former No. 1 overall pick and Wizard great, John Wall, with Q and D on Knuckleheads. The five-time NBA All-Star looks back on being the top player in the country in high school, choosing Kentucky to play with Coach Calipari, and the origin of the John Wall dance. He talks about playing with Gilbert Arenas as his vet, balling out with the Wizards, and teaming up with Bradley Beal. John Wall, a real hooper’s hooper — tune in!
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Being the no. 1 recruit in high school (3:02)
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Deciding to go play for Coach Cal at Kentucky (5:27)
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Being on a stacked Wildcats team with DeMarcus Cousins and Eric Bledsoe (7:38)
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Getting drafted by the Wizards (13:05)
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Doing the Dunk Contest, becoming an All-Star point guard (22:00)
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Changing the culture in DC, getting the Wizards to the playoffs (25:40)
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Bradley Beal, their dynamic duo (28:38)
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, you know, the first question I want to ask you, when you first got to the league, who's the first person to bust your ass? |
| 0:07.0 | First person to bust my ass, Steve Nash. |
| 0:10.0 | I had like a stretch, I had a stretch where I had D-rolls, Rondo, then I went to the west coast, I had Russ, |
| 0:17.1 | CP and Steve Nash. |
| 0:19.1 | And this one, you know, you want to pick, you know, he got, |
| 0:21.0 | run to pick and roll, he always dribble around the baseline. He went 10 for 10 against me |
| 0:24.1 | I was like, he's no way hell he cooking me like this. But yeah that's the first one that gave me a welcome to the |
| 0:29.3 | NBA moment for sure. Did he hit his little signature layout fatal? |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah, I was mad, I'm contested, I'm chasing him. |
| 0:36.0 | I was like, man, I don't care about scoring right now. |
| 0:37.7 | I just got to get a stop. |
| 0:38.7 | Yo, yo, we live on location, New York City, we in a building. |
| 0:47.0 | NBA draft week, like I always got the blackest one with me today. |
| 0:52.0 | We got a very, a very very special guest. |
| 0:54.8 | Former number one overall pick. |
| 0:57.8 | Ghana, North Carolina's finest in the building. We got Mr. John Wall man multiple time all |
| 1:04.7 | stop multiple time big time appreciate you pulling up on us player. |
| 1:08.4 | Show that you know that. Yes sir, yes sir. Sir. In high school you was considered probably a late blower would you say like how did they |
| 1:32.0 | miss you though it's like when I first thing I was like |
| 1:35.3 | did you get a gross part or something I don't know where I have yeah like 10th |
| 1:40.5 | grade I was like 5 7 5 8 but I was always nice like I was averaging 40 at 13 15 but |
| 1:46.8 | My A you team I played for the Garner Bulldog David West had ran the program, but we never really traveled |
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