KH Classic: Kyrie Irving and Jayson Tatum
Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles
The Players' Tribune
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🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
We’re starting off the year with a big time Knuckleheads Classic, throwing it back to one of our earliest episodes,featuring a young young Jayson Tatum and his then teammate Kyrie Irving. In this ep these two Duke legends shared some of their best Coach K stories, and told how Kobe impacted both of their games, as well as what their expectations were for that 2019 Celtics team. And you know Darius had to connect with Jayson on their St. Louis roots! These two superstars have had a lot go on since we chopped it up with them, but both are killing it for their respective teams this season. Tap in to this classic!
- Going to Duke, Coach K’s impact (15:30)
- Kyrie developing his insane layup package (37:26)
- Kobe’s influence on both Jayson and Kyrie (43:22)
Originally aired on March 12,2019
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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 | Yo, yo, we live on location with another knuckleheads classic man. |
| 0:15.7 | It's taking it back all the way to season one man. This was on the patio at the big house. |
| 0:21.4 | We had to get this one we had a very very young Jason |
| 0:24.9 | Tatum and then his teammate was young Kyrie Ervin. This one we had them both |
| 0:30.0 | together on the patio at my house. this was early season when we first started doing |
| 0:35.2 | this thing. What you remember about that up like? Yeah at the time man little |
| 0:39.4 | Jay was in the second year Kyrie was playing with them the boys were Celtics and they was |
| 0:44.4 | trying to do something different man and just to have them over to your crib and |
| 0:48.0 | kick back to fellows man and talk some noise it was dope man and now to see where he at now. |
| 0:54.0 | Charese and Dallas, Jason Tatum is one MVP candidate. |
| 0:58.0 | He's scratching the surface of trying to get him a chip now. |
| 1:01.0 | For me it was a family affair at this point. |
| 1:04.0 | You know, this was a 24-7 Jeff Wexler, the agent, everybody in the building. |
| 1:08.0 | So that was special for us to be able to do that. |
| 1:11.0 | It was at the crib, that's why I was at my house it was at the home you |
| 1:14.1 | know what I'm saying for me I mean it's a lot that didn't happen since then so I |
| 1:17.6 | think this is a great one to revisit because we got into a lot of deep |
| 1:21.1 | conversations with both of them but I think this is a |
| 1:23.8 | dope when it get back in tune with because it was a lot touched on and a lot has |
| 1:27.8 | changed since then. |
| 1:28.8 | Yeah, it's a lot changed for us too, because man, remember that was one of the first ones we didn't |
| 1:35.0 | done, man, we was at the crib, so now we'd have moved on up a little bit. |
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