Pacers In 9, Kevin Durant in H-Town, Sam Presti A Legend, Old Men Arguing Online & Athlete that wanna be Gangsters

Summary

In this episode, the host reflects on the recent NBA Finals, celebrating the Oklahoma City Thunder's victory while expressing disappointment for the Indiana Pacers. The conversation delves into the impact of Sam Presti on the Thunder's success, insights on betting during the finals, and cultural reflections on basketball and society. The host also discusses the role of older generations in basketball culture, expectations for future generations, family dynamics, standards in relationships, and the complexities of tipping culture.

Chapters

00:00 NBA Finals Recap and Reactions
02:05 Sam Presti's Impact on OKC Thunder
04:19 Injury Impact and Game Analysis
06:53 Cultural Reflections on Basketball and Society
08:52 The Role of Older Generations in Basketball Discussions
12:58 Life Lessons and Personal Growth
17:16 Family, Relationships, and Community Values
21:14 Breaking Free from Negative Lineages
24:55 Setting Standards in Relationships
28:09 The Importance of Personal Responsibility
32:20 Navigating the NBA Landscape
39:08 Tipping Culture and Personal Boundaries

Takeaways

The NBA Finals showcased an exciting matchup, highlighting the Thunder's dominance.
Sam Presti's strategic decisions have significantly shaped the Thunder's success.
Betting insights reveal the emotional stakes involved in the finals.
Cultural reflections emphasize the need for constructive discussions in basketball.
Older generations should set a better example in basketball culture.
Expectations for future generations should focus on personal growth and responsibility.
Family dynamics play a crucial role in shaping individual choices and standards.
Setting high standards in relationships is essential for personal development.
Tipping culture raises questions about social expectations and fairness.
Future plans include more content creation and engagement with the audience.

Transcript

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Just adore it.

SGA the other way, inside and Williams throws it down.

All right, y'all get the picture, man. ConcreteGeniusMedia.com.

Pacers in nine, I guess. Good morning, good morning, good morning. Get a copy of my book, man. I'm kind of discombobulated again. Change your A-tips for me to find peace, Get well soon, Tyrese Halliburton. What's happening, what's happening, what's happening?

you ride with your boy on a Monday, man, after a great NBA final, stop complaining, because you didn't get to see Venice Beach, man. Book a plane ticket, fly into John Wayne Airport, you bum. Fly into JFK and see some landmarks in real life. Stop complaining about what you didn't see on TV. All you smart, small market haters, all you big market throat guzzlers. All right, let's see New York. Nigga, you live in Arkansas, you live in Kansas, nigga. Get on a plane.

We just had the most entertaining finals in nine years and all I heard was you dweebs complain about it being small markets. Like your lives really lit anyway. Congratulations to OKC, man. What are we doing here? Let's get some reset. I'm a little frustrated,

Get well soon Tyrese Halliburton, but congratulations to the Oklahoma City Thunder on a tremendous NBA Finals win. Just a dominant season from start to finish. A great way to put a ribbon on it. An amazing job from the players, SGA, J-Will, Caruso, Chet, just an amazing job from the players. And an amazing job from the coach, Mark Dinnigolt. But let's talk about Sam Presti.

If we can get some championships out of this run, not we, because I'm not an OKC fan, but if they can get some championships out of this run, we're going to have to start putting Sam Presti in some top 10. He's already a top 10 GM. Because he's given his coaches pieces to win. He gave Scott Brooks the pieces to win. He's gave Mark Deningau the pieces to win. He even tried to give...

Whoever the hell was coaching SGA, the pieces to win. I mean, not SGA, but PG. The pieces to win. Some of the trades he's made, the draft picks he's made. We really gotta have a conversation about Sam Presti. He really one of them ones, really that guy. But not to get off topic, man, I'm just a little discombobulated, paceless fan. I really wanted Indiana to have that championship. I really did, man. It's just, we Indiana, bro. We in the middle of the state. We popping, we the crossroads of America.

You know, we go through a lot of shit, a lot of pain, a lot of tribulations. We got our own issues. This was the one moment we've had such a positive spotlight on us for one of our teams. And it wasn't Peyton Manning, you know what mean? It wasn't Andrew Luck. It was really the Indiana Pacers in 2025. So for that, I'm never going to discredit what this run meant to the city, what this run meant.

to basketball with this championship meant to basketball. I think it was phenomenal. think the gameplay was phenomenal. I do think the NBA dropped the ball at the beginning because I felt like they were presenting the finals like they thought it was going to be trash. So as the finals started picking up, they started doing things better in production and all my camera guys and audio guys and podcast guys know.

At the beginning of the NBA finals, think somebody said, I think it was Trayvon Edwards on Twitter, but somebody says worst produced finals they've seen in a long time. And I totally agree with that. You could just see the lack of energy in the productions of the first two, three games. And then once the finals became better and the quality of the basketball was deemed to be superior, that's when the NBA started putting more details into the production of the finals. But all in all, in my opinion, it was a great NBA finals.

Congratulations to Oklahoma City. I'm not a hater. Another small market. Comparable to ours. You know, growing up in a state that's a little rough around the edges. If you black, growing up in Oklahoma, it's a little rough around the edges. Probably even maybe here. You grew up here, you grew up black, it's a little rough around the edges. So I don't have no negative jokes or words or nothing for OKC. I'm happy for the city. I'm happy for the town. I'm happy for the players.

Yo man, I know on that team, Dylan on the, so it's like, I ain't got no beef with them. They won fair and square, but I just wish it could have been Indiana. But since it ain't, let's go ahead and send them shirts to Ecuador. I know everybody was waiting on them Pacers final shirts. Let's go ahead and ship them off to Ecuador and get over it, man. It's no reason, unless you lost a bet, right? I had the Pacers.

I put an extremely large amount of money on the Pacers money line, right?

I'll just be honest. So when I saw the Pacers money line, right, I put $1,500 on the Pacers money line. I thought they was going to win straight up. Right?

I it was 1500 to win 4500, right?

as soon as Halliburton fail.

I went straight to FanDuel, cashed Cashed out for like $1,192. Just charged that $300 to the game. I had another parlay that would've hit. I had SGA, I Siak on rebounds, Halliburton two threes, and something else. Caruso. Halliburton hits two threes early and I had Halliburton six assists. So I already knew. Now if I didn't have the six assists, I may have let the Pacers Moneyline bet ride.

But I knew once Hallibur, I not knew the injury soon as he fell. When players smack the ground, they know. So, why everybody was like, oh my God, what's wrong with Tyrese? I'm straight the fan duo, nigga, cash out. Cause I was ready to celebrate. I honestly, honestly feel, as someone who's watched basketball, the bounce and the mentality that Tyrese had that game, the Pacers were finna win that game, bro.

They were locked in defensively, offensively, and Tyrese was being aggressive. It was game seven of the finals and he had the mentality to do it. And just, unfortunately he got injured. That's not to take no away from OKC, but we can be honest in both assessments. We can be honest enough to say that congratulations to OKC, phenomenal win. Phenomenal win, phenomenal season. Congratulations to...

SGA only being a fourth player. I think it's Kareem, Oscar, Jordan. And now SGA to win the MVP, the scoring title, finals MVP and an NBA champ all in the same season. Phenomenal feat. I don't have no beef against him. I wish him the best. He's a phenomenal player. I think the NBA is in great hands. I think all the manufactured, panic about the NBA is just that manufactured. I think we live in a...

society where people have to manufacture stories, to manufacture arguments, have to manufacture negative things to talk about. And they think that's what the game needs. But really in reality, what the game needs is content like this where guys get on here and just talk real basketball about really what's happening. I think it's mentally insane to debate LeBron James versus Michael Jordan.

in the middle of June after the finals just ended. The day after the finals just ended. Maybe I'm wrong. But I think something wrong with you, bro. I ain't gonna even hold you. I think something wrong with you. If you waking up June what? What's the date? June what? June 23rd and the first thing you type on your phone is, Lee Bum. Nah, you got some issues, bro.

You got some issues. It was a great finals. We over it. It was amazing. Let's take this time at least a week.

to congratulate the OKC Thunder on a phenomenal run. And this could be the beginning of something epic. We already know the draft pick situation. We already know the culture. I just think they're in a perfect market to dominate.

They're basically the Green Bay Packers of the NFL. I mean of the NBA. Because if you go there, it's none of the deal with basketball.

college-like atmosphere and.

an amazing front office. So we can see a very, very good stretch of basketball, very, very great stretch of basketball from Oklahoma City for the next five to 10 years, and I wouldn't at all be surprised about it. ConcreteGeniusMedia.com, man, follow me on all socials. Get a copy of my book, The Game Changer, Eight Tips for Man to Find Peace. We really rocking out here, man, you see it, man. Scanning QR code.

get to my website, my YouTube, everything you need. think that's YouTube something. You see the logos, man. We outside. We real. I'm finally back in the crib.

It's so nice to be home, bro. gonna even hold you. And I was in a very, very comfortable living situation when I went here. You know what saying? I was relaxed. I was with family. I was chilling. I was fed. I was loved and I was blessed. But it still ain't none like your old shit. I always tell you, bro, first thing you can do is boss up. You get to certain age, bro.

Do what's best for you. But ain't nothing like yours, your home, your car, your life, your space. It's what it's all about. Now I'm back to bring you this million dollar content. I'm chilling. Life is good. And Pacers fans, before I get off the basketball, before I close.

Let's be nice to each other. Let's not.

allow losing this finals, get y'all started getting violent and shit, get y'all started going crazy. Excuse me, start talking crazy each other. Think I already, three niggas got shot last night on the monument, but that might just be some regular Indianapolis shit, honestly. But it might have something to with the game. But what I'm saying is like, let's not be mad, bro. if I told you October 1st, Pacers fans.

that you were going to be in game seven of the NBA championship. All I need is $5. Each one of y'all would have gave me that $5 just for that experience, that feeling you experienced from Milwaukee to last night. So let's not let a bad ending sour the journey.

Let's get on another journey and be in more control of the ending. ConcreteGeniusMedia.com, bro. This raw game right here, raw game, raw game, raw game.

Raw game, raw game. Now.

I wanna say this emphatically.

It is too many old niggas arguing on the internet, I'm not gonna say no names, because some niggas is 45, still on the block. But what I'm saying is, every time you turn on the internet now,

It's like.

Y'all trying to be like the young niggas.

Every day I turn on the internet, go to X, go to Twitter, wherever media platform I use. And it's always two niggas born in the 70s online arguing. I'm better than him. He wasn't better than me. In 1981, I was better than him. Like, bro, I understand it. I'm a competitive nigga. But at some point, if you comfortable in life, and I'm comfortable in life,

We can't just keep getting on the internet acting like idiots, bro. You niggas is in your 40s and 50s and y'all arguing about stupid shit. I had more emotion than him. I got more juice than him. He ain't as relevant as me. I'm better than him. All you niggas is doing is arguing, trying to act like young dudes and getting in sex scandals. And it's a shame. It's permeated NBA culture, podcast culture, debate culture. We have no...

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to go Ryan Clark. Y'all know how Ryan Clark say something? He act like he ain't saying the most serious shit in the world.

Nah, just... But nah, it's permeated every culture and another thing is done is like...

Niggas feel like they can talk about everything. And when I say niggas, I mean everybody, right? Case in point. 10 years ago, if you would have heard Stephen A. Smith talking about the election, you probably would told him, the fuck up. Especially if it was a view you didn't agree with. Now, we got the hockey nigga from Great Clips giving LeBron takes, bro. PK Subhan.

We got baseball niggas, UFC niggas, Kobe Covington giving LeBron takes like who? You meathead MMA nigga. What makes you think black basketball fans want to hear your take on LeBron James? You meathead bastard. I don't care about you, Kobe Covington. I don't care about what your opinion is. And no disrespect to the great clips.

P.K. Subban, look, I'm sure you the life of the party, bro. I'm sure it was very hard to be a Negro ice skater.

And I'm sure you overcame a lot. And I'm sure you're a champion in your sport. I've been told that on Twitter. Do I know for sure? I don't know. You know why? Because I don't talk about hockey. You know why I don't talk about hockey? Because I don't fucking watch hockey.

See how that goes? And if you ask my opinion on hockey, would say, these guys are phenomenal athletes. I wish them the best. But I don't watch hockey. So why are y'all calling P.K. Subban to talk about LeBron? So you know what that leads to? More Stephen A. yelling. Now you got Shannon yelling. Now you got Stephen Jackson yelling, finna beat a motherfucker up at the Big 3.

Now you got Jim Jones and Shannon Sharp arguing about some shit.

Old niggas and almost old niggas. That's some of you younger niggas too, you basketball pod niggas. Like, let's start sticking to the script of what you do best. If you a podcast and you cover general subjects, do your thing. But if you was an NBA basketball.

I don't wanna hear you talk gangster shit. Even if you might have participated in a couple of gangster-like activities, you're not a gangster, bro, you a hooper. Point blank. I don't care who you co-sign with, I don't care what gangs you know, I don't care. If you're a professional basketball player, you're not a gangster. If you're a college basketball player, you're not a gangster. If you're an NFL player,

You're not a gangster. Just relax. Now you may have gangster like Tennessee's, you may have ignorant Tennessee's, you may be violent. That doesn't make you a gangster. You are a basketball player, right? Somebody that can fight good that works at McDonald's isn't an MMA fighter. They work at McDonald's. Somebody that can fight MMA that makes a great hamburger isn't a chef.

You do what pays you, bro. Basketball pays you. That's what you're great at. Be great at that. Hockey pays you. That's what you're great at. Be great at that. Because now what we got is a bunch of old ass niggas on the internet sounding stupid.

Just screaming and yelling. You ever cut on the internet, bro? You remember 10 years ago, you go to the phone and you see a woman yelling at the phone, screaming? You'd be like, man, this motherfucker retarded. Now, all you see is a bunch of 40, 50 year old niggas just screaming at the phone. You wanna say what? Nigga, I have to... Listen, I'm a player, bro. And I wanna give dudes game. Some of y'all are just too old to be acting so ignorant.

And this is from a retired ignorant nigga. And I'll put my ignorance against any human being walking with credentials and references, but I'm not here for that. I'm here for calm, stillness, and what I convey to the niggas that's 20 years younger than me now.

See, 25 years ago, them niggas was babies. So I had time to get right, but now I'm 45, 50. I shouldn't be.

screaming in the phone like I'm Lil Reese screaming at JoJo. Chief Keef Lil Durk screaming at somebody. I'm OTF or something. You just cussing motherfuckers out. I bore you 50. You was born in the 70s. Stop threatening niggas bro. Go get your problem and listen, I'm gonna tell you the truth.

Once I started having to get up off the floor with three points of contact, I knew all that shit was a distant memory. That shit's ancient history. You know what mean? Like once my knee just voluntarily popped on a day I felt like I was in good shape, I was like, yeah, I'm done with that gangster shit. I am a full fledged civilian.

What? Nigga, I'm a homeowner. am in the HOA associations. I might run for HOA president next year at one of my houses. I am not with the rubbish. So if me...

a reformed juvenile delinquent whose numerous amounts of felonies and maximum security prison and being released from prison and all the tragedy I suffered in prison. If I can get home and be...

Excuse me, I've been eating. If I can come home and be a productive member of society, then so can you, my nigga. So can you, bro. Like, for real. What we doing? Like, and let's be honest, a lot of you niggas is playing catch up, my nigga. I'm not going to even sugarcoat it. A lot of you dudes is gang banging in your 20s and 30s and even 40s and 50s to this day. A lot of you...

wasn't like that when you was teenagers and you forever playing this character of being crazy. You know how know you niggas ain't crazy? Cause if you crazy nigga, you crazy by the eighth grade. Period. Like ain't no... By the time you get to eighth, ninth grade, if you really about that action, that's the time you about that action. I am so tired of you gang bangers and drug dealers and street niggas.

with high school diplomas and college credits.

Why did you come back to that side of the ignorance? So now we got a bunch of 40, 45, 30 year old, 35 year old niggas in their second childhood. We got a bunch of professional athletes trying to beef like Bloods and Crips.

We got rappers, street niggas.

Scammers all acting the same. Athletes. Before, you know, when I was hustling in the streets, I'm tell you the truth. I would be out in the club, big money. Say some NBA niggas coming here, just off top. Just say Jamal Tinsley, whoever come in the club, right?

Anybody. Any coach player.

You gonna be able to look and see and say, okay, them the hustlers, them the hoopers. So you niggas should learn from niggas like David West and all them niggas, Danny Granger. I see Danny Granger come to the club, get a bitch. This nigga got on a button up, nigga.

No jury, nigga, you don't need all, you in the league. Why you wanna look like a nigga that's copping nine bricks for? Or nine ounces? What you wanna look like him for? It's the street aesthetic.

See, a lot of you niggas, like, wanna use that life to live like the rappers you looked up to, which is fine, you can live how you wanna live. Ain't nobody gonna tell me what to do with my money when I'm on this earth. But what I'm telling you is that the street shit, and your NFL niggas too, but the street shit is not the way to go.

especially if you black, man. And the predominant, and the most of y'all listening to this, and-

Perpetuating this, perpetuating this are black men. And the one thing you don't want to do, black man, is get an arrest on your record when you have paths otherwise chosen. So let all the gang shit go. All you athlete niggas, all you hoop niggas, all you old 40, 50 old niggas arguing online. You look like some dumb, confused old niggas.

You get gray hair in your beard, nigga. Stop arguing niggas on the internet, bro. Like, it really ain't that serious. Let's have discussions. You ever see them Chicago niggas be online? Old school Chicago niggas be online?

Yeah, that was 77th and Stony Island, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Me and Hoover used to go to the candy store. Yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm. See, that's how you got a pod, my man. Be a player with this shit. You know what I'm saying? You see me, I'm a player. I got the rough and tough, but I'm here to just give you the game and enlighten you give you some jewels. I'm gonna wake up, I'm gonna tell you to clean you with my card, I'm gonna tell you how to fix your credit. I'm gonna tell you how to control your anger.

I'm tell you how to get a copy of my book, The Game Changer, A-Test for Man to Find Peace. Know what saying? I'm gonna tell you how to get a white.

Your niggas is fascinated with IG baddies and horse. I'm teach you how to get a wife. I'm gonna teach you how to boss up, bro. I'm gonna teach you how to be calm in the storm. And that's the most valuable thing I can give you and I'm giving you that for free every time I rap because I'm somebody that's been the most violent in the worst storms and had to find a-

ConcreteGeniusMedia.com. I'm sorry, I got little emotional.

Hey, so look, let's think about it,

Now that the pastries is done, what y'all doing this summer? Y'all going out town, y'all going on vacation, y'all gonna take them kids out of town, y'all know them kid won't go so where man. Stop shaking your funky ass, drinking all these Casamigos and Don Julio, spending your rent money and shit on nails and lashes and the haircuts and bedazzled belts and your old school car.

And that's fine if you're doing it, but take them fucking kids to the beach. Don't go to Vegas. Don't go to Miami. Don't go to a concert. Don't go to a fight.

Take your family out of town. Just plan two vacations. Two vacations and two weekend staycations. At least. And then have your fun. See that's what, and that's another problem with a lot of us. And I ain't gonna say y'all, I'm gonna say us. Because.

We always gotta feel like we gotta play makeup time to some shit. I'm 30, I had them kids in my 20s, I need me some me time. Well your kids need you some them time. Maybe your house needs some time. Like.

I could never be in a club in my yard fucked up. You know what I'm saying? Like I could never be out and my house ain't clean. You know what I'm saying? My driveway got oil stains. I'm very, my mind works in compartments.

You know what I'm saying? Like, getting ready to go to the club and your house filthy to me is embarrassing. Because what the fuck you been doing all day? How is it Saturday night you getting ready to go to the club? Y'all pre-gaming, clothes and shit everywhere, couch everywhere, food plates, shit in the ditches. Nigga, what? What the fuck have you been doing since 8 a.m.? And now we supposed to go out 11 Saturday? I'm not going nowhere with you. You're untrustworthy.

Nah man, nah. And another thing y'all need to do.

Start telling your little cousins and nieces and nephews and your kids what you did to change your life and get some money. Or just be a better person. My little cousin, my female cousin, I love her to death, Carmelita, her and Walker, they just been married 10 years. 10 years. I helped raise that little girl. Her and her man been together 10 years. So when you got someone out your family, ain't no better feeling.

than when a woman in your family get married. And it's a good guy.

I can't tell you how good that shit feel, boy. I ain't gonna hold you. It's just the best feeling in the world. Like, it is an amazing feeling. And then you can really be like, that's my brother. That's family. You know what saying? And it's like a little niece or cousin that you gave some game to and then they get it right. It's like.

She happy, she safe, she protected. I've done my job as an ancestor. You know what I'm saying? Like real shit, real shit, man. Give it up. Give it up for marriage, man. Black couples, black love.

Now on the flip side, it is also extremely, extremely disappointing, right?

When y'all bring home a nigga getting their stuff together.

I know that sound fucked up, as a very, very upstanding member of the Protective Male Cousin and Uncle Association, I may be the president, but I ain't the president. I'm a client for sure. Upstanding member.

You bring a lot of unnecessary pressure on your family when you fuck with a sorry nigga.

Look around at your uncles, your daddies. If them niggas sorry, go marry the opposite.

Right? Just get the hell away from your lineage. But if you look at your daddies and your uncles, and they good strong men, double digit places of employment, a lot of good relationships they've had for years. You never had a lot of people in your house. Your pops, your uncles, your daddy always protected you, no weirdo vibes. They've never let other men even come around and make you feel weird.

Don't disappoint them by marrying some bum ass nigga. Don't let your urges make you procreate with a nigga with nothing. Too many young women are out here fucking with niggas that you know have nothing. You don't wanna get out in here, all this bum ass nigga, I let you stay in my crib, you bum ass nigga, go get a job. No, that's your fault. You brought his existence into your life.

because you couldn't control your sexual urges or your selfish urges, you brought this bum ass nigga around your other kid that you just had him had through another nigga that you don't fuck with. Now, it's just a plethora of bum ass niggas.

Now what kind of pressure that put on your big mom? Your uncles and your aunties. Now they gotta watch these chillin'. They gonna love them. We love the chillin'.

Now you out here struggling. You like Jemila on straw. You just out here struggling like a motherfucking. Now you could, I got to come by, I got to take the guy. Like, no. Because now you gonna have to settle for a sorry nigga. See, I think that's what a lot of women, it's rare that you can make them, see, and I want to say this real clearly, men.

We can make a mistake and recover, especially if we're attractive, we articulate, we got some money, we got something going by ourselves. A man can make some mistakes and marry a very, very high quality woman. Shit, a nigga can get out of prison and marry a lawyer, nigga. Attorney and CEO, like that's not a problem. Call me, bitch. But, that's spam, by the way, but.

If a woman makes mistakes, it's harder to recover.

And I say this with sincerity because...

I hate

when nefarious people come around me strictly on the strength because they dating somebody I love. You know what mean? Or worse off, somebody I love relative. You know what saying? Like, I give you an example.

If I go to a gathering, right, say I got a cousin.

Nah, I'll give you another example. Yeah, I say I got a cousin. Everybody know her nigga don't bring none but bad energy. And I've been tempted a couple of times to split his head open.

with a mot wringer for being disrespectful around my family.

So if we have a family gathering and you know that's the vibe, don't invite this bum ass nigga.

Deal with him on your time. Same with men. If you my male cousin, you got this loud, rambunctious ass girlfriend, you can't control, she ignorant, she always start shit, she drunk as she start shit, she drunk as she get loud, keep that motherfucking bitch over there, nigga. We don't want her around.

And God forbid, I don't ever want to meet the loser you dating family. Because if they losers, if he a loser or she a loser, what the fuck you think they come from? See, one thing about me, I ain't got no family. I'm embarrassed to be around.

So don't fucking get so attached that you just need companionship over what your boundaries and what your standards are. Make your standards your standards. Your standards are, shouldn't be up for compromise. You should have a set of standards. You should have things you'll compromise on and you should have a set of unacceptables. I your standards and your unacceptables kind of the same thing, but.

It's also a little different. And that's for men and women. Because some of you niggas, y'all, take in homeless women too, and that's not fair to y'all. But I think society tricks you as a man like, shit, I gotta do better to give my girl a better life. And you do. You absolutely do. But only under the pretense that she's attempted to give herself a better life. And this is for you men. Stop dating rescue missions.

If you meet a woman and she need money, unless you lack confidence and know money is your key to conversation and detention, just ignore her. Find you a woman that appreciates you for you.

It's not a hard concept.

It's really not. At some point we gotta be of the strong mind and excommunicate some of this ratchet behavior out the black community, the, some of this ignorance out the black community.

And I say this because you shouldn't be as ignorant at 36 as you was at 16. And if you are ignorant at 36, don't date my cousin.

If you a 36 year old nigga and you don't have nowhere to live and you don't have no car or nothing, don't date nobody in my family. Cause I'ma fuck around and cut off the person in my family if you too much of a burden.

Like I'm at the age where...

I don't wanna be bothered. I don't wanna hear your problems. I don't wanna hear what the fuck you got going on. And I don't wanna meet no bum ass nigga you just met again. Especially if you got a pattern of bum ass niggas. Ladies, if you're in your 30s and you in your 40s and you just got a pattern of just bum after bum after bum after bum.

Pray, read, go to gym, go to church, maybe move, rearrange a house, burn some sage, but the problem is you. Whatever it is, you a magnet for these type of niggas. Because there's a certain type of woman a bum nigga can't know he can't get.

And then you teach women in your family like, standards. And that's the problem. Like I think we lose the middle ground in the black Dane community. It's either nigga trick on me and give me all your money or women meet niggas that's got to borrow their car within a week when they met them. We need to find a balance. Like don't be a trick. Don't need money to get women's attention. But also know as a man or a woman, but especially as a man, cause I'm a man, I'm speaking for men.

It's certain things that you need to have before you start dating if you over 25. If you're 21, if you over 18, you in college, just get your little car or something, little money for the movies. Cool. But if you are a man and you are not seeking secondary education, i.e. college, trade, or whatever, and you're over 25, you need to have your own career. Yours.

Not no roommates, not no motherfucking apartment you share with three other niggas and six pit bulls. None of that shit. Your crib, your car, your clothes, your money. Because the best way to be a successful husband is to have to buy your own toilet paper, tissue, everything. Wash your clothes.

Cook for yourself, buy your pots, go to home goods, go to at home, learn about decor, learn about everything you need to do to live on your own sustainably. Do that for at least three years and then you'll know what your standards are, what you'll tolerate from a woman. See me, I'm already super clean. So I know I can never fuck with a woman and ate fucking Oreos or something in the bed. So my wife, she OCD.

But I would much rather deal with a woman that gets on my nerves about how meticulous and clean she is, knowing that I'm clean, than a woman I could be like, damn, this nasty ass bitch. Like, I can't do that. So you gotta set the standard, but that is because I come from a clean environment as a child, and then I'm a very clean dude, and even when I was a bachelor, I woke up every day, I cleaned my house, I had an immaculate, or I hired.

temporary house keeping or I hired a maid or something to come clean my apartment. But I always kept my apartment clean, immaculately, because I'm a player. Car, apartment, body, face fresh, all that type of shit. So when you do that, you setting the standards for what you want. And you don't have to trick, bro. Because honestly, I'm going be honest.

I don't have no beef with a chick that say, hey, this what it take to be with me. This the standard. I'm a bad bitch. You got that, baby. Cool. If you playing a nigga for long money, cool. But damn near 95 % of women that I know that that's they standard, they been hustlers their whole life. You already seeing them driving some nice shit. They already got two, 300,000 in the bank.

They already been keeping nice cars their whole life. They already been buying cribs and businesses. So they already been bosses. So they got standards.

Ain't no way I'ma let a motherfucker who ain't got tread on her tires tell me that it take a hundred dollars a day her show me a hundred dollars.

I'd buy you Gucci purse, but never your first one. So as a man, you gotta know that you gotta have enough self-confidence in yourself to know that you shouldn't be dating nobody poor or somebody's gonna mistreat you. Like, if you dating a woman and the first thing she do is need, run.

I promise you. It's only gonna get worse. CochraneG is media.com. Get a copy of my book, The Game Changer. Fuss a real game. tips for men to find peace, Kevin Durant, Kevin Durant, Houston Rockets. I like it. They kept Tarri Eason. They kept the Thompson Twins. They kept Jabari. I like it a lot. I know a lot of Houston fans were kind of mad by what they gave up by Jalen Green.

and the 10th pick. Listen, I like Jalen Green a lot, bro. But right now, Kevin Durant is still a better viable option for Jalen Green over Jalen Green in the playoffs for the next two to three years.

You still got Van Fleet, which is really the engine that makes it go. He's y'all Halliburton to a lesser degree. And you got.

The Thompson twins who are phenomenal. You got Easton, got Senguin, who's a bruiser. Now you got Katie and you got Oduk, excuse me, Emanuel Doca, who's a defensive genius, a catalyst. So the way he's going to be able to mix and match and play with those lineups is going to be interesting to see. And I just think, I think both sides want to trade. I think Phoenix is in an abomination position. They're terrible.

They have no direction. So they had to get them out of there. They got Jalen Green. got the 10. If I was Phoenix.

I would give up Devon Booker.

for the number one pick. Like if I was Dallas, I would call Phoenix right now.

And I would say, look.

Let's work something out.

Gimme

The number one pick. Nah, I say give me Devin Booker.

And some kind of considerations, you know, however they got to make the numbers work. But if I was Dallas, I would definitely be trying to go get Book. I would definitely be trying to go get something to put that play together. I know there's a lot of people saying Maxie and other people, but I think the trade to make is the number one pick for Devin Booker. You want to topple the thunder? Get Devin Booker on the Dallas Mavericks.

We can make it happen.

Brad Bill, shout out St. Louis. I don't know what the fuck got Brad Bill going on, but that's my nigga. He got a beautiful family, beautiful wife. His wife will hit you in the mouth. I hope you have a great career. Joy Phoenix, my nigga, get your money. You done earned it already, bro. You St. Louis, you done earned it. God bless you. But Devin Booker, you need to get out of there. And your best place might be Dallas.

or

I was gonna say maybe.

And I'm hearing rumors that Giannis and KD was gonna play together, but no way Houston could get Giannis to Milwaukee. I mean, get Giannis down there. You don't have enough capital to give up. it's literally, you had to give up six picks, the Thompson twins and Goon. Like what would you give up for Giannis? what's, to me the only people that could potentially even get Giannis are the Thunder or the Spurs.

Now if I'm the thunder...

Man, I give your ass four first. Six first, nigga. I ain't giving them no collateral. I think right now, Yannis is going to stay with the Bucks. I think the move to make for Dallas is either Booker, and I hear a lot of Tyrese Maxxie and stuff like that, but I think the move...

is Devin Booker for the number one pick. And Devin Booker is worth the number one pick. So I don't wanna hear you, I know everybody's slobbing, Cooper flag, we got American white player, yippie-yi-yay.

I want to see Devin Booker in a position to win the NBA championship in a competent franchise.

So those are my plans, my thoughts. think Kevin Durant getting a chance to play in Houston for a contender is an amazing, I'm a big, big Durant fan. I was a big fan in college. I kind of got caught in the media hype a little bit, but then now Kevin Durant is becoming one of my favorite players probably at all times just because he's becoming the cool uncle of the NBA.

He's got that DMV vibe. Like if you say something smart, he gonna give you some jewels. If you say something stupid, he gonna check you. You know what mean? He relates, he reacts to his fans. He engages with the people that doubts him in a articulate but strong way. But what really made me the biggest fan of Kevin Durant when I saw a couple of stories about his relationship with his mother and his brother. And in a way I see his mom is always with him. She's always happy.

Seeing that joy, seeing a black man bring that joy to his mom and then have her around all the time, just, it touches me in a special way. So I just kind of started like rooting for KD at every capacity. So I wish him the best in Houston. I think too many fans want to live out they demons and they shortcomings by disrespecting these players. And he is a legendary once in a lifetime player and too many people.

don't appreciate cool NBA niggas. You see what saying? and that's problem with dweebs. If you get a cool nigga that's engaged with you on Twitter, say some player shit and get your weird ass on, bro. Like stop taking shots at niggas, stop arguing niggas, stop doing weird shit, Straight up, bro. And then before I go, man, I gotta...

See if I can pull this shit up.

Y'all see that LeBron shit, bro? That shit was crazy here.

I got this shit here somewhere. Be patient with me.

It's the TMZ shit. Here we go right here. Here we go.

Yeah, I got it over here. Look at this shit right here.

This shit right here, I'm gonna start over, start over. And I gotta get y'all some-

Fuck the weirdos.

Hey, DJ Khaled. DJ Khaled's kids.

Yeah.

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Hold on, I gotta highlight this nigga. on, hold on, hold

Somebody tagged this nigga.

This nigga right here, hold on. This nigga right here. This nigga, he getting his shit off too. Look this bum ass nigga, bro. Nigga, you gotta out your motherfucking 18 foot apartment that you pay $4,000 a month for to come down here and scream at a nigga. Look at this nigga.

He's weird, fucking weirdo. That nigga right there, man. Look at that nigga. He's a ass nigga, Straight up, man. Hey, listen. I just want to say this right here, Any nigga, bro, that wakes up out his house to go argue at a professional athlete, you're a fucking weirdo, nigga. You a loser. I'm sorry. Like, you just the weirdest losers, nigga. And there's nothing nobody can do about it. You're forever a loser.

I wanna say something about you niggas that's gonna say, it's just LeBron, I promise you, he can take it. Let's stop inexcusin' bullshit behavior just because we don't like who it happens to. And we do that a lot with LeBron. LeBron can get niggas spray-painted on his house and mother, you shouldn't be living out there, nigga, you shouldn't have been on the internet. Come on, bro, like, come on, let's like, let's be realistic.

You know what I'm saying? That's a lot of niggas I don't like, but if something happened to a nigga kid, I ain't gonna be like, well, your daddy shouldn't be a whole ass nigga. Even though, you So, we just gotta chill, man. you niggas take this. See, the internet got you niggas thinking, y'all right here with celebrities. But most of the time, you niggas is worlds apart. I've seen celebrities tip shit on the restaurant bill.

There wasn't even that much that I could have easily paid that shit no what most people make in a month. Just casually. I've been out with niggas just casually. Bill's $600, you gotta eat, bill's $600. no, I got your big dog. Then nigga tip eight grand. I be like, damn, now that's the money to play with nigga. Even if I got eight grand to give a motherfucker, that shit going on roulette or blackjack or craps or.

The sports book, In show ain't going no motherfuckers. No tip, nigga, shit. I tip a motherfucker a little something. I ain't tip your ass at Subway, nigga. Panera bread, no shit like that, nigga. You get a salary. Tips is for motherfuckers that make $2.35 an hour. Tips ain't for a motherfucker that made your sandwich at Subway, nigga. I'm not tipping. See, motherfuckers be trying to get you to tip the business. I'm not tipping the fucking business, nigga.

Like, and then if I come in for carry out, should I be required to tip?

Cause that pressure be kind of immense sometimes. I ain't gonna lie because if they ain't made you fool yet and they want you to pay, I ain't gonna lie. I didn't kind of got bitched into some tips. Not big tips, but kind of love something just to be like, hey, don't put your motherfucking finger in your booty and put it in my potato salad or sneeze, put a bugger on my shit cause I ain't tip you nothing. And I'm getting $120 worth of carry out.

See that's what tipping culture done did, it done made us victims. You almost feel preyed on when they put you there, motherfucker. Now if my shit wrapped up and y'all done made it already, or I pull up and it's ready, then you don't take this motherfucker dollar Esmeralda and get the fuck off.

You know, take this motherfucking 80 cent and send it home, feed some family.

But if y'all ain't made my shit, I walk in there, oh, we back preparing it now. $10. And take that shit. Oh, sorry, let's go. See what I try to do then is once they give me, I be like, I try, try to punk them out some extra shit. Oh, you know what, can I get four extra things, almonds? And then I need, I thought I ordered a side salad. Oh, that's, we'll get tea on the house. God tipped you to 10, at least I got five on my 10 back.

But I ain't even a tip you zero and I'm spending 150 of you making my shit. And then you go right back there and you tell a motherfucker, this cheap ass nigga, he pull up his nice car and he got on jewelry, he tip us nothing. Motherfuckin' be like, blow a booger right in your shit. Not me, not I. So, tipping culture is something else. But like I said, if my shit made or my shit in a rapper or you gotta make my shit, bro, I'm not tipping you for everything. Nigga, you go to concession stand at a football game for fucking ninth graders.

And it's, what am I tipping you niggas for?

Why am I tipping the Chinese takeout lady and I'm coming to pick the shit up? Like some of these businesses are just ridiculous with the tips, man. You know what I'm saying? If I go to a pastry game, my tickets are already $2,400. Last time I to a playoffs, four tickets, $10,000. And that was a discount, right? You know, I want to go get some food, get some cauliflower shit.

Now I'm $24 for the food. What the fuck do I want to tip you nigga?

I was somewhere, I don't know if it was Vegas or somewhere. I went to go pay a motherfucker to park. Not valet, but in the garage, you know. And on the way out, I don't know if some kind of vent or lot. was like, you want a tip? Nigga, I will get out this car and choke you to fucking death, nigga. No, I'm not tipping nothing unnecessarily. I'm tired of this tip pressure.

that you get because if a motherfucker ask you for a tip, before they make your food, you gonna be bullied into giving a tip. And I'm not with being bullied.

Stop playing with me man, I'm not no joke.

Get copy of my book, The Game Changer, eight tips from me and a fine piece. I got something to do. I'll be back in here tomorrow though. Today, Monday the 23rd, we'll be back in here 24th, see what's happening, what's happening. And we're gonna try to be on here every day this week. That's my goal for July though. I'm trying to pie all month. I'm gonna do some live stuff. You know what mean? Not technically streaming, but just go live, a few apps and shit. But my main goal is to just be out here all month, giving out game.

All right, man, I love y'all. I know y'all love me. I gotta go. We closer to that hour countdown time. And I love y'all, man. Peace out.

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