Ahmad Rashad

so what else are we talking about so

i mean i think it's kind of funny that i mean sticking on to this uh binance debacle like bitcoin was unfazed it was like at some point we were yes i was and i remember ahmad rashad and and hakim al-ajwan and jordan retiring and coming back barely i remember my mom getting me a super nintendo my mom and dad getting me a super nintendo for christmas in 93 uh it was it was great times i didn't realize how great those times were that's for sure uh but yeah so it's like the binance the binance debacle didn't affect bitcoin uh it didn't you know you saw all these crypto chains just die on the vine uh and it's just like you know it makes me think that gosh is this all is this all the world has is this all the the economy can throw at bitcoin you could throw the biggest crypto heist out there and bitcoin goes down not even what nine percent and we can't even blame it directly on that i mean bitcoin hit 86 000.

And it had already had a drawback.

I mean, what was the price when the Binance thing happened? Was Bitcoin maybe $82,000? Like, it goes down $7,000.

Thankfully, somebody eventually came to their senses, and in 2014, the Bobcats became the Hornets again, bringing back the purple and teal and restoring some order to the basketball universe and to my world.

And while the current Hornets might not have quite the same place in my heart as those original teams, there's something about seeing that familiar teal on an NBA court that takes me right back to being a kid on Saturday mornings with Ahmad Rashad and Willow Bay.

I got this new teal quarter zip just this week to celebrate.

So this week's teal of the week goes to the Charlotte Hornets, one of the franchises that helped make teal the color of the 90s and one that thankfully found its way back home.

Because I grew up learning about sports from watching shows like NBA Inside Stuff, learning about the players, learning about how, where they came from, what made them tick.

So seeing myself as someone who wanted to be like, you know, Ahmad Rashad, someone who wanted to be like the great storytellers who work in media in this country.

So copying those kind of men and women was my passion from really day one, Paul.

So you're a storyteller and you obviously tell stories across a variety of sports.

I didn't like Fran Tarkington.

I never liked Ahmad Rashad.

I never liked any of those guys.

Don't say cold pepper Randy Moss.

You know, the only person I would add to that list is incredibly controversial.

He only spent two years, I believe, as the NBA on NBC studio ringleader, but Ahmad Rashad.

I know he's a punchline and he is justifiably a punchline in a lot of ways.

If Ahmad Rashad came along today, he would be like bigger than Stephen A. Smith.

I thought you

were going to say Jim Lampley for a second.

And then I saw him most recently.

My godfather is Ahmad Rashad.

Hello, everyone.

I'm Ahmad Rashad, along with Willow Bay.

Welcome to this special edition of NBA Inside Stuff.

and, you know, from TV and NFL before that.

Here's what I would say about it.

If you had to, if you, if you made me guess, I just like my mind immediately goes to Ahmad Rashad.

The guy like has a basketball background, but also like played in the NFL for a long time.

So it's like, I'd imagine that's where this would live.

He was 42.

Was Ahmad Rashad? No, but the other guy on the Vikings was 42.

Yeah, I knew one of the Vikings guys was.

I thought it was Rashad.