Jay Williams

I've had these interactions with dudes since I was 19, 20, 21 years old.

I was going out to the Berto Center back in the day when Jamal Crawford got drafted and when Jay Williams got drafted and, and running into pros who sometimes didn't wanna be there as old heads, and, and running into kids who didn't know what life was going to bring them.

But the power that their voices had and the, and the power that they, that they represented in terms of young, athlete, financially stable, famous, like all those things come into play, especially when you're dealing with someone who isn't those things.

I always talk about perspective, like you, you...

This, this question will lead into the faith segment.

I saw a video where Jay Williams, White Chocolate as most people know him, Jay Williams was doing a camp, and he had a young lady that, uh, was a shooter.

And he was...

He passed the ball to her just like ch- just a regular old chest pass, right to her chest, right? And then, then he passed it and he, he said, "Okay, you know, the first pass," he's, "Are you ready to shoot?" And she's like, "No, I need to move over here to the right side." And then he passed it again to her on the right side, and she caught it.

Because like Sam Smith, he put the kid in rare air.

You know, talking about comparing him to Michael Jordan, Derrick Rose, right? Jay Williams, Elton Brand, that.

And while nobody's saying that Kayla Wilson is the next Michael Jordan, he's going to have to prove a lot before those conversations should ever happen.

So let's get out of the way, right? But I do think what we're saying is that Kayla Wilson is one of the best prospects drafted since Michael Jordan.

Now, we've entered that place of the discourse, which is perfectly fine, right? Nobody should be calling Caleb Wilson Michael Jordan.

Nobody should because he has a long way to go before he can even get anywhere close.

They don't care about the North Carolina thing, right? But we do have to have a real history conversation here because when you're looking at some of the best prospects of the Chicago Bulls have had, Derrick Rose, Jay Williams, Elton Brand, right? Those are things that are there.

But that's why we're going to do facts or caps.

just a cool random thing are you old enough to remember the carlos boozer team that won a title at duke because that's the team that tomas cicelo referenced that's the team he used to watch on these vhs

yeah definitely uh definitely remember i mean obviously like when i think of carlos boozer i think about those runs that like him and darren williams had with the utah jazz but yes i remember that 2001 duke team

2001 duke blue devils they finished 35-4 won the national championship Basketball was played in six different months that year.

College basketball.

OKC just has...

so many weapons right the Rockets have done that this season we have so many weapons equally we have made the adjustments that we need in in helping our developing team develop Shea wasn't always Shea it took him time to become Shea especially working with Chip England um Jay Williams I mean The hope was that Chet Holmgren was going to be that guy for OKC.

He got stuffed last year by the Spurs.

Where was that? Where's the criticism on Chet? Where's the criticism on Wemby? Where's the criticism on Castle, on Dylan Harper? Spurs got better, of course, with Tobias Harris, adding Tobias Harris.

Isabel, next.

Did you guys see the viral clips of Duke guard Jay Williams confessing he was paid large at Duke and Ohio State? And Ohio State running back Maurice Claret admitting he literally could not read while in college.

Maurice was illiterate when he got to prison at age 23 and was taught to read there.

Maybe we stop blaming NIL and the portal for ruining the purity of college sports.

This is going to be a complicated multi-team deal in order to make it work because of the complications of Alexander Nikitin.

So I had a couple of listeners bring this up to me like, hey, guys, how come you never talked about Jay Williams admitting that they were paying players at Duke? What? What? So this was last week.

Front Office Sports was having one of their symposiums.

This was called Asset Class.