Sam Mackinnon

And they were trying to promote Max McKinnon.

Now, as all basketball people know, Sam McKinnon is his dad, and it's spelt M-A-C-K-I-N-N-O-N.

Unfortunately, the graphic had spelt it M-C-K-I-N-N-O-N.

And look, is it a small thing in the scheme of things? You could make that argument.

My back started to ache and my feet started to hurt because I've seen this young kid who just, you know, started bouncing out of the court and he's, you know, setting career highs for himself, and Max McKinnon, and I just went, "Oh, that's Slammin' Sam's son." Uh, all of a sudden I, I felt incredibly old.

Mate, I'm sure, um, people of our generation would remember Sam McKinnon running around as a 16-year-old for the Southeast Melbourne Magic and dunking on innocent at will.

And the young bloke, I don't know that he's got the hops, but I reckon he's a, a, a much better shooter and playmaker than the old man was already.

But, uh, yeah, look, if he gets close to how good dad was, he's gonna be unbelievable.

I said on my ESPN show about Max that I...

I respected it so much because I think when you've got kids that have grown up around the NBL and been involved in it so heavily, you get to this space, and Max has been this, where, oh, Sam McKinnon's son, oh, Sam McKinnon's son, and I used to get Robbie Kiddy's son, and that's all part of it, and I think Max used to fight it, and now I think he actually embraces.

Now you know what, it's pretty cool what my dad did but I'm also on my own journey and I like how he went about it but I like the way he played, I like the poise he played with, I love the fact he got 12 rebounds and I just think it was an excellent game to have in your second game in a league that you've grown up waiting and

dying to play in.

And I go back to when I first started learning about basketball.

Few people knew who Sam McKinnon was.

Frank Dremick was very young.

Jason Smith was very young.

It was an incredible performance for the Bullets, 31-12 against Illawarra.

Your thoughts on somebody who knows his dad very, very well on that quote?

Sam McKinnon has done his stuff and he's done it better than most people on the planet.

His mum's done her stuff too.

We had a shout-out to Dad Sam as if to say, look, I'm here now.

Stop talking about Sam McKinnon.

Start talking about Max McKinnon.

And that's fair on both ends.