Xavier McDaniel

Podcast guest Sasha Radunovich is number fifteen on both of those lists.

The other Shockers to rank in that group, a lot of familiar names, Cleo Littleton, Dave Stallworth, Cheese Johnson, Xavier McDaniel, Antoine Carr, Cliff Levingston, and Howard.

Paul Miller would have been a very good guess.

Perhaps surprising he's not quite on that list.

You see the football guys when they chest bump and they're pushing and hey, the New York Knicks were like that.

And I was on the team with Patrick Ewing, Charles Oakley, John Starks, Greg Anthony, Xavier McDaniel.

So we had some big guys, big tough guys.

And we'd be in the hallway before the game, you know, chest pumping and pushing and bouncing off each other and just really getting revved up.

The team was nice.

This was pre Barkley, Tom Chambers, Dan Majerle, Xavier McDaniel, Jeff Hornacek, Kevin Johnson, a lot of those guys.

How was your intro and your experience to going in with the Suns?

Yeah, scary at first.

I mean, led the nation in scoring and rebounding.

Mm-hmm.

It's been two other dudes, Xavier McDaniels I think did that as well, which people forget about, that X-Man did that.

And, um, he knew he had shot deficiencies that he had to fix to get in the league, but he worked his ass at it.

Um, so-

Xavier McDaniel? That's an X.

Is that the X?

Um, no. We'll, um, we'll start with A.

Okay, the shooter.

Xavier McDaniel.

The mean, grimy player.

Tom Chambers.

You ain't told it here, we

gotta hear that.

So Xavier McDaniel, Xavier McDaniel and Gary Grant, we called them Turner and Hooch.

Okay.

Yeah.

And this is another photograph he showed me of him throwing fish at the Pike Place Fish Market, throwing them to Steve Largent, Ichiro Suzuki, and Xavier McDaniel.

There you go.

So tells me he's got-

See the tweets and see the posts on my Instagram and just to have, and also talking about Gary, talking to Gary Payne about his, you know, Bay Area rap legends.

And I got to upload that, of course, just, you know, talking about hieroglyphics and Selly Cell and Too Short and the Dangerous Crew and, you know all these guys you know e40 is his best friend and going he said he went to high school richie rich and saw all these bay area rap legends from the 90s and in 2000 so you know just those things being able to be in the mix with those guys is just an alluring feeling because you grew up watching these guys And then you see Eddie Johnson joking with, you know, at my table when I'm sitting next to Gary Payton, joking with him about the fact that, you know, when he got traded to Houston from Seattle, like Eddie Johnson basically stuck it to Seattle for trading him after he got traded for Xavier McDaniel from the Suns back in 91.

So, you know, just those things and seeing these guys banter with each other is amazing.

It's a great feeling.

Tom Chambers was there.

Xavier McDaniel was there.

But then they had sort of this older crew from the championship team, like Jack Sikma was still rolling around.

He goes to Milwaukee after this.