What's what's what? You're gonna start this thing off here in Oakland? You
know how happy I am about that. Hey, you know it's been a
minute since we've been back. You know, we haven't been on the West
Coast in a couple of years because of because of the schedule CBS give us
some times. You know, it's too early. You know they would give
us like one o'clock eastern. Yeah, that's nobody at that, no damned
building. So we got later start dates. So now we can play some
West Coast games. And our first thought was like, we got to go
back to Oakland. Everybody running from Oakland, Well run back to Why you
keep saying that, because because man, these teams keep leaving Oakland. Oh
okay, are they talking about the teams? No? No, no,
no, come about the teams and leave. Maybe I need to be specific.
I'm being specific people. It's cool, But you're right though. People
are leaving over don't you know what. I think it's our just our political
people, like they don't know how to handle business. Yeah that's what it
is. That could that caun that could tear it down. Yeah sure.
And board of supervisors, man, you know they keep messing around and fiddling
with the money and it just ain't making right, you know I'm talking about
Yeah, I'm glad you bringing basketball back to Oakland. Yeah, Audio thirty.
Yeah, man, what made you decide? You know what, I'm
gonna go ahead and just kick this thing off on my day? Well,
you know, it was a it's a great day in the world in June
fifteenth, you know, it's an amazing day. So you know, it
all landed on the right time. You know, it was a slot when
when we ask CBS, see, we gotta kind of you know, figure
out what CBS has available as far as a slot for us, you know,
on Saturday or Sunday. So we worked through that out and they was
like, you know, can y'all start on June fifteenth. I was like,
hell, yep, that'sday, that's today, let's start it off.
And it was cool because we was like, yo, we could do a
West Coast game, right, So everybody was hollering, you know, l
A l A. I'm like, nah, we can get to l A,
but we need we need to do we need to do the Bay and
Oakland. You know, Oakland was to me, perfect spot, perfect spot,
you know what I mean. It's gonna bring the energy the city needs.
And I was like, y'all got six games lined up for everybody tomorrow,
Man, kick it off early. It's gonna be are your full full
movement. Yeah yeah, you know, six games for the price of one.
You can't beat it. And you get you see the whole league,
yea, everybody that's in the league. You get a chance to see him
play. And so you know, that's what our vision was, like a
rolling All Star game where you know, it's like, you know, we
come in and you know, turn it out. I'm wondering, is the
All Star Game gonna have a Mount Westmore performing? I went Snoopers in Canada
right now, and Fody he's somewhere. He probably off that line, you
know, he like, you know what I mean, see off the earl,
off the earl Stevens. So yeah, yeah, but my man too
Short gonna come through, you know, show you know, he had to
bless us. And we have a few special guests to come through, a
few of uh you know, Oakland's finest. Put it that way. You
gotta surprise us, then not gonna tell us. I'm not gonna tell you
because they may not show up. On time. You know what I'm saying.
So you know right now they're telling me they coming, So you know
what I mean when they get there in our brag about it. Okay,
if they say they're coming, they probably coming. Yeah, most of the
time they do. But you never know, you know, when it comes
to celebrities, some come up and uh, you know, you gotta happened
with me. You know, I'm planning on going somewhere and doing something.
Some come up and I gotta I gotta switch riels. Be lifing, right,
That's what I'm saying. Yeah, so how we turn it up for
the birthday? Though, you got a special bottles in it that I gotta
get into. Yeah, you know, we got it going down. You
know what's gonna be fun in there. And you know, to me,
my birthday present is the Big Three. It's like I don't had a lot
of birthday parties and I'm glad to be here in Oakland with the Big Three
and getting a chance to uh, you know, my family's here so I
get a chance to hang out with them. I got it. I got
a family in Oakland. You know, my cousin Dale deal, his mom's
still live in Oakland. My auntie, Auntie Stella. Yeah, aunt Stella,
she's still living in Oakland and hopefully we get her out to the game
tomorrow. Yeah. Seven seasons strong with this thing. Seven seasons man,
you know it's like, uh, I remember when you started it, Like
like that, we almost a decade in. It's really eight seasons for us
because because we didn't have a season, you know, in twenty twenty,
COVID came through. So we've been on this, you know, eight years
as a league, you know, nine and a half maybe ten, just
planning to get you know, get there. So you know, we almost
got a decade of pig three man. And I saw you just got to
honor as well from the NBA. Bro got your own award, Like,
how was that experience? Yeah, well it's actually from the Natesmith Hall of
Fame out in Springfield, Massachusetts, and so it's you know, it's called
the Ice QB Impact Award. I was blown away. You know, I
never thought in a million years that I would be in the Basketball Hall of
Fame for something. And it's cool because it's an award they're gonna give out
every year to a deserving, you know, person that uses basketball to make
people lives better. So it's gonna be cool to honor you know, somebody
every year have finalists and you know, kind of get him some shine.
People that you know, you don't see. You know, it's the behind
the scenes people that that you don't see that still contribute to the game,
to the game, you know, at the highest level, you know,
whether they and I heard of you know a janitor. Uh it was a
junior high in Louisiana and they didn't have nobody that wanted to coach the team,
and the janitor up. The janitor stepped up and coached the team and
they won the championship. So it's like, you know them kind of people
out there like that need they need props, they need shine, they need
some light on them. So you know, we're looking for people you know
like that that's you know, doing the work, nobody watching, you know,
and uh, but we're watching, so hopefully we can put some line
on some cool people. He was we were talking about the Olympics and how
they like didn't have Caitlin, which was like insane to me, Like I
don't even understand, like somebody has something against her or you know what I
mean, Like how she's like the biggest name in the w you know,
in women's basketball in the States, and you don't have her represent the team
like that was crazy. So well, we also know you were trying to
get her on was trying to get her. You know. With the Olympics,
it's a different thing. You know, they're they got there. They're
focused on gold medals. They're focused on gold medals. You know, I
get like publicity and all that stuff has come secondary. So if they feel
like they got a team of experienced players, that's that's worked hard to get
there. You know, who do you pull out to put a rookie end
who hasn't done anything? You know? So uh, I mean, you
know it's it's cool for publicity, but the fact, you know, can't
she play on that level yet? You know, it is the question,
Uh can she contribute to winning a gold medal? That's what the Olympics is
thinking of what the little young girl they put on there though Sabrina there steps
God, how long has she been part of the program. I don't even
know she's been in the league. Probably I think it's like her third you
know, he means like Olympics. Yeah, it's like it's like a trial
run thing that you gotta do. But you know that's the issue. Yeah,
that's the issue. Our issue is. I mean, she chose just
to go to the w n b A. You know, it would have
been a major shake up for her to come into Big three and and she
would have had to, you know, play against our athletes, and maybe
she wasn't with it. You know, maybe she was just you know,
wanting to go and in her you know, the path that she was.
Yeah. Yeah, so this was this was something that came from left field.
And but we you know, we we would have love to have her,
you know, we we think she would have definitely raised the the the
profile of the league in a lot of ways, opened up a lot of
sponsor dollars for the league for the rest of the players. So you know,
it was a big swing, But we knew it was a long shot
too, don't That's right. She could have she could have been like yep
and been like okay, you know, here comes Nike and everybody else,
and you know, she got them dollars thing god, because they don't get
paid n b A right, right, which was dope. He was really
offering her bag. Yeah, yeah, you know. Yeah, yeah,
we wanted to. We say we changing the game, we want to change
it for the better. And uh we wanted to you know, really put
a light on the the salary and compensation that women are getting in sports that
it needs to be raised. Yeah, yeah, agreed, agree to half
man. Yet it's like a dropping the bucket to it's nothing really well,
you know, the w n V, the w n b A is not
in profit, so you know, there's still losing money. So you know,
it's kind of like, you know, until your league can stand on
his own feet that those dollars are not gonna be there. Yeah, the
brands aren't up, the franchises aren't they're not selling jerseys out and stuff like
that, like Steph Wood or for the Warriors or whatever. What's up with
this pose with Jack in the box. You don't get my chicken tato meal,
you know what I mean? That munchy meal meal, Yeah, that
cute bunchie meal. Yeah, you know, oh man, all kind of
good stuff. You know, you can get that chicken tater milk, get
yours like me with no hog you know what I'm saying. The curly fries.
Uh, I think there's a tackle in there and something some Yeah,
man, you know few hungry? What else you're gonna eat? McDonald's that
got everything? Yeah, McDonald's. If it's jacket box man, go to
get that cute much of men? I like. I just like the photo.
I say, you sitting there with Jack and Jack got the gangs,
the mug on the my said, oh god, outside with it? You
real? What's the last time you freestyle? I don't freestyle? Why not?
I'm not a free styler. Okay, I was gonna try to drop
not like us and see if you spi something. No, I'm not a
free styler, man. I mean you know, everybody got their different skill
sets. You know what I mean. I'm a writer, So okay,
how come how come every time you come up here, bro drake in a
in a rap beat? I know every time, uh twice. You know,
when you're on top everybody going that you. You know what I'm saying,
When you're on top of everybody going at you and me, it's ahead.
But people are saying that Kendrick did the smartest thing, like just you
know, they're not like us. Who's who's Drake ripping Canada? Yeah?
I mean, I mean you know, Kendrick West Coast, we got the
rude with the West Coast, and you know he came with like he got
about folk bangers, you know what I mean. And so you can't beat
that with a stick. You know, it's like it's almost overkilled. Yeah,
yeah, so you were you were you proud of the product that the
that the young La boy put out though, at least yeah, definitely proud
of you know, anybody that can handle theirs and the beef. Yeah,
you know, you got a salute. You know, it's long as it
don't go to the streets. As long as it you know, because there's
rap and then there's just crime. So as long as it don't go into
crime and it's just staying wax, you know, it's great. It's part
of the tradition of the game. You know, goes back to the early
days with Busy B and c O D and l L and Kumo and carras
one. So you know, it's it's really part of the tradition of the
game. And you know, if you're in it long enough, sooner or
later, you know what I mean, somebody gonna call your number. I
have to show them what you got on the mic, So you're gonna put
that out like us, like just over no vassaline over nothing, nothing is
better than you know what I mean. It's one EMC myself, I took
out four of them and the manager you can't be Yeah, so funny.
So what's next. I know we're gonna keep Big Three going, Big three
rolling, gonna drop my new album Man down really yeah, yeah, Now
I'm coming this summer. What we talk about on that, what I talk
about, you know what I mean? You know West Coast, Uh,
living in life and life in general, and you know, observing what's going
on out here nowadays. So you know, I dig it. It's a
nice record. Yeah, it's a nice record. Yeah, but it's all
about the Big Three tomorrow. It's all about the Big Three. Everybody needs
to show up, come hang out with us, you know what I mean.
Doors open at noon, man, you better be Everybody up here,
better be up in there. We need the whole town there because I don't
we don't know when we're coming back to Oakland. It took us four or
five years to get back from the first time we came. So man,
see it in person for sure. If you can't get there at least check
us out on CBS or X. Yeah, exactly. You ain't got nothing
to do it. We got games all day. Like I said, we're
gonna be on X, which was Twitter. You know when when the games
are now on CBS, man, check us out on X. You know
what I'm saying, go to the Big three channel right there? Yeah,
I think I'm rooting for that three headed monster. Last time they was bawling
out. Yeah, three headed monsters. They they revamped their squad. Now
now Rashard Lewis is the coach. He was he was you know, he
was our twenty seventeen MVP and they made it to the championship three times but
didn't win. So he's coaching. Now. We got Jeff tg as the
player captain and he's playing with his brother. Uh. They bringing in a
couple of other guys. That got Greg Monroe, who's doing the league too,
So they got us. You know, they revamped their squad. We'll
see what they do. You know, usually takes it takes guys about three
games to really understand how to plan the Big Three, you know, so
we'll see. I'm here for Yeah, I'm excited, man, about to
go down. So so we got him playing the Aliens. So you got
the Tigue brother playing Paul Millsap and his brother. So so you got the
t Brothers versus the Millsap brothers tomorrow, and we got to rematch her the
championship. We got the Enemies playing Joe Johnson, who's the three time MVP.
He playing the Triplets tomorrow. I mean he playing Enemies tomorrow. They
lost, and they lost the championship in London last year, so they want
some revenge. Let's go. Yeah, take it out on the court,
and we're gonna honor Rick Berry, you know, a Hall of Famer,
and Gary Payton even though he played for the SuperSonics. Yeah, but he's
still from Okland, you know what I mean. Salute, Salute the Hall
of Famers tomorrow, Great Dead, Big Three Action. Yeah, bringing Jay
Rich back to Oakland. I'm here for Yeah, come on through, man.
You know it's an affordable ticket. You can you can bring the whole
family. It ain't like you know, NBA game. You can. Yeah,
you can take one buddy, you know, maybe, but here you
can get to kids and neighbor kids, kids from down the street. Bring
them off. Come on, you didn't say bad ass kids. Yeah,
bring on, bring bad ass kids on that man, you ain't got nothing
better to do. Get them out the house.