to have two coaches within the same week be so outspoken about how the refs are calling games.
I don't know if this will open more of a can of worms to more coaches just being vocal about it.
What's up you guys? I'm Rachel Namita and welcome to the Courtside Club where we give you a
courtside view into the world of sports and entertainment and a lot of other things and
we have a lot of things to go over today so let's jump right into it. So firstly in the NBA there are
some coaches in the last week who have become very very pissed off about the NBA referees and they
have not held their tongue. So I want to take a look at a couple of these post-game interviews
and the first one that we'll look at is coach Mike Brown for the Sacramento Kings. This was from a
game a couple days ago where he was playing for the Sacramento Kings and he was playing for the
Milwaukee Bucks in overtime. Let's check it out. Let me let me see that man. I just want to
show you guys why I got kicked out of the game right here. This is in the first this is in the
third third quarter with 128 left to go in the third and right here you can watch you can watch
go back and watch. He Fox barely puts his hand on on Dame's hip. Okay incidental contact.
He didn't push him or anything. He barely puts his hand on there and they give him three free
throws. Now at half we were down I think 19 to 5 in the free throws. 19 to 5 and I know that
happens sometimes but that's very frustrating when at the end of the half at the end of the half
from what I get get told all the time Malik drives Lopez comes over and goes vertical with
a forearm down here. Now from what the NBA tells me the rule is if you go vertical you got to have
two hands up because Domas has his hand down here a lot and they call him for it every time and they
always tell us well you got a forearm here and they said that they said that tonight they said
forearm could be here as long as it's not extended. So I don't know what the rules are in this
situation. I need a clarification because again two hands up is what the rule is on verticality
but they were here and they said Lopez could do this. That's a five point swing. Have some sort
of consistency. In my opinion the consistency.
He wasn't here tonight. Not only that on top of that I'm getting told to me a simple basic rule
of going vertical. I'm getting told two different things and that is really inconsistent overall
from the officials and again they're human. They're good people. They're going to make mistakes
but we can't interpret a rule two different ways. We can't be told one thing and then we say well
that wasn't a lot of contact because then you go back and you watch Fox you watch Dame come off that
that pick and roll. There wasn't a lot of contact. The hand was on his hip. Okay. He didn't push him.
He didn't extend it. The hand was on his hip early and then you see Foxy come off and campaign
hooks him and he almost falls down. I'm just as you could tell I'm beside myself. Now again we
had a chance to win the game and we didn't get it done.
But I'm telling you man to go through that it just it's it's tough man. It's tough to go through
that. So of the two coaches that I'm going to show you here Mike Brown took I feel like a more
composed approach to this postgame presser. So for context he was actually ejected during the
game because he did get so fired up about some of these foul calls that were made by the refs.
The message he was getting across here is the inconsistency with the rules and how you're
calling things. Obviously there are refs that are going to miss calls here and there and he tried
to give them the benefit of the doubt. But the fact that he whipped out also the laptop kind of
reminded me of Pat Bev when he like grabbed the camera and was like trying to replay it to the
ref. He'll definitely absolutely get fined for this because in the NBA it is a rule that you
cannot publicly criticize.
The referees I think that that's a rule that's a little bit interesting. Obviously we don't want
players and coaches going overboard with it and then after every loss just kind of hounding on
the refs. But there is something to be said when it's something that's like a constructive
criticism like this and him actively coming out and say hey guys I don't understand if the call
is that you have to have both hands up if you're going vertical and if you have one hand down one
hand up then it will be called a foul and you are.
Not calling it that way. We need to know now if I'm not allowed to make any contact with a player
when they're coming off a screen I'm not allowed to have my hand there I'm not allowed to have my
forearm bump them. Like he said incidental contact. We need to know that. But then on the flip side
obviously campaign hooking which by the way if you are a smaller basketball player like campaign is
hooking is just it's something I did.
My entire career because you it's it's just like a little it's a workaround where the ref a lot of
the times will not catch it and I used to do it a lot for box outs probably 80 to 90 percent of the
time when I boxed out I hooked the arm of the person behind me because I just wasn't big enough
or strong enough to do a box out how it's supposed to be done and so and a lot of times I I would
hook behind my back so the person I was boxing out couldn't make it.
That happens coming off screens and stuff as well sometimes when you're a smaller player you get away
with it but when you play the tape back and you put it in slow-mo that is something that obviously
should be called. We'll see how much he gets fined for this criticism of the refs but on the contrast
I want to show you coach Darko who is the head coach of the Raptors. I don't even know how to
say his last name but I actually do know Darko. He was on the staff at the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Huge fan of Darko but he had a little bit more of an emotional outburst with how the refs were calling
their game against the Lakers. So let's check it out.
Thank you Doug. Thank you Doug. That's that's that's outrageous. What happened tonight this is
completely BS. This is shame. Shame for the referees. Shame for the league to allow this.
23 free throws for them.
They get two free throws in a fourth quarter. Like how to play the game. I understand respect for
all-stars and all of that but we have star players on our team as well. How's possible is Scotty
Barnes who is all-star caliber player in this league he goes every single time to the rim with
force and trying to get get to the rim without flapping and and not trying to get foul calls.
He gets two free throws for the whole game. How's that possible?
How are you gonna explain that to me? They had to win tonight?
If that's the case just let us know so we don't show up for the game. Just give them a win.
But that was not fair tonight. And this is not happening first time for us.
Scotty Barnes is gonna be all-star. He's gonna be the face of this league.
And what's happening over here during the whole season I've been holding you back.
It's a complete crap. There is no explanation. They just they just come up
there they review what and they see what I want to see. They don't want to
hear us what we got to say they don't want to hear the players they they don't just want to
protect us over the game they got 36 free throws 23 free throws in in the fourth quarter what are
we talking about i actually love this rant um darko is somebody who is also i feel like more
of a traditionalist when it comes to basketball in the nba he likes to play basketball the right
way he's not really in it for like the the flashing lights and the entertainment value
like he's there for the love of the game and the sport which i feel like also on the on the flip
side when you're playing a team like la where it is all of those things and obviously they have
lebron and they are you know front and center for just a lot of things that uh go around the nba and
i think something that he was alluding to in this is like hey if you wanted la to win that bad just
let us know next time so we're not even gonna we're not even gonna show up for the game like
why waste our energy when
you're not even gonna show up for the game like why waste our energy when
you're not even gonna show up for the game like why waste our energy when
he was essentially alluding to that the game was fixed in a sense because
la had 23 free throws in the fourth quarter as opposed to the rafters two free throws which
if you know anything about basketball that's like a huge discrepancy he was fined 25 000 for this rant
to what extent do you think that the refereeing is is biased and i think the refereeing is
definitely biased um whether it's like
purposeful or not it's just it's just it's just it's just it's just it's just it's just
purposeful or not there's certain refs who get along with certain players better there's like
little beefs that certain refs have with certain players i mean even if you think of like scott
foster and chris paul you know like that's one that's just like so widely known um i think also
veteran guys who have been in the league a long time who are superstars if you think about lebron
james being that prime example there's this like unspoken rule about
protection and protection and protection and protection and protection and protection and
protecting him a little bit more than maybe the younger guys and i'm not saying that that's right
but you see it happen so often and i don't know if that's just paying your dues in the nba if you're
a vet then you kind of deserve the refs to be like a little bit more chill on you maybe it's the age
but there definitely is some of that and so that's why i said i think like why it worked up
darko so much is he's like my team is doing everything and i think that's why i think
the right way i also have a superstar on my team you guys are not giving him the same respect as
you do to these guys that are on you know the showtime lakers and and i think like that's
really it'll be interesting to me though because to have two coaches within the same week be so
outspoken about how the refs are calling games i don't know if this will open more of a can of
worms to like more coaches just be like i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know
i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know
vocal about it when it is something where the games because i i agree with both these coaches
in both of these instances like it doesn't sound like they are whining about it like there was a
huge discrepancy with how many free throws the the bucks got in the kings game and then how many
free throws la got and like what these play calls were like they're the the refs missed the mark
on both of these games and i would agree with them 25k to these guys isn't
that much so why not be outspoken about it i think the ref should also always be like growing and
and doing better as well you know you can't just put everything on coaches and players but
i thought it was interesting and it's also interesting to like read some of the comments
under these videos because there's a lot of fans complaining about nba refs and you're always
going to have fans complaining about refs if your team doesn't win like that's a given but
to see the special treatment that maybe some of these nba players do get is something that you
know maybe the refs can do a better job maybe they're hearing us maybe they're hearing the
coaches and you just want it to be fair ball protect the players but protect every player
across the board in the same way last week i uploaded a video about caitlyn clark and how i
think that she will be such a positive force when she does go to the wmba i also gave you
my thoughts on how i think the wmba can improve and what they need to do to improve and in turn
how that will help the women of the wmba get paid more because that has been a topic of
conversation i feel like for the past decade so i got a lot of comments on this video and i wanted
to run through some of them because some of you guys made some really good points and there are
some things that i want to clear up that maybe you just didn't understand what i was talking about
this is from rich brass 12 he said you said you can't force a woman who doesn't watch sports to
watch sports that is true however it's those women are the ones who say that the women's
basketball team should make more money they can't make more money if there's nobody who
is supporting them right now the nba is subsidizing the wnba if you have more people watching you'll
have more advertisers which then you would have more revenue which then means that it's more money
the players it's simple supply and demand so i agree with you i do think in order for the wnba
base salaries to go up you need to have more viewers you need to have more ticket sales
more merch sales there needs to be more hype around the wnba they have to be taking in more
revenue than they are there's also a lot less games in the wnba so even if you talk about tv
deals and all those sorts of things like it is just harder to generate the same kind of money
does and i don't think that a lot of women in general are arguing that wnba players should be
paid as much as nba players and if they are arguing that i think that that's just not an
educated argument at all and that's not understanding basketball and it's not understanding
business so nowhere in here i was trying to say that every wnba player deserves to be as
paid as much as the men i actually didn't say that at all
in this video um i am advocating for women to do what they can and control what they can control
because you have way more opportunity in today's landscape in basketball and beyond basketball
to make money for yourselves to where you don't have to rely solely on your wnba salary in the
past wnba players would play in the wnba and then during their off season they would go overseas to
make more money because they would have to pay more money to make more money to make more money to
they weren't getting nil deals when they were in college and having that money saved up they
weren't getting shoe deals brand partnerships sponsors they were not making money on social
media because we didn't have social media and if we did have social media we weren't able to
monetize it at the time so that's why my whole argument here is to motivate women to use the
most of the resources that they have and the opportunities that they have because i feel
there's so many ways to make money now and make a name for
yourself and build that up so do that first and in turn you will make more money and in turn
the wnba will become more successful there is just a true reality that men and women are marketed
differently right and if you look at some of the like superstar female athletes like there was
famously in i guess the 90s there was a point in time where the top paid female tennis star
was anna kornikova
but she was like ranked 20th or something but she was the most the highest yeah but she's
conventionally pretty that was why exactly yeah that's i was getting there so the point is right
like she was the highest paid but she wasn't the best player and that's a thing that is much less
true on the men's side i mean in theory on the men's side there can be people who are like if
your style isn't good or if you're like your look or the way you play maybe you could actually be
but you're not as marketable but i do feel like on the men's side it's a bit more um of just a pure
like results like if you have the stats then you're a superstar and you're a big name somebody
said quite disrespectful to the pioneers the greats the legends that have been here before
caitlin that were ignored by the media and the world because people didn't want to pay attention
or thought their talents weren't valid the legends before caitlin literally walked so she could run
now caitlin isn't the first out of this world talent we've seen in the history of the sport
she's just the one who captured the attention of the general public and the world and will launch
the wmba into never before seen heights and it's well deserved because it's truly a great league
full of the most talented players in the world they were just never given a fair chance so no
she isn't too good for the wmba she and the wmba are exactly what each other needs right now you
proved my point here yeah you know what you absolutely this comment absolutely proved my
because we have more opportunity now for these women to be seen that was my entire point
you're right the the pioneers before her they might have walked so she could run and i'm sorry
for that but there's a there's way more people who can be seen and and make a name for themselves
now than there was in the 1990s we didn't have social media there wasn't now everybody's a
celebrity and you can be a celebrity and so you're proving my point here um i'm not saying
also this was this was something through and through that i saw a lot of people talk about
i never once said that caitlin clark should play in the nba that was something that i was seeing
a lot of different podcasts and online shows talk about because her highlights are that good
i never once said she was good enough nor did i say that she should play in the wmba so if you
listen to the entire conversation that's where i stand on that i saw a lot of people commenting
that though so i feel like an
need to clear that up. Robert said, where do I begin? Women in sports, ice skating, soccer,
tennis are so popular. They're equal, if not superior to the kind of attention the men receive,
which competition do most sports fans watch in ice skating, the men's finals or the women's
finals? Absolutely no contest. Would the casual fan you are talking about watch women's soccer
representing USA rather than the men's team? No contest tennis. It's a dead heat. The women's
game is on par with the men's game. The argument you are making is exactly right. The casual fan
must know who the players are. Even the casual fan must feel for whoever they are watching.
One thing I'm going to say here, this goes on and on and on, is it's really hard to make the
argument when you talk about ice skating, for example, that you watch every four years. Nobody
is watching ice skating on a regular basis ever. Name one person, please. Tell me one person who's
watching ice skating. Tennis is the same thing.
There's so many less matches. Please tell me the big matches that you were absolutely tuned in to
Serena or Naomi or name somebody. What's another top tennis player that people are watching besides
Serena who retired and Naomi Osaka? I'm not a big tennis guy.
But that's it. You're a man. That's it. So you're tuned in a couple times a year.
oh, beach volleyball. More casual fans watch that than the men's. Yeah, again, every four years.
Softball. Please tell me when you're watching softball. You're not. You're not. You're not
watching all of these women's games. You're watching MLS when the World Cup comes around
or Olympics. So that's why I don't like those arguments. I think there's a point to be made
for individual sports when you are incentivized for these individuals. But
you're not. You're not. You're not. You're not. You're not. You're not. You're not. You're not.
You're not. You're not. You're not. You're not. You're not. You're not. You're not. You're not.
There isn't one women's sport across the board that you're watching more than the men's if you are
a fan. So I don't want to rant about this too long. But I think in conclusion,
one, I was never saying that WNBA players should make as much as NBA players. I think that
maybe will come at some point in time if deserved, if the viewership is up, if the numbers are up,
all of those good things. Secondly, I was ever trying to put down any of the other players that
I compared to Kaitlyn Clark. Again, there were two categories of women. One who was the Kaitlyn
Clark category, which is so good, rare talent, highlights like Steph Curry. And then on the
other side was the women who have built up their personal brand, use NIL deals. I saw someone say,
like, don't put down Angel Reese. She's a great basketball player too. Of course she is. That's
not what I was saying there. I'm saying she's made a bigger name for herself because of the
NIL and brand deals and social media that she's done. And I think thirdly, I also was not saying
that Kaitlyn Clark needs to play in the NBA. I think she will thrive and very much help
the WNBA. There's so many more comments here. You guys let me know also if you would like to
hear me reply to more of your comments, because this is not the only video that I've gotten some
constructive criticism, feedback, a little debate in the comment section.
You know what I think about sometimes? And this doesn't have to be in the episode. But the thing I
think about sometimes that makes me sad, like one more additional sad thing on top of like
everything that was so sad and tragic about Kobe's death. But I sometimes think, yeah, like she was
going to be a star. She was going to be like, when you look at her, all the things that were there,
even watching her like 12 year old highlights. Yeah. She played with such swag. She like had her,
dad's little fade away that all that that was there, you know, like the work ethic was going
to be there. She was going to be really good. And then on top of that, she's legacy, like royalty,
obviously because of who her family and her dad is. And then she also was pretty like she was going
to be a thing. No, I agree with that. And just having like Kobe was also so invested in women's
basketball. I feel like losing him in general was just hurt the game because he was just so invested.
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Let's jump into halftime, shall we? For halftime today, I wanted to go over this viral list of
words and phrases that were banned by this teacher. And it's so funny to me because as you
guys know, I'm obviously a millennial and I feel like Gen Z has their own, like they could make
their own dictionary of words because they have just come up with all of these new phrases and
things that they say, which I feel like, and maybe this is just me as an old head talking. I feel like
in my time in school, like we didn't have this many crazy phrases or like new words. I want to
go down this list and see how many of these I actually know as a millennial who was also on
the internet though. So maybe, uh, maybe I'll get some of these. So bruh, obvious, but these are
words that are banned by this teacher in his classroom, which I feel like would be so hard
also for Gen Zers. Standing on business. I think it's bidness, but I know what that is. You know
what that is too. Like do what you say you're going to do. Like, like put your money where
your mouth is type of thing. Right. It's just like, yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to stay
true. I'm going to stand on my business. It's also, it's kind of like self-explanatory.
Oh, we ski. That's from a song. Oh my God. Ski. So that is banned in this classroom.
You ate that up. Oh my gosh. You know, what's funny is like, I could just see
students like saying this to the teacher. Like if the teacher came in with a nice outfit and
they're like, Oh, teach you ate that up. Like you ate that off it up. I know what that means.
These are hard to explain. Cause I do. That's what that means. I didn't even know that.
Like you ate that up. Like you did a good job or like, or like you see if you're Gen Z,
let me know in the comments, if I'm explaining this correctly or like, like you took a, you took
like, say it took like a hot photo. Like, Oh, you ate that up. Like, like, yeah. Like good job.
Kind of. Okay, cool. This is hard to explain. Back in my day, ate that up had more to do with
like, you believed it. Like if you told you like lied to somebody. Yeah. That's another way. Oh,
like, yeah. It's like, she, yeah. Like they totally believe that they went for it, you know?
No. Ate that up is like, Oh, you ate like slay. Like you ate. I saw, this is crazy. I don't talk
like this, but I've heard people talk like this. Okay. So that's cap. That's lying. Like you're
lying. Um, what's up gang. It's funny. He says, what's up gang. This is all band phrases. Bet.
Okay. Bet has been used since I was in high school. Like this,
bet has been around. Oh my God. Miss T. I don't know this one. Unless the teacher's name is Miss T
that banned this list, which is possible on God. It's just like,
you like, I swear like on God, like I promise you on my mama is kind of the same thing is just like,
I like, I, so I'm not lying on my mama. So this one is open ended on my mom, dad, aunt, cousin,
any family, friends, or family. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't
know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't
know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't
So you just cannot say on my bowling. That's so funny. I think the word dead is there as well.
You see? Oh, on my dead mom. Oh my. Oh yeah. On my dead mom, dad, aunt, cousin, any family,
friend, associate. I've actually said, I've said that before. I've said on Daisy before,
and which is my dead cat. I have said that before when someone like doesn't believe me
because they know that I would never lie on my dead cat on Daisy.
on daisy uh riz is obviously like your flirt game i feel like riz has totally been overused
as of late and a lot of millennials and boomers are getting a hold of it and just ruining it
i think we should go back to just saying charisma okay yeah bring back the whole word
yeah true yeah it sounds cooler anyway it's like you got riz like now i got charisma
yeah i got the whole thing what up g wade which is like a song in the cut with my twin
right am i wrong it's that it's that tiktok trend okay oh so this is a two-parter what up g wade and
then the next the next line is in the cut with my twin so and then just vibe so all three so
basically that song is banned you cannot say that song in this classroom gat so like gat damn
it's like a song in the cut with my twin so it's like a song in the cut with my twin so
is i've seen i've seen that yeah i've seen that when like a girl has a big butt that's what where
i've seen that used the most yeah i learned that while producing the uh cool kicks podcast
okay i'm sure you would there all right next one's on bro on hood gang gang
the n-word which is very valid like probably shouldn't
be saying that at school um like curse words make sense that's the only one that's like a
curse word on here the rest are phrases on me kind of self-explanatory on the set i actually
don't know what that means so the set is that's like gang language you know is this gang language
that is gang language yeah like when people talk about the set or like anything about the set that
that like is is a uh different way to refer to like the the gang it's like gang language
and so on the set is like slightly gang language i got these two piercings from a gang member
oh you did yeah i didn't even know she was a stripper too oh nice her name was sage
there you go shout out sage yeah shout out sage the blood stripper uh
freak you mean i think that is i think it's the cuss word i think it's fuck you mean
that's also the song period that's funny because i could see a lot of girls saying period that
means like yes okay munion i don't know that one at all we should look that up i know funions
me too mun young meaning to express oneself to react as a prize has been
won oh this looks like it's
from a viral video also a lot of these things probably came from tiktok besides like maybe
on the set just maybe gang thing big dog is like friend dray says that all the time like what's up
big dog like that's just like buddy yeah yeah motion or big motion like big move i feel like
i've heard this but i don't really know like like if you if you accomplish something it's like big
motion like yeah like you're doing it we're just like big i didn't i don't know i don't know i don't
i've been hearing that lately people will just say big whatever yeah like if a thing happened yeah
like and that's like i don't know like they'll just add the word big in front of it okay so
just vibe twin and what's up twin so pretty much you can't call anybody your twin which is
definitely like people are calling people their twin from that song that's viral on tiktok but
that's strange that you can't call somebody twin n-i-e-9 i don't know what that means either i've
never heard that one
dictionary says it's a shortened version of now so it's like not interesting no i've never heard
that one i'm out of the loop there it's giving is so uh actually i say it's giving that's something
that has slipped into my vocabulary i actually with my girlfriends huh you don't like it's
giving i'm not a fan of it's giving like there's certain phrases that to me i feel like they
encourage uh verbal laziness you know what i mean like like you fall into it and you just start
using it for every like now instead of describing things
yeah that's how you describe everything by just saying it's giving this it's giving that
as opposed to like actually coming up with a phrase that describes this thing right or like
properly describing it you know what else is like that is like energy when people say like
yes like blank energy yes and then or big blank energy yeah that's that's to combine it with a
big motion so yeah so that's the list 32 words and phrases that are banned by this teacher who
is clearly fed up with this thing and they're like oh my god i don't know what to do with this thing
and they're like oh my god i don't know what to do with this thing
with jen's ears and their slang and would just like you to use
proper english i think it's kind of funny though
this is the this is the tiktok world that we're living in it's just pissing off
all millennials and boomers but i think i think i did pretty well though i think i got
like 29 or 30 out of 32 it's not bad not too much of an old head yet but if i ever use some
of these though please just put me back in the box and i'll see you next time
back in my place i do not need to be using these phrases now it's time to spill the tea
with mobby tea i always feel like i'm doing asmr when i do this
i never get the can
i'm gonna pop a nail off these cans are not hard to get open i swear
it's just me for today's spill the tea segment i wanted to spill some of my own tea i'm normally
but today i wanted to share with you guys my top three most embarrassing tv moments so i have been
hosting for over 10 years now um on the internet on live tv with a lot of different networks and
there are three instances that stand out most to me luckily i feel like i haven't had any crazy
moments knock on wood like that one miss usa contestant who
completely fumbled over Africa when she kept saying, and such as, such as, such as. I haven't
had any of those moments, but I have had some pretty embarrassing. So I'm going to start off
with actually my first most embarrassing moment that I feel like shaped the landscape of my sports
hosting career. So this was one of my first interviews ever where I was interviewing a
professional athlete. Since then, obviously I've probably interviewed over a hundred different
athletes, but one of my first ones was with Damian Lillard. And so this, this interview in particular
was for East Bay. I believe at this point they went under, but if you guys don't remember that
it's like a sports magazine. I used to buy so many shoes out of East Bay. That was who the
interview was for. And at the time, Damian Lillard was just starting his rap.
Career. So I had prepped for the interview. I was super nervous for it. Um, but I was excited
about it also. And before I went into the interview, the people at East Bay were like,
ask Damian, if he'll do a freestyle rap for us, like that would be so cool. If he like freestyled
and I was like, okay, got it. So like added that to my notes. And so the interview is going great.
We're like talking about shoes, all these different things. And then it gets to the
point where I asked him, I said, Hey,
I'm like, you know, with East Bay today, would you mind freestyling, uh, you know, an East Bay
shoe rap for us? And he looks me dead in the face and said, well, I'll rap. If you,
if you rap first, I have never had stage fright in my entire life. I've never frozen. I've never
forgot my lines. Like I've never been in a situation like that, where like everything
was just going to shit until this moment.
I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't,
I couldn't think of two words that rhymed. Like couldn't, couldn't think of a thing. I completely
froze. And I was like, uh, me rap. And he's like, yeah, just like four bars. Mind you. I don't even
think I knew what four bars meant. Is that like four lines or four words? I could not think of
anything, any, any, anything. And I'm like a 22 or 23 year old just getting started in the industry.
Like my first big interview with a professional athlete, couldn't think of a thing.
And so I stood there and I was like, oh, sorry. My face was probably bright red.
And I was like, I, yeah, I, I don't know. I can't, I can't think of anything. I just,
I was like, uh, my hair and a chair. I literally couldn't think of anything. And guess what you
guys, Damian Lillard didn't rap because I couldn't rap. And at the time, like if I'm thinking about
it now, like if that situation happened to me in the place I'm in now, I would probably laugh. And
I would probably like pull something out of my ass or I would weasel my way around to like pin it
back on him and like get him to rap. But at the time I was just young and green and I was so
embarrassed and he just didn't, he didn't do a rap. And then I felt like in my mind that I had
failed the entire company because I couldn't think of worms that words that rhymed. And I think I
actually cried after that. I think I cried after that interview because I just felt so, I felt so
embarrassed. And what's funny too,
is when the camera stopped rolling, Dame came over to me and I was like,
apologize because he could kind of tell that I got embarrassed, but he didn't save me in that
moment. So I was like, kind of pissed. I was like, well, you could have saved me when we were on
camera, but he apologized after. And since then I've interviewed Dame a million times. And he's
also been, he's always been like super friendly and nice. So it was fine. It is what it is. But
at 22, 23 years old, I was very, very embarrassed by that moment.
My next embarrassing moment was when I was doing my first live television hit for NBA TV. I had done
live television before, but this was actually doing a live hit for NBA TV during the NBA finals,
which was Warriors Cavs. If you guys remember that final series, I believe it was the 2017
Yeah, it was 2017. Cause in 2018, I, I covered the entire NBA finals, but 2017, I was doing my
first live hit. The game was actually in Cleveland, but they stationed me in a golden state because
they were doing this huge watch party at golden state because I believe it was game four or game
five. And if the Warriors won, then they would have won the entire, it might've been like game
six. I'd have to look back and see.
Anyway, it was a very big game because if the Warriors won this game, then they won
the entire series, won the finals. So I was stationed there. Um, and it was crazy. It was
old Oracle. It was completely like packed with fans cheering. It was basically like the team
was playing right in front of you on the court. And what was going to happen for this live hit
is there was the, the NBA TV TNT crew. So you know how it's normally like
Shaq, Ernie Johnson, Kenny and Charles. Well, this was all of them except Ernie wasn't there
and Charles wasn't there. So it was like Greenlee and, and somebody else. Um, so it was Kenny Shaq
Greenlee. And then I forget who the last person was. They were going to be asking me questions.
And I was like the, the in Oracle reporter for them, kind of like reporting the vibe,
this and that from the arena. So we are doing a sound check. And what also happens on live
television is you get this little earpiece. So there'll be a camera in front of you and the,
the other studio will be on camera. But if you are the reporter, you don't actually see them.
You're just like staring straight into a camera, but you can hear them. And so I got this little
earpiece and we're doing sound check and I'm telling my production crew, I'm like, I can't
hear like we're doing these checks. I can't hear it's like coming through kind of muffled. It's
coming in and out. And I don't know if it was a frequency thing because we were in Oracle,
and there were so many people or what it was, but I couldn't, I couldn't hear what was going on.
And so they're like, oh crap. And then it's getting closer and closer to the time that I
needed to do the live hit. And so then they added another one. So now I have two ear pieces,
one in both ear. And I'm like, you guys, I still can't hear the second earpiece they put in. Like
I could hear it a little bit more clearly, but it was just like a lower volume. So then they took
tape and like taped the ear pieces to my ear to try.
Like maybe block out the extra noise that I was hearing from all the fans. But what I was trying
to tell them is it's not only the volume of that. I can't hear it's that it's not, it's coming
through like maybe every other word, or it's just getting choppy at certain places. And I knew that
when I went live on television, I can't say like, Hey guys, can't hear you. I can't answer your
question. Long story short, two in ears and tape over both of them. We put my hair. So it was like
covering them and I go for the live hit.
When I tell you guys, I was hearing every other word of the questions that they were asking me.
And I remember the first question, what I think they asked me now, I don't know. I think the
verdict will always be out on whether this is the question they actually asked me. I think they
asked me if warriors fans wanted the warriors to win at in Cleveland, or if they didn't want them
to win so that they could come back and win at Oracle. And I remember,
by the way, this is all happening within like five milliseconds of my brain.
But I remember thinking, well, that's a stupid question to ask. Like, why would they want the
warriors to lose? Like, that doesn't make any sense at all. I was like, but maybe that was
the question that they asked. So I had to think of all of this super quickly. I answered it and
I was like, well, you know, they're really excited to be here right now watching their team. I'm sure
that they would be happy for them to win tonight. And I remember kind of stumbling over my lines.
Then there was a follow-up question, guys. I couldn't tell you.
I could not tell you what they said in the follow-up at all. And I don't know what kind
of answer I pulled out of my ass to try to like, make it seem like I was saying something
meaningful, but it was such a disaster. I don't know who was watching. I'm sure they were probably
like, oh, this girl has never done live television before. She doesn't know what she's doing. But
long story short, I felt sabotaged, not purposely, but I really couldn't hear a damn thing. So I just
answer and never worked with NBA TV again. They didn't hire me again. So whether they thought it
was my fault or theirs, that was that. But yeah, super embarrassing to go on live TV and stumble
across what you're saying because you don't know what you should be talking about. And last but
not least, probably, I've alluded to this interview in other videos, but probably the worst
interview that I've ever done in my entire life, unfortunately, because this interview was with a
legend, a legendary player. And that legendary player was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. So I was super
excited to interview Kareem. We were also told for this interview that we would get an hour of
time with him. And I was really excited about that because normally when you do interviews
with professional athletes and especially legends like that, you're not, you're maybe
getting a little bit of time with him. But I was super excited about that because normally when you
like 10 to 20 minutes and for 2K TV, a lot of the interviews that we did, even if we did get an hour
with somebody, it was cut down to like a super short interview. Like those, you guys just never
saw those interviews in their entirety, unfortunately, but they were always just like,
you know, chopped up and shortened a lot. But I was super excited for this interview,
walked into the interview. He was sitting there and I would just say like, I don't really know how,
walked into that interview and walked out of that interview, not really understanding what
just happened because he wasn't very friendly to me. And I always try to give people the benefit
of the doubt. Always, always, always try to give people the benefit of the doubt. And I,
I don't know what was going on in his life that day. If he wasn't in a good mood, if he didn't
feel like sitting down with me, long story short, the interview that was supposed to be an entire
hour of my time that he had,
said that he was okay doing ended up being 10 minutes because it was like pulling teeth,
trying to get any kind of answer out of him or any kind of smile about him.
And I also kind of pride myself when I do interviews to be just like really like friendly
and upbeat. I always want whoever I'm talking to. Well, firstly, whoever I'm talking to,
I want them to want to be there. Like if you don't want to talk to me and don't want to be
interviewed by me, I don't want to be holding you hostage. Like I never want to be that,
that media person who's making somebody answer questions. That's never, ever, ever, ever,
ever my intent. And so I was getting a little bit confused when it seemed like everything,
like he just didn't want to be there. He wasn't cracking a smile. Wasn't really making eye
contact. Um, didn't really shake my hand, kind of shook it in like a interesting way. Um, so I
would love to hope that all of that was because,
he just wasn't having a good day, but definitely this, this was, you know, maybe,
maybe six years ago at this point, but it was definitely a little bit of a, of a dream crusher
in a sense, because when you are excited to interview a legend, especially somebody like
Kareem, and then you're just disappointed from that. And you didn't think it went the way that
you want. And you also didn't think that he had a good time. And you didn't think that he had a
good time because he wouldn't even crack a smile at you. Um, it, it was, it was rough. And so
maybe there will be a chance in a future in the future where I can redeem myself or he can redeem
himself and maybe it would go a little bit better. But, uh, if not, this is why sometimes you are
not supposed to meet your idols because you could be disappointed. All right, you guys,
that's all I got for my spill the tea segment.
This week, let me know in the comments below if that tea was piping hot or ice cold.
I don't really like, I feel like those are my most embarrassing moments and I feel lucky that
it's not anything crazier than those. I didn't like, I've never fallen down stairs or, you know,
like what are some really embarrassing things that have happened to people on television?
I haven't like completely,
like, like I said, the Miss USA is probably the most viral.
Yes. And you, you haven't like just totally said the wrong thing. Like,
like you didn't like go to Kareem and call him the wrong name or something, you know?
No, actually I have called someone the wrong name once.
Yeah, no, I did that recently actually. Um, when I was doing that actually just triggered my mind
that that was pretty embarrassing, but it was just like such a small moment and the guy was cool. So
it was, uh, Doug McDermott for, he plays for the Spurs. And I think I called him Dan, but it was
a mental slip of mine. Like I just called him another name. And then he was like, Doug. And
I was like, oh shit, my bad. But I don't know. And those senses also, like, I feel like you're
only embarrassed as you, as like your expectations are for yourself. Like if you can also laugh at
yourself, sometimes like we're all humans, we make mistakes, you know, there was this one time,
you know, I was like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm
also, I was interviewing a player and they had, uh, they had a game that I, before that went into
like double overtime. And I was like, congrats on the win last night. I know it was a crazy game
and they lost. Like, I just, I just mixed up the scores when I was looking and he was like,
and he started laughing. I was like, oh, why are you laughing? Like, you know, it was a big win
for you guys. And he's like, oh, we lost. And I was like, oh my bad. But it's also, I don't know,
those are moments that you just laugh about it. Most people are understanding. I'm for the most
part, very prepared for my interview. So it's not like I'm going in there and like completely
butchering something because I wasn't prepared. It's mostly like, you know, I'm a dork sometimes
and I'm like, it happens. Like, yeah, like actually some of the videos that in like the last
20 years of watching YouTube, some of the videos that have made me laugh the hardest
are like local, local, local, local, local, local, local, local, local, local, local, local,
like, you know, this was not scripted. This is these things happen by accident. Like when,
when the mic is hot and people don't know what it is, almost like they're just, they're just so,
they're so funny. And like, you never really come away from that. Like thinking like, oh,
this person's an idiot. You just like get it. Like, oh, like things happen. We all make mistakes.
who like lost his shit he was in the field and like lost it and that was that one was so funny
the one with the bee is that what you're talking about yeah that's a classic the bee is coming and
he's yeah he also just like transforms that's the thing he like he's like very like formal on camera
and then like that happens and you like you see the other side of him come out right yeah i feel
like in in general it's one of those things like and i don't like luckily i'm probably jinxing
myself across the board i don't have that many i feel like embarrassing moments because i feel
like if you're able to laugh at yourself then you don't get embarrassed as easily if i had this
facade that i was like this perfect person and i never messed up or i never said the wrong thing
or i never you know whatever then it you know if that gets broken then it's then it's hard but um
yeah i feel like those were those were some
beginning that uh were kind of a kind of embarrassing you know somebody else who was
really intimidating in the beginning when i was interviewing him as well was spike lee
the first like five minutes of that he would not crack a smile wouldn't anything and he like
again like wasn't really making eye contact and there was at one point in the interview
it flipped a switch and i was able to like make him giggle and like thank god for that because
it would have also been a brutal interview and like normally
even if people are tough interviews i am able to get to that point where it does switch or where
they realize like okay she's not threatening like i'm pretty chill when i interview and i'm also
a little bit awkward so it should make you feel comfortable because you're with somebody who's
awkward so like you're actually the star here you know what i mean like i'm able to laugh i'm able
to joke about certain things like you know and i normally try to use that and spike lee was one
that i was like oh this is uh this is uh gonna be
this is gonna be rough and then he started he laughed he giggled once and i was like yes
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