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What's up, you guys? Welcome back to Courtside Club.
Today we have a very special episode for you.
You know that we love dunking on the Courtside Club.
And today I have three of the best professional dunkers in the world sitting with me.
We have B-Ruff, JC, and Jordan Sutherland.
Thanks for joining me, guys.
I've never heard of JC in my life. I'm sorry. I love you.
Wait, what do we... Jonathan Clark?
J. Clark the Jumper.
I like the Jonathan.
You just say J. Clark.
Jonathan Sutherland.
J. Clark the Jumper.
J. Clark the Jumper.
But JC is fine. You do not have to say J. Clark the Jumper.
Only JC I know of.
We're getting caught up in the names. We're getting caught up in the names, guys. Stop it. I apologize.
Joining me today, B-Ruff.
J. Clark the Jumper.
Jonathan Clark is fine. I'm cool with it.
And Jordan Sutherland.
If we could get past the nicknames, I would love to talk about actual dunking with you guys.
You see how B-Ruff is just smooth? B-Ruff.
But nicknames are actually a very big part of the dunking scene.
So you guys have all been in the dunk scene for a little while. I feel like I have three.
I'm like the newest one here.
And how long have you been dunking?
I'm going to say...
Yeah, dunking since 07.
But as far as getting paid to dunk and dunking professionally,
I'm going to say recently, two years.
I'm not going to count my first year because the first year was just, I'm a paid dunker.
You know, as of recent, as of the past two years, I can say I'm a professional dunker
because when I'm traveling, when I'm getting the money that I don't have to put anything up front,
like, oh, I've got to pay a ticket.
It's like, no, I'm more like I'm getting recognized for my abilities and I'm getting treated as such.
But also, it's going back to my mentality.
Like, I'm always humble, like, are you a dunker?
Yeah, I do a little bit of, you know, I jump a little bit.
And it's like, yeah, I'm a dunker dog.
Obviously, I'm familiar with this scene a bit.
And I have been following it since 2013, early 2013.
And so I have a lot of respect for you guys.
But I feel like maybe the general public or the basketball community might have seen your clips on social media.
How do we get to that title of professional dunker?
Because you guys, to me, are in that top category.
It makes perfect sense.
But like you said, that first year, you didn't call yourself a pro dunker.
Professional dunkers now.
It's categories for me personally.
So you have contest dunkers.
They don't get commercials.
They don't do anything else but just do dunk contests.
They live for dunk contests.
That's all they do.
For me, a professional dunker, you also are classified as an entertainer.
So these are some of your globetrotters and stuff like that.
Your Harlem Wizards.
Guys like us who not only can go.
We can go do a dunk show for somebody.
But if you need us to go speak to the kids, we can do that as well.
If you need us to come to a party and just do an appearance at a mall or something like that, we can do that as well.
Have you done a bar mitzvah?
Yeah, I've done at least 13 at this point.
Bar mitzvahs are lit.
We show out and then they have the open cash bar for you.
I love the bar mitzvah.
We love you guys.
I love bar mitzvahs.
Adam Sandler, do you need us?
Professional dunker is, just to me, is you have that business.
This mindset, which a lot of dunkers don't have.
All they focus on is the basketball aspect of it, and that's fine.
It's the same as you're not going to classify LeBron and some of the other players in the league
when it comes to that business, that business mind and how they move and how they operate
because they don't think the same.
Some guys are out there.
They just want to run up and down the court, put the ball in the rim, and go home.
LeBron is like, no, I want to open a school.
I want to open this business.
I want to help people do this.
And when it comes to being a professional dunker in this day and age,
you have to be a professional dunker.
You have to be a professional dunker.
You have to have all those traits because we're getting so many opportunities.
Like, I remember when Clark first went viral for the teaching stuff when he was dunking
at the pep rally.
He had the full teacher out there dunking on kids going crazy.
Yeah, for those of you who might just be tuning in, Jonathan is also a high school science teacher.
Well, I'm dual credentialed in science and PE, so I'm just doing PE now.
Middle school science, eighth grade, and for the past two years, PE and coach track.
But like you were saying, you guys are very well-rounded in this space, and that was something
I think that stood out to the general public.
So they're like, wait, why did this teacher just poster a student in a classroom or at
the pep rally do whatever dunk that you did?
Who's the best professional dunker in the world right now?
Everybody's going to say themselves because I got supreme confidence in me.
me he's going to say him and if the cameras weren't rolling i say him too but i'm at the
table so i'm gonna say nah one foot realistically to me right now like no like i love jay clark i
love isaiah i love jordan kilganning but i feel like nobody can beat me but myself right now
because of how many hours i've put into the gym to be as consistent as i am and the only two people
like like i said respect to these guys here but that i've seen with that consistency recently
because gee dupree was the most consistent dunker in the world for years point but he didn't miss
but kilganning does not miss because he comes in with his plan he knows what dunks he's going to do
so when it goes to me going against kilganning i know i can't i know what dunks i have to do i know
i can't miss once because he's not going to miss and then with isaiah rivera it's just like going
against jay clark his bag is so deep that you never know what they're going to come with but
that's also a disadvantage in the dunk game because
it will mess you up mentally coming into a contest with too many dunks on your head to do
and then you have the debate of do i want to go viral and lose or do i want to keep it basic
well i think it's basic and win so that's why i feel like i've mastered the mind game of the
dunk contest game that's why i feel like i'm the best in the world i was gonna say i give the four
boom boom kilgan and isaiah the problem is
you say top four dunkers i say top four because when you get to top five these two let's go of
course kilganning i want to go to our top four these two kilganning and isaiah when it comes to
that group it's based upon like monday he might be feeling he might crush he might kill him off on
monday let's just say the contest on wednesday and he's feeling it when it gets to those four
it's literally who's feeling it at that time who's feeling good we talked about it i'm like
it's also based upon positioning because if he doesn't
there's so many variables that that question is like who's the best dunker it's literally time
place and positioning i feel like those so would you guys agree that there's a group of
four right now that any given day yeah one of you could be the best fifth in there just for
the sake of it consistency wise gonna gonna give it to you in the contest might not might not do
the craziest stuff he gonna do what he do you can't ever exclude christian chris staples you
can't because he's gonna
you can't ever exclude christian chris staples you can't because he's gonna make you do what he does
you can't ever exclude chris staples you can't because he's gonna make you do what he does
his dunks bro like chris gonna come in there we're tired of saying three seats between the
leg but i ain't tired of making it you you keep trying to do under both every contest and you
miss i've been doing this 360 for five years winning i love chris out there because he's
doing his own thing but if it was a fifth dunker fifth dunker from the usa i would i would i would
throw staples in there because like you say i one thing i'm for i love consistency if you i'm gonna
try this dunk and you missed it in the contest and now we're not inviting you back that's how i
pro dunking aspect pro professional dunkers
are consistent can you do this in a show in a contest in a bar mitzvah wherever you're at
i don't care how small the court is how many people are there can you keep that level of
consistency when those lights are on whether it's 50 people in the crowd or 50 000 you have to be
able to keep that consistency and that's a that's a major aspect that separates a professional
dunker from a contest dunker so what sport would you compare dunking as being the
the closest to because you guys talk about any given day you have one chance essentially you
know you get you get three tries in a contest but essentially if you don't make that first dunk
that's already knocking your score and it's not as impressive professional skateboarding
track and field shot putting skateboarding skateboarding for sure whatever sport you
have to one up somebody in terms of athletic performance i like i like track and field but
in terms of the entertainment value the showmanship skateboarding like the score how how the
scoring is ranked if you watch the x games and you watch when they have those moments where
it's like best trick competition for skateboarding that's that's some of the stuff we went through
at dunk league like you got three minutes to do all these dunks what's your best one it's like
that's why we want dunking to be an olympic sport because now skateboarding is an olympic sport
and we feel like we are on the same plateau as far as what we do on a on a yearly basis
all over the world and how much influence we have like just like skateboarding was big on the video
games we people play 2k to dunk on people and cross them like we the guys that do those dunks
so so what's holding dunking back from becoming an olympic sport organization organization out
the world uh dunk association they're trying to get it together right now but it's a lot of crab
in the barrel mentality as far as people it's gatekeepers there's a lot of gatekeepers in the
industry that are withholding opportunities from dunkers who deserve it
who would help the game elevate when he said gatekeepers is there is there something there
like um what's going on because dunking has been around and professional dunking has been around
and now with social media i feel like it is the biggest it has ever been yeah because you guys
are able to share your craft whether you're in a contest whether you're on espn whether you're on
television or not you guys have your own social platforms and you all have followings so what's
um you know for me i think it's
it's everything that these guys have said the organization someone needs to come in and put
something together that's valid that people want to see that's not a repetition of what has been
done in the past because you know if it worked in the past then it wouldn't be what it is now and
be much bigger but it's kind of someone puts on a big contest and it falls under the same rules of
you know have the mayor of the city um the local dog be a judge and kind of all these yeah he's
got a lot of making competition i will i will say that that's been one thing that's been really
intriguing to me and obviously i'm sitting here i appreciate you guys having this conversation with
me i can't dunk but i can appreciate what you guys are doing and i do see that there
is something very wrong with the scoring and i've had conversations about it i want to know from you
guys i've talked to chuck about it obviously he's been in this scene forever what do you guys think
needs to happen with the scoring you gotta get a concrete scoring system like the olympics to where
you can't just jump over somebody and reverse it it's this but we have to do something that's also
not going to take away the because i love the human element in it i'm a show me when i dunk i
love if i got a seven or eight on this dunk if i do something showmanship at the end of it i can go
ahead and get an extra point so it's it's teetering i want to do something in between those lines but
at the same time we just have to get a rubric we have to get a cut based rubric like gymnastics
when they land and they do that that's an 8.2 every time if the next person does that lands and does
it's 8.4 yeah so that's that's a sport that i'm actually very familiar with and and i've compared
your guys's scoring to gymnastics because it's like you know there are certain deduction levels
and so for you guys if the duck isn't flush that's clean right that's like it takes a minus
point one you know somebody knock them over a little bit that's minus points you pushed off
but again it's just like being like on american idol it's actually it's i feel like we can fix
it and we can't because at the end of the day it's still
comes down to preference when it comes to judges whether the judges know about dunking or they don't
know about dunking they may have a preference of style or dunk or like some like for me i'm a one
foot jumper some people love that because it gives the illusion of flying when i take off from far
and stuff like that but i've lost many contests because even though i'm doing that it's a 5.9 guy
that just jumps over people and that looks wilder to them than me doing all my double between the
under both and all that stuff so again it comes down to preference which is why i feel like
if we don't get the gymnastic scoring which will be hard for a dunk contest because again with even
with the gymnastic contest those scores sometimes come down to preference like somebody made like a
tumble this much better like that is a nine tumble and somebody's like there's a six tumble out of me
i didn't like how they well michaela maroney has the most famous uh perfect 10 vault that everybody
and she didn't get that perfect 10 so there will always be that slight bit of you know subjection
whatever the word is but i will say if if there was an encyclopedia of dunk like there is with
figure skating or gymnastics that would take that gray area out and if the people were judging
weren't the mayor's dog you know or just some celebrity or social media and i've judged dunk
contests before and i probably messed it up we trust you in the basketball realm when you get
in that realm it's like like you said mayor he's like well what he's about to do i'm gonna do a
double up right jump over something okay it's like we will respect you because you're in the
basketball scene you know also you have that thing okay you can tell when someone's pushing
off or something like so we'll trust your opinion but the other person's like i mean we look but i
think there should be some training even when it when it is big competitions and for you guys as
well um not everybody is dunking professionally full time so sometimes the income that comes from
contests that you might have deserved to have won that you did not get that prize money
actually truly affects people's lives you know yeah so
let's talk about the nba dunk contest a little bit the last dunk contest that we just had
how do you guys feel about that because he came on strong after that dunk contest he said that it
dunk contest in the history of this planet which is cap
very untrue there was one that was and and you guys replied to those videos on social media
sent in your videos did you hear back from him no uh just being realistic i don't think it's gonna
be a point where we would be in the nba dunk contest because then it wouldn't be the nba dunk
contest and to get let's
give those guys credit these guys are going out here and especially i've said this multiple times
about this topic these aren't like back in the 90s when it was the superstars doing the contest
michael jordan dominic wilkins the pressure that they felt on a nightly basis was nothing compared
to that person the dunk contest like i gotta go win championships i don't care about this dunk
contest but you got these young guys who realize this contest can make or break my career right now
like me being a dunk champion can
actually keep me in the league because it has my name floating around there and that's a different
type of pressure but they don't feel on the nightly basis they don't have to deal with
and the dunks are harder now it's a higher level of dunks they don't have years of practice like
we do to work on these dunks so you have to give them the credit for even trying because they have
the athletic ability it's a lot of guys at the dunk camp we're at right now they have the athletic
ability to do a lot but the mechanics of doing the dunk they haven't put that together because
they're not working on that all the time they're trying to make their game better and evolving
their game six a.m practice shoot around they don't have time to just go strictly dunk like
i would say i would say like if you also look at um powerlifting bodybuilding uh different
different sports that have different levels right so if you have like uh junior powerlifting right
these are this level of kid and
this type of performance then you have obviously like the highest level of profession like the nba
even though we hold them to the highest regard they're not professional dunkers like they said
they're not when zaglavin wakes up in the morning he's like oh man i'm gonna work on you know my
east bay transfers to get my hand speed up yeah he's not worried about that he has he has to worry
about the utah jazz um we're in utah side he's got to worry about the utah jazz tonight right
when i wake up in the morning obviously like when you get past like the children and teaching and
stuff like that it's like oh yeah i'm working on my east bay today like like in terms of the sport
that i do like dunking is what i do so if we're in a contest together if we were doing a one-on-one
okay he's gonna kill me because he has all these skills in his tool bag to use at his disposal to
beat me if we're in a dunk contest i have all of these tools in my tool bag at my disposal to beat
him so it's like it's
as a as a nba dunk contest fan i enjoy watching what they do because i know they're not practicing
what i do so when people send me a dm like oh you tried to do your dunk
yeah he tried to do it in two weeks in between you know seven basketball games and 13 appearances
when i've had four or five years to develop that so how does it feel for you guys to hear
somebody like steven a obviously has this massive platform and his speech was trending
on social media and everybody heard that like you guys being the professional dunkers that you are
the guys that he was talking about how does that make you feel when he calls it out feels good get
a little recognition but at the same time we we're not naive we do know that it's going to take some
time and we know that you're not just going to have us come do a dunk show because then it wouldn't
be the nba dunk contest so we love it we love that you're going to advocate for us maybe hopefully
you can be if you advocated for us i felt a type of way about it to be fair
because he did disrespect them a little bit like you got to at least be respectful about it
but i don't even think to the point of disrespecting the nba players but to make such a stink when i
know that he hasn't really been paying attention as much so obviously you know we're talking about
this one contest because it wasn't that great but to see all of you guys who obviously i'm close with
kind of sending your videos and right so i guess i know he wasn't paying attention it was sweeping
no offense my guy is literally at the
dunk camp right now but the dunker that he brought up on the video was chris bell doing a backflip at
dunk camp last year and if he was locked in like he was supposed to be because it's a lot of espn
guys and analysts that are actually locked in they know who we are they've seen the dunks they
show the dunks to the nba players the nba players show the dunks to them we've been on sports and
if they've seen that so the fact that he just picked what was ever the most recent dunk that
espn just posted yeah i know he's not really tapped in as he say he is
but at the end of the day it's like ruff said just to get that acknowledgement because we see these
guys doing our dunks we know who's the guy behind it showing them the dunks like it's chuck like we
know we know who's showing him the dunks so it's like that's all we want at the end of the day
like we said we work so hard to perfect these dunks and make it look easy like a little
recognition goes a long way for our lives you guys are potential millionaires and some are
that yes this dunk i did was from jordan sutherland thank you one foot god i've been watching your
instagram that one shout out after you went in a dunk contest or even participating just changed
my life because i've been doing this for so many years just for that for that recognition from the
stars like from the shacks and all these people that are in the league so so what guys have
complimented you or shouted you guys out that you maybe weren't expecting shack shack is like
shack is the big homie like shack is the big homie so
from a kid standpoint from like basketball you are looking at three basketball fans we're not
just guys who fell in love with the sport of dunking no these are three guys who love the
sport of basketball watching shack as a little kid like watching the finals watching kobe and
shack in the finals and just this is a person who like knows your name like knows your he knows you
got kids he knows you got if you got a wife or whatever the situation is shack knows so it's
like for that for that nba legend
to be that tapped in it's it's mind-blowing because this is all for much dunking or basketball
i honestly feel like if you got the five best dunkers nba you got the five you got your five
selectees for the dunk contest you have the five dunkers that are dunking now not the five dunkers
that dunked in the past you have the dunkers that are dunking now coach each one of those guys
you get ov top and you get jake uh anthony yeah you know you can't like have one of these
guys coach one of their participants instead of one person who like chuck yeah you killing it but
let's go ahead and get these guys because they're dunking now they're they're doing it now let's get
them to coach those guys but then also let's film a bit of that and maybe the intros to this
challenge is showing you guys working with them yeah coached by jay clark but
the jumper hypothetical here we take the top five professional dunkers in the world right now
what top five nba dunkers would give you guys the most competition levine zach levine could do
90 of the dunks i can do and i promise you that yeah i really probably like if you gave
zach levine if zach levine said right like exactly on top for me boom um if ag still like i feel like
ag still got it like got it he just lost like he didn't lose i mean it was a hell of a contest
you know what happened you know what i don't know
bro we know what happened like you know i'm coming back out i love zach levine bro zach
levine did a 360 scoop right after aaron gordon did a 360 scoop after the mascot hand doing a
spin i don't want to hear that aaron gordon won the first one like it's no it's no i'm not debating
i'm not debating nothing on that one i'm not debating nothing on that one
okay so we have zach levine we have aaron gordon who else um obie really like oh
if y'all forget one person is he in the league i think so right now
i won't say job because if you've ever watched ja do trick dunks he's one of the most
inconsistent dunkers at doing trick dunks period
but i have other dunkers i would put over him like i would even though he's not as
big as a dunker i mean as a celebrity as him i'm putting obie over job because
obie has come out and done my dunks with a week's worth of training
i'm looking like if anthony ever ever got into like just dunking yeah i'll be like lord are we
talking are we talking in this hypothetical are they polished or is it just or can we
just who would give you the best competition
zion is a problem
zion is a problem
zion is a problem
zion is a problem
zion is a problem
zion is a problem
since since uh cassius stanley isn't guaranteed in the league like i don't know if he's in the
league right now then and i don't know if terrence ferguson is still in the league right now because
terrence ferguson or him will be my fifth all day so since i don't know i guess i don't know
Terrence Patterson, yeah.
I don't think it's unexpected because we're built the same.
In high school, he went middle of the free throw line.
You look bigger than he does.
He's six, he's three inches taller than me and weighs 20 pounds more.
But it's probably height, but I don't know.
Maybe when he's on the court with the other guys, he looks small.
So wait, so is Jha hitting that?
I go Jha since I don't know if those twos are currently in the league right now.
Obi, Zach, and Aaron Gordon.
That five would be lit.
We're going to destroy them.
My thing is, with all respect, I ain't going to lie to y'all, bro.
Like, just alone, between Zion and Zach, it's going to be a problem because
Zion got four dunks right now that is light dunks for him.
360 windmill, a free throw line, a free throw line windmill,
and between the legs that he can do with.
He's got so much power and velocity, it's going to be ridiculous.
It's the velocity for me.
And Zach Levine could do three of my four main contest dunks right now, and I know it.
If I've told him, this is how you spin to do it, I know he could do it.
But the thing is, like, if they were to do this dunk, we're polished enough to be like,
okay, you did that dunk and got over it.
Our bag is just, that's the only, that's the thing.
It becomes chest now.
At a certain point, it's like, the bag is too deep.
Like, I know you don't even, you wouldn't even think to do it.
You wouldn't even think to do this dunk, right?
Like, this is definitely a Burberry.
Like, Zach Levine would never think to do a scorpion dunk.
He just wouldn't think to do that off one foot.
He wouldn't think to do a double elbow off one foot.
Or a fakie scorpion.
And that's easy to me.
You know what I'm saying?
But those are easy to me, and it would be easy for him, but that's not what he would
He's going to do behind the back, between the legs.
He might pull an under both, a scoop, but when we start getting into combining dunks
and doing the tricky, freaky stuff.
The two dunks into one and stuff?
Nah, it's like, when you got two basketballs, a ladder involved, like, it's like, oh, no,
what are we doing?
Then you got B-Ruff, who then hit a back flip after the dunk.
He then did a round off.
It's the whole entertainment value.
It's a different level.
You're ripping off your jersey.
Final dunk of every contest.
If my shirt not off, it's not a contest.
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Best NBA dunker of all time.
Lord Vince the Carter.
Without Vince, still none of these, none of these new guys.
But, no, matter of fact.
Matter of fact, bro.
Matter of fact, bro.
Vince Carter, bro.
Matter of fact, bro.
They say Vince Carter hands down.
One foot guy, don't do this.
Not at the course I club.
His name is Vincent Carter.
I'm just going to throw Vincent.
You still watch the top 100 Vince Carter dunk before every dunk contest.
Who are you going to put above him?
If it's not, like, what, Dominique or.
It's Vince Carter.
Why do you say Vince is the best?
Because of influence or act.
Because of influence or are we speaking on the actual dunks they can do?
Because if we're speaking on actual dunks they can do, just point blank period, dunks
Jay Rich is better than Vince in the dunk contest, dunks alone.
And you won't lie to me and sit there and say he's not.
What did you say?
What did you say?
I'm saying dunks only.
Jay Rich said, I hit that dunk under the tree and I tried it and I never hit that again.
He's not consistent.
On his own Jay Rich East Bay.
We're just listening, bro.
He made that dunk and we can't do it.
You've never seen Vince Carter do another between the legs in his life after that until
He was doing it when he was young with the abs.
That's wild, by the way.
Didn't he say that for you?
That's wild, by the way.
What did you just say?
But he never did it again.
Like you said, he never did it again until he got older.
He was like, I got to see if I still got it, which is fine.
But if we want to say we're going off, if we're going on, if we're going off of dudes
dunking in their old age, Dr. J dumped every day, every birthday until he was 70.
So let's talk about that.
What are we talking about?
Influence or just dunking?
The whole circle.
The whole circle.
Vince Carter hands down.
The GOAT of NBA dunking.
Made every kid want to dunk.
Like literally what J Rich said.
Only closer in game dunker would be Sean Kemp.
Vicento Carter, bro.
He's about to sign off the show.
If you want to just talk about dunks, bro, you can't.
Like I said, if they weren't talking about influence, it's going to be where these debates
If we're not talking about strictly influence, like this, like this debate.
You don't talk about influence.
I mean, Steph Curry is a better basketball player than Allen Iverson.
But Allen Iverson had more influence.
Because someone's changing the game.
Steph's influence is different.
These kids are getting wide open.
Steph changed the game.
Steph changed the game.
I mean, Iverson did too.
You got to share it right on the bench.
If we're talking about pure influence.
Think about this, bro.
And the dunk community is right now.
Anthony Hamilton Jr. is not a top five dunker, but he will be at every contest.
And that's my little bro.
Because influence.
Also, the Humphrey just jumped to the highest.
When we have these debates.
He jumped to the highest.
If you're including.
Vince Carter is not a better dunker than Zach Levine.
But if we talk about influence, Vince Carter is the greatest dunker ever that lived.
It's like saying a pyramid is built and the first layer is Vince.
What's your next question?
The answer was Vince Carter.
No, honestly, I love it.
By the way, Vinc.
Vincenzo Lamont Carter, bro.
Say his middle name.
Vince Lamont Carter.
Vincenzo high rise Carter.
The half man, half amazing.
By the way, you guys, I don't know if you know this, but he's actually part of our
podcast network, the VC show.
So Vince Carter is in the family.
I want you to make sure he knows what he was going to do.
We'll let him know for sure.
Hopefully he turns into the courtside club every single week.
So Vince Carter retweeted one of my tweets one time.
Thank you that when you tweeted it, you got me.
Shout out, we're in the Vince Carter retweet.
You're talking about influence?
Yeah, Vince Carter did that.
That was awesome.
First of all, shout out to Jay Clark
because Jay Clark created one of the best moments in my life
by sacrificing a dunk that he was going to do
in a Vince Carter jersey in China
by letting me dunk in the jersey.
Vince Carter retweeted it, and he followed me off of that,
and I thank Jay Clark because he never had to give me that jersey.
Like you said, crabs in a barrel,
and the only way out is that, what that Jay-Z line say,
if we hop on the, and we pull the crabs one by one.
That's how you, that's how you...
Oh, it's like those...
Yeah, the little, the little, the monkey, certainly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's how you get about it.
That's how you get how the dunk game doesn't evolve
because there's some people that are just like,
I want all the money, and, you know,
we don't care about the money.
If the dunk game evolves, we all are going to eat.
We are going to continue to get paid
and be able to feed our families off this job.
Can we retract something?
Like, Tony Hawk wasn't the only person in his game.
We have rent mortgages.
Tony Hawk was every skater that was popping in his game, so...
I care about the money.
I want to just say the money, we do care about the money.
No, I'm not saying you don't...
I live in California.
I'm not saying you don't care about the money.
The money comes with what we're doing.
We're going to get paid.
I'm not going to sit out here and be like,
I love dunking, I do everything for free.
I think what you're trying to say is that
you guys have all dedicated your lives to this
and to growing the sport.
And obviously you are also trying to make a living off of it
and make as much money as you can
because at the end of the day,
you guys are professional athletes
and that career does not last forever either.
It's a self-life.
And I got to tell the kids, like,
I want to learn how to dunk.
I got to pay rent first and then I can help you out.
Okay, no, I'm just lying.
But no, it is like,
we just want to go ahead and increase our life
as far as our jumping ability.
And the one way to do that
is to take care of our body like LeBron.
So it would be good to get, you know,
the sponsorship that give us the therapy guns
But definitely want to go ahead and get compensated
so that I can get, you know,
buy my own rapid reboots.
On Courtside Club,
I have to ask some courtside questions.
If you guys were sitting courtside,
who would you be?
Who would you love to see poster somebody
from the courtside view?
I want to see LeBron coming down court full speed.
Like how he dunked on Nurkic,
I want to see that live.
Like, he's full heel down speed.
I'm not taking this charge for my team.
I'm taking this charge
so I have a poster at my house
of LeBron dunking on me
because I love him.
That's why I feel like they take the charges.
But I would love to see LeBron
That's a good question.
That's a good one.
because I saw Jha against Detroit.
Oh, he's so disrespectful.
I want to see Jordan.
I want to see Jordan.
Like, I work for the Clippers
so I get to see everybody get posted
when they come play us.
So I want to see Jordan, man.
I want to see him
do the fake baseline
and dunk on Montumbo, bro.
And then be like,
I want to see Jordan.
Yo, Vince didn't catch a lot of bodies.
because people didn't jump on him
because he went all out.
He do that dribble
I want to see Sean Kemp
Like, that would have been.
Before all this head tapping.
Sean Kemp was the most
disrespectful dunker.
He's the most disrespectful
to walk this earth.
Because how dare you not
after dunking on somebody,
and then pointing at you.
if that would fly
You're fighting LRF.
That head tapping ain't going to fly.
really tried to do that
Oh, no, it's a fight.
we're in the tunnel with it.
We're in the tunnel with it.
All right, next one for you.
What is one dunk contest
that you would have loved
to have been courtside for?
Zach Levine versus Aaron Gordon.
Those are the only two
that I even want to see.
I was at the Aaron Gordon.
So, I was at Zach's first
and I was at that one.
Not Gold Chain Jordan,
but Jordan versus
Dominique in Chicago.
So, that might be
Something like that.
Because that's back
when you saw superstars,
All right, last question
Who would you love
to sit courtside with?
Could be dead or alive.
Can I say this one?
If I can sit courtside,
and this is something
I've been thinking about
I just want to sit courtside
with Craig Sager,
because I'm not going to
let him have style,
and I just always want
to pick his brain,
not only with basketball,
bro, where do you
just like an awesome
He just seemed like
this seat's open.
How you doing, Craig?
you get photographed,
And I have to come with,
that'll force me to have
the suit that I can only wear
with Craig around.
That's a great question.
I'm over here thinking.
I've been thinking
about that for a while now.
I can't follow that one up.
I keep wanting to
you could call him JC.
when you said JC.
I have no problem.
My initials are JC.
All tomorrow, JC?
Who would you love
to sit courtside with?
just because we'd
have a good time.
Make a last favor.
peak typical answer.
because I couldn't
easily save my daughter
because she loves basketball.
we'd have a good time
a great experience,
so I gotta go with Snoop.
You're trying to be
in the video, right?
Because I want to meet
Snoop in general,
if you see this man,
ain't around no more
because I was going
to try to get on that,
you want to throw me
in a little video
I could play your son
in a biopic or something.
I got you right now.
I'm gonna call my agent.
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it's a dirty beat,
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