Gilbert Arenas | All The Smoke Interview - UPDATE: Kwame Brown starts his own Podcast!

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None of those dudes you named had MJ breathing down their neck & a coach like Doug Collins trying to sabotage them.
That’s an excuse for the first couple of years of his career. What about the other 10 years? Dude started putting on weight and was out kicking it in the clubs a little too much. He had injuries, but everybody does.
 

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None of those dudes you named had MJ breathing down their neck & a coach like Doug Collins trying to sabotage them.

All of those guys had supportive vets and coaches in their first seasons too. Raptors got rid of the first coach that T-Mac had right when they realized he treated the young guys like shyt. Brought in Muggsy, Dell, Oakley and Dee Brown to mentor him and Vince. KG had Sam Mitchell and Flip Saunders. Kobe was pretty much seen as the future in LA once he arrived and Jerry West made sure they treated him right.
 

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He should've had more smoke for the PTI crew. Wilbon and Kornheiser would lay into him when he was a teenager. Those 2 always carried the water for MJ and ESPN business interest.
Is this really true? I may be wrong but it seems like most of the Kwame media hate (Stephen A) came later in his career around the Lakers years. But everyone keeps running with the narrative that the media was so hard on a teenage kid. Does anyone have time lines or clips.
 

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One of y'all gotta fill me in since I was a kid when he got drafted, what does he keep referencing when he says SAS went around college campuses talking about him? Like is there video of it? People were outraged an 18 year old got drafted 1st overall back then?
 
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