Um, Tom Brady, we just saw win a Super Bowl at the age of 43.

You played your last n b a game at the age of 32.

We're living in an entirely different time right now, but I just wonder, do you believe that we need to adjust?

All of us need to adjust our idea of what constitutes old in sports.

100% we do.

Um, and the reason why is because a nutrition is better training is better.

And in the athlete, um, you know, him and herself are better.

Ah, so what What used to be, um, in the MBA professionally, Um, in the n b A.

And also I was in the NFL.

He really only had a 10 year career.

The last two or three years that you were hanging on, you were just hanging around and get paid to fill out your contract.

But you know, those peak years, um, you know, for an athlete, uh, normally was from, you know, 19, 2.

30.

By the time you got 31.

32 it was down the hill.

Uh, nowadays, the way players and teams and everyone else is looking at conditioning and training.

You can you can easily look at, you know, extending those pro careers another 10 to 15 years of excellent play because of, you know, medicine and everything else that's happening.

Talk to the surgical with the diet piece of this.

That's fascinating.

I remember, and now we're going back a long ways.

But you're playing for the Pistons and I'm covering a game and I'm in the locker room about two hours before a game.

And Mahorn Rick Mahorn has a cup of coffee like like I mean, like the size of your head.

And he has one of the ball kids or someone whose work in the locker room bring him over What had to be, I promise you, I'm not exaggerating what had to be 10 packets of sugar, maybe Mawr just dumping it all in the coffee, and that's kind of what guys would use that.

That was what constituted like something that would get you ready for the game as opposed to now where there's all this science that would give you whatever hydration and electrolytes and all that kind of stuff before the game.

Is that the kind of thing you're talking about?

Exactly?

We had No, We had no idea or any concept of how our body truly work.

Um, so while we while we thought caffeine and sugar gave us that that energy high where we were, we were really, you know, blowing out in the lay up line, right?

A lay up line.

We will be sweating and Duncan and everything else.

And then by the time the second quarter came, you were like, it may not.

I need some to eat.

I'm like, I'm, like, hungry.

I'm you know, you have a energy drop.

So, you know, think about how athletes used to eat, um, where everyone was.

It was about eating meat.

Everyone was about eating steaks, loading up with pancakes, pasta and everything else.

It's and it's totally different now.

Eso the understanding of the body and how your body works and how you can maintain it.

That science, that knowledge has, you know, definitely extended the plan careers off of the athlete today.

I think it's a really interesting part of this.

You show Tom Brady had played a pancakes, he would lose his mind.

Lose his mind completely.

Greeny and Isaiah Thomas.

All right, Next order of business.

What do we think of all these threes?

The Nets took 40 threes last night.

We had a team.

I did the highlight yesterday.

I think it was Utah.

Took 45 threes in a game the other night.

Um, you know, your season high for three pointers in a season was 61.

The game was so different back then.

What do you think?

Do you like or not?

Like, all the threes they're shooting in the N B.

A game today?

Well, I I you know, I'm I'm I like, um I was like, when all areas of the floor is being used.

Uh, so I you know, I like the, like, the mid range.

I like the layup.

Um, I like the creativity.

I like the art of the game.

I like the way Tyree Urban plays the game.

Um, you know, he shoots layups.

He's mid range shots.

He sees the three point shot.

He's good in all areas of the game.

And he's beautiful.

Toe watch, um, and greeny you you understand this when I say this, Um, the way the league has marketed the game has totally shifted.

Because now the league markets and sales the jump shop, Uh, but when when we were playing and when I was playing the league marketed and sold the dunk and it was about what you could do creatively in the air, uh, that that no other human being really was capable of doing.

So we sold the sublime.

We so did the things like, Oh, man, did you see what Dr J just did?

Did you see what Michael Jordan just did?

Did you see the big guys?

You know, the things that you normally wouldn't see on everyday person do?

That is what the MBA was all about.

Now we sail the jump shot in the jump shot every night is shown on television and more people believe that they can play and shoot the jump shot.

And they ever thought that they could do the the creative things in the air that we used to sell.

Now I love the creativity.

I love the things that you do in the air.

I love the breathtaking stuff that you know You will go to a game every single night ago.

Wow.

I can't believe that this player just did that.

But now every night, you know way See, like you say 43 point shots, it's like, Okay, I like that they make him.

But does it really excite me to see a guy shooting the jump shot?

I'm good with it, But you know, kids, I've seen a lot of people shoot jump shots.

I haven't seen a lot of people do the stuff that the Doctor J and Jordan in those guys were doing in the air.

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