Former Los Angeles Laker Samaki Walker won an NBA title with Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal and Phil Jackson in 2001-2002 and played with Dirk Nowitzki, Tim Duncan, David Robinson and Dwyane Wade over the course of his 10-year career.
He was my guest on this week’s NBA Press Break podcast, where co-host Max Kirshblum and I discussed all things Phil and the Knicks, Kobe and the Lakers and which current superstars could have survived in the rougher NBA of 15-20 years ago.
Other subjects discussed on the show include the J.R. Smith and Jonas Valanciunas contracts, the NBA schedule and whether David Stern would make a good NYC mayor (I think he’d be great at it).
Fast-forward to 43 minutes for the Walker interview.
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Yes, now that’s a credible interviewee subject. A guy that was busted driving his Mercedes with weed, eight vials of anabolic steroids, and a few assorted other prescription drugs, and then brilliantly panicked and tried to eat the weed to hide the evidence. The fact that talentless knucklehead had an NBA career is nothing more than evidence that expansion has shrunk the talent pool wafer thin.