Leslie Jones: New York Knicks are ‘MY TEAM’ 🤩 + She HOOPS like Darryl Dawkins! | Bird & Taurasi Show

Leslie Jones: New York Knicks are ‘MY TEAM’ 🤩 + She HOOPS like Darryl Dawkins! | Bird & Taurasi Show

My name is subbert I’m here with the USA basketball team we’re here you’re in Rio we’re here you’re traveling around seeing a lot of events we want you to come check us out so please come check us out Leslie Jones who Leslie Les lesli lesli lesli don’t play yourself don’t ever play

Yourself uh I mean the video speaks for itself but we are welcoming Our Guest I know we know we very quickly let’s welcome you on to the show lesie Jones the infamous thank you so much for coming on um so you didn’t get to make

It to a game I think you had left Rio already but was it was it the who lesie Jones or was it the lindsy wh and daving that that that forced you to leave Rio before coming to check us out yeah that dabing was hilarious I

When I saw the video I was like man I wish I could have made it to one of them games so I could have talked about how bad that dabbing was it was just like she did that a lot actually that was that was her move I was like what is she having

With maybe maybe it’s possible slow-mo they’re GNA hit it in slowmo oh D what are you what is D doing you know D what’s this move I’m always the fluffer I like the fluff I like to make things fluffy you know yeah you got to watch you super you got to watch

Gotta watch subber I’m not the fluffer unfortunately you didn’t have um any clean laundry and you had to wear your spark shirt but let’s talk a little bit about this Jaylen this Jaylen Brunson right now like how much do you love watching Jaylen Brunson right

Now for those that don’t know I will not address uh the insult on my spark shirt thank you Phoenix did we beat y’all I think we beat y’all did we beat y’all I believe we beat y’all I’m sure I was on that sideline when we beat

Y’all this past year everyone beat us so that’s not much oh yeah yeah that’s true I wasn’t even playing and we my faite my favorite player on the Knicks is is is brony I I love him I I think he is such a good guard he he’s like all around he’s just whenever

He has the ball I feel so safe when he has the ball yeah so now that um do you have a favorite NBA team I know you’re an LA now you know a lot about the Knicks you did even did a little ESPN piece with

The Knicks a couple years ago so do you have like a favorite team Nick that’s my team I mean it’s heartbreaking sometimes but that’s still my team it’s still my team I love the nck I try to get into the Lakers I don’t know not I mean I was mat Johnson Michael Cooper

Laker fan you know what I’m saying Kobe I don’t know basketball is not as good as it used to be like it used to it used to be a lot of uh def like the way the WNBA plays now is to me is the way

The NBA used to play like WNBA like take they like you know what I’m saying it look at that made to Perfection who is that look at you Garfield I appreciate that that’s me no I mean being a being being a Nicks fan is just like living to

Be heartbroken which is life in a lot of ways but the thing I love about ncks fans they remind me of like European fans like it doesn’t matter what the game how it goes whether you win whether you lose like it’s just this dieh hard emotion you guys have um and

You know that’s that’s how you should be at games like you shouldn’t be there waiting to be on the Bongos you should be watching the game exactly exactly exactly that’s exactly why you see me losing my mind on the sidelines because I love I I just love yell I well I play

Basketball you know most of my life so you know you understand the game you understand what’s going it I love it I love the the yell of the crowds I love messing with the referee um I I love it all me too I love it all

So yeah we um we heard we heard about your your your career both High School College Lynwood high school nights I believe if my notes tell me correctly what would um how would you describe actually we’re going to we’re going to go to break real fast but when we come

Back I’d love to hear how you would describe your basketball career and maybe what NBA player or WNBA player you’re most like yes baby yeah way to go baby that’s what I’m talking about yeah they need a time out son he let’s go Nick let’s go I’m here but I’m here

Though let’s go right now right now I see what you mean I see what you mean you get into it I appreciate that we’re going to have to go to a Nick game to together wait is that what you were like when you were watching the Mercury

Play the Sparks last season oh my God was that the same energy you heard there I know you heard me Sue I know you heard me same iur got it you heard yeah D you were there did you hear her yes she heard means go ahead I like to talk to fans I

Like to let them know about themselves you think you just going to talk to me like that or you going to get it back you think you just just I’m just smile and dribble and she would too she tried to bust them she probably bust a shot every

Time I talk mess to her like go St that super [Laughter] tonight that’s amazing let me see what player I you think I play like you know what I was just thinking about that Daryl doct because they used to call me chocolate thunder whenever I would

Whenever I would turn on like when I was the most inconsistent player ever but whenever I played well whenever I played well I would turn into Daryl Dawkins or Rodman I I would I was a rebounder block shot I would I would foul I was the defensive person you sent in to just

Take people down I had we need more of you no no let me tell you have been scared to come in the key if I was defending son yeah you know what I I don’t usually go in the key so oh look at we got the back machine

Look at my hair my hair was serious my hair was playing ball look at my hair look at that I mean they that’s way back got the hips all hiked up with the Curve back man the way back machine is doing us all dirty today that’s fine

Let me tell you let me tell you that pict shows how dope I was let me explain to you right now please I want to hear it I want to hear it yo yo did you did you have to was the hair did you have to do the hair like

Man okay so game thing snatch back I had to snatch back you know I comb all my hair all the way back and then snatch it to the front that was style back then I like that me and D only did the the snatch back we didn’t bring it

Front no subber got that tight she got that tight ponytail I mean like you got to spend at least an hour brushing net to to into that tight tight tight bun yeah you wish you knew you wish you knew how long that took well it’s just it’s

Just like anything that you do just like when y’all when y’all get better for a game you have to go out you have to you have to do uh reps we call them reps you know it’s like if I have a new joke it’s

Going to take a couple of Reps for me to get it right so I’m always doing Spots I’m I’m on stage two or three times every uh each night I still do it I still go and do it because I am originally a comic before anything else

So um yeah I’m always writing always thinking of something new always trying you got to be brave enough to try the new jokes you got to put them out there uh it it really is about continuously going up going up going up and not talking about you a comic going and

Actually being a comic you know what I’m saying and taking it serious yeah definitely I think um yeah as a basketball player it’s really similar right like de mentioned it we do the same thing also called reps but we get to do it in the privacy of our you know

Own gym with maybe one two three coaches so can you talk about what it’s like to get up on stage try something new and maybe it doesn’t go so well well I mean in the beginning you know when you first starting off and you do bad on stage

It’s devastating because like you said you’re in front of a bunch of people and you’re like oh those people hate me oh they think I’m not funny but after you do it a while after you do it a while I you just stop I stopped heing like I

Just go on to the next do oh y’ ain’t like that okay well let’s you know cuz usually when I come out I’m going to make you laugh right off anyway so you already know I’m funny so if I try something that’s not as funny then you

Just keep moving just like life you got to keep it moving just like when you on the court you can’t sit and and and and pout about a a turnover you got to get it going because the next play isn’t in play that’s the same thing lesie do you do things that are

Funny to you or you think are going to be funny to the audience both both both if it makes me laugh if it makes me laugh it’s gonna make everybody else laugh I’m I have a good palette for that yeah um and then also when you’re on stage and you’re performing things do

Come to you you look in people’s face I can already tell what to say yeah yeah it’s a little bit of both it’s a little bit of Both

Leslie Jones joins Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi on the Bird & Taurasi Show to watch the Milwaukee Bucks play the New York Knicks on NBA on Christmas Day and discuss her New York Knicks fandom:

0:00 Did Leslie see USA Women’s Basketball in Rio?
2:26 Leslie loves Jalen Brunson
2:55 New York Knicks are Leslie’s team
4:43 Leslie’s basketball career
9:14 Leslie on stand-up comedy

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