Valuetainment - June 16, 2025


＂Worst Day Of My Life＂ - Metta World Peace's $10M LOSS After Malice At The Palace BRAWL


Episode Stats

Length

8 minutes

Words per Minute

201.62785

Word Count

1,668

Sentence Count

181

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary

Dirk Nowitzki joins Jemele to discuss his career with the New York Knicks and Dallas Mavericks. He also talks about his time with the Los Angeles Lakers and the infamous fight he had with Shaquille O'Neal.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 So, okay, Ron, Mehta, this ends.
00:00:03.580 Yeah.
00:00:04.760 They stop the game, it's over.
00:00:06.200 Like, everyone's going home.
00:00:07.320 Nothing's going to be happening.
00:00:08.100 You're in the locker room.
00:00:09.700 Like, what's going on in the locker room now?
00:00:12.660 What's going on with the chaos?
00:00:13.720 It was like, yeah, the locker room was weird because, well, for me,
00:00:18.100 I worked so hard.
00:00:19.140 I was in therapy.
00:00:20.080 I'm doing everything I got to do.
00:00:21.140 You know, I'm on the table.
00:00:21.960 I'm not engaging with Ben.
00:00:24.060 You know, that's all things I practice in therapy.
00:00:25.920 So, I'm like, I'm in the locker room.
00:00:28.080 I'm like, no way that this has happened.
00:00:30.760 So, so much is going through my head.
00:00:32.400 Like, I'm averaging 24.
00:00:34.900 You know, I'm going to be an all-star again.
00:00:37.960 I'm going to be a first-team all-defense again.
00:00:40.440 You know, all this is about to happen.
00:00:42.660 You know, we're going to be the best team in the league again.
00:00:45.780 You're talking about when Iverson was in the East.
00:00:47.920 You're talking about when Kobe was in the league.
00:00:49.320 We had the best record when Shaq was.
00:00:50.740 They was in the league at this point in time.
00:00:52.860 You see what I'm saying?
00:00:53.420 So, this is legacy right here.
00:00:55.360 So, when I got into that locker room, I asked Steve and Jamal kind of a general question.
00:01:02.740 I said, you think we're going to get in trouble?
00:01:03.800 Because I'm just like, if this is, if I know David Stern, and if this is what I think it is, I am done.
00:01:12.500 And then Steve was like, yep, we are done.
00:01:15.060 I was like, oh, my goodness.
00:01:16.520 So, it was definitely the worst day.
00:01:20.360 That was probably the worst day of my life.
00:01:21.840 For sure.
00:01:22.560 And then also, now, the worst day of my life was in 1999, not getting drafted by the Knicks.
00:01:27.760 It's the second worst day of your life.
00:01:29.860 Are you saying you were already in therapy prior to that fight?
00:01:33.440 Yeah, so, I had anger management problems, as we all know.
00:01:38.740 Nah.
00:01:39.060 I kind of don't want to make a joke about this now.
00:01:43.740 Hey, man, it's okay.
00:01:45.560 It's okay, man.
00:01:46.400 You, that guy, no.
00:01:48.460 We could do a whole stand-up show on this, honestly, brought to you by value-taming.
00:01:53.040 Shit.
00:01:54.940 By the way, MVP voting that year, Nash is one.
00:01:57.740 Shaq's two.
00:01:58.440 That's the one where Shaq's like he thought he took it from him.
00:02:01.000 Dirk is three.
00:02:01.900 Duncan is four.
00:02:04.200 AI.
00:02:05.060 AI, LeBron, McGrady, Wade, Stoudemont.
00:02:07.060 Yeah, not this year.
00:02:08.200 So, maybe, is that 03-04 or is that 04-05?
00:02:10.920 Oh, sorry.
00:02:11.360 No, all right.
00:02:11.880 So, this is after I got it.
00:02:13.060 I'm talking about 03-04.
00:02:15.080 Yeah, this is 04-05.
00:02:16.360 And Garnett.
00:02:18.020 Yeah.
00:02:18.720 Jermaine O'Neal.
00:02:19.760 What else to say?
00:02:20.720 And then Peja Stojakovic, Kobe, Shaq, Ben Wallace, kid.
00:02:24.560 For MVP?
00:02:25.320 Yeah, 03.
00:02:26.300 This is 03-04.
00:02:28.320 I thought I finished six.
00:02:29.720 Well, let me check one of them.
00:02:30.540 Maybe it's a different one I'm looking at.
00:02:31.920 No, you might be looking at the right one.
00:02:33.080 Maybe I could be wrong.
00:02:34.500 I thought I finished six in MVP voting.
00:02:35.880 But this happens.
00:02:38.460 This is what I'm trying to get, Adam.
00:02:39.700 What I'm trying to find out is the locker room after this.
00:02:42.440 Is Brown even in the locker room?
00:02:44.260 Is he talking to you guys?
00:02:45.120 Oh, Larry Brown?
00:02:45.640 Yeah.
00:02:45.940 He's the other coach.
00:02:46.820 Who is your coach?
00:02:47.580 I had Carlisle.
00:02:48.080 Is Carlisle saying anything to you guys?
00:02:49.800 Carlisle's trying to calm everybody down.
00:02:52.080 Well, he knows.
00:02:52.740 It's done.
00:02:53.120 The season, he's about to lose two of you guys.
00:02:55.120 Well, at that point, it was so wild.
00:02:57.960 And the fans, we wasn't even thinking about that.
00:03:00.060 We was thinking about getting out that building.
00:03:03.080 You know?
00:03:04.220 That was, so at that point, we know something has happened.
00:03:07.680 So Carlisle's just trying to calm everybody down and not let it escalate anymore.
00:03:12.200 It was a wild time.
00:03:13.580 That's what everybody, we all knew we was done.
00:03:16.240 What's Miller, is Reggie Miller in the locker room talking to you guys?
00:03:19.460 People was outside the doors.
00:03:20.740 People was everywhere.
00:03:22.000 Everybody's outside the doors.
00:03:23.260 How long?
00:03:23.600 I was in this, I just swam into my seat.
00:03:25.100 How long from you leaving, like right there where they're pouring everything on you, throwing everything on you, to you guys in the locker room, shower leaving?
00:03:32.280 How long is that time?
00:03:34.180 That might have been an hour.
00:03:36.440 It might have been an hour.
00:03:37.700 So you guys have an hour together.
00:03:39.220 Well, they wanted to arrest us.
00:03:40.720 Are you kidding me?
00:03:41.520 Yeah.
00:03:42.560 Because you guys, you know, people say, hey, matter why you didn't sue?
00:03:45.480 Like, that's not even in my makeup to sue.
00:03:46.960 You know?
00:03:47.180 You know, people sue.
00:03:48.220 It's not even in my makeup.
00:03:49.680 But I think you had any, that could have went south for the businesses.
00:03:56.620 There's a lot of lawsuits that could have happened.
00:03:58.940 You know?
00:03:59.760 None of us filed any lawsuits.
00:04:03.120 You know?
00:04:03.400 Now, some of the people like this guy said, the guy that hit me, not Ben, the other fan, tried to file a lawsuit.
00:04:11.620 He did?
00:04:12.080 Yeah, he came with both of them, tried to file a lawsuit.
00:04:14.360 This guy.
00:04:15.260 Any of the, both of them.
00:04:16.260 Look at these guys.
00:04:16.960 Look at these guys.
00:04:18.460 They were.
00:04:18.840 What happened?
00:04:19.400 Any luck or nothing?
00:04:20.380 No luck.
00:04:21.140 No luck.
00:04:21.880 So that's good that they didn't sign with him, though.
00:04:24.160 The district attorney of Detroit was incredible.
00:04:27.300 Huh.
00:04:27.700 The judge was like a little bit like the media got to the judge.
00:04:30.400 It was, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't.
00:04:32.300 Who was the best player on the team at that time?
00:04:34.180 Is it Reggie?
00:04:35.220 On that team?
00:04:35.840 Yeah.
00:04:36.860 No.
00:04:37.420 Me and Jermaine.
00:04:38.580 Oh, really?
00:04:39.260 Yeah.
00:04:40.460 Not, no, like that.
00:04:41.460 But Reggie, Reggie was old.
00:04:42.500 This is Reggie's second to last year.
00:04:43.920 I mean, was this the year where it's kind of like, hey, this is a shot for Reggie to
00:04:48.340 win the chip?
00:04:49.040 This was the year, for sure.
00:04:50.960 I mean, I was the leading scorer on the team.
00:04:53.520 This year.
00:04:54.240 Oh, man.
00:04:55.140 I saw a clip, speaking of Reggie, I don't know if you were in it, I think Steven Jackson
00:04:58.780 was in it, where they apologized to him and Reggie started crying.
00:05:03.920 Yeah, I saw that.
00:05:04.760 I saw that.
00:05:05.240 Because he's like, nah, it's not your fault.
00:05:06.780 Yeah, we fell back.
00:05:07.300 It was like super emotional.
00:05:09.360 It was very emotional.
00:05:10.160 It is.
00:05:10.740 Yeah.
00:05:11.200 Were you in that, or was that just Steven Jackson?
00:05:12.300 Nah, that was just Steven and Reggie.
00:05:13.460 That was just Steven and Reggie.
00:05:14.320 Okay, he's apologizing, saying, I knew this was your last chance, and we kind of ruined
00:05:18.400 it with the Malice at the Palace thing.
00:05:19.520 I ruined it, but Steve is saying we were, Steve was just being nice.
00:05:25.020 Like, Steve was just being a little bit nice.
00:05:27.860 It was definitely probably the majority of my fault.
00:05:33.040 Is that it, Rob?
00:05:33.940 Yeah.
00:05:34.140 Actually, I'm glad to see you, because this, I've never had a chance to tell you that I'm
00:05:39.140 sorry.
00:05:39.840 Just let me finish, though, because, like, I, we all understood what our motivation was
00:05:44.580 for that season.
00:05:45.640 Yeah, that's true.
00:05:46.260 It wasn't for us.
00:05:47.640 It was for you.
00:05:48.260 Yeah, for sure.
00:05:48.920 The whole motivation for getting things done the right way, and getting the championship
00:05:52.460 with you, so I never got a chance to apologize to you for my actions.
00:05:56.160 Now, with me saying that, I love you even more because you defended me, because you knew
00:06:00.840 that I was just being a loyal teammate.
00:06:03.300 I wasn't, you know what I'm saying, I wasn't out there being a thug or nothing like that,
00:06:06.480 so it meant a lot to me.
00:06:08.120 That's why I got to take a drink, because...
00:06:10.300 Told you I didn't want to go there, man.
00:06:12.980 I'm trying to hold mine in.
00:06:14.600 You don't need to say that to me, man.
00:06:16.220 Come on, man.
00:06:17.420 So, you don't need to apologize to me.
00:06:19.880 First of all, you young cats, when I say young, I mean Jamal, Jermaine, Al, yourself,
00:06:27.660 Ron, those last few years in Indiana, my best years.
00:06:31.840 I didn't have my superpowers, but I felt, and you guys made me feel like I was superman.
00:06:37.920 We had some dogs, man.
00:06:39.860 We had a squad.
00:06:40.940 That was arguably, and I played on some Indiana teams that were destined, should have, could
00:06:48.420 have, but always came short.
00:06:51.560 That team, we were stacked, man.
00:06:54.620 Yeah, that team was crazy.
00:06:57.460 We was definitely, you know, that team was incredible, and I was in my prime on the wing.
00:07:03.260 Like, nobody was getting nothing off.
00:07:05.680 But yeah, you know, that's why I didn't really want to fight Ben, or I was like, kind of go
00:07:09.060 to the squirrel's table.
00:07:09.680 I was in therapy.
00:07:10.540 So, after my practices, after every practice, I had to go to therapy.
00:07:14.940 You understand?
00:07:15.280 So, that's like going through, so that's what I did after every practice.
00:07:18.480 So, from that perspective, what Jack was saying was, was 100% right.
00:07:24.200 So, I can take the blame, because I didn't expect anybody to hit me.
00:07:28.260 Like, I was preparing for other things, like on court, not getting texts, not being detrimental
00:07:34.180 to the team.
00:07:35.960 You know, I was, the fan thing was like, I never saw that coming.
00:07:40.260 But, never saw that coming.
00:07:43.120 Caught me off guard.
00:07:44.420 So, can you imagine?
00:07:46.540 Hey, what's up?
00:07:47.240 I'm Metal World Peace, the chairman of Art Test Management Group, and now I am officially
00:07:51.940 on my neck.
00:07:53.260 I want you to reach out to me.
00:07:55.020 I got a lot of things to offer.
00:07:57.020 Whether you wanted to chat about sports, basketball, on the business side, business development,
00:08:02.420 consultation, brand strategy, foreign relations, and more.
00:08:07.340 I look forward to connecting with you on my neck.
00:08:11.000 If you enjoyed this video, you want to watch more videos like this, click here.
00:08:13.580 And if you want to watch the entire podcast, click here.