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Oct 2019
36m 55s

ZION, ROOKIES, MENTORS, KOBE, THE BALL F...

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Should we be worried about Zion? Is Zion FAT?!? Are kids playing too much basketball at a young age? We will tell you why Kobe Bryant is awesome. We are talking rookies and we look back to when we were rookies and who were our mentors and we ask the question, do today's rookies have mentors? RJ Barrett is for real, and so is Ja Morant but listen to hear who we think is the best rookie shooter. Where did Big Baller Brand go wrong? 

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