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We're going to share with you our interviews with the late Mickey Mantle and also with Willie Mays That's coming up on Monday on Sports Byline Larry Brown standing by I have always wanted to have Larry on the show and so he's standing by to join us in just a 2nd Hall of Fame coach who has won an a.b.a. Championship as a player and an n.b.a. N.n.c. Double a titles as a coach with the Pistons and the University of Kansas he is certainly recognized as one of basketball's greatest teachers and is known for turning losers into winners and then right after that Ice Cube is going to be with us iconic rapper writer actor he's a businessman and of course he is also the founder of the 3 on 3 basketball league the Big 3 which prominently features retired basketball players it's fun to watch in an exciting basketball so we'll talk to ice cube later in the hour we're ready to crank it up Larry Brown coming your way next on Sports Byline. Hey Dave this weekend. 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And n c w titles as a coach with the Pistons and the University of Kansas and he certainly recognized as one of basketball's greatest teachers and is known for turning losers into winners you know Larry you were born in Brooklyn you grew up in the New York area and everything take me back to that time and what basketball was like for kids and for you when you were growing up. Well we live in Brooklyn my dad passed away when I was young and we have to move to Longreach law now and my grandfather had a bakery across the street from our bakery it was a playground and all the best players in the New York area College Pro high school used to come out on weekends and I got to play against Red Holzman some old old great great players and I you know at that time I was the city Yeah I'm an older players taught me how to play I used to go when I was 13 and I was the 1st cat on the court took mound and I'd get to play if there were you know weren't enough guys and eventually as I got older I got to play more and more and it was it was phenomenal experience for me with your side you were a point guard and with your side did you have to play a little bit harder Did you have to toughen up a lot when you were playing at that age well plan to get sole of players really is the best way to get get better on. My cousin ran the bar bouncer boys' club in Brooklyn and I used to go with him you know on weekends and I didn't get to play I guess a lot of black athletes you know in my area and then on weekends I used to go and play against great players with great quickness that were older and it really elevated my game being small I never looked at a disadvantage I never thought about you know I had to play harder I always love to play and I love to compete and I was blessed because I've probably played for the greatest coaches ever you know my high school coach was great I played for Frank McGuire and being Smith in North Carolina I played for John McLennan then at Mr Ivo on the lip picked him I played for Nolan Alex had. So my background was phenomenal and they was such an important part of my life I know someday I want to coach I never thought I'd be on a professional level or college level but it just worked out that way you played your college ball if you mentioned Larry at North Carolina and was coached by Frank McGuire and Dean Smith How did you do that North Carolina and up there. My high school coach went to Carolina and Frank was glad I recruited my mother and she told me that's where I needed to go he left after my Pfaff 4 year to coach Will Chamberlain you know with Philadelphia of the year will average 50 points a game and being Smith took over so you know I never expected I'd get to play for 2 Wall of Fame coaches to want to pull men like that and then I want to play amateur ball for Goodyear and then Coach Smith asked me to come back to North Carolina and be as assistant and then the a.b.a. Started and I went from being an assistant to go play in the a.b.a. So I had kind of a strange way going to become a coach playing again and then get back into coaching I know you were considered too small to play in the n.b.a. So you began your professional career with the n a b L's Akron Wingfoot Tell me about them well you know at the time I graduated college there weren't a lot n.b.a. Teams and if you tried out for an n.b.a. Team you were a pro so your alternatives were very few you could play overseas you couldn't play in the n a b l which was the mast on the still basketball league bad teams like Philip 66 Goodyear Peoria Caterpillar you know Wichita to. You can't Baker's as Bad great opportunities to play ball and learn a career and. It was just a wonderful chance for me and you know by doing that I ended up you know playing in the Olympic trials and our team won the Olympic trials and I got to play in the Olympics so everything had a way of working out and then the a.b.a. Started and that gave a lot of guys an opportunity to play and then eventually you know the 2 leagues merged and you know I was fortunate enough to be a coach at the time with Denver in Denver one into the n.b.a. And that started my pro career basically I want to ask you about that 64 Olympic basketball team what was the catalyst but what was the make up of that team that made them so good our coach our coaching staff we had Mr I had the Henry i.v. And then John McLendon who was just a phenomenal coach. You know at that time they didn't just pick a team you had to go through a trial and they had the 36 best n.c.a.a. Players. And they had to add teams when I had basketball was great they had to Industrial League teams you know with made up of Philip 66 guys Goodyear and people like that and then they added on services team and you had a trial and they picked the best 12 players and we had a great team we had Bill Bradley and Lucius Jackson and Walter has are. You know just small as a lot of really great great players but at that time you know we were playing against pros all those Russian guys in Europe you know European players they were basically pros so it was. It was a real challenge but. We had a great coaching staff and a good group of guys speaking of coaches we've already mentioned Frank Maguire Dean Smith coach as well what's the commonality of the great coaches what did you take away from each of them and what was the consistent nature of their coaching Larry or I think they all had similar values they really cared about the game and making the game better. They love the kids they would be very very demanding but they were very fair and they were all great teachers. You know the game I think is pretty simple and if you do the fundamental things right and you play on selfishly and play hard you generally going to have success and all of those guys I think had those values yeah to defend yeah to rebound the ball you had to share the ball and they expected you to give effort they didn't beg you to give effort. And that's the way you know I was taught and that's what I've always tried to you know get our players to do because those guys were successful doing it that way and I don't think it was any accident they were all great coaches one of the things that I've heard from my friends that played in the a.b.a. Is about those early days you were part of those early days playing of course with New Orleans also Oakland Washington the Virginia Squires Denver rockets over those days like for you as a player or I couldn't get believe I was getting paid to play basketball that was the 1st thing I remember and then every week you weren't sure you're going to get your paycheck. The the open Oaks moved to Washington and moved to Virginia so I was with the same team the 3 straight years removed to 3 different cities but we had young players. That was unbelievably talented and when we eventually merged into the n.b.a. For claims MERS in the n.b.a. We weren't allowed to take part in the draft we weren't allowed to take part in the dispersal draft of the other a.b.a. 'd players from the teams that the standard and 2 of us won our division and half the all stars in the n.b.a. All star game were a.b.a. Players so these young kids like David Thompson and George Gervin and artists Gilmore and Bobby Jones and Dan s. So those young players became serious became instant stars sort of as we got into the n.b.a. The style in the philosophy of basketball in the a.b.a. Was almost like the American Football League how it was different from the established National Football League Well what was the philosophy of the way the players played in the attitude toward the game in the a.b.a. . Well we all were appreciative of the fact that we could play and had that opportunity especially little guys because the n.b.a. If you were a smile they didn't even consider you. And then it was more wide open you know they implemented the 3 point shot at the red white and blue but all the game was much faster they said we didn't God but I don't believe that at all there were more kids that were more athletic athletic and younger having an opportunity to play and if you were an n.b.a. Player and a rookie you very rarely played it took you 2 or 3 years to earn the right to play in the a.b.a. We had young kids like county Hawkins plan right away and Julius and their abilities were on match day they were just phenomenal but. It was fun you know every time we went out to play there was a common goal to show people that our league was special and that we all belong so there was tremendous camaraderie amongst the coaches amongst the players. And we were all hoping someday to get an opportunity to be in the n.b.a. Larry Brown is with us Hall of Fame basketball coach he started his playing career in the a.b.a. Also started coaching there as well but then he decided to go into college basketball the motivation for doing that he won a national championship at Kansas won an n.b.a. Title also in there with the Detroit Pistons will talk about all of that as we continue on sports. 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Am I assume incorrectly that that you had a niche for doing that you mentioned about the teaching in what you had learned and did you want to pass it on the motivation for going from the pros back to going to college. Rom one when I was in cards you know I wanted to play as long as I could but after I was done I wanted to be a high school history teacher and coach baseball basketball and football. But my 1st coaching experience after the Olympics Coach Smith brought me back to Carolina and I was it was one freshman or analogy both system virus the coach a freshman coach and I love working with young people matter of fact I got I was off at the University of Connecticut job at 26 and I felt too young and then you know I ended up being in the a.b.a. But I always looked at myself as a teacher. I enjoyed the college environment not that I don't you know I haven't felt blessed being an n.b.a. Coach and maybe a coach but I've always looked at myself as somebody that you know we're better with young people and I thought college or high school afforded me the opportunity to teach more so that was my you know I did you know I had heard from u.c.l.a. 2 years prior to taking the jab. There a d. Was a famous Saidee named j.p. Morgan and he told me someday Larry I'm going to call you back because Garry Cunningham decided to stay at u.c.l.a. It and take over and then 2 years later he asked me to go there and then he happened to pass away. You know after my 1st year otherwise I think I might have stayed there. I love the college environment and now I'll be $73.00 and. I'm back back in college again and s.m.u. And I feel pretty lucky Let me ask you about that 7980 u.c.l.a. Because it was a freshman dominated team but that they went to the n.c. Double a title game before falling to Louisville 5954 but when you look back on all the things that you've coached to take a young team like that and get them to the n c w championship game do you feel like that was one of the better if not best jobs you've ever done coaching young players. I don't know that was. At a unique experience that you know we people didn't even think we get in the n.c.a.a. Tournament and we started out 7 and 6 and I was playing the older guys and Larry Farmer who is a long played at u.c.l.a. And I kept him as an assistant. You know he went came up to me and said Coach you're playing the wrong guys are trying to be fair and play the older guys and give them a chance if we have ever any opportunity of being really good we got to play these freshmen so that turned all season around and we actually were not within a layup to win it all. But we lost to a great Louisville to Denny Crown was the coach of the best college player and Griffen but that was that was some great experience for me I think we're the only team that ever had to freshman guard starting a national final game rod for so Michael Holmes and our mad 2 great seniors and kids event away and James Wilkes it was it was just an amazing amazing experience that you went on to the University of Kansas where you got that n.c. Double a championship and I'm going to go by a little bit of memory here so if I'm wrong about this feel free to correct me it was the 1988 year and you got off to the mediocre start you were $12.00 and $8.00 including one in 4 in the Big 8 and if my memory serves me correctly I did a game in which you played the University of Washington and I believe you won that game and that was almost if my memory serves me correctly was the kind of spark that sent you guys on the path that led to the chase championship am I correct in that observation a memory yeah we want to add adman's I think right and it was a struggle. We we ended up I think we won 16 out of our last 19 games and the last 3 teams we lost to Kansas State Duke and Oklahoma and they were the last 3 teams we beat to win the national championship so we had the best player you know we had then a man right. And we had a bunch we had it we had to bring 2 kids off the football team we had some injuries some academic problems some you know character issues so we ended up going into football players on that theme we lost our 2nd best player to a knee injury but Danny. They called it Danny and the miracles but we had a we had an unbelievably group good group of kids and that lucky and got had at the right time you were the only coach to win an n.b.a. Championship in n.c. Double a championship and it was in 2004 that you got your n.b.a. Championship I think it was your 1st year with the Detroit Pistons as you defeated the Lakers 4 games to one when you got back to the n.b.a. And started coaching at that level after the success you've had a Kansas was it a hard transition for you or were you comfortable going between the 2 I did it before Ron when I left u.c.l.a. I went to New Jersey but that was that was a 2 year kind of you know break so there wasn't a lot of differences in the league when I went to San Antonio after Kansas hours away for 6 years and we want 21 days right 1st year at San Antonio and now is a huge adjustment you know we had some issues with injuries and stuff like that but . At an owner that was patient with me and the next year you know we got David Robinson and Sean Elliott and I had a 35 game improvement. But I don't think I would have been able to stay as a pro coach. Les added on right Red McCollum's of game in a chance. But it was an adjustment the game it changed. There were a lot of things I needed to learn Fortunately I had a great staff you know I had Gregg Popovich and Alvin Gentry Manning r.c. Buford on my staff and we are learning grew together you always had a knack for coaching and handling different egos and personalities and I've always felt that that was probably communication was the key to any successful coach tell me a little bit about developing that skill I don't know people. Might say that in the handle every body right way but. The coaches I played for Ron care a lot about me. And they taught me early on there was a difference between coaching and criticism and and I think I haven't been around many players but if you if they knew you cared about and wanted to make them better and gave them a chance to win that they want receptive to anything you said or what have you tried to get them to do and I've tried very hard to do that I tried to be consistent in how I dealt with players I didn't you know I may have had some favorites that I coached but I was hoping one through 15 thought I They were my favorite. My fallen short in terms of dealing with certain players. And it troubles me but I always felt I tried to do the right thing by my try to make them better and I tried to make them understand I cared about what I can tell you that one of the great compliments any coach can hear is when one of his former players says he respects them and even though I don't know Iverson and u 2 clashed a little bit in Philadelphia his quote was he is without a doubt the best coach in the world I think that says an awful lot. Well most of my issues were out with our off the court. But when it came time to play is probably the greatest competitor I've ever seen and maybe the toughest guy I've ever been involved with a maybe the greatest athlete of a bit involved with so I think God put me here to coach him. That's our species about that but I'm pretty pretty confident that he had a plan for me and our and all the heartaches I had with them there's so many more great things about my relationship with them that I'll always remember we only have about a minute left Larry you're at s.m.u. You're coaching and you continue to coach and there's got to be something about the passion you have for the game that keeps you going what is that or. This talking to you and hearing about your for what you do I have never worked a day in my life I doubt you did either you're right. You know I've had coaches that I've really taken a personal interest in me and my development. I think I have the greatest background ever in terms of the people I was fortunate enough to play for and I want to share all that I learn from them with people that I coach and people that I coach with and I can't see myself stop and you know the 2 years after I got fired from Charlotte I went everywhere and watched most of the people that you know coach with me do their job. And I saw the relationships they had with their players and I just felt I wanted to get back and see some of the knowledge I have with other kids but I am so happy you're still in the game and it's lovely to talk to you about your passion for it because I don't think enough people have a passion for what they do thank you for your you know sharing your feelings about not only basketball but life as well you're welcome here anytime Take care my friend thanks so much Larry Brown Hall of Fame coach who has won an a.b.a. 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Ice Cube joins us on Sports Byline iconic rapper writer actor and as a businessman he founded his clothing line solo by cube and now you can add founder of the 3 on 3 basketball league Big 3 which predominantly features retired n.b.a. Players it's fun and it's exciting basketball before we talk sports and basketball a little bit Ice Cube I'm fascinated by your career and your success over malty entertainment platforms you were born in South Central Los Angeles tell me a little bit about growing up there and how it influenced you. Well I grew up in you know a neighborhood it was a lot of a lot of boys my age so we had you know a lot of competition you know whether it was you know sports or skateboards or bikes or you know anything we can think we were always compete and so I think that's what really you know Mamie hone in my. Juices to keep pushing keep you know coming up with new and exciting things it was just a neighborhood that was very vibrant and so. I think those are the tools that sharpen me up and you know getting into music and being able to hone those skills a 1415 years you know I was lucky enough that Dr Dre moved down the street from me and so that started me to get laser focus on really what I wanted to do and it was news that I know in the early teens you developed your interest in hip hop music is it true you started writing raps in high schools typing class. Yeah it was actually junior high it was typing class it was a guy named kiddo who we both. We ended up in typing class because we wouldn't go see the counselor and get a better elective so we both ended up in this class and we were pretty good at it to be honest and we finished our work early and he looked at me one day and said Do you want to have you ever run a rap before I'm like no you say you write when I write one we'll see which one is the best and of course mine was the best and I just kept going and so that's kind of how I started you know you've always had insight when it comes to music particularly rap music but you have a feel for it and that's not something that everybody has I've always found that the great athletes the great anything it is the people that have vision and they have a feel for do you ever shake your head and wonder why you've had that feel you know of course you pinch yourself and you say you know. You recognize that you've been blessed and you've been you know lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time and in parts of your career and so you know I look at it like that you know it's a great thing you know I recognize the odds of the guys coming out of my neighborhood and the odds are not good and so to be an example to maybe to use younger generation coming out in neighborhoods like my you know that's what really keeps me going kissing on the right path I love the origins of your rapper name I tell everybody how you've got ice cube. I'm a Big Brother game you know. Is you know he's 9 years older than me so. When I was going through puberty he was it was hitting his twenty's and so he would have his girl his girlfriend would call all the time and he would never be home but I would be home I would try to put my mag down on him and he he got wind of it and. It was a freezer you know that's when you used to put refrigerators on your curb and it would come pick them up and it was like you know a refrigerator that astri Chevy in the freezer and pull you out you know the ice cube and so I kind of ran with it when I went outside that day and I'm like don't call me I'll say no more my name is Q called the Ice Cube So that's how that's how it happened and but the joke is on the joke is on him because I made a name out of how close did you become to becoming an architect because I know that was a passion for you at one time. I'm not sure how close I was because I went to a place called p i t which was a stain exposed to technology and I ended up getting to to fix an Architectural Drafting but you gotta go becoming a pro you know you have to be an apprentice so and. A real architect has to basically ordained you into the gang and so I don't know if I would ever cross that you know who knows if by whatever you know I'm dedicated myself. You know for that many years to become a bona fide architect Ice Cube is with us comic rapper writer actor no cause the founder of the big 3 league which we'll talk about in just a 2nd you know Ice Cube I have talked to a lot of athletes that come out of the inner city and they all told me the same story that if an athlete or somebody a kid and not environment is got some talent they are kind of protected by the environment because everybody knows they could go maybe a little bit further in life as well from a you know your standpoint of being somebody that had talent as far as rapping and in the other things you eventually went into was there that protection mechanism for you as well as you were growing up. I really don't know you know because music was so new that the music hip hop was so new that nobody had any idea that I was going to be able to take it anywhere you know even when we did in Dove USA It was a situation where. We thought that was going to stay underground because we never thought that would ever happen if the mainstream so I don't think anybody saw it coming and when it came it hit like a like you know like media or some so. It you know it was it was like a surprise factor to it so I don't know if they had time to like you know see me come in and look out for me one of the things that's always surprised me about your career is the fact your popularity was enhanced by the role and boys in the hood and of course the Friday film series as well when I watched those and saw those I didn't know how much experience you had in acting and everything and it looked natural where you just living and acting as you grew up I mean what you learned as you were growing up somewhat. I've always been a big fan of films and movies and I would go to the movies every weekend you know when I was you know 121314 every week and sometimes see the same movie 5 and 6 times because back then movies where the last you know in the theater they be in after 3 months sometimes so. But I just enjoyed the experience so getting a chance to act I never knew I could do it and still you know Lawrence Fishburne gave me the confidence he said. Because I was going you know he was trying to send me to school for acting school and he said acting school so you can you play and oh boy don't you know doughboy you know what a dude is that you don't know who is so I go be dull boy which that was our acting classes I think it was to just be and not you know worry about acting so much and and you know that's really been my form to just you know doing roles that I know I can absorb and be. Correct me if I'm wrong about this next statement I'm going to make but I have found rap music to be kind of a do it on the fly to some degree not the structure that you might find in acting was it hard to transition then into acting where there is so much structure Well I beg to differ you know you know when you when you're doing it when you doing it on a on a professional level there's a lot of structure because you know there's formula to a hit so you know movies actually is a lot slower you know a lot more. Meticulous and you can you know you really have a lot of chances to get it right it's kind of like recording a record you know you have only got to get it right once you know in studio so you can end up saying a rap a 100 times but you gotta get it wants right I mean you gotta get it right I want it so with the movies it's pretty much the sign do are you ever totally satisfied with something that you do in rap music sometimes you know of course others of the songs on you know you want to give get him back or you know why you know they didn't turn out is you know how you envision that you know them songs you want back but for the most part I won't release it unless I love it let's talk some sports I remember seeing you at Raider games that I was covering and you've always had a love for sports you founded the big 3 basketball league What motivated you to do that just been a fan been a fan of great basketball being a fan of. N.b.a. Players. Upset when they retire expensive I think is too Sol I think they've still got game in him and there was a void an industry you know if you have big time basketball football fan you pretty much hibernate after the finals until you know maybe the Hall of Fame game. Start coming out of hibernation for football so I felt like there was a 10 week void that we could feel with great basketball and so not play on 3 is actually the most play form of basketball in the world when it comes to team basketball so I was I Why hasn't it been elevated to a problem and in doing that we say yeah let's use former n.b.a. Players I still got game and create a legal ground around their peers and so it just was the perfect storm at the perfect time and you know once we announce having all lympics announced that you know bring on 3 is going to be an Olympic sport we knew every country would have to take a serious what are your vision for the 3 on 3 where do you think it can go where do you want to go. It can be as only dead people look forward to you know that's that's the spot you want to be you know we'll be here every year so we want people to look forward to it like you know the finals is over Can't wait to the Big 3 start so we get there fast that's a milestone but on on you know the the long play is we were been we've been talking to you in China to create a Big 3 China with there probably we've been talking to Lynn auto Barbosa the tried to do a big 3. South America so we see a vision we see a global. Like World Cup. But with big with 3 on 3 basketball you know we get the champions from South America champions from China champions from Europe. Asia and if we get them too. If we get them to come plan our summer league then then we. Will win it and we have the interest of the world watching the big 3 we only have 2 minutes to go and I'm just wondering you've been associated with sports you have a love for it you've done a lot of athletes you've witnessed pro football basketball baseball all of that when you look at the pro athlete what is it that you appreciate as a pro in your field and you see the pro In sports the dedication to the craft. You know each year on anybody just when that you into you want to know when when it comes to pro athletes not somebody that's that dedicated to. A gag. Or crap for a certain skill set it's pretty a Myron you know and how good these guys really are is it's pretty amazing and so you know I think you know the athlete is always going to have a place in my heart because they put it all on line and they have to perform. On the spot. You know. And you know expect it and the great players are expected to do great things and so you got to my people to put a reputation on the line some many nights a year is there a particular moment in sports that you've witnessed that well you'll never forget that's kind of engraved in ice cubes mind. Man there's a lot of moment but I remember the moment that Reggie Jackson hit 3 home runs against the Dodgers you know I was 88 and 9 years. You know I was just an extra stick tackling night for the love Reggie Jackson that night even down the Dodger fan and so that's just a night that I you know that I'll never remember and I had a chance to do the. The documentary about Reggie Jackson so it was great so it was great Ice Cube I want to thank you very much for your time and sharing your life and also about the big 3 I want to urge people to check it out it's exciting it's fun basketball and ice cube is the founder of that thanks a lot come back and you are welcome here anytime on Sports Byline Take care my friend thanks for having me man talk to you later ride Ice Cube iconic rapper writer actor and of course as a businessman he founded his clothing line solo by Cuban you heard him say he was fascinated with rapping from an early age we continue across the country and around the world with you on sports pilot. 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This is America's sports talk show Sports Byline USA Here's Ron boy. That's going to wrap up this very interesting hour as we spend some time with Ice Cube iconic rapper writer actor and also a successful businessman and he is the founder of the big 3 basketball league check it out also his popularity was further enhanced by his role in boys in the hood and of course the Friday film series as well he also was featured in barbershop right along very interesting to hear about the rap music field and also his love for sports and Larry Brown with us Hall of Fame coach who has won an a.b.a. Championship as a player in n.b.a. n n C w basketball finals as a coach with the Pistons in the University of Kansas and is really recognizes one of basketball's greatest teachers and is known for turning losers into winner. Thanks for being a part of America's sports talk show this is. 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