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Raymond Felton to Rashad McCants: “So I tried to be cool for a long time. I never said nothing about you when you did that [expletive] on ESPN. I never even said nothing to you. I canceled interviews because I wasn’t going to address it. But now you’re attacking my brothers. Now you’re attacking a legacy that we built—with your dumb ass—at Carolina. You talking about our coach, who did nothing but be great to us. [Expletive]—you went lottery. He went lottery. He a complainer. So it’s Coach Williams’ fault that you didn’t play long in the league? That’s his fault too, right? I played 14 years. Marv played more. There’s a lot of us who played many years of professional basketball from that team. But you’re the one who [expletive] your career up.

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Raymond Felton: Like Theo said—take accountability for your dumb ass. But I’m done with you, bro. I’m done talking about you.” “I tried to give you your flowers, even on top of your [expletive], because you can play basketball—that’s one thing you can do. And you can look stupid, too—that’s another thing you can do. Because you're doing that right now, talking this BS. You think people are liking what you’re saying? ’Cause of course, people like stupid [expletive], man. That’s what sells on TV. That’s what sells on social media. So you think you’re doing something, but you're really looking like a fool, honestly. But you’re getting your money, though. So I ain’t mad at you. Get your money. Do all of that. That’s cool. That’s great. But as far as with us—[expletive]—you dead to me. Been dead to me for real. But dead to me. I would never speak your name again, ’cause you ain’t worth nothing. You ain’t worth my life. You ain’t worth anything, my [expletive]. Straight up.”

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Raymond Felton: "I don’t really want to talk about it because it’s that Carolina guy—but like, my last agent? The day I retired, I ain’t heard from him. Yeah, I saw him at a wedding.I saw him at a wedding—'Oh, what’s up Ray?' 'What’s up?' I ain’t talked to him. That’s it. At all." "I'm talking about—even after the wedding—still ain’t spoke to them. I talked to people in the organization, they sent me emails here and there about different stuff. But as far as him? Never heard from him. I had to call my first agent about something that I was trying to do—as far as coaching—like, with some advice about that. That’s crazy."

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Raymond Felton: If you got something you want to do off the court, I promise you—do it while you still hoopin’. Do it now. Because that’s one of the biggest mistakes I made. I'm still, to this day, trying to figure out what I really want to do. Like, yeah, I’m dabbling with different little things, but I’m still trying to figure out, okay—what the hell am I going to do? I get up every morning—I feel like I can’t say I don’t have a purpose, because I’m a husband and I’m a father—but damn, like, what am I doing? Like, what am I going to do today? Nothing. I look forward to this—because this gives me something to do. It’s like a job to me. You feel me? Like, this is like a job. I’m coming here to do this. It’s like a job.

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Raymond Felton: But the things I really wanted to do—like, I wanted to do franchising—and I had all the meetings. Like when Charlie said, you can sit down with whoever you want to? I’m talking about, I sat down with the biggest—the dude who ran all of America. Everything in the United States—he ran everything with Papa John’s, with Pizza Hut, Taco Bell—all of that, far as franchising. He was the main guy. Sitting in front of him: 'Whatever you need from me, Ray.' Then my grandma passed away. I went into a dark space for a long time. Cut off all those relationships. Didn’t talk to the guy no more. Ended up signing with OKC after the season with the Clippers. Never spoke to the guy again. And I regret that to this day. Because that’s something that I probably could’ve had a whole bunch of now. And I don’t."

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Raymond Felton on his stint in Portland: ’It was a rough year for me man because it was a lot of bad stuff that was said about my weight, coming in out of shape, and I dealt with that, the scrutiny of that, and then man listen, my momma had a real bad situation where she had to have heart surgery. I had to miss like six games and there was a dude, that's why to this day I try not to pay attention to comments on social media, I try not to pay attention to things that people say, but this dude was like ‘man I hope and wish your momma die’. When I saw that I just lost it and I think that was just the last straw in Portland. I just went on a rant on TV, and I was just like ‘any of you motherf*ckers want to come see me, this my address’. I gave my address and everything. Listen, not my momma. Don’t play with my momma. For somebody to say he wish that she die, that just did something to me in my head. I told the dude ‘if I ever see you’, because I had his face and everything, I told him ‘If I ever see you, it's on sight. And I just said a whole bunch of other stuff that I don't need to right now’.

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Raymond Felton on gun incident: ‘It was just a just a situation where they tried to extort me. My ex-wife and her lawyer tried to extort me with the gun at first. It was just one of those situations where my lawyer was like ‘what gun what are you talking about? Se don't know nothing about no gun’. So then I go playing the game, they was trying to lock me up at halftime but they wouldn't let him. I'm saying the security in there the guys in there was like no Raymond is a good dude we're not going to embarrass him like that. We'll make sure he turned himself in after the game. So I get after the game, they call me I'm in my car, they call me they said look there's a warrant for your arrest. I'm like ‘for what?’ They was like he was dealing with a gun situation so once that once they said that I knew exactly what it was but I didn't know what she said. She said she told them people that I was going to kill myself. She was scared that I was going to kill myself and I was going to kill her. I'm like ‘kill myself?’ I ain't killing myself about nobody. So she had to come back to the courts because they weren't even gonna let me out. I was locked up for about 18 hours like and I was only supposed to be there for a few hours. The next morning I was going to be the first person they was supposed to see. I end up being there throughout the whole day to that night, she had to come back to the courthouse cuz my lawyer he came to the where I was locked up in he was like ‘Did you ever pull a gun out on her?’ Never in my life, I never touched her I never put my hands on her better yet take a pistol and put it in her face and he was like ‘are you sure?’ I said I'll take it to the grave, yes I never did. So he said all right so he went back they brought her in she had to tell the judge ‘no he's never done that’. So they were going to let me out they was going to take me straight to jail because they said that's an automatic felony for pulling a pulling a gun out on somebody and New York so I was just one of those things where it was just a lot of lies told and she turned the gun in and they never found it on me they never they never caught it on me.

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Raymond Felton on gun incident: ‘That situation right there, that situation there really made me a man. That situation really made me change, the way I did things. the way I moved and really showed me who was my homies and who wasn’t. That really showed me a lot too, who was rocking with me for for the ride. What I'm saying who's rocking me just to be around the atmosphere being around me for the you know, going to the clubs and pop bottles and all that. Who was around me for that. But that situation was, man, it was just a situation, it was unfortunate, I was going through divorce, and to this day I would never talk bad about this young lady because I had my wrongdoing in the situation, but at the same time what she did I didn't deserve, and she apologized about it after the fact, but it was too late. I'm already dealing with the gun charge now, so the apology really didn't mean nothing. I still got to fight this battle of not going to jail and I lost a great deal of money, some millions, just fighting it.

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Paul Pierce: At the trade deadline, you know, it’s noon. We were supposed to fly to Memphis. And what’s the day like? Everybody on edge. [Expletive] up. Silent. And this team is always gambling, playing music, drinking without the coaches knowing. Like, we crack, you know what I mean? And everyone was just uptight. And this was Twitter time—this wasn’t really Instagram time. So, me—I remember me and Darren Collison were supposed to get traded for Raymond Felton and Iman Shumpert. We were supposed to go to the Knicks, and they were supposed to come to us. So, that’s something that’s bouncing around on Twitter while that [expletive] is happening.

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In a recent appearance on the Run Your Race podcast, Felton proclaimed Anthony was more of a pure scorer than his Airness himself, Michael Jordan, and King James, Kobe, or T-Mac Tracy McGrady, who’s often in the conversation. “That dude, just the way he can score, how easy it is for him, I don’t know nobody who’s better, to be honest with you. I’m talking Tracy McGrady, I’m talking about MJ, I’m talking about Kobe, LeBron, all these guys. The way he used to score at every level, I don’t know nobody who’s better, for real,” Felton said. “Post-up, got footwork, midrange is impeccable, shoot the three, athletic, can dunk on you, get to the basket, had handles like a point guard. I’m just saying – whatever you want, he can give to you,” Felton went on to say. “Whatever you want. ‘If you want just midrange all game, I got you. You want me to post you up? I got you. You want me to shoot the three? I got you.’”

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NBA Central: Raymond Felton believes Carmelo Anthony is a better scorer than LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant and Michael Jordan “The way he used to score at every level, I don’t know anyone better.” (🎥 @TidalLeague / h/t @NBA_NewYork ) pic.twitter.com/jlt8e0e1OM

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Michael Jordan, especially early on his tenure as owner, was hands-on. He would make himself accessible to players. Occasionally, he even reminded them of why he’s, arguably, the greatest player of all time. Gerald Henderson: We were getting our ass kicked for about a week. I show up to the training room the next morning. I was a rookie so I had to get my stuff out of the way first and he’s already in there stretching and he’s got practice gear on. I said “What are you about to do, man?” He said “I’m gonna come up there and kick y’all ass.” He’s in there talking s–t for however long. He comes up there and he gets into our scrimmages. He jumped on our second team. Our first team had like Stephen Jackson, Gerald Wallace, Raymond Felton, and — who else started that year? — Boris Diaw. On our second team it was me, Derrick Brown, DJ Augustin, maybe Tyrus Thomasand somebody else. He looked like prime Michael Jordan, without the quickness and the jumping ability. But it was just all MJ work. Talking smack the whole time.

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Fred Katz: Raymond Felton is at the Knicks game. Just got a big ovation from the fans.

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A photo of the former UNC basketball players who attended the wedding is a who's who of Carolina hoops royalty. The list includes Harrison Barnes, Tyler Hansbrough, Bryon Sanders, Sean May, Deon Thompson, Danny Green, Raymond Felton, Quentin Thomas, and Jackie Manuel. Longtime UNC staffer Eric Hoots also attended.

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