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It is unknown when Mutombo first started doing this but another player claims he was the originator of the taunt. Last year Derrick Coleman, who was the 1991 Rookie of the Year, said he was the first to do it. While speaking on the Knuckleheads podcast with Darius Miles and Quentin Richardson, Coleman was describing his dunk on Shaquille O'Neal during the 1992-93 season. After the dunk, Coleman wagged his finger at O'Neal. "I hit him with that [finger wave]," Coleman said. "See, Dikembe stole that from me."

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During an appearance on Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles' "Knuckleheads Podcast" on Tuesday, Deng opened up on the situation: "I ended up missing the playoffs," Deng said. "And what happened was that year there was a dispute going on with the NBPA and so on about me suing the Bulls because of what took place. "But I knew that if I sued the Bulls, I would either not play basketball ever again in order to win the case, to prove that things didn't go well and this could be career-ending but wanted to hoop so I said, 'Yo, I'm not suing anyone. I'm just going to hoop. I'm just going to come back.'"

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Tomer Azarly: This is now the 13th season for you guys hosting the Knuckleheads podcast. Did you think it would go this long when you guys started it? Darius Miles: Well, I definitely thought we had something like a lot of people received it very well. So that put us in the right direction. Now, I couldn't put a time limit on it and I couldn't think that we'll be doing it the last five years or so forth on. But it's a blessing. But I definitely thought we had something that people loved and appreciated when we first started.

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What inspired you to put the Knuckleheads podcast together and just talk about whatever you guys wanted to? Darius Miles: Q. did the Players' Tribune article. And I was going through whatever I was going through, and I moved to Florida. And he was just encouraging me and just telling me, like, ‘bro, when you ready to tell your story, I got a nice platform for you to tell the story. And we did the collab. We could kind of collab with me on telling my story. So we both got, for both our stories, we both got a lot of love from former players. Just a lot of people appreciated the story and so forth on. And Q. was talking about, ‘man, we need a show.' And he kept on telling Players Tribune we probably should do a show. They came back with a podcast, which we never heard of podcasts back then.

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Do you guys have a favorite episode or a favorite guest on Knuckleheads over the years? Darius Miles: A favorite guest? Alright, a special guest was Kobe [Bryant] for sure. I think that was like, the respect we have for Kobe and his game and what he's done in the NBA, for him to reach out to us and appreciate what we was doing, and wanted to be on the show, I feel like that was real special, and a special moment. We was real hyped after, we was hyped going into it, and we was hyped after we got it. Real hyped for him, so I think Kobe is the one for me.

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Quentin Richardson: Yeah, like, it's tough for me to say, but I mean, like you said, if we got to pick one, gotta be Kobe. Just because what he means to the game, who he is in the game, and like we're of that era, so we know he was the dude, he was the guy. And when you play in the era, you respect who those dudes were. He was the top of the food chain in our era. So to get to holler at him. Like you said, he reached out because he saw what we was doing and wanted to be on there, and that was my first time ever getting that type of chance to sit down and chop it up with him on that level where it's like we're not opponents and we can all appreciate each other. So that was super dope.

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In that vein, Cassell believes "The Dream" would have had his way with any defender the Bulls had on their roster during that time. Remember, the Bulls didn't have Dennis Rodman back then, as he joined the organization in 1995. Instead, they had the likes of Horace Grant, Luc Longley, Stacey King, and Will Perdue. "They had Michael Jordan that no one could stop, right? But we had that African that no one could stop," Cassell told Darius Miles and Quentin Richardson.

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Barry Jackson: During Haslem's private dinner party for former teammates and coaches during his jersey retirement week, former Heat player Quentin Richardson suggested to Spoelstra and Riley that they pursue Delon Wright.

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Tim Reynolds: Among the former Heat players expected to attend tomorrow in support of Udonis Haslem on the jersey night: Jason Williams, Goran Dragic, Dorell Wright, Tim Hardaway, Mario Chalmers, Dwyane Wade, Quentin Richardson and Shane Battier.

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During a recent conversation with ex-NBAers Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles on their show Knuckleheads Podcast, Howard's former Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy opined that not only did Howard deserve a spot in the league's recent "NBA 75" (a group of players the league named as its best-ever to commemorate its 75th anniversary last year), but he deserved it in spite of his own Los Angeles teammate, Anthony Davis. SVG's relationship with Howard famously did not survive their time together in Orlando. "To me, the only guys you could even talk about in his league at that time [of Howard's peak, from roughly 2008-12] were LeBron and Kobe," Van Gundy opined. "I think Anthony Davis is great, but at the time they selected [the NBA's 75th anniversary team in 2022] I mean, it's not close." "You cannot make a case that Anthony Davis had a better career than Dwight Howard, that's absolutely ridiculous."

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Law Murray: Per team source LA Clippers will have Akron point guard Xavier Castaneda on summer league roster. Played at South Florida before Akron and is from same high school in Chicago as Quentin Richardson and Jahlil Okafor. Averaged 21.7 points (7.9 FTA), 2.9 assists last season.

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"On a personal note, I have school-aged children who have to listen to their peers repeat the nasty things that you guys say on television about their father. I guess I will prepare myself to explain to my 5-year-old that his dad is not actually a vampire and that major news outlets only say things like that to get attention," she added. NBA stars like Chris Paul, Donovan Mitchell, and Carmelo Anthony also had their say. "Stop it," Mitchell wrote. "Whose the source?" asked Anthony. "Put a name on it…," said Paul. "A source!? Knock it off and name that source, or don't tell me what they said!!" added Quentin Richardson.

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Minnesota Timberwolves legend Kevin Garnett says he and Stephon Marbury would have won a couple championships together if Marbury stayed. (via Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles): “I thought Steph and I was gonna be forever, and I thought out of that, we was probably gonna get a couple, even with the Shaq and Kobe s***. But yeah, at that time, man, that s*** blew me. Steph leaving Minnesota blew the f*** out of me. I didn’t understand it. To this day, I still don’t understand it. It was Stephon Marbury, it was his decision. It wasn’t an ‘Us’ decision.”

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This is the part people don’t know. Olowokandi didn’t grow up like the rest of us. He didn’t play basketball until he got to college. He was like on some real Prince Akeem stuff (Coming to America) living overseas and said he wanted to come to college in California. He picked Pacific. The coach saw him on campus like, “Come here, son. You need to do this (basketball).” He had never played basketball before. Olowokandi played more soccer. To know that he went from never playing to becoming the No. 1 pick, that’s an accomplishment. People that pick up basketball that late don’t get to go to the NBA and be a professional athlete.

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