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Matt Barnes: I had a little cameo on ‘Think Like a Man' and ‘Ninja Turtles’, but I didn't really have no talking parts. But what I learned is she got me an acting coach and she's like, "Listen, like lose yourself into the character and try to relate parts to your life and that's how you kind of come all through with authentic, you feel authentic." So, I took that sh*t serious, because with social media, they be talking sh*t and trying to clown. So, I already had to be a detective. So, I at least had to be a cool detective. So I really worked on that and had acting class once a week… Zach Randolph: Fair to say, we’re going to see some more acting roles. Barnes: You might.
Nick Van Exel: Would you want to guard a [expletive] who can score every time in a post or would you want to guard a [expletive] who is going to sometime make a three-point shot on the perimeter? Who you going to want to guard? Zach Randolph: I'm want to guard the three-point shooter. Van Exel: Who you going to want to guard? Tony Allen: I'm going want to guard the three-point shooter. Van Exel: There it is. It's literally that simple. Cuz think about this. You ain't got a double the Joker. Shaq a they don't have to leave off of nobody if Shaq is guarding the Joker. All he got to do is lay contest. Sometimes he's gonna go in, sometimes it's not. But on that other end, Joker can't f*ck with Shaq and Joker is cold. Joker is cold. Don’t y'all get it twisted, Joker is cold. But Joker cannot guard Shaq in the post. Like it's that simple. Allen: You saying two fouls early fourth quarter. That's how it's going. Van Exel: It's that simple. You gonna have to double team and Shaq can do this to Joker. Is Joker going to make 100 percent of the threes? Allen: Well, but if he get hot, Van Exel: OK but in a seven-game series when I'm bam, bam, bam. Allen: Yeah. wear and tear. Van Exel: What's going to happen? Allen: Wear and tear. Yeah, you about that. Van Exel: Z-Bo, you done elbowed a bunch of [expletive] with your right elbow over the shoulder. What's going to happen? Randolph: They gonna give in. Van Exel: That's what I'm saying. So, how many of them threes he gonna be making? Okay. Just say if y'all win two games, game six, how what that jumper going to be looking like? Allen: Going to be a little flat. Going to be a little flat. Going to be a little flat, man. Going to be a little flat. Van Exel: Stop playing! But Joker is cold, but I just got to take Shaq cuz you got to double team the big dog. (…) When people say like I love Draymond Green. Draymond is somebody who people love to hate. You know what I'm saying? If he’s on your team, you love him, right? If you against him, you hate him. Great defender. Draymond, you can't guard Shaq. Draymond couldn't guard Shaq. Come on.
Tony Allen: "I'm going to tell you what put a little flame to it. I remember this vividly. I'll tell you what put a little flame. Well, put a little flame to it. You're married now and we can speak on this. You're married now. You used to have just the hottest babes in the front court." Chandler Parsons: "Why was that a bad thing?" Tony Allen: "And then it was that was the focus and then you're rehab, you're rehab somewhere in LA. We look up you in Cabo. It was kind of weird and then it was coach, you know coach feels that that's your homeboy. He told the media, you know, we about to sign Chandler Parsons, he the best thing with an IQ like LeBron James. I said, what? Not no kicking it in Cabo at this time of the year. And so the fans and we was expecting, but I'm here to give you your flowers." Zach Randolph: "Yeah, give you your flowers."
Zach Randolph: How was playing alongside Kobe Bryant? Lou Williams: It was cool. It was an eye-opening experience. Because he showed me that everybody don't take basketball as seriously as I thought they did. Cuz he was dead serious about hoop. Like, he was militant with his approach to basketball. Like the way that he saw the game, the way that he broke it down in the lens that he saw it from. Like he was breaking down the game in five minute increments to him like in this five minutes this what the game supposed to look like and then for the next three minutes this what it's supposed to look like. Like he was breaking the game down different and I wish I was with him at a different time in my career and a different time in his career because his body started breaking down on him. His body wasn't giving him what he what he needed.
Tony Allen: That man gave me $1,000 a dunk when he first met me. Zach Randolph: Well, you were trying to dunk, you were athletic? Paul Pierce: He had like five dunks that day. Randolph: He wanted to give you money. Oh, it was the Summer League. Allen: He had just won at the tables. He just won at the tables. He walked in. Pierce: I said ‘I won about 50,000. Allen: He just walked in with the bankroll like, ‘Yeah, I just won at the tables. I need some excitement. I got $1,000. I heard dunk? I said, ‘What? A thousand?’ And you know, November ain't hit yet. It's Summer League. I don't have an NBA dollar. That man said a thousand? I had five dunks in a row. No cap.
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[Highlight] Klay Thompson: “I actually do have a lot of respect for the grind house, Mike Conley, Zach Randolph, and Marc Gasol…This new team though, I don’t know man. They just talk a lot. They’ve always talked a lot, and never really backed it up either. So, I don’t really respect that..."
Former Memphis Grizzlies star Zach Randolph has finally offloaded his sprawling Los Angeles home for $7.4 million—11 months after listing the property for the much higher price of $8.5 million. The 44-year-old—who played 17 seasons in the NBA before deciding to end his time on the court—first decided to part ways with the 8,500-square-foot dwelling in September 2024. Since then, the property has come on and off the market multiple times, with the asking price steadily decreasing, first to $8.2 million in January of this year, then to $7.9 million just two months later.
By the end of 2019, Tidal League launched its first show: Court-Side Moms, hosted by Wendy Sparks, mother of former NBA center Khem Birch, who interviews moms of other NBA players, including Luka Dončić, Damian Lillard, and Chris Paul. Still, it wasn’t until 2022 that Tidal League got its first real break, when Theo Pinson joined with his Run Your Race podcast. The company’s most popular podcast is Out The Mud, a show hosted by Grizzlies greats Zach Randolph and Tony Allen, which Kent Benson says reached more than 50 million views in its first six months. “We went from a business that was doing no revenue to—in 2022—we did over $1 million in revenue,” Benson tells Front Office Sports. “So we went from $0 to $1 million in a year.”
Last week, the company announced new investments from Charlie Villanueva, Eric Ebron, Justin Jackson, and another NBA veteran, Devonte’ Graham. Financial terms were not disclosed, but Benson tells FOS that the minimum investment is $100,000. “As an entrepreneur, it was a no-brainer to invest in a media company,” Villanueva says. “It gives you the opportunity to have ownership in something that comes easy. It’s easy to talk about basketball because we’ve done it.” The company isn’t done raising money. It’s now in the process of seeking out its first institutional investor, with the aim of amassing $5 million.
Greg Oden: But honestly, it was a good time. I really do appreciate the way Portland welcomed me. And my first real welcome? That came from Z-Bo. When I got there, my guy threw me an 'Indiana Welcome Party'—that’s what we called it. You gotta take care of your Indiana people, right? I swear, I was meeting people in Portland ten years later who were like, ‘Yo, I met you at that party.’ That party was amazing. Thank you, sir—I appreciate you, my brother.
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Jorge Sierra: Paul George passed Zach Randolph to become the 72nd-best scorer in NBA history. Also: Jeff Green moved ahead of Alonzo Mourning for No. 182.
In the latter stage of your career, have you ever thought about getting your jersey retired with the other members of the Memphis Grizzlies Grit and Grind era, like Marc Gasol, Zach Randolph, and Tony Allen? Conley: If I’m able to get my jersey retired like those guys, that would be awesome. I hadn’t been able to think about it too much because I’m trying to celebrate the guys that do get it, and I’m still in the middle of my career. It would probably be one of my highest achievements other than winning a championship to have something like that happen in Memphis.
Did you hold a grudge against the Grizzlies for a minute after you got traded, or were you just like, “It is what it is”? Zach Randolph: You know, I did because I wanted to be there. Like I said, [expletive], I would have taken a minimum. I would have taken a player’s minimum because that’s how much I [expletive] with the organization and the city, you know, the people in it. But you know, it all worked out. That’s my city. I’m doing a lot of stuff with the team now, and it was a great time there. That’s the city, man.
Jorge Sierra: Trae Young (26) passed Kyrie Irving (32) in assists last night and is now No. 103 all-time in the NBA. Also: Anthony Davis moved ahead of Zach Randolph in scoring for No. 71 in league history.