The BroadCast | A Time to Stand Up

the pod the past few weeks. I personally just didn't feel like it was right using my voice or this space to talk about anything that would detract or take away from the issue that we should all be thinking about right now, and that should be on the forefront on all of our minds, and that of course is racism and racial injustice and most significantly, what we can do to change it, and not just begin to gradually change it, but do something whatever it is we personally

can do in our own respective lives to drive change and start to drive change. Right now, There's going to be a time and a place to talk about the potential return of the NBA, what it means for the seventy sixers, and the pursuit of a championship. But simply put, I don't think I need to be the one telling you this. It should be pretty obvious. This is not a stick to sports moments in our history. We need to do more, We need to talk about more, We

need to affect change more. Now that being said, there's obviously a way to use sports as a vehicle to amplify crucial messaging to make people heard louder. We've been seeing it the last couple of weeks throughout the NBA and more specifically when it comes to the seventy six ers. How awesome has it been to see some of the guys speaking up on social media, participating in peaceful protests, rallies,

and demonstrations. Whether here in Philadelphia it's all about unity, all about coming together or elsewhere, but just about the progress pushing out the message. One particular player who recently launched an initiative to fight racism and end police brutality is Glenn Robinson, the Third through his Angels a Real

Indeed foundation, which he named after his daughter. So for this episode of the podcast, we're going to talk to Glenn about his campaign and his thoughts on everything that's been going on in the world as it relates to racism and racial injustice. I also thought it was important for this interview to be conducted by someone who's experienced some of these same issues firsthand. With that, I'm going to turn things over to the one and only the

awesome Divon Givens from ninety seven five to fanatic. He's on the pod all the time. We do six ers and sixty together during the season. D take it away. Thanks Seltz, appreciate it Here. Joining us now is Philadelphia seventy six ers forward swing man do it all, Glenn Robinson that third, Glenn, thanks so much for joining us man. Thank you. I appreciate you having me today. I appreciate you joining us. It's been a difficult time and an

interesting time and unprecedented time for all of us. So first I wanted to ask how are you doing, how the family feeling. Everything is good as we've been on the tiatus. I appreciate it. Everything is good. You know, family is healthy, and that's all I can ask for it right now, you know, with everything going on, you know, obviously it's a tough time for us, just like everyone else.

And you know, I think that we're just trying to maintain you know, we're trying to educate each other, educate everyone that we can, and just continue to move forward in the right way. Yeah. So speaking of educating everyone, we know what's been going on in our country. Of course, first with the pandemic with the coronavirus knocking everyone down, keeping us all isolated and not being able to move

freely like we're accustomed to. But then the last few weeks late, may we get what we get when it comes to the murder of George Floyd unfortunately, and in Minneapolis, and the country just went crazy once we all saw it on video. Many people have never seen anything like this, at least live, face to face and certainly capturing it on video. But you've decided that you wanted to start a foundation to area foundation with the initiative to fight

against racism too, and of course police brutality. Could you help us all out and understanding why you decided to take the standard you are taking and of course starting the foundation. Yeah, I appreciate it, you know I started.

So I started the foundation at the beginning of this season, and our goal and our mission is to empowered fathers and then help families who don't have father figures in their lives, and then be a resource to everyone so that we can continue to move forward because we face a lot of trauma as men in general, for black men especially, And then you see a lot of players in the NBA who are fathers. You see that we can use our brand just like we are now with the racial issues and use it in a good way.

It's in a positive way. So starting the foundation. Having a daughter, Arianna, she's too and we call her Ari So angels are real. Indeed, it is named after her wearing the sweatshirt right now. But I decided to start that foundation because that's just who I am as a person. You know, I've always been a giving person. I've always tried to help others and use my talent as a basketball player, as a professional athlete, and just my brain

and my image to help others, you know. And it started off when I was actually in my hometown with the Pacers and this wrist band I wears for a kid who had got cancer twice. He was seven. Elite basketball player's name is Brodie, And I started off like that. I just read a story in a newspaper and went to go visit him about every week and we played two K video games. And just being that type of person that I am made me want to start the foundation.

And now we get to hear in the past couple of weeks, and you know, we see everything that's going on in the world, and like you said, people haven't seen situations or issues like these. And I think the educational piece is so important because it's these things have been happening in time and time again, and at what point it doesn't stop? You know, enough is enough? We often hear those words and people saying the right things or you know, when an issue like this comes out,

everyone's quick to make a statement. But what are you gonna do, How are you gonna help? How are you going to help your community? How are you going to stop these these issues? Because it is a problem. So my goal with my foundation that I already started was, you know, I'm from Gary, Indiana, where we have a struggling community already, and how can I help these people? How can I give back and use my platform to

say more than just words. So we decided to donate to three organizations from Gary, Indiana and organizations that mean a lot from me and my whole families from there as well. And it just means a lot to me to be able to say more than just words. And it's my daughter's legacy who I'm representing, and that means so much to me. And if I can just represent her in the best way possible and help people. It's a win win for me. And so you mentioned the

three organizations. What are those three organizations if you don't mind to share with everyone? Yea, we got a Brother's Keeper in Gary, Indiana. We got Gemmesis and then we got Sojournal Truth House in Gary, Indiana and I'll get all that information. But we have our website as well where you can go to and I'll be matching every donation that's put forward to the foundation. And like I said,

these three organizations are representing in Gary, Indiana. They're found in Gary, Indiana, and they either help women with domestic violence, they help fathers, and they go out and find the right families to who needs help and to specialize for them. And it's important to me come from Gary, Indiana. You know, we right off of Lake Michigan. We have a great tremendous opportunity. But it's almost like we've been giving up

on you know. So it's how do we kind of restructure that give people faith, give people hope, you know, and just who I am that I just want to continue to give back. I do a free basketball camp every year in Gary, Indiana for the kids there. My dad can started that legacy and I continue it. That's pretty cool. Free cancer. You get it. I'm sure you get a great turnout, don't you a great turnout? And every event that we do for the foundation is also free.

I don't charge any thing my merchandise that has my logo on and I sell it on my website. That's one hundred percent of the proceeds go back to the foundation. So it's not about me. It's not about taking money. And I wanted my nonprofit to do exactly what that means is giving back to people and not taking in the money, you know, having to be an actual nonprofit. Absolutely, And as you talked about your daughter, ariana great logo

by the way, on your sweatshirt, slick logo. But yeah, and of course with her being a two year old and not knowing what's going on right now. If you think about it, you at what twenty seven six right now, and myself at forty two years of age, never Glenn, that I think that we would still be having this

type of conversation. You think back to what happened in Tulsa in nineteen twenty one, ninety nine years ago, Rosewood in nineteen twenty three, and here we are in twenty twenty where in this particular case with George Floyd, unfortunately and many others, there are cameras now, so that's the only thing that's been able to allow things to have the light shine on them. But Glynn, I mean, why are we still having these conversations as you should with the change that needs to be me Why is this

stuff still happening? It's it's really you know, it's a sad topic and a sad issue because it's about being failed, you know. And I don't understand how everyone can't be treated equally in us being in America and we're supposed to be free, you know. And I think that a lot of people would agree on that statement. And I think that that's all it comes down to, you know.

And I think the biggest thing, I think a lot of black people we respect the amount of care and the amount of people that are tweeting and posting on Instagram and posting a black square, But what are you going to do? You know? And I think that is that's the issue. That's the problem. Is, like I said, huge companies, Nike, Google, everybody wants to put out statements, but what are the what are your actions on those words, you know, because people forget about that those words tomorrow.

You know, what are you gonna do to help our community, to help Philadelphia, to help we have so many fans, so many African American black fans that come to our games, that watch our games continuously like why why can't we provide this help? You know? And especially being us as

great of an organization as the NBA. And that's why I've been so proud of just to see my brothers across the our team and just the NBA to be able to help so many people and to be able to use their voice to to commit to what we stand for. Because if you I see a lot of people, if you stay stay silent, we don't like you, you know.

And it's like I think, at the end of the day, if you can use your voice to create a great platform for people, you'll always be looked at as a good guy, you know, And I think that that's that's

what it comes down to. Yeah, absolutely, and a lot many people speaking out and and you think about twenty sixteen when you had I believe it was Dwayne Way, Lebron, James Carmelo, Anthony and Chris Paul speaking at the ESTs and making that big speech of Roger Goodell of the NFL, the commissioner, coming out and basically apologizing to his players for not listening to what they said years ago, four years ago. And now, as you just said, the words

are great. Now what's next with the action. So we'll see what ultimately comes together with all of that. But as you speak about Gary, Indiana, your hometown, you've seen many protests around the country. They've been in every state, and you having your connection here to Philadelphia, I'm sure you saw what was going on here. What was it like in Gary, Indiana during this past I guess week and a half as protests have been going on, what was going on out there? Were you able to even

go out there yourself and get involved. I haven't had a chance to go home, actually, but at home, we have basically one major mall and that's where they held most of the protests, and that's where a lot of people were out there representing and it was it was it was great to see the community come out and it was great to see actually people wearing the logo the Glynn Robinson the third logo out there in the

middle of protests, you know. So we got some some some great content of that, like people getting pepper sprayed and beat up and they you know, they're wearing that, they're wearing the shirts, you know. So I just thought that made it even more clear that what the work that I needed to do from my hometown and how much they care about me. It goes both ways, you know. And I tell people all the time, professional athletes, we're the same. We're the same as everyone else out there

on the streets. And I think that now is a time where the community can really see that we are the same, that we do stand up for the same things, and even though we might be people that are looked at stars or celebrities are seen on TV, we got their backs as well well. Since you are the same, and you're right, y'all human beings have this athletic talent, this great gifts, the skill that you guys have to

do what you do as entertainers. But also people, what were your experiences like growing up as a as a as a guy twenty six years old of black men, Yes, talented of course in basketball and a famous family, but everyone is dealt with something. This is something that you have had to deal with as a black man in America. Yeah, um, you know, first off, how your parents raise you. You know, I think, uh, most of every black black man that grows up or a woman that grows up in a family,

umh with with other people who are black. You know, you you you get a set of rules that you don't necessarily understand when you're young why you're told these things and maybe some other people that you go to school or some friends aren't. So the first thing being the police, you know, um, how to you know, how to treat, how to how to act when you do get pulled over, how to treat the police, you know,

how to mind your business. So um, I think a lot of those things are are what we're taught growing up. And then also everyone, every every black person I'm convinced, has their stories, has their situations where racism has occurred. You know, I think prejudice has occurred. And um, me being in Indiana, a lot of a lot of this

stuff is here. You know, We've seen a lot of this stuff throughout history, um, throughout the years being started any Indiana, So growing up, you know, I would see a lot of that stuff being from Gary, Indiana, which is basically the hood. And you know, as I got Actually, I remember an interesting story. I remember my rookie year I got drafted. I ended up my dad helped me get a Panamera, a porch panamera. I'm driving it back home,

had just got it. My two friends are in the car, all three of us are black, and I ended up getting pulled over and they asked my license and seeing my license, all Gwyn Robinson, you just got drafted, right, Yeah, I just got drafted. I would go right down here to the high school and let me go. But they wanted to know why a black man is in the porch. Why is a black man in the course with three friends leaving? We were leaving a target, going to get some you know, junk food or whatever. Why are why

are they those three leaving a target? So there are situations that occurred like that every single day for us, and you know, waking up as a black man. These are things that we have to think about that we shouldn't, you know, These are things that we have to move a certain way, but others that others don't, you know, And that's all we want to be able to do. You know. I know when I drive past a police like whatever's going on, you don't feel comfortable, you know,

as a black man, you don't feel comfortable. You're nervous, every one of us. I know. So those are those are just little things that um, those are what we want, you know, those are those are the small detailers of where we shouldn't have to live our lives right, And just to interject myself in as where you're right, you drive and you know everything is good, your your license

is good, the car find everything is straight. But even still when you ride past one at maybe sitting by themselves in the parking lot, just sitting there, and you, oh, am I going too fast? Am I going two miles over the speed limit? If my seat belt tight enough? When me crack this window because my tenant windows are

two yards right? And you worry about those things. And even when you do get pulled over, as you said, hands on the steering wheel, windows down, if you have the tent, and you just hope for the best that the person that is in fact the officer is kind enough to just understand that all right, he's clean, he's good, I'm gonna let him go. And sometimes you do ask, but maybe maybe you know you're just getting those moments where you're a little tensing. You say, I want to

ask what I did? But can this escalate into something that you don't want it to escalate into? Exactly right, And most of the time it does just by asking that simple question, you know. So, yeah, it's a crazy world. Yeah,

it definitely is. Not have three daughters older than your Ariana at two, but still even as as girls, you have to black men, but young ladies as well, to make sure that they understand that while not all are bad, of course, and we have police officers, law enforcement and our family friends of that nature, but you also you want them to feel comfortable but also understand what is out there, of course in America exactly, and that's just something that's part of that's just part of the skin.

If you will, yeah, you know, raising raising a girl, you know it will it will definitely be interesting for me, you know, first first child for me and only child. But you know, I see videos of black women and they're at work and they have curly hair and white women just touching their hair and it's like they don't understand, you know. So it's like they don't understand that we have our space. We have our boundaries. You can't do

certain things like that, you know. So even like you said, black women, there are situations that occurred that you have to teach them so they are that so that they do understand it, even if they know where where they come from. And um, you know, like my daughter has a bunch of black baby dogs, you know, just so that as she grows older, she knows, you know, that she is a black female in America, you know, and just like you said a black man, we also have

to teach our women as well. Absolutely so when when you look at what we all saw in America that has started this big uproar in our country, and rightfully self that what were your thoughts you first saw George Floyd's video? Disgusted? You know, um, stomach turn you know, how can you how can you do that, you know, to to to another human being black, white, whatever, to put your knee, you know, on the guy's neck and you know he's he's he can't breathe and he's saying

it and he's screaming for his mom. And it's a sad situation, you know, and I don't understand it, and um, really want justice to come to those who that were in effect of that, but I was just disgusted by that. Yeah,

it was. It was very difficult to see. And as we talk about your foundation already foundation and everything that you're trying to do, it was great to see so many people of all races come together to try to, you know, put the message out there that this needs to stop again the many many years that this has

been going on. To see a murder like that from the hands of the police and the knee in this particular case, it was it was just unsettling in even as something that we've seen before or her just from interactions with people we've grown up with. It's never easy. It's never easy. Sometimes it's just a simple shake of the head. But then some of them hit a little different and for some reason. But I don't know, this

one seems like this might hit different. Seeing seeing his daughter, you know, in the protests and hearing her say, Daddy changed the world. That's Stephen Jackson. Yeah, yeah, with Stephen Jackson, that that's the truth, you know, And that is when I look at my daughter and I look at her in the eyes, you know, and I know that I don't love anything in this world as much as I

do her. He really changed the world, and I believe that, and I believe that moving forward, we really have to make an effort together as everyone to commit to being better, being better overall. It's all it boils down to and our society, you know, we need it right now. We need each other and all we can get. So I'm glad to see all the knowledge that's coming out. I'm

glad to see all the power from message. Just like I said, my brothers on my team that's been promoting this and just really speaking positive messages to people right now because that's what we need to hear. Yeah. Have you had a chance to speak with Tobias Harris latistible general manager Elton brand out there with the protests Peacefully protests in this past weekend. Have you had a chance to speak with those guys and just their experiences and

what they went through by going out there. Yeah. I haven't got the chance to speak to him about the protests being there, but you know, we do our almost weekly zoom calls and everything with the team, so you know, me and Tobias were just talking a little bit about what was going on. He Tobias very smart, so just I like to learn from everyone, So hearing from him and you know, Teas and just everyone on a team

and hearing different perspectives about this. No one's wrong, you know, and that's the unique and that's the great thing about this. Not a person is wrong or what they said so far. Just to see our team come together. I just see this creating more chemistry for us already. Yeah, so speaking of as we train position a little and of course this will never go away. Hopefully we continue to speak and have those those uncomfortable conversations. Let's have a comfortable

conversation about basketball. You guys ended the season unfortunately March eleventh, after defeating the Detroit Pistons thirty nine and twenty six year record. And this is, as we said at the top, unprecedented, something that we've never seen before. But you have been able to have the zoom meetings with the team, with the coaches, with the entire staff. What have those been like? How have you guys been able to communicate? What have you been doing to stay in shape? This is not

like a lockout, This is totally different. In the middle of the season's what's been going on? How how have things been for you, and what have those meetings been like. So I'm back home in Indianapolis where I'm from myself at my house here, so there's a private gym here while I'm able to get into my trainer. So about four or five weeks now, I've been going at it and just trying to maintain shape, maintain physicality, lifting, and just being ready for whatever happens. We can't control anything

at this point. We all know that, but I think that we all knew that we would be starting up probably uh sometime soon, so you know, I just kind of got to work and just been maintaining. The first couple of weeks are very different, very weird for a professional athlete, not being able to leave the house, being our quarantine, having to fold right, yeah, doing in home workouts. You know, I'm either on a bike in the garage

or doing just dumbbells in my house. So that part was just very weird, very different being a professional athlete and going to the gym every day. But as far as communication with the team, I think it's been great, you know, And I've talked to players from other teams and I'm not quite sure everything that every other team is doing but I want to say that we're up there with the sixes as far as our chemistry, as far as making monthly Zoom calls and keeping in and

texting each other on our little group chat. So that's important to have that chemistry to remain that brotherhood and leading into the play I was leading into this, this this late push, We're gonna need all that chemistry that we can. So I'm very glad that we've been able to keep in touching. Like I said, I'm with my brothers on a team more than I am with my family anyway. So this has been a weird situation and it's been very different, but we've all kept in touch

and kept in communication. And speaking of the chemistry, as you just pointed out, you're playing twelve games. You and Alec Brooks coming too the team in February, how did you feel you were playing and how did you how did you feel that you were adapting to everything with the team. As you start started to talk about the push that you guys were making, Yeah, I really felt like I had just joined the team, you know, because I did, you know, having twelve games, you know, that's um.

It just really felt like I was taking that turn of learning the plays, learning my teammates, gaining that chemistry. So I'm excited to get back, you know. I know me and Alec both are because that changed that situation. It was different, but it was fun as well, you know, I think Brett made it really fun. Ben Joel to Bias. The leadership there has been great, you know, and it's

it's been great to come together with. If you're on the other side of things, you see this roster and it's loaded, you know, But once you come to the team, you can see the egos get dropped in the doorway. Everybody's on the same team, same side of things, and we all just want to compete and win. Yeah, and this is as we look ahead to Orlando, Walt Disney Wide World of Sports Complex, no fans, just your team,

the staff, NBA personnel officials. Have you allowed yourself to process what could be coming and how you I was I was talking to you guys right and I'm thinking about this. You playing Summer League, of course, being drafted,

playing in summer League. There's been the Orlando Summer League, the Las Vegas Summer League, the two different arenas for Vegas where you have Thomas and Mack, which is you know, blown out and then you have sometimes when you see the games in the Cocks Center that not many not as many fans. So that's the only way I've been able to incorporate it. How have you looked at it like a practice setting? Have you looked at it like what you've seen from Summer League with not a lot

of fans? How have you allowed to you know, at least think because you have to be curious about it, right, I think that it's just gonna be I mean, nothing like we've ever seen before, just like this whole situation. Um, I think it'll be weird. I'm interested to see what the TV cameras will do. As far as presenting it to two people at home, I think that that will be the best bet, you know, watching it, Auntie. It won't be as many maybe distractions or other things going on.

It'll be sotally focused and locked in on the game and to play and maybe different angles of the game. But um, I haven't got to got a chance to really think about what that's gonna be like. Um with no crowd and you know, I know, off if we need off fifteen guys, especially more than ever now, you know, we need everybody who will be on the bench. That's the five that's not you know, the five that's in. They gotta go play hard the other guys, the other

guys that our other ten that's on the bench. We need to be screaming on the top of our lungs because that's that is our crowd. So really we got each other's backs, and that's how we got to kind of look at it right now. Yeah, well we're gonna do it right now. We're having to think about We're gonna think about it right now. They're even talked about experimenting with two k crowd noise. Yeah, listen, I don't know, but that's that's been all these sports have been covered

with my advice at the beginning. I'm like, you know, the big jumbo trying to just goes defense. So I'm like, we need to we need that throughout the whole defensive possession, you know, So hopefully that'll be a crowd. Yeah, and you've been playing it up. Yeah, I hear you. But you've been playing it from the crowds your entire career. This is gonna be totally different. It is, you know,

the only thing I can say, is open gyms, summer runs, practices. Um, we're also used to not playing in front of people. You know, I think that it can it can almost drive maybe even better basketball. You know, we're not as like I said, we're personally not distracted. There's nobody yelling at us. There's nobody cheering or boing. You know. It's really just focused, you know, and it's stuff that might be coming from the bench or the coaches, so we

can lock in even more. But who knows, we might see the best basketball we've ever seen just because it's no distraction and we've limit everything else now we can just solely focus on I want to know how much the mics are gonna pick up whatever you guys are saying. That's what I Brett Brown cave you whispering in the year ear wanted trying to hear exactly what is being said to you. So it's gonna Yeah, it's gonna be interesting.

Final one for me about this, The NBA and the Players Association, I think have done a tremendous job with so many different ideas to get this to come together right, to come to fruition and hopefully everything goes according to plan and it goes on without a hitch when you guys get underway. Your thoughts again, just totally with what the league and the Players Association have been able to do to put this entire thing together. Um, you know, I think that they've done a great job with the

situation they've been handed. We've all we been handed right now, coronavirus and having to shut the season down like we did. I remember being in the locker room immediately after the Detroit game and hearing Rudy had got it, you know, and we're like, what's going to happen next? And Elton comes in and saying the season might be shut down, And as soon as he said that, everybody was just

completely confused about the whole situation. So to turn things around to make it positive for the fans and the players, you know, I think that that's been a great thing about the Players Association and the NBA. And sometimes it's hard for the two to work hand in hand together, but I thought that they've done a great job of, like you said, experimenting with ideas, kind of bringing and

pushing in ideas from everyone, including players, you know. So we'll see how all of this works, but hopefully we're in the best position, and I think the most important thing is just the safest and most healthy position for all the players and coaching staff and everybody who will be an attendance, because that's that's the most important thing. You know. I come home and look at my daughter at the end of the day, and being healthy, being safe is the most important thing. So as long as

we were accomplishing, you know, I have no problem with it. Yeah, I live one more. You took us tickets into the locker room again. March eleventh, you beat Detroit. Elton comes in, says everything that he points out about what he's hearing from the league. Normally, you guys, you know, we come in, we interview, you do what you need to do, You talk a little bit, and you get out. How long were you in the locker room that night? And what was the next day? Like? Once you heard everything from

the course the league. But yeah, I'm laughing because you know, I'll back up a little bit. As soon as Ellen said that, he followed up with you know, everybody was like, oh, the season might be shut down, Like we kind of got caught off guard, and he was like, yeah, I wouldn't get too excited those checks might start getting everybody those dear those dear eyes came on real quick, so

those headline eyes. So that's exactly what I remember after that, and I stayed in the locker room another twenty minutes trying to get on Instagram and Twitter. At that point, I had not had an iPhone. I was on a low tech phone. I have a flip phone. So it's funny because of all of this stuff, I had to go back to my iPhone. I had to go back to my technology and get back on Twitter just to see that from my news and to keep up to date. So I remember that moment exactly. I'm talking to teammates.

I can't get on my flip phone on social media, so I'm talking to Kyle o'quint like, Yo, what's going on? Calling his mom like, hey mom, it's coronavirus. I might be coming home. I'm at home. It was just a mess in the locker room. So I'm excited to get back with the fellas and really reconnect and get back to basketball. All right. Now. See, I keep saying I'm done, and then you give me more. You're not gonna get away from not explaining the flip phone. Yeah it man,

my tiss. Like when he first he sits, he sits right next to me. The ko kylo quincis exactly feat over And when he first see me walk in the locker room and I had that, he was completely lost. Why do you have that? Who are you? What's going on? You know? But being twenty six, I've never been interested in material things, you know, materialistics. My dad was in the league, and I grew up around so many nice things and was blessing enough to see that that who

you were as a person attracting me more. Who what you could do, how you can help people? Those are the type of things that I'm interested in. Um. Socially, I don't have a personal social media anymore, just because it's not my thing. But that's why I run the foundation, just to help others. That's who I am. That's why I'm about that. In basketball and taking care and being a father, Um, those are the best and greatest blessings

that I can achieve. And I think that I'm just holding on to that and just taking the day by day and taking it easy and slow. That's that's kind of the person I am. I'm easy going, mellow, and relaxing, just love to love, to do right as a person and give back and hopefully we could continue to do that with the foundation. And um, like I said, angels are really real. Well listen man, hey, they all connect

the same right. It's a phone exactly, if I can tell you absolutely as we don't break up to yours might not bring cop as much as the iPhone or some other smartphone out there. Service absolutely so, Glenn, just one more before we go, can you let us know the websites for ri we Foundation. Of course the R Foundation trying to make sure we fight against racism, police brutality and social injustice. And of course your own website where you can get the merchandise for the GR three shirts.

And yep, everything is connected on RI foundation dot Org is the website. Our instagram is RI dot Foundation. And you know we have a helpline on the instagram as well that help that you can fill out. It'll help you and we can get back to you about whatever it is that's going on and however we can help. So we have a helpline, we have the merchandise we also have on there where you can donate and help

our calls. So like I said, our mission is just empower fatherhood and to provide resources and to help families who don't have fathers in their life. And hopefully we continue on the right path and just being angels. And those who do want to connect on Twitter, you can just simply follow you at g R three correct on Twitter as well. Listen man, well, I think it's a great thing that you're doing. Thanks for allowing me to have this conversation with you. It's been just been enlightening.

I can't wait to see what you do with the ARI Foundation, Good luck with everything with your daughter, and can't wait to see you out there on the floor. Can you make that deep run so we can keep this, Yes, sir, Yes, sir, We're gonna do it for Philly. Man, thank you so much,

and I appreciate you having me and it's great. It's pleasure to talk to you, a pleasure listening to that conversation and divine, I would be totally remiss before letting you go if I did not ask you about your very very initial first impression gut reaction thoughts about the potential return to play of the NBA and what it could mean for the seventy six ers, So what do you got? Well, First, thank you, that was an easy conversation with Glenn and I appreciate. I hope everyone enjoys

to that. And here's what he had to say. But as far as basketball season looks for me as they return, I'm very curious to see how it plays out. I'm excited that from what we've heard from both Brett Brown and Elton Brand that Ben Simmons's back issue doesn't seem to be something that is any is holding him up any longer. So I'm curious to see how he is.

First and foremost when he gets back out there on the floor, of course, Joel Embiid and what he's what hey, he has been able to do during this time off, and how they will look because at the end of the day sets when it comes to this basketball team, everyone is important. Everyone plays their roles, but we know who really drives this team and those two names are

Joel Embid and Ben Simmons. With that, in this new bubble scenario, this new format that they're going to have with the eight game regular season and then getting ready, they have an opportunity to make some noise for me, and I remember saying this to you at the beginning, very beginning of the season that I thought the team would be a top two seed and I had them number one in the Eastern Conference in advance into the

NBA Finals. And while we have sixty five games as a primer to know what this team has been through this thirty nine and twenty sixth record, they've had something that is in their favor just like the rest of the league. So I'm not excluding everyone. This is not only for them, but the opportunity of time and rest, and if this team, these players are as good as I thought they were at the start of this season, there's no reason to believe that they cannot again come

in get their feedback underneath them. With the mini training camp, the possible preseason games, and of course the eight regular season games to be as dangerous as we thought they would be at the very beginning, it is going to be a tough route. It is going to be something that of course all of Philadelphia and all six of fans around the country in the world are going to

be focused on. But they are still a very good, talented basketball team that still hold the same personnel that was there before with the inclusion of Alec Burke's and Glenn Robinson the Third a young batis style that is making noise, shake Milton, who was making a name for himself before things went on cause and I can only look at this and say they are going to be one of the most dangerous teams in the NBA once the season resumes in Orlando in July. So I look

forward to it. You know, I'm a basketball nut and I want to see this team do well. I want to see them make this deep run. Glenn told us during the interview that they will be ready, So I expect nothing less but for them to be ready during this new playoff format once things kick off again in Orlando. Great hearing from me, man, Thanks so much. We'll be

talking soon he as well. Thanks man. This podcast was published on Tuesday, June sixteenth, and on Wednesday, June seventeenth, will be releasing an article about Glenn Robinson the Third efforts to take a stand against racial injustice. Look for it from Lauren Rosen on six ers dot Com, the

Sixers app, and all of our social channels. Then later this week, a new episode of our posted up mini series featuring Batist Thible and on Sunday a special Father's Day edition of the pod, when I speak with a player on the Sixers who just a few months ago welcome not one, but two new kids in the world. That's coming up this week on the seventy sixers podcast Network. Subscribe or follow search seventy sixers podcast wherever you get your pods, and please do rate and review us on

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