What Really Happened Between Latrell Sprewell & PJ Carlesimo

we got to ask about the Latrell spr well PJ Caris altercation I had no idea that you was on that team you was back playing home your hometown um on the Warriors at the time what led to the the the the choke hole free well put on carissimo and was there a buildup that y'all saw like it's it's bubbling over it's bound to happen yeah so nobody really uh talk about it because because they actually the law enforcement put a gag order on us the the judge put a gag order on the whole team to not talk about about the incident but yeah there was a buildup basically spr I mean uh PJ who's a great guy you know off the court and what have you do anything for you give you the shirt off his back um was a different animal when it when it when he was coaching right so he referred to everybody as [ __ ] this [ __ ] that and I had just got traded to the Warriors from Orlando so when when I first got there and he was addressing everybody and talking to everybody like that I was like damn you know is dude always like this so spree was an Allstar you know had represented the Warriors PJ had just come over from coaching Portland and prior to that he was a head coach at C in hall right so college coaches completely different animal than NBA right and so he brought some of that college [ __ ] to the NBA which don't fly so he had he had some I think personal issues with spre well because spr well wore the the cornrows the French braids spre well didn't adhere to the dress code um and he and and now he worked and he was good and so there's nothing that you could say about you know his work ethic and everything else but when we got on the plane or on the bus to go wherever he wore what he wanted to wore usually sweats and some slides and he would have his headphones on listening to his music and that bugged PJ so he' be you know back then we had a dress code M so spr well smart he said look PJ would always say something to him about what he had on about his way his hair was uh with braided so spr well one time took off his uh headphones and he said we were on the plane and he said listen man I talk to my agent um y'all can find me $500 if I don't adhere to the dress code we got 41 uh away games so take 500 time 41 that's 20,000 whatever you know $100 and 20,000 and take that [ __ ] out my check and leave me the [ __ ] alone I'mma dress how I want to dress put his headphones back on and then start listening to yeah he used to listen to wuang all the time right and he always just say don't [ __ ] you don't want to [ __ ] with a soldier and and so so we're in practice one day me bimbo Co and I mean me Mugsy boges and and uh and spree are shooting at a basket PJ comes in uh we're just doing three man shooting and he's and he just comes down he's like you got to give me more than that to spree and spree was a worker so he didn't say nothing he kept shooting PJ went away he came back a couple minutes later he's like if that's all you gonna give me get the [ __ ] out of my gym so spre said he said look man you say one more thing to me I'mma [ __ ] you up so everybody kind of was like you know everybody was at diff different baskets so he came back and said something again and that time when he came back spree just took the ball he just dropped it he just walked over to to PJ grabbed him around the neck so to be honest the other players because of how PJ used to talk to him was like you [ __ ] it go ahead CH the [ __ ] out of his ass right and the assisant coaches and everybody they all ran over trying to get spree off of him and he was like a crazed animal at that time so he never let go of PJ's neck he was kicking the assistants that was trying to get him loose they finally Pride him loose and uh and so the security came in and they they kicked him out so we met as a team now this is in 90 97 and I'm one of the older guys on the team even at that time me uh Mugsy Bogues and so the PJ Gary St Jane who St Jee who was our GM they meet they say listen this happened in house we going to keep it in house don't nobody say anything to anybody what do you guys think is an appropriate uh punishment for him right so we we met we said 10 game suspension um and he got to go to some anger management classes so everybody agreed okay cool that's what that's what it'll be that was going to cost him a million dollars M so I live in Oakland so practice ended we not supposed to say nothing to anybody by the time I get home 10 minutes from the from uh practice facility I turn on the TV all that they got pictures of PJ's neck with the fingerprint the uh fingernail marks in his neck and everything and they the Warriors got to put their spin on what happened but then we got a gag order that we couldn't talk about so what happened was they ended up suspending spree for the rest of the season he had had the uh the shoe contract with Converse at the time M uh so all the endorsements he had they dropped him they kind of painted him as the villain and like we don't we didn't condone what he did but it's two sides to every story so we decided as a team we G to go when he he had a press conference we gonna stand up behind the stage and and and and support of our teammate well we also told all the guys the young guys look for y'all that don't have a lot of skin in the game game you might not want to get up here on the stage because it's going to be the beginning of the end for us but we just want to make it clear that we are here to support him we don't condone what he did and and he's going to apologize for it and we standing here behind him me Bim Co Joe Smith uh uh Felton Spencer Robert Ory who was playing for Houston we were playing getting ready to play them and him and spree went to Alabama together so he even came and still behind there with us um and it was maybe one or two other guys and Dwayne for real so we stand up behind him spre apologizes and what have you about two weeks later uh I'm in the hotel get a knock on the door is PJ carisimo uh we're in Portland you and Joe Smith just got traded to to Philadelphia Jim and Clarence Weatherspoon and then everybody who stood behind all tra traded or Simpkins got cut yeah I see him I'm flying to Portland I see him at the airport I'm like me and Joe Smith at the airport I'm like man what you doing here you got traded too he was like no they cut me but um yeah that's that's that's exactly how it went down and it was a build up it was frustration because the team was losing PJ was hard on everybody like I told you earlier how the coaches used to deal with players and spree wasn't having it and so y'all had his back though he better get y'all some spre well room for free right real [ __ ] we wanted to take a brief break from the episode to let you know that prize pick has got you guys covered when it comes to helping you make some money during the NBA season that's right baby prize pick is helping me cash in prize picks is a daily fantasy app and with the NBA season in 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