Michael Jordan and Charles Oakley speak on Coaching Players Today 

This isn’t just in basketball… absolutely nothing has gotten better, not sport, not anything… craftsmanship, quality, work ethic and professionalism are now just things you see in movies or hear in motivational speeches. Diluted genes.

When Oak talked about guys being lazy & crying about having to do a job they’re getting paid to do, I instantly thought of a few guys I work with.

Back in the 90s even college basketball was more enjoyable to watch than todays NBA

As a 90s NBA Fan, i accept that apology. I do not approve of today's NBA at all.

The real nba ended in 2004 when Pistons won title beating Shaq and Kobe with that great defense, the league said thats enough of that lol

MJ and Kobe showed us to be the best you need to dominate evry single day. They were playing 100% even during practice. Both of them were in the gym every morning no matter what. There are so many stories of MJ having fun all day before a game at night time, drinking playing golf and then scoring 40/50 points that night. That dedication then was mirrored in their teammates. Rodman was known to go to Vegas between games in the finals and still crush it on the court. How is your team supposed to push it to an allstars level if the best player on the team is lazy.

it's not just NBA. you see it in the work place every day. young guys don't want to hear you tell them to learn the basics. to do things properly. they don't want to hear it.

All truth! That's why I no longer watch NBA games. I only watch the classic NBA games on RU-vid

I love the old guys best. Nowadays it’s sad.

So Charles Oakley did reunite with Michael Jordan, on the Washington Wizards. ❤. I actually forgot Oakley was a Wizard. Cool!

👍🏻Oakley nailed it.....❣️

Players now a days, feel entitled.. With all the $$ it's sad!!!

If I buy a tickets I expect them to play unless they are hurt or a family crisis!

Oak is one of my favorites, mirrored my game after him. Much respect

They need to give these guys 6 figure rookie contracts no matter how high they picked..I bet they grind hard with only 100k contracts

Dang, MJ has some huge hands. Such a blessing in His game.

Imagine me calling off of work frequently, still getting paid & still having a job.

players get paid millions and they complain about the working load and mental health, gtfo, you are fired

That is why Uncle Drew movie is special because the movie has strong messages about teamwork, taking risks to achieve your goals, and playing for the love of the game. 2010s and 2020s better take note of it

All NBA players should be forced to watch the clip of Vanessa Bryant recounting her husband's speech at least 100 times every day.

I'm old school. Started watching NBA late 80s & obviously 90s + and yes, this generation is lazy & spoiled! Anyways, I blame it ALOT on the commissioner because he has allowed this bull$hit to continue & its destroying the game!

I see Oak in a different light now

VANESSA Bryant's words HIT ME VERY HARD😢

To coach in this era takes a lot of patience even at the bottom levels.

Standards... all but gone. Edit: The words from Vanessa Bryant hit hard too!

I think a lot of this is because kids specialize in a particular sport too early. If you play several different sports you become more competitive and understand what it takes to be good at something you may not be great in. This translates also into being less relationships with the same guys constantly as well as encourage competitive spirit. The last thing is parents not being willing or in some cases allowed to be hard on your kids to require the most out of them.

LAMELO BALL & TYRESE HALIBURTON BOTH HAVE $250M DOLLAR CONTRACTS,,,NO DISRESPECT TO THOSE GUYS BUT WHAT HAVE THEY DONE??? WHAT HAVE THEY WON???

Dude this channel is great. Keep up great work Bingeworthy for sure.

It worse that that. Lower your expectations regardless of field. Basketball is just one example of "good-enough".

ENTITLED. 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾

Most team don't have structured plays, they just play as how they go along the game

OAK is my guy!!! He is going to give you TRUTH

We're seening this in many industry's today. Management, supervisory and any leadership position has become a baby sitting job. Leading a team today requires being a mom, dad, counselor, therapist, instructor and professional coddler.

2024 NBA is "SissyBall."

They need to cut out the 7 games playoff series except for the finals. Make it 5 games like it used to be so it will be a dogfight.

Did Deion not say this about coaching in the NFL?

i met oak once at the after party for a mike tyson fight in atlantic city (those were some great parties, way better than the ones in vegas a few years later). my wife was in love with him, so we had to walk over and introduce her to him. he was wearing a lightweight suit with shorts, styling! oak is the shit, love that man's dedication, loyalty, hustle, take no crap from noone. and he did have a decent mid range jumper to go with his rebounding and defense. pretty good passer too.

Jordan said it in “The Last Dance” the guys that came after the first 3-peat thought they had made it just because they made the team. Because of the popularity of the sport today’s NBA stars act as if we should be thankful we get to see them play BEFORE they’ve accomplished anything.

The current NBA is the perfect example of why there should be a balance between owners and players. If the owners have too much power you have the NFL where great players don't get paid what they deserve but if the players get too much power you have the NBA where a player can give 50% effort but expect 100% compensation.

Basketball players to construction workers which is what i do, commercial Roofing,. Everyone has lost the want to put in hard work and want everything handed to them. It's sad how the US has shaped out, and it's only getting worse.

Things like coaching, teaching, learning and being constructive, go hand in hand. If the person doesn't respect what you have to offer, you're pretty much wasting your time. Most folk will look at *constructive insigjt as "trying to tell them what to do". That in itself is a red flag, especially when you *know that what you're extending will work. Yet said person refuses to see it in the light that it's meant to be seen.

Those are the top level guys saying it. Listen young people

Oak is a dope brother. Always keeps it real on everything.

Loved this. I was a huge Charles Oakley fan back in the day and Michael Jordan.....omg he really was black Jesus!

Spot on💯%

Oak on point!

The problem is they are already millionaires. Money spoiled them.

Preach oak preach 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

When he said, "Oakley had hands-on experience," I started cracking up 😂

After seeing the all star game this year. The game has changed. No lack of defense running back and forth. I won’t be seeing that anymore. Miss the 90s

Great minds think alike

ROSS GOT ME DEAD 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Bird coached and won Coach of the Year in 1998. But it was still old school players back then, I guess.

Most of the them are playing less than 40 minutes per game. There are breaks for foul calls, time outs, between quarters. Others make their own breaks by faking injuries, lying in the court for minutes at a time only to rise up and miraculously cured from what ailed them. Load management is an insult to fans. What “load” are they managing? Out of a 24 hour game day they spend less than an hour of that day actually playing the game competitively.

At first I thought this was spam, I'm definitely checking this video out!

Agreed!

And Chuck once again says it plain and simple.

Kids would cry if MJ was there coach 😂

the weight anything that Jordan says has is unbelievable. There is truth and wisdom in every word, eerily godlike.

They need to increase the NBA regular season schedule to 84 or 86 if they plan on expanding.

Imagine Jordan trying to coach a Ben Simmons. 😂😂😂😂

nah the biggest problem with todays players, todays rappers, todays youth is that if you dont agree with them then your showing hatred.. theirs no grey area.. they just think like sensitive toddlers.. u tell them no, no and they start crying.. thats 99 percent of their personalities.. only happy with a bottle in their mouth.. only happy when they can just do whatever they wanna do and not get in trouble for it or get spoken to about it.. why do u think they have a hive mind perspective because they are more highschool clique ish, groupish and only align with people that are exactly like them.. anything different or opposite is frowned on by them so they can progress because their perspectives are limited.. they all have groups of people that agree with them and thats good enough in their minds.. they feel safe in their little bubble.. never to have to courage to take risk or discover that which might make them uncomfortable at first..

Whether for good or bad, times and people change. So has the NBA.

100% with CO + MJ

Basically with all the talent you may have hard work will make you great you have to want to be great.

Been watching all the old school games, so much better. I cannot stand to watch NBA games today, no desperation whatsoever, no defense and three point shots 90% of the trios down the floor, it's horrible

Adam silver is half the problem Nobody told this dude to take the defense away I use to be a basketball nut and excited watching real basketball being played until that happened and dude silver still confused why the NBA ratings went down and turned into a clown show🤡 I'm still hot they took away most tradition Watching the Lakers wear purple jersey at home is nasty work

Truth.

I'm partial to college ball because the coaches are in control of the programs.

the oaktree speaks right out my mind. period

💯💯💯

I know it will never happen but the pay scale needs to change. They need a base pay according to time in the league (tier system?) then they need to pay for team results like wins and losses. Individual stats can be incentivized but the money can't be more than the team money. Treat team stats like individual stats. For instance the team with the most points* that years. (*major categories) I believe it would revolutionize the entire sports industry. All games would have more meaning. Rest when you retire. No more, play well one year and then drag your feet the next year because you secured the bag. Please don't rip me apart. It's just a comment.

NBA needs to restructure these spoiled overpaid talents. Maybe they should be only allowed full payment of the contract only if they meet the minimum games they need to play in a season. These kids are too self entitled with ridiculous contracts and perks that the old generation didn’t get to benefit

Fact's old school use to play 82 games every year and most of them played every game, now these guys today are just weak and hurt all the time because they don't work as hard.

Oak nailed it right on the head and i am not saying all of the players but a lot of them don’t want to get better they are so entitled that they feel like they don’t have to especially the ones making thirty forty million dollars a year they are paid so why work hard in that attitude is really destroying the product on the floor and it has turned a lot of die hard fans away.

Like Wilt Chamberlain and some random role player from the 60s complaining about how they couldn’t coach players in the 90s. Or Dr. Jay and some random role player from the 70s complaining about the 00s.

They need to restructure the pay where they get most of it after they retire or at least after playing 10 years, they might get a chunk It would be hard to want to get up for work when you got 50 million already.. .. Give them 3 mil Max per year, with options for more of it as bonuses if you hit certain achievements like all star, mvp, make the playoffs, play 82 games in regular season, the rest goes into a retirement fund drawing interest. Win win situation. Same goes for endorsements. You can not receive more than 1 mil per year until you finish playing, or play for 10 years....... You won't be blowing it all on strippers.

i remember Jordan saying in an interview that he knows at every game there's a kid and his father in the audience who will probably never come to see one of his games again and he knew he had to deliver them the MJ once in a lifetime experience. that's what Kobe's mindset was too. different value system. nowadays these young guys play for themselves only. they forget they're just like modern gladiators. entertainers. circus freaks. that's all they really are in reality.

People on a whole have become complacent. The competitive fire has lessened, the will/focus to be the best isn't such an intense want anymore.

We ain't playing Naismith basketball until we bring back the true center. Hopefully after Europe; Euro-steps on our face, because we're playing Euro-ball... Only five dominant caucasian centers, all time: Mikan; Walton, Sabonis, Smits, & Jokic...!!!???

The real problem is guaranteed contracts. Teams should be able to cut players whenever without paying them. If the player is good enough they'll get re signed by another team. And every player that makes the roster should get paid the same salary with incentives.

I'm an NBA fan since the 70s! The athletes are bigger, stronger, faster, and more skilled, but because they are paid so much money, they are not dedicated to their craft like the players who came before them. Today's players are spoiled rotten! Load management! That's a joke! Owners can only blame themselves. The players are taking advantage of the owners, and the paying customers.

I don’t even watch NBA anymore till playoff time

What watch is Jordan wearing there?

Oakley is 100 right about there not being veterans either. Those are the guys that use to hold the young guys accountable.

I’m a retired school teacher her having taught kids since 1985 and what MJ & Oakley and are saying is EXACTLY what I’ve felt in the classroom and things are getting worse. American kids are fckng SPOILED and parents are to blame.

Nice beat to this video , who is it?

If you play pickup one on one basketball games it's easier to beat a three point shooter than beating someone who has vast array of mid range moves.

Truth to fix.....Oakley speaking the truth that's why I don't watch basketball know more

Like you were so good to deal with.

All true!

This is insanity to me, professional athletes showing up 15 minutes before practice. I’ve always told my football players if practice is at 10 then your butt should be here by 9:15 at the latest, if you need to see the trainer be here at 8:45. That way you can take your time getting changed, use the bathroom, get taped, stretch out, talk to a coach if you have questions about a specific play, and hang out with your teammates!

There is some truth in this, that today's kids may take a lot of things for granted. Maybe life was a little harder in our days. But there's also a lot of nostalgia in lot of comments here Today's players are by far much more talented than in MJ's or Kobe's days. By far. It is only natural, as they have access to better training, new techniques, analytics, better nutrition, sports medicine, etc And while is true some kids do not make a good use of all of this, many do, and so we get the likes of Kyre, Giannis, Jokic, Tatum, Luka and many other players who are better than anything you may throw from the 90s and early 20s Oh, and for those who say it was easier to coach young players in the old days, let us not forget how hard it was for Phill to make MJ pass the damn ball, to deal with Shaq and Kobe's ego, or Sprewell almost chocking his coach, so c'mon It worths nothing also to point out that MJ and Oakley are definitely not the best examples of a good General Manager nor coach there may be Finally, on Charles comment, there is something wrong with us if we think that players having better working conditions is bad. And is actually the same criticism we hear a lot on any profession, any job, that today's young workers are soft because labor conditions are better. So, I guess it was better when we had long shifts, worst salaries and other abuses, makes no sense at all.I am sure none of these veterans would have complained if they had make this money and had better conditions back then

Kobe copied MJ’s mindset. That’s why he’s number 2 all time

Whether it is sports or anything else. Professionalism has gone backward a little at a time for years. People are stuck in high school mentality. They want success but are not willing to work for it nor grow into it. They see the glory but don't see the dirty work it takes to succeed. If there is a quality coach or mentor. They don't listen. It is a rare person who will be receptive to the coaching of others.

The great ones who turned into great veterans I'll tell him the truth about the NBA

It is the same in the NBA!

The video title and description don’t even mention who’s interviewing Charles Oakley.

We have Brunson a Killer and a dog in the good sense and others and we are winning. I love this NBA.

That's crazy how kobe ended up sounding and playing like Mike so much. It's almost like they have the same voice and spirit!