James Johnson! How scary could he potentially be? He doesn’t seem like a scary guy… When you’re a big, ass-kicking guy, you’re either: A) “Because I have a hammer, everything’s a nail,” or B) You understand it, and you don’t look for conflict. He seems like the latter—but how scary could he be? Rick Carlisle (half-jokingly): Yeah, we gotta be careful—I don’t know where this show goes out to, exactly. But he’s undefeated. He’s an undefeated mixed martial arts guy. I think he’s been in eight or ten matches, something like that. And you know—one time I heard somebody talking to him, like: “Don’t be starting stuff or whatever…” And he said to me: “Coach, in my discipline—we don’t start things, we finish things.” And so… that’s all I really needed to hear. If I even needed to hear anything at all about it. He’s a special guy, you know? -via YouTube / July 15, 2025
