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WILL LAYMAN: People sometimes
legitimately ask, you know,
"Why do jazz musicians..." "Why are they so irritated
by Kenny G?" And I was thinking about this
and, you know, the Harlem Globetrotters
are a basketball team that's existed for decades. ♪ (LIGHTHEARTED MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ WILL: And they do not play
competitive basketball. They are a group
of entertainers, and they spin the basketball
on their finger, and they do trick shots,
and they clown around. I would say that most players
in the NBA love the Globetrotters. But imagine a world in which legitimate
competitive basketball is not popular, and LeBron James
and Michael Jordan in his day, they worked their whole lives
to be great basketball players, and now the only way
they can afford the rent on their apartment is
to part-time be, like, waiters
legitimately ask, you know,
"Why do jazz musicians..." "Why are they so irritated
by Kenny G?" And I was thinking about this
and, you know, the Harlem Globetrotters
are a basketball team that's existed for decades. ♪ (LIGHTHEARTED MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ WILL: And they do not play
competitive basketball. They are a group
of entertainers, and they spin the basketball
on their finger, and they do trick shots,
and they clown around. I would say that most players
in the NBA love the Globetrotters. But imagine a world in which legitimate
competitive basketball is not popular, and LeBron James
and Michael Jordan in his day, they worked their whole lives
to be great basketball players, and now the only way
they can afford the rent on their apartment is
to part-time be, like, waiters
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WILL LAYMAN: People sometimes
legitimately ask,
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you know,
"Why do jazz musicians..."
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"Why are they so irritated
by Kenny G?"
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And I was thinking about this
and, you know,
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the Harlem Globetrotters
are a basketball team
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that's existed for decades.
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♪ (LIGHTHEARTED MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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WILL: And they do not play
competitive basketball.
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They are a group
of entertainers,
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and they spin the basketball
on their finger,
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and they do trick shots,
and they clown around.
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I would say that most players
in the NBA
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love the Globetrotters.
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But imagine a world
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in which legitimate
competitive basketball
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is not popular,
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and LeBron James
and Michael Jordan in his day,
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they worked their whole lives
to be great basketball players,
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and now the only way
they can afford the rent
00:00:51.708 --> 00:00:55.874
on their apartment is
to part-time be, like, waiters.
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Movie Summary
An examination of the most popular instrumentalist of all time, Kenny G, and why he is polarizing to so many.
