{"id":84362,"date":"2020-10-08T07:01:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T04:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/jalen-rose-on-his-longtime-friend-cedric-the-entertainer\/"},"modified":"2020-10-08T07:01:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T04:01:01","slug":"jalen-rose-on-his-longtime-friend-cedric-the-entertainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jalen-rose-on-his-longtime-friend-cedric-the-entertainer\/","title":{"rendered":"#Jalen Rose on his longtime friend Cedric the Entertainer"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Jalen Rose on his longtime friend Cedric the Entertainer<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n This week on my podcast, I interviewed my old friend Cedric the Entertainer. We go way back. Decades, in fact. When I was drafted in 1994, I was still a little rough-around-the-edges Detroit kid. That summer, I was at the State Theatre during Soul Night in my hometown when there was an altercation. I wasn\u2019t involved, but even being there was a liability for someone like me. Then, the next week, I hurt my shoulder in a summer league game<\/a>, so my agent at the time, Norm Nixon, who is married to Debbie Allen, convinced me that I should move to Los Angeles to rehab my shoulder.<\/p>\n

Out there, they provided a family atmosphere: Norm was like a father to me, and, along with giving me my very first facial, Debbie convinced me to make LA my permanent summer home to keep my nose clean. It was sage advice, and living there helped me meet powerful people in all industries and develop a sense of the things I wanted beyond basketball.<\/p>\n

My friend Cino and I were always out on the town, shaking hands and kissing babies, and we started frequenting the Comedy Store in West Hollywood. I love comedy, and I got to see all of these up-and-coming performers onstage, and Ced was one of them.<\/p>\n