NBA star drops major Kamala Harris interview revelation – after quizzing VP on marijuana

Former NBA star Matt Barnes admitted to smoking marijuana ahead of an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

Barnes and his co-host, fellow former NBA player Stephen Jackson, conducted a roughly 45-minute interview with Harris on their “All the Smoke” podcast.

Speaking on the Dan Le Batard Show after his interview with the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, Barnes admitted that he had “preplayed” his conversation with Harris and did not bring drugs to the White House.

“Unfortunately, I wasn’t allowed to smoke in the White House,” Barnes said. “But if she wins, I’ll be invited back and I might have to sneak something in… no, I’ll play.

‘I smoked before I went. You know what I mean? I pre-gamed while I studied. Just like I was watching game film in the morning the day of the game, I smoked while I went through my questions and summarized the interview, and then I went over there.”

Barnes and his co-host Stephen Jackson spoke with Harris at her private home in DC

Barnes also admitted that during the drive to the interview, he spent the last minute thinking of questions for Harris.

“We gave her a skeleton and an outline of the direction the conversation wanted to go,” Barnes said. “And then we were literally making up questions until we left in the car to go see her.

“I gave her my pitch about how we wanted to do it, have a good time. We wanted the country to have a chance to get to know her as a person a little better.”

Barnes also told Le Batard that he and Jackson were debating whether they should talk to Harris at all — especially since the content would likely differ from the typical topics discussed on the podcast.

“I wanted to get into the weeds, but so did Dan, who knew my fan base and understood that those things are interesting to me, but might not be interesting to our core audience.

‘So it was really a fine line. Jack and I were going back and forth, “Hey, should we do this.” Jack had his reasons and concerns. I thought, and we really went back and forth, really until the day we left.

“So this wasn’t a straight line like, ‘Hey, this is a great opportunity. Let’s jump on it.’ A lot of thought has gone into this, because we know who we are, what we are and what we stand for.

‘Sometimes people don’t want to see them mixed, although I don’t mind if they are mixed. It’s not about me. It’s about our fans.’

Harris was interviewed by the former professional basketball players for approximately 45 minutes

Vice President Kamala Harris will appear at a campaign rally in Las Vegas on September 29

During the episode released Monday, the three discussed Harris’ loyalty to the Golden State Warriors, but also hit the road to discuss a range of other topics, from policy to her family and racial identity — as well as marijuana, with the deputy president emphasized that the drug should be legalized.

The sit-down interview, recorded at her home in Washington, D.C., is the latest in a series of less traditional media appearances by the vice president as she makes her bid for the White House.

It comes as Harris has faced criticism for largely avoiding tough interviews with reporters who would grill her on the issues, opting to appear on friendlier platforms as she works to reach voters across the country.

The vice president has now gone more than 70 days without holding a solo press conference since becoming first the presumptive and then the official Democratic presidential nominee.

Even as the New York Times editorial board endorsed Harris for president on Monday, her approach to the media and what appeared to be an effort to avoid unforced errors came under fire.

The group of opinion journalists wrote that “making the public feel protected from tough questions, as Mr. Biden has been, could backfire by undermining its core argument that a capable new generation is ready to take the reins of the to take over power. ‘

Harris said in the interview that she believes marijuana should be legalized in the United States

In the interview, Harris professed her love for the Golden State Warriors, a team that both Barnes and Jackson played on.

Harris was San Francisco’s district attorney during the Golden State Warriors’ “We Believe” season, when they were based out of Oakland and engineered a dramatic turnaround.

Both Jackson and Barnes played on Harris’ hometown team at the time.

“Our Warriors are always good, no matter the era, but that was a very special time,” the vice president recalled with a smile. “I mean, it was electric. Remember, it was electric.”

Harris called the team “the best of the best, legendary” and quickly turned the question back to her hosts to ask what it was like for them to play at that moment.