Speaker 1: People don't think I like Jonathan Kaminga. I don't know
Speaker 1: how they would get that impression. I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I don't know that it's actually true. I just think
Speaker 1: it's all about expectations and the situation and what you
Speaker 1: could have done with those assets. And we know that's
Speaker 1: seven and fourteen. We're up for grabs, and when you
Speaker 1: want to win and you pick those guys, then the
Speaker 1: expectation is that you should be able to contribute right away.
Speaker 1: And I don't think he can contribute right away. That's
Speaker 1: pretty much simple, very logical point by me. I just
Speaker 1: think that he's not going to be ready for primetime
Speaker 1: in like the next three to five years, when Steph
Speaker 1: is in his late thirties and the Warriors needing to
Speaker 1: win now makes these guys a fucking teams that are
Speaker 1: overpaid and probably end up missing the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: I'll probably make the playoffs, but you know what I'm saying. So,
Speaker 1: but I like his game. I think he's going to
Speaker 1: be a bucket. And one of the reasons that I
Speaker 1: like him is he comes from about as tough of
Speaker 1: a background as you can imagine. Do you know much
Speaker 1: about Jonathan Kaminga?
Speaker 2: I know he struggled growing up, but that's about the
Speaker 2: extent of it.
Speaker 1: So he comes from the Congo formerly his iEAR, the
Speaker 1: home of one of the bloodiest conflicts since World War Two.
Speaker 1: The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Kamingo witnessed atrocities that
Speaker 1: he'll never discuss. He goes, well, why dwell on the past.
Speaker 1: It's like you probably saw somebody get macheted up, and
Speaker 1: it's like you, that's what therapy is for. I guess yea.
Speaker 1: So then five years ago, at thirteen, he left his
Speaker 1: home in Goma, Congo to come to America to chase
Speaker 1: his dreams. Five years later, he set to sign a
Speaker 1: twenty five million dollar contract. And this is what he said.
Speaker 1: People ask me how I dealt with being away from
Speaker 1: my parents for so long. It was something I was
Speaker 1: prepared for. I really don't worry. I knew that i'd
Speaker 1: get to see them eventually, as long as they were alive.
Speaker 1: As long as they were.
Speaker 2: Alive, damn, damn. What like it'd be like if.
Speaker 1: You're like, yeah, you know, I'm going back to Louisiana
Speaker 1: hopefully going to see my parents as long as they're alive,
Speaker 1: and you're like, what do you mean, what's happening?
Speaker 2: What's going on with that?
Speaker 1: Like why wouldn't they be alive? I don't know because
Speaker 1: they're in the congo right now where I don't even
Speaker 1: know what's going on, and Jonathan Kminga won't say what's
Speaker 1: going on, So who knows? Very different to me than
Speaker 1: being like an AAU kid, Like that's how I see
Speaker 1: a very different lifestyle than like being the son of
Speaker 1: a player or an AAU kid that's been going from
Speaker 1: traveling team to traveling team. And so that's that's something
Speaker 1: that I could see making Kaminga very good in the
Speaker 1: future because that gritty, tough rise above all adversity, shrug
Speaker 1: off the fact that your parents could be killed at
Speaker 1: any moment as a trivial thing.
Speaker 2: It's just like, you know, like I surrendered to the.
Speaker 1: Universe, like who knows, Like we'll see the future is bright.
Speaker 1: Is something that gives guys an extra edge. So the
Speaker 1: world thinks I hate Jonathan Kaminga, I don't. I think
Speaker 1: he's actually prime to do huge things. This is what
Speaker 1: he said more about that aau shit. It's hard to
Speaker 1: relate to someone when someone's complaining to you about their parents.
Speaker 1: Not buying them the type of car that they wanted.
Speaker 1: I actually know what real struggle looks like, not having money,
Speaker 1: not having food. Here, it's a totally different world. I mean,
Speaker 1: all you kids in the NBA talking about how you
Speaker 1: didn't get your S class or your C class or whatever, like,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Kaminga has a message for you, and it's called
Speaker 1: shut the fuck up. Uh. So, I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be a baller because he's not scared of going hard
Speaker 1: in the paint. But I really love his background, I
Speaker 1: really like his character. I think he's gonna fit in well,
Speaker 1: but probably after Steph retires.
Speaker 2: I think it's just I think it's straight up a
Speaker 2: mental thing for him. Like we see when he's like
Speaker 2: focused and playing well, it looks really really good. And
Speaker 2: I mean Yiannis was I mean and then not to
Speaker 2: like throw it out there. I think he's gonna be honest.
Speaker 2: But Yiannis was not a good basketball player when he
Speaker 2: came to the league, and in a similar way, Kaminga
Speaker 2: probably isn't a great basketball player right now. I have
Speaker 2: I have very optimistic hopes for cominga.
Speaker 1: So do I And I think when you talk to
Speaker 1: people in the space in the medical space, like soft
Speaker 1: tissue training, like they see athletes on a day to
Speaker 1: day basis. They love Cominga's bounce, they love his athleticism,
Speaker 1: they like the dog in them, all those intangibles, all
Speaker 1: those athletic traits. He just has to get a better
Speaker 1: feel for the game. Yeah, and when he does, the
Speaker 1: sky's the limit. I think the pick was great. Just
Speaker 1: the fact that the pick was from the Warriors is
Speaker 1: the only thing that I really want to say, because
Speaker 1: Warrior fans are so easily triggered, so hey,