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Speaker 1: This is kJ Live with Chris john S. Allen and

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Speaker 1: Chris is having conversations with influencers in the sports world

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Speaker 1: and entertainment industry. Now here's Chris Johnson. You're now tuned

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Speaker 1: in to kJ Live. I'm your host, Chris Johnson. Today's

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Speaker 1: guest on the show was one of the top young

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Speaker 1: basketball prospects in the world. He hails from Riverside, California,

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Speaker 1: in the Inland Empire, and next season he will be

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Speaker 1: joining coach Ben Johnson in the University of Minnesota Golden

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Speaker 1: Gophers men's basketball program. Let's welcome in Dennis Evans to

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Speaker 1: the show. What's happening, Dennis? Not much? How's everything going? Man?

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Speaker 1: You have you have practice today? How did that go?

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Speaker 1: I want really? Will? Yeah? What sort of stuff is

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Speaker 1: coach Jack's coach would? Right? Yeah? Is coach would putting

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Speaker 1: you guys through? I know we're in November. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: the season is about to start and kick off. What

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Speaker 1: doing in practice and what are some of your goals

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Speaker 1: as far as going into your senior year? Wrong this

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Speaker 1: time during podcast we're making sure that everyone knows sets,

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Speaker 1: some plays and you know what to do in different

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Speaker 1: situations and all that. And my goal for my senior

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Speaker 1: years just hopefully once if CIF before I leave and

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Speaker 1: do as much as possible to get everyone around me better. Man.

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Speaker 1: That's a great goal, man. I want to c I

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Speaker 1: And that's the heck of a goal. And with your

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Speaker 1: skill set, your ability to really control and patrol the

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Speaker 1: be tough for people to beat you. Guys. Man, I

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Speaker 1: want to back up a little bit, man, I want

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Speaker 1: to find out sort of the beginnings and the foundation

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Speaker 1: of of which Dennis Evans was built up. Where are

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Speaker 1: you from the Riverside area originally? Yeah? I was. I

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Speaker 1: was born around here, moved up to victor Ville for

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Speaker 1: team to high school. Yeah, did you play like growing

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Speaker 1: up when you was a youngster? Did you play other sports?

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Speaker 1: And were you always a hooper? I didn't really play

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Speaker 1: too many sports growing up, you know. I got into

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Speaker 1: that's my first time seeing you know, and what made

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Speaker 1: favorite player around that time? Growing up? Around that time?

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Speaker 1: First growing up, I was watching like a lot of

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Speaker 1: Elijah one, because he's one of the greats of the game.

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Speaker 1: Incredible footwork, my man. What what was some of the

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Speaker 1: the way. Yeah. And so I'm sure you're pretty tall

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Speaker 1: in middle school. How tall were you like around the

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Speaker 1: eighth grade? Eighth grade, I was about six seven six seven,

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Speaker 1: And at that time, were you playing primarily on the

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Speaker 1: put some skills in you to make you have that nice,

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Speaker 1: sweet jumper that you've got today, I'll primarily play inside,

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Speaker 1: rim as much as possible. Yeah, yeah, that sounds about right. Man.

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Speaker 1: When you look at where you were in the eighth

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Speaker 1: what do you think when you think back to that?

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's definitely been a really good progression,

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Speaker 1: me wonder how far I could Yeah? Absolutely. I mean

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Speaker 1: one fifty. The shot up to top twenty, like in

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Speaker 1: You know? I always think about, you know, a long

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Speaker 1: it came. Wow? Wow, So where do you get that

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Speaker 1: And you're still sixteen? Or did you turn seventeen yet?

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Speaker 1: I turned seventeen? Okay, okay, So when did you turn seventeen?

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Speaker 1: and you're already focused and locked into the long long term.

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Speaker 1: Do you have mentors, parents or I know you your

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Speaker 1: keep you on the right path. I definitely. My AU

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Speaker 1: bigger picture to it and just continue to keep working

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Speaker 1: and keep getting better. Absolutely. And when the college coaches

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Speaker 1: and getting the calls from the house, how was that

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Speaker 1: process for you as far as your recruitment? What things

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Speaker 1: in a college basketball program. I definitely was looking for

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Speaker 1: My two finance was Minnesota and TCU. And what put

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Speaker 1: I know Coach Broussard down there, and that's that's a

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Speaker 1: I felt like it would be an easier option to

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Speaker 1: but you know, just having that expectation here will definitely

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Speaker 1: what's the main goal is instead of the turn to

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Speaker 1: other things. Yeah, that and you're going into the Big

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Speaker 1: and it's definitely gonna be you know, benefits with some improvement.

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Speaker 1: Are you excited about, uh reuniting with your former teammate

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Speaker 1: to me, you know, being able to play with alongside

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Speaker 1: But you guys are really, really, really talented, and there's

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Speaker 1: nothing like that camaraderie to help with the chemistry. Dentist,

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Speaker 1: If you're I asked one of your teammates right now,

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Speaker 1: would they what would they describe you as? They will

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Speaker 1: describe me as a really good teammate, you know, someone

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Speaker 1: And so you push guys in practice? Are you first

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Speaker 1: seem like a quiet leader, I describe your style for me,

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Speaker 1: I am one quietly trying to beat everybody in sprints

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Speaker 1: make sure that we're all together. Yeah, talking and communicating

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Speaker 1: s R to listen live. When you played your A

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Speaker 1: you hit threes. I've seen you, you know, do some

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Speaker 1: and how much of it is an emphasis? It's definitely

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm still working on developing inside outside skills.

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Speaker 1: now you sound like you you're a student of the game.

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Speaker 1: You study the game a lot, dentist, Yeah, YouTube film

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Speaker 1: the sky is absolutely delimited. You won a gold medal

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Speaker 1: outside of the country. You know, don't speak the same

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Speaker 1: when you see someone that's thousand miles away and they're

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Speaker 1: it say, it's my love for the game and my family. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: families everything, man, Families inspirationals, motivational man. Family and love

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Speaker 1: to do it. UM. Is an honor to have you

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Speaker 1: on the show. Man. We'll be looking forward to watching

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Speaker 1: you play at Minnesota UM, and excuse me this year.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing you play and then in

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Speaker 1: the future at Minnesota. UM. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: joining the show, Dennis. We appreciate you. Got any shoutouts

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Speaker 1: you wanted to give, bro I got no shout out.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for inviting me here. You know, tremendous opportunity.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely thank you for coming on, ladies and gentlemen. Dennis

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