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Speaker 3: Coach Nurse, welcome into our podcast setup. Amazing, thank you
Speaker 3: for being here. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: We built it from scratch in the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: Hopefully it's here to stay.
Speaker 4: Very cool.
Speaker 3: Let's start here coach. What's the best part of your job?
Speaker 3: Best part best part of your job?
Speaker 4: Love the competition. I think getting it going out there
Speaker 4: every night to compete, to try to win is what
Speaker 4: we live for, get up for, and that's why we
Speaker 4: do it.
Speaker 2: What's your best memory or your fondest memory with the
Speaker 2: Sixers thus.
Speaker 4: Far, fondest memory with the Sixers so far?
Speaker 2: Wow, a short amount of time, but there have already
Speaker 2: been memories made.
Speaker 4: I should be able to think of something that's my
Speaker 4: fondest memory. I'm trying to think. There seems to be
Speaker 4: a post game ball giving thing that was really funny
Speaker 4: that had to do with we only had one ball
Speaker 4: or something like that was really good. I don't know
Speaker 4: a lot of those are the A lot of those
Speaker 4: of it were pretty fun Tyresa's first fifty was pretty
Speaker 4: cool and had another fifty. We didn't have to give
Speaker 4: him a ball from that one. Joel had the seventy.
Speaker 4: That was pretty cool. Embied seventy.
Speaker 3: You hit a memory for me. I believe we were
Speaker 3: in Orlando.
Speaker 2: I believe Ricky and Turk both played for the first time.
Speaker 2: Joelle was to give a game ball to both of them,
Speaker 2: but perhaps only had one ball does that about it?
Speaker 4: That's right? That was that was that was okay, that's
Speaker 4: exactly what happened. I think we were We had two
Speaker 4: guys to score their first NBA points.
Speaker 3: So big time. Those are cool moments the game.
Speaker 4: Cool. There's got to be some cooler stuff than that, though,
Speaker 4: to be honest with you, I mean, you know, I
Speaker 4: grew up with like doctor j on my Wall and stuff,
Speaker 4: and there was times like.
Speaker 3: When it was for podcasts with him on as well.
Speaker 4: Yeaheah, Like just just like sometimes thinking man coaching the Sixers,
Speaker 4: like you know, the first couple of games and you're
Speaker 4: going into the arena and you're like, this is this
Speaker 4: is pretty cool?
Speaker 3: Really happy?
Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're hosting a hypothetical dinner tomorrow night.
Speaker 3: Okay, you can invite four guests, okay that are alive,
Speaker 3: people you've met, people you haven't met. Who's sitting at
Speaker 3: the table with you?
Speaker 4: Four people?
Speaker 3: Four people that are alive.
Speaker 4: Oh man, these are always such trick questions. Let's see here. Well,
Speaker 4: you know, I love Prince and I never met him,
Speaker 4: so i'd bite Prince. He's obviously not with us, you
Speaker 4: know us, I've never met who had a huge impact
Speaker 4: in my life was Michael Jordan Cool. Obviously I grew
Speaker 4: up in that era. I was studying the Bulls as
Speaker 4: a young coach, and I've never met him. So there's
Speaker 4: two I could think of. How about another really cool
Speaker 4: basketball person but not in basketball. How about Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 3: Okay, Love, Right, that's a pretty.
Speaker 4: Good crew so far? Have those three?
Speaker 3: We get one more seat?
Speaker 4: I only get one more seat. How about, like, let's
Speaker 4: get one. Let's come about Michelle Obama?
Speaker 1: Love?
Speaker 3: You needed a woman at the table?
Speaker 4: Perfect right?
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 4: It's awesome. I'm excited.
Speaker 3: Great one to choose.
Speaker 4: I'm excited about that dinner tomorrow.
Speaker 3: So follow up question, what are you guys eating?
Speaker 4: Well, I love pizza more than anything. I don't know
Speaker 4: if I could convince all of them to be That sounds.
Speaker 3: Like a heck of a pizza party. Yeah, I'm with it.
Speaker 2: What's the best gift you've ever gotten someone?
Speaker 4: Man? These are deep hot, These are deep. The best
Speaker 4: gift I've ever gotten someone? There's one pretty good one.
Speaker 4: I think I had this, had had this in my possession.
Speaker 4: I owned it. Fender cherry wood red white guitar, muddy
Speaker 4: waters cool and I gave it to my nineteen twenty
Speaker 4: year old son now for a housewarming gift moving into
Speaker 4: his dorm, his first college dorm. Chase that up with
Speaker 4: an amp this Christmas. A really cool amp from.
Speaker 3: It, I'm sure everything else in the door.
Speaker 4: That's pretty good. He's good, he can play, can's awesome.
Speaker 3: What's one thing that scares you?
Speaker 4: Geez, not much.
Speaker 3: That's a great answer.
Speaker 4: Not much scares me. I'm not a big fan of
Speaker 4: Like when I'm on a plane and it drops five
Speaker 4: thousand feet in like three seconds, that scares me a
Speaker 4: little bit.
Speaker 2: Speaking of planes and turbulence, What's something about the NBA
Speaker 2: life that would surprise an outsider?
Speaker 4: How little we do out there on the road that
Speaker 4: surprised me. When I first got in, I was like,
Speaker 4: finally made it to the NBA. I can't wait to
Speaker 4: go out of all these cities and do all this stuff.
Speaker 4: And then I realized that I had to like work
Speaker 4: like constantly and watch film constantly. And I was always like,
Speaker 4: from the moment I got up, I had watching film
Speaker 4: un till like the moment I went to bed.
Speaker 2: Well, so that was the follow up. What does an
Speaker 2: off day on the road look like? Because it's not
Speaker 2: sight seeing. It is a lot of it's so much admitting.
Speaker 4: Every now and then you get to do something right.
Speaker 4: Every now and then you'll get to catch a concert
Speaker 4: or something like you know, say, the whole season goes by,
Speaker 4: and you get to do like three things, two or
Speaker 4: three things. Most of the time you're I don't leave
Speaker 4: the room much. I'm watching film, doing work, resting, or
Speaker 4: playing music.
Speaker 3: What's the best advice you've ever received.
Speaker 4: I was a twenty three year old head coach at
Speaker 4: Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa. My high school
Speaker 4: coach said, patients, you're gonna be a good coach. You
Speaker 4: aren't right now, but you're gonna be a good coach someday.
Speaker 4: You're gonna have to have patients.
Speaker 2: It's great advice. Patience is a virtue. All right, lack
Speaker 2: of patients in this one. This is the rapid fire round. Okay,
Speaker 2: no thinking, just answers.
Speaker 4: Ready, right, good dumb you used all my thinking power.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, she's easy to do. He's are easy.
Speaker 2: Favorite superhero Spider Man. If you didn't coach basketball, you would.
Speaker 4: Coach football or baseball.
Speaker 3: What would a band headlined by lead singer Nick nurse be.
Speaker 4: Called the doors? Is that taken even?
Speaker 3: I think? So?
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't have a name. I don't have
Speaker 4: a name for my band yet.
Speaker 3: Okay, well let's say you're a DT.
Speaker 4: I don't have a name for my album though. Okay,
Speaker 4: what time keeps moving? And either do shit or you don't.
Speaker 4: That's name my first album coming out.
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it. Actor. Who would play
Speaker 3: you in a movie?
Speaker 4: Adam Sandler? I'm just kidding. It's because I like Adam Sandler, but.
Speaker 3: He famously played a coach recently as well. It was
Speaker 3: good I was shot at here. Favorite place to visit.
Speaker 4: One of my favorite places was Thailand. Beach vacation, A long,
Speaker 4: long time.
Speaker 3: Ago place you wished to visit someday.
Speaker 4: Can I give you for like? Where do I want
Speaker 4: to go next?
Speaker 2: Like imagine I push a magic button and the season
Speaker 2: pauses for a week and you're not allowed to do
Speaker 2: any prep or film or anything, and in an instant
Speaker 2: you're somewhere else Where are we You've never been there before?
Speaker 4: You know what? He used to have a lot more
Speaker 4: of these thoughts when I coached in Europe. There's always
Speaker 4: so many other places to go and a lot of
Speaker 4: cool beach places in Europe that have all been hit
Speaker 4: pretty good. I don't know. Give me some place that
Speaker 4: I haven't been yet, one of those islands down there,
Speaker 4: like in.
Speaker 2: The Mediterranean somewhere. Yeah, maybe get on a boat and
Speaker 2: just go island.
Speaker 4: Hop I've been. I've been to a lot of the
Speaker 4: islands down and you know, Bahamas and Jamaica and all
Speaker 4: that kind of stuff. I'm trying to think a little
Speaker 4: bit more over towards Spain and all that.
Speaker 2: Antarctica is really trendy right now to explore Antarctica.
Speaker 4: No, thank you?
Speaker 3: Okay, what about I'm.
Speaker 4: Not give me an island, give me an island. There
Speaker 4: you go, shells.
Speaker 2: What's your favorite color? Sixers uniform? Aesthetically like? Which uniform
Speaker 2: do you.
Speaker 3: Like the best?
Speaker 4: I like the bright blue ones.
Speaker 2: You like the bright blue ones? Tyrys Maxie said the
Speaker 2: same thing. He's the only other person that said the
Speaker 2: bright blue ones. What's your nickname? Do the other coaches
Speaker 2: call you anything that isn't nick coach or nurse?
Speaker 4: I don't think so. They would call me doctor for
Speaker 4: a while. Yeah, but you know the doctor nurse thing.
Speaker 4: But I had a whole lot of here that was
Speaker 4: more in Toronto.
Speaker 2: Okay, well then we're going to stick with Coach Nurse.
Speaker 2: Coach Nurse, thank you so much for sitting down with us.