WEBVTT - #thisleague UNCUT: Mike Conley Jr Joins The Show! 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.320 Welcome to this League Uncut in the rule of twenty 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:09.639 four hour NBA News. This's you love, Chris Haynes. It's 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:18.080 so time, work Stein, It's so time. This League Uncut 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:24.040 is underway and on fire. This should be a good one. 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:27.720 This is a very good day for our humble little podcast, 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:32.239 Mark Stein here with Chris Haynes, this League Uncut, and 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:37.599 we have a special guest, a former All Star, a 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:43.480 beloved teammate wherever he's been, and a veteran the most 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:47.840 important part, Chris Haynes, a veteran of my all lefty team. 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.840 Yet another left hander makes his way onto the pot. 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:54.640 Except the word on the streets, the streets say that 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.400 our guest is actually a natural righty. I hope you 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:59.840 can clear this up because I've always looked at him 0:00:59.880 --> 0:01:03.520 as lefty. But he's got that righty floater that does 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:06.039 lend credence to what the streets are saying. So we're 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.760 going to straighten that out as well. Let's do it 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:12.920 now with the one and only Mike Conley Junior from 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:16.280 the Minnesota Timberwolves. Mister Conley, it is great to see you, 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:17.039 great to have you. 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:17.520 On with us. 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.199 Hey, Hey, thank you guys, appreciate you'all having me today. 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.160 First things first, let's start with, I guess the obvious, 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:27.679 the natural question for any Minnesota Timberwolf at this point, 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:31.080 how are you guys coping so far life without Cat? 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:35.560 Oh Man, It's definitely definitely tough. You know, we were 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:37.319 playing at such a high level and just had a 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.800 really good rhythm with all our guys healthy and playing together. 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:41.880 And to lose a guy like that, you know, it 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.000 just you feel bad for him all the work he's 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:48.520 put in this season to improve himself, and but you 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:50.800 also feel back for your team because you want to 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:52.880 have every you know, everybody healthy going down the stretch, 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:56.200 and we're just you know, trying to make make do 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.760 what we what we can. You know, right now, nobody 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.680 individually can can do what Kat can do, so we 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:04.720 kind of do it, you know, together as a unit. 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:06.920 And I think the last few nights we've had, you know, 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:10.240 some some positives in that direction, Mike. 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:12.840 As you go through this this stretch of the season 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:14.840 where guys are trying to get ready for the playoffs, 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.760 and obviously you would like to have Cat. I don't 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:22.079 know if you've seen the report, but I reported it here. 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.280 And I also reported on T and T about how 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:31.639 the Denver Nuggets skip their White House meeting because they 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:36.079 they had a white House meeting scheduled today before seeing 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.440 you guys, and now they're bypassing that because that game 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:43.120 against you guys, I believe on March nineteenth is is 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:46.000 so important. That's something they didn't they didn't anticipate when 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:49.560 they rescheduled that meeting. So when you hear that, and 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:53.680 when you hear teams taking you seriously, like, what what 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:55.600 came to mind when you when you heard about that? 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.800 Yeah, I think just that you know that, you know, 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.600 teams look at the schedule and they know when they 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.839 play the Timberwolves now, and and especially if you're up 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:09.600 you know that one through four or five seed, you 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.160 got so much competition right there that you know, you're 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:13.960 always kind of keeping an eye open on who you 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.600 got and what's coming up and what those games might mean. 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.360 And obviously it's gonna mean a lot for them, so 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.679 it's gonna mean a lot for us, and uh we're 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.240 excited to, uh, you know, take on that challenge when 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.840 that you know that day happens and we get there. 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.360 But I'm sure that you know they're coaching, their players 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.840 made the decision it's best for them to get ready 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:32.639 to play a big game. 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:37.080 Mike, you're obviously one of the leaders of this team 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.560 and you've seen it all at this point in your 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:44.080 NBA career, so you know how this stuff works. And 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.480 as good as you guys have been during the regular season, 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.920 people want to see what the Wolves can do in 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:54.120 the playoffs and it probably won't be until the postseason 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:59.160 until you guys can kind of get your full appreciation 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:04.120 and rescispect. How much do you guys as a group 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:08.400 talk about that or acknowledge it in any way? How 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:12.840 how real is that for the guys in that locker room. 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.800 You know, we don't talk too much too much about it, man, 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:20.240 but honestly, uh, I think it's kind of you know, 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.840 what's understood and need to be explained situation for us. 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.400 For Hey, we've where a team that is done well 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:27.360 so far, you know, early in the season, the latter 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.240 part of the season. Can we do it in the playoffs? 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.520 Can we win when it matters? Can we stay healthy 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.760 when it matters? Like all them things are gonna you know, 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:37.520 dictate people's outlooks on who we are and our legacies 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:41.480 are as players and so you know, winning, winning, Trump's 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:44.320 everything and hopefully we we uh, you know, we've we've 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.720 built up enough this year, gone through a lot you know, 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.120 ups and down, so where we're you know, we're all 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.360 around in the shape at the right point and and 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.080 uh be able to answer a lot of people's questions. 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:59.560 Mike, you you've obviously you've you've got young talent that 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:04.560 you're around it with and you know, no other emerging 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:10.120 young star than Anthony Edwards. So Chris Hines, assistant coach 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.360 with the timber Wills, told me about just your approach 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:19.400 in mentoring Anthony Edwards, and he told me that, you know, 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.760 you're a player who's had, you know, stages of your 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.840 career where you were an All Star, you know, a 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:30.400 franchise player, and now you're you know, you're you're a starter. 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:36.200 But with what they with the mentorship type of role. 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:41.360 And he said, you've been very instrumental in teaching Anthony 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:45.599 Edwards how to slow his game down, how to how 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:49.440 to think the game. What what obligation do you feel 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.960 in the success of Anthony Edwards. What do you think 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.159 you owe it to not only yourself but what do 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:57.719 you think you owe it to the next generation and 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:59.799 particularly Anthony Edwards. 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.440 Well, I think a big reason why I was brought 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.640 in was was also to help that development of of 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.359 of and and you know he's for you know, so 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.880 far our relationship has been you know that of like 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.279 a you know, a brotherhood almost in the sense like 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:19.800 a little brother big brother situation. And trying to, you know, 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:21.840 do whatever I can, whether it's on or off the court, 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:23.479 to help him be the best player you can be, 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:26.599 learn the game at a different speed, like how to 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.800 make plays and different decisions that he can make in 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:34.520 certain tight tight windows or whatnot. So you know, he's 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:38.920 willing to learn, he's willing to listen. And yeah, obviously 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:40.400 I think that's it's part of my role as a 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.719 point guard in any any capacity to help my teammates, 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:47.520 help anybody who needs it. So hopefully I'm doing my 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.680 job and he continues to grow and grow as the 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.600 year goes on and his career goes on. 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:57.920 And Mike, real quick follow up. When you're talking about 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:00.760 slowing the game down. I got a feel for what 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.599 you're talking about, but can you elaborate on that, like 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.080 when you're when you're talking to Anthony ver was about 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:07.680 having a game slow down? 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:09.360 For what are you saying exactly? 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.760 Yeah, you know, it's different ways to look at I mean, 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:14.800 like for for slowing the game down for me. For 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:19.520 him in particular, was you know, not don't get sped up. 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.160 I think he's a guy that, you know, if he 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.920 takes his time getting he can get to whatever spot 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:25.920 on the court he wants to. And and you know, 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:29.880 whether that's reading a double team situation where guys, you know, 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.360 teams are sending two people at you, and what reads 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:36.200 to make you know, following that decision. And you know, 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.000 some people just go out there and hoop and they 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:40.440 get away with it sometimes, but sometimes you have to 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:44.280 prep forward. You have to prepare for different coverages, prepare 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.720 for different things so that you know the game can 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:48.840 slow down and it you can already be knowing what 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.040 two options you're going to have before the play starts. 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:54.080 And he's just developing that side of the game. I 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.800 think for the majority of his life he's he's you know, 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.920 he's still probably always been better than everybody. So he's just, uh, 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:01.720 you just go out there and hoop. So we're trying 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:03.920 to give him that that that Mike Kindley side of 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.800 the the the basketball game, and the side that I 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:09.080 think you can take him to another level. 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:11.440 Really, I guess the only thing slowing him down these 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.200 days is getting out there for the opening tip. I 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.320 don't know what's going on there, but that seems to 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:17.840 be the only missing piece for him. 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.800 I can't explain. I can't explain that one. We're looking 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:23.720 for him, we're drawing, drawing up the plays and all 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:25.600 kind of stuff, and you never know what he's doing. 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:27.600 So we just we just hope he's gonna be there 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:27.960 on time. 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.800 You obviously were an in season arrival last season, so 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:37.080 you weren't there the whole ride. But from your perspective, 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.520 what is the big difference between this season's team and 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.560 last season's team? Why has this group been so much 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:44.439 more successful? 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:47.720 Honestly, I think a lot of it has to do 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:51.160 with just the time, you know, time frame of summertime. 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.199 So now we've had a little bit more time to 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.640 prepare for a season together as a healthy unit. I 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:58.680 think the year before, they you know, Cat missing so 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:00.480 many games and many guys out the line up, the 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.120 trade like, it's a lot of different things that went 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.560 down to disrupt the you know, they could disrupt the team, 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.680 but you know, we we held together. Fast forward to 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.240 this season. I think guys, uh, you know, took it 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:15.800 upon themselves to to come to the season in great 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:22.400 shape from you know, their their overseas UH teams and 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:24.439 and all of us just you know, just just locked 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.160 in on a season that we're going to be you know, 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.920 we're gonna be different and defensively. It's it's probably been 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:31.760 the number one thing that everybody sees is you know, 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.160 how far and away better we are now that Rudy's 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.720 you know, doing what he does at the highest level 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:41.120 and guys are kind of building around him, and and 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.120 I think that's allowed us to have i mean closer, 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.240 closer games and have tighter you know finishes where we 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.040 can you know, give ourselves a chance to win a 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.640 lot of those. And so far we've done a good job. 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:54.959 I mean, you obviously played with Rudy in Utah as 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.960 well as here with the Wolves, so you probably know 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:01.920 him as well as anybody behind closed doors. 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:05.240 How mad was he about the All Star snub? 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.679 And I know you've personally had to go through that 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.120 where there were years you probably felt like you were 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.720 an All Star and didn't get that call and then 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.880 you finally got that. How how mad is he that 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.520 he was not recognized? I think he should have been 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:21.240 an All Star. I mean, he was in my you know, 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.319 not that mine. You know, mine is just hypothetical, is 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:27.320 just one reporter's opinion. But when I scribbled out my 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:28.800 seven West reserves. 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:30.840 He was on there. Yeah, you know, I think he 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.240 was upset. And I know, you know, all of us were, 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.040 you know, on our team. We all felt that he 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.200 was a guy that, you know, we wouldn't be in 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:39.160 the situation that we in without him. You know, we 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:40.960 felt that he was, you know, one of those one 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:44.160 of those pieces. And uh, but he's he's also a 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.120 guy that you know, once that something like that happens, 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.199 it makes him better. It makes them, you know, more 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.560 locked in and keyed in on, you know, what we're 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.520 doing as a team and and our goals as a team, 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.920 which he's always worried about. So I think it's gonna 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:57.800 do nothing but make him better. Right now, he's been 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:01.040 doing great, and uh, just hoping he's gonna continue to 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:01.600 do what he does. 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:07.160 Mike, You've played in over thirty four thousand minutes played 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.280 in over a thousand games. And you know this has 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:15.080 been talked about, you know here and there no technicals 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.600 throughout your career, and you know I'm gonna bring that up. 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:21.600 I want you, I want you to. Can you give 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:23.800 us a master class and tell me, like what what 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.560 is the key? Because I I'm somebody who you know 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:30.319 in just in life my wife had contested that. Well 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:34.600 I'll go off, you know, I lose it, So like, 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:36.840 can you give a master class? Like, can you give 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:40.280 us a little glimpse on how you're able to keep composer? 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:44.640 And then secondly, Mike you talked about you know you're 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.040 trying to instill a little bit of Mike Conley into 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:50.960 Anthony Edwards. Well he has he is tied well, he 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.520 is tied for fourth in technicals this season with twelve. 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.199 I'm not doing my job, brought I'll tell you, I'm 0:11:59.200 --> 0:11:59.960 not doing my job. 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.320 But no, how do you do it? How do you 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.760 do it? Like have you ever been close to getting 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.560 to tech? Like what is your mindset? Take us inside 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:13.640 your mindset? Because basketball, in any professional sports competitive man, 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.199 your emotions get into it. How have you kept your 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:17.560 composure throughout. 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.560 You know Honestly, I don't really know. I think it's 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.760 just something that has come from my parents, the way 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.760 I was raised. And like I, you know, I get 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.480 mad enough to want to fight, but I never was 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:31.960 like a fighter. I never, you know, try to swing 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.320 on people and just have a you know, knee jerk 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:36.400 reactions to things. I was always, you know, kind of 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.960 a thinker. Let me think about the situation, like how 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:41.760 to get through it, how to get past it, like 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.600 were they wrong? Were they right? Was I tripping? Like, 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:47.280 you know, just trying to gauge it all at the 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.920 same time. And and I guess I've become good at it. 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.439 And uh, now, you know, now I don't even think 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.040 I'll maybe I'll get close this year. 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.920 You can't get one. Now you've come this far. You 0:12:58.960 --> 0:12:59.679 cannot get one. 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:01.920 Now we've gotten pretty close. We've got pretty close this year, 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:03.679 and I'm a little a little scared it might happen 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:05.520 soon if we keep going. 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:06.920 I actually need to do some research. 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.880 I gotta I gotta find like a historian who can 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.720 look this up. What are what is the most minutes 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.079 in most games in NBA history without getting a tech 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:16.320 I mean, you've got to be in the run. 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.200 I don't even know how to put that. 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.080 I mean, I would think so honestly, I don't know. 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.320 At this point, like you surely you want to you 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.240 want to retire without any don't you? 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:27.880 At this point? 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:29.839 At this at this point, I feel like I can 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.200 use it to my advantage. Now I can like talk 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:37.200 to the ref a little bit more higher levels of 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:41.480 volume and like aggression because they're afraid to get me 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.240 a tech you know, if they. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.440 Don't, they don't want to be the ones that don't 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:46.160 want to be the ones. 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:47.720 So see that surprises me. 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:49.240 I would think there would be a ref out there, 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:50.480 who hey, I'm going to give. 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.880 There's a few out there. There's a few out there. 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.400 If I had the guests, I go, I cause name 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.560 on the spot. There is a couple of refs that 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:05.480 I would think would be about that business if if 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:06.679 it got to that point. 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:10.320 I think that maybe maybe, but I think that it 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.480 would have to be like they wouldn't know who it 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.080 was they were calling the tech on and they turn 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:15.720 around and be like, oh damn, I bat. You know, 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:17.760 it would be one of those situations. 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.080 Do you think most refs know you have zero career tech. 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.360 I honestly do I think, because that's like the one 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.360 thing they say to me is they like appreciate you 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.120 know me, you know, just to got so much respect 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:31.800 for you know, one another and whatever, and I'm like, 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:34.920 thank you, Like man, keep going, keep being the you know, 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.040 the guy you are. So I feel like they kind 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:40.440 of have you know, fallen into that that vibe I'm 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:41.280 just nice guy or so. 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.840 Okay now with you being the two things. Mike. 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:50.240 So, in twenty fourteen, you actually did receive a TECH, 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.720 but it was it was rescinded. It was against Sacramento, 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.920 but it was rescinded the very next day. Do you 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.040 remember what did you do to get that tech? And 0:14:59.120 --> 0:14:59.920 how did you feel? 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:05.080 Yeah? I remember it was something happened. Uh, I might 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.720 have shot a layup or got fouled or didn't get fouled, whatever, 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.760 the ball bounced out of bounds or something. I said, like, 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.760 you know, come on man, like like slapped my hand. 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:15.640 I literally that's all I said. It was like, come on, man, 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.200 slap my hands to get it like that, and kind 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.360 of turned around and started to walk up to the 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:24.040 free throw line and I heard a whistle and I 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:25.840 heard a tech like a Tech was being called, and 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:27.720 I still didn't know who they was calling it. I 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:29.840 thought it was calling somebody else, like somebody else did 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.360 something z Bo Tony all these other guys that do 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:35.160 that all the time. So and then I realized it 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:36.800 was pointing at me, and I was like, ain't no way, 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.120 I gotta tell you, it's got to be the wrong person. 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.880 So they called in and they got to rescind it, 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.640 and you know, it never happened. 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:47.720 We're college in high school the same no. 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:51.640 Text, Yeah yeah, college, high school never got close either 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.880 one of those. So I don't know, Man, what a 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:54.880 gentleman I guess? 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:58.400 Man, hold on, I want to get before we move on. 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.440 I wanted to get a little deeper here. Can you 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:05.240 cuss out a ref right now and get away with it? 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.040 Are there? Are there certain things you can get away 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:10.040 with it now that refs know the situation? 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:15.120 See now I can. I can cuss, but not at them, 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.000 you know what I mean? Like I think like I'm 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:20.320 like just like talking to him, and I might roll 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.920 in a few of those words in there. It's a 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.240 little different than like me like running at them and 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.760 start calling them names and stuff like I'm not I'm 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:28.320 not doing that. 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:33.880 Yeah, I get that, because you know, doing doing sidelines 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:37.600 for T and T. I've read across across Draymond, like 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.960 when Draymond picks up that first tech, Oh, he goes 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:44.680 off even more after that first tech, no, knowing that 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:47.400 the officials don't want to you know, they're gonna give 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.359 them leeway, they don't want to give that second Yeah. 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.520 So I was just curious, like you could get I 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:55.880 was curious things you could get away with right now. 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.840 Yeah, that's yeah. I can't get away with probably that 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.480 level of uh, but you know, yeah, I don't know. 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:07.400 I tried my best to utilize it to our advantage 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:07.840 a little bit. 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.600 You recently came to terms with the Wolves on a 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:14.800 new contract extension. Congratulations, So obviously you know where your 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.240 home is going to be for the next two seasons 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:23.120 beyond this one, as you understand it. How close were 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.600 you to ending up with the Lakers at the trade 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.480 deadline rather than the Wolves. What did they tell you 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:32.600 behind the scenes that maybe we didn't know on the 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:33.440 public side. 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:37.320 Of the fence. I honestly don't know how close that was. 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:41.080 I kind of had no idea anything kind of like 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.399 that was going down. To that that morning of the 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:48.919 day we got traded. But I think as it became 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.560 more and more serious, I think it was never I 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:53.159 was never really going to be a part of that 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.520 deal to La or is going to have to be 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.080 a three team deal, And obviously it ended up being that, 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:02.240 and each you know, team got who they wanted, uh 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.679 for that, you know, for that trade, and kind of 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.240 moved on from there. But like from my perspective, I 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:10.879 didn't know too much. I thought I had heard like 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:14.719 Clippers stuff, and obviously Lakers were in there a little bit, 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.560 but Minnesota was kind of like the the dark horse 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.320 that it was a far shot, it probably wouldn't happen, 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:21.760 and it ended up being the one that did. 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.600 When you first heard Minnesota before you got on the 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:29.080 plane and actually switched teams, what did you think about 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:29.440 the fit? 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.360 Honestly, I thought it was it reminded me a lot 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:37.040 of our Utah teams. Was you know, you shuffled a 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:41.040 couple of different pieces around and and we've got you know, 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:45.200 these young long defenders and Anthony Edwards and cat like this. 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:47.600 It just seemed like it was like a team that 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:49.960 was ready to kind of take a take a you know, 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:53.600 a turn and you really kind of hit the momentum 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.359 swing and I, you know, I wanted to be a 0:18:56.400 --> 0:19:00.560 part of that. Obviously, resigning now kind of getting a 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:04.440 whole year to get accustomed to the guys and understand 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:06.600 my role and what I'm gonna do to provide what 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:09.879 I do for the team. And it's just, you know, 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:12.640 we fell in love with it and hopefully we continue 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.760 to build something here and give ourselves a good run 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:29.000 in ith. 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.239 Mike, I want to ask you about your thoughts on 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:31.720 and D It seems like there is a for point 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:35.480 guards coming up into this league. It seems like they 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:39.880 have to be scoring point guards nowadays. And I look 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.480 at you as a hybrid, but I look at you 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:47.240 as an old school point guard as well when you're 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:52.080 when you're talking to younger players who are going to 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:55.159 be point guards in this in college or even to 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:58.639 the league, Like, is there a certain way that you 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.600 feel like point guards now they have to play or 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:05.320