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Speaker 1: is from the Inside with Me Brett Brown, Episode two.
Speaker 1: Good morning everybody. This morning, you're gonna sort of joining
Speaker 1: with me on my daily walk. It's a routine. I
Speaker 1: get up really early, probably five thirty ish and and
Speaker 1: walked for a ten thousand steps. We've got these incredible
Speaker 1: sort of rings that these wearable things that were provided
Speaker 1: to us by the NBA. And although it's not a
Speaker 1: big space, it's probably the size of three football fields
Speaker 1: Houston Rockets kind of home area. Brooklyn's over here. I'll
Speaker 1: circle back and this is our area. Is one side
Speaker 1: that's a marina. And then this was an incredible, sort
Speaker 1: of amazingly quick erection of a building. So you can
Speaker 1: see the NBA barbershop, which really is outside of my room.
Speaker 1: It took about eighteen hours and you blink and you know,
Speaker 1: the NBA builds a barbershop for the players. The NBA
Speaker 1: truly like they've they've done something spectacular with the design
Speaker 1: of this. I really go silent, like I really enjoy
Speaker 1: just silence, and for me, it is just the way
Speaker 1: to think about what you want to get done during
Speaker 1: the Dayly preparation for stuff you know down the road
Speaker 1: is a part of it. But I like the I
Speaker 1: like the piece, and I like the silence. But yeah,
Speaker 1: this is my morning walk and glad that you could
Speaker 1: be included at our reason or everybody is in close proximity.
Speaker 1: I think it's fantastic. It's really the youthful feeling. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like you feel like you're back at college. You're
Speaker 1: bumping into people, coaches, players, you say hello to people
Speaker 1: you know at the at the restaurant. You feel very
Speaker 1: much connected to the fraternity because of the environment. And
Speaker 1: some of it's because you're so secluded, you're confined to
Speaker 1: this bubble area. Some of it is just the frequency
Speaker 1: of unusual sort of visits that you just wouldn't normally
Speaker 1: get with old time friends. The opportunity is very small.
Speaker 1: You know, I've been in the league now for twenty years.
Speaker 1: I've been with a bunch of staffs. I've had a
Speaker 1: bunch of staffs as a head coach, you know, I
Speaker 1: coached in many Olympic Games an overseas, and so like
Speaker 1: your network is vast. When I go back to sort
Speaker 1: of my spurs roots to bump into you know, Mike Boo,
Speaker 1: holes of, Sam Presty, Sean Mark, Jack Vaughn, Monty Williams. Pop.
Speaker 1: You don't either taught them, have a glass of wine,
Speaker 1: have a legitimate meal with them. All that stuff has happened.
Speaker 1: And you know, because we're here for so long, it's
Speaker 1: not like you here just for a weekend. You know
Speaker 1: you're here and like you're legitimately here in a living situation.
Speaker 1: So the opportunities to bump into these people is frequent.
Speaker 1: I've tremendously enjoyed seeing players like how Old and Kyle
Speaker 1: O'Quinn have success. It's too arious to me. You have
Speaker 1: to be in the moment, you have to stay ready.
Speaker 1: You've got to do it physically first, and then mentally second.
Speaker 1: The combination equals when an opportunity presents itself, maybe you
Speaker 1: can do something. Then the preparation to be able to
Speaker 1: play like they played was outstanding. And then second, it's
Speaker 1: not easy to do that. In the respect that I
Speaker 1: have for them as people and as great teammates, that's
Speaker 1: all recognized by their peers, and so it was a
Speaker 1: great situation and I'm happy for them. As much for
Speaker 1: personal reasons as I am for reasons being their coach.
Speaker 1: So we got the OKAC pick. I'd be lying if
Speaker 1: I said I was following it closely, but I certainly
Speaker 1: followed it enough to be aware of the irony of
Speaker 1: it all. With Mike Muscala, you know, you smile. It's like,
Speaker 1: there's not much that surprises me lately on just dot connection.
Speaker 1: You know, how did somebody end up someplace? And it oftentimes,
Speaker 1: you know, influences paths of franchises. One you know, somebody
Speaker 1: goes to the right, as somebody goes to the left.
Speaker 1: I think we we all, you know, should feel quite
Speaker 1: proud that in the course of our sort of rebuild,
Speaker 1: you trip on a ping pong ball with Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: and you know a guest's right injury with Joel Do
Speaker 1: we draft somebody like that and you blake And they're
Speaker 1: very young and their NBA Allstars, they are needle movies,
Speaker 1: they're franchise builders and they're really young picks. And how
Speaker 1: people arrived in different spots. I'm always following that. Some
Speaker 1: of it's a little bit of luck, some of it's
Speaker 1: a little bit of faith. But yeah, I followed too,
Speaker 1: and sometimes reconnecting the dots is also an interesting exercise.
Speaker 1: When I think of the seventy Sixes and the Celtics
Speaker 1: in the playoffs my youth, the first thing that comes
Speaker 1: to my mind is me just as a young person.
Speaker 1: I grew up in New England. You know, I'm the
Speaker 1: son of a coach. I've been around the game my
Speaker 1: entire life, and the Celtics sixes history is storied and
Speaker 1: it's especially ever present in sort of New England and
Speaker 1: especially in the environment that I grew up in. And
Speaker 1: so to play it out from where I was just
Speaker 1: a young kid to now where I'm the coach of
Speaker 1: the team and once again you got a seventy six
Speaker 1: and Celtic playoff matchup, I think it's great, you know,
Speaker 1: for historical purposes, for sort of just like regional and
Speaker 1: memory perspective purposes. I think for all of those things,
Speaker 1: like the matchup is very exciting. This is from the
Speaker 1: inside with me Rett Brown. Thank you for listening. I'll
Speaker 1: talk to you next week.