Speaker 1: The volume.
Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Sloan and I know basketball. Today's guest is
Speaker 2: about to begin his third year in the league. His
Speaker 2: journey from high school basketball in Illinois to attending Michigan
Speaker 2: State University to being drafted by the Lakers is a
Speaker 2: story you won't want to miss. Let's get to know
Speaker 2: Max Christie. So, Max, I'm sixteen, and I want to
Speaker 2: know what Max Christie was like at sixteen. So to
Speaker 2: start off, when you were sixteen years old, what was
Speaker 2: your game like sixteen?
Speaker 3: I was I think I was a sophomore in high school. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: was my game? Like I would say it was very
Speaker 3: more like perimeter based, Like I'm shooting a lot of
Speaker 3: threes and I'm kind of in the mid range too,
Speaker 3: But I wasn't really like getting to the rim that much.
Speaker 3: But I was like really frail. I wasn't like super strong,
Speaker 3: wasn't I was hall but I wasn't like as tall
Speaker 3: as I am now. So definitely more based on the perimeter,
Speaker 3: not really banging down low. So that's that's what I was.
Speaker 2: Was the NBA possibility when you were sixteen or that
Speaker 2: was just like very far.
Speaker 3: No, that was a possibility for sure. I think sixteen
Speaker 3: is actually kind of like my sophomoreyear my junior high
Speaker 3: school was like when I was starting to like really
Speaker 3: gain some attention nationally. So it was definitely a possibility.
Speaker 3: I was. I was getting up there as I got older,
Speaker 3: and starting at sixteen.
Speaker 1: I saw you score fifty eight points fifty two fifty two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that must have been crazy. What was the reaction like
Speaker 1: when you went to school next day?
Speaker 3: I think that was on a Friday, but next the
Speaker 3: next Monday. I mean, it wasn't like anything crazy.
Speaker 1: But really I would think people would freak out.
Speaker 3: I mean a little bit. I mean I got some
Speaker 3: like compliments from a bunch of yeah, yeah, but it
Speaker 3: wasn't anything crazy.
Speaker 2: So when you were sixteen, were you a Bulls fan
Speaker 2: or what was your favorite mbat?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I've been a Bulls fan. Not as much anymore
Speaker 3: now obviously, but that's still like, you know, my team agree.
Speaker 2: Playing though in Chicago still a surreal feeling for you,
Speaker 2: one hundred percent. Yeah.
Speaker 3: You have so many family and friends that come out,
Speaker 3: so the ticket situation is always ridiculous. But playing in
Speaker 3: the United Center, like growing up, I've been to like
Speaker 3: one or two games and then watching him on TV,
Speaker 3: so it's cool to like actually be down there and
Speaker 3: playing against him.
Speaker 1: Who was your favorite NBA player growing up?
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant for sure. Ever since when he was on
Speaker 3: okay see with like Russ and James and all those guys,
Speaker 3: and Scott Brooks who's one of our assistants now he's
Speaker 3: the head coach at the time, I've been a huge
Speaker 3: fan of him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so this doesn't really have to do with you
Speaker 2: being sixteen, but I'm a little confused. So it says
Speaker 2: online that your name is Cormac Carl. How'd you get
Speaker 2: Max from Cormack Carl?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So okay, so Cormack car is my real name.
Speaker 3: I'm a junior. So my dad has the same name
Speaker 3: as me, but I think it was so my great
Speaker 3: grandmother his his grandma used to it's like the Mac
Speaker 3: at the end, he just she just wishes to a Max. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It just kind of rolls off the tongue. Huh, like
Speaker 3: Mac Christie is.
Speaker 1: Just like, okay, so you liked Max matter, Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I've just kind of adopted that.
Speaker 1: Does your dad also go by Max or he goes by.
Speaker 3: No, he goes by Max. We all, yeah, we all
Speaker 3: call him that Max.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, who was your idol growing up?
Speaker 2: Maybe not in a basketball sense, but more like familiar
Speaker 2: or a teacher or something like that.
Speaker 3: It's good question, I think. I think definitely, I mean
Speaker 3: my parents. It's kind of cliche, but my dad for
Speaker 3: sure going up, he taught me and my younger brother
Speaker 3: Cam how to play basketball, and he was always like
Speaker 3: super like, you know, getting your work in all the time.
Speaker 3: And my mom was, on the other hand, more so
Speaker 3: about like academics and making sure you're taking care of
Speaker 3: yourself off the floor and being respectful to other people.
Speaker 3: And so both of them helped me and Cam to
Speaker 3: be who we are now, and so without them, obviously
Speaker 3: I would both of us would be where we're at.
Speaker 1: So totally. What was your first interaction with a pro athlete?
Speaker 2: I've seen I feel like I see this online all
Speaker 2: the time, this like misconception that your dad is Doug Christie,
Speaker 2: but it's not.
Speaker 1: So what was your first interaction?
Speaker 3: I think I don't think he was a pro. Uh,
Speaker 3: he wasn't a pro at the time, I think, But no,
Speaker 3: he was Brunson, Jalen Brunson. He's we're kind of from
Speaker 3: the same area, sort of well, he's he went to
Speaker 3: high school in Stevenson, which is pretty close to where
Speaker 3: I'm from, and so we both lift, you know, back
Speaker 3: in home. We have the both both same trainers and
Speaker 3: so like you know, sometimes we came in at the
Speaker 3: same time. But that was my first time I interacting
Speaker 3: with like a pro athlete, and it was it was
Speaker 3: pretty cool. It surreal obviously as a young kid like
Speaker 3: I was like aspiring to be where he was at
Speaker 3: one day and now he's an All Star and we're
Speaker 3: both in the league now, so it's cool to see.
Speaker 1: How have you guys talked about it since or I.
Speaker 3: Mean not really. We see each other every now and then,
Speaker 3: but we talk about how our experiences are going.
Speaker 2: That's cool, Okay, So next I want to know if
Speaker 2: it seems like obviously you're really good in high school
Speaker 2: se and you were going to make the league, but
Speaker 2: if not, what do you think you would.
Speaker 1: Have done when you grew up?
Speaker 3: I would have been a pilot.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So my dad's an airline plot for Delta. He flies.
Speaker 3: He flies the Airbus three nineteen through twenty through twenty one.
Speaker 3: So I'm a big playing guy, like I know a
Speaker 3: decent amount about planes for the average person, and they're
Speaker 3: just pretty fast.
Speaker 2: It's funny because I think, like if someone had to
Speaker 2: ask me the job that I would least likely want
Speaker 2: to do, I think I would answer I don't like flying.
Speaker 3: I love flying. It's awesome.
Speaker 2: Like you when turbulence happens, you're relaxed, you're calming, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: everybody thinks it's like the plane's not just going to
Speaker 2: like fall out the sky.
Speaker 1: I know, but I think that it's hard to tell
Speaker 1: yourself that that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Is the team playing cool? What's that like?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's cool. It's so it's a big seven fifty seven.
Speaker 3: It's like it's a long plane because we got a
Speaker 3: lot of people traveling, and we all sit in the front.
Speaker 3: It's like the first class area.
Speaker 1: You've never flown it, you should.
Speaker 3: No, I've been in the cockpit a few times. It's
Speaker 3: pretty cool. But it's cool. I mean, the players usually
Speaker 3: sit in the front side, and then you got you know,
Speaker 3: the coaches and the training staff and the wayroom staff
Speaker 3: in the back. But it's cool. We obviously the big
Speaker 3: thing in the NBA is we all play cards. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I try to stay out of it. Sometimes they reel
Speaker 3: me in. But it's cool just to be around those conversations,
Speaker 3: especially with the team that we had. You know, we
Speaker 3: got Brian and Ad some of the stories that they
Speaker 3: were telling because they've been the league for a while.
Speaker 3: So it's cool just being around that table, and they
Speaker 3: have wine. I don't drink, but it's cool just to
Speaker 3: kind of be around those conversations and pick up some
Speaker 3: little tidbits and knowledge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, I'd love to be sitting in one day.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe I'll get invited one now. Okay, so now
Speaker 2: I want to move on to your college decision. So Max,
Speaker 2: you went to Michigan State and you had offers from
Speaker 2: schools like Duke, Illinois, Michigan, et cetera.
Speaker 1: How did you choose Michigan State? One went into that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that was around when COVID was happening in
Speaker 3: Michigan State was the only official visit I took. So
Speaker 3: you get five officials I think in your junior senior year,
Speaker 3: and my senior was when COVID was starting to happen
Speaker 3: and Michigan State was gonna be my first official because
Speaker 3: that was kind of like the number one on my list.
Speaker 3: I wanted to go there first, and the visit went
Speaker 3: super smooth. I went to a really good game. It's
Speaker 3: when Michigan State player House State for the Big Ten title.
Speaker 3: Cassius Winston and Xavier Tillman and all those guys were there,
Speaker 3: so I felt like I bonded with the team. Well,
Speaker 3: I felt like you kind of get that feeling when
Speaker 3: you go to a college and you're kind of just like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I want I want to be here. Yeah, And so
Speaker 3: that played a huge factor into it. And then two
Speaker 3: like that's when COVID happened. So after that official visit,
Speaker 3: COVID like shut everything done. You couldn't really go on
Speaker 3: visits anymore. Everything else is done over zoom. So Michigan
Speaker 3: State was only like authentic experience. I got like being there.
Speaker 3: So that, yeah, kind of they had an unfair advantage,
Speaker 3: but it was worth it.
Speaker 2: Later in the episode, we're gonna have some fun Michigan
Speaker 2: State questions, So get ready for that. What do you
Speaker 2: think is the biggest difference between your game in high
Speaker 2: school and college and your game now?
Speaker 3: I think now, I think not a lot more versatile.
Speaker 3: I think in high school and even college I was
Speaker 3: pretty ball dominant, especially in high school. I have the
Speaker 3: ball in my hands all the time. College is a
Speaker 3: transition period for me where I played off the ball
Speaker 3: a lot, in the corner, in spacing off the ball,
Speaker 3: and that was that was tough for me at first.
Speaker 3: And then now you know, in the NBA we got
Speaker 3: guys like Bron and Ad and Ar and DLA. They're
Speaker 3: going to be handing the ball most of the time.
Speaker 3: And so my ability to be versatile off the ball,
Speaker 3: set screens, you know, shoot threes, crash the boards, cut
Speaker 3: you know, all sorts of stuff. So I think I'm
Speaker 3: a lot more versatile now than I was a few
Speaker 3: years ago. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you've mentioned Lebron and Ad a few times,
Speaker 2: and I want to know what your sixteen year old
Speaker 2: self would say now knowing that Lebron James and Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1: Are your teammates.
Speaker 3: What do you think. Yeah, he would be Uh, he
Speaker 3: would be super surprised, for sure. I don't think anybody
Speaker 3: like really plans for that. No, I didn't plan on
Speaker 3: being on the Lakers one hundred percent for sure. That
Speaker 3: was super cool on Draft night. Yeah, he'd just be
Speaker 3: super surprised, super happy. One thing I always try to
Speaker 3: think about when I'm kind of going about my daily
Speaker 3: business is you know, what would my old self think,
Speaker 3: kind of like make your younger self proud. So that's
Speaker 3: kind of what I do throughout my daily basis.
Speaker 1: Once you got drafted, what was your first interaction with Lebron.
Speaker 3: I remember this was this after summer League, so kind
Speaker 3: of like around this time now, a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: I just finished like working out in the weight room
Speaker 3: and I was still like pretty skinny and not as
Speaker 3: strong at the time. So my strength coach had given
Speaker 3: me like a bunch of like protein and you know,
Speaker 3: all this creatine and weight gaining stuff. I had it
Speaker 3: all in my hand. And Brian had just finished working out.
Speaker 3: This was like at six thirty in the morning, and
Speaker 3: he was coming off the court into the weight room
Speaker 3: and I never met him before, and I have all
Speaker 3: this stuff in my hand. He's coming over to like
Speaker 3: debt me up, and I got to like send everything
Speaker 3: down and then obviously I shook his hand and it
Speaker 3: was cool. He's saying like congrats, you know, welcome to
Speaker 3: the team and stuff like that. So it was a
Speaker 3: surreal feeling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure it was all right.
Speaker 2: So now we talked about you at sixteen, and now
Speaker 2: I want to go into a little bit about you now.
Speaker 1: So what was your welcome to the league moment?
Speaker 3: I think my rookie year, I said, I've told this
Speaker 3: story before. My rookie were in Phoenix and I'm guarding
Speaker 3: Chris Paul and we guys out like bronze out, I
Speaker 3: think eighties. Everybody's kind of out, so it's my chance
Speaker 3: to play. And regarding Chris Paul when he was on
Speaker 3: the Suns, he hit me with like a really like
Speaker 3: really good like crossover and I was just I was lost,
Speaker 3: like I was, I was all over the place, and
Speaker 3: he scored, and I'm running back down to the corner
Speaker 3: where their bench is at and like behind me, I'm
Speaker 3: like the young rookie and they're all like chirping me
Speaker 3: up and talking trash. So that was that was a
Speaker 3: funny moment. Was pretty embarrassing, But that's like kind of
Speaker 3: like my my welcome to thee Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So you just finished or you're going into year three,
Speaker 2: what was your highlight of year two? Because I feel
Speaker 2: like rookie year obviously, stuff like that happens. But then
Speaker 2: once you get into year two, you're a little bit
Speaker 2: more experienced. You know what to expect. What was the
Speaker 2: best part of it?
Speaker 3: Best like play? I would say for year two, we
Speaker 3: played Miami at home. I had a nice dunk on
Speaker 3: Bam Auto Bio. He was first team All NBA. He's
Speaker 3: in the Olympics, or first team All Defense. He's in
Speaker 3: the Olympics now. So that's a pretty good uh dunk
Speaker 3: to have on my resume. Another one too, Draymond, my
Speaker 3: fellow sparnat, I dunked on him in Golden State. That
Speaker 3: was a good one. I'll be making sure he hears
Speaker 3: about that next time I see him.
Speaker 1: Well, you know he's he's involved. So Draymond's going to
Speaker 1: hear that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: So the Lakers just hired JJ Reddick. Yeah, what excites
Speaker 1: you most about being able to play for him?
Speaker 3: Well, the thing with JJ's he's super he's super smart.
Speaker 3: He just got out the league. You know, a couple
Speaker 3: of years ago.
Speaker 2: He wasn't you never opened right, No, Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 2: he's super young, he's super smart.
Speaker 3: He's obviously one of the best shooters ever played the game.
Speaker 3: And I think for me, personally. I think our games
Speaker 3: are not necessarily similar, but we have some traits. Obviously,
Speaker 3: he was a big movement shooter. I think I can
Speaker 3: do the same. And I've already connected with him a
Speaker 3: bunch when we're in Vegas for Summer League. We've golfed together.
Speaker 3: He's a big golfer, so so am I. But I
Speaker 3: think he's just coming in with a lot of intensity.
Speaker 3: He's eager to win, and you can kind of see that,
Speaker 3: you know, with him and then even with the coaching
Speaker 3: staff that obviously he's put together. I think it's gonna
Speaker 3: be a good year for us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. I'm excited to see.
Speaker 2: All Right, So your brother Cam was just drafted to
Speaker 2: the Clippers. When the Lakers play the Clippers, who are
Speaker 2: your parents going to root for? Because I just I mean,
Speaker 2: I know that my parents would have a hard time picking,
Speaker 2: but they would probably ultimately pick me.
Speaker 3: But that's a good question. I think I don't know
Speaker 3: what they're gonna wear. I think one's gonna wear Laker jersey,
Speaker 3: WANs wear a Clipper jersey. That's what I would assume.
Speaker 3: But I mean, I think they're gonna root for both
Speaker 3: of us. Yeah, I think they're gonna have to find
Speaker 3: that fine line. But it's gonna be cool. That first
Speaker 3: game is gonna be sick, especially in their new arena
Speaker 3: whenever we played there. It's gonna be cool. And now
Speaker 3: we're wearing the same number. So that jersey stop is
Speaker 3: gonna be tough too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure there's a guy on Instagram. I've seen
Speaker 2: that like does jerseys where he splits them down the
Speaker 2: middle and like sews them together. I think your parents
Speaker 2: one of those. On the topic of your brother, what
Speaker 2: advice have you given him before his rookie year.
Speaker 3: I'd say the biggest thing for him, and just rookies
Speaker 3: in general, I think is doing all the little things.
Speaker 3: It's it's simple, but it's it's lost kind of an NBA.
Speaker 3: Be on time, work hard, you know, don't be high maintenance.
Speaker 3: You know, all sorts of stuff. Once you get paid,
Speaker 3: like Lebron and ad and superstars, you can kind of
Speaker 3: you have the rules change is you know, it's just
Speaker 3: the way it works. Yeah, as a rookie coming in,
Speaker 3: you have very small room for error, So don't be late, like,
Speaker 3: don't add on to that, you know, don't skip workouts,
Speaker 3: like just don't just be on time. Be professional. It's simple,
Speaker 3: it really is, but it sounds simple, but it's lost
Speaker 3: kind of in the NBA today. So that's the biggest
Speaker 3: thing for rookie. So I've been telling him that just
Speaker 3: be be a pros pro be professional. It's not that hard.
Speaker 1: Could you guys believe that you had like you both
Speaker 1: got drafted to LA that's so lucky.
Speaker 3: And we talked about We talked about the scenario and
Speaker 3: my mom actually spoken into existence on draft night, which
Speaker 3: is cool. Yeah, but we've talked about it. We didn't
Speaker 3: believe it would happen. Obviously the chance has been happening
Speaker 3: are so slim, but it worked out the way.
Speaker 1: Do you want to maybe play with him one day?
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. We played together in high school for
Speaker 3: two years and that was awesome. So trying to do
Speaker 3: that again hopefully.
Speaker 2: Sure, see what happens all right in the next five years.
Speaker 2: Who is going to be the face of the league and.
Speaker 3: Why next five years? Max Christie, I mean I would
Speaker 3: say that, but I mean sure, but we'll say we'll
Speaker 3: say I think Wenby is gonna be He's gonna be
Speaker 3: up there. Yeah, we got a lot of and Shae
Speaker 3: Wemby and Edwards. We've got a lot of guys that
Speaker 3: are super young and on the younger side of the
Speaker 3: spectrum and they're coming up, so it's gonna be cool.
Speaker 3: Hopefully I'm a part of that group eventually, So it'snna
Speaker 3: be super cool when they when they take over.
Speaker 2: For sure, who's an underrated player in the league currently
Speaker 2: that you want to show up.
Speaker 3: To underrated player in the league. That's a good question too, man.
Speaker 3: I would say, I don't know if he's necessarily underrated.
Speaker 3: But Drew Holliday and Derek White, both of them actually
Speaker 3: for the Celtics, they play such pivotal roles. Obviously you
Speaker 3: got the main like Scores and Geelen Brown and Jason Tatum,
Speaker 3: but Derek White and Drew Holliday defensively are the best
Speaker 3: of the best in the NBA. And then offensively they're
Speaker 3: just they're like Swiss army knives. They can do everything.
Speaker 3: You know, They're so versatile, they play off a close
Speaker 3: out as well, they shoot the three well, they finish
Speaker 3: like there's just they're just awesome. So you know, I
Speaker 3: study filming a lot of them, So no, I like
Speaker 3: that answer.
Speaker 2: Drews Slow knows Alum and everyone says Drew Holiday. And
Speaker 2: someone wrote in my comments, why don't you ask someone
Speaker 2: who's the most underrated player in the league that isn't
Speaker 2: Drew Holiday.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna do that now. I want you to
Speaker 1: give me another answer. Let's see you can think of.
Speaker 3: Huh. I think Nasri was a sixth Man of the Year.
Speaker 3: He's I mean for his size, everyone loves yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: for his size, Like, I really respect his game. He's
Speaker 3: so versatile at his size to be able to move
Speaker 3: like a guard, finish at the rim. He's got a
Speaker 3: lot of wiggle to him and he could shoot. He
Speaker 3: was shooting it really well in the playoffs towards the
Speaker 3: end of season two. So he's a problem when he's
Speaker 3: shooting it well and at his size, he's just he's
Speaker 3: just difficult to guard.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I saw that there was a tattoo shop in Minnesota
Speaker 2: that said that they would give out free.
Speaker 1: Nosey the grandma.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 1: That was crazy.
Speaker 2: I may have to get a Max Christie tattoo. Maybe
Speaker 2: I just start getting tattoos of everyone who comes on.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, okay, who is your favorite w NBA players?
Speaker 3: I think a cliche answer is Caitlyn Clark. I mean
Speaker 3: she's been really really good. Yeah, if I had to
Speaker 3: pick someone else other than Kaylyn Clark, I like Kelsey
Speaker 3: Plumb a lot. I think her knows alone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you're naming so many, Max at that crazy
Speaker 1: this is perfect.
Speaker 3: But yeah, she's super good. Obviously that ACES team is
Speaker 3: really really good. They got Asia and Kelsey and Chelsea
Speaker 3: Gray and they're really good. So it's cool to watch
Speaker 3: her kind of be the floor general. She finishes at
Speaker 3: the room so well, she can shoot it, so it's cool.
Speaker 2: Totally Okay, So Max and I are recording this interview
Speaker 2: in the middle of the Olympics, so the first or
Speaker 2: the sort of round robin at the beginning has just ended,
Speaker 2: and I'm curious. You know, Steve Cursben changing around the
Speaker 2: starting five a lot for USA basketball. If you were
Speaker 2: the coach, who would be your USA basketball starting five?
Speaker 3: Bron and Ady are starting teammates, so they got to
Speaker 3: start Steph at the one, D book at the two
Speaker 3: and Katie at the four. So Steph one D Book two,
Speaker 3: Bron three, Katie four eighty five.
Speaker 2: Though obviously I get why Katie is starting him coming
Speaker 2: off the bench is crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough for teams, like you said, demoralizing really,
Speaker 3: so maybe you handle the first wave of the starters.
Speaker 3: Then you got Katie and Ann Edwards and Drew and.
Speaker 1: Emb like I mean, that's just a team that no
Speaker 1: one can be. Yeah, okay, what did you buy with
Speaker 1: your first NBA check?
Speaker 3: The only big purchase I've really ever made with my
Speaker 3: money is a Tesla new car. That's that's really about.
Speaker 3: I don't really spend it on ever spent on jewelry
Speaker 3: or shoes. I mean, I guess some like cool T
Speaker 3: shirts and style and stuff like that, but I'm not
Speaker 3: big on like watches and shades and Yeah.
Speaker 1: Have you had any teammates that have had like crazy
Speaker 1: first check person.
Speaker 3: I don't know about any first check ones, but you know,
Speaker 3: especially as guys when they accumulate the moneys they've been
Speaker 3: in the league longer, they got some really nice stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure. All right.
Speaker 2: So now we're gonna move into the rapid fire section
Speaker 2: of slow notes.
Speaker 1: So we got to go fast. We got to be
Speaker 1: a fish in let's get it.
Speaker 2: Okay, what is your favorite clothing brandlo ooh, that's I
Speaker 2: did not think you were going to say that that's
Speaker 2: such a good answer.
Speaker 1: I also love Alo. What's your post game cheat meal?
Speaker 3: Cheat meal? Cheeseburger and fries from from shakescheck mm.
Speaker 1: Shakeshack best Fries. Maybe that's like a sleeper take, but.
Speaker 3: I look up there. It's up there. Frest Burger. In
Speaker 3: my opinion, I like the buns. Yeah, yeah, they're good.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite restaurant in.
Speaker 3: La Mastros and Malibu?
Speaker 1: What is your favorite food?
Speaker 3: Cheeseburger and fries?
Speaker 1: Okay, every time. If you could go to dinner with
Speaker 1: anyone dead or alive, who would it be?
Speaker 3: Kobe Bryant?
Speaker 1: What would you eat at the dinner? Cheeseburger and fries.
Speaker 3: No, I'd get a steak.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, that's a little fancy. Who is your favorite
Speaker 2: athlete growing up?
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant?
Speaker 2: If you had to make the Olympics for one sport
Speaker 2: that isn't basketball, what would it be?
Speaker 3: We had to conversation this morning. Actually, really, I don't
Speaker 3: think i'd be good at any sport right now. If
Speaker 3: I had to compete the only thing, I mean golf probably,
Speaker 3: and I'd still place last year.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I feel bad because maybe this is like a
Speaker 2: hater mindset. But like yesterday I was watching badminton, and
Speaker 2: I understand that they're amazing, but I was like, I
Speaker 2: feel like if I trained to badminton, I could do it.
Speaker 1: Like it's badminton.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's wrong. I don't even know what it's called.
Speaker 3: That thing is moving fast, it's.
Speaker 1: Crazy, I know, but then it like stops in the air.
Speaker 1: It's weird. What is your favorite NBA city to play in?
Speaker 1: That is in La Boston? Why?
Speaker 3: That rivally is awesome? Those games are sick.
Speaker 1: Yeah. What is your favorite movie?
Speaker 3: Straight out of Compton?
Speaker 1: What is your favorite TV show?
Speaker 3: Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones?
Speaker 1: Okay? What is your favorite video game?
Speaker 3: I'm a Nintendo guy. I'm a huge legend of Zel
Speaker 3: the series fan.
Speaker 1: I've heard about it. I mean like I don't know
Speaker 1: how to play, but like I heard it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's huge for me.
Speaker 1: Do you play two K? No, So you've never played
Speaker 1: with yourself?
Speaker 3: I haven't.
Speaker 2: Okay, I feel like that really defines someone in that
Speaker 2: player is have you do you play with yourself?
Speaker 3: Never?
Speaker 1: Do you have any hidden talents?
Speaker 2: Mmm?
Speaker 3: I mean golf sort of. I've been getting a lot
Speaker 3: better at that.
Speaker 1: So who is your favorite musical artist.
Speaker 3: That's a good question. Top three most listened that I
Speaker 3: listened to is Drake, J Cole and.
Speaker 2: Scissa Spotify or Apple Music Apple Music No really interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been getting hate for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it. Describe your style.
Speaker 3: In one word quiet?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: What is your guilty pleasure.
Speaker 3: Song song Passion Fruit by Drake?
Speaker 1: I like the song. Favorite ice cream.
Speaker 3: Flavor mm hm, cookies and cream or mint chocolate chip?
Speaker 1: Okay, mind chip? Same And I get so much hate
Speaker 1: and I don't understand.
Speaker 3: Why says it tastes like ice or ice cream.
Speaker 1: I don't get it. It's by far the best. What
Speaker 1: is your favorite on the court sneaker?
Speaker 3: Kobe's Kobe Six's to be exact, it's so hard to get. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it sucks.
Speaker 1: Do you have like a plug? What is your favorite
Speaker 1: off the court sneaker?
Speaker 3: That's a good question. I wear easy slides a ton
Speaker 3: all the time that I have on right now. I made.
Speaker 3: I bought them in my freshman year in college, and
Speaker 3: it's like that's the same thing. I never no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay.
Speaker 3: They never like ripped haear and they're so easy to clean. Like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm always wearing that.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite candy Skittles? Who is the most famous
Speaker 1: person in your contacts?
Speaker 3: Lebron James?
Speaker 1: Who is your celebrity lookalike? Oh?
Speaker 3: What is this? Someone says that people say I look
Speaker 3: like Russell Wilson and obviously COVID.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't actually wait, I was just gonna say
Speaker 2: I don't see Russell Wilson thing, and then I like
Speaker 2: looked at you and I actually really see that now.
Speaker 3: My grandparents say that. And then Kobay has been the
Speaker 3: biggest one. Yeah since I've been here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay. And then lastly, what is your favorite podcast?
Speaker 3: Uh? Slow nose podcast?
Speaker 1: Yeh okay, that's what I thought. If it was another answer,
Speaker 1: that'd be bad. Okay.
Speaker 2: So now we're gonna play a game where I'm gonna
Speaker 2: say a word and you're gonna tell me an NBA
Speaker 2: player or current NBA player that comes to minds all right, Defense.
Speaker 3: Drew Holliday, i Q, Lebron James, Clutch, Kevin Durant, Aura, Steph.
Speaker 1: Curry, veteran Lebron James, vision.
Speaker 3: Vision, Luca instincts. Jokic has good instincts. He just sees
Speaker 3: people like crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So now you know, high school superlatives, right, like,
Speaker 2: for instance, for those people who don't know, it's in
Speaker 2: the high school yearbooks, right when it talks about who's
Speaker 2: the most likely did this, who's the most likely we're
Speaker 2: going to do that?
Speaker 1: But with the Lakers, are you excited?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Who is the best cook on the team?
Speaker 3: Cook?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 3: Everybody has chefs, so yeah, I cook a little bit, soret.
Speaker 1: Who is the best golfer?
Speaker 3: Austin reefs?
Speaker 1: You're not going to say yourself.
Speaker 3: I'm not as good. I'm getting though, I'm getting there.
Speaker 1: Who would you want to be your stylist?
Speaker 3: Vanda? Yeah, he's got the best style for sure.
Speaker 2: If you had one phone call to save your life,
Speaker 2: who would you call him?
Speaker 1: What of a teammate?
Speaker 3: Of a teammate? Yeah, Gabe Vincent? Really yeah, me and
Speaker 3: him are pretty close. I think pick does the team
Speaker 3: have a group chat?
Speaker 1: Can you tell me the name? Oh? We're pulling it out, okay,
Speaker 1: pulling out receipts.
Speaker 3: I think it's like it's like for my dogs or
Speaker 3: something like that.
Speaker 1: Oh, I wanted to see something more exciting.
Speaker 3: It's not.
Speaker 1: It's underwhelming.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for my dogs.
Speaker 1: Like what the four who texts the most.
Speaker 3: Lebron's in there a little bit. We all just send
Speaker 3: like funny tweets.
Speaker 1: That's what about yourselves?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, like like funny videos.
Speaker 1: For the game. You guys are like finding who's the
Speaker 1: funniest thing about clowning each other? Sometimes yea on the
Speaker 1: team bus, who gets the.
Speaker 3: Ox on the team Lebron. Delo actually plays a lot
Speaker 3: on the speaker. I have to bring the speaker, well
Speaker 3: I did, hopefully not anymore like a rookie duty thing.
Speaker 3: Delo plays a lot of music on the plane.
Speaker 1: What other rookie dots did.
Speaker 3: You have speakers? Let's see, you gotta bring food to
Speaker 3: the plane.
Speaker 1: I mean what would you bring?
Speaker 3: Usually it's Keynes or Chapote. It's like closest to the facility,
Speaker 3: So i'd go pick up. I go take those orders
Speaker 3: and go get.
Speaker 1: The getting everyone specific order.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's a lot of stuff. Carry bags off
Speaker 3: the plane, carry bags to the plane. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 3: that's you got a pair of dues.
Speaker 2: If you had one teammate that could play another sport professionally,
Speaker 2: who would it be and what was the sport be?
Speaker 3: Uh, it's pretty common Lebron playing football. Yeah, that's not Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's outrageous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 2: I feel like you could be the answer for like
Speaker 2: every question, who all the Lakers is the biggest Lebron fan?
Speaker 3: Who want the Lakers is the biggest Lebron fan. I
Speaker 3: think Austin was a pretty big Lebron fan growing up.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna say Austin.
Speaker 1: Who uses social media the most?
Speaker 3: Who uses what should be the most? Definitely me eighty
Speaker 3: actually deactivated account. I think he's back now. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think Delo's on it a lot. He's been posting
Speaker 3: a lot this summer too. He's got his own podcast. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's been getting some guests.
Speaker 1: You'll need to come on here, like, yeah, you get
Speaker 1: them here too.
Speaker 3: You know, trade love to love to be here.
Speaker 1: Yet, Well you can tell him thank you, I hope.
Speaker 2: Okay, So now I want to talk a little bit
Speaker 2: about Michigan State. So two Michigan State legends, Draymond Green
Speaker 2: and Travis Walton. I asked them what I should ask
Speaker 2: you because you went to Michigan State. So here's some
Speaker 2: questions from them, and let's see what you have to say. Okay,
Speaker 2: So these are Travis's questions, how do you feel when
Speaker 2: your brother chose Minnesota and not Michigan State, did you
Speaker 2: start to wear a Gopher shirt?
Speaker 3: I did wear some Gopher stuff. I think for him
Speaker 3: it was just like he wanted to create his own path.
Speaker 3: They didn't really want to follow me. It's been a
Speaker 3: big thing in high school. Everybody.
Speaker 1: I get that, there's so much comparison.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he wanted to create his own path and
Speaker 3: that's what he did. So obviously when he went to Minnesota,
Speaker 3: I was rooting for Minnesota except for when they played
Speaker 3: Michigan State.
Speaker 2: Course.
Speaker 3: Uh, Michigan State one two out of three times, so
Speaker 3: love it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The next question that Travis asked was what are lessons
Speaker 2: that coach Izzo taught you that have helped you with
Speaker 2: the Lakers.
Speaker 3: I think there's when I really developed like a really
Speaker 3: hard work ethic, like doing doing the extra stuff like
Speaker 3: watching extra film or coming in at night and stuff
Speaker 3: like that. That was a big thing that he had
Speaker 3: for me, and that's something he really took on with me.
Speaker 3: I'd always asked him to watch film after practice and
Speaker 3: do all that sort of thing, and he really like
Speaker 3: supported that and helped me out with that. So it
Speaker 3: was he was huge for me. I've learned so much
Speaker 3: from him and he was he was great for me
Speaker 3: when I was there, so appreciate him a lot.
Speaker 1: Totally. Okay, now we're going to move on to Draymond's questions.
Speaker 2: Okay, so he wants to know did you have to
Speaker 2: do a wall sit to be initiated as a.
Speaker 3: Sparkan Yeah, yep, that's a that's a huge thing. It's
Speaker 3: it's I don't remember how long it is. I think
Speaker 3: it's honestly as long as the as the seniors and
Speaker 3: the want and what they do is you. So it was, Yeah,
Speaker 3: we're on the back wall in the weight room and
Speaker 3: they have these sand bags that they put on you,
Speaker 3: or its sandbags or plates like forty five pound pits.
Speaker 3: I think we did sandbags. I can't remember, but you're
Speaker 3: holding them like this and you're doing the walls.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 3: I think usually it's usually around like three to four minutes, okay,
Speaker 3: something like that. It could have changed, but you're just
Speaker 3: sitting there and then this, you know, the seniors kind
Speaker 3: of just like decide maybe they want to add weight
Speaker 3: to you, maybe they don't. It's a big thing for
Speaker 3: I like three to four minutes. I think usually that's
Speaker 3: what I think. That's what I did. I can't remember.
Speaker 3: That's like it's long. Yeah, that's long. And they pick
Speaker 3: like if there's kind of like kind of like how
Speaker 3: there's rookie duties, there's like yeah, kind of like freshman stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and usually like if if to start you're like very
Speaker 3: like anti like freshmen, like you don't want to eat
Speaker 3: last or do all stuff, they usually make it worse
Speaker 3: for you.
Speaker 1: That sucks.
Speaker 2: Okay, And then Draymond also wanted me to add, if
Speaker 2: you say no, this is his note. Wow, some O
Speaker 2: G spartans make question your spartan dog badge.
Speaker 1: That's what he wanted me to say.
Speaker 3: No, I did it. Yeah, I'm doggy.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, Max.
Speaker 2: Now we're going to move on to Slowan knows your
Speaker 2: game trivia. So this is actually trivia about yourself, right,
Speaker 2: And you don't really seem like a cocky guy, but
Speaker 2: I think you're confident, and I feel like you.
Speaker 1: Would probably think that you would know yourself. But I
Speaker 1: would say the average people don't get any questions, right,
Speaker 1: So let's see if you can be better than the avere.
Speaker 3: So you're asking me questions about myself. Oh okay, okay ready.
Speaker 1: So also there's no complaining.
Speaker 2: I will tee you up like if you have any problems, Like,
Speaker 2: we have to be very respectful to the ref here.
Speaker 1: I picked the scoring so I could be nice, I
Speaker 1: could be generous, or I could be me.
Speaker 2: So you were picked thirty fifth in the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: two NBA draft? Who was picked thirty fourth? And who
Speaker 2: was picked thirty six?
Speaker 3: Thirty fourth? Was was it Jalen Williams correct? Thirty six?
Speaker 3: Was was it Detroit? Was it Detroit? The pick? Do
Speaker 3: you know?
Speaker 1: I don't know what I know?
Speaker 3: Okay, it's like gabrielle Yes, I don't know how to
Speaker 3: say p something pr.
Speaker 1: Proseda exactly from Italy.
Speaker 2: Wow, okay, so you're you're at okay, so two points already?
Speaker 1: You like beat the average? Okay? Oh?
Speaker 2: A bonus question is what country does Gabriel Prosida currently
Speaker 2: play in?
Speaker 3: What you said from Italy? I have no idea. I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna say.
Speaker 1: Italy, Germany. Yeah, I guess you just don't.
Speaker 3: Know, no disrespect.
Speaker 1: I just didn't know how many blocks did you average
Speaker 1: as a senior in high school?
Speaker 3: Do I need to get like the point or no?
Speaker 3: There is no point, it's just a street number, probably
Speaker 3: like two yes, Max.
Speaker 2: Wow, Okay, I feel like it may be because you're
Speaker 2: the closest to have just been in high school in college,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like I usually just say in the paint in because.
Speaker 2: Usually when I asked these questions it was like years
Speaker 2: and years ago, but for you, this was not that long ago.
Speaker 1: So I got what you're getting.
Speaker 3: I got an advantage.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: On the Michigan State websites, it says your five favorite movies.
Speaker 1: Can you tell me three of the five movies that
Speaker 1: you see?
Speaker 3: Black Panther? Yeah, straight out of Compton. No, No, that's
Speaker 3: been a new favorite, kay Avatar. No, yeah, I have
Speaker 3: no idea.
Speaker 2: Okay, you said Black Panther, Infinity War, twenty two Jump Street,
Speaker 2: Mall COF two, and Pacific Rim. And actually, so when
Speaker 2: I read it on the website twenty two Jump Street,
Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, that's so weird. They
Speaker 2: made a typo. Why doesn't it say twenty one jump Straw?
Speaker 2: So I changed it on the thing, and then everyone
Speaker 2: was clowning me and we're like, no, that's you've never
Speaker 2: seen twenty two or twenty one.
Speaker 1: But I just knew the name was twenty one Jump Street,
Speaker 1: so I made it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, So right now, I don't really feel
Speaker 2: like you deserve any points from that because there was
Speaker 2: five movies and you got one.
Speaker 1: So that's like I don't need to jum like.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you have three points. How many current NBA
Speaker 2: players went to Michigan State.
Speaker 3: Jaren Xavier, Me, Draymond So what four? Gary Harris?
Speaker 2: Five?
Speaker 3: I think that's it.
Speaker 1: Six.
Speaker 3: I don't tell me there's one more.
Speaker 1: You know who.
Speaker 2: It's not like a random You would know who it is,
Speaker 2: I think, or at least when I say it, you're gonna.
Speaker 3: Jaren Draymond, Gary Xavier Me, Oh, Miles.
Speaker 1: Yes, Miles Bridges Okay. Points points, points Okay, sure, yeah
Speaker 1: that's true. But you said five. I was looking for
Speaker 1: you to be like, say a number because it's like
Speaker 1: hard to score. But it's fine. I'll just say you
Speaker 1: can get a point then, So you're at like three
Speaker 1: or four?
Speaker 2: Four?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: What year is the last question? What year did Tom
Speaker 2: Izzo become the coach of Michigan.
Speaker 3: Michigan State State? Yeah? Yeah, don't don't ever.
Speaker 1: That's the worst mess up to ever say in front
Speaker 1: of someone that went.
Speaker 3: To Mission Jesus, I have no idea. Nineteen? Was it
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four? Now nineteen? It's gotta be like ninety No,
Speaker 3: he won in two thousand with matteen. It's gotta be
Speaker 3: like ninety seven.
Speaker 1: So close ninety five?
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Also on the topic of Michigan, I didn't even write
Speaker 2: this question down, but I read it Chigan State.
Speaker 1: No, I'm talking about Michigan. I'm not gonna mess up twice.
Speaker 1: I may mess up once, I'm not fumbling twice. How
Speaker 1: many current NBA players went to Michigan.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't really care.
Speaker 1: It's eleven. So don't you feel like embarrassed that you're
Speaker 1: being like, no, losing in that rivalry? No, okay, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: No, not really ok to Michigan State is better, so
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter regardless. I don't really get.
Speaker 1: All right, Max, this is the final question. Who are
Speaker 1: you nominating to be the next guest.
Speaker 3: Of Sloan Nose d'angela Russell? Love it?
Speaker 1: Thank you and your brother.
Speaker 3: Yeah camp can come too. Yeah you want to do that,
Speaker 3: I'll get him out here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for listening to this episode of Sloane Nos.
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