Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: Mmmm. Welcome back all the smoke NBA Summer League.
Speaker 3: Out here in the Blue Wires studio at the Beautiful
Speaker 3: Wind Hotel.
Speaker 2: Beautiful in a minute, Man, my brother were back in
Speaker 2: the mix. We got a good little guest here today.
Speaker 3: Man, I've been a big fan of this guy. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, got a chance to know him briefly through
Speaker 3: d M and kind of talking back and forth. But
Speaker 3: he was gracious enough to bless us what his time
Speaker 3: for He heads back home today.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Austin Reeves New bag is what they calling him back
Speaker 3: home now. Man, crazy run you guys thirteenth at one
Speaker 3: point during the season, you guys make some moves at
Speaker 3: the deadline. You guys make a run all the way
Speaker 3: to the Western Conference finals. You were one of the
Speaker 3: most consistent performers throughout the season, averaged seventeen points a
Speaker 3: game in the playoffs. Talk to us just about kind
Speaker 3: of the marathon of the season where you guys ended up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was a long season.
Speaker 5: Like you said, we were thirteenth and you no, not
Speaker 5: much you know upside to look forward to. But then
Speaker 5: at the trade deadline, made some you know, moves and
Speaker 5: you know, really just become a team. And that was
Speaker 5: really the main thing. Is we got closer on and
Speaker 5: off the court, and it really just carried over to
Speaker 5: the court. Everybody really just wanted to win, and that
Speaker 5: was it.
Speaker 3: How did that chemistry because he and I were joined
Speaker 3: in two thousand and seven when we made a mid
Speaker 3: season trade, we made a you know, a crazy run,
Speaker 3: made NBA history, But we were literally on and off
Speaker 3: the court, smoking, watching film, kicking it.
Speaker 2: Now, you don't have to tell us what you were
Speaker 2: doing that.
Speaker 3: How How was it tough to get kind of that
Speaker 3: chemistry with you got four new guys that like were
Speaker 3: in rotation. How did that chemistry developing and and how
Speaker 3: did it help?
Speaker 2: Along the way?
Speaker 4: There was a lot of bouret played.
Speaker 5: I'm sure you'll know about that, but now it was
Speaker 5: playing rides on the way home, was you know, more active.
Speaker 5: Really just getting to know one another, being able to
Speaker 5: trust one another was really the main thing, and it just,
Speaker 5: like I said, carried over to the court.
Speaker 3: Avid Golfer, you're as soon as you leave here, you're
Speaker 3: back home for a golf event. When did golf come
Speaker 3: into your life?
Speaker 4: I played in high school really just to get out
Speaker 4: of school.
Speaker 5: I hated school, but I started taking a serious probably
Speaker 5: my freshman or sophomore year at college. I really just
Speaker 5: fell in love with it. It was away for me
Speaker 5: to get away from basketball.
Speaker 1: With your handicap, I'm scratch. Oh, that means he's good.
Speaker 1: That means he's right there, handicap. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: As much as I play, I should be pretty Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean that means that means he's even so. And
Speaker 3: you the lower the minus is better if you have
Speaker 3: the plus, you don't want the plus. This is the
Speaker 3: one sport you don't want pluses in sure the contract
Speaker 3: obviously first and foremost. Congratulations Jack will touch on kind
Speaker 3: of your journey to get here, but you know you,
Speaker 3: you started turning a lot of heads during the season.
Speaker 3: Ended up resigning with the Lakers, which I thought was
Speaker 3: a great move. Where there other offers that were intriguing
Speaker 3: close more or were you was your mindset the Lakers
Speaker 3: the whole time.
Speaker 4: I really wanted to be in La the whole time.
Speaker 5: There was a couple uh situations that were close, but
Speaker 5: like I said, I really wanted to be in La.
Speaker 5: La feels like home to me, So that's really where
Speaker 5: I wanted to be.
Speaker 2: Well, give us maybe two teams. You possibly thought about.
Speaker 4: UH Houston before the thread and then San Antonio.
Speaker 3: Okay, I forgot what I was gonna ask. I tell
Speaker 3: people all the time, you know, I was fortunate enough
Speaker 3: to play for the Lakers, Clippers, u c l A
Speaker 3: winning championship with the Golden State Wars. But I tell people,
Speaker 3: there's nothing like being a Laker. You haven't necessarily experienced
Speaker 3: the other side because you've only been with the Lakers.
Speaker 3: But what has it been like?
Speaker 2: And we laugh and joke.
Speaker 3: I mean, because the Lakers don't even get too many
Speaker 3: white guys that can come through and who you know
Speaker 3: what I mean?
Speaker 2: So like you're a savior, Like they love you NBA,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. But they love you out there.
Speaker 3: And to be a Laker with that Laker on your chest,
Speaker 3: I mean, that's a worldwide brand.
Speaker 2: What is that? What has that been like for you?
Speaker 3: Obviously you've been able to exceed, you know, excel on
Speaker 3: the court, So what has life off the court been
Speaker 3: like for you?
Speaker 4: I mean, it's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: Like you said, uh, Lakers are arguably the best organization
Speaker 5: in all the sports and I was a huge Kobe
Speaker 5: fan growing up, so I watched y'all play, you know,
Speaker 5: and not really always wanted to, you know, be a
Speaker 5: part of that. And for that to just come, you know,
Speaker 5: full circle and be there, I mean, it just means
Speaker 5: a lot and off the court, you know, Like I said,
Speaker 5: I play a lot of golf, so it's good golf weather.
Speaker 3: Yeah, real quick, quick story before you get to your shit, jack.
Speaker 3: So I hit Austin. Man, it was about three months ago.
Speaker 3: I even think it was during the playoffs, and Shae Obriant,
Speaker 3: who's Kobe's sister, hit me up and said that her
Speaker 3: son is Austin is their favorite player.
Speaker 2: And Shane was like, you know, Austin was like, nah,
Speaker 2: I don't know him. Please, it's you know, it's my
Speaker 2: son's birthday. I'm like shit.
Speaker 3: I was like, my bad, bro, it's the playoffs. I
Speaker 3: know you're focused, but Kobe's nephew loves you, and I
Speaker 3: was all cool. Austin sent h my birthday message and
Speaker 3: I sent it to the Shae and her son broke
Speaker 3: down in tears, and I sent it back to him
Speaker 3: to him, like, bro, that sit meant a lot. So
Speaker 3: Shane wanted me to personally thank you for sure that
Speaker 3: birthday message.
Speaker 2: For sure, dope. I was drafted second to the last pick.
Speaker 2: What pick you win, Matt? I was forty three. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was second to the last pick in the draft.
Speaker 1: You two years ago, you was the same in the
Speaker 1: same city, undrafted, trying to get a job.
Speaker 2: Now you're sitting here with a bag. How you feel
Speaker 2: feels great?
Speaker 5: H Like I said, everything comes full circle and all
Speaker 5: I needed was opportunity and I knew that. I knew
Speaker 5: what I was capable of doing, you know, the skill set,
Speaker 5: IQ and stuff like that. So it was just about,
Speaker 5: you know, my agency put me in a good position
Speaker 5: to you know, have all of that. We could have
Speaker 5: got drafted forty second to Detroit, but kind of declined
Speaker 5: that to kind of put me in LA for a
Speaker 5: better spot.
Speaker 3: So I heard about that, but break that down. Because
Speaker 3: I heard about that, I didn't know if that was real.
Speaker 3: So I heard there were teams that wanted to draft you,
Speaker 3: and you kind of told them, respectfully, we kind of
Speaker 3: have a plan. So tell us about that plan of
Speaker 3: betting on yourself and also your agency here. So if
Speaker 3: you want to shout them out, feel free to do that.
Speaker 4: My dogs AMR agency for me, the best there is.
Speaker 3: But yeah, talk to us about that game plan because
Speaker 3: I read that, I didn't know if that was a
Speaker 3: true story. So you you know, you kind of respectfully
Speaker 3: passed on a few teams because you guys had a
Speaker 3: game plan. Explain what that game plan was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So basically we tiered teams, you know, best fit
Speaker 5: for me, and LA was I think two on the
Speaker 5: list at the time. Milwaukee might have been one, but
Speaker 5: they were tier one, and I think Detroit called.
Speaker 2: That should be on nobody's tier.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if we're being honest, he said, no, No, maybe
Speaker 3: not being honest here, but that's always the show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, it was. It was, like I said, really.
Speaker 5: Trying to put me in a position to you know,
Speaker 5: be able to get a Roger spot. We knew that
Speaker 5: there was a high interest for a two ways, so
Speaker 5: we didn't really have to press. And that's what everything
Speaker 5: in the draft would have been from forty two and
Speaker 5: on would have been basically a two way agreement. So
Speaker 5: we didn't have to press and I didn't really have
Speaker 5: to hear my name called either. I mean, obviously I
Speaker 5: wanted to, but it was all about you know, playing
Speaker 5: the long game.
Speaker 1: I had my name called in my garage at the crib,
Speaker 1: I was at the TV in the garage, everybody was
Speaker 1: just standing behind. I knew I was getting picked already
Speaker 1: because they only had one They had one pick in
Speaker 1: the draft and they told me they was gonna draft me.
Speaker 1: But just that feeling what experienced that for sure? We
Speaker 1: all use different things from motivation, right, we all whe
Speaker 1: we come from. You know, me and matt I upbringing.
Speaker 1: I know his upbringing just as well as mine. Different
Speaker 1: challenges and want to see better things. You know, and
Speaker 1: people count you out will motivate you to push yourself
Speaker 1: to be great. You said that you're always too skinny,
Speaker 1: I'm never fast enough. It's going to always be something
Speaker 1: about my game that people like. That's that's that's what
Speaker 1: you put as your batter in your back to keep
Speaker 1: going and showing to prove people wrong.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think I told Reggie.
Speaker 5: The first day I went for pre draft, he was like,
Speaker 5: why you want to make it like and obviously I
Speaker 5: love basketball, but you know I wanted to tell everybody
Speaker 5: fuck off.
Speaker 4: God damn right that you know I could do it,
Speaker 4: and that was really it.
Speaker 5: I mean, I love basketball I love you know, the
Speaker 5: skill of the game, the you know, you never can
Speaker 5: perfect it. Uh so you always find something to get
Speaker 5: better at. But at the end of the day, I
Speaker 5: wanted to look back and really just you know, tell
Speaker 5: everybody fuck off.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: I got my championship, I got my championship ring fitted
Speaker 3: to my middle finger.
Speaker 4: Just for that's tough. I can hopefully I get there.
Speaker 2: I could dig it.
Speaker 1: It can get a lot of outside noise can get
Speaker 1: to you at times though. You know, I've been suspended
Speaker 1: thirty games. I've been a lot of incidents where it
Speaker 1: wasn't really me, you know, it was me coming to
Speaker 1: the aid of my teammates and I had to deal
Speaker 1: with the flag.
Speaker 2: Sometimes the noise can't get to you because you are human.
Speaker 1: You know, if anybody in the NBA say the noise
Speaker 1: never got to them, they line, I don't care who
Speaker 1: you are, because we listen and we want people to
Speaker 1: like because we want our fans to support us.
Speaker 2: How you dealing with that?
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, I mean, like you said, you you hear everything.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's a it's a world of social media
Speaker 5: now and everybody's.
Speaker 2: On it, everybody opinion.
Speaker 4: I only have Instagram. I don't have Twitter, so I
Speaker 4: don't be scrolling on Twitter.
Speaker 5: But it's really you know, if I can go, if
Speaker 5: I can look back and be like I did what
Speaker 5: I was supposed to do, good or bad. You know,
Speaker 5: I can suck up many times and it really don't matter.
Speaker 5: But if I put in the work and play the
Speaker 5: right way, I can live with that.
Speaker 2: Thanks anybody you mud of your game after growing up.
Speaker 4: Uh, Like I said, I was a huge Kobe fan,
Speaker 4: but of course I wasn't trying to be Kobe.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: But you know, I named like, you know, Joe Ingles,
Speaker 5: like someone that can do a little bit of everything, uh, unselfish,
Speaker 5: wants to win, super competitor. So that's the one that
Speaker 5: I kind of just throw out there because everybody names
Speaker 5: you know, high high level guys, right.
Speaker 2: I like Joe Joe.
Speaker 3: Joe came to us his rookie year, but I think
Speaker 3: he's rookie with the Clippers. He was like twenty six,
Speaker 3: twenty seven. I literally just saw him.
Speaker 2: The other day.
Speaker 3: But great dude, right career late at his own pace,
Speaker 3: because shoot that bitch. So obviously we touched on the
Speaker 3: roller coaster of a season last year was but I
Speaker 3: want to walk you through a few different areas and
Speaker 3: you break it down for us, the moment leading up
Speaker 3: to Lebron breaking the scoring record and him actually doing it,
Speaker 3: what was that like around the team locker room, him
Speaker 3: that whole energy.
Speaker 5: Like, oh, it was special to be a part of.
Speaker 5: I mean for obvious reasons. You know, you're playing with
Speaker 5: the guy that you know has the most points ever
Speaker 5: and you know people argue to him that he's not
Speaker 5: a good score so for him to uh do that,
Speaker 5: and then for me to just be in the building.
Speaker 5: I was coming back from injury, so I wasn't I
Speaker 5: didn't play much that game, but just to experience that
Speaker 5: and his mood every day was you know, he was
Speaker 5: gonna go get it. I think everybody's seen the video
Speaker 5: of him talking to us to sons and he was like,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna get it, and we all knew he was
Speaker 5: going for it, and you know, there wasn't nothing anybody
Speaker 5: was going to say or do to get in front
Speaker 5: of that.
Speaker 3: Straight up Russell Westbrook someone who kind of gets a
Speaker 3: bad rep from the outside, but I always hear the
Speaker 3: teammates really appreciate and respect what he's got going on.
Speaker 3: What was it like playing with Russ before he got moved.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's one of the best teammates I've ever had.
Speaker 5: As a person, you know, you can't get much better.
Speaker 5: I got COVID. Uh, like December of my rookie year
Speaker 5: in Minnesota. I was stuck in Minnesota for like seven days,
Speaker 5: so it's rough. But uh, you know he reached out
Speaker 5: like three or four times, asked him I need anything,
Speaker 5: offered to send me stuff, whatever I needed. So as
Speaker 5: a person, you know, you couldn't get better. And same
Speaker 5: as a teammate, like he was always you know, empowering
Speaker 5: everybody to really, you know, be better and do better
Speaker 5: and one one more. And like you said, he gets
Speaker 5: a bad rap and I don't really understand why.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. Anthony Davis ugly one of the most talented
Speaker 2: players this game has ever seen. Worst boxes you've ever seen.
Speaker 2: He had been long downs him on from Street Fighter. Yeah, fella, Uh,
Speaker 2: what's it like playing with him?
Speaker 3: I mean some guy, I mean when he wants can
Speaker 3: be the best player in the world. Do you extremely
Speaker 3: talented talk to us about Anthony Davis?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: You know, he's obviously a good person to have on
Speaker 5: your team, especially defensively, I don't think he gets enough
Speaker 5: credit for you know, what he does for us as guards.
Speaker 5: Like knowing you know you have him as a rent protector,
Speaker 5: you can be you know, more physical, like more aggressive.
Speaker 5: You can kind of shoot pass and get the lanes
Speaker 5: and know if they get in the paint then it's
Speaker 5: gonna be tough to you know, get to anyway. So
Speaker 5: like you said, he's you know, arguably, you know, right
Speaker 5: behind Browns, you know, the most skilled player I've ever
Speaker 5: you know, seen just his height, the way he moves,
Speaker 5: he can handle the ball, he can shoot it.
Speaker 4: There's really nothing he can't do.
Speaker 1: Just imagine somebody I feel in San Antonio when I
Speaker 1: had yeah that's nice.
Speaker 3: As you should I have prime Dwight Howard and yeah, incredible,
Speaker 3: But the dog I like what you touched, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think he gets enough credit on the defensive
Speaker 3: end either because he's someone out on the canrim protect.
Speaker 2: But he can switch out and maintain a guard. I
Speaker 2: mean he did in the playoffs with stats.
Speaker 3: I mean, to stay in front of Steph ONNGR fuck
Speaker 3: old Steph is is not easy and for him to
Speaker 3: get lost in a move and still recover and either
Speaker 3: change a shot or block a shot. At his size,
Speaker 3: uh is absolutely incredible, so happy that he kind of
Speaker 3: found his rhythm and looking forward to what next season
Speaker 3: gives him. Obviously, season didn't end. I would say personally
Speaker 3: say that you guys had a good season considering where
Speaker 3: you came from. The goal is always to win a
Speaker 3: champions especially when you play with bron and a D.
Speaker 3: What was that Western Conference Finals? Like, you know, if
Speaker 3: you have to lose, you lost to the team the
Speaker 3: best team in the league. But what was that Western
Speaker 3: Conference Finals like for you guys?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it obviously suck.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I mean if you look back, we really
Speaker 5: had an opportunity to win every game. Game one was
Speaker 5: you know, up in the air because they was up
Speaker 5: like twenty and we you know, we made a run
Speaker 5: with like five minutes left and actually had an opportunity.
Speaker 5: But you know, two, three, and four were very winnable,
Speaker 5: and you know, one thing goes, you know, your way
Speaker 5: here and there. You know, we could you know, be celebrating,
Speaker 5: but that's not how it goes. When they got two,
Speaker 5: you got two guys like go Kitchen Murray and everybody
Speaker 5: else was making shots. I mean, they was basically unguardable.
Speaker 5: I felt like we executed our game plan, you know,
Speaker 5: almost as good as we could, but it didn't work.
Speaker 2: We have the biggest Laker fan back here in the corner.
Speaker 3: I made sure I watched every He came to my
Speaker 3: house every single game, so I could see him cry laugh.
Speaker 3: He was telling me what he was gonna do with
Speaker 3: your whole roster during the season. After the season, but uh,
Speaker 3: it was fun.
Speaker 1: We're gonna struggle this year. I don't even catch I mean,
Speaker 1: because they lost a whole bunch of key players. Oh,
Speaker 1: Jeff Green, all the guys they used Brown, It lost
Speaker 1: all those key guys.
Speaker 2: That's when they got a couple of good ones though
Speaker 2: they picked up. You got a team.
Speaker 1: When you got a chemistry like that, you just keep
Speaker 1: that ship together and try it again. If it don't
Speaker 1: work two times in a row, then you break it up.
Speaker 2: They didn't have the money to give some of them.
Speaker 2: They should have.
Speaker 1: Figured that ship out, because it's gonna be another ninety
Speaker 1: year until they win it.
Speaker 3: No, I think they're gonna be they got I forgot it,
Speaker 3: forgot remember, yeah, you did say it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give it to you. Uh, going ahead to
Speaker 2: have with Steph.
Speaker 4: What was that like, it's it's honestly hell.
Speaker 2: Still, I'm not gonna lie to you.
Speaker 4: I mean the way he moves without the ball is
Speaker 4: the worst part.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but just the way he moves without the ball,
Speaker 5: the way I mean, it's honestly their system too, it
Speaker 5: fits him to perfection. Uh, you know, you can't, you
Speaker 5: literally can't ever relax. And I remember Game one and
Speaker 5: two chasing him play around and I couldn't make a shot.
Speaker 4: Everybody's looking at me like why I can make a shot.
Speaker 4: I'm like, he got no legs.
Speaker 5: But yeah, no, his uh, you know, his approach to
Speaker 5: the game too, is as special. Just the way that he,
Speaker 5: you know, sees the game and the way he goes
Speaker 5: about the game. It was a lot of fun to
Speaker 5: play them. Obviously happy we won, Yeah, but nah, he's
Speaker 5: it's hell to guard him next season.
Speaker 3: First and foremost, shut out Rob Polinka, and he did
Speaker 3: a great job of just attacking free agency. He went
Speaker 3: out and signed the three main guys he wanted to
Speaker 3: re sign, which was you, uh, d Lo and Hachimura,
Speaker 3: and then went out and got quality pieces, gave Vincent
Speaker 3: uh to name a few guys, Uh, excited obviously about
Speaker 3: this upcoming season and what you guys have been able
Speaker 3: to put together in this offseason.
Speaker 5: Yeah for sure, Like you said, bring back basically our
Speaker 5: whole core. And I went to the Western Conference finals
Speaker 5: and like you said, you know, plug guys in around that.
Speaker 5: Uh like like game that you know, just went to
Speaker 5: the finals, you know, super competitor. But like you said,
Speaker 5: I think we we got better and at the same
Speaker 5: time kept what we had that was working. So I'm
Speaker 5: super happy to you know, get back to work and
Speaker 5: really have a full you know off season preseason to
Speaker 5: you know, really get some you know, actual fluidity because
Speaker 5: I know, I mean you'all probably know is once after
Speaker 5: the trade deadline, you play with guys that you played
Speaker 5: for you kind of freestyle and we uh, I mean
Speaker 5: we were skilled enough last year to do that. But
Speaker 5: if you could mix that with him with some you
Speaker 5: know fluidity with your offense, defense, uh, it could get scary.
Speaker 2: Oh, y'all just get in the training camp together. Yeah
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a lot of good pieces, a lot
Speaker 3: of teams in the off season. Get together at some
Speaker 3: point early midsummer. Have you guys talked about getting together
Speaker 3: before preseason starts yet.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: I mean Brian usually does his mini camp I think
Speaker 5: the weekend before uh training camp starts.
Speaker 4: So we've done that the last two years.
Speaker 5: I haven't heard anything about it yet, but we hadn't
Speaker 5: hear my rookie year and then San Diego my second year.
Speaker 2: Talk to us just about him, not the player, the person.
Speaker 4: He acts like a damn kid. He acts like he's
Speaker 4: like eighteen.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: You know, I never really see him in a bad mood,
Speaker 5: always joking, laughing, Uh, you know, having a good time.
Speaker 5: And for someone that you know, you put on a
Speaker 5: pedestal because he's done what he's done for him to
Speaker 5: just be so personable, right, you could talk to him
Speaker 5: about anything.
Speaker 4: You can have good.
Speaker 5: Conversations with him. You could joke around, like I said,
Speaker 5: you know, it's like I said, his best. The best
Speaker 5: thing about him is he comes to work every day happy.
Speaker 2: Who's the most saltiest gambler on the team?
Speaker 3: Me, you were pitching pennies before money? Yeah, you could
Speaker 3: ask him a little bit. Now, get y'all can take
Speaker 3: that twenty thousand.
Speaker 2: Fuck that.
Speaker 4: That game is dangerous.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: A big part of your offseason this year is FEBA.
Speaker 3: Congratulations on making that roster. I got a chance to
Speaker 3: see the trophy the other day. They brought it out
Speaker 3: to this golf tournament I was playing in. But tell
Speaker 3: me about that kind of opportunity. You think back two
Speaker 3: years ago, you're undrafted, struggling to find a spot land
Speaker 3: with the Lakers, make your own name, get paid.
Speaker 2: Now you're playing FEBA basketball, Like, what does that mean
Speaker 2: to you?
Speaker 5: It means a lot, just to you know, play for
Speaker 5: you know, our country is like I said, it means
Speaker 5: a lot. And you know, I think we've put together
Speaker 5: a team that's a team Like I feel like we
Speaker 5: got guys, you know, obviously guys that are real high level,
Speaker 5: and then you got guys that you know, kind of
Speaker 5: plug and play in there too.
Speaker 4: So I'm super excited for it.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: I want to go, you know, learn as much as
Speaker 5: I can from all these guys, and yeah, hopefully go win.
Speaker 5: It's out here, right, Yeah, we come out here in
Speaker 5: August second, and then I think we travel after that,
Speaker 5: like August eighth.
Speaker 1: That's one experience that everybody, a lot of basketball players
Speaker 1: can't say that they have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, their national team. Big changes in the rules this year.
Speaker 3: One of them is an in season tournament and thoughts
Speaker 3: on that nd season tournament.
Speaker 4: I haven't really thought about it much.
Speaker 2: I mean, what are the I don't know about it.
Speaker 2: I don't even know about it. Top teams. I think
Speaker 2: it's good to get each player get fifty seven Yeah, uh,
Speaker 2: five hundred thousand for the winning team. Oh, well over
Speaker 2: every player. Yeah, I played. It's five hundred grand just
Speaker 2: the winning team, right, Yeah, it's tiered. Okay, I'll come
Speaker 2: back to Uh, I'll come back and catch me at
Speaker 2: ten days. Doesn't determine have anything to do with the
Speaker 2: outcoming the end of the season. My point? Does it
Speaker 2: go to record? Yeah? Oh wow, and it's here in Vegas. Yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, motherfuckers don't play nine ass is. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna get this season determined, being able
Speaker 1: to come to Vegas for the champions I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna play more.
Speaker 2: Games, come on a lot.
Speaker 3: But a lot of people said that about the playing,
Speaker 3: and I love the play. Even bron said he didn't
Speaker 3: like to play in a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 3: the play and saved his ass this year.
Speaker 2: So I like the playing.
Speaker 3: I'm eager to see now this turns out to more
Speaker 3: changes that I liked flopping. The flopping Now you get
Speaker 3: assessed it's not a it's not a real t, but
Speaker 3: like a fake tea. I guess it doesn't count towards
Speaker 3: your foul. You just get free throw into the ball
Speaker 3: back and then challenge because you know how fucking bad
Speaker 3: these rests are. So if you get your first challenge, right,
Speaker 3: you get your second challenge. So those are a couple
Speaker 3: things that they do in the mix.
Speaker 2: I mean finally would yeah, yeah, it's official now. It
Speaker 2: was a long time job and we is in the league.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 3: Try to tell you, like if if you needed to medicate, man,
Speaker 3: you had to be on your p's and Q. Let
Speaker 3: me tell you you have to know how to move
Speaker 3: you Someone in Jack I think touched on it. Just
Speaker 3: your your roller coaster, your journey, and speak to those
Speaker 3: younger players out there or even guys, your aides. That
Speaker 3: just about believing in yourself and betting on yourself and
Speaker 3: and and continuing to hone your craft and and and
Speaker 3: blocking everything out.
Speaker 4: Yeah I mean for me, uh no, most of it
Speaker 4: was mental for me.
Speaker 5: Uh just be able to know the game at a
Speaker 5: high level, because I think if you you know the
Speaker 5: game at a high level. There's always a place for you.
Speaker 5: You can play kind of anywhere, and then also just
Speaker 5: stay in the gym. There's a lot of distractions, as
Speaker 5: everybody knows, but you know you can you can get
Speaker 5: away from those for what ten years?
Speaker 4: You know, I think, what's the what's the average three years?
Speaker 5: Okay, So yeah, anyways, if you have a great career
Speaker 5: and have ten years and you just get away from
Speaker 5: all that, you got a lot of time, after a
Speaker 5: lot of money to you know, do whatever you want
Speaker 5: after that. So it's really about just locking in for
Speaker 5: you know, kind of this short period of time, because
Speaker 5: you know, I hear all the time that it goes fast,
Speaker 5: and you know, even though last year felt like forever, right,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm going into my third year and it
Speaker 5: feels like just the other day. We're sitting there on
Speaker 5: draft night wondering, you know, what was next.
Speaker 3: You spoke to it earlier being a Kobe guy, and
Speaker 3: it even poked some fun meme whise back of Lebron
Speaker 3: back in the day, because you are a Kobe guy.
Speaker 2: Favorite Kobe memory.
Speaker 4: For me it was probably his last game. I remember
Speaker 4: I was watching it in my brother's room.
Speaker 5: Actually he was off of college and it was, you know,
Speaker 5: for two hours behind in Arkansas, so it was probably
Speaker 5: like eleven thirty Towards the end of the game, I'm
Speaker 5: up screaming, jumping like I'm lit, and my mom opens.
Speaker 4: The door and she's like, is everything okay. I was like,
Speaker 4: get the hell out of here, like, go go back
Speaker 4: to bed, like this is real, this is real. But yeah,
Speaker 4: like you said, the meme that I posted of Kobe
Speaker 4: about Brian.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, like you know what about that?
Speaker 1: Nah?
Speaker 4: I called him when I first seen it. We were
Speaker 4: in New Orleans and it was right after the game.
Speaker 5: I don't think he or I played, and I got
Speaker 5: on my phone after the game after coaches on talking
Speaker 5: was the first thing I seen.
Speaker 2: I was like, fuck.
Speaker 4: I was like, I was like, Bron was over there
Speaker 4: at this locker. I was like, Brian, come here, man,
Speaker 4: he comes over. I was like, look, I was a
Speaker 4: Kobe fan. I was shipping on your twenty twelve dis
Speaker 4: claim on you real quick, but this is this, you've
Speaker 4: seen this and he was like nah, he just started laughing.
Speaker 2: So so he ain't like that. Like I have him
Speaker 2: third on my list and people just make it seem
Speaker 2: like I hate him. I mean, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But when I when we played in the Big Three game,
Speaker 1: I slid way across the court going football. Brun got
Speaker 1: up and ran all the way across. He wasn't even
Speaker 1: playing to help me up off the floor. So he
Speaker 1: don't think, he don't think like he see through all
Speaker 1: that ship, you know what I'm saying. So I guarantee
Speaker 1: you any people have saw it, he know you as
Speaker 1: a person, he wouldn't have took it the wrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4: But I just wanted to be the first. You said
Speaker 4: you got him in three? Who I've got MJ one,
Speaker 4: Kobe two.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 3: The significance of being the starting two guard for the Lakers,
Speaker 3: does that ever cross your mind? Obviously being a huge
Speaker 3: fan of Koping what he was able to do for
Speaker 3: this franchise.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I tried not to think about it.
Speaker 5: Uh. But at the same time, like I've said, like
Speaker 5: I mean, being in La is you know, like it's
Speaker 5: it's different. The fans are different, and they you know,
Speaker 5: they're expected to win every year regardless of what the
Speaker 5: roster looks like. They want to win a championship. So
Speaker 5: you know, it means a lot to me. And I
Speaker 5: take it serious to you know, go out every night
Speaker 5: and like I said earlier, regardless.
Speaker 4: You know good bad in the middle.
Speaker 5: If I go play you know the way that you
Speaker 5: know I've always played, and uh, you know, give it
Speaker 5: everything I had, then you know I can go sleep
Speaker 5: at night.
Speaker 2: One and raised in Newark, Arkansas.
Speaker 1: Form I grew up watching the Arkansas Razorbacks with Scottie Thurman,
Speaker 1: Carles Wives and.
Speaker 2: All those guys.
Speaker 1: They were one of the best kind of basketball teams
Speaker 1: you've ever seen. What was the any life lessons? How
Speaker 1: was it growing up in Arkansas?
Speaker 4: I mean it was a lot of fun for me.
Speaker 2: Thousand people.
Speaker 5: Thousand people lived on three hundred acres, so you could
Speaker 5: go a whole day without seeing anybody.
Speaker 4: Which I like, I mean, I can go be to myself.
Speaker 4: But it really taught me, you know, work ethic.
Speaker 5: Honestly, My brother used to drag me to the gym
Speaker 5: like my seventh grade year because I wasn't that interested,
Speaker 5: and he would always just preach.
Speaker 4: To me like you got to do more.
Speaker 5: Like you're from you know, this area where you're not
Speaker 5: going to get you know much, you know, publicity, you know, recognition,
Speaker 5: So you got to be in the gym more. You
Speaker 5: gotta be you know, a lot better than that that
Speaker 5: guy that they're looking at because you know he's, you know,
Speaker 5: playing AU. I only played one year AU, so that
Speaker 5: was it was. It taught me really how to you know,
Speaker 5: put my nose down and just work.
Speaker 2: Was baseball your first love? Yeah? What position? Short stop? Nice?
Speaker 4: I don't know if I'm nice. I used to be
Speaker 4: all right, but I don't know about it anymore.
Speaker 2: Three state championships, scoring seventy three points in the game. Okay,
Speaker 2: was that your moment in high school?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Other than winning uh we all want two with my
Speaker 5: brother and then won my senior year. Probably the best
Speaker 5: moment was winning at my freshman year. Nobody thought we
Speaker 5: had any chance of winning that. We actually played elite
Speaker 5: in the finals. He was a freshman, I was a freshman,
Speaker 5: and let's say he had had a lot better game
Speaker 5: than me.
Speaker 2: But we won.
Speaker 4: So that's all that matters.
Speaker 2: Charge charge going the chances to push off? Did you
Speaker 2: fly right there? Did you fly?
Speaker 4: Probably?
Speaker 2: You might have not even mentioned. You looked like eighty
Speaker 2: seven pounds right there, might.
Speaker 4: Was like five nine.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's crazy.
Speaker 3: You've mentioned your brother, did he get a chance to
Speaker 3: go on and play college ball, or he's something that
Speaker 3: looked up to a lot when you were younger.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5: Uh and you know he's probably the main one I give,
Speaker 5: you know, mostly credit to for me being in the
Speaker 5: position that I am now.
Speaker 4: Uh, he actually plays over in Germany.
Speaker 5: Now he played twenty seven, about to be twenty eight
Speaker 5: and you're twenty. Yeah, so he I mean, he loves
Speaker 5: the game, so yeah, shout out what's his name, Spencer Reeves?
Speaker 2: Shout out Spence Spencer Reeves? Sub home slice. What's your
Speaker 2: opinion on the Leaks Monks season? Yet?
Speaker 5: I thought it was great and I think even when
Speaker 5: he signed it was two summers ago. Last summer, I
Speaker 5: thought that they got him on a steal.
Speaker 4: Honestly. Uh, you know, his skill and his ability to
Speaker 4: score the ball is is different.
Speaker 5: He's one of the you know, few people that I
Speaker 5: would say they can't really get a bucket at any facet,
Speaker 5: you know, mid range three at the rim Athletic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the crazy working for the Kings chance to see.
Speaker 3: I was surprised one on his playmaking and then his
Speaker 3: ability to jump off.
Speaker 5: He gets off the floor so quick. I always joke
Speaker 5: with him like, you know, you don't even look at athletic.
Speaker 5: But and then I always told him, and he you know,
Speaker 5: he had go to the rim and lay something up.
Speaker 5: I was like, man, if I was that athletic, I
Speaker 5: would never shoot a lay up. But yeah, no, I
Speaker 5: think you know, him and dr and being back together,
Speaker 5: I think that gave him another you know, comfort level,
Speaker 5: just being by someone that he's played with.
Speaker 2: Coming out of Arkansas, you know, with small cities, you know,
Speaker 2: you think that's town right to town. Yeah, a space
Speaker 2: and all the three acres.
Speaker 1: Yeah, coming out of there, you know, you you get
Speaker 1: you getting ready to experience different things. Was it a
Speaker 1: culture shock when you first hit LA And what's what's
Speaker 1: the first big person? Like, what's one thing you wanted
Speaker 1: to buy? When you know you're finna get into some chibata?
Speaker 1: Oh stupid?
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 4: It was different.
Speaker 5: Obviously l A traffic sucks. It's the worst thing about
Speaker 5: l A. But you know, I stay at the crib
Speaker 5: golf and I'm at the gym.
Speaker 4: That's really it. I ain't really splurged on anything. There's
Speaker 4: not really there's.
Speaker 5: Not really anything I need though, Yeah, I bought some
Speaker 5: new golf clubs and ain't got fitted, so.
Speaker 3: They should have gave you those, all right, just recently
Speaker 3: signed a seven figure deal.
Speaker 2: I don't want to butcher the company's name. How do
Speaker 2: you say it? Rigor you got the aar ones? That's cold,
Speaker 2: that's a cold name.
Speaker 3: Right again, when you think Big Picture touched on it
Speaker 3: two years ago, you were sitting here trying to figure
Speaker 3: out what life was about. Now you're going in with
Speaker 3: the fresh contract in your own shoe coming like going
Speaker 3: right here?
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, but uh, like you said, you know, there's
Speaker 5: multiple times I'm sitting there by myself.
Speaker 4: I might be playing the game aim or something, and
Speaker 4: I'm just like, this ship can't be real, right.
Speaker 5: I think there's mid twenties guys in the league that
Speaker 5: got their own shooting.
Speaker 4: For me to be one of them is you know, special.
Speaker 4: And you know I never take that for granted.
Speaker 1: You know, it was a point where only guys that
Speaker 1: were the faces of their teams say getting shoes, man,
Speaker 1: So that's dope. Congrats bro, you guys. You guys tried
Speaker 1: to do a shoe run one time, didn't you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we talked about that. It didn't last long. I
Speaker 1: had a shoe called protege a man Al Harrington.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: The sad part about it was, I'm pretty sure your
Speaker 1: shoes won't do these things that my shoes were doing.
Speaker 2: But every move I made at the time out.
Speaker 1: You can just look at the court and all those
Speaker 1: black marks where I was without my spot and defense
Speaker 1: and told everything, and.
Speaker 2: One time if the shoe kept his soul, well I
Speaker 2: was getting to that. I mean, the court did well.
Speaker 1: You know, I've definitely used three pair of shoes in
Speaker 1: one game because you know, I might leave my soul
Speaker 1: at half court.
Speaker 2: You know, I might shoot a free throw, the tongue
Speaker 2: might be off. You know, you never know what these shoes.
Speaker 2: And it didn't last. But I guarantee you issues doing that.
Speaker 4: The doing that you had to try it though.
Speaker 2: You make some good money push. It was short lived, though.
Speaker 2: Have you done your China tour yet? Have not?
Speaker 5: That was actually going to be in August, but the
Speaker 5: fever stuff might try to fit it in right at
Speaker 5: the end of the fever stuff in the training camp.
Speaker 3: So what so what's break from the end of fever
Speaker 3: to I guess probably bronze camp will be coming right
Speaker 3: before yours.
Speaker 4: It's probably like weeks really like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, I guess it depends on how we do
Speaker 5: fever wise. I don't really know how that works, but
Speaker 5: I would say I think I seemed like the end
Speaker 5: of it's like the tenth Bro.
Speaker 1: I know you young, and I know you work on
Speaker 1: your game, and I know you dedicated to but get
Speaker 1: your rest too, bro, get yours.
Speaker 4: I definitely do that.
Speaker 3: We heard a rumor, and we don't like to start
Speaker 3: troubles here, but we heard something about Taylor Swift meet
Speaker 3: you somewhere and all that.
Speaker 2: Tell you what. I didn't know if it was a rumor,
Speaker 2: but I was like all I said, hell yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Said, I heard he was riding down the street and
Speaker 1: Taylor pull up on the side and she's saying He's
Speaker 1: like she hopped out and got him with him and.
Speaker 2: They just pulled out. I was, you get a chance
Speaker 2: to meet her?
Speaker 4: I've never met her.
Speaker 2: Okay, it was all bullshit, No, all bullshit.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I ain't never talked I ain't never talked to her.
Speaker 2: Because I see, I said, it's like it was my homemie.
Speaker 4: I was like, hell yeah, yeah, bro, we was in
Speaker 4: a bar in Arkansas.
Speaker 2: That's crazy. I believe this ship too. You I didn't
Speaker 2: hear his story. I heard I heard the bar, right,
Speaker 2: I heard the bar at Arkansas? Not true? Ship? Are
Speaker 2: you interested?
Speaker 4: I stay out the media?
Speaker 1: There you know.
Speaker 2: There you go. He's learning his l a media training.
Speaker 2: Don't fall from that ship. Back in the day when
Speaker 2: I when I was young, and I can't you throw
Speaker 2: a celebrity? Yeah, what's she?
Speaker 1: Give me a number, say my number one half. I'm
Speaker 1: looking for you back in the day. Yeah, right now
Speaker 1: to ya Regina.
Speaker 3: All right, man, we appreciate your time. We got quick hitters.
Speaker 3: First thing to come to mind, let us know. First
Speaker 3: thing you do in the morning, last.
Speaker 5: Thing you do before you go to bed, obviously brush
Speaker 5: my teeth. Okay, yeah, brush my teeth again.
Speaker 1: I don't say because you're gonna play with a lot
Speaker 1: of players, you gonna be like bro. I'm telling there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of players that got that. Kanye West.
Speaker 2: I used to play with some players that used to
Speaker 2: get in the shower and out before the water hitter.
Speaker 4: There's definitely something like that that's hard.
Speaker 3: And then just throw a bunch of colonna like Nigga.
Speaker 3: I don't give that some four hundred dollars clone. I
Speaker 3: can still smell you.
Speaker 2: Taking out the water. That's crazy. Top five shooting guards
Speaker 2: of all time? Your top five?
Speaker 4: My top five? M J Kobe uhh, this is tough.
Speaker 4: Probably d Wade.
Speaker 5: Is James Hardener two one, James Harden just because it's skilled, right,
Speaker 5: And then I actually really like Brandon Roy.
Speaker 2: That's me.
Speaker 4: I know the problem.
Speaker 2: We know the code fifty two piece.
Speaker 1: Phoenix really me, Grant Hill, Jason Richardson, y'all get a bucket.
Speaker 2: Favorite meme of yourself?
Speaker 4: Uh probably the one with Brin Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, what did you say? For those who didn't
Speaker 2: see it?
Speaker 4: So we had a time out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we had a time out with like a minute
Speaker 5: forty five left up like eighteen and you know, at
Speaker 5: that point games over. I didn't know why we were
Speaker 5: still in the game, and coach was drawing something up,
Speaker 5: and you know, you know how time I saw nobody
Speaker 5: was really listening. And I asked a lot of questions
Speaker 5: that year, So I asked coaches. I was walking on
Speaker 5: the court.
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm not.
Speaker 4: Doing anything, like I'm on the left wing, basically chilling.
Speaker 2: He was like, yeah, A D.
Speaker 5: Brown and Rush were supposed to run some three man
Speaker 5: action and I walked on the court and I was
Speaker 5: bron the same thing.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm just chilling right. He was like, Nah,
Speaker 4: you're going here here, and like kept going.
Speaker 5: I don't know if he was fucking with me for
Speaker 5: being serious, to be honest, but I actually make that
Speaker 5: face a lot when I'm kind of, you know, confused,
Speaker 5: but at the same time, like I would like to think,
Speaker 5: I'm not confused a lot, so I kind of know
Speaker 5: what's going on.
Speaker 4: So I was like, I don't know if that's true.
Speaker 2: But it's crazy. That is crazy. That is crazy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's I ain't see that one for like two
Speaker 5: days though my brother. My brother actually sent it to me.
Speaker 5: That was after I think the game, like one or
Speaker 5: two of Denver Serious.
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen wind Crash Brother Artists. I painted
Speaker 2: a picture for.
Speaker 4: You that's actually funny.
Speaker 1: A ship.
Speaker 2: You have that mother fucking hogs but he had he
Speaker 2: had him and everything.
Speaker 4: Remember oh ship was going through it there.
Speaker 2: With three artists on your summer time rotation.
Speaker 4: Probably Baby Dirt and.
Speaker 2: Doug album crazy alb is crazy, know.
Speaker 3: He kind of reminds me of a little bit with
Speaker 3: a little less country accident Ja Jason Williams, no question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we gotta come. We gotta come up with him.
Speaker 3: Let him know, let him corrupt you though, because that
Speaker 3: right there is burns but a little bit, especially because
Speaker 3: Jay Will came in with this little come over to
Speaker 3: remember the white boys. Jay Will came in with the
Speaker 3: comb over to.
Speaker 2: He was you got to get a pair of your
Speaker 2: shoes with the white chocolate two point oh, they got
Speaker 2: to the class. Got to do Will, No not, I'm
Speaker 2: with j Will.
Speaker 3: Assuming you've been to Las Vegas, do you have any
Speaker 3: uh that you can share with us, any fun stuff
Speaker 3: that happened out here to you?
Speaker 4: They were probably Bron's first or our first mini camp
Speaker 4: out here.
Speaker 5: Uh, it was my rookie year. And I remember I
Speaker 5: gott in a sprinter with it. I think it was me, Bron,
Speaker 5: Russ Mellow, and a D I don't know why the
Speaker 5: hell I was in there.
Speaker 2: I was still need some color. I was the other color.
Speaker 2: I was still I was still on my two head.
Speaker 5: Uh, I was still on my two ad at the time,
Speaker 5: and you know, trying to get get a roster spot.
Speaker 5: And I remember we were walking in somewhere and Bron
Speaker 5: looked at me, asked me if if I heard of
Speaker 5: some band. I was like nah, and then he was like,
Speaker 5: you know who the Beatles are? I was like yeah,
Speaker 5: he was like, we're the Beatles. I was like, ship
Speaker 5: we walk in you know everybody obviously you know it
Speaker 5: goes crazy. So that was probably my favorite, just like,
Speaker 5: you know, seeing it firsthand for the first time, you
Speaker 5: know how you know his life.
Speaker 2: Really is every day five dinner guests did are alive.
Speaker 4: That's tough.
Speaker 5: We talk about this stuff on the plane though. I
Speaker 5: think you got to go to Jesus at one Thank
Speaker 5: you Jesus.
Speaker 2: Hey soon. I would say, Kobe, you forget a chance
Speaker 2: to meet him? No, I never.
Speaker 5: I'm I'm really a sports head, so probably Tiger shooters,
Speaker 5: golf fan.
Speaker 1: He said, he don't even want to talk about golf though.
Speaker 1: Talk you want about the ship next to PGA pimping man.
Speaker 4: Honestly, probably my grandfather passed away six seven years ago.
Speaker 6: And then last spot you're given the man that's tough.
Speaker 6: Uh stop, No, probably I mean probably Drake.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, Phusy not a bad table. If you could
Speaker 1: see one guest on our show, who would it be?
Speaker 1: But you have to help us get your answer on
Speaker 1: our show.
Speaker 2: Y'all had d lo mm hmm. That's my god. Good one, Yeah,
Speaker 2: A good one. Yeah, because I want to ask him
Speaker 2: about the whole snitch you know, you know me, I
Speaker 2: wanted to know I had I was.
Speaker 1: I was very vocal about that during that time. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, that's one thing. One thing about it.
Speaker 1: Niggas with cheese don't like rats, So you need talk
Speaker 1: about that. You want to clear the air on that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to, you know, clear his name. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, gott this muddle your name. I well, man,
Speaker 1: that's a wrap, Austin Reeves. We appreciate your time, man, best.
Speaker 3: Best the Lucky Fever, best of luck this upcoming season
Speaker 3: with the Lakers, all that big Bread, Showtime Basketball YouTube.
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Speaker 1: You