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Speaker 3: the seventy Sixers Insiders podcast.
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3: Great to have you. And we talk about the schedule
Speaker 3: in the NBA, including a game day, but the travel days.
Speaker 3: When it's a travel day, what city in the league
Speaker 3: do you look forward to going to most.
Speaker 5: This year has definitely been Orlando, just because I'm familiar
Speaker 5: with the city. I've been there five years, just kind
Speaker 5: of knew the ins and outs of the city, and
Speaker 5: it was just great to get back to in the
Speaker 5: middle of December because of the the warm weather.
Speaker 3: You got to play in one of the two games there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got to play in one of the two
Speaker 5: games there. It was a great game. We ended up winning.
Speaker 5: We won both times down there, which felt really good.
Speaker 5: But the one that I played in was it was
Speaker 5: the first game back, and that one that one felt
Speaker 5: really good.
Speaker 3: And then on an off day, describe your perfect off day.
Speaker 5: A perfect off day would probably wake up like around
Speaker 5: get a nice little sleeping like around ten ten thirty,
Speaker 5: wake up, have a nice little egg sandwich with some
Speaker 5: buttered toasted toasted white bread with some buttered you know,
Speaker 5: some butter in there, egg and cheese sandwich. Gets to
Speaker 5: the gym, get a nice little workout, nice low sweating,
Speaker 5: get treatment, get a massage, come back home, chill basically
Speaker 5: most of the day. Maybe do another treatment session in there,
Speaker 5: maybe a little pt depending on what I got going on,
Speaker 5: but other than that home video games?
Speaker 4: Chill, what video games?
Speaker 5: I've been playing a little two K lately, been playing
Speaker 5: Madden a good amount lately, more sports gamer, yet more
Speaker 5: of a sports game, a little bit of Fortnite since
Speaker 5: they came back with the old season.
Speaker 4: But those are the three games.
Speaker 3: Your background New York, the greater Philadelphia area as well,
Speaker 3: so you were you saw the NBA from a distance
Speaker 3: in some of these local teams. But since you've been
Speaker 3: in the league, is there anything that would surprise fans
Speaker 3: about life in the NBA or that surprised you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, depending on who you are, obviously, and you know
Speaker 5: your family, some guys married some guys or you know, single.
Speaker 4: Bachelors or whatever.
Speaker 5: But it's a lot of free time on your hands,
Speaker 5: you know, And that's both good and bad because that's
Speaker 5: when you fin find trouble depending on who you are, obviously,
Speaker 5: but it's a lot of free time on your hands,
Speaker 5: especially like after practice, you had a lot of free time.
Speaker 5: But one thing that might surprise a lot of people
Speaker 5: is just how much of the day like practice may take,
Speaker 5: you know, and then it's a lot of free time.
Speaker 5: But practice practice will start at like eleven twelve o'clock,
Speaker 5: like you're getting in the gym, you're getting at the
Speaker 5: practice facility. I probably like nine, like today I got
Speaker 5: into a forty five, and then you go through like
Speaker 5: your routine and you know, you shoot, you lift, you
Speaker 5: go through treatment, you do film, you do a whole
Speaker 5: bunch of stuff. So it's like kind of like a
Speaker 5: you know, five six hour day, depending on you know
Speaker 5: how you who you are and how you spend it.
Speaker 5: But other than that, it's a lot of free time.
Speaker 3: And your prep basketball at the West Town School, you
Speaker 3: were near the Sixers at that time. So now that
Speaker 3: you're a first year seventy six er, what's been your
Speaker 3: best memory?
Speaker 5: I remember, I think it was like my senior year
Speaker 5: or junior year. Daniel Chef, who was a Villanova legend.
Speaker 5: He played a preseason game against the Sixers, and I
Speaker 5: remember I think Ko was on that team.
Speaker 4: He was like a rookie. No no, no, Ko.
Speaker 3: I thought you met the Sixers team was a he
Speaker 3: was a rookie, I believe.
Speaker 5: And another memory I actually have was the first NBA
Speaker 5: floor I actually like got to like shoot around and
Speaker 5: play on was the Sixers floor at the Wells Fargo Center.
Speaker 5: It was like a workout and random day in the
Speaker 5: middle of the summer, one of our coaches hit me
Speaker 5: up and he was like, hey, like, we're renting out.
Speaker 5: We got access to the sixers floor, and I remember
Speaker 5: driving like two hours from New York because I was
Speaker 5: just so excited to just be out there on the
Speaker 5: NBA floor. I'll find a picture if you guys wanted,
Speaker 5: but it was that that was a really.
Speaker 4: Cool moment for me.
Speaker 3: That is a very cool moment. Indeed, And for time purposes,
Speaker 3: we're going to do our rapid fire around here and
Speaker 3: other guys have had more time to think about this
Speaker 3: dinner table question, but we're going to group it into
Speaker 3: the rapid fire. So you plus four guests, what's your
Speaker 3: dream dinner table?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 5: Definitely ought to have Barack Obama in there. That's That's
Speaker 5: one of the I don't really get starstruck anymore because
Speaker 5: I feel like I've met everyone I needed, you know,
Speaker 5: wanted to ever meet. But Barack Obama was one of
Speaker 5: those one of those guys and one of those people
Speaker 5: who I would love to just sit down and just
Speaker 5: have a chat with. And then the other three could
Speaker 5: be anybody, you know, I might throw on Kevin Hart,
Speaker 5: because he's not only is he funny, but he's actually
Speaker 5: very smart, very worldly. You know, he's been around the block,
Speaker 5: you know, everywhere in the world, so he'd be a
Speaker 5: cool guy to just you know, talk to and get
Speaker 5: some stories from.
Speaker 4: And then.
Speaker 5: Could be anybody like Kevin Hart the other Yeah, I'll
Speaker 5: like Kevin Hart bringing to some celebrity guests.
Speaker 3: Favorite superhero.
Speaker 4: Favorite superhero probably be Black Panther.
Speaker 3: If you didn't play basketball, what sport would you play?
Speaker 4: Tennis? Maybe?
Speaker 3: What would your DJ name be?
Speaker 4: Just DJ Mobamba.
Speaker 3: The vet who made the biggest impact on you as
Speaker 3: a young player.
Speaker 5: Probably Tobias because I mean I've known him before before
Speaker 5: coming to the Sixers. I remember sitting down with him.
Speaker 5: He lives right upstairs from me in Orlando. I remember
Speaker 5: sitting down with him right before I think my fourth year,
Speaker 5: and he was just telling me, like, you got to
Speaker 5: bring it this year, you.
Speaker 4: Know what I mean.
Speaker 5: We were just sitting there chatting and talking about a
Speaker 5: whole bunch of different stuff. But he's been really impactful,
Speaker 5: just different stuff even off the court, like you know,
Speaker 5: financial stuff, you know how to manage stress, expectations, all
Speaker 5: of that.
Speaker 4: He's been a really really good vet for me.
Speaker 3: What's your favorite place to visit.
Speaker 5: There's a little small village in the south of France
Speaker 5: named Saint Basil. I went down there with my girlfriend's
Speaker 5: family and it was it was a great trip. You know,
Speaker 5: it's not really much to do there, but it was
Speaker 5: very it was warm, it's very scenic. We were like
Speaker 5: kind of in the valley.
Speaker 4: Great trip.
Speaker 3: What's a place that you would wish to visit someday?
Speaker 5: Probably like Bali, Like like that little somewhere, you know,
Speaker 5: those islands in the far east right over Australia. I
Speaker 5: think that's somewhere where I want to want to.
Speaker 3: This needs to be a specific time, but favorite time of.
Speaker 4: Day man, probably like around two o'clock.
Speaker 3: Favorite color sixers uniform, the navy or the red, A
Speaker 3: lot of red because I think wearing it has impacted
Speaker 3: decisions today. Which teammate would you bring with you to
Speaker 3: an important family dinner?
Speaker 4: No? No?
Speaker 1: And you've maybe to bias maybe?
Speaker 3: And finally, what do your coaches and teammates call you?
Speaker 3: All right? Mo, thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 4: Appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 6: Th six eight from friends Boom Boom, Nico ba Dooom
Speaker 6: Nico Batoom.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the seventy six Ers Insiders podcast. Thank you
Speaker 2: for sitting down with us. I want to start here,
Speaker 2: how did you become such a good inbounder?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean I think I've been doing
Speaker 4: that for a very long time.
Speaker 6: I've been putting the situation in for a while. I
Speaker 6: mean I've been in the NBA for like sixteen years now,
Speaker 6: and I think I've been doing that since my second
Speaker 6: or third year, Like big game situation, So I kin
Speaker 6: used to it now, like playoff games, like play game
Speaker 6: under pressure, and I'm pretty.
Speaker 7: Much used to it now sixteen years.
Speaker 2: What's the biggest change you've seen in the NBA from
Speaker 2: when you started until now?
Speaker 6: When I stopped playing, there was like two legit big men,
Speaker 6: like in the starning lineup. You need it to seventh
Speaker 6: footer like in this state inside to play the game.
Speaker 6: And now it's just pretty much four guards and one big.
Speaker 7: Now sometimes you're the big man.
Speaker 6: Sometime I'm the big man, and sometimes the big men
Speaker 6: play punt guard like a point forward used to be
Speaker 6: a point for a nice point selling that. So yeah,
Speaker 6: a lot of change in fifteen years. Still going basketball.
Speaker 2: I love asking international players this question, what do you
Speaker 2: think the biggest difference between guys that grew up playing
Speaker 2: in the States and guys that grew up playing internationally is.
Speaker 6: I think the way you they're teaching you the game
Speaker 6: of basketball. I mean the way I was when I
Speaker 6: was younger, Like the way they would teach me the
Speaker 6: game and the way I play, Like when I see, like,
Speaker 6: for example, my son, like when I go to his practice,
Speaker 6: he's seven years old, and the way like it's being
Speaker 6: taught the game is totally different, you know, And I
Speaker 6: don't know, like because we grew up I mean we
Speaker 6: play against pros and grown men very early, don't really
Speaker 6: do the college system on the high school stuff. We
Speaker 6: don't really do the same way. So when we come in,
Speaker 6: we we kind of know to play the game. We've
Speaker 6: meant physically the way better here now this is passing
Speaker 6: like the craziest crazy stuff, like the stronger, the more
Speaker 6: physicals they may be more like more athletic for sure,
Speaker 6: But when we come in like we've been through, like okay,
Speaker 6: we know to play the game of basketball. We just
Speaker 6: need to match the intensity and the physical part of here.
Speaker 2: What's something that your son is learning that you didn't
Speaker 2: learn or something. You watch him learn and you're like,
Speaker 2: who wah, whoa he doesn't need.
Speaker 6: To do No, I mean the way I mean he's
Speaker 6: doing stuff, like like I didn't know how to do
Speaker 6: that when.
Speaker 4: I was seven eight years old.
Speaker 7: So it's positive.
Speaker 6: Yeah, some stuff stuff I might just get sometimes, like
Speaker 6: can miss some steps, like the way you play you
Speaker 6: earn the game. But I mean he's too young. He's
Speaker 6: having fun, so I don't really care about it right now.
Speaker 7: Good parenting.
Speaker 2: When you think about you're sixteen in the NBA Philadelphia
Speaker 2: seventy six ers, what's the best part of your job
Speaker 2: right now?
Speaker 6: I'm in the NBA. I mean, I'm a basketball player
Speaker 6: in the NBA. I realized the chance I have, Like
Speaker 6: you know, we've been there so long. I know I'm
Speaker 6: not a lot of famer. I'm not an All Star
Speaker 6: or whatever, but I'm still seeking. You're in this stick
Speaker 6: and still playing, and I'm playing time for a very
Speaker 6: good team. You Know, It's funny because when I'm still
Speaker 6: on the court and sometimes I see on the coaching
Speaker 6: staff guy who we're drafting like the same years as me,
Speaker 6: or after me, Like guy were drafted after me and
Speaker 6: adding coaching staff or do whatever stuff and I'm still playing.
Speaker 6: I'm like, yeah, and me, I've done something right.
Speaker 7: You shared something with me when we were in Chicago.
Speaker 2: You talked about having a really good time with this
Speaker 2: team and enjoying the energy that's here.
Speaker 7: What's the best part of this team?
Speaker 6: You know, like especially right now, you know we're going
Speaker 6: we go through tough times and because we missed your
Speaker 6: best players and we're sticking together no matter what, that's
Speaker 6: the good the good part of this team. I mean
Speaker 6: you can have easily guys like pointing fingers, finding sk
Speaker 6: series or just ever to go to his own way
Speaker 6: that I cam the hero whatever. No, are we even
Speaker 6: if it's tough right now, we're still sticking together. No,
Speaker 6: we're going to work every day. We're going to try
Speaker 6: to find a way to be successful, and we're gonna
Speaker 6: be Okay.
Speaker 2: Take me back to young Nico. What was your favorite
Speaker 2: subject in school?
Speaker 4: Matt?
Speaker 7: What was your least favorite subject in school?
Speaker 4: French?
Speaker 1: Actually, really it's French is stuff.
Speaker 7: I believe it. I can't speak French.
Speaker 4: French, can you? No? Now? French is not easy though,
Speaker 4: it's very very.
Speaker 2: Tough, beautiful language, though, is I like listening to people
Speaker 2: speak French esthetically much more pleasing than English.
Speaker 4: Right, I'm French.
Speaker 6: I don't really understand that actually people like a lot
Speaker 6: of people say that pretty much French is language of blah.
Speaker 6: I'm like, you should really learn her, like when we
Speaker 6: talk like, I don't think.
Speaker 1: It's a it's the language of hate sometimes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so yeah, we're not means French and stuff that
Speaker 6: I was like, what are you good in French?
Speaker 4: In school?
Speaker 2: You're hosting a dinner party, a hypothetical dinner party tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: You can have four guests dead, are alive, people you know,
Speaker 2: people you don't know. Who do you invite to the table?
Speaker 4: My dad I lost. My dad was three years old,
Speaker 4: so my dad's for sure.
Speaker 7: It's a great answer.
Speaker 4: Oh MJ I all to no?
Speaker 7: Like which one?
Speaker 4: Both? Actually? Oh? Why not?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 4: Both?
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a good one. Both actually and NASA nondetta
Speaker 6: great table.
Speaker 7: What are you guys gonna eat?
Speaker 4: French food? French and African food?
Speaker 7: Awesome? What's something that scares you?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Being a dad and that change everything for me. I
Speaker 1: got two kids.
Speaker 6: We get two kids, So I got a boy seven
Speaker 6: year old and a daughter three year old.
Speaker 1: So now anything I put to them, Yes.
Speaker 7: What's the best gift you've ever given someone?
Speaker 6: You know, we got a chance to be successful and
Speaker 6: buy your house, to your own family and make sure
Speaker 6: like your wife and kids, like I said, and you okay,
Speaker 6: they're okay. I mean I think I've done my job.
Speaker 6: I think that's a gift I've made to them.
Speaker 7: It's fantastic. What's the best gift you've ever received?
Speaker 4: My two kids?
Speaker 7: These are good answers, these are meaningful.
Speaker 6: I'm dead terrorist, Like you know, when before like you
Speaker 6: became like a family guy and a dad, you don't
Speaker 6: understand what life is. And since we have those our
Speaker 6: family and my wife that gave me those two kids,
Speaker 6: I mean, this is the best gift I ever had
Speaker 6: for sure.
Speaker 7: Who are you closest to on this team?
Speaker 6: I mean Jordan and I have known each other for
Speaker 6: a while now, I mean I met him before he
Speaker 6: got drafted to like it was kinny and young and
Speaker 6: could we wear the same roots? You know, it's from
Speaker 6: Cameroon and my dad's from Cameron and my old dad
Speaker 6: side and my name from Cameron, so we have that
Speaker 6: connection and we both speak frenchs Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Joey okay, rapid fire around, no thinking, just answers. Ready, Yes,
Speaker 2: he's your favorite superhero Batman.
Speaker 7: If you didn't play basketball.
Speaker 1: What would you play tennis player?
Speaker 7: What would your DJ name be?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 7: And where would you be DJing? Like South of France?
Speaker 4: Probably my DJ name?
Speaker 6: Oh, I don't know, DJ Nico. Keep it simple, fair enough.
Speaker 7: Branding is easier if you're just DJ Nico. That's fair.
Speaker 2: Who's the vet that made the biggest impact on you
Speaker 2: when you were young in your career?
Speaker 4: Brandon Roy?
Speaker 7: Favorite place to visit friends, somewhere you've never visited, but.
Speaker 1: Wished to Australia actor?
Speaker 2: Who would play you in a movie? What's miss favorite
Speaker 2: time of day?
Speaker 4: Morning?
Speaker 7: But like specifically what time on.
Speaker 4: The clock they say? Seven am?
Speaker 7: What's your favorite color? Sixers uniform?
Speaker 4: Red?
Speaker 2: You walk into the locker room, you see red and
Speaker 2: you're like, eh.
Speaker 6: I wish you would bring the black one two thousand
Speaker 6: and one back?
Speaker 7: Those are tough. The fan favorite?
Speaker 4: Oh, I mean that was my favorite one.
Speaker 2: If you had to bring a teammate to a family dinner,
Speaker 2: who would you bring.
Speaker 4: Joe out here? He's only one speaking ferential.
Speaker 7: Oh so he just fits in at the table. It's
Speaker 7: just more efficient. I got you. What are your coaches
Speaker 7: and teammates call.
Speaker 1: You Nico Nico.
Speaker 4: YEAHY call me Nico Nico.
Speaker 7: Thank you so much for joining us, of course,