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Speaker 1: Welcome to this League Uncut in the rule.

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Speaker 2: Of twenty four hour NBA News.

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Speaker 3: This is you, Chris Haynes. It's time, work's.

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Speaker 1: Time, it's so time. This League Uncut is underway and

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Speaker 1: on fire. This should be a good one.

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Speaker 2: It is going to be a good one.

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Speaker 4: A different kind of show, a different kind of this

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Speaker 4: league Uncut. Mark Stein here with Chris Haynes. Back here

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Speaker 4: with you, recording on a Sunday night for a Monday

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Speaker 4: morning drop. A little bit closer to the usual schedule

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Speaker 4: this time of year. Of course, the vagaries of Chris

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Speaker 4: Haynes's travel schedule. He's got to do sideline. He's going

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Speaker 4: from series to series to series. So we're back on

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Speaker 4: our normal track, able to get together here on this

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Speaker 4: Sunday night. We're gonna start off with some playoff talk,

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Speaker 4: but also we do have an interview with Dink Pate,

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Speaker 4: Dallas based six ' eight point guard, seventeen years old,

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Speaker 4: huge newsmaker because he's foregoing his senior year.

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Speaker 2: Of high school.

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Speaker 4: He's a junior in high school right now, but he

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Speaker 4: is basically he's committed to a two year deal with

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Speaker 4: the G League Ignite for next season and the season

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Speaker 4: after not eligible for the NBA Draft until twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 4: but he has basically committed his next two years to

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Speaker 4: playing for the G League Ignite, as Scoot Henderson did,

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Speaker 4: but even younger than Scoot as he makes this jump,

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Speaker 4: so he's not going to college, not even going to

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Speaker 4: finish his senior year of high school, going to go

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Speaker 4: right to the pros with the G League Ignite. We

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Speaker 4: have a fun conversation with Dink to kind of get

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Speaker 4: his story, get his perspective as he makes this very

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Speaker 4: early move to the pros at the age of seventeen.

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Speaker 4: But like I said, we will start with the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: The first week of the NBA Playoffs hasn't been the funnest.

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Speaker 4: So many big injuries, so many significant injuries, so much

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Speaker 4: focus on officiating, and look, that always happens in the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: Of course it does. We know that injuries impact every postseason.

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Speaker 4: Officiating controversies are always in the headlines. It just feels

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Speaker 4: like this year it's that way from the jump because again,

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Speaker 4: just so many you know, Job missing a game, giannisnd

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Speaker 4: Decumpo and Kawhi Leonard missing two each, Joel Embiid missing

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Speaker 4: a game, Tyler Hero with the broken hand and then

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Speaker 4: the awful Victor Oladipo scene Saturday night that really tough

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Speaker 4: to watch him just drive down, you know, drive into

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Speaker 4: the paint and his left knee just buckled. It was awful,

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Speaker 4: awful to watch. So I mean, you know, we're recording

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Speaker 4: this now on Sunday night. The Sunday games have in

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Speaker 4: you know, much better. I think, you know, I think

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Speaker 4: we we can rightly get excited about the scenes that

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Speaker 4: we saw, you know, Nix and calvs.

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Speaker 2: Game four.

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Speaker 4: A lot of stakes there, obviously New York seizing a

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Speaker 4: three to one lead, and we know what happens when

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Speaker 4: teams go up three to one.

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Speaker 2: So big performance for the Knicks to win that game.

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Speaker 4: For huge decision from Tom Thibodeaux to go away from

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Speaker 4: Julius Randall in the fourth quarter. Tom Thibodeaux, who's really

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Speaker 4: seen as one of the more rigid coaches in the NBA,

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Speaker 4: and he totally goes away from the script with Toppin

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Speaker 4: a combination that he hasn't been using in the Knicks

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Speaker 4: and then Warriors Kings. The series that Chris is headed

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Speaker 4: Draymond Green back.

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Speaker 2: They pull that thing out.

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Speaker 4: Chris Haynes, are you ready to step into the cauldron

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Speaker 4: that is going to be Warriors at Kings Game five

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Speaker 4: in your home city where you now reside. Chris Haynes

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Speaker 4: gets a home game this.

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Speaker 3: Week, first time, Yeah, first time. I'm excited because I

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Speaker 3: haven't experienced that atmosphere yet, that playoff atmosphere with the Kings,

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Speaker 3: and I feel like I'll be missing a little bit

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Speaker 3: of the real, true, authentic atmosphere because they've banned the

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Speaker 3: cowbells now, so I won't get I won't get to

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Speaker 3: hear that now.

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Speaker 2: I didn't even know that they have.

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Speaker 3: They have, So I'm gonna tell you why. I'm glad

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Speaker 3: you asked that. Stun So. There was a video of

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Speaker 3: just rigging this bell right behind Bob Myers's head, like

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Speaker 3: And so after that, the Kings the band, so they

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Speaker 3: So what I will say is this, I was told

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Speaker 3: by Raymond Ritter, the Warriors pr ficionado, one of your

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Speaker 3: that the NBA had outlawed for all NBA teams that

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Speaker 3: they can't bring any noises, they can't bring any type

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Speaker 3: of contra yeah noise, yeah, noise making devices. So that

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Speaker 3: was already a law within the NBA, but they allowed

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Speaker 4: The thing about that video, though, like what little we

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Speaker 4: saw of it, Bob Myers was so stoic, like he

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Speaker 2: So I guess, like I said this, I totally missed.

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Speaker 4: I didn't see the announcement that the cow bells will

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Speaker 4: not be allowed for Game five. And like you said,

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Speaker 4: on one hand, it's always been a feature of Kings games.

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Speaker 4: But don't anyone get mad at the messenger. We have

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Speaker 4: to be honest here. It's the first time in seventeen seasons.

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Speaker 4: Remember it was a sixteen year playoff drought. First time

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Speaker 4: in seventeen years that we've seen the Kings in the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: So what was maybe the passable norm in two thousand

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Speaker 4: But that's really interesting that this in series change is

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Speaker 4: we know that Sacramento crowd is absolutely gonna go nuts there.

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Speaker 4: I mean the question is did they I mean, you know.

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Speaker 3: Have they Yeah, they missed a golden opportunity in Game

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because look, I think the Warriors really made it

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Speaker 4: I think they've found something there. We saw Draymond's impact defensively.

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Speaker 4: and despite all of the Warriors crazy mistakes in the

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Speaker 4: you know, I still keep believing even though this Warriors

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Speaker 4: they've got that NBA record twenty seven playoff series in

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Speaker 4: this is the big you know, this is the biggest

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Speaker 2: They can't they can't lose this Game five.

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Speaker 3: And this where pressure comes into play. Are the Sacramento

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Speaker 3: know they're They're not the team that they used to be,

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Speaker 3: I think, the one thing that we all have kind

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Speaker 3: like it seems like you still feel pretty good about

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Speaker 4: Say, I think they already the Kings already showed us

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Speaker 4: I thought Golden State was for sure going to find

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Speaker 4: have already, you know, acquitted themselves really really well in

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Speaker 4: to be a game of just massive interest. I think

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Speaker 4: this series has been the spiciest of the first rounders

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Speaker 4: and the one that you know, it had the most

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Speaker 3: Yet too well so. The Kings and Warriors series had

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Speaker 3: But this King's Warriors game right here, man, it's going

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Speaker 3: But you just the war is they've been here, they've

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Speaker 3: and he played that. He played that SoundBite to us.

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Speaker 3: He played it to his team. He said, because if

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Speaker 3: to show as whenever up to oh you couldn't argue

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Speaker 3: at all, but it takes two more to advance. So

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Speaker 3: I can't wait. I'm looking forward to that atmosphere again

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Speaker 3: for my first time working a TNT game at home.

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Speaker 3: So it's going to be cool. I'm actually not going

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Speaker 3: stay up. I'm gonna stay at the house.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if that's a mistake or not, but

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Speaker 3: I've got because I don't want to set the president.

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Speaker 3: I don't want them to be like Chris, you know what, man,

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Speaker 3: We're gonna send you, send you to covering all the

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Speaker 3: Kings games. We're like, okay, but yeah, you gotta stay home.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to set that precedent, you know what

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Speaker 3: I mean, Because I might I might be in trouble

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Speaker 3: to time, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: Well, since we're living vicariously through you, before we even get.

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Speaker 2: To all of those difficult decisions.

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Speaker 4: So you got Lakers Grizzlies Game four Monday?

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Speaker 3: Correct, That is correct, that Monday, So that would be

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Speaker 3: that'd be tomorrow when it's pod drops. Yeah, so yeah, the.

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Speaker 4: Same day as this is when this pod drops. But

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Speaker 4: I want to go back to the series that you've

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Speaker 4: been You've done three of the four games in the

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Speaker 4: Sun's Clippers series. Obviously, Clippers get the game one win

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Speaker 4: the last two games, Phoenix has seized a three to

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Speaker 4: Know, it's gonna be state of the art, and you're right,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, you said it. That has been the one

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Speaker 4: You know, the Clippers were so roundly second guest for

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Speaker 3: he's working on, and he wanted me to announce that

432
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:40,120
Speaker 3: he's dropping his new album next month. He didn't give

433
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 3: me the name. He didn't give me who's being featured

434
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,479
Speaker 3: on it as of right now, but he's dropping his

435
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 3: new album next month. Also, Michel Bridges, you know, that's

436
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 3: a really good friend of his. And he said he

437
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 3: went out there support him. And this was his first

438
00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 3: NBA game attending as a professional player. He's never attended

439
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 3: another NBA game since he was drafted in two thousand.

440
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 2: So his fan debut court sid.

441
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,919
Speaker 3: Exactly. It's fan debut. And I know people making the

442
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 3: connection and all that stuff, trying to connect dots. There's

443
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 3: no dots to be connected right now. But I will

444
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:23,919
Speaker 3: add this. Stein, he told me this. He also tried

445
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,639
Speaker 3: to get a court side seat to the Knicks game,

446
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,679
Speaker 3: but they couldn't accommodate him. They didn't have a ticket,

447
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,399
Speaker 3: they couldn't get him a ticket for the seat that

448
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,800
Speaker 3: he wanted. And the Brooklyn Nets were the only team

449
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 3: that was able to accommodate him to get a court

450
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 3: side seat. So you actually would have seen him at

451
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 3: a Nets and the next game, but he couldn't get

452
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:47,680
Speaker 3: the CD wanted and Styn.

453
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:49,879
Speaker 2: Don't look at now. I will just say this.

454
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,360
Speaker 4: I will just say this, court side seats at Madison

455
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:58,440
Speaker 4: Square Garden right now have to be very, very very

456
00:25:58,480 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 4: in demand.

457
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,400
Speaker 2: The Knicks are as.

458
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:05,680
Speaker 4: Hot as they've been for ten years, twenty years. I

459
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:10,439
Speaker 4: mean the two games there this weekend, the raucousness of

460
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,120
Speaker 4: the crowd, the.

461
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,720
Speaker 3: Hey, you're saying this wise steincause.

462
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, Oh, I'm saying all that, but I'm

463
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 4: saying but that was kind of my lead in to say,

464
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 4: if Damian Lillard wants a court side ticket, somehow I'm

465
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,119
Speaker 4: finding a way to get him aside ticket, no matter

466
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:26,959
Speaker 4: how in demand it is.

467
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:30,400
Speaker 3: Stein. Look, I've watched you know, I watched those next games,

468
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 3: especially in the playoffs, and they always show the stars

469
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,880
Speaker 3: and the celebrities that are there, and I'm like, come

470
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,199
Speaker 3: on now, I'm seeing some of these people and I'm like,

471
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 3: come on now, you got them, Dame, Dame. You couldn't

472
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 3: accommodate Dame. It's not like he's asking for a discount.

473
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,200
Speaker 3: He's going he's going to pay the money, Dame Lillard.

474
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,439
Speaker 3: But yeah, the Knicks couldn't have come there. They couldn't

475
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 3: get them in. So Dame was not able to sit

476
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 3: courtside of the Necks game.

477
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:01,119
Speaker 4: Interesting, not the content, not where I thought this story

478
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,440
Speaker 4: was going. But that's where that's why we that's why

479
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 4: we consult the NBA's foremost damologist for the real for

480
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 4: the real story.

481
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 3: Will you be buying Dame's latest album Stein?

482
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,199
Speaker 2: I will be waiting for the media review copy.

483
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,399
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, so you're gonna wait for me, that's what

484
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,919
Speaker 3: you said. That's what you said, wait for me to

485
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 3: tell you how it is.

486
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 4: Okay, But you know, if you want to do a review,

487
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 4: if you want to do a formal review, you know

488
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:32,119
Speaker 4: we should.

489
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,159
Speaker 2: We should do that. We should, we should let you

490
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 2: give it a formal review.

491
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 3: I've gave Dame some suggestions on which way he should

492
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,360
Speaker 3: go with this next album. I want to see if

493
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:44,160
Speaker 3: he follows suit.

494
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 2: I've actually been and what's your gut? Will he listen

495
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,159
Speaker 2: or is he No?

496
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:53,640
Speaker 3: No, I don't think he'll listen. No, I don't think

497
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 3: he'll listen. But I gave it anyway. So I've actually

498
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 3: been in the studio with Dame a few times. And

499
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 3: I remember one time when to the studio. We're in

500
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,919
Speaker 3: LA this off season, probably about five years ago, and

501
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 3: he said, come up to the studio. I forgot where

502
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 3: the studio was at, but I went, and it's funny.

503
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 3: It gave me see start this is the state. I'm

504
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 3: not gonna put your business out there, but you you

505
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:20,160
Speaker 3: know a little bit about man. Yeah, okay, okay.

506
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 4: I am not qualified in any way, shape or form

507
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 4: to me.

508
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:26,679
Speaker 3: You have. Yeah, you're associated somehow, You're associated somehow with

509
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 3: this feel. That's all I will say. But it's really

510
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:35,640
Speaker 3: interesting how the the process of coming up with ideas

511
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 3: and stories in the studio. It's it's it's interesting how

512
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 3: it comes about. So I was in the studio and

513
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 3: it's Dame and there's a producer, you know, at the

514
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 3: desk and he's playing Dame songs, playing them songs, and

515
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 3: they just excuse me playing them instrumentals. They just keep

516
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 3: going over instrumentals. So this process is about it's ours.

517
00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 3: You're playing, you're playing different instrumentals. You're seeing what sticks in,

518
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 3: you know, and that's what it's about. So there's food there, everything,

519
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 3: you're there, you just kind of want to stay in.

520
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 3: As an artist, you just stay in the room and

521
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 3: you just see what creative juices start to flow. And

522
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 3: so Dam's doing this for a few hours and then

523
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, Too Short comes in, and I'm like,

524
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 3: what in the world. Too Short comes through? So Too

525
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 3: Short comes in and I'm like, wow, this is crazy.

526
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 3: So Too Short sits there and they just start listening.

527
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 3: And so there's like no plan for those two to

528
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 3: collab and do a project, but they just listening to

529
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 3: see if there's a track that they both can vibe to.

530
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 3: And while I was there because I had to leave,

531
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, no music being made. I'm gone. So

532
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 3: as I leave, here comes Lil Wayne comes in. Then

533
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 3: I stay. I'm like i gotta stay for this. Little

534
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 3: Wayne comes in. Same thing. Music is being played, so

535
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 3: there was nothing done on that day that I witnessed,

536
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 3: But it was just interesting to see how the process

537
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 3: of creating music goes and how, you know, how each

538
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 3: artist goes about it.

539
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 2: So this was all in La.

540
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 3: This is all in LA about four or five years ago.

541
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 5: Quite a life.

542
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 4: You lead, Quite a life.

543
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 3: Stein. One day, I'm gonna get you to reveal your

544
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 3: real life. You like, you'd like to keep it all hidden,

545
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 3: but people will be very soil life.

546
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 2: It's so boring. Nobody wants to hear about my life.

547
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 4: But next we are going to throw it to the interview.

548
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 4: We promised you. We have Dink Pate who just signed

549
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 4: a contract that will make him the youngest known American

550
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 4: born professional basketball player.

551
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 2: In the NBA.

552
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 4: Let's check out our convo with Dink right now.

553
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 3: You know, I think it's important on occasion to highlight

554
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 3: some of the up and coming players that you're going

555
00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 3: to see in this league, and this is one right here.

556
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 3: He pretty much made history, and we're going to have

557
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 3: him on the episode. He's actually in Stein's own backyard.

558
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 3: This brother right here goes by the name of Dick

559
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 3: pay DP. He just signed with the G League Knight

560
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 3: and he made American history because this kid is seventeen,

561
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 3: but he reclassified. He's really from the class of twenty

562
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 3: twenty four of high school. Reclassified twenty twenty three. He

563
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 3: entered the Pro Arena G League Knight, and so he'll

564
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 3: be eligible for the NBA Draft in twenty twenty five

565
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 3: and he'll get a chance to play with the G

566
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 3: League Knight for two years prior. And so that's the

567
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 3: youngest American professional basketball player that we know of DP.

568
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 3: Thank you for coming on, man, I just want to

569
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 3: ask real quick man, what has it been like since

570
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 3: you made your decision to reclassify and ultimately sign with

571
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 3: the G League Knight.

572
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 5: You know, it's been crazy. You know, the Internet, every

573
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 5: thing is been everything's been blown up since that day.

574
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,479
Speaker 5: But you know, trying to stay off of that and

575
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,719
Speaker 5: keep my mind focused on my main goal, which is,

576
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 5: you know, going to the G League and getting ready

577
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 5: to play against pro level guys. Is that's my main

578
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 5: focus right now.

579
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:20,959
Speaker 4: Obviously you probably had a zillion colleges coming after you.

580
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 4: How long have you been thinking about going this route

581
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 4: instead to basically make a two year commitment with the

582
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 4: G League to Night because obviously you don't have a choice.

583
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 4: You're not draft eligible till twenty twenty five because the

584
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 4: NBA rules, Like, how did this even come into your

585
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 4: thinking of this is the option I need to take.

586
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 5: When I was younger, I was always you know, before

587
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 5: I even knew what Overseas was or the G League,

588
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 5: I always told myself, like, I'm just not gonna go

589
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 5: to college basketball wise, I always my mindset has always

590
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 5: been pro and I always just think I'm just gonna

591
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 5: go straight to the league.

592
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 3: You know.

593
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 5: So when I got this, when I was present with

594
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 5: this opportunity, you know, of course it was you know,

595
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 5: we we didn't, we didn't, we let it sink in

596
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 5: for a little minute. But when we started thinking about it, like,

597
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 5: this is what I've been saying ever since I was

598
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 5: Jay high. So you know, this is just it's a

599
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 5: it's a dream come true, and it's also a blessing.

600
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 3: So dp there there was there was a possibility in

601
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 3: this this last of CBA agreement that they would potentially

602
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 3: allow for kids to go straight from high school to

603
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 3: the NBA again, and that that did not happen. They

604
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 3: didn't change that, and that kind of shocked a lot

605
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 3: of people. Was that something you were looking at were

606
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 3: you hoping they would change that? How how how closely

607
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 3: were you following.

608
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 5: That I would I wouldn't at all, you know what

609
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 5: I'm saying. I wouldn't just try to be one of

610
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 5: them type of players that just get to the league.

611
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 5: You know, that's not my main goal. Of course, I

612
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 5: want to get to the league, but I want to

613
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 5: be one of those all star top guys, one of

614
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 5: the one of the greats that's talking about, such as Lebron, Kobe, Shag,

615
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 5: all those type of names. You know, getting to the

616
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 5: league is just not I'm not there yet.

617
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 3: You know.

618
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 5: When I get to the league, I don't want to

619
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 5: just be one of those players that's just I can

620
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 5: say I'm in NBA. You know what I'm saying. I

621
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 5: want to be one of those players that you know,

622
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,879
Speaker 5: playing twenty plus years, just like what Lebron is doing

623
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 5: right now.

624
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 2: Dink peate with us.

625
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,880
Speaker 4: This is a fascinating story in the world of basketball.

626
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 4: Just seventeen years old. My neighbor here in Dallas. He's

627
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 4: committed to play the next two years with the G

628
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 4: League Knight. He's not draft eligible until twenty twenty five,

629
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 4: but he already knows what he's going to do with

630
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 4: the next two years of his life, play with the

631
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 4: G League Knight to get ready for the draft, instead

632
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 4: of going the college route, instead of going to Australia,

633
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,320
Speaker 4: instead of doing all these There's a variety of options

634
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 4: now that players have, but so unique to make this

635
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 4: decision when you're a junior in high school. I'm curious

636
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 4: because you're in Dallas. Jaden Hardy, of course with the Mavericks,

637
00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 4: he's been a huge success going from the Ignite to

638
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 4: the Maverick slip to the second round of the draft,

639
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 4: but had a great rookie season here in Dallas. Have

640
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 4: you had any chance to get to know him and

641
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 4: kind of quiz him about what life with the Ignite

642
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 4: is like?

643
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 5: Not really, you know, I just know people that know him,

644
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 5: like School Henderson, when having a conversation with him, you know,

645
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,919
Speaker 5: because I'm doing basically doing the same thing he did.

646
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 5: You know, he was the youngest to do it. My

647
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 5: birthdays in March is in February. That's why I am

648
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 5: the youngest as of right now. So you know, when

649
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:33,919
Speaker 5: talking to him and seeing what Ignite has done with him,

650
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 5: he's number He's gonna get drafted.

651
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 4: What basically has his message to you been what advice is?

652
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 5: Just like yes, he was, just like, you know, you

653
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 5: can do the same thing I can do. You can

654
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 5: do the same thing that I'm doing right now, which

655
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,839
Speaker 5: is because he made history and now that I'm making

656
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 5: it for him to do the two year deal and

657
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 5: me to do it now, you know, I think it's

658
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 5: an opportunity that might come around, maybe even more often

659
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:01,800
Speaker 5: met and other places. You never know, you know what

660
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 5: I'm saying. So just looking far ahead right now. Of course,

661
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 5: the G League for me is the reason why I

662
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 5: took this route is the development process. You know, me

663
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 5: coming out of high school. That's why I was telling

664
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 5: you earlier. If I was presented to just go to

665
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 5: the league right out of high school, I wouldn't you know.

666
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 5: I can see myself right now. You know, I'm not

667
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,839
Speaker 5: there yet for me to go out here and get

668
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 5: better and go to this development process like people what

669
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,479
Speaker 5: people tell me out the time, it's scary to see

670
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 5: what the outcome will be.

671
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 3: Okay, DP, Now I gotta put you on the spot

672
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 3: since you opened that door. You want to get to

673
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 3: the league, that's the ultimate goal. But you said the

674
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 3: G leaguing Knight presents the opportunity to be developed for

675
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 3: those two years, so I wouldn't want to say this.

676
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 3: So if the G League Knight didn't exist, and you know,

677
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 3: I'm assuming college would probably been the alternative DP. What

678
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 3: do you think you would have What do you think

679
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 3: you would have had it? What college would have got

680
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:01,800
Speaker 3: DP if you had to go to college?

681
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:03,760
Speaker 4: I hope cal State Fullerton is the answer.

682
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 5: You know, it would have been a real big toss

683
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 5: up between Arkansas and Alabama. But if I had, if

684
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:14,280
Speaker 5: I had, if it had to come down to the wire,

685
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 5: I would have been with the roll time. I would

686
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 5: have went to Alabama, you know. Having a having a

687
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 5: relationship with Coach Oates and Coach Bryant, who is now

688
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,799
Speaker 5: the head coach at Arkansas State. You know, Coach Brian

689
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 5: is me and his relationship is like how me an

690
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 5: assistant coach at Pinston relationship is. You know, I can

691
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 5: come to him for anything and he just he's a

692
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 5: cool coach. But I think coach Coach Oates is also

693
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 5: one of the great coach you know, he came down

694
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 5: to the school a couple of times, came to some

695
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 5: games just to show how down the earth he is,

696
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 5: and I think that's why the main reason why I

697
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 5: would have went to Alabama and saying what they'd have

698
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 5: done with Brandon Miller. And when I went on a

699
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 5: on a fisher out there, you know, I was talking

700
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,839
Speaker 5: to Brandon, he was just like, man, it's just it's

701
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 5: just work. All work is easy work, as he was

702
00:37:58,719 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 5: what he was basically telling me.

703
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:02,840
Speaker 4: So from what I've read about you, you like to

704
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 4: pattern your game after Penny Hardaway. It's been a long

705
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:10,760
Speaker 4: time since Penny Hardaway played in an NBA game. Obviously,

706
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 4: I know there's YouTube video that you can study, but

707
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 4: how does how does the idea to even try to

708
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 4: pattern yourself after Penny? How does that even get on

709
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 4: the radar for someone your age?

710
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 5: Just the whole big guard situation that I that I

711
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 5: got going right now, of course, Penny t Matt Tracy,

712
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 5: m I mean, Magic Johnson, just all type of big

713
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 5: point guards that I that I like to watch, like

714
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 5: Paul George watching somebody like him, Kevin Durrant. But Penny Hardaway,

715
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 5: he's just you know, he was bringing the ball up

716
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 5: the floor and doing the same thing that I'm doing.

717
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:50,839
Speaker 5: I'm doing the same Let me rephrase that I'm doing

718
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 5: the same thing that he was doing. So you know,

719
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 5: when I was talking to Penny, it was just like

720
00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 5: I'm actually talking to him. I'm this is one of

721
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 5: my favorite points guards of all time. So I'm just

722
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 5: do I ask this? Do I want to ask him that?

723
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 5: You know, I don't want to. I ain't want to

724
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 5: miss nothing up, especially being on the phone with him,

725
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 5: just like I don't know what to ask. But he

726
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 5: is a down to earth person. You know, he don't

727
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 5: think he's he's Hollywood too much above himself. But for him,

728
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 5: he's just I think he's a great player, and I

729
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 5: think he should be talked about a lot more.

730
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 2: Have you watched the movie Blue Chips yet?

731
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 5: I've seen Blue Chips maybe a long time ago. I

732
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,439
Speaker 5: ain't seen it recently because actually one of my other

733
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:34,320
Speaker 5: AAU coaches, George Lynch.

734
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 4: He was in that movie, George George Lynch Man. I

735
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 4: covered George Lynch as a Laker beat writer many many,

736
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 4: many years and pounds ago, and that's what I mean.

737
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 2: That's the thing.

738
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 4: You know, George is part of this amazing, you know,

739
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 4: Dallas basketball scene that we have. There are so many

740
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:57,359
Speaker 4: high level players here. Ralphae Albarlow, who is a fantastic

741
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 4: draft analyst and someone who is also in the Dallas community.

742
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 4: I mean, he told me that there are you know,

743
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 4: six seven local players who are draft contenders in this

744
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 4: upcoming draft, in the twenty twenty three draft. What is

745
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,719
Speaker 4: it done for you to be surrounded by all this

746
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 4: good competition and what has it done for your game?

747
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,720
Speaker 5: Of course, it's got me better. I've always been playing

748
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 5: up my whole basketball career so far, so playing against

749
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 5: other top guys, I think the exposure part is good

750
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 5: for it. But when sticking is just when you sticking

751
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 5: strictly to basketball and you see nothing but you and

752
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 5: your defender and your eyes, it's a different mentality that

753
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 5: you get in your in your body. You get that

754
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,759
Speaker 5: feeling like it's that time to hoop. So you know

755
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 5: it's when it's that time to go. You know, it's

756
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 5: always to kill MO from from now on, especially with

757
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 5: me playing against guys that's been in the NBA and

758
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:56,240
Speaker 5: playing with guys that's played in the league, taking advice

759
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 5: from from my teammates that that has already been chopping

760
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 5: it up with me, It's gonna be a great experience.

761
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 5: I'm ready for it.

762
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 3: This is impressive. Again, we're talking with dink pe DP.

763
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 3: He just reclassified, graduated high school early seventeen, signed with

764
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 3: the G League. Knight is going to be with them

765
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 3: for two years before he is NBA draft eligible in

766
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. This kid is talking about studying tapes

767
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 3: of Penny Hardaway. Penny Hardaway, man, that's crazy. So for

768
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 3: those who don't know, please go do your research on

769
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:33,919
Speaker 3: this kid. Look him up. He's a six to eight

770
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,840
Speaker 3: point guard, six eight point guard, athletic point guard. So

771
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 3: that's why he's talking about Penny Hardaway, t Max, some

772
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:44,920
Speaker 3: of these big guards. So DP, when you think about

773
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 3: when you think about your development as a point guard, right,

774
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 3: there are a lot of players that come into this

775
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 3: league and they get put into other positions. I remember

776
00:41:55,920 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 3: when I interviewed Jah before he declared for the draft,

777
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 3: but he wasn't drafted yet, and I asked him, I said,

778
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 3: what is your natural position? And he said, I'm a

779
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 3: point gud. I said, okay, so you're a point guard

780
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:10,880
Speaker 3: he said, he said no, no, I'm a point god.

781
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 3: So he was already committed to that role, you know.

782
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 3: So for you, you know, I know a lot of

783
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 3: players like to say, you know, I'm a basketball player. First,

784
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 3: I'm hooper player. I could play anywhere. What is your

785
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:24,360
Speaker 3: natural what do you see your natural position being in

786
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 3: the league.

787
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 5: Playing that point guard position? That point guard is what

788
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:32,800
Speaker 5: I play. I play on the ball. The main reason

789
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,359
Speaker 5: is I can make the right decision in the most

790
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 5: humblest way. I'm saying it as possible. I feel I

791
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 5: can make the right decision and the right play, and

792
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 5: I'm all about winning. You know, stats is cool, Getting

793
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 5: twenty is cool, but that comes with winning. You know,

794
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 5: playing as a team, you never know how many points

795
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 5: you count in your head what some people do when

796
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 5: you just all about winning.

797
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 4: Obviously, for you, a decision like this, it's not without sacrifices. Obviously,

798
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 4: Now you're not going to go to a school like

799
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 4: Alabama or Arkansas with the huge crowds they get. Obviously

800
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 4: they get much bigger crowds than the Ignite are going

801
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 4: to play in front of no nil no McDonald's game

802
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:16,439
Speaker 4: next year, because you're again you're only a junior next year.

803
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 4: I'm sure you would have been in that McDonald's game.

804
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,800
Speaker 4: How hard was it to kind of leave all those

805
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 4: things behind it and choose this route.

806
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 5: Uh, it's a big sacrifice, you know. But some of

807
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 5: the things that I've seen that there's been a lot

808
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 5: of McDonald's all Americans, that's been them top guys in

809
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 5: high school, and when you're trying to go somewhere far

810
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 5: in the league, they're nowhere to be found. But you know,

811
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 5: the decision that I made. You know, I really don't

812
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 5: put my mind on them type of politics, political things,

813
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 5: my bad, those type of political things, because those are

814
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:54,959
Speaker 5: people's opinions on who should be this and who should

815
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 5: be that, you know. But when I'm playing basketball, I

816
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 5: think that probably would have came with it. But for

817
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:04,719
Speaker 5: me to get going to this development process that I'm

818
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 5: going to go to right now, the McDonald's, all that,

819
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,359
Speaker 5: the Joining Classic, all that stuff is behind me right now.

820
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 3: You know.

821
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:14,359
Speaker 5: My mindset is pro right now, being a pro, being

822
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 5: a better pro, and once I get to that big stage,

823
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,240
Speaker 5: you know, just to show up and do my work.

824
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 3: DP. You talked about some of those players playing in

825
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,839
Speaker 3: the McDonald's on America. You don't see them. You don't

826
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:26,440
Speaker 3: see them. A lot of them. They don't make it

827
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 3: to that point, and that's a that opens up a

828
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 3: good segue for a topic. Something that I've noticed, I

829
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 3: would say probably over the last six years with the

830
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 3: rise of social media and so dp what I've seen

831
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 3: you could tell me, tell me your perspective, because you're

832
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 3: in it. So I've seen a love kids, right, they

833
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,240
Speaker 3: are top some of the top players in high school,

834
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 3: and they already got close to a million followers on

835
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 3: social media, whether that's Twitter, ig, and they're already considered star.

836
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 3: They're already considered public figures. And what I've noticed just

837
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 3: from watching, because you know, I've seen some of these

838
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 3: players coming up, is that that drive they lose a

839
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 3: drive because they feel like they've already made it because

840
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 3: they got the popularity, you know what I mean? So

841
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 3: what what is? What is the role of social media?

842
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:20,799
Speaker 3: How was that play? Because you kind of grew up

843
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 3: in it for us, we got used to it over

844
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 3: the last ten fifteen years before you grew up in it.

845
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 3: Have you seen a negative effect with the rise of

846
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 3: social media and popularity with players as you're trying to

847
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 3: come up and reach your goals?

848
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, of course, I'm kind of technically how how

849
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,800
Speaker 5: my my personality is I'm really a nineties baby, you know,

850
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:52,399
Speaker 5: my favorite rappers, Tupac so him. I think I think

851
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 5: social media kill reality. Social media kill reality because everybody

852
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 5: wants this this cloud everybody that everybody wants clout. You know.

853
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 5: For me, I stay off of social media. I think

854
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 5: social media would would would not have me in a

855
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,919
Speaker 5: position that I'm in right now. I don't. That's why

856
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 5: I don't pay attention to all types of like rankings

857
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 5: and all types of other stuff. I keep my mind

858
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 5: just strictly on basketball. That's my main thing. That's why

859
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 5: I listened to a lot of Tupac. Tupac kept it

860
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:27,800
Speaker 5: real one hundred every percent. Social media is just especially

861
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 5: like Instagram with all the followers and stuff like that.

862
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 5: I mean, it's cool to have fans, yeah, but you

863
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 5: know when people take it to another level. Uh And

864
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 5: and I don't want to go to the gym, man,

865
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 5: I got to go see some people. I gotta go

866
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 5: do this for my social media, for my followers and

867
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 5: stuff like that. That is what's killing a lot of

868
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 5: people today. You know, the social media. It ruined a

869
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 5: lot of reality.

870
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 3: Stein this kid wasn't even born with Tupac died. He

871
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:00,720
Speaker 3: wasn't he wasn't born with and he was playing.

872
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 4: What I was gonna say, Tupac and Penny. He's an

873
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:08,759
Speaker 4: old soul for a seventeen year old. Tell us what

874
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 4: what is your summer look like from here? Because obviously

875
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 4: the Ignite season doesn't start until October ish, So what

876
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 4: you know, what are the next several months look like

877
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 4: for you?

878
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 5: Getting in a gym, getting in a gym, getting bigger.

879
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 5: We travel to Vegas in a few weeks, so getting

880
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 5: down there and starting early, getting ready to meet the guys,

881
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:33,799
Speaker 5: and getting ready to start my development process. You know,

882
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 5: for the next two years, I plan to I plan,

883
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 5: I plan to show people, improve to people what I

884
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:40,839
Speaker 5: can do DP.

885
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 3: So you're going to be around NBA players once you

886
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 3: get to the G League night and eventually you will

887
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 3: be in the NBA as well. But what's one player

888
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:53,320
Speaker 3: or or a few players that you're just most interested

889
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:55,720
Speaker 3: in getting in front of, whether that's on the court

890
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 3: or whether you just want to just have a talk

891
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:00,760
Speaker 3: with them. What's one player that one or two players

892
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 3: that come to mind.

893
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 5: Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant is one of my favorite players

894
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 5: to watch right now. Kevin Durant, Paul George and Lebron

895
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:15,799
Speaker 5: of course, you know Lebron, you better listen to what

896
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,880
Speaker 5: he tells you because if not, you missing out. Dylan

897
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:27,320
Speaker 5: Brooks ain't listening, DP, Dylan Brooks ain't listening. You mentioned

898
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 5: you mentioned KD.

899
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:29,879
Speaker 3: I don't know if you saw the game last night,

900
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 3: but uh, I was on the on the sidelines interview.

901
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:34,919
Speaker 3: I interviewed k D after the game? Did you see

902
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 3: that on T your T d P?

903
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 5: I seen. I think they won yesterday?

904
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 3: Did they were?

905
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:41,399
Speaker 5: I was watching a fight I had to watch.

906
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I just stood understood that. Yeah, h yeah.

907
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 5: So after after the game, Uh, I think I think

908
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 5: we cut the TV out.

909
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 3: You cut the TV at the most important time. Listen

910
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 3: what I'm doing the games, d P. You can't be

911
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 3: cut the game off, really, man, you gotta one to

912
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:00,879
Speaker 3: see who I talk to? Man now I know now

913
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 3: it's all good. Hey, I Bena, get you a one

914
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:07,120
Speaker 3: last one, then we're out of here. DP. When when

915
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,959
Speaker 3: it's time, when it's twenty twenty five, when it's time

916
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 3: to make your make your name known, when you hear

917
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:17,960
Speaker 3: your name called in the NBA draft, and then when

918
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 3: you know you got you know, as of right now,

919
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:24,280
Speaker 3: some of the guys that's going to be in that class.

920
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 3: How do you feel you stack up with the rest

921
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,880
Speaker 3: of that class when it's twenty twenty five, Like, I

922
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:32,279
Speaker 3: don't want to say rank yourself, but how do you

923
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 3: feel you stand out in that class?

924
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 5: I feel I stand out because I can do almost

925
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 5: everything well more height, most people can score only, most

926
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 5: people can maybe dribble only, most people can maybe shoot only.

927
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 5: I feel like I got that in in in the

928
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:52,239
Speaker 5: bag and everything. So you know, my main goal is

929
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,840
Speaker 5: to be the number one overall pick in the class

930
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 5: of twenty twenty five. And I'm gonna keep telling myself

931
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 5: that that's just that's the confidence level I got. And

932
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:03,440
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna never be be little on myself or

933
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 5: never think, never be afraid to say that I want

934
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 5: to be the number one overall pick, because that's what

935
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 5: that's what I want to do, you know, And I'm

936
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 5: gonna work for I'm gonna work hard for the next

937
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 5: two years and improve that to everybody and to myself.

938
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 3: Number one pick.

939
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 4: Six seven or six eight. What should we tell people?

940
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 5: Hopefully, I say by six eleven.

941
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:23,280
Speaker 4: So you you're still growing.

942
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 3: Then he's seventeen, he's still growing. He can grow up

943
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:32,280
Speaker 3: till twenty twenty one. Maybe to that star. His pops

944
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 3: J Moss told me, man, he listened to Tupac nineties soul,

945
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 3: some rock and roll motel. This kid's all over the place. Man.

946
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:43,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can listen to every I listen to everything

947
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 5: every now and then. But if I'm getting ready to

948
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 5: play that All Lies on Me album, it's on. It's

949
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,719
Speaker 5: on repeat. Man, come on now, come on.

950
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:55,680
Speaker 3: Now, this kid man all sy You don't know that

951
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 3: about to All Eyes on Me Star. That's that's that's

952
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 3: what Tupac got out, went to death ro Come on California.

953
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 5: Longs sold five million copies right there, man, and and

954
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 5: Denny and Denny dropped that.

955
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 3: Hit him up then, job, oh my goodness, hit him up.

956
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 3: What sign see DP We gotta I gotta get you

957
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 3: on again. We're gonna talk nothing but nineties hip hop. Man.

958
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, you want me to, you want me to log off,

959
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:24,400
Speaker 4: and you guys can do a music pod without me.

960
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 3: No, this this is about hoop right now. But this

961
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:30,560
Speaker 3: this dude is fascinating, man, So you check him out.

962
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 3: If he got an old soul, you know he's gonna

963
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:35,120
Speaker 3: come correct with game preparation. And you know he got

964
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 3: his mindset social media. Like what he said about social

965
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,799
Speaker 3: media really stands out, man. So I want to give

966
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 3: your shout out to you. Man. First of I want

967
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:45,800
Speaker 3: to say congratulations again brother for making this move and

968
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:49,359
Speaker 3: uh making history. And I'll be following you, bro, We'll

969
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:51,439
Speaker 3: be following you man. Hopefully this won't be your last

970
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:53,360
Speaker 3: time on this podcast. Man. We want to see you

971
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:54,319
Speaker 3: do great things. Brother.

972
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 5: I appreciate it man, whenever, whenever, and whenever I can

973
00:51:57,640 --> 00:51:59,239
Speaker 5: get on here, please, I would love to get back

974
00:51:59,280 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 5: on here.

975
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 3: That's dope again. This was dink Pate just signed with

976
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 3: the G League Ignight. Graduated early from high school at

977
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 3: Seventeen's going to do the two year program with G

978
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:12,880
Speaker 3: League Knight before being eligible for the NBA Draft in

979
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:15,880
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. You heard it right here on this podcast,

980
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,359
Speaker 3: on this League Uncut. He wants to be the number

981
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:21,759
Speaker 3: one pick twenty twenty five. The guests that we've had

982
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 3: that come on this show, they always have good karma

983
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:27,080
Speaker 3: from there on out, so you know, watch out for

984
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 3: DP dink Pate. Appreciate you again, brother.

985
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 2: Thank you, good luck to you.

986
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:34,240
Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us.

987
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:35,239
Speaker 2: Mature young man.

988
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 4: Right there, Chris Haynes, seventeen years old making some major

989
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 4: life decisions.

990
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 2: Glad we did that.

991
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:44,839
Speaker 4: That was interesting to kind of hear his perspective on

992
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 4: a path that's still really really new when it comes

993
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 4: to making your way to professional, making your way as

994
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:55,920
Speaker 4: a professional in this sport. That is going to do

995
00:52:55,960 --> 00:53:00,400
Speaker 4: it for another edition of This League Uncut. As all always,

996
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:05,360
Speaker 4: please review the show, rate the show, subscribe to the show.

997
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:08,440
Speaker 4: This is dropping again on a Monday morning. Chris on

998
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:13,000
Speaker 4: the sideline in La tonight for Grizzlies at Lakers Game four.

999
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 4: He and I will be getting together again soon to

1000
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:20,719
Speaker 4: record our next episode. Everybody, thanks for being with us.

1001
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 2: Talk to you again Mary soon.

1002
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:25,719
Speaker 1: And that'll do it for us.

1003
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 2: See you next time. This League on Cut is and

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00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:37,240
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio production Chris Haines and Mark Stein