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Speaker 1: Who's the best basketball player in the Brown family?

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Speaker 2: Oh that's an easy answer.

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Speaker 3: Who okay, right now, who's the best player in the

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Speaker 3: right now, right now?

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Speaker 4: Thank you? Are you a given to now?

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Speaker 2: The question was who's the best best player of our family?

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Speaker 2: You ain't say win my prime and her prime? Me?

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Speaker 5: She like, I even got that. I ain't even got

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Speaker 5: that yet.

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Speaker 2: You think she had? Oh? We played one one on

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Speaker 2: one game against each other right when she was younger.

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Speaker 2: She remember this game and she had she had one

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Speaker 2: chance to win.

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Speaker 6: She missed the layup. Who store and played her?

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Speaker 5: You did it right, You did it right.

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Speaker 7: You're doing right.

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Speaker 5: Ain't no wrong with that?

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Speaker 4: Close.

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Speaker 3: I'm well defeated forever.

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Speaker 5: Yo yo yo, Live on location.

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Speaker 7: This is the first time ever event me and d

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Speaker 7: Miles I stay in I ass at home and staying

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Speaker 7: safe here in Orlando. But this is the first time ever.

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Speaker 7: We got the girl dad vibes popping all in here.

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Speaker 7: We got the first father and daughter n B A

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Speaker 7: W n B A duo join us today. We got

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Speaker 7: the main man, og D Brown, Beantown Legend Slam Dunk

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Speaker 7: Contest champion, and.

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Speaker 5: We got his young beautiful daughter, Lexi.

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Speaker 7: Brown of the Minnesota Linx in the w n B A,

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Speaker 7: one of the best shooters in the whole wide world. Said, So, Dad,

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Speaker 7: y'all tune in. Were about to get to it. This

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Speaker 7: is the first time on the Knucklehead's edition. We appreciate

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Speaker 7: y'all joining us.

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Speaker 1: Is the first thing we always ask everybody when they

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Speaker 1: come on our show. And since it's two of y'all,

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Speaker 1: we'll start with ladies first. Who was the first person

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Speaker 1: to bust your ass when you got to the league?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Man, okay, Well, I've been in the league for long,

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Speaker 4: so I haven't really had one of those matchups yet

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Speaker 4: because I haven't really played as much. But I do

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Speaker 4: remember my rookie year, I like barely played like maybe

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Speaker 4: two minutes a game maybe, So I think we were

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Speaker 4: in DC and we was getting like we was getting busted.

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Speaker 4: So of course I got to play that game. So

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Speaker 4: I go in and there was a play like an

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Speaker 4: ISO play, and they kept calling it for a different

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Speaker 4: people our garden that's who they was calling the play for.

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Speaker 4: Like I'm out here, nervous, like friends in the stands

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Speaker 4: and they're probably like, what is she doing? But like

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Speaker 4: therefore called the play. Their wing called the play. It

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Speaker 4: was elbow and I was like, I was looked at

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Speaker 4: my coach and I'm like, what do you want me

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Speaker 4: to do for two hours? It's something here? Are y'all kidding?

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Speaker 3: That's the first because we ain't never heard nobody say

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Speaker 3: the team.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, game yeah.

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Speaker 5: So she got she got jumped in, she got jumped

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Speaker 5: into the league.

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Speaker 7: She ain't get it one on one, got jumped get

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Speaker 7: the fair one.

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Speaker 3: When you first got to the league, who was the

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Speaker 3: first person to bust your well?

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Speaker 2: You know, you know, no joke, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 2: m J. Anybody can say guys like that. But the

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Speaker 2: guys that we kind of like forget how good they

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Speaker 2: were because there's so many superstars in the nineties. The

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Speaker 2: first guy I remember when I came in run TMC

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Speaker 2: and they had.

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Speaker 6: Tim hard Away.

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Speaker 2: Man, I didn't have to go out Chris Mullen. But

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Speaker 2: I got them too, man, I mean it was it

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Speaker 2: wasn't a bad LEXI and switch it off. But you

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Speaker 2: know you played the one and two, you gotta switch all,

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Speaker 2: you know, switch transition. Tim was coming down. That's when

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Speaker 2: that killer crossover came. I was like, it was the

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Speaker 2: second year in the league, So that's when he was

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Speaker 2: like fresh, like.

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Speaker 5: This was good.

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Speaker 2: Shown dance on me. Uh, he was getting me.

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Speaker 6: And then you know Mitch would just take me to

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Speaker 6: the post and beat the mess out of me.

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Speaker 3: You know, they was running back the running.

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Speaker 2: But then a few years later, I'll tell you the

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Speaker 2: one guy that kind of like that gave me the

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Speaker 2: business the whole game.

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Speaker 6: One guy was Jimmy Jackson. That's when they when they

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Speaker 6: had it was in Dallas.

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Speaker 2: That's when they had Jason kidds oh Joy the Pig,

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Speaker 2: which when I wanted, I said, ma, I'm gonna take

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Speaker 2: Jimmy the night man. I don't feel like Jason Jason

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Speaker 2: Jamal Jamal a little too big. I'll take Jimmy. So

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Speaker 2: Sherman Douggas guarded Jason Kidd. I had Jimmy Jackson, he

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Speaker 2: had fifty two, and I promise you he gave me

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Speaker 2: all fifty two.

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Speaker 7: That's my og. That is my og, jim jack for

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Speaker 7: the fifty two bird.

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Speaker 6: Oh all mid Rangers.

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Speaker 2: So it's twenty five two.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I found a few guys. He about to look at

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Speaker 2: fift like ten times, but all all two. You know,

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Speaker 2: back then one threes they're all shooting midile. Yeah, you

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Speaker 5: Oh, that's tough.

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Speaker 4: That happened to you.

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Speaker 1: That lets you born in Boston, but you went to

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Speaker 1: Doctor Phillips. You know me and Q we live in Windermere,

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Speaker 1: so we know about Doctor Phillips.

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Speaker 4: My parents let me go to school there. I was

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Speaker 4: like that, please, can I please go to school?

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Speaker 5: Hey?

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Speaker 1: Doctor Phillips is the school around here. They get a

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Speaker 1: lot of how was it there that that one year

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Speaker 1: he was there?

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Speaker 5: How was it for you?

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Speaker 6: Well?

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Speaker 4: I liked it well when I first got there. So

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Speaker 4: I've grown up in private school. So I got there

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Speaker 4: and how whoa what is happening? But I made a

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Speaker 4: lot of friends because I've always been like quiet, so

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Speaker 4: like I was new, didn't go to middle school any

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Speaker 4: of these people. So like I was literally by myself

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Speaker 4: until like basketball season started, and then that's when you know,

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Speaker 4: everyone was like, oh you a basketball team. I came

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Speaker 4: with though there was five of us, five freshmen on

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Speaker 4: just whooping up on everybody was.

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Speaker 5: Ya had an undefeated season?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: How was that like to just go through a see,

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Speaker 1: I ain't never had an undefeated season I've been playing.

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Speaker 4: It was crazy because we were all so young and

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Speaker 4: you know, we're out there having fun. Like there was

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Speaker 4: no jealousy, there was no social media wasn't really a

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Speaker 4: thing yet, so like we were just out there hooping and

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Speaker 4: having fun with each other. But yeah, we got to

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Speaker 4: the final four and lost, so that would suck, But

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Speaker 4: that season was really really fun.

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Speaker 5: How was that for you?

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Speaker 7: D to see your daughter as you know you played

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Speaker 7: in the league, you played ball to see her in

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Speaker 7: high school? You know, along with all freshmen go and

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Speaker 7: do be an undefeated team and you playing ball know

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Speaker 7: how hard that is, especially you starting all freshman fab

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Speaker 7: five like that?

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Speaker 5: How was that for you? Being the pops and a

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Speaker 2: It was the best thing, just because you know, I

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Speaker 2: trained lecture. She was learned how to dribble ball for

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Speaker 2: the first time. So to see her maturation process from

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Speaker 2: age twelve when she was terrible, she worked so hard.

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Speaker 2: Like you talk about somebody who built their game, worked

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Speaker 2: on their game to be better. It wasn't he didn't

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Speaker 2: get any of my athletic ability, but she's a better

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Speaker 2: cerebral player. To me, a high basketball I Q understood

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Speaker 2: the game and knew how to run team like that

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Speaker 2: was her thing. She knew how to you know, fill

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Speaker 2: of separate her from everybody else where. She can, you know,

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Speaker 2: outshoot a lot of people on any level, even in

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Speaker 2: ninth grade. So to see her go from a private

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Speaker 2: the varsity team and in the private school and then

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Speaker 2: go to a public school. You know, Donna Phillips is

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Speaker 2: huge playing aight a like you know, you know about

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Speaker 2: conscation qua Ada. Them schools are huge.

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Speaker 6: All the Miami schools, all the jacks in your schools.

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Speaker 2: So for her to go down environment and see her

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Speaker 2: go through a public school situation, all freshmen, you know,

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Speaker 2: I think all five of those freshmen all get do

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Speaker 2: you want scholarships and play at the college and play

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Speaker 2: at the college level. So just to see them do

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Speaker 2: like all the work and arguing.

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Speaker 6: And and you're.

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Speaker 2: Gonna love me, I'm like, well, you know what you're

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Speaker 2: gonna You're gonna love me down the road when it's

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Speaker 2: all play. You know, in ninth grade we're kind of

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Speaker 2: like part of a championship environment where she's like this

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Speaker 2: is fun, Like.

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Speaker 6: Whatever, whatever work I got to do to get back

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Speaker 6: to this. Every year I played, That's what I want

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Speaker 6: to do.

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Speaker 1: So Lexi, you played in Doctor Phillips, then you transferred

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Speaker 1: to a Georgia school.

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Speaker 3: How was that leaving so much success that I had.

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Speaker 1: That one year and then going to a whole another

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Speaker 1: state and finished start the whole process that you just did, Like,

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Speaker 1: how was that?

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Speaker 4: Well? That summer before that, I think I started playing

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Speaker 4: on an AAU team in Georgia in Atlanta, so that

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Speaker 4: whole summer I saw how much better the girls were

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Speaker 4: so we kind of just decided to just pick it

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Speaker 4: was in high school was out of control, Like the

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Speaker 4: region I played in we had three four WNBA players

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Speaker 4: right now, So we just decided that we had to

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Speaker 4: pick it up and move and one of the girls

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Speaker 4: that I played AU with, they were at Norcross Norcross

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Speaker 4: High School and they had been like just winning titles

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Speaker 4: like Boys and Girls. That's where I was supposed to go,

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Speaker 4: but my friends she ended up leaving that high school.

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Speaker 4: But then we kind of were like stuck, like, oh, no,

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Speaker 4: where are we going to go? So we ended up

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Speaker 4: at this school called North Gwinnette.

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Speaker 2: I didn't won a game and like it was how long?

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Speaker 4: And we got there and we were like, hey, we

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Speaker 4: is so let's get.

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Speaker 5: Some five of the best of it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, did you get I hope you don't take this

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Speaker 3: as disrespect. Did you give her the jumper you always

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Speaker 3: wanted to have.

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Speaker 2: I did all like that since she was young, Like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I didn't do anything else.

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Speaker 4: I really did not.

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Speaker 2: I didn't like, didn't get like that until like later

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Speaker 2: in my career when the game started slow down and

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 6: One year led the league in threes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so my jumper did evolved, but hers has been

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Speaker 5: Straight up.

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Speaker 7: I tell people all the time, whenever you see guys

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Speaker 2: When you retiredout, he can't shoot me. Wait a minute, Well,

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Speaker 2: based on, you know, making sure that you could, you know,

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Speaker 3: Now, I didn't know you was from Jacksonville, Florida. Liked

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Speaker 1: How was it your high school days growing up in Jacksonville?

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Speaker 2: like I was on McDonald's all American. I wasn't you know,

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Speaker 6: Were making guys like that.

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Speaker 6: I don't work work, And then we played big schools.

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Speaker 2: We played like the North Carolinas and the Virginia's and

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Speaker 2: I dropped thirty, Like who's this kid from his old

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Speaker 6: You know what they was, I didn't hear.

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Speaker 5: You play that had compete.

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Speaker 2: Like, yeah, it didn't matter. You know, listen, be going

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Speaker 6: I got, I got, I got give you something to

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Speaker 2: So that's kind of my story in Jacksonville because you

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Speaker 6: Uh, like like artist.

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Speaker 2: Gilmore, let's get more.

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Speaker 5: That's crazy.

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Speaker 1: You was speaking on McDonald's game, LEXI, you made the

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 1: But I know, like you know, all the hard work,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was so fun when we had like when

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Speaker 4: Going to the Ronald McDonald house was so amazing. Favorite day.

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Speaker 4: And then the game, Like you know, I was just

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Speaker 3: I still got my McDonald's.

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Speaker 5: Good to this.

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Speaker 4: Next, and.

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Speaker 7: Tell me this, at what point did it click for you,

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Speaker 7: Like where you started to go from you just doing

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Speaker 5: Sophomore junior?

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Speaker 7: When did it click where it's like, oh, man, like

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Speaker 4: Probably ninth grade. So I committed early. So I committed

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Speaker 4: whole recruiting circuits, like, I was not I didn't really

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Speaker 4: I get in this type of mode, you know I can't.

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Speaker 2: I can.

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Speaker 4: I want to be mm hmmm.

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Speaker 1: Could have been anybody else did Maryland at that time? No,

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Speaker 1: what about when they got close to you, since you

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Speaker 5: That was that was love. She stayed down.

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Speaker 1: It wan't nobody with the money under the table or nothing.

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Speaker 2: We don't do that.

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Speaker 4: But they switched conferences. They made that announcement like we

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Speaker 5: Like and we were like, oh.

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Speaker 4: But even if I heard that news before, it's still

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Speaker 4: I hated but Maryland. Yeah, It's always been Maryland since

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Speaker 4: I've been in school.

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Speaker 5: That's what's up.

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Speaker 4: First it was North Carolina, then it was Maryland.

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Speaker 1: Your freshman year, I went to the final four to

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Speaker 4: But it was so it was fun because the team,

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Speaker 4: a sweetest team swee see Elite eight, Like they were

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Speaker 4: What made you transfer, Well, like I said earlier, the

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Speaker 4: Big Ten, it's just like it just wasn't for me.

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Speaker 4: Just the locations I didn't really love. I didn't have

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Speaker 4: I've always dreamed of playing at like the un c

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Speaker 4: s and at Florida States, Like I never like, let me,

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Speaker 4: I can't wait to go play in Iowa or with them.

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Speaker 4: It was nothing that like we didn't grow up and

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Speaker 4: We didn't like dude, that just wasn't something that we did.

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Speaker 4: But my mom and dad too, they were like very

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Speaker 4: to challenge me academically as well. Yeah, I wanted to

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Speaker 5: Tell me about the nickname you game that year?

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Speaker 4: Oh, what was it? The big shot?

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Speaker 5: Wow shot? Right?

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Speaker 7: That's one of the miles favorite questions about go ahead,

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Speaker 3: Bro, I don't.

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Speaker 4: I haven't hit a game winner or a buzzer beater.

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Speaker 4: But I hit like very timely shots, some like backbreaking shots. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 4: other shots I was hitting. But when I can hit

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Speaker 3: So but them shots to basketball players, to basketball players,

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Speaker 3: them shots, them shots really do matter, you know what

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Speaker 3: I'm saying. It ain't always got to be five four,

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Speaker 5: I hit the shot.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it beat them last thirty seconds or that last minute.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It might be one shot

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we take.

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Speaker 4: Them teams like those. I like those shots more. Honestly,

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Speaker 4: I really did, pops.

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Speaker 1: Like how many workouts you went through doing the like

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Speaker 5: Especially coming from a small school, like.

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00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 2: All draft process was so different than it is now.

448
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,800
Speaker 2: Like I remember I went on I think I went

449
00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:29,480
Speaker 2: on five and it was crazy because the best workout

450
00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:31,679
Speaker 2: I went on when I went to Houston Rockets. So

451
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:38,040
Speaker 2: Tom Jonavish was a coach and my homeboy, Vernon Maxwell

452
00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:41,399
Speaker 2: was on the team from Florida. And my draft workout

453
00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,520
Speaker 2: was this. They were playing summer pick up on and

454
00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:46,680
Speaker 2: all the guys were there and we were in the

455
00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:51,680
Speaker 2: old summit where they used, Yeah, they were playing in there,

456
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:56,200
Speaker 2: and my draft workout was, Hey, the veterans, y'all pick teams.

457
00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:59,440
Speaker 6: These guys who got to be drafting the pick teams?

458
00:22:59,440 --> 00:22:59,879
Speaker 5: We hooped.

459
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 6: I was it for three days.

460
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:06,160
Speaker 2: I was up for three days in Houston for three

461
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,560
Speaker 2: days playing pickup ball. That was my workout. We didn't

462
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,400
Speaker 2: know drills, we didn't go to the ain't no interview.

463
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:17,560
Speaker 2: It was like go who That was it. And then

464
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,120
Speaker 2: I went to Detroit and they were still the champions.

465
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,360
Speaker 2: You know, they had you know, the the chest.

466
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,639
Speaker 1: Was all out, Joe du Marster.

467
00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,119
Speaker 2: The workout. They showed me their rings because that was

468
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,680
Speaker 2: their second ring. They're like second ring, you know, we're

469
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,280
Speaker 2: the champions. And all we did was played one on

470
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,840
Speaker 2: one full court for two hours. I remember Lance Blank

471
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,359
Speaker 2: was there, Brian Oliver was there, like you know, like

472
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:44,840
Speaker 2: and we just played one on one the whole time.

473
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 2: Nothing else that was it. Boston, the team I got

474
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 2: drafted by. I went up there at all back and

475
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,200
Speaker 2: sitting in his office like an hour and a half

476
00:23:54,880 --> 00:24:01,680
Speaker 2: and talk basketball, talk history. It was like a you

477
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, It was like a museum. So

478
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,880
Speaker 2: we just talked basketball for He's like, you know, I've

479
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 2: seen you play enough. Only you see you play no more.

480
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 2: I want to know about you. You know, I want

481
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,919
Speaker 2: to know your life, you know what you know about basketball.

482
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 2: So that was really my the teams that ain't worked

483
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:18,919
Speaker 2: out for the least team I got drafted by and

484
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 2: the Soldiers, Uh.

485
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,640
Speaker 1: I had the opportunity to spend two months in Boston

486
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 1: and UH to try to try out for the team

487
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 1: at the end of my career. So forth on, and

488
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 1: I tell people this to this day, like the the

489
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,920
Speaker 1: Celtics organization, it's like it's something in the earth. When

490
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 1: you walk into the gym, you walk in the practice gym,

491
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,199
Speaker 1: you see the stains on the banners, how old it is,

492
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 1: and so forth, it's something in the earth, something in

493
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:46,439
Speaker 1: the city. To get drafted by the Boston Celtics, I know,

494
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 1: you watched all the rivals from the Lakers in Boston

495
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:50,080
Speaker 1: and you probably wanted.

496
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:53,119
Speaker 5: To go to the Lakers, but.

497
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 1: It definitely But to even get drafted by historic franchise

498
00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 1: like that, how was that for you?

499
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 6: I mean, that was a best feeling.

500
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,640
Speaker 2: Well, I couldn't ask for a better situation to go to,

501
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 2: being a young player going to a veteran team. That

502
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 2: was you know, we had a chance to win the

503
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,879
Speaker 2: championship that year, but Larry hurt us back later in

504
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 2: the year.

505
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 6: You know, a few years.

506
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 2: Before that, lam Bias had passed away resolution on the team.

507
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:19,119
Speaker 2: That's when he was in Bergen as a superstar player,

508
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 2: and they passed four years later. So I was booked

509
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 2: in in my career between a great player who had

510
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 2: been one of the greatest ever played, Lenny Bias, and

511
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 2: then another guy who was really an up and coming superstargie,

512
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 2: Reggie Lewis. You know, you know that was tough. And

513
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,400
Speaker 2: then the retirement of the Big Three, the original Big

514
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 2: Three pars I played with them guys. So it was

515
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 2: five guys that I got a chance to like not

516
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 2: play with for a long period of time because of

517
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 2: retirement or on Tommy death. But it was it was

518
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,920
Speaker 2: great being there. Like you said, all the history, all

519
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 2: the banners every practice. It was literally eight to ten

520
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:03,200
Speaker 2: Hall of Famers every prime right, you know, Seth Sanders,

521
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:07,439
Speaker 2: Casey Jones, John Habitat, Bob Cousy, Tommy Hinesen. On top of that,

522
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 2: we are playing with you know, so you can never

523
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:16,119
Speaker 2: ever like say anything like I'm tired or you know,

524
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 2: I don't understand what y'all doing. We're talking about it's

525
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,439
Speaker 2: sixty bands above your head, young fellow, like you.

526
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 7: Was that ever intimidating in any sense, like to be

527
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,440
Speaker 7: like up closely personal, Like yeah, like every day on

528
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 7: an everyday basis. I mean I would imagine at some

529
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:36,639
Speaker 7: point you kind of get used to it. But I

530
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,879
Speaker 7: mean like when you first get there, to know, you

531
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,199
Speaker 7: walking into it, you think you're going to a regular practice,

532
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 7: and like you say, you about to see all these

533
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,199
Speaker 7: Hall of Famers and you're looking around like what is

534
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:45,879
Speaker 7: going on?

535
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 2: It was crazy because you know, you know, I played

536
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 2: in the Old Boston Garden, the things you see on

537
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 2: TV on CBS with the Old Guard and it's hot

538
00:26:54,760 --> 00:27:00,480
Speaker 2: in head that turned the heat off spots, like said,

539
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 2: It's just something the air that when you get there,

540
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 2: it just becomes a part of your soul, become part

541
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 2: of who you are and you figure out, you know,

542
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 2: the short Shorts were the last team to have NBA

543
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 2: socks like we had like we was the last. We

544
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 2: had to wear black shoes and white shoe strings, and

545
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 2: we had all the old traditions.

546
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 6: And that's the teams we watched. I watched what I

547
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 6: was growing up.

548
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 2: Magic versus Bird it's how you two guys, and I know,

549
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,320
Speaker 2: you know, we all watched the documentary. Can you imagine

550
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,120
Speaker 2: getting drafted by the bulls doing.

551
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 5: The hate right.

552
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 2: And you have to go to practice every day like

553
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,399
Speaker 2: those are you know, you guys, you know, Chicago guys,

554
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 2: that's it, you know.

555
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 6: Being from Florida.

556
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 2: The two teams I saw on TV was the Lakers

557
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 2: and the Celtics, So those are my teams, you know.

558
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 6: Those are teams the modern he went.

559
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 2: Around Orlando, Magic wasn't around, you know, So being in

560
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,439
Speaker 2: Florida for those are two teams I get. So it

561
00:27:57,520 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 2: was just unbelievable be able to be around those guys

562
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 2: in that franchise. And I think it matured me as

563
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 2: a player earlier just because of just the greatness that

564
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 2: was in the building.

565
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: So now your baby girl is about to get drafted.

566
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: Did you cry another room.

567
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:12,639
Speaker 5: Or did you? Did you?

568
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 3: Did you let it all out?

569
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 5: Bro Let me compret you he ain't cry, but his

570
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 5: allergies started acting up at all. It was his allergies

571
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:21,119
Speaker 5: acting up.

572
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,439
Speaker 1: This is your baby and she playing this game that

573
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: you love, and now she's finna get drafted to the

574
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 1: w n B A and you it's like the same

575
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 1: process of what you went through.

576
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. How was that for you?

577
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 6: It was?

578
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 5: It was?

579
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 2: It was I was more nervous in her situation in

580
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 2: my situation, just because again being a dad, make sure

581
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 2: that you know. The first thing we know, like any

582
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,719
Speaker 2: guy or any girl in the draft, the first thing

583
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 2: you want to do, man, hope they invite me up

584
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 2: here on the draft.

585
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 5: Well, the first thing we.

586
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 2: Talked about, like they invited you on twelve w NBA teams.

587
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know that if they.

588
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 2: Invite ten people, boy, like that's that's a small ratio

589
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 2: that you might not get called. All we cared about.

590
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 2: We don't care where we where. She got drafted, Like,

591
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 2: just make sure we get drafted while you're up here.

592
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 2: Like that's the first thing. The next thing was, you know,

593
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 2: you start reminiscing about the hard work and just her

594
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 2: career in high school, going to Maryland to final fours,

595
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 2: going to Duke, being All American and you know, getting

596
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 2: to you know, sweet sixteen's there and and being you know,

597
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 2: the first player to be an all a p All

598
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 2: American and the two universities, like like things that she

599
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:34,719
Speaker 2: did I never did in college.

600
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 6: So much better college player than I was.

601
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 2: And the actually she has all of it to see

602
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 2: all of it come together and be able to sit

603
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 2: there as a father and and then you know, hear

604
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 2: your name get called, her name, get called You heard

605
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 2: I said we were her name.

606
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 5: Right right.

607
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 2: You know we've been through that before with our parents,

608
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 2: but just a unique situation where being that, you know,

609
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 2: one of the first people to have you know, father

610
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 2: daughter comeboard be drafted in the first round.

611
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 6: Like that's that's history.

612
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 2: That's special to me. That's you know, we were wanted

613
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 2: the first to do it.

614
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, Lexi, for you, like how was it to get draft?

615
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 5: All this work you did in high.

616
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: School, all these different schools you then you know, you

617
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: the hopscotch to back and forth, like how was it

618
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 1: to get drafted? And it's going to be going there

619
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 1: with the periods, the girls, you look up to, the girls,

620
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 1: you watch the game.

621
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 5: How was it for you?

622
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was amazing. Like you said, We've just spent

623
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 4: most of the day reminiscing on like all the hours

624
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 4: we put in together, and then when my name was called,

625
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 4: we kind of just like looked at it and we're

626
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 4: like it was worth it, Like we did it.

627
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 3: You know.

628
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 4: Being invited to the draft was like, I mean, being

629
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 4: drafted was a gold mine, but also being invited to

630
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 4: the draft well, so to be able to be there

631
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 4: and then for us, it just all happened so fast.

632
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 4: The are we had just lost in sweet sixteen, like

633
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 4: ten days before the draft ing like that, So I

634
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,719
Speaker 4: didn't I mean, I had a good feeling that I

635
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 4: was going to get invited, but I didn't get the

636
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 4: official call until maybe a week before the draft, so

637
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 4: it was kind of just kind of throwing everything together.

638
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 4: I was still in school. I still had like maybe

639
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 4: a month left to school, so you know, it was

640
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 4: just kind of putting everything to the side just for

641
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 4: a day or two and just go up there and enjoy,

642
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 4: enjoy the moment.

643
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 7: So let me ask you this, right, you had draft day, now,

644
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 7: you over the anxiety.

645
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 5: Well, well, let me go before that.

646
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 7: Before that, when you get the call, did you going

647
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 7: to the draft you're getting invited, did you have anxiety

648
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 7: about where you were gonna get picked or what you

649
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 7: were gonna wear?

650
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 5: Wish one was worse.

651
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 4: Where what did I expect to do?

652
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 2: I make up, like, gotta.

653
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 3: Get everything that national TV, You gotta.

654
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 7: Pos worried about where were gonna land and the right

655
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 7: fig and she over here, like now I gotta get

656
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 7: the dress, my hair, I gotta do.

657
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 4: Dress, get to look.

658
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: So your first year, you know, you know, the coach

659
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: really ain't gonna play you that many minutes. But what

660
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 1: did you learn your first year that made you better

661
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: for your next year with the links.

662
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 4: Well, first thing was you got to handle all situations

663
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 4: with grace because you never know what's going to happen.

664
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 4: Rookies don't really get traded this fast.

665
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 5: Yeah.

666
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 4: So, like at the end of the season, we had

667
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 4: our you know, conversation, our end of season meeting or whatever.

668
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 4: My coach basically told me that he was impressed and

669
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 4: in the way that I handled and I remained one

670
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:58,959
Speaker 4: of the hardest workers on the team, Like even though

671
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 4: I knew I probably wasn't gonna get in the game.

672
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 4: He like, like, I appreciate you always being in the gym.

673
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 4: You come early, you stay after like things like that.

674
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 4: You know, I have moments where I probably could have

675
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 4: handled situations a little better than I did. But for

676
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 4: the most part, you know, I was a really good teammate.

677
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 4: You know, the fans loved me on the bench, like

678
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 4: I was always doing the most make sure that like

679
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 4: as annoyed and upset I was on the inside, I

680
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 4: didn't ever want to and I didn't want to bring

681
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 4: bad energy. So at the end of the season, we

682
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 4: kind of said it but didn't say it, but it

683
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 4: was kind of like, you're not gonna be here next season.

684
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 4: I was like, I don't know, I don't really want

685
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 4: to be here no more. It was like kind of

686
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 4: that kind of thing. And he made it happen, which

687
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 4: you know, he did not have to do that. I mean,

688
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,479
Speaker 4: he could have just waved me. So I mean, I

689
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 4: am grateful that he made that move for me.

690
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: For sure, you get traded to the Links, right they

691
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: was winning championship. At the championship, so much star power

692
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: with my more Simon Augustus, all this stuff and.

693
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 3: You get there and it's like a whole new vamp.

694
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 1: It's a whole.

695
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 3: Whole new thing. How was that for you?

696
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: Because like y'all still had that winning culture, even though

697
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 1: y'all didn't have the monsters that y'all was having before.

698
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: Like so, but how was that to come in and

699
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: just step into a role and just fit in perfectly?

700
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 4: It was? I mean it was everything I expected. Because

701
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 4: when you think when you're a player in the w

702
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 4: n b A and you think of an organization that

703
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 4: is like the top of the job, you always think

704
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 4: of the links, you know, the management ownership all the

705
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 4: way to our training staff and like video coordinators, like

706
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 4: everyone is on their stuff all the time. So getting there,

707
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 4: you know, I was like, oh, I'm excited to play

708
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 4: with Maya and they're like, you're not coming back, So

709
00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 4: she was doing her thing. I get there. Lindsay Whalen

710
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 4: had just retired, so she wasn't really around simone. You know,

711
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 4: she was dealing with an injury, you know, so she

712
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 4: didn't really get to play last year. So really it

713
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:11,399
Speaker 4: was like a whole new group. It was just us

714
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 4: and Seal Sylvia Fouls. She was looking at us like

715
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 4: all right, y'all let's go, like I hear, like our

716
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 4: mama still like we all call her Mama Stelle because now,

717
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 4: like the team went from like being one of the

718
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 4: oldest now we're like one of the younger team, one

719
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 4: of the younger groups. And you know, last year was

720
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 4: kind of just a learning experience. Our team. We told

721
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 4: a lot of injuries stuff like that. Like we started

722
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 4: off way better than people expected. You know, that wall hits.

723
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 4: You know, people start getting hurt, tired. You know, there's

724
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 4: only twelve teams, so everyone gets to know each other.

725
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 4: You know, we're getting scouted like crazy. But you know,

726
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 4: my role on that team was to shoot the ball.

727
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 4: And the leagues had always been known as a three

728
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 4: point shooting team. So for me to come in and

729
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 4: be that on a team that that's not what they

730
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 4: usually do, you know, that meant a lot to me.

731
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 4: So I took that role very seriously. And all that

732
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 4: did was shoot, shoot, shoot shoot in the game. Coach

733
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 4: for me in the game and she was like, you

734
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 4: don't shoot the ball, you're coming out.

735
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's music to a player's ear.

736
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 7: Is to seriously like to be told if you don't shoot,

737
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 7: you coming out, like she don't threaten me with no

738
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 7: good time.

739
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 4: Like one moment in the game where she came over

740
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,919
Speaker 4: and was like not one time.

741
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: I felt like Like when I watched y'all play last year,

742
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 1: I felt like you and College like stepped up so

743
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: big for that team. Y'all was like key pieces. You

744
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:39,839
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. She stepped up in big win.

745
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 5: Rookie of Year.

746
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 1: You was stepping up, big hitting, big shots coming off

747
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: the bit Like. I thought y'all had a good overall

748
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,959
Speaker 1: team to lose your superstars have mama files in the back.

749
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: I felt y'all did a great job last year because.

750
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 5: You know, good shot.

751
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 4: We were just out there having fun. Yeah, Fee is

752
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 4: a monster. She's like one of the best players I

753
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 4: ever played with.

754
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, and she's from the lou you know, you know,

755
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 3: you know we do, you.

756
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 5: Know we do. Literally I thought you were from St. Louis.

757
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got only got Saint Louis in it. As

758
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 1: long as you got Saint Louis in it, that's my

759
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: whole area right there.

760
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 5: She from she from Missouri, You from Illinois.

761
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 3: We represent her now, stop hating, but what you were saying,

762
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 3: she can do.

763
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 4: Everything, literally, And then I think, you know, we kind

764
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 4: of struggled a little bit. We've lost our fore man.

765
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 4: So she was playing at the three and then she

766
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 4: had to move to the four, so you know, that

767
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 4: kind of took her out of her element. She had

768
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 4: to start guarding bigger players and things like that. But

769
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,840
Speaker 4: she held her own. She ran away with that Rookie

770
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 4: of the Year. It wasn't even close. So I'm really excited.

771
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 4: We've been in here working out. I've been watching her.

772
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 4: I think she grew the other day and I was like,

773
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 4: did you grow? You can be growing still. But we're

774
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 4: just really excited, you know, to get back out there

775
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 4: and again we have a whole new group all over again.

776
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 4: But I think this is gonna be the group for

777
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 4: for a while hopefully.

778
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 3: What made you join the dunk Contest?

779
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 2: Like?

780
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 3: What what made you get into the dunk contest?

781
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,399
Speaker 1: Because a guy that's your size, you're not getting as

782
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: many dunks as all the bigger guys, and a lot

783
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 1: of people can't get the opportunity to see you dunk

784
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 1: as much.

785
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 5: So what made you choose to go?

786
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: Because I still got my rebox in the class. I'm

787
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 1: a jority guy, but I still got my puffs up

788
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:36,800
Speaker 1: in the closet.

789
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 7: Now, what do you mean, I tell him, tell him

790
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 7: the outside of the fact that you had crazy bounce, Like,

791
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:45,839
Speaker 7: outside of the fact that you got crazy bounce, what

792
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 7: else made you do it?

793
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 3: But still you know you got them other guys.

794
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:52,760
Speaker 6: And that sometimes funny part about it was.

795
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 2: There was a dunk contest and college All Start College

796
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 2: All Star Game for ch Cargo Doran Ao d process

797
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 2: and I ended up winning. Like this dunk contest, it

798
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:04,400
Speaker 2: wasn't like the one they haf now, but it was

799
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 2: like something at this thing called Orlando Classic, and they

800
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 2: kind of that that the All Star games around anymore.

801
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,799
Speaker 2: So the next year I was start playing playing with

802
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 2: the Celtics. You know again Celtics don't dunk like are

803
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 2: bird pair. They tiptoeing, you know. So the basically the

804
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 2: team started has started to change. So it was me

805
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 2: raising Lewis, Brian Shaw, levin Gamble, so were the young

806
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:33,319
Speaker 2: backcourt playing with the old front court. So I would

807
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 2: get a lot of dunks during the games and people

808
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,800
Speaker 2: were like, wow, you know this hunk kick and dunk whatever.

809
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 2: And I was really a late addition, like I wasn't

810
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 2: in an original eight in the dunk contest. People knew

811
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 2: I could dunk. I had some dunks during the game

812
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 2: people impressed by. But they kind of went back to

813
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 2: the dunk contest I did in college and say, hey,

814
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 2: a couple people dropped out, so hey, you know you

815
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 2: want to be in a contest. So I was really

816
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 2: I got into the dunk contest in like two weeks

817
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 2: before All Star weekend. A couple through dropped out. I

818
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 2: got hurt whatever, so I really And then she wasn't

819
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 2: part of the original eight.

820
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 6: But I knew was I got in that eight. I

821
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 6: had a really good chance.

822
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 2: I knew I had some stuff that nobody had did before.

823
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 2: Now and I'm not kind of last dunk, last thunk,

824
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 2: don't look dunk. That was the first time I ever

825
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 2: did it.

826
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 3: They call it this era called it the dab.

827
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:31,439
Speaker 5: Look forever one.

828
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 2: But I got dunkalk right on the spot, like I

829
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 2: never practice that dunk. I never did it before. So

830
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 2: I was like, man, I hope I make this.

831
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 7: Whatever I'm doing, tell me what in that moment did

832
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:43,800
Speaker 7: you pump up the shoes to tighten them up or

833
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 7: was you just doing that for the dramatic effect? What

834
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 7: was it was doing? It for the Bill doublet That

835
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 7: was the show, right, you.

836
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 2: Know people like, oh you use that kind of the

837
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,479
Speaker 2: Godfather or the Dunk Contest because you was the first

838
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 2: one to do like a show before, Like you know,

839
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 2: now people coming on a phone booze, right, you know

840
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 2: we can we can used props. When I did it,

841
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 2: we could get cars and jumpoth people. That was like,

842
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 2: all right, shows are not good in the nineties.

843
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 6: From nobody. You're gonna do what you got.

844
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 2: You don't need no teammate to help you. You got

845
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:18,320
Speaker 2: to have eight dollars to win this contest, and you missed.

846
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:18,799
Speaker 2: She was out.

847
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 6: So it was more just to get the crowd into it.

848
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 2: Because Dunk Contest is in Charlotte, and Kendall Gill was

849
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 2: in the Dunk Contest who played for the Charlotte and

850
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 2: Rex Chapman was done both playing for Charlotte, so they

851
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 2: had like the home court advantage. I'm like, no this, No,

852
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 2: I got to get the crowd on my side. So

853
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 2: Webot did already had a rebound contract already. They didn't

854
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 2: know I was gonna do that. They had no clue

855
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 2: when I did it, they were like what oh, Like

856
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:47,919
Speaker 2: everybody was like, oh, what's he doing?

857
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 6: You know, you know, pump shoes.

858
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 5: Up, boom, time out, time out.

859
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 7: Did your price go up after that? Please tell me

860
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 7: your price went up? Because that that alone, that that's

861
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 7: what blew up the whole rebound part evolution. It was

862
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 7: like you seen the dude, the woy d Brown, he

863
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 7: pumped up the jokes like the price had to go

864
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 7: up after that.

865
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:12,399
Speaker 6: It's called life life, you know, like you're still Reboux.

866
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 5: For life right stright up.

867
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:17,879
Speaker 6: So I'm still I'm sure Rebox fam to this day.

868
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 7: That's salute to them for taking for doing that. That's

869
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:21,880
Speaker 7: the way it's supposed to.

870
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 1: Like when I signed when I left Jordans, I signed

871
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: with Reebok. The first shoe I asked for was them pumps,

872
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,400
Speaker 1: and I still got them same pumps.

873
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 3: Like I got nothing but Jordans in my closet. One

874
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 3: pair of Rebox.

875
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 6: Y'all like the original Jordan Brand.

876
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:45,839
Speaker 2: Dude, I remember, okay, man, my hands got the oh

877
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 2: the first Jordan's.

878
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 5: I can't.

879
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:54,439
Speaker 3: Coming up, Like, who's the women that you've seen?

880
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 1: And he was like, man, I want to I want

881
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 1: to shoot like her, I want to dribble like her.

882
00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:59,280
Speaker 5: This is the women that I want.

883
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 4: To be like my favorite player. She's the reason why

884
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 4: I wanted to go to Maryland, was Christy Tolliver. Christy, Yeah,

885
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:11,880
Speaker 4: she was the reason why I went to Maryland in

886
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:13,320
Speaker 4: the league now, which is crazy.

887
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, And.

888
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 4: She pulled up to a practice at Maryland once I came.

889
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:26,720
Speaker 4: It was my freshman or sophomore year, and I almost

890
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 4: lost my damn mind. And then she came to the

891
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 4: Final four and so like at that point, I was

892
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:38,280
Speaker 4: like calm and normal, and then you know, we played.

893
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 4: I wasn't playing Connecticut. But then last year they came

894
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 4: here for a practice for our preseason stuff and we

895
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:48,719
Speaker 4: practiced together and she was guarding me, and she like

896
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 4: was just smiling at me because she's like, see, I

897
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 4: knew you could find your footing in the league and stuff,

898
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 4: so like that. I have a picture of it.

899
00:43:55,760 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 5: Actually, that's dope. That's pops.

900
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 1: Who did you come up like admiring and you seeing

901
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: the game like I want to pat my game or

902
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: be like them.

903
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 2: Uh.

904
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 6: I mean, it was a couple of people.

905
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 4: I think.

906
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 2: One of the guys that I think doesn't give enough

907
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 2: credit of how good he was it Isaiah Thomas, Chicago

908
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 2: own original Isaiah Thomas zeke like, ye Thomas, it was

909
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 2: my o G and uh the way he handled the

910
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 2: ball for his size, your small guard tough, played through injuryes.

911
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:37,239
Speaker 2: Remember that game, you know, Wesing against the Lakers. We

912
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 2: had all them points on a bat. That kind of state, Rember,

913
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 2: I won't be like that, Like I want be to

914
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:42,720
Speaker 2: come down.

915
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 5: And just.

916
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 2: And then.

917
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 4: Uh.

918
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 2: The reason why I picked up before when I was

919
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 2: in college was because the two guys, what was Joe Dumars,

920
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 2: who's running mate, and the other guy was Ron Harper,

921
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 2: Like Ron Harper was my guy, Like I I always like,

922
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:07,319
Speaker 2: I love Ron Harper just because everybody loved Jordan's right

923
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 2: dunks washing Ron Harper and trying to mimic all this

924
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 2: dunks to college. And that's why I want foreign college

925
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:19,400
Speaker 2: because I love Joe Dubar because of his professionalism and

926
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 2: his defense.

927
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 6: But Ron Harper before he before he hurt his.

928
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 3: Leg, Yeah, he was Clipper and clippers.

929
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 5: Ron Harvey, Yeah.

930
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:32,399
Speaker 4: That's a dude.

931
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,799
Speaker 2: I kind of kind of like looked up to those

932
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:36,880
Speaker 2: three guys kind of part of my game around a

933
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 2: little bit.

934
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 1: But you mentioned, uh, you mentioned him earlier, and uh,

935
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: I was a big fan of his.

936
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 5: I thought he was.

937
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 1: Getting better and better every year or two. He started

938
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 1: making All Star games and all that. I just want

939
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 1: you to just for the fans and viewers, because you

940
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 1: never really hear him be talked about a lot.

941
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 5: And that's Reggie Lewis.

942
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 1: Like can you speak up on him and speak of

943
00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 1: like how good a teammate, how good he was fin

944
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: to be the direction he was going in his life.

945
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:06,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he was. He was coming to his

946
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 2: own Like again, you know, with any passing away that

947
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 2: kind of took some years off Larry Bird's career, and

948
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 2: then Larry kind of worn down. And then the one

949
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:18,399
Speaker 2: year that Larry got hurt when I was my rookie year,

950
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 2: that's when Reggie's really started coming to his own average

951
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:24,240
Speaker 2: like eighteen twenty points a game, carrying us when Larry

952
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:26,839
Speaker 2: was hurt. And I played with Reggie for four years

953
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:29,360
Speaker 2: before he passed away from from a heart attack. But

954
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:34,400
Speaker 2: he was never talked a lot, but was one He

955
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:37,800
Speaker 2: was one of the few dudes that I've seen Black

956
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:41,359
Speaker 2: Michael's fade away anybody three times in one game, and

957
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 2: as he was long, Mike wouldn't guard and they'll put

958
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:46,399
Speaker 2: pipping on him because he he could shoot over Mike.

959
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 2: I'm not saying's better than Mike, but he was just

960
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 2: he was just a tough matchup for Mike. Had to

961
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 2: put some more link on him. And it's not a

962
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:57,319
Speaker 2: comparison because the game is different. But if you look

963
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 2: at the way Kevin Durant plays and shoots them all,

964
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 2: that's how Reggielu was the same number times see Kevin Durant, man,

965
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 2: I don't know, he had a different reason for somebody

966
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 2: passed away that was close to him every time I

967
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 2: seen the same. Bill Katie's a lot tallet rags, like

968
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 2: six seven. But he was played both ends of the choir.

969
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 2: I remember this one series. Uh, we were playing against

970
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:25,400
Speaker 2: Cleveland Cavaliers in the second round and that's when they

971
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 2: had Mark Price, Brad Daughtery, Larry Nance, Gerald Wilkins, Craig

972
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 2: Edo uh and Craig Eago was like the defensive stopper.

973
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 2: So this was the second round playing against them, so

974
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:41,319
Speaker 2: they massed up Craig Ego against Reggie and Larry had

975
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 2: Larry was kind of out, he wasn't really playing, so

976
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 2: Reggie was a guy. So Game one, Reggie had forty

977
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 2: one Craig and Oil had zero game two. Reggie had

978
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:54,879
Speaker 2: thirty seven, Craig Litil had zero Game three nine, Crag

979
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 2: Little had zero. You talk about somebody gives somebody the business.

980
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 2: This dude was like a stopper back for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

981
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 2: We lost a series of seven games just because they

982
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 2: were telling us and the Big Three was kind of

983
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 2: like one of their last legs. But that dude right

984
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 2: there carried us in the series against five basically five

985
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 2: Hall of famers on that team, four Hall of famers. Yeah,

986
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 2: he was good, Like he was good. You know, like

987
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 2: Yae passed away so early in his career and you know,

988
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 2: leave his wife and you know, his two kids, while

989
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:27,240
Speaker 2: I still and who I still talk to this day.

990
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 2: So I'm always in contact with them all the time,

991
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 2: you know, talking about on Instagram stuff like that. So

992
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 2: I still stay close to the families because he was

993
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 2: such a dear friend, like you know, a big brother

994
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,320
Speaker 2: to me. When I was in Boston, that's.

995
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 5: What's up, That's what's up.

996
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,360
Speaker 1: So when y'all was all together, that means it was

997
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:47,799
Speaker 1: TikTok time, because like I got I got my four

998
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: kids now and they try to TikTok me to death.

999
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 5: I heard it was your idea to do all the videos.

1000
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:57,320
Speaker 4: Is that true?

1001
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:00,400
Speaker 5: Side?

1002
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 4: And then he felt left out.

1003
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 2: I did one TikTok video and that was with Robert.

1004
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:09,919
Speaker 2: I did a cameo on another one. But I don't

1005
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:14,319
Speaker 2: do that. I'm over fifty years old. There's cute like.

1006
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 2: I ain't got time for all them dancing. It's too long,

1007
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:18,399
Speaker 2: hurt my knee.

1008
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 3: I used to be hey, I used to be a dancer,

1009
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 3: but you can't even.

1010
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 5: Like I used to hit.

1011
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 2: All that.

1012
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 5: I can't even do all that. Listens Caroll Basket.

1013
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,320
Speaker 2: That's only one like Carroll Basket.

1014
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:44,879
Speaker 3: I like that one.

1015
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:46,360
Speaker 5: I vowed that I was.

1016
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:49,279
Speaker 7: You was not about to catch me doing no tiktoks,

1017
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:51,760
Speaker 7: at no point doing I'm not about to go nowhere

1018
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 7: near that insane. You're not about to see me standing

1019
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:56,799
Speaker 7: here with my wife being flipped and I got her

1020
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 7: clothes on and she got and.

1021
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:00,120
Speaker 5: I'm talking about.

1022
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:01,680
Speaker 3: Bro.

1023
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:07,240
Speaker 7: I was like, no, sir, no switch challenges, no, no,

1024
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 7: none of this stuff.

1025
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:14,520
Speaker 3: Oh cool, no woa, no woman, I ain't got none.

1026
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 5: Of that action for you. Bro.

1027
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 7: I'm not I'm not participating. But I sit there, look

1028
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 7: at somebody and laugh the whole time.

1029
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 5: Who Lexi?

1030
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:25,439
Speaker 3: Who was your favorite? Not your top five, but your

1031
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 3: favorite five women's players?

1032
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 4: Christy Diana to ROSSI mhm. Shannon Johnson so pee wee Johnson.

1033
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 4: She was, She was my favorite and my dad coached

1034
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 4: here in Orlando and she was my bestie. I was

1035
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 4: little my favorite. Who else? Della Dawn for sure, even

1036
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 4: though she's still in the league, busting nice, you.

1037
00:50:54,680 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 3: Know, he like Dirk.

1038
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 4: I'm just like, how how are you playing like this?

1039
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:09,839
Speaker 4: And then I've always loved some as well, love some more.

1040
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 3: Bucket Ghetter, Yeah, Bucket GHeL.

1041
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, Pops.

1042
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 3: Your favorite five NBA players?

1043
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:23,799
Speaker 2: Oh man, I hate this question because it's you know,

1044
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:28,400
Speaker 2: I'm very biased. Obviously, I'm gonna go with Jordan one,

1045
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:30,839
Speaker 2: and it's not in order, but Jordan one and every

1046
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:32,839
Speaker 2: and then I'm gonna do everybody else, just because I

1047
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:41,480
Speaker 2: just hate that debate, just because I played against Jordan's Lebron, Kobe, Magic,

1048
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 2: and Bird.

1049
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 5: I didn't get you.

1050
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 2: I didn't get you. See, they're all guards and kind

1051
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 2: of small fords like you know, listen, I could have

1052
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 2: picked Chamberlain and Shack and Kareem and you know Elijah one,

1053
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 2: but people that I kind of compare, I had a

1054
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:01,239
Speaker 2: going like always people I had.

1055
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 6: Either guard or didn't want to go right. I didn't

1056
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 6: get a chance.

1057
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 2: I tired of the year.

1058
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 6: Lebron came in.

1059
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 2: I got young Kobe when he was his h you know,

1060
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 2: his part of his first three championships, you know, rest

1061
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:18,120
Speaker 2: the soul, and then played with Blarry Bird had the

1062
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:21,319
Speaker 2: guard magic. You know, if I had put one more

1063
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:26,399
Speaker 2: in there, devided be Isaiah Thomas, he'd be like number six. Yeah, yeah,

1064
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 2: you know, but those be the guys because I played

1065
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:31,840
Speaker 2: against him, except for Lebron's because he's just a different

1066
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:34,840
Speaker 2: He's just so different than everybody else. Like he's not

1067
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 2: because the way he plays, just because just his longevity,

1068
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:42,719
Speaker 2: his health, his you know things he's doing the same

1069
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 2: things he said with George, like you know, it's good

1070
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 2: he was a basketball player. The things he transcended, like

1071
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:51,399
Speaker 2: the things that to be international, Like to me, that's

1072
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 2: part of being a professional athlete. Not be able to

1073
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:55,960
Speaker 2: just go score thirty points a game and whatever. He

1074
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:57,719
Speaker 2: got these other things you got to bring to the

1075
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:00,400
Speaker 2: table to be to me like all.

1076
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 1: Time, Yeah, to be mentioned with them grades you gotta

1077
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 1: definitely do everything and championships straight up. We play this

1078
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 1: game or her sometimes called start bench cut, you know,

1079
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 1: so letting.

1080
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 5: I'm gonna start with trying to get you in trouble. Lexi, beware,

1081
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:17,840
Speaker 5: I'm gonna start with you.

1082
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 1: Lex Uh, start bench cut, Diana Tarassi, Maya Moore, Simone Augustus.

1083
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 8: Oh no, I'm gonna start DT.

1084
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:40,880
Speaker 4: I'm a benchmine. I'm anna cut month.

1085
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 7: Hold up before before d emails go to go to

1086
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 7: d I want to ask Lexi one more start benching cut.

1087
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:53,840
Speaker 5: Now we're gonna go. Uh. This is gonna put you

1088
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:54,760
Speaker 5: in a real scenario.

1089
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:58,800
Speaker 7: This is we're gonna go with the smaller dunk contestant winners.

1090
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:00,160
Speaker 5: We're gonna go with Pops.

1091
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 7: We're gonna go with Nate Robinson, and we're gonna go

1092
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:05,560
Speaker 7: with Spud will start bench cut.

1093
00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:15,200
Speaker 4: I'm starting Dad, Obviously, I'm a bench butter web and

1094
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 4: cut Nate Robinson.

1095
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 5: They gonna be.

1096
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:19,680
Speaker 3: They're gonna be like I got cut.

1097
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 7: You might give you might get they might hit you

1098
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:26,800
Speaker 7: on social media about that, like what like I'm.

1099
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 4: Not don't buy my don't.

1100
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:30,840
Speaker 5: All right?

1101
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 3: Pop, start bitch cut? Uh, we got zeke Isaiah Thomas,

1102
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:42,279
Speaker 3: we got Magic Johnson, and we got Oscar Robertson.

1103
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 5: Man the big oh.

1104
00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:51,680
Speaker 3: Man, I'm h man, it was Magic.

1105
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:56,960
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go start Magic.

1106
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:04,240
Speaker 3: You're gonna cut Oh cool?

1107
00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:07,560
Speaker 2: That was.

1108
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:09,719
Speaker 5: Hey.

1109
00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:11,759
Speaker 7: But this this is my question I got for both

1110
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:13,920
Speaker 7: of y'all, Like, LEXI, you didn't been in the league

1111
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 7: a year or two, you guts, so you know you

1112
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 7: done got a couple of checks under your belt now,

1113
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:20,439
Speaker 7: Like I know what I did when I first got

1114
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:22,480
Speaker 7: my money at nineteen years old.

1115
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:25,319
Speaker 5: I was like bling blow, you.

1116
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 7: Know what I'm saying, So like, so, what did you

1117
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:30,920
Speaker 7: do when you got you know, you got some checks and.

1118
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:33,680
Speaker 3: You okay, they just had my money.

1119
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 5: It's my money.

1120
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:36,799
Speaker 7: It's like if you like Prince of Kings, she got

1121
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 7: her own money, Like, what did you do when you

1122
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 7: got when you got a little change?

1123
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:42,759
Speaker 5: What you want? It picked up.

1124
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 4: We were on a road trip in Chicago, so we

1125
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:47,360
Speaker 4: were in Connecticut.

1126
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:49,719
Speaker 5: Shot town, nice city to do something nice.

1127
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 4: So I got maybe one or two checks already, and

1128
00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 4: there was just nothing to do or buy in Connecticut.

1129
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,920
Speaker 5: With that magnificent mile on Michigan.

1130
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 4: Avenue, Chicago. I called you an uber and I went

1131
00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:08,360
Speaker 4: to the Gucci store and I got a bell and

1132
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 4: some sneakers.

1133
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:13,080
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, that was I love flicksplash right there.

1134
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 7: Okay, Pops, Pops, you know, use nineteenth pick overall.

1135
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:19,360
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.

1136
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 7: You in the nineties, I don't know if you got

1137
00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:23,800
Speaker 7: a four finger ring or somewhere.

1138
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 5: What what is you? Dude?

1139
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:25,640
Speaker 7: Pop?

1140
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. In the nineties early nineties?

1141
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:28,720
Speaker 5: What what? What?

1142
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:29,319
Speaker 3: What you did?

1143
00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:31,879
Speaker 5: Did you get a five point oh? What you did?

1144
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 2: Like the five point on one?

1145
00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:34,839
Speaker 7: Oh?

1146
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:36,879
Speaker 2: Yeah? But you know what I did get? I don't

1147
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:39,439
Speaker 2: know if you remember this show. It's a show called

1148
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:40,400
Speaker 2: Spencer for Hulling.

1149
00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 5: Definitely remember Black Dude, the boy.

1150
00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:48,800
Speaker 6: Head Dude, White car. It was a BMW six.

1151
00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 2: Thirty five cs I and it was like, I said, man,

1152
00:56:53,120 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 2: I find but I get some money, he said, brand new.

1153
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 2: I didn't care. It was it was huge, but it

1154
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:07,560
Speaker 2: was like like six thousand bars on it. It was red.

1155
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 6: There's some gold bbs is on it.

1156
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:10,800
Speaker 2: In the household?

1157
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:14,800
Speaker 3: Oh you like me?

1158
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 4: No?

1159
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 5: You like me? Knowing in the g.

1160
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:22,600
Speaker 2: I don't care two dollars a minute.

1161
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:23,280
Speaker 5: I'm on it.

1162
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:28,400
Speaker 4: Coming back.

1163
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 2: I'm out of rolling area, like coming back about the

1164
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:36,640
Speaker 2: rolling area, So what did you get that call?

1165
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:38,720
Speaker 6: And then I turn that phone on to be a

1166
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 6: call like your family while driving.

1167
00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:43,080
Speaker 5: They wasn't doing that back then.

1168
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 3: You can't do that back then, No you could.

1169
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 5: That is right.

1170
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:51,920
Speaker 6: There had the wire in the back.

1171
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 2: Of the window.

1172
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that's before your time. Next, that's

1173
00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:07,880
Speaker 3: before your time about another question to you?

1174
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:11,360
Speaker 1: Then coached on the NBA level and the w n

1175
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:14,280
Speaker 1: b A level, like what was different and what.

1176
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:17,640
Speaker 2: Was like the best thing? And I always tell Lexi

1177
00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 2: this all the time. I enjoyed my time coaching WBA

1178
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 2: bore because I could do more teaching. Teaching and coaches

1179
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 2: two different things. And I love to teach. Coaching. To me,

1180
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:32,040
Speaker 2: it's not your hands, like the game starts and if

1181
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 2: you ain't taught what you need to be taught or drill,

1182
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 2: you need to be drilled. The players win games. The

1183
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:39,720
Speaker 2: coaches manage the environment. That's why great coaches don't want

1184
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 2: to coach superstars. So WNBA level, I loved it because

1185
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 2: I could teach the games played below the rims. So

1186
00:58:45,880 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 2: you gotta teach fundamentals, footwork, how to come off screens,

1187
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:53,920
Speaker 2: how to help on defense. You know how to read defenses.

1188
00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 2: So that was let She was my first quote unquote

1189
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 2: guinea pig on how to teach the game.

1190
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:04,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's kind of like teaching from square one.

1191
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:08,840
Speaker 2: Now. I'm very biased, and you can ask a lot

1192
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:11,120
Speaker 2: of people like I think my daughter is one of

1193
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:13,240
Speaker 2: the best shooters in the world, men or women. Just

1194
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 2: you know, listen, we just got to shoot the ball,

1195
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 2: and we ain't bought physicality or height the skill of shooting.

1196
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 2: I put up with a lot of NBA players, all

1197
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 2: NBA players, all different, just because I know that's a

1198
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:30,320
Speaker 2: skill that was taught and learned. Had to do how

1199
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 2: big you were, how fast you were. So the similarities

1200
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 2: of skill sets on the women's level at the pro level,

1201
00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:40,360
Speaker 2: at the men's level, dribbling, passing, you know, the basic

1202
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 2: fundamentals of how to play the game, it's the same

1203
00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:47,960
Speaker 2: professional level. What changes, obviously, is the physicality, you know, umping,

1204
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:52,400
Speaker 2: you know, grabbing, holding, just you know, a guy six eight,

1205
00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:55,080
Speaker 2: two fifty, he's not playing the small poor it's a

1206
00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 2: lot different than you know, female small forward in the WNBA.

1207
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:02,200
Speaker 2: But as far as teaching the game, every concept that

1208
01:00:02,240 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 2: I learned playing for twelve years in the NBA. I

1209
01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:07,760
Speaker 2: brought to the WBA because the one thing that the

1210
01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:10,440
Speaker 2: ladies told me, don't treats like women.

1211
01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 6: Trut just like athletes. Shets like a basketball players.

1212
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:16,840
Speaker 2: Don't don't you down you can hoop we will. That

1213
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:21,280
Speaker 2: was the best Yes, So that was the best compliment

1214
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:25,560
Speaker 2: to me was when I got to coach WNBA, They're like, listen,

1215
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:28,440
Speaker 2: use NBA player. That's why you're here because you have

1216
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:31,480
Speaker 2: the knowledge to kind of expand a little bit more

1217
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:34,720
Speaker 2: on things maybe we learned in college women's basketball. They

1218
01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:37,440
Speaker 2: would be treated like professional athletes, not like women's basketball players.

1219
01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:39,520
Speaker 5: Mm hmm. That's what's up.

1220
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:42,600
Speaker 7: That's at what point did you know or did you

1221
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:45,320
Speaker 7: figure out that you wanted to go into the front

1222
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:48,560
Speaker 7: office after your experiences Obviously you had already retired and

1223
01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:51,480
Speaker 7: now you had had experience in coaching both, like you say,

1224
01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:54,480
Speaker 7: NBA and w NBA. What what lets you know? When

1225
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:56,040
Speaker 7: did you know you wanted to give it a try

1226
01:00:56,080 --> 01:00:56,880
Speaker 7: in the front office.

1227
01:00:57,440 --> 01:00:59,320
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's a combination of things. I think

1228
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:03,120
Speaker 2: just uh, my trajectory and coaching. You know, I was

1229
01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:05,440
Speaker 2: obvious assistant coach for a lot of years for a

1230
01:01:05,520 --> 01:01:08,480
Speaker 2: couple of NBA teams, head coach. In the w n

1231
01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:11,240
Speaker 2: b A, I was a head coach and back being

1232
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:13,520
Speaker 2: the D League. So I did it. I was a

1233
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:15,880
Speaker 2: head coach at all different levels, and then I got

1234
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:17,960
Speaker 2: more into the player development part because that's where I

1235
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:22,080
Speaker 2: kind of cut my teeth in again, teaching players in

1236
01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:25,080
Speaker 2: the gym, pre practice, post practice.

1237
01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:27,120
Speaker 6: Pre game, you know, you know, things like that.

1238
01:01:27,720 --> 01:01:31,480
Speaker 2: So as I got, you know, further into my obviously

1239
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:34,760
Speaker 2: post NBA career, you know, I kind of understood the

1240
01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:38,120
Speaker 2: importance of the player development, not just for on the

1241
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 2: corporate off the court. I want to mentor men. I

1242
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 2: want to do a better job of not just being

1243
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:45,120
Speaker 2: there when I need they need me to rebound and pass,

1244
01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:48,920
Speaker 2: but be there and help them grow life after basketball.

1245
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:51,360
Speaker 2: So that's kind of the direction I took. I think

1246
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:54,880
Speaker 2: my better traits was really good on the court, but

1247
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:56,600
Speaker 2: I thought I had more to gives just because of

1248
01:01:56,640 --> 01:01:59,200
Speaker 2: my background and playing it at so many different levels

1249
01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:02,480
Speaker 2: and at different levels. To go to the front office,

1250
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:06,040
Speaker 2: you know, come a GM of the GV team with

1251
01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:10,480
Speaker 2: the Clippers now vice president of Integrated Development Evaluation, so

1252
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 2: I get a chance to help these guys on and

1253
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:14,760
Speaker 2: off the court with so many different things. So I

1254
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:16,840
Speaker 2: just felt I had more to give than just you know,

1255
01:02:16,880 --> 01:02:18,640
Speaker 2: teaching them on the court. I wanted to make sure

1256
01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:22,280
Speaker 2: that when they left any environment I was in, not

1257
01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:25,640
Speaker 2: just become better basketball player, better men, better fathers, better husbands,

1258
01:02:25,640 --> 01:02:26,400
Speaker 2: better siblings.

1259
01:02:27,240 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 6: That was to me this important thing.

1260
01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 2: Then that's why I want to spend more time in

1261
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:32,280
Speaker 2: transit to the front office off the court.

1262
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:36,000
Speaker 7: Man, I definitely salute you on that because we know,

1263
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:37,840
Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying being in the league that

1264
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:40,880
Speaker 7: we need more people in positions of power with that

1265
01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:43,720
Speaker 7: line of thinking and with those traits, and then you

1266
01:02:43,800 --> 01:02:44,760
Speaker 7: relatable as well.

1267
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:47,960
Speaker 5: You you one of us. So that's perfect. Man.

1268
01:02:48,720 --> 01:02:51,479
Speaker 1: Me and Q got the Clippers winning the championship this year.

1269
01:02:51,960 --> 01:02:53,960
Speaker 1: How do you feel about the quarantine and how you

1270
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:57,480
Speaker 1: feel like the Clippers look and coming into this quarantine season.

1271
01:02:58,160 --> 01:03:01,280
Speaker 2: Well, I mean again, we're kind of going into you know,

1272
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:05,200
Speaker 2: we're you know, catching little fire. You know, made some trades,

1273
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:08,280
Speaker 2: got you know, you know, Marcus Morris in the trade,

1274
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:10,000
Speaker 2: and we signed Reggie Jackson.

1275
01:03:10,160 --> 01:03:11,440
Speaker 6: And then we had just pitched.

1276
01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:18,479
Speaker 2: On yeah, you know, this is gonna be great for us,

1277
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:21,320
Speaker 2: and you know, you look at our team, you know,

1278
01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 2: with Kawhi and PG obviously, you know you got Tresh

1279
01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:29,480
Speaker 2: coming off the bench and Lou Williams Pat Beverley, like,

1280
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:34,880
Speaker 2: you know, we got them dogs. We got them dogs

1281
01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:36,880
Speaker 2: that they want to get it done. You know, you

1282
01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:38,920
Speaker 2: got so many other role players I know how to

1283
01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:41,440
Speaker 2: fit spots. And you got a championship coach like you

1284
01:03:41,520 --> 01:03:43,680
Speaker 2: got Doc Rivers, like you've been there and done that before.

1285
01:03:43,840 --> 01:03:46,720
Speaker 2: You know how to coach superstar players and take a

1286
01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:50,240
Speaker 2: team to the championship. So who was disappointed initially? You know,

1287
01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:53,479
Speaker 2: like every NBA team but us, just because he felt like, man,

1288
01:03:53,640 --> 01:03:55,320
Speaker 2: this is the year that we can kind of you know,

1289
01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:58,680
Speaker 2: the Clippers and getting all part of the Clippers you know,

1290
01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:01,920
Speaker 2: folklore and bringing attention to the team. And it was,

1291
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:03,640
Speaker 2: you know, like nobody want to be a Clipper, but

1292
01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:06,080
Speaker 2: y'all got there all that, all the narrative change, which

1293
01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:08,760
Speaker 2: was you know, kudos and praising you guys for for

1294
01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:11,040
Speaker 2: doing that because you you know, you're a bus part

1295
01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:14,360
Speaker 2: of the success of the team now just because you know,

1296
01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:17,280
Speaker 2: you made sure that the Clipper brand was still relevant.

1297
01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:20,160
Speaker 6: You know, people want to watch y'all play in hoop,

1298
01:04:20,240 --> 01:04:21,200
Speaker 6: so you.

1299
01:04:21,120 --> 01:04:23,200
Speaker 2: Know, we just wanted you know, as an organization, do

1300
01:04:23,320 --> 01:04:25,960
Speaker 2: right by the guys that played before before us, you know,

1301
01:04:27,120 --> 01:04:29,640
Speaker 2: and we still got you know, we got a chance.

1302
01:04:29,720 --> 01:04:32,720
Speaker 2: You know, it's back on again. Got eight games and

1303
01:04:32,760 --> 01:04:35,800
Speaker 2: then the playoffs start up after that. So it's gonna

1304
01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:39,760
Speaker 2: be different because no fans. You know, it's just you know, like,

1305
01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:42,200
Speaker 2: can you imagine not playing without fans? I guess that's

1306
01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:47,080
Speaker 2: like going to one o the G League games. But

1307
01:04:47,080 --> 01:04:49,680
Speaker 2: but you know, we'll figure it out after that. But

1308
01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:53,120
Speaker 2: everybody's on this SiZ. There's no home credit fantasy. It's

1309
01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:56,439
Speaker 2: like it's gonna be different. And I honestly don't think,

1310
01:04:56,680 --> 01:04:59,280
Speaker 2: you know, say we win the championship, you know, you know,

1311
01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:03,400
Speaker 2: you know, that's what we're fighting for. Like I don't

1312
01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:06,400
Speaker 2: want to be an asterisk back to the Clippers championship.

1313
01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:09,120
Speaker 5: Don't worry about back to back. We back to back,

1314
01:05:09,160 --> 01:05:10,920
Speaker 5: don't worry about it. We don't go back.

1315
01:05:11,040 --> 01:05:12,880
Speaker 7: This is my this is my take on the whole

1316
01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:15,120
Speaker 7: astisk by it, I think, I think if you want

1317
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:17,600
Speaker 7: to say, if it's if somebody gonna try and short

1318
01:05:17,720 --> 01:05:20,320
Speaker 7: change the championship so to speak, saying and it's an astras,

1319
01:05:20,360 --> 01:05:22,040
Speaker 7: I think you could put an astroisk to say this

1320
01:05:22,200 --> 01:05:25,600
Speaker 7: harder because nobody has ever had to come and play

1321
01:05:25,880 --> 01:05:28,360
Speaker 7: out of these type of situations like no matter what,

1322
01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:31,080
Speaker 7: no matter the lockouts or anything, we was all we

1323
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:34,720
Speaker 7: always had access to hooping and gyms and playing like

1324
01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:36,840
Speaker 7: they've been shut down for three and a half four

1325
01:05:36,880 --> 01:05:40,240
Speaker 7: months with no bump, no working out with against each other,

1326
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:42,720
Speaker 7: no hooping against you, no pickup games, no none of that.

1327
01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:45,240
Speaker 7: So like, this to me is gonna be one of

1328
01:05:45,240 --> 01:05:46,960
Speaker 7: the hardest fault championships to.

1329
01:05:46,920 --> 01:05:48,920
Speaker 5: Win, period, no matter who wins it.

1330
01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:50,840
Speaker 7: It's like, you take your hat off to the guys,

1331
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:53,960
Speaker 7: to every sport, every team that goes out and is

1332
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:56,760
Speaker 7: able to achieve the championship, because this is the you know,

1333
01:05:56,840 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 7: most extraneous, unforeseen circumstances that the world has ever seen, period,

1334
01:06:02,400 --> 01:06:04,960
Speaker 7: not just the country, not just the NBA, like the world,

1335
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:05,920
Speaker 7: like the world.

1336
01:06:07,560 --> 01:06:10,760
Speaker 1: Craig, I seen something on y'all where y'all talked about

1337
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:16,640
Speaker 1: police brutality. You have a teammate that's a Hall of Famer,

1338
01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:19,280
Speaker 1: probably one of the best players to ever not probably,

1339
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:21,120
Speaker 1: but it is one of the best players to ever

1340
01:06:21,160 --> 01:06:25,760
Speaker 1: play the game. To completely just stop her career and

1341
01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:30,600
Speaker 1: really focus on police reform and you know, talk about

1342
01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:33,280
Speaker 1: the police brutality, talk about these guys that's in jail,

1343
01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:36,360
Speaker 1: that's doing life, that can't get out of jail, and.

1344
01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:38,520
Speaker 3: They didn't even do the crime. Like, how is that

1345
01:06:38,640 --> 01:06:39,400
Speaker 3: to have a teammate.

1346
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:40,880
Speaker 1: I know, when you got there, he's like, oh, I

1347
01:06:40,920 --> 01:06:42,760
Speaker 1: want to play with Maya Moore, And it was like, oh,

1348
01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:44,840
Speaker 1: she doing that. But now it's at the point where

1349
01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:47,200
Speaker 1: everybody opened their eyes and they respect what she.

1350
01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:48,280
Speaker 5: Doing even more.

1351
01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:51,080
Speaker 1: How do you feel about it now that you really

1352
01:06:51,160 --> 01:06:53,960
Speaker 1: know and just seeing what happened these last couple of months.

1353
01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:56,800
Speaker 4: When she first started doing that, I thought it was amazing.

1354
01:06:58,160 --> 01:07:00,960
Speaker 4: I mean because I was talking to to I was

1355
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:03,680
Speaker 4: on a call with Shows and Angel mccattrey a week

1356
01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:07,200
Speaker 4: or two ago in that season, right before she left,

1357
01:07:07,320 --> 01:07:09,080
Speaker 4: Like we were all talking about because that was my

1358
01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:11,480
Speaker 4: rookie year. We were all talking about how like she

1359
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:14,600
Speaker 4: just didn't have that fire in her anymore. Like she

1360
01:07:14,760 --> 01:07:17,360
Speaker 4: was still one of the best players in the league,

1361
01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:20,000
Speaker 4: but like you could just tell like there was something

1362
01:07:20,040 --> 01:07:23,360
Speaker 4: missing in her heart. You could see it on the court.

1363
01:07:23,680 --> 01:07:27,000
Speaker 4: So when me personally, because I was watching, you know,

1364
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:30,160
Speaker 4: I pay attention to things. I was like, I wasn't

1365
01:07:30,240 --> 01:07:33,120
Speaker 4: surprised that that happened because I knew that her heart

1366
01:07:33,160 --> 01:07:36,240
Speaker 4: and mind was somewhere else. I thought it was amazing

1367
01:07:36,280 --> 01:07:38,960
Speaker 4: what she did, and she kind of just slid out,

1368
01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:42,440
Speaker 4: like just did it. Like she didn't announce it. She

1369
01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:44,720
Speaker 4: kind of just had to talk with organization and our

1370
01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:47,080
Speaker 4: coaches and she's like, this is just something I need

1371
01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:49,880
Speaker 4: to do, and it's something she's been dealing with and

1372
01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:51,880
Speaker 4: working on since she's been in high school. She's known

1373
01:07:51,920 --> 01:07:55,000
Speaker 4: this man since she was in high school. So when

1374
01:07:55,120 --> 01:07:58,000
Speaker 4: all this other stuff started happening, you know, there was

1375
01:07:58,080 --> 01:08:00,479
Speaker 4: no not one part of me thought she was gonna

1376
01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:03,080
Speaker 4: come back and play, like not even a little bit.

1377
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:07,800
Speaker 4: So now that she's accomplished that, which is what she

1378
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:11,160
Speaker 4: wanted to do, now I'm actually excited to see, you know,

1379
01:08:11,320 --> 01:08:15,320
Speaker 4: what she's doing. What's the next step because you know,

1380
01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:19,240
Speaker 4: she she was doing this two years ago and now

1381
01:08:19,479 --> 01:08:23,000
Speaker 4: she doesn't have, you know, the pushback from the athletic community,

1382
01:08:23,280 --> 01:08:25,240
Speaker 4: professional sports for me, like why would you leave? Why

1383
01:08:25,280 --> 01:08:29,040
Speaker 4: would you do that? How you got people following her lead? Yeah,

1384
01:08:29,479 --> 01:08:32,080
Speaker 4: So I'm like just really happy that she was able

1385
01:08:32,120 --> 01:08:34,639
Speaker 4: to do that for her, for her friend. I would

1386
01:08:34,680 --> 01:08:37,559
Speaker 4: love her to come back. Definitely. I just want one

1387
01:08:37,600 --> 01:08:38,519
Speaker 4: season on her, that's all.

1388
01:08:38,640 --> 01:08:38,760
Speaker 5: Just.

1389
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:44,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, we definitely respect what she's doing. And man, so

1390
01:08:44,479 --> 01:08:46,760
Speaker 1: proud of her for even doing that, because that's big,

1391
01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:49,760
Speaker 1: something you loved your whole life, you learned to love

1392
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:52,160
Speaker 1: and it's like, man, you're letting it go for a

1393
01:08:52,200 --> 01:08:53,639
Speaker 1: cause that's even bigger than you.

1394
01:08:54,320 --> 01:08:56,080
Speaker 5: And she was at the top of the game.

1395
01:08:56,280 --> 01:09:00,639
Speaker 4: She was one of them about it, like literally, there's

1396
01:09:00,720 --> 01:09:06,280
Speaker 4: not one more thing. She can win every level, She's

1397
01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:10,679
Speaker 4: one everything. Like, so I'm like, you know, I get it.

1398
01:09:10,960 --> 01:09:13,439
Speaker 4: You know, sometimes you're just like I need to do

1399
01:09:13,520 --> 01:09:16,040
Speaker 4: something that you know is bigger than myself. And you

1400
01:09:16,080 --> 01:09:19,120
Speaker 4: know we're here waiting for her when she's if she's

1401
01:09:19,120 --> 01:09:21,240
Speaker 4: ever ready to come back. You know, I'm pretty sure

1402
01:09:21,280 --> 01:09:24,639
Speaker 4: she's guaranteed a spot on this team no matter what.

1403
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:26,679
Speaker 5: You know that you know that don't.

1404
01:09:28,360 --> 01:09:30,639
Speaker 7: Yeah, I got one. I still got one more question,

1405
01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:34,840
Speaker 7: LEXI for you. How does it feel to have such

1406
01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:36,000
Speaker 7: a cool dead.

1407
01:09:39,880 --> 01:09:44,679
Speaker 4: It's cool. I remember when I was little in elementary school,

1408
01:09:44,680 --> 01:09:48,519
Speaker 4: I would bring his uh, his little cards to school

1409
01:09:48,520 --> 01:09:49,080
Speaker 4: on hand him.

1410
01:09:48,960 --> 01:09:52,920
Speaker 3: Out the trading cards, the train card, dad, my dad.

1411
01:09:54,800 --> 01:09:58,559
Speaker 4: I mean it's whatever. So I'm always super proud to

1412
01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:01,679
Speaker 4: have him as his dad. And my favorite part about

1413
01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:05,000
Speaker 4: him is that as successful and incredible as he is,

1414
01:10:05,240 --> 01:10:09,080
Speaker 4: he never minds just to like step back, you know,

1415
01:10:09,160 --> 01:10:12,080
Speaker 4: kind of let us do do our thing, whether it's

1416
01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:14,679
Speaker 4: me or my sisters or my brother, like whatever path

1417
01:10:14,880 --> 01:10:18,200
Speaker 4: we all have chosen to take. He's always been super supportive,

1418
01:10:18,640 --> 01:10:22,240
Speaker 4: never made it about himself, and it's just it's a

1419
01:10:22,280 --> 01:10:24,040
Speaker 4: blessing to have, you know, a dad like that in

1420
01:10:24,080 --> 01:10:24,439
Speaker 4: your life.

1421
01:10:24,800 --> 01:10:26,680
Speaker 5: That's what's up. That's what's.

1422
01:10:27,960 --> 01:10:30,120
Speaker 2: The crazy part about that now, because like when she

1423
01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:31,879
Speaker 2: was growing up and I would be at the games,

1424
01:10:32,040 --> 01:10:34,880
Speaker 2: you know, like, oh that's thee Brown's daughter. Now I

1425
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:46,320
Speaker 2: go with her, So that's so that's all that's that's

1426
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:47,080
Speaker 2: next to Brown Dad.

1427
01:10:47,160 --> 01:10:50,479
Speaker 4: That it's crazy. So I'm proud of her.

1428
01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:53,400
Speaker 7: You know, I have to ask this one last question

1429
01:10:53,479 --> 01:10:56,040
Speaker 7: before we let you all go, because like obviously, once

1430
01:10:56,160 --> 01:10:58,519
Speaker 7: you know, everything that happened with Kobe and Gianna, the

1431
01:10:58,560 --> 01:11:02,400
Speaker 7: whole you know, girl dad thing became you know, popular

1432
01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:06,080
Speaker 7: and a phenomenon. But this is obviously nothing new to you.

1433
01:11:06,080 --> 01:11:09,559
Speaker 7: You've been that and the same way I asked her,

1434
01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:11,040
Speaker 7: you know, how does it feel to have such a

1435
01:11:11,080 --> 01:11:13,800
Speaker 7: cool dad. For you, how proud are you to have

1436
01:11:13,880 --> 01:11:16,960
Speaker 7: such a cool daughter and successful daughter that's taking up

1437
01:11:17,120 --> 01:11:19,400
Speaker 7: basketball like you and like you said, this is your

1438
01:11:19,880 --> 01:11:22,120
Speaker 7: this is your project that you got to teach and

1439
01:11:22,160 --> 01:11:24,840
Speaker 7: from day one, Like, how does that make you feel

1440
01:11:24,880 --> 01:11:26,920
Speaker 7: as a father to be able to see her go

1441
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:28,080
Speaker 7: out and do what she's doing.

1442
01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:30,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, very proud of any of

1443
01:11:30,680 --> 01:11:33,479
Speaker 2: your kids whatever they want to do. Never forced to

1444
01:11:33,479 --> 01:11:35,960
Speaker 2: play basketball. She just kind of gravitated to it by

1445
01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:37,439
Speaker 2: me being around it all the time.

1446
01:11:38,200 --> 01:11:38,400
Speaker 5: You know.

1447
01:11:38,560 --> 01:11:41,720
Speaker 2: At first she was in ballet and tennis, you know,

1448
01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:44,920
Speaker 2: and you know, basketball kind of just kind of you know,

1449
01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:47,240
Speaker 2: me being around the sport all the time. And then,

1450
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:49,120
Speaker 2: like you say, you know, like I said, with Kobe

1451
01:11:49,160 --> 01:11:55,200
Speaker 2: and and Gigi passed away, the whole girl dad thing

1452
01:11:55,320 --> 01:11:58,799
Speaker 2: became a little tighter for us because all the stuff

1453
01:11:58,880 --> 01:12:01,559
Speaker 2: that Kobe was starting to do with her we already

1454
01:12:01,600 --> 01:12:04,360
Speaker 2: did already, like we did They're going to the AU

1455
01:12:04,439 --> 01:12:06,280
Speaker 2: Games and me being her coach when she was twelve

1456
01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:09,080
Speaker 2: years old and being in the gym and taking her

1457
01:12:09,160 --> 01:12:11,920
Speaker 2: to the NBA games and her being on saline as

1458
01:12:11,960 --> 01:12:14,879
Speaker 2: a w NBA coach, you know, so it's so sad

1459
01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:20,439
Speaker 2: that I felt for the family more than anything, but

1460
01:12:20,520 --> 01:12:23,000
Speaker 2: I felt that the experience I felt like we talked

1461
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:25,760
Speaker 2: about right now, this experience right now, for me and

1462
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:30,320
Speaker 2: her to be talking about our lives in basketball and

1463
01:12:29,840 --> 01:12:33,320
Speaker 2: our process together those who would never get a chance

1464
01:12:33,360 --> 01:12:35,720
Speaker 2: to do that like that, that part hurts me so

1465
01:12:35,880 --> 01:12:38,479
Speaker 2: much because I know the ups and downs, but I

1466
01:12:38,560 --> 01:12:41,360
Speaker 2: know the gratification part, and this is it right now.

1467
01:12:41,479 --> 01:12:43,600
Speaker 2: To be able to talk about it and we have

1468
01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:47,360
Speaker 2: her across the world, across the country doing her thing,

1469
01:12:47,400 --> 01:12:49,720
Speaker 2: it means just being proud of her, like you know

1470
01:12:49,960 --> 01:12:54,000
Speaker 2: that that to me is the most satisfying thing because

1471
01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:56,719
Speaker 2: she's been number one, really good at what she does.

1472
01:12:57,320 --> 01:13:00,400
Speaker 2: Two degrees at Duke, you know, all American, but she's

1473
01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:04,320
Speaker 2: a better big system, Like she's got siblings that follow her,

1474
01:13:04,560 --> 01:13:07,760
Speaker 2: John sister going to play basketball. Wayima, Mary, you have

1475
01:13:07,840 --> 01:13:08,400
Speaker 2: a brother.

1476
01:13:08,200 --> 01:13:09,000
Speaker 6: Who think he nice.

1477
01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:14,000
Speaker 2: But so that's what you want, that's what you want

1478
01:13:14,040 --> 01:13:16,280
Speaker 2: your daughter to do because you're the oldest, you know,

1479
01:13:16,400 --> 01:13:18,799
Speaker 2: the oldest, gotta you know, carry the torch for the rest.

1480
01:13:18,680 --> 01:13:21,559
Speaker 5: Of the example, setting that standard.

1481
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:26,679
Speaker 7: Yeah, all right, that's a wrap, man. This has been

1482
01:13:27,160 --> 01:13:31,040
Speaker 7: super dope, super awesome. This is the first time situation

1483
01:13:31,240 --> 01:13:33,719
Speaker 7: for us. He had the knuckleheads me and D Miles.

1484
01:13:33,760 --> 01:13:38,080
Speaker 7: Appreciate y'all, D and Lexi for gracing us with y'all presence.

1485
01:13:38,120 --> 01:13:40,880
Speaker 5: This was dope. Y'all tune in and check it out.

1486
01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:41,920
Speaker 6: Appreciate y'all.

1487
01:14:05,840 --> 01:14:10,519
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